TSTC to honor veterans

(Sweetwater) – Texas State Technical College will honor the Veterans on Friday, November 11, 2011. Digital signs at all four campuses (Abilene, Brownwood, Breckenridge and Sweetwater) will scroll the names of all soldiers killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars all day Friday.

The Sweetwater campus will have a Remembrance Day program at 1:00 p.m. Please include this in your list of Veterans Day activities; this is a free event that is open to the public.

Remembrance Day 2011 Agenda (Sweetwater campus 1:00p.m.)
Friday November 11, 2011
1. Welcome
2. Invocation – Father Dennis Bosley, USN (retired)
3. Pledge of Allegiance
4. Speakers
a. Jim Kelly, USN – Vietnam
b. Robert McBride, USA (retired) – Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom
c. Robert Peterson, USN - Peacetime
5. Moment of Silence
6. Taps – Monica Wagner
7. Closing – Father Bosley

About TSTC
Texas State Technical College System (www.tstc.edu) consists of four technical schools: TSTC Harlingen, TSTC Marshall, TSTC Waco, and TSTC West Texas, which has campuses in Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood, and Sweetwater. TSTC colleges rank consistently as top colleges in the state and nation for conferring associate degrees in engineering, precision production, computer information systems degrees, communication and information sciences, and enrollment of Hispanic students. More than 17,000 students attend TSTC each year in credit programs alone, and that number grows to nearly 30,000 when short-term continuing education and corporate training programs are included.