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Two students elected to serve on Kentucky Community and Technical College System board

Will serve one-year terms

VERSAILLES, Ky. (Aug. 7, 2015) — Lacey Parham of Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) and Venus Evans of Somerset Community College (SCC) will serve one-year terms on the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Board of Regents.

kctcsThe two were selected by the KCTCS college student body presidents or their designee at the annual student body presidents’ meeting on Tuesday. Their terms begin immediately and continue through August 2016.

Parham lives in Owensboro and is pursuing an associate degree in criminal justice and an associate in arts at OCTC. She was elected the 2015-16 OCTC Student Government Association (SGA) president. She is a member of Phi Theta Kappa and other activities include volunteering at the Wendell Foster Center and the Wounded Warrior Project. She plans to pursue a bachelor’s degree in pre-law at the University of Louisville (UofL) and serve with the U.S. Air Force ROTC at UofL.

Evans lives in Corbin and is pursuing a physical therapy assistant associate degree at SCC. She was elected the 2015-16 SGA president at SCC. She serves as the vice president of the college’s Phi Theta Kappa Honors in Action project. Her other activities include serving as president of SCC Multicultural/Diversity Club and volunteering as a mentor for SCC’s first-year advising program, a fitness instructor at the Baptist Family Fitness and the Corbin 5-K Color Run. She has worked for 26 years in hardware and industrial supplies and served 13 years as corporate secretary-treasurer for Tri-County Industrial Supply, Inc. in Corbin.