Johnson County Community College
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913-469-8500
Julie Haas, Associate Vice President, Marketing Communications, ext. 3120
Peggy Graham, Writer, ext. 3425
Tyler Cundith, Sports Information Director, ext. 3122

10/12/09
Story by Peggy Graham

JCCC plans celebration around Veterans Day

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Johnson County Community College will honor veterans with a week of events planned around Veterans Day, Nov. 11.

Three of the events are free and open to the public.

• Wednesday, Nov. 11 — Joe Law, PhD, an expert in post-traumatic stress disorder and a decorated veteran of two tours of combat in Vietnam, will speak from 10-11:30 a.m. in the Hudson Auditorium, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Law is a licensed psychologist who has worked to establish the Veterans Administration community-based counseling and its in-patient treatment protocols for veterans with PTSD.
  
  Taps will be played at 11:11 a.m. on top of the hill in the Commons Courtyard.
  
  
• Thursday, Nov. 12 — Continuous showing of documentary filmmaker Larry Cappetto’s Lest They Be Forgotten series, as seen on PBS, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Craig Community Auditorium of the General Education Building.
  
  
• Friday, Nov. 13 — The JCCC jazz ensemble will perform swing band music from 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. in the north side of the Commons dining room.

During the week, the JCCC veterans advisory team has also planned a reception and lunch in honor of JCCC faculty, staff and students who have served in the military at any time and a seminar by Law for faculty and administrators who work with veterans.

JCCC was recently named to the 2010 list of Military Friendly Schools in GI Jobs, a magazine for military transition, which polled more than 7,000 schools nationwide. Criteria for making the list included results in recruiting military and veteran students and academic accreditations.

For more information regarding JCCC Veterans Services or veteran week events, call 913-469-8500, ext. 3924.

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