Student Success Stories
Wanda Barhorst

I will never forget Friday Jan 28, 2000, that is the day I was told the plant I was working at would be closed permanently March 31. I would be jobless. I was a seamstress this was the 3rd plant closing I had been through in the last 6 years. As a middle aged single woman what was I to do. I certainly did not want another sewing job there did not seem to be much future in sewing. 

Monday morning we were told of a program called NAFTA/TRA, a program that paid for your schooling and paid you unemployment while you went to school. Since I had dropped out of college several years before (over 25) I decided this was the time for me to get a degree.
I came to Edison Community College and with the help of Jim Anthony I enrolled in classes I started in June of 2000 and finished my classes Aug 4 of 2001 with a grade point average of over 3.5. 

I would like to thank Matha Schleinitz and Sandy Brubaker for all their help and encouragement. While in Sandy’s Group Process class I expressed to Sandy the need I felt as I entered Edison Community College for a group for Adult Students. She encouraged me to develop something for adult students. So I did.