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May 14 marks a day of achievement for more than 440 KC Students.
At 5:30 and 8 p.m., 299 students, along with approximately 60 faculty and staff, will participate in KC’s 75th anniversary graduation ceremony. Dr. Bill Holda, KC president, will be the speaker for both ceremonies.

Forty years after its completion, efforts are under way to make improvements to the bridge connecting KC’s east and west campuses.

Because there is a sign ordinance and because the bridge crosses a Texas state highway, the Texas Department of Transportation essentially has jurisdiction over the bridge. TxDot has to grant the college permission to make any type of major visible alterations to the bridge.

This is part one of a three part series on looking back at the heritage of some of KC’s legends.

A banner proclaiming “A star was born and her name is Gussie Nell,” hangs on the red, white and blue walls of the Rangerette Showcase Museum. An oil derrick, women’s residence, various events and traditions practiced today serve to commemorate this campus legend and the impact she had on KC.
Miss Gussie Nell Davis began her professional career as instructor of physical education and pep-squad director at Greenville High School in 1928. Drawing on her combined experience in music, dance and physical education, she trained the all-girl “Flaming Flashes” to use small wooden batons that she commissioned from a local furniture maker, as well as flags, various props, drums and bugles in increasingly complex dance-drills and marches.

A possibly explosive device was found at the East Texas Police Academy’s firing range.

The two-gallon metal bucket filled with potential accelerants and a fuse was found at 9 a.m. Tuesday by a Texas Ranger at the front gate of the academy’s Spear Training Facility, said KCPD chief Martin Pessink.