Two MCC students received Honor Society membership and financial awards from the Council of Eastern Forest Technician Schools (CEFTS). Ranked first was MCC Forestry Management Technology graduate Dan Hermann. Adam Kimball, currently in his second year of the program, was ranked third. Both students will receive a financial award.

To qualify for the CEFTS Honor Society a student must have achieved at least a 3.3 GPA in their forestry courses. Dan Hermann completed his degree with a 4.0, and Adam Kimble has thusfar achieved a GPA of 3.9.

CEFTS was founded in 1976 by a small group of Forest Technology instructors. Since then, CEFTS membership has grown to include 15 academic institutions across the eastern US and Canada: Paul Smith’s College: New York, Penn State University / Penn State Mont Alto: Pennsylvania, SUNY Morrisville: New York, Pennsylvania College of Technology: Pennsylvania, Allegany College of Maryland: Maryland, Glenville State University: West Virginia, Horry-Georgetown Technical College: South Carolina, Wayne Community College: North Carolina, Minnesota North College: Minnesota, Haywood Community College: North Carolina, Hocking College: Ohio, Maritime College of Forest Technology: New Brunswick, Canada, Michigan State University: Michigan, Algonquin College: Ontario, Canada and Davis & Elkins College: West Virginia.

CEFTS was founded with the overall goal of improving the quality of Forest Technician education. CEFTS seeks to achieve this goal by facilitating the exchange of information and ideas among CEFTS members, fostering productive relationships between academic institutions and individual instructors, promoting consistency and academic integrity among the member institutions and representing the interests of its members to the Society of American Foresters.