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Educational
CONTINUED
American Board
of Funeral Service
Education Holds 55th
Annual Conference
WOODBURYHEIGHTS,NJ—
American Board of Funeral
Service Education
president
Karl Kann
(Worsham Col-
lege,
Wheeling, IL) presid-
ed over the ABFSE Annual
Meeting during the organi-
zation’s 55th Annual Confer-
ence in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Piedmont Technical Col-
lege,
Greenwood, SC was
the host school during
the conference which ran
from April 18-22, 2017.
David Martin
and
De-
drick Gantt
represented
Piedmont Technical Col-
lege throughout the con-
ference.
Fifty of the 59 accredited
programs of funeral ser-
vice/mortuary science in
the United States attend-
ed the Annual Conference
along with representatives
of the three association
members,
National Fu-
neral Directors Association
(NFDA),
National Funer-
al Directors and Morticians
Association
(NFDMA)
and
International Ceme-
tery, Cremation and Funer-
al Association
(ICCFA).
CONTINUED ON PAGE A44ABFSE Committee on
Accreditation (COA) re-
viewed specific accred-
itation activities of 14
programs along with as-
sessment plans, graduation
rates, NBE pass rates and
job placement rates of all
accredited programs. COA
chairperson
Venus Riley
Smith
(Jefferson State Com-
munity College,
Birming-
ham, AL) thanked
Billie
Watson Hughes
(District
of Columbia funeral di-
rector and NFDMA repre-
sentative) for her six years
of service to COA and
welcomed
Elois Saucer
(NFDMA representative)
as a newly elected member
of the COA.
Enrollment and gradua-
tion statistics for 2016 were
reviewed by the COA and
the summary data will be
shared with the programs
and the public following
the annual conference. Fif-
ty-nine accredited schools
and programs operated
during 2016. Three pro-
grams plan to close by the