FRANK TRIPP, JR. COMPUTER LAB
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 305 South Perry Street, Montgomery, Alabama
Whether you are an adult just beginning to use a computer or are well experienced but want to find easier, more efficient procedures, you will find answers in each of the classes. Microsoft Windows7 Home Premium and Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student software and security packages are installed on each of the 20 workstations in the Frank Tripp, Jr. Computer Lab.
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Standing (L to R): Charlotte Moseley, Edna Shell [the 300th graduate], Georgia Jackson, Barbara Mincey, and Linda Starnes Seated (L to R): Kim Weaver, Lil Wilkinson, Jean Scoggins, and Loretta Martin. Not Pictured: Nanette Simmons, and Mac McGee (Leader/Presenter). Photographed February 25, 2010.
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Registration for the Frank Tripp, Jr. Com- puter Lab continues for the next classes. The next Adult Introductory Computer Class is scheduled for Monday, January 14 through January 17, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM each day; and the Internet/Electronic Mail Computer Class is scheduled beginning Monday, January 21 through January 24, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 12 noon each day. Please contact Rev . Kenny Hoomes (Email khoomes@montgomeryfbc.org or call 334.241.5182) to register for either Class or both Classes.

There is no registration fee or any charge. Early registration—by 4:00 PM, Tuesday, January 4, 2013 for the class beginning January 14, 2013 or by 4:00 PM, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 for the class beginning January 21, 2013—will help us in planning to meet your requests. Including the September 2012 graduates, We are thankful for the 388 graduates of the computer classes.

Mac McGee will be our leader for the Adult Introductory Class. Gene Bryan will be our leader for the Adult Internet/Electronic Mail Class. Many of the adults who have completed Gene Bryan’s class found it was most helpful to them to have first completed Mac McGee’s class.

We are thankful and honored to have the leadership of Mac McGee as volunteer Leader/Facilitator and editor of Part I and Part II of the manual “Introduction to the Personal Computer, A basic instruction program designed for Senior Adults” (Manual). Prior to January 15, 2004, Mac assisted Frank Tripp, Jr. in the assembly and installation of our present work stations. Mac McGee has faithfully and most capably served as Leader/Facilitator for each Introductory Class since the beginning our first class in March 2004. In addition to the “Manual,” Mac’s use of printed handouts and demonstrations and his efforts to make the sessions “FUN” for the participants (The acronym “FUN” stands for: Focus, Unending Quest, for Nowledge.) has added greatly to the effectiveness of his leadership and instruction.

Emogene “Gene” Bryan has faithfully and most capably served as volunteer Leader/Presenter and editor of the Internet Electronic Mail, Part III, of the manual “Introduction to the Personal Computer, A basic instruction program designed for Senior Adults.” We are thankful and honored to have the leadership of Gene Bryan as Leader/Presenter for each Internet/Email (Advanced) class from the initial March 2004 class. In addition to the Manual, Gene uses the Church’s digital projector in her instructional program. Gene also provides Email lesson plans, additional source materials, and projects which each participant could forward (Email) from his/her Frank Tripp, Jr. Computer Lab station to his/her own computer at home.

*During the Commencement Exercise on February 25, 2010 Mrs. Edna Shell was recognized as the 300th graduate from the Frank Tripp, Jr. Computer Lab. As a part of the morning worship services on Senior Adult Day, May 23, 2010 Mrs. Edna Shell was recognized as the 300th graduate and presented a certificate by Dr. Jay Wolf, pastor of First Baptist Church.

The volunteer Director of the Frank Tripp, Jr. Computer Lab is Dr. W. Ed. Truitt, 334.274.0759. He has served in this opportunity to spread the “Good News of Jesus Christ” since early February 2004.