Three Randolph Community College Students, Instructor Win Taxidermy Ribbons

Three Randolph Community College taxidermy students and instructor Steve Davis each won awards at the Taxidermy Mini-Course at Surry Community College in Dobson recently.
           
Crystal Joyce of Seagrove won People’s Choice Best of Show and a 2nd Place ribbon for her opossum and a 2nd Place ribbon for a chipmunk. This is Joyce’s first year studying taxidermy. She said she is a “big-time deer hunter” and got interested in taxidermy after paying someone else to mount a deer head. Joyce is married and has one son who just graduated from Faith Christian School. She said her husband caught the chipmunk and a fellow RCC student caught the opossum.
          
Tommy Childress of Thomasville entered a bobcat he had trapped and won a 2nd Place ribbon. Childress has been studying taxidermy for two years as a hobby; he works at Stewart Stainless Supply in High Point.
           
Mason Siers of Staley won a 3rd Place ribbon for a raccoon. A retired businessman from Charlotte, he moved to Randolph County to farm and has been studying taxidermy as a hobby for about a year.

For more on this story and how to sign up for taxidermy classes at RCC, go to http://www.randolph.edu/newevents/2012/2012-06-08.php.