BPCC has received a $1,000 donation from the Manufacturing Managers Council of Northwest Louisiana in memory of Red Ball Oxygen’s late founder Gary Kennedy. The donation will benefit BPCC’s Advanced Manufacturing Program. The group has pledged to make the donation annually. Pictured are BPCC Foundation Board member Billy Wayne Montgomery; Red Ball Oxygen President Bob Ewing; MMC President Jim Shockley; MMC’s Eric Nelson; BPCC Dean of Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Sandra Partain; MMC’s Ralph Thomas; BPCC Vice Chancellor of Economic and Workforce Development Gayle Flowers; and BPCC’s Executive Vice Chancellor Tom Williams.