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Wharton County Junior College Volleyball Team players Sabrina Show and Rebecca Estrada recently signed letters of intent to continue their athletic careers at four-year universities. Show, an outside hitter from East Bernard who made Region XIV First...

WCJC students gather in the gymnasium on the Wharton campus during last year’s graduation ceremonies. This year’s commencement exercises will take place at 10 a.m.

May 9, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Zina L. Carter979.532.6417 WHARTON, TEXAS – The Wharton County Junior College Pioneers Baseball Team will travel to Beaumont this weekend to compete at the Region XIV Tournament and a chance to make the Natio...

Wharton County Junior College Art Instructor Dianne Curtis discusses the finer details of a drawing submitted for this year’s Student Art Show. The exhibition is currently on display in the hallway of the Duson-Hansen Fine Arts Building on the Wharto...

WHARTON, TEXAS – Town hall meetings have been scheduled to garner input regarding a parking fee at the University of Houston Sugar Land campus. Recently, the University of Houston made an administrative decision to charge a parking fee for all stude...

Wharton County Junior College Drama Department students Sofia Uribe of Rosenberg, left, and Alexis Flores of El Campo, right, lift up Alyssa Flores of Galena Park during a rehearsal for the upcoming show, Cry Wolf! The show is scheduled for 7 p.m. Ma...

Former Wharton County Junior College athletes who played for Athletic Director Gene Bahnsen during his 60 years of service to the college gather for a photograph during a ceremony marking the naming of the Gene Bahnsen Gymnasium. A plaque and photog...

Wharton County Junior College Choir members rehearse for their upcoming performance, "Broadway Goes Hollywood." Scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, at the Horton Foote Theatre in the Duson-Hansen Fine Arts Building on the Wharton campus, the show...

Wharton County Junior College Athletic Director Gene Bahnsen is pictured with just a few of the dozens of trophies won by the teams he coached or oversaw as athletic director in his 60 years with the college. WCJC's gymnasium will now be named in hon...

Wharton County Junior College students Tyler Korff of Markham and Brianna Hanc of Richmond check the progress of the plants in the community garden, created behind WCJC’s Richmond campus. Established in the Fall of 2018 as an “Honors in Action” proje...

WCJC psychology instructor Dr. Derek de la Peña has received the 2019 Frank P.

Wharton County Junior College will name its gymnasium after Coach Gene Bahnsen in recognition of his 60 years of service to the college. Bahnsen was hired in 1959 as head basketball coach, assistant football coach, physical education instructor and a...