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Going Places Learn and Earn Internship takes students uptown to new possibilities

Commencement 2014 Senator Markey addresses largest graduating class in BHCC history

BHCC Turns 40 Old enough for memories, young enough for dreams Features Departments 05 Senator Edward J. Markey Addresses the Largest 05 Campus News Graduating Class in the College’s History 30 Campus Visitors 08 The Learn and Earn Internship Transforms Students’ Lives 34 Off-Campus 16 Q&A with the President 18 Celebrating BHCC's 40th Anniversary 29 Final Exam in a House of Books 32 Annual Gala Inaugurates Ruby Scholarships campus news

Bunker Hill Community College In this issue’s sampling of recent BHCC news, President Pam Next Stop: Success personnel transitioning into Board of Trustees Eddinger speaks for community colleges at the White House civilian life, named Bunker As of June 30, 2014 and on NPR, the Boston Private Industry Council (PIC) honors Single Stop director Hill Community College to Marita Rivero three BHCC students, The Boston Foundation recognizes garners recognition the list of top Military Friendly Chair Then and Now Schools. The list singles BHCC’s Single Stop, the Massachusetts Department of The Boston Foundation Antoine Junior Melay* out the colleges, universities Revenue forms a new partnership with the College, and more. recognized Dr. Kathleen Second Vice Chair and trade schools that do the O’Neill with a Change Maker Amy L. Young most to embrace America’s Award for her work as director Secretary military service members, of Bunker Hill Community Viet Phan veterans and spouses as From the College’s Single Stop program. Student Trustee students and ensure their White House The award goes to people Hung T. Goon success on campus. The making contributions that help Alexandra Oliver-Dávila Obama recognizes College enrolls approximately Bostonians to thrive. Single Colleen Richards Powell BHCC summer program 529 active military and veteran Stop has assisted 5,577 students Carmen Vega-Barachowitz students; since 2010 the Richard C. Walker, III Bunker Hill Community since its inception at BHCC in veteran population has College’s work with low- 2011; the value in benefits and *BHCC ALUMNUS increased approximately income students earned services they have accessed Pam Y. Eddinger, Ph.D. 124 percent. praise from President Barack Eddinger On NPR through the program exceeds President Obama at a national gathering $6.3 million. O’Neill has headed BHCC president speaks Director of Editorial Services of education leaders at the the Single Stop program, which Building a Patricia J. Brady for community colleges White House. Obama referred connects low-income students Better Workforce Director of Creative Services to the need of low-income Bunker Hill Community to resources that help them Partnership prepares Caryn Hirsch students to prepare for college- College President Pam Y. stay in school and earn a students for state tax Designers level work. He said: “Bunker Eddinger described the degree, from the outset. careers Anita Wolf, Karen Woo Hill is addressing this by giving increasingly critical role played Writers more incoming students the by community colleges on A Major Federal Grant Jon Garelick, chance to start catching up WBUR’s National Public Radio Kristen Paulson-Nguyen over the summer before program On Point with host $2 million to strengthen Photographers their freshman year.” BHCC Tom Ashbrook. Noting that LifeMap Kenny Chung, Bill Horsman, President Pam Y. Eddinger half of today’s undergraduates BHCC received a U.S. Richard Howard, Michael was among a select group of are now enrolled in the nation’s Malyszko, Nicholas B. Parkas Department of Education approximately 100 college and community colleges, Eddinger Title III grant under the Illustrators university presidents, along said community colleges have Norm Bendell, Anastasia Vasilakis Strengthening Institutions with higher education leaders, become “the anchor of the Program. Only 39 colleges philanthropists and nonprofit future.” Community college and universities across the organizations, invited to attend presidents from California country received the grant. the summit on education at and Texas also took part in The $2,232,943 grant over the White House. the discussion. five years will fund the project “From Dreams to Reality: In This Issue BHCC LifeMap,” which aims to improve student engagement, The cover story “Going Places” highlights BHCC’s rapidly growing Learn and Earn internship, achievement, persistence and a program that has built new relationships with corporate partners in Greater Boston and retention as well as completion, transformed the expectations of student participants. “It was the best thing I could have done,” beginning in the first semester said one intern, who has launched a new career—and a new life—through the program. and culminating in graduation Amy Pitter, Massachusetts Revenue Celebrating her inaugural year at BHCC, President Pam Eddinger shares her story in a Q&A and beyond. Commissioner with BHCC Magazine. She describes her background as an immigrant whose family came to the On the Cover United States in search of the American dream—and tells how her experience shaped a vision of Building upon the Patrick Learn and Earn intern Gabriella the community college as the best hope for building democracy in the United States today. Welcome Mat Administration’s agenda to Valenzuela approaching Beth Israel help strengthen the State's Don’t miss the stories about BHCC’s 40th Anniversary celebration with a time line of photos A friendly reception Deaconess Medical Center. covering four decades, and the 2014 Commencement, a rousing event with tears and cheers that community college workforce Story, page 8 for military veterans celebrated the 2014 graduating class, the largest in the College’s history. Keynote speaker Senator development programs, Photo: Michael Malyszko Edward J. Markey was enthusiastic and inspiring, and his speech brought the audience of 3,000 to Victory Media, the premier Revenue Commissioner Amy media entity for military their feet in one of BHCC’s all-time great Commencements. Pitter joined Bunker Hill

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SENATOR EDWARD J. MARKEY ADDRESSES GRADUATES AT BHCC’S 2014 COMMENCEMENT

Community College communications competition administrators in announcing sponsored by the National an innovative degree and Council for Marketing and certificate program. The Public Relations (NCMPR). program will prepare students The College took top honors in for a career in state taxation. NCMPR’s regional competition As part of the new curriculum, in 2012 as well, and has “Like a lot of you, I am Department of Revenue staff garnered numerous awards members make presentations in the organization’s national on Massachusetts state tax law. competitions. In 2013, a Gold Upon successful completion Award went to the spring and of prerequisite courses, the summer 2013 issues of BHCC the first in my family to students may be eligible for a Magazine. A magazine paid internship at DOR. “This illustration won a Gold Award is an extraordinary opportunity for digital illustration. BHCC for community college students won additional Gold Awards in graduate from college.” to gain credits and work the areas of transit advertising experience in an area for which and marketing campaigns. the state has a growing need,” NJCAA Division III Champions, the Bulldogs Silver Awards went to the said Higher Education College’s website and course success through the creation to the mainstream economy Commissioner Richard M. schedule. The College won of a culture of evidence, through education and Freeland. The College began Bronze Awards in the categories continuous improvement, employment. The awardees offering the new certificate of academic catalog and booklet. systemic institutional change, were honored in a ceremony program in fall 2013 and the Additionally, the College broad engagement of stake- at the Federal Reserve Bank associate degree in spring 2014. earned a Silver Award in the holders, and equity, with of Boston. wildcard category for a set particular attention to low- of murals in the College's Achieving the Dream income students as well as Top Dogs LifeMap suite. To view students of color. College earns national communications awards Team wins championship recognition recieved since 1999, visit Bunker Hill Community Aiming High The Bulldogs, the Bunker Hill bhcc.mass.edu/imc/awards. College received the Leah Community College men’s Boston Private Industry soccer team, won the National Learn and Earn: A Model Partnership Meyer Austin Award for its Chairman and CEO of Raytheon William H. Swanson provided the inspiration for Learn and Earn, a program that provides Council lauds members invaluable hands-on experience in major Boston-area corporations for BHCC students. Swanson spearheaded

Summer 2 013 implementation of the program in conjunction with the Junior College Athletic Massachusetts Competitive Partnership and BHCC President success in increasing student Mary L. Fifield. Partners in the program include Bank of America, BJ’s Wholesale Club, EMC, Fidelity Investments, Raytheon, of BHCC community Bunker Hill Community College Magazine State Street Corporation, Staples and Suffolk Construction. retention and completion at Association (NJCAA) Division BHCC Commencement 2013 Raytheon Chairman and CEO William H. Swanson, President’s Distinguished Service Award Recipient, Addresses the Largest Graduating Class the annual conference of Sharaad Chase, a student in III regional championship for in the College’s History Gala Honors Retiring President Student Emergency Assistance Fund Named Achieving the Dream in BHCC’s Emergency Medical the third time in four years. in Honor of President Mary L. Fifield ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Dr. Pam Y. Eddinger Becomes BHCC’s Orlando, Florida. Along with Technology program; Felix Players hail from Sweden, Seventh President on July 1, 2013 this prestigious recognition, Tejeda, a graduate of BHCC Morocco, the United Arab BHCC received $15,000 to who attended Suffolk Emirates and Nigeria, as well support its ongoing student University; and Daniel as from Boston, Chelsea and Spring 2 013 BHCC success work. The award Velasquez, a 2008 graduate Everett. Other players have Bunker Hill Community College Magazine honors BHCC’s focus on of BHCC and 2012 graduate families from Honduras, college wide, data-informed of University of Massachusetts Brazil, Panama, El Salvador decision making that has Boston, now working as and Colombia. resulted in measurable Admissions Recruitment increases in critical areas. The Counselor at the College, We are Golden Setting the Stage BHCC student singer kicks off received the Boston Private national community college Leah Meyer Austin Award, conference in Boston sponsored by The Leona M. & Industry Council (PIC) Communications Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Achievers Award. The Division wins acclaim Trust, was established in 2008 award recognizes those Bunker Hill Community who exemplify the Council’s to recognize outstanding College won nine awards— For more detail on Senator Edward J. Markey addressed a crowd of more than 3,000 wildly enthusiastic students, their families and friends, under the big achievement in supporting mission of connecting the including four Gold Awards— these news clips go to white tent on the Charlestown campus. It was the first Commencement for BHCC’s new president, Pam Y. Eddinger—the 40th for the and promoting student youth and adults of Boston in the annual regional bhcc.mass.edu/magazine. College—and it was marked with laughter and tears and repeated standing ovations.

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President Eddinger opened the ceremony with a “ritual of at a Purity Supreme supermarket warehouse. He said he was a the age of 16. He urged graduates not to take their American of the community. Morgan-Welch called on the students to gratitude” in which students stood up and thanked those who had commuter, like all of the BHCC graduates, and that he was “living citizenship for granted. “I know you will make it count,” said Vargas. become part of history, noting that the College is built near the site helped them get through college, calling out their names and waving proof that you can live at home with your parents throughout your A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker, Vargas is the where black patriots fought for independence from Great Britain in to them. Seizing the opportunity to give “one last lecture” to the college years without incurring serious psychological damage.” founder of Define American, a campaign that seeks to elevate the the Battle of Bunker Hill. graduates, Eddinger urged them to create “a sacred space” within Light-hearted and self-deprecating, Markey was nevertheless in national conversation about immigration. Outside the tent after the ceremony, hundreds of families and themselves, and in that space to ask often in the coming years earnest. He called on the students to become “global guardians The College honored long-time BHCC administrator William T. friends waited impatiently to embrace the newly minted graduates. whether “you have been kind to the world—and kind to yourself.” of justice and history.” He urged them to make it easier for future Sakamoto, retiring this year after 36 years of service to the College Michael Villanueva, of Chelsea, associate degree in criminal justice Eddinger introduced keynote speaker Markey as “one of our generations of students by working to reduce the student debt in a range of capacities, from front-line and managerial duties to in hand, was meeting his wife and mother to celebrate. Commenting own, a native son of Malden, a graduate of Boston College and of load, to protect the planet from climate change, to use the power crucial leadership roles. Sakamoto is Associate Vice President of on Markey’s speech, he said, “He can relate to us. He really made it Boston College Law School, who has lived in the neighborhoods of of technology to make a difference in the world, and to fight Academic Affairs and Enrollment Services. He received the Trustees’ fun.” Erin Murphy, of Everett, who received her associate degree in our students, and understands the values of our communities.” And income inequality. Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes extraordinary medical radiography with highest honors, chatted with her smiling Markey delivered on the expectations the President raised, telling The event’s featured speaker on diversity, Jose Antonio Vargas, commitment and service to the College. family. “She worked very hard, and we are all so proud of her,” said the students, nearly all of whom worked to support themselves described his life as an undocumented immigrant who was sent Museum of African American History Executive Director Beverly her mother, Jeanne Leone, who attended the Commencement and often their families, about paying his way through college to the United States as a young child by his parents and did not Morgan-Welch was recognized with the President’s Distinguished ceremony with Erin’s aunt Laura Deacetis and grandmother Nancy with jobs driving an ice cream truck and working the night shift discover his illegal status until he applied for a driver’s permit at Service Award, the highest honor the College confers on a member Hammill to cheer their graduate. n

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“ We’re excited that our partnership with BHCC has allowed students the opportunity to gain professional work experience in financial services while still in school. This relationship has provided us with the added benefit of access to a great pipeline of talented employees. We look forward to this relationship with BHCC students both before and after their graduation.” - Robert Kaplan, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Operations, State Street Corporation

Going Places

The Learn and Earn internship takes students to prestigious Greater Boston corporations for hands-on experience that transforms their career expectations—and their lives.

When Nelson Franjul walked across experience. Through the program, Franjul the lobby at State Street Corporation in would secure two successive internships at downtown Boston, he had just landed a State Street Bank, working at the company job at one of the world’s top investment five days a week while attending school. companies. For him, this would be the “I was amazed,” he recalled. “It was start of a new life. A first-generation the best thing I could have done.” The immigrant from the Dominican Republic, internship fueled a long-held dream of a Franjul had been working in commercial career in finance. At State Street, Franjul refrigeration just a year earlier. He was made the extra effort to come in early and financially secure, well able to support his stay late. “I was learning so much, and State family, but he was dissatisfied with the Street gave me the opportunity to learn.” direction of his life. In June, the former commercial Thirty years old and wanting more, refrigeration worker accepted and began a Franjul turned to Bunker Hill Community full-time job as a project manager in State College. While community college is often Street’s global mutual funds operation. the solution for older students who want Learn and Earn is an exemplar among to change careers, BHCC offered Franjul BHCC’s successful corporate partnerships. an unexpected bonus: the Learn and In 2011, with the support of Governor Deval Earn internship program, which provides Patrick, members of the Massachusetts

an entrée into major New England Competitive Partnership (MACP), a Learn and Earn intern Nelson Franjul in the lobby corporations for meaningful, hands-on non-profit public policy coalition of 16 of State Street Corporate Headquarters.

8 BHCC Magazine BHCC Magazine 9 “Like all of the Learn and Earn Learn and team reached out to support her. Hawkins Earn make it was amazed at how closely the team stayed interns we’ve had, Jennifer a demanding in touch with her—people like Program exceeded all expectations. program Coordinator Cora Miller and Hawkins’s She showed up each day engaged for BHCC academic advisor, Professor JoDe students, Levine, of the science and engineering and ready to learn and it was many of department. With their encouragement, amazing to see such growth in whom, like she attended the interview workshops just a few months.” Sheehan, have and seminars that were offered to prepare children or students for the program. In the fall, she - Marina MacVicar, Senior Manager, other family applied for three internship positions and Community Relations, Fidelity Investments members to received all three offers. care for. To Choosing Raytheon, Hawkins worked at assure the the company’s Missile Defense Center in success of Woburn, a position that required security The program has grown exponentially. the students, clearance as she designed trajectory test Two years after its launch, the 20 students Jennifer Sheehan with her manager, Marina MacVicar, of Fidelity Investments Learn and calculations. Landing a second internship per semester have become 77, and their Earn provides this spring at Vertex, she was similarly hours have expanded from one or two supervisors at Fidelity. Frank Perrone, extensive support from the beginning to included as a credentialed member of the days a week to 16-to-30 hours a week. Group Creative Director of Fidelity the end of the internship—starting before workforce. “I never felt like an intern. I In all, more than 220 students have now Communications and Advertising, stressed the student gets into the program. When, was working on projects that employees taken part in the program. the importance of providing guidance for for example, BHCC student LaDonna were working on, treated like any other “Raytheon has been a proud supporter interns, as for any new employee. “When I Hawkins failed to get an internship in person in the company,” she said. of the Learn and Earn program for three first started my career, there was someone the summer of 2013, Learn and Earn Vertex introduced her to the high-end years now, and we’ve seen the value of I could call my mentor, someone who Coordinator Cora Miller advised her to laboratories of a major pharmaceutical this important partnership,” says Karen would take me under their wing. I never try again. “Students applying to the Learn company, and her work with quality Balcom, University Programs Leader for forgot how much that meant. As much and Earn Program learn persistence and control testing of medications for cystic Raytheon. “It is rewarding to have a part as our interns expect to learn from their build academic stamina,” says Miller. “It fibrosis fueled her dream of a career in in helping BHCC students navigate a path experience with us, we are learning just is a competitive program that encourages biotechnology. LaDonna is currently to future careers, and in the process, help as much from them. It’s a terrific program students to up their game.” competing for her third internship, and them build a professional network.” The and a testament to the hard-working Hawkins came to BHCC from Orlando, now has plans to pursue a master’s degree. number of corporate partners has now students who carve out the time from their Florida, looking for a new start. She had a While the program has served grown to include Fidelity Investments, school work and other jobs.” stable job running pyrotechnic shows at Sea returning students determined to Vertex, Bank of America, The Boston Sheehan, a liberal arts major in her early World Adventure Park. It paid well enough. pursue new careers, it also works for Foundation, Dovetail Health, Staples, Beth 40s, is the single mother of a 20-year-old As she cared for her father, who was ill and younger students just finding their Israel Deaconess Medical Center and, daughter and seven-year-old twin boys. on dialysis, Hawkins thought more about way. Gabriella Valenzuela, 20, came to most recently, UBS. Living in public housing and working in her long-held dream to be a biomedical Bunker Hill Community College directly Total immersion is key to the success the office of a printing company, Sheehan engineer, hoping some day to help create after graduating from Somerville High of Learn and Earn: students jump into decided to return to school because, like artificial organs to ease the suffering of School. She was an enthusiastic student actual, demanding projects in the Nelson Franjul, she was dissatisfied. She people like her father. After her father but unsure of how to present herself in corporate workplace, where, with attentive wanted to do something more for herself passed away in 2010, she found herself interviews, and uncertain about what her mentoring, they are expected to make and “to set an example” for her children. newly determined at age 40 to start again. future professional life would hold. important, real-world contributions. For Sheehan, the Fidelity Investments Boston was clearly a center for medical When she heard about Learn and Learn and Earn intern Jennifer Sheehan working on site at Fidelity Cares Day. And they have. internship was an opportunity to learn on research, and when Hawkins researched Earn, she knew she wanted in. She was At Fidelity Investments, Learn and Earn the job from her supervisors and to make biomedical engineering programs, BHCC encouraged by Professor Anthony Fontes, influential Massachusetts CEOs headed The BHCC response was immediate and intern Jennifer Sheehan found herself a real contribution to company projects. kept popping up; she enrolled at the Chair of BHCC’s Business Administration by Daniel O’Connell, approached enthusiastic. By the spring semester of 2012, thriving as part of the team that put “They were willing for me to take on College in 2011. But her life in Boston Department, who created the credited Bunker Hill Community College. Their the College established an interdisciplinary together community outreach programs. responsibilities and trust me with them,” wasn’t without obstacles. She shared an internship course with Sharon Schaff, plan was to create a pilot program, internship course, interviewed and prepped Sheehan organized events and supported she said. For the final project of her Learn apartment with six roommates and tried Director of Career Planning and Internship replicable everywhere, that would prepare students, and placed 20 interns at five Fidelity’s Writing Coach program with and Earn internship, she was charged with to make ends meet. She struggled Programs, and by Academic Internship Massachusetts community college major companies: Raytheon, State Street, Citizen Schools, helping middle school helping to coordinate Fidelity Cares Day, financially, academically and with her Coordinator Marcea Taylor. students for the workplace by giving them Suffolk Construction, BJ’s Wholesale Club children write high school applications. an employee volunteer event for more own health issues. Taylor looked at Valenzuela’s the chance to work in a corporate setting and EMC, where they worked one or two “They were definitely there to than 700 associates. “I thought I was going back to Orlando,” background as a star high school athlete at a major company. days a week. teach me,” said Sheehan of her intern The intensive work requirements of said Hawkins. That is, until the BHCC in soccer and volleyball, and also at the

10 BHCC Magazine BHCC Magazine 11 Learn and Earn intern LaDonna Hawkins in the lab at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. determined work ethic she had developed in various projects and process in an immigrant family where both improvements, including front desk parents worked full-time jobs. For Taylor, operations, file auditing, and compliance Valenzuela was “a star in the making.” tracking with education verification.” With encouragement, Valenzuela worked Her business professor, Fontes, hard to meet the GPA requirements of the remembered Valenzuela as a quiet student program. “The math lab was my second during her first semesters at the College. home,” she said. “She barely said a word,” he says, “and a Her efforts paid off, and once accepted year later she’s really come into her own. to Learn and Earn, she secured an It has been a total transformation. internship in the Human Resources “The reality of it is that these are real department at Beth Israel Deaconess jobs,” Fontes adds. “Students are going to Medical Center. There she met with a Raytheon and working on missile defense pleasant surprise. systems. At Suffolk Construction, they Valenzuela had little knowledge of are going out on job sites and helping how an HR department functions and in project management for building how her skills might fit in. She was projects. And their work receives a stream excited to find that the marketing skills of plaudits from the corporate partners.” she was developing as a business major That includes founding partners such as were immediately useful. She was Raytheon as well as new partners such as especially encouraged by the company’s The Boston Foundation. workforce development program, which “Through Raytheon’s partnership with included free college courses, and by the Bunker Hill Community College, I have opportunities the department offered witnessed firsthand the advancement for people to grow within the company. of the Learn and Earn program,” says And though she was herself a fluent Keith J. Peden, Senior Vice President of English speaker, she was, as the child Human Resources and Global Security of immigrants, cheered to see language at Raytheon. “More than 40 interns who courses included as part of the program. have participated in the Raytheon program “Gabby quickly embedded herself as have developed skills that are needed in a valued contributor to our team,” said the workforce, and are a testament to the Kristina Hillier, of BIDMC’s HR staffing continued growth and success of Learn department. “She has been instrumental and Earn, and to Bunker Hill Community

12 13 College fulfilling its vision and mission.” completed Six Sigma training and The Boston Foundation’s Julie Smith identified a qualifying project to save Bartoloni, Senior Director of Donor the company $100,000, and now they Relations, echoes the enthusiasm in will have more time to see those projects describing the contribution of its first through. “Blending their insights with Learn and Earn intern. “Deanna Colella our experience has launched innovative arrived at The Boston Foundation highly projects, including use of educational motivated and with a ‘can do’ attitude. software in training programs and These traits, combined with her events enhanced safety methodologies.” expertise, made having her assistance like For Nelson Franjul, LaDonna Hawkins, adding a staff member to our team.” Jennifer Sheehan and Gabby Valenzuela, The Learn and Earn program has grown the transformation continues. Franjul, dramatically, not only in terms of student in addition to securing a full-time job at placements with participating corporate State Street, also completed a bachelor’s partners—State Street alone now has 60 degree in management with a finance positions for Learn and Earn students, concentration at Curry College in May. for example—but in terms of the range of After working at both Raytheon and work opportunities available. The program Vertex, Hawkins is confident in her pursuit is now placing students from more than of a biomedical engineering degree and 20 majors, including accounting, graphic hopes to enter the bachelor’s program at design, event planning and IT disciplines Learn and Earn intern Gabriella Valenzuela in the Human Resources Department at Beth Israel the University of Massachusetts Lowell Deaconess Medical Center. (the last due in part to new positions in 2015. Gabriella Valenzuela, having created by EMC). Partner participation, discovered new applications for her meanwhile, has opened to corporations the flexibility required to meet ongoing the program. “We are now at the point of marketing skills, looks forward to getting outside of the original Massachusetts requests from employers, such as innovating creating a template, the goal of any new a four-year degree. Jennifer Sheehan has Competitive Partnership. off-cycle and mid-semester starts. program. We are building a model,” the found her immersion in the Learn and “Learn and Earn,” says Schaff, From the perspective of BHCC President President said. Earn program a catalyst not only for a “represents a collaboration between the Pam Y. Eddinger, Learn and Earn is about The redesigned Learn and Earn 2.0 career path but for personal growth. “This College and its corporate partners that has developing and sustaining long-term will launch in the fall of 2014. Students was a way for me to re-test my skills and affected the employers’ view of community relations with major local corporations will spend more time on the job, and the my ability to get up in the morning and college students, and the expansion of the that represent opportunities that lead to internship will extend beyond the regular face the day and face new challenges in program raises the competitive brand of real jobs and broader vistas for students. academic semester to five- and seven- the outside world,” she said. BHCC in the community. But the program is more than that. month stints, thus increasing the return- “What we see in this program,”says “It is a high-investment partnership that “It is also an opportunity to enhance on-investment to the College, the corporate Schaff, “are learning experiences that succeeds through continuous integration the College’s planning and assessment partners and the students by optimizing the are truly transformative. The access and of learning and value for all parties,” Schaff capacity,” she says. After the initial value of the immersion experience. exposure to these corporate opportunities continues. “We would not be where we development of the program, Raytheon, The response from Learn and Earn’s become a game-changer. Students emerge are without bringing together our diverse one of the founding partners, provided a corporate partners has been enthusiastic. with not only clarified career goals and employer partners to discuss program member of the Raytheon team, Michael “I associate passion, creativity and desire accomplishments, but renewed purpose, enhancements and to leverage best Hoeffler, who interviewed faculty, staff, to learn with the Bunker Hill Community identity and the hope of new possibilities. practices.” As a result, BHCC has added students and corporate partners, and led College students I know,” says Jeff Stolz, Even more invested in their education and peer mentor support from Learn and Earn a Six Sigma process that increased the who has supervised half a dozen student with the support of professional mentors, alumni. Bank of America and State Street College’s ability to carry out this large, interns as Raytheon’s CCA Operational they feel empowered to reach for their have each stepped up to host impressive, all- complex program with a small staff. Excellence Manager. Each intern has dreams and fulfill their potential.” n company winter networking events that have “The student piece is exciting,” Eddinger received overwhelmingly positive responses. says, “and it is exciting for us to build As a model of change, the program has greater capacity for more students. But succeeded in changing students, employers equally important is that our College is and the College itself. BHCC has created becoming a learning college, an institution “Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center decided to participate in BHCC’s a new course model and has modified that is self-reflective, and can learn from Learn and Earn Program because it not only introduces Bunker Hill academic program requirements for several its successes as well as its mistakes. We Community College students to the many careers that exist in healthcare, majors. The College has also incorporated are strengthening our institutional culture.” In addition, the Six Sigma process it also introduces BIDMC to great local talent.” Nelson Franjul at State Street Bank and rest of caption Nelson Franjul at State Street Corporation. helped the College’s effort to scale up - Joanne Pokaski, Director of Workforce Development, Division of Human Resources, BIDMC

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Pam Eddinger and Democracy’s College over the girls. I lived in New York’s open access education at the community places them into the larger context of our Chinatown with an older aunt and girl colleges. Community colleges can be the social condition, and offers a solution that cousins in my freshman year, and saw a great leveler that turns the immigrant resonates with the democratic values of Toward the end of her first year as President of Bunker Hill Community College, very different picture of immigration. I experience, native or otherwise, into one our nation. I have devoted my professional Dr. Pam Y. Eddinger sat down with BHCC Magazine and talked about how her lived on Mott Street, which served as the of hope and achievement, of economic life to this movement, and am so happy to background as a young immigrant to the U.S. and her subsequent educational boundary between Chinatown and Little mobility and civic engagement. be doing this work at Bunker Hill. Italy in Manhattan. We had a second floor At the same time, what I saw during that experiences have shaped her vision of community colleges in American education. BHCC Magazine: It seems that your walk-up in a pre-war building, where the first year at Barnard was life-changing. I immigrant experience has been critical to bathtub was in the kitchen. I saw firsthand saw accomplished women in the arts and the development of your thinking. BHCC Magazine: Can you share some of to Puerto Rico, where my cousins were how immigrant children grow up in the sciences, in public service, in business your family background with us? born. The whole family eventually landed ethnic enclaves of our urban centers, with and industry, and I was expected to follow President Eddinger: The immigrant in South Florida, and settled within the one foot planted in the traditional culture, their path. I found role models for the experience is surprisingly similar. But President Eddinger: I was born in Cuban community in Hialeah. and the other in the new world. Since first time, women who said to me over it’s one thing to realize that we have Hong Kong, the oldest of three children. One of the goals of immigrant families then, I have witnessed the same scenes and over again, “We did it. You can, too. immigrants from outside the country My parents were born in China, and throughout history has been to keep the over and over again within cultures, in Los You are strong and resilient. You are but another thing to realize that we also went to Hong Kong as young adults. In family together. Miami became my home Angeles, in San Francisco, in Boston…in this nation personified.” I realized how have immigrants who are native. I read Hong Kong, my father’s family ran an our urban immigrant centers across the important role modeling is, not only for the autobiography of Deval Patrick, our when we immigrated and joined my uncle. rant. I was one of the best Chinese take- import-export business. My mom was a United States. women but also for immigrants and for Governor, in which he described his out girls that restaurant ever had! I knew housewife. We were comfortably middle BHCC Magazine: What did coming to the minorities. All that was bright and shining experience in coming from the South Side the menu in Spanish, Chinese and English. BHCC Magazine: How did the experience class, and ordinary in every way. My uncle United States mean to your parents? How in female leadership was at Barnard. of Chicago to Milton Academy. It sounded did it alter their lives? of being in New York and going to Barnard brought us to the States, Miami, to be BHCC Magazine: Tell us about your I discovered the work of Zora Neale surprisingly like being an immigrant in his exact, when I was 11. One of the primary affect your perspective? President Eddinger: The opportunity high school years and how you decided Hurston at Barnard before her revival own country. reasons for immigration was to have better to come to the United States was clearly to attend a college like Barnard. What President Eddinger: What I saw during as a literary star. She was the first black In many higher education systems educational opportunities for the children. a double-edged sword. Not knowing the influenced that decision? those years shaped a lot of my thinking woman to attend Barnard; her alienation, throughout the world, colleges and language, they had limited career choices. about education in the United States. Yes, her intellectual power as a writer and field universities are elite institutions for the BHCC Magazine: So your parents came President Eddinger: I attended an inner- My father worked in a Chinese restaurant there was opportunity, but bridges were anthropologist, and her eventual rise as privileged, and the rest of society is left to this country specifically to improve their city high school with a diverse student and my mother took in piecework from missing. Some immigrants never make it a literary star spoke to her struggle and behind. But that’s not the way America children’s educational prospects? body of African American, Latino and the garment factory in order to be with the her resilience. is built. America is built on immigrants’ Haitian students. My siblings and I were President Eddinger: Higher education children when they came home from school. I saw that we strength and innovation. We are a country the only Asians. It was a school with in Hong Kong in the 70s favored those with It took a long time for my parents to are all sisters in of diversity, and it is not okay to leave 50 limited resources and struggles with per- “Community colleges are the best hope financial means or the exceptionally gifted. acquire the language, and my mother never our struggle for percent of our people behind. We were neither wealthy enough, nor was formance. I was really fortunate that one knowledge and did reach a level of comfort with the spoken for true democracy through education BHCC Magazine: How can community I clever enough to reach for college. When teacher saw potential in me, and pushed self-fulfillment, word. Their lives were constricted by the colleges counter the trend to educating my parents left for the States, they knew me to apply to Columbia. It is the same in our country.” - Pr esident Eddinger regardless of language barrier, so they saw hope for the some and leaving others behind? their children would have opportunities, future mainly in the lives of their children. type of success coaching that we now do at origins and and they were willing to risk their Had there been the vibrant community Bunker Hill and many community colleges cultures, and that President Eddinger: We have to shore up comfortable middle-class life for it. It is a college system we have now, they would across the nation. We know now that one out of Chinatown. The language barrier was very powerful and affirming. our three-legged stool. It takes three legs for typical immigrant story, of the sacrifices of teacher, one coach, one advisor, makes the keeps them confined, and the need to our students to stand and achieve. The first have acquired the language more quickly, BHCC Magazine: How did you launch one generation for the benefit of the next. difference in a student’s path to success. support families keeps them working at is funding. While 70 percent of our students they would have gone to college, they would your career? have had professional careers…our lives The better we are, and the earlier we are, low-wage jobs. What was striking for me are eligible for Pell Grants, the average BHCC Magazine: Did your family have would have been very different. at coaching students to college, the fewer as I grappled with the immigrant dilemma President Eddinger: I majored in unmet need is $4,000 a year. Almost all of relatives in the United States? How did unprepared students we will leave behind. in Chinatown, is that I recognized the English and then did my graduate work our students work, which explains why it they wind up going to Florida? BHCC Magazine: What was your life like same issues and same patterns within in Japanese literature and Chinese takes them longer to graduate. as a young immigrant? BHCC Magazine: When you arrived in President Eddinger: My mother’s family our poor urban communities of native- philosophy. My goal was university The second leg is support services, New York, you spent the initial year with a were “overseas Chinese.” The males of the Like many of our born citizens. Inadequately educated and teaching and research. In the midst of everything from teaching college expecta- President Eddinger: relative in Chinatown? family left their women and children at students at BHCC, I spent a lot of time locked into a cycle of poverty, they too all that, I needed to make a living, and tions and time management to educational home for years at a time to run businesses being an interpreter for my parents. My President Eddinger: Yes, my freshman are alienated from their own country, and got a job with a community college as a and career planning, success coaching, or work overseas. My grandfather and parents were very proud, and would work experience was like no other. My parents immigrants in their own education system. Communications Director. My job was to and establishing a social support network. uncle worked in Havana, Cuba. My multiple jobs and long hours to support were traditional in many ways despite The immigrant experience began to take tell the stories of our students. And once A very wise colleague once said to me uncle, who left home at 15, eventually the family. They did not understand or their willingness to enter a brand new on a fuller meaning for me. It is simply you tell those transformational stories, you about the need for student support, “Life is married my Chinese-Cuban Aunt Gladys want public assistance. I did not work country. My brother and sister and I were not okay to leave so many people behind. are hooked for life. The community college tough, you need a map.” I think we can use in Havana. When Fidel Castro took over much during high school, except on the given a lot of freedom, but one thing that I came to believe that the universal movement is powerful for me because it some good guides and life guards as well. Cuba, they fled the country and went weekends at my uncle’s Chinese restau- didn’t change was their protectiveness solution is education, and in particular, makes sense of my immigrant experiences, continued on page 36

16 BHCC Magazine BHCC Magazine 17 Celebrating 40 Years

“This academic year, 2013-2014, marks the 60th anniversary of executives of local nonprofit organizations, alumni and board professor from the College’s first year, was proud of coaching continuing to grow when many colleges are losing students. He Brown v. Board of Education, and the 50th anniversary of the members at a reception on April 9, 2014, to celebrate the 40th BHCC’s first soccer team, and Chair of Nurse Education Mary pointed to BHCC’s highly successful Learn and Earn internship, March on Washington,” said BHCC President Pam Y. Eddinger. anniversary of the state’s largest community college—and to honor Folan recalled the launch of the nursing program in 1975, just two saying that BHCC “is taking some of our best students at this “Our College came out of those great moments in the movement of Eddinger in her inaugural year at BHCC. Faculty members recalled years after the College got under way. institution to some of the best businesses in the Commonwealth of Americans toward freedom. We are part of the self-determination, early days in the College’s history. Mary Beth Barton, Chair of Lauding the College’s remarkable growth, from 1,000 students Massachusetts, helping to close the gap between what education is self-knowledge and social justice dialogue of our time.” BHCC’s Hospitality Department, remembered when 16 faculty in its first year to more than 14,000 today, Chair of the State Board offered here and what skills employers need in the workforce Faculty, staff and students joined state education officials, members shared a single wall phone. Robert Ted Carlson, a math of Higher Education Charles Desmond said that BHCC is of tomorrow.”

18 BHCC Magazine BHCC Magazine 19 State Education Secretary Matthew and be recognized. She led a round of applause for the founding send them back out again, into the world, ready for the next phase are the keys to social mobility. Our daily work at Bunker Hill is just Malone agreed. “You’re trendsetting the faculty and original staff present, thanked Board of Trustees Chair of their dream,” said Eddinger. that. But more importantly, our civil rights leaders knew, and we nation,” he said, pointing in particular Marita Rivero and Foundation Board President Jeanne-Marie Boylan Noting that this academic year marks important anniversaries know now, that education, economic security and leisure are only a to the College’s nursing program and for their leadership, recognized the many community partners in the civil rights movement—as well as the 40th Anniversary of prelude to the heart of the matter. These things enable us to reach Veterans Center. He praised the College sharing in the anniversary celebration, and then summoned the Bunker Hill Community College, she pointed to the community the heart of the matter but they are not the heart itself. for the contributions of its thousands of audience to consider Bunker Hill Community College’s 40 years in college movement as an aspect of the struggle for social justice “The heart of the American dream must be about self-determination, alumni over the years, as exemplified by 40 distinguished alumni a larger historic framework. in America. self-knowledge, and a fair and equal share in America’s dialogue as described in a booklet published by the College for the occasion. Eddinger spoke about how over the past century the community “The complexity of the community college mission and, really, a nation. BHCC’s history of embracing the urban mission, with all “This is what community colleges are all about!” he said. “This is college has evolved to become a complex institution that supports the mission of BHCC, was understood by civil rights leaders before of its beauty and sometimes perplexing complexity, aligns so very what America is about.” the American Dream. “We meet our students where they are, in and after Oliver Brown and Dr. Martin Luther King,” she said. “They centrally with the social justice dialogue of our time. As we President Eddinger asked the 40 representative alumni to stand their complicated lives, and we welcome them home. Then we knew that diversity, access to services, knowledge and employment, celebrate our 40th anniversary, we honor that truth.” n

President Eddinger with Brian A. Kyes, Chief of the Chelsea Police Department, and Jay Ash, Chelsea City Manager

President Eddinger at podium, with Massachusetts Secretary of Education Matthew Malone to her right

From left, faculty members Alessandro Massaro, Maria Marcela Rodriguez and Elizabeth Seabury

President Eddinger with Charles Desmond, Chair of the State Board of Education

Jeanne-Marie Boylan, President, BHCC Foundation Marita Rivero, Chair, BHCC Board of Trustees

20 BHCC Magazine BHCC Magazine 21 Construction of the Charlestown campus gets underway.

The First 40 Years Bunker Hill Community College was The original campus, 1973, with Buildings A, B, C and D completed. established 40 years ago by Dr. Harold Shively, whose “exciting plans,” as widely reported in newspapers of the time, envisioned an “open-ended and innovative” new college in the shadow of the Bunker Hill Revolutionary War monument. The images here capture just a few moments in the Natalie Oliveri Robert Steeper Barbara Taylor 40-year history of the College. For a complete Of the 29 founding faculty timeline visit bhcc.mass.edu/magazine. members of BHCC, Natalie Oliveri, Lawrence Scott and Robert Steeper are still teaching at the College. The average years of service of the faculty pictured here is 37.

Dignitaries including College President Harold Shively (second from left), Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis (center) breaking ground for the College’s E-Building, constructed to meet the demand of increased enrollment. The E-Building opened in September 1979.

Richard Klayman Robert Ted Carlson Kathleen Cedrone-Vaccaro Harriet Hutchinson

22 BHCC Magazine BHCC Magazine 23 The E-Building, a four-story complex that increased space on campus by 40 percent, housed the Library, cafeteria, culinary arts lab, bookstore, TV studio, recording studio and more.

Robert L. Steeper, Professor and Chair, Science and Engineering Department since 1973, with friend.

The College expanded to include the Chelsea Campus in 1987. Originally housed at Chelsea High School, the campus moved to the Commandant’s House at the Soldiers Home (above) in An early nursing student practices her craft with 1989. In January 1998, the campus moved to its new location in Bellingham Square, where it a volunteer. was located in the historic Post Office (right). Today, all of the College’s Allied Health Certificate programs are located at the Chelsea Campus.

Joyce Kulhawik was among early well known visitors to the campus. She reported the news for WBZ-TV from 1981 until 2008.

24 BHCC Magazine BHCC Magazine 25 40 Alumni 40 Years

The alumni pictured here represent the Reinier Moquete '03 thousands of students who have passed Managing Partner, through Bunker Hill Community College Advoqt Technology Group over the 40 years since the College opened in 1973. Hailing from as near as Charlestown and as far away as Nepal, our accomplished Since its inception the alumni have praised their alma mater College has offered a range for supporting them, inspiring them and of student activities and changing their lives. Here are a just a few events to promote a lively stories of how they found their way. See all campus life. BHCC now 40 alumni at bhcc.mass.edu/magazine. offers more than 40 student clubs and organizations. Stephen Spano '77 degree and J.D., then added a year at Students serve as club Partner, The Law Offices of Boston University to study tax law. He leaders and work with Spano & Dawicki currently operates his own legal practice A scholarship to BHCC was Moquete’s College staff to administer and also teaches at both Suffolk University chance to realize his dreams. While the programs. and Boston University. The most memorable support and caring he enjoyed at BHCC aspect of BHCC, says Guerrier, was the made the night classes and full-time day camaraderie of the student body. job worth it, the career guidance, planning Everyone, he says, wanted to help. and academic flexibility made it all possible. After earning associate degrees in both Claudia Carvajal Guillen '99 finance and business at BHCC, he received Coordinator, Medical Assistant Program, a bachelor’s degree from Pace University. Middlesex Community College Fabiola Similcar '10 Day Nursing Supervisor, Golden Living Center

BHCC “illuminated the world” for Spano, who grew up in East Boston. The patient Despite a lack of indoor facilities for athletics until the opening of the Health & Wellness guidance of faculty and staff helped him Center a few years ago, the College produced championship teams. first earn his associate degree. Spano continued to achieve, earning his bachelor’s degree at the University of Massachusetts Boston, his MBA at Northeastern University and a J.D. from New England Law. His fondest memory of BHCC was meeting his wife, Francine Dawicki, in 1976. Thirty- Laying out The Third Rail eight years later, they are still partners, Guillen never forgot the kind words she newspaper with James J. Rogash, both at work and at home. heard–thankfully in Spanish–when she Stepping outside herself at a College Professor, English Department. arrived at BHCC. “This wonderful woman planning event, Similcar entered a College visitors Ernst Guerrier '88 said, ‘We are going to do this and I am community conversation – and savored Tipper Gore, Hillary Attorney at Law, Acculaw going to help you,’” says Guillen, who is every moment. Even more satisfying was Clinton and Edward Originally from Haiti, Guerrier arrived from Venezuela. Her current position is her work as an orientation mentor – not only Kennedy. at BHCC uncertain of his future. The a way to repay the care she received at did she learn about other cultures, she also supportive culture of the College helped BHCC. Guillen earned her patient care taught new students about her native Haiti. him decide on a career path after a life- certificate, then went on to earn her Similcar received her associate degree in changing class in political science. He went bachelor’s degree in nursing at the nursing and went on to attain a bachelor’s on to Suffolk University for his bachelor’s University of Massachusetts Boston. degree in nursing from Curry College in 2013.

26 BHCC Magazine BHCC Magazine 27 in class

Students in the Sophocles common? Which do you prefer, and why? and Shakespeare course Salisbury’s question elicits a round of disapproval of Hamlet, who is regarded take their final exam. by some of the students as excessively In a house of emotional.books Salisbury talks about what It’s early May, a chilly afternoon. Classes Shakespeare was like as a person. He are over and final exams are in progress. tells the students the Bard was not well This one takes place at the professor’s educated, came from a family once rising home—Luke Salisbury’s in Chelsea, not far in small-town society, and had a father from the College. who was a glove-maker down on his luck. A steep flight of concrete steps leads “See Greenblatt’s Will in the World, for from the street to a landing between background,” he says, refering to one of Salisbury’s turreted Victorian house and his the foremost current Shakespeare scholars. “Why do people write?” neighbor’s on a noisy street, where buses “Also see the movie Shakespeare in Love, and cars rush by. Professor Salisbury opens for a sense of the times.” “Because the world inside of the wide, old-fashioned wooden door and He tells the students that in London, our minds is so much bigger welcomes the students to his home. the lightly educated young playwright than the world we live in.” “Sophocles and Shakespeare,” an was regarded as an “upstart crow” for his Honors course, has made for a demanding presumptuousness. Who did he think he semester. The students write several papers was? And why did he write? “For money, in which they cite Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, of course,” says Salisbury, quoting writer Macbeth, King Lear or other plays as well Samuel Johnson’s famous quip, “No man as scholars in the field and fellow students’ but a blockhead ever wrote for any other comments from class discussions. They reason.” Then he asks a student, “You’re read a lot, listen a lot and write a lot for this working on a novel, Greg, why do you course. By the time the final comes around, write?” The student replies, “Because they are more than prepared. But the exam the world inside of our minds is so much itself is different from most others. bigger than the world we live in.” The students, chatting and relaxed, The class of 11 or 12 students reflects follow their professor to the kitchen, the diversity of the College itself—about passing on the way a room lined with books half women, some white, some African in floor-to-ceiling cases. Luke Salisbury American, one student from Korea, and one is not only a teacher of literature, but a nontraditional student aged 35 whose wife reader, a writer and a collector of books. is expecting a baby. In answer to a question He estimates 7,000 books in the house. whether Shakespeare was famous in his own In the kitchen, the students arrange on time, Salisbury discusses the development the long central island an array of home- of “bardolatry” in the19th century, as he made cookies, tuna salad, Dunkin’ Donuts leads the students through the butler’s munchkins, a big baked pasta dish still pantry to the dining room. warm and a plate of cannoli that evoke yelps Around the long oak table, with a dozen of approval. Luke pours coffee from a tall stacks of books piled four high, the final glass pitcher, as the conversation takes off. exam commences. There are no papers in What do Hamlet and Macbeth have in continued on page 36

28 BHCC Magazine BHCC Magazine 29 campus visitors campus visitors

Danny Glover, B.D. Wong, Marlee BLACK HISTORY MONTH publication of his memoir about his 13-year-old son. He also described the Matlin and other visitors shared their Kathryn Woods ideas and insights with us this year. Asian stereotypes that hampered his Performer They broadened our worldview, made youthful efforts to become an actor. Buoyed us laugh, moved us, and enlarged the by support from early mentor Zora Chanes, College’s dialogue about race, social he went on to become the only actor to justice, sexual identity, disability and date to win the Tony Award, the Drama professional success. Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Clarence Derwent Award and the Theatre World Award for the same role.

COMPELLING CONVERSATIONS Marlee Matlin The Reverend Liz Walker chats with students during a visit to BHCC Art Gallery’s Black History Month exhibit. Advocate for the Deaf The Boston-based actress marched into Using American Sign Language and an Kamkwamba overcame poverty, famine her experiences in captivity and during the performance space at Bunker Hill interpreter, Matlin addressed the College and barriers to education to find his calling her recovery. She urged fellow veterans to Community College’s Chelsea Campus last winter as part of its Compelling as a student of engineering. Consulting seek support for post-traumatic shock and heartily shaking audience members’ hands Conversations series. The Academy Award- diagrams in a book he checked out of the other issues. while singing “Amazing Grace.” Through winning actress described the frightening local library, Kamkwamba, then 14 years dress, song and stories, Woods embodied loss of her hearing at 18 months, her parents’ old, built a windmill using parts he foraged WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH the spirit of Sojourner Truth, a slave turned decision to raise her at home, her determi- abolitionist, as part of the College’s Black nation to become an actor, her battles with from a scrapyard. His windmill brought The Reverend Irene Monroe COMPELLING CONVERSATIONS electricity to his village for the first time. History month celebration. The festivities, addiction as a successful young star and LGBTQ Advocate, Journalist While at the College, he also visited an also highlighted Judge Thurgood Marshall’s B.D. Wong the challenges of being an advocate for environmental science class and attended The Ford Foundation Fellow and Supreme Court argument “Separate But Actor, LGBTQ Advocate the deaf community. She also taught the a luncheon with BHCC students. syndicated queer religion columnist Not Equal,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Renowned for his award-winning audience how to sign the phrase “Courage spoke about her origins. Abandoned at Have a Dream” speech, and the remarkable performance in M. Butterfly on Broadway plus dreams equals success.” six months of age, she was “a street kid on accomplishments of the 19th century as well as his TV roles in Law & Order and VETERANS DAY COMPELLING CONVERSATIONS her way to becoming a drug dealer when inventor, draftsman, poet and Chelsea Oz, actor B.D. Wong shared his story of For more detail on these visitors go to Shoshana Johnson a teacher took an interest in me, just as native, Lewis Latimer. coming out as a gay man upon the bhcc.mass.edu/magazine. Danny Glover and Felix Justice Veterans Advocate at BHCC, people take an interest in you.” Actors, Activists Monroe discussed the contribution of In “An Evening with Martin and Langston” transgender people, how the second Glover and Justice acknowledged the wave of the women’s movement made enduring power of the poetry of Langston connections to black women and lesbians Hughes, a leading figure of the 1920s and the role of First Lady Michelle Obama. Harlem Renaissance, and commemorated “Michelle is in a difficult position,” said the 50th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Monroe. “She is a graduate of Harvard and Dream” speech, which King delivered at Princeton, but she is also ‘mommy in chief.’” the 1963 March on Washington. Both Glover and Justice spoke about the need BLACK HISTORY MONTH for young people to go beyond social Liz Walker media to social action. Minister, International Humanitarian ONE BOOK PROGRAM The first black female prisoner of war In her talk, “Taking Risks to Serve the World,” in U.S. military history, Johnson visited the former WBZ-TV anchor described her William Kamkwamba the College as part of the recognition of 2001 trip to South Sudan to investigate Environmental Engineer, Author Veterans Day. The U.S. Army veteran, who allegations of slavery and human trafficking. The 2007 TED Global Fellow and 2014 was captured and held as a POW at the She urged the audience to work to move the Dartmouth College graduate spoke about outset of the war in Iraq, toured the BHCC world forward. “No matter who you are or his book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Veterans Center, spoke with veterans what you do, you can make a difference,” Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope and students, enjoyed a lunch created by Walker said. “You don’t have to do it all, (2010). A native of Wimbe, Malawi, Africa, Culinary Arts students, and spoke about but you have to do something.” “Courage plus dreams equals success.” —Marlee Matlin, Actor, Advocate

30 BHCC Magazine BHCC Magazine 31 gala 2014 gala 2014

Oh, what a night!

BHCC President Pam Y. Eddinger, Hampshire House owner and BHCC Foundation Board member Tom Kershaw, and Billy Costa of NESN and KISS 108, the evening’s auctioneer.

Liz Gangemi, Laura Grandgenett, Shawn Waldie and Carolan Moran of CampusWorks.

Zena Aird, Vice President of BHCC Foundation Board Carlton V. Bunker Hill Community College Foundation Aird of The TJX Companies, Diane Hildreth, Nancy Bender of Ray Monkiewicz, Chair of Kayem Foods and Nancy Z. Bender Insurance Agency, Inc., and Pat Riordan. Aird Foundation Board member with President Eddinger raises funds for BHCC scholars has just secured the winning bid for the Boston Bruins tickets. and Ralph Smith, President of Kayem Foods.

A rainy spring evening failed to dampen In honor of the 40th Anniversary of the enable 40 promising BHCC students to take gift cards from Jet Blue Airlines and Omni the enthusiasm of dozens of Bunker Hill College, the BHCC Foundation established more courses and graduate sooner. Hotels and Resorts that left the destination Community College supporters who the Ruby Anniversary Scholarship Hosted by NESN and KISS 108’s Billy up to the winner’s imagination. There gathered for the BHCC Foundation’s program to assist the College with one Costa, the gala’s auction included good- was even a “Fighter Pilot Aviation annual gala, which raised a total of of its top priorities, student completion. natured jockeying for items such as “Game Adventure” that would put the winner $188,590 for new scholarships for BHCC “Most people do not realize that even the Plan”—47th-yard-line seats at a New in a light-attack fighter for air-to-air students. The event took place at the maximum amount of federal financial England Patriots game. The opportunity combat over Marshfield, Massachusetts. Back Bay’s Hampshire House, thanks to aid available does not cover the full cost to appear on “Countdown with Costa,” the Bidding on the live auction offerings the generosity of owner Tom Kershaw, a of attending college,” said Jeanne-Marie weekly top 30 countdown program, was so was fueled by a full complement of member of the Foundation’s board. Kayem Boylan, President of the BHCC Foundation. popular that Costa increased his donation gourmet delicacies that were prepared Former BHCC Director of Development Anne Hyde, third from right, with friends and President BHCC Foundation Board President Foods and Stop & Shop New England were By providing funds to cover unmet financial from one to three on-air segments. And and served by BHCC culinary arts and Eddinger, celebrating their auction wins. They are Jeanne-Marie Boylan. top corporate sponsors. need, the new scholarship program will “Choose Your Own Adventure” included hospitality students. n holding their BHCC bulldog mascot souvenirs.

32 BHCC Magazine BHCC Magazine 33 off campus off campus

At the Convocation that launches every academic year at Bunker Hill Community College, members of the faculty and staff share news of their recent publications and Health and Leisure When They’re 64? Places in the Heart presentations with the College community. The extensive list reflects the broad range Aspects of life in the Elder expert looks at Our communities of interests and concerns that speak to the rich intellectual life of the College. Here is Canadian countryside rock ’n’ rollers and ourselves a sampling from the most recent list, with a few subsequent additions. The full list is A specialist in Canadian Not many academics get What can we learn from the available online at bhcc.mass.edu/magazine. history, Kenneth S. Paulsen, to meet rock icons Ringo places we visit? Aurora B. Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty, Starr, Keith Richards and the Bautista, Ph.D., Professor, History and Social Sciences Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh. Behavioral Science Department, co-wrote the Department, explored this Mountain Mamas But it’s all in a day’s work for chapter “Leisure, Rural question as part of a panel When the midwife arrived Pamela Braverman-Schmidt, Community Identity and about infusing local history on horseback Professor, Early Childhood Women’s Health: Historical and culture into a curriculum Lynn Byall Benson, Ph.D., and Contemporary Education and Human to support the success of Adjunct Faculty, Learning Connections” in Rural Services Department. She diverse student populations. Communities and English Onward and Upward Women’s Health, published spoke as part of the panel She presented “Forging Department, presented Exploring the beliefs that by the University of Toronto “Elder Rock ‘n’ Roll Musicians Identities through Place-based “Midwife to the Mountains: determine perseverance Press. In tandem with Deborah Reflect on Aging” at the 2014 Curriculum: Utilizing Metro Mary Breckinridge and the Stiles and Steven Dukeshire, Why do female “English Aging in America conference Boston Resources, Festivals Frontier Nursing Service in Do It Yourself faculty in the business and language learners” (ELL) and Communities” at the Appalachian Kentucky” at the in San Diego, California. social sciences department persist in pursuing allied Students roll up their sleeves Eastern Division Conference American Culture Association Richard Eisenberg blogged at Dalhousie University in health certificate and associate The best way to learn about of the Community College Conference in Washington, about Braverman-Schmidt’s Halifax, Nova Scotia, Paulsen degree programs at community green business, it appears, Humanities Association in Shooting the Stars D.C., last spring. Benson An Unchained Life contributions in his Forbes studied a rural community in colleges? Jayne MacPherson, is to try running one. Cambridge, Massachusetts. explored the remarkable life Ray Charles: magazine’s “Personal Finance” Sports Illustrated publishes the province. The co-authors Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Anthony D. Fontes, Associate Bautista spoke about activities of Mary Breckinridge, who genius and addict post “Older Rock Stars Reflect photos of Red Sox’s big win researched the health issues Surgical Technology Certificate Professor and Chair, Business that are designed to provide hailed from a distinguished James J. Rogash, Professor, What is the relationship women face in agrarian areas, Program, explored this central on Aging” in March. Eisenberg Administration Department, students in her classes with Kentucky family with a English Department, shoots between musical genius as well as the meaning of query, among others, in cited Braverman-Schmidt’s presented “Experiential a way to connect to the local tradition of public service. A sports greats regularly as a and the pathology of drug women’s leisure in a rural her dissertation Pathways assertion that the icons are Learning through Student-Run community and its resources, nurse who endured the loss photojournalist. Four images dependence and alcoholism? community. The historical to Careers in Allied Health: helping us “look at aging in a Enterprises” at Committed offering them a place- of two children, Breckinridge he shot of the Boston Red Sox Lloyd Sheldon Johnson, background provided an Women, ELL and Community positive way.” He pointed out to Entrepreneurship, a based, experiential learning founded the Frontier Nursing Ed.D., Professor of Behavioral have been included in the 2013 important context for issues Colleges, which she presented some of the rock stars that she conference of the National opportunity. Her students Service in 1925 to reduce Commemorative World Series Science, was one of three facing members of these at the Association of Surgical Association for Community gathered data in Boston’s infant mortality and improve calls “resilient exemplars,” such edition of Sports Illustrated. panelists who explored the remote communities, which Technologists Annual College Entrepreneurship, in North End, at the Dudley Street women’s health, and went on as Keith Richards, 70, who said, The National Post, a Canadian question in “Ray Charles: lack convenient medical Conference in New Orleans Chicago. He described a BHCC Neighborhood Initiative in to volunteer for the Comité “I’m still an apprentice. There’s English language national The Music, the Genius, the facilities as well as places last spring. MacPherson student project to develop Roxbury and at the Peabody Américain pour les Régions always stuff to learn. I wouldn’t newspaper, selected one of his Pathology.” Charles fathered nearby for recreation. concluded that the women an on-campus, student-run Museum of Ethnology and Dévastées de la France during be surprised if we were doing photos for inclusion in “2013 in many children and yet persist because of a deeply business called The Firm. Archeology at Harvard. World War I. this in 10 years and Mick Sport: Best Photos of the Year.” managed to stay on top of held conviction that education Students built a mobile kiosk A member of the faculty since his demanding career and will lead to a better life. [age 70] will still be able to do to sell BHCC-related apparel 1987, Rogash got his start as face his public despite his Higher salaries factor into the amazing pirouettes.” and soft goods under a brand adviser to the College’s student addictions. Johnson discussed equation, too, as do the desire they created called Firm newspaper. After taking a the use of spirituality and to help others and the Ware. Big sellers included three-day adult education alternative modes of healing simple aspiration for shirts and other items with course in photography at for achieving wholeness and a better job. sassy slogans such as “I want the BCAE, he launched recovery. The clinic was to be the boss,” “Behold you a second career in part of the Ray Charles stand in the presence of future photojournalism. Symposium held at greatness” and “Work it, own Rogash went on to Berklee College of it,” along with several that earn a master’s degree Music in Boston. promoted a greener world. in photojournalism from Syracuse University.

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President, continued from page 17 President Eddinger: Sporadically. It has aerospace projects; and my sister is an The third leg is academic achievement. become a guilty pleasure to hide in the art director. But without the first two legs, the third library and read 10th Century Japanese While one may say that we are the won’t stand on its own. Community novels and diaries when reports or quintessential immigrant story, I simply colleges are not simply knowledge presentations are due. Once in a while I say that we were lucky, and had much help factories; we re-weave the frayed social try to give a lecture on Japanese literature along the way. Immigration is not mono- lithic. Many new immigrants in the last few fabric around our students so they fulfill or films. It is one way for me to stay decades are poorer, many are refugees, their potential. connected to the classroom. with less family and social support. They I have listened to great leaders in our BHCC Magazine: Looking back to your will need more intense support. Commonwealth talk about their parents’ parents’ decision to come to this country Community colleges are the best hope immigrant roots: Senator Markey and his when you were a child, what has been the for true democracy through education in parents in Malden; Mayor Walsh and his long-term effect for you and your siblings? our country. We welcome, we engage, we parents’ beginnings and their hope in their President Eddinger: My parents’ educate, we empower, we elevate…who else son; Speaker DeLeo’s fond memories of work life was about manual labor and can do what we do, in the scale we do it? Who his father in the restaurant business. Their supporting the next generation. The else if not community colleges? If we were stories resonate with me because I see in children all went to college and fulfilled not here, someone would have to invent us. them the strengths and challenges that I some version of the American dream—we­ It is true that we are at the center of see in our students. are all professionals and active in our the storm. But we are also at the center of BHCC Magazine: Are you able to keep up communities. My brother is an electrical hope. If society is going to change, it must with your work in Japanese literature? engineer who works with NASA and start here. n

House of Books, continued from page 29 The next student chooses Rosalind as How do the fools in As You Like It relate sight, no last-minute glances at notes. The well, saying she herself had just emerged to the fool in Lear? He gives them Cold students have brought only their thoughts, from a bad relationship. She admires Mountain, The Plague, a miniature Hamlet what they’ve learned from the course, how Rosalind for her strength and intelligence, (“I carry it in my car in case I get stuck in it relates to their own lives, and their well- and goes on to describe Rosalind’s traffic”), an Orwell collection (“the greatest worked-out answer to the exam question: behavior at a key juncture. Luke passes the essays in English”), Drown by Junot Diaz, Who is your favorite character from student a stack of books that includes The Robinson Crusoe, Bleak House and more. Shakespeare and why? They draw on the Picture of Dorian Gray. “Do we have to email you with proof readings from the semester, the papers they One student elaborates on Cordelia’s we read the books?” asks one student, to have toiled over, the conversations they’ve feminism, another on Edgar as “the real general laughter. had in class, their own thoughts and feelings. hero” of King Lear, and a third on Jaques, one As the exam ends and the class breaks The first student chooses the character of the two fools in As You Like It. Everyone up into small groups, Luke asks if the Kent from King Lear, for his “undying else in the play gets married and returns students go to readings, saying he was loyalty”—his willingness to face whatever to civilization, the student says, but Jaques about to hear Michael Pollan and would comes his way to keep faith with his remains in the forest and continues his quest. be doing a reading of his own book, sovereign. “I’m that kind of person,” he Another student sees in the character Sex Drive, in a few weeks. One student says after describing Kent’s character. He of Macbeth not a man led astray by an mentioned a book festival coming up in is not the first student in class to speak ambitious wife but an individual who was Copley Square, and another said there was about finding himself in the plays. Luke demonic from the start and found his true a place in Newton that offered readings picks up a stack of four books from the self in evil deeds. every week. Luke asked the students if Please support table and hands it over. Gulliver’s Travels, The student from Korea tells the class, they would go to a Shakespeare play now. Perfume and two others. “Young people in my country have to go to Someone mentioned that Twelfth Night The Bunker Hill Community College Foundation, Inc. Another student goes for King Lear’s school twelve, eighteen hours a day.” With would be in Boston during the summer; faithful daughter Cordelia at first, “for little time for friends, they play computer another that the Apollinaire Theatre Because higher education should be an option for everyone her level of forgiveness,” but expresses games. “They log out of the real world into Company in Chelsea was doing three this impatience with the world of Shakespeare’s a place where they’re totally free,” and summer in the park. Scholarships • Textbook Assistance Program • Health & Wellness Center tragedies, where everyone “is so full of in that place a lot of killing goes on. “It’s Students drifted out of the dining room, Student Emergency Assistance Fund battle,” and opts instead for Rosalind in criminal,” he says. He chooses Macbeth as where a few remaining books lay scattered the comedy, As You Like It. The defense a man who becomes a murderer. on the long table. “You were a great class,” www.bhcc.mass.edu/donatenow she offers earns her a handsome edition of Along the way, other students make Luke called after them, then added, “I will Hamlet and a book by Gail Sheehy. comments and Luke tosses out questions: miss you.” n BHCC Foundation, Inc. l 250 New Rutherford Avenue l Room C304 l Boston, Massachusetts 02129 l 617-228-2395

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