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Saving Miss Mary the Story of a Cook, Her Colleagues and a College Community Alumni FALL 2017 Connection Saving Miss Mary The story of a cook, her colleagues and a college community. PLUS Dear HCC: Reflections from a former phonathon caller Why I Give: Legacy gift mark of grateful graduate DEAR READERS early every day I hear something that makes me proud of Holyoke Community College. Whether speaking Nwith a student who found her path and passion with the support of a faculty mentor, or meeting with our Open Alumni Educational Resources team, a group of faculty and staff working to drastically cut the cost of books and educational materials for our students, the sense of community and the transformative Connection power of our mission are unmistakable. In the year ahead, HCC will embark on a strategic planning The Alumni Connection is published two times process that will bring students, faculty, staff, alumni and per year by the Holyoke Community College community stakeholders together to envision and plan the future Alumni Office, Holyoke, Massachusetts, and of HCC. What are the most pressing needs of our students and is distributed without charge to alumni and our community? What are our unique strengths and how do we friends of HCC. Third-class postage is paid at Christina Royal, Ph.D., want to build upon them? How can we invest our resources in Springfield, Massachusetts. HCC President order to have the greatest impact? This is a pivotal moment for HCC, and I hope you will join us in this undertaking. To learn more Editors: about the planning process and how you can participate, please JoAnne L. Rome and Chris Yurko visit hcc.edu/forward. We look forward to your input and involvement! Design/Art Direction: I hope this issue of the Alumni Connection inspires and enriches your life. William Murphy Layout: Sincerely, William Murphy Photography: Chris Yurko and Don Treeger Class Notes/Change of Address: Please contact the Alumni Office 413.552.2253 or [email protected]. hink back to a time in your life when someone helped you Alumni Council unexpectedly. Perhaps it was recently, years ago, or even as far back President Tas childhood. Did this particular act of kindness come from a friend, Dawn E. Bryden ’89 family member, co-worker, or stranger? Do you remember how it made you First Vice President feel or how much it changed your life? Gertrude E. Monson ’97 Second Vice President Memories like those remind us all to act in similar ways, to help, encourage, Cleveland Burton, Jr. ’86 and support others. As members of a college community, we aspire to act Secretary in the best interest of others, to work together toward common goals, help Elizabeth Róman ’04 our colleagues and encourage our students, so that we can all succeed. Alumni Trustee Lucy F. Perez ’87 On a campus such as ours, unheralded and often unnoticed acts of good Bonnie Zima Dowd take place all the time. In this issue, we pull back the curtain a little bit to Alumni Council Director, Alumni tell you a story that shows our HCC family acting at its best. In our cover Ruth Amador ’05 Relations story, “Saving Miss Mary,” you’ll meet Mary Pennicooke, the kind-hearted Laura L. Brennan ’79 cook for our Gateway to College program, who likely would have died but Carrie Buckner ’77 for the actions of her HCC colleagues. Her story, which is also ours, shows Taliani Alexander Cotton ’06 how one person can make a difference in so many other lives and how we Margaret Egan DeJesus ’90 are all connected. Then go on to read Jon Roe’s story about doing good for Sina Holloman ’09 the next generation of HCC students. Diane Lessard ’06 Yes, our lives are hectic and often stressful. Today, we challenge you to Gloria G. Lomax ’75 go out and exercise your kindness muscles. If you are touched by these Kim Monson ’01 stories, then do something good for someone else. You’ll help create a Elizabeth A. Murphy ’74 happier and more compassionate world. Thomas Rachele ’96 Marsha Ryan ’70 With kindness and gratitude, Robert Ramos ’16 Dawn E. Bryden, ’89 Ryan Rege ’08 President, Alumni James M. Sheehan ’74 Council Nancy A. Spagnoli ’83 Karen Thompson Brown ’04 Bonnie Zima Dowd, ex officio AROUND CAMPUS President Christina Royal, back left, gathers with HCC students and staff to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8. HCC celebrates International Women’s Day HCC celebrated International Women's Day March 8 with a rally in most, right here in our local community,” said President Christina Royal, the campus courtyard featuring speeches by more than a dozen HCC who gave the keynote speech. “The fight for women's rights is just one students, faculty, and staff — both male and female. Speakers took part of the larger struggle to create a world in which all are valued, all are turns at the mic, sharing original poetry, giving shout-outs to the strong secure, all are educated, and all can achieve their full human potential. I women in their lives, and offering encouragement and inspiration to call on all of us to learn and reflect on our history, embrace it, celebrate all in their quest for equal rights and struggle for a better world. “As an our progress, and continue advocating for equity, not just on behalf of open access educational institution, Holyoke Community College has a women, but all people.” unique responsibility to provide opportunities for those who need them Read the full text of the speech at: hcc.edu/women Art exhibit features ‘This just ‘Impressions of changes lives’ Home’ Alicia Shibley '13 studied HCC student Kiana Estime printmaking at HCC. She is now received a prestigious transfer working on her master's degree scholarship from the Jack Kent in art therapy and counseling at Cooke Foundation that she will Springfield College and helping use to complete her bachelor’s homeless shelter residents create degree in anthropology at art. The HCC Taber Art Gallery Mount Holyoke College. Estime, featured some of that work in a 20-year-old liberal arts major an exhibit Shibley curated called from Great Barrington, Mass., “Impressions of Home.” She gave a with a GPA of 4.0, was one of gallery talk March 22 during which only 55 students in the United she discussed her internship as States to be awarded the Jack the arts program facilitator for the Kent Cooke Undergraduate Friends of the Homeless shelter in Alicia Shibley ’13 gives a gallery Transfer Scholarship this year. Kiana Estime, right, with her Springfield. “I hope that everybody talk for the show “Impressions of The scholarships, worth up to HCC mentor, Pathways Program can just take a minute and kind Home,” at HCC’s Taber Art Gallery. $40,000 a year, are awarded to coordinator Irma Medina ’97. of feel what it feels like to step outstanding community college into these paintings and maybe Read more at: hcc.edu/home students transferring to top-tier Read more at: hcc.edu/estime experience what these artists are universities. experiencing," she said. Alumni Connection 1 Fall 2017 AROUND CAMPUS HCC President Christina Royal cuts the green ribbon. Standing beside her are, from left to right: Hope Davis, deputy commissioner of the state’s Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance; Peter Blauvelt, senior project manager at ADI Energy; student trustee Theodore McCormick '17, of Holyoke; Bill Fogarty, HCC vice president of Administration and Finance; HCC Board of Trustees vice chair Julie Pokela; and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse. The college held a ribbon-cutting ceremony professor Kate Maiolatesi said the college's selection June 7 marking completion of a $5.2 million energy as a TZNE pilot site has been an exciting opportunity Campus gets conservation project, part of HCC’s selection as for HCC students, who were included in project ‘greener’ a "Toward Zero Net Energy" pilot site. The energy planning and design. “As students, it's really nice to upgrades will significantly reduce consumption of see the projects that we work on being implemented,” electricity and natural gas, saving the college nearly Sustainability Studies major James Walcott of West $200,000 in utility costs and reducing carbon Springfield, told the crowd. emissions by 672 tons per year. Sustainability Studies Read more at: hcc.edu/greener Music students ‘Belchertown get a little Wet Patient #3394’ returns to HCC Kelly Zutrau, lead singer and At the age of 6, Donald Vitkus songwriter for the indie- ’05 was committed to the now- pop band Wet, visited HCC shuttered Belchertown State March 29 as part of the Music School. He lived there for 11 years, Department's weekly series enduring countless horrors and of free concerts and guest daily abuse. That story is told in lectures. Zutrau, whose band the book about his life, "You'll has performed on “The Tonight Like It Here": Donald Vitkus - Show with Jimmy Fallon,” talked Belchertown Patient #3394, about her evolution from college written by Northampton author Ed art student to singer, offered Orzechowski. Vitkus returned to songwriting tips, gave advice HCC for a book signing April 19. about the music industry, and played a snippet of the band's Kelly Zutrau, from the band Wet, most popular song, "Don't Above, Donald Vitkus ’05, with his with her former vocal teacher and Wanna Be Your Girl." Zutrau and former teacher, Jackie Griswold, HCC adjunct music instructor her bandmates lived in Hadley, retired HCC professor of Human Sarah Clay. Mass., while recording their Services. debut studio album, "Don't You." Zutrau took voice lessons from See the music video at: HCC adjunct vocal instructor Read the full story at hcc.edu/zutrau Sarah Clay, of Florence.
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