Lehigh Carbon Community College President Dr. Ann D. Bieber Important Dates Lehigh Carbon LCCC Foundation Community College Board of Directors July 3-10 No Daytime or Evening Classes Board of Trustees July 10 Summer Session, 2nd Five-Week Full Term Officers Ellen Millard-Kern and Online Classes Begin Roberta M. Marcus, Chair Chairperson; Chief of Staff, Parkland SD Senator Pat Browne’s Office July 10, 17, STEM Summer Sessions for Children 24 & 31 Ages 3-6, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., William Miracle, Vice Chair Kathy Kovatch Reaman Trustee at Large Vice-Chairperson and Secretary LCCC Schnecksville, Early Learning Center Thomas D. Oleksa Paul C. Fisher, Jr., Secretary Treasurer and Chair of Finance and July 10 & 17 STEM Classes for Youth Grades 6-10, Northwestern Lehigh SD Investment Committee 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., LCCC Schnecksville Annabelle B. Creveling Joseph A. Alban, Treasurer July 21 Deadline to register for 24th Annual Whitehall-Coplay SD LCCC Board of Trustees College Trustees Appointee Foundation Scholarship Summer Golf Annabelle B. Creveling Brian Kahler Classic and Dinner Reception.Call Allentown SD VP Finance and Admin. Services, LCCC Presidential Appointee 610-799-1929 or email [email protected]. Samuel P. DeFrank Salisbury Township SD Members July 31 Summer Bridge Free Program for Tony Boyle New Students, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Willard G. Dellicker Boyle Construction Trustee at Large Kim Capers LCCC Allentown, Tamaqua and Schnecksville LCCC Plans 24th Annual Golf Classic Capital Blue Cross Mathias J. Green, Jr. Northern Lehigh SD Robin Flores LCCC Foundation will hold its 24th Annual Foundation Scholarship Summer Golf Classic and The Literacy Center Matthew T. Korp LCCC Sponsors Dinner Reception at Lehigh Country Club in Allentown on Catasauqua Area SD Ronald Glass LCCC Faculty (retired) ‘Tamaqua Has Heart’ Monday, Aug. 7. All proceeds benefit the Bruce L. Rothrock David Krause Barbara Green Entrepreneurial Scholarship Fund. Lehighton Area SD Blue Mountain Resort The special heart that the college sponsored for Registration fee is $350 for individual golfers, which includes Audrey L. Larvey Jill Palazzo Hewes Palmerton Area SD MKSD Architects Tamaqua Community Arts Center’s “Tamaqua Has Heart” is green fees, cart, box lunch and promotional gift for every Kenneth H. Mohr, Jr. David Jones on display in downtown Tamaqua near the Salvation Army golfer. Golfer registration begins at 10:30 a.m. Golfers will play Southern Lehigh SD Lehigh County and New Vision Church building. The design for the heart was created by LCCC a scramble format with a shotgun start at noon and conclude William Santore, Jr. Christopher Jordan assistant professor with an evening dinner reception and awards. Panther Valley SD Compliance Officer ChildWay Pediatric Services of nursing Karen The dinner reception will begin at 5 p.m. with an elegant menu to include Gerald F. Strubinger Jim Thorpe Area SD Richard Kern Clark and her sister, iced seafood selections, prime rib, chicken piccata and salmon. Dinner is included BB&T Bank Kimberlee, who in the golfer’s package, and for those not golfing, tickets can be purchased for Ann L. Thompson Bernard “Buddy” Lesavoy, Esq. East Penn SD Lesavoy, Butz and Seitz, LLC teaches visual arts $100 each. Jerome B. Frank, Esq. David Lobach at Panther Valley Many sponsorship and advertising opportunities are still available, ranging Solicitor Embassy Bank Junior and Senior from the $10,000 platinum sponsor level to tee sponsor for $100, with a variety Timothy Mulligan Communities In Schools of the High Schools. of levels in between. Golfers will also have the opportunity to purchase raffle tickets for a one-week stay at a beautiful Alumni Association The hearts were officially unveiled June 8. Pictured at the vacation home in Pinehurst, N.C., providing unlimited access to courses 1-6 including the famous No. 2 course. Only Ron Neimeyer 300 tickets will be sold. Tickets can be purchased in the Foundation Office or College Relations. Board of Directors Altronics, Inc. unveiling are, from left, Kimberlee Burkett, Larissa Verta, Deadline to register is July 22. For more information, please call 610-799-1929, email [email protected] or visit Michael Mauro ’07, Vice President Kent C. Newhart Karen Clark, Dr. Tom Meyer and Melanie Turrano. Michele Mullikin ’00, Secretary/Treasurer Accounting & Tax Assoc., Inc. www.lccc.edu/alumni. Megan Billowitch ’94 Dale Roth Heather Mullen ’06 Dale A. Roth Architects, A.I.A. Shannon Semmel-Ciamacco ’96 Cheryl Fisher ‘82 Velia Rothrock LCCC Airport Site Kimberly Troup ‘13 Alumna SHINE Program Highlighted Jane Wilchak, LCCC Betty Smith Gets New Computers Willard Snyder LCCC’s SHINE program was recently recognized by a panelist at a hearing on the New Tripoli Bancorp A classroom at LCCC’s site at Lehigh Valley International Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. Airport has been outfitted with state-of-the-art computers for Louis M. Dubin, chairman of the Maryland Governor’s Workforce Development every student position. Board and the main expert witness at the hearing, applauded SHINE’s efforts to A new color printer/copier/scanner is online for student connect students with technical and career experts. Congressman Lou Barletta, who and faculty use, and the AV enhancements to the classroom, has been a supporter of the program, echoed Dubin’s praise. He said that, given its Lehigh Carbon Community College as well as to the wired and wireless networks, are well 4525 Education Park Drive record of success, SHINE could be a model for other afterschool programs across the country. Schnecksville, Pa. 18078 underway. The site will be online — with full access to all LCCC SHINE (Schools and Homes in Education), is a nationally recognized afterschool program administered by LCCC. www.LCCC.edu LCCC systems and the same look and feel to users as our main It serves students from five rural, economically depressed school districts in Carbon/Schuylkill counties covering 700-plus 610-799-2121 campus location — for the start of the fall semester. square miles in northeast . Summer Edition of Aspire Magazine Now Available

The summer edition of Aspire is available at www.lccc.edu/aspire. Read more about: LCCC Staff Volunteer ● How students, faculty and staff worked together to plant a for Student Outreach at pollinator garden at the main campus in Schnecksville ● A former honors scholar student who is following his dream of a Blues, Brews and BBQ Festival becoming a doctor ● LCCC students who are learning more about professional writing Volunteers from LCCC staffed a table through their experience with The Paw Print at the Blues, Brews and BBQ festival ● New simulation labs that are giving student nurses valuable June 10 in downtown experience in clinical decision-making Allentown. The volunteers ● An LCCC graduate who is leading the National Student Nurses answered questions for Association festival-goers and talked ● A paralegal studies student who moved to the U.S. from Greece about the benefits of and is now celebrating her hard-earned degree. attending LCCC. The table was set up near the Donley Center on Hamilton Street. Students Join Bucknell Scholars Program

Seven students were accepted to the Bucknell Community College Scholars Program, which includes full tuition for two courses, room, board, books, health insurance (if needed) and social activities during a six-week LCCC Participates in Camp Crane Recognition session. All students will return next year to complete their associate degrees, with the opportunity to apply to Bucknell as junior transfers the Sydney Baumbach, a 2017 LCCC graduate, presented a painting that she created following year with full tuition scholarships. as part of the inaugural event of the The students, pictured at Bucknell University, are, from left: Levi Wolf, 100th anniversary of Camp Crane at the Catasauqua; Aldaine Alphonse, Whitehall; Mickey Arce, Allentown; Allentown Fairgrounds on May 24. Cheyenne McKinley, Palmerton; Gabrielle Rutcosky, Lehighton; Hahn Tran, Sydney is pictured with Beverly Allentown; and Zuleyka Encarnacion De La Rosa, Allentown. Gruber, president of the Lehigh County The following students, all of whom were in a previous summer program, have been offered full tuition scholarships as Agricultural Society, and Ray Hoffman, junior transfers for fall 2017: CEO of the . The ● Flutura Berisha, Parkland High School (chemical engineering) fairgrounds served as a training site ● Amanda Jo Lazowicki, Salisbury High School (economics) for the U.S. Army Ambulance Service ● Jeffrey Mandrell, Dieruff High School, U.S. Marine Corps (chemistry/chemical engineering) during World War I, and the 2017 fair will ● Bao Nguyen, Whitehall High School (chemical engineering) celebrate this milestone. Leslie Bartholomew, director of returning adults and ● Vitoria Ruozzi, high school in Brazil (biology) veterans services (pictured right), coordinated the college’s role in the ceremony. ● Carl Silverstein, high school in Brooklyn (biology/philosophy) The following LCCC alumni graduated from Bucknell University in May, some with honors: ● Victoria Dikeman, Emmaus High School (English and literature) ● Tiron Ala, Parkland High School (chemistry). Tiron’s sister, Azize, (Parkland High School/LCCC) also graduated from Administrator Accepted into Leadership Program Bucknell University through this program ● Karen Peralta, Dominican Republic (biology) Jennifer Stephens, instructional technologist, has been accepted to the HERS Leadership Institute ● Syed Izzatullah, foreign high school (electrical engineering) at Wellesley College for 2017-18. The program is designed for women in higher education who are Thirty-three LCCC alumni have graduated from Bucknell through this program, a 100 percent completion rate, including interested in pursuing leadership roles. HERS is an acronym for Higher Education Resource Services. those mentioned above. Nine LCCC alumni, including the newest six, are currently enrolled at Bucknell University. Jennifer will attend onsite sessions outside Boston in October, November, February and March, as well as webinars. Participants will share an intense, interactive curriculum designed to provide the knowledge, skills, and perspectives needed for advancing as leaders across all institutional types.