Harford Community College Alumni Newsletter Spring 2015

Spring 2015

CONNECTING WITH OUR ALUMNI & FRIENDS

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD PRESENTED

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HAYS-HEIGHE SITE ON NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD REGISTER

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HCC AND TOWSON UNIVERSITY’S 2+2 APPROACH

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President

Dear Alumni and Friends,

Making history here at Harford Community College is an area in which we have excelled in the nearly five years that I have had the privilege of serving as President.

Examples of HCC’s history-making include the construction of cutting-edge facilities like the APG Federal Credit Union Arena at Harford Community College and Darlington Hall. Additional examples are the development of innovative programs, such as the collaborative 2+2 program with Towson University in Northeastern Maryland, allowing HCC students to complete their first two years at Harford and finish a four-year degree close to home on HCC’s new West Campus.

It will be my distinct honor to continue to serve as the President of Harford Community College until my announced retirement in July 2016.

I hope to continue the trend of doing visionary work, including progress on the proposed Regional Workforce Development Center to house existing and new apprenticeship and skilled trades programs on campus. I also want to look into the expansion of other existing programs and the addition of some new programs such as 3-D printing, GIS mapping, and a solar energy maintenance program.

Making history here at Harford in a visionary, groundbreaking way has been balanced with an event of historical significance for Harford County and for our country. The acceptance of the Hays-Heighe House as the first Harford County site on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom brought a vital story to life and has carved the path for more in-depth research to take place.

Having spent a good number of years researching and teaching American History, I am excited by this news.

All of these accomplishments pave the way for our top priority: student success. As alumni and friends of the College, you are part of the growing and active HCC community. As part of that community, we invite you to share in and contribute to the successes of Harford Community College and its students by staying connected and staying involved.

Sincerely,

Dennis Golladay, Ph.D. President 2

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ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME BUILDS A NEW TRADITION

For the second year, the HCC Alumni and Friends Association partnered with the Athletics Department to revive the great tradition of celebrating the accomplishments of the College’s outstanding former athletes, coaches and administrators through the Athletic Hall of Fame.

On January 24, alumni and friends attended a special reception and induction ceremony at the APG Federal Credit Union Arena at Harford Community College to honor the Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2015. This year’s honorees included William Capallo, long-time coach and official, and the 1995 NJCAA Championship Women’s Field Hockey Team. This impressive women’s field hockey team achieved the ultimate and won the National Junior College Athletic Association field hockey championship, the first ever national title earned by any HCC athletic team.

Reuniting and recognizing the team for the Hall of Fame was a great way to commemorate the 20th anniversary of this notable accomplishment.

Participation and support from Class of 2014 Hall of Famers Dick Fordyce, John Haggerty and Judy Davlin, also honored again this year as coach of the championship women’s field hockey team, contributed to a developing sense of tradition.

We extend special thanks to our sponsors, Liberty Mutual Insurance and Protiviti, for their generous support. Event proceeds benefitted the HCC Foundation’s Fighting Owls Fund.

WINTER WINE EXPO 2015: EACH YEAR IS BETTER THAN THE LAST! A record crowd came out to enjoy the 16th Annual Winter Wine Expo presented by The Harford Mutual Insurance Companies. More than 250 wines were featured, and delicious food from local restaurants such as Birroteca, Main Street Oyster House, and MaGerks offered great pairings for the wine. Live music, a silent auction, and raffles added to the fun atmosphere. Proceeds from the event will go to support the Alumni & Friends Association’s scholarships and programs. Mark your calendars for next year’s Winter Wine Expo on February 21, 2016.

To view more photos of the event, please visit the Harford Community College Facebook page at www.facebook.com/HarfordCC.

2015 HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD The Distinguished Alumni Award has been established to “honor the achievements of a former student who has attained outstanding success in their chosen profession, demonstrated a commitment to the community, and maintained an interest in and service to Harford Community College.”

This year, Harford Community College is pleased to honor Chuck Boyle with the Distinguished Alumni Award for his professional achievements, as well as his lifelong commitment to the community and to the College.

As the dealer of Boyle Buick GMC for more than 20 years, Boyle has consistently led the way in customer satisfaction and community relations while maintaining a professional and ethical commitment to excellence.

This commitment to excellence has been well recognized over the years with several awards and honors: • Since 1997, Boyle Buick GMC has consistently been the #1 retailer of new Buicks in Maryland.

• In 2012, Chuck received GM’s prestigious “Buick Dealer of the Year” award, reserved for the top 2% of Buick dealers in the country.

Class N O T E S 1999 Joseph Oliphant, (Elementary Education), completed his bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education in 2002 from Point Park College in Pittsburgh, PA and went on to complete a Master’s in Administration and Supervision from California University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He is currently the principal at Propel Braddock Hills High School in the Pittsburgh, PA area.

2008 Lauren (Galeano) Milan, (Associate of Applied Sciences), gave birth to a son in August 2014.

• Received Buick’s “Best in Class” award for customer satisfaction 11 times in the 13 years of the program.

• In 2004, Chuck was honored with the Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award.

In 1991, Chuck co-founded the Harford Leadership Academy, a community development program, co-sponsored by Harford Community College and the Harford County Chamber of Commerce. The Academy is designed to promote the development of existing and emerging leaders and to create a committed, involved, and diverse network of leaders in Harford County. Now in its 25th year, more than 700 individuals have completed this outstanding program, including leaders representing the areas of business and industry, education, government, and civic organizations. “I was born, raised, and educated in Harford County, and it has been important to me personally, and to my family, to contribute to the advancement of this community,” said Boyle.

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Chuck’s dedication to Harford Community College continued through his diligent and faithful 21 years of service, from 1993-2014, as a Director, and later as Chair, of the HCC Foundation Board. “I enjoyed serving on the Board and working to make a great college even better,” Boyle recalls.

Chuck and his wife of 43 years, Pat, are the proud parents of three grown, married children. They also feel blessed to have eight grandchildren living within four miles of them who will have an opportunity to mature, enjoy and prosper in this wonderful county.

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During this time, Boyle was also the recipient of several community awards, including the Boy Scouts of America “Good Scout” award, the Edgewood Community Service Award, the Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship Award, was twice named “Employer of the Year” by the Susquehanna Regional Association of Retarded Citizens, and was also twice named the Harford County Chamber of Commerce member of the year.

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HAYS-HEIGHE HOUSE ACCEPTED AS FIRST HARFORD COUNTY SITE ON NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD NETWORK TO FREEDOM

The Hays-Heighe House at Harford Community College, a two-story stone farmhouse built in 1808, was repurposed in 2011 as a dynamic educational facility and public history site that showcases elements of Harford County’s diverse social and cultural history through exhibits, inclusive programming, and strategic partnerships. The mission of the Hays-Heighe House is to promote lifelong learning, community engagement, critical thinking, and historical and cultural understanding within the context of local, national, and global issues.

seminal book,” said Barnes. She added, “Together with the invaluable records at the Historical Society of Harford County and our records about the Hays family, we were able to piece together an important story about nineteenth century Harford County life.”

In fulfillment of that mission, and in a spirit of giving continued life to historic places and cultural heritage, the Hays-Heighe House created the exhibition “Faces of Freedom: The Upper Chesapeake, Maryland and Beyond,” which commemorated the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the Maryland Constitution of 1864 that ended slavery in the state.

Sites with a connection to a documented freedom seeker can apply for inclusion in the Network to Freedom, a subsidiary of the National Park Service.

An application containing exhaustive research of the Hays-Heighe House and surrounding Harford County, including timelines and citations, was submitted. Based on the information in this application, the Hays-Heighe House was accepted as the first Harford County site on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

Barnes adds, “It is an honor to be included as part of the Network, representing the tenacity in the human spirit to attain the God-given right to freedom.”

While doing research for the exhibition, Coordinator of the Hays-Heighe House Iris Leigh Barnes discovered that Sam Archer, an enslaved person living on the property, successfully escaped to freedom in 1860. Archer’s escape from his “so-called owner, Thomas Hays,” is documented in a major source about freedom seekers, The Underground Railroad by William Still. “We were excited to discover that we were documented in Still’s

Harford Community College has also received a Maryland Preservation Award for the “Faces of Freedom: The Upper Chesapeake, Maryland, and Beyond” exhibit and educational programming that inspired the research into the story of Sam Archer.

Archer’s story was one of several local stories narrated in the exhibition. Carol Allen, Director for the Library and the Hays-Heighe House, said that the purpose of

The story of Sam Archer as published

in The Underground Railroad by William Still: “Sam Archer was to ‘become free at thirty-five years of age,’ He had already served thirty years of this time; five years longer seemed an age to him. The dangers from other sources presented also a frightful aspect to him. Sam had seen too many who had stood exactly in the same relations to Slavery and Freedom, and not a few were held over their time, or cheated out of their freedom altogether. He stated that his own mother was ‘kept over her time,’ simply ‘that her master might get all her children.’ Two boys and two girls were thus gained, and were slaves for life. These William Still 1821-1902 facts tended to increase Sam’s desire to get away before his time was out; he, therefore, decided to get off via the Underground Rail Road. He grew very tired of Bell Air [sic], Harford county [sic], Maryland, and his so-called owner, Thomas Hayes [sic[. He said that Hayes [sic] had used him ‘rough,’ and he was ‘tired of rough treatment.’

So when he got his plans arranged, one morning when he was expected to go forth to an unrequited day’s labor, he could not be found. Doubtless, his excited master thought Sam a great thief, to take himself away in the manner that he did, but Sam was not concerned on this point; all that concerned him was as to how he could get to Canada the safest and the quickest. When he reached the Philadelphia station, he felt that the day dawned, his joy was full, despite the Fugitive Slave Law.”

Allen, Director for the Library and Hays-Heighe h Barnes, Coordinator of the Hays-Heighe House, istoric home.

Archer and Hanna Hays build the two-story stone farmhouse.

Farm becomes campus of Harford Junior College, where the House is used as an administration building.

East wing addition built.

Administration offices move from the House, where AMC Decorator Showcase is held.

First of three renovation phases begins.

June ribbon cutting ceremony, September exhibit opening.

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the “Faces of Freedom” initiative carried out at Harford Community College during the spring of 2014 was “to use a local exhibition and a series of educational programs to inspire learning and community engagement about freedom, slavery and emancipation by relating stories of individual enslaved persons who freed themselves by running away, individuals who helped freedom seekers, and individuals who worked to abolish slavery.”

Research will continue to uncover more of these vital stories that shaped the history of Harford County.

House is named to the National Register of Historic Places.

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Community and Campus Steering Committee determines future use.

The Network to Freedom website explains that the national Underground Railroad program was implemented “to coordinate preservation and education efforts nationwide and integrate local historical places, museums, and interpretive programs associated with the Underground Railroad into a mosaic of community, regional, and national stories.”

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Open for community use and special events.

Community focus group meetings held.

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Cheryl Monk ’71, a Harford County Public Schools educator, gifted her collection of over 1500 early childhood and elementary fiction and nonfiction children’s books to the College Library. The books will support several courses within the Associate of Applied Sciences Early Childhood Education program and the Associate of Arts in Teaching – Elementary Education/Elementary Special Education program. Mrs. Monk donated the collection in honor of the “Outstanding Women Educators of Maryland Chi Chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa.”

George Budelis, Harford Community College head coach of both the men’s and women’s tennis teams, earned his 200th career victory on Sunday, March 15 when the Fighting Owls defeated Cabrini College. Mr. Budelis is a 17-year coaching veteran, currently with 122 wins as the men’s coach and 78 as the women’s. Mr. Budelis is also an Academic Advisor in the Office of Advising, Career and Transfer Services at HCC. Students Karley Bush and Nicole Wojcik were named NJCAA Division I Soccer All-Americans. The pair helped guide the Fighting Owls to the NJCAA Division I National Tournament after winning the MD JUCO Championships, the Region XX Championships, and the District L Championships.

New scholarships have been established through the HCC Foundation by the Aberdeen Lions Charities, Route 40 Business Association, and the Southern Harford County Rotary Club, with scholarship awards totaling $4,000.

Towson University has opened its doors in Harford County on the HCC campus, making four-year degrees more affordable and accessible.

The Towson University and Harford Community College partnership provides seamless transfer for students who wish to pursue an associate degree at Harford and a bachelor’s degree at Towson. In simple math, that translates to the “2+2 approach.” This new location, referred to as TU in Northeastern Maryland, makes Towson’s programs easy to access and provides regional opportunities for study and workforce development. County residents can enjoy lower course fees and a shorter commute, saving time and money.

PROGRAMS OF PROGRAMS THAT TRANSFER INCLUDE: STUDY INCLUDE:

• Business Administration (Management) • Family and Human Services – Services to Children and Youth (Beginning Fall 2015) • Information Technology • Integrated Early Childhood Education/Special Education • Integrated Elementary Education/Special Education • Psychology • Sociology (Criminal Justice)

US Senator Ben Cardin greets TU in Northeastern Maryland students John Hryncewich and Brittany Martin. (Image from Towson University website news article, Feb. 9, 2015)

It was reported in a February 9, 2015 Towson University website news article that United States Senator Ben Cardin believes that Towson University in Northeastern Maryland could be a nationwide model for other institutions looking to make four-year degrees more affordable and accessible. “We’ve got to do this in a better manner,” Cardin said during his visit to the Bel Air campus in February. “That’s why I’m so excited about this program; I think this is exactly what we need.” He added, “This is really visionary.”

Brittany Martin graduated with an A.A. in psychology from Harford Community College, and in the fall of 2014, transferred to Towson University in Northeastern Maryland to take the upper level courses she needed to complete a bachelor’s degree. “Being able to take upper level classes close by and graduate from there as well is a marvelous feeling,” she said.

For more information on the 2+2 program, please visit www.harford.edu/about and click on Towson University at Harford Community College.

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FIGHTING OWLS MEN’S AND WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPS!

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Dr. Dennis Golladay, Dr. John & Sandra Ferriter, Brenda & Quinn Morrison, Dr. Richard & Esther Streett and Family, Harford Bank, and Klein’s ShopRites of Maryland recently made gifts to the College to name classrooms and labs in Darlington Hall.

This brings the number of named spaces in Darlington Hall to 11 with $335,000 in total donations.

Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams claimed the 2015 MD JUCO Championship this season, scoring the first conference tournament championships in school history for both teams.

The women’s team also earned its third consecutive Region XX Championship and won a school record of 26 games this season. The men’s team won its first ever conference tournament championship, bringing total wins to 19 games, the second most in school history.

After more than 50 years, the roads at HCC have officially been named! It was a long process to get county approval, but the project is now complete. Names include “Fighting Owls Blvd.,” “Success Way,” and “Graduate Drive.” For a complete list of road names, visit www. harford.edu/about and click on Visit Campus.

“We are incredibly proud of the accomplishments that both of our basketball programs earned this season,” Harford Athletics Director Ken Krsolovic said. “Neither team had ever tasted the success that they had this year, and for them both to do it in the same season was very special.”

The women’s team continues to be one of the best programs in the northeast. Ashley Smith became the third player in three years to score her 1,000th point as a Fighting Owl, landing on the First Team All-MD JUCO list for the second straight season.

The men's team continues to gain recognition, as three Fighting Owls were named to the 2015 All-Region XX Team. Sophomore point guard Brandon Spain garnered First Team Honors, while freshmen Exzavier Cooper and Jon Warren landed on the Second Team.

Maria Ibarra of Bravo! recently won the Brenda Brown Excellence Award for achievement and notoriety.

This prestigious award has been presented to one deserving Bravo! employee annually since 2010. As winner of the Brenda Brown Award, Maria will receive a scholarship in the amount of $3,500 that she may use toward furthering her own education and/or that of a child of her choice.

This year of accomplishments will go down in history for both teams!

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Construction is complete for Darlington Hall, HCC’s central hub for students pursuing nursing and allied health degrees and certificates. For the first time ever, academic and continuing education health care programming is now offered in one building. The new 52,000 square foot, three story, state-of-the-art facility, designed with high tech classrooms, laboratories, modeling and simulation labs, and informal study and social spaces, welcomed students for the spring semester. Nursing and Allied Health Alumni were invited to a VIP reception and private tour of simulation labs at the building’s grand opening on April 10.

For information about the facility, visit www.harford.edu.

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