Broome Community College - Citadel Yearbook (Binghamton, NY)

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N Dedication Bring men to me to match my mountains, Bring men to me to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose, And new eras in their brains. S. Foss Cecil C. Tyrrell

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PRESENTING THE Ge CTPADIE OF BROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK VOLUME 25 i il

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Dedication to President Tyrrell President Tyrrell came to Binghamton in 1946 to assume responsibilities in an experiment with a new type of higher education--the two year college. He was named President of The New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences, which was the forerunner of Broome Community College. Along the way, he introduced (at the college) many edu- cational innovations in Engineering, Secretarial Sci- ence, and Liberal Arts and Science, Health Science Technology, as well as collegiate studies. If running a college was not enough to keep him busy, President Tyrrell also found time for other activities. On the national scene, he has served on many evaluating teams for such accrediting bodies as the Middle States Association and the Engineers Council for Professional Development. In addition, he has been a consultant to many colleges when they were developing their technical programs or when they were to be evaluated for accreditation. President Tyrrell received the coveted James H. McGraw Award in 1967 for his outstanding contri- butions to the field of technical education. He served as Chairman of the Committee of the American Society for Engineering Education, when it prepared the report that became the ‘“‘bible’’ for technical education in America. Locally, President Tyrrell was apast President of the former Binghamton Chamber of Commerce, The Sheltered Workshop, Broome County’s Social Planning Council and United Fund. He has also been an officer or aboard member with such organizations as Marine Midland Trust Company, Roberson Center Growth Fund and the State Labor Department’s Advisory Manpower Panel. The American Legion Post 80 named him ‘‘Man of the Year’’ in 1965, and he was cited as the ‘‘Engi- neer of the Year’’ in 1966 by Broome Area Chapter of the New York Society of Professional Engineers. President Tyrrell was born in Crown Point, New York and attended school in Scotia, and subse- quently received his B.A. and M.A. from Purdue University. He taught mechanical engineering for three years at the University of Maine, for five years at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for two years at Rutgers University. Prior to coming to Binghamton, he worked as a senior mechanical engineer at the Anthracite Institute, in Primas, Pa., from 1944 to 1946. Looking back with some pride and satisfaction over his past twenty-five years as President of Broome Community College, President Tyrrell noted that he has enjoyed a privilege ‘‘That does not come to many-- the creation of a new college in what was a higher education wasteland when we undertook the job back in 1946’’. These are the kinds of accom- plishments Cecil C. Tyrrell has made to the College and the Community. On behalf of the student body, we wish President and Mrs. Tyrrell a happy retire- ment in sunny Florida.