LaGuardia Community College - LaGuardia Yearbook (Long Island City, NY)

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Question W What do you feel is needed, if onything, toword your continued success 05 0 leader in this institution? Joseph Shenker: Well! if the question is what do I need personally, I think it is the continued enjoyable interaction with the faculty and stoff of the College. Whot gives me pleasure is working with other people who ore creotive, who have good ideas, who develop new programs for our students, new information processes. It is the chemistry of working with other people who ore smart and who are dedicated. It makes it fun for me. Luis Merchant: I work for LoGuordio now. so I om looking or the school on 0 different perspective, not as 0 student, and having peers oround me that have bochelor's, master's and doctor's degrees certoinly influences me to obtain that stotus becouse it oppeors that one's ocodemics have to correlate with one's function. I om eoger to resolve problems for students and make the College atmosphere much more comfortable and enjoyable. Bryon Lezomo: For my continued success here, I will need student support to accomplish my gools in Student Government and thereby I can develop bosic leadership skills. At 0 senior college, I would refine and strengthen my career goals in marketing. Luis Merchant: I was President of Student Government for two years. I have to state thot because there were two different feel- ings in my initial approach. When I first started out, everything was vogue. There really wosn't 0 direct goal or 0 target. I wosjust kind of jumping into the water and assuming that I would learn to swim or that I would drown. So the earlier period wosjust to find out what the value of the organization was, how it operated, how it served as on integral port of the College, end what power the organization had that could benefit the students. In the second year of my administration, I had specific goals because I had then undersood the organization and its responsibilities. Bryon Lezomo: When we first come into Student Government, we reviewed the post administration and found that they were very effective in 0 lot of their pro- gromming. So, we said we were going to go occor- ding to the guidelines from the post and try to odd new ideas. We never anticipated the success of this odministrotion to the degree it has hod. This is due, to 0 large extent, to the groundwork laid by the previous administration. Bryon Lezomo President of Student Government 13

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12 Questionll How has LoQuordio changed your life and affected your personal career? Joseph Shenker: I don't know if it has changed my career. I have been extremely satisfied personally by being part of LoGuordio because it is so flexible. so changeable and so dynamic that I never get bored. It is fun being here. It's fun working with the students and working with the faculty because they are creating so many intellectually and administratively challenging programs. This year we introduced Nursing and Physical Therapy Programs and we received funding for the Program for the Deaf, and I am sure next year there will be another ogendo. It is professionally and personally rewarding for me. Luis Merchant: When I come to LoGuordio, I had been seeking a school that was involved with Dietetics because I had 0 dream of being a chef, so I signed into the Program. As I student Amwg': $31239 Coordinator delved into it further, I found out that it wasn't exactly what I had onticipoted. What I had found more in- teresting, to me, was my involvement with Student Government which required business and management skills. Subsequently, I changed my curriculum from Dietetics to Business Administration which was more related to what I had been doing, and the excitement that come from that has inspired me to continue my career in business, specifically in the public sector, and I found out that I really enjoyed working with people. Bryon Lezama: LoGuordio has changed my life 0 lot. My reasons for coming to LoGuordio were not those of traditional students - for the Cooperative Progrom end the typical degree-gronting programs. I originally intended to go to Boston College for Music, but I got ojob at 0 local radio station. I felt I should stay in New York and study communications while work- ing in a college radio station. LoGuordio wos reocrivoting its station and that's why I chose this College. I wound up getting involved with clubs which afforded me 0 unique opportunity to develop leadership skills at the some time. Then, from there, I got involved with Student Government which entails budgets and fiscal accountability among other skills. My major now is Business Monogement. Question III Hos your administration been as effective as you foresaw or onitcipoted it to be? Joseph Shenker: I think the structure has reached most of the goals that I hod in mind. I feel Ieost successful in the area of obtaining space. The College has for outgrown the success of our programs and the need of space for our programs has for outgrown our ability to provide it. We desperately need more space. Four years from now, with the Equitable Bog building acquisition and perhaps the closing of the street between the two buildings e with an arcade for the students to sit and chat with each other, have 0 Coke or o fronkfurter - will give us the type of space we need.

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Yearbook Reception Delwng wirh curiosity imo the Iong-owoired Yearbook Umojo Kwonguvu, Vincenr Bonrey 0nd LUIS Merchant show their sonsfocnon wnh the first Yearbook in over ten years