Northern Essex Community College - Lumen Yearbook (Haverhill, MA)

Text from Pages 1 - 254 of the 1972 volume:

LUMEN Presents 10th Anniversary Issue A Decade Of Progress Class of 1972 LUMEN Staff Editors-in-Chief Linda Lynch Jay Webster Assistant Editor Frank Pote Photography Editor Peter Markhard Writing Editor Marty Dumphey Kitty Flammia Advisor Mr. Charles Reilly Members Betty Daly Peggy Fasculo Sandy Kotuli Carol Lesiczka Mary Macrina Ed Rodriguez Pam Shattuck Debby Timony Clarissa Uliano Sheila Carter Douglas Hoyt Theresa Newkirk George Prall Dottie Sliney Theresa Macrina Steve Youn g Penelope Wetmore 2 I 3 March 10,1972 To The Class of 1972 This year will mark two important events at Northern Essex Community College. One will be the tenth anniversary of the first graduation class; the other will be the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Lumen. Each one marks significant progress in the life of this collegiate institution. Each should be given full recognition as important to all in the college. I once heard Winston Churchill say that anniversaries are the special prerogative of women and of institutions. Something pleasant and wonderful happens to a woman when her loved ones remember her wedding anniversary. A good husband never forgets the importance of such remembrance. By the same token, institutions remember the time of their founding and continually reiterate the importance of their existance by noting anniversary. It is interesting to observe that anniversary is never the period at the end of the sentence. We do not expect to turn an anniversary into something final. Such a celebration is always a comma linking the past to the future. The comma gives proportionate balance to the entire sentence. Just look for a moment at our anniversary which will be recorded in this publication of the Lumen. For ten successive years we have graduated many wonderful people from this college. Each year had its accompanying hopes and frustrations, its anguish and its ecstacy. Programs and plans were fulfilled, but buildings were not. Now we have a beautiful new campus given to us by the Commonwealth. No longer do we hope for what seemed always quite impossible. The impossible has become the real, faith has passed into knowledge, and we have in our grasp the promise of a wonderful future. We pause to offer thanks and appreciation to all who have made this possible. And we now seize with firmer hands the resources which will permit us to attain true greatness. In all of this the Lumen plays a most important role. Many years from now this year’s graduates will be able to revive their memories of people, buildings, and events that will speak pictorally through the printed page. The institution and the book go together. Let us cherish both. President Harold Bentley DEDICATION to President Harold Bentley Tattered walls— so used and tired, a floor which creaked with wea- riness, and long, warped halls of dusty age. To this place there came a man, who painted the dying walls with knowledge and woke the sleeping dust with the fresh breeze of thinking minds. In the October of 1960, Harold Bentley took on a task; one which required a strong will and held the possibility of many dis- appointments. When he was appointed Director (and eventually President) of Northern Essex Community College, he had nothing but his sincere dedication and love for learning to build with, but this seems to have been enough. After one year of collecting able teach- 6 (old Greenleaf School) ers and searching out space, Northern Essex was granted the use of the old Greenleaf School (an ancient building, at one time the town hall). This was a proud but tired building. Its many years of use showed upon its face of leaning doors and sticking windows with their sad expression of surrender. Therefore, in 1961 the old Green- leaf was first condemned, and then renovated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and given new youth and six classrooms with space for laboratories, electronics equipment, and business machin- es. Mr. Bentley’s efforts were soon rewarded with a graduating class of one hundred and eighty-six students. Through the use of the Grange Hall and a church, Northern Essex grew stronger and larger. The city of Haverhill gave additional space in its former high school and helped to feed NECCO’s population as it grew from a student body of 186 to 1,8000 in the fall registration of 1970. As the student number grew so did the resources of its library which progressed from a small 4,500 volumes to a constantly grow- ing 35,000 volumes. On February 23, 1965, President Bentley and those following him, received a deed from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts which opened up 110 acres of dreams to pursue. It was a deed which led to opportunities for people who wanted to learn but who before then could not. NECCO gave many individuals a second chance to find an education. Through the long journey of NECCO, many programs were created to bring out the needs and abilities of individuals. Some are: the nursing program, which was born in 1969; the child care program; and the work study program. Yet NECCO has remained personal despite its growth. 7 (old Haverhill High School) The new strong and straight walls will need no sleep. The many halls will not crumble or give way beneath the weight of minds. The walls will glow with the designs of a billion thoughts. The “old” walls will rest now, having bequethed a strength to car- ry the mass of knowledge. A strength that will always be— youth. 8 9 NOSTALGIA 10 11 12 13 14 15 Nostalgia photographs courtesy of Professor Richard Mesle M, i Ah ' • mm 16 FACULTY A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams Brent Bonah Assistant to the Dean Churchill Stafford Dean of Students Olga Williams Chairman, Secretarial Science Sheila Krim Director of Public Relations 19 Donald Pailes Chairman Department Mathematics Francis Champoux Natural Science 22 23 Constance Hoyt Nursing William Taglianetti Chairman Health Services H. Kenrick Holden Natural Science Grace Costanzo Secretarial Science 25 26 Dr. James Gustafson Chairman Philosophy Fine Arts Rochelle Newman Philosophy Fine Arts Donald Charlesworth Business Administration 27 Susan Horowitz Financial Aid and Veteran Affairs 28 Charles Adie Mathematics Jack Warner Director Student Activities 29 Jack Wysong Department of Communications with Brent Bonah, right Richard Ellis Chairman Mathematics Natural Science 30 31 Eugene Connolly Chairman Department of Communications Richard LeClair Director of Counseling 32 Donald Horgan Business Administration Robert McDonald Mathematics 33 Milo Williams Business Administration John Finneran Natural Science 35 Claudette Perier Secretarial Science John Peroni Director Continuing Education 36 I Herbert Crook Foreign Languages Francis Leary Business Administration 37 Michael Pelletier Engineering Science Electronic Technology Jack Aronson Foreign Languages 39 Howard Crowell Foreign Languages William Marble Department of Communications Duane Windemiller Chairman Department of Psychology Sociology Roland Kimball Department of Communications 41 42 Sheila Shively Department of Communications Eugene Boles Philosophy Fine Arts 43 Peter McCarthy Department of Mathematics Mary Whittle Department of Communications 44 Vincent Alsfeld Business Administration 45 Frank Padellaro Chairman Department of Business Administration Usha Sellers Psychology Sociology Richard Mesle History Government 46 47 Sandra Fotinos Department of Communications Claire Martin Department of Communications 48 Linda Kraus Department of Communication 49 Bonnie Flythe Psychology Sociology lareit w;ai� � � — CHIU) THAT LIVES WITH AFFECTION HARMS TO LOVE CHIU) THAT UVES WITHJ COyRAGEMEHT L EARMS CHILO • h i n .: :-K ' Rubin Russell Counseling 50 51 Elizabeth Wilcoxson History Government Carl Beal Department of Physical Education 53 54 J. Alphee Desjardins Natural Science Elizabeth Kimball Registrar Valdemar Paradise Psychology Sociology 55 Liz Leary Secretary to the President 56 Janet Bowler Secretary to the Dean of Students Cindy Hideriotis Secretary to the Dean of Faculty Arline Dupras Department ot Secretarial Sciences Dottie Holmes Counseling Office Buni Gourley Counseling Office 58 Donna Harriman Student Activities Office Kathleen Faxon Registrar’s Office b i r - ' ' - si W§mm. L AWIWv- - ' , •• « i 59 Ellie Knox Registrar’s Office Doris Ritter Continuing Education Office Stella Tatian Continuing Education Office Lorrain Staples Switchboard Operator 60 Myron Follansbee Ed Fice Barbara Berube Danny Sturtevant 61 Bill French, Gene Boles, Adviser, Larry Seaman, Jay Jackson, Tom Reid, Terry O’Brien, Paul Simard, Jill McLaughlin, Debbie Conty, Ann Boover, Cris Synodinas, Brian McDonald, Cilia Elliott. DRAMA CLUB 62 63 NECCO Newspaper Staff Dennis Lemere, Steve Shea, Bill Sturtevant, Dique Jackson, Dick Bernier, Vinnie Sullivan, John DeRose, Mike Boileau, John Heintz, Steve Young, Larry Ambrose 64 SKI CLUB 65 In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk— they are all part of the curriculum. 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Romine 213 Ruth Salowsky Lee Noury 214 -ru V Maureen O ' Keefe Frank J. LaScola 215 216 217 Sharon Mickee and fiancee 218 Elaine Touma, Eileen Dumont, Debbie Snowdon 219 220 Judy Mulholland John Cyr 221 222 Bob Porkola Virginia Lambert 223 224 Bob Jackson Bob Eagan 225 Linda Glendye 226 Bill Quinn Robert Senmier Katherine Seymour Bill Espanola 229 Jane Colby Bob Cmielieski 230 Muriel Henderson Lauren Ridge 231 Jackie Salvetti Judith Linehan 232 Larry Ambrose 233 Robert Lombardo 236 Gary Cole 237 Kevin McLaughlin jrwat . •r ,i ■ ■ ■ ' V 239 240 Bill Blaisdell ■I 241 Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do. Goethe 243 244 Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music . . . Schelling 245 246 247 C GM MON W C At T H OF M ASSACHUSETTS NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed; and not an absolute resignation nor perpetual captivity. Bacon