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Happy birthday to: Gerald Edwards, Christopher Vallese, Nov. 16; Danays Alvarado, Nov. 17; Maurice Callaway, Regina Van Epps, Nov. 19; Darick Garrison, Nov. 22; JoAnna Johns, Heather Boone, Nov. 23; JoAnne Barbieri, Nov. 26; Alice Rainey, Nov. 28; David Banholzer, Luis Montefusco, Augustine Nigro, Nov. 29. Adjunct birthdays: Anne Merryman, Nov. 24; Jodi Rose, Nov. 27; Gary Merline, Nov. 28. NEWS FROM ATLANTIC CAPE’S OTHER LOCATIONS Greetings from the Charles D. Worthington Atlantic City Campus By Carmen Cabrera Hurricane Sandy disrupted services at the Worthington campus for a week, affecting many in the nearby towns. Students were eager to return to class when WACC reopened Nov. 5, and it was great to know that most weathered the storm! Kudos to the counseling staff for providing additional counseling services at the Worthington campus to students affected by Hurricane Sandy. Faculty and staff are also welcome if they need to speak to them. Counselors will be available Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., in room 134 until further notice. As part of its Halloween celebration, the Cross Cultural Club carved pumpkins, some of which were quite frightful. Student services gave out candy in the student lounge and in office 145. A little sugar pep-meup is always a winner! In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and honoring two aunts who have since passed from breast cancer, Dr. Alice Rainey, student services, wore pink every single day of October, with very creative color selections we might add! Way to go, doc! Dr. Perniciaro meets with a WACC student recently. Student services, with the leadership of Tammy DeFranco and the Student Government Association gave students a free slice of pizza and soda Nov. 7. Many students appreciated this nice gesture! Dr. Richard Perniciaro, dean of Worthington campus, spent part of the afternoon Nov. 8 in a meet-and-greet session with students. As an ice breaker and to make students feel comfortable, Dr. Perniciaro provided students with light refreshments. Overall, about 40 students took advantage of this time to discuss any issues or concerns they have. As part of a Hurricane Sandy Relief, student services is working on several projects to help faculty, staff and students who were greatly affected. For more information, or if you would like to help, contact Vita Stovall, ext 4832, or Carmen Cabrera, ext 4830. Don’t forget, registration for spring 2013 classes begins Nov. 26, right after you have had your fill of that delicious Thanksgiving meal and then burned off those calories during Black Friday shopping! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family from the Worthington Atlantic City Campus! Greetings from the Cape May County Campus By Lisa Apel-Gendron What do you do on a rare sunny Friday in November? Plant beach plum seedlings! CMCC is partnering with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to integrate native habitats into the campus landscaping. We’ve identified a demonstration area at the west end of the back yard suitable for establishment of native 6
Employees and students alike got a lesson in restoring native habitats at CMCC Nov. 9. Staff and students worked with a U.S. Fish and Wildlife representative to plant beach plums . shrubs, like beach plum, and native warm season grasses. If the demonstration project is successful, the habitat area could be expanded to include native wildflowers. Seedlings, raised by inmates at Bayside State Correctional Facility, are provided free by Fish and Wildlife. Fish and Wildlife also provides technical assistance for the duration of the 10-year project. Planting was done by employees Nov. 9, and students in Ilene Eberly’s Biology of Our World enjoyed a presentation by our Fish and Wildlife agent, Beth Ciuzio, before the planting session. The campus is awash in charitable endeavors right now. The food drive wraps up Nov. 19, with delivery to St. Casimir food bank in Woodbine scheduled for Nov. 20. The nursing students’ coat drive is picking up momentum as well. Through Nov. 21, donations of new and gently used coats can be dropped in the box at the foot of the stairs on the first floor. As soon as the food drive ends, Toys for Tots will commence and run through Dec. 14. Collection boxes for new, unwrapped toys will be located throughout the campus. And in response to the hurricane, Tammy DeFranco and the student services team have initiated Give Hurricane Sandy the Brush-Off, a drive to collect toothbrushes and toothpaste for those displaced because of storm damage. A drop-off basket is located on the first floor on the way to the bookstore. Please encourage students to participate if they’re able. Toys for Tots is a December tradition at CMCC. Retiree Linda Hair, faculty support, and the soon-to-be-retired Tom Clark, security, have always enjoyed playing Santa. Student services honored our veterans once again with an interactive display board. Members of the campus community could acknowledge veterans by placing stars with their names on the board. Red stars are reserved for current CMCC students and employees who are veterans, and white stars are for any veterans, living or deceased, who come to mind. The Veterans Day ceremony was simulcast to the CMCC dining room Nov. 12 as well. Don’t miss these upcoming events at CMCC: the IRC book discussion via ITV Nov. 27, at 12:30 p.m., in room 324, and the annual Public Relations Panel Discussion, a project of Joy Jones’ Intro to PR class, Nov. 28, at 11 a.m., in the dining room. The entire campus community is encouraged to attend this year’s PR discussion, which focuses on personal branding. One of the panelists is CMCC grad Mark Stansbury, who gave the 2010 commencement address. Mark is now communications director for Prudential Properties of New Jersey. It will be great seeing Mark again! Looking ahead to January, we have four winter term classes scheduled at CMCC: Math 074, Statistics, Intro to Logic and Intro to Computers. Winter term classes have traditionally done well at CMCC, so we’re happy to offer these valuable options to our local students and visiting university students as well. 7
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