CAMPUS EVENTS

SOCKTOBER DRIVE AIDING THE HOMELESS A small caravan of employees delivered 790 pairs of socks to The Joy of Sox®, a non-profit organization with a warehouse in Phoenixville. The donations capped a month-long drive to collect socks for the homeless during Harcum’s first Socktober event.

2020 HARCUM CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE DISTINGUISHED HONOREE Dennis Marlo, Vice-Chair of Harcum’s Board of Trustees, was awarded the 2020 Circle of Excellence Award during the 2020 Virtual Show, held on October 9, in place of the Annual President’s Dinner.

Marlo is a long-standing trustee having served since 1994. He’s been a driving force for many Harcum College initiatives. An avid golfer, he helped establish Harcum’s annual golf classic in 2000. This event is now known as the Kevin D. Marlo Golf & Tennis Classic, in memory of his son who was a victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. Since it began, this event has generated over $500,000 in scholarship support that has benefitted 68 individual students. He and his wife Karen also served as the Centennial Gala Chairs in 2015 helping to generate nearly $80,000 for the Centennial Scholarship Fund. HARCUM COLLEGE RECOGNIZES TWO ALUMS During the 2020 Virtual Show two exceptional alumni were honored. Susan Zeller Kent ’72, past President of the Harcum College Alumni Association Board and last year’s recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Award presented this year’s alumni awards.

2020 Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Merle Holman ’56 Holman’s passion for writing led her to study communications and advertising while attending Harcum. In 1981, she started a focus-group business in Bala Cynwyd, PA, which quickly grew into an award- winning marketing practice Group Dynamics. She has served Harcum as a founding member of the National Alumni Board and its first president and currently serves on the Business Program Advisory Board.

2020 Outstanding Alumnus Jason Dougherty ‘98 Dougherty began his career as a PTA immediately after graduating from Harcum and then went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Neumann University in 2004. He earned a master’s in Higher Education Administration from the University of Delaware in 2012. He served as an adjunct faculty member at Harcum from 1999 to 2007, teaching across the curriculum. Currently he is the assistant dean of instruction at Delaware Technical Community College.

HOMECOMING 2020 — A VIRTUAL CELEBRATION Alumni gathered via Zoom to reconnect and celebrate Homecoming 2020. Alumni groups who reconnected, reminisced, and shared on October 6 included: The Golden Bears (classes of 1970 and earlier) and Silver Bears (1995 and earlier), PTA alumni, Dental Programs alumni, Antonelli alumni, and B.O.L.D. (Bears of The Last Decade or classes of 2010-2020).