SPRING 2016
Published by the Alumni Office at North Shore Community College
NSCC Celebrates Milestone in Lynn Expansion Project PROGRESS
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NSCC students and college president Dr. Patricia Gentile, center, braved the January cold to sign their names on the final steel beam of the Lynn campus addition.
expansion of North Shore Community College’s Lynn campus, a two-year project that kicked off in September 2015 and is slated for completion in time for the spring 2017 semester. This long-awaited expansion will help the The project is led by Lynn-based DeIulis College serve approximately 4,000 students Brothers Construction Company, whose workers currently attending classes in Lynn. The new space set the final beam of the addition’s steel framework will include ten classrooms, a centralized Student for a traditional signing ceremony held at the Success Center, Academic Technology space, a end of January. The whitewashed steel beam Center for Teaching, Learning and Assessment, was signed by students, alumni, staff, faculty, offices and a board room. college administrators, members of the Board of Video of construction progress and the beamTrustees, public officials and others to celebrate signing ceremony can be seen on NSCC’s youtube the completion of the initial phase of construction. channel: A few days after the celebration event, the signed www.youtube.com/user/nsccmedia beam was lifted into place, completing the 37,000-square-foot addition’s framework.
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A North Shore Community College student is pictured between classes in the late 1960’s.
CALLING ALL CLASS OF
’67 ALUMS! THIS YEAR’S COMMENCEMENT MARKS North Shore Community College’s 50th graduation ceremony. We are inviting all alumni from NSCC’s first graduating class to join us as our special alumni guests to accompany the Class of 2016 in this year’s processional and help us recognize this milestone graduation. We’ve come a long way from our modest beginnings on Essex Street in Beverly, and we’d like to recognize the part that you played in getting us here. Alumni from the Class of ’67 were pioneers, helping to create NSCC’s first student government, school newspaper, performing arts programs, student clubs and activities and more. You helped to set the foundation upon which all growth was built and we want you to help us celebrate! Save the date! This year’s commencement will be held on the evening of May 26th. Invitation to follow or contact Alumni Coordinator Sandra Rochon for more information, srochon@northshore.edu or 978 762-4000 ext. 5481.