Roberta M. Marcus, ChairParkland SD

William Miracle, Vice ChairTrustee at Large

Paul C. Fisher, Jr., SecretaryNorthwestern Lehigh SD

Joseph A. Alban, TreasurerWhitehall-Coplay SD

Annabelle B. CrevelingAllentown SD

Samuel P. DeFrankSalisbury SD

Willard G. DellickerTrustee at Large

Mathias J. Green, Jr.Northern Lehigh SD

Matthew T. KorpCatasauqua SD

David KrauseLehighton SD

Audrey L. LarveyPalmerton SD

Kenneth H. Mohr, Jr.Southern Lehigh SD

William Santore, Jr. Panther Valley SD

Randall L. SmithJim ThorpeSD

Ann L. ThompsonEast Penn SD

Jerome B. Frank, Esq.Solicitor

Lehigh Carbon Community College Board of Trustees

Alumni Association Board of Directors

Heather Mullen ’06, President Linda Krisko ’80, Vice PresidentMichele Mullikin ’00, Secretary/TreasurerJeremiah Wilhite, ‘16Megan Billowitch ’94Kristie Fogel ’01 Susan Heller ’03, ’07Michael Mauro ’07Shannon Semmel-Ciamacco ’96Pamela Fenstermacher ’10 Cheryl Fisher ‘82Kimberly Troup ‘13Jane Wilchak, LCCC

OfficersEllen Millard-KernChairperson; Chief of Staff, Senator Pat Browne’s OfficeKathy Kovatch ReamanVice-Chairperson and SecretaryThomas D. OleksaTreasurer and Chair of Finance and Investment CommitteeAnnabelle B. Creveling LCCC Board of TrusteesCollege Trustees AppointeeBrian Kahler VP Finance and Admin. Services, LCCC Presidential Appointee

MembersTony BoyleBoyle Construction

Kim CapersCapital Blue Cross

Robin FloresThe Literacy Center

Ronald GlassLCCC Faculty (retired)

Barbara GreenBlue Mountain Resort

Jill Palazzo HewesMKSD Architects

David JonesCounty of Lehigh and New Vision Church

Christopher JordanCompliance OfficerChildWay Pediatric Services

Richard KernNational Penn Bank

Bernard “Buddy” Lesavoy, Esq.Lesavoy, Butz and Seitz, LLC

David LobachEmbassy Bank

Timothy MulliganCommunities In Schools of theLehigh Valley

Ron NeimeyerAltronics, Inc.

Kent C. NewhartAccounting & Tax Assoc., Inc.

Dale RothDale A. Roth Architects, A.I.A.

Velia RothrockAlumna

Christina SchoemakerValley Youth House

Betty SmithTrexler Haines, Inc.

Willard SnyderNew Tripoli Bancorp

LCCC Foundation Board of Directors

Upcoming EventsLehigh Carbon Community College President Dr. Ann D. Bieber

Lehigh Carbon Community College4525 Education Park Drive

Schnecksville, PA 18078www.LCCC.edu

610-799-2121

August 1-11 Summer Bridge free program for new students, LCCC Main Campus, Allentown and Tamaqua from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.August 4 Fast Track Admission and Registration, LCCC Main Campus from 2 to 7 p.m. SSC 122August 6 Fast Track Admission and Registration, LCCC Allentown from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.August 8 Signing Agreement with ExpressJet Airlines, LCCC Main Campus at 11 a.m. August 10 LCCC/Bloomsburg University Advising Session from 3 to 7 p.m., LCCC Main CampusAugust 11 LCCC Alumni and Volunteers at Musikfest August 18 Fall ConvocationAugust 20 Fall Classes BeginSeptember 3-5 College Closed

LCCC’s Summer Bucknell Scholars

Six Lehigh Carbon Community College students are continuing to enjoy the tradition of participating in the Bucknell Community College Scholars program (BCCSP). The program is a fully paid, six-week, residential academic program for high-achieving students at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. LCCC 2016 graduate Jennifer Marouchoc, a Nesquehoning resident and Panther Valley High School graduate, who participated in the 2015 summer program, was invited back to Bucknell this summer to serve as one of three teaching assistants. She will transfer to Bucknell as a junior in the fall along with recent LCCC graduates and former BCCSP participants Zachary Sisson, a Northwestern Lehigh High School graduate, and Gabe Scott, a Palmerton High School graduate, under full tuition scholarships. The participants in the summer program include Carl Silverstein, Palmerton resident; Jeffrey Mandrell, Allentown resident and Dieruff High School graduate, U.S. Marine Corps veteran; Jeff Tauber, Allentown resident and William Allen

High School graduate; Bao Nguyen, Whitehall resident and Whitehall High School graduate; Amanda Jo Lazowicki, Allentown resident and Salisbury High School graduate; and Flutura Berisha, Allentown resident and Parkland High School graduate. Since the beginning of the partnership in 2007, 36 students from LCCC have been admitted as juniors with full tuition scholarships to Bucknell University. The LCCC cohort holds a 100 percent graduation rate, having now graduated a total of 29 students. Four seniors and now three juniors will be attending in the fall. Qualified students for the 2017 BCCSP summer cohort are now being identified. Eligibility requirements are listed at www.lccc.edu/transferscholarships. For more information, please contact Ginny Mihalik, transfer counselor/professor and advisor at LCCC, at vmihalik@lccc.edu.

Looking for a fun way to give back to the Lehigh Valley? Join Tina Moyer, Jane Wilchak and other LCCC alumni, faculty and staff by volunteering at Musikfest on August 11. The Alumni Association and the Career Development Center have partnered to offer this exciting opportunity. We are in need of volunteers to work at Festplatz in the beer stands and food ticket sales from 5 to 11 p.m. Must be 21

years of age to work the beer stand. What’s in it for you?• Food tickets to use that evening.• A free LCCC Start here. Go anywhere t-shirt.• A chance to connect and have some fun with other

graduates.• Don’t worry about parking because we will get passes for

the shuttle. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Director of Career Services Christina Moyer at cmoyer@lccc.edu or 610-799-1090, or Special Events Manager Jane Wilchak at 610-799-1929 or jwilchak@lccc.edu.

Join Us as a Musikfest Volunteer

LCCC’s summer Bucknell scholars are pictured, from left to right beginning in the back row: Carl Silverstein, Jeffrey Mandrell, Jeff Tauber. Center row: Bao Nguyen, Amanda Jo Lazowicki. Front row: Ginny Mihalik, Jennifer Marouchoc, Flutura Berisha, with Mark Davies, Assistant VP, Enrollment Management/Partnerships, Bucknell.

LCCC Receives Funds to Support Nursing Simulators

Students in LCCC’s nursing programs will have access to state-of-the-art patient simulators as part of a grant from the Morgan Foundation and money through the college’s federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education grant. Students in both the Associate Degree in Nursing and Licensed Practical Nursing programs will have access to the high-fidelity clinical simulators. Life-like simulators, depicting an adult male client and a pediatric client, will enrich the experiences that students in the nursing program have and will better prepare them for working with live patients. The simulators, including installation and training, are valued at $188,000. They will be installed, ready to be used in January 2017. The simulators will help students develop their clinical reasoning skills in a safe environment. These full-scale, computerized patient simulators provide a high level of interactivity and realism. The high-fidelity simulators will be incorporated into experiential learning, in support of clinical learning objectives and align with accreditation requirements. Simulators will be located at LCCC Tamaqua at the Morgan Center site and on the LCCC main campus in Schnecksville. They represent the faculty and administration commitment to providing the best possible learning experience for students. This project supplements the clinical education students receive in both acute and non-acute settings. When using the simulators, nursing faculty will facilitate case studies and patient care scenarios and will be able to program clinical issues similar to a live patient who presents with an emerging health care issue. The simulators can also be programmed and manipulated to demonstrate rare and critical events that can be reproduced as many times as necessary. For more information on LCCC nursing degree programs, go to https://www.lccc.edu/academics/health-care-sciences.

Rising STARS Tuition Assistance Program

LCCC received Rising STARS funding provided by the Northeast Regional Key, which is available for students taking courses in the Early Childhood Education program. The Rising STARS Tuition Assistance Program pays 95% of tuition costs for eligible college coursework taken by early learning professionals with a maximum benefit of $6,000 per fiscal year (July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017). Applicants will be able to enter multiple courses for a semester into one application for the Rising STARS Tuition Assistance Program and will no longer be required to submit a PA Certificate of Compliance or STARS Certificate. Any staff person who is employed at a Keystone STARS designated early learning program, and has been working at an early learning program operated by that legal entity for at least 12 months, is eligible to apply for Rising STARS Tuition Assistance. Additional requirements, including Pennsylvania residency, can be found on the PA Keys portal at www.pakeys.org.

LCCC will sign a partnership agreement with ExpressJet Airlines on Monday, August 8, to offer aviation students at the college a potential career progression with the airline. The ceremony will be held in Room 113B of the Student Services Center on the college’s Schnecksville campus. ExpressJet Airlines, which is affiliated with American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, has partnerships in place with most of the major aviation training programs in the U.S. Through this pilot pathway agreement, a student who completes the professional pilot program at LCCC, with flight training accomplished in-house, will receive a guaranteed early interview at ExpressJet. The program is designed to provide opportunities for future employment for graduates of the LCCC program and to build a hiring pool of pilots for the airline. Upon successful completion of the interview, the student will be offered a conditional offer of employment with ExpressJet. They would then continue to flight instruct as a Certified Flight Instructor for LCCC until they meet the required hours to be hired at ExpressJet. In addition, students are assigned a mentor who is a current ExpressJet pilot that can help answer questions, offer advice and be a resource for the student. ExpressJet is the only regional airline that offers career pathways to United Airlines and JetBlue Airways. For more information on LCCC’s aviation program, located at the Lehigh Valley International Airport, contact Aram Basmadjian, chief flight instructor, at abasmadjian@lccc.edu.

LCCC to Sign Agreement

with ExpressJet

Cindy Haney, vice president for enrollment services, and Larissa Verta, interim dean of the School of Healthcare Sciences, represented LCCC at the inaugural meeting of Second Chance Pell Pilot Program in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Department of Education Secretary John B. King and Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates, on July 18 and 19. The Pell program allows incarcerated students to receive federal Pell Grant funding for post-secondary education. In June, the U.S. Department of Education announced the 69 colleges and universities that were selected to provide post-secondary education to nearly 12,000 students in more than 100 states and federal prisons nationwide. LCCC was selected to participate in the program out of more than 200 applicants in 48 states. The meeting was hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Vera Institute of Justice.

LCCC Staff Attend Pell Meeting

LCCC graduates interested in the Technical Leadership bachelor’s degree offered through Bloomsburg University will have an opportunity to attend an advising session on August 10, from 3 to 7 p.m., in Science Hall Room 145, at the college’s main campus in Schnecksville. Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania offers the Bachelor of Applied Science in Technical Leadership (BASTL) on the LCCC campus through a partnership between the two institutions. The degree program focuses on career advancement, and is designed for working professionals and is affordable. The BASTL program builds on the student’s knowledge developed in LCCC’s associate degree program by providing leadership and supervisory skills that employers seek when hiring and promoting. Since it is based at LCCC, students will also be able to receive a degree from BU without having to travel to Bloomsburg. Students can:• Transfer a minimum of 60 credits from their LCCC associate degree program.• Complete the program on a full-time or part-time basis. All classroom courses are scheduled in the evenings – making this an excellent choice for working professionals.• Take advantage of the low Bloomsburg University tuition for courses, one of the least expensive bachelor’s degree programs available in Pennsylvania.• Take courses that combine online and in-class courses. There is still time to register for BU courses held at LCCC. The fall semester begins August 20. For more information, contact BAS director Dr. Carol Adukaitis at cadukaitis@bloomu.edu or visit LCCC’s website at www.lccc.edu.

LCCC, Bloomsburg University Advising Session

LCCC Alumnus Named Head

Basketball Coach LCCC Director of Athletics Andrew Johnson has appointed LCCC alumnus Grant Whary as the new head coach for men’s basketball. Whary has been coaching for seven years on both the collegiate and high school level. He spent last basketball season serving as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Whary also had coaching stints as an assistant at Moravian Academy, an assistant varsity coach at William Allen High School, and was the head varsity coach at Jim Thorpe Area High School. Whary’s playing experience includes William Allen High School where he was a three-year varsity letter winner playing the point guard and shooting guard position. He played collegiate basketball at LCCC starting at a point guard position and then went on to play at Delaware Valley College. Whary is a graduate of East Stroudsburg University with Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Management. He also completed his courses for teaching through the University of West Florida. He is employed by the Bethlehem Area School District as a mental health worker for emotional support students.