In November, LCCC gained community aenon for its dedicaon to the Hispanic community, veterans and through its Early Learning Center. The college received the Lifeme Achievement Award from the Hispanic Chamber of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce at the organizaon’s annual awards dinner at Bear Creek Mountain Resort. The college received the award for its commitment to educang students of all backgrounds and for specifically embarking on a mission to serve Allentown, the Lehigh Valley’s largest city, which has the highest concentraon of Hispanic students. LCCC president Dr. Ann Bieber accepted the award on behalf of the college. Joining her were her husband Ma, Dr. Thomas Meyer, faculty member Charles Molano and his wife, faculty member Chrisne Bowditch and her husband, ESL director Kenza Glass, Foundaon Board chair Ellen Millard-Kern, students Maribel Garcia and Belkis Rosario and Belkis’ husband Ramon Alvarado. LCCC was also recognized for its commitment to veterans as the college was named to the 2016 Military Friendly Schools® list. Over 1,400 schools earned this year’s disnct Military Friendly® Schools designaon. These higher-educaon instuons have been recognized for exhibing leading pracces in recruing and supporng post-military students. Schools on the Military Friendly Schools list also offer addional benefits to student veterans such as on-campus veterans programs, credit for service, military spouse programs and more. Criteria for making the Military Friendly Schools list included efforts to recruit and retain military and veteran students, results in recruing military and veteran students and academic accreditaons. More than 300 LCCC students are veterans. The college operates veterans lounges on both the Schnecksville and Tamaqua campuses and supports an acve veterans student club. To view the list, visit hps://militaryfriendly.com/2016schools/ In addion to providing educaonal excellence to students, the college has also been awarded for its commitment to child development as the LCCC Early Learning Center recently was awarded the highest four-star rang through the Keystone STARS iniave through the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning. The STARS program is designed to improve, support and recognize the connuous quality improvement of early learning programs in Pennsylvania. In a Star 4 program, at least half of the lead teachers have a bachelor’s degree in early childhood educaon and all have at least an associate degree; teachers and families work together to create an enriching environment for children; curriculum and assessments are developed based on Pennsylvania standards; teachers help children and their families transion to kindergarten; and classrooms and learning acvies are evaluated based on a standardized tool, to name just a few of the ways the program sets standards. The LCCC Early Learning Center (ELC) accepts children ages three to five and is located on the college’s main Schnecksville campus. Established in 1972, the center encompasses a fine arts studio, culinary cove, open-air classroom and performing arts room. Joseph A. Alban, Treasurer Whitehall-Coplay Annabelle B. Creveling Allentown Samuel P. DeFrank Salisbury Willard G. Dellicker Trustee at Large Paul C. Fisher, Jr. Northwestern Lehigh Mathias J. Green, Jr. Northern Lehigh Mahew T. Korp Catasauqua Audrey L. Larvey, Chair Palmerton Roberta M. Marcus, Vice Chair Parkland William Miracle Trustee at Large Kenneth H. Mohr, Jr. Southern Lehigh William Santore, Jr. Panther Valley Randall L. Smith, Secretary Jim Thorpe David Krause Lehighton Ann L. Thompson East Penn Jerome B. Frank, Esq. Solicitor Lehigh Carbon Community College Board of Trustees Alumni Associaon Board of Directors Heather Mullen ’06, President Linda Krisko ’80, Vice President Michele Mullikin ’00, Secretary/Treasurer Jeremiah Wilhite, Student Megan Billowitch ’94 Krise Fogel ’01 Susan Heller ’03, ’07 Michael Mauro ’07 Shannon Semmel-Ciamacco ’96 Pamela Fenstermacher ’10 Cheryl Fisher ‘82 Kimberly Troup ‘13 Jane Wilchak, LCCC Officers Ellen Millard-Kern Chairperson; Chief of Staff, Senator Pat Browne’s Office Kathy Kovatch Reaman Vice-Chairperson and Secretary Kovatch Corporaon Thomas D. Oleksa Treasurer and Chair of Finance and Investment Commiee Annabelle B. Creveling LCCC Board of Trustees College Trustees Appointee Brian Kahler VP Finance and Admin. Services, LCCC Presidenal Appointee Members Tony Boyle Boyle Construcon John T. Cathers, Jr. Jan Creedon Robin Flores The Literacy Center Ronald Glass LCCC Faculty (rered) Christopher Jordan Compliance Officer ChildWay Pediatric Services Richard Kern Naonal Penn Bank Bernard “Buddy” Lesavoy, Esq. Lesavoy, Butz and Seitz, LLC David Lobach Embassy Bank Kent C. Newhart Accounng & Tax Assoc., Inc. Ron Neimeyer Altronics, Inc. Dale Roth Dale A. Roth Architects, A.I.A. Chrisna Schoemaker Valley Youth House Bey Smith Trexler Haines, Inc. Willard Snyder New Tripoli Bancorp Mark Thompson MKSD, Architects LCCC Foundaon Board of Directors Upcoming Events Lehigh Carbon Community College President Dr. Ann D. Bieber Lehigh Carbon Community College 4525 Education Park Drive Schnecksville, PA 18078 www.LCCC.edu 610-799-2121 Dec. 5 Fast Track One Stop Registraon Informaon Event at LCCC Allentown site from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Dec. 7 Tri-Cees Fall concert at LCCC Schnecksville in the Scheller-Woodman Community Services Center beginning at 7 p.m. Dec. 12 Fall full term and online classes end. Dec. 14 to 19 Final exams. Dec. 21 Winter Session online classes begin. Dec. 24 to Jan. 3 College closed. LCCC Accepts Several Honors During November The LCCC Foundaon would like to extend a very special thank you to the sponsors, PPL as the Fall Fesval sponsor and King Spry as the exclusive VIP event sponsor, and to all who supported the event. The Foundaon would also like to extend a huge thank you to all of the LCCC departments that donated baskets. The total basket raffle came to 47 baskets donated by various departments and sites as well as the community and vendors and craſters. Thank you to all who contributed boles of wine for the Wine Pull. This event brought in $880. The winner of the grand prize basket, which was donated by Boyle Construcon, was Melanie Wursta. Some fun facts: • 26,000 individual raffle ckets went into the cans (compared to 18,000 last year) • Basket raffle earned $3,000 (compared to $2,300 last year) • Net profit in 2014 - $7,735 • Net profit for 2015 - $11,624 LCCC Foundation Fall Festival