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ACC’s Herman speaks at Lions Club

Brenda Herman, recently appointed member of the executive staff of Alpena Community College, was the speaker at last week’s Alpena Lions Club meeting. She serves as both director of the ACC Foundation and as executive director of development for the college. Program chair for the meeting was Dick Sutherland.

She updated the Lions on the ACC Foundation mission, which is to meet the lifelong education program needs of ACC students. The focus is on the college’s scholarship program which now annually serves more than 280 students. She also described the fundraising events now going on and the projects now in progress. A project recently completed was a complete renovation of the Ferris Werth Electrical Center.

Herman then reviewed the Van Lare Hall Renovation Project. Van Lare Hall is the oldest college building, having been built in 1957. The plan is to both begin and complete the renovation in 2019. She showed the Lions the planned building changes by displaying the architect’s renderings of them on huge poster boards.

Featured rooms shown were: the main entrance, a community gathering place and a study area (with food service available) overlooking the Thunder Bay River, sevem multi-purpose class rooms, a center for health science, laboratory space (including nursing labs, and an eight-bed basic lab). Also shown was an addition to Van Lare Hall, which included new debriefing rooms.

In addition, Herman reported the building’s exterior would be repainted, a new chimney would be installed, and regular classrooms and faculty offices updated in some cases.

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