NCC President

Dr. Mark Erickson

Welcome

The 2019-2020 academic year will be one long remembered for the challenges we faced both as a region and in particular a campus community. The “new normal” we adopted at NCC required extraordinary effort and flexibility from our students, faculty and staff to provide a safe, quality learning environment as we navigated and continue to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

It has not been easy. Yet the entire NCC community has demonstrated great responsibility and resilience, and for that, I am so proud. Despite all that we have faced, we’ve been able to keep NCC moving forward, providing access to a top college education – online and on campus - in spite of the pandemic.

I remain so grateful to all of our supporters who helped our students continue their education when times got tough. Since the start of the pandemic, we raised almost $185,000 for our Spartan Aid fund, to help students with things like groceries and rent to bridge the gap for them so they could continue their education while dealing with furloughs and other financial consequences of COVID. Almost $30,000 of that came from our own faculty and staff.

It was also a time when we completed our most successful fundraising effort ever, generating more than $20 million through the Transforming Lives campaign to support students. For all this, I am so incredibly pleased, yet not surprised. That is, after all, the Northampton Way!

• Bethlehem Campus:
• Honorary Chairs
• Andy & Carolyn Daub
• John & Jane Malloy
• Chris '77 & Diane Martin
• Bill & Denise Spence
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• Working Chairs
• Steve & Jeanne Follett
• Bruce '77 & Judy Palmer
• Chuck '77 & Wendy '14 Stehly
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• Committee Members
• Mark Erickson
• John Eureyecko
• Arif Fazil
• Dennis Feeley '73
• Curt Hoyak
• Eric Luftig
• Mike Molewski
• Rick Principato
• Andrea Weismiller '01

The Generosity of

Brian Perin

THE LARGEST GIFT IN NCC HISTORY
The estate of Brian D. Perin, gifted through a bequest, $3.2 million to the Northampton Foundation to endow a Northampton Promise scholarship for students. Perin’s bequest is the largest gift ever in the college’s history. This fall semester, 35 students are already benefiting from his legacy through scholarships.

Perin, who had been co-owner of Grand Central Sanitation, would have been thrilled to know his gift is hard at work transforming lives.

“Brian was a very giving person, and it expanded beyond his death, as you can see. He loved animals, he loved music, there wasn’t too much he didn’t love. He loved food! If I ever wanted to see him, all I had to say was let’s go to lunch,” his sister-in-law, Linda Perin ’80, recalls.

Perin’s name, and his generosity, will live on through the Brian D. Perin Endowed Scholarship.

In fall of 2019, NCC held its first Giving Day event in which alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends joined together to provide an opportunity for students to build a better life. The inaugural event raised $80,000 from nearly 600 donors. Thanks to all those who joined in the fun and excitement of the day and helped us transform even more lives! Our second successful Giving Day was held this October and raised more than $60,000.