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ROXBURY
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Roxbury, Massachusetts
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A Massachusetts Regional Community College
COME GROW WITH US!
Established in 1970 as the neighborhood based
institution for the multi-ethnic Roxbury community
that includes Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Cape Verdeans,
Mexicans, Chinese, Jamaicans, Haitians, Indians and
Whites, Roxbury Community College opened
September 10, 1973 with 400 students attending
classes at 460 Blue Hill Ave. (photo below)
Now located at 424 Dudley St. the college has
increased enrollment to over one-thousand students
from all over the Boston area and from several foreign
countries, ranging in age from recent high school
graduates to one of 87 years.
RCC is truly a multi-cultural, multi-lingual
institution. When one walks through the college one
hears Spanish, Creole, Farsi and Ibo among other
languages. Eritrea, South Africa, Haiti, Chile, Jamaica,
Taiwan; these and other nations are represented by
members of our faculty and staff.
In the search for a permanent facility to
accommodate some three to five-thousand students
ultimately, it is hoped that the college may locate in
the Southwest Corridor, there to become a part of the
educational complex now being built and also to
remain in the community for which it was conceived.
RCC President Kenneth Haskins, in the photos on the
page opposite, is shown putting up the sign that
proclaims this hope.
Roxbury Community College fue establecido en
1970 como una institucion multi-cultural para servir
las necesidades educativas de los Afro-Americanos,
Hispanos, Jamaiquinos, Haitianos, Cabo-Verdianos,
Chinos, y demas residentes de la comunidad.
El colegio abrio sus puertas el 10 de septiembre de
1 973, en un local ubicado en el 460 de la avenida Blue
Hill, en Roxbury. (vea foto) La matricula inicial
ascendio a 400 estudiantes. En la actualidad, el
colegio esta ubicado en el 424 de la calle de Dudley
con una matricula que consta de mas de mil
estudiantes. Esta institucion sirve las necesidades de
los residentes de la comunidad de Boston. La edad
promedio de los estudiantes es de 28.5 ahos tanto en
el programa regular como en el de educacion
continuada.
Roxbury Community College es un colegio
multi-lingue/multi-cultural. A diario se escuchan
multitud de lenguas, ya sean, frances, espahol, farsi,
ibo, entre muchas. La facultad del colegio esta
integrada por profesores de distintas naciones
representativas de los estudiantes, por ejemplo:
Puerto Rico, Haiti, Africa, Eritrea, Argentina, Chile, y
otras.
El colegio aspira a ubicarse permanentemente en el
llamado "Southwest Corridor" formando parte de un
gran complejo educativo que actualmente se esta
construyendo. Nosotros deseamos que el Colegio
permanezca en nuestra comunidad, ya que, el mismo
continuaria sirviendo los intereses pedagogicos de las
minorias de la ciudad de Boston. En la pagina opuesta
se recogen varias fotos que muestran al Presidente de
Colegio, el profesor Kenneth Haskins, cuando se
disponia a colocar el letrero representativo del lugar
donde sera levantado permanentemente nuestro
colegio.
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A Community
Of Many Peoples
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Candidates Major Kevin White (top left), Sen.
Joseph Timilty (top right), Rep. Mel King (above)
with David Finnegan and Luis Castro spoke here
during the election campaign for Mayor this year.
Sen. Edward Kennedy (left) came on the eve of the
Mass. Primary and Lt. Gov. Thomas O'Neil and
candidate forGovernor Francis Hatch were among
these and others who came to a forum series
sponsored by the RCC Politics Club.
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THE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE
RCC is like most institutions of the third world. It has had to
struggle against heavy odds to survive. Governor Dukakis
and the Massachusetts legislature accepted a proposal from
the Mass. Board of Community Colleges to build a
multimillion dollar new campus for RCC in Roxbury's SW
corridor area — close to other educational facilities like the
Occupational Resource Center and Boston State and close to
the Museum of Fine Arts. Governor King refused to release
the $2.5 million appropriated to prepare the new site. RCC
remained cramped in temporary quarters and was not
allowed to make major improvements or repairs. Each year
the legislature and governor took large chunks out of RCC's
minimal operating budget. Reorganization plans for higher
education threatened RCC with merger or extinction. In 1 979
the RCC student Politics Club sponsored a demonstration at
the State House and students & faculty testified at House
hearings to get items in the RCC budget restored. A tour of
other community colleges was sponsored also to gather
support and dramatize the injustice and institutional racism
which is revealed when RCC is compared to the state's other
community colleges. The struggle heated up in spring 1980
with three demonstrations in two weeks involving 200-350
community people, students, faculty & staff at each one.
Children, elderly, ministers and social workers joined in the
RCC demonstrations. The first demonstration at the State
House received a commitment from Sen. D'Amico, chairman
of the Boston Subcommittee of the Reorganization
Commission, that he supported building the SW corridor
campus. Secretary of Education Charles Johnson, Lt. Gov.
O'Neil and many other leaders also spoke in support of RCC.
The second demonstration saw testimony by community
people and RCC students & faculty before the Reorganization
Commission. Sen. Owens, Rep. Bunte and Rep. Mel King
made dramatic and effective appeals on our behalf as did
RCC Advisory Board Chairman and School Committee
member John O'Bryant and METCO director Jean McGuire.
The Reorganization Commission voted to support RCC.
About that time the MBRCC (community college board)
revealed a plan to merge RCC with Bunker Hill Community
College in Charlestown.
IN FRONT OF THE STATE HOUSE
•Sen. D'Amico, Rep. Mel King, Secretary of Education Charles Johnson at State House (upper left). President Haskins awaits bus to Worcester (lower right).
This plan had been strongly opposed by Betty Johnson, the
one member of the MBRCC who had always supported RCC.
Scarcely two weeks after her untimely death the plan was
passed by the MBRCC executive committee. Busloads of RCC
supporters journeyed to Quinsigamond Community College
in Worcester to block passage of the merger by the total
Board. The lobbying paid off: the plan to merge RCC and
Bunker Hill was halted by a cliff-hanger vote that ended in a
tie. Meanwhile, the House and Senate passed a budget which
included reorganization of governance for higher education
in Massachusetts. This plan became law with Governor
King's signature in June 1980. Even under it, RCC remained
alive and was granted its own board of trustees while the
MBRCC itself was abolished. As the Yearbook went to press,
the struggle continued with over 100 RCC supporters at the
State House for more testimony before the Senate Ways and
Means Committee. The House had passed a $30 million
request for funds to build the new campus and the Senate was
expected to follow suit. There was heavy lobbying going on
to get the Governor to release the $2.5 million in order to
allow RCC to move into the Boston Trade School, a much
better temporary site and one that is very close to the
proposed new campus. There was speculation that RCC
might make that move in the fall of 1 980. Pending approval
of the $30 million appropriation, RCC might have its new
campus as early as 1983. In the light of past oppression and
injustice in education in Boston, the students, faculty &
community supporters of RCC were prepared to fight all
setbacks and delays to achieve the vision born in the 1 960s of
a high quality college in the heart of Roxbury.
Rep. Doris Bunte (lower left) & Sen. Bill Owens (upper right) speak before the Boston Subcommittee of the Commission of Reorganization of Higher Education.
INSIDE THE STATE HOUSE
MBRCC members listen to testimony for RCC (above).
Students with President Haskins celebrate vote (lower right).
AT QUINSIGAMOND
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Local citizens march
against racism & Klan
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On February 2, 1980, a group
of ten Roxbury Community Col-
lege students and faculty, along
with members of the Boston
Peoples' Organization (formerly
Mel King Coalition) and other
Boston groups, attended a major
national civil rights march in
Greensboro, North Carolina. They
were part of a group of over 130
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"say No to the Ku Klux Klan," and
especially to protest the murder
of five civil rights activists last fall
in Greensboro by KKI^and Nazi
Party members. \
The demonstration was also
held to commemorate the 20th
anniversary of the Greensboro
sit-ins, and help build a renewed
network of civil rights and anti-
Klan groups across the country
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The Real Paper
SCHOOL
OF HARD
KNOCKS
almost folksy, conversational manner, but
on this day his words were anything but con-
ciliatory. "I feel like we've been betrayed by
the board. All of us here know that in King
we have a governor who is unsympathetic to
our problems. Your actions leave us feeling
As Haskins went On, some of the board
members began to squirm. And as the subse-
quent stream of speakers — including
Hispanic and elderly students, community
workers, parents — followed Haskins with
the endless litany of Roxbury Community
College's grievances, the board members
continued to squirm.
Finally, Representative Mel King, a
member of the legislative committee on
Boston School reorganization, rose to
address the panel. "As I've sat here, I've
thought about the words of the Dred Scott
decision: that 'there are no rights of black
people that whites have to honor.' When
people use words like hetraval. it is hecanse
start on construction of
the long-delayed Rox-
bury Community Col-
ge would be of par-,
ticular service toi tbe-
minority community.
Its location, in the
Southwest Corridor on
land adjacent to Madi-
son Park High School
and the new Occupa-
tional Resources Center, would further the
creation of an impressive educational complex
in an area used by all racial groups.
Also at the community college level there is
room for different kinds of experimentation;
the development of special programs that take
high school students who are on the verge of
dropping out or have dropped out; the offering
of occupational curricula to older public high
schools lacking modern facilities; the develop-
ment of apprenticeship programs with local
unions and businesses; active cooperation in
job-training programs designed, according to
the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in
Higher Education, with "a view to making a
maximum contribution to the development of
education, work-experience and training op-
portunities for disadvantaged youth."
The changing shape of Boston's economy
has closed the obvious paths to economic mo-
Official's proposal scuttles Roxbury's college
by Mac Margolis
Roxbury will not have an in-
dependently run community col-
lege for the 1980's if the
Massachusetts Board of Regional
Community Colleges has its way.
The Board, which governs the
Ken Haskins, president of Rox-
bury Community College (RCC).
"Boston is large enough that it
need not have one community col
lege with satellite^^*^^
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Roxbury Com. College
faces budget squee
could be "crippling" for the
school. The Senate tackles the
Commonwealth's budget this
week.
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DEDICATION
Elizabeth (Betty) Johnson
December 13, 1936 — April 13, 1980
It is very difficult to state what Betty Johnson has meant to Roxbury Commu-
nity College. The difficulty stems from the fact that her contribution was im-
measurable and invaluable. It is important, though, to try to put this into words
— in part for her — but also in an attempt to plan a way to fill the tremendous
void left by her passing.
Good education for our community was Betty's dream. She worked toward
this end day and night. Roxbury Community College was fortunate that it was
one of the institutions favored by her. As a member of the Massachusetts Board
of Regional Community Colleges, she worked for all of the community colleges
in the Commonwealth. As a member of our community she was particularly
concerned with the needs of Roxbury Community College and the continued
withholding of the resources needed for its development. She was a consistent
fighter for us. Betty also advised and counseled us. She was never too busy to
meet with us or to take part in activities related to the College. A part of her
dream for this community was that we have a newly-built community college
with high quality programs serving Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, the South
End, Jamaica Plain and all of Boston.
I could go on — but I must reflect personally also. Betty was a dear friend. I
shall miss seeing her, talking to her, laughing with her and most of all depending
upon her to be present when there was a struggle. Betty, as small as she was, was
the enforcer. She was the one that you knew would stand up and fight when
others might back down. There was no confusion about where she stood. There
should then be no confusion about what we must do to continue her work.
— President Kenneth W. Haskins
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Ana Alicea
Milagros Alvarado
Yainkain A. Bangura
Betty Barrow
Daniel W. Alcide
Stella C. Avugara
Yvonne L. Belim
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Jean C. Brewster
Carol L. Brown
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Bernice M. Burey
Maria V. Burgos
Jean R. Casimir
Harry J. Catan
Ronald O. Catron
Felicia C. Cedeno
Joseph C. Charles
Margaret Charles
Marie Rose B. Chevry
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Marcia R. Clayton
Robbie F. Clifton
fuanita E. Collins
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Barbara A. Coren
Raul Cuevas
Lynnette M. Culbreath
Christina Dela Cruz
Maud A. Diamond
Juanita Dunn
Myrlande Edma
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Margaret J. Evans
Steven A. Evelia
Lillian B. Fashakin
Rosalyn E. Galvez
Nathaniel M. Geer
Kareema C. Ghazali
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Yemane S. Ghebremuse
Frankye S. Gibson
Carol M. Godfrey
Ismael Gomez, Jr.
Lizette Goncalves
Olga I. Gonzalez
Eloise Graham
Elizabeth Guerrant
Lola Hailey
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Dorothy J. Hartfield
jeanette N. Hicks
Lula Hodges
Stagne C. Jacques
Fresnel Jean-Georges
Deborah A. Jenkins
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Brenda F. Johnson
Gladys L. Johnson
Josiah P. Johnson
Robin E. Johnson
Marian Jones
Robert A. Jones
Eulyn A. Joseph
William Junior
Roland E. King
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Santos Lopez
Janet M. Loring
Gladys J. Lucien
Lucie Lysius
Jawad Madjdi-Sorkhabi
Mohammad Madjdi-Sorkhabi Kaseema Mahdee
Willie R. Martin
Diana Martinez
Wayne Martinez
Mary Ellen McLemore
Carolyn J. Moore
Lou Ella Moore
Alberta L. Motley
Rosaline Davis Mshoperi
Anasiudi R. Odini
Rose I. Okoro
Licelot Otahez
Paula J. Phelps
Saundra Owens
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Mary L. Pippins
Joseph Pitts
Edith Polo
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Winsome J. Sampson
Jos6 M. Sanchez
Maria Elena Sanchez
Claire M. Sargeant
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Marie Scott
Betty A. Singletary
Magueye Seek
Elvira Solivan
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Jibba M. Sesay
James C. Stephens
Canise L. Thomas
Virginia L. Thomas
Jenniffer E. Tyler
Nneola O. Ude
Grace O. Ugonwenyi
Aida M. Valentin
Marie M.E. Vedrine
Marcelina Velazquez
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Debbie A. Weathers
Janet A. Wesson
Janell A. Whittaker
Mary M. William
Joan F. Williams
Rhonda R. Wilson
Veronica T. Winspeare
Neysa Illeana Wright
Those not pictured, Class of 1980:
Jacqueline D. Abron
Deloris Ferguson
Linda Hart
Leslie M. Johnson
Linda F. Lawson
Carmen L. Letriz
Frank E. Lewis
Romulo A. Lobaton
Regina F. Madyun
Annie Y. Mallory
Mohammad E. Pourmand
Ramezani-Damaghani
Delois Smith
Agnola M. Thomas
Arlecia Ann Thomas
Highest Honors
Colin C. Bryant, Margaret J. Evans, Steven A. Evelia, Yemane S. Ghebremuse, Roland E. King, Roseline Davis
Mshoperi
High Honors
Jacqueline D. Abron, AStella C. Avugara, Charles B. Belonwu, Harry J. Catan, Kareema C. Ghazali, Maria Elena
Sanchez, Jibba M. Sesay, Delois Smith, Nneola O. Ude, Grace O. Ugonwenyi
Honors
Ana Alicea, Milagros Alvarado, Jean C. Brewster, Marion L. Bynoe, Felicia C. Cedeno, Paul Cuevas, Lillian B.
Fashakin, Deloris Ferguson, Frankye S. Gibson, Ismael Gomez Jr., Jeanette N. Hicks, Sedi Inyagwa, Jean W.
Jabouin, Deborah A. Johnson, Brenda F. Johnson, Josiah P. Johnson, Robin E. Johnson, Marian Jones, Santos
Lopez, Janet M. Loring, Kaseema Mahdee, Willie R. Martin, Diana Martinez, Mary Ellen McLemore, Alberta L.
Motley, Anasiudu R. Odini, Rose I. Okoro, Paula J. Phelps, Mary L. Pippins, Joseph Pitts, Mohammad E.
Pourmand, Deborah J. Rochelle, Jose M. Sanchez, Ventrice E. Sarjeant, Magueye Seek, Debbie A. Weathers, Janet
A. Wesson, Neysa Illeana Wright
THE CLASS OF 1980
THE CLASS OF 1979
Janet Adekunbi
Festus M.O. Afamefule
Regina L. Anderson
Catherine Anunwah
Anna J. Arroyo
Margaret Awogboro
Josephine Baker
Bobbie Bannister
Martha Bethel
Constance L. Booker
Jimmy Boykin
Delores Buggs
Angela Y. Bynoe
Rosa Cabrera
Doreen Z. Calhoun
Lissette C. Cardona
Melody Carter
Rose Y. Carty
Rosa Ceteno
Mary F. Clegg
Juanita J. Colon
Manuela S. Costa
Joyce Crawforc
Sara B. Creach
Elyria Creecy
Elba Cruz
Carol Curry
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Roscoe Dabney
Georgia Daniel
Zobeida De Los Santos
Willio Deravile
Rose M. Desjardins
Joseph Desraville
Carlean Dixon
Delroy Edwards
Patricia Farr
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Carmen Garcia
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Marie N. Germain
Bernadine Gittens
Clifford Glasford
Vera Graham
Dorothy Green
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Celia Griffin
Alix Guillaume
Mary Hall
Ella Hamlin
Jacquelyn Hayes
Jennetta H. Hyatt
Dennis C. Irving
Deborah Jackson
Cherfils D. Jacques
Evelyn B. Johnson
Ascencio Jean-Louis
Patcher Jenkins
Linda Johnson
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Lisabeth A. Johnson
Claudia Jones
Clinton Jones
Jacqueline L. Jordan
Gwendolyn Judah
Mercy Katchi
Sarah Kindle
Timothy J. Kitchens
Earlene Lee
Shebra J. Legrant
Minnie Leonard
Michael Lungelow
Tahih Mahdee
Mable W. Mills
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Charmaine Oliver
Polycarp Onaga
Juana Osorio
Betty Peaks
Benjamin S. Pettie
Delores Pickett
Edward Pitts
Norma Pomales
Tracey Pratt
Shirley Price
Adella R. Quinn
Percy N. Ragsdale
Marie G. Rigaud
Aparicia Rodriquez
Nancy Rodriquez
Irma D. Rosado
Maurice E. Rouse
Carolyn Rudolph
Carol K. Sanford
Benito Santiago
Marlene Satchell
Marie P. Seme
Inez Shelton
Batille Simon
Gwendolyn Springer
James L. Staples
Louis St. Paul
Hermina Stephens
Diane Teal
Juan A. Urena
Bonifacia Vazquez
Phillippe Vigne
Carol Walker
Diane M. Walker
Howard West
Venus White
Carol Williams
Ethel M. Williams
Selena Williams
Theresa Williams
Ollie M. Willis
Asefa Yirga
Beverly Young
Those not pictured, Class of 1979:
Samuel Algarin
Renee Allen
Morden Abrose
Christianita Bartley
Odette V. Bresilla
George W. Brown
Carol Butler
Deloris Capehart
Mireille B. Charles
Betty Davis
Antonio Fazio
Patricia E. Frasher
Juanita Gendrey
Regina E. Gilmore
Francis Gore
Kathleen Grady
Francis Gusiora
Alexander Holmes
Beresford I. Jackman
Addie D. Johnson
Nancy Johnson
Linda Lawson
Robert L. Mclntyre
Pamela Mobley
Eke J. Okeke
Janice Porter
Ebony G. Robinson
Yolanda Rubalcava
Annette Simons
Cassandra Smith
Agatha Bryna Summons
Lucy Valles
Marcia Williams
Beatrice Wilson
ADMINISTRATION
Jose de Jesus
Dean of Students
Gerald Janey
Assistant Dean of
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Theodore Moran
Liberal Arts Division
Chairperson
Joy Daley
Director of
Continuing Education
Henreitta B. Ball
Asst. to the President
Lynette Jones-Carradine
Director,
Research & Development
Kenneth W. Haskins
President
Booker DeVaughn
Dean of Academic Affairs
Harold M. Brabham
Dean of Administration
FACULTY
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Angel A. Amy-Moreno
Assistant Professor,
Social Sciences
Marta S. Bolivar
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics
Elnora Britto
Assistant Professor,
Secretarial Science
Barbara Burgess
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Kesete Daniel
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Clarence B. Davis
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Louis P. Gippetti
Instructor, Art
Marita Golden
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Joel Harkow
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Mathematics & Technology
FACULTY
Michael J. Impastato
Assistant Professor,
Department Chairperson,
Languages
Robert Mitchell Krim
Assistant Professor,
Department Chairperson,
Business
Isabel Martineau
Assistant Professor,
Languages
Aggrey Mxolisi Mbere
Associate Professor,
Department Chairperson,
Social Sciences
Barbara E. Melnick
Assistant Professor,
English
Denise M. Moorehead
Instructor, English
Mugelle W. Otieno
Assistant Professor,
Business
Thomas Carl Reeves
Assistant Professor,
Social Sciences
Vivian Renta
Assistant Professor,
Science
Denise Sawyer-Johnson
Instructor,
Social Sciences
George Joseph Schiavone
Instructor, Mathematics
Michael J. Seebeck
Media Specialist
Hugh Stringer
Associate Professor,
Secretarial Science
Maurice P. Tonissi, II
Instructor, Business
Georgia Mary Weetman
Associate Professor,
Department Chairperson,
Science
James N. Whitney
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics
Doris Woods
Assistant Professor,
Secretarial Science
Jon Abdullah Yasin
Associate Professor,
Department Chairperson,
English & Humanities
Barron B. Cox
Whaleland S. Cross
Nancy Connolly
Goodale
Graham Lewis
Everett T. Lyn
Farzad Mobin
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Herman H. Ahmad
Director, Cooperative
Education
Henry Allen
Continuing Education
Willie Booker
Director of Student
Activities & Head Coach
George Campbell
Director, Center for
Individualized Progress
Ruth Hines
Nurse
Betty Richardson
Director of Admissions
Stephen Veiga
Registrar
Ernestine Whiting
Director, Financial Aid
Dan Woods
Learning to Learn
LaVerne Banks
Secretary, Student Services
Clifton A. Butt
Principal Bookkeeper
Jean Renel Casimir
Bookkeeper
Andrei F. Clark
Secretary, Personnel
Myra V. Evans
Personnel Assistant
Evelyn Gonsalves
Receptionist
Atif S. Hameen
Coordinator,
Word Processing Center
Geneva Lynch
Secretary, Financial Aid
Rosemary Mowring
Secretary to the President
Rosie Quashie
Secretary, Admissions
Frantz Rolles
Jr. Accountant
Yolanda Rubalcava
Secretary, Academic Affairs
Hellen E. Singleton
Secretary, Continuing Ed.
Bertha Newsome Tucker
Secretary to the President
Richard Young
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,nnie L. Walker
-—-(Editor), Mai
Pictured:
^. (Asst. Ed.
'(Editor), Marcia Rene
^.), Willie Martin
— i Rene (Asst. Ed.), Not
Gibba Sesay (Former Editor)
AFRICAN HISTORY CLUB
1 . Sedi-lnagwa, Secretary 2. Atif S. Hameen, Advisor 3. Delores Cabral Kadija, V. Pres. 4. Alajo Adegbalola 5. Juan X. Byars Not
pictured: Akila Tate, Kaseema Adegbalola-Mahdee
Front Row: Marie Simeon, Saundra Owens, Jennifer Geer, Margaret Evans 2nd Row: Betty Richardson, Regina Madyun, Linda
Way, Geneva Lynch 3rd Row: Stagne Jacques, H. Terrence King, C. Chris Ekechukwu, Hansy Rigeur, Ricky Davis
Not Pictured: Nathaniel Geer, Gonzales Dowdell, Anthony Sandefer, Juanita Dunn and Prof. June Randolph (Sponsor)
ISLAMIC STUDENT
ASSOCIATION
Members of the RCC Islamic Student Association, with Prof. Herman H. Ahmad, Sponsor (Seated, 3rd from Left)
RCC POLITICS CLUB
Seated on Floor: Tony Lycurgus, Jorge Palmarin (Treas.) Seated: Wayne Robinson, Anita Jones, Dr. Thomas Reeves (Sponsor),
Eliciana Smith Standing: Prof. Robert Krim, Douglas Ruffin (V. Pres.), Marcia Watson, Harold Baughns, Janet Loring (V. Pres.),
Tasbighou Saeed, Al Watts, Mehran Panahi-Roodsari, Delores Cabral Not Pictured: Willie Martin (Pres.), Agnola Thomas
(Secretary), Juanita Dunn, Jeanace Spencer, Abdulkhaliq Mohamed, Gibba Sesay (former Pres.)
Jean McGuire at State House, Director of METRO & RCC Advisory Board Member (lower right); Sheriff Dennis Kearney speaks
to State & Local Government class (lower left); Al Watts, newly elected SGA President (upper left); and speaker at Career Day
(upper right).
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
Harry J. Catan, Khadijah Deloris Cabral, Maisey Spencer, Vernon Sergenton (V. Pres.), Jose de Jesus (Dean of Students); Seated:
Willie Martin (Pres.); Not Pictured: Nathaniel Ceer (Treas)
RCC RADtO CLUB: WRCC
Seated: Patrick Perpignand (V. Pres.), Doug Ruffin (Pres.), Wayne Robinson Standing: Brother Alajo, Unidentified Student,
Harold Baughns Not Pictured: Prof. Denise Moorehead, Sponsor
Expressettes: 1st Row — Leon Clayton Coach 2nd Row — Martha Bennett, Mona Thurman, Damaris Bernard, Diane
Galloway Valerie Spencer (Not in photo: Lola Hailey)
HISTORY OF ATHLETIC
HONORS
TEAM RECORDS
ME!S
WOMEN
Won 15 lost
3
1974-75
Won
18
lost
7
1975-76
Won 22 lost
5
1975-76
Won
25
lost
2
1976-77
Won 19 lost
5
1976-77
Won
20
lost
2
1977-78
Won 19 lost
3
1977-78
Won
23
lost
2
1978-79
Won 9 lost
11
1978-79
Won
9
lost
7
1979-80
Won 16 lost
5
1979-80
ROSBURY COMMUNITY
COLLEGE RECORDS
COACH OF THE YEAR
Alfreda Harris 1977-78, 1978-79
Shebra Legrant -
Mona Thurman -
Shebra Legrant -
Shebra Legrant -
Lisabeth Johnson
Howard West —
Howard West —
Howard West —
Ronald Jackson —
Russell Townsend
Eugene Jackson —
- Most Career Points (1,399)
- Most Points one game (52)
- Most Career Rebounds (1,121)
- Most Points single season (763)
- Most Assists Career (523
Most Rebounds Season (448)
Most Points one game (36)
Most Points one game (44)
- Most Points one game (44)
— Most Points one game (44)
Most Career Assists (487)
Express: 1st Row — (kneeling) Tommy Williams, Robert Jones, Tony Latson, Jesse Rosser 2nd Row
Buggs, Al Watts, Frank Lewis, Harold Dunson and David Belim (Ballboy)
(standing) Clarence
ALL REGIONAL PLAYERS NJCAA XXI
Marcia Williams
1975-76
Lisabeth Johnson
1977-78
Susan Summons
1976-77
Shebra Legrant
1978-79
Marcia Williams
1976-77
Darlene Cox
1978-79
Carolyn Lewis
1976-77
Lisabeth Johnson
1978-79
Howard West
1977-78
Ronald Jackson
1978-79
Melvin Robinson
1977-78
Cynthia Samuels
1978-79
Shebra Legrant
1977-78
NJCAA CATEGORY LEADER
Shebra Legrant — Scoring (32 5) 1978-79
Shebra Legrant — Rebounds (28 7) 1978-79
Howard West — Rebounds (22 2) 1977-78
Marcia Williams — Scoring (29 7) 1976-77
MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS
Shebra Legrant — 1978-79 East- West All-Star Game
Shebra Legrant — 1978-79 Region XXI
Shebra Legrant — 1977-78 MCCAC Tournament
Shebra Legrant — 1977-78 Region XXI
Howard West — 1977-78 MCCAC Tournament
Marcia Williams — 1976-77
Marcia Williams — 1976-77 MCCAC
Jerome Denny — 1975-76
NATIONAL NJCAA RECORDS
Lisabeth Johnson 1978-79 Most Assists
in one game (14)
Shebra Legrant:
1. Most Points — 5 game series (146)
2. Most Field Coals — 5 game series (146)
3. Most Field Goals — Career (102)
4. Most Rebounds — one game (28)
5. Most Rebounds — 5 game series (88)
6. Most Rebounds — Career (137)
7. Most Points — Career (220)
ALL-NATIONAL TEAM (NJCAA)
Shebra Legrant — 1978-79
Cynthia Samuels — 1978-79
Shebra Legrant — 1977-78
Susan Summons — 1976-77
ALL-AMERICANS
Shebra Legrant — 1978-79
Shebra Legrant — 1977-78
Howard West— 1977-78
Marcia Williams — 1976-77
NATIONAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME:
Shebra Legrant
ATHLETIC BANQUET
Students, faculty, staff and distinguished guests
enjoy the 1980 Athletic Awards Banquet at Satch's
SR. CLASS NIGHT, 1980
Dining and Dancing at Roxbury's Skycap Lounge
AWARDS CEREMONY
FOSTER PARENT TRAINING
Staff congratulates parents
Prof. Louise Corbin and Dr. Jane Fort (page opposite lower left) and President Haskins (below) hand out certificates.
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