60’s Hats During the 1960’s NECC first year students were required to wear freshmen beanies.

Alumni of Northern Essex Community College who graduated between 1963 and 1973 are invited to attend a reunion on June 21 at 4 p.m. at DiBurro’s Function Hall in Bradford to reminisce and catch up with classmates.

This reunion marks the 50th and 40th graduation anniversaries for the classes of 1963 and 1973, respectively. NECC opened its doors to its first students in 1961, and the class of 1963 is the first class to graduate from the college.

Volunteer organizers include class of 1963 members Maurice Viscuso, Rosemarie (Webb) D’Agata, and Bill Klueber, as well as Pat Kennedy, ’66, and former NECC faculty member and administrator, Norman Landry.

If you would like to help with reunion preparations or would like more information on the reunion, please contact Lindsey Mayo, director of alumni relations, at 978-556-3621 or lmayo@necc.mass.edu.

Greenleaf NECC opened its doors in 1961 and for the first decade of the college’s history classes were taught at the Greenleaf School in Bradford

UMass Lowell is opening a Haverhill satellite campus at Northern Essex Community College.

The new location brings the university’s strengths in educating working professionals, adult learners and traditional students to Haverhill. Already, more than 2,000 residents of the city and nearby communities attend UMass Lowell. Starting this month, university personnel will be on site to advise and register students for the Fall 2013 semester and classes will start in September.

UMass Lowell’s satellite campus, the first for the university, will be overseen by its award-winning Division of Online and Continuing Education, which is a leader in developing new models of education, from traditional classroom learning and specialized professional training to online and “blended” programs. Through the Haverhill campus, students will have access this fall to courses in fields such as business administration, criminal justice and liberal arts.

“We are pleased that we can begin making a high-quality UMass Lowell education available in Haverhill as soon as September,” said UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan. “We have worked successfully with Northern Essex for years to help their graduates make a smooth transition to continue their education on our campus and now we can say that will be even easier.”

UMass Lowell works closely with the state’s community colleges, including Northern Essex, to help graduates with associate’s degrees move on to the university, where they can then complete a bachelor’s degree in two years. UMass Lowell also offers a tuition waiver for community college graduates who complete their associate’s degree with a 3.0 or better GPA. More than 360 students transferred from Northern Essex to UMass Lowell last year.

UMass Lowell announced in December 2012 that it will open a satellite campus in Haverhill with the goal of offering classes beginning with the Fall 2013 semester. While initial plans called for a site in the city’s downtown, a request for proposals process earlier this year did not yield a location that would meet the university’s requirements in time to allow classes to begin in September. By locating at Northern Essex Community College, the university can begin advising and registering students for Fall 2013 classes while continuing to seek a downtown location for the longer term.

“I am very happy to see UMass Lowell and Northern Essex Community College coming together to enable the university to launch its Haverhill operation while plans continue for a permanent home in our downtown area,” said Massachusetts House Ways and Means Chairman Brian Dempsey of Haverhill, a UMass Lowell alumnus. “This is a big step in establishing the Haverhill satellite campus and I am pleased with the progress.”

UMass Lowell’s offices will be located in an existing building at Northern Essex and the university will maximize resources by sharing classrooms with the college, offering evening classes Monday through Thursday in rooms that would normally be unoccupied at that time. UMass Lowell plans to operate at Northern Essex through the 2013-2014 academic year.

“This is great news for our students, the great majority of whom transfer to UMass Lowell, and for the city of Haverhill,” said Northern Essex Community College President Lane Glenn. “We currently have 26 transfer agreements in place with UMass Lowell in areas such as business, criminal justice, engineering, liberal arts and education. Being co-located will allow us to build on what is already a strong partnership and provide additional higher education options for local residents.”

Christina Dietrich of the NECC Music faculty is offering a week-long Summer Music Festival

Northern Essex Community College’s music program is offering a week-long Summer Music Festival at its Haverhill Campus for pianists, violinists, and ‘cellists of all musical levels, August 5 through 9. Open to musicians 10 and older, the program will focus on solo and chamber repertoire, technique, and fundamental music theory, all in relation to their historical context. The cost is $300 per person plus a $25 registration fee.

Students will receive individual lessons and chamber music coaching during the morning session and master classes in the afternoon focusing on technique, basic music theory as it relates to the repertoire studied and the discussion of various works of composers from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and modern day in the afternoon.
On Friday, August 9, at 7 p.m. there will be a performance of the works studied by the participants.

This festival will be directed by renowned NECC Music Program faculty member Christina Dietrich, with guest artists, violinists Alice Hallstrom and Angel Hernandez, cellist Caroline Reiner-Williams, and pianist Michael Kramer.

Professor Dietrich will meet with each student prior to the start of the workshop for proper placement.

Assessment interviews will be held Mondays, June 3 and 26.
For more information please call 617-966-8923 or email cdietrich@necc.mass.edu.

Richard Stoltzman

This event is open to the public. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for seniors, and $5 for students. Admission is free for NECC students with a college ID.

“McKinley’s brilliant work was inspired by his visits to New York City for concerts of his music,” said flutist Michael Finegold, ECMP artistic director and an Andover resident. McKinley lives in Reading.

The program’s 10 movements have charming descriptive titles, such as “Flights of Fancy”, “All the Little Children Playing”, “Hot Nights of Dancing” and “The Speed of Light”, and an old favorite – “Sidewalks of New York”, is used throughout.

Stoltzman, a Winchester resident, is a two-time Grammy Award winning clarinetist.

“His virtuosity, technique, imagination and communicative power have revolutionized the world of clarinet playing, opening up possibilities for the instrument that no one could have predicted,” Finegold said.
“Andrew Kohji Taylor is expanding an international reputation by captivating audiences with probing musical insight, luminous tone, expressive phrasing and technical mastery,” he added. Taylor lives in Brookline.

The performance will be a reunion of sorts for Stoltzman, McKinley, and Finegold, who were in the same Yale School of Music graduate class. Kohji Taylor also is a Yale School of Music graduate.

“Tom McKinley has dedicated “Streets of New York” to ECMP and the performers, who will include the excellent cellist Emmanuel Feldman,” Finegold said. Feldman is a Newton resident.

The program also includes “Duo for Flute and Clarinet” by Carl Vollrath, “Concerto a Tré for Clarinet, Violin, and Cello” by Ingolf Dahl, and the “Passacaglia” by Johan Halvorsen.

An audience question-answer period will follow with the composer and players.

For additional information, visit www.ecmp.org or contact Michael Finegold at ecmp314@comcast.net.