{"id":27296,"date":"2019-06-05T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T22:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2019\/06\/05\/women-of-necc-raise-scholarship-money\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:15:53","slug":"women-of-necc-raise-scholarship-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/06\/05\/women-of-necc-raise-scholarship-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Women of NECC Raise Scholarship Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20667\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2019\/06\/June-Event-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20667\" class=\"wp-image-20667 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2019\/06\/June-Event-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Geraldine Murphy, Charles Lagasse, and Ann Lagasse.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Andover resident Geraldine Murphy, president of the Women of NECC, and Charles and Ann Lagasse of Newburyport, who hosted the June event.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nearly 100 guests of the Women of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\">Northern Essex Community College<\/a> attended the 23rd annual June fundraising event on Saturday, June 1, at the home of Charles and Ann in their Newburyport.<\/p>\n<p>The Lagasses hosted the annual fundraiser which raised funds for NECC scholarships. The event featured cocktails, a buffet dinner, a silent auction, and a raffle.<\/p>\n<p>The event was catered by The Party Connection. Flowers by Steve, of Bradford, donated floral arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Their nephew Rob Lagasse, who was a star baseball player for Northern Essex, was presented with a National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Second Team All-Region XXI, Division III, award, by Dan Blair, NECC athletic director.<\/p>\n<p>The Women of NECC is a volunteer organization dedicated to assisting Northern Essex and its students. The organization generates funds for student scholarships and special projects by conducting a variety of fundraising events throughout the year, including a Fall Membership Tea and a June Gala Open House event.<\/p>\n<p>Since their founding 23 years ago, the Women have raised more than a half million dollars for the college and awarded $330,000 in scholarships to 410 deserving NECC students.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information contact Jean Poth, Vice-President Institutional Advancement and Executive Director of the NECC Foundation, Inc. at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jpoth@necc.mass.edu\">jpoth@necc.mass.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Women of NECC held their annual June fundraiser at the Newburyport home of Chuck and Ann Lagasse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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