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\"Linda<\/a>

Linda Shea, NECC Director of Library Services and 35-year employee, was given a retirement party by her colleagues.<\/p><\/div>\n

After 35 years as a Northern Essex Community College employee, Linda\u00a0Shea, was sent off into the world of retirement, with an afternoon tea attended by faculty and staff.<\/p>\n

As colleagues noshed on chocolate covered strawberries, petit fours, and delicate cupcakes decorated with an outline of an open book, Linda shared her immediate and distant plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI plan on doing everything I haven\u2019t been able to do for the last 35 years,\u201d said the NECC director of library services who was accompanied by her sons, Brendan and Ian, and her husband Brian.<\/p>\n

Those plans include tending her sizable garden, volunteering one weekend a month weeding a shared community garden, taking an occasional class at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Wellesley, and eventually \u2013 after her husband retires in September \u2013 hiking the Pacific Crest trail.<\/p>\n

\"Linda<\/a>

There was an array of desserts for staff and faculty to snack on during Linda Shea’s retirement party.<\/p><\/div>\n

After some kind words from NECC President Lane Glenn and Bill Heineman, vice president of academic and student affairs, she was presented with, among other things, a Lance Hidy print titled \u201cGrove Street, Merrimac\u201d.<\/p>\n

A cake designed as a stack of three books with titles depicting a few of her favorite things \u2013 author Margaret Atwood, rescue dogs, and hiking, was presented as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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