ACHIEVEMENT
A Role Uniquely Suited for His Brand of Leadership
Holyoke Community College appoints a new President whose commitment to student success is a priority. By Chris Yurko In opening the inauguration ceremony of
forward to honor him and attest to the qualities that make him “the right person for this job,” in the words of Patrick Tutwiler, Massachusetts Secre- tary of Education. Meanwhile, hundreds more–rela- tives, college friends, and former and current colleagues among them–filled the Leslie Phillips Theater to capacity to celebrate his official installation as the fifth president of Holyoke Com- munity College (Holyoke, MA) and his
Holyoke Community College (HCC) President George Timmons (Epsilon Zeta 1990) this year,
the Rev. Damone Paul Johnson, offered a parable about a high rise building with a broken elevator. There was another elevator in the building, the attendant told a concerned tenant–a service elevator. That one is working, the attendant said. It goes to the top but stops on every floor.
“Dr. Timmons has made it to the top,” Johnson said, “but he has stopped on every floor of service, dedication, and excellence.” Like an episode of the old TV show “This is your Life,” people from nearly every stage of President Timmons’ life and career in higher education stepped
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