| Thomas Libous |
James Carrigg |
| New York State Senator Thomas Libous (BCC
'73) (R-C: Binghamton) is serving his ninth term in the
New York State Senate representing Broome, Tioga and Chenango
counties since 1988. Senator Libous is currently chair
of the Transportation Committee and Assistant Majority
Leader for House Operations. Previously he served as Chairman
of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee
and of the Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee. Click
here for more |
James Carrigg (ET '58) says the good start at BCC prepared
him well for a career at NYSEG in Binghamton. Nearly
forty years after he graduated from Broome, Jim retired
as NYSEG's Chairman of the Board, President and CEO.
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| Lee Herzog |
Sara Henry |
Lee Burton Herzog ('61 ET) has risen to
great heights in his career since he graduated from Broome,
and he has carried a bit of the BCC legacy along with
him.
Lee designs window washing equipment for the world's tallest
buildings. When the new World Trade Center replacement
- the Freedom Tower - is completed, it will be the world's
tallest building and it will include Lee's window washing
equipment design in its infrastructure. Click
here for more. |
Sara Henry (’96) has established her career in
New York City and uses her BCC Communications degree
to explore the technical end of broadcasting. As an
assistant director in CBS’s The Morning Show, she
repairs any mistakes that were made in the initial taping
for versions that are aired in other time zones.
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| Gerry Smith |
Jarome Hawkins |
| If the television show" Who Wants to
be a Millionaire" had a question about Broome County
history, you would definitely want Gerald (Gerry) Smith
(LA '75) as one of your lifelines! As the Binghamton City
Historian, The Broome County Historian and the head of
the Local History and Genealogy Center at the Broome County
Public Library, Gerry is the go-to guy for all questions
related to Broome County history. And more than just his
job, the history of the Binghamton area is his passion.
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Jarome Hawkins (’96), drew on what he
learned in his BCC communications courses to develop his
audio production business, Hawkeye Productions, in Los
Angeles. His company did the audio for an independent
film and is in the process of selling a cartoon to the
WB Network.
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| Jackie Fortier |
Peter Jackson |
|
It was the public relations classes in her communications
major at BCC that helped Jackie Fortier (’99) realize
that she loved the field of PR. This year she was promoted
to the position of national sales representative for
DK Publishing.
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Peter Jackson ('97) returned to campus this
spring, not as typical alum who comes to see old professors
or changes in buildings, but in an official capacity.
He looked over his alma mater with a critical eye, calculating
where to position people and vehicles to minimize security
threats to Senator Hillary Clinton during her visit to
campus in April. Then he watched over the crowds who gathered
to hear her speak. Click here
for more. |
| Rocco Passionino |
Eugene (Gene) Purtell |
Rocco Passionino (CS '89) had an unforgettable
evening on September 13, 2003 when he won an Emmy Award
for the Best Visual Effects in a Television Series for
Firefly, a one-season science fiction show on the FOX
network. The award was for the show's pilot episode, "Serenity."
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From the sales floor of a local sporting
goods store to a position as a national manager of Nike,
Eugene (Gene) Purtell ('93 BUMM) used his BCC degree and
some nuts and bolts experience to advance in the corporate
world. With the combined education and sales experience,
he worked his way up the corporate ladder to his recent
appointment as General Manager for National Strategic
Accounts and Strategic Department Stores at Nike, Inc.,
with just his A.A.S. from Broome Community College in
Business Marketing and Management. Click
here for more. |
| Mike Branick |
Donald Chier |
| A driving, East Coast snowstorm in
Binghamton, the kind that can bury the Triple Cities,
inspired Mike Branick (PE '76) as a teen to pursue his
future career as a meteorologist with the National Weather
Service. " The storm that began on Christmas
Day 1969 sticks out as a turning point for me. I think
it was the next day (and about two feet of snow later)
that I first realized that weather could be a really cool
line of work," he said. Click
here for more |
In November 2001, as a result of the events
of 9/11, Donald Chier (MT '73, CJ '77) was called up as
an individual reservist for the U.S. Army. Don's service
to his country meant leaving his family and putting his
career on hold for 7 months to fly halfway across the
world to Japan. Click
here for more |
| Tim Connor |
Kristin Siemon |
For Tim Connor (CH '83), his present information
technology and telecom management position at Hewlett-Packard
Company is a result of the second chance he received at
BCC almost 20 years ago!
Before BCC, Tim was
a very poor student in high school, and had no interest
in attending college after graduating. He instead elected
to serve as a search and rescue patrol boat captain in
the US Coast Guard. Tim served for 5 years until he was
medically discharged due to his hearing loss, which was
degenerative in nature. The job market was weak, and Tim
had to retrain and change careers. Click
here for more. |
For Kristin Siemon (LACM '90), a BCC degree
in communications opened the door to the fast-paced world
of television news - and she loved it! "There's a
daily adrenaline rush to meet deadline opportunities,
to travel, to meet lots of new people, etc," Kristin
said. "I have covered everything from little daily
car wrecks to an execution, to the Susan Smith story,
the plane crash in Charlotte, lots and lots of big stories,
lots of sad stories. Click
here for more. |
| Jim Lamb |
Marjory Hizer Kreischer |
| BCC alum Jim Lamb (CJ '76) has had the benefit
of two different courses of study at Broome. With a criminal
justice degree, Jim went on to a successful career as
a police officer, and retired a few years ago. "After
retiring, I needed to make myself marketable," Jim
said. He had always liked surveying in high school, and
he decided to retrain at Broome taking Civil Engineering
Technology. Now he works for Newman Development as a senior
designer, working on many local shopping landmarks. Click
here for more. |
A newspaper article about a free dental health
clinic in Virginia planted a seed of an idea for Marjory
Hizer Kreischer (DH '68), and two years later she started
Bradford County Dental Health Services, Inc in Towanda,
Pennsylvania. Working with other volunteers known as the
Advocates for Children's Dental Health, Marjory located
grants to start-up the clinic and was fortunate to discovery
a dentist who was retiring and selling his operation.
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for more. |
| Lt Paul Tomanek |
Steven Franck |
| Lt Paul Tomanek (LACJ '77) was awarded a
6th honorable service medal, becoming the most decorated
police officer in the 151-member police department in
the city of Clifton, NJ. Lt. Tomanek earned his medals
for saving someone from a high rise building fire, catching
armed robbers and stopping an emotionally disturbed person
from using firearms. Click
here for more. |
When BCC alum Steven Franck ('77, engineering
science), Vice-President for High Yield Credit Research
with Morgan Stanley in London, came to BCC right out of
Union-Endicott High School, he was not thinking about
cutting edge communications technology, high finance,
White House diplomacy or Naval Aviation, fields he would
eventually enter. His first love was hockey.... Broome
Community College Hockey. Click
here for more. |
