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Stay Connected
- your monthly alumni newsletter! We're happy to let you know about exciting things happening this month on campus at RVCC, and how you can stay involved.
More importantly, we want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] to
share your news, class notes, and success stories! And send us any suggestions you may have for the RVCC Alumni Association, so you feel more connected!
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What Made Your RVCC Experience Special?
Give back to what means
the most!
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In just
TWO DAYS
you can take part in RVCC's 2nd Annual
GIVING DAY
,
a 24-hour online event that will bring our community together to raise funds for scholarships, educational programs, and more at RVCC!
Pay it forward
and donate $10 or more to your favorite organization, club, team or cause, and help them win additional funds from the Foundation!
Click
HERE and receive a reminder email or text to make your donation on November 16th.
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Join Us for A Reading & Conversation with Sapphire
Monday, November 20 at 2:30 PM
The Nash Theatre at RVCC
Tickets: FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
A book signing will immediately follow
Sapphire is the author of two bestselling novels, Push and The Kid. Push was made into the Academy Award-winning major motion film Precious, and the film adaptation received the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress.
Sapphire's work has been translated into thirteen languages and has been adapted for stage in the United States and Europe. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in
The Black Scholar, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Teacher's Voice, The New Yorker, Spin, and Bomb.
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Faculty Update:
The Power of Poetry
Professor Charlie Bondhus has been enriching our RVCC student writers' minds since 2010. In addition to composition, he teaches Creative Writing and Intro to Poetry. He will be teaching an LGBT Literature class for the first time this upcoming spring.
Professor Bondhus' accomplishments and published works take him far and wide. His latest poetry book,
Divining Bones,was recently accepted by Sundress Publications and will be published in 2019. He has also been awarded a fellowship to the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, which will allow him to spend a full month writing in a medieval castle in Scotland.
Currently, three RVCC dance students and their professor, Loretta Fois, are choreographing a recital centered around poems from Bondus' published work,
All the Heat We Could Carry (Main Street Rag, 2013). The performance will be showcased as part of the Fall Dance Concert on December 13th and 14th.
Professor Bondhus has also partnered with RVCC Theatre Director, Alan Liddell, to host a Guest Writer Series. They hope to invite one prose writer each fall, and one poet each spring. Last April, RVCC hosted poet Patricia Smith, and on November 20th, the series is hosting critically acclaimed author, Sapphire. All events for the Guest Writer Series are free and open to the public, and RVCC Alumni are encouraged to attend!
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Alumni Update
Bridging the Path Between Science
and Humanities
Katie Agin '06, graduated from Raritan Valley with Associates Degrees in English and Humanities, moving on to Rutgers College to receive a BA in English. She was an officer of the RVCC's chapter of the of the International Honor Society, Phi Theta Kappa and received the English Department Award of Honor.
Katie is currently the Marketing and Communications Manager for the IEEE Photonics Society, the hub of a vibrant technical community dedicated to transforming breakthroughs in quantum physics into the devices, systems and products (fiber optics, lasers, solar energy, LEDs, and more) to revolutionize our daily lives for the benefit of humanity.
"There is a need within STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) for those with humanities and communications backgrounds. It is possible to choose a path that bridges the two; they are not mutually exclusive fields," she says. While pursuing her English degrees at Raritan and Rutgers, she balanced her experience by taking classes in coding, web design and graphic design to expand her pool of career possibilities. She worked for several years as an editor at a national health magazine, before transitioning to communications and web design roles in the travel, luxury goods and tech industries.
Katie also is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, is certified to teach aerial yoga and is currently pursuing another yoga teacher certification.
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RVCC Alumni Networking Event
Thanks to everyone who attended our first ever RVCC Alumni Networking Happy Hour event on October 26th! The event was held at the Green Knoll Grille in Bridgewater, and nearly 20 alumni were able to connect and share their professional journeys.
Have an idea for an alumni programming? -
Join the
Alumni Advisory Committee!
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RVCC Voll
eyball Aces
their Seaso
n
Congratulations to RVCC's women's volleyball team who became
the first team of any sport in the College's history to
place in the National Junior College Athle
tic Association's (NJCAA) National Top 10 Rankings!
The team captured their first ever Garden State Athletic Conference Championship, Region XIX Runner-Up Award and earned an overall record of 20-2. The Lions were ranked as the #10 team in the NJCAA Division III for three straight weeks during the season.
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And Don't Forget About...
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Calling All RVCC Alum Choreographers!
Raritan Valley Community College's Visual and Performing Arts department is pleased to invite RVCC dance alumni (whether you received your A.F.A. or not!) to submit applications to our
10th Anniversary Alumni Concert
on
March 24, 2018.
While the choreographers MUST be RVCC alumni, dancers need not be.
Email Professor Loretta Fois at
lfois@raritanv
al.edu
for more informati
on and to receive the application.
The
submission deadline is January 1, 2018.
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WING WEDNESDAY on November 15th!
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Present this ticket to your server at Buffalo Wild Wings on
Wednesday,
November 15
, and
15% of your bill will go towards RVCC's Giving Day!
Eligible at either Bridgewater or Flemington location.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Athletics
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Theatre
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Planetarium
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Women's Basketball
vs. Union County College
November 28 at 6 PM
Basketball
vs. Valley Forge Military College
December 2
Women's at 12 PM
Men's at 2 PM
Basketball
vs. Harcum College
December 12
Women's at 5 PM
Men's at 7 PM
Basketball
vs. Essex County College
December 14
Women's at 5 PM
Men's at 7 PM |
The Ultimate Christmas Show
Saturday,
December 2, at 8 PM
Live from WVL Radio Theatre--It's a Wonderful Life
Tuesday,
December 5,
at 2 PM and 7 PM
The Great Russian Nutcracker
Friday, December 8,
at 4 PM and 8 PM
A Christmas Carol
Sunday,
December 10
at 2 PM
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Alien Who Stole Christmas
December 2, 9, and 16
at 3 PM
Winter Wonder Lights Laser Concert
December 2, 9,
a
nd 16
at 4 PM and 8 PM
Mystery at the
North Pole
December 8 and 15
at 7 PM
Black Holes
December 9 and 16
at 7 PM
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For the full calendars please click on the links below:
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You Shop. Amazon Gives.
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purchas
e you make, Amazon will donate .5%
to the school of your choice at no cost to you?
All you have to do is sign up for Amazon Smile!
Visit smile.amazon.com and
select the Raritan Valley Community College Foundation as your beneficiary.
Then every time you shop, you'll be supporting the RVCC Foundation, which awarded nearly $300,000 in scholarships to RVCC students last year.
For more information about the RVCC Foundation, or for any questions about Amazon Smile, please contact
[email protected]
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