LaGuardia Celebrates Faculty and Staff Years of Service

LaGuardia Logo and 2023 Apreciation of Service text around it.


LONG ISLAND CITY, NY (June 01, 2023) — On June 1, LaGuardia Community College/CUNY hosted a ceremony and reception to celebrate the years of service by its faculty and staff.

This was the first time in two years that the event was presented in-person, due to the pandemic. This year’s ceremony and reception were coordinated by the Office of the President, Human Resources, and the Division of Communications and External Affairs.

During the ceremony, Kenneth Adams, President of LaGuardia Community College and Provost and Dr. Billie Gastic-Rosado, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, presented each of this year’s cohorts with a certificate and a newly designed years of service pin.

“We celebrate all of your collective contributions to the college,” said President Adams. “You all have the institutional knowledge that informs all of us about important and critical matters that have impacted the college throughout history. This is a great value to helping us move forward as an institution, and we thank you for this contribution.”

“Your commitment as demonstrated through these impressive years of service milestones are one sign of how much you care about the College’s mission,” said Provost Gastic-Rosado during the ceremony. “Thank you for bringing your best selves to work, for applying your talents and time to make it possible for students to achieve their dreams, embark on a prosperous future, and feel supported along the way.”

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A picture of faculty and staff celebrating 50 years of service


Faculty and Staff Celebrating 50 Years of Service
Joseph McPhee

Faculty and Staff Celebrating 45 Years of Service
Helmut Eppich

Faculty and Staff Celebrating 40 Years of Service
Connie Chui
Arturo Luis Merchant


Faculty and Staff Celebrating 35 Years of Service

Evelyn Burg Walter DeLatorre Barbara Elias
Darcy Faro Christine Fernandez Lori Hughes
Clementine Lewis Sara Miller Zhenglu Ni
Ganga Persaud    


Faculty and Staff Celebrating 30 Years of Service

Elinor Amlen Vivian Babin Diane Blake
Dragos Coca Mariana Conde Hendrick Delcham
Wenjuan Fan John Felder Juan Genao
Jerry Ianni Vivian Melendez Lisa Mesulam
Leopold Momplaisir Kouame N’Guetta Michael Napolitano
Stacy Perry Kimberlee J. Vogel Francine White


Faculty and Staff Celebrating 25 Years of Service

Frank Angiuli Neil Applebaum Maria Estrella
Marlyn Goya Yelba Gutierrez Eaton He
Diane Hessemann Paula Jackson Peter Jayasekara
Elise Kiregian Soloman Kone Julia Lauren
Jacqueline Liriano Nicole Maguire Sofia Matos
Clelia Medrano Donald Monaco Indhira Rivas
Althea Roder Carol Wiggins Kenneth Yin


Faculty and Staff Celebrating 20 Years of Service

Samson Bodapati Mark Brooks Cynthia Casey
Erika Correa Jasna Dobrila Maureen Drennan
Sarah Durand Luz Feliz Elizabeth Flores
Paul Fraccalvieri Jaimie Gordon Erika Heppner
Heidi Johnsen Khalil Jomadder Zalma Keshawarz
Charles Keyes Marisa Klages-Bombich Karlyn Koh
Miguel Long George McCormack Tomonori Nagano
Socrates Ortiz Judy Y. Sanchez Margaret Savarese
Javier Serna Claudia Tapia Gordon Tapper
Adriana Rondon Valerio Desiree Veyvoda Jeanine Wong


Faculty and Staff Celebrating 15 Years of Service

Edwin Acosta Afsaneh Amiri Lara Beaty
Leslie Bialecki David Bimbi Bojana Blagojevic
Jose Bonilla Jean Boyer Jeffrey Caban
Robert Catalono Dmitriy Chebanov Salvador Cuellar
Josephine Curatolo Derwent Dawkins Erick Delcham
Maifer Demirbec Orlando Dowell Alan Drexler
Maria Entezari Sonya Evariste Natalya Fazylova
Ruth Foy Paula Headley Elliot Hearst
Amanda Heinbaugh Elizabeth Iannotti Kevin Jackson
Sada Hye Jaman Niki S. Jones Abdelhamid Kadik
Julie Kelderman Misun Kim Mangala Kothari
Issam Laghmari Irwin Leopando Shamika J. Lindsay
Judy Liu Zoila M. Machado Fabio Martinez
Elizabeth Mendez Grace Mero Wilson Munoz
Vanaja Nair Emad Nassar Marina Nechayeva
Deborah Nibot Randy Nieves Sidney Noelle
Lisa O’Donnell Yadira Perdomo Jeremy Rafal
Kimberly Ramirez Jareth Roman Milton Ruiz
Jason Sagebiel Seydina Sambe Jeffrey Shapiro
Said Slimani Tawanikka Smith Aileen Solima
Laura Soriano Rochelle Spencer Regina Varin-Mignano
Stephen Weinstein Dong Won  


Faculty and Staff Celebrating 10 Years of Service

Soheila Adl Annelie Aguessy Faith Armstrong
Mona Barakat Linda Barber Sundeese Borden
Lee Boyar Victoria Buitrago Brown Jerold Burton
Simone Camhi Noraida Cautin Claudia Chan
Liliana Chan Ho Tao Chen Tiffany Collado
Domenico D’Angelo James Diegue Stefania Dinu
Matthew Eckhoff Donald Faeth Deirdre Flood
Flora Flores Ana Lucia Fuentes Xin Gao
Leslie Giegerich Margis Gonzalez Mauricio Gonzalez
Stephen Goodman Eliza Gurung Tonya Hendrix
Jedidiah Harris Marland Harrison Lena M. Hayes
Glenn Henshaw Irma Hernandez Luisa Hindle
Michelle Holguin Susan Houston Rochell Isaac
Elizabeth Jardine Alexander Jones Magdalena Kieliszek
Nicholas Koundourakis Victor Lam Elizabeth Langenberg
Robert Lehnert Chandana Mahadeswaraswamy Olexa Makuch
Annette Miller Javed Najhafeez Farid Nassif
Cristina Natale Carolyn Nobles Olakunle Olawoyin
Anna Padilla Wilbert Parker Jessica Zeichner-Saca
Dusana Podlucka Marc Primost Md Rahman
Lourdes Rodriguez Rachel Romain Lydia Santana
Judith Sarkodee-Adoo Jason Schafer Sharmila Shakya
Kira Smirnov Shemaiah Smith David Strack
Janto Tachjadi Camille Taitt Vincent Tobia
Trenton Truitt Jinfeng Wu Yadiro Ydrobo
Stanley Yip    

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LaGuardia Community College (LAGCC), a Hispanic-Serving Institution, located in Long Island City, Queens offers more than 50 degrees and certificates, and more than 65 continuing education programs to educate New Yorkers seeking new skills and careers. As an institution of the City University of New York (CUNY), the College reflects the legacy of our namesake, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the former NYC mayor beloved for his advocacy of underserved populations. Since 1971, LaGuardia’s academic programs and support services have advanced the socioeconomic mobility of students while providing them with access to a high quality, affordable college education.

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