LaGuardia Celebrates Faculty and Staff Years of Service
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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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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