Jan. 8, 2019
HARRISBURG, Pa. – HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, shares recent news, including:
- Cadets Graduate from HACC’s 19th Part-Time Municipal Police Academy
- Nursing Home Administrator Program Launched at HACC
- HACC Art Professor Finds ‘Beauty in Patterns of the Mundane’
- Printmaker’s ‘American Epic’ Exhibit on Display Jan. 21-Feb. 15, 2019
Cadets Graduate from HACC’s 19th Part-Time Municipal Police Academy
HARRISBURG, Pa – Members of the local law enforcement community, along with family and friends, recently celebrated the graduation of eight cadets from the 19th Part-Time Municipal Police Academy at the Rose Lehrman Arts Center on the Harrisburg Campus of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College.
Cadets received their training at the Senator Jeffrey E. Piccola Law Enforcement Complex of the Senator John J. Shumaker Pubic Safety Center (PSC). HACC’s Police Academy is the second largest in Pennsylvania with two 25-week, full-time basic training courses and a 48-week, part-time basic training course mandated by the Municipal Police Officers’ Education and Training Commission for all Pennsylvania municipal police officers.
Several of the graduating cadets received outstanding achievement awards during the ceremony held Dec. 14, 2018. The award recipients of the 19th Part-Time Municipal Police Academy graduation are:
- Travis Brent Smith, Academic Award
- Travis Brent Smith, Driving Award
- Kevin Christopher Baker, Firearms Award
- Nathan Martin Sellers, Most Inspirational Award
- Nathan Martin Sellers, Physical Fitness Award
The graduates and police departments they serve are:
| Cadet | Police Department |
| Baker, Kevin Christopher | Lancaster City Bureau of Police |
| Hertzler, Paige Lauren | Carlisle Borough Police Department |
| Sellers, Nathan Martin | North Middleton Township Police Department |
Graduates not yet affiliated with law enforcement agencies (listed with their hometowns) are:
| Cadet | Hometown |
| Abdelmalek, Leea Nader | Mechanicsburg |
| Codero, Angela Elise | New Kingstown |
| Fuchs, Chadwick Delany | Chambersburg |
| O’Brien, Patrick Francis | Etters |
| Smith, Travis Brent | Littlestown |
Please visit https://flic.kr/s/aHskKMyQmT for additional photos of the Dec. 14, 2018, graduation ceremony
Photo Caption: Beth Dombrowsky, coordinator of law enforcement at HACC’s John J. Shumaker Public Safety Center, and Nathan Sellers, a graduate of the College’s 19th Part-Time Municipal Police Academy, hold a photo of the eight members of the class.
Nursing Home Administrator Program Launched at HACC
HARRISBURG, Pa. – HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, is now offering the 120-hour program for the nursing home administrator (NHA) required by the Pennsylvania State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators.
Modules may be applied to the continuing education requirements for nurses and nursing home administrators. Professionals may complete the modules in less than three months and gain the skills and knowledge to become a successful nursing home administrator.
Each module is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators. HACC will provide all 16 modules, a certificate of completion for each module and a certificate for completion for all 16 modules.
The cost is $2,579 to complete all 16 modules.
Spring classes begin Feb. 8, 2019. For more information, please visit hacc.edu/NHA.
HACC Art Professor Finds ‘Beauty in Patterns of the Mundane’
The show will run Jan. 14-Feb. 13, 2019, and a reception for the artist will be held Jan. 23 at 4:30 p.m. Both the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
In her artist statement, Dillon writes, “The printmaking process is repetitive, with both the carving of the linoleum block, to the act of creating the same image in multiple. Conceptually, these works find beauty in the patterns of the mundane. By using a familiar image over and over, they illustrate the day in and day out visuals of our everyday life.”
Dillon is an adjunct art professor at HACC’s Lancaster and York campuses. She earned a bachelor of fine arts from Metropolitan State University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, and a master of fine arts in studio art from Pennsylvania State University, State College. Her work recently appeared at the Washington Printmakers Gallery in Washington, D.C., and Rubber City Prints in Akron, Ohio.
The Art Space is open Monday through Thursday 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and Fridays from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Photo Caption: Linoleum relief prints by local artist Valerie Dillon will be on display in “Change and Repeat,” a free exhibit at the Art Space at HACC’s Lancaster Campus.
Printmaker’s ‘American Epic’ Exhibit on Display Jan. 21-Feb. 15, 2019
A Tennessee native, Shaw is currently working on a series of 50 relief prints carved from linoleum blocks that depict the epic story of America.
He has completed 28 prints in the series over the past nine years. He also continues to explore other mediums, techniques and collaborations as an extension of the American Epic prints.
“I want to tell this story from my point of view as I see American life, and to create new allegories, narratives, iconography and symbolism based on my first-hand accounts and my personal baggage,” Shaw said in his artist statement.
His study of Jose Clemente Orozco’s mural, “The Epic of American Civilization,” was his initial inspiration, and led him to study Mexican printmaking and the works of other Mexican muralists, including Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Prints from his “American Epic” series have exhibited nationally, including the Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, Tennessee; 2016 Art on Paper Art Fair and the International Print Center (IPCNY), both New York, New York; and the Du Mois Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana. Visiting artist and guest speaker appearances include the Vanderbilt Divinity School; University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska; and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina.
Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays 5-7 p.m. or by appointment.
The gallery received state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information about the exhibit at HACC, please contact Shawn Williams at 717-780-2478 or smwillia@hacc.edu.
Photo Caption: American Ghosts II will be on display during “American Epic: A Series of Linocut Prints,” an exhibit from Jan. 21-Feb. 15, 2019, in the Rose Lehrman Art Gallery on HACC’s Harrisburg Campus.
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