In September of 1946, the Holyoke Graduate School was established as a municipal program providing night-school college classes to returning WWII veterans and other adults. In March of 1947, the Massachusetts General Court enacted legislation permitting municipal higher education programs to be called junior colleges, and on April 7, 1947, the Holyoke School Committee changed the name of the Holyoke Graduate School to Holyoke Junior College. Holyoke Junior College was also referred to as "JC" or "HJC". On July 1, 1964, Holyoke Junior College joined the state community college system and was renamed to Holyoke Community College.
Since that time Holyoke Community College has had four presidents. This cache is to honor the Third HCC President, William F. Messner
President William F. Messner served the college from 2004 until his retirement in 2016. Under his watch, the building you see next to this cache called the "Holyoke Community College Center of Health Education" opened in the fall of 2015.
This is a small cache, so BYOP.
Please Note: While this is cache three of five in a tribute series, each cache is a stand alone cache.
If you enjoyed this cache, here are the others in this series:
- HCC Presidential Cache - One: https://coord.info/GC85CTF
- HCC Presidential Cache - Two: https://coord.info/GC8565J
- HCC Presidential Cache - Four: https://coord.info/GC94R2M
- HCC Presidential Cache - Five: https://coord.info/GCBAQAV
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Congratulations to TimLamkins for the FTF! 😀