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 Fourth HCC President, Christina Royal, PhD.
On January 2017, President Christina Royal, PhD, became Holyoke Community College's first female, queer person of color to hold this post.
This is a small cache, so BYOP.
While this is cache number four of five in a tribute series, each cache is a stand alone cache and may be found in any order you like.
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 - Three: https://coord.info/GC8VKWY
- HCC Presidential Cache - Five: https://coord.info/GCBAQAV
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Congratulations to TinySuperman for the FTF! 😀