Student Tribune
The Carmen Powers Legacy Lecture Series
The Carmen Powers Legacy Lecture Series is an annual event that brings the
campus community together to celebrate the legacies and service of
distinguished retirees. As part of the event, retirees reflect on their time at
MCC with a lecture inspired by Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture. In
2013, the Legacy Lecture Series was renamed in remembrance of our colleague
Carmen Powers. Carmen's career-long and passionate commitment to her students,
colleagues, and College was immeasurable. The intent of the Carmen Powers
Legacy Lecture Series is to share and preserve MCC's collective professional
and institutional wisdom. Every year, members of the MCC community are
enthusiastically encouraged to nominate a fellow employee they know is retiring
and who would like to share a special remembrance or particular perspective
gleaned throughout their MCC career.
The moments of reflection facilitated by the Carmen Powers Legacy Lecture
Series are essential to ensuring that, while people move on, their legacies and
institutional memories forever remain a part of our campus community. Because
the Carmen Powers Legacy Lecture Series is so important to MCC's culture of
recognition, we are taking a different approach this year. Over the course of
the next few days, some of this year's honorees will share reflections of their
time at MCC in the Daily Tribune. This year's honorees are Christine
Abbott, Karen Coffey, Joan Mullaney, Louis Silvers, and Bess Watts.
Together they have 165 years of collective wisdom to share with us. Please take
a moment to read about their time at MCC, the knowledge they are leaving
behind, and how we can use that knowledge to continue to make MCC a place of
teaching and learning excellence.
In addition to their reflections, the MCC Foundation is awarding a
scholarship to five students on behalf of each honoree. The Faculty Senate
would like to thank the MCC Foundation for their continued generosity and
support of the Carmen Powers Legacy Lecture Series.
In this edition of the Tribune, Joan Mullaney will kick off
the series with her almost 50 years of dedicated service to MCC. Thank you to
all our honorees. We wish you the best.
Pares-Kane, Nayda
President, Faculty Senate
05/12/2020