Williams College Celebrates Staff Members on Annual Appreciation Day

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— Williams College will host its annual Appreciation Day, which honors staff members who have reached milestones in their service to the college, on Tuesday, May 5.

The celebration includes a luncheon for employees completing their fifth, 10th, 15th or 20th year of service and a dinner for employees celebrating their 25th, 30th, 35th and 40th year of service, as well as those who are newly retired. The day is an opportunity for community members to offer thanks to the staff whose contributions uphold the college’s functionality and excellence.

This year’s retires are Bob Bernier, Linda Blake, Bob Bleau, Don Clark, Dick Cummings, Tom Mahar, Janice McKay, Bea Miles, Rob Seney, Dinny Taylor, Alice Wilson, Judith Win, Bob Volz, and Rosalie Tworig.

Jim Butler and Mimi Roy are celebrating 40 years at the college, while Bob Bleau, C. J. Gillig, Susan Landry, Jessy Park, Barb Pietras, Dennis Richard, Terry Waryjasz, and Kris Williams are celebrating 35 years.

Celebrating their 30th year of service are Pat Acosta, Nancy Bellows, Abby Bienkowski, Linda Blake, Cheryl Brewer, Crystal Brooks, Nancy Bryant, Marilyn Cole Dostie, Jim Menard, Joe Moran, Dick Nesbitt, Gail Ouellette, Bette Phelps, Tha Poeuk, Brian Quinn, and Paul Richard.


Celebrating 25 years at the college are Pete Armstrong, Marissa Barschdorf, Keith Blanchard, Sue Clairmont, Robin Coody, Cyndi Haley, Karen Marchegiani, Laura McKeon, Bev Sylvester, Val Turner, Helena Warburg, and Tammy Wright.

Celebrating 20 years at the college are Mary Bailey, Tom Bearup, Marilynne Beaulieu, Tom Bona, Lisa Cahill, Jane Canova, Jean Caprari, Angie Copeland, Ashley Frost, Sharon Marceau, Hideyo Okamura, Chuck Paquette, Mellisa Roy, Bobbi Senecal, Brent Siciliano, Gregory Smith, Joe Sylvester, and Kim Tremblay.

Celebrating their 15th year of service are Janet Bartlett, Colleen Bethoney, Bob Briggs, Carleen Carmel, Mark Dingman, Judy Fraser, Todd Gould, Tamra Hjermstad, Dan Kolis, Gary Lohnes, Amy Lovett, Heather Main, John Manley, Susan Monroe, Besy Montoya Ochoa, Linda Moran, John Moresi, Todd Noyes, Norm Parker, Marsha Peters, Guy Randall, Phil Remillard, Kristan Renish, Lili Rice, Luis Rivera, Barbara Robertson, John Shea, Rick Spalding, Ted Stefanik, Judith Win, and Amy Wood.

Celebrating 10 years of service are Norm Bell, Emily Bourguignon, Pat Burton, Jerry Byers, Bruce Carnevale, Dan Cellana, Donna Cuzzone, Gayle Donohue, Gretchen Eliason, Joyce Foster, Darryl Frye, Joanna Gabler, Jonathan Gillig, Aaron Gordon, Amy Johns, Mark Kimball, Dan Levering, Paula Machado, Paul Moorman, Jason Moran, John Noble, Craig Piers, Marlene Rider, Carol Stein-Payne, Johnny Tetreault, and Marty Walden.

Celebrating five years at the college are Simone Anderson, Karima Barrow, Mark Bergeron, Krista Birch, Corissa Bryant, Ashley Cart, James Cart, Meg Conan, Stephanie Dunson, Adam Falk, Francis Fredette, Lucy Green, Lynna Jackson, Dawn Jamros, Megan Konieczny, James Lewis, John Malcolm, Jennifer Marlowe, Amy Merselis, Keith Noel, Sourena Parham, Samantha Patterson, Michele Rech, Carol Rydell, Emilce Salas, Emery Shriver, Michael Taylor, Deanna Traversa, and Christa Waryas.

 


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Williams Seeking Town Approval for New Indoor Practice Facility

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board last week gave Williams College the first approval it needs to build a 55,000-square foot indoor athletic facility on the north side of its campus.
 
Over the strenuous objection of a Southworth Street resident, the board found that the college's plan for a "multipurpose recreation center" or MRC off Stetson Road has adequate on-site parking to accommodate its use as an indoor practice facility to replace Towne Field House, which has been out of commission since last spring and was demolished this winter.
 
The college plans a pre-engineered metal that includes a 200-meter track ringing several tennis courts, storage for teams, restrooms, showers and a training room. The athletic surface also would be used as winter practice space for the school's softball and baseball teams, who, like tennis and indoor track, used to use the field house off Latham Street.
 
Since the planned structure is in the watershed of Eph's Pond, the college will be before the Conservation Commission with the project.
 
It also will be before the Zoning Board of Appeals, on Thursday, for a Development Plan Review and relief from the town bylaw limiting buildings to 35 feet in height. The new structure is designed to have a maximum height of 53 1/2 feet and an average roof height of 47 feet.
 
The additional height is needed for two reasons: to meet the NCAA requirement for clearance above center court on a competitive tennis surface (35 feet) and to include, on one side, a climbing wall, an element also lost when Towne Field House was razed.
 
The Planning Board had a few issues to resolve at its March 12 meeting. The most heavily discussed involved the parking determination for a use not listed in the town's zoning bylaws and a decision on whether access from town roads to the building site in the middle of Williams' campus was "functionally equivalent" to the access that would be required under the town's subdivision rules and regulations.
 
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