The Paresky Center mailroom will be formally named the Jessica H. Park Mailroom, on Thursday, May 10, at 4 p.m. at a dedication open to the public.
"The college is thrilled to honor Jessy Park for her many years of dedicated service to Williams students and for her wonderful accomplishments as an artist," Williams President Morton Owen Schapiro said.
Park has worked in the college's mailroom since 1980. At the same time her paintings, known for their "heightened color sensitivity," have drawn national recognition.
Despite having no formal training since graduating from Mt. Greylock Regional H.S., Park has been honored with an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 2003 and a National Artistic Achievement Award from the Shield Institute in New York City. Her work has been shown in New York City and elsewhere and been written about in such publications as ARTNEWS.
She also is the subject of "The Siege," written in 1963 by her mother Clara Claiborne Park, about the challenges of raising an autistic child. The development of Jessy's painting skills as a means of communicating with the world was then detailed in the subsequent book "Exiting Nirvana."
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Williamstown Fire District Honors Notsley at Annual Meeting
By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — As the town's fire district embarks on a new era, Tuesday it said thank you to a veteran leader who helped make that era possible.
At the annual district meeting, the Prudential Committee recognized more than six decades of service by John Notsley, who decided not to run for another term on the elected body.
Notsley started as a firefighter in the Fire Department in 1963, following in his father's footsteps.
Notsley called the department and the Gale Hose Company his "second home" throughout the 63 years that followed.
"When I was 6 years old, I met my first fire chief, Tom Welch, who I'm sure no one here remembers," Notsley said. "Followed by Edward H. McGowan, Gordon Noble, Edward M. McGowan, Craig Pedercini and our current chief, Jeffrey [Dias].
"My commitment to the district gave me 13 years as clerk, 42 years on the Prudential Committee and 62 years on the Gale Hose Company, the volunteer arm of the department."
For years, Notsley, Ed McGowan and Ed Briggs served as a three-person committee to help manage the department, and in 2006, they began looking at how to replace the Fire Department's aging and cramped home on Water Street. The three eventually expanded the body to five members and, this year, Notsley saw a 20-year project come to fruition with the completion of a new fire station on Main Street.
The eighth annual Spirit of Caring Awards included the Steve Green Spirit of Community Award, the Spirit of the Future Award and the Al Nelson Spirit of Caring Award. A fourth award was the Workplace Campaign of the Year, presented to Greylock Federal Credit Union.
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