Boston Herald Journalist is 2023 MCLA Hardman Journalist in Residence

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Executive Editor of the Boston Herald and North Adams State College (MCLA) alumnus Joe Dwinell ('82) will deliver the Hardman Journalist in Residence Lecture on Monday, Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. in the Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation Atrium.  
 
Dwinell earned a master's degree in journalism from Boston University and has worked at the Boston Herald for the last 18 years as both an editor and investigative/enterprise reporter. Prior to that, he was an editor and reporter at the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, where he received numerous regional writing and editing awards. Furthermore, Dwinell has appeared on CNN, Fox, CBS, MSNBC, and ABC and contributed on-air to the former WB56/Boston "Ten O'clock News" show. 
 
MCLA's Hardman Lecture Series presents in-depth discussions with some of the leading journalists of our time and is made possible through the generosity of the Hardman Family Endowment. 
 
The lecture is free and open to the public.  

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Northern Berkshire United Way: 1970s Has Its Ups and Downs

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff

The Northern Berkshire United Way sets its highest goal yet in 1979, and the first time going over $200,000. 
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Over three decades, the Northern Berkshire United Community Services had raised some $3 million for its affiliated agencies. 
 
That number was announced that the organizations "fifth" annual meeting in 1974, marking the time since Adams had joined, and counting the funds raised by the North Adams Community Chest and the North Adams and Adams United Funds and Northern Berkshire United Fund. 
 
The report that year was dedicated to past 24 volunteer campaign chairs, of whom 17 were still in the area and three — Russell Lanoue, George Higgins and G. Churchill Francis — had since died.
 
The amount of money raised seemed significant for the time, but the united fund found itself struggling in the early '70s as the economy dipped and its the need for its services grew. 
 
The campaign in 1970 saw an ambitious goal of $184,952 to support 16 agencies, with Northern Berkshire Child Care as the latest addition. The drive kicked off that goal at the Midway with Chair George Bateman, but it reached only 80 percent of its goal by the end. 
 
Batemen said it might not be a financial success but "I believe it was a spiritual success" because of the hard work and enthusiasm of so many drive volunteers.
 
But President Henry Pierpan said there would be allocation cuts for 1971 despite "a substantial sum" voted from reserve funds.
 
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