Alumni celebrate Boston State College Room dedication
Alumni celebrate Boston State College Room dedication
By Julia Reischel
On December 6, an excited group of Boston State College alumni assembled at the Campus Center to commemorate the 25th anniversary of their alma mater’s merger with UMass Boston. The event, the culmination of a year of events celebrating BSC’s legacy, featured the dedication of the new Boston State College Room by Chancellor J. Keith Motley and members of the BSC and UMass Boston communities. The audience applauded as ninety-four-year-old Richard Newman, a former Boston State and UMass Boston Professor of foreign languages, cut the ribbon to open the new room.
“It was terrific,” Newman said later.
“It will always be important for the University of Massachusetts Boston to remember, value, and build on the traditions and legacy of Boston State College,” Chancellor Motley said.
The Boston State College Room honors Boston State College and its alumni with an exhibit of more than 80 photos and items of memorabilia, including clippings from the campus newspaper, sports memorabilia, and snapshots of daily life at the college.
One of the BSC alums who donated items to the exhibit is Dan Rea, a member of the BSC steering committee who is now host of the WBZ Radio 1030 show Nightside with Dan Rea. "I am thrilled to see an actual physical presence on the UMass Boston campus of Boston State College,” he says. “When UMass Boston absorbed Boston State in the early 1980s, a part of Boston's public education history went away. Keith Motley's commitment to restoring the physical legacy of thousands of Boston State College graduates in the Campus Center at UMass Boston will help heal a wound felt by so many so long ago."
To see photos from this, and other 2007 Boston State College events, please check out our photo page