Paramus Sunrise Rotary Club hears from the President of Bergen Community College

Paramus Sunrise 02/17/09 G. Jeremiah Ryan, the dynamic president of Bergen Community College spoke at the regular Tuesday morning meeting of the Paramus Sunrise Rotary Club. When Ryan speaks, people listen! Although he had prepared pamphlets for the club members and a data sheet in front of him, there was no need for this articulate person to refer to them.

His talk included mention of the other Bergen locations, one near to Medieval Times on Wall Street in Lyndhurst and the other in Hackensack. At Bergen there are approximately 22,000 students and 1, 000 employees. He has been very occupied forging relationships with other colleges; his purpose to allow his students to transfer with little or no loss of credits, a poser facing students elsewhere.

Running neck and neck with a Monmouth County college, Bergen Community College is rated as the largest community college in the state. Bergen definitely offers one of the broadest curricula of community colleges everywhere and is constantly exploring new avenues of education.

Bergen has a new Rotary Club that celebrated its charter a week ago. The new club had a winter coat drive that exceeded all expectations, about 1500 coats. Paramus Sunrise suggested that they partner with them in not only supplying the Paramus Department of Human Services, but that they also join in the cultivating of a vegetable garden. President G. Jeremiah Ryan agreed!

In other matters, the big fundraiser, a Casino Night, still hasn't been settled. Stay tuned!