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Campus staff present at New England College Health Association conference

Three campus staff members presented programs at the annual New England College Health Association (NECHA) conference held Nov. 7-9 in Portland, Maine.

SuEllen Hamkins and Joshua Relin of the Center for Counseling and Psychological Health (CCPH) led a workshop titled "Promoting the Art of Strengths-Based Treatmentin Your College Counseling Service." Hamkins and Relin are mental health providers at CCPH.

Health educator Amanda Collings Vann of the Center for Health Promotion at University Health Services, presented a workshop on "Health Promotion Peer Review: What it is and How to Use it" with

Ouellett honored by Professional Organization Development Network in Higher Education

Mathew L. Ouellett, associate director of the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development, was honored Oct. 27 by the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) with the Bob Pierleoni Spirit of POD Award at the organization's annual conference in Seattle.

The award recognizes outstanding lifetime achievement and leadership in the enhancement of teaching, learning, and faculty development.

Sinha is panelist on Lincoln and the Constitution

Professor Manisha Sinha of Afro-American Studies took part in a panel on the National Constitution Center's traveling exhibition "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" on Nov. 7 at Norwalk Community College in Connecticut.

The exhibition is administered by the American Library Association and funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The panel included professor James F. Simon of the New York Law School, professor J. Ronald Spencer of Trinity College, and prize-winning Lincoln biographer professor Michael Burlingame of the University of Illinois.

Obituary: Michael A. Cann, retired psychologist with Mental Health Services

Michael A. Cann, 84, of Amherst, a retired psychologist at Mental Health Services, died at home Oct. 28 after a long illness.

Born in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany, he emigrated with his family in 1937 to the Netherlands after Hitler’s rise to power. In 1939 he and his mother arrived in New York where his father had found work as an electrical engineer the previous year.  

After graduating from Weequahic High School in Newark, N.J., he attended Rutgers University for one semester and then enlisted in the Army.

Obituary: Manuel "Manny" Roberts, retired Physical Plant maintenance technician

Manuel “Manny” P. Roberts, 63, of Greenfield, a retired maintenance technician II with Physical Plant, died Nov. 3.

Born in New York City, he grew up in Amherst and graduated from Amherst Regional High School in 1967.
 
He joined the campus staff in 1974 and retired in 2011.

He leaves four children, Heather in Greenfield, Ian in Turners Falls, Raquel Barry in Greenfield and Shane in Montague. He is also survived by a sister Rosemarie James in Amherst; a brother Juan and his wife Michele in Belchertown; an aunt and a large extended family, most of whom reside in the Pioneer Valley.

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