Current news from HACC, Dec. 20, 2018 HARRISBURG, Pa. – HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, shares recent news, including:

• HACC Holds 114^th Police Academy Graduation
• ‘Gettysburg Watercolors’ Coming to HACC

HACC Holds 114^th Police Academy Graduation HARRISBURG, Pa. – Members of the local law enforcement community, along with family and friends, celebrated the graduation of 35 cadets from the 114^th municipal Police Academy at Susquehanna Township High School.

Cadets received their training at the Senator Jeffrey E. Piccola Law Enforcement Complex of the Senator John J. Shumaker Public Safety Center (PSC). HACC’s Police Academy is the second largest in Pennsylvania with two 25-week, full-time basic training courses and a 48-week, part-time basic training course mandated by the Municipal Police Officers’ Education and Training Commission. 
 
Several of the graduating cadets received outstanding achievement awards during the ceremony held Dec. 6, 2018.
The award recipients of the 114^th Police Academy graduation are:

• Tessa Niyou Miller and Phillip Gibson Minter,  Academic Award
• Mason Dominic deFilippo, Driving Award
• Mason Dominic deFilippo, Firearms Award
• Ross Kenneth Casteel, Most Inspirational Award
• Bradley Daniel McAlester, Physical Fitness Award

The graduates and police departments they serve are:
 

Cadet	Police Department
Baez, David Alexander	York City Police Department
Bartlett, Ryan James	Harrisburg Bureau of Police
Becker, Logan Richard	Lower Paxton Township Police Department
Benton, Tyler Kane	York City Police Department
Boldosser, Nicole Jordan	Altoona Police Department
Bradshaw, Terrence Dwayne	York City Police Department
Casteel, Ross Kenneth	York City Police Department
Collins, Sarah Elizabeth	Upper Allen Township Police Department
deFilippo, Mason Dominic	Upper Allen Township Police Department
Gabriel, Joseph Aloysius	Hanover Borough Police Department
Gainer, Benjamin Robert	Harrisburg Bureau of Police
Groh, Andrew William	York City Police Department
Hernandez, Brandon Jadier	Springettsbury Township Police Department
Hundley, John Charles	York Area Regional Police Department
Jackson, Griffin Robert	York City Police Department
Kauffman, Michael Shawn	Penn State University Police and Public Safety
McAlester, Bradley Daniel	Penn State University Police and Public Safety
Menapace, Michael Andrew	Coal Township Police Department
Miller, Tessa Niyou	Penn State University Police and Public Safety
Minter, Phillip Gibson	Lower Paxton Township Police Department
Myers, Sarah Mae	York City Police Department
Neely, Robert Edward	Pennsylvania Capitol Police Department
Nova, Alexander	York City Police Department
Podgorney, David John	Lower Paxton Township Police Department
Puller, Zachery Michael	Penn Township Police Department
Rhodes, Ryan Christopher	York City Police Department
Sheaffer, Nikki Elizabeth	West Shore Regional Police Department
Torres-Garcia, Christian Omar	Manheim Township Police Department
Tritt, Isaac Steven	Penbrook Borough Police Department

Graduates not yet affiliated with law enforcement agencies (listed with their hometowns) are:
 

Cadet	Hometown
LeFevre, Joseph Lee II	Burnham
Piccolo, Anthony Alan	York Haven
Shearer, Colin Matthew	Manchester
St. Clair, Philip Robert	Harrisburg
Wahlberg, Blake Edward	Mountville
Wright, Tyler Lee	Lancaster

 
Photo Caption: Cadets line up for review before the graduation ceremony of the 114^th Police Academy on Dec. 6, 2018. Additional photos from the ceremony are available online.

 
‘Gettysburg Watercolors’ Coming to HACC
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – A series of Gettysburg-themed watercolor paintings by HACC alumnus and local artist Tom Rooney will be on display at HACC’s Gettysburg Campus Jan. 4-March 1, 2019.
 
Rooney’s exhibit is presented in collaboration with work by local filmmaker and photographer Kyle Maier, whose love of night photography matches Rooney’s vibrant use of color.
 
Rooney and Maier will deliver brief remarks during a reception in the campus’s art hallway on Feb. 12 at 10:45 a.m. Both the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. 
 
Rooney, a self-taught artist, lives in Fairfield. He completed the Paramedic Program at HACC in 1996 and worked for many years as a paramedic at Gettysburg Hospital. In 2013, he founded Gettysburg Watercolors, a small business that produces and distributes limited edition prints, posters and greeting cards of his original art.

Maier grew up in Gettysburg and New Mexico. He is smitten by the historic architecture of Gettysburg.  

For more information about the upcoming exhibit, please contact Judy Alder at 717-339-3509 or jaalder@hacc.edu. 

Photo Caption: A series of Gettysburg-themed watercolor paintings by HACC alumnus and local artist Tom Rooney will be on display at HACC’s Gettysburg Campus Jan. 4-March 1, 2019.
 
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