Northampton Community College

Youth summer programs available

Registration for NCC's Horizons for Youth summer programs, for kindergarten through ninth grades, is now open. There will be a variety of classes as well as sports, special workshops, academic support for students at all levels, Last Blast trips for children entering second through ninth grades, Camp Invention for grades one through six, Camp Northampton on the Road, and Camps Northampton, Southside and Monroe child care offerings.

Classes may be scheduled before and after day camp. Activities take place at the Bethlehem, Monroe and Fowler Family Southside Center campuses.

For information, visitt www.northampton.edu/Horizons-For-Youth; to register for classes only, visit northampton.edu/lifelearn or call 1-877-543-0998, or visit the Bethlehem or Monroe campus records office.

Cimera on all state academic team

Rachel Ann Cimera, of Bethlehem, a student at NCC, was selected for the All-Pennsylvania Academic Team. The award is based on academic excellence and leadership in a program co-sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa, the international academic honor society for students at two year colleges.

She was honored at a banquet in Harrisburg on April 13. She will receive a scholarship that may be used at any college in the Pennsylvania system.

A secondary education major and a member of the college's honors program, she is a leader in the Ban the Bottle Committee, which seeks to reduce the use of plastic on the Bethlehem campus. She is the president of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for students at two-year colleges; president of the Sign Language Club; and treasurer of the Honors Club. In her spare time, she tutors English As A Second Language. She is also a winner of the Hites Family Foundation Higher Education Endowment Scholarship.

She plans to transfer to Bloomsburg University, where she will major in Mandarin Chinese with the goal of teaching the language in the United States.

Theme selected fro 2015-16 program

"The Good Life" will be the theme for Northampton Community College's National Endowment for the Humanities series of programs for the 2015-2016 academic year.

The programming will be related to literature, history, philosophy and art.

The series is funded by through a grant from the National Foundation for the Humanities and other donors. Community partners include the Bethlehem Area Public Library, Eastern Monroe Public Library, Bethlehem Area School District, Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites and the Monroe County Historical Association.

Events are free of charge and open to the public. Visit the college website for more information.

Northampton Community College's main campus is located at 3835 Green Pond Road. The Fowler Family Southside Center is located at 511 E. Third St. For more information, contact NCC at 610-861-5300 or 1-877-543-0998 or visit www.northampton.edu.

Moravian College

Lawson to speak on April 23

The Rev. James M. Lawson II, renowned civil rights leader and non-violent change advocate, will present a free lecture on "Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community?" at 7 p.m. April 23 in the Prosser Auditorium, Haupert Union Building, Main Campus.

At the conclusion of the lecture, Lawson, the college's eighth Peace and Justice Scholar-in-Residence, wiil be granted an honorary doctor of humanities degree by the college.

The public is welcome. A r ception will be held immediately following the program. The lecture will be broadcast online at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/MoravianLive.

Moravian College is located at 1200 Main St. For information, call 610-861-1300 or visit www.moravian.edu.