MOUNT WACHUSETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO DEDICATE ROBERT D. WETMORE CENTER

	Senator Robert D. Wetmore

(GARDNER)--Mount Wachusett Community College will dedicate the Robert D. Wetmore Center for Innovation in Design, Technology and Resource Development, Wed., June 9 at 9:00 a.m. The dedication will include a breakfast and tour of the 12,000 square foot facility complete with classrooms and offices with the latest in wireless, multi-media technology. “We have had a 30 percent increase enrollment in the past three years and faced a critical space need,” said Mount Wachusett Community College President Daniel M. Asquino. “We had to be creative in aggressively pursuing grant funds and we were able to build the center with a very limited impact on our budget during these tough fiscal times.”

The center is named for Massachusetts Senator Robert D. Wetmore who served the Commonwealth for over thirty years as both a representative and senator. During his long and distinguished career, Senator Wetmore authored an amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution, which was adopted in 1972, known as the “Environmental Bill of Rights.” As House chair and founder of the Growth Policy Commission, Wetmore promoted state and local planning to balance growth and development. As chair of the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee and the Special Commission on the Future of Mature Industries, Wetmore promoted economic development as well as measures to establish special programs for dislocated workers.

“ We are very grateful to Senator Wetmore, not only for his years of public service, but for his continuing relationship with Mount Wachusett Community College,” said President Asquino. “We are very fortunate to have him as a friend and proud to be building a center in his name.”

Lea Ann Erickson , Director of Community Relations
Phone: (978) 630-9322
Fax: (978) 630-956
Email: l_erickson@mwcc.mass.edu

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