Petition to rename entrance of Westchester Community College Dr Hankin

Are you a graduate of Westchester Community
College? Do you remember Dr. Joseph Hankin, the President who helped make the
college the great institution it currently is?

Retired Professor
Sheldon Malev is proposing that the entrance to the college be renamed in
memory and in honor of Dr. Hankin. If you agree please sign the petition below.
If you have any information to share about Dr. Hankin and what he did for the
college and for you please add comments when you sign the petition. I am very supportive of Sheldon Malev’s recommendation.
I remember how passionate Dr. Hankin was about the college, about students,
about the county and how much he did to make the college the fantastic
institution it is. I signed the petition

PAUL FEINER

Greenburgh Town Supervisor

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below:

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One
of Dr. Joseph Hankin’s many contributions to Westchester Community College was
the establishment of an entrance to its Valhalla campus on Knollwood Road.
Prior to his arrival at WCC, there was none, and traffic was often congested at
the existing portals.

Back
in 1971, when I was first hired, as well as Dr. Hankin, the only campus
entrances were on Grasslands Road, and there were three of them. In addition to the two existing East and West
Gates, now serving as primary entrances to the Valhalla Campus, there was a
third, “Main Gate” and roadway, in the center of the stone fence that still
borders the property on Grasslands Road.
It was located directly across from the entrance to Kensico Cemetery and
had been the original Hartford Family entrance to their estate. The steel gate,
once there, is now gone, and a gap in the stone fence, overgrown with
vegetation and overlooked by passersby, is all that remains of it.

It
was Dr. Hankin, who proudly announced, at the beginning of his tenure in the
early 1970’s, that we would have a new entrance to the campus on Knollwood
Road, with a new road running from that point to the main campus. It was an important innovation that
facilitated the flow of traffic.

Every
time I drive that way, I remember Dr. Hankin’s announcement of the “new road”
and feel a debt of gratitude for having the ease of entry and exit, that we did
not have previously. That additional
gate and roadway has been crucial in times of congestion or traffic accidents
on Grasslands Road, by providing access and egress to and from campus in those
times of urgency or emergency.

It
would be fitting to associate this roadway and gate with Dr. Hankin by naming
them after him, and it is for this reason that I propose that the roadway be
named, “Dr. Joseph N. Hankin Way”; and the gate, “Hankin Gate”.

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Please
join me in signing on your support for this petition:

WHEREAS,
Dr. Joseph Hankin, the 2nd and longest serving President of Westchester
Community College, was responsible for the opening in 1971 of the roadway from
the Knollwood Road entrance to the main campus in Valhalla, we, the undersigned
respectfully request that it be officially named “Dr. JOSEPH N. HANKIN WAY”,

as
a tribute to him.

_Submitted
by Sheldon Malev,

Professor,
Psychology (retired)

Social
Sciences Department

Sr.
Adjunct Professor

WCC
Retired Faculty and Staff Committee

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