DCC Foundation Gala Honors Four,
Raises Funds for Student Scholarships
From left are Angela Flesland, Cathy Temple, DCC President Dr. Pamela Edington, Mark Mahoney and Family Services CEO Brian Doyle.
March 26, 2018 – The Dutchess Community College Foundation’s annual Gala – Our Community’s Bridge to the Future – was held March 24 at the Grandview in Poughkeepsie. The event drew approximately 300 guests to honor four and raised almost $200,000 for student scholarships.
Former County Legislator Angela Flesland and Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Mahoney were inducted into the DCC Alumni Hall of Fame, while Cathy Temple, owner of R&C Cleaning, received The Bernard Handel Community Leadership Award and Family Services received the Bridge to the Future Award.
Flesland (’06) was elected to the Dutchess County Legislature in 2007 and tackled issues from jobs creation to the opioid epidemic. She served as assistant majority leader beginning in her second term and also as majority leader. Flesland was chair of the legislature’s Budget, Finance and Personnel Committee in her final term and also served on the boards of the Industrial Development Agency and Dutchess County Local Development Corporation.
Mahoney (’83) has been editorial page editor for The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, NY since 2014. While serving as editorial page editor for the Post-Star newspaper in Glens Falls, he earned a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for a series of editorials about local government secrecy and citizens’ right to know.
Temple the owner of R & C Cleaning, has been active in the community for a quarter-century. Over that time she was a member of, or has served on boards for, organizations including the Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Poughkeepsie Library Friends, Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce, Dutchess County Arts Council, Poughkeepsie Children’s Home, Vassar Brothers Medical Center Auxiliary, the Building Trades Association, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Poughkeepsie Day Nursery and Friends of Locust Grove.
Family Services has been making a difference in the community for over 135 years, providing youth and family programs, prevention and victims’ services, safety initiatives and more, all designed to strengthen the individuals, families and the area it serves. Family Services has programs in Dutchess, Orange and Ulster counties, as well as an affiliate, Hudson Valley Mental Health, which provides behavioral health services throughout Dutchess and Ulster Counties. Under the leadership of Brian Doyle, Family Services delivers programs to over 11,000 children, adults and families each year. Additionally, DCC collaborated with the Family Partnership Center in 2016 to renovate the building’s third floor to provide High School Equivalency and English as a Second Language classes.
Gala sponsors included IBM, HealthQuest, Michael Dupree and Michael Fleischer, Bonura Hospitality Group and the Poughkeepsie Journal.
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The mission of the Dutchess Community College Foundation is to raise funds to provide scholarships and support the college’s initiatives that will have a significant and direct impact on the students, faculty and staff of Dutchess Community College. The DCC Foundation awards approximately $450,000 in scholarships to more than 250 DCC students annually.
