Bergen Coutny Academies Friends and Families Gala was held on October to celebrate 20 years of academic excellence at Bergen County Academies. The event took place at the Fiesta in Wood Ridge with almost 300 guests in attendance. Over 100 alumni, current and retired faculty members and current and past BCA families came together to celebrate. Mr. Davis invited Manny Galitskiy and some alumni from the first graduating class shared their memories from the early days of BCA, current achievements and future endeavors. The BCAFF board was very pleased with the success of this first alumni event and is looking forward to planning many more community and alumni events. (Submission by Giulia Mendelsohn)

Please join us for the BCA Holiday Party this Thursday at 4:30 in the Lower Café and the Secret Santa reveal!

Holiday Giving!

As an effort to come together as a community, BCA has partnered this holiday season with The Center for Food Action in Mahwah. Attached you will find an article indicating items that food pantries generally never have enough of. It would be amazing if everyone could bring one or two items to the holiday party. We will have a donation box in the lower café up until December 20th.

http://cfanj.org/how-donate-food/most-need-items/ (thank you to Suzanne Halligan for the information on most needed items)

On October 25, 2016, the following BCA Alumni were inducted in to the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration Ye Hosts Honorary Society:

Bethany Huan ’13, Alexa Perrucci ’14, Thomas Ballerini ’14, Jeremy Schwartz ’14, and Michelle Park ’14. The Ye Host Honorary Society only accepts the top 10% of the Junior and Senior classes. Bethany Huan was selected as an Executive Board Member as well.

At Cornell University the “Ye Hosts Honorary Society exists to gather the brightest Hotel School students into a cohesive unit that acts as a role model to other students and that serves the needs of the Hotel School students, faculty, and staff.” (submission by John Branda)