Northampton Community College's (NCC) Alumni Association will hold its annual Recipes for Success 2012 Alumni Awards Presentation on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 5:30 p.m. at Alumni Hall, Gates Center.

The honorees will be Joan Christopher 91, Distinguished Service to NCC; Walter Bartholomew 97, Distinguished Service to the Community Award; Maryann Haytmanek, Educator's Award; Michael Caruso, Honorary Alumnus Award; Tara Fetzer 06, Outstanding Young Alumna Award; Richard Patricia 89, Professional Achievement Award; and John Posh 88, President's Award.

Christopher has been a volunteer of the Alumni Associations Fundraising Committee providing support to the annual White House dinner and auction. She has freelanced for Broadcast Images, Clark Production and RCN TV4, and is a radio/TV graduate of NCC. She lives in Northampton.

Bartholomew, an NCC alumnus, is scientific advisor to Teleflex Medical, Perouse Medical and Personal Medical Devices. He is also the board director of the Lehigh Valley Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He lives in Nazareth.

Haytmanek is the project director for NCC's New Choices, KEYS and Benefits Access for College Completion programs. She serves as co-president for Pennsylvania Women Work, part of the National Network for Women's Employment. She lives in Allentown.

Caruso is the founder and board chairman of Caruso Benefits Group. He is on the Lehigh Valley Partnership board of directors and acts as chairperson of the Lehigh Tower Society for Planned Giving. He is a past president of the NCC Foundation. He lives in Bethlehem.

Fetzer, an alumna of NCC's veterinary technician program, received her doctorate in veterinary medicine from North Carolina State University. She is a small animal intern/instructor at Texas A & M University College of Veterinary Medicine. She lives in College Station, Texas.

Patricia, a radio/TV graduate of NCC, is a broadcast media art teacher at Warren County Technical School, where he was named "Teacher of the Year, 2011-12. He is also a professional videographer. He lives in Phillipsburg.

Posh is an NCC alumnus in radiographic technology, who completed a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. He is the director of the MRI internship program at the University of Pennsylvania and an adjunct lecturer in radiology and forensics at Quinnipiac University. He lives in Bethlehem.

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