Heartland Community College celebrates 25 years

Posted on June 27, 2016

Heartland Community College 630x420 2Heartland Community College is celebrating its 25th anniversary as an educational institution.

By PJ Baron

Heartland Community College is celebrating its 25th anniversary and the college is releasing a special gift as a result.

Heartland teacher and archivist Don Cavallini spent over two years compiling the history of the school and now that information will be available to the public.

“What the college has done is to take my research and what I have written and placed it on our website,” said Cavallini.

Reminiscing about his task, Cavallini explained that it was no small feat to put together the complete history of Heartland.

“I have spent probably two and a half to three years in the Heartland archives, surrounded by boxes of history, thinking to myself ‘there’s got to be some reason why I’m here’. And the reason, I think, is to do the history of the college,” said Cavallini.

Cavallini has been involved with Heartland since it was founded and hopes his archive work will eventually be put into a book.

PJ Baron can be reached at [email protected].

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