VOL. 2 NO. 1
IN MEMORY: THE PIERCES
by Matt Harris
Editor—in--Chief
It's a gad thing that
the premiere edition of
this year's Collegian has
to deal with the campus's
loss of an energetic lead-
On October 1, Dr.
Harmon B. Pierce, the re-
cently appointed CEO of the
Hazleton Campus, and his
wife, Anne, were killed
upon impact after their
Harmon and Anne Pierce, posing for a picture last July
(photo courtesy of Public Relations)
Highacres Collegian
single engine Cessna
airplane crashed in a
tato field in Medford,
Jersey. Dr. Pierce was 52
years old. His wife was 46.
position of CEO in July,
Dr. Pierce and his wife
proceeded to relocate into
the surrounding area of
After accepting the
northeastern Pennsylvania.
Although they had their
difficulties locating a
house and moving their be-
longings into the area,
this did not detract fran
Dr. Pierce's attention to
the carpus .
A few weeks prior to
the fatal accident, I had
the priviledge of sitting
down with Dr. ''Pierce one--
on-one. Fran the opening
manent, I was very
impressed with his person-
ality and his attitude;
just as I had been when he
appeared on caucus last
year before myself and a
group of students who were
members of the march Cbmr
mittee for a new CEO for
the campus. At that tiger
he was friendly, courteous,
and appeared quite capable
and dedicated in bringing
reform and restructure to
the Hazleton Can!us.
As Harman Pierce sat
down, he gave me one of his
October 9, 1986
east-to-west smiles and
leaned forward in his
chair. Then in that south-
ern dialect which he pos-
sessed, he said,
Matt, so how are you
doing?" I knew that I was
going to have a very
pleasant conversation with
We spent the ensuing
mcnents "shooting the
breeze" about haw each of
us was doing, our health,
school, and so on. Then we
began discussing his plans
for the revitalization of
the campus. Dr.
energetically but firmly,
began discussing in detail
what he was planning to do
to improve the Hazleton
mss ,
"There are many things
that are on my agenda for
the next couple of years as
far as caspus laprovement
is concerned. The, campus
"Well
Pierce,