The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
First day back at school
Lake Erie College welcomes students with formal conclave, Aug. 21.
School is back in session at Painesville’s Lake Erie College.
The campus held a student conclave Aug. 21 as a means to welcome their new student body to the institute.
“It is a wonderful greeting of the students,” said Assistant Professor of Mathematics Betty Clifford. “The parents and the students get to see the faculty. They get a nice warm welcome from the president and makes them understand what Lake Erie College is all about.”
Associate Professor of Visual Arts Nancy Prudic highlighted the Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Building where the conclave was being held.
“It puts them in one of the oldest buildings on the campus, a real classical building,” she said.
Students focusing on a variety of academic disciplines navigated the campus grounds; many for the first time. One of those was transfer student Evan Purnel, a graphic design major who wants to focus on “the architectural aspects of auto CAD and 3D designs. I feel like I can blossom with designs on the computer.”
Freshmen Rophy Luberisse Altilus and Emmanuel Eppley came to Lake Erie thanks, in part, to their participation in athletics. Both will be part of the college’s soccer team, The Storm.
Altilus is here for informational technology management and computer science. Like many, he’s just beginning to explore where the subject matter will take him.
“It’s really just a topic I’m into,” he said. “There really isn’t not much behind it yet.”
Eppley is majoring in business management. “I’m just going step by step because I don’t know what I’m doing with it yet.”
They filed into campus’s music building for the conclave alongside a new student body, all realizing their academic futures as a new school year commences.