College Relations
Fund Named to Honor Pharnal Longus
CONTACT---Karen Cady at 978-542-7503 or karen.cady@salemstate.edu
SALEM, Mass. - Pharnal Longus, well-known Salem activist and retiring professor of social work at Salem State College, is being honored with the establishment of a fund in his name from which students will receive awards for their community service activities. This acknowledgement of Longus' own extensive community service work will be officially announced on May 14 at a retirement reception sponsored by the SSC School of Social Work.
Among his accomplishments over his years in Salem have been his founding of the House of Youth Mentoring Program, establishment of the Institute for Undoing Racism at SSC, and numerous workshops on undoing racism and valuing diversity that he has conducted in public schools and for community groups. In all of these activities, Professor Longus has included large numbers of SSC students working in volunteer capacities as mentors and workshop leaders.
The Pharnal Longus community Service Fund is being established by Longus' faculty colleagues at the School of Social Work joined by others from the SSC community and from the community at large. They are creating this fund both to honor their colleague's unique contributions and to perpetuate something of the incentive that he generated for student activism. Anyone in the community wanting to contribute to the fund can do so by sending a check to the Salem State College Foundation: Longus Fund.
For more information, contact Professor Lois Martin, School of Social Work, Salem State College, 978-542-6671.
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