Schuylkill Riverfront Academic
and Heritage Center Acknowledgements

    This proposal was developed with the valued contributions of several individuals from each of the partners and the Borough of Pottstown, including the following.

    Schuylkill River National and State Heritage Area

    • Kurt Zwikl, Executive Director
    • Cory Kegerise, Program Manager
    • Madeline Cantu, Trails Project Coordinator/Landscape Architect

    Montgomery County Community College

    • Karen Stout, President
    • Kathrine Swanson, Associate to the President
    • Dean Foster, Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of the West Campus
    • Mary Alfson, Adjunct History Faculty
    • Peter Bachman, Dean of Math, Science, and Advanced Technology
    • Vicki Bastecki-Perez, Dean of Health Sciences
    • Mike Biletta, Director of Administrative Services, West Campus
    • Lee Bender, Dean of Business and Computer Science
    • Rob Kulhman, Geology Professor
    • Barbara Lontz, Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs, West Campus
    • William Nasir, Manager of Workforce Development and Continuing Education, West Campus
    • Elsa Rapp, History Professor
    • Gary Rizzo, Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs
    • Aaron Shatzman, Dean of Social Sciences
    • Harold Woodfin, Adjunct History Faculty

    Pottstown Borough

    • Ron Downie, President, SRHA Board of Directors and Member, Pottstown Borough Council
    • Jack Layne, Borough Manager
    • Jim Fairchild, Director of Economic Development, Pottstown Borough, and Executive Director, Downtown Pottstown Foundation

    Simone, Jaffe, and Collins

    • Peter Simone, Architect
    • Bill Collins, Architect
    • Dick Frantz, Architect

    Carroll Van West, Director of the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University and the Director of the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area

    This project has been supported, through a matching planning grant, in part by the
    Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources through the
    Schuylkill River Heritage Area Grant Program.

    The match for the planning grant was provided by the
    Montgomery County Community College Foundation.