AIC honors three retirees
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| Alvin Paige and family |
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| Judith Syner and Business office friends |
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| Richard Sprinthall and family |
SPRINGFIELD-More than 100 people gathered to pay tribute to three longtime AIC employees at the annual retirement dinner. The event was held Saturday, Oct. 13 in the Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center. Together, Richard Sprinthall, Judy Syner and Alvin Paige have dedicated nearly 100 years to the college, and as emcee Greg Schmutte noted, their presences will be deeply missed on both a personal and professional level.
They came from near and far to pay tribute to the three, including Donald DeRosa, a former student of Sprinthall and now a college president, who came all the way from California.
The 72-year old Paige has left a permanent mark on the campus and the people who worked and went to school at AIC. His familiar columns and neo-Georgian architecture can be found throughout the campus, including on the building he has called home for the past 22 years, the Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center. The AIC campus contains numerous pieces of historic regional architecture, salvaged, transported and re-introduced into the campus landscape by Paige. But, Paige has been much more than the campus artist, as his works have been seen throughout the country and around the world.
Judith "Jude" Syner started at AIC as a student in the REACH program in 1987 and was a work study student for Rich Bedard and Irv Conrad. She was inducted into Alpha Sigma Lambda in 1989 and received her BBA in 1990. Judy was instrumental in bringing computers to the Business Office. She became the Student Accounts Manager in 1990, but continued her education at AIC and earned an MSOD in 1993. In October 2003, she was named Registrar, and most recently was appointed Associate Vice President for Student Services.
Richard C. Sprinthall is a professor of psychology and director of the AIC graduate psychology program. Sprinthall joined the AIC faculty in 1956. He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University, and earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Boston University. Nationally-known in his filed as an author of educational psychology textbooks, Cited in Who's Who in American Education and American Men and Women in Science. A member of the American College of Forensic Examiners. A native of Pawtucket, R.I., enjoys music, plays the piano and is an avid skier.
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