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by Angela Daidone\u00a0 |\u00a0 Winter 2021<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ramapo College officially announced the name of its newest building on campus\u2013the Peter P. Mercer Learning Commons\u2013as part of the College\u2019s 51<\/span>st<\/span> Founders\u2019 Day\u00a0celebration in November.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ramapo College Board of Trustees Chair Susan A. Vallario unveiled the name of the building, which is on track to open in Fall 2021. Chair Vallario and her husband, Nick Vallario, have been the lead pledge supporters of the Learning Commons Campaign and participants in the project task force since its inception in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Nick and I pledged to support the Learning Commons Campaign, we did so because we believed in the vision for this transformational facility\u2014a reimagined library combined with state-of-the-art technology and an array of special resources giving all members of the Ramapo community a place to connect, contemplate, and collaborate,\u201d said Chair Vallario. \u201cAt the time of our pledge, the naming rights for the new building were reserved to us, and we\u2019ve always intended to exercise that right in a way that honors President Mercer for his outstanding service to the College over the past 15 years and for his efforts as the driving force behind the Learning Commons vision.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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For Jackie and me, our time here at Ramapo has been all-consuming and all-rewarding. I am glad to be leaving a piece of myself. Thank you all so much.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Peter P. Mercer<\/strong><\/h5>\n
President<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s quite an experience seeing one\u2019s name on a building that will be the heart and soul of the campus,\u201d President Mercer said, acknowledging the honor alongside his wife Dr. Jacqueline Ehlert-Mercer. \u201cFor Jackie and me, our time here at Ramapo has been all-consuming and all-rewarding. I am glad to be leaving a piece of myself. Thank you all so much.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The project, a multi-year effort to renovate the existing George T. Potter Library and construct a new learning space, addresses aging infrastructure issues and increases the building\u2019s interior space from 60,000 to 80,000 square feet. The Learning Commons will bring together an array of resources that go beyond those of a traditional campus library, including state-of-the-art classroom and laboratory space, media rooms, on-site technology resources, a design laboratory, lounge seating and an on-site caf\u00e9. The Learning commons will also be home to the Ramapo College Archives, the Center for Reading and Writing, the American History Textbook Project, the Jane Addams Papers Project and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nick Vallario, Chair Susan A. Vallario, Dr. Jacqueline Ehlert-Mercer, and President Peter P. Mercer<\/em><\/p>\n

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Time Capsule, on left, next to some of the items to be included inside.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Bulletin Board showing additional items to be included in the time capsule.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Other Founders\u2019 Day celebrations included the burying of a time capsule to commemorate the College\u2019s fifty years. Contents were collected and curated by the 50th Anniversary Committee and included items that would be of interest 25 years from now during the 2045 Founders\u2019 Day celebration, and that represented special events, athletics uniforms, logos, technology, and a fact sheet with statistics about the current administration and enrollment. Funds to purchase the time capsule were donated by Edward Saiff, dean of Ramapo\u2019s School of Theoretical and Applied Science, and his wife Robbie Saiff.<\/span><\/p>\n

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