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PHOTOS: Family, friends, PCC community say ‘goodbye’ to Harold Williams

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PCC and the Portland community lost one of it’s own on July 1 as Harold Williams, Sr., a member of Portland Community College’s Board of Directors since 1990 and noted community leader, passed away. The college and the community celebrated Williams’ life with a memorial celebration on Thursday, July 12 at the Cascade Campus. More than 700 people attended the event in the gymnasium – a building Williams’ lobbied to be built and was proud of. Donations may be made in Harold’s name to the Portland Community College Foundation, which plans to award a scholarship to a PCC student in his honor.

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James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »