Thuma, Cynthia

The Omni Auditorium, opened in 1980, serves as home to BCC's men's basketball and women's volleyball teams. The multi-purpose facility seats 2,000 and also is used for graduation ceremonies and a variety of civic and cultural events.

Dr. Adams and Dean Harry Smith, at far right, congratulate Dale Thisler and Steve Medoff after their match at the rededication of the Central Campus tennis courts.

Prof. Joe Jones directs students in the paramedic and emergency medical technology programs as they treat a dummy programmed to exhibit symptoms of a heart attack.

FAU Pres. Anthony Catanese (left), BCC Central Campus Provost Glen Rose, and BCC Pres. Willis Holcombe are all smiles at groundbreaking ceremonies for the joint library on Central Campus on April 26, 1994.

The $14.5 million FAU/BCC University/College Library expanded the old library's holdings by more than 100,000 volumes, expanded its physical size from 37,000 square feet to 112,000, and added sophisticated technological capabilities to benefit students.

Not all of the constructions on BCC's campuses have been BCC buildings. Here, Dr. Holcombe helps with groundbreaking for Florida Atlantic University's Davie Classroom Building II on Central Campus. Joining him, from left to right, are state senator Ken Jenne, Dr. Catanese, and state senator Howard Forman. The FAU Liberal Arts Building is another example of university's presence on central campus.

The $3.5-million Pines Center, part of the Pembroke Pines Academic Village, provides a charter high school, a branch of the county library, and athletic fields for city residents. The two-story Pines Center, at Sheridan Street and 172nd Avenue, is of Mediterranean architectural style and serves up to 5,000 students.

This is a photo of the 26,000 square-foot interior of the Pines Center under construction. The building was designed to provide state-of-the-art technological instructional opportunities to students. It contains two completely computerized multimedia classrooms and teleconference facilities. The Academic Village is constructed on a 77-acre campus built in the Jeffersonian quadrangle mode of the University of Virginia.

On North Campus, the two-story, L-shaped Health Science Center II occupies the space where the original campus building stood. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Rodriguez and Quiroga.

The Broward County Commission in March 1982 leased to the college the vacant auto inspection station on Pembroke Road at University Drive for the aviation institute. BCC's Aviation Maintenance Technology program was the first public post-secondary program in the state. The program opened its doors in the fall term of 1982 to a class of 65. At the ribbon-cutting ceremonies, from left to right, Dr. Adams, trustees Elinor Wilkov, Charles Lantz, and Margaret Roach joined with Broward County Commissioner Marcia Beach to carry out their ceremonial duties.