Center Named In Honor of J. Buckley Bryan, Jr.

The Adirondack Community College Foundation has announced that the new center for four-year degrees on the ACC campus will be officially named the “J. Buckley Bryan, Jr. ACC ’87, ’94 Regional Higher Education Center” in recognition of the campaign’s leading donor.

Mr. Bryan, of Bolton Landing, a retired airline pilot who has earned four degrees at least in part on the ACC campus and now serves as an adjunct faculty member and as president of the ACC Foundation, has supplemented an earlier $1 million contribution with an additional generous gift of $500,000.

“Buck Bryan epitomizes what the Regional Higher Education Center is all about,” said ACC President Ronald C. Heacock, Ph.D. “He has a deep interest in learning, a contagious entrepreneurial spirit and an unyielding desire to play a role in making this community and its college successful.”

The project’s largest benefactor, Mr. Bryan, knows firsthand the benefits the Center will bring to the southern Adirondack region. He earned two associate’s degrees from ACC, and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from SUNY Plattsburgh, in large part on the ACC campus.

“Why have I gifted $1.5 million dollars to Adirondack Community College?” said Mr. Bryan, who goes by the nickname Buck. “The bottom line is quite simple: I liked the place 27 years ago when I decided to earn my first college degree, and I like it now. It’s as simple as that.”