Guam Community College (GCC) is a community college in Mangilao, Guam. It was officially created by Public Law 14–77 in 1977 under Maryly Van Leer Peck's leadership. This law created the college by consolidating several pre-existing programs from a variety of institutions, including the Adult Evening School of the Guam Department of Education, the Community Career College of the University of Guam, the Apprenticeship Training Program of the University of Guam, and other programs originally created by Guam's Department of Labor and the Guam Police Department. The U.S. Census Bureau puts the community college into the University of Guam census-designated place.

History

Women's rights advocate and female engineer Maryly Van Leer founded several college programs while in Guam, one of which evolved into Guam Community College, and is considered its unofficial founder. Van Leer oversaw the relocation and construction of the newly established Guam Community College (GCC) in November 1977. The college included Van Leer's original program offerings from the University of Guam. Its campus is centrally located on 32.75 acre and has continuous improvements over the years. The college plays an important role in the six island public high schools where it offers several significant education programs in Tourism, Marketing, AutoCad, Construction and many more. Mary A.Y. Okada is the current president and was appointed in 2007.

Awards

Distinguished Alumni Award

This is a list of past GCC recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award.