05/21/10

Story by Julie Haas

JCCC names theatre in honor of Harvey S. Bodker

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.- At their regular monthly meeting May 20, the Johnson County Community College board of trustees approved the naming of the Black Box theatre in the Carlsen Center in honor of Harvey S. Bodker, Overland Park.

The Bodker Black Box Theatre is used exclusively by the college's academic theatre department. It can be configured in a number of ways so that students can experience different kinds of theater productions.

Bodker is president of Bodker Realty and has been involved with the Boy Scouts, Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, the Overland Park planning commission, Congregation Beth Shalom, Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy and KCPT TV. He has been a member of the JCCC Foundation since 1998 where he has served in many capacities, including as a member of the program advisory committee for the performing arts and the Some Enchanted Evening committee.

The Harvey S. and Beverly R. Bodker Executive Classroom in the Regnier Center is named for Bodker and his late wife, as is the Beverly R. and Harvey S. Bodker scholarship for students of the performing arts.

"Harvey Bodker has been a friend of Johnson County Community College for many years," said Terry A. Calaway, JCCC president. "We have benefited from his lifetime of community service, his advocacy for this college and his generous support of the performing arts."