State legislators honor BC3 prof Huseman
Pennsylvania state and U.S. flags flown atop the Capitol in Harrisburg recognized David C. Huseman’s 40-year dedication to financial literacy and extended an honor the longtime professor received from Butler County Community College in 2023.
BC3 last year named the Professor David C. Huseman Center for Economic Education space in the college’s arts and hospitality building on its main campus in Butler Township.
Huseman, 79, of Butler, has been director of the center since its founding in 1983, and is the college’s longest-serving employee, at nearly 57 years.
The center teaches economic concepts with a 30-week Stock Market Game for students in grades four through 12 that begins in September and 10-week competitions in the fall and spring.
The center also administers the BC3 Entrepreneurship Challenge.
The 5-foot-wide by 3-foot-tall Pennsylvania state flag was raised in Huseman’s honor Dec. 22, according to state Rep. Marci Mustello, R-11; and a U.S. flag of the same size in Huseman’s honor Jan. 22, according to state Sen. Scott Hutchinson, R-21.
Flags are flown to recognize “individuals who have shown outstanding service in molding others’ lives and helping others to become the best that they can be,” said Hutchinson, who in his third term said one to two of his about 260,000 constituents are recognized each year with a flag flown over the Capitol.
“It is very rare,” Hutchinson said.
Huseman is the first of her about 66,000 constituents to be recognized with a flag flown over the Capitol since she took office in 2019, Mustello said.
Mustello’s and Hutchinson’s districts include parts of Butler County. The state legislators presented the flags flown and certificates to Huseman on Feb. 15 on BC3’s main campus.
“My family and I are obviously thrilled,” Huseman said. “They were part of everything we have done over the past number of years.”
The Professor David C. Huseman Center for Economic Education space features 3.75-inch-tall letters raised a half-inch off a wall near the interior entrance to the Concordia Educational Center and the Amy Wise Children’s Creative Learning Center.
Huseman, a professor in BC3’s liberal arts division, teaches principles of economics and American national government courses. He has also been a director on the BC3 Education Foundation board since 1999 and a member the board’s finance committee since 2004.
“There is not another person, there has not been another person, who has spent so much time on our campus as David Huseman,” said Nick Neupauer, BC3’s president. “The center in his name is a great recognition for David, and this is another recognition for someone who so very much deserves it.”
Bill Foley is coordinator of news and media content at Butler County Community College.
