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Spongies Cafe 121 Baxter Street New York, NY 10013

The sweet little sponge cakes at Spongies Cafe. The ‘Holiday’ cake and the Apple Cinnamon cake that dazzled me so much that afternoon.

Day Two Hundred and Eighty-Nine: Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. presents: “Go Bulldogs!: Spring Open House 2024” December 6th, 2023

In my live classes, I open my consulting company, “Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc.”, for business and the whole class bands together and we have one big project. In the era of post-COVID and online learning, I was lucky that I was able to teach one of the live classes on the Bergen Community College, Paramus Campus. It was such a pleasure welcoming students back to campus with live lectures and conversing with them.

The Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. corporate logo of the six trees

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In the past, I have created these projects under the Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. banner, the main consulting company, the Orion Malls banner, a Mall design company and the Buscomonzefi.com banner, my Tech Division. Each business does its best to be creative, forward thinking and have a thought producing presentations. I also challenge the students to top on another in their presentations and build on what they have seen others do in the past.

Professor Justin Watrel, CEO & Co-Founder of Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc.

Recently our college was talking about recruitment to the school and the outreach to the high schools. I had seen the recent “Open House’ flyers and emails on campus and sent to my email and I thought the event could have a bit more pizzaz to it. You were trying to recruit students to come to the college and I thought there could be more to it. Working from our Homecoming, Welcome Week and Ambassadors programs that we had done in the past, I thought of “Go Bulldogs Go!-Open House Spring 2024”, a reinvented Open House with dinners, events, concerts and fun activities for the high school students, their parents and current students to enjoy.

“Go Bulldogs Go-Open House 2024 at Bergen Community College Project:

From here I picked my Executive Team and the various Divisional Teams to complete the project. We had the Talent Team, which pays for everything and get the Benefits package together along with the creating the Holiday Party at the end of the project. The Entertainment Team, who would provide all the musicians and musical performances to all the events that we had planned, the Food Service Team, which created all the menus, meals and ideas for serving food and snacks at all the functions. The most important Team was the Marketing Team, who had to promote the whole program to the high schools, Administration, Students and Parents, to all the events and to the Alumni. It was a big job and we only had seven weeks to put the whole thing together.

Being a CEO does have its headaches though. When you have a class of thirty people working on a project, there is a lot going on and there are those who try to ‘piggyback’ off other students and some just disappear. I had both of those. There were a lot of students I had to work with going forward on this project and a lot of leading I had to do. Having three projects going simultaneously was a lot of work for myself and my Executive Teams but I knew all of them could do it.

This was a project that I really wanted to come to life. I think we can do more for our student recruiting and wanted the programs to really shine to show the best of the college and all its attributes. The first day of the project, I broke the class up into Teams and discussed the project.

The Open House that we were creating was a three day event where we engaged both high school students and their parents, the current student body of Bergen Community College and Alumni.

I challenged the students to put a Pep Rally together for the sports teams on campus, a active concert and games, a nice International dinner and a breakfast brunch with music and an active tour of campus while promoting the campus for students to attend. The tours were created to show the best attributes of campus such as the music labs, the AI labs, the Ciccone Theater, the Bergen Room, Gallery Bergen and all our sporting facilities. There is so much at our campus that people do not see on these tours. I also do not like the idea that we burden students with financial aid issues not instead of when they accept coming so I put less emphasis on that. I want them to know all the great cultural things they can enjoy when they do decide to come to Bergen Community College.

As part of the class, I had an in class field trip around campus. I could not believe that most of these students didn’t know that all these things existed on campus. I should have learned from previous classes. This is how this all got inspired. When I asked all the students what their experience was like on campus, most of them just said that they came to class and went home. They never ventured around the campus. A few ate in the cafeteria and one or two had been to the Ciccone Theater and a few more had heard of Gallery Bergen.

The in class trip included Gallery Bergen, with its new contemporary art exhibition, the Bergen Room (in its old location) and the Ciccone Theater, where Professor Baumgartner was doing dress rehearsals but always has time to talk about the Theater Department. That really helps. Then we went outside to the new outdoor courtyard to show the students the logistics of where the concerts and some of the cultural events would take place. Then it back to the classroom to start getting the groups to work on the project. The majority of the students finally got what I was talking about and got to work. Then we started our weekly board meetings.

After seven weeks, the Teams were preparing for our Presentation on December 6th, 2023. I have to say that I was going through a lot in my personal life. Sinterklaas weekend had been the weekend before and all I had done is run around the Hudson River Valley with the Snowflake and Sinterklaas festivities in both Kingston and Rhinebeck, NY. There was a lot of running around the two towns plus running to Ringwood Manor before I left to take pictures of the mansion’s decorations for Christmas. I was not too sure how much time I would have after Christmas (I found that I had none) and was on a picture taking tour.

Then I had my own class presentations in Digital Marketing and Customer Relations class with much stress to get them right (I got ‘A’s on them both) and then had two days of my own students presentations to be followed by another presentation I had to make in Bloomingdales President Marvin Traub with his book “Like No other Store in the World” for my Hotel Sales & Marketing Class (another ‘A’) and then lead to another weekend of picture taking upstate of historical homes and towns. I never sat still and got very little sleep.

In the morning, I had presented my “I’m Glad I’m in Glen Rock, NJ” project with my Marketing class and that went off perfectly so I had high expectations of this class. My President and Senior Vice-President of Operations did not let me down. We had a few hiccups with the presentation but overall it was excellent and I was very impressed by the work and effort the students.

The project results were wonderful and it really showcased the campus with wonderful events to engage the students and their parents over a three day period. I know if the campus really put this whole event on, we would recruit a lot more students with no problems.

What was nice that evening was talking with the parents after the presentation. They were not only impressed by their sons and daughters presentation but impressed by the whole class. That all keep wondering how I get them all to dress up and especially shave. I always reply the same thing, I grade them. I really think though it is the pride that the students have in doing a good job and wanting the look the part of being an executive representing the company. This project prepares them for a future that is unknown to them but now a lot less scary.

They are now prepared for the real world.

The PowerPoint Presentation:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFy-P-dzDA/2PqVf2Z6oDs1Zp-EC9JjFw/view

The Presentation:

Part of the Presentation by the Talent Team

The Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. Corporate picture:

The Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. Paramus Team-Bulldog Open House 2023.

The Corporate website for Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. that they created for this project:

https://bergeccoparcconsul.wixsite.com/my-site

This contains all the commercials, artwork, the PowerPoint and headquarters plans.

The Holiday Party Project:

In lieu of the traditional quiz, I have the students get back in their groups and create ideas for a Corporate Christmas Party for the New Brunswick headquarters. It always amazes me what the Teams can do in an hour. The funny part by this point is that they are so used to working with one another it becomes second nature to them. This quiz is a nice way to end the semester and maybe create some new friendships amongst the students.

Introduction to Business Quiz Four:

The Holiday Party Presentation:

The Introduction to the “Holiday Party’ project.

The President and Senior Vice-President of Operations in their corporate holiday greeting.

The Entertainment Team’s Holiday Presentation.

The Entertainment Team’s Holiday greeting.

The Talent Team’s Holiday Presentation.

The Talent Team’s Holiday Greeting

The Marketing Team’s Holiday Presentation.

The Marketing Team’s Holiday Greeting

The Culinary Team’s Holiday Presentation.

The Culinary Team’s Holiday greeting.

The Holiday ideas were excellent and the Corporate Christmas Party was a huge success!

Uff Da Maritime Museum at Viking Village 1801 Bayview Avenue Barnegat Light, NJ 08006

The Uff Da Maritime Museum Gallery with all the displays.

This tiny Maritime Museum is part of the Viking Village Shopping and Fishing complex in Barnegat Light, NJ on Long Beach Island New Jersey.

Day Two Hundred and Ninety: Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. presents: “The Bergen 250-Visiting the Bergen County Historical Society in River Edge, NJ” December 7th, 2023

In my live classes, I open my consulting company, “Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc.”, for business and the whole class bands together and we have one big project. In the era of post-COVID and online learning, I was lucky that I was able to teach one of the live classes on the Bergen Community College, Paramus Campus. It was such a pleasure welcoming students back to campus with live lectures and conversing with them.

The Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. corporate logo of the six trees

Contact Us

In the past, I have created these projects under the Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. banner, the main consulting company, the Orion Malls banner, a Mall design company and the Buscomonzefi.com banner, my Tech Division. Each business does its best to be creative, forward thinking and have a thought producing presentations. I also challenge the students to top on another in their presentations and build on what they have seen others do in the past.

Professor Justin Watrel, CEO & Co-Founder of Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc.

I had recently been at a series of special events at the Bergen County Historical Society both for Christmas in 2022 and for more recent events as the Harvest Festival and a walking tour of the property in 2023. Although the events were interesting and the Christmas event with the period live music and the Pub set up in the Christie House, the attendance seemed rather low. 

The Bergen County Historical Society:

https://www.bergencountyhistory.org/

My review on TripAdvisor:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g46776-d7603554-Reviews-Historic_New_Bridge_Landing-River_Edge_New_Jersey.html

My review on VisitingaMuseum.com:

https://wordpress.com/post/visitingamuseum.com/531

When I Googled the Historical Society, their social media and digital marketing were not as prominent as they should be either in describing their events or with a series of current pictures or videos. Their digital footprint needed some work. Also, their events never changed year after year. They had the exact same events with the same theme for each season. 

This I could see was a problem as people want to have different experiences when they visit a place. These sites do not have to alter the events but do need to update and ‘freshen up’ their offerings with a different twist to keep people coming. Others wise, it it the same thing year after year. Also, they were not marketing the site for people outside of Bergen County let alone for foreign tourism. This is where the idea for “Tourism for the Bergen County Historical Society” project for Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. came into creation.

The Project “Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. presents “Tourism at the Bergen County Historical Society”:

As a member of the Bergen County Historical Society for about five years I had to say the Society does have a tendency to run the same events over and over again and the attendance, especially when it came time for the weather, could really damper the attendance since most events were held outdoors. Plus they attracted the same crowd of older patrons and needed a new clientele to attend to give a fresh perspective to these events.

This is where I wanted to challenge both the students to look at the site from the idea of what would bring them to the Bergen County Historical Society and how the Society could look at making updates to bring that younger, family friendly crowd who was interested in the history of Bergen County but still wanted to have a good time and be engaged by the event. That can be a delicate balancing act in the age of social media and cellphone distraction.

It took some convincing from both sides to get this project off the ground. The Society kept thinking we were a real consulting firm and were hesitant to do the project. The none of my students had ever been to the Bergen County Historical Society let alone want to go there. The schools in Bergen County no longer even studied American history the way we did when I was in junior high or high school nor did they take the field trips to Trenton or Washington DC that we did back in the 1970’s. This is when I knew this would be a learning experience for both parties.

The goal was to bring more tourists both domestic and international to the Bergen County Historical Society with a series of new events for both Halloween and Spring/Easter that were both inclusive and family friendly that had a contemporary but historical twist to them. I asked the students to look at the history of both holidays and what the meaning of the Fall festivals and Spring Festivals meant to people through the ages. The third event the students had to create was a fundraiser for the Society that would raise $25,000 to raise money for the new museum on the Society’s property. I saw some shocked looks on the students faces but I knew they could do it.

There were some major challenges logistics wise for the project as well. I had to arrange a visit to the site because the students would never go out on their own to see it, plus the site was not open on a Thursday night so that would take some coordination. Also, being the Fall semester we always worried about the problem with the weather and the night of the tour it threatened to rain (it didn’t Thank God). Lastly, I only had four weeks to put this project together and get it presented to the Historical Society before I had to give the final exam and post grades by the end of the semester. This on top of all the projects and papers I myself had to do for Graduate school gave me many stressful nights. Somehow, we pulled it all off to a huge success.

The week after I presented the project to the students with a few groans, we were off the next Thursday night to a mandatory (and I mean mandatory!) field trip to the Bergen County Historical Society in River Edge, NJ to see all the buildings and learn about the history of the site and the importance of it during the Revolutionary War. The time change after Halloween meant we would be having the tour in the dark with not a lot of light to shine the way.

Parking at the site needed to worked on as well as their parking lot was hard to maneuver if you did not know the area and had some sharp turns to get to when parking your car. Still I got all the students there and basically on time (except one) and we got the tour underway with the former and current Presidents of the Society. I could not believe how well it worked out for everyone.

First I had to make sure that everyone was there the night of the tour which was difficult because people were coming from work and the traffic being what is was at 6:30pm at night but again everyone was ready to go. We started at the Campbell-Christie House, which was used as the pub for the Christmas event I had been at the year earlier. It had also been used as the gathering place for the tree lighting ceremony when COVID hit in Christmas 2020.

Starting our class tour of the Bergen County Historical Society at the Campbell-Christi House

Starting the tour at twilight. It was really dark on the Bergen County Historical Society site.

Entering the Campbell-Christie House for the tour.

The Campbell-Christie House during the day.

We toured the house and talked about its history and how it was moved to this location to save it from demolishment. Also the uses of the house in different programs.

We then moved onto the Demarest House which is the next house over. The home is much smaller but its significance in Bergen County history is the same as the Campbell-Christie. This type of Dutch style architecture is unique to this part the country where the Dutch had to adapt to weather conditions and building materials that could be found.

The Demarest House during the day.

Its ownership to one of the most prominent families gave it even more importance. We were able to see the loft space and how the family lived on a daily basis in the two rooms.

Our class touring the Steuben House toward the end of the tour.

Then it was on to the Steuben House which was the home of the Zabriskie family but given to General Steuben by the patriots for his assistance during the Revolutionary War. This is the main house that most activities take place in including lectures and musical performances. In each of the homes,.

Ex-President of the Society Deborah Powell lead the students on a very engaging tour of the Steuben House. It has an interesting and intriguing past.

The two Presidents of the Society who joined us told me later how impressed they were that the students were so engaged in the conversation and wanted to learn so much about the site. For all of my students this was the first time any of them had been to the Bergen County Historical Society, so it was a treat for them as well. I could see that they all learned so much from ‘being in the field’.

My student consultants from Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. with former President Deborah Powell in our group shot at the main room at the Steuben House. It was at the end of the tour.

The Steuben House during the day.

After the tour was over and the questions were answered, our group left for dinner. I can always tell the success of these projects when we all have dinner together. I chose a pizzeria around the corner from the Historical Society that I had never been to before but plan on returning to, Napolimania at 450 Hackensack Avenue in the Home Depot mall. It had the perfect amount of space for our group of 30 students, who were both hungry and cold. Both the pizza and the pizzeria were wonderful and we had such a good time.

The Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. student consultants enjoying dinner.

Dinner at Napolimania Pizzeria for dinner after the tour.

Napolimania at 450 Hackensack Avenue in Hackensack, NJ TripAdvisor review:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g46480-d26832109-Reviews-Napolimania_Pizzeria-Hackensack_New_Jersey.html?m=19905

I think one of the most important aspects about this project is that the Team “breaks bread” with each other (have a business meal). It is one of the biggest parts of Team Building and a way for strangers to get to know one another. I have seen more friendships formed over these meals and a transition of how the students treat this project. Most of them start taking it more seriously and then the work begins. By the way, the pizza was excellent that night and I highly recommend the restaurant for the food and service.

The next week, I started to give more time in the classroom for the students to work on their project as it was crunch time and they only had three weeks to complete it and present it to me. This is when the stress levels of the Teams start because then you see the people who will really work and the ones that put in the minimum and trust me, they make their feelings known. I had my share of headaches before this presentation but for the other 95% of the class, I saw some major transformations in the students, their attitudes towards the project and a lot of creativity.

We had the presentation in the fifth floor conference room at the Lyndhurst campus of Bergen Community College and this is only the second time I have used this room but it is the best one to present the project in.

The Presentation welcome:

CEO Watrel’s welcome

President Beqo welcome:

President Sorak Beqo opening the program for “Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. presents “Tourism at the Bergen County Historical Society” on the night of December 7th, 2023.

The Executive welcome and headquarters plan.

Our honored guests that night were the President of the Bergen County Historical Society, the former President of the Society and one of the Board members. I would have hoped we would have had a better turn out from the Society but I understood that it was the holiday season and everyone had so many commitments plus it was later in the evening and down in Lyndhurst. Still, it was nice to have the ladies attend for feedback on the Presentation.

Each group gave their Presentation along with creating two commercials, one promoting their events on the Society grounds and then one promoting the Society for tourism.

Team One Presentation:

Team One presenting their ideas for events and fundraising at the Bergen County Historical Society.

Team One presenting their ideas to raise money for the new museum.

Team One’s Presentation on YouTube.

Team Two Presentation:

Team Two pitching their ideas for the Bergen County Historical Society.

The ideas for fundraising for the new Museum at the Bergen County Historical Society.

The extra credit project that Team Two created was one of the reasons they won the contest.

Team Two Presentation on YouTube.

Team Three Presentation:

Team Three making their pitch for new events at the Bergen County Historical Society. They gave one of the most professional presentations that I had seen in a long time.

Team Three making their pitch on their ideas for fundraising for the new Museum.

Team Three Presentation on YouTube

Closing Remarks on YouTube:

Being only given four weeks to pull this project off, the student consultants did an excellent job on this project. The projects were creative, inventive and showed that they had studied and visited the historical site more than once. They used all the buildings on the property for different events coming up with new ideas on old events and creating new ones.

I liked the ideas of the Easter Egg hunts and Bunny visits as well as how to approach Easter as a secular event taking its Pagan roots and putting a new twist on it. For Halloween, the students incorporated old ideas such as apple bobbing and hayrides around the property with utilizing the historic homes as haunted houses. The winning group even used a haunted maze and a petting zoo to the mix.

For the museum fundraiser, the student consultants had some creative ideas to raise money for the museum. One group used a food truck event, another used a full day event and for their extra credit event was a “Revolutionary Dance” that I thought was really interesting. It always amazes me the way that students give such a fresh perspective to a project. I could tell that the Board members of the Society were blown away by the ideas that the students came up with to bring more people to the site.

After the Q & A for the project, we took our Corporate shot for Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. headquarters. I was impressed with what a sharp group we made.

The Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. Corporate shot-Lyndhurst “Tourism at Bergen County Historical Society” Team December 2023.

The PowerPoint Presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ewDUcxaJMxYR-jVWFDcMBagv2rIquHme/edit?slide=id.p1#slide=id.p1

The Corporate Website for the “Tourism at Bergen County Historical Society” Lyndhurst Team:

https://bergeccoparchistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/

The holiday project:

All three Teams were given the task by one of the founding members of Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. to create ideas for the Corporate Christmas Party. The students were tasked with creating a menu with one appetizer, a main dish and a dessert with a signature drink and then had to create a corporate message in both English and Spanish. It is always fun to see the results on this:

President Beqo’s message to corporate:

The Team Presentations of Invitations, Menus and Holiday Wishes:

The students did an excellent job promoting the Bergen County Historical Society.

Maison Thevenin Saint-Placide 5 Rue de Notre Dame des Champs 75006 Paris France

Our group outside the bakery enjoying the croissant.

The selection of bakery items, candies and sandwiches at Maison Thevenin.

Day Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight: Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. presents: “I’m Glad I’m in Glen Rock, NJ-Be a Tourist in your own Town” December 6th, 2023

In my live classes, I open my consulting company, “Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc.”, for business and the whole class bands together and we have one big project. In the era of post-COVID and online learning, I was lucky that I was able to teach one of the live classes on the Bergen Community College, Paramus Campus. It was such a pleasure welcoming students back to campus with live lectures and conversing with them.

The Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. corporate logo of the six trees

Contact Us

In the past, I have created these projects under the Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. banner, the main consulting company, the Orion Malls banner, a Mall design company and the Buscomonzefi.com banner, my Tech Division. Each business does its best to be creative, forward thinking and have a thought producing presentations. I also challenge the students to top on another in their presentations and build on what they have seen others do in the past.

Professor Justin Watrel, CEO & Co-Founder of Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc.

To continue the tradition of marketing small Bergen County towns for foreign and domestic tourism, I had been eyeing Glen Rock, NJ as the next town to promote. A small upper middle class town in the northern part of Bergen County, Glen Rock is rich in history. Known for the famous “Rock” just off the southern part of the downtown that the town is named for and a small but vibrant downtown and a small historical museum that was in need of some social media attention, I thought this was the best town to choose this time around.

I spent a couple of days exploring the downtown to get some inspiration and ate lunch in a local pizzeria that I was not thrilled with. I made some adjustments to the project when I looked at the town’s Facebook page to see what types of activities that they hold. I saw that they needed more detailed events at all the holidays, a stronger downtown presence and a new town logo. This is when these projects become fun. You want to show a town its potential for tourism in the future both domestic and foreign. There was so much to show off in the town of Glen Rock, NJ.

The Project “I’m Glad I’m in Glen Rock, NJ: Be a Tourist in your own Town”:

These projects take about six to seven weeks to pull together. I had seen my class roster several weeks earlier and I knew most of the students who were in my class had taken my Introduction to Business class so I knew where to plug in most of this semester’s executives of the company.

The “I’m Glad I’m in Glen Rock” Team on our tour of the Town of Glen Rock, NJ for our project with the Honorable Councilwoman Jill Orlich.

The Rock in Glen Rock, NJ:

My review on TripAdvisor:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g46466-d2549392-Reviews-The_Rock-Glen_Rock_New_Jersey.html

My review on VisitingaMuseum.com:

Glen Rock does not the historic downtown that Paterson, Rutherford or Westwood have but they do have a wonderful museum with the “Museum at the Station”, their small historical society at the Glen Rock Train Station and of course “The Rock”, a famous Lenape tribe marker located south of the downtown. There was a lot of history in the town and many places that tourists would like to visit.

I built on some of the ideas that I had used in the Rutherford and Westwood projects, creating new Christmas, Halloween and Summer events based on what we did for the other towns. I knew there were some problems with the Tree Lighting ceremony in town so we created the “Snowflake Festival” with Mr. and Mrs. Snowflake as the ‘grand marshals’ of the event as opposed to Santa Claus.

For Halloween, we created the “Pumpkin Festival” with the theme around the movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, which was a series of tents with all sorts of activities from face painting, pumpkin decorating and watching the film that evening.

For the Summer, I saw that Glen Rock does a lot for their Senior residents. This is not the “Big Band” era group but the “Disco Era” group of seniors so I wanted to create something special for them as well. So I created a “Seniors and the 70’s” event where bands that played 1970’s music would be featured for a full month in their bandstand in Veteran’s Park.

For our Historical Team, they were tasked with creating a Lenape tribe event in honor of the long history with the town’s origins, a historical tour of the town starting in the downtown area and creating an ad campaign and commercial to promote the “Museum at the Station”. It is such a great museum so why weren’t people visiting it? Plus the group’s each had to come up with a series of new logos for the town.

The new Lenape Indian logo by the Historical Team

It was an ambitious group of events.

I knew the students were up for the challenge. Still it was a challenge for me to get some of the students to buy into the concept. Every semester it is the same thing. Eighty percent of the students buy into the group project and then there are the few who do nothing. I could see that this semester as well.

The Lenape Event created by The Historical Team

We started the project myself introducing the project to the students four weeks into the course and explaining the project and how I wanted to approach it. Since a third of the class had taken my course in Introduction to Business, they had all worked on similar projects in the past and understood what was expected of them.

Our fifth week into class, I took the students on a walking tour and lunch in Glen Rock, NJ’s downtown and parks so that they would know what the town was all about and its attributes. On a sunny but really cold day, we met at “The Rock” to start the tour of downtown. We started with the history of “The Rock” and the part it played in Lenape life. We were joined on the tour by the Honorable Councilwoman Jill Orlich.

Myself with my student consultants in Veteran’s Park in Glen Rock, NJ where most of the proposed special events would take place.

We then moved on to the Museum at the Station which was closed for the day. I had taken the students here Halloween weekend on the only Sunday afternoon that they were open and gave them extra credit for coming. We filled the museum to capacity for the entire afternoon and the students were able to see what the history of the town was about. We just took pictures and noted parking for the events that would be planned here.

The Museum by the Station-The Glen Rock Historical Society at

https://www.glenrockhistory.org/

https://www.facebook.com/GlenRockHistory/

My review on TripAdvisor:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g46466-d14048001-r888386092-The_Museum_at_the_Station-Glen_Rock_New_Jersey.html

My review on VisitingaMuseum.com:

We then did a loop of the Downtown, stopping in stores and visiting parks and the train stations to see how people from the community commute to jobs in Newark, Jersey City and New York City. This is also how outside tourism can be attained and people can commute into the town to attend anyone of the festivities.

We ended the tour with a Team lunch at Francesca’s Brick Oven Pizza and Pasta at 234 Rock Road in Downtown Glen Rock. The food and the service were excellent. It gave the student consultants as chance to ‘break bread’ and get to know one another better. This is a good Team building exercise plus a chance to experience their first business lunch with a company.

The Historical Team at lunch at Francesca’s.

My review on Francesca’s on TripAdvisor:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g46466-d4916868-Reviews-Francesca_Brick_Oven_Pizza_Pasta-Glen_Rock_New_Jersey.html?m=19905

The Marketing Team Dining with each other at Francesca’s.

The Talent Team dining together at Francesca’s.

By our last Board Meeting, I thought we were ready and on December 6th, we made the formal presentation to the ladies at the Museum by the Station and a few invited guests. Being an afternoon class, I could not force people to change their schedule’s but it would have been nice to see more people at the Presentation.

The Presentation went by well and it was handled very professionally but we had some problems in the Marketing Division on what should have been included and what should not. They gave a whole presentation on the attributes of Marketing and that was not what was asked of them. I later found out they were doing project at the last minute and that did not thrill me. I could see this in the slides, menus and concepts. Still they created some memorable commercials promoting the town and the new Town Song. The logos they created for Glen Rock were excellent. All of this was changed and reorganized when we went to present the project to the Mayor and Council at Glen Rock City Hall on December 19th.

The newly created town logo for Glen Rock, NJ.

The Marketing Team proposals:

The Marketing Commercial:

The Glen Rock Town Song:

Welcome to Glen Rock commercial (the old commercial):

The Presentation of “I’m Glad I’m in Glen Rock, NJ-Be a Tourist in your own Town” in the classroom on December 6th, 2023. The Presentation went by very well and I was really impressed with the way the students handled themselves:

The PowerPoint presentation of “I’m Glad I’m in Glen Rock, NJ:

The Presentation videos:

Part One:

Part Two:

Part Three:

After the Presentation was over, I hosted a light reception for the students, our invited guests and family members. The ladies from the Museum by the Station/Glen Rock Historical Society had a lot of nice praise for the project and some interesting questions.

On December 19th, 2023 at the request of the Mayor, we presented a revamped version of the project with new ideas from the Marketing Team along with the selection of bands that would be used for the “Seniors and the 70’s” series of concerts. By the end of the Presentation, I could see that the Mayor and Councilwoman who showed up for the evening. They had a lot of intriguing questions from the stance of budgeting and attainment of volunteers and how to run the events.

The Presentation in Glen Rock City Hall in Glen Rock, NJ:

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This was filmed at Glen Rock City Hall in Glen Rock, NJ.

I treated the project as a real proposal and informed the Mayor and Council that Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. would try to obtain things like Corporate sponsorship for the big events and that we could work with the local colleges and the high school for volunteerism to help out to help defer costs.

We were also joined that evening by many parents of the student consultants who could not attend the first Presentation due to work commitments. It was a nice evening out for everyone and productive in giving the town some fresh ideas with an international prospective (at no cost to them) to tourists visiting the town.

Trust me, I was just as blown away by the project as the Mayor and Council were that evening, I would not have believed a group of students put all of this together but they did.

I really was “Glad I was in Glen Rock, NJ”.

The Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc.-Glen Rock Team Corporate picture on December 6th, 2023.

The website for the Glen Rock Team of Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc.:

https://bergeccoparcglenrock.wixsite.com/bpgr

As part of Quiz Four for the class, I have the students create a Corporate Holiday Party for the Glen Rock Division for Corporate New Brunswick. Here are their ideas:

Quiz Four: The Corporate Christmas Party:

The Christmas welcome from President Bushka and SVP Basich:

The video on Quiz Four: The Corporate Holiday Party.

The Holiday Video

Fruttini by MO 24 Rue St. Placide 75006 Paris, France

Making a selection at Fruttini by MO in Paris, France. We are hoping they come to Manhattan soon. My classmates from NYU and I were blown away by the desserts and hospitality of the co-owners.

Putnam History Museum 63 Chestnut Street Cold Springs, NY 10516

The “Indigenous Peoples” exhibition at the museum.

My Life as a Fireman: The Bergen County Firemen’s Home Association: December Meeting and Christmas Party December 3rd, 2023.

The Bergen County Firemen’s Home Association at the NJ State Firemen’s Home for Christmas.

Old Dutch Reformed Church 403 Broadway Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591

Sleepy Hollow Church and its historic cemetery in the fall.