Be Inspired! Hear from Veterans Day Speaker Billy Keenan on November 9
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Senior Director, Communications and External Relations
973-200-1099
KME@BerkeleyCollege.edu
TO REGISTER: https://bit.ly/BillyKeenanBerkeley The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Join Berkeley College on Thursday, November 9, 2023, at 12:30 p.m. for a special Veterans Day event featuring motivational speaker and author Billy Keenan. The presentation will be held at the Woodland Park campus (44 Rifle Camp Road), and via livestream. Lunch will be provided. Keenan will discuss his inspirational book, “The Billy Keenan Story,” and copies will be for sale following the presentation. The event is open to the community at-large.
ABOUT BILLY KEENAN
Billy Keenan is a retired high school history teacher from Rockland County, NY. He is a former Army lieutenant and paratrooper, and served as the youngest company commander in the United States Army Southern command while stationed in Honduras, Central America, in 1992.
Keenan is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and bandleader, and was a competitive triathlete and surfer until he suffered a devastating spinal cord injury while surfing at the Jersey Shore in 2013. His injuries left him a quadriplegic and reliant on a ventilator for breathing. Although his medical team never expected him to regain independent breathing, Keenan was breathing again independently four months after his injury. Against all odds, he returned to full-time teaching in 2015, and embarked on a mission and ministry of public speaking in 2017.
WHEN: Thursday, November 9, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Renaissance Hall, Berkeley College, 44 Rifle Camp Road, Woodland Park, NJ
MEDIA CONTACT:
Kelly J. Depsee
Senior Director, Communications and External Relations, Berkeley College
973-200-1099
KME@BerkeleyCollege.edu
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