Dee Beaubien stood in the sunlit rotunda room, a part of a $44.8 million building renovation at Harper College, to highlight how the project will benefit students during a dedication Thursday in Palatine.
Used as a common area for students, the two-story, round and gleaming structure is named after Beaubien, a recognition of her $100,000 gift to fund the new rotunda at the community college.
Beaubien said her late husband, Mark Beaubien, a Republican state representative from Barrington Hills for the northwest suburban 52nd District before he died in 2011, was always interested in helping immigrants. Under the renovation, one of the departments Building D now houses is the English as a Second Language (ESL) program and linguistics, she noted.
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