SUNY Corning Book Club
Join our virtual book club for SUNY Corning Community College alumni, faculty, staff
and friends! You will be able to connect with each other while enjoying books ranging
on a wide variety of topics.
Our meetings will be held via Google Meet in order to provide everyone with an enjoyable and safe way to discuss our selected book. Upon filling out the Book Club Membership Form, you will be sent a welcome email containing invitation links to the upcoming meetings. Our next meeting date is:
- Wednesday, April 19, 2022 at 12:00pm
There is no cost to join, and you may participate as much or as little as you wish — you just have to get a copy of the book to enjoy!
Current Selection
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars
by Col. Eileen Collins, USAF-Ret
Eileen M. Collins, USAF (Retired), retired from the Air Force in 2005 and from NASA in 2006, having logged more than
6,751 hours in thirty different types of aircraft and spent 872 hours in space. She
is the recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross and NASA Outstanding Leadership
Medal and was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame, among many other honors. Since
retiring, she has traveled the world as a motivational speaker. Col. Collins serves
as an advisor to the National Space Council and is a board member of the Astronauts
Memorial Foundation. She is married, with two children, and lives in San Antonio,
Texas.
Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements
as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot
the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots.
She was in the first class of women to earn pilot’s wings at Vance Air Force Base
and was their first female instructor pilot. She was only the second woman pilot admitted
to the Air Force’s elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base. NASA had such
confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the
first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. Since retiring
from the Air Force and NASA, she has served on numerous corporate boards and is an
inspirational speaker about space exploration and leadership.
Eileen Collins is among the most recognized and admired women in the world, yet this
is the first time she has told her story in a book. It is a story not only of achievement
and overcoming obstacles but of profound personal transformation. The shy, quiet child
of an alcoholic father and struggling single mother, who grew up in modest circumstances
and was an unremarkable student, she had few prospects when she graduated from high
school, but she changed her life to pursue her secret dream of becoming an astronaut.
She shares her leadership and life lessons throughout the book with the aim of inspiring
and passing on her legacy to a new generation.
Col. Collins will be available for a book-signing on April 26, 2022 as we celebrate the re-opening of the Digital Dome on the SUNY Corning Spencer Hill Campus
Questions?
Email Amanda Bailey