Monthly Highlights
May 2004 Highlights
CAROL WOODMAN was named Outstanding Classified Employee of the Month for May. She is the administrative coordinator for Cooperative Education and helps oversee the Carl Perkins grant. She has worked for Lane since 1985.
A CANDIDATES FORUM was held May 4 for candidates from the college district in state legislative races. The forum was organized by the college's Government Relations Action Team.
IAN RICHARDSON AND ROSARIA HAUGLAND were appointed to serve on the Lane Community College Foundation Board of Trustees.
PAULA LUTZ, Lane's first anthropology instructor, visited campus on May 13 to sign copies of her book, "To Teach is to Love."
THE NWAACC (Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges) Southern Regional Track and Field Championships were held at Lane main campus May 14-15. Lane’s men’s and women’s teams both won the Southern Region Title and Lane coach Grady O’Connor was named the region’s 2004 Men’s Coach of the Year.
HONORING THE FOUNDERS: Celebrating 25 Years of Wildflower Displays, was held May 14, 15 and 16, at Lane and Mt. Pisgah Arboretum. The event paid tribute to the arboretum's first wildflower festival founded by retired Lane instructors Freeman Rowe and Rhoda Love, and by David Wagner. The event included a tour of the new herbarium at Lane, a dinner at Lane, and the festival at Mt. Pisgah.
THE READING TOGETHER project announced the book selections for 2004-05. Students, staff and community members are invited to read "The House On Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, and "A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity With Voices," by Ronald Takaki. The books will be available in Lane’s Bookstore.
ALEX SAN PEDRO, a second-year art student at Lane, was awarded a $30,000 per year for two years transfer scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. He has been accepted to the Pratt Institute of Design in New York City. San Pedro was one of 27 scholarship recipients selected from among 863 nominees at two-year colleges across the United States recognized for academic excellence, financial need, the will to succeed, leadership ability, service to others, and interest in or appreciation for the arts.
GREG WINSLOW, Food Services department coordinator, received certification as a Certified Executive Chef (CEC) from the American Culinary Federation.
THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE RECOGNITION DINNER was held May 6. More than 200 committee members attended. The Professional/Occupational Skills program was featured, and Co-op Employers of the Year Sacred Heart and McKenzie Willamette Medical Centers, were honored.
THE ASLCC ELECTION was held May 10, 11 and 12. A total of 773 ballots were cast, approximately 10 percent of eligible voters. Tony McCown was elected student body president, and Shauku White was elected vice president. Fee measures were approved for the child care co-op, Child Development Center, student clubs and organizations, International Student Program, Women's Program, and legal services. A fee measure for Athletics and recreational sports failed.
A SPANISH WEBPAGE LINK was featured on Lane's homepage in May. "Para información sobre LCC en español" connected users to general information about Lane in Spanish.
THE ANNUAL RETIREMENT CELEBRATION was held May 26. Honored were Lane retirees Guy Plaa, Thomas Marshall, Kit Hopkinson, Ann Whipple, Elizabeth Purtell, Cheryl Coleman, Debra Lamb, Kay Lutz-Ritzheimer, Ginger Yamamoto, Louis Caruso, Judith Watt, and Patti Lake.
Excerpted from Lane Weekly and news sources by Joan Aschim, public information officer, Marketing and Public Relations, (541) 463-5591, April 2004.