Monthly Highlights
May 2005 Highlights
THE MAY 17 SPECIAL DISTRICT ELECTION returned Paul Holman to the Zone 1 seat on the Board of Education. Pat Riggs-Henson of Springfield was elected to the Zone 3 seat, and Susie Johnston of Pleasant Hill was elected to the Zone 4 seat.
JEREMY RIEL AND SARA SUMNER were elected student body president and vice president in the May student elections. Riel has served on student government since fall 2003 and is an All-USA Academic Scholar nominee. In other student election outcomes, approved were a constitutional amendment to specify membership in the Oregon Student Association; a fee increase for recreational sports and athletics; and continued support for OSPIRG including a fee increase.
TONY MCCOWN AND LAYLA ULAM were honored as two of 37 Oregon Community College Association Student Scholars for Community College Month ceremonies held at the state capitol. McCown also was an All-USA Academic Scholar nominee and is outgoing student body president. He plans to transfer to the University of Oregon to study law. Ulam also plans to transfer to the UO to study journalism and women's studies.
EPHRAIM C. PAYNE won a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarship for up to $30,000 a year for tuition, room and board, books, and other required fees toward a bachelor's degree. He is one of 25 students to earn the scholarship from among 791 nominees nationwide and is the second student in a year from Lane to win the prestigious scholarship. Payne will graduate this summer and transfer to the University of Oregon to study journalism and environmental studies.
FRED GRISWOLD AND M.E. "BETSY" HARDINGER won first-place awards in the national League for Innovation Student Literary Competition. Griswold won first place for a one-act play and Hardinger won first place for a short story. Both will be published in the League Literary Magazine and receive a $500 cash prize.
FOUR LANE STUDENTS were awarded teaching assistantships for the coming year with the French Ministry of Education and the Cultural Services at the French Embassy, including Lara Coley (see a success story profile at www.lanecc.edu/mpr/success/index.htm ) Ryan Jacobs, Bridget Sullivan, and Stephanie Raub. The students will spend six to nine months teaching English conversation classes.
SUSAN TATER was named Employee of the Month for May. She has been an administrative specialist in Facilities Management and Planning since October 1993 and worked on the bond project in 1999.KLCC WON FIVE AWARDS at the Oregon Associated Press Broadcast Association annual conference including first place for best treatment of a single subject, first place for best commentary, first place for best website, and first and second place for best use of sound.TWO AREA BUSINESSES received awards from Lane's Business Development Center. Holly Residential Care Center for adults with severe disabilities was named Small Business of the Year. Fox Hollow Creek Nursery was named the Microenterprise of the Year.FLIGHT TECHNOLOGY won a $4,720 NASA grant from Oregon State University for outreach to high school and university students as part of the Lane-OSU partnership to develop career training for the rapidly expanding air transportation industry. The department also opened kiosks at Eugene airport and the Evergreen Aviation Museum and is offering flight training classes to high school students in college facilities for dual credit this spring and summer.RECRUITMENT FOR AN ENDOWED CHAIR for American Indian Languages was begun. An anonymous gift funded the chair, which will rotate among innovative initiatives. The first chair will go to a recognized scholar of native languages with an emphasis on the Northwest.LANE'S PHI THETA KAPPA (PTK) chapter of the national honor society for two-year colleges won 13 national awards, the chapter's best-ever performance, including the award for best leadership.Excerpted from Lane Weekly and news sources by Joan Aschim, public information officer, Marketing and Public Relations, May 2005.