Monthly Highlights
November 2008
VOTERS APPROVED MEASURE 20-142 in the November 4 election to renew bond funding for Lane Community College. The $83 million, 15-year measure will help update instructional facilities, equipment and technology. The bond was endorsed by dozens of individuals and organizations including mayoral candidates, legislators, employee unions and labor groups, school boards, businesses and industry groups, and many others. More than one hundred volunteers worked to inform voters about the bond.
THE “OPENING DOORS” FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN kicked off its public phase. The campaign will raise $23 million. Tony Baker, editor and publisher of The Register-Guard newspaper, is campaign chair, and Sister Monica F. Heeran, retired CEO of PeaceHealth and executive founder of Volunteers in Medicine, and Don Tykeson, founder of Tykeson/Associates Enterprises, are honorary co-chairs. Other leadership team members are Dr. Terry Carter, Dottie Chase, Peter Davidson, Dave Frosaker, Rosaria Haugland, Ada Lee and Sue Prichard. “Opening Doors” will help Lane respond to the growing local and national shortage of nurses and other health professionals that will affect the quality of patient care in the next few years. The four initiatives for which the “Opening Doors” campaign will provide funding are: a new Health and Wellness Center on Lane’s main campus in Eugene; an endowment to hire additional faculty; a scholarship endowment; and the President’s Fund for Innovation.
LISA STEGALL was named November's Classified Employee of the Month. She is the administrative specialist for the Advanced Technology Division and has worked at Lane since 1993.
LANE’S CROSS-COUNTRY TEAMS placed third in the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges championships held in Battleground, Wash. The Titans actually tied with Everett Community College for second place, but because of a technicality in the rulebook it took third.
THE OSAA STATE HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY MEET was held at Lane Nov. 1 for the 37th year in a row! Student-athletes from 150 different high schools competed for a crowd of 4,000 spectators.
CULINARY STAFF, STUDENTS and other volunteers from Lane cooked and served at the Free Whiteaker Community Thanksgiving Dinner, and contributed to the annual Sleeping Bag Drive. The dinner serves about 2,500 men, women and children.
Excerpted from Lane Weekly and news sources by Joan Aschim, Marketing and Public Relations, November 2008.