Success Stories
Footbagger and scholar achieves her dreams at Lane |
A passion for caring transforms into a nursing career |
Three women succeed in college and life |
Alison Donway's career took flight at Lane |
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It happened again. A bright-eyed young woman approached Lane alumna Marciann Gaston in a public place and introduced herself. |
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As
a high school journalism student in 1968, Peter Gribskov was
wondering about life after graduation when he was assigned
to photograph Lane’s new 30th Avenue campus construction. |
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Shawnell Tolliver is an associate degree student at Lane Community College--and a top freestyle footbagger!
Michaelia Carroll is the only one of 10 siblings to go to college. She’s earning an associate’s degree in nursing at Lane Community College. 
Three women succeed in college and life with support from the Transitions to Success program at Lane Community College. Seated: Lorna Zimmerman. Standing, from left: Jennifer Cromwell and Tamera Zimmerman.
After Alison Donway graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in both English and economics, she decided to pursue an associate of applied science degree in Flight Technology at Lane Community College. Now, as service manager for the 750 pilots who fly for Horizon Air, she says, "Lane's flight program was the best choice by far" to give her the skills she needed for a successful career in aviation.
For 18-year-old Josh Simmons, enrolling in 
Mark Schmidt at Turner Construction Company keeps a vigilant eye on incoming e-mails from subcontractors working on the Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend, currently the largest construction project in the Northwest.
Susanne Pechnick was in the right place at the right time when she landed a job as a phlebotomist at Oregon Medical Laboratories, the largest clinical and drug-testing laboratory in Oregon, headquartered in Eugene. The 48-year-old Pechnick was completing an internship at OML when a supervisor there told her about the job opening. “I was lucky because they needed someone right away.”
Morgan deVos is well on her way to becoming a massage therapist.
Rob Currier's career choice blends the best of practical and theoretical worlds
Daron Parmenter decided to learn the right way to bring his body back to health after receiving what he calls inferior rehabilitative care following an injury. He says the experience ultimately prompted him to pursue a career working with those who have physical injuries, disabilities and chronic illnesses.
As a migrant farm worker, Juan José Mora Flores’ father wanted more for his children than a life of physical labor. So in 1993, he moved the family from Mexico to Eugene, where he enrolled Juan José in English as a Second Language classes. The then-9-year-old mastered English and found inspiration for his future.
After two decades working in a lumber mill, Frank Wilson wanted a change. Although uncertain about what to do, he was clear about one thing: “I didn’t want to just look for a job without any formal training,” he says.
A chance to play college hoops while staying close to home made the decision to attend
Lane Community College a slam dunk for Cora McVey. But other unexpected benefits of attending Lane—small class sizes, individual attention from instructors and high-quality core courses—helped Cora decide where she’ll complete her bachelor’s degree and what career path she’ll follow.
“Your course has been recognized as having met Quality Matters review standards,” wrote Kay Kane of the Quality Matters program. “Only about 50 percent of the courses reviewed have been recognized."
Jackie Bryson, career and employment advisor at Lane Community College, has helped three students in a row win the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarship. She can be reached at 
When Justin Lam and Daniel Iles attended Lane’s Aviation Summer Academy in 2005, they shadowed air traffic controllers, security personnel and helicopter mechanics at the City of Eugene Airport.
When Henry Parada emigrated from his native war-torn El Salvador in 1985, he couldn’t in his wildest dreams have imagined that he might achieve his boyhood dream of becoming an aviation mechanic.
Even as a young child growing up in Moscow, Russia, Lada Korolknew she had a creative bent. But it wasn’t until she and her family had emigrated to the U.S. that she felt compelled to pursue a career in the graphic arts.
Sometimes the best things in life are free. Take Laneís College Now program ó a learning opportunity available to high school students in Lane County at no cost.
"Lane is phenomenal. There's just no other word for it. If you have any problem, any question, don't know what direction to go, the information and the people are there to help you."
“For me, LCC has been the foundation of everything I've done professionally.” —Marciann Gaston
"She consistently makes me think I can do anything and that even what I am doing is special and amazing," student Lara Coley says of instructor Jennifer von Ammon 
"Lane's impact on my life has been incredible," says 2005/06 Lane Community College Student Body President Jeremy Riel. 
“Here in Eugene, things have come full circle. It took a leap of faith, but I re-enrolled in college to make my dream a reality. —Ephraim C. Payne 
“We really form friendships with our patients; we come to understand many social issues and problems.” —Amy Hogan
“Lane
gave me the basics to help me be a success.” —Peter
Gribskov
"You
can live five weeks without food, five days without water,
but only five minutes without oxygen," notes Roger Hecht,
coordinator of Lane Community College's Respiratory Care program
in Eugene. 
When
Lane Community College diesel technology student Ryan Sederlin
won third place in a national vocational skills competition,
Caterpillar national in Illinois offered him a job. 
“We
are here for a reason, and we are all connected. We need to
find ways to help each other.” —Kathryn
Harrison
Thaddeus
Beebe, Lane flight instructor for the past year and a half
and a graduate of the flight technology program, leaves for
China this month to become a flight instructor at a new Pan
Am flight training facility in the city of Shijiazhuang, capital
of the Hebei province.
"I’ve
been able to use those skills that I started developing at
Lane to bring basic biological research into the applied side
of the world.” —Dan Luoma 
Lane
Community College art student Alex San Pedro loves the bronze sculpture
on Lane's campus depicting a boy in an oversized chair, with a tree
growing from his head...
The
full-sized wrestling ring in the family basement served as a classroom.
There, as young boys, Tom and Billy Pappas learned about persistence,
hard work and fair play...More Success Stories at Lane Community College
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for This Lifelong Learner
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