Success Stories
Women's basketball team defends 71-home game winning streak
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Serving students for 27 years |
Layne Clemen engineers success |
Spring Term Faculty Recognition Awards go to Imonen, DiMarco |
Jonathan Morton transfers to a teaching career
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FACULTY AWARDS GO TO SUSAN REDDOOR, KATIE SWETT, AND TIM BLOOD |
Student begins speech pathology career at Lane |
After 18 years in manufacturing, Jeff Lande’s pursing a new career in radiology |
Congressman DeFazio helps secure $330,000 for Lane |
Fiji Native Starts a New Life at Lane |
Sherry Duerst-Higgins: Supporting Kids and Community |
Molly Bedortha: Caring for the Community |
Student Follows Her Dream |
Lee Beyer: Political Science Student Becomes Community Leader |
Flash Floods Sweep Athlete Into Track Career |
Cambra Ward: From intern to vice president |
Students offer advice on Life @ Lane |
Dr. John Holtzapple cares for patients and community |
Learning leads to Activism for Marilen Delgado |
Veteran and humanitarian seeks flight degree |
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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Starting sophomore and league all-star Theresa Brown, the last time Lane Community College's women's basketball team lost a home game was eight years ago - on Dec. 6, 2001.
Connie Rowlett, administrative coordinator for the Science Division at Lane Community College, was named Employee of the Year at fall in-service on Sept. 23, 2009. 
Layne Clemen started Lane Community College at 17. Now he works for Systems West and has been accepted into the University of California at Davis doctoral program in engineering. 
Spring term Faculty Recognition Awards were presented to sculpture instructor Lee Imonen and Transitions to Success instructor Cara DiMarco in surprise presentations last week. The awards are based on nominations from students, staff, faculty and alumni.
"Starting over is not impossible," he says, his dream of becoming a social studies teacher within reach. "Lane Community College showed me what I can be."
Winter Term Faculty Recognition Awards have been presented to three outstanding instructors.
Faculty Recognition Awards are conferred each term based on nominations from students, staff, faculty and alumni.
Access to an affordable education and a small class environment brought Maria Rosa Fabian Alvizo to Lane Community College. By next fall she will have completed an Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer degree, her first credential toward a career as a bilingual speech pathologist serving Spanish-speaking families with children.
Jeff Lande worked at PW Pipe in Eugene for 18 years. It was a good job. It paid well and provided health insurance, and along with his wife’s income as an educational assistant for special needs kids, the couple was able to buy a house, drive new cars, and look forward to a good future for themselves and their four children. Jeff even bought a fishing boat.
The federal omnibus spending bill signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 11, 2009, includes $330,000 for Lane Community College for nursing labs and equipment. Congressman Peter DeFazio worked for the appropriation over the past year.
Diraj Singh never dreamed that he would make the best professional
Ask real estate broker Sherry Duerst-Higgins where she gets her passion for public service, and she’s quick to say it’s all about “kids and community.”
Imagine being a nurse with 24,000 possible patients. That’s the large and varied practice that Molly Bedortha maintains as a leader of the Triage Team at the University of Oregon’s Student Health Center.
Amber Adams wanted to keep sight of her professional goal, so in bold lipstick strokes across her bathroom mirror, she wrote: “I will become a dental hygienist.”
The roots of Lee Beyer's deep and flourishing public service career can be traced back to 1973 when he was a student at Lane Community College studying journalism and political science.
Sometimes the path that a person should take in life becomes clear in a flash. For Cody Fleming, it came in a flash flood.
Cambra Ward has a big job. She's the vice president and general manager of KMTR-TV and the regional vice president of the Northwest Group for Clear Channel Television. Before her graduation from Lane Community College in 1984 with an associate of science degree in Broadcast and Visual Design, she took the first steps to reach her current position with an internship through Lane as a studio camera operator.
Jessica Rojas admits that she "didn't know how to use a computer" when she enrolled at Lane four years ago. The 31-year-old student in Environmental Science says a Student Service Associate in Career and Employment Services helped
her to get started. "I was a little embarrassed, and they helped me through it."
Dr. John Holtzapple began his remarkable career in health care by earning an associate's degree in nursing at Lane Community College in 1983. Now, as a longtime family medical physician with PeaceHealth Medical Group, he is well known for his respectful and compassionate dedication to patients.
Marilen Delgado didn't intend to become a political activist. "It just kind of happened," she says, when she served as chair of the Latino Student Union at Lane Community College during her second year.
Tyson Bumgardner is achieving his dream of being a pilot, with a degree from Lane Community College.
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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