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Scottsdale Community College will be honored on April 26 at the Scottsdale History Hall of Fame Dinner at Chaparral Suites Hotel. The college joins 55 individuals and three organizations that have been honored since the Hall of Fame began seven years ago. The college is being honored for providing 30 years of top-quality education.
Dancing their way to the finals at the Northwest Region of the American College Dance Festival in Salt Lake City in March: members of the Scottsdale Community College Moving Company and MIAET Dance Ensemble. The six student dancers, under the leadership of Patricia Bodell and Carley Conder, were the only representatives from Arizona and the only two-year college group to be so honored. Alan Tongret, head of theater at Paradise Valley Community College, has been chosen a quarterfinalist in the Empire Screenwriting Competition, Studio City, CA. He teaches screenwriting and playwriting in addition to other theater and humanities courses. His screenplay is "Thunder on the Moor," about Gothic author Charlotte Bronte. Clyde Perry, who represents GateWay Community College on the WF (workforce) 2000 Apprentice team of Honeywell, reports that the team won the local competition in the Honeywell Quest for Excellence contest. The annual competition among local Honeywell divisions recognizes leaders in the use of results-driven continuous-improvement efforts. The WF 2000 team presented the process of establishing the apprenticeship program in which GateWay participates.
The Arizona Nursery Association recently presented its ninth annual President’s Award to Cindy Odgers, Mesa Community College agriculture faculty. She was commended for teaching the Arizona Certified Nursery Professional Exam classes and for making the MCC Urban Horticulture program into a thriving educational program.
When Frank Attanucci, Scottsdale Community College math faculty, recently turned 40 he told his wife, “I am either going to run a marathon or I’m going to start wearing a lot of gold chains and driving a convertible!” His wife, Mary Ellen, voted for the race. With that, Attanucci completed the 34th Las Vegas Marathon in under four hours. “The last six to seven miles were an exercise in pain management,” he admits.
Donovan E. LaMar, adviser and adjunct counseling faculty at Mesa Community College, recently presented a paper at the 24th Annual National Council on Black Studies International Conference in Atlanta, GA. The paper, "A Revolution in Consciousness for African American Males --Physician Heal Thyself” focuses on the psychological well-being of African American males as part of a “holistic health care, counseling and personal development model” that aims for“improved racial and ethnocultural balance in gender specific education within a multigenerational society (i.e., mind/body and spiritual development).” LaMar has been on a year long Professional Staff internship at Mesa where he serves as the director of the Male Leadership Institute. Selected to participate in the Coalition for Allied Health Leadership: Kelly Smith, director of Continuing Education and Community Services for the Health Care Integrated Educational System of the Maricopa Community Colleges. She will join 30 health professionals from across the U.S. in an initiative to advance allied health. The leadership program is sponsored by the National Network of Health Career Programs in Two-Year Colleges. The Phoenix City Council has appointed Debbie Stanfield, GateWay Community College associate dean of Student Services, a member of the Central City Village Planning Committee. Arnette Ward, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, was featured for her dual roles as talented president and vocalist in a recent issue of the Chandler-Sun Lakes Independent. “A Musical Touch. . . College president carries song in her heart,” the headline reads.
Ann Ewing, Mesa Community College faculty, has won the 2000 Two-Year-College Teaching Excellence Award of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
Miguel Corzo, director of Planning and Technology Services, has been selected one of eight national 2000 Ryland Fellows of EDUCAUSE, the association for higher education information technology. The fellowship sponsors fellows as they attend and learn at EDUCAUSE events. Carol Diego, Office of the Community Agenda, has won a Paragon Award from the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations for the office’s annual report.
Barbara Lacy, marketing and public relations, Maricopa Skill Center, has won two awards in the Admissions and Marketing Report competition for the FOCUS newsletter and for the calendar.
Tony Muscia, director of the Small Business Management
Program at Scottsdale Community College, will present a seminar – “Alternative
Business Plans to Meet an Ever-Changing Future” at the 2000 Enterprise
Conference at the Phoenix Civic Plaza on May 3.
Raul Monreal, Guadalupe Center director, has been named
co-chair of the City of Phoenix Police Chief’s Hispanic Community Advisory
Group.
Named runner up in the prestigious Paumanok Poetry Award
from the State University of New York: Virginia Chase Sutton, Phoenix
College English faculty. She won $500 and, in October, wins her
way to the university for a reading of her original poems. Meanwhile,
Sutton and Dr. Lois Roma-Deeley, English faculty at Paradise Valley Community
College, presented a paper, “Women Writers: Creating Community,”
at the annual associated Writers Program Conference in Kansas City, Mo.
Praeger Publishers has published Literature and Film
as Modern Mythology, by William K. Ferrell, adjunct English faculty Glendale
Community College.
The City of Tempe Human Relations Commission has
awarded Rebecca Zaremba, Law Enforcement training coordinator of
Mesa Community College, its Diversity Award for 2000.
Chris Hagen-Hurley, assistant director of the Maricopa
Skill Center SouthWest Campus, was elected to the Tri-City West Chamber
of Commerce Board of Directors.
Anneliese Harper, Communication and Performing Arts faculty,
Scottsdale Community College, became chair of the Intercultural Communication
Interest Group at the recent Western States Speech Communication Association
annual meeting. Dr. Harper also represented SCC at the group’s legislative
assembly and presented the paper “Where do I Stand?” (The paper is
about experiences with social stratification).
The following faculty have been selected for a NISOD Excellence
Award by their department chairs. NISOD, the National Institute for Staff
and Organizational Development, has been sponsoring teaching excellence
awards annually since 1978. They are: Art Jenkins, Drafting
Technology; Bassam Matar,
engineering; Doug DeSanti, EMT/fire science; Dr. Karen
Conzelman, biology; Charlotte Howey, English; and Jane Camp, English.
Is the doctor in?
These Chandler-Gilbert Community
College employees have earned doctorate degrees: Ruth Romano, coordinator
of Continuing Education, who earned her degree in Educational Leadership
through Northern Arizona University; Wayne Gautreau, math faculty, who
completed his degree in Computer Information Technology from Nova Southeastern
University; and Dr. René Barrios, chair of the counseling department,
who earned his degree in Higher Education from Arizona State University.
Masterful Maricopans: Dennis Ellsworth, accounts
payable, District Offices, has completed his Masters in Education degree
from the University of Phoenix.
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C. Brooks, lead reading faculty at Chander-Gilbert Community College, has
been invited to speak at colleges, universities and at educational forums
throughout the country to present workshops based on her book, Slicing
Through Your Emotional Luggage, now in its fourth
edition. Most recently, Dr. Brooks spoke in Springfield,
Mo., for the Mental Health Association of the Ozarks. Written as a handbook
for reading students, Dr. Brooks’ book is now also in demand among mental
health professionals. Publisher is Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co.
Ruth
A. Unks, MCCCD Risk Manager, has been elected vice president, region one,
of the Public Risk Management Association.
The Asian Chamber of Commerce has presented Marian Tadano,
Phoenix College dean, an "Award of Special Recognition 2000."
The organization cited Dr. Tadano for "outstanding support and dedication
to students and community as a role model, teacher and administrator."
Frank
Torres, Glendale Community College, systems programmer, is a co-author
of the recently released SQL Unleashed (second edition - SAMS MacMillan
Publishing 1999). Also, he is profiled in this intermediate-advanced
database book.
Dr.
Christina Novak, music faculty, Scottsdale Community College, was a presenter
at the 2000 Music Teachers National Association Convention in Minneapolis,
Mn., recently and the 2000 Arizona Music Teachers Association Conference
in Tempe. She presented her research paper, “The Effects of Different
Practice Conditions on Intermediate Pianists’ Accuracy and Expression.”
Leah
Palmer, of the Mesa Community College Center for Public Policy and
Service, has been appointed to serve on the state Welfare Reform Joint
Committee Task Force.