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LAKEPORT, Calif. – All former Lake County Mendocino College graduates and students are invited to a first-ever alumni reception at the new Lake Center.
Hosted by the Lake County Friends of Mendocino College, an affiliate of the Mendocino College Foundation Inc., the free event will be on Saturday, May 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. at 2565 Parallel Drive, Lakeport.
Anyone who has attended one or more classes at any of the Mendocino College campuses is considered an alumnus of the local community college.
Current and former residents of Lake County are encouraged to attend to network with fellow alumni.
Campus tours and refreshments will be offered, along with the opportunity to win special gifts and prizes, including certificates for purchases at the college bookstore.
Attendees may bring photographs and business cards for the new Wall of Fame being established at the Lake Center.
A short program beginning at 2:45 p.m. will include Mendocino College graduates who are alumni of Lake County high schools.
Featured speakers Anthony Farrington, Clear Lake High School; Michelle Wells Trigger, Upper Lake High School; and Lily Woll, Kelseyville High School will talk about their personal and professional success since their days at Mendocino College.
Others in attendance will be encouraged to share their stories.
The Governing Council of the Lake County Friends is sponsoring the reception, with a generous donation from member John Tomkins, president of the Mendocino College Board of Trustees and a long-time supporter of education at all levels in Lake County.
Members of the Friends include Peggy Campbell, Judy Conard, Brock Falkenberg, Lori McGuire, Cameron Reeves, Wilda Shock, Margaret Silveira, and Rebecca Southwick of Lakeport; Gloria Flaherty, Wally Holbrook and Trena Pauly, Kelseyville; Dave Geck and Jamey Gill, Cobb; Christopher Taliaferro, Lower Lake; and John Tomkins, Lucerne.
Katie Fairbairn, executive director of the Mendocino College Foundation, and Steve Hixenbaugh, interim dean of the Lake Center, serve as staff support for the affiliate organization.
Reservations are requested to www.lcfmc.weebly.com . More information is available from Shock, chair of the governing council, at 707-263-7575.
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LOWER LAKE, Calif. – Last week we wrote about sustainability awards and reported on who got them. Now we will explain what they are.
Sustainability awards are given to people who maintain silver level or better for two or more consecutive grading periods.
It came about because the staff saw students doing really well one grading period and then riding on that earning much less credit the next grading period.
The reward for the award is the students who can maintain or sustain their efforts receive a certificate that is redeemable for items from our own student based enterprise.
Carlé students and staff would like to thank Principal Strahl and his daughter and Carlé graduate Quintessa Strahl for making pancakes and waffles for the whole school on April 17, 2015. They were delicious and it was a wonderful start to a great learning day.
Carlé would like to thank Danny Salvante and Kenny Kalousek for picking up the paper recycling. We also would like to thank Jasmine Heckard, Kristen Melcher and Riley Nielson for recycling all our plastic, glass and aluminum on our campus. Teacher Alan Siegel will take all out to lunch as a reward and thank you for all their hard work.
On Tuesday, April 21, Carlé students who got gold level last grading period took a gold level trip led by teachers Angie Siegel and Robin Shrive to the Taylor Observatory.
Carlé would like to thank Janice Traub speaker at the observatory and the staff of the observatory for showing us such a wonderful time.
After the awesome show the teachers and students went to a local park to have a picnic lunch.
On April 23, Principal Strahl and super secretary Barbra Dye took students who have averaged 98-percent attendance all year out to lunch to The Spot in Clearlake.
Student Regina Perrin-Clanton had her portfolio on April 23. Carlé High School congratulates her.
The student of the week for last week was Cole Wynn. Cole is an outstanding student, and a great guy who will graduate this year.
The CHILY winner for last week was Dameon Dawson and he chose a football.
Doyle Conatser and Danny Salvante are student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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BATON ROUGE, LA – Andrew Luchsinger of Lakeport, Calif., recently was initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.
Luchsinger was initiated at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Luchsinger is among approximately 32,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year.
Membership is by invitation and requires nomination and approval by a chapter.
Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors, having at least 72 semester hours, are eligible for membership.
Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff, and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.
Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine and headquartered in Baton Rouge, La., Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline honor society.
The society has chapters on more than 300 college and university campuses in North America and the Philippines.
Its mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”
For more information, visit www.phikappaphi.org .
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SACRAMENTO – California Community Colleges Board of Governors President Geoffrey L. Baum on Thursday welcomed two new board members – Connie Conway and Jennifer Perry – appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
“Connie Conway and Jennifer Perry will bring valuable experience and expertise to the Community Colleges Board of Governors. We thank the governor for these outstanding appointments and I look forward to working with them both on behalf of California’s more than 2 million community college students,” Baum said.
Connie Conway, 64, of Tulare, has been a member of the California Women Lead Board of Directors since 2008.
She served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2008 to 2014, where she was Minority Leader from 2010 to 2014.
Conway was a member of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors from 2000 to 2008, serving as chair in 2005 and 2008.
She was chair of the Cities Counties Schools Partnership in 2007 and president of the California State Association of Counties in 2006.
This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem. Conway is a Republican.
Jennifer Perry, 55, of Los Angeles, has been executive director at the Children’s Action Network since 1990.
She was director of public affairs at Act III Communications from 1988 to 1990 and served as director of special projects in the office of Sen. Alan Cranston from 1985 to 1988 and as staff assistant in the Office of Congressman Mickey Leland from 1982 to 1983.
This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem. Perry is a Democrat.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation composed of 72 districts and 112 colleges serving 2.1 million students per year.
For more information about the community colleges, please visit http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/ , https://www.facebook.com/CACommColleges or https://twitter.com/CalCommColleges .