WINTER 2018

Clark’s Future is Revealed.

– plus – The campaign for Clark College | The era of advanced technology Introducing a new type of scholarship | Alumnus gives $4 million From fry cook to franchise king 2 | contents contents | 3

Contents “I believe in Clark College. It provides opportunities to get a foundation and to understand what questions to ask.” – Tom Cook

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FEATURE Preparing for [Winter 2018] Volume 19, Issue 3 10 the advanced From fry cook to Flexible and Copyright 2018 by Clark College Foundation technology era Decadesfranchise of hard work in the fast king food industry has agile to the Printed by Journal Graphics, Advanced techniques in manufacturing can Portland, Ore. paid off for alumnus Tom Cook. Now he’s giving back triple a business’s yearly output. to his alma mater. Tailoredfinish services and line flexible scholarship

Partners support helps students stay in school and Clark College Foundation achieve their goals. 1933 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver, WA 98663-3598 360.992.2301 4 PHOTO JOURNAL PARTNERS PRODUCTION CLARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION EXECUTIVE STAFF Partners is published three times a Editor in chief Rhonda Morin Graphic design Greg Holly Lisa Gibert, chief executive officer year (spring, summer and winter). 6 TIDBITS Read more at Wei Zhuang Joel B. Munson, chief advancement officer We welcome your clarkcollegefoundation.org Contributing writers Hannah Erickson Daniel Rogers ’01, chief financial officer comments by email at 8 PROMISING PATHWAYS Lily Raff McCaulou Photography Jenny Shadley [email protected] Joel B. Munson Hal Abrams, vice president of development or by phone at 360.992.2301. 22 ALUMNUS GIVES $4 MILLION Copy editors Karen Hagen ’94 For a full staff list, visit clarkcollegefoundation.org 24 CLASS NOTES Join us on Facebook at Kelsey Hukill facebook.com/ClarkCollegeAlumni Vivian Cheadle Manning 26 IN MEMORIAM Erica Schwenneker 3 4 | photo journal photo journal | 5

The 2018 edition of Savoring Excellence was an outstanding success. O’Connell Sports Complex was transformed into a magnificent display of color and sound. An announcement of a $4 million scholarship gift - the single largest such gift in Clark’s history - brought the more than 325 guests to their feet. The penultimate moment was the announcement of a $35 million fundraising campaign, called Promising Pathways.

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Promises kept at Pharmacy Technician

scholarship reception program comes in first

ore than 275 people gathered in Gaiser Student tenor Daniel Sklyarov highlighted the afternoon. Both lark College’s Pharmacy Technician program ranked number one in M Center on October 19, to witness one of the students are studying music. Throughout the event, C the nation by Washington Monthly. most heart-felt events of the academic year, when Clark short videos of Clark students, staff and donors shared In its annual “College Rankings” issue, published in September, the Washington, students meet their scholarship donors. The annual a variety of promises each person made to the college. D.C. magazine ranked vocational certificate programs for the first time. event, billed this year as “I Promise Clark College,” A 2017 scholarship recipient, Patrick Carrier pledged Traditionally it categorized four-year colleges and universities. The periodical uses featured personal educational journey stories from to “give Clark students some scholarships someday.” data from the U.S. Department of Education’s gainful employment database. Clark College Foundation Board of Directors Vice Chair Ginn Group was the event’s presenting sponsor. Other Clark’s Pharmacy Technician program is housed on the Washington State University Vancouver Eric Merrill and alumna Monica Santos Pinacho. Musical sponsors included Waste Connections, Vesta Hospitality, campus, where students study in the state-of-the-art Columbia Credit Union Simulation performances by pianist and vocalist Lissa McCarty and Quail Homes and The Columbian. Pharmacy and have access to externship placements with local employers. Area employers assisted in building the program’s curriculum, ensuring that graduates learn the skills needed in today’s health care marketplace.

“We were already confident of our Pharmacy Technician program’s reputation in this region, but are tremendously proud to see its excellence recognized on a national level,” said Brenda Walstead, dean of business and health sciences. “Our faculty work hard to create a program that produces the kind of skilled technicians that modern pharmacies need.”

READ MORE The full Washington Monthly article is available at WASHINGTONMONTHLY.COM/2018COLLEGE-GUIDE. tidBits Penguins march into the Hall of Fame New website is live

lark College will Janie Hogan-Corbett, Women’s Basketball, was a key member A brand new website featuring details about Clark C welcome its newest of the 1992-1993 Clark College team that won the conference College Foundation’s $35 million fundraising campaign Athletics Hall of Fame championship and became the first team in NWAC history to is live. Elements include videos, the latest Penguin Chats members on February finish the season unbeaten. Hogan-Corbett led the league in podcasts, fascinating stories about Clark’s alumni and 2, 2019, at a ceremony scoring and rebounding on her way to first team all-league and held after two Penguin first team all-tournament honors. partners who are running billion dollar businesses or basketball games. writing best-selling books, complete access to current The 1981 Men’s Golf Team, coached by 2012 Hall of Fame and past Partners magazines and ways to get involved Brenda Bessner, a member inductee Claude “Skeet” O’Connell, includes the individual of Women’s Track and Field, champion that year, Ian Harper, and team members Glen with Clark. The site includes a separate section on spent two seasons with Hueser, Greg Brown, Jeff Coad, Kevin Antalock and Eric Promising Pathways: The Campaign for Clark College with the Clark College team Deggerman. current information about priorities and ways to give. and was the 1989 shotput The 1982 Men’s Golf Team, also coached by O’Connell, includes There are also easy-to-use media resources and staff champion with a throw of the 1982 individual champion, Jeff Coad, and team members contact sections. 42’ 8¾” and the 1989 and Kevin Antalock, Todd Quigley, Eric Deggerman, Tim Gilberg and 1990 javelin champion VISIT CLARKCOLLEGEFOUNDATION.ORG Mike Burch. with throws of 166’1” and 160’2”. Bessner still holds the record for shotput and javelin. She competed in FOR TICKETS TO THE HALL OF FAME CEREMONY, the Deaflympics in 1985 and 1989 with second-place VISIT WWW.CLARKCOLLEGEFOUNDATION.ORG/ finishes in shotput and javelin. ATHLETICS-HALL-OF-FAME-2019 8 | campaign highlights

Many people talk about change. However, real change happens when talk turns into action. Gift Planning Tip That is when promises become Promising Pathways. You can save your children money by giving them the Clark College and Clark College Foundation proudly right asset from your estate. announce the official launch of When you set up your will or living trust with an attorney, make sure you discuss which as- sets you plan to give to your family and which ones will go to charity.

• If you give appreciated stock or real estate to your family, they will receive a step-up in basis and avoid paying income taxes on the appreciation. This $35 million initiative is the largest nonprofit fundraising • If you give your IRA or other deferred income to your children, they ultimately will campaign in Clark County’s have to pay income taxes when they receive distributions of the funds. history. It promises to transform • Charities can receive either of these funds without paying income taxes. the educational and career opportunities for all students We encourage you to speak to a enrolled at Clark College. professional adviser or contact Clark lanni College Foundation. Hal Abrams and P ng LET US HELP YOU WITH ft with T Vivian Manning can help identify gift i i YOUR GIFT PLANNING. G p plans that accomplish your family’s goals. Hal & Hal Abrams and Vivian Manning can help identify gift plans that Promising Pathways will support: Vivian! accomplish your family’s goals. Guided Pathways – an innovative academic CAMPAIGN DONORS framework focusing on student retention and graduation. CONTACT US TODAY! LEARN MORE Flexible Scholarships – enhanced financial options Hal Abrams, J.D., LL.M [email protected] by visiting our new website at OUR GOAL TO-DATE for students. 360.992.2787 4,000 2,500 Advanced Manufacturing – creating a hub of quality clarkcollegefoundation.org DONORS DONORS ...... and future-focused technological training to support Vivian Manning, CFRE the region’s fastest growing manufacturing industries. [email protected] 360.992.2104 Veterans – guaranteeing our veterans will always GET INVOLVED! find life-building support through Clark’s Veterans CAMPAIGN FUNDING Resource Center. Contact Clark College Foundation Cuisine and Professional Baking and Pastry Arts at [email protected] or Education – supporting students in the Tod & 360.992.2301 OUR GOAL TO-DATE Maxine McClaskey Culinary Institute. $35 $17 A collection of other programs and projects for MILLION MILLION ...... students and faculty. 10 | feature feature | 11

the model and size, as well as the details of each in other words, as advanced manufacturing component. She can pick the color and material spreads. ADVANCED of the sole, the sides, tongue and laces. After a few clicks to pay, a factory makes the shoes to order. Siemens is a massive global company but its A few weeks later, the sneakers of her dreams are Pacific Northwest presence is a team of engineers delivered to her front door. and sales people who work with other companies TECHNIQUES to modernize their manufacturing processes. Advanced manufacturing describes the making of It is one of a handful of companies partnering C that pair of shoes. The term also refers to designing with Clark to develop its new advanced CAN TRIPLE A a factory capable of producing one-of-a-kind items manufacturing program. Taylor said working LARK rather than tens of thousands of identical ones. at Siemens has shown him firsthand that the United States needs to do a better job of training “That is a huge challenge for manufacturing,” people to work in this new, highly skilled field. BUSINESS’S said Brian Taylor, industrial area manager for He sees Washington companies like Boeing Siemens, which worked with Adidas to develop its regularly looking out of the state or even out of custom shoe technology. “You can’t make mass- the country for new hires. YEARLY OUTPUT customization of products without huge amounts of PREPARES digitalization and design.” Taylor has a personal connection to Clark. He studied at the college from 1993 to 1995, and Of course, advanced manufacturing doesn’t have his wife, Kristi Taylor, is a professor in Clark’s to involve one-of-a-kind products. It can also Dental Hygiene program. Taylor said he wants to mean improving the consistency of a brand or the help Clark meet the growing need for workforce ext year, Clark efficiency of a factory. Taylor said his company training in advanced manufacturing. College will break worked with Constellation Brands, which brews R ground on its Modelo and Corona beers, to get more out of an Taylor said that 15 percent of Fortune 500 FO existing facility, for example. Advanced techniques companies have already adopted advanced ambitious new campus — Clark enabled the company to triple its yearly output, manufacturing techniques. “The College at Boschma Farms. The Taylor said. other 85 percent know they 70-acre property near Ridgefield need to, to stay competitive.” Advanced manufacturing uses computer modeling And as manufacturers D will house what is being called to test and tweak the design of an entire factory N modernize, workers need to the Advanced Manufacturing before any machinery is constructed. Data is learn new skills to keep pace. A VANCED and Makers Center. Industry then collected and analyzed, allowing production and college leaders are working methods to evolve and improve over time. The result together to design the new facility is a more efficient and flexible way of manufacturing. and curriculum. Overcoming AI Advanced manufacturing may misperceptions sound like buzzy jargon but Workforce quality Genevieve Howard, dean of technology experts say it describes TECHNOLOGY This new era of manufacturing brings with it a lot of workforce, career and technical our future—whether we pay opportunity—for companies, consumers and Clark education at Clark, said one attention to the industry or not. College. One goal of the new program at Clark is of the biggest challenges for After all, everything we touch to translate these new manufacturing techniques the new campus is overcoming has to be manufactured, from into family-wage jobs for the region. When the misperceptions about the toothbrushes to cell phones to Columbia River Economic Development Council manufacturing industry. mattresses to cars. These and other surveyed companies looking to relocate, Taylor said, items are increasingly made using “For so long, manufacturing had this really bad the number one concern was about the local ERA reputation of, you go into the factory and you highly advanced technology. talent pool. come out and it’s dark and you’re dirty and you To find out what advanced “Ten years ago, it used to be, ‘What are the don’t get paid very much. That’s just not the case,” manufacturing really means, incentives?’ Now it’s, ‘What’s the quality and Howard said. “This is a family-wage occupation; hop on the website of shoe giant availability of the workforce?’” he said. He added it’s highly technical and clean. And I truly think by Lily Raff McCaulou Adidas, where a customer can that quality of life is also a concern, as a more the biggest challenge for us at this time is getting design her ideal pair of sneakers desirable community boosts employee retention. through to students and parents (to adjust) their online. She gets to choose Portland and Vancouver are well-situated to benefit, preconceived notion about what manufacturing is (or isn’t).” 12 | feature feature | 13

Another misconception about manufacturing is sections of welding each term, for example, the that it is a vanishing industry. Modernization new campus will facilitate a third. Witte said his department works with local “When people hear about manufacturing, they employers to design training programs that meet “If we could increase our enrollment by one- think about jobs going overseas,” Taylor said, the needs of local companies. As manufacturers third, that would be phenomenal,” she said. referring to a period of outsourcing in the modernize and jobs become more technical, In a hot job market, retention can be a challenge. 1990s, which resulted in millions of U.S. Clark could play an increasing role in retraining “You can’t make mass-customization jobs lost. Lisa Gibert, CEO of Clark College Foundation, local employees. These kinds of connections with said welders are in such high demand right now of products without huge amounts of In fact, manufacturing is a growing U.S. local employers help keep Clark’s educational that students are often lured away by lucrative industry with huge demand for trained workers. programs relevant, Witte added, which is job offers after taking just a couple of welding digitalization and design.” The Portland-Vancouver region is expected especially important in a fast-changing industry courses, leaving enrollment gaps in higher-level such as advanced manufacturing. to add 17,000 manufacturing jobs in the next courses. The phenomenon reflects a general – Brian Taylor ’95, Siemens decade, said Kevin Witte, vice president of Clark already offers related programs in economic trend—people are more likely to enroll economic and community development for machining, industrial maintenance, welding in community college when the economy is Clark College. and mechatronics. However, those programs flagging. Taylor said that a person who graduates with are already at capacity, usually filling as soon “When the economy is good, people go back a bachelor’s degree in the Portland-Vancouver as enrollment opens each term. The regional to work and our (overall) numbers go down,” area could land an advanced manufacturing demand for this kind of training is expected Gibert said. job that pays $80,000 to $150,000 per year. to increase. The new campus allows for these Because the campus’s first building will house Companies like Boeing are bringing in the programs to co-locate for the first time, which That is why, during the recession a decade ago, a high-tech program, some logistical hurdles majority of new hires from out of state. will create new, multidisciplinary training Clark found itself “bursting at the seams,” remain. For example, the college must figure opportunities. Gibert said. The college was looking for land to out how to get high-speed internet access expand its presence in northern Clark County to such a rural locale. Gibert once lived near Howard said the exact numbers will depend on to serve residents who lived further from the future Clark campus, so she understands details such as the size of a particular classroom Vancouver. That is when Gibert found a dairy how much the region needs a high-speed but her hope is that instead of offering two farm owned by a Norwegian couple, Hank and connection. Over the past year, she has met Bernice Boschma. The Boschma family valued with local government and business leaders the educational mission of Clark and had a as well as private investors about the idea personal connection: they took courses at the of bringing “dark fiber” to the site. That at boschma farms college to prepare for their national citizenship infrastructure would provide reliable top- exam. The swath of land was worth about $12 speed internet service to the new campus million, Gibert said, but the family sold it to the and surrounding community. For now, the foundation for $8 million. foundation and other partners are discussing whether they would have to create a new kind At the time the Boschma Farm deal was of business entity in order to establish the finalized in 2014, the advanced manufacturing infrastructure. emphasis had not yet come into focus. As she recounted her discussion of this “When we first started talking about it, we were possibility, Gibert stopped and laughed. thinking of creating a medical hub up there,” Gibert said. With the Boschma Farms campus, “I have been a part of so many different things that Eventually, the Boschma Farm campus could a typical nonprofit would never be involved have five to seven buildings, the academic focus with,” she said. of each building is still being discussed. Just as advanced manufacturing uses “It absolutely will depend on the demand and technology to identify and solve problems what we see coming down the road,” Gibert said. before any real machinery touches a factory “It will become another main campus.” floor, Gibert and others are seeking creative solutions to set the stage for a successful new That means that eventually, the northern campus campus. Clark has not yet broken ground on will have its own library, student affairs offices the Advanced Manufacturing and Makers and enough course offerings for students to Center, but the new venture is already living up complete their degrees without venturing south to its name. to the main campus. An architectural rendering of the future campus in Ridgefield: Clark College at Boschma Farms over a 40-year or more period. 14 | feature feature | 15 From fryer to Pacific Bells’ Tom Cook refines the recipe for franchise king business success by Joel B. Munson

o say that Tom and Jen Cook of Ridgefield, Wash., have left their mark on Clark County is an understatement. The two have helped build Pacific Bells Inc. and its sister company World Wide Wings, into a remarkable business with revenues expected to approach three- quarters of a billion dollars in 2018. The company, with headquarters in an unpretentious building north of downtown Vancouver, has grown into one of the largest restaurant-franchisee operationsT in the country. The firm also builds and owns most of its franchise stores, making Pacific Bells both a successful development and culinary powerhouse.

Recently, Joel B. Munson, Clark College Foundation’s chief advancement officer, sat down and talked with the Cooks. Education is a major focus in their family. Two of their older children are sophomores at University of Florida and University of California Santa Barbara, while their second set of twins are in kindergarten. It’s a reminder to them of the importance of learning and the role Clark College plays in making Southwest Washington a better place to live.

Partners: Your journey, Tom, is was yesterday. I had to learn how to fry interesting because it’s not anything shells. I loved being around people and like you thought it would be when you customers. You really get to know them. I started 40 years ago. found my home. Tom Cook: It really is an incredible Partners: And here you are today, an history. I thought I wanted to be a incredibly successful entrepreneur. physician. Between my junior and senior Back in the beginning, did you ever year of college, I worked in a hospital for imagine that you would be overseeing the summer and to be honest, I just didn’t such an enterprise? like it. It felt very transactional and I didn’t see the physicians building long-term Tom Cook: No. Even after we started the relationships, even though that’s what you business, our big goal was to have a dozen think of when you think of being a doctor. restaurants. We thought if we could do I realized I wasn’t going to be a very good that, it would be the cat’s meow, and we doctor. I was on an Army scholarship would live a life I never thought possible. I but I still had to work. I got a part-time grew up in humble beginnings, so to think job—at Taco Bell. I remember it like it that today we have almost 300 Taco Bell

Jen and Tom Cook with their twin boys Danny and Mikey at their home. 16 | feature feature | 17

and Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants in to work. I think I had that same work and our first class of chefs graduates Partners: Where do you both find total is unbelievable. ethic instilled in me. Tom and I are hard this spring. You have also taken a the time to make a difference in real interest in helping students the community, be successful in Partners: When you were young, workers. We are ‘type A’ people, so there is never a dull moment in our lives. become strong leaders and potential business and maintain a great did you think of yourself as entrepreneurs. Why the interest in family life? entrepreneurial? Partners: You are both big supporters these particular programs? of higher education, and particularly Tom Cook: Family is important to HELPFUL Tom Cook: I started my first business Clark College. Why is that so Tom Cook: I look back about five or six us. We have older kids and little kids, TIPS when I was 8 years old. I built a TV Guide important to you? years ago and there was an abundance and of course our extended family. We route from scratch, and got a nickel for of employees at our company—an make sure to find time for all of them. every TV Guide I sold. I built the business Jen Cook: I was fortunate to go to college abundance of folks who wanted to go It goes beyond that. It goes to our close up to about 60 customers and then sold and not come out of there with loans. into management and people who were friends who are part of this community. it to buy a paper route. Six days a week, I just think it’s the foundation of our changing careers. Today, the job market We have found a way to delineate. Jen To achieve success country, our world, our community. At I got up at six o’clock, built that business is so tight and it’s a fight to find great allows me to work hard on the business, in business, and then sold it. Then I bought a janitorial college, I learned to be a very independent people. The opportunity to partner with while she runs the household. When Tom Cook, CEO service that I ran and literally worked person. I left Nebraska at 18 years old Clark and create a situation where we she tells me to be somewhere, I’m there. overnight while I was in high school. and went to the University of Kansas could pull from its Cuisine program, in She is the chief executive officer of the of Pacific Bells, Clark makes in Lawrence—not too far away, but far Partners: Where did you get that our case, and work with the program to household managing two full-time subscribes this things better for entrepreneurial drive? Is that enough to gain the independence that help educate and train people for the jobs. She has the kids, and she has skill set: something your parents taught you going to college can give you. After that, restaurant business is important. The our social and community schedules. our community I was fortunate enough to get a job right or is that something innate in both simple fact is that this can be a great career She manages all this and does a 1. Learn the technical and all of the of you? out of college, and then I met Tom and for people, especially those who want to phenomenal job. I’m fortunate. skills to do the job. Clark the rest is history. become entrepreneurs. College is a great place people around Tom Cook: I think my mother and father Jen Cook: I think I have three full- to start! Tom Cook: When I first started in Jen Cook: It’s also something else. time jobs if you include Tom. Both us, including taught me my work ethic, but I’m the first 2. Develop solid oral and business, I didn’t understand aspects of Supporting Clark is important for our of us grew up in supportive families entrepreneur in the family. The best piece finance or marketing, so if you are able written communication people who work community because Clark makes things and so that affects where our lives are skills. of advice is something my mother gave me to get that educational foundation, I for our company and that is you can do anything as long as better for our community and everyone right now. It also helps that we like our think your path to success is easier and around us, including people who work family. We like our kids and we like 3. Be a problem solver. you are willing to put in the work. What I quicker. I don’t think everyone has to and those who for our company or those who go to all of our siblings and our parents and 4. Become a leader. found over time is that the harder I work, necessarily get a four-year degree or go to school the luckier I get. If you think something is school with our kids. Clark provides aunts and uncles. We just have fun. We master’s degree. Sometimes you just need opportunities for those who may not have have close family on both sides and I 5. Manage yourself. going to be given to you on a silver platter a good foundation like an associate degree with our kids. the financial resources to go to school and think that helps. Unfortunately, many 6. Learn to present just because you thought it up one day, or a certificate and then you can learn the may not be sure what their chosen career people do not have what we have been yourself in a positive and that’s not how business works. It takes a balance on the job. For me, that’s one of – Jen Cook lot of hard work. You have to ask many might be. afforded. We want to help them get effective way. the reasons I believe in Clark College. there because we know it is important questions. As a biology major in school, I It provides that opportunity to get the Tom Cook: Both Jen and I feel 7. Manage your temper, if could tell you about the cells in a human socially, emotionally. and financially. you have one. foundation and to understand what very strongly that everybody in the Education is where it starts. body, but nothing about the cells of a questions to ask. I think that is critical to community has an obligation to be ______spreadsheet. I had to go back and re-learn the path to success. involved, sometimes it’s financially and everything. Those who go on to higher sometimes it’s giving precious time. The Partners: Your support of Clark Joel B. Munson is Clark College education, in their chosen field whether community has to understand that those it’s Clark College or some other place, get College has been exceptionally Foundation’s chief advancement officer. generous and transformational. fit together. You may not have the financial that foundational knowledge that I simply wherewithal to provide support in that didn’t have in the beginning. Thanks to you and others, the beautiful new Tod and Maxine way, but certainly, you can help the college Jen Cook: Like Tom, my dad worked very McClaskey Culinary Institute was built in other ways. One of the biggest ways is hard, owned his own company, sold it to reach out to a student. It’s important maybe 10 years ago, but still he went back that all of us do this. 18 | feature feature | 19

he Gregory and Michele Goodwin Tailored services and support scholarship could not have come at a better time for Ariana Peters.

help students achieve goals The so-called flexible scholarship Peters receives helps her stay in school to completeT her studies in biology. These news kinds F of Clark scholarships are also earmarked for areas of opportunity in emerging careers such as advanced manufacturing. $4 FLEXIBLE $8 TOTAL l SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOLARSHIPS e MILLION MILLION x Peters was sick over the winter. She missed GOAL GOAL le classes and lost hours at work, leaving her with ib gi little money to pay the next quarter’s tuition bill. l a Peters’ instructors understood her dilemma and e and accommodated her schedule, giving her a chance In summer 2018, Peters received a band to make up work. The only incomplete she got scholarship for her pursuit of music. However, was in band – a course where you have to be the $500 award fell hundreds of dollars short of present to perform. Professor Rich Inouye let her her $1,040 tuition bill for the quarter. Michele Goodwin (left) and Greg catch up in the spring so she was able to complete Goodwin (right) get to know scholarship students Ariana Peters the course. Peters is an aspiring jazz artist, and Since she still had more to pay, Peters went to NI Clark’s financial aid office to ask for help. Lizette and Emanuiel Cota during a I S one of a handful of women who play in Clark’s he F by Rhonda Morin H scholarship-partner meeting in July. t Drennan, a financial aid program specialist, to LIN Jazz Band. She plays the trombone. E Money is tight for the 20-year-old Vancouver resident, who has aspirations of being a pharmacy technician. Peters is also considering going on for an advanced degree and wants to work in research to help cure brain cancer. She had to drop a math class this summer because she did not have enough money. She even went to her parents for support, something she does not like to do.

“I was angry because I had to ask my parents to help me financially. They gave me $100,” she said. 20 | feature feature | 21

assisted Peters by reviewing her eligibility $16,500 in tuition debt. While that debt figure These unrestricted scholarships are much more studying in these evolving programs is limited. A for a new flexible scholarship offered by is significantly lower for Clark College students difficult to secure, based on fundraising reports and missed opportunity is the result for students, while philanthropists Greg and Michele Goodwin for due to the efforts of the foundation and college, surveys. For many donors, the personal interest prospective employers lose qualified workers. With students who are in circumstances where they many Clark students are still burdened with factor is missing and they have questions about the Guided Pathways initiative currently underway might otherwise not be able to continue their thousands of dollars in debt when they leave the student outcomes and accountability. at Clark, flexible scholarships are especially critical education. Peters qualified for a $540 award, institution. when it comes to helping them stay in school and and in July, she and other Clark students joined However, long-time donors, like the Goodwins encouraging them to complete their studies. their scholarship donors for a private meeting on College debt is particularly sensitive for students and Cheree Nygard, see how unrestricted, flexible campus. who come from systemically non-dominant scholarships meet the needs of a community college The promise of Guided Pathways is that Clark’s groups. For many of these ambitious individuals, student population. services connect with students from the moment “Thank you for putting your faith in me and attending college is something completely new they inquire about the college. They get one-on- wanting to see me succeed,” Peters said. “It’s nice to them and their families. More than 70 percent “It’s not up to me to say what the gap is for Clark one assistance to navigate the complexities of that the Goodwins would take a chance on me.” of Clark’s students are first-generation college students. I trust the college to identify that gap enrollment, adjust to college expectations, mitigate attendees. For many of them, there is little or no and assist the students along their path to daily challenges and complete their degrees. long-term planning, or even the capacity, to save completion and to a successful career,” said Nygard, Financial strain for college. who is also the chair of Clark College Foundation’s “We get to know our students very well. Through Board of Directors. the entry process we assess their financial needs Six hundred and twenty-five scholarship awards One vexing issue, according to Belden, is that and tailor services and resources to their situation and other types of financial assistance have not all students who have low incomes qualify “Because the college is very intimate with the based on what we know about them,” said Belden. been awarded so far through Clark College for financial aid. students, they can adjust the services that are Foundation during the 2017-2018 academic necessary. These flexible scholarships fill in the Clark College Foundation, as part of a $35 million year. That equals more than $1 million—a trend “They still struggle to meet their basic needs for funding gap that can occur,” she added. campaign announced November 15, 2018, is now in its second year—awarded through the housing, food and transportation on top of their dedicated to raising millions of dollars in flexible The other challenge for institutions, particularly foundation. education expenses for tuition, books and fees,” scholarships and awards, many in the form of he said. Supportcommunity colleges, Clark, is that academic gain pathways and tax-free permanent endowments. assets These scholarships are Additionally, Clark College assists with technical training programs oftentimes focus on earmarked for areas of opportunity in emerging awarding $1.6 million in scholarships and $35 “Those who we can support through traditional emerging jobs, such as robotics, artificial intelligence careers such as advanced manufacturing. million a year in financial aid loans and grants, financial aid still might not have their full need and advanced manufacturing. Colleges try to match according to Clark’s Planning and met. We would like money that is flexible to students with these exciting areas—openings that The foundation is committed to educating Effectiveness office. help all students meet their goals of attaining an can sometimes change from year to year. current and potential partners about the realities education. We see flexible scholarships as being of today’s higher education environment and However, thousands of students who need those funds we can use outside of the traditional However, because many of the scholarships are the employment opportunities for students who financial assistance to afford the more than tuition and fee structure,” he added. restricted to certain academic areas or specific complete their studies. $4,100 annual tuition to attend full time go qualifications, financial assistance for students without. More than 40 percent of Clark students Expenses for daily needs such as child care, food, are low income, and 34 percent are low income housing and transportation are examples of and first in their families to attend college, financial strains students face on a daily basis. according to Clark’s Planning and Effectiveness Flexible scholarships “are an additional source of office. Many students seek loans to support funding that we can tailor to the needs of each their education, while others simply drop out of Opportunities for individual student,” he explained. school when faced with financial challenges. A 2014 survey from Planning and Effectiveness showed that 14 percent of students dropped Donor’s choice flexible scholarships courses they had registered for because of Department-focused or program scholarships Fills a gap when financial aid runs out or when students don’t qualify financial reasons. are the most popular and widespread form of “We know already that we’re losing students to donated financial support. The reason for this is Supports child care, transportation, housing, food, tuition, books situations that if we had additional flexible aid that people tend to give to the areas they care to provide them, we would be able to keep them most about, and oftentimes this is the area they Helps those in transitional studies transfer into degree programs To contribute to flexible in school,” said Bill Belden, vice president of studied or from which they graduated. While scholarships, contact Student Affairs at Clark. successful fundraising programs tend to be donor-driven—they match donors’ interests with Assists students in finishing degrees or certificates Vivian Manning at The American Association of Community the institution’s programs or projects—there is [email protected] Colleges in 2015 determined that the average an increasing need for scholarships that are less Earmarks funds to support education in evolving industries 360.992.2104 community college student amasses more than restrictive in terms of the way they are set up or the programs they support. Educates in emerging technical skills to fill tomorrow’s jobs 22 | feature Clark to receive largest single scholarship gift

to school each day. He was one of the 15 students Mary, in November 2017. Blanchard also Alumnus leaves $4 million to Clark by Rhonda Morin who graduated in 1937, according to the yearbook revealed that he has bone cancer. Galapagon. Today that charitable remainder trust is hen Bob Blanchard talks about his father, Robert Wallace’s father died when Wallace was a child. Wallace’s Before his death in May 2005, Wallace spoke worth $4 million. It will be the largest single gift Wallace, he remembers how conscientious the mother received a meager $30 a month in government about how his Clark experience influenced his life for scholarships that Clark College Foundation has Above left to right, Robert Depression-era youngster and World War II assistance to support her son during the 1930s. Later, and career as a student and vice president of the received in its 45-year history. The fund will be called B. Wallace and his son Bob veteran was about money. President Herbert Hoover’s administration cut that student body. the Robert B. Wallace Scholarship Endowment. Blanchard in their official Army W photographs. Below, Blanchard assistance in half, to $15. She had two other children, but reviews notes from his father. That fiscal restraint they were adults living “I received more initial encouragement at Clark Blanchard granted this interview during a difficult eventually turned into on their own when Junior College than any other school,” Wallace time in his own life, because he wants to share the a multi-million dollar Wallace was child. said in an interview for the summer 2002 edition story of his father and the legacy that Wallace has left charitable gift for Clark of Partners newsletter, the predecessor of Partners for future Clark students. College, which the college Growing up during magazine. will realize in the near a difficult economic “He (Wallace) wanted his money to help (less future. time in America had After Clark, he served in the U.S. Army in World fortunate) students. He didn’t think it would be a a lasting impression War II, taking part in the Battle of the Bulge. After good idea to spend money on a building. The money “I can remember saying on Wallace, according the war, he used his GI Bill to attend Washington should be used for scholarships,” said Blanchard. to him (my father), ‘Hey, to Blanchard. State University in Pullman, then landed a job I’m going to take you to at DuPont in Tri-Cities, Wash, as a mechanical The Robert B. Wallace Scholarship will be available dinner and we’ll go to a “He was very frugal,” engineer. Later, he moved to South Carolina to work to full-time students in all areas of study who nice place,’ and he’d say, said Blanchard, at a nuclear plant, then to Ithaca, N.Y., to work at have financial need, demonstrate solid academic ‘No, no, I already have 76, Wallace’s only DuPont’s Remington Arms facility. He finished his achievement and exhibit high personal standards. that figured out.’” Robert B. Wallace provided for his son, but “he was career at its headquarters in Wilmington, Del. His This type of scholarship fits into the category (also) very attuned career at DuPont spanned about 28 years. family and for Clark College. Here of flexible scholarships, which provide for “We would go to this to investments. He emerging careers found in areas such as advanced place that had plastic is what he did: subscribed to the Over the years, Wallace made investments and manufacturing. The scholarships also help students furniture and we would Wall Street Journal accumulated wealth. In 1988, while living in stay in school and complete their studies. go up to the counter and Set up a living trust to avoid probate and keep his until the time of his Wilmington, Del., he set up a living trust. Upon his order spaghetti and they death in 2005, the terms of the living trust directed estate outside of a public probate proceeding. death and read all the Clark College Foundation’s $35 million fundraising would serve it on plastic that a charitable remainder trust (CRT) be created articles on investing.” campaign contains a $4 million goal to support plates with an empty cup Set up a charitable remainder trust so that at the to provide for his family. After all of Wallace’s flexible scholarships as part of a total scholarship goal that you would have to go time of his death it provided: Wallace, who was beneficiaries pass away, the balance of the CRT of $8 million. to the fountain and draw • lifetime income for his heirs, born and raised in will be distributed to Clark College Foundation to your own Coke. Vancouver, lived with support scholarships. • avoided Washington State inheritance taxes, and Wallace’s thoughtful and long-term estate planning his mother on U will shape the future of the community by providing “He didn’t want me to • created a scholarship legacy to support Clark Blanchard, as the last surviving beneficiary, reached Street. He enrolled opportunities for students who otherwise might not pay to take him to a nice out to Clark College Foundation earlier this year College students. at Clark when it was have access to higher education. restaurant. I think that located at the Hidden to inform the foundation he was the last surviving came from growing up beneficiary following the death of Wallace’s wife, LEARN MORE BY CONTACTING House. He biked during the Depression,” said Blanchard. Hal Abrams, J.D., LL.M Vivian Manning, CFRE [email protected] [email protected] 360.992.2787 360.992.2104 24 | class notes class notes | 25

is industry initiatives manager The 60’s for Workforce Southwest Gayle Beacock ’81 and her brother, Russ ’81, have Dennis Kampe ‘68 was named Washington. to the 2019 board of Southwest opened a new store in Eugene, Ore. Gayle and Russ Ginn Group owner Patrick Ginn Washington Contractors are the children of Dale and Susan Beacock who ’00 joined the Greater Vancouver Association Foundation. Kampe Chamber of Commerce. Ginn is opened the original store at 1420 Southeast 163rd currently sits on the foundation also a member of Clark College board of Cascadia Technical Ave. in Vancouver in 1976. Dale Beacock ’50 was Foundation’s Board of Directors. Academy from which he retired a professor at Clark College and an alumnus. as executive director after 30 Holly Lane ’09, a licensed years of service. realtor, joined the team at Equity He died in 2011. Gayle is vice president Northwest Properties. of Beacock Music Company. She will The 70’s Brittini Lasseigne ’05, director relocate to Eugene for the first year to Roger Daniels ’75 joined the of philanthropy for YWCA Clark oversee the store, located at 791 W. Clark College Foundation County, joined Clark College Alumni Board’s Board Relations Foundation’s Alumni Board. Eighth Ave., in the former Pacific Hon. Gina Mosbrucker ’88 was As council member for 15 Committee as an ad-hoc member. reelected to the Washington years and two-term mayor, Stephen Pick ’06 was hired as Winds Music building. Carol Doane ’77, inspired by her House of Representatives 14th Tim Leavitt ’92 collected many executive director of Journey mom Wilma Doane, founded Legislative District, position 2. business suits. No longer an Theater Arts Group, a local a nonprofit called Woman of elected official, Leavitt has youth and community theater Dellan Redjou ‘89 was honored Wonder to provide college donated two dozen suits and organization. Pick received his with the Community Champion scholarships for women. sport coats to Clark’s Dress for master’s in directing and arts Gayle Beacock ’81 and her brother Russ ‘81 opened Award for her work with SHARE Success program. administration from Boston a new Beacock Music retail store in Eugene. Ore. Hon. John Hagensen ‘73 was by the Greater Vancouver University. reelected to the Clark County Chamber of Commerce at their Ridgefield City Council District Court as judge for annual Business and Leadership appointed the Hon. Jennifer Bree Sanchez ’08 was pictured Department No. 6. Awards dinner. Lindsay ‘99 to fill a vacant seat with her colleagues on the on the council. cover of the Greater Vancouver Clark County Council Member Chamber of Commerce graduated last spring from the Alan Hwang ’13 facilitated Miranda ‘14 and Nicholas ‘04 The 80’s Jeanne Stewart ’84 ran for Matrix Roofing, owned by magazine, Vancouver Vision, Edward R. Murrow School of a workshop, “A Digital-Only Larson welcomed a son, Hunter Kimberly Baker ‘86, a CFP, was relection, but was defeated by Wendy Marvin ’95, was named The 10’s to promote Vancouver Mall’s Nathaniel Brezner-Mendoza Communication at Washington Strategy to Maximize Cyber Larson, on October 22, 2018. featured in The Columbian newcomer Temple Lentz. 2018 Small Business of the presenting sponsorship of the ’18 was recruited to play for the State University in Pullman. Monday” through the Greater newspaper’s Clark County Year by the Greater Vancouver Jules Laspa ’14 married Holly Pacific Lifestyle Homes, owned Chamber’s 4th Annual Women’s University of Portland Pilots Vancouver Chamber of Business Briefing in celebration Chamber of Commerce. Christopher Hight ‘17 was Susanne Kayleen Engh, on by Kevin Wann ’89, was ranked Golf Tournament. Sanchez is a starting as a right-handed Commerce in September. of 25 years of service to her featured in the Vancouver August 28, 2018. 14 out of 100 on Seattle Business Ophelia Noble ‘98 was the member of the management pitcher this fall. At the time of the employer, Johnson Bixby & Business Journal. Hight is a Damion Jiles Sr., ’10 ran for a Magazine’s 29th annual 100 featured speaker at Clark’s team at the mall. recruitment, he was playing for Scott Micheletti ’10 and partner Associates. She is a lead financial data engineer for Interject Data seat in the Washington House Best Companies to Work For in Students of Color Luncheon in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Desiree Carlson welcomed a baby planner. Sherry Smith ’03, administrative Systems in Vancouver. He also of Representatives, but lost to Washington list. October. Noble is co-founder and Baseball League as a member of girl, Brooklyn Micheletti on services manager for the Science, runs a nonprofit called Future incumbent Paul Harris. Kristin Hanneman ’89 was executive director of The Noble the Boulder Collegians team. August 9, 2018. Technology, Engineering and of Code, providing code literacy named as a trustee to the Salmon Foundation. Megan Knight ‘13 was featured Math department, was awarded The Greater Vancouver Chamber education to children and Lindsey Norberg ‘16 spoke at Creek Hospital Foundation. The 90’s in the Vancouver Vision Rosemary Gardner ‘96 retired Hon. Scott Weber ‘99 was the Clark College Quarterly of Commerce hired Sarah Cooke young adults. Clark’s Business Web Practices David Henrichsen ’82 and Bret Magazine, a publication of the from Clark College in September reelected as Clark County clerk. Classified Staff Excellence Award ’14 as its member engagement Speaker Series about a subject she Roske were married in Vancouver. Sunshine Hill ’18 married Greater Vancouver Chamber of after 23 years as an administrative for summer 2018. and communications specialist. calls “The Creative Hustle.” Norberg Todd Zalk ’95 joined the team of Michael Adams on Commerce. Knight is a speech Gregory Kimsey ’89, Clark assistant. is a visual designer for local financial Selco Community Credit Union’s Hon. Brandon Vick ’04 was Battle Ground police officer Trent September 5, 2018. and language augmentative County auditor, was named 2018 services firm Johnson Bixby & Tanisha Harris ’97 ran for Commercial & Business Banking reelected in the Washington Elms ’12 was presented with a assisted communications Statesman of the Year by the Alex Hogaboam ’17 and Sarah Associates. the Washington House of division as VP of commercial House of Representatives 18th Life Saving Award by the Battle specialist with Innovative Greater Vancouver Chamber of Burris married on Representatives, but lost to Vicki lending and business banking. Legislative District, position 1. Ground Police Department for his Services Northwest. Becca Robbins ’16, former sports August 25, 2018. Commerce. Kraft. Harris serves as court- heroic work in saving the life of a editor for Clark’s student newspaper Jason Wright ’08 was a featured Matthew Kuhl ’12 ran for the Dave Lemberg ’87, owner of appointed special advocate 26-year-old man in Fallon Hughes ’12 accepted The Independent, joined the Baker The 00’s speaker at Clark College’s position of Wahkiakum County Dave’s Killer Magic Shop, was program specialist with YWCA February 2018. a new position with Pacific City Herald as a summer intern. She Melissa Boles ‘08 was named Business Web Practices Speakers auditor, but lost to Nicci Emerick- profiled by the Vancouver Clark County. University in Forest Grove as was one of 15 young journalists to the 2019 board of Southwest Series in October. Wright is Jacob Granneman ’16 joined Bergseng. Kuhl serves as staff Business Journal. Lemberg, a coordinator for experiential selected for the University of Dennis Heikkinen ‘95 is retiring Washington Contractors the chief operations officer for ClarkCountyToday.com’s accountant for the Institute for high school science teacher, has education compliance. Oregon’s Charles Snowden Program in 2018 after serving 11 years as Association Foundation. Boles Webfor, a digital marketing news staff. Granneman Professional Care Education in owned his business since 2008. for Excellence in Journalism. a custodian at Clark. agency in Vancouver. Vancouver, Wash. 26 | class notes in memoriam | 27

Adeena Wade ‘16 spoke at Heather Blackthorn, former Tammy Fraley, owner of Fraley Clark alumnus Alan Stokesbary Clark’s Business Web Practices actress in Clark’s theatre Photography who specializes is a proud grandfather of a new Speaker Series in November. productions, took the artistic and in photographing kids with baby girl, Lily Stokesbary, born Wade is employed in the office of management reigns at Pacific disabilities, appeared in The on June 7, 2018, at 7 pounds, marketing and communications Stageworks. Columbian in July. 14 ounces, to daughter-in-law at Washington State University and son Cori and Jonathan Judith Chipman, CPM was a Hon. John Main, a Ridgefield Vancouver. Stokesbary. candidate in the primaries for council member, announced his Left, George Fullerton in 2015, Katie Wallis ’15 joined Clark’s Clark County Public Utilities resignation in October. the year he was Baking and Professional Pastry commissioner. Watercolorist Denise Joy inducted into Arts program as its new division Emily Cole and David Weller McFadden’s work was displayed Clark’s Hall of Fame. operations support employee. Inset, Fullerton welcomed a baby girl, Avery at Art on the Boulevard in in the 1940s as Weller, on September 22, 2018. October. an Ashland High Class dates Mary Elkin was a candidate Hon. Liz Pike, a Washington School athlete. Unknown in the primaries for the city of State Representative, was named Years are based on when alumni either graduated or last took a course at Clark Hon. Michael Benjamin Vancouver councilor. Elkin is first vice president of the Clark College. Send submissions and corrections was appointed to the city of owner/operator of Elkin Business County Republican Women. to [email protected]. Write Class Notes Woodland Council to fill Solutions, a bookkeeping firm in in the subject line of the email. position 7. Vancouver.

Coach George Fullerton passed away at age

Thomas “Tom” Martin ‘76 89, on October 6, 2018. Fullerton served the Randall Matthews ‘70 class dates campus for 30 years as a track and wrestling Kathleen “Kathy” Stone Moss ‘76 Unknown coach and instructor. He gained local notoriety Gary Nelson ‘70 Melville “Skip” Byers Chester Pulver ‘75 Daniel Cheatham when Clark inducted him in its Hall of Fame Donald “Donald” Roach ‘76 Larry Cresap in 2015. As a junior at Ashland High School John “Jack” Doty Mark Rogen ‘73 Fullerton set state records in the mile and half William “Bill” Schultz ‘72 Richard “Rich” Dye Ivan Goll mile and broke a 34-year record in the mile. Lawton “Chic” Hull During the same season in 1946, he also set a The 80’s Christine “Chris” Kaleta Shirley Edwards ‘84 new national mile record, beating the time set Joshua “Josh” North Clark Anita Gillard ‘88 Richard “Rich” Olmstead by Louis Zamperini 12 years earlier. Allan Hoppel ‘82 Larry Otos Donald “Don” Kurtzbein ‘89 Michael Ramberg Caroline Umathum ‘88 Douglas Schaller ‘64 Vernon “Vern” Smith Mary Woodford ‘86 The 50’s Janice Schurman ‘65 Marsha Sork Philip “Phil” Azure ‘55 F. Jerome “Jerry” Studer ‘63 Justin Taylor Beverly “Bev” Boydstun ‘55 Richard Urban ‘64 The 90’s John Tidland Joyce Brown ‘57 Melvin Vinsonhaler ‘60 Eric Garren ‘97 Bernard “John” Worth Roderick Groth ‘52 Wilma Waddle ‘64 Michelle Schreiner ‘96 Roy Hurford ‘59 Carol Winters ‘65 LaVerne Stein ‘93 Forrest Kelly ‘53 Wayne Young ‘66 Friends of Clark James “Jim” Liedtke ‘57 Kathryn Elizabeth Crandall, donor Virginia Marie Fordham died peacefully at the age of 91 on Jerry Pierce ‘56 The 00’s Claude Dotson, employee Mikalae Harden ‘05 Bert Sewall ‘50 The 70’s Louis Chessrown Getsinger, faculty September 25, 2018. Fordham was the mother of Lisa Gibert, Scott Attebery ‘73 William “Bill” Byrd ‘10 Larry Swatosh ‘57 William Hill, employee CEO of Clark College Foundation and a long-time supporter of Alfred “Fred” Bergeron ‘73 Kathleen “Katy” Stratton ‘17 William George Morris, trustee Elisabeth “Betty” Braun ‘74 Kenneth Thompson, donor Clark College. Fordham graduated from Girls Polytechnic High The 60’s Neil Brislawn ‘75 Jelene Peterson, donor School and attended Oregon State University. She married Richard Hader ‘63 Rose Chambers ‘74 Kathryn “Kitty” Welsh, donor James Kallgren ‘67 David “Dave” Christensen ‘74 Leslie “Roy” Fordham in 1947. Fordham dedicated her life to her James Lee ‘65 Douglas Johnston ‘78 Years are based on when alumni either graduated or last took a course at Clark family and working in the front office at Fordham & Fordham, a Patricia Maser ‘64 Leslie “June” King ‘76 College. Send submissions and corrections to [email protected]. Write In certified public accounting business in Hillsboro, Ore. Ronald “Ron” Parry ‘63 Esther Linson ‘76 Memoriam in the subject line of the email. Virginia Fordham in 2011 with scholarship students she supported. Clark College Foundation 1933 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver, WA 98663-3598

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