LEGACIESCentral Oregon Community College Foundation Magazine Fall 2019

A Natural Path Planting Futures in Forestry Growing Gifts The Power of Scholarships Welcoming COCC's New President contents features

4 Q & A with Laurie Chesley Getting to know COCC's sixth president. By Zak Boone 6 Growing Gifts An update on the Foundation’s endowment 11 and its pivotal role at COCC. The Harvey M. Waldron Jr. Herbarium By Mark Russell Johnson is invaluable in confirming correct identification of unknown plants. 8 A Natural Path Science, stewardship and a crown-to-the-ground curriculum are growing futures in forestry at COCC. The Foundation will award $1.7 million in By Mark Russell Johnson scholarships this year — a record-high figure. 6

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COVER COCC Foundation 2 Letter From the President Karen Cammack Scholarship 3 Gratitude Day ABOVE Gratitude Day Timothy Park 14 Calendar of Events LEFT Eugen Helmbrecht 16 The Power of Scholarships Foundation scholarship recipients RIGHT share their stories. Eugen Helmbrecht 18 Foundation Scholarships by the Numbers

19 Donors Investing in Community 3 LEGACIES Fall 2019 Vol. 31 | No. 1 Letter From the President

It is my great privilege to welcome WRITERS you to our 2019 issue of Legacies, and Zak Boone, Mark Russell Johnson to extend my warmest gratitude for your part in changing lives at Central PHOTOGRAPHERS Oregon Community College. In the Karen Cammack, Eugen Helmbrecht, short time that I’ve been here, I have seen Kirk Metzger, Timothy Park firsthand how this community supports and surrounds its College with both heart and EDITORS investment. It helps make COCC such a remark- Zak Boone, Mark Russell Johnson, able place — and is a big part of what brought me here. Aimee Metcalf, Brittany Nichols, Ron Paradis Since this summer, I’ve gotten to observe some of our programs and people in action. And my initial impressions are confirmed: It’s truly an inspiring College. DESIGN As we head into our 70th academic year, I’m eager to continue advancing lives Lora Szaraniec through learning and to keep building on a distinguished tradition.

COCC FOUNDATION My goal as president is to reinforce what makes this College special, while also BOARD OF TRUSTEES looking for new chances to respond to the needs of Central Oregon. That might Steve Callan involve expanding online classes. Or integrating new programs. Or finding new Patti Carlson ways to reach potential students. The voices of our stakeholders, like you, are Rodney Cook essential to this process, and I welcome your partnership. Pat Fulton Amy Howell Now, to this issue of Legacies. In these pages, you’ll read about three very inspiring Daisy Layman scholarship students, on three unique — and impressive — journeys. Our future Erin MacDonald Gratitude Day nurse, lawyer and doctor all cite one common denominator that not only opened Andrea Phelps This past May, 40 scholarship recipients gathered Vicki Russell doors for them but came with implicit encouragement: their Foundation scholar- Judy Smith ship. And I think it’s important to emphasize that it’s more than tuition assistance, for the first-ever Gratitude Day. Students shared Jeffrey Stuermer it’s a you-can-do-it endorsement of the individuals and their personal goals. their gratitude and the personal impact of receiving a scholarship through videos, letters and messages. Each of these journeys — and hundreds of others over the years — were assisted COCC BOARD OF DIRECTORS Thank you! Bruce Abernethy by a carefully managed endowment. In “Growing Gifts,” you’ll see what goes Jim Clinton into guiding this productive endowment and the lives that are touched. We also Laura Craska Cooper remember a friend, Marjorie Ettinger, who created an endowment of her own to Joe Krenowicz preserve a wonderful plant archive. Erica Skatvold Oliver Tatom Like Central Oregon, Michigan, where I’m from, has a history steeped in the Alan Unger woods, where once upon a time camps and towns sprung up around the pine forests and sawmills. We’ve come a long way with our resource management practices since then, and I think you’ll enjoy reading how our Forest Resources Technology program is on the leading edge of training tomorrow’s stewards. It made me want to head out and explore my new surroundings.

With that in mind, I wish you a wonderful fall. I look forward to our work The Central Oregon Community College Foundation Magazine together as we collaborate on creating vibrancy and success in our College is published annually. Contents and communities. may only be reprinted with permission from the Foundation. With much appreciation, Central Oregon Community College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Laurie Chesley COCC President 2 Central Oregon Community College Foundation Magazine with Laurie Chesley Meet COCC's Sixth President

by Zak Boone Zak: You’ve only been here a short time, Laurie: The national movement toward but what is one impression Central establishing Guided Pathways for students, Dr. Laurie Chesley, or “please, just It’s an honor and Oregon has made on you? and all it entails, intrigues me. Guided Laurie” as she’s quick to say, began her Pathways, at its heart, is a redesign — a "" tenure as COCC’s president in July. Laurie: There is such a strong sense of clarification and streamlining — of academic a privilege to serve She’s the sixth president in the College’s community and civic responsibility that programs and student-support processes 70-year arc. Laurie was an English pervades the region and the College. to improve student goal attainment. our students and professor before entering the adminis- That’s been very apparent. trative side of academia, and has spent Zak: Tell us about how your experience Central Oregon. nearly two decades in educational Zak: What are you most excited about in as an instructor helped prepare you to leadership. I wanted to introduce her "" your new role? be a president? to you, our Foundation friends, and thought this Q&A would be a good Laurie: The opportunity to lead an Laurie: So much of what a way to share some of Laurie’s impres- institution whose core work is helping president — or any leader — does is sions and perspectives on this new life students and the community succeed. actually teaching. Leading an institution chapter, on COCC and on education Education transforms lives and communities. or programs or processes is a lot like in general. To me, that’s fundamentally exciting. teaching. You establish clear goals, figure out how to reach them, measure your Zak: What will you miss most about progress and then redesign to improve. living in Michigan? Zak: Is there anything else you would Laurie: My friends. Fortunately, Bend is like our donors and supporters to know such a beautiful place that I know I’ll have about you? frequent visitors. Also, as a cyclist, I miss the flatness of the bike trails. These local Laurie: Just how grateful I am to be hills might take a little getting used to! here — it’s an honor and a privilege to serve our students and Central Oregon. Zak: What is something you’ve seen around the country in higher education Zak Boone is the executive director you might want COCC to consider? of the COCC Foundation.

Timothy Park Central Oregon Community College Foundation Magazine 5 community college endowments, we Stuermer. “Our conservative bias and our A study this year by the National proudly embrace a mix of progressive strict adherence to a well-crafted Association of College and University policies that both perform and preserve,” investment policy statement have been Business Officers (representing more than explains Jeffrey Stuermer, chair of the the key to the endowment’s relative 1,900 colleges and universities across the Finance & Audit Committee and a outperformance,” adds Judy Smith, country) puts the Foundation’s 10-year principal at Northline Wealth Management board trustee. This playbook, as net return, of 7.26 percent, in the top in Bend. “Modern portfolio theory and Stuermer calls it, will serve future decile within its peer category of two-year the ‘efficient frontier’ concepts have iterations of Foundation leadership public and community colleges holding Growing guided our decision-making and allowed and stewardship. endowments under $25 million. Growing us to determine the right balance of risk versus return.” For the 2019-20 academic year, approximately 400 fully funded scholarships were offered, representing $1.7 Avoiding exotic assets has been a central investment tenet. During the Economic million in combined endowment and annual fund dollars. Crisis, the Foundation was able to sidestep GiftsGifts significant losses because of its focus When it comes to endowment spending, And though the endowment grows, on traditional asset classes. Meanwhile, scholarships are certainly the primary so does the need. “With less state and schools with larger endowments, Harvard receiver. But the Foundation’s mission federal attention going to financial and Yale among them, tied to illiquid incorporates other objectives, too: aid, and education costs continuing to assets — such as private equity and promoting community engagement trend higher nationwide, our donors restrictive hedge funds — went through through events, maintaining affinity are as crucial as ever,” says Foundation some major drawdowns. The College also societies, and working toward the general Executive Director Zak Boone. Yes, it benefitted from some fortunate timing when well-being and advancement of the was a banner year with more than 400 several large estate gifts were received College. “We have an appropriate scholarships offered, but many other during advantageous market cycles. and realistic spend rate against the hopeful students applied and weren’t able endowment of five percent,” Stuermer to receive support. “Our endowment “Our approach has been to keep it continues, “with one percent to is strong,” adds Boone, “but it’s the simple — to win by not losing,” says operating, four percent to program.” long-term support from our donors that is our true strength.”

COCC Foundation Total Endowment Value at Fiscal Year End

An update on orestry is the focus of this edition of without the backing of individuals and $23,054,501 Legacies, and since we’re putting a organizations, like you, who believe in $22,635,994 the Foundation’s spotlight on our Forestry program — championing lives — and impacting $21,624,822 Fand on healthy forests and deep-rooted, communities — through education. endowment and its flourishing things in general — it seems pivotal role at COCC like a perfect time to touch upon another Boosting this generosity and expanding $18,079,546 deep-rooted, flourishing aspect of the its reach are the endowment’s caretakers $18,023,415 College: the Foundation’s endowment. and decision-makers: the staff, board and the Finance & Audit Committee of the Today’s endowment is strong, exceeding Foundation. They, in turn, rely on a long- $23 million. For the 2019-20 academic standing, collaborative relationship with year, this means that approximately 400 Commonfund, a Connecticut-based asset fully funded scholarships were offered, management firm, to prudently oversee Misty Bouse, major gifts officer, representing $1.7 million in combined your investment. contributed to this article. endowment and annual fund dollars. Mark Russell Johnson is the staff writer in That’s a record-high scholarship figure for Both active and passive strategies are part COCC's College Relations department. the Foundation. And it wouldn’t happen of the approach. “As one of the top-20 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 6 Central Oregon Community College Foundation Magazine by Mark Russell Johnson

barrel-thick ponderosa pine Bret Michalski, a COCC Forest Resources towers over the woods west of Technology professor, walks around the the Deschutes River near Pringle base of the copper-colored tree, pointing Falls, its trunk spiraled with out several small oozing wounds to his gouges, looking like a half-ton class of nine students. He plucks a resin housecat has used it as a scratching post. blob from one of the holes, holding it up The marks are the work of a lightning on his finger for the class to assess. bolt — some years back it struck the crown and traced the twisted grain “Red turpentine beetle,” a student quickly down*, instantly turning the water in deduces. “Dendroctonus valens,” adds the tree’s xylem into steam and leaving another. “Very good, very good,” replies the “pondo” upright but otherwise Michalski, happy for the one-two punch fried. Then the beetles moved in. of common and scientific names.

*See Roots of Knowledge on page 12

8 Central Oregon Community College Foundation Magazine Karen Cammack Several clues have helped the students some 745,000 acres’ worth. And Native collar the culprit. The raisin-sized beetle American lands. Plus, private timber typically infests larger pine species, partic- holdings. Nearly 200 state parks and sites Remembering Marjorie Ettinger ularly stressed-out trees. They also initiate pepper the coast, mountains and expanses their pitchy tubes several feet off the in between. From national monuments (1924-2019) ground. Case closed, the class hikes on. and land trusts, to farms and swaths of private property, the woods run thick in There’s a closet door on the first floor of the Science Center It’s a messy May afternoon in Central the Beaver state. It’s a great place to learn that doesn’t look like it would take you anywhere. But beyond Oregon — slush falls from the sky one about, and launch, a forest-centered career. it, and inside a bank of floor-to-ceiling cabinets, a small universe minute, then the sun belts down — but awaits. Stored in the six cabinets are the thousands of plant the Forest Entomology/Pathology class The College’s Forest Technology Resources is unfazed. Climbing over downed trees program, or Forestry as most refer to it specimens that comprise the Harvey M. Waldron Jr. Herbarium, and picking their way through the woods, at COCC, is one of only two programs a resource named for the biology professor and former Navy the students are like a roaming forensics in the state accredited by the Society of pilot who orchestrated its development beginning in 1970. team, stopping periodically to peer into American Foresters. Its three professors rotted stumps or pull apart sheets of bark merge specialties in wildlife management, Marjorie “Marge” Ettinger, who took botany under Waldron litter, looking for cases to solve. physiology and dendrochronology, in the 1980s (and who, soon after, was inspired to earn her creating a comprehensive range of study. bachelor’s degree from OSU at the age of 68), devoted herself “They’re getting a much broader look than they would in other programs,” says to collecting, keying and pressing plants, bringing thousands of instructional dean Michael Fisher, Ph.D., them to the Waldron Herbarium over the decades. She hiked who got his own forestry start at COCC. all over Oregon to find flora, from the Wallowas to the Steens, even receiving special permission from the Confederated The curriculum builds in ecology and Tribes of Warm Springs to collect specimens. They examine gall growths and crumbling surveying, dendrology and fire science. cube rot. They identify root disease and Students learn about harvesting trees one the presence of sequoia pitch moths. term, and then focus on conservation the Ettinger and her husband, Dick, who also loved botany, created Crouching beside a minuscule bouquet next. They study Geographic Information an endowment in 2000 to care for and maintain this collection. of bitterbrush sprouting riotously from Systems and mapping. Hardhats on, they The fund covers upkeep and materials, purchases reference the forest floor, Michalski frames the little put lectures into practice out in the field. books, and has paid student workers to help index and buds in his fingers and turns to the group organize the vast body of flowers, plants and lichens. Its goal is for an explanation. One of them pegs Within weeks of starting up, new students to reach $100,000 and be able to dedicate annual funding for it, accurately, as a squirrel cache — the will seek out federal jobs for the following a part-time research assistantship. stockpiled seeds somehow forgotten by summer, a mandatory co-op that usually their keeper. involves fighting fire, marking timber or rooting out invasive species. It gets them “Currently, we use the herbarium From sprouting seeds to decaying trees, aligned with professional goals. The de- as a resource for General Botany,” the big and small stories of the forest’s partment also encourages and facilitates says co-curator Sarah Fuller, health — the full narrative — are all part participation in events held by the Oregon associate professor of biology, of the class. They stop to examine some Society of American Foresters, sending who works in tandem with retired aged beaver chew along the river, then students to meetings. A COCC Forestry turn and head off, moving deeper into Club helps spotlight career paths, opens biology professor Christine Ott- the woods. eyes to opportunities. Hopkins to oversee the resource. “It’s invaluable in confirming correct And like the forests themselves, the identification of unknown plants,” program’s own landscape continues to she adds. The hope is to make it a Oregon absolutely bristles with trees. The evolve. “We constantly have to update more accessible, shared resource state holds the second-highest percentage where we are in terms of technology for schools and researchers. “My vision is to get it digitized,” of national forest in the union (after Idaho), and curriculum,” says professor Ron which covers about a fourth of its landscape. Boldenow, Ph.D. says Fuller. The Ettinger passion for plants keeps blooming. Other tracts of federal forest — collectively the size of West Virginia — fall under the On a June afternoon, new technology sphere of Bureau of Land Management. is front and center in the Cascades Hall Then there’s the state-managed forests, Forestry lab (the department moved into

Karen Cammack courtesy of Ettinger family mosaic quality,” Sitton summarizes to managers are using for restoration the audience. “For now, it’s better to put projects on public land.” boots on the ground.” And the future is now. With carbon output “I want to thank you,” says Ian Reid, escalating worldwide, sequestration is U.S. Forest Service ranger for the Sisters more vital than ever. Megafires, influenced district. “I didn’t know anything about by climate change and forest policy, are PhoDAR before this presentation.” seemingly the new norm. In fact, a study Also in attendance is the drone pilot. published this year by the University of “It really helps clear it up for me,” says Idaho found that the use of prescribed Kirk Metzger, wanting to see how his burns — to thin forests and help minimize flying might yield a better data grab. He colossal fires — has actually declined in mentions that finding a different flight the western U.S. over the last 20 years the remodeled building in 2018), where to ground-truth the new technology, to to distinguish individual trunks. pattern might cut down on variability. (though in the southeast, prescribed seven students flank the projector screen test its reliability. So, over the span of 10 (“Groupy” and “clumpy” became burns are ramping up). For the West, and discuss PhoDAR, or photogrammetric weeks, they visited the three-acre parcel, go-to nomenclature for the project.) funding and an aversion to smoke are detection and ranging, a new means of breaking it into measurable plots and both underlying issues. utilizing imaged data from drones. A slice fact-checking every count. The team discusses how the technology of digitized forest, resembling a video works, the “point cloud” of overlapping There’s an aspect of “greater good” game’s 3-D backdrop, rotates and tilts on “We split the data into identified and pixels and the basics of the software’s embedded in the College’s Forestry the screen. unidentified trees,” student Rieghly algorithm. In the end, they calculated that For the student team, the technology may program, of encouraging the future Sitton explains to an audience of faculty unidentified trees comprised up to 35 have stumbled, but the project didn’t. “It foresters to see themselves as stewards. The image is part of a dataset from and regional forestry professionals. percent of the stand — a rather sizeable miss. took all the skills we’ve learned and put “One of the things we want our students The Nature Conservancy, which used a When the trees in the woods were denser Not a banner day for emerging technology. them to use in a real world setting, to see to understand is that we do this for society,” drone and software to do a virtual tree and grouped, the team discovered, the if it’s something forest managers want to says Boldenow. “We care about the envi- headcount of a site near Black Butte number of unidentified trees went up. “The use of PhoDAR, based on data use in their work,” says Karra Showen, ronment — it’s in the context of society.” Ranch. COCC’s capstone class wanted In those cases, the software wasn’t able available, is not an effective tool for a Foundation scholarship recipient. Personal growth benefitted as well. “I Bill Smith, a longtime Foundation thought it was interesting seeing different advocate and donor, who helped people take the reins,” says Jon Goodwin reinvent Bend when pine logging ran of budding leadership skills. With its course, got his foothold with the fieldwork and feedback, the team helped Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company. put a lens to a new era in forestry. “Forestry students learn balance,” says the developer. “Having a population that includes people with an understanding of the value of the multiple uses of forest A spiral-grained ponderosa pine, such as Western juniper and Over on the track that encircles Out at the Region 6 Bend Seed Extractory, ensures that we will better optimize the long-ago expired and lying like a Douglas fir (Oregon’s state tree). the athletic field, Franklin walks up a Forest Service facility within the National forest’s assets for the benefit of all.” behemoth paperweight just to the But it also includes a wide variety of to a bushy shore pine that hugs the Forest Nursery system, Kayla Herriman left of the Boyle Education Center other specimens, with Scotch pine, perimeter. “It’s a setting conducive to has the future in her hands — of trees and Back in the woods, Bret Michalski’s class entrance (placed there as a landscap- Yunnan crabapple, black cotton- on-campus labs,” she says, examining plants, that is. The COCC graduate, a is in their van, soggy from the elements ing feature in 2018), isn’t technically wood, and even four species of an odd growth on the pine’s top. Foundation scholarship recipient, went and rattling down a corrugated Forest on the College’s arboretum tour. But cherry in the mix. The professor hopes to oversee an on to receive a master’s degree in forest Service road, heading home. On the as a sheer curiosity — the cause of the arboretum-focused capstone course resources from the University of Idaho way in, the professor had pointed out a spiraling is an unknown anomaly — it’s “You can tell it’s a cherry by these in the near future, with the dual goal and now manages the busy operation. section of airy forest with widely spaced a neat start to the roughly 60-species two little glands,” explains Rebecca of updating the treed resource (some ponderosas, thinned out with chainsaws walking tour of the Bend campus. The Franklin, Ph.D., assistant professor, trees and plaques haven’t survived “We currently work with seed from across a while back to maintain forest health. nearby weeping Norway spruce, bent standing behind the Boyle building the decade) while also seeking official the United States from more than 4,000 “This unit here…this is a good represen- into a humble greeting, is perhaps a on a June morning and holding a Tree Campus USA status for COCC. different species of grasses, forbs, shrubs tation of what this looked like 100 years more legitimate leaping-off point. leaf stem to show the pin cherry’s In the meantime, visitors looking to and trees,” she says. From rare orchids ago,” he’d told them a few hours before. tiny red glands. The nectar glands self-navigate the arboretum can to Joshua trees, they handle seeds that As the van rolls by, a sizable herd of elk, The COCC arboretum officially draw in helpful insects, like ants, she find a PDF brochure for general go to restoration projects and research. hunkered down from the rain amid “opened” in 2009 and features plenty explains, to help the tree combat reference at cocc.edu/about/visitors. “It’s much like garden seed that people the trees, looks over curiously and of still-living Central Oregon standbys, detrimental insects. purchase at their local hardware store, watches them go. but with native species that land

12 Central Oregon Community College Foundation Magazine Kirk Metzger Karen Cammack, Eugen Helmbrecht FALLUPCOMING EVENTS 2019 OCTOBER October 31 November 18 Halloween Hall America — A Global Perspective DECEMBER October 5-December 6 Join us at Wickiup Residence Lulu Garcia-Navarro spent years December 2 Hall as we transform it into a fun abroad as a foreign correspondent Watercolor Society of Oregon Big Band Jazz experience for the whole family 31 in places like the Middle East and Enjoy featured works from the Be inspired by some of the best jazz with candy, games and more. Latin America that have been Oregon Watercolor Society in the musicians in Central Oregon performing Free and open to the public. heavily impacted by U.S. policy. Barber Library Rotunda Gallery traditional and contemporary big band music. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. How does the rest of the world this fall. Attend the opening see us and how do we see the Tickets $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and students. reception on Saturday, October 5 world? Tower Theatre at 7 p.m. Wille Hall, Coats Campus Center at 2 p.m. in the Barber Library at 4 p.m. Tickets $15 at towertheatre.org. NOVEMBER December 3 Patient Rights at the End-of-Life: October 18 & 23 November 8 Forbidden Movie Screening November 24 The Evolving Landscape of Law, COCC Preview Day Medicine & Policy Forbidden illustrates the intersection of Potential students of COCC Cascade Winds​ Symphonic Band Kathryn L. Tucker, JD, will discuss the queer and immigrant issues facing LGBTQ minorities who will get a taste of Bobcat life Listen to the soothing sounds of the Cascade evolution of law and policy governing have grown up in the rural South. Fri. 18 at 4 p.m. in Hitchcock and the College's academic Winds Symphonic Band. Summit High School end-of-life care, empowering Auditorium, Pioneer Hall, Bend Campus. Also showing on offerings at the annual COCC Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Wed. 23 in the Redmond Technology Education Center at 4 p.m. 8 attendees with information Preview Day, 10 a.m. to 1:30 often hidden, which can aid in p.m., on Friday, Nov. 8 at thinking about and planning for the Bend campus’s Mazama November 28-29 the final bit of the journey. Wille Hall, October 19-21 Gym. Preregistration is required; call 541.383.7500 or search Central Oregon Symphony Thanksgiving Break Coats Campus Center at 6:30 p.m. “Preview Day” at cocc.edu. Tickets $10 at cocc.edu/foundation/vsp. Enjoy the harmonic sounds of the seasoned Central COCC closed, no classes. 3 Oregon Symphony. Tickets are complimentary, but required. See cosymphony.com for details. November 11 28 December 7-8 All shows are at Bend Senior High School Cascade Chorale Holiday Magic Auditorium. Sat. 19 at 7:30., Sun. 20 at 2 p.m., Veterans Day Enjoy the Cascade Chorale's annual Holiday Magic Mon. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Thank you to all of those who served or are serving our country. program featuring seasonal COCC closed, no classes. favorites and the Bend Children's Choir. Tickets October 29 available at towertheatre.org. Food is What Connects Us: Immigration, MORE Saturday at 3 p.m. and Community and Activism at November 17 7 p.m. Sunday at 7 p.m. 29 For more information and a full event schedule for the the Dinner Table 20th Annual Turkey Trot Run/Walk Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program, visit: Join Amy Harper, Ph.D., professor Join us for our annual 3-mile cocc.edu/foundation/vsp of Anthropology, Central Oregon Turkey Trot run/walk, a benefit December 15 Community College, and explore for the COCC Foundation. COCC Foundation Scholarship Application Opens 17 For more information on all campus-wide events, visit: ways in which food can be Free for COCC students Accepting applications for cocc.edu/home/events used to build community. and $10 for all other 2020-21 COCC Foundation Wille Hall, Coats Campus participants. Starts on Scholarships. See the Center at 6:30 p.m. Free the COCC Mazama track Foundation's webpage and open to the public. behind Coats Campus for requirements: Center. Information: 15 cocc.edu/foundation. [email protected]. Nancy R. Chandler Visiting 14 Central Oregon Community College Foundation Magazine Scholar Program event Central Oregon Community College Foundation Magazine 15 ELIJAH HART Psychology

overty and homelessness once threat- and honesty spoke to me,” he recalled. Pened to derail Elijah Rain Hart’s He signed up for the Oregon Promise, future. As one of four siblings, he often enrolled at the College, lived in the didn’t have the basic daily necessities. residence hall and soon became a student But now, on a full ride to Lewis & Clark ambassador. He would travel to Barcelona College — and immersed in neuroscience with the study abroad program and The POWERPOWERPOWER studies — Hart reflects on his COCC go on to become a Ford Family Foundation scholarship as a guiding light. Foundation scholar.

“It reiterated to me that higher education "I truly came into the of Scholarships would serve as my ‘declaration of inde- pendence,’ of sorts, from poverty and person I am today." its cyclical axis,” he shared during the Three students with three very President’s Scholarship Luncheon this “I truly came into the person I am today,” past June. Hart, whose upbringing was said Hart of his COCC years, graduating different stories spoke at this “riddled with instability,” now has plans in 2018 with an associate degree focused year's President's Scholarship for a doctorate in medicine. on psychology. Before returning to his Luncheon, where donors, students bachelor’s studies, he shared, he would and college staffers gathered to For Hart, who struggled in high school, spend the summer in France organiz- things brightened when he met Lindsay ing art and music programs for foster celebrate the power of scholarships. Buccafurni, COCC’s former admissions children. “Your compassion has changed by Mark Russell Johnson coordinator, during a recruitment event my life,” he told the audience, “and many at his Corvallis school. “Her kindness other students here at COCC.”

Erica Denney JOHN THORESON Nursing Business Administration

raveling the world as a minister, “You’re going to encounter long stretches rowing up, John Thoreson was in my life that have done that, and this Tfrom Cambodia and Uganda to of flat, rather boring desert; at times, Gmade to feel “stupid” and “worthless” scholarship is one of those things. People Uzbekistan and Nicaragua, Erica Denney beautiful tree-lined creeks; occasionally, as he revolved through one foster home that had never met me were saying, ‘We would connect with people and com- a grueling ascent to a gorgeous view; after the next — 14 of them, to be exact — believe in you.’” That pushed him to munities, helping them in any way she and, sometimes, we encounter a charred ultimately ending up on his own and study hard at COCC; he finished in two could. “I knew since I was a teenager that forest,” she described. “Are there ever thumbing his way around the country years with highest honors. I wanted to spend my life serving people,” going to be any signs of new life?” Unsure until he was old enough to enlist in the she shared. Eventually she realized she she was even nursing material, the mother Army. When he got out, he spent an entire "I am going to become a better wanted to serve with more immediacy, of three teenagers nevertheless applied for career fighting wildland fire and laboring to help in times of greatest need. That Foundation support. at sawmills in the winters. But he’d use and better advocate for people." brought her to COCC’s Nursing program. his free time to mentor and coach teams “I got a letter in the mail that said I of at-risk youth, an experience that ignited Now attending Western Oregon University’s "These are people who have had been awarded a full tuition schol- a new calling in him, a desire to help pre-law program, he said part of what arship — and it brought me to tears,” advocate for youth through legal assistance. drives him are the sobering stats that read through my application she said. “These are people who have surround foster kids. “Only 50 percent and they believe in me." read through my application and they “Every once in a while, somebody would are gainfully employed, able to take care believe in me.” There was new life in the ‘come out of the bushes’ in my life and of themselves at 24 years of age,” he told Life, she pointed out, doesn’t resemble a landscape. Denney’s now a second-year pat me on the back and say, ‘Here’s the audience. “Three percent have any straight path. In fact, it tends to resemble, nursing student and maintaining a 4.0 another hill to climb — look from here, chance of ever getting a degree in their well, the trails around Central Oregon. GPA. “I am deeply grateful.” the view’s different,’” he explained. “I lives. I’m going to become a better and can think of a half-dozen individuals better advocate for people who had experiences like mine.” 16 Central Oregon Community College Foundation Magazine Eugen Helmbrecht Scholarships by the Numbers Donors 2019-20 COCC Foundation Scholarship Recipient Data Investing in First-Time Awards Community

The following individuals, businesses and foundations are generous friends of Central Oregon Community College, who gave cash gifts to the COCC Foundation between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019. We have 250 students offered a first- 40% worked diligently to have an accurate list, but encourage you to call the Foundation if you find an error: 622 541.383.7225. Most of all, to those who give — Thank you! qualified students applied time full $4,000 scholarship Renewal Awards Total 2019-20 Awards Shawn Cannon and Mark Smith Dan Eaton Mimi Graves INDIVIDUALS Peter and Patti Carlson Mark and Kimberly Eberhard Robert and Frances Greenlee Bruce Abernethy and Dr. Mary Meador Mary Carlson Dr. Mark and Brenda Eberle Margaret Gregory and students received a Cora Agatucci Pamela Carty Kathryn Eckman George Blackman Dan and Gloria Ahern Dr. Ron and Mary Carver Michael and Linda Eisele Jody and Dennis Griffin renewal scholarship Eric and Marlene Alexander Michelle Cary Robert Ekenstedt Julie Grunberg Todd and Sharla Andresen John and Joan Casey* Tim and Jennifer Elliott Donald and Darhl Guinn from last year Paul and Jennifer Andrews Elizabeth Casey James and Debbie Ellis Jeff and Holly Gullickson Mary Ann Asson-Batres Karla Castillo-Rodriguez and Dr. Bruce and Dawn Emerson Bradley Gust John Baehr Nicholas Cerveny Lisa Erb Brian Gutierrez 400 Lawrence and Rachel Baker Heidi and Donald Castleman Douglas Ertner Janet Gutierrez students offered Thomas and Seana Barry Aelea Christofferson Wayne and Shirley Eshelman Thomas Hackett Glen and Barbara Bates Melinda and Mark Clark Carolyn Esky Victoria Haertel a full scholarship Paul and Carol Bearce Amy and Chad Clark Estate of Robert and Beverly Bergstrom Deborah and Edward Hagan Jeannette and James Beeger Ronald and Julia Cochran Estate of Joan Grier Bird Robert and Julie Hakala 1.72M Scott Beeman and Susanne Watkins Wanda Coil Estate of Paul Eckman Annemarie Hamlin Gary Bell and Wendy Maciel Jeffrey and Diane Cole Estate of Kathryn Garner Michael and Colette Hansen John and Patty Bentley Neil and Angie Cole Estate of Shirley V. Ray Dr. Ron and Beth Hanson offered in scholarship support Brian and Kerry Bergler Scott Cooper and Estate of Jean L. Thompson Amy Harper Steven and Mary Biehn Laura Craska Cooper Dr. Patrick and Leslie Evoy Michael Hasson 150 H. Leon and Marjorie Biggers Mark and Gigi Copeland Dr. Ronald and Sandra Federspiel Phil and Suzanne Hatch Jim and Ramona Bishop Dr. Pierce and Marna Cornelius Dr. Lloyd and Patty Felton Janice Hatton and Charles Wilshire COCC Foundation Scholarship Recipients Degrees Pursued Don Bishop Hilary Craig Smith and Greg Smith Kenneth Fennell Peter and Tana Hatton Nanette and Mick Bittler Jack and Helen Crowell Steve and Kari Ferber Sylvia Hatton Roger and Linda Bjorvik James and Judith Crowell Dr. Harvey Fineberg and Mary Wilson Joe Hawkins Larry and Linda Blanton Robert Currie and Elayne Logan-Currie Catherine Finney Micaela Hayden and Patrick Blohm Mike Custer Susan Fischer Dr. Gregory Lyons more Daniel and Lisa Bloyer Rosalind Davenport Dr. Thomas and Sally Foster Joe Hendricks and Hazel Reeves 3.36 GPA Jeannette Bobst Deborah Davies Amy and Steven Foster-Wexler Charles and Wilma Hens credits 57% Transfer degree Dr. Peter and Diane Boehm Andrew and Michelle Davis Richard and Beverly Francis Gavin and Emily Hepp 2.3 Laura and Joshua Boehme Michele Decker Joseph and Diane Franzi Susan Hermreck Average Emily Bonavia Robert Dee Phillip and Carole Frazier Lydia Hernandez earned per term than average Zak and Jennifer Boone Riki Dela Cruz Kelsey Freeman Gary and Vikki Hickmann Virginia Boone Jane Denison-Furness Manuel and Suzan Freitas Matthew Higgins 40% CTE certificate Dr. Jon Bouknight and Jeff and Teresa Deswert David and Carol Friedley Lucy Hilburn Lisa Goetz-Bouknight Lisa Dobey and Deborah Cole Lester and Katlin Friedman Derek Hopp and Kristin Stratton or degree Misty and Chad Bouse Catherine Donahue and Gary Tepe Robert and Pat Fulton Julie Hotchkiss and John Belsick John Breeden Scott and Danielle Donnell Dr. John and Teresa Gallagher Amy and Lewis Howell 6.6% Stephina Brewer Ed Donohue Robert Garber Shawn Hoxie Jack and Theresa Brewer Stacey Donohue Michael and Janet Gesme Dr. Karen and Wilbur Huck 90% Robert and Margaret Brookover Bill Douglass Scott and Charlotte Gilbride Christopher Hughes of COCC credit Charles and Sally Brown John and Diane Douglass Candace Gillette Bruce and Peggy Humphreys 3% AGS degree Ronald and Wilda Bryant Beverly Downer Warren and Diana Glenn Dr. Linda Hurley students received a completed courses Roxanne Burger-Wilson Kathy Drew Murray Godfrey Ronald and Elizabeth Hylton Skylar and Windy Bush Dirk and Caryn Duryee Stephanie Goetsch Denny Irby Blaise Cacciola and Sandra Schmidt Rachel Dutcher Gertrude Goldsmith Stephen and Lynae Ireland Foundation scholarship with a C or better Steve and Johnita Callan Sean Easly Michael and Julie Gonsalves Clark Jackson

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