Former
District and OCC Employee Ed Dornan Dies at 66
 Ed
Dornan, a former District and OCC employee and political
strategist, died unexpectedly of a heart attack in his
home at age 66 on December 19, 2005. Ed was an English
professor at OCC for several years and wrote many textbooks
as well.
In honor of Ed Dornan, the Orange
Coast College Foundation is establishing an endowed scholarship
fund called the Ed Dornan Scholarship for Excellence
in Writing and Literature. The foundation is currently
seeking donations which can be made through the foundation
office. The foundation’s
goal is to give the first scholarship at OCC’s Honors
Night in May 2006. For more information, contact Doug Bennett
at x25126.
Ed’s family has announced a celebration
of Ed’s
life to be held on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 2 p.m.
at the Barclay Theater on Campus Drive at the UCI campus. They
indicated that Ed lived life to the fullest and loved his
friends, colleagues and especially his family.
Union Contracts Now
Available for Online Viewing
For easy access and employee convenience,
Union contracts are now available to view from our web
site at http://www.cccd.edu/facultystaff/union_agreements.aspx .
If you have any questions regarding these contracts, please
contact Kathy Surgenor at x84710.
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Keeping
Your Resolutions in 2006
For millions of Americans, various nutrition and exercise
goals top New Year's resolution lists for 2006 . Kaiser
Permanente offers some helpful tips on how to change your
lifestyle so you can truly keep your health and fitness
goals this year.
Manage your environment
New habits take time to become familiar.
Rearrange your environment to remind you. Start by removing
anything associated with your habit. If you smoke, remove
ashtrays and throw away your lighter. If you drink, clear
out the alcohol cupboard and if you eat too much, remove
tempting foods.
Changing on your own terms
If you change only to please other people,
you won't be motivated to keep it up no matter how great
the rewards might be. You may have good reasons for not
wanting to change, or they may be excuses for not changing.
Take a critical look at your reasons.
Substitute healthy pleasures
It can be difficult to just stop an addiction
without replacing it with another activity. Replace your
bad habit with something healthy. For instance, chew carrot
sticks when you give up smoking or eat your favorite fruit
at lunch time instead of a high-calorie dessert.
Revise
your plan until it works
Successful plans are often just revisions of unsuccessful
ones. A written action plan makes your intentions clear
and real. Think of it as a contract with yourself. It's
a way to help keep your goals in mind, monitor your progress,
and evaluate what is and isn't working.
Set up a support system
Changing is much
easier if friends or family support your effort. Be sure
to state exactly what kind of help you'll need. Sometimes
it helps to "go public" and
announce your intention to change. Share your plans with
the people closest to you. Come up with ways to make the
change positive for everyone.
Coming
and Going - HR News
The District would like to welcome these
new employees to their positions:
Babler, Cheryl L., CCC, Vice President
of Instruction
Beau, Leslie Andrews, OCC, Instructor,
Business
Grigsby, Donald L., DIST, Environmental Health
and Safety Specialist
Hernandez, Richard C., OCC, Interim
Director for EOPS
Meneses, Evangeline N., CCC, Vice President
of Student Services
Congratulations and best wishes on your
retirement to the following employees:
Breihan, John M., CCC, Vice President,
Student Services & Economic Development
After 32 years
of service to the Coast Community College District and
a total of 40 years in higher education, John Breihan will
be retiring effective December 30, 2005. John came to the
Coast District in 1974 after serving for eight years as
an administrator at Chapman University.
During his 32 years of service
to the District, John's major accomplishments include:
planning and organizing a registration process that helped
Coastline have an opening day enrollment of over 18,500
students (the largest opening enrollment of any college
in the nation); initiating a telephone registration process
at Coastline that was later emulated at both Golden West
and Orange Coast which laid the groundwork for
the telephonic registration process that is now in use;
living through the conversion to DSK in 1989 (he will certainly
miss the opportunity to participate in the conversion to
SCT Banner); and working with Wes Bryan and Phil Bernard
to establish the 16 week academic calendar at GWC which
helped to turn around the college’s
declining enrollment. His greatest accomplishment along
with his wife Carolyn was to raise three great children
all of whom have become outstanding, productive, and caring
individuals.
John considers it an honor and privilege
to have worked in the Coast Community College District
with so many outstanding faculty, staff, students and fellow
administrators. In his retirement John plans to spend his
time with his three grandchildren (soon to be four), singing
in various musical groups, traveling with his wife and
friends, trying to be a good minister’s husband to
his wife, participating in community service, and playing
an occasional game of golf.
Dickson, Marilyn, OCC, Director
Student Health Services
Born in Denver, Marilyn earned
her B.S. Degree in nursing from the University of Colorado.
Marilyn received a school nurse credential
from the University of California at San Francisco, and
a nurse practitioner degree from Brigham Young University.
She received her M.S. degree in community health education
from California State University at Long Beach.
In 1975 Marilyn was hired as director
of student health services at Golden West College and
became the director of student health services at OCC in
1995. Marilyn’s
educational philosophy places an emphasis on student development. “Student
health care is low-tech but high-touch”, she once
told a reporter. “You need to give students your
time and attention. Working on a college campus is a wonderfully
satisfying experience for a public health professional.”
Marilyn
was named a fellow of the American College Health Association
(ACHA) in 2000. At the time, only 141 health professionals
in the U.S. had received this honor since 1968. Many
ACHA fellows are physicians, pharmacists, registered nurses
and PhDs. She has twice served as state president of the
California Community College Health Services Association.
Marilyn has been active with the American Public Health
Association, The Pacific Coast College Health Association,
and the Society of Public Health Educators. Marilyn was
nominated for the Clara Barton Award through the American
Red Cross.
During her retirement, Marilyn plans to
spend time with her family in Boulder, Colorado and work
as a legal nurse consultant and volunteer for the Orange
County Medical Reserve Corps.
Hollowell, Barbara C., CCC,
Vice President, Instruction
Ever since announcing her
early retirement, Dr. Barbara Hollowell, Vice-President
of Instruction at Coastline Community College has been
asked, “Why?” Barbara’s
response has been, “I want another life (or two).
Not a different life necessarily, just an additional one!”
In addition to her family roles
as a daughter, wife, mother and grandmother, her 36 years
in education have included professional roles of state
and school librarian, high school English teacher, middle
school ESL and reading teacher, college professor of undergrad
and graduate education, handicap civil rights compliance
officer, and a variety of community college management
assignments culminating in her current position as Coastline’s
vice president of instruction.
Barbara graduated with her Masters in
Library Science while eight months pregnant and continued
on to get her doctorate in language education before age
30 and her law degree at 40.
Still, she feels she has more roles
to play, more college to attend, more life to live!! She
thanks the Coast Community College District and Coastline
Community College for this most recent, incredible 14 year
run.
Johnson, Stanley, OCC, Dean, Mathematics & Sciences
Stan
earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in chemistry at California
State University, Fullerton. A year following completion
of his master’s degree, he worked as a research chemist
at Carnation Research in Van Nuys. Stan joined the Orange
Coast College faculty in the fall of 1971 as an assistant
professor of chemistry. In 1984, Stan became chair
of the chemistry department. He’s been
a member of numerous professional organizations, including
the American Chemical Society, the Orange County Section
of the American Chemical Society, the National Science
Teachers Association, the Committee on Chemistry in the
two-year Colleges, and the Orange County Science Education
Association. Stan was a research chemist in atmospheric
chemistry at Cal State Fullerton, from
1984-92 and he was a member of the Fullerton Alumni Council
for the School of Math, Science and Engineering.
Conley,
William J., DIST, Physical Facilities Building Program
Project Manager
After 38 years with the Coast Community
College District, Bill Conley has decided it’s
time to retire. Bill has spent half of his career
working for DIS and half with
the District Physical Facilities Department.
During Bill’s
19 years with DIS, his biggest accomplishment was
leading the project team that developed and delivered the
student registration accounting system. Bill’s application
group designed, programmed, documented and delivered the
software in five months. Bill also worked on several other
software applications as part of the DIS team.
Eighteen
years ago, Bill decided to expand his career by becoming
the building program project manager for the District Physical
Facilities Department. Bill’s primary
function was the procurement of state funds for maintenance
and capital facility projects. Over the years, Bill has
submitted over 120 proposals to the State that generated
over $77 million in state appropriations for all three
college campuses. Seven of the state projects were capital
outlay building projects that took as long as ten years
to secure the funding from the State legislature. Bill
also managed the state facilities space inventory and
scheduled maintenance funds. Administrative Services
is proud of Bill for his loyalty to the District and all
his accomplishments as part of the Physical Facilities
team.
In retirement,
Bill will be traveling between California and Florida
to visit family, working out daily at the gym and looking
for volunteer opportunities.
Davis, Robert D., OCC, Director
of Computer Services
Robert “Bob” Davis has
submitted his retirement from Orange Coast College after
21 years of service. Bob was originally hired
in February 1984, and shortly after became a Data
Electronics Technician I in the Business Division. Bob
received a number of promotions over the years, most recently
as the role of Director of Computer Services. In this capacity,
Bob supervised all of the instructional computer labs
on the Orange Coast College campus as well as the Reprographics
Department. We will miss Bob’s
wonderful smile and his calm, gentle demeanor. All of
Bob’s friends and colleagues wish him a wonderful
retirement!
Kelly, Babette K., DIST, Manager, Employment
Services and Records
Born in Lamar, Colorado, Babette
received her undergraduate degree from Colorado State
University in Fort Collins. She and her husband Jim moved
to Portland, Oregon, where Babette taught high school English
and Journalism. She also earned a Masters in Education
Counseling from Portland State University, and started
her family. After relocating to Southern California, Babette
was active in community volunteer organizations before
joining the staff at Coast Community College District in
December 1990. She began as a Personnel Technician and
is retiring, after 15 years, as Manager of Employment Services
and Records.
Babette and her husband have three grown
children, Shawn, Patrick and Kara, and five grandchildren.
She enjoys reading, walking, gardening, traveling, and
being with her family.
We, her staff, thank her for her 15
years of dedicated service. We appreciate her kind nature,
encouragement and fairness. We will
miss her detailed knowledge of Education codes and procedures,
and her wealth of departmental experience. Along with
hard work, we have had good laughs and lots of fun. She
has been an excellent manager and a wonderful friend.
We will surely miss Babette, and we wish her much happiness
in her retirement.
Kirkpatrick, Carolyn G., GWC, Director
of Personnel Services
Carolyn Kirkpatrick joined the Golden West College
family in 1979 as Senior Secretary to the Business
Services manager, and in 1981 was promoted to Administrative
Secretary in the same department. By 1986, her knowledge
and leadership of the Human Resources component of
the Business Services office led her to a promotion
of Staff Assistant, Senior and
in 1991 to Administrative Services-Administrative Assistant.
Carolyn became the Director of Personnel Services in July
1995, and was named Manager of the Year by her peers in
1999-2000.
During
Carolyn’s nearly 27-year career at GWC, her
professionalism, enthusiasm and positive attitude have
been an inspiration to her staff enabling them to function
as a team focused on creating a customer service oriented
department within the organization. She has provided advice,
compassion and support to hundreds of employees and for
that we say thank you!
Carolyn is now looking forward to
spending
more time with her family (husband Jeff and newlywed
daughter Jenny), traveling, taking up new hobbies and
perhaps working part-time. We are grateful for Carolyn’s
countless contributions to GWC and wish her all the best
in this new chapter of her life.
Lawrence, Francine M.,
GWC, Custodial Supervisor
Francine Lawrence decided
to retire in December 2005. Francine has been with
the District for over 26 years.
She started at GWC in March of 1979 as a Custodian and
worked her way up to Custodial Supervisor in July of 2000.
In
her retirement, Francine plans to spoil her grandchildren
and pursue other interests. We all wish her the best!
Manning,
Majella M., DIST, Risk Services Coordinator
Majella came
to the District office in 1992 from the private sector
beginning her career through the clerical pool. Her first
full-time classified job was at DIS as a Typist Clerk
and within eight months, she applied and was successful
in securing an Administrative Secretary position at DIS.
In 1995, reorganization in the department put her in a
Staff Assistant Senior position which she held until her
promotion to Supervisor of User Services in 1996. Coordinating
the District training classes in software applications
was a challenge considering the constant updates and changes
in technology. When the DIS trainers were dispersed to
the three campuses in January, 2005, Majella was transferred
to the Risk Services Department where she served as the
coordinator in a vacancy resulting from another co-workers
retirement. Majella will return
to New Mexico to be with her family and we wish her
much happiness in her retirement.
Lewis, Charles G., OCC, Staff Aide
Charles “Gary” Lewis
came to Orange Coast College’s International Center
Program over ten years ago with a wealth of experience
in education. The students, program, and College have all
benefited from his infectious enthusiasm, graciousness,
superb organizational skills and caring nature. We
thank him for his excellent work in engaging so many students
and staff in activities that directly support the educational
mission of the College.
Mullen-Barrett, Elaine, OCC, Secretary
Senior
Elaine joined the OCC family in the fall
of 1995. Her original assignment was in the Early Childhood
Lab School. In the fall of 1999, Elaine moved to the Academic
Senate Office. Elaine’s skills
and sense of humor will be greatly missed. All her campus
friends wish her a healthy, happy retirement enjoying her
family and grandchildren.
Willis, Louis C., GWC, Custodian
Louis has provided the campus with over
22 years of dedicated service in the Custodial
Department. In his retirement,
Louis will be spending time with his grandchildren and
pursuing other interests. His colleagues and friends
wish Louis all the best for a long and happy retirement.
Zimmerman, Vicki
J., OCC, Public Information Specialist
Vicki has been
with the Coast Community College District for 20 years.
She began her tenure with the District in 1985 at Coastline
College and moved to Orange Coast College in 1986. She
worked in the college’s Community
Relations Office for 18 years. A highly creative
and productive member of the OCC staff, she will be missed
by her many campus colleagues and friends.
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Dibakar
Barua, an English professor at Golden West College, has been
selected as the recipient of the Hayward Award for Excellence
in Education. This award program was established in 1989
and is presented periodically by the Board of Governors to
honor community college faculty members who are selected
by their peers for demonstrating the highest level of commitment
to their students, college, and profession.