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Lorraine Seiffert retiring from Clark College
after helping over 200,000 students
The first week of school is also the last week on campus for
Lorraine Seiffert, Clark College
registrar, who retires September 24.
A reception at 3 p.m., Friday, Sept.
17, in the Central Gaiser Conference Room at Clark College, will honor her over
25 years of service at Clark College during which her work touched more than
200,000 men and women who became students at the community college.
A Columbia River High School
graduate, Seiffert took classes at Clark and from 1969 to 1970 she worked in
data processing, returning in 1980 beginning a career in the registration office
that took her from office assistant to support supervisor and ultimately to
being named registrar in 1998.
When she began work at the college,
registration forms, because of lack of automation, were handled eight times to
complete the process for each student. Under her leadership Clark has become one
of the most technologically advanced community colleges in the state with online
registration, electronic prerequisite checking, schedule planning and degree
works credential evaluation fully automated.
Active in 4-H, Seiffert helped build
the equestrian center at the Clark County Fairgrounds.
Jane Cote
2004 ATHENA Award winner
Jane
Cote, associate professor of accounting at Washington State University
Vancouver yesterday was named winner of the 2004-2005 ATHENA Award by Women In
Action at their Emerging Leaders Forum.
Cote was lauded for having helped
students develop professional and leadership skills. She was instrumental in
forming the Student to Professional Mentor Program, involving alumni as mentors
and providing students with more than 30 mentors each semester. She also helped
create the New Student Orientation Program at the university.
Cote is a past president and member of
the board of directors of the YWCA of Clark County, where she helped create the
YWCA endowment program. Cote is also a member of the Community Foundation of
Southwest Washington, American Red Cross, National Association of Investors
Corporation, and American Accounting Association. She is co-organizer of the
Portland-Vancouver Accounting Research Colloquium.
Vigil for Naomi Collins is this
evening
A vigil and recitation of the rosary
for Naomi Ruth Bush Collins, who died at
home Sunday at the age of 78, is at 6 p.m. this evening in St. Joseph Catholic
Church, 400 S. Andresen Road. A funeral mass is at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17.
Ms. Collins, whose humanitarian work
over the past 60 years in Vancouver was laced with a salty sense of humor, was a
member of St. Joseph Church, where she was active in education and liturgical
ministries and she was one of the founders of the Vancouver Sausage Fest. She
was a chaplain for the Credit Women’s International Association.
Ms. Collins was an avid bowler, having
bowled a 300 game, and was active in Democratic politics.
After working several years as a
nursing assistant at the Vancouver Veterans Administration Hospital, Ms. Collins
attended and graduated from Clark College, where she worked in the accounting
department until her retirement in 1981.
Survivors include a son,
Michael, Vancouver, a sister,
Beverly Hooten and her nephew
Richard Runabear, with whom she lived,
and a sister, Donna Hughes, Culver City,
Ore.
Contributions may be made to the Clark
College Foundation, specifically designated for the Women’s Study Program.
Three vacancies on the Vancouver
Design Review Committee to be filled
The City of Vancouver is seeking
applicants for three positions open on the city’s nine-member Design Review
Committee. The committee reviews plans for new and remodeled buildings in the
city’s downtown, waterfront and Central Park areas.
There are no residency requirements
but applicants are sought who have experience in design-related fields.
The deadline for applications is 5
p.m., Friday, Oct. 8. For further information, call
Carol Hansen,
696-8001.
People
Zach
Kutkey, Pacific Middle School seventh grader, has won a part in the
Portland Opera production of Kurt Weil’s
Street Scenes, which will be shown March
25 and 26, and April 2, 2005, in the Keller Auditorium.
News brief
The Council for the Homeless will
present its annual Community Awards at a luncheon at 11:45 a.m. Friday, Sept.
17, in the Water Resources Education Center. The speaker is
Greg Shaw, director of Pacific Northwest
Program for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. For further information, call
993-9571.
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