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Five added to Clark College
Alumni Hall of Fame
Roger Daniels,
Nancy Wessels Henderson,
Gregg Herrington,
Dennis Huston and
John Marshall were named Clark College
Outstanding Alumni yesterday during opening ceremonies in the Penguin Student
Union in Gaiser Hall.
They join 15 other graduates of the 72-year old community
college who, according to Clark president Wayne
Branch, “have forged distinguished careers in southwest Washington and
around the world.”
“They all have traits of courage, creativity,
perseverance and leadership,” said Ceci Ryan
Smith, former Clark Alumni Association, who announced the 2005 winners of
the prestigious awards.
They will be formally inducted into the college
Outstanding Alumni Hall of Fame at a reception and program in Foster Hall on the
college campus on May
26.
Roger Daniels
Daniels, class of 1975, often referred to as “Mr. Clark
College,” began a long career at the college as assistant to the director of
admissions in 1977. During his 13-year tenure as director of athletics and
recruitment, Clark athletic teams won 28 league championships and five northwest
championships. As director of recruitment and outreach services at the college,
he was instrumental in developing Clark’s Running Start program.
Daniels was named Camas-Washougal Citizen of the Year in
2001, and was named to the Northwest Athletic Association for Community Colleges
Hall of Fame in 2002.
Nancy Wessels Henderson
Henderson, class of 1971, went on to a distinguished
career in the U.S. Army and is a retired colonel. While taking a full academic
load at Clark, Henderson worked at three part-time jobs and coached a girl’s
softball team and was a member of the college orchestra. The holder of a
doctorate in physical therapy, Henderson was chief of Physical Therapy at
Madigan Army Medical Center when she retired.
Henderson’s Army career included assignments n El
Salvador and Columbia.
Gregg Herrington
Herrington, class of 1965, is an award-winning 29-year
veteran of The Columbian staff and
currently writes editorials and an opinion column. Herrington is a former
Oregonian staffer, and for five years he
was with Associated Press in Washington, D.C. Before joining
The Columbian, Herrington was assistant
AP bureau chief in Seattle, directing news coverage in Washington and Alaska.
Herrington is a member of the alumni association’s board
of directors and is on the advisory panel for the WSU Vancouver Foley Institute.
Dennis Huston
Huston, class of 1961, retired as head basketball coach
of Weber State College, Utah. He was an all-star member of Clark’s 1960-61
basketball team. After earning a masters degree from Western Washington
University, Huston returned to Clark, where he became head basketball coach. He
also held coaching positions at the University of Washington, University of
Wyoming and Stanford University.
Huston is one of the founders and a former president of
the Penguin Athletic Club and is a member of the college foundation board of
directors. He is a sought-after motivational speaker.
John Marshall
Marshall, class of 1957, earned masters degrees from
Portland State University and Carnegie Mellon University, taught school at
Hudson’s Bay High School and completed a distinguished career in city
government. He is a former Vancouver acting city manager.
Marshall helped form Vancouver’s Sister City program with
Joyo City, Japan, was project coordinator for Vancouver’s One Place Across Time,
and helped establish and was the first director of the Vancouver National
Historic Reserve Trust. He helped develop the city’s Celebrate Freedom programs,
coordinated the Medal of Honor Convention and brought Gen.
Colin Powell to Vancouver to deliver an
annual Gen. George C. Marshall address.
Marshall holds a Congressional Medal of Honor Society
Award. He was named Vancouver’s 1999 First Citizen.
Medical center kicks off
$146 million patient tower
Southwest Washington Medical Center president and CEO
Joe Kortum, accompanied by board of
trustee members and medical staff, today announced the kick-off of the third
phase of the medical center’s modernization and expansion program, an
eight-story, 154-room patient tower at the Mill Plain campus.
The tower will also house 15 new operating rooms and the
center’s state-of-the-art heart and vascular center.
Construction preparations and reconfiguration of parking
space already underway are resulting in changes of access to departments at the
medical center.
Beginning Monday, April 18, visitors to the medical center
are to use the 92nd Avenue entrance. Patients, depending on departments they
will be using, may also enter the center from 87th Avenue. Emergency patients
and patients using the Physician’s Pavilion may use the Mother Joseph Place
entrance off Mill Plain Boulevard.
News brief
A two-part educational series on automobile driving issues
of seniors 55 and older is being presented by Southwest Washington Medical
Center from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday, April 15, and Saturday, April 16, in the
Fir-Willow Room in the Memorial Health Center. Classes are $10. To register,
call 514-2190.
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