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A PUBLICATION OF THECOCHISE COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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BBOOAARRDD PPRREESSIIDDEENNTT’’SS MMEESSSSAAGGEE

Dear Supporters of Cochise College and theCochise College Foundation,

Just as hopeful Olympians look forward to makingthe big stage every four years, Cochise College isat the very beginning of preparations to celebrateits golden anniversary in 2014. Our college isyoung in comparison to, for example, Harvard Uni-versity, founded in 1636, or Joliet Junior College,the first community college, founded in 1901.

Nonetheless, we are extremely proud that Cochisewill soon turn 50. We and 456 other communitycolleges opened in the 1960s, a time of renewal

across the country that was not lost on Cochise County residents. Many ofthose first 451 Cochise College students or those involved with the college’sfounding, will tell you there was a unique sense of excitement surroundingthis new model of accessible education. Over more than four decades, thecollege has grown drastically, with full-time student equivalent in 2009-2010of more than 8,500. With the opening of new facilities, the college also nowconsistently presents the image that higher education is important.

With your help, we hope to recapture the pioneering spirit that helpedlaunch this college as we begin making our plans to celebrate. We would liketo hear from you, our friends and supporters, about how you’d like to cele-brate with us. Tell us your memories and experiences with Cochise. Whatwould inspire you to visit? What vision do you have for Cochise College’s next50 years? How can you help us achieve that vision?

I hope you enjoy this edition of “Accolade”, see something that inspires you,and contact us at [email protected]. Thank you, again, for your contin-uing support.

Chuck ChambersBoard PresidentCochise College Foundation

Board OfficersCharles Chambers, PresidentYolanda Anderson, Vice PresidentCindy Hayostek, SecretaryMark Battaglia, J.D., Treasurer

Board MembersShirley GregoryJan GuyKaren L. JusticeDan Rehurek, Ph.D.Linda R. StaneartRuben Teran, J.D.

Ex-Officio MembersJ.D. Rottweiler, Ph.D. (ex-officio)

Honorary MembersMarsha Arzberger

Cochise College Foundation StaffDenise Merkel, Executive DirectorSheila Selby, Foundation CoordinatorCarmen Moreno, Student Aide

Accolade is published by the Cochise CollegeFoundation, 4190 W. Highway 80, Douglas, AZ85607. (520) 417-4100

EditorDenise Merkel

DesignerRick Whipple

ContributorSheila Selby

The Cochise College Foundation promotes stu-dent success through scholarships, facilities development, and program support. By support-ing Cochise College, the Foundation endeavorsto increase the college's accessibility to our diverse and changing communities.

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NNEEWW CCEENNTTEERR IINN WWIILLLLCCOOXXNNOOWW OOPPEENNCochise College celebrated the opening of abright and modern new learning center inWillcox in October. For many years, studentstook classes in portable buildings locatednear the Willcox Unified School District ad-ministration building. The new center wasidentified as a short-term need as part of thecollege’s master facilities planning process.

The 8,000-square-foot Willcox Center sits onschool district property and is reflective of aneffective collaboration between the college,the school district, the City of Willcox andCochise County. It includes four general-pur-pose classrooms, a science lab, a computerlab, an outdoor amphitheater and flexiblespace to host public events. The $2 millioncost of the project was covered by college re-serves.

"This warm and welcoming place sends animportant signal to our young people and tothe community at large: higher education isimportant,” said Dr. J.D. Rottweiler, CochiseCollege president.

The opening of the new center also com-pletes a loop around Cochise County. Withnew or renovated facilities at each location,the college now presents an appropriatepresence in each corner of the county.

The center also was designed with walkwaysthat lead directly from the schools to the col-lege, and a back porch overlooks the schooldistrict athletic fields. As of Aug. 31, enroll-ment at the Willcox Center was 80 studentsmore than on the same date last fall. Enroll-ment is up at every location, and “our wishnow is that we had more space to providemore services,” Rottweiler said.

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Cochise College is approaching the big 5-0, and early next year, a groupof foundation board members and college personnel will begin plan-ning ways to commemorate the anniversary in 2014.

The college has seen significant changes over nearly fivedecades. It opened the Douglas Campus to 441 students in the1960s, when 457 public community colleges were founded. Thepeople of Cochise County were excited because the collegewas new and different, and it allowed them to stay home andget an education, according to Dr. John Eaton, an administra-tor in the early years and now a member of the college Govern-ing Board. In addition, the college provided many communityservices, including entertainment by Louis Armstrong, theFour Freshmen and the Houston Symphony.

“I remember the quality of teaching. My biology teacher, DonSutton, was the one who led me to decide to study biology,”says John Spelbring (’67), who worked as a biomedical re-searcher for the U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Centers for Dis-ease Control, Phoenix Laboratories, until his retirement. “Therewere people from all over the area, and a lot of people from outof state. It was a very pleasant place to be…small enough tonot be formidable. It was a very conducive place to get an edu-cation.”

The college held its first commencement in 1966, and a yearlater, the Cochise College Foundation was incorporated as a non-profit or-ganization supporting the college and its students. Foundation board mem-

bers past and present recall the days when they broughtcheckbooks to the meetings just to keep it going, saysMark Battaglia, board treasurer and former Benson citymanager. Early on, the foundation focused on the openingof an archaeological center, and financial records fromJune 30, 1971, show the foundation awarded one schol-arship totaling $150 that year. Twenty years later, thefoundation awarded $121,500 in scholarships, and lastyear, that number jumped to $351,661 (see page 11).

After providing classes on Fort Huachuca since its ear-liest days, the college opened a Sierra Vista Campus in1972. That year also saw the graduation of the col-lege’s first class of registered nurses, includingShirley Neese, who now works in academic sup-port at the college.

“My most positive memory was that our classcrossed the border and did some clinicals in Agua Prieta,” Neese

says. “We were told, but I can’t confirm, that we were the first nursing class inthe U.S. to do so.”

In 1978, the college board implemented the “grass roots” project. For about ayear, the college didn’t have a president but was run by a team of faculty whowere also serving as administrators.

Historyin the

Making

Shirley Neese (highlighted),1972

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Documented history from the college’s middle years can be hard to come by, butKevin Butler (’81) recalls wearing his "Herb's Market" shirt to Doc Young's classto hear him laugh.

“Doc let me slide on my homework, but I had to bust my butt to make it up bythe end of the semester. My dad used to thank Doc for setting me straightevery time he'd see him in town.”

Butler worked in education finance at the University of Arizona and the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln before becoming the college’s vice presidentfor administration in 2007.

Dr. Mark von Destinon, a behavioral science faculty member who spentchildhood years on the Douglas Campus because his father, Irvin, wasemployed by the college, recalls a 1980s-era Apache Day celebration. Theevent included a “people’s rodeo” in which faculty, staff and studentscould enter contests like calf bloomering and the rawhide race and fin-

ish the day with country-western dancing. Bythe late 80s, von Destinon was working at theUniversity of Arizona and hostinggatherings of former Cochise stu-dents.

“From my childhood, my strongestpositive memory of Cochise Collegeis the strong relationships the fami-lies of the faculty and staff had withthe students,” von Destinon says.

By 1996, full-time student equiva-lent was 2,321. In 2006 it reached6,629, and last year finished with8,586. This year, a weakened econ-omy, new facilities, affordable tu-ition, and more academic optionshave made Cochise appealing to even more stu-dents. Record enrollment will push FTSE to awhole new level.

The college is serving more people than ever before, and all ofthose students, 1960s to present, have stories to tell. The committee planningthe 50th celebration is interested in hearing from more people about their expe-riences. Who made your Cochise College experience special? What activitieswere memorable? Do you keep in touch with classmates? Ultimately, how didyour Cochise College experience benefit you?

“Understanding where we’ve been and what’s important to our constituentswill be vital to making our 50th anniversary plans,” says Chuck Chambers, pres-ident of the Cochise College Foundation board. “We’d love to hear those memo-ries that people have of Cochise College.”

What do you remember? Tell us at www.cochise.edu/alumni.

Top to bottom:Dr. Mark von Destinon, Valentine’s DayDance,1993; Apache Days, 1982; LouisArmstrong, 1966 and 1967Above left:Larry Gunter, humanities faculty,1969

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Cochise County Bar Association

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What is a planned gift? A planned gift is onewhich is legally consummated during thedonor’s lifetime, with the principal benefitsgenerally not accruing to the institution untilsome future date. Types of planned gifts in-clude bequests, life insurance, life incomeagreements (charitable gift annuities, pooledincome funds, charitable remainder uni-trustsand annuity trusts, and revocable trusts), lifeestates, and charitable lead trusts.

Cochise College and the Cochise CollegeFoundation extend a sincere thanks to the fol-lowing donors who have worked with us toplan a gift in support of student success.

Alex BlackJoe and Susan GwiazdaMarian McClure

Lowell and Marjorie StewartMary Lee TiernanGail Zamar

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COCHISE COLLEGE IS ONE OF 38 INSTITUTIONS,AND THE ONLY ONE IN ARIZONA, to receive a$40,000 grant to implement a different method ofteaching pre-college-level math courses. Thegrant from the National Center for AcademicTransformation (NCAT), an independent non-profit, is intended to implement the effective useof information technology to improve studentlearning outcomes and reduce the cost of highereducation. Douglas Campus math classrooms willbe computer labs and the instructors will be facili-tators, rather than lecturers, when the pilot pro-gram begins in spring 2011.

The grant was obtained with the help of HanoverGroup, a consulting firm that has been contractedto help the college more aggressively research,evaluate and apply for grants. It is providedthrough NCAT’s Changing the Equation program,sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foun-dation, to engage the nation’s community col-leges in a successful redesign of theirremedial/developmental math sequences. Eachparticipant in Changing the Equation will re-design its entire developmental math sequence -all sections of all developmental courses offered -using NCAT's Emporium Model and commerciallyavailable instructional software.

The need to enroll in remedial courses in order toprepare for college-level courses is commonamong community college students. At CochiseCollege, more than 60 percent of all math stu-dents (2,200 annually) enroll in developmentalmath courses. Of the 5,782 students enrolled indevelopmental math classes since 2007, almost 25percent never completed the developmentalmath sequence that is the gateway to success incollege-level mathematics. The module curriculumallows students to progress through the develop-mental course sequence at a faster pace if possi-ble or at a slower pace if necessary, spending theamount of time needed to master the course con-tent. Attendance will be required for students en-rolling in college-prep math courses, and studentswill move to the next computer module onlywhen they have successfully completed the previ-ous module.

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NNEEWWSS OOFFAALLUUMMNNII &&FFRRIIEENNDDSSInsignia Technology Serv-ices, a government con-tractor based in NewportNews, Va., and establishedby Cochise College gradu-ateDavid LaClair (’99),was recently named toInc. Magazine’s 500/5,000

list. The list measures the5,000 fastest growing pri-vately held companies inthe U.S., and the top 10percent make the exclu-sive 500 list. The companyranked:• 29th of the 5,000 fastest growing in the U.S.

• 7th fastest growing company in the govern-ment sector

• 3rd fastest growing defense contractor in the services industry

Insignia provides informa-tion technology and pro-fessional services to theDepartment of Defense

and commercial cus-tomers. The company em-ployed five people at theend of 2006 and 90 at theend of 2009 and experi-enced a growth rate of6,430 percent.

LaClair is the son of re-tired faculty membersCharlie and Claudia La-Clair, and his brotherChip LaClair (’99) alsoserves as chief operations

officer for the company.David and Chip eachgraduated from CochiseCollege with three associ-ate degrees. David trans-ferred to the University ofArizona and then ArizonaState University, earning amaster’s in electronicsand computer engineer-ing. He worked as an in-tern with computerengineers for the Informa-tion Systems EngineeringCommand, Technology In-tegration Center on FortHuachuca and went on towork as an informationsystems engineer forLockheed Martin on FortHuachuca.Chip transferred to theUniversity of Arizona andearned master’s degrees

in management informa-tion systems and businessadministration. He was anintern for the Army Infor-mation Systems Engineer-ing Command on FortHuachuca and laterworked as an informationtechnology project/pro-gram manager forRaytheon, managing nu-merous projects spanningseveral Raytheon businessunits and the corporateoffice.

•Cochise College AthleticDirector Dr. Bo Hall (’69)has been inducted intothe Arizona BaseballCoaches Hall of Fame andthe Arizona Fast-PitchSoftball Hall of Fame. Hallwas nominated for theArizona Baseball CoachesHall of Fame by formerplayer Eric Godfrey.

“I was very pleased, veryhumbled,” the formercoach said. “This is quitean honor.”

Hall played baseball atCochise College andtransferred to Grand

Canyon University andwas drafted by the Cincin-nati Reds and the SanFrancisco Giants. Hecoached high schoolbaseball before joiningthe Apaches as head

coach, taking the team toback-to-back nationaltournament appearancesin 1988 and 1989.

Hall stepped down afterthe 1989 season to takeover the athletic directorduties and also becamedean of Student Services.

“Twelve years ago whenthey offered me the deanof Student Services jobhere at Cochise I toldthem I would take it onlyif they let me keep theathletic director’s job,” hesaid. “I like Cochise Col-lege. It’s been very goodto me. And I love beingpart of the athletic pro-gram.”

•Former Cochise Collegefaculty member BrianRedmond successfullydefended his dissertationin industrial psychology atBaruch University in NewYork City in October. Red-mond was employed atCochise College as a fac-ulty member in psychol-ogy on the Sierra VistaCampus from 2006 to2008, leaving for a facultyposition in the psychol-ogy department at Penn-sylvania State University,where he is still employed.His wife, Heather, teachesonline for Cochise Col-lege.

•Vincent Mitchell (’85) isan airframe structures en-gineer for Alaska Airlines.

•Karla Gerleve (’94) is aregistered nurse at the

New Mexico State Veter-ans Home.

•Writing from Jeddah,Saudi Arabia, Susan AnneJohnson-Kahlil (’72) pub-lishes two blogs, Susie’sBig Adventure and theJeddah Daily Photo Jour-nal.

•David French, who at-tended Cochise until1980, is a parole agent forthe California Departmentof Corrections and Reha-bilitation. A formerApache baseball player,he also coaches travelbaseball for his daughters.

•Allan Meyer, an instructorin philosophy, humanities,and speech from 1970 to1992, published “Writeand Wrong: A Useful Fic-tion” several years ago;contributes a monthlycolumn for “The Oracle,” amonthly literary maga-zine; and writes short sto-ries.

•Lorenza Rascon (’09) isan accounting tech forthe City of Douglas.

•Anna (Robison) Wheeler(’05) is the foreign militarysales lead for GeneralFund Enterprise BusinessSystem.

•David Paun (’89) is a lan-guage arts teacher atWakefield Middle Schoolin Tucson.

Share your news andupdates atwww.cochise.edu/alumnior [email protected].

David (left) and Chip LaClair

Bo Hall (right)

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DDIIDD YYOOUU KKNNOOWW??

Cochise College’s annual report to the governor is a compi-lation of achievements and challenges for the year. Thehighlights also deserve a broader audience, which is whywe ask, did you know that in 2009-2010:

Cochise College launched a degree program in logistics supplychain management and certificate programs in basic and ad-vanced logistics supply chain management; mechatronic sys-tems operating technician; 2D, 3D and flash gamedevelopment; green building; utility industry; and wildlandfirefighting?

the college signed new articulation agreements with GrandCanyon, Kaplan, New Mexico State, and Embry-Riddle Aeronau-tical universities and also implemented the Cochise Cats pro-gram for joint advising with the University of Arizona South tobetter help students transition to bachelor’s degree programs?

the college connected with young populations by offeringnine summer camps for k-12 students in the arts, science andtechnology; science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)

exploration academies for high school freshmen; and RunningStart programs for motivated high school seniors?

Cochise College students received a number of recognitions?Four students were named to the All-Arizona Academic Teams,and one was named a 2010 Coca-Cola Gold Scholar. Phi ThetaKappa awarded a Sierra Vista Campus student with a Hall ofFame Distinguished Member medallion. Student service learn-ing projects landed the college on the President’s Higher Edu-cation Community Service Honor Roll for the secondconsecutive year. The men’s and women’s basketball team andthe baseball team each were named to the NJCAA All-Acade-mic Teams.

the college joined several private partners to construct a sec-ond solar facility on the Douglas Campus that is expected togenerate 720,000 kilowatts of electricity annually to help offsetthe cost of powering the campus?

YYOOUU KKNNOOWW NNOOWW!!

Han Nee, left, founder of EternaxSolar, talks about the new photo-voltaic facility at the DouglasCampus. The company provided a$5,000 gift in support of renew-able energy instruction and proj-ects.

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Cochise College Foundation

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WWAAYYSS TTOO GGIIVVEEDonor contributions help provide thousands of dollars inscholarships and program support each year. You can help sup-port these and other college activities in a variety of ways.

• Establish an Annual or Endowed Fund• Planned Gifts• Personal Property• Real Estate• Cash and Pledges• Matching Gifts

Check our website to give online, or contact us at (520) 417-4100 to determine an appropriate use for your gift.

OOUURR MMIISSSSIIOONNCochise College provides accessible educational opportunitiesthat are responsive to a diverse population and lead to con-structive citizenship, meaningful careers and lifelong learning.

The Cochise College Foundation promotes student successthrough scholarships, facilities development, and programsupport.

Fund Balances at Year End

2010 Contributed Support 2010 Expenditures

Growth of Total Assets at Year EndUnrestricted

$619,56513%

TemporarilyRestricted$2,599,429

53%

TemporarilyRestricted$424,289

59%

ProgramSupport$158,584

30%

General &Administrative

$27,6635%

Scholarships$351,661

73%

PermanentlyRestricted$1,679,377

34%

PermanentlyRestricted

$60,9399%

Unrestricted$83,489

12%

Total = $ 4,898,371

Total Contributions = $713,458 Total Expenditures = $537,908

$5,000,000$4,500,000$4,000,000$3,500,000$3,000,000$2,500,000$2,000,000$1,500,000$1,000,000

$500,000$0

Dol

lars

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010Fiscal Year

TemporarilyRestricted

Designated$144,741

20%

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4190WHighway80DouglasAZ85607-6190

If you know what's going on in this picture,the names of these students, or the year thephoto was taken, or if you have other photosfrom your days at Cochise College, send anote to [email protected].

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