A couple weeks ago Center for Service-Learning celebrated their accomplishments and highlighted service-learning projects for the past school year. It was a night filled with great music by Arlie Neskahi & Eagle’s Jump and organic snacks prepared by the campus’s catering department.

The event started early at 5:30pm with students setting up presentation and posters from Sarah Zale’s English 205 class: War as Myth, Identity, and Wound. The room quickly filled with chatter and laughter as people tapped their toes to the beat of the music and giggled at pictures on the slides. Thomas Murphy, the Master of Ceremonies, greeted guest and expressed his excitement of the tremendous growth for the Center. President Jack Oharah also welcome the guest and went over some of the accomplishments for the year. The program highlights of the year was Profiles in the Art of Living and Voices in Wartime. Both Jennifer Inslee and Michael Wewer’s students reflected on the Profiles in the Art of Living and shared stories on how this service-learning project had changed them. Jennifer Inslee also announced her excitement for the phase two of this project coming in the academic year. The next program highlight was Voices in Wartime presented and reflected by Sarah Zale and Melissa Storm. In between these program highlights were announcements by Hayden Nichols of a new service-learning project in East Africa and by Kerrie Murphy of the chosen web design for EdCC’s Pow Wow website is Ling Chun’s design from Steve Sosa’s VISC120 class.

Listed below are the individuals and groups that received awards and/or recognition:

Service-Learning Student of the Year: Penny Green

Volunteer of the Year: Cari Pendergrass

Students in Service Member of the Year: Sandra Kilian

Service-Learning Faculty of the Year: Marie Johnson

Volunteer Group of the Year: S.A.V.E. the Earth Club

Community Partner of the Year: WSU Extension

Campus Service-Learning Partner of the Year: College Relations

AmeriCorps Retention Project: Jacklin Edwards, Jesus Silva, Penny Green

Students in Service graduates: Corbin Powell, Gerard Ah-Fook, Kristi Gutierrez, John Wennberg, Joseph Contreras, Lisa Quirk, Luke Pirie, Margarita Naumchik, Mary Andrews, Megan Lockhart, Mindi Hart, Nataliya Naumchik, Penny Green, Ryan Gilmore, Sabrina Berthold, Sandra Kilian, Yin Yu

Web links:
Arlie Neskahi & Eagle’s Jump
Campus Catering
Celebration Program