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2007 Alumni Association Awards Recipients
2007 Excellence in Teaching Award Recipients
Each year an "Excellence in Teaching Award" is presented to one faculty member from each of the four colleges here at Central.
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Dr. Eric Mayer:
Assistant Professor of Spanish
College of Arts and Humanities: Department of Foreign Lanugauges
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Dr. Chad Wassell, Jr.
Assistant Professor
College of Business: Department of Economics |
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Dr. David Rawlinson
Associate Professor
College of Education and Professional Studies: Information Technology and Adminitrative Management |
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Dr. Sarah Britto
Associate Professor
College of the Sciences: Law and Justice |
2007 Distinguished Alumni
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Jill Jones
College of Arts and Humanities
Jones is the former Executive Vice President of Creative Marketing for Universal Pictures Consumer Products Group. Jones is now the principal of her own consulting company, Jill Jones Creative, which represents some of the largest studios in the entertainment industry. She is the recipient of numerous industry awards for her creative and marketing campaigns for film, television and licensing.
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Doug Wood
College of Business
Wood is the Chief Operating Officer for Tommy Bahama, where he is responsible for operations, finance, human resources and information technology for the popular Seattle-based company that specializes in clothing, accessories and home furnishings. Wood is an Ellensburg native.
» Greg Heacock
College of Education and Professional Studies
Heacock is the co-founder of several companies including Retica Systems and Sensor, which produces retinal authentication systems used by government, industry and business. His work in the field of ocular instruments has also resulted in more than twenty device patents and products used by ophthalmologists worldwide.
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Virginia Beavert
College of the Sciences
Beavert, an elder of the Yakama Nation, is a nationally-recognized expert in Native American languages. She has devoted her life to preserving a comprehensive written form of the Yakama language. She teaches the Yakama dialect as a foreign language at Heritage College.
2007 Special Achievement
Patricia Loera
Patricia Loera, 1989, is an American success story. The daughter of immigrant farm workers, she graduated cum laude from CWU then earned a law degree from the University of Washington. After serving as an assistant attorney general for the State of Washington she joined the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in Washington, DC, and then became legislative director for the National Association for Bilingual Education. She is now a program officer with the largest foundation in the world, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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