Community Commentary -- Jim Carnett

To date, the Daily Pilot has written two fairly substantial articles

about Orange Coast College’s 2001-02 Faculty Member of the Year

elections, yet, amazingly, has failed to mention 11 of the 12 candidates

running for the award (“Hearlson gets support for teacher of the year,”

Thursday, and “Teacher nomination raises campus debate,” Saturday).

The election is scheduled for March 12 to 13.

No publication that I’m aware of would be satisfied at getting just 8%

of its facts straight (one out of a dozen), so I’ll toss you a lifeline.

Listed below are the 12 nominees, in alphabetical order. It’s quite an

impressive list, and I’ll bet that a substantial number of your readers

have taken classes from these professors. Those readers will be delighted

to discover that a professor they know has been nominated for this

prestigious honor.

Nominees are William B. Barber, an associate professor of culinary

arts; Barbara B. Bullard, a professor of speech; Gregory D. Clark,

instructor/advisor, student leadership programs; Lance Gilbertson, a

professor of biology; Valerie J. Hayward, a professor of mathematics;

Kenneth W. Hearlson, an assistant professor of political science; Gena A.

Hollander, an instructor in anthropology and sociology; Rose Anne Kings,

an instructor in architecture; Karen G. A. Mortillaro, a professor of

fine arts; Raymond Obstfeld, an assistant professor of English; Susana N.

Salessi, a professor of Spanish and Italian; and Jay Zimmermann, a

professor of English and education.

There. Now the record is complete.

* JIM CARNETT is the director of community relations at Orange Coast

College.