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'May 24, 197! Aleena Community College, Alpena, Mich_iga~ 'Vol. 8 No. ·a Besser Award Litiga1tion to Decid-e Lawsuit NewHead ·Coach Named Winners to be By Jim Clements In a move, unprecedented in the history of f Or A. C. C. Alpena Community College, Mr. Delysle L. Henry _At a press conference held on May 20, 1977, Announced at G d has filed suit in Circuit Court against the Alpena tlie new head coach for ACC was officially an-ra uation ,.Board of Education and two top administrators. nounced. Mr. Henry, a political science instructor here a( ·steve Schray, formerly assistant coach at the ACC, shook up the entire campus, surprising every- University of Denver, will take over the duties one with~his 15 page allegation. of Coach Morse and also will work for Student Besser Awards The outstanding awards each year for the top . When aske~ · what h~, th?ught of the charges, Services, in admissions and recruiting. sophomore students are the Jesse and Anna Besser Mr. Henry ~aid flatly, It is hot approp~iate for Schray, 26, was at the University of Denver Awards. · ' .me to ~ake a_com_me".lt_at th is time, mainly because for three years as assistant coach, and was a stu- The awards go to those two outstand,ing stu- 0 f the pen_ding litigati?n (Jury trial). . dent assistant there· before that. His team ' played dents, (male and female), who exhibit an out-· Accordmg to ,pre~i~ent of the_ facul_ty c?uncil, such formidable opponents as UCLA and Sao standing contribution to the college through sch- .J. Wesley Law, T_h1s is a very sticky s1tuat1on for . Francisco. lastic achievement; leadership and responsibility. the f~culty_ c~uncil an? my~elf. Mr. Henry had Coach Schray is married and has one daughter . The Besser- Awards selection committee had exercised his nght of grievance th rough us anc:J then He is originally from Lake Odessa, Michigan. their work cut out for them, as they had 19 names all of a sudpen filed th is lawsuit. · It caught_y~ com- He received his Masters Degree at the University submitted for the awards. · pletely off-guard. The faculty council, and myself of Denver and at age 23 was recognized as one of Although the recipients of the awards are not to must remain in the shadow on this thing. There is the finest (and youngest) assistant coaches in the be announced until the graduation ceremony on nothing that is appropriate for us to do." country, . June 3rd, the list of finalists ha,s been released. . In a phone interview with Mr. Stewart Olmstead, - This years finalists are: Jim Allard, Jim Cle- Director of Personnel for the school system and one ments, Ken Garris, Dennis Smith, Brenda Smith of the defendents in the case, "I'm really not sure The Student Senate held their annual election and Roxanne Sterling. what is going to happen on this. His, (Mr. Henry's) for president and vice president of 1977-78, on May Each winner, male and female will receive a allegation is that we . have tried to embarrass him· ·20, 1977. hundred dollar award plus, have his and heF name publicly. Of course I can not say a -ny-thing about Heidi Brown was elected President, and Gary engraved on the Besser Awards Plaque, which is it, but he does have the right to have a jury trial. , Besaw Vice President. displayed in the library in the NRC building. He also, currently, has a grievance filed for a All of this years Student Senate members will re- public hE:_aring with the board. I do not knpw if turn to participate in reelection next year except, d _ d he will pursue the grievance or not~' 1976-77 President Roxanne Sterling, and treasurer Gra ates Honore ' The trial has been-sched~led for sometime i~ Jim Clements. . . June. No further details were readily available Approximately 15% of the student body voted in . . . at this printinq. this years election. -at A.C.C.-Wurtsmith The graduation ceremony for Alpena Commun- ity Corlege graduates at .the Oscoda/WAFB College Center was conducted on Friday, April 22, at the WAFB Officers' Club. The graduation ceremony was the frist ceremony conducted by the college for the Oscoda/WAFS Center. Terry L. Meeder, acting President of Alpena Community College (ACC), offered the congratu- latory remarks to the graduates. The commence- ment speech was presented by the President of the Board of Education for Alpena Public Schools, Margaret Cruise. Representing the graduating class, Joan E: Fitzgarrald presented the closing re- marks. ' . Students graduating with honors were: Joan E. Fitzgarrald, summa cum laude, WAFB; Donald Jack, magna cum laude, Tawas; Arlene Lantz, magna cum laude, WAFB; Phillip Hampton, cum laude, Oscoda. Graduates from WAFB were: John Belile, Edwin Bergen, Charlene Boyle, Merry Clark, Richard DeShon, Willia~ Galt, and Paul McGann. Oscoda graduates were: John Eccleston, Anna-Maria Fortner, Harry Johnson, and Marian King. Graduating from Tawas was Sandra .L. Heely. . -------A.C.C.-Wurtsmith Honors Grad~, Page 4------- Dana Marquette Wins Dow Award:· · Each year Alpena Community College selects the 6'utstanding freshman student for the Herbert H. Dow Leadership Award. The committee deciding this years recipient of the award had a hard time as there were twelve students originally nominated. After much deliberation the committee, com- prised of faculty and administrators, narrowed the list down to three finalists: Lorraine Manitowabi, Dana Marquette and Marty Myhre. These fi11.alists were asked to write a letter of introduction, telling of their activities and interests, both as students and members of the community. Again, after much deliberation, the winner of the Dow Award was chosen This years winner is Dana Marquette. Dana is a pre-med studeri_t here at A.C.C. When asked about her reaction to receiving the award, all she could say was, "Wow, I am really pleased and very sur- prised'." · Dana will receive the award in ceremonies con- ducted during the Award's Banquet, on Wednesday, May 25th. The award, which will be presented by Dean of Students, Dean F. Souden, will carry with it a check good for p_ne ~.undred dollars .. ,,, Dana IVlarquet~e r .I