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Lumberjack, Issue 8, May 9, 1990 pg. 3 Lumberjack of the Month honors awarded Duby, Grochowski share recognition for April by Staci Radke Ken Hubbard, · Data Processing Technician, is the recipient of the Lumberjack of the Month award for May. Hubbard says that he has always had an interest in computers, ever since being drafted into the army in 1965. He received extensive trarnrng in computer programming during his service. After leaving the army, he began working for a computer consulting firm. While working, he also attended a community college . for two years. by Kim McClure Larry Duby and Richard Grochowski shared the Lumberjack of the Month award for April. With this honor, Duby and Grochowski each received an ACC coffee mug, privileged parking, and a Holiday Inn gift certificate. Both were pleased to receive the honor, · "it was nice. I haven't had a chance to use my Holiday Inn gift ~ertiffcate, but it will be a Later, Hubbard was employed with All-State Insurance Company in their Data Processing Department in Chicago and received extensive company training there as well. Originally from the Chicago area, Hubbard moved to the area in 1978. He has been teaching DPR classes part time at ACC since 1982. In addition to teaching, he provides computer seminars for local businesses. He says that he "likes the variety of solving computer proolems and also enjoys working with all types of students." nice little break, " stated and Duby stated, "the whole Grochowski. Duby simply thing, all the maintenance and . stated, " it was good, good, ju~t getting out in the yard." good." Neither Grochowski nor Duby and Grochowski are · Duby could think of anything custodians at ACC. Their · that is the worst about their job includes maintenance of job. However, Duby . the entire campus, which demonstrated how difficult includes everything from the job · can be--"It's hard repairing boilers to snow · getting up on the roof to plowing and cutting grass. ~. work on furnaces in When asked what their · 20-degree weather with a 3J) favorite part of the job is, ' or 40mph wind in a storm." Gcochowski replied, · "well, Both men were born and there · is something new live in Alpena. Grochowski everyday, always a change," has worked at ACC for Hubbard receives honor for May Uniquely, Hubbard does not own a computer himself. "I am around computers all day, why should I have one at home?" He is amazed to see all the changes that have been made in the computer industry since he began. He stated · that the hardware in microcomputers today has been around for the 25 years he has been in the business, but hardware has gotten smaller and smaller in size over the years. "When I began, computers i e the room; now everything has advanced to desk-top approximately 10 years, Duby has been at ACC for approximately 16 years. ATTENTION: EASY WORK, .EXCELLENT PAY! Assemble products at home. Details. . (1) 602-838-8885. Ext. W-18475. models. Software has become far more sophisticated. Computers are much faster than they were years ago." Hubbard lives in Alcona. County, is married, and has one daughter, Wendy, who is a junior in college. His wife, Mary Ann, is a music teacher at Alcona High School. Co-worker and former Lumberjack of the Month winner, Owen Lamb, says Hubbard is "well deserving of the award; without him, 'd ost." Justice Boyle highlights commencement ceremonie.s Justice Patricia J. Boyle of the Michigan Supreme Court will be commencement speaker when ACC conducts its 37th annual commencement exercises May 17 at East Campus. The event is the third in a series of graduation activities scheduled over a two-day period. Pinning ceremonies for 26 associate degree registered nurse candidates are set for May 16, and an honors breakfast to recognize students who have earned a 3: 5 or higher grade point averages and those who are Phi Theta Kappa members will be held on May 17. Ceremonies have been changed from a previous morning activity to an evening one. According to Dean Davis, the purpose of changing the ceremony was to "increase student participation , in commencement and see more of the families, faculty, etc., in attendance." The decision conforms with results of a student graduation . survey distributed on campus. There are 199 candidates three of her four children. for graduation from the She graduated first in her spring semester. Also, 124 class in 1963. graduates from the 1989 fall Her career began with a and summer semesters are job as a legal research also eligible to participate in assistant, followed by an · the once-a-year Assistant United States commencementexercises. Attorney position from 1964 ,,. Justice Boyle has had an until she joined the Wayne outstanding legal career, and County Prosecutor's office in · gave, .up a lifetime tenured 1968. She became director federafJµdgeship in 1983 to of research and training for accept appointment to the that office in 1971, and was high court. She was named chief appellate subsequently elected in attorney in 1974, when she November 1984. As a also was involved with the member of the Supreme Michigan Women's Task Court in ~ 986, Boyle was ,. named Supervising Justice of the Citizens'. Commission to Improve Michigan Courts, the first such commission in state history. A Detroit native, she attended Detroit public schools and received her undergraduate education at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. While attending Wayne State Law School, she earned several academic excellence awards, served as junior and senior editor of the Law Review; and gave birth to Force on Rape, assisting in drafting and working for the comprehensive laws · on criminal sexual conduct. Boyle's work on the· bench began in 1976 with an appointment to Detroit Recorder's court, which, at that time, handled all criminal cases within the city. A Det_roit Free Press Practitioner's Poll two years later revealed she was rated by all defense and prosecuting attorneys as the best of the 20 Recorder's Court judges. The justice has received strong bi-partisan support, having first been appointed to . judicial office by William Milliken, a Republican governor, and in 1978 being recommended for appointment to the federal bench by Donald Riegle, a Democratic senator. She has also been highly honored, rece1vmg distinguished alumni awards from both Wayne Law School and Wayne State University, being named the 1983 Police Officers Association of Michigan Woman of the Year, and receiving the Michigan Jaycees Presidential Award of Excellence. In 1986 she became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. story courtesy of the Offict of Public Infonnatior, __) .l ' .f -' J --1 J ' --1 -I .J J _J J