June 2003

Center for Extended Learning Offers Summer Programs

Teen Camps
The Center for Extended Learning, in conjunction with various Highline faculty, offers Teen Camps for ages 9-12 and 13-15 to be held the week of July 21-25.  Participants may choose from Crime Scene Investigation, How to be a Teen Star, Science on the Sound (coordinated by the Science Department and held at Highline's Redondo Dock), Around the World in 5 days, Exercise Your Cranium, and TV/Newspaper.  Students may choose to take only one camp or may register for both morning and afternoon camps.  Click here for more information Teen Camp

Senior College
The Center for Extended Learning and Highline Community College celebrate the 20th anniversary of Senior College for ages 55+.  A week-long education vacation will be held on Highline's main campus the week of July 14-18 with special guests and events in honor of the anniversary occasion  Wayne Havrelly, weekend anchor and consumer reporter for KIRO TV kicks off the event Monday morning.  The celebration wraps up on Friday with a special presentation by Ciscoe Morris, master gardener and host of "Gardening with Ciscoe" followed by a banquet, antique fashion show and performance by the Duwamish Dixieland Jazz Band.  Click here for more information  Senior College

Women's Breakfast Forum
What’s keeping you from living at your full potential? Fuzzy boundaries? Lack of confidence? Unclear direction? Ready to take your life to the next level? Come to the next Women's Breakfast Forum on June 12, 2003, from 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM with presenter Brenda Sol. Learn about courageous business strategies and move from fear to action in three simple steps. Your entrepreneurial spirit is essential so, gain the tools on how to craft environments in which creativity, intuition, and visioning are foundations for success. You’ll learn what it takes to be “unstoppable” as you bust through old patterns, establish “power-with” relationships, and adopt an absolutely unshakable belief in yourself! Register at the Center for Extended Learning at exlearn@highline.edu or at extension 3785. Women's Breakfast Forums are located at our Federal Way Campus at 33320 1st Way South, Federal Way, WA 98003, and cost a $12 prepay price or a $15 at-the-door price. Click here for more information Women's Breakfast Forum  

Full information is available in CEL's web page www.flightline.highline.edu/cel 

.... The Thunderword won second place for issues from spring quarter at the SPJ (Society of Professional Journalism) awards banquet.  

.... Mike Emerson, Highline Community College Board of Trustees,  was selected co-winner Trustee of the Year by the Trustees Association of Community & Technical Colleges. The award was given out at their spring conference. 

.... Connie Johnson, will be on sabbatical this summer going to school full time finishing her Bachelor's degree in accounting. 

.... Joyce Riley is on sabbatical this summer in Germany studying child care theory. 

.... Highline's Printing Program was recently awarded a silver award from the Craftsmen Club, a national trade organization for the printing industry. The award was given for a full color piece designed and printed by Highline students in Print Program. To get the award they had to compete head to head with commercial shops. One of the printed pieces they beat out was Bill and Melinda Gate's Christmas Card !

.... Flag Day - The idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as 'Flag Birthday'. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as 'Flag Birthday', or 'Flag Day'.  Inspired by three decades of state and local celebrations, Flag Day was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30th, 1916. While Flag Day was celebrated in various communities for years after Wilson's proclamation, it was not until August 3rd, 1949, that President Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June 14th of each year as National Flag Day.

.... Father's Day - It was the efforts of Sonora Louise Smart Dodd that led to instituting Father's Day as an official holiday in the United States. Sonora lived in Spokane, Washington, and came up with the idea of Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.

Sonora's father, William Jackson Smart, was a Civil War veteran and had lost his wife as she bore their sixth child. William raised the six children on his own. Sonora felt her father was very loving, courageous, and selfless. Her father's birthday was in June and Sonora chose June 19th, 1909 for the celebration to honor fathers. Many report this as the first Father's Day celebration.

In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge showed his support for Father's Day becoming a national holiday. However, Father's Day did not become an official holiday in the United States until many years later. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed the third Sunday in June be Father's Day.