ICCTA Pacesetter Award Previous Recipients 1988 (co-winners) David Hinrichsen Elementary school teacher Illinois Central College Kathleen Laken Instrument mechanic Commonwealth Edison Joliet Junior College 1989 Joyce A. Carich Corporate president and operations manager G.C. Plumbing, Inc. Belleville Area College (now Southwestern Illinois College) 1990 Barbara J. Carter Guardian ad litem Court Appointed Special Advocate program Rock Valley College 1991 Eldon Rohlfing Training coordinator Lincoln Land Community College Lincoln Land Community College 1992 Dr. James Clapper Chiropractic physician Elgin Community College 1993 Frank J. Marsala Chief of police Olympia Fields Police Department Prairie State College 1994 David T. Bennett Manager of technical program development North Carolina Supercomputing Center Parkland College 1995 Kathleen Land Elementary school teacher Frontier Community College 1996 Delores Lien GED teacher Prairie State College Prairie State College 1997 Philip Mondrowski Financial analyst Dai-Ichi Bank, Ltd. Morton College 1998 (co-winners) Portia Wallace Sergeant Highway Patrol Divison, Lake County Sheriff's Police College of Lake County Stacy Zawaski Certified therapeutic recreation specialist Moraine Valley Community College 1999 Maureen Dunne Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University Executive director, Reaching to Educate Autistic Children through Hope College of DuPage 2000 Dean Paulcheck Locomotive engineer Union Pacific Railroad McHenry County College 2001 Lynette M. Gage Instructional aide, Marie Schaefer Middle School Aerobics instructor, O'Fallon YMCA Southwestern Illinois College 2002 Raymond Connolly Adjunct faculty, welding technology program Southwestern Illinois College Southwestern Illinois College 2003 Lisandra Martinez Student advocate, Project S.T.E.P. Elgin Community College Elgin Community College 2004 Bonita Bear Human services technician Cunningham Children's Home Parkland College 2005 Jill Tomaszewski Recruitment placement specialist Kaskasia College Kaskaskia College 2006 Katie Hopkins Coordinator of student volunteer and community outreach programs Elgin Community College Elgin Community College 2007 Gabriel C. Smith Quality engineer John Deere John A. Logan College (2003) 2008 Anna Kesler Resources specialist General Electric Transportation Parkland College (2004) 2009 Amber Edwards Clinical coordinator / faculty Radiologic technology program Kaskaskia College Kaskaskia College (2005) For additional information on the Pacesetter Award, please contact Kim Villanueva at 1-800-454-2282, ext. 1. Illinois Community College Trustees Association 401 E. Capitol Ave., Suite 200 Springfield, IL 62701-1711 217-528-2858 (phone) 217-528-8662 (fax) ICCTA@communitycolleges.org (e-mail) http://www.communitycolleges.org | Home | News | Events | Links |