ICCTA Ray Hartstein Trustee Achievement Award 2006 Recipient Linden A. Warfel Parkland College Linden A. Warfel's influence on higher education and trusteeship is nearly impossible to describe. His soft-spoken manner belies his passionate commitment to Parkland College and Illinois' community college system. Whether as chair of the Illinois Community College Board's Adult Education Funding Task Force, or as the head of his college's presidential search, he has shaped the direction of community colleges for years to come. Parkland College trustee Linden A. Warfel accepts the 2006 Ray Hartstein Trustee Achievement Award. Warfel has served as chair of the Parkland board, as president of the Illinois Community College Trustees Association, and as a champion of the Leadership and Core Values movement in Illinois. He is also one of the Illinois system's most respected and eloquent spokespersons. In fact, last March, when ICCTA asked its members to list those individuals who had been most influential to them as trustees, Lin Warfel's name appeared on every single list. He has maintained an activist role in other civic organizations as well. Working in concert with like-minded groups, he has been a longtime advocate of property tax reform in order to more equitably fund Illinos' public schools. This spring he successfully rallied the Illinois Farm Bureau to stand up in favor of college students and oppose the sale of the state's student loan program to a private vendor. Known by many as a "farmer and a gentleman," he is also a published poet and writer. In accepting ICCTA's Ray Hartstein Trustee Achievement Award, he quoted from his own poem: I have walked among you some dozen years now learned your faces know your voices can call your names I've heard you speak your passions seen you walk the lines of reaching out to help I know your heart to serve Together, we have sought out wisdom invited in, listened to and questioned the best and brightest in the land who ply themselves to understand Together, too, we've helped to build I've seen your courage know your metal watched you taking action There's more to come change, adapt our middle name lead is what it's about Walking together speaking our passions searching out wisdom changing, adapting, acting we'll challenge the mountains and by God's grace move them... My best to you! For additional information on the Ray Hartstein Trustee Achievement 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 |