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Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
Public information officer: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
February 9, 2005
LCC board member Dennis Shine named citizen of the year
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EUGENE, OR – Dennis Shine of Springfield was presented the 2004 Outstanding Citizen Award from the Lane Council of Governments at its annual appreciation dinner on January 27 held at the Center for Meeting and Learning at Lane Community College. Lane County Commissioner Peter Sorenson presented the award noting that Shine had “invested endless heart, inexhaustible energy and countless volunteer hours,” in the community, and that Shine’s commitment “serves as a model for others” and has “enriched and advanced our community.”
Shine was elected to a four-year term on the Lane Community College Board of Education in 2001. The board appointed him as its representative to the LCOG board that same year. In addition to representing Lane at LCOG board meetings, Shine represents the college at national Association of Community College Trustees meetings. He volunteers on numerous other boards and committees and is a well-known advocate for human rights, diversity and education.
Shine has been a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1962 and Eugene/Springfield Chapter membership chair since 1993; mentor-student coordinator for the local NAACP-sponsored ACT-SO African American Olympics of the Mind program; American Civil Liberties Union Lane County Chapter member since 1993; Friends of the Springfield Library member since 1994 and past president 1998-2002; Lane County Human Rights Advisory Committee member since 1999; Lane Community College Diversity Team member since 2001; Association of Community College Trustees Diversity Committee associate member since 2002; and 4J School District Equity Committee since fall 2003. He also volunteers at the Springfield High School Career Center and in Lane's Tutoring Center.
In 2003, Shine won the Springfield Alliance For Equality and Respect Human Rights Leadership Award.
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