Clark College honors outstanding alumni

Central Park — The Clark College Foundation honored six alumni at its recent alumni awards. Nancy Boyce, class of 2008; Mitchell Jackson, 1993; Debi Jenkins, 1993; Rujean “Jeanne” Mack, 1967; and Steve Morasch, 1987, were named 2017 Outstanding Alumni. Cody Messick, class of 2010, was named Rising Star. Boyce is a diesel mechanic and heavy machine repair business owner in Alaska. Jackson is the author of the award-winning novel “The Residue Years” and a creative nonfiction writing professor at New York University, as well as adjunct instructor at Columbia University. Jenkins has more than 20 years of experience as a developmental life coach, teacher and presenter. Mack is a retired principal and executive director of Vancouver Public Schools, and the first executive director of the Vancouver Schools Foundation, which under her tenure reached $1 million in the endowment. Morasch is a land-use, real estate and litigation attorney at Landerholm and chairman of the Clark County Planning Commission. Messick is a doctoral student in physics at Penn State University and was part of the team that detected the presence of gravitational waves at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Washington and Louisiana.