The Call - June 2022

THE June 2022 Edition

CALL
of The Timberwolf

TABLE OF

Contents
4 LEARNING
12 LEADERSHIP
13 COMMUNITY

14 CONNECTION

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WELCOME

2022

There has never been a time when I DR. LEE ANN NUTT
have been prouder to be a Timberwolf.
Looking out over a record number President, LSC-Tomball
of graduates in our commencement
ceremony on May 13, which included

my own son, at the spectacular new
Tomball ISD Stadium and Event Center, I
was filled with gratitude. As you read the
following selection of LSC-Tomball stories
from the past five months, my hope is
that you will be filled with pride over
the accomplishments we have achieved

together and feel energized for the future.

As you enjoy the celebratory images captured at our largest commencement to date,
know that our students are doing great things.  We are proud of our five Jack Kent Cooke
semi-finalists, and of Madison Taylor, our finalist. As with all our students, we expect that
they will continue to reach for excellence personally and professionally. Our Vet Tech
Rodeo scholars garnered much attention this year at the Houston Livestock Show and
Rodeo and went home with thousands of dollars in scholarships to continue in pursuit of
their educational goals.  

Unmatched in our forward thinking and leadership innovation, we hosted our third
annual HEAPCon conference, virtually gathering 120 administrative professionals, the
backbone of most organizational structures, and served this pivotal group of contributors
that are too often overlooked.  

Ever aware of the resources endowed to us, by virtue of our location, a new partnership
has emerged between LSC-Tomball and the Bayou Land Conservancy. On the horizon are
many exciting opportunities made possible by the future construction of our first outdoor
classroom.   

Reflect on these stories and several others. Take pride in your role, as a student, parent,
employee, or community member. In the writing of this chapter, we each played a part.
After all, we are one wolf, one pack.

One Wolf One Pack

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COMMENCEMENT LEARN

(Tomball ISD Stadium & Event Center)

A Commencement to Remember OONNEEWPAOCLKF

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NING

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COMMENCEMENT LEARN
(Continued)

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NING

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SECOND TIME’S A said Youngblood. “I thought, ‘I’m going
CHARM back to school.’”

After a 20-year hiatus from college, Kristine This time, her goal was to finish.
Youngblood, a single mother of two,
graduated from Lone Star College-Tomball. Youngblood took advantage of all the
Youngblood’s first attempt at college was academic support LSC-Tomball offered. “I
immediately after she graduated from was worried about math,” she said. She
Klein Oak High School. She became simultaneously took the co-requisite college
pregnant in her first semester and said the math readiness class and the required
“following term didn’t go so well.” college level math course. She was a
regular in the tutoring lab.
Now that her 23-year-old daughter and
teenage son are more independent, she As Student Government Association Vice
wanted to do something for herself. “I was President of Programs, she stocked the on-
bored, and I had an emptiness inside me,” campus library shelves of Trevor Tales with
the favorite childhood books of LSC-Tomball
8 students. This was in “an effort to foster the
love of reading in children,” she explained.

A need in Youngblood’s life was met with
SGA involvement. “I wanted to be part of
something bigger and serve my community.
SGA gave me those opportunities,” she
said. “I found a community in SGA. It’s a
special group of people.”

Youngblood isn’t certain about what she
will do after graduation. “I want to make a
comfortable income, so I’m not a burden on
my kids. I want to be self-sufficient, stand
on my own, and help others. Whatever it
is, I know it’s gonna be great.”

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STUDENT IN HER 80S REFUSES TO
STOP IN PURSUIT OF DEGREE

Lone Star College- of Lone Star.” Her age
Tomball student was never a reason she
Louella Kelly’s journey used to avoid returning.
through higher Lone Star advisors helped
education began Kelly collect the higher
about 60 years ago. education credits she had
Now, at 81 years earned over the years
old, it appears as and across the country
though her dream of and apply them to her
a college degree is degree pursuit. She
about to come true. began taking classes in
the fall of 2021 and said
A native of New that the experience was
Jersey, Kelly began “fantastic.”
attending Seton
Hall University right “I just want this degree,
after high school because I have tried two
in the early 1960s. times before over the last
Circumstances sixty years,” she said.
prevented Kelly from In addition to obtaining
finishing at Seton Hall as she needed to her degree, Kelly had another goal. “I really
work full time. wanted to get into Phi Theta Kappa,” she
said, referring to the national honor society
Then, Kelly married, started a family, for two-year institutions.
and, eventually, in 1978, relocated
to Texas. Even though decades had “Louella exemplifies the best qualities of
passed, the embers of her desire for an LSC-Tomball student – she has grit!” said
a college degree had never been Professor Coulombe. “I admire how she
extinguished. In 1995, she began taking manages to balance being a super involved
classes at Austin Community College. great-grandmother with being a great
She did well, but due to personal health student. Everyone, regardless of their age,
issues, she was unable to finish. should aspire to have the kind of grit that she
does.” If all goes according to plan, Kelly
Decades went by; then, the pandemic will become a college graduate in the spring
happened. “I was just sitting around of 2023, at the age of 82.
the house,” Kelly said. “Then, I thought
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JACK KENT COOKE

Anna Nicholas
Semi-Finalist
Semi-Finalist

MFiandailissot n Manelle Andrea
Semi-Finalist Semi-Finalist
VET TECH RODEO
SCHOLARS

Halee JeffScholarship Winner Melany
Scholarship Winner Scholarship Winner

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo PHI THETA KAPPA

awarded 18 scholarships to LSC students to aid Top Texas Chapter
them in pursuit of their educational goals.
Pictured (left to right) are Halee Chance, Jeff
Gruber and Melany Aguirre who are studying

Veterinary Technology at LSC-Tomball. Not
pictured: Brianna Amason, Samantha Feild,

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NATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATION
Outstanding Delegation

BROADWAY
ARTIST ALLIANCE

Jacqueline Cyn Allysa Jordan

LSC-Tomball Honors College student LSC-Tomball Music program students Cyn Cooper,
Jacqueline McGill not only received a full ride Allysa Leal, and Jordan Leal were accepted to
scholarship to Prairie View A&M, but she was the competitive and intensive Broadway Artist

also accepted into its Texas Undergraduate Alliance workshop. They will each spend a week
Medical Academy. in New York City this summer honing their musical

theater skills.

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HEAPCon on their experiences and hopes that future
conferences would return to an in-person

Admin Advancement Symposium format.

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Tomball.

The objective of this year’s virtual one-day
event was the growth and advancement of
higher ed staff, who play pivotal roles in the
progress of their organizations, but may not
have the same opportunities as their faculty or
administrative peers.

LSC-Tomball’s former Human Resource
director and conference keynote speaker,
Rachael Covey, gave an inspirational address
titled Rise and Shine Through Your Admin
Experience, and three time returning speaker,
Patrick Barton gave an empowering lecture on
Choosing Less Conflict, from his research and
work on philosophy of choice management.

Over 120 unique participants attended the
seminar from throughout Texas, Arkansas,
California, Colorado, Massachusetts, North
Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and Utah.

“I appreciated the reminder about the
importance of culture. I don’t feel like I’m in a
great culture right now. But today, I realized
that I have also stopped contributing positively
to my environment, and only I can turn that
around,” wrote one attendee on the HEAPCon
Facebook page. Other attendees’ comments
expressed gratitude for a conference focused

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COMMUNITY

ARROWWOOD PRESERVE

A Partnership Benefiting All: LSC-Tomball, Bayou Land Conservation

LSC-Tomball and Bayou Land Conservancy Community benefits include flood
(BLC), owner of the Arrowwood Preserve, mitigation, cleaner raw water and habitat
have recently formed a partnership that will protection. Water from the Arrowwood
support land conservation, create unique Preserve feeds into the Lake Houston
learning opportunities for students, and watershed, the primary source of drinking
benefit the community. water for Houston and surrounding areas.

Working with an architectural firm, In 2020, through a generous gift,
BLC has submitted permitting papers to BLC acquired Arrowwood, a 117-acre
begin construction on an outdoor ecologically diverse forest located across
classroom, a place students will use as a Spring Creek from LSC-Tomball.
lab to physically interact with the ideas they Ownership of the land presented the land
are learning about in textbooks or online. conservation group with some
The unconventional learning space will special opportunities.
serve students studying natural resources,
biology, and environmental sciences. Outdoor classroom construction is
predicted to start in the fall coinciding with
LSC-Tomball students will not be the plans to lay a natural surface trail, but BLC
only people benefiting from the hopes to have LSC faculty and students out
partnership. “Everyone benefits from land sooner. Together, LSC-Tomball and BLC
conservation,” said Jill Boullion, BLC want to protect the Arrowwood Preserve
Executive Director. and make it a place for the community for
years to come.

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CHANGING FACE the public.
OF TEXAS Those attending then engaged in a dialogue

LSC-Tomball Hosts Panel to Discuss the about how the state’s politics and public policy
Changing Face of Texas are being impacted by these changes, such
as growing demands for mass transit, energy,
If you don’t like something in Texas, just wait water resources, and a more moderated
a minute; it will change. Many Texans have political climate with increasing numbers of
come to realize that this mantra can apply to voters who are not overwhelmingly loyal to
more than just the weather, particularly these either of the major political parties.
days. Earlier this spring, Lone Star College-
Tomball hosted a discussion entitled “The “The chance our students and colleagues
Changing Face of Texas,” featuring respected had to participate in a panel on such
researchers in the demographic, political, and incredibly important topics speaks to LSC-
sociological make-up of modern-day Texas. Tomball’s role as an innovative institution
which brings extraordinary opportunities to
Presenting at the forum was Texas State everyone who is a part of the Wolf Pack,”
Demographer Dr. Lloyd Potter of The University Government professor Cory Colby said. The
of Texas at San Antonio, who is also the head session’s audience contained students from
of the Texas Demographic Center, and Dr. Jim LSC-Tomball, professors from across the Lone
Henson, the co-founder and director of the Star College System, and even students in
Texas Politics Project at The University of Texas classrooms where it was live-streamed.
at Austin, a leading institution measuring the
public opinion of Texans around issues, politics, LESSON ON LOSS
and people.
will be Equipping LSC-Tomball
Dr. Potter shared a highly engaging
presentation about the ways the Texas Death and dying, subjects no one likes to talk
population is changing in its demographic about, but eventually, parts of life we’ll all have
composition, such as the rapid growth of to face, were the topics of Lone Star College
Hispanic and Asian American populations, a Tomball’s first health occupations programs
high immigration rate from other states of highly interprofessional event. This interdisciplinary
educated individuals, and rapid urbanization. session is an example of the thoughtfully
Dr. Henson followed with a presentation on tailored, holistic LSC-Tomball education that is
how to accurately measure the opinion of the preparing the whole student for careers in the
public and the challenges that are presented healthcare industry.
in a world becoming ever more disconnected
from the traditional methods used to survey
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Across the nation there has been a different disciplines at the event but said, “I’d
recent emphasis on the need for healthcare never interacted with them before.” Buresh
interprofessional collaboration, the practice of is counting down the days until her May
approaching patient care from a team-based 2023 graduation and said that “learning to
perspective. “Every healthcare professional, communicate and build relationships across
no matter their specialty, will care for patients medical professions is valuable. I know it will
who are suffering from some sort of loss,” positively impact my patients.”  
said Terra Ruppert, PhD, OTR Director of
LSC-Tomball Occupational Therapy Assistant Each October, Health Occupational
Program. “We wanted to guide our students, students host and run a Halloween Carnival
across disciplines, to think about the heavy for children with disabilities. “The students
topic, and to dialogue about it with their spend time with the trick-or-treaters and adapt
colleagues. Their future patients will be the the activity in the moment to meet the needs
ones who benefit.” of each child,” Ruppert said. “We also expose
our students to hippotherapy, a treatment that
The directors of the LSC-Tomball Health uses the movement of horses to strengthen the
Occupations Programs brainstormed for a core of patients or help with posture.” These
topic all their students would face. Once are a few examples of the many educational
the group agreed on the death and dying opportunities offered in the multifaceted Health
subjects, LSC-Tomball’s Director of Nursing, Occupational Programs.  
Tracie Wood, suggested students view the
film Wit, starring Emma Thompson. The movie “In my 25 years as director, there have
walks its audience through a woman’s story of been many changes in the healthcare industry,
her battle against cancer.  which are reflected in our Health Science
Programs,” Ruppert said.  “But one thing that
At the event, held in April, students were hasn’t changed is our commitment to prepare
assigned to sit with their peers from different students to become top healthcare providers,
Health Occupation programs. Following the who experience professional and personal
film, they talked about the main character’s success.”   
experience and were prompted to discuss
how they felt about what they saw. They Organization of the interprofessional event
examined the positive and negative attitudes was made possible by the collaboration of
and behaviors of the healthcare professionals LSC-Tomball Director of Nursing Tracie Wood,
portrayed in the feature, noting what they LSC-Tomball Director of Pharmacy Technology
would avoid or adopt in their own future Angela Bayer, LSC-Tomball Director of
practices.  Surgical Technology Diane Montagna and
former Surgical Technology adjunct instructor
Kylie Buresh, an Occupational Therapy Sarah Miller.
Assistant student, recognized her peers from

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