Instructor Thom Lee Wins Humanities Award

Press Release

Release Date: October 15, 2009

Contact: Joyce Walker, EvCC English Instructor, 425-388-9411; jwalker@everettcc.edu

EvCC's Thom Lee Wins Humanities Award

EVERETT, WA – Everett Community College art instructor Thom Lee has won an exemplary status award from the Washington Community Colleges Humanities Association.

Lee will receive the award Oct. 16 in Longview at the WCCHA conference. He was nominated by EvCC Humanities Center coordinator Joyce Walker.

"Thom Lee is an extraordinary teacher and exceptional colleague whose work and life exude a profound devotion to the Humanities," Walker wrote in her nomination.

In his visual arts class, he uses perspectives and information from science, math, music and literature. He also brings Humanities to other classes, such as co-teaching a calculus class with a math instructor. In that class, Lee used a potter's wheel to assist students in visualizing solids of revolution.

Lee has participated in a variety of EvCC Humanities Center events, including a vocal recital in February 2009, EvCC's Humanities fairs in 2008 and 2009 and has been a member of the college's Humanities Steering Committee since 2005.