HOLLAND RECEIVES OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD

Dana Holland of Ottumwa received the Jim Hall Outstanding Alumni Award at Iowa Lakes Community College’s spring commencement at the Estherville campus on Friday, May 11.

In its 16th year, this award is presented annually by the Iowa Lakes Alumni & Friends Association to an alumnus who exemplifies outstanding support for community, business, school and service clubs; and is also a good representative of the college.

Holland, a 1993 graduate of the Iowa Lakes Health Care Administration program, was nominated for the Jim Hall Award by his former professor Marlene Donovan.

"Dana is a dedicated and compassionate person who loves working with the elderly," said Donovan in the nomination. "Hopefully, if any of us face the difficult decision to place a loved one in a nursing home, the Administrator will have all those good qualities that Dana has."

As well as his duties as a health care administrator in Ottumwa for the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, he has been a past president and currently is the treasurer of the Iowa Health Care Association. He serves as a member of the Washington, D.C. based, American Health Care Association, and he has spent 17 years as a public policy specialist and universal problem solver as the Director of Advocacy Services and Legislative Liaison with the Iowa based Area Agency on Aging office in Spencer.

Dana Holland, Jim Hall Award recipient
and Marian Brunsvold, Iowa Lakes Alumni & Friends President.