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Although she’s battling an unpredictable, incapacitating disease, for which there is no known cure, Dr. Wendy Perryman, along with assistance from her caregivers, comes to campus each week to impart not

only her knowledge, but her love for science. Dr. Wendy, as she is known to her students and

colleagues, balks at any attention being given to her. She asks instead for the spotlight to be shown on others who tutor and on the services she thinks can make a huge difference in each student’s education.

Confined to a wheelchair, but not trapped by its restrictions, Dr. Wendy doesn’t want anyone’s sympathy. She wants our attention, but only because she wants us to learn.

And then there is a shy, unassuming sophomore whose kind eyes and small frame might very well be overlooked if not for her immense talent and constant presence. Fearful of communicating, she takes to her drawing to express herself.

At 20-years-old, Arianna Wheet imparts more depth of emotion and strength than those twice her age. Though not by words, instead Wheet uses ink and computer graphics to share the world she imagines. A world that is brought to life through

her use of Anime.At birth, doctors told his parents he wasn’t

breathing. As his parents tried to absorb news that their son was dead, he instead took a breath. Today Jose Ramos continues to make the most of each day and in spite of being offered the spotlight, asks instead to work behind the scenes. Using his love of math and science, he builds sets for the theatre department while also building a path to college he hopes his siblings might follow.

By day he wears green and trains individuals who want to become qualified service technicians in John Deere dealerships throughout the central U.S.

However, by night he dons his white gi, bows and enters the dojo where he instructs others on the ways of the ancient martial art known as Kata. While students are learning self defense, he is also teaching them a philosophy – one that centers on peace.

These are but a few of the exceptional people who walk among us and this issue features their stories. Have an exceptional person in mind? Drop us an email at gc3media@gcccks.edu. We’d love to meet them.

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Drawing can be viewed as a way to pass time, a stress reliever, a passion, or a way to pay

the bills. But to Ariana Wheet, drawing is more than a passion, more than a hobby. Drawing is just as necessary in her life as is breathing. At a very young age, Ariana found her passion in art, starting with stick figures, Ariana would continue to impress her parents time and time again.

Rachel Livermore, Ariana’s mother said, “I’m still blown away by her artwork today. She was amazing even when she was younger.”

In sixth grade, Ariana said she found an interest in drawing Anime, a Japanese cartoon art style. Ariana said Anime was more expressive, not just allowing use of several emotions, but allowing use of many genres; something she could not find in the American comic-book world.

Many people would lean over her shoulders, just to get a glimpse of what amazing piece of art she was creating at the time. Unfortunately, she soon discovered that she was not good at communicating with other people.

Ariana, being very shy, would have difficulty expressing her mind when she found herself in an unfamiliar surrounding. When she would find herself in this situation, she did what does best, she draws.

“I have trouble talking with people,” Wheet said. “So, I draw to help me say something without actually having to say it.”

She picked up this skill when her grandfather would give her spelling test. When she found herself having difficulty spelling the word, or even saying the word, she would instead draw out

the word. Not only did drawing out the words help develop her art skills, but also increase her reading skills.

In fifth grade, Ariana Wheet was reading at a college level.

After showing her impressive abilities of self-motivation and perseverance when it came to art, Kyle Chaput, GCCC’s art instructor, rewarded Ariana with an art scholarship of a full-ride tuition.

“I saw that she had an inert talent,” Chaput said “I saw that she had a unique ability in drawing Anime from the top of head, just because she had practiced drawing Anime so much. For her to translate her drawings into painting or other types of 2-dimensional work, even ceramics, has just blown Mr. Malcallum and I away.”

Kyle Chaput continued on about how Ariana had impressed him over and over again. One impression being that Ariana is never afraid to make the first mark in her art assignments, a challenge that some students have difficulty with. Ariana is always eager to get started.

“I’ve learned so much,” Wheet said “not only with the technical works, like how to do this correct or if something is wrong, but also on how to communicate with other people properly.”

After completing her college education, Ariana Wheet wants to illustrate and create her very own comic-book. She is even currently working alongside other students to help her achieve this goal, and would like to have her first issue up on the internet soon. As of now, Ariana is using her drawing talents to help out GCCC’s theatre program, by drawing out costume designs for their upcoming show “Lend Me A Tenor.”

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Ariana Wheet leading a demo titled First Lessons, drawing anime sponsored by Garden City Arts. Wheet lead the workshop which involved the basics of drawing a figure in the Japanese styles known as anime, a style she prefers to animate in.

Ariana Wheet drawing a anime figure while she has free time. Wheet plans to attend school in New Mexico next year.

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Once the clock strikes 7 o’clock on Tuesday and Thursday, Kent Kolbeck

can be found in the “dojo” room found in the DPAC at GCCC.

Before coming to GCCC, Kolbeck had some training in Shotokan (as a basic introduction to karate kata), in South Dakota. This training lead him the starting steps toward teaching self defense. Once Kolbeck came to GCCC, he started working for the John Deere Tech program as an instructor in 1990.

He began to gain interest again in self defense and joined the program that Dennis Elam, now a former GCCC instructor, had available. After a while, Kolbeck started teaching while Elam was still instructing his classes. In order to teach, Kolbeck had to be a brown belt and had to have a black belt (Elam) watching the classes.

After Elam retired, Kolbeck began teaching the class. Now almost 20 years later, Kolbeck has stayed in the program which lets college students and people in the community a chance to learn self defense moves to keep themselves safe from any harm.

However, Kolbeck does not allow any violence. He believes in the code of the behavior, Dojo Kun, that follows the spiritual rules.

Kolbeck said he has his class recite the code before leaving each night:

• Strive for a good moral character• Keep an honest and sincere way

• Cultivate perseverance or a will for striving

• Develop a respectful attitude• Restrain your physical ability through

spiritual attainmentKolbeck has been co-teaching with

Dan Mcfee for almost 10 years. Mcfee had training in another style from the Marines. Both Kolbeck and Mcfee attended national seminars held in Kansas City and regional seminars held in either Wichita, Kan., Amarillo, Texas, or Albuquerque, N.M.

Before entering his class, he explains students must bow at the door to show respect to the dojo, instructors and everyone else around you.

“If everyone lived by these rules, the world would be a more peaceful place,” Kolbeck said.

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of another sort

For Jose Luis Arreola, passing biology is crucial if he hopes to graduate from

GCCC. Jose, who is a sophomore currently taking Anantomy and Physiology, says the guidance and one-on-one tutoring he receives makes subject easier for him to understand. He can’t help but be moved by his tutor’s passion as well.

“I come in to get help with my work

about as often as I can,” Arreola said. “I have her help me with questions that I don’t understand. A lot of the time I just want her to give me the answer but she’s like ‘nope’ and has me learn it. I think that’s a good learning tactic.”

Arreola frequently seeks out the vast knowledge that CLC tutor Dr. Wendy Perryman has in the field of biology. He feels that this expert knowledge really

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TUTORINGfrom the heart

“dr. Wendy” does not let multiple sclerosis stop her from helping others

Dr. Wendy Perryman, also called Dr. Wendy, critiques a students paper on March 10.Dr. Wendy was assisted by her caretaker, Rachelle Torres.

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helps him to understand and excel in his biology classes.

“Jose and I get along,” Dr. Wendy said. “When I work one-on-one with Jose, lightbulbs go off.”

Dr. Wendy first found her love for tutoring back when she was herself a tutor in community college. She said she thinks that “every student should visit and utilize the tutors.”

“I don’t just see this [tutoring] as a job,” Dr. Wendy said. “Today, I am sad nobody showed up. I can actually say I LOVE sharing my knowledge.”

Despite daily physical challenges, Dr. Wendy Perryman, or Dr. Wendy as her students call her, continues to focus on what is important to her: teaching.

“When a student comes in with a question, I can normally help them answer it,” Dr. Wendy said. “If they have a question that I can’t answer, I show them where to look.”

In 2008, Dr. Wendy’s teaching career ended and she was forced to move to Garden City, Kan.

“I moved to Kansas because of the deterioration of my body due to the disease multiple sclerosis,” Dr. Wendy said. “It started affecting me in 1994 when I was working on my Ph.D.”

Dr. Wendy resides with her parents, former employees of GCCC.

Mu l t i p l e s c l e r o s i s i s a n unpredictable and chronic disease. It affects the body’s nervous system and disrupts the signals being sent from the brain to various parts of the body. Sometimes as in Dr. Wendy’s case, it can lead to quadriplegia. Despite her paralysis, Dr. Wendy refuses to be idle. Instead, she looks forward to sharing her love for and knowledge of science as a tutor.

“Starting at age two she was never

idle and has always had to be moving around and doing something,” her mother, Cherie Perryman, said.

Dr. Wendy graduated with her associate in science from South Plains College in 1986 before attending the University of Wyoming where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology and Physiology in 1989. Dr. Wendy then attended graduate school and earned a master of science before eventually earning her Ph.D. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the University of North Dakota.

“I became interested in science in the sixth grade,” Dr. Wendy said. “One day I picked the [gunk] out from underneath my fingernails. I put it underneath one of my science teacher’s microscopes. I saw things that made me never want to bite my fingernails again.”

Her master’s research dealt with the study and research of the pituitary glands of vampire bats. Her work with the bats has been published in a scientific journal entitled “Morphometry of the Supraoptic Nucleus and the Identification of Arginine-vasopressin in the Vampire Bat (Desmodus Rotundus).”

Bats fascinate Dr. Wendy. She loves every bit of them; from the hypodermic-like fangs and anticoagulating agent in their saliva to the tips of their leathery wings. According to her parents, Dr. Wendy has always been interested in creepy crawlers of all sorts.

“She’s always been science-oriented,” her father, Dennis Perryman, said.

“Wendy has always picked up all sorts of insects and bugs and looking at them,” her mother added.

All the signs pointed to her being

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Miracles may be hard to believe, but in Jose Ramos’s case, a miracle saved his

life. When Jose was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was clinically classified dead. When he was baptized, he started to cry, showing signs of life. His parents took this miracle as an opportunity to take their son somewhere where Jose could not just have a better future, but someplace where he could receive better healthcare.

When Jose turned five, his parents

brought him to the United States.“I was scared to go to school on my first

day,” Jose said. “I thought that people were crazy, I didn’t know what they were saying. But after a month, I started picking up on basic English.”

Fast forward many years to Jose’s senior year in high school in Syracuse, Kan. Jose was a member of Syracuse’s forensics team, and during the end of their semester, Jose’s forensics team gave a performance. It was during the performance that Jose impressed GCCC’s theatre director Phil Hoke.

“Jose impressed me with an individual speech that he gave,” Hoke said. “It spoke

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to issues relating to immigration and nationalization of citizens, and he did a phenomenal job.”

Hoke offered Jose with a full-ride theatre scholarship that Jose gladly excepted. Unfortunately, to Hoke’s disappointment, Jose did not want to act on stage. However, Jose instead wanted to use his theatre scholarship to help him further his education in engineering.

Jose in return became a wonderful help to the theatre department. His accomplishments includes the scene painting for GCCC’s performance of Les Miserables last semester, as well as the lighting technician for Les Miserables. Currently, Jose’s set design was selected along with two others for the set of the upcoming theatre show “Lend Me A Tenor”.

When asked about his future, Jose has not decided what career he wants to further pursue, but knows that he wants to work in the field of engineering because it combines two of his favorite subjects, math and science. To Jose, math

and science are like puzzles. That’s what drew Jose into engineering.

“I don’t want to be an average Joe,” Ramos said. “I want to be someone. I want to make a difference in life, whether it be for my family or for other people.”

Being the first member of his family to go to college and being the oldest out of four children, Jose wants to be a role model to his fellow siblings. Even though Jose feels pressure, he also feels rewarded for setting the bar so high for his younger brothers and younger sister, for showing them that they can further pursue a better future such as he is doing.

Teresa Ramos, Jose’s mother said, “I’m very proud of him, and even though he has his moments, he is a good son. It’s amazing how he’s grown up and has become a man in making his own career.”

“He is an incredibly eager, dedicated, and focused student,” Hoke said. “And he is an excellent student to have here at Garden City Community College.”

As first generAtion college student, jose rAmos strives to pAve pAth of educAtion for his younger siblings

Jose Ramos, center works

alongside fellow theatre students Aaron Rojas and

Bobbie Ruether to build a flat for the

upcoming show “Lend me a Tenor”

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a researcher, but Dr. Wendy found her true passion to be teaching.

“I used to tell my students, ‘If I can get to class in my wheelchair while it’s snowing, then you can make it in the snow too’,” Dr. Wendy said.

Dr. Wendy said she always wanted her students to pay attention and found that phones were some of the worst distractions. She found a fun way to keep students from disrupting the class with their phones.

“When a phone used to go off in my classes, I would make them put it on speaker phone and the whole class would get to say ‘hi’,” Dr. Wendy said. “Once, we got to sing happy birthday to someone.”

While there have been nearly 20 years between the initial effects of MS and now, Dr. Wendy is still the professor whom students admire.

“When I first started receiving

treatment, they put me in a wheelchair, and I was ripped,” Dr. Wendy said with a slight smile. “My voice!… I had a voice like Cher. I could sing. Baby we’re talking blue ribbon stuff.”

Utilize the tutors. That is the message Dr. Wendy wants every student to receive.

GCCC’s tutors are available in the Comprehensive Learning Center CLC in Saffell Library almost anytime that the library is open. Dr. Wendy is available for tutoring all biology-based classes in Room 1101 of the Warren Fouse Math and Science Building from 1 to 4 p.m. on most Mondays.

“When you go off to a four-year college, tutoring is expensive,” Dr. Wendy said. “Students should know not to worry about seeking out tutoring. There is nothing embarrassing about getting help. I wish that I had gotten help; especially in math.”

Jose Ramos joined the theatre program to extend his knowledge in engineering. Ramos did incorporate some of his work in the past productions such as Les Miserables and will help for the next production.

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CLC: Tutors provide help hitting the books The Mary Jo Williams Comprehensive Learning Center (CLC) exists to provide “the place” where every student can rely upon the people, technology, and additional resources that are crucial to individual academic success. To this end the CLC–located in the front half of Saffell Library–offers free tutoring to all Garden City Community College students.

Qualified tutors are available on a walk-in basis during all hours of library operation. A posted schedule indicates each subject(s) each tutor is certified to assist. At least one tutor is available during most hours of operation for math and writing classes. Other available subjects include:

• Sciences• Accounting• Humanities• Study Skills• Business & Economics• Anatomy & Physiology

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