Every day at 8 am, students gather outside the Benton Center’s Learning and Information center, waiting for the chance to print out their assignments, ask for directions or advice, or just find a quiet spot to study. The activity has a rhythm throughout the day, busier between classes and quieter during them, with the occasional phone call. During all this, the students receive help and guidance from the clerical workers running the learning center, whose organization and knowledge helps students get what they need every day.
Daniel Howard, 60, is a clerical specialist at the Benton Center, and has worked there for nearly a year and a half. At the learning and information center, he assists students with all sorts of things from placement testing and registration to helping students turn in homework or set up counseling appointments. He enjoys working with students, and helping them with whatever he can. “Going to school’s not easy, it’s harder than some jobs!”
Outside of the Benton Center, Howard is also the office manager at the Valley AIDS Information Network, a nonprofit volunteer outreach organization for the prevention of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis-C, and Sexually Transmitted Infections, as well as providing community support to those affected by those diseases.
After growing up in the San Francisco bay area and serving in the army at 17, Daniel lived near Seattle for office work before moving down to Oregon and Corvallis, where he has lived for the last 20 years, and now considers himself “semi-retired.” LBCC interested him primarily as a flexible option that fits well with his work with VAIN.
At a glance
Who - Daniel Howard
Where - Benton Center, Corvallis
What - Clerical work, volunteer organizing
Valley AIDS Information Network (VAIN): http://www.valleyaidsinfo.org/index.html
LBCC Benton Center: https://www.linnbenton.edu/current-students/campus-locations-and-maps/benton-center/
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