Ann Cleary Heck Seeks A Seat On WCC's Board

Mrs. Ann Cleary Heek of Ypsilanti has become the third candidate for one of three vacancies on Washtenaw Community College's Board of Trastees to be filled at the Nov. 7 election. Mrs. Heck, 41, a native of Ypsilanti, is secretary to the director of nursing education at Eastern Michigan University. She holds an AB degree in political science from the U-M, and also attended Cleary College in Ypsilanti, which was founded in 1883 by her grandfather and headed by her father, Owen J. Cleary, from 1940 to 1960. Previously announced candidates for six-year terms on WCC's seven-member board are Board Chairman Richard C. Creal of Ann Arbor, whose term expires Dec. 31, and Sally Buxton of Ann Arbor, a program associate in the of-, fice of U-M vice president for planning and state relations. In her announcement, Mrs. Heek said that "as a life-long resident of Washtenaw ty, aware of the changing job and educational patterns and attitudes in the area," she views WCC as holding "a unique position . . . between high school and the four-year academie program," able "to react quickly to changes in technology and employment needs." WCC's trustees "who have guided the college these past eight years have set an admirable pattern. It is up to those of us who follow to continue the high quality of scholarship and service to the community ... I would like to help extend even greater vacational opportunities to young people throughout the county," she added. "My education in political science and my commitment to community improvement has led me to serve on the Ypsilanti Planning Commission and, currently on the Board of Trustees of the Ypsilanti Sesquicentennial Committee. "As the mother of four children, two of them teen-agers, I am highly concerned with the needs of and opportunities for youth. Through five years as a Girl Scout leader and four years on the Huron Valley Council Board of Directors, il have worked for and with the ' young people of our area. Mrs. Heck's husband, Patriek, is an Ypsilanti attorney. The family lives at 480 Owendale, Ypsilanti.