In 2010 Dr. Eileen Ely became the new president of Green River College. She became the first woman to hold the prestigious office at the school. What an honor, or was it?

Ely took office just at the middle of new construction of the much needed college classrooms. There was a boom of high school graduates coming to get their college education. There were families of other countries wanting to send their children to America to get a college education.

This was also the time when the economy fell through the roof onto the heads of all Americans. There was no more money to send children to Green River. Our state government cut college funding. Our children stopped going to college, and abundant tuition monies were no more.

Freshman and sophomore students are upset because some classes have to be closed for the sake of saving the college from total ruin. GRC’s budget has been cut by millions of dollars, yet the teachers and faculty want more money for themselves, even though the college does not have the money to give.

Remember our state government cut the college’s budget by millions of dollars, and there is a falling of student enrollment.

At best, teachers, faculty and students will, in their greed, destroy the college, my alma mater.

– Dan Decker, GRC class of ’72