Elaine Eastman and Doug Isaac were appointed Wednesday evening to fill two interim positions on the Linn-Benton Community College board of education.

Vacancies for the Zone 2 and Zone 3 positions were created by the November resignation of board member Joseph Novak due to health reasons and the unexpected death of chairman Wes Price in February. The interim board members will serve until the end of June. New board members will be elected May 15 and take office July 1.

Eastman is president and CEO of Central Willamette Community Credit Union. She is a Brownsville native and graduated with honors from the Western Credit Union National Association Management School. She has served on the LBCC budget committee and the Linn County Compensation Committee.

Isaac is a manufacturing manager at Synthetech, Inc. He graduated summa cum laude in business management from Oregon State University. Isaac chairs the board of the Albany Rural Fire District.

Due to Eastman's appointment to the board, she resigned from the college's budget committee. Richard Running was appointed to fill that position.

Running has been a certified public accountant since 1971. He has an undergraduate degree from Pacific Lutheran University and a master's from the University of Denver. He is active in Rotary and at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. In the past, he has been involved with the United Way of Linn County, Junior Achievement and the Albany Area Chamber of Commerce.

In other business, the board:

• Read a resolution in honor of Price. College president Rita Cavin called him, "the model volunteer, the model board member and the model champion."

• Approved new zone boundaries based on uniformity of registered voters within each zone.

• Learned of the following retirements: Linda Donald, parenting education faculty; Richard Bergeman, journalism/photography; Janice Huskey, academic affairs specialist; Ann Marie Etheridge, career center counselor; Diana Curwen, English as a Second Language; Paul Landgren, equipment mechanic.