Penta Career Center has selected three former students as recipients of the 2011 Outstanding Alumni Award. The recipients will be recognized during a special evening banquet at Penta on Thursday, Nov. 3.

Each year, the Penta Outstanding Alumni Award is bestowed upon individuals who have completed a career-technical training program at Penta and who are currently working in a successful career. Since the award’s inception, 111 former high school or adult education students have been honored with the award.

This year’s honorees include:
• Janea Makowski, of Walbridge, is a 2000 graduate of Lake High School and completed her career-technical training in Penta’s Culinary Arts program. She is a culinary arts instructor at Penta Career Center.

Janea Makowski

Tamara (Shiffert) Rost

Makowski has worked as a line cook, kitchen supervisor, sous chef and executive chef at several fine dining restaurants in Toledo, Fort Myers, Ann Arbor, and Cleveland. She is a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y.

• Tamara (Shiffert) Rost, of Pemberville, is a 1989 graduate of Eastwood High School and completed her career-technical training in Penta’s Accounting & Computing program. She is the director of programming and promotions for WTVG, Inc. in Toledo. She has been employed at the television station for 20 years. She is a graduate of Owens Community College and the Simmons School of Management in Boston.

• Matthew Simpson, of Toledo, is a 1983 graduate of Anthony Wayne High School and completed the Building Services & Repair program at Penta. He is the regional manager for La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Toledo. Simpson has worked for La-Z-Boy for 25 years in sales, store management and computer systems administration. He has worked in Toledo and Columbus, Ohio for the company.

For more information about the Penta Outstanding Alumni Award or programs offered by Penta Career Center, call 419-666-1120 or visit www.pentacareercenter.org.

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