COS Mourns the Loss of Neil Schanker

Neil Schanker, College of the Siskiyous biology instructor, died Tuesday morning, August 1, 2006, in a fall while hiking in Oregon. Please visit the links on the left side of this page to see work Neil did while at COS, the newspaper articles about his death and memorial services, and information about a scholarship that has been established in his memory. Much of the work Neil did on the biology of the local area will live on through his photos, notes, and book collection. You may contact Dave Clarke in the Biology Department, (530) 938-5250, or clarke@siskiyous.edu if you need further information.