BC3 honors 3 graduates with awards
Butler Twp — Butler County Community College honored three alumni Oct. 15 at its Oak Hills Legacy Dinner.
The Distinguished Alumni Awardees are Donna Jean Bowser DeLouis, D.O., 1977 graduate; Michael Franko, 1974 graduate; and Scott Lang, 1991 graduate.
- DeLouis graduated from BC3 with an associate degree in biological science in 1977. She continued at Penn State, where she earned a bachelor's degree in microbiology.
She attended Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Life Science and completed her internship and residency at Des Moines General Hospital in 1987.
DeLouis was a family practice physician for 20 years. For the past five years she has been an emergency room physician at Sweetwater Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn.
She has been married to her husband, Frank, for 31 years and is the mother of two sons. She is a motorcycle rider, a pilot and a certified scuba diver.
- Franko graduated from BC3 in 1974, where he lettered in cross country, basketball and baseball. He was captain of the cross country team.He went to Slippery Rock University, where he graduated in 1976. He returned to BC3 in 1977, where he taught corporate fitness, served as the assistant coach of the baseball team and was the intramural sports director through 1979.For the past 20 years, Franko has been a multimedia consultant for the Butler Media Group.In addition, Franko has been a member of the Butler Road Race board of directors for 30 years and president for the past 12 years. He has been on the SRU Sports Hall of Fame board of directors for 28 years.In 2011, he was named to the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame.He and his wife Kathy live in Butler.
- Mike Lang accepted the Distinguished Alumnus award posthumously for his brother, Scott, who graduated from BC3 in 1991.Scott Lang played basketball for two seasons, becoming BC3's all-time leader in assists and free throws.Following graduation from Clarion University, he began coaching at La Roche College. Four years later, at age 27, he was promoted to head coach, making him the youngest NCAA men's head basketball coach in the nation. He died Dec. 10 after collapsing during practice.Following their coach's death, the La Roche Red Hawks won their first Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference title and made their first trip to an NCAA Division III tournament.In honor of his legacy, a gift has been made to the “Basketball Scholarship in Memory of Coaches Scott Lang ‘91 and George Everett” by the BC3 Alumni Council.
