Susi Kohan is MVLA’s Older Adult Learner of the Year.

Los Altos resident Susi Kohan’s contributions to her chorus class, her school and the community have earned her the honor of Mountain View-Los Altos Adult School’s Older Adult Learner of the Year 2005.

Every Wednesday morning finds Kohan at the Los Altos Senior Center, sustaining the soprano section with a smile and a helpful hand for her fellow singers. She helps sort, distribute and file music. She takes charge of getting the regulars registered each quarter. She circulates recruitment fliers at the concerts, which she also helps to schedule.

In addition, Kohan serves on the advisory board of the MVLA Adult School. She was an integral part of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation team last year.

She has spent the past 35 years contributing to the educational community. Using her master’s degree in education counseling from Stanford University, she has been teaching, counseling and coordinating volunteer programs in Mountain View, Los Altos and Palo Alto.

Kohan serves on the advisory board and as a special projects coordinator at the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College. She has been a neighborhood accountability board member for the Restorative Justice Program and has coordinated volunteers for numerous organizations, including Friends for Youth, Partners for New Generations, RSVP, Santa Clara County Drug and Alcohol Services, Project CAUSE, National Peer Helpers Association and California Peer Counseling Association.

Kohan might say that topping her accomplishments are the two lovely and talented daughters she has raised with her husband, Steve. Her chorus teacher would say that her accomplishments and her daughters are exceeded only by her high B in “God Bless America.”