Lorraine Teniya This is Me

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1. 1. smshawaii.usafunds.org

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   Lorraine Teniya
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   Lorraine TeniyaDirector, Customer RelationsE-mail: lorraine.teniya@usafunds.orgTelephone: (808) 593-2262

2. 2. www.smshawaii.org

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   Lorraine Teniya
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   Lorraine TeniyaDirector, Customer RelationsE-mail: lteniya@usafunds.orgTelephone: (808) 593-2262

3. 3. www.usafunds.com

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   Published on: 4/1/2004   Last Visited: 4/1/2004

   Lorraine Teniya, USA Funds customer-relations manager, combines her financial-aid expertise and teaching background to educate colleges, universities and secondary schools - and the students and families they serve - about USA Funds' services and programs.
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   As long as USA Funds® has served Hawaii as the designated guarantor of federal education loans in Hawaii, Lorraine Teniya has been there for the state's schools and lenders - and the students and families they serve.
   
   "I like to say I started with the first paper clip," says Teniya.
   
   She joined USA Funds in 1979, a few months after USA Funds became Hawaii's designated guarantor and took on the name Hawaii Education Loan Program (HELP) in that state.
   
   Since 2000, Teniya has been USA Funds' customer-relations manager for Hawaii, working with campus financial-aid administrators in the state to determine customer needs and monitor customer satisfaction with education-loan service.She also is on the board of directors for SMS Hawaii®, the nonprofit student-loan secondary market for Hawaii and a USA Funds affiliate.
   
   The opportunity to assist schools and lenders in making the transition out of the Federally Insured Student Loan program drew her to USA Funds.Now, nearly 25 years and a variety of positions at USA Funds later, she continues to work with schools and lenders to help their work go smoothly.She also assists many high-school counselors and students and parents, who often contact Teniya after being referred to her by Teniya's colleagues in the financial-aid community.
   
   "I try to make schools' and lenders' jobs a little easier," says Teniya, who is based in Honolulu."And I especially enjoy helping students and parents get through the financial-aid maze."
   
   Educating others comes naturally for Teniya, who in college studied sociology with the idea that she might teach one day.She holds a bachelor's degree from Monmouth College in Illinois and a master's degree from the University of Arizona.During her time at Chaminade University in Hawaii, where she served as financial-aid director from 1975-1979, she taught an introductory course on sociological theory.
   
   But when she was fresh out of graduate school, Teniya took a job in Chaminade's federal-liaison office.The job exposed her to major federal programs and served as good background for a position in financial aid, which she pursued on the urging of her federal-liaison supervisor.
   
   Teniya combines her financial-aid expertise and teaching background for activities such as College Goal Sunday, the annual event that offers college-bound students and their parents help in completing financial-aid forms and teaches them about grants and loans for higher education.Since Hawaii's first College Goal Sunday in 2002, Teniya has served as a co-chair, and USA Funds has been a co-sponsor.
   
   Of the many initiatives USA Funds has undertaken during Teniya's time with the company, she is most proud of its scholarship and loan-forgiveness programs marking USA Funds' 25th anniversary as Hawaii's guarantor.