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Mona Field's daughter, Tania Verafield, co-starred in a short film titled "Short Term 12" that won the Best Short Film award at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Over 5,000 short films are submitted to Sundance, of which only 96 were selected to be shown at the festival.

Alan Frazier, Associate Professor of Aviation and Administration of Justice, reports that his daughter, 1LT Erin Frazier, USAF is deployed to Sather AFB, Baghdad, Iraq in support of U.S. efforts to maintain peace in Iraq. Erin is a 2006 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Italian teacher Flavio Frontini led an excursion for 40 students to the Getty Research Institute to view a special
exhibit of over 20 rare items covering 500 years of Italian history, including a first edition copy of a sixteenth century cookbook, a first written example of a sport game—soccer, photos of Italy in the 1850s, and a diary of the great Italian architect Renzo Piano. The items came alive during the librarian's explanations of their historical and artistic background. Mr. Frontini hopes to repeat this tour whenever possible.

Many of us remember Anne Marie Novinger, for whom the Health Center is named. Anne Marie was the Director of the GCC Health Center for almost 30 years, retiring in 1995. In an article entitled "Dynamic Novinger duo named Citizen of Year," the Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce and the Tehachapi News announced that George Novinger and Anne Marie Kurtz Novinger share the Tehachapi 2009 Citizen of the Year award. Congratulations to Anne Marie and George!

Hasmik Sarkissian's daughter, Aniee Sarkissian, will receive her M.S. degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Riverside, in March. She completed her undergraduate studies at University of California, Riverside, earning a B.S. in biochemistry and a B.A. in languages. Congratulations to Aniee! &

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The Chaparral is seeking talented and committed individuals (no experience necessary) for the position of correspondent.

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Correspondents would manage and implement internal and external communications (meaning correspondents would commit themselves to write at least one article a year on a topic if interest to the college community).

Writers could represent their own interests, constituents’ interests (such as a member of the Academic Senate or a Guild officer could), community groups’ interests (such as departments, divisions, work areas), as well as the interest of the public at large.

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Preferred qualifications: most important, candidates should be pro-active and willing to take the initiative on articles and features, should work well under pressure, have the ability to prioritize, met deadlines, and demonstrate flexibility (in other words, get the article in on time).

We are particularly interested in finding younger faculty who, although interested, feel that they don’t have a lot of time to devote to campus issues, so they haven’t run for Senate of Guild offices, but they could find the time to devote to a single article in the course of a year, and thereby become involved in campus issues whether they be instructional, political, or social (maybe even parking).

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The Chaparral is an equal opportunity employer, offering its writers no compensation, no perquisites, no benefits package (but if you work here you have them already); yet we do offer an extraordinary opportunity for professional development to those who are interested.

If curious, concerned or committed, contact the editor, Mona Field, at x5341 or send an e-mail to mfield@glendale.edu.

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