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MILESTONES
Seboo Aghajani
(Admissions and Records), Meg
Chil-Gevorkyan (Student Outreach Services), and
Sharis Davoodi (Human
Resources) graduated from Woodbury University with a Master’s degree
in Organizational Leadership (MOL) in August 2009. Sharis, Meg and
Seboo were the first students to represent GCC in the MOL program.
They also participated in Woodbury University’s first “Hooding
Ceremony Graduation.”
Adjunct geography instructor
Marla Conti and her husband
Don Ellis recently adopted their daughter Anya from a small town in
eastern Ukraine. They have been working on the very complicated
international adoption since they met her on a hosting program in
2008, and they finally brought her home permanently in November
2009. Anya just turned 11, and is now enrolled at Gardner Street
Elementary in West Hollywood, where many students speak her native
language, Russian. She is learning English quickly, has made lots of
friends, and is thriving in her new environment. For Anya and her
new family, this is a real-life dream come true.
Jane DiLucchio
has a short story (“Blondes Have More Fun”), featuring her mystery
series sleuth, Diega
DelValle, in the upcoming anthology,
Murder in La La Land. The
launch party for the anthology will be at the Mystery Bookstore in
Westwood on Saturday, May 22 at 5 p.m. Everyone’s invited!
(Champagne and munchies!)
Alan Frazier,
Assistant Professor of Aviation and Administration of Justice, has
resigned his position to accept a professorship in the John D.
Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at the University of North
Dakota. Alan will continue to teach online courses here at Glendale
Community College.
Marcia Irvin
(GCC day shift custodian for 10 years) reports that her youngest
daughter, Leonna Irvin, traveled to South Africa in January to study
at the University of Zululand for six months. Leonna attends UC
Berkeley and will graduate in 2011. Marcia wants her daughter to
know that she is very proud of her, and wishes Leonna’s father were
still alive to share her joy.
Prof. Osheen
Keshishian of EOPS was invited to Istanbul, Turkey, by the
Anadolu Kultur Organization to be one of three speakers at the
centennial celebrations of the Armenian-language newspaper
Jamanak (Time) in January.
He gave a lecture on ethnicity and ethnic survival in the United
States. His talks were reported in local Armenian and Turkish
newspapers.
Sid Kolpas
has been awarded the Hayward award for 2010 by the Academic Senate
of the California Community Colleges. Created in 1985, the award
honors community college faculty members who demonstrate the highest
level of commitment to their students, college, and profession. In
addition to excellence in teaching, they must have a record of
outstanding performance in professional activities and a record of
active participation on campus. The ASCCC honors four faculty
annually, one from each area of the state. Sid is the first faculty
member to receive the award at Glendale College, and only the second
Mathematics faculty so honored in the award's history.
Sid’s
daughter, Dr. Allison Kolpas, University of Delaware Department of
Mathematical Sciences, has published her sixth article (February,
2010): "Effects of Demographic Stochasticity on Population
Persistence in Advective Media" in the
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.
The Glendale Chamber of Commerce has announced
that GCC Interim Superintendent/President
Dr. Dawn Lindsay will receive
the organization’s Woman of the Year award. She will be honored at
the annual State of the City and Chamber Awards Luncheon on March 25
at the Hilton Glendale. Congratulations to Dr. Lindsay!
Peggy Renner
has been elected to serve on the Nominating Committee of the
Organization of American Historians (OAH). The election is a
national one, and the OAH is the preeminent organization for faculty
who teach the history of the US. This means Peggy will help to
select the OAH presidents for the next four years.
Shant Shahoian and his wife, Lucy
Boiadjian, announce the birth of their son, Noah Vem Shahoian, on
February 10. He is happy and, according
to the doctor, "has a strong set of lungs
on him." His mama is doing well.
His papa? His papa was a bit of a blubbering mess but is all better
now. Noah weighed 7lbs. 4 oz. |