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David Hurst doesn’t seek
recognition, and he is not thinking about retirement. But after 40 years
as a professor of chemistry and astronomy at the college, his lengthy
tenure has been a topic of conversation and will continue to be, as he
will be one of 120 faculty and staff and four retirees who will be
honored at the 11th annual retirement/recognition luncheon Thursday May
27 at 11:45 in the J. Walter Smith Student Center.
Each honoree in
attendance at the event, which is called “Focus on the Future,” will be
presented a framed certificate denoting their length of service from 10
to 40 years as well as the department they taught or worked in. The four
retirees, Lupe Geer, Alfred Martin, Tina Tarnelli and Clarice Taylor,
will receive a gift as well as a framed certificate.
Hurst started
teaching chemistry at the college in 1964 and began a journey that would
not only transform him as a person, but also the campus where he taught
every day, Glendale College. It was a different place to teach in those
days, Hurst said, but it has become a place he looks forward to coming
to every day, thanks to the people he works with, the students he
teaches and the tremendous facility he works in. “I never would have
dreamed when I started teaching here 40 years ago that not only would I
still be here, but that I would be fortunate enough to be teaching
astronomy classes in our beautiful planetarium,’’ he said. “I spent my
first 10 years at the college teaching primarily chemistry, but then I
became interested in astronomy, and that has become the area my teaching
has been concentrated on. I even teach humanities classes now, and I
think that new challenges and the wonderful students we have to work
with has made the time go by faster than I could have ever imagined.’’
The Glendale
College Academic Senate, Alumni Association, Associated Students,
Bookstore, Classified Council, CSEA, Foundation and Guild sponsor the
luncheon.
For more
information please call Tracy Adams at x5199.
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