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Trudi Abram will chair a panel on issues facing community college studio and art history faculty at the annual College Art Association conference in Dallas next year. She'll deliver a paper on a similar subject at the conference the following year.

Michael Carter, adjunct in the Anthropology Department, appeared in January on the nationally syndicated television program “Black Men Revealed.”

Mona Field, Political Science department, won reelection to a third term on the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees with 70% of the vote and full support of the employee organizations. Congratulations, Mona!

Karen Knotts, adjunct librarian, has a one-woman show, Tied Up in Knotts, running through March 31 at the Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theater in North Hollywood. It's a comedy/drama about her life and about growing up with her dad, Don Knotts. Karen says the show is a tribute to her dad.

Crossroads of Learning, a company owned by Bob and Nalini Lasiewicz, has just released a new professional development online training course, “Tutoring Foundations.” The course is a collaboration with the national Tutoring Association and the Fielding Graduate University, and satisfies the academic requirements for advanced tutor certification from the NTA. Nalini is a part-time presenter for the Energy Exhibit youth tours at the Science Center.

Mary Mirch has received the first award ever given by the Health Services Association of California Community Colleges (HSACCC). Mary was unanimously selected for the honor, the HSACCC Exemplary Service Award for “helping to make the impossible possible with generosity and expertise.” The HSACCC is a statewide organization of nurses, mostly directors of health centers, who have contributed to changing laws to enhance students' health care benefits.

The GCC Patrons Club would like to thank the campus community fortheir support of its 2006 fundraiser. Last year, the Patrons Club was able to award $20,000 in scholarships and grants-in-aid to 62 worthy GCC students. The club looks forward to ongoing support for the November, 2007 fundraiser at the  Castaway.

Armando Sanchez (IT), won the 145 lb. featherweight championship by a knockout in the second round at the Total Fighting Alliance—Conflict on the Coast event at the Santa Monica Civic Center in February. Congratulations to Armando!

English adjunct Ruth Sowby says encouraging her students to write letters to the editor of the Glendale News Press had an unexpected result: she is now a photojournalist for the Los Angeles Times. That is, she writes and takes photos for a weekly society column in the News Press.

Theatre Arts Department accolades from the recent Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival:

Ryan Robbins (Will Masters in the GCC production of William Inge’s Bus Stop) was a semi-finalist in the nationally recognized Irene Ryan scholarship competition.

Ken Gray (Professor Emeritus) received honors for his play, Something’s Missing, one of two plays selected as a regional finalist for the David Mark Cohen Award.  Ken’s play has been sent to Washington D.C. to a panel of professional readers and could garner publication, a cash prize, and reading at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference this summer.

Jeanette D. Farr (Theatre Arts faculty) was named as the Fellow for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for region VIII. Individuals who have given diligently to the causes of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival are named to the group of Fellows.

English instructor Lyndane Yang's book-length manuscript, Distant Shores, was one of five finalists in the 2007 Iowa Short Fiction Awards competition. More than 400 writers entered the competition for debut short story collections. &

Do you have any milestones to share with us?

Please send information to: mfield@glendale.edu

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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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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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