CHAPARRAL

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Dr. Trudi Abram recently delivered a paper at the annual College Art Association conference in Dallas. The paper, "A Fast Food Education?" dealt with problems in retaining rigor in the millennium generation. She'll deliver a paper at next year's conference which will address constructing rigorous distance learning courses at the college level, and will spearhead an action to increase the voice of community colleges within the College Art Association.

Mike Allen and his wife, Min-Jung Song, are the proud parents of a baby girl, Maya Elizabeth Allen, born on November 7, 2007. Maya weighed in at 8 lbs. 9 oz. and measured 21.5 inches in length. She has been enthusiastically welcomed by her brother, Max.

Ann Cassidy (classified DSP&S) announces that her son, Patrick, a former GCC student, wed Ashley Alvey on November 3, 2007. Both Patrick and Ashley are students at Weber State University in Utah.

Gayla Chisholm reports that GCC faculty and staff raised $925 for the 2007 firestorm victims through donations to the American Red Cross.

Dr. Peter Green and two internationally known colleagues, Vieri Bottazzini and Bruce Bonnell, have recorded a CD, "Souvenirs," which will be released this spring on Centaur Records. The CD contains music for horn, flute and piano. To celebrate its upcoming release, Bonnell, Bottazzini and Green performed a concert at Central Michigan University in February, featuring works from the CD and solo repertoire. Peter has posted sample audio clips online on his web page: www.glendale.edu/~pgreen

Dr. Susan Hoehn is this year's recipient of the California Association of Postsecondary Education and Disability (CAPED) Vice President of CIGs award for her "leadership and dedication to CAPED and to the betterment of the profession."

Sid Kolpas and Tom Ferguson had an article entitled "Rapid Prototyped Teaching Models for Volumes of Revolution and Volumes by Cross-Section in Freshman Calculus" published in Mathematics and Computer Education (October 2007). They also gave a poster talk at the joint National Math Association Conference in San Diego (January 2008).

Lynn McMurrey recently made a trip to India, where he studied Indian classical and traditional dance and choreographed for "Bollywood."

Kathy Seifert's 11-year-old grandson, Tyler Seifert, ran his first L.A. Marathon in March, finishing in a little over six hours. Kathy say that the "incredibly awesome" Tyler is also the great-nephew of Kathy's sister, Joni Switzer, who works for GCC in Continuing Education at the Garfield Campus.

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