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Guild President Gordon Alexandre
helped organize an historic musical event, the 50th anniversary of the Ash
Grove. Thousands of people attended the concerts and workshops at UCLA to
remember the music and politics of this unique cultural/political center,
hearing live such icons as Arlo Guthrie, Holly Near, the Freedom Singers,
Ry Cooder, and many more. Back in the day, Gordon served as manager (and
some would say bouncer) at the Ash Grove.
Brian Beauchemin, John Cicuto and Jim Sartoris (class
of 1962) have all reached milestones recently: Beauchemin won his 500th
game as head coach of the men's basketball team. Cicuto stepped down from
his coaching duties after 33 years, the last 19 as head football coach.
Sartoris was recently inducted into the California Community College
Football Coaches Hall of Fame. He is currently Commissioner of the
Southern California Football Association, which governs the sport of
football in 37 Southern California community colleges.
Dr. Denise Blue (adjunct
instructor, English) is pleased to announce a new book: Wide Open:
Chronicling the Manic Misadventures of Dr. Dee and Her Return to Sanity
by Denise B. The book describes mania and then shifts to a murder mystery
novella.
Richard Cortes,
a counselor in our Transfer Center, completed his Ph.D. in Education from
Claremont Graduate University.
Stela Fejtek, Learning Disabilities Specialist and Speech Therapist
in the Instructional Assistance Center of the Center for Students with
Disabilities, reports that her daughter, Tina Fejtek Pauley, recently
completed her 11th Ironman in Tempe, Arizona. Twenty-five hundred
participants competed in the grueling Arizona Ironman, a full triathlon
consisting of a 2.5 mile swim, 112 mile bicycle race and a full 26 mile
marathon. Tina completed the race in 14.5 hours and placed 44th in her age
group. Stela says that her heart went out to all the competitors who
battled extreme heat and very windly conditions, which made this one of
the most difficult Ironman races.
Mona Field's
daughter, Nadine Levyfield (whom some of you have known since birth), will
graduate from Eagle Rock High this June and attend UC Berkeley next fall
wilth an Alumni Leadership Scholarship. She got her educational start at
GCC at the CDC and received a terrific pre-school education with the
wonderful teachers up the hill. She came back to GCC to attend college
classes during high school, again getting the benefit of outstanding
instructors. Thank you, GCC, for helping educate Nadine!
CDC teacher Debbie Frohmuth (who is Lynn McMurrey's sister), has
been selected for the first-ever Los Angeles County Preschool Teacher of
the Year Award. The award was given to only six teachers in the county and
is intended to encourage and celebrate exceptional early childhood
teachers for theur hard work, commitment and dedication. The award was
presented at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in April.
On June 2, Sid Kolpas'
daughter, Allison Kolpas, will give her oral defense for her Ph.D. in
Applied Mathematics at UCSB. She has already been granted a post-doctoral
position for next academic year at UCSB in the Department of Ecology.
Lani Marsden, oldest daughter of Sandy Lee and Steve Marsden,
has been teaching English in Hunan, China for a year, after graduating in
June 2007 from Stanford. She will continue her second year working in
Nanjing, China, as the Field Coordinator of the Volunteers in Asia
Program, as well as take intensive Mandarin Language classes as Nanjing
Normal University and continue to teach English classes. Jada Marsden will
graduate in June from Mark Keppel High School in Monterey Park and attend
Santa Clara University in the fall, only an hour from her second sister
Amber, who will be a senior at UC Berkeley.
Garen Nadir, son of Margaret Nadir
from our Facilities department, attended GCC and is graduating from UCLA
this June. Garen and two of his college friends were recently profiled in
the Glendale News-Press regarding the Green-Glendale Organization
that they have founded.
Men's golf coach Greg Osbourne will be inducted into the California
Lutheran University Athletic Hall of Fame in September. Osbourne played
football for the Vaqueros in 1976-77 and was an all-conference golfer at
GCC in 1991. He was an All-American at Cal Lutheran in 1984.
English adjunct Ruth Sowby's
documentary Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney screens at the
MOCKFEST Film Festival on Sunday, May 18 at 5 pm, at the Vine Street
Theatre, 6321 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood.
Michael Vadman, son of Roberta Vadman (Parent Education), will
graduate from the Highly Gifted Magnet at North Hollywood High School in
June. He'll attend Colorado School of Mines in the fall, where he plans to
major in either geophysics or geological engineering. He will also
undertake either a double major or a minor in computer science.
Retiree Diane Young (Business
Division) sends word that her son, Kent Young, will earn his J.D. from
Michigan State University on May 9 and will take the California bar exam
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