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RETIREES RETURN TO
SCHOOL! With a desire to study the latest in online learning,
Melita Baumann Riddle
enrolled in a Master of Science program in Educational and
Instructional Technology. She says, “What a gift to be able to learn
when and what you really want to learn! The required Capstone
Project provided a good excuse to return to Reggio Emilia, Italy for
interviews with child development researchers and teachers! Even
commencement was more fun this time around!"
Sue
Brinkmeyer and
her husband, Kent, are grandparents! Their older daughter, Gina,
whom many of us know from her years at GCC, had a baby boy, Cruz
Donovan Escandon, on September 25. Sue, who retired in 2005, can be
reached at sbrink@glendale.edu; Gina’s email is gescandon@live.com.
Coordinator
Joe
Denhart reports:
“ENCORE celebrated its 10th anniversary on Oct. 10. This
organization is associated with the Elderhostel Institute Network in
Boston. ENCORE is one of over 500 such institutes nationwide
associated with colleges and universities. The students manage the
program, plan the curriculum, present classes, provide guest
speakers, elect officers, and conduct board meetings each month. We
meet 20 Saturdays a year (10 am-3 pm, Life Skills Bldg.). Our
curriculum is as varied as our students’ interests.” Joe will retire
in June 2010 after 30 years at GCC, sell his home, and move to the
Seattle area to live near his daughter, son-in-law, and two
grandsons (ages 4 and 2). He plans on buying a sailboat and
dividing his time between grandsons and sailing.
Fanshen DiGiovanni
co-wrote the screenplay
“Passing,” a finalist at the LA Femme Film Festival, which took
place in Los Angeles on Oct 15-17. She teaches Non-Credit ESL 4, 5
and Conversation. Congratulations, Fanshen!
Sid
Kolpas’ older
daughter, Dr. Allison Kolpas, has begun a position at the University
of Delaware as a lecturer/researcher in the Mathematics Department.
She is also a visiting researcher at Princeton University. Shawn
Pfeil, Allison's husband, just received his PhD in Physics from UCSB.
He is now a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sid’s younger daughter, Jamie Kolpas, was one of only 16 students
admitted to the MFA program in Dance/Choreography at NYU, where she
has begun her studies. She just received a $5000/semester
work/study scholarship. Jamie's husband, Brian, just finished his
PhD in Mathematics (what else), and is now a mathematician with
Morgan Stanley in New York.
On October 7, 2009,
Alice Mecom, Kathy McNeese, Stacy Jazán and Hoover Zariani
were each acknowledged
for their contribution to SLO development at the 2009 P.O.W.E.R.
Awards at the Strengthening Student Success conference in San
Francisco.
Work by
Martin Mondrus
(Professor of Art, Emeritus) currently appears in a retrospective
solo exhibition at White’s Art, Framing & Restoration in Montrose.
The exhibition runs through October 31.
Becca Verstraete,
daughter of
Andra Verstraete,
contributed to an NCAA women's soccer record Wednesday in Div. III
Occidental's 7-1 victory over Whittier College. Verstraete, a
freshman, scored at the 83:23 mark to increase the lead to 6-1. Five
seconds later, Grace Reinhalter scored off a corner kick from Marci
Kang, breaking the previous NCAA record for the fastest consecutive
goals by the same team set in 1994 by University of Scranton, which
scored twice in a seven-second span against Delaware Valley.
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