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Steve Bie and his partner, Raquel
Segal, adopted a baby girl who was born on August 30, 2006. Gabriella
Rose Bie is their first child. She’s healthy, happy, and relatively
quiet so far.
Ken Gray’s new play,
Something’s Missing,
was performed for the first time here at GCC last spring. The Glendale
News Press
review called it “a lyrical, stunning new play about the tragedy of
child abduction, as seen through the eyes of three devastated victims
and one sociopathic perpetrator…. This production… is headed for the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland this summer…. It would be hard to
imagine a finer play being sent to represent the college experience in
the United States.”
Something’s Missing
was well received at the Fringe: “This intense drama offers a
heartbreaking vision of the long-term effects of abuse. Glendale College
should be proud of this impressive production which teams excellent
acting with a clever use of stage space to create a piece of drama that
is gut-wrenching, frightening and moving in equal measures….this is
extremely powerful stuff.” (ThreeWeeks
eDaily, Aug. 24, 2006).
Congratulations to Ken, and to the Theatre Arts Department!
Dr. Ernest “Bud” Horton,
professor emeritus of philosophy, has written a paper entitled “The
Philosophical Reflections of John Wesley, the Father of Methodism.” Read
it at
www.glendale.edu/philosophy/johnwesleysphil.htm.
Allison Kolpas,
daughter of Laurie and
Sid Kolpas,
was advanced to Ph.D. candidacy in applied mathematics at UCSB in June.
Allison is working on an NSF-funded grant to study mathematically fish
schooling and migration. Jamie Kolpas, Sid and Laurie’s younger
daughter, earned a BFA in dance, cum laude, at UCSB last June. She has
since joined the Regina Klendowski Dance Company in Torrance. Meanwhile,
Laurie Kolpas was selected as Encino Chamber of Commerce
Teacher-of-the-Year, and was also recognized by the City of Los Angeles
for exemplary teaching. Laurie is Math Department Chair at Reseda High
School, where 100 percent of her Calculus BC students, and 95 percent of
her Calculus AB students passed the AP Calculus exam.
Daniel Miller
Parks, son of
Lee Miller Parks, graduated summa
cum laude from Ribet College Preparatory School and is now attending
Case Western Reserve University in Ohio on a trustees scholarship for
math and physics.
Hazel Ramos, former GCC student
and ASGCC president, Student Outreach Coordinator (1999-2003) and
adjunct history instructor (2004-2006), has landed a full-time, tenure
track history instructor position at East Los Angeles Community College.
She will be missed by both students and colleagues, and, at the same
time, we wish her continued good fortune in her new position.
John Song, professor of Korean
and pastor of the New Wine Church in Rancho Cucamonga, was chosen by
channel 18 (LA 18) as the role model for the Asian American community
for the month of May. Each month, the station selects a different role
model and highlights that person’s contributions to the community.
Adjunct English
instructor
Lyndane
Yang’s
fiction was featured in the 10th
anniversary season of The New Short Fiction Series by Blonde and
Brunette Productions. A guest repertory performed four of her stories at
the Beverly Hills Public Library auditorium on September 8.
Dr. Leon Waszak, adjunct
assistant professor of history, gave a presentation at the Oxford Round
Table at Oxford University in England this summer. His paper was
entitled "National Interests vs Globalization: Differing Historical
Perspectives Since the 18th Century."
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