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ALSO
IN THIS ISSUE
Science and the City
Urban ecology has
perfect locale at
downtown college…
Championship Turf Tender
Mesa College gridiron
gets facelift…
Sounds of Success
KSDS
scores ratings, awards…
New Home in Urban Village
Mid-City
Center opens in
revitalized area…
Reaching Out to Local Teens
Outreach
coordinator goes into high schools to talk college…
In the Spirit of the Season
Faculty/staff
support
holiday charities…
Pace Yourself
Self-paced GED and
basic skills brush-up…
Fill 'er Up With Fries
Biodiesel is fuel source
of tomorrow…
Chancellor's Column
Students need better
info on transfer…
Development News
Fund-raising activities…
Factoids
Miscellaneous
tidbits of news…
Newsmakers Accomplishments
by faculty and staff…
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Newsmakers
Accomplishments by faculty
and staff
Arelene Wolinski,
Mesa College professor of history, is Egyptologist consultant to the Bowers
Museum in Santa Ana, Calif., for the “Treasures of Egypt from the
British Museum” exhibit. She contributed to the gallery guide, audio
guide and docent training. She is currently aiding the Bowers’ Kidseum
in teacher outreach. She is also giving a series of four lectures on Egypt
for the museum and has embarked on publishing Ceremonial Masks of Ancient
Egypt, which is in progress.
City College’s Libby
Andersen
is the 2000 recipient of the Adapted Swimming Service Award for her leadership
in persuading the USA swimming community to include swimmers with disabilities.
Andersen was a USA Coach at the 1988 Paralympic Games in Seoul and the
1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona, She has helped to conduct camps and
clinics for swimmers with disabilities at the U.S. Olympic Training Center,
and wrote the Adapted Swimming Handbook.
Sue
Simpson,
assistant professor of nursing at City College, received the American
Radiological Nurses Association Editorial Award for the year 2000 for
the article titled, “The Effects of Self-Selected Music on Anxiety
Levels and Movement of Patients Undergoing Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI).”
For three consecutive weekends during the month of October, “Miramarketeers”
took to the streets, armed with recruitment materials and college messages.
Volunteers Ray
Quon, Shannon Ruckman, Ray McFarlane, Sandi Trevisan, Dan Wilkie, Art
Davis, Don Taylor, John Shablow, Mary Kingsley, Larry Pink, Mindy de la
Pena, Reuvein Silberman, Mary Benard, Steve Adams, Wheeler North, Greg
Newhouse
and Jill
Kolis
participated in the Mira Mesa Street Fair, the MCAS Air Show, and/or the
Carmel Mountain Street Fair to promote the college.
Curt
McCarty,
director of City College’s Independent Learning Center, has won a
second two-year term on the InTeleCom Board of Directors for November
2000-2002. InTeleCom (Intelligent TeleCommunications) is the consortium
of southern California colleges that not only produces “tele-web”
courses, but is also a leader in distance education across the country
and around the world.
This past December, as she has for many years, Jackie
Osborne,
classification and compensation supervisor in Human Resources, joined
fellow Santa’s Helpers from the Bonita Optimist Club for the all-day
journey to deliver more than 200 toys and clothes to the children of the
rural flower farmers in the hills at marker 37.5 in Baja California. They
also donate rice, beans and a chicken to each of the 75 families; two
big bags of dog food provide holiday meals for man’s best friend.
Osborne is a past president of the club and her husband, Stan, has been
Santa for this project for the past 10 years.
Just on his own, not part of an organized holiday project, College Service
Officer Oscar
Gonzalez each
year takes holiday gifts and food to needy families in Mexico.
Armando
Abiña,
dean of City College’s School of Math, Engineering & Technology,
has been appointed chairman of the Statewide Special Populations Advisory
Committee. Abiña will work with regional consortia to plan professional
and curriculum development, expanding collaboration with business and
industry, maintaining program standards and students’ competencies
and recommend courses of action to facilitate program and service improvements
for special populations in California’s community colleges.
Rafael
Alvarez,
City College MESA Program director, was selected as the 2001 California—Southern
Region representative for the Statewide MESA Center Advisory Board for
Community Colleges.
Pam
Deegan
is the new vice president of instruction for Miramar College. Most recently
she was dean of Instructional Services at Santiago Canyon College, where
she led teaching/learning initiatives at the new and growing community
college. Deegan has a master’s degree in physical education from
CSU Los Angeles and is working on her doctoral dissertation in community
college leadership at Oregon State University. She will oversee the recently
reorganized academic schools and their respective deans, which include
Berta Cuaron, School of Technology, Business and Math; Jim Palmer, School
of Public Services; Winston Butler, School of Arts and Humanities; and
Mary Benard, School of Technical Careers and Workforce Initiatives.
Also new at Miramar College is Winston
Butler,
dean of arts and humanities. He holds a master’s degree in theater
arts from UC Santa Barbara and a bachelor’s degree in theater from
CSU Los Angeles. Before coming to San Diego, where he held an interim
dean post at City College, he was a faculty member and department chair
of the Los Angeles City College Theater Academy and Department, as well
as being active in academic senates statewide and in the LA district.
Long-time PE professor Bill
Sandback
has been inducted into the select group of 17 “San Diego County High
School Coaching Legends” in the San Diego Hall of Champions. Sandback
coached at Crawford High School for eight years before joining Mesa College’s
faculty in 1971. As coach of Mesa’s baseball team from 1971-84, he
compiled a won-loss record of 280-200. More than 56 of his players went
into professional baseball.
Rita
Sanchez,
professor of English and Chicano studies at Mesa College, co-presented
with her husband, Ricardo G. del Castillo, SDSU professor of Chicano history,
at the San Bernardino Valley College Bookfair in October. The title of
the presentation was “Reclaiming Our History Through Genealogy and
Narrative.” Sanchez presented her newly completed manuscript, Cochise
Remembers My Great-Grandfather, which tells the story of her great-grandfather’s
meeting with the famous Apache chief. The original narrative is in English
and Spanish, and includes Sanchez’s introduction and analysis.
Ronn Edmundson, Mesa College English
professor, is venturing into Color
publishing
with the online book, The Mystical Pleasures of Chocolate, which can be
found at www. iUniverse.com. Primarily a collection of personal essays,
the book is part memoir and part meditation. It “reflects on the
women in my life from infancy to graduate school,” he said.
Geraldine
Perri,
Mesa College vice president of instruction, has been appointed to the
Executive Board of the State Chief Instructional Officers representing
Region X, San Diego and Imperial counties. She chairs the Region X Chief
Instructional legislative committee.
Kandace
Walker,
Miramar College DSPS counselor, has a four-legged sidekick these days,
Readan, a Canine Companion puppy. After approximately 15 months with Walker,
Readan will enter an advanced training phase and, if he passes rigorous
testing and physical evaluation, will ultimately be placed with a child
in a wheelchair.
Jo-Ann Rossitto,
associate dean of nursing at City College, was selected by the National
League for Nursing Accrediting Commission to serve as an accreditation
site visitor. Her first assignment takes her to Mt. Wachusett Community
College in Gardner, Mass., in late February 2001.
Ray
Quon,
professor in the Miramar College automotive technology program, was recognized
during the City of San Diego Partnerships in Education award ceremony
at Seaworld last fall for his coordination of the Toyota T-TEN program.
The event celebrates successful education/industry/volunteer partnerships,
as well as job training and career advancement programs in community and
four-year colleges.
City College professor Laurel
Corona
is listed in the sixth edition of Who’s Who Among America’s
Teachers 2000.
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