Class Notes Newsletter Spring 2019
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Class Notes Newsletter Spring 2019 In This Issue Featured Stories Event Photos A funny Centennial Homecoming story from Jack Davis MS ’68 and Marsha Davis MS ’69 page 3 Kristan Venegas BA ’94, MS ’00 named Endowed Chair for Teaching, Education, and Excellence at the University of La Verne page 5 Five USC Rossier alumni named 2018 USC Rossier Homecoming Picnic page 2 School District Superintendents page 9 USC Rossier Centennial Celebration Rosalind Conerly EdD '16 named Associate Dean in Hawaii page 6 and Director of the Black Community Services Center at Stanford University page 14 USC Rossier Reception at NASPA page 10 Washington DC Dinner with Dean Gallagher page 13 SAVE THE DATE USC Rossier Centennial Celebration Saturday, August 24, 2019 4:00 – 7:30pm Skirball Cultural Center Invitations coming in June USC Rossier School of Education, Office of Alumni Engagement | [email protected] | Page 1 Class Notes Newsletter Spring 2019 2018 USC Rossier Homecoming Picnic – November 10, 2018 USC Rossier School of Education, Office of Alumni Engagement | [email protected] | Page 2 Class Notes Newsletter Spring 2019 1960s 1970s Stan Charnofsky MS '62, EdD '66 has been a professor Marion Hennebury EdD '78 is a retired elementary and psychologist at Cal State Northridge for 57 years. school principal from the Palm Beach County School He recently published his sixth novel, Charlotte, where System. an elderly woman solves a murder in a retirement village in Pennsylvania. Stan also published a non- Peter Chang BA '68, MS '70, PhD '77 retired in 2018. fiction book, When Women Leave Men: How Men Feel, How Men Heal, and a textbook, Therapy with Couples: Wilsie Bishop MS '76, DPA '89 is the A Humanistic Approach. senior vice president for academics at East Tennessee State University. In Janet Zebrack BS '63 taught primary this role, she is charged with school for 25 years, including on the preparing the provost's office for the Navajo and Zuni reservations in New next decade in alignment with the Mexico. Her experience teaching and university's strategic goals and initiatives. Wilsie is also passion for cycling inspired her to a tenured professor in the College of Public Health at write about traveling the world by East Tennessee State University and was recently bicycle, a pastime she has pursued for 39 years, taking recognized for 40 years of service at the university. treks two or three times a year of 500 to 1,000 miles, accompanied by her husband, Jerry Zebrack, and s sometimes their sons, Jim and John. Janet and Jerry 1980 published their book, The Power of Positive Pedaling: A Donald Barnes EdD '80 is an adjunct professor Couple's Stories and Lessons Learned from Three teaching American government at Rowan Cabarrus Decades of Cycling the World, sharing their adventures in 28 countries across five continents. Community College in Concord, N.C. Veronica Cox MS '81 retired from teaching in 2015. She A funny Centennial Homecoming story from previously worked as an English teacher in the Jack Davis MS ’68 and Marsha Davis MS ’69 Frankfort-Schuyler Central School District in New York. Just after this picture was taken, we Kathryn Wurtman-Miller BS '81, MS '88 has been were both given large buttons with 100 teaching for 32 years and is currently a kindergarten on them, and large gold sunglasses with teacher in the Long Beach Unified School District. the 100 on them. Jack put on his glasses and his button, and we began Rad Domingo MS '82 retired in June 2018 after serving our trek across campus toward the 25 years as a teacher, associated student body (ASB) coliseum for the USC/Cal football game. advisor and freshman basketball coach in the Desert We stopped at an ongoing tailgate Sands Unified School District in Indio, Calif. party, where we encountered a friendly college-age group. One young man looked at Jack, and said: "Wow Yvonne Raphael BS '84, MS '94 is retired after serving dude, you look really good for 100; I'd like to buy you a 35 years as an elementary and ESL adult teacher in the margarita", and he called out to a friend: "Look how Los Angeles Unified School District. good this man looks, and he's 100 years old!" The friend responded to Jack: "The food's on me, and I'd like to Barbara Fitzsimmons EdD '85 is an educational buy you a couple of beers". So, for the next thirty consultant at CRH Consulting. She was recently minutes, Jack became a 100-year-old celebrity! appointed to the board of directors for the Advocacy USC Rossier School of Education, Office of Alumni Engagement | [email protected] | Page 3 Class Notes Newsletter Spring 2019 Project in Nepal to work with a community-based This project is the first in a multi-episode series pitting organization. a dysfunctional family against the upcoming environmental apocalypse. Previously, Patricia was Linda Bloombecker PhD '86 is a psychotherapist invited to lecture at Pixar based on the research specializing in working with PTSD clients and their completed in the book she authored, Face it!, which families. She has been working as a psychotherapist for served as a visual reference for multi-ethnic modeling. nearly 40 years. Linda has served on the advisory board Her work with major production studios explores for Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against believable solution for diverse character designs in Women for 9 years, helping with several alternative animation and games. educational programs. She also served as a specialist on long term effects of rape on couples, on the Oprah Joseph Rios BA '97, EdD '14 is the Winfrey show. founder and principal at Leadership and Values in Action, LLC. His company trains student affairs s 1990 professionals and student leaders on how to put their values into action. Raj Singh PhD '92 is a professor of Joseph is leading student life divisional training at practice in management discipline at Queen's College and working with fraternity/sorority UC Riverside. staff at Rochester Institute of Technology to complement their on campus training. Kristan Venegas BA ’94, MS ’00 named Leonor Vazquez BA '91, EdD '08 Endowed Chair for Teaching, Education, and married fellow USC Rossier alum, Excellence at the University of La Verne Frank Mora EdD '07 on October 20, LaFetra College of Education 2018. Kristan is the first recipient of the Endowed Chair for Teaching, Education, and Excellence at the University of Laura Rebecca MS '95 is the studio manager at LaVerne LaFetra College of CorePower Yoga in Los Angeles. She is responsible for Education, which will support delivering a superior yoga experience to CorePower her as she continues to Yoga clients. Laura oversees the entire customer research financial aid experience which includes control and management of availability in California for underrepresented, low- the physical environment, the quality of delivery of income, and first-generation students. She will also classroom instruction, communication with clients, serve as the associate dean for education instructor development, and excellence in teacher transformation and faculty affairs at LaFetra College training programs. of Education and teach courses in the Social Justice Higher Education Administration master’s degree Patricia Beckmann MFA '96, EdD '13 program beginning Fall 2019. is the director and producer of Propolis, a comic book series. Kristan, a first-generation college graduate, aims to Patricia's lastest work, 'Propolis Part inspire students who have followed a similar path to 7 ' will have its world premier at higher education. She is committed to supporting Slamdance Film Festival this year faculty colleagues as they, too, motivate students to debuting in the episode category. reach their full potential. USC Rossier School of Education, Office of Alumni Engagement | [email protected] | Page 4 Class Notes Newsletter Spring 2019 USC Rossier Centennial Celebration in Hawaii On Saturday, February 23, USC Rossier hosted a dinner at the Oahu Country Club attended by over 135 alumni, current students, faculty, staff and guests, At the event, Dean Gallagher presented the Distinguished Alumni Award to Her Excellency President Hilda Heine of the Marshall Islands. Heine earned her EdD from the USC Rossier Hawaii program in 2004. In 2012, Heine was appointed minister of education for the Republic of the Marshall Islands, under President Christopher Loeak. In 2015, Heine was elected president, the first woman to serve in the position. Article on the event: https://rossier.usc.edu/in-hawaii-a-celebration-of-leadership-and-legacy/ More photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/uscrossier/albums/72157705596005561 Rebecca Wilke EdD '97 recently David Feldon MS '99, PhD '04 is a professor of released the second edition of Tough instructional technology and learning sciences at Utah Choices for Teachers: Ethical Case State University. He was named the 2019 recipient of Studies from Today's Schools and the American Educational Research Association’s Classrooms with her co-author, Dr. Division D Award for significant contributions to Robert Infantino. educational measurement and research with Dr. Colby Tofel-Grehl for their 2018 article, “Phenomenography Pete Menjares PhD '98 was as a foundation for mixed models research,” in the recently appointed to serve as journal American Behavioral Scientist. provost and vice president for academic affairs at Vanguard Ernest Zarra PhD '99 is an associate professor of University of Southern California teacher education at Lewis-Clark State College in in Costa Mesa, Calif. He is also a contributing author Lewiston, Idaho and is a member of the Idaho Speakers and section editor of a book, Diversity Matters: Race, Bureau. His ninth book, The Age of Teacher Shortages, Ethnicity, and the Future of Christian Higher Education will be released this summer.