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Promise Cuesta SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT CuestaSPRING 2014 ColleCONNECTING eCUESTA COLLEGENewsNew TO THE COMMUNITY s Cuesta Alum is Taking Journalism to the Slow Lane Page 13 Herto Bouri, Ethiopia 2013 Tierra del Fuego, Chile 2020 Fall semester is FEE-FREE for all SLO county high school seniors w FACULTY GET HIGH MARKS PG 4 | CUESTA’S ART NEXUS PG 9 | HONORED ALUMNI PG 10 THE CUESTA FOLLOW US ON TWITTER at twitter.com/Cuesta_College FIND US ON FACEBOOK at facebook.com/CuestaCollege CUESTA.EDU PROMISE Cuesta College New s SPRING 2014 PRESIDENT’S Messageg Contents 3 Good News! 4 Teachers Honored Brighter days are ahead in 2014 5 Opening Day Dear Friends, 6 Business & Entrepreneurship Center Cuesta College’s 50th anniversary has come and gone, but Gilbert H. Stork, Ed.D., before those birthday candles were blown out, an incredible Superintendent/President 7 Student Spotlight wish for local students came true: The financial barriers were 8 Choir Fest removed for San Luis Obispo County high school seniors looking to go to college. The 9 Art Gallery Focus Cuesta Promise Scholarship guarantees a fee-free fall semester in perpetuity thanks to 10 2014 Honored Alumni a more than $8 million donation, the largest one-time gift in the history of the college. 12 Paramedic Alum Spotlight Students have until March 2nd to apply, and more details on the scholarship can be found on the following page. 13 Paul Salopek Global Trek Speaking of donations, we were extraordinarily fortunate to receive not one, but 14 Theater Focus: pool ‘63 two very large gifts in 2013, making for the largest amount in donations ever received 15 Retiree Brunch in a single year. In November, just over $1 million was received by the Cuesta College 16 Donor: Marlene Peter Foundation, intended to benefit the smallest among us. The donation will be used to help 17 Business Partner: build a permanent building to house the North County Campus Children’s Center. The Blue Rooster Telecom gift will have lasting impacts on the local children it serves, the faculty and staff who run 18 Faces/Places the center, and the students who will go on to become exceptional caregivers. 19 Athletics As we continue to look forward, we also pause to look back. In January, we recognized 20 Calendar this year’s four Honored Alumni, each vastly different from the next (a correctional officer, a clothing designer, a restaurateur, a vocalist) but bound by past years spent at Cuesta College News is published Cuesta College. twice a year by Cuesta College Advancement Cuesta College, P.O. Box 8106 Throughout the coming pages you will find many stories, most sharing a common San Luis Obispo, CA 93403-8106 theme: success. What a gift to have so many stories of success to tell. (805) 546-3100 cuesta.edu Sincerely, Executive Editor Shannon Hill Editor Jay Thompson Writers Gilbert H. Stork, Ed.D. superintendent/president Lauren Milbourne and Jay Thompson Photography Jay Thompson Art Direction/Design Mary Ellen Bohnsack More sessions, more options! SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY COMMUNITY SUMMER Cuesta College is unveiling a brand new summer school COLLEGE DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES Patrick Mullen, President SCHOOL 2014 schedule to give students even more choices – for the first time Charlotte Alexander, Vice President ever, three sessions will be offered. In addition to the regular six- Angela Mitchell Gaye Galvan week session, four-week and eight-week options will be available. Barbara George The summer schedule comes out the last week of March. Charlie Scovell, Student Trustee Email comments to NEW! Session I: 4-weeks; June 2 –June 27 (Classes will be scheduled on a M-F basis) [email protected] Session II: 6-weeks; June 16-July 24 (Classes will be scheduled on a M-Th basis) NEW! Session III: 8-weeks; June 16-August 7 (Classes will be scheduled on a M-Th basis) On the cover: Cuesta alum Paul Salopek is Correction to 2012/13 Foundation Annual Report: Donor Vita Miller was unintentionally omitted. retracing the human diaspora in a seven- year, 21,000-mile walk from Africa to South Clarification to Fall 2013 CC News: Kelsey Kehoe is the college’s Wellness Arts Program coordinator; America. Vicki Sawzak is the college’s Student Health Services coordinator. Sawzak is responsible for the Photo by John Stanmeyer/National Geographic development of the Student Mental Health Program that began in 1989. For more information on the Map Illustration by Student Health Center, contact Sawzak at (805) 546-3171. Ryan Morris/National Geographic 2 • SPRING 2014 CUESTA COLLEGE NEWS GOOD NEWS! THE CUESTA Cuesta Promise reaches out Promise is already PROMISE making good on its, to all SLO County students well, promise. not been more excited to “This scholarship is pretty Now, I would so much like “I didn’t plan on going to learn about the Promise. Cuesta before I heard about much why I am even going to to go into Cuesta’s nursing “Coming from a low- the Promise,” said Sigourney college.” program.” income family, any form Harrington, who will graduate Christina Rusco, currently The Cuesta Promise, of college is a challenge to from Atascadero High in a senior at Templeton High unveiled in October 2013, finance,” she said. “I had June. “But when I heard about School, plans to submit her guarantees a fee-free fall planned to attend Cuesta after it, I decided I should take application for the Cuesta semester to all new high high school but only part-time advantage of this opportunity. College Promise Scholarship school completers, whether so that I could get a job, too. The Promise is my impetus to by the March 2 deadline, and they come from public or Now, I can go full-time and take classes at Cuesta.” in doing so, may change the private schools, or are home- work toward my associate’s course of her life. schooled. The goal of the Jennifer Adamson, a Paso degree.” Robles High senior, could have “This scholarship means so Promise is to break down the much to me,” said Rusco. “I economic barriers to college The deadline to apply for the Cuesta Promise is March 2! was hoping to attend Cuesta and give local students For more information on the Promise right out of high school but options for their future. And and application instructions, please visit www.cuesta.edu/student/aboutmoney/cuestapromise/ before it was only a possibility. in its inaugural year, the Cuesta Children’s Center gets a big lift Last November, the Cuesta College Foundation received an unprecedented donation for the North County Campus Children’s Center. Bertha Shultz, a former longtime resident of Atascadero, left the Foundation over $1,000,000 in her trust specifically to fund the facility. The donation will be used in the future to help build a permanent building to house the center, which currently resides in a temporary structure. “In our curriculum planning, we have always asked the question of, if we had a million dollars, how would we spend it to create a top quality program,” said Haila Hafley-Kluver, Children’s Center director. “So when I heard about the donation, my first reaction was, ‘Wow! We did get a million dollars! We can actually build the state-of-the-art children’s center program that we’ve dreamed of!” Solveg Cooper, Business Education – Accounting Jarred Pfeiffer, Fine Arts – Ceramics New Spring 2014 Matthew Lorenzen, Counseling Heather Tucker, Nursing & Allied Health – EMS full-time faculty Patricia McQuillen, Nursing & Allied Health CUESTA COLLEGE NEWS SPRING 2014 • 3 3RD ANNUAL TEACHER APPRECIATION NIGHT Alpha Gamma Sigma honors 10 who make a difference s 10 faculty haltingly. “To get an honor Christopher Nielsen into what we present in the members were from students is a remarkable agreed. classroom, and to actually honored by Alpha experience.” “What I love about have the students appreciate AGamma Sigma students on a And Lisha Duarte, who has teaching is interacting with it, it is truly an amazing December evening for their been with Cuesta eight years, the students who also teach feeling,” said Meyer. excellence in teaching, a added her own praise. me things,” said Nielsen, who Political science teacher curious thing occurred. One “I’d like to thank the has taught political science at Aaron Rodrigues, a 22-year by one, each teacher honored students – it is all because of Cuesta for a year. “We learn Cuesta veteran, put it simply: the excellence of their them, thanks to them, and so much from our students – “I try to bring out the best in students. for them,” said the Spanish the interaction is not one- my students, but they bring “I’ve received a few awards instructor. w a y.” out the best in me.” over the years, but, I have to The prevailing theme “I’m grateful for my The night conclued with say, to be honored by your of gratitude at the honor students, for their feedback, the most seasoned of the students … that is a true society’s third annual Teacher that they communicate with bunch, Ron Ruppert, whose honor,” said an emotional Appreciation Night continued me and challenge me,” added career as a Cuesta biology Brian Kreowski, who has with chemistry instructor Elizabeth Lobo, who has instructor is in its 35th year. taught political science at Praveen Babu, who has taught taught microbiology and “The secret to success is the Cuesta for 17 years. at Cuesta seven years. anatomy for two years. enthusiasm of the students,” The emotion also ran high “I don’t know that students Jodi Meyer and Joe Vasta, said Ruppert.
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