COMMUNITY NEWS 3 HONORED AS CSUN'S DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI.California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , gave three former students the Distinguished Alumni Award at a banquet at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. The school's highest alumni honor went to retired FBI official Grant Ashley, music-industry executive and former California lieutenant governor Mike Curb and telecommunications executive Mory Ejabat. The award is for ``those whose achievements place them at the summit of their professions,'' the university said. Past honorees include actor Cheech Marin and astronaut Scott Horowitz. Ashley was the FBI's executive assistant director of law enforcement services, the bureau's second-highest post. After becoming a special agent in 1980, he investigated white-collar and violent crime cases in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, then oversaw operations in San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas. He retired from the bureau this year. Curb, chairman of Curb Records, was elected lieutenant governor in 1978. He served one term, then returned to the recording industry. Billboard magazine recognized Curb Records as the Country Music Label of the Year in 2001. Ejabat is co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Zhone Technologies, a telecommunications equipment company based in Oakland. Before co-founding Zhone, he held senior management positions with Ascend Communications, which Lucent Technologies bought in 1999. Last year, he pledged $1 million to CSUN's college of engineering and computer science. Kim Labinger, a fourth-grade teacher at Thomas Edison Elementary School Edison Elementary School is the name of many primary schools, with most of them named after Thomas Edison. They include:
Disney announced the awards Monday to coincide with National Teacher Appreciation Week. Stressing creativity in the classroom, Labinger taught elements of writing by having her students write their own scripts for the Mozart opera ``The Magic Flute.'' Then the students acted out the scenes to emphasize voice, character development, dialogue and vocabulary enrichment, Labinger said. For her efforts, Disney will give Labinger $10,000 and a trip to the Disneyland Resort at the end of July. Her school got $5,000. Also for teacher appreciation week, Wal-Mart and Sam's Club recognized several local teachers with gifts and $1,000 prizes for their schools. In partnership with Phi Delta Kappa Phi Delta Kappa is an international professional organization for educators. Journal The Phi Delta Kappan is a professional journal for education, published by Phi Delta Kappa. International Professional Education Association, each Wal-Mart and Sam's Club store and distribution center picked one outstanding teacher from a school in its neighborhood. From the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , the winners were Donald Tautkus of Kennedy High School, Mary Stepter of Monroe High School For other uses, see James Monroe High School. Monroe High School may refer to:
From the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. , the winners were Gaylynn Evans and Pamela Skaggs of Pinetree Elementary, Judith McGoldrick of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Andrew Rude of Tesoro Del Valle Elementary. From the Antelope Valley, the winners were Genel Terrell of Tierra Bonita North Elementary, Karen Aguirre of Lincoln Elementary, Marybeth Cook of Littlerock High School Littlerock High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Littlerock, California. It is the a part of the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). External links
The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. . The winners will be able to apply for Wal-Mart's state Teacher of the Year honors. The state winner will get $10,000 from Wal-Mart and an automatic entry into the national competition. The national winner gets a total of $36,000 for his or her school. Twelve local middle and high school students who earned the Clarice Chaplin music scholarship from the 31st District PTSA will put on a concert at Walter Reed Middle School Walter Reed Middle School is a year-round school located in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. Its original name was North Hollywood Junior High School. The school is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. auditorium Monday evening. The pianists are Howard Chen of El Camino Real High School El Camino Real High School (also known locally as "ECR" and by some more recently as "ELCO") is a public secondary school located in the Woodland Hills district of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. , Sam Kinsey of Nobel Middle School and Sharon Lee of Chatsworth High. The violinists are Shana Kogan of Van Nuys High School Van Nuys High School (VNHS) established in 1914, is a high school in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District: District 2. , Denise Leung of Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies (also Sherman Oaks CES or SOCES) is a (magnet) public school in the San Fernando Valley, Southern California, United States. and Esther Lin of Granada Hills Charter High School. The flautists are Christine Fu of North Hollywood High School North Hollywood High School, originally called Lankershim High School when it opened in 1927, is a secondary school in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The school mascot is the husky, and the school colors are blue, white, grey. and Sarah Kim of Lawrence Middle School. The trumpeter is Avneesh Kohli of Reseda High School, the saxophonist is Yarmila Cruz of Van Nuys High School, the drummer is Lucas Fehring of Millikan Middle School and the vocalist is Cramisha Simpson of Kennedy High School. The PTSA. has been awarding the $350 scholarships to talented secondary school students from the San Fernando Valley for 50 years. The money comes solely from donations from the PTSA and the community. The Children's Scholarship Fund donated more than $2 million in scholarships to more than 1,500 students at a luncheon at St. Patrick's Catholic School in North Hollywood on Thursday. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Cardinal Roger Mahony and actor Will Smith were among the honored guests. The fund has helped more than 70,000 students get a private school education since its founding in 1988. |
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