COMMUNITY NEWS LOCAL COUPLE GIVES CSUN $150,000 IN ENDOWMENTS.Cal State Northridge music and computer science faculty member Sandra Bostrom and her husband, Donald, a CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge alum, have created three endowments to support music, electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. and computer science education at the university. The Bostroms established a bequest specifying that upon their deaths, $150,000 from their estate will be divided equally between the Sandra Bostrom-Aguado Music Therapy Endowment in the Department of Music in CSUN's College of Arts, Media and Communication; the Sandra Bostrom-Aguado Computer Science Scholarship Endowment in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science; and the Donald E. Bostrom Electrical and Computer Engineering Scholarship Endowment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, also in the engineering college. Donald Bostrom graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from CSUN in 1964, when it was known as 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. State College. He went on to a career in electromagnetic engineering. A professional writer and composer, Sandra Bostrom began teaching piano in CSUN's Department of Music more than 25 years ago. Her teaching duties expanded to the Department of Computer Science about a decade ago amid technological changes in the publishing industry. The Department of Parks and Recreation's North County Community Services Agency honored volunteers who donated more than 43,000 hours of their time last year at several locations. Earning the award for Dexter Park Dexter Park may refer to two U.S. horse racing tacks:
For helping at Sylmar's El Cariso Park: Brian Holbert, Eric Zeiger, Ray Follosco, Socorro Gallegos, Delores Barker, Mary Gallardo, Bud Brown and Dan Redding Redding, city (1990 pop. 66,462), seat of Shasta co., N central Calif., on the Sacramento River; inc. 1872. A principal tourist center for a mountain and lake region, it also has lumbering, food-processing, and diverse manufacturing. Hamer Toyota, Dan Gaytan and the Los Angeles City Fire Department; California Highway Patrol Officers Wendy Hahn and Leland Tang; Joe and Tina Kelly of the North Valley Golden Bears; the Sylmar Kiwanis; and the Pacific Coast Baseball League. The S. Mark Taper Foundation donated $75,000 to the Urban Education Partnership for the organization's health initiative program designed to hire and train staff in health, child development and health insurance enrollment. The partnership's health program mobilizes health promoters to serve families in the Northeast San Fernando Valley and South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. . Program services include health care workshops, health insurance outreach and enrollment, wellness information and childcare. The partnership focuses on students in high-need schools in high poverty, multicultural communities. Workshops paid for through the foundation's grant will occur at select elementary schools in the San Fernando Valley and South Los Angeles. The Taper Foundation is a private family organization dedicated to supporting nonprofit organizations. Los Angeles Valley College LAVC redirects here. For the software library, see libavcodec. The university is adjacent to Grant High School. Often called "Valley College" or simply "Valley" by those who frequent the campus, it opened its doors to the public on September 12, 1949, at which time the campus was forensics See computer forensics. team member Rachel Resnick took first place for persuasive speaking at the Pacific Southwest Colleges Forensics Association's Spring Championship Tournament. More than 400 students from more than 40 universities and community colleges competed in the regional championship. Resnick will be the first person from Valley College to represent Southern California at the national 2006 Interstate Oratory in Pensacola, Fla., next month. |
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