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-- Angelique Flores

Golden West College has named its employees of the year: psychology

instructor Joyce Bishop; Rona McArthur-Harold, staff support for evening

operations and the office of instruction; and Carolyn Kirkpatrick,

director of personnel services.

Bishop has taught psychology at Golden West College since 1986. She

teaches in a variety of styles, recognizing that not all students learn

through lectures. Recently, she began offering her psychology courses

over the Internet. Bishop and her husband also launched the nonprofit

Pathways to Independence, an agency that provides living expenses,

college tuition, health and mental care, transportation, clothing, child

care and mentoring for up to 16 students.

McArthur-Harold is the primary staff member for nearly every

department on the campus. She is the switchboard operator, dispatcher for

Public Safety and the liaison between students and the college’s faculty

and administrators.

A 15-year employee, she has worked for the Criminal Justice Training

Center, the Affirmative Action/Grievance office, Language Arts Division,

Vocational Education and the Tech Prep program. She was also the advisor

to the Broadcasting and Outdoor Recreation clubs. McArthur-Harold serves

on the college’s Staff Development, Crisis Alert, Disaster Preparedness

and Student Health Services committees.

Kirkpatrick has been an employee of Golden West College since 1979,

but first came to the college in 1970 as a student, while still attending

high school. She is responsible for planning, directing and coordinating

activities and directing employment, payroll, workers’ compensation and

affirmative action programs for the campus.

Employees honored for milestones

Golden West College honored 75 of its employees for reaching

milestones in their service to the Huntington Beach college. The awards

were presented to employees completing five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35

years of employment at the campus.

The honorees who have been employed at the college for five years are

Dori Abella, Stephen Ludwig, Christana Montes, Sonny Pa’u, Omid

Pourzanjani, Linda Stevens and Ronald Wilkinson; 10 years: Dibakar Barua,

Joyce Bishop, Darline Calvert, Theresa Dietrichson, Marty Fernandez,

Norma Flores, John Grajeda, Judith Harmer, Greg Hyska, Maureen Kennedy,

Valerie Klein, Eric Maddy, Frank Maldonado, Marie McGrath, Diane Mefford,

Don Nguyen, Jimmy Nguyen, Jo Ann Ono, Cheryl Prohaska, Richard Ullrich,

Holly Van Dorn, Valerie Venegas, Deven Werthman, Paul Wisner and Roger

Wyant; 15 years: Dennis Carrie, David Falzon, Dorothy Fitzgerald, Candice

Francis, Karen Glines, Stephanie Hayward, David Hudson, William Hyde,

Frank Jessoe, Gladys Lavoie, Robert Lazarus, Sandra Lutz, Rona

McArthur-Harold, Roxana Ross, James Tortolano and Thanh Vu; 20 years:

Susan Babb, James Fortune, Michael Goldman, Leeanne Hill, Karen Hinton,

David Koenig, Karen Kuehner, Helen Norton, Connie Olson, Patricia Stingle

and Norma Willis; 25 years: Frank Baker, Nannette Brodie, Jose Dollente,

Christopher Drover, Charlanne Nee, Barbara Sablan, Diane Seilo and Tony

Thorne; and 30 years: Darrell Ebert, Dolores Harper, James Long, Martin

Newitz, Harvey Reynolds, Richard Rowe and Bud Yeargain; 35 years: Pierre

Grimes.

Slogans earn students scholarships, awards

The American Educational League awarded several cash scholarships to

local students in its countywide slogan contest. Ocean View High School

graduate Anthony Garza won first place. His classmates Nicholas Mendes,

Hoa Le, and Sudantha Liyanaarachchi also received awards. Edison High

School graduate Megan Loughran also won, as did Westminster High School

graduate Michael K.N. Nguyen.

New tutors to help teach reading

The Huntington Valley branch of Literacy Volunteers of America has 10

new tutors for the Huntington Beach Public Library Adult Literacy

Program. They are Dolores Basilio, Melody Edwards, Kathleen Latini, Aaron

Lopez, Ralph Macchia, Barbra Sue Miller, Ramona Miller, Cathy Parsa and

Janed Sax of Huntington Beach, and Susan Bertotti of Los Alamitos.

Each new tutor is helping a local adult improve his or her reading,

writing and speaking skills. About 400 people participate in the literacy

programs at the Central Library and Oak View Branch Library.

Information: Rose Saylin, (714) 375-5102.