Golden West to graduate nearly 1,000 students

Angelique Flores

HUNTINGTON BEACH -- About 1,000 Golden West College students will

march to “Pomp and Circumstance” tonight to receive their associates’

degrees or certificates of achievement.

“We have high expectations for ourselves, colleagues and students,”

said Kenneth Ygelsias, college president. “As a service organization, our

success depends on the combined capability and contribution of faculty,

staff and students. This philosophy is the foundation of the college’s

mission, vision and principals.”Christina Carter will receive the R.

Dudley Boyce Outstanding Student Award this year, which is the college’s

highest honor that recognizes a student’s scholastic achievement and

contribution to campus and community life through quality leadership.

Carter is the president of the Associated Students of Golden West

College and a member of the Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society. She has also

served as the Broadcasting Committee co-chair and sat on the Honors

Program Advisory Council.

“She has great resilience, great character, is dependable and

exemplifies what Golden West is all about ,” said Richard Porter, vice

president of student services.

Carter will transfer to UC Irvine in the fall to major in criminology,

law, and society. She later plans to attend law school.

Simeon Crowther will give this year’s commencement speech. Since 1968,

Crowther has been an economics professor at Cal State Long Beach. An

advocate of higher learning, he is also the university’s academic senate

chair.