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Golden West College’s fall semester classes begin Monday and

registration for approximately 60 career programs and 50

university-transfer majors is now underway. The last day to enroll in

regular semester classes is Aug. 31.

Applications and registration appointments are available in the

Admissions and Records Office. Office hours are Monday through Thursday,

8 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Touch-tone registration -- by appointment only -- is in progress.

For fall semester information, call 895-8306.

Golden West College was the first Orange County community college to

develop and offer innovative 16-week spring and fall semesters, which

help students prepare for studies at both University of California and

California State University campuses.

Golden West also offers short-term courses. The highly successful

Weekend Express program allows students to complete courses in

accelerated six-week blocks and offers more than a half-dozen starting

dates throughout the calendar year.

Classes at Golden West College cost just $11 per unit, the lowest

enrollment fee of any college system in the state. More than $10 million

in financial aid is issued each year.

Gayle Bentley named new music director at Edison High

Jim Keys left some big shoes to fill when he retired in June as Edison

High’s longtime music director.

A 30-year music education career, 20 of which were spent at Edison,

Keys was considered an institution in the Huntington Beach Union High

School District and one of the most respected high school music teachers

in Southern California.

“He was the Rolls Royce of music teachers,” said one Edison band

parent.

After the school conducted a lengthy search, those shoes have been

filled: Edison’s new music director is Gayle Bentley.

A Virginia native, Bentley holds a music degree from the University of

Virginia and a master’s degree in music education from the University of

Texas at Austin. She has spent the past few years teaching in a highly

successful junior high school program in Forth Worth, Texas where she has

compiled a remarkable record of achievement.

Bentley was a standout clarinetist during her school days and was the

only student in her county to make the Virginia All-State Band in all

four years of high school.

She also plays tenor saxophone and teaches other instruments including

flute, tuba and euphonium.

“Gayle Bentley is incredibly well-qualified and incredibly devoted to

teaching music to young people,” said Alexis Booher, president of the

Edison High School Band Booster Association and a longtime and parent at

the school. “We may have lost a Rolls Royce when Jim Keys retired, but

we’re gaining a Bentley.”

Head Start now taking applications

Interested in giving your child’s education a head start? Head Start

Preschool is now taking applications for enrollment for children born

between Dec. 3, 1996 and Dec. 2, 1997.

Head Start is a free social development program that provides services

to low income and special needs children. Services for children offered

include nutritionally balances meals and snacks, speech and language

screening, individualized education plans, bilingual education and health

screening.

For more information on the Head Start Preschool program, call (714)

963-8191.