in this issue

Robert Reavis, Biology Faculty, Glendale Community College, reports that his work on Hawaiian fish was recently published: Do parasites affect the behavior of the Hawaiian white-spotted toby, Canthigaster jactator (Pisces)? Acta Ethologica, Reavis, R.H. & M.A. Barrett. 2001. Brief Overview of the work said Reavis, "It is a study comparing the behavior of parasitized fish to 'normal' parasite-free fish of the same species (Canthigaster jactator). Normal males patrolled large territories and courted females. By comparison, parasitized fish had few social interactions and fed at high rates; parasites made up to 35% of the body mass of their fish hosts.

Janet Ortega, CGCC Student Service Administrative Assistant, recently graduated with Honors from the ASU College of Business.

Jodi Richardson, Coordinator of Disability Resources and Services at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, was recently elected to the Az PAC (Arizona Postsecondary Access Coalition) Board.

Cheryl Crutcher, Phoenix College, was re-elected to a second term as Vice President of Communications for the National Board of The American Association for Women in Community Colleges. This is a 2-year term.

Barbara Traines, CDA, M.Ed.Director, AzDA Clinical Dental Assisting Program, Rio Salado, was conferred a M.Ed. in Counseling Degree from Northern Arizona University on May 12, 2001.

Cecilia "CC" Villa Soto, Fiscal Technician II/Business Services, District Office, has earned a Bachelor's of Business Administration from University of Phoenix.

Dr. Steve Meredith, Scottsdale Community College who was recently appointed general manager, will manage the day-to-day operations of the new station housed on the campus of Scottsdale Community College. Prior to his appointment, Meredith served as director of Vocal Music at Scottsdale Community College since 1989. In addition to his faculty duties, he served as Fine Arts division chair from 1996-98, and is the executive director of the Maricopa Institute for Arts and Entertainment Technology (MIAET) at SCC, a position he will continue to hold. (See related story, "MCTV Presents Uniques Opportunities.")

Rio Salado Wins Awards
Sun Sounds accepted three awards from the International Association of Audio Information Services for Programs of the Year! This is the second time in three years that Sun Sounds won the most annual awards at the competition. Sun Sounds leads in all-time program awards from this prestigious association. The winners were:
Best Newspaper Reading - The Arizona Republic: the Monday morning team of Ron Tang & Betty Gleason.
Best Special Program - Christmas Story: My Father's Gift read by Bill Diekmann Best Program - Extended Series: Western Short Stories, a program produced at the Tucson station and read by Bill Murray.

Phi Theta Kappa
At the recent Phi Theta Kappa International Convention in Denver, Rio Salado's Alpha Theta Omicron Chapter made historic firsts in these four areas:
Distinguished Chapter President Award Rose Leyba
Robert Giles Distinguished Advisor Award Janine Adkins-Pierce
Top Five Scholarship Hallmark Award Debra Vos
Beta Alpha Continued Excellence Award Alpha Theta Omicron Chapter

KJZZ-FM Take First Place Awards
In the recent Associated Press state journalism competition, KJZZ competed in seven categories in Division I, including sports reporting, enterprise, light feature, serious feature, public service, use of sound and news writing. The KJZZ news team won first place awards in each category, bringing home 17 of the 21 awards available. KJZZ is owned and operated by Rio Salado College.

Donovan E. LaMar, Advisor and Adjunct Counseling & Exercise Science faculty, MCC, recently authored a class room text book that he will be using this fall semester for the counseling course he teaches (CPD103BB Men in Transition) at MCC. The book, Maximum Life: For Men in Transition - Mending Mind, Body, and Spirit, is a self-help book for men that focuses on holistic health, healing, counseling and personal/professional development. LaMar, who recently celebrated his 20th year of service to the community college district has been teaching and researching counseling and personal development issues for men for nearly 15 years.

A review of the book forwarded by A.S. Umar Sharif, MA PVCC sociology professor and long time educator, stated "There are few challenges more daunting than addressing the many issues facing the African American Male. Many have begun to take up the challenge, but none have put together a compilation of subjects, information, guidance, instruction, and articles as comprehensive and significant as Donovan E. Lamar, MA in this book. A clear argument is made for a holistic approach to healing and wellness based upon well supported research and studies. I encourage African American Males and those involved in the education and training of African American Males to read Maximum Life."

Doug DeSanti, Assistant Department Chair for EMT/Fire Science, Glendale Community College, has completed his M.Ed. through NAU.

Rodney Holmes, Associate Dean of Instruction, Mesa Community College, has been elected president of the United Food Bank board of Directors. The Mesa-based food bank provided food equal to 6 million meals during 2000.

Gera King, Director, Interior Design, Scottsdale Community College, has been named Chair of the Chapter Support Team for American Society of Interior Designers (ASID. ASID has 32,000 members. Categories are broken into practitioners, student members and industry partners. ASID does research in how consumers benefit from designed interiors and plays an active role in legislative issues concerning interior designers and their right to practice in various states. ASID is a strategically planned and managed organization with 49 chapters throughout continental US, Canada and Puerto Rico. The Chapter Support Team assists the 3-year leadership of President, President-elect and Past President in maintaining the chapter's work.

This summer, Gloria Smith, Principal at the GateWay Community High School, traveled to the Cayman Islands where she "interacted with the Stingrays and dived along a wall where the land drops off to a 6000 foot abyss."

Larry Soller, Actively Retired Faculty, Phoenix College, has had an interesting and creative summer. He had a major role in a play at the Phoenix Theater's little theater (across the patio south of the main theater). The play, How I Saved the Whole Damn World, was written by Dale Wasserman, who wrote, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Publicity material described the play as "A sailor on a drunken spree welds items from a junkyard into the mast of his ship. A plane flying overhead explodes and presto! an all-powerful weapon is born and willy-nilly, there is peace on earth. This comedy is about people so dazed with the new technologies they no longer know what to believe and, as a consequence, will believe anything at all."

Christine Hall, Director of Employment, District Officer, has written a chapter for a newly released book, The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed Heritage Asian Americans (2001,Temple University Press. The chapter, co-authored with Trude Cooke Turner, is titled "The diversity of biracial individuals: Asian-White and Asian-minority biracial identity"

Dr. Rene Diaz-Lefebvre, Psychology Faculty, Glendale Community College, has been invited to give a presentation at the European-American University
Forum's Eleventh International Conference, "Bridging the Atlantic: Higher Education in the 21st Century" in October 2001, in Madrid, Spain. The international forum promotes intellectual exchange through the comparative study of best-of-practice in curriculum, pedagogy, administration, public service and research throughout Europe and the Americas. Dr. Diaz-Lefebvre, recognized by Howard Gardner as a pioneer in applying multiple intelligences theory at the higher education/adult level, has also been selected for inclusion in the first edition of 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century.

Ana Torvie, an assistant in Rio Salado College staff development, was recently recognized by the City of Phoenix Youth and Education Commission as the 2001 Outstanding Young Woman of the Year. Ana's mother, Jo Jorgenson, is director of prison education programs for Rio Salado.

NILD Welcomes Nancy Larrick, M.Ed.
Nancy Larrick has joined the National Institute for Leadership Development staff as the new Coordinator of Programs and Operations. Dr. Carrole Wolin, President of NILD, said, "We are ecstatic to have such a talented, energetic, enthusiastic woman joining the NILD team. Nancy was Spring Intern here at NILD, and she will be completing her Masters of Education from ASU this August. She has worked in two of the Maricopa Community Colleges and has experience in the corporate world. We are honored by her decision to accept this new adventure." Larrick has worked at South Mountain C.C. and Glendale C.C. in Institutional Research.

Steve Kadel, Geology Faculty, Glendale Community College, announces that he and his wife Brenda had an addition to their family - Keaton Daniel Kadel. At his May birth, Keaton weighed 6 lbs. 11 oz. and 21.5 inches long. Steve added, "He's a lot bigger now!"

Steve has published a scientific paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets. The article was entitled "Geological History of the Tyre Region of Europa: A regional perspective on Europan surface features and ice thickness."