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Jessica Jimenez-Pimentel and Robert Pimentel graduated from CSU Fresno last month with bachelor's degrees in social work. They have been accepted into the master's program for advanced standing social work at CSU Bakersfield and will begin in the Fall. The advanced standing program is for students who have shown exemplary academic achievement and have a minimum G.P.A. of 3.0. Jessica reports they hope to use the WHCCD employee scholars program to help with their master's degrees. Congratulations to both and best wishes as they take the next step.

Congratulations to West Hills College Lemoore information technology instructor David-Michael Rengh who recently completed coursework from California State University, Northridge, and has been certified in assistive technology. The certificate was granted by CSUN's College of Extended Learning and the Center on Disabilities. Coursework included augmentative and alternative communication, environmental controls, seating and positioning, mobility devices, ergonomics,computer access technology, and technology for people with learning, physical, cognitive, and/or sensory disabilities.

Lorna Davis' son, Eric, graduated from Coalinga High School and will follow his sister, Hillary, to WHCC where he will be a President's Scholar next year.

If you see Anne Jorgens with a big smile on her face this week she has good reason. Lots of good news in her family. Her son, Steven, and his wife, Annie (nee Mirtcheve), both WHCC Class of 2001, just celebrated their second wedding anniversary and the birth of their first child, Even Todor, on Sunday, June 11th. Annie is headed to Missoula to help out with the baby for a few weeks. Steven graduated on May 13 with another Associates of Applied Science degree in Computer Network Management from the University of Montana College of Technology, and is currently the network administrator/computer technician for Liquid Planet in Missoula, Montana. Annie is from Bulgaria and came to West Hills through the International Student Program. She was also the part time International Student Program clerical assistant for her last year or two at West Hills.

The other big excitement in her family revolves around Anne’s daughter, Danielle, who graduated from California State University, Fresno on May 20th a degree in biology. She will start work on a master’s degree in biology at CSUF in the Fall and has been invited back for a second year to intern for the summer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research last year looked specifically at the sterocilia rootlet and tip-link structure of zebra-fish and frog inner ear cells to determine their arrangement and molecular machinery of hair cells for eventual use in finding ways of restoring hearing loss, which affects 10 percent of the US population. Wow!

Congratulations to our own Bob Clement, athletic director at WHCC, who has been named the district’s alumnus of the year. Watch for a full article in Dialogue soon but suffice it to say that Bob has done an outstanding job of representing the college at both the state and national level in getting recognition for our athletes and our athletic programs (as well as having a long list of distinguished service in his hometown of Lemoore).

	Jessica Jimenez-Pimentel and Robert Pimentel graduated from CSU Fresno last month with bachelor's degrees in social work. They have been accepted into the master's program for advanced standing social work at CSU Bakersfield and will begin in the Fall. The advanced standing program is for students who have shown exemplary academic achievement and have a minimum G.P.A. of 3.0. Jessica reports they hope to use the WHCCD employee scholars program to help with their master's degrees. Congratulations to both and best wishes as they take the next step.
	Congratulations to West Hills College Lemoore information technology instructor David-Michael Rengh who recently completed coursework from California State University, Northridge, and has been certified in assistive technology. The certificate was granted by CSUN's College of Extended Learning and the Center on Disabilities. Coursework included augmentative and alternative communication, environmental controls, seating and positioning, mobility devices, ergonomics,computer access technology, and technology for people with learning, physical, cognitive, and/or sensory disabilities.
	Lorna Davis' son, Eric, graduated from Coalinga High School and will follow his sister, Hillary, to WHCC where he will be a President's Scholar next year.
	If you see Anne Jorgens with a big smile on her face this week she has good reason. Lots of good news in her family. Her son, Steven, and his wife, Annie (nee Mirtcheve), both WHCC Class of 2001, just celebrated their second wedding anniversary and the birth of their first child, Even Todor, on Sunday, June 11th. Annie is headed to Missoula to help out with the baby for a few weeks. Steven graduated on May 13 with another Associates of Applied Science degree in Computer Network Management from the University of Montana College of Technology, and is currently the network administrator/computer technician for Liquid Planet in Missoula, Montana. Annie is from Bulgaria and came to West Hills through the International Student Program. She was also the part time International Student Program clerical assistant for her last year or two at West Hills. The other big excitement in her family revolves around Anne’s daughter, Danielle, who graduated from California State University, Fresno on May 20th a degree in biology. She will start work on a master’s degree in biology at CSUF in the Fall and has been invited back for a second year to intern for the summer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research last year looked specifically at the sterocilia rootlet and tip-link structure of zebra-fish and frog inner ear cells to determine their arrangement and molecular machinery of hair cells for eventual use in finding ways of restoring hearing loss, which affects 10 percent of the US population. Wow!

	Congratulations to our own Bob Clement, athletic director at WHCC, who has been named the district’s alumnus of the year. Watch for a full article in Dialogue soon but suffice it to say that Bob has done an outstanding job of representing the college at both the state and national level in getting recognition for our athletes and our athletic programs (as well as having a long list of distinguished service in his hometown of Lemoore).