CHICO STATEMENTS

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Alumni board has new president, exciting travel plans

1999 Homecoming

Wildcats on the Move

19thirties

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Wildcat Highlight:
John Lane

Wildcat Highlight:
Karen Seccombe

In Memoriam

Ella C. Sapp 1898 - 1999

Chapters & Clubs

Cleo Gambetta (B.A., English, '60) teaches drama and English composition at Red Bluff High School. "Watching kids who lack self-confidence and self-esteem gain confidence and grow is the most fulfilling for me," Gambetta says.

Terry W. Ashe (B.A., Recreation Administration, '62) upon his retirement as district manager, the Paradise Recreation and Parks District honored him by naming its main facility The Terry Ashe Recreation Center. Ashe started working there as an intern and continued working there for the next thirty-three years, twenty-eight as district manager. Ashe and his wife, Mikki, retired in Chico to be near their daughter and son-in-law,

Tawny (Pennington) Beem (B.A., Liberal Studies, '88), who teaches in the Paradise Unified School District, and

William Scott Beem (B.S., Communications, '89), who is self-employed in construction in Chico. They were married in 1991, and have two daughters, Annie and Mary, who will probably become CSU, Chico students someday!

Roland Cheney (B.A., Art, '66), currently a college instructor, works in oil, watercolor, prints, and commissioned works in bronze. Recently, he demonstrated his bas-relief technique to the members of the Amador County Artists Association in Jackson.

Darrell Schramm (B.A., English, '66) became a teacher after graduating and taught in public and private schools in California, as well as three years of high school in Colombia, South America. Currently, he serves as the director of the writing program at the University of San Francisco, where he also teaches composition and contemporary poetry. In addition, he is a human rights educator for Amnesty International and a member of Central California's Curriculum Study Commission. Schramm has published poems in magazines and journals, one book of poetry, articles and essays in educational and literary publications. He recently presented his paper "Teaching Composition in a Universal Declaration of Human Rights Framework" at the national Conference on College Composition and Communication. He lives in Vallejo.

Sandy Delehanty (B.A., Art, '67) was recently notified by the California Watercolor Association that one of her close-up paintings, Dahlia Dazed, was accepted for the National Open Show in San Francisco. Her work Springtime Celebration appears in the coffee table book The Best of Floral Painting II.