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KATHERINE (SMITH) HOLMES (B.A., Agriculture, '90) got married in June 1998 in Monterey. She works as a kindergarten teacher in Salinas.

RAY M. CRABB (B.A., Business Administration, Finance, '92) has joined Heller First Capital in Campbell. Crabb had been business development officer for the Money Store Investment Corporation and business development officer for Tracy Federal Bank.

JEFFREY JOHNSTON, (M.A., Education, '92) is the recipient of a 1997 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award, an honor that carries with it an unrestricted financial award of $25,000. He is a teacher at Pau-Wa-Lu Middle School in Gardnerville, Nevada.

ERIC POLSTER (B.A., Telecommunications, '92) began drawing at age five on his parents' bathroom wall. His first literary work, The Fuzzy Logic Collection, can be viewed on the Internet at http://home.earthlink.net/~dogsinorbit/.

MIKE PYLE (B.A., Liberal Studies, '92) is referred to as "Mister P" by students in his Truckee Elementary fourth- and fifth-grade physical education classes.

JOHN H. SARMENTO (B.A., International Business, '92) works as an international consultant for The SABRE Group, where he has been involved with many technologically advanced products related to the travel distribution and information systems in the global market. He was awarded the 1997 "Employee of the Year."

NATALIA C. HENRIQUEZ (B.A., Psychology, '93) is an officer in the U.S. Navy.

AMY (BARRETT) BURNETT (B.A., Social Work, '94) got married in Salinas in September. She is a counselor at Interim Incorporated.

KEVIN GRIGSBY (B.A., Media Arts, '94) is the sports producer of KTLA in Los Angeles. Grigsby is the youngest producer in the history of the industry.

KEN HIGDON (B.A., Information and Communication Studies, '94) is currently retail sales manager for the West San Gabriel Valley in the consumer marketing division of the Los Angeles Times. Higdon started working at the Times after working for three years at The Blade, a medium-sized paper in Toledo.

RENEE (B.A., Media Arts, '94) and VACILIS KOLLIAS (B.S., Computer Engineering, '91) live in Palo Alto and have one son.

KRISTEN (GRIFFON) MARCOZZI (B.S., Recreation Administration, '94) and SANTINO MARCOZZI (B.S., Human Resources Management, '93) married in 1997 in Carmel. She is a recruiter for Anderson Consulting, and he is a human resources representative for the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco. They live in Lafayette.

AMANDA DETMER (B.A., Theatre Arts, '95) completed her M.F.A. in acting at NYU and spent the summer in residence at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and making a mainstream Hollywood movie.

TOM LA MERE (B.A., Theatre Arts, '95) played Henry V in Chico's summer 1998 Shakespeare in the Park. He is in his second year of the M.F.A. program in acting at DePaul University in Chicago.

RICHARD DAL PORTO (B.A., Special Major in Editing & Publishing/Mass Media, '96) is a project editor for Prima Publishing near Sacramento. He works on strategy manuals for computer games, including Nightmare Creatures, Black Dahlia, Breath of Fire III, and Gran Turismo.

CATHERINE BREEN CULLUMBER (B.A., Speech Pathology and Audiology, '97) is a descendant of Simon Breen, a member of the Donner Party.

MEGAN H. MANNING (B.S., Accounting, '97) works in Napa Valley. She is currently preparing for the CPA exam. She wrote, "I have many wonderful memories of Chico and Chico State. I often remember riding my bike in Bidwell Park, catching live music downtown during the summer, and shopping at the Farmers Market. The Business Administration and Accounting Programs at Chico State gave me an excellent foundation on which to build a career. These programs not only prepared me academically but gave me networking, collaborating, and problem-solving experience that has helped me make the transition from student to working professional.... The Introductory Accounting Mentoring Program gave me confidence and helped me to understand basic accounting concepts with greater clarity as I struggled to find ways to teach students who were having difficulties."

MARK MEUTER (B.A., Philosophy/History, '97) is the technical director for the Chico Creek Theatre Festival in Chico.

THOMAS D. MINOR (B.S., Instructional Technology, '97) is an officer in the U.S. Navy.

SHIRLEY DELEHANTY (B.A., Multicultural and Gender Studies, '98) is a self-admitted "studyaholic." In addition to graduating magna cum laude, she was in the top 3 percent of her class, receiving an academic honors medal from Phi Kappa Phi. A mother of six, she attended classes here at Chico through the Prime Timers, an educational group for seniors. After "sticking it out" for thirty years in an unhappy marriage, she went to work for Safeway stores and remarried. With her new husband's support, Delehanty returned to school. Asked what she intends to do with her college degree, she said, "I just want to have it. I think I am going to be a lifelong student. I'm like a chia pet. You keep fertilizing me and I just keep on growing!"

JOEL DIZON (B.S., Exercise Physiology, '98) is part of the first group of Peace Corps volunteers to serve in the southern African country of Mozambique. He is working to improve the quality of English taught in grades 8-10 and helping Mozambican teachers upgrade their skills. While a student at Chico State, Dizon worked as an adult literacy volunteer for CAVE. Since 1961, over 450 Chico State grads have served in the Peace Corps. Today, 23 Chico State grads are serving overseas as Peace Corps volunteers, making Chico State one of the top ten university producers of Peace Corps volunteers in California.