Occupation Program Awarded Federal Grant

The U.S. Education Department has awarded $2.3 million in grants for nine school-to-work transition programs, including the East San Gabriel Valley Regional Occupational Program.

Awardees will use the grants to evaluate why their programs work and to share their success in helping vocational students learn the advanced skills needed to move from the classroom to employment.

Funded programs involve cooperation between public agencies and the private sector to ensure that what students are taught relates to what is needed on the job.

The local school will use a $272,590 grant to evaluate its program, which trains students from 17 high schools for occupations in the fields of business and marketing, industrial technology and the building trade. Key components of the transition program are on-the-job training, tutoring and mentoring, job coaching and support services for students such as transportation and child care.

The project will compare the success of 300 students participating in the program with students enrolled in traditional vocational or general education courses, examining school completion, job placement and career advancement rates, student attitudes about school and work, and business attitudes about hiring youths.

Partners include Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, Cal State Los Angeles and UC Riverside.

Cal State L.A. Professor Nominated for Award

Rosemarie Marshall, professor of microbiology at Cal State Los Angeles, has been named the university’s nominee for the 1992-93 systemwide Cal State University Outstanding Professor Award.

Marshall joined the faculty in 1978. She is coordinator of the Medical Technology Program, faculty adviser of the undergraduate Microbiology/Medical Technology Club and associate director of the university’s Cooperative Education Program.

She served as chair of the Department of Microbiology from 1986 to 1989, and is currently president of the CSLA/California Faculty Assn.

Marshall graduated from the University of Washington and earned her master’s degree and Ph.D. from Iowa State University.

5 Webb Students Vie in Latin Competition

Five Latin students from The Webb Schools in Claremont competed at the regional meeting of the California Junior Classical League, placing in nearly all categories they entered at the advanced Latin level.

They are Sonia Sabnis, Paula Funchain, Sayema Hameed, Bethany Aseltine and Paula Wichienkuer.

Art Center’s Printing Unit Opens Bookstore

Archetype Press, a letterpress printing facility that houses one of the West Coast’s most extensive collections of handset wood and metal type, has opened a bookstore featuring items designed by students at the Art Center College of Design.

The bookstore at 40 Mills Place in Pasadena is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays.

It features books containing typographic illustrations of the writings of Henry David Thoreau, greeting cards, limited edition posters and small books.

Archetype Press was created by the college in 1990 to provide a variety of typographic and printing classes and to foster a greater appreciation of graphic design and its relationship to the book arts.

The facility serves as a workshop where students at the college in Pasadena produce limited edition works.