Colleges : Campus scene : COSTA MESA : Some Students Just Never Want to Leave
Christine Edwards started out at Orange Coast College more than two decades ago, and she’s still there.
“I spent a good part of my senior year in high school at OCC, and it really helped me at a point where I might have dropped out of school entirely,” the 43-year-old Newport Beach resident said. “I was just one of those people who was bored to tears in high school.”
She attended OCC part time while working for her high school diploma. She did graduate and went on to get a bachelor’s degree.
Though Edwards never received a degree from OCC, she has been a volunteer for a wide variety of OCC programs and was recently elected president of the Friends of the Orange Coast College Library.
Edwards said her volunteer work for the college has included some adventures. A favorite, she said, was traveling to Costa Rica to retrieve sailboats that have been donated to OCC’s sailing center in Newport Harbor.
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