Golden West Grad Wins National Award
Mark Mancina, a Golden West College alumnus, is one of 10 nationwide recipients of the 1996 Outstanding Alumni Awards, presented this month by the American Assn. of Community Colleges.
Those honored are cited as examples of community college success stories, Golden West officials said.
Mancina, a 1976 graduate of the Huntington Beach school, is a recording artist who has won a Grammy Award, an American Music Award and has three gold and two platinum records.
His work includes the musical score of the movie “Speed” and production of three Elton John songs from the “Lion King.”
Other award winners have been Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise Jr., actor Charles Dutton and Cynthia Henderson, the first African American woman to become director of Oak Forest Hospital near Chicago.
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