A college degree

José Gonzalez joined our SummerQuest outreach classes in 1996 at the end of his second grade year at the North Shoreview Elementary School in San Mateo. He continued with us in Middle School in our Gateway Program and then was a TA in the expanded Peninsula Bridge Consortium www.peninsulabridge.org/ through high school and college.

José attended The University of California, Berkeley and graduated May 15 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Phil Ekedahl, Crystal Springs Uplands, '88 was his summer elementary teacher for a couple of years, and we both attended the joyous celebration at Hearst Greek Theater.

José will work on our campus as a TA and teacher again this summer. His plans are not clear after that, but he is talking of graduate school, and he did once announce his interest in becoming the Govenor of California in front of a large Bridge fundraising event. You never know!

Amanda Stone now has "Crystal Vision."

Amanda '02 had suffered from poor vision for as long as she could remember. She was a candidate for PRK - Photo Refractive Keratotomy- and made the decision to find the most qualified ophthalmologist in the Sacramento area to perform the advanced eye surgery.

To her great delight and satisfaction, she met Doctor Nilu Maboudi, LASIK surgeon and ophthalmologist, who agreed to perform the surgery.

The "Crystal" part of this story comes from the fact that Nilu spent her middle school years at CSUS, and now Amanda truly does have "Crystal vision."

The Development Team hosted an alumni party at the Karl Strauss Brewery and Restaurant in La Jolla on Friday evening. Twenty alumni attended and represented classes from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. Two of my former Spanish students, Jane Forrester and Bill Hall from the class of '81 showed up for the fun. We will do it again!

Allison Witter Frey '90 will host our next alumni social event in Medina, WA on April 15.

Tom Robinson, English and history, turns 60

In mid-January we celebrated Tom's 60th birthday with a gala celebration at the St. Francis and then dinner at Kuleto's. We shared many stories of our years together at Crystal and all enjoyed the evening.