Human Resource students Brittany Guzman and Karina Ayala were awarded Lyn Boone Memorial Scholarships of $4,000 each in April at the annual HR Symposium held in Santa Clara. First awarded in 1994, the merit-based scholarships recognize outstanding HR students who show a passion for the profession and excel in 10 characteristics of professionalism including intellectual ability, written and oral expression, emotional maturity and community contributions.


As a child in Oklahoma City, Althea Fortune McClam always dreamed of going to college. She still remembers being eight years old and announcing to her family, “I want to go to UCLA.”

“I don’t know how I knew that,” she said. “I think I saw something about UCLA on television.”