Dennis Salvadori of University Facilities Services Department uses a scraper rig to clear sludge in the Reflecting Pond.

California’s El Niño winters never have been a sure thing. Some seasons of oceanic warming produce record rainfall and flooding, while others barely threaten average seasonal precipitation.

But at California State University, Stanislaus, annual preparations are being completed as if a deluge was guaranteed.

 

Former California State University, Stanislaus Foundation Board member Carl Boyett, whose business acumen and philanthropic spirit enhanced an entire region, died Sunday morning.

Boyett, 70, owned Modesto-based Boyett Petroleum, which owns and operates more than 40 stations in Northern California and includes a fuel distribution network that services more than 500 stations in the Western states. His passion for building the company, started by the Boyett family in 1940, was equaled by his love for his community.

 


Honoree Eugene Simmons (center) with members of the Stanislaus State Troops to College Committee.

Eugene Simmons was one of roughly 30 veterans who rode motorcycles onto the Quad at the California State University, Stanislaus campus for Wednesday’s seventh annual Thank A Veteran Ceremony.

The act itself didn’t seem so impressive until you realized that Simmons, 88 and a Navy and Air Force veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, rode in from his home in Milpitas for the event — roughly 95 miles one way.

 


Gina Cook, assistant professor of child development, has been named a Simms/Mann Faculty Fellow.

Gina Cook, assistant professor of child development at California State University, Stanislaus, has been named a recipient of a 2015 Simms/Mann Faculty Fellowship.

The fellowship, conducted by the Los Angeles-based Simms/Mann Institute, is a public/private partnership offering professional development to CSU and California Community College instructors in the fields of early childhood education, psychology and nursing.

 

California State University, Stanislaus President Joseph F. Sheley participated Friday as a member of a distinguished panel at the California Latino Leadership Education Summit hosted by Fresno State.

The two-day event, which sold-out and drew more than 600 participants, was designed to be an interactive forum addressing the barriers to and proposing solutions for ensuring educational success and equity for all students in the Central San Joaquin Valley.

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