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Alumni recognize
community leaders
By Dwight Flenniken
III
On-line Forty-Niner
The Cal State Long
Beach Alumni Association handed out its annual awards Friday
night at the Soroptimist House.
April Skinas, former liberal arts major, was named the Volunteer
of the Year.
"April is a wonderful person," said Gay Arakawa,
CSULB Alumni Association executive director. "She has
volunteered for all of our programs."
Since Skinas earned her degree in 1980 she has been very active
throughout the CSULB community.
According to the association, Skinas has been involved with
their concert program for the past eight years. She has also
been active in the American Indian Alumni chapter.
"For several years April was the person who kept the
Native American Alumni chapter active," said Anna Nazarian-Peters,
coordinator for student life and development. "She always
offers her services in any way."
Nancy Kimber earned the Alumni organization's Community Service
Award. Kimber graduated from CSULB with a degree in microbiology
in 1990. She then attended medical school in Chicago and now
practices medicine in Los Alamitos.
Kimber has volunteered with the Long Beach Police Department's
rape victim assistance, Su Casa Youth Shelter and has an 11-year-old
"little sister" through the Big Brothers and Sisters
of America program.
Arakawa said she spends her vacations working at a summer
youth camp for troubled foster children.
Kimber recently graduated from the Long Beach Reserve Police
Academy. She is also involved with the Long Beach Public Library
Foundation.
For all of this community service the Long Beach Alumni Association
deemed it necessary to honor her with this prestigious award.
The Nursing Alumni Chapter of Long Beach has done a phenomenal
job with current and former nursing students, according to
the Alumni Association, qualifying them for the Alumni Chapter
of the Year award.
With President Cheryl Deters at the helm, the Nursing Alumni
have seen a tremendous turn around. The program recently installed
a mentoring program for those wishing to become nurses. The
chapter also provides a career day, bringing health providers
and hospitals on campus to recruit CSULB graduates.
"They are a very committed group," Arakawa said.
Nearly 30 volunteers were honored for their dedicated service
throughout 2001.
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