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This story originally appeared in The Collegian and was written by student Jessica Brecker Like the lead character Winston Smith in Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” Alumnus Jerzy Poglodzinski, having been beaten to a point of incomprehension, was about to rat out his friends. However, heroes are not rats and neither is Poglodzinski. Behind a friendly smile and blue eyes, as glimmering as the pool at LACC he kept clean for 25 years, is a history no book could ever tell....
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Alumnus Joe Czyzyk had a long and complicated passage from his birthplace to his graduation from LACC. He was born in Poland, the son of Holocaust survivors. His parents left Poland when Joe was just a toddler, settling in Canada before moving to Los Angeles when Joe was 16. After graduating from Fairfax High School in 1965, Joe started taking classes at LACC, taking two buses every day to get to campus. One of Joe’s most vivid memories of...
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In early February, the Theatre Academy’s production of Our Lady of 121st Street travelled to St. George, Utah to perform in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival National Awards. Last week, the Kennedy Center announced that the LACC production had walked away with seven national awards! Over 18,000 students from 600 colleges across the nation competed in 17 categories in the annual competition. This is the fifth year in a row the LACC Theatre Academy has won one...
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In January, Electronics Engineering student Gerardo Hernandez attended the AT&T Hack-a-Thon in Las Vegas and walked away with a First Place award and some big prizes – Alumni Director Leigh Stenberg recently sat down with him to discuss his winnings and hear his LACC story. When Gerardo Hernandez graduated high school, he was, in his own words, “going nowhere”. Bouncing between service jobs at places like Papa John’s and Starbucks, Gerardo, born and raised in Silver Lake by his...
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On Friday, February 20, Lakeshore Learning and the LACC Foundation hosted a party and toy give-away for LACC students within our Veterans or Guardian Scholars programs with young children. Lakeshore has been a wonderful partner with both LACC and LACCD for many years. Their innovative educational products are used in our Child Development Center helping to further the development of the children and the learning techniques of our students who will become daycare and child development leaders. Thank you...
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On the morning of October 11, 1972, his first day in the United States Navy, David Almond stepped foot onto the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk bound for Vietnam. David had no idea that within his first 24 hours he would witness the Navy’s first race riot aboard a warship. The son of a preacher, David Almond was just 17 and fresh out of L.A. High School when he enlisted in the Navy, inspired by his sister’s work as an Army...
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In 1952, a young man took an electronics class at LACC, taught by Professor Nathan Eisen. The young man found that his life and career path were changed forever after taking that class. Sixty-two years later, that young man, alumnus Palmer Langdon, decided to establish an endowed scholarship for computer technology students in honor of that professor who inspired him, by creating the Nathan Eisen Computer Technology Scholarship. Professor Eisen taught electronics and physics at LACC from 1946 to...
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On Tuesday, January 13th, the Los Angeles City College community gathered as LACC Foundation honored alumnus Steve Lebowitz and his wife Debi for generously donating LACC’s first piece of public art through the Steven and Deborah Lebowitz Foundation. Jeffery Laudenslager is the artist of the 20-foot kinetic sculpture entitled “Ripples Basho,” in honor of famous Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō who was known for haikus. The poem that inspired this piece is “an ancient pond / a frog jumps in...
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The following excerpt is from an article entitled “When Colleges Abandon Phys Ed, What Else Is Lost?” published on January 12th, 2015 by Scott Carlson for the Chronicle for Higher Education. To see the full article, click here. It’s warm-up time at 7:45 a.m., with sunlight just starting to stream into a mat room in the kinesiology building at Los Angeles City College. A dozen students—most of them Latinas, all dressed in thick, white judo uniforms—stand at one end...
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Throughout my childhood, I was constantly moving. All in all, I have lived on three continents spanning more than five different countries. I was born in France, raised in Vietnam and then I started my early education in the United States. I went on to continue my schooling in Malaysia and Croatia before returning to the United States in 2011. Although on the surface it may seem like a privileged life, constantly moving meant that my life was completely...
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