Author: Tracy Gwendolyn

"See Why We’re Proud….   Meet Stacy – If you dream of it, go for it. Graduate of the Year candidate, Stacy Aspaturian, returned to Cypress College in 2011 (she was a student here in the late ’90s) after a 20-year career in international shipping. This time around, she enrolled with"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Bill – William “Bill” Ashley is of sturdy character. Born in Charleston, West Virginia, Bill made his way to Southern California via train when he was just three years old… all by his lonesome. His sister placed him on a Chief locomotive in 1954 to make"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Amalia Sanchez – Amalia is the very first college graduate in both her immediate and extended families. She started at Cypress at the age of 33 as a single mom of two with the hope that a certificate would enable her to attain financial stability. Through"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Jason Ingels – Jason was an auto-insurance underwriter before enrolling in the Cypress Hotel, Restaurant & Culinary Arts program in the fall of 2013. He joined to make a career shift – to transition to a more dynamic and creative field that would allow him to be"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Julie – a Fine Arts graduate of the Class of 2015. Julie will be transferring to the School of Art at Cal State Long Beach where she will to continue her Fine Arts studies with concentrations in painting and drawing. Julie was nominated by a Cypress"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Austin – a Hotel Management & EOPS graduate of the Class of 2015. Austin will be transferring with a 4.0 GPA to Cal Poly Pomona where he plans to major in Hotel Management and minor in Spanish. Austin was nominated by a Cypress College faculty member"

"Cypress College is blessed to have the most-decorated active women’s college softball coach in California Community College Athletic Association history. Head Coach Brad Pickler’s landmark 1,200th career win came with a 9-1 Charger defeat of Orange Coast College on Wednesday, March 18. The Chargers’ victory consolidates Pickler’s legacy, besting programs led"