OCC caps off year

Jim Carnett

Orange Coast College will put the cap on the 2004-05 academic year

Thursday evening with its 57th annual commencement at the Pacific

Amphitheater in Costa Mesa.

The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m., and 7,000 people

are expected to attend. The amphitheater, located on Orange County

Fairgrounds property, is situated on Fairview Road, directly across

the street from the campus.

OCC’s first commencement was held on campus -- in a former Santa

Ana Army Air Base movie theater -- in June 1949. Just six students

graduated. This year, the college will honor 1,964 students.

Associate of arts degrees will be awarded to 1,498 students, and 466

will be granted certificates of achievement in a variety of career

and technical fields.

The commencement speaker will be OCC faculty member of the year

Dennis L. Kelly, a marine science professor. His speech is titled,

“You’ve Made a Great Start.” A member of the faculty for 31 years,

Kelly is known nationwide for his extensive research on dolphins,

killer whales and gray whales.

Student speaker will be Shana Jenkins, a political science major.

Jenkins, a member of OCC’s student government for the past two years,

has titled her speech, “I Wish I Would Have Known.” Jenkins was named

to the 2005 Phi Theta Kappa All-California Academic First Team. She

will transfer next fall to either USC, UCLA or UC Berkeley.

Orange Coast College will present its annual Outstanding Citizen

Award to Dr. Robert M. Campbell, president of CT Realty in Newport

Beach. Honorary associate degrees will be awarded to Debbie Cook and

Rollande Sampson, who have each donated thousands of hours over the

past 22 years to OCC’s ornamental horticulture department.

The graduates will be presented by OCC President Bob Dees. Music

will be provided by the Orange Coast College Wind Ensemble, directed

by Dana Wheaton, and OCC soloists, under the direction of Dr. Ricardo

Soto.

A reception for all graduates and certificate recipients, their

friends and family, will be held at the amphitheater following the

ceremony.

ADDITIONS TO SUMMER SCHEDULE

Nearly two-dozen courses have been added to OCC’s summer schedule.

The new classes are posted on the college’s website

(www.orangecoastcollege.edu). The courses are not included in the

college’s printed schedule.

OCC’s four-, six- and eight-week summer sessions begin on Monday,

June 20.

Courses that have been added to the summer menu include: cultural

anthropology (Anthropology 100), elementary astronomy laboratory

(Astronomy 100L), introductory chemistry (Chemistry 110),

fundamentals of composition (English 099), freshman composition

(English 100), critical reasoning, reading and writing through

literature (English 101), elementary algebra (Math 010), college

algebra (Math 130), introduction to U.S. government (Political

Science 180), introductory psychology (Psychology 100), introduction

to human sexuality (Psychology 165), analysis of social problems

(Sociology 185), elementary Spanish 1 (Spanish 180), elementary Spanish 2 (Spanish 185), interpersonal communication (Speech

Communications 100) and public speaking (Speech Communications 110).

OCC’s summer enrollment fees are $26 per unit for California

residents. The entire summer schedule is posted on the college’s

Internet web page. A printed version -- excluding the added classes

-- is available in the admissions and records office.

Telephone registration is under way. Applications are available

online and in the admissions office. For registration information,

phone (714) 432-5072.

FAMED YACHT ADDED TO FLEET

Kialoa III, the legendary 80-foot maxi yacht that dominated

offshore racing in the 1970s, has been donated to Orange Coast

College by her owner, Jim Kilroy of Marina del Rey.

After 31 years of ownership, Kilroy has presented his aluminum

sloop to OCC’s School of Sailing and Seamanship.

Currently on her way to the West Coast from Uruguay, Kialoa III

will arrive at the college’s sailing center in Newport Beach in

mid-June.

Kialoa was designed by Sparkman & Stephens of New York City, and

built in 1974 by the Palmer Johnson shipyard in Wisconsin. In 1975,

Kialoa III established a record that stood for 21 years in the Sydney

to Hobart yacht race. She recorded numerous other victories in races

throughout the world.

Kialoa will join another Sparkman & Stephens classic in OCC’s

fleet, the 65-foot Alaska Eagle. Kialoa’s first voyages under the OCC

flag will be a series of trips to Catalina Island this summer. Longer

excursions are planned for the future.

FALL SCHEDULE NOW ONLINE

OCC’s fall 2005 class schedule is now posted online on the

college’s website. Fall semester classes begin on Monday, Aug. 29.

A printed version of the fall schedule will be available on campus

beginning Tuesday, June 28.

More than 2,400 different classes will be offered next fall.

Persons may apply for the semester in person or online. OCC’s

admissions and records office is open Monday through Thursday from 9

a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

* JIM CARNETT is senior director of community relations at Orange

Coast College. He writes On Campus at OCC biweekly. Reach him at

jcarnettocc.cccd.edu or by calling (714) 432-5725.