Glendale Community

Sandra Kraisirideja, People GLENDALE -- Glendale Community College Alumni Assn. will honor three individuals for their service to the school and community at the 14th annual Alumni Awards Banquet Thursday. "The recipients were unanimously chosen by the Community College Alumni Board for their conscientious efforts and support of the alumni association," said Glady Kabateck, director of the association. Carole Jouroyan of Glendale has been involved in community organizations for 20 years.

Brown -- Ortiz Debra D. Brown, the daughter of Virginia Brown of Burbank, and Ryan G. Ortiz, the son of Sergio and Yolanda Ortiz of Glendale, have announced their engagement. The bride-to-be graduated from Bellarmine-Jefferson High School in 1994 and received her associate in arts degree in interior design from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in 1996. She is a designer and space planner for Trendway Corp. in downtown Los Angeles.

Mariel D. Lesaca, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Edward Lesaca of Glendale, has been awarded dean's honors by Glendale Community College for superior academic achievement and outstanding scholastic record for the fall semester. After finishing her Associate in Arts degree at GCC, she plans to obtain her bachelor's degree in psychology at UCLA. Courtney Glaser, the daughter of Gregory and Deidre Glaser of Burbank, was named to the dean's list at the University of Redlands.

Mirjam Swanson GLENDALE -- When the best of the best former Glendale Community College athletes gathered for a celebration, it was no surprise that Cathy Ferguson was among them. About 200 supporters were on hand Sunday as Ferguson, a Burbank High graduate, Donna Mayhew, Carl Boldt, J. Walter Smith, Chuck Gibson and the 1985 Vaquero football team were the first class inducted into the Glendale Community College Athletic Hall of Fame at the J.W. Smith Student Center on the GCC campus.

Mary Mallory, Enjoy! GLENDALE -- Life revolves around finding one's place in society, struggling to overcome sexual, political and class distinctions. Nowhere are these issues of power and control more evident than in male/female relationships. Glendale Community College Theatre Arts Department's entertaining "Miss Julie" underscores these dilemmas in a thought-provoking, challenging production revolving around a sexual liaison between members of different social classes.

Touches every human emotion Leslie Thurston of Burbank is an actress and substitute teacher. It would be pointless to say anything critical about "John Q.," so, I won't. Everyone should see this film and bring the hankies. However, you won't need them as much as you think. Surprisingly, there is humor throughout this film, especially from the talented Eddie Griffin. Rest assured, Denzel Washington doesn't disappoint, either. Yet, it is the comedic element that gives the story emotional balance and sense of reality.

The Kiwanis Club of Glendale is coordinating talent for its third annual Glendale Jazz Festival on June 28 at Glendale Community College, 1500 N. Verdugo Road. Nineteen bands are scheduled to perform on six stages under the theme "A World of Jazz." The festival is from noon to 11 p.m. A rich mixture of well-balanced jazz sounds is planned from smooth and blues, straight-ahead and Latin, traditional Dixieland and popular 1940s and 1950s swing bands, organizers said.

George and Anne Marie Novinger Former Glendale residents George and Anne Marie Novinger of Tehachapi recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a weeklong family beach party at Cayucos, a 1950s beach town on the central coast of California. With lots of body-surfing, games, slide shows and delicious food, there were few complaints from their children and grandchildren. A Novinger Trivial Pursuit Game was played and won by daughter Mary, while many of the family slept through it. Traveling the furthest were son, Tom and family from Vienna, Va. The most enthusiastic body-surfers were daughter Barbara and granddaughter Marie.

Kristine Franks of Glendale was named to the spring dean's list at Azusa Pacific University. The daughter of Robert and Kristine Franks, Kristine is a liberal arts major. She is a graduate of Crescenta Valley High School. Arsineh Davidian, Kysstina Janacua, Heather Ojeda, Heather Rivers and Tayne Yoon, all members of Glendale's Performing Arts Studio dance company, placed third in the annual Summer Festival dance competition sponsored by Radio Korea in July.

Providence High School?s Drama Department presents ?Godspell? at 7:30 p.m. today and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the auditorium, 511 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank. Performances continue at 7:30 March 15 and 2:30 p.m. March 16. Tickets are $15, $10 students, and $5 children under 8, seniors age 55 and older and special needs audience. For more information, call (818) 846-8141, Ext. 408. ? A Noise Within presents William Shakespeare?s ?Henry IV, Part I? opening at 8 p.m. tonight at the theater, 234 S. Brand Blvd.

GLENDALE — An impressive year warranted quite a few awards for the Glendale Community College football team as was recently announced by the American Conference Pacific Division. The Vaqueros, who finished tied for third in the division with a 6-4 overall mark, merited four first-team and seven second-team selections in posting the program's first winning season since 2006. "Honestly, I thought we deserved a few more picks," Vaqueros sixth-year Coach John Rome said. "But I'm happy with what we received.

SOUTHEAST GLENDALE — Five yards away from a potential game-tying touchdown, the Glendale Community College football team may have fumbled away its best chance of winning this season. A botched exchange between third-string quarterback Anthony Carter and running back Joe Wiggan at the five-yard line was recovered by Los Angeles Pierce College with a little over a minute left and preserved a Brahmas' 28-20 Pacific Conference American Division win Saturday night at Sartoris Field.

GLENDALE — Much like the program itself, the 2011 Glendale Community College men's golf team has become better and better as the season has progressed. It's a huge factor as to why the Vaqueros are set to make their inaugural appearance in the state championship, which will be held at 8 a.m. Monday at Kings Country Club in Hanford. "We have a good lineup and we have some experienced players," said Glendale college men's Coach Greg Osbourne, whose team finished second at the Southern California Regionals on Monday at Bermuda Dunes Country Club and will be one of eight squads competing for state prominence.

Organizers hope to raise awareness of how people can save lives through donating their bone marrow during the fourth annual Walk of Life today at Verdugo Park in Glendale. The event is organized by the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, which was founded 10 years ago and is a nonprofit organization that recruits matched, unrelated donors for bone marrow transplantations. The organization maintains a registry and data bank of information about donors and matches them with transplant recipients.

GLENDALE — This year’s Glendale Community College baseball team will feature some intriguing freshman talent, as well as some sophomore holdovers returning for their second year at Stengel Field. But for Coach Chris Cicuto, much of the heart and soul and, ultimately, the success of the Vaqueros will rest on their core of third-year players. Infielders Danny Casey from Bellarmine-Jefferson High, Burroughs’ Miguel Alvarez, outfielders Brian Ward and Chris Arredondo and pitcher Tony Banuelos, Jr. — another former Indian — all of whom have redshirted a year during their stint at Glendale college, are back for their final year of eligibility and all will be asked, to varying degrees, to take a leading role in the clubhouse and on the field.

GLENDALE — The six quarterbacks and three wide receivers who came out to Glendale Community College on Saturday morning for the Fusion Football Camp comprised a class that was admittedly smaller than what directors Bob Gagliano and Burbank resident Chris Thomas were hoping for, if not expecting. That didn’t stop the two retired NFL veterans from giving their full attention, energy and knowledge to a handful of the area’s aspiring football standouts who came out to participate in an offshoot of the five-month football clinic developed by Gagliano and Thomas that is quickly gaining notoriety for its unique methods and tangible results.

GLENDALE — To say Jeff Nelson’s distance-running exploits will live on in area lore would be an understatement. They already do, but if there was any doubt, it will be subsided in the next eight months. For the second time, Nelson will find his way into the Glendale Community College Athletic Hall of Fame. The honor will come seven months removed from him being enshrined into the Burbank High Hall of Fame as part of its first-ever class. For Nelson, a cross-country standout, he will be inducted into the GCC Hall for Outstanding Athletic Achievement, two years removed from getting inducted as part of the state-champion 1980 cross-country squad.

Students were free to choose the styles and concepts without being tied down to a particular theme for this year’s Annual Student Art Show at Glendale Community College. That diversity is what makes this show a standout, said Roger Dickes, gallery director. “The work is very diverse and the show doesn’t have a theme,” Dickes said. “There are so may different approaches that students engage with.” The show also provides an opportunity for prospective art students to learn about the art courses that are available to them, Dickes said.

Providence High School?s Drama Department presents ?Godspell? at 7:30 p.m. today and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the auditorium, 511 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank. Performances continue at 7:30 March 15 and 2:30 p.m. March 16. Tickets are $15, $10 students, and $5 children under 8, seniors age 55 and older and special needs audience. For more information, call (818) 846-8141, Ext. 408. ? A Noise Within presents William Shakespeare?s ?Henry IV, Part I? opening at 8 p.m. tonight at the theater, 234 S. Brand Blvd.