Jan’s Beaulyn's
Retirement Bash

Jan Beaulyn is retiring after 32 years of service. There will be a retirement party on Tuesday, May 15, 2:30-4:30 p.m., in the Art Gallery. All are invited.

Letter to SSU colleagues and friends: After 32 years at the university, I will retire this summer. Over the years I have made great friends and colleagues on our campus, in the CSU, across the US and in foreign countries, which is part of the lure of International Education. Sonoma is my alma mater, and the workplace where I spent my 30-year career. In some sense I have grown up alongside the campus. I attended here as an undergraduate in the '70's and worked in many capacities as a student, including the Commons, Plant Operations (the name for what we now call Facilities) and more. I worked for six great years in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, followed by two years in the Advising and Counseling Center. Then in 1983 when an office of International Services was created, I joined that team and never looked back.

I will certainly miss wonderful colleagues, and perhaps most, the students who are an inspiration and have made my work life exciting, challenging and very rewarding. Educating and supporting students, who take the risk of studying in a new environment and know the value of broadening their outlook, whether international students studying here at SSU or American students choosing to spend a year in another part of the US or overseas, has been the defining work of my life and I have just loved it. It is hard to say goodbye, for as you can see, I am a very rooted person, but it is time for me to make this change.

Over the past few years I earned my MA degree in Counseling and am completing the clinical hours for a Marriage and Family Therapy license. I am motivated by this second career, and by more time for family, friends and self. I will be on-campus through May and in and out throughout June. And for those who may wish to have it here is my new home email address - jan.beaulyn@gmail.com.

Fondly and with great memories,
Jan Beaulyn

Connie Lewsadder Says Goodbye

A retirement tea for Connie Lewsadder, who has worked at SSU since 1987 and was a Staff Excellence Award Winner in 2006, will be held on Wednesday, May 16, 3:30-5:30 p.m., in the University Club. All are invited. Lewsadder is retiring to Oregon with her husband Bruce and will continue her well-known baking enterprise, Czarina Breads, which has won many awards at Sonoma County fairs.

Dear Campus Community,

I have never regretted making a career at Sonoma State University. I felt privileged to work in such a beautiful environment and be surrounded by various degrees of education. I shall miss my beloved Sonoma State University and I hope in some small way I did make a difference to those that I served. I have always been proud to have served and been employed as a staff member and would have not wanted it any other way. I started out at SSU as a student assistant in 1987. In 1989, I took my first staff job in Admissions and Records and was there for a year. Since then I worked in various departments in the School of Social Sciences until I landed my current job as assistant to Dean Elaine Leeder. I am also proud to have received my B.A. in History in 1992. The staff are the 'nuts and bolts' of the University and I am glad I was a part of the machinery that makes the campus run in service to our students.

My very best to all of you on campus,
Connie Lewsadder