The twelfth annual Sonoma State University Distinguished Alumni Banquet is slated for Thursday, October 14, 6:30 p.m., at the Doubletree Hotel, Rohnert Park. The ticket price is $30 general admission and $20 for students. The event is open to the public.
Sponsored by the SSU Alumni Association, the dinner, in conjunction with a full day of on-campus activities, recognizes the outstanding professional achievements of SSU alumni. Awards will be presented at the banquet. For reservations call the Alumni Relations Office, 707 664-2426. The 1999 Distinguished Alumni are:
Jeffrey Arnold
Cynthia Dusel-Bacon
Amy Glasmeier
Vince Harper
Carole Migden
Jeffrey Arnold received a B.A. in Studio Art at Sonoma State University in 1980 and an M.D. from Stanford University in 1988. During medical school, Arnold was encouraged to pursue a career in emergency medicine. From 1988-1991, he completed residence training in emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Arnold has been an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles since 1991, where he serves on the Trauma Performance Improvement and Emergency Disaster Preparedness committees.
In 1994 he began visiting South Korea to develop emergency medicine. Since then he has visited approximately 30 times and lectured on emergency medicine at hospitals an universities throughout the country. Today he teaches primarily at Kang Dong Sacred Heart Hospital in Seoul and serves as associate professor of emergency medicine at Halym School of Medicine.
Arnold is managing editor of the first internet textbook of emergency medicine and has contributed chapters on various topics. He is also co-editor for the international section of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine and has published several academic papers on international emergency medicine.
Currently, Arnold serves as assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center. He continues to work in the emergency department at Cedars-Sinai, teaching paramedics, nurses and resident physicians from a variety of medical specialties.
Cynthia Dusel-Bacon earned a B.A. in Spanish from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1968, a Secondary teaching Credential from San Jose State University in 1969, and spent the next two and a half years teaching Spanish at Healdsburg and Windsor Junior High Schools. In 1972, Dusel-Bacon returned to school at Sonoma State University to pursue her true passion of geology. She completed her degree in 1975 at San Jose State University.
Following her graduation, Dusel-Bacon joined the U.S. Geological Survey's branch of Alaskan geology and pursued her graduate work part time. In 1977, during her third field season in Alaska, she was severely mauled during an hour long attack by a black bear, nearly costing her life. The attack resulted in the loss of one arm at the shoulder and the other halfway between her shoulder and elbow. In the 22 years since her accident, Dusel-Bacon has published her studies of metamorphic rocks from throughout Alaska in four USGS Professional Papers and a chapter in the Alaska volume of the Decade of North American Geology series. In addition to her USGS work, she recently completed a six year term as an associate Editor of the Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Dusel-Bacon has received several awards from the USGS for her scientific achievements, and was selected by the U.S. Government as one of 10 Outstanding Handicapped Federal Employees for 1981.
Dusel-Bacon has taken an active role as a mentor to girls and disabled students interested in earth science careers. She lives with her husband and son in Menlo Park.
Amy Glasmeier received her B.A. in 1978 in environmental studies and planning at Sonoma State University. Glasmeier was the first student representative to take a seat on SSU's Board of Trustees in the early 70s. Glasmeier entered the graduate program in City and Regional Planning at U.C. Berkeley, earning her Ph.D. in 1985. Her master's thesis of the MX Missile project helped citizens of the Great Basin area successfully defeat the project.
She went on to teach at Pennsylvania State University and in 1981 moved to Texas and taught at the University of Texas for five years. In 1991 Glasmeier traveled to Washington, D.C. to take a research post at the Aspen Institute to study and write about the development effects of economic globalization and the then-pending North American Free Trade Agreement. In 1992 Glasmeier returned to Penn State as a professor of geography. Based on her work on regional development, Glasmeier was appointed the John D. Whisman Appalachian Scholar, working closely with the Appalachian Regional Commission. Her research on Appalachia has been widely cited.
She has published three books and numerous articles on regional development. Her soon to be published book, From Keeping Time to Keeping Pace, is a historical account of the world watch industry. She currently works with several federal agencies in constructing policies to alleviate poverty and uneven economic opportunity.
Vince Harper came to Sonoma State University from central California pursuing his interests as a student athlete. He graduated from SSU in 1989 with a B.A. in management and explored working with youth as a volunteer at a local youth center in Santa Rosa. This was his first step in committing to working with at-risk children and teens.
Harper has been involved in the development of youth programming in Santa Rosa since he began working with Sonoma County People for Economic Opportunity. His interest has been to engage neighborhood youth at the South Park Youth Center providing positive alternatives to gangs, violence, drugs and alcohol. Harper has also been instrumental in developing and implementing a series of workshops designed for delivery in the 5th and 6th grade levels. These workshops are now being offered in eight elementary schools in Santa Rosa, reaching approximately 500 students.
Currently, Harper works as interim director of youth services overseeing two youth centers and tutoring centers. He continues development and implementation of classroom workshop series, coordination of the Sonoma County Mentoring Partnership, Alcohol Prevention Network and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Collaboration. He is also a former member of the Spectrum Educational Therapy Board of Directors.
Carole Migden received her M.A. in clinical psychology from Sonoma State University in 1978. She currently represents the 13th District in the California State Assembly, which includes most of the city and county of San Francisco.
Migden served five years on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors beginning in November, 1990 before moving to the Assembly. While on the Board, she served on the San Francisco Transportation Authority and the Golden Gate Bridge Authority. She served as chair for eight years of the San Francisco Democratic Party and was a delegate to three Democratic National Conventions.
During her first term in Assembly, Migden initiated a broad array of legislation, including efforts to strengthen breast cancer treatments, allowing persons with disabilities to return to work without losing Medi-Cal coverage, and to extend health care benefits to domestic partners of private sector employees. She was also instrumental in moving the new Giants baseball stadium plan forward and garnered $2 billion for the Bay Bridge retrofit.
Among other measures, Migden planned provisions of $230 million in funds to help counties build and remodel juvenile detention facilities and $210 million to close a deal to acquire 7,500 acres from Pacific Lumber as part of a Headwaters preservation plan.
She also chaired the special committee on Welfare Reform Task Force on the Safety Net and is a member of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and Natural Resources Committee. Currently she is chair of the Assembly Committee of Appropriations.
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