SMC Graduating First Class of Special Ed Professionals

Responding to an enormous need for pre-school teachers and paraprofessionals with specialized skills in working with children with disabilities, SMC will graduate Tuesday its first class of students from a new program that provides such specialization. More >>

Recognition Breakfast to Honor Retirees, Employees with Longevity
SMC will honor 2002-03 retirees and employees with 25 years of service Wednesday at the annual SMC Recognition Breakfast.

The breakfast, sponsored by the Academic and Classified senates, will be held at 9 a.m. in the Student Cafeteria. Tickets are $4 and include continental breakfast.

Tickets can be purchased in advance through the Events Office, ext. 3000, or at the door.

Record 17 SMC Students Serving in Prestigious Summer Internships
A record 17 SMC students are serving in prestigious federal government and university internship programs this summer throughout the nation. More >>

SMC Newsmakers
War was the inspiration for a commissioned composition by an SMC music professor.
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Footnotes
(or musings from the editor)
A chemistry professor has a horse with a sixth sense. . .or it just horse sense?
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Trivia Contest

Jeff Caffrey in the Media Center won the second “SMC Trivia Contest,” becoming a two-time winner! Find out more >>

In Memoriam
Jim Cayton, a former member of the SMC Foundation Board and a longtime donor to the college, died May 24 at the age of 88. SMC’s Cayton Associated Students Center was named in his and his wife Lucille’s honor for their $100,000 donation for building the second floor of the center. In addition, the James and Lucille Cayton Award for Leadership is one of the largest scholarship endowments managed by the SMC Foundation.

Rae-Chelle Taylor, wife of SMC football coach Robert Taylor and a temporary SMC employee for more than twelve years, died May 24 at the age of 44. She had been employed in both the SMC Bookstore and Admissions Office.