Adjunct cinema professor Paris Poirier’s award winning documentary, Last Call at Maud’s, will be aired at 11 p.m. Saturday, June 28 on KCET, the Los Angeles PBS station. Among other honors, Maud’s was named Outstanding Documentary Feature of 1993 by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Sherri Bradford, lead counselor for the Black Collegians program, and student James Hoon Lee, founder of the SMC Asian/Pacific Islander Student Association, were named winners of the Associated Students Recognition Awards for May. The awards were announced by Student Trustee Allison Sandera. The awards are given to students, faculty members and classified employees who have made outstanding contributions to the college or have inspired students or changed lives. Nominations come from throughout the campus.

Emerita Felix, academic affairs department secretary, is a grandmother for the third time with the birth April 28 in Santa Monica of Spencer Andrew Felix. The parents are Emerita’s son Peter Felix and wife Heather.

Peter Hanks, son of SMC Foundation accountant Suzie Hanks, will receive his doctorate in the Philosophy of Language from the University of California, Berkeley, on Saturday (May 17). He has accepted a position as assistant professor in the philosophy department at the University of Minnesota and he has authored an article that will appear in the philosophy journal Nous.

Adam Philipson, special projects coordinator for the Madison Site Theater, received one of just two available scholarships statewide to attend the annual Classified Leadership Institute in June in Lake Tahoe sponsored by the California Community Colleges Classified Senate and Community College League of California.

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