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CLASS ACTS “Without scholarships, I would not be in college — end of story.” - emancipated foster youth Kassy Peterson, explaining the impact of scholarship support. Scholarships Change Lives Less than 3 percent of emancipated foster youth graduate from college. Donor support helped Kassy beat the odds. After graduation in June, Kassy’s joining Teach America, where she’ll share the value of her education with inner city youth. 32 | UCR Spring 2013 Change lives! Make a gift today to the UCR Foundation using the envelope included in this issue, or online at www.ucr.edu/giving. Use code 13AFMAG03. Make a difference. Make a gift. Fairness Advisory Committee, Benjamin Aranda III, honors a trial judge or an appellate justice whose activities demonstrate a long-term commitment to improving access to justice. He was recognized for establishing a collaborative relationship with court and consulate officials from Mexico to better serve the legal needs of his community, and for being a leader in court reform efforts and working to improve access to justice for all Imperial County residents. Through the Imperial County Blue Ribbon Commission, Juan used international collaboration to improve the services to binational families in the juvenile and family court systems. They worked with the state government of Baja California, the family court and court-appointed counsel, the university and the Mexican government to remove jurisdictional and informational barriers and resolve cases. Juan has also participated in the Judicial Council’s California Tribal Court/ State Court Forum working group with Claudette White, chief judge of the Quechan tribal court, to establish protocols for coordinating, transferring and monitoring cases that involve Quechan families in Imperial County. The Judicial Council, the State Bar, and the California Judges Association co-sponsor the award in association with the California Commission on Access to Justice. ’74 Michael Bartee, coach at Riverside North High School, recently became one of only 26 coaches in California to mark 600 basketball game victories. Michael came back to coaching after retiring in 2011. He began his coaching career in 1973, first as a freshman coach and then as a junior varsity boys basketball coach, before accepting his first teaching position at Perris Valley Junior High School. ’75 John Samson was the construction coordinator for this year’s Academy Award-winning Best Picture “Argo.” John has worked as a construction coordinator for movies such as “The Hangover” (I & II), “The Back-up Plan,” “Spider-Man 3,” “Just Married,” “Stuart Little” and “Iron Man 3.” … Yolanda Moses received the Frederick Douglass Medal from the Institute for African and African-American Studies at the University of Rochester. This medal is the highest award given by the university for work pertaining to matters of diversity. She dedicated three years to the exhibit, “RACE: Are We So Different?” seeking to understand the rationalizations that support racial discrimination in the United States and abroad. ’79 Marshall Johnson, UCR Extension specialist, entomologist and lecturer, has received the Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award from the International Organization for Biological Control — Nearctic Regional Section. Only one individual is recognized annually for the award. Nominees must have spent most of their career in the Nearctic Region, which encompasses the United States and Canada, and have made significant contributions to the area of biological control. In his research he has explained the relationships between economically important pests and their natural enemies, and used this information to enhance biological control, thereby improving pest control and reducing reliance on insecticides. He has also been a leading contributor to understanding and mitigating negative effects of pesticides on pest control, including pesticide resistance, pest resurgence and secondary pest outbreaks. His many awards and honors include being named a fellow of both the Entomological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a recipient of the C.W. Woodworth Award from the Pacific Branch of the
Entomological Society of America and the Entomological Society of America Recognition Award for Contributions to Agriculture. 80s ’84 Darren Johnson serves as the chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at the University of Kentucky and the head orthopedic surgeon for UK Athletics. He was named the 2012-13 Southeastern Conference Team Physician of the Year by the Southeastern Conference (SEC) member institution athletic training staff, as announced by the Southern Orthopedic Association (SOA). He will be honored at the 2013 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament when the SOA has its annual meeting at the 2013 SEC Sports Medicine Committee Meeting in Opelika, Ala. ’84 (M.A.) Kevin Enns-Rempel was recently appointed director of the Hiebert Library at Fresno Pacific University. After completing his degree at UCR in the program for historic resources management, Kevin has served as the Fresno Pacific University archivist for more than 25 years. ’86 Froukje Schaafsma-Smith is an artist and arts educator with more than 20 years of experience. Recently, her work was on display at the Walter’s Mercedes-Benz showroom at the Riverside Auto Center. Her autobiographical art has been featured in one-person and group exhibitions and is in the public collections of UCR and UCLA. She received the Curatorial Award, Members’ Art Exhibition 2012, Riverside Art Museum and The Fred Bird Memorial Award, Artist Council Exhibition 2011 and Palm Springs Art Museum awards. TAKE FIVE gh Darlene Tyler B.A. MUSIC, ‘82 Darlene is a nurse practitioner who works for the Riverside County Regional Medical Center. As the sole provider for the Riverside County Mobile Health Clinic, she covers 11 sites — from downtown Riverside to Mecca in the Coachella Valley to Temecula — providing basic health care and chronic disease treatment. “[Our clients] may be U.S. citizens or they may be undocumented; our care is given for free to people who don’t have access to health care in any other capacity,” she explains. gh 1 2 3 4 5 How did you end up working with the medically underserved in the Inland region? Was it something you always wanted to do? It was just a real fluke. In 2003 I got a part-time job as a nurse practitioner with the UCLA School of Nursing Health Center in downtown Los Angeles, where we provided health care to uninsured, homeless and indigent people. It was a really good learning experience for me; eight years later, due to reorganization, I left my position with UCLA and began looking for a similar position closer to home. I got an invitation from Riverside County. I put in an application and they called me and said, “We’d like to interview you for our Mobile Health Clinic.” So here I am, again, doing what I love, which is providing health care to people who don’t have any health care access. But you graduated with a bachelor’s in music. That’s quite a leap — from music into medical sciences! My first bachelor’s degree was in respiratory therapy before I was given the opportunity to study music at UCR. My third bachelor’s degree, from Cal State San Bernardino, was in nursing, and I have a master’s degree in nursing from Loma Linda University, a postmaster’s nurse practitioner credential from Azusa Pacific University, and my doctorate in nursing is from UCLA. I have gone to graduation too many times! What was it about higher education that attracted you so much? I started [my career] as a respiratory therapist and when I got my bachelor’s, I wanted to go back to school to do what I really loved doing — playing the cello. I knew I couldn’t make a living playing music, which is why I was a respiratory therapist. But I still wanted to study music. After I got my degree at UCR, I decided that medical school was a good avenue because I like science and I like technology. I was doing all my prerequisites for medicine when I was offered a spot at the [then] brand-new nursing program at Cal State San Bernardino. As soon as I got done, I was told that I was so good with working with the patients that I really needed to be a nurse practitioner so that I could use all of my science and technology courses. I went into the nurse practitioner program and that’s how I ended up at UCLA. In my first interview for the position, my boss asked, “Do you have a Ph.D.?” And his second question was, “Do you want one?” He said we needed more people who are nurse practitioners who have Ph.D.s., who are able to do research but also have a clinical background working with patients. … Yes, I have a lot of degrees, but they have built one skill on top of another. What kind of advice would you have for people who don’t know what to do with their lives right after graduating from university? I think it’s important for people to find out what they are passionate about. And when they find that out, to follow that passion as far as it will take them. What’s the best part of your job? Being a nurse practitioner allows me to do patient counseling and treat patients as human beings, holistically, with names and stories, with a past, present and a future. That’s the nursing aspect that I really like. And I get to impact that! The staff of the Mobile Health Clinic goes out daily with a 40foot mobile home, loaded up with our medicine and charts and equipment. Once we park at our site, we just open the door and the clinic is open. I can change people’s futures. Wherever we go, the whole community comes in and they can get treatment. In a typical day, we get into a van, we go some place, we do our thing and we come home. And every day is different because we’re at a different place every day. Riverside County is the fourth-largest county in California. And we cover all 7,000 square miles. UCR Spring 2013 | 33 CLASS ACTS
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