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Despite the astonishingly low amount of
snowfall in Southern California this year, it
was a more than adequate winter wonderland
for Cal State San Bernardino graphic
design student Amara Poolswasdi. Her design
was selected as the official logo of the 2007
Special Olympics Southern California Winter
Games.
Events at this year’s Winter Games ended
in early March in Big Bear. This marked the
10th anniversary of the Special Olympics
Southern California in Big Bear, the longest
consecutive-year event in the history of Bear
Mountain.
“Amara’s design captured the spirit of
Special Olympics athletes and our Winter
Games,” said Ruth Ruiz, director of communications
for Special Olympics Southern
California. “We used her design on all our
printed materials, as well as shirts, sweatshirts
and pins, so clearly her design was viewed by
hundreds. She is a true professional to work
with and I’m glad to have had the opportunity
to know her.”
A graphic design major from Hacienda
Heights, Poolswasdi has done freelance
design work for the City of Riverside
Department of Parks, Recreation and
Community Service and Suffice to Say. She
also traveled to Thailand in March to work
on a design project arranged through Cal
State San Bernardino. She took part in a collaborative
project, creating a brand identity
system for a Thai entrepreneurial incubation
program called Surin House Brands.
More than 250 Special Olympics athletes
and coaches from throughout Southern
California competed under banners featuring
Poolswasdi’s design on the slopes and snowpacked
courses during the three-day games.
They participated in events such as Alpine skiing,
cross country skiing, snowboarding and
snowshoeing. Special Olympics is the largest
sports organization in the world. In Southern
California, more than 10,000 children and
adults with intellectual disabilities participate
in year-round sports training and athletic
competition.
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Amara Poolswasdi
The man who has been called Kansas’ greatest living poet, B.H. “Pete” Fairchild, is one of
five recipients of the 2006-2007 Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award from the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas. Fairchild is a Cal State San Bernardino
English professor emeritus. The award is considered to be the highest honor bestowed by the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences upon its graduates.
Fairchild joins the Notre Dame provost, a NASA astronaut, a distinguished public administration
professor and the founder of a genomic company as this year’s winners.
“The Arrival of the Future” was Fairchild’s first full-length book of
poems. His third collection, “The Art of the Lathe” was a finalist for
the National Book Award and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the
William Carlos Williams Award, the California Book Award, the PEN
Center West Poetry Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award.
He received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his book “Early Occult
Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest.”
His poems have appeared in “Southern Review,” “Poetry,”
“Hudson Review,” “Yale Review,” “Paris Review,” “The New Yorker,”
“Sewanee Review” and “The Best American Poems of 2000.”
Pete Fairchild
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