After graduating high school, Jason Freudenrich went to work building boats at a factory in Minnesota. He spent the rest of the time partying. “I was going nowhere in life,” he said. So at the age of 19, he talked to a Marine Corps recruiter and two weeks later was in boot camp.
Month: April 2007
Me, myself and “Y”?
While observing fellow classmates at Pierce you might see signs of a narcissistic Generation Y on the bound. The student looking intently at themselves in their car door and then through every reflection they cast on doors and windows on their way to class, the flood of MySpace and YouTube practically anywhere the Internet is accessible on campus, and the occasional student that seems to speak in class only to hear his or her own voice.
Tattered Braille Trail unseen to all
It’s clear so one can walk through it but the promised aromas of Primrose Jasmine and Lemon Scented Gum have been over shadowed by the scent of dead leaves. Now all that fills it are several types of lifeless plants and dry shrub. The Giant Sequoia is now an undersized dehydrated tree and the Birds of Paradise are singing for water.
A life remembered…
An informal memorial for Bert Sanchez will take place Monday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Building’s Mainstage. Sanchez, who taught at Pierce College for 11 years, died Friday, March 9 at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks.