Rabobank Gift to The Hancock Promise

Endowment: It was announced at a recent press

conference that the college had received the largest

cultivated gift in college history, a $1 million donation

by Rabobank to The Hancock Promise Endowment

Fund. More than 100 people turned out, including

several elected officials and representatives from the

offices of U.S. Congressman Salud Carbajal,

Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham and

Assemblymember Monique Limon. The event

received coverage from KSBY, KCOY, KEYT,

Telemundo, The Santa Maria Times and Pacific Coast

Business Times.

LVC Launch to College: Our counseling staff hosted

90 Lompoc High School students at the Lompoc

Valley Center earlier this month as part of our annual

Launch to College event. Student ambassadors and

counselors greeted our future Bulldogs, who were

excited about all of the support they are receiving at

AHC. One student told Dean Teniente-Cuello, "I can't

wait to start because everyone cares here." The high

schoolers have officially become Promise students

and have completed their online orientation and first

year plans. The students also received information on

financial aid and the zero textbook cost degree

program.

The Lompoc High School students also heard

directly from their peers in a video produced by

Hancock counselor Antonio Ramirez and public

information specialist Jessica Sheaff. The video

focuses on services available at the LVC. Click

here to view the video.

New Mural Dedicated: During a

brief ceremony, the college’s Art

on Campus Committee dedicated

a new mural outside of the

library. Created by Cheryl Clark,

Captured depicts that moment

people realize they are forgoing

all plans in the near future until

they finish their book. The mural

is the latest student mural

installed on campus under the

direction of the committee.

Additional artwork by faculty and

students will be installed at the

Santa Maria campus and Lompoc

Valley Center in the coming

months.

The model in the mural is Clark’s

daughter, Hailey, an artist herself,

who will be a part of the inaugural

class of the The Hancock

Promise in the fall.

Love Your Club is back! You might recall

the launching of our inaugural Love Your Club

campaign last year. The effort was a success,

bringing in more than 190 gifts – many of

those being first time donors – which raised

more than $15,000!

Five student clubs are highlighted during this

year’s campaign, including Drama Club,

Jazz/Pep Band Club, Alpha Gamma Sigma

(AGS) Honor Society, American Institute of

Architecture Students (AIAS), and the Dream

Club. As you'll see, our student leaders have

put a great deal of work and thought into their

videos and ideas. Once again, these are their

ideas, their projects.

While we are encouraging you to show love for a club with a donation, we hope you will also share the love by being socially (media) active. Please share on Facebook, tweet about Love Your Club, and ask others to be a part of these worthwhile causes. The key to success for this campaign is to spread the information as far and wide as possible.

The Love Your Club campaign runs now through Apr. 9. For more details, visit https://crowdfunding.hancockcollege.edu/

Y.E.L.L. Conference: Nearly 500

seniors from district high schools

attended the annual Y.E.L.L. (Young

Educated LatinX Leaders) Conference

on March 2. The goal of the event was

to empower and inspire our youth, as

well as inform them about The

Hancock Promise and the college’s

programs and services. Trustee

President Hilda Zacarías, Associate

Superintendent/Vice President

Nohemy Ornelas, and ASBG President Janet Cruz-Reyes spoke inside the Marian Theatre.

UCSB professor and author Victor Rios, who studies the interactions of youth and authority

figures, as well as popular comic Ernie G were the keynote speakers. College staff and faculty

also planned 15 workshops for students on topics that included self-empowerment, The

Hancock Promise, and careers in nursing.

Academy Award-nominated director visits

Hancock: Allan Hancock College’s film and video

program hosted Academy Award-nominated director

Feras Fayyad last week. Fayyad discussed his

award-winning documentary Last Men in Aleppo. The

film follows the efforts of the White Helmets during

the Syrian Civil War. The organization consists of

ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards

military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives. Faculty Tim Webb organized the visit

after he met Fayyad last year at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

No debate about it:

Students in Allan Hancock

College’s new Spanish

debate team earned first

and second place during a

Spanish debate competition,

called Los Legados de

Valladolid, hosted by Cal

Poly, San Luis Obispo last

week. The competition

featured three teams of

Hancock students and three

teams from Cal Poly. Two

Hancock teams advanced to the finals, where Adilene Rojas and Elisa Velasco defeated

Jennifer Camacho Tiburcio and Erick Ramirez Medina. Spanish faculty Claudia Díaz and Ana

Gómez de Torres, Ed.D. are the Spanish debate team coaches. The club started in fall 2017.

Who says college students

are sleepyheads? On Feb.

24, at 6:30 a.m., 15 AHC

Alpha Gamma Sigma (AGS)

honor students and advisors,

led by event chair and AGS

officer David Gonzalez,

assembled at the Good

Samaritan shelter.

After shopping the day

before to buy the groceries

to feed 100, the team begin

preparing a nourishing

breakfast of sausage, eggs,

pancakes, potatoes, fruit,

juice, and coffee.

Breakfast began at 7:30

a.m., when local men,

women, and children in need were seated and served a fine morning meal with a smile by local

honor students. An attendee mentioned to one of the students that it was heartwarming being

served by the students. “It brightened my day to see the happy faces of those we served,” said

AGH member Donna Laredo. “Being a part of this event has helped me gain confidence and be

more grateful for what I have.”

This school year, the honor students committed to fundraising to buy groceries for four meals at

$250 each for local homeless individuals and are participating in the “Love Your Club”

crowdfunding effort. See the students at work, be inspired, and view the video at

crowdfunding.hancockcollege.edu.

Fake News Forum: An estimated 300

people filled the Marian Theatre February

20 for the Fake News Forum co-

sponsored by the college, the League of

Women Voters, Fund for Santa Barbara

and the Santa Maria Times. Faculty Kellye

Cohn and Kate Adams represented the

college on the five-person panel that also

included Marga Cooley of the Santa Maria

Times, Hugo Morales, founder of Radio

Bilingüe, and Jerry Roberts of the Santa

Barbara News-Press. Click here to read

an article about the event.

PCPA presents a loving tribute and modern cautionary tale dedicated to the people and

machines upon which we all depend in The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, playing

now through Mar. 25 in the Severson Theatre. Madeleine George’s witty, time-jumping play

spins in the orbit of four Watsons: Watson the trusty sidekick to Sherlock Holmes; Watson the

loyal engineer who built Bell’s first telephone; Watson the unstoppable super-computer, and

Watson, the amiable techno-dweeb who in the present day is just looking for love.

Fine Arts Faculty Art

Exhibit open in Ann

Foxworthy Gallery: The

creative work of the

college’s fine arts faculty

is on display through April

12 in the Ann Foxworthy

Gallery on the Santa

Maria campus.

The Fine Arts Faculty Art

Show features a broad

range of media including

drawing, mixed media,

acrylics, oils, digital art,

ceramics, metal, wood

and photography. A

celebratory reception for the artists will take place Wednesday, March 28, from 2-4 p.m. in the

gallery.

More than 60

noncredit basic

skills and credit

students came to

the first ever Math

Mardi Gras on

Thursday, March 8.

The event was in G-

106 in the Student

Center. Basic skills instructors Tino

Aleman and Kat Beckelhymer organized

the event with the assistance of Debra

Strance and Mary Alice Majoue.

Aleman’s students lead math games to

help other students build confidence,

problem solve and collaborate with other

students. Games included math puzzles,

bottle rocket launching, rapid-fire addition

and subtraction card games, and a team

competition to solve word problems. The

instructors hope to make Math Mardi Gras

an annual community event.

Season to

Remember:

The Hancock

men’s

basketball team

advanced to

the State

Championship

Tournament for

the first time

since 1974.

Hancock fell

86-63 to City

College of San

Francisco in the

Elite Eight. City College went on to win the state championship two days later. The Bulldogs,

under the leadership of fifth-year Head Coach Tyson Aye, finished the season 23-10 overall.

They racked up some impressive accomplishments along the way: most wins in a single-season

since 2001; first playoff win since 2001; first regional finals appearance since 1990; and first

state tournament game since 1974. Hancock's postseason included a first-round bye, an

overtime win at No. 7 Fullerton and a double-overtime win at No. 2 San Bernardino.

All-State Recognition: After leading the

Allan Hancock College men's basketball

team to its deepest postseason run in 44

years, sophomore guard Shane Carney

earned a spot on the California

Community College Men's Basketball

Coaches Association's (CCCMBCA)

2017-18 All-State Team. Carney was one

of 27 players honored by the coaches'

association with all-state honors this

season. He is the first Bulldog to earn the

all-state distinction since Ali Langford

during the 2010-11 season. He led the

team in scoring with 17.5 points and 5.2

assists per game.

Dynamic Duo: Two more Hancock

football players earned opportunities to

play at the four-year level. Linebackers

Basiru Jobe and JD Smith signed with

East Central University, a Division II

program in Oklahoma. Jobe ranked

fourth in the state in tackles last fall for

the conference champion Bulldogs, and

he earned all-conference and all-state

recognition. The two bring the total

number of student-athletes from the

2017 football team to sign with four-year

universities to five with many more to

come.

Football Scholar-Athletes: Seven Hancock football players qualified for the 2017 Southern

California Football Association (SCFA) Scholar-Athlete Team. To be eligible, student-athletes

had to play for two seasons, have a cumulative 3.0 GPA and complete at least 36 units, 27 of

which had to be in non-sport activity classes. Our seven include Dominic Chance (4.0), Taupule

Asotau (3.16), Benjamin Willkomm (3.51), Nick Kimball (3.16), Lenny Roundtree, Jr. (3.09),

Lesone Smith (3.01) and Kevin Stark (3.20). All seven are expected to land scholarships to play

football at four-year universities. Two of them, Dominic Chance and Taupule Asotau already

signed with Western State Colorado University.

Record-Breaking Performance: Freshman Haleigh Batty broke a school record set back in

1994 during the Bakersfield Relays track

and field meet last weekend. The

Cabrillo High School graduate cleared

five feet, 1.75 inches to win the women’s

high jump event. She broke the program

record of 5-1 set in 1994. Batty also won

the women’s high jump event by

clearing 18-1. In five meets this season,

Batty has won four high jump

competitions and the high jump twice.

Rain Delays: Due to this week’s wet weather, three baseball and softball games have been

rescheduled.

Wednesday, March 21

Hancock Softball @ Moorpark* – moved to Wednesday, March 28 at 2 p.m.

Thursday, March 22

Ventura @ Hancock Baseball* – moved to Saturday, March 24 at 2 p.m.

Oxnard @ Hancock Softball* – moved to Tuesday, April 24, double header starts at 12 p.m.

Taking the LEAP: Nine teams

of nearly 60 faculty,

administrators, and classified

staff have met throughout the

semester, in an effort to gain

and offer knowledge to and

from each other.

The experience so far has

been a positive one, as

expressed by LEAPers Wendy

Sutter and Cheryl Hamlin:

“Being a part of LEAP is a wonderful experience. It is great to see that there are so many other people on campus that are interested in seeing how departments outside their own operate. It has been nice

to be able to speak with someone on campus who is really willing to listen, provide feedback, and learn more about the campus to make it a better place where faculty and staff are more integrated.” – Wendy Sutter

“I work in accounts payable. My day is best described as a merry-go-round of invoices, emails, and data input. Having a purposeful lunch with a friendly face was so much fun. My mentor friend is plugged into the pulse of student activities. Seeing this campus through her eyes expands my view. We found common ground within minutes, and our give-and-take conversation was easy, thoughtful, and inspiring. I look forward to our next meeting! – Cheryl Hamlin

Six Sigma Black Belt: Congratulations to Gordon Rivera, supervisor of Campus Graphics. He received his Six Sigma Black Belt for completing a high-level improvement project that saved the college more than $100,000 over the last year.

Since the college implemented his project last July, the numbers speak for themselves: $151,000 in chargebacks captured to fund Campus Graphics operational costs; 86 percent reduction in staff time thanks to automated reporting; 98 percent drop in cost associated with the account payable process of Campus

Graphics; 61 percent increase in turnaround time of invoices.

Additional Campus Graphics employees have already completed or will soon undergo Six Sigma training.

Ana Vega, laboratory assistant, writing center, learning resources, effective April 1

Diane Bergantz, payroll supervisor, business services, effective April 1

Roberto Adames, facilities project management coordinator, facilities, effective April 1

Julie Rios, student services technician, admissions and records, effective April 1

Alyssa Lopez, academic affairs support technician, academic affairs, effective April 1

Brenden Robertson, integrated technology services technician, information technology

services, effective April 1

Philip Moore, application programmer, information technology services, effective April 1

Christopher McMains, programmer analyst, information technology services, effective April 16

Jennie Robertson, FROM learning outcomes analyst, institutional effectiveness, TO academic

load/scheduling specialist, effective March 13

Michael Messina, noncredit vocational coordinator, community education department, effective

June 30, after nearly 21 years of dedicated service

Megan Lizalde, public safety support technician I, public safety department, effective March 16

Name: Emmanuel Guerrero

Title: Instructional Assistant – STEM Center

How long have you worked at Allan Hancock College? 3.5 years

Birthplace: Oxnard, California

Residence: Santa Maria

What is the best vacation you’ve gone on? Mexico City

Family members: Two siblings, two parents, and lots of cousins, aunts, uncles and a 101-year

old grandpa

What is your favorite restaurant in Northern Santa Barbara County? Sides Hardware and

Shoes in Los Olivos

Latest book read: Citizen, an American Lyric (as part of Kate Adams book club)

What is your favorite activity to do locally and why? Train for my upcoming 545-mile bike

ride in the area. It allows you to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Central Coast of California.

What television show do you admit to binge-watching? Grace and Frankie

What was the best concert you’ve ever attended? The Legend of Zelda Symphony of the

Goddesses at the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Favorite movie: Coco & Mean Girls

What is your proudest accomplishment? Graduating college, because in many ways it is a

success story for my parents

Who do you admire as a person, past or present, most and why? The students I work with

in the STEM Center. Despite some of the overwhelming challenges they face, the students

continue to focus on their goal, pick themselves up after they fall, and inspire me to become a

better person.

Is there anything else about yourself you would like to share? I will be participating in a

545-mile bike ride in June to raise funds to provide lifesaving services to people living with

HIV/AIDS. I have been training every weekend to prepare myself for this life-changing

adventure. I would love to have the support of my colleagues, and if you feel inclined to support

my ride, visit my webpage here. I’ll also be camping at Preisker Park June 6 in Santa Maria and

June 7 at Ryon Memorial Park in Lompoc. Stop on by!

Phone ext.: 3547

Email: Emmanuel.guerrero2@hancockcollege.edu

Mar. 24 Sat. vs. Ventura 2 p.m.

Mar. 27 Tue. vs. East L.A. 2:30 p.m.

Mar. 28 Wed. vs. Fresno 1 p.m.

Apr. 7 Sat. vs. Santa Barbara 2 p.m.

Mar. 29 Thu. vs. Santa Barbara 2:30 p.m.

Apr. 5 Thu. vs. Ventura 2:30 p.m.

Apr. 7 Sat. vs. Taft 12 p.m.

1st and 3rd Thursdays Food Share Because We Care (SM campus & LVC)

ongoing through Mar. 25 PCPA’s The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence

ongoing through Apr. 12 Annual Fine Arts Faculty Art Show

Mar. 26 Term 4 Classes Begin

Apr. 10 Board of Trustees Meeting @ Santa Ynez Valley Union

High School