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Ventura College Foundation Distributes Over $636,000 In Scholarships
Gabrielle MacNeill of Simi Valley, a member of the Ventura College water polo and swim teams, is transferring to Cal State Northridge in the Fall. She received multiple scholarships including the Miriam and Henry Schwab Memorial Aquatics Scholarship given to students involved in aquatics. A swim instructor, she teaches kids with physical and cognitive disabilities. MacNeill will major in psychology and possibly obtain a master’s degree in occupational therapy to continue her work helping kids. -- Moorpark Patch
Soraya Season Ranges From Randy Newman’s Faust to Tchaikovsky’s Fifth
To open the 2024–2025 season for The Soraya, the performing arts center at California State University, Northridge, Newman is fashioning an all-new concert version of the score. His take on the classic tale of soul-selling is set for performances Sept. 28 and 29, cast to be announced. -- San Francisco Classical Voice
Meet the Newly Awarded Scholars of the Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship:
Sayuri from Paso Robles, planning to attend California State University Northridge. -- Wine Business
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95
Lawson earned that theology degree at Boston University and became a Methodist pastor in Memphis, where his wife Dorothy Wood Lawson worked as an NAACP organizer. They moved several years later to Los Angeles, where Lawson led the Holman United Methodist Church and taught at California State University, Northridge and the University of California, Los Angeles. They raised three sons, John, Morris and Seth. -- Washington Post
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. dies at 95; civil rights leader was adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.
Lawson earned that theology degree at Boston University and became a Methodist pastor in Memphis, where wife Dorothy Wood Lawson worked as an NAACP organizer. They moved several years later to Los Angeles, where Lawson led the Holman United Methodist Church and taught at Cal State Northridge and UCLA. They raised three sons, John, Morris and Seth. -- The Mercury News
LA500 2024: Dana Roberts
Roberts’ first job as a teenager in 1970 was alongside his father, a superintendent at C.W. Driver. Roberts obtained an ownership stake in the company in 1981 and assumed full ownership in 1987, the same year he became chief executive. Recently, the 105-year-old company completed a $68.4 million new classroom building at UC Santa Barbara, a $33 million creative office building in Santa Monica, and a $37.8 million mixed-use development for Begonia Temple City. The firm also broke ground on a $100 million high school in Malibu for Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District and two student housing buildings for Cal State Northridge. -- Los Angeles Business Journal
James Lawson, Civil Rights Activist and MLK’s Chief Strategist, Dies at 95
After segregationists had Lawson removed from Vanderbilt, he and his wife, Dorothy Wood Lawson, moved to Memphis, where Lawson led the Holman United Methodist Church. The pair eventually moved to Los Angeles after King’s assassination, where Lawson taught at California State University, Northridge and UCLA. He and his wife raised three sons together. -- The Wrap
Rev. James Lawson, Civil Rights Legend, Has Died
He was involved with California State University, Northridge’s Civil Discourse & Social Change initiative and taught labor studies at UCLA, with the university naming a building near MacArthur Park in his honor in 2021. He was also awarded the UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor, in 2018. -- LAist
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says
Lawson earned that theology degree at Boston University and became a Methodist pastor in Memphis, where his wife Dorothy Wood Lawson worked as an NAACP organizer. They moved several years later to Los Angeles, where Lawson led the Holman United Methodist Church and taught at California State University, Northridge and the University of California, Los Angeles. They raised three sons, John, Morris and Seth. -- WABI
Civil rights leader and nonviolent protest pioneer Rev. James Lawson Jr. dies in Los Angeles at 95
Rev. Lawson led the Holman United Methodist Church and taught at California State University, Northridge -- NBC Los Angeles