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Wesley H. AveryWesley H. Avery, Esq. - Adjunct Professor, California State University, Northridge, David Nazarian College of Business and Economics -- WalletHub

Higher education institutions California is home to 3 of the top universities in the world – Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles. When it comes to enhancing students’ social mobility, California is home to 12 of the top 20 universities – including the top 2 and 4 of the top 5: California State University Los Angeles (1), University of California Merced (2), Fresno Pacific University (4), and California State University – Northridge (5). -- Governor of California

Markar Melkonian is a nonfiction writer and a retired lecturer in philosophy at California State University Northridge. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1997. His books include The Philosophy and Common Sense Reader (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), which is the first and only reader on the topic, and the well-reviewed book, Richard Rorty’s Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century (Humanities Press, 1999). He has written on a variety of topics, including the philosophy of death, philosophy of science and NGOs in the former Soviet Union. -- The Armenian Weekly

My endeavor to find libraries or archives for other materials or mementoes continues. I recently donated model home plans to the Westchester/Playa Historical Society. The California State University, Northridge Map Library will consider dozens of maps from my parents' travels. The Society of American Archivists website is a useful resource to answer donation questions. -- Next Avenue