Glendale Community College

An upright piano installed near the administration building at Glendale Community College last month as part of a three-week performing arts project is slated to become a permanent fixture on campus. The piano was one of 30 placed at public sites around Los Angeles County by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to celebrate 15 years under the leadership of music director and pianist Jeffrey Kahane. “One of the best parts of having the piano outside on campus is to see students with no other access to musical instruments just playing with it and having fun,” said Peter Green, chairman of the visual and performing arts division at Glendale Community College.

Glendale Community College trustees on Wednesday began the job of finding a permanent successor to outgoing President/Supt. Dawn Lindsay, deciding to hire an interim replacement while the search is carried out. College Board of Trustees President Armine Hacopian said that she has not set a date for naming the interim replacement, but added that she wants it to happen “as soon as possible.” Trustees also voted to bar the interim president from...

A Glendale Community College faculty member who specializes in English-as-a-second-language instruction has been named a Fulbright Scholar, a prestigious appointment reserved for the brightest minds in American academia. Deborah Robiglio, who teaches English to non-native speakers at the college's Garfield campus, will travel to Santiago, Chile in spring 2013 where she will work as a teacher trainer and researcher at a major university for one semester. “It is a mental exercise as much as it is a physical one,” Robiglio said.

The curtain rose on a new partnership Tuesday as the operators of the Alex Theatre announced they were teaming up with Glendale Community College in an effort to better market campus performances and generate additional revenue for the theater organization. Glendale Arts, the nonprofit that operates the Alex, has opened a ticket outlet on the college campus and will now market the school's performances on its website, which gets about 60,000 hits a month, said interim Chief Executive Elissa Glickman.

An upright piano, installed near the administration building at Glendale Community College last month as part of a three-week performing arts project, is slated to become a permanent fixture on campus. The piano was one of 30 placed at public sites around Los Angeles County by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to celebrate 15 years under the leadership of music director and pianist Jeffrey Kahane. “One of the best parts of having the piano outside on campus is to see students with no other access to musical instruments just playing with it and having fun,” said Peter Green, chairman of the visual and performing arts division at Glendale Community College.

Glendale Community College may see its budget shrink an additional $1.9 million this year - its share of an unexpected $149-million cut to the California community college system announced this week. It would follow on the heels of $5.7-million in lost revenue the college has already sustained since the start of the current fiscal year on July 1, said Ron Nakasone, vice president of administrative services. “This is the third cut we have had to absorb this year,” he said.

GLENDALE — In over a decade of coaching softball at Glendale Community College, Dave “Hawk” Wilder has seen his share of players come and go from the program. He’s bid farewell to quite a few just this offseason alone. As Glendale is a two-year college, its hard to sustain continuity of the roster under the best of circumstances. But the 2009 squad, which opens the season today with a 3 p.m. home game against Fullerton at the Glendale Sports Complex, represents as clean a slate as the veteran instructor has worked with in recent memory.

Glendale Community College will host its monthly swap meet/flea market this weekend. The event is from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the college's upper parking lot, 1500 N. Verdugo Road. The event is free and open to the public. Dealer spaces are available for $35. The parking lot is at the corner of Mountain Street and the Glendale (2) Freeway. The swap meet includes more than 70,000 square feet of antiques, collectibles, jewelry, vintage clothing, furniture, dolls, books, handcrafted items, tools and musical instruments.

Glendale Community College will open an exhibit of experimental media arts next week that will focus on life in suburbia. "Suburban Sites/Insights" will open Tuesday and continue through Dec. 13 at the GCC Art Gallery, 1500 N. Verdugo Road. A reception for the artists will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday in GCC's art gallery. GCC is one of six participants in the larger, "TV or not to TV" project, the Los Angeles Freewaves' eighth biennial celebration of experimental media arts.

Glendale Community College track and field Coach Eddie Lopez is basically conceding any thought of a team title when the Vaqueros women take to the Cerritos College track for the 2012 California Community College Track and Field Championships. "Laney [College] is going to win it, but as the other teams cancel each other out, we're going to be right there for second or third with Cerritos and Antelope Valley," Lopez said. "Every point counts. We start with the 10K, get some places there.

The following are updates on area Major League Baseball players. Brandon McCarthy (Glendale native) starting pitcher, Oakland Athletics: McCarthy has worn the mantle of staff ace well for the Athletics lately, going 3-0 in his past three starts, including his best outing of the season in a 3-1 home win over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday. Over seven scoreless innings, McCarthy allowed four hits, no walks and struck out a career-high 10 batters. He finished his day strong, retiring the heart of the Tigers' lineup - Miguel Cabrera, Prince Fielder and Delmon Young - on swinging strikeouts.

COSTA MESA - Moments before taking the mound, David Lira thought about what needed to be accomplished. The Glendale Community College baseball pitcher understood that he would be thrust into a pair of high-pressure situations - keeping his team alive in its quest for the program's first state championship while also having to shut down one of the most potent lineups in Southern California. Consistently mixing up his pitches, Lira scattered four hits over seven innings to propel fifth-seeded Glendale college to a 9-2 win against fourth-seeded Mount San Antonio College on Saturday afternoon in an elimination game of the California Community College Athletic Assn.

An upright piano, installed near the administration building at Glendale Community College last month as part of a three-week performing arts project, is slated to become a permanent fixture on campus. The piano was one of 30 placed at public sites around Los Angeles County by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to celebrate 15 years under the leadership of music director and pianist Jeffrey Kahane. “One of the best parts of having the piano outside on campus is to see students with no other access to musical instruments just playing with it and having fun,” said Peter Green, chairman of the visual and performing arts division at Glendale Community College.

An upright piano installed near the administration building at Glendale Community College last month as part of a three-week performing arts project is slated to become a permanent fixture on campus. The piano was one of 30 placed at public sites around Los Angeles County by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to celebrate 15 years under the leadership of music director and pianist Jeffrey Kahane. “One of the best parts of having the piano outside on campus is to see students with no other access to musical instruments just playing with it and having fun,” said Peter Green, chairman of the visual and performing arts division at Glendale Community College.

CYPRESS - A flawlessly placed bunt down the third-base line from Glendale Community College sophomore Nancy Pinedo broke up what was a perfect afternoon for the Cypress College softball team. The single ended the perfect-game bid of Chargers pitcher Stephanie Luhmann and proved one of only a few highlights for the visiting Vaqueros, who struggled in Friday afternoon's California Community College Athletic Assn. Southern Super Regional at the hands of the two-time defending state champs via 7-1 defeat.

COSTA MESA - A lack of clutch hitting was nothing the Glendale Community College baseball team couldn't overcome a week ago in its postseason-opening series. It was a feat the Vaqueros couldn't replicate Friday in a 7-2 loss to Mt. San Antonio College after they batted one for 13 with runners in scoring position in the opening game of the California Community College Athletic Assn's Super Regional tournament at Orange Coast College. Glendale Coach Chris Cicuto credited the offensive struggles to Mounties (31-8)

Glendale Community College trustees plan to name an interim president by June 29, according to a timeline approved this week. At a special board meeting Wednesday, trustees approved a formal job announcement for the position while also laying out how the search will unfold. The application window opened Friday and will close June 1, with interviews scheduled for June 21 through 29. A job offer is scheduled to be made by June 29, although the formal start date will depend on the individual's availability.

Glendale Community College Trustee Ann Ransford has been elected to a state board that sets policy, directs research and drives legislation related to California's 112 community colleges. Ransford will be sworn in as a member of the California Community College Trustees board of directors at a meeting in Sacramento in June. “I am looking forward to serving in this position, especially in this defining moment and interesting time for community colleges,” Ransford said in an email this week.

Currently enjoying a run to the Southern California Super Regionals, the Glendale Community College softball team earned its postseason berth with an outstanding campaign in the Western State Conference. The Vaqueros (27-13) locked up their first playoff appearance since 2002 by going 12-6 in the conference's Blue Division to finish second behind College of the Canyons. As a result, the team garnered a considerable share of conference accolades, as voted on by the conference's coaches, led by a trio of first-team selections for pitcher Brandy Morin, first baseman Kitty Nguyen and outfielder Nancy Pinedo.