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Los Gatos native earns national teaching award
By Mary Ann Cook
TEACHER OF YEAR: Journalism professor Kim E. Karloff of Los Gatos has been named Teacher of the Year by the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The award is part of the association's Small Programs Interest Group. She most recently taught at Cal State Northridge.
Karloff's students called her "an amazing professor." "Exceptionally well prepared and accessible and a keen role model" were other impressive comments from students the judges considered. Colleagues called her "tough yet dedicated to student well-being."
She has published scholarly articles and has held various reporting and editing positions. Karloff has a master's degree in journalism from Texas Christian University and a BA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
INTERIM PASTOR: The oldest Armenian Church in the United States--First Armenian Presbyterian Church of Fresno--has named the Reverend Lee Allison Hicks its interim pastor. Hicks is a '54 graduate of Los Gatos High. He grew up in Santa Cruz and Los Gatos and earned a journalism/communication BA from Stanford.
His theology degrees are from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo--a doctor of ministry degree and a master of divinity. After his training, he served a variety of churches in Nebraska for 15 years, Congregational and Federated, as well as Presbyterian.
Then Pastor Hicks was called to Easton Presbyterian Church in Fresno, where he served for six years as senior pastor and helped found the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Community Children's Clothes Closet. Since his service at Easton he has been retired, but has held a series of interim pastorates.
Hicks serves as a pastor to pastors within the Presbytery and is a member of the Presbytery's Committee on Ministry. The First Armenian Church is 104 years old and was the boyhood church of writer William Saroyan.
TETZLAFF TRIBUTE: Earlier this summer, beloved teacher Bob Tetzlaff was honored with a surprise party given by scores of former students on the occasion of his retirement. "Mr. T" as he is fondly called, taught fifth grade at Daves Avenue School for nearly 40 years.
His students entered junior high school with confidence and self-esteem because of the success formula he instilled, say former students and parents. Said Pamela Nudelman at the recognition ceremony: "The children that he nurtured and the adults that we've become are the best tributes that we can pay to the man."
Nudelman organized the tribute. In addition to being a master teacher, Tetzlaff was a member of the 1960 U.S. Olympic bicycle team and later coached the team. He "rode his racing bike to school, but was always dapper in a suit for class," said Gary Lynn, former student, now an orthopedic surgeon.
MAJOR DONORS: Major donors to ARIS (AIDS Resources Information & Services) were honored at a dinner recently at the estate of Larry Arzie and David Stonesifer in Los Gatos. Also honored were Bob Clayton and Mario Diaz, both of whom won the Norman W. Robinson Award for community service.
Clayton was one of the co-founders of ARIS and Diaz, regional vice president of Wells Fargo Foundation, is a longtime volunteer supporter. The Robinson award was named for a founding board member of ARIS and longtime president of the board.
"I'm glad this isn't being done posthumously," quipped Robinson. It helps to be named Robinson in that organization. Present president of the board of directors is Tom Robinson, no relation to Norm.
Outreach programs from ARIS are targeting the Elmwood county jail (in collaboration with the county) and homeless youth from Palo Alto to Gilroy, one of the most at-risk segments of the community, said Harold Atkins, head of the education and prevention program at ARIS.
Another targeted group is the Latino population. Linda Peerson talked about the peer advocate program and the fact that 30 percent of new cases of the disease are women. Hispanics and Blacks make up 25 percent of the population, but account for 77 percent of AIDS patients.
Thus the focus is to provide information and prevention to these groups. "Thank you for your hearts, as well as your money," summed up Atkins.
NEW DOCTOR: Erica Cosgrove, who teaches courses in international sanctions at the Woodrow Wilson School of International Relations at Princeton, recently earned a doctor's degree in history from Cambridge. Her mother is Judy Cosgrove Maassen, development director at ARIS .
Her father is Michael Cosgrove of Los Angeles. Stepfather is Fritz Maassen, retired from DuPont Corporation. Now the family has a medical doctor and an academic doctor. Erica's brother, Kennedy, is serving his second year of residency in psychiatry in Seattle.
STUDY ABROAD: Renee Miller, daughter of Shawn and Lawrence Miller of Los Gatos, spent this spring studying at the University of East Anglia in England as part of Middlebury College's Study Abroad Program. Miller will be a senior at the Vermont school this fall.
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