News Release

IWV Campus

CCCC Holds 33rd Commencement Exercises

Ridgecrest, CA – May 4, 2006

Cerro Coso Community College 33rd Commencement Exercises are scheduled for Friday, May 12, 2006 at 6 p.m. Commencement will be held in the Gym located in the Raymond A. McCue Athletic Complex of the College's Indian Wells Valley Campus in Ridgecrest.

Cerro Coso will be honoring a class of approximately 290 eligible graduates from the IWV Campus in Ridgecrest, Kern River Valley Center in Lake Isabella, South Kern Center at Edwards Air Force Base, and the Eastern Sierra College Center located in Bishop and Mammoth Lakes.

The following students have been selected by the Academic Senate to address the graduates at commencement: Susan Good (A.A. in Social Science) and Jason Duque (A.A. in Social Science) both from the Indian Wells Valley Campus and Timothy Gerarden (A.A. General Education) from the Kern River Valley Campus.

Dr. Vicki Boyer has been selected as the Alumni Association's Distinguished Commencement Speaker. Boyer graduated from Cerro Coso with her Associate of Arts Degree in 1989. She then graduated Cum Laude from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo in Animal Science in 1992. Boyer then relocated to the Midwest to study Veterinary Medicine at the Ohio State University in Columbus. She graduated in 1996 with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. Boyer and her husband, Justin met in an English class at Cerro Coso. The happily married couple resides in the Kern River Valley with their two sons and three cats. Dr. Boyer and her husband started the Kernville Animal Hospital five years ago.

"Cerro Coso is very proud of its graduates, and we invite the public to join us in honoring their outstanding accomplishment," states Dr. Sharon K. Dyer, President Cerro Coso Community College.
 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Joann Handeland, Director of Facilities Development and Public Information (760) 384-6230