News Release

IWV Campus

CCCC to Hold 34th Commencement Exercise

May 9, 2007

The Cerro Coso Community College 34th Commencement Exercise is slated for Friday, May 18 at 6 p.m. Commencement will be held in the Gym located in the Raymond A. McCue Athletic Complex on the west side of the college's Indian Wells Valley Campus in Ridgecrest.

Cerro Coso will be honoring a class of nearly 300 eligible graduates from the IWV Campus, 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 three students have been selected by the Academic Senate to address the graduates at commencement: Ted Higle (A.A. General Education) and Scott Toborg (A.A. General Education) both from the Indian Wells Valley Campus and Christine Effinger (A.A. General Education) from the Kern River Valley Campus.

Doug Schweitzer has been selected as the Alumni Association's Distinguished Commencement Speaker. Schweitzer graduated from Cerro Coso in 2001 with an Associate of Arts Degree. He then graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Law Degree in 2006.

"Cerro Coso is extremely proud of its graduates, and we would like to extend a warm invitation to the public to join us in honoring their outstanding accomplishment" stated Interim President of Cerro Coso Community College, Dr. Mary Retterer.

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