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Andreas Klein mesmerizes audience at Steinway by Starlight

December 17, 2015 By Staff

Playing flawlessly by memory for more than an hour, classical pianist and Steinway Artist Andreas Klein left a lasting impression on the audience at the university’s third Steinway by Starlight concert.

California State University, Dominguez Hills’ designation as an All-Steinway School provides an opportunity for the university to bring Steinway Artists such as Klein to campus, which gives music students additional experience in working with professionals and performing at a high level. In welcoming guests to the evening’s performance, College of Arts and Humanities Dean Mitch Avila made that point.

“As dean, I am absolutely committed to advancing opportunities for our performing arts students. This is fundamental and core to what we do,” he said. “Our mission is to continue to provide our students with ready access to rich, innovative, high-quality learning experiences that cultivate their creativity and that celebrate the diversity and abundance of our shared humanity.”

University Chamber Singers
University Chamber Singers
picture of chamber signers with harpist Marica Dickstein
University Chamber Singers with harpist Marcia Dickstein.
picture of Andreas Klein
Andreas Klein

Prior to Klein’s performance, the CSUDH Chamber Singers, under the direction of Dr. Dawn Brooks and with accompaniment by harpist Marcia Dickstein, performed several works highlighting the level of musicians the university’s music program attracts.

One such student, music education credential candidate,  spoke to the audience of her journey to and experience so far at CSUDH. A graduate from UCLA with a degree in psychology, Rodriguez desired to return to school and pursue her dream as a performer.

“Just when I began to lose hope, Cal State Dominguez Hills allowed me to enroll in this music program,” she said. “My life was forever changed…. But my story is not unique. So many music students here have similar stories. We have been given the opportunity to work with amazing teachers and amazing instruments like these Steinways because of this school.

“If not for this program, we may have never been given a chance to pursue our passions. That’s what these Steinways represent to us; these instruments and the breathtaking performers who use them represent dreams and passions.”

Klein began his performance with Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 in C minor, opus 13. After an intermission he continued with movements from Chopin, Debussy and Liszt, beautifully demonstrating the sound of the Steinway Grand piano and the expertise of Klein’s musicianship.

More photos of the evening have been posted to the CSUDH Flickr site.

CSUDH, Carson Welcome Special Olympic Delegations from Dominica, Palestine, Syria, Turkmenistan, Mali

July 21, 2015 By Staff

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Palistian team at breakfast
CSUDH students welcome athletes with a hearty breakfast on their first morning.

From July 21 to 25, California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) and the City of Carson will host delegations of athletes and coaches from the countries of Dominica, Palestine, Turkmenistan, Syria and Mali as part of the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles Host Town program.

“CSU Dominguez Hills is honored and excited to be hosting the Special Olympics World Game athletes on campus as they prepare for international competition,” said University President Willie J. Hagan. “But the World Games are about much more than competition. It’s about compassion, camaraderie, and overcoming obstacles. It’s about gratification, instilling self-confidence and creating opportunities for everyone, and encouraging those with challenges to step beyond their comfort zones to reach their goals.”

Through the World Games Host Town program, more than 5,000 athletes from 177 countries will be welcomed to communities throughout Southern California. The Carson Host Town delegations will be staying in University Housing and using the campus to practice as they prepare to compete in the games. The city and university have also organized a number of activities, such as visits to the StubHub Center and the Goodyear Blimp and a luau barbecue. Local business and community organizations joining to host the athletes include Cal Western, DoubleTree Hotel, Kiwanis Rotary Club, Price Transfer, SouthBay Pavilion, Watson Land Company.

“We are privileged Carson is one of the host communities for the 2015 Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles.  This is an international event, with athletes, coaches, volunteers and other guests coming from all over the world, and we are happy to provide a memorable experience and showcase our diverse community,” said Carson’s Mayor Albert Robles.

The Opening Ceremony of the World Games will be held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on July 25 and televised on ESPN. For more information on the 2015 Special Olympics World Games, visit LA2015.org and on social media with #ReachUpLA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

A Loving Family Legacy

June 30, 2015 By Staff

Bruce-Johnson

Despite having earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from Cal Tech as a young man and having enjoyed a successful career in the aerospace industry, Philip Johnson was retired and in his 50s when he began attending California State University, Dominguez Hills in the late 1970s. By all accounts, Johnson was an enthusiastic participant in academic pursuits within the CSUDH physics department, where he dedicated himself to both learning everything he could and sharing his own considerable knowledge with others. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics in 1980.

“Phil was what you might call a renaissance man, well-versed in many fields: literature, philosophy and history,” wrote Keith Lee, former head of the physics department, after Johnson passed away in 1983. “I admired him for his many talents.”

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The Johnsons

Philip Johnson’s love for Dominguez Hills would become an inspiration to his family.

“That’s the reason the giving started,” said Bruce Johnson, Philip’s son. “When Dad died, my mom gave the university a financial donation to honor him.”

The gift established the Philip Johnson Endowed Scholarship in Physics. His mother, Yvonne Johnson, created a charitable gift annuity at the time of the endowment, and Bruce has recently added a $225,000 gift annuity to the scholarship.

“The gift annuity program worked out really well for my mom. She was in her mid-80s when she started, and she received a high interest rate on her investment,” he said. “It was a good thing for Dominguez Hills and a good thing for my mom.”

And an eternal tribute to his father.

The CSU Dominguez Hills charitable gift annuity program allows the transfer of cash or securities to the university with a minimum gift of $10,000. In return, the university pays the donor, a spouse and any two other named beneficiaries a dependable, fixed income for life. In many cases, the payments are at a percentage rate higher than the rate on investments, and the rate is fixed and will not be affected by the fluctuations of the market.

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Bruce Johnson and his mother, Yvonne

When Bruce inherited his mother’s house after she passed in 2010, he knew that an endowment similar to the one she established would be a meaningful way to honor her and a smart move for his own future.

“For me, the percentage rate is much better than parking it in a CD that gets less than one percent,” said Bruce, who owns his own gardening business. “I wanted to simplify my life and forget the stress of watching the market go up and down.”

Bruce decided to sell the house and set up a $200,000 gift annuity at CSU Dominguez Hills toward the creation of a music scholarship to honor the role that music played in three generations of his family. His great grandparents, grandmother, and mother, Yvonne, all taught piano; Yvonne continued to strengthen her own talent by taking piano lessons up until her death.

And both Philip and Yvonne were frugal and smart real estate investors “back when you could buy a house in Manhattan Beach for $7,500,” said Bruce. “They bought properties at the right time and invested in the stock market.”

Bruce contemplated giving to other educational institutions with more costly tuitions, but he knew that his gift to CSU Dominguez Hills would make more scholarships available and benefit first-generation college students, like his mother, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Mexico, who attended Los Angeles City College. He is very pleased that his parents’ legacies will benefit so many, he said.

“It’s giving people a chance, and I like to reward people who have talent and are in financial need. Others have done that for me, and it makes a difference.

For information on how to establish a charitable gift annuity or other planned giving opportunities, contact Beri Eisenhardt, senior director of development, at beisenhardt@csudh.edu or (310) 243-3156.

– Laurie McLaughlin

CSUDH Receives National Parks Service Grant to Lead Digitization of Japanese American Internment Documents

June 23, 2015 By Staff

National Parks Service LogoThe National Park Service has awarded a two-year $321,554 grant to California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) Archives and Special Collections to serve as principal investigator on a collaborative project between archives at 15 CSU campuses to digitize nearly 10,000 documents and more than 100 oral histories related to the confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. The CSU Japanese American Digitization Project will make these materials available on a CSU-sponsored website and also result in a teaching guide and traveling exhibit for schools and the public.

“It is heartening to have the National Park Service acknowledge the scale and importance of the CSU’s collections,” said CSUDH Director of Archives and Special Collections Greg Williams. “The grant will ensure that this significant part of our history can be studied for generations to come.”

Many campuses throughout the CSU system were located near California’s incarceration camps and Japanese American communities. Throughout the last half century, their archives, libraries, oral history projects and history departments have collected archival and manuscript materials, objects, and media relating to Japanese internment that have yet to be digitized.

This is the second grant the CSUDH archives department has received in support of this project, which Williams said is the first time for such a large scale collaboration of archival collections within the CSU. Last summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded CSUDH a $40,000 planning grant to create the centralized web site,  www.CSUJAD.com.

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Watercolors of camp barracks Amache Camp, Granada, Colorado by Hajime Takata, McFarling Collection, CSUDH

With the grant money, CSUDH along with participating CSU archives at Bakersfield, Channel Islands, East Bay, Fresno, Fullerton, Long Beach, Northridge, Sacramento, San Jose, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, and Sonoma will have the resources to digitize and catalog more of their records.

The grant was one of 20 awarded by the National Park Service totaling more than $2.8 million to help preserve and interpret the World War II confinement sites of Japanese Americans. More than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were imprisoned by the U.S. government following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

For more information on the digitization project, contact the CSUDH Archives at (310) 243-3895 or visit here.

 

University’s DHTV Wins Three Telly Awards

June 11, 2015 By Staff

Telly Awards bronze statueDHTV, the broadcast programming service of California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), has been honored with three 2015 Telly Awards.

Founded in 1978, the Telly Awards honors the very best film & video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs.

DHTV won for its “OSHA Entertainment Safety Certificate” commercial,  “Freshman Convocation – Wrap-Up” video, and “Dig It: Anthropology” about anthropology students conducting research at Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum. The videos were selected out of almost 12,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents. Click here for information on the Telly Awards.

The recipient of several Telly Awards in the past, DHTV is a part of Dominguez Online, CSUDH’s distance learning unit. The university has the largest distance learning program in the CSU system, and has conducted distance learning programs for more than 40 years. Click here for more information.

2015 Bronze Telly Award for Local TV & Local Cable – Schools/Colleges/Universities

Title: “OSHA Entertainment Safety Certificate Commercial”

Production Team: Bernie Clinch – Senior Producer/Director/Writer/Editor, Mario Congreve – Producer/Director of Photography.

Executive Producer/On-Screen Talent: J. Kim McNutt – dean of College of Extended and International Education.

 

2015 Bronze Telly Award  for Online Video – Online Webisodes, Segments, or Promotional Pieces – Education

Title: “Freshman Convocation – Wrap-Up”

Production Team: Bernie Clinch – Senior Producer/Director, Mario Congreve – Producer/Director of Photography, Calvin Ko – Producer/Camera/Editor.

Executive Producer: J. Kim McNutt – dean of College of Extended and International Education.

 

2015 Bronze Telly Award  for Online Video – Online Webisodes, Segments, or Promotional Pieces – Education

Title: “Dig It: Anthropology”

Production Team: Bernie Clinch – Senior Producer/Director, Mario Congreve – Producer/Director of Photography, Calvin Ko – Producer/Camera/Editor.

Executive Producer: J. Kim McNutt – dean of College of Extended and International Education.

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