As Gavilan College prepares for its 100th birthday in 2019, historian Leah Halper is looking for interested parties who attended the college to contribute their memories to a Gavilan College Centennial archive and oral history project.
Of special interest are those who attended San Benito Teachers College in the 1950s and before, or who have family records of college activities before the 1950s.
If you are or know such a person, you can contact Leah Halper at
lh*****@ga*****.edu
or call Noemi Naranjo at (408) 852-2825.
My memories being a freshman getting lost on way to class going into the wrong class at times being cured at on my first day of my psychology class because I read the boom and was about to Ask some question the professor told me he the f out I was like what really than all I hear is don’t forget to turn In your final project at the end of the year, the student I met the breakfast burrito and a high c fruit punch noting greater than that my counselor sue gave me the opportunity to strive I believe she still there, school for me wasnt all about sports, I was a freshman not opening what was going to come of it, years Lester I met my VP and other friends that went to the college after me, the good times the bad times the commuting to school from Los Banos Saturday practices early morning tests the over experience the campus the vision the school has for the future helped me become something bigger than I could ever imagine, thank you thank you thank you for that one year I had at the college, wished I would have done better, the gavilan rams or as Lionel smith would say “the gavilan ram hawks “ it opened doors for me in my schooling to have the opportunity to do studies at Stanford university Harvard university Yale university John Hopkins university university of Michigan Ann Arbor, to have the medical school opportunities law school and many others the one that got me to go to gavilan was fellow alumni Jimmy cheatum 04
He and Mike fugat my bothers from another mother my team mates I had, the experience I can’t explain because have to be there to believe it, I didn’t think I could be in college make the basketball team pushed myself to do better each day, now I’m the youngest POTUS SEAT CHALLENGER IN OUR COUNTRIES HISTORY, to stand and fight for something bigger than myself. Thank you gavilan college for that opportunity in life with out your guidance I don’t know where I would be this message wouldn’t be
Thank you thank you thank you for all you did for me to succeed in life