Alternate Thursdays • 10:00 a.m. - noon • Mackey Auditorium
Coordinators: Dick Blake, Eleanor Castonguay
Open to the Public

The Peace Corps: Serving the World for 47 Years
June 12
Speaker: Michael Salazar, Recruitment Coordinator, Peace Corps, Los Angeles Regional Office
For 46 years, the Peace Corps has served 138 countries by responding to their requests for help in empowering people to take care of their own future. Serving 27-month assignments, volunteers learn to speak the local language and live as members of the community they serve. Since 1961, more than 178,000 volunteers have served in the Peace Corps, with over 8,000 presently serving in 72 countries. Types of assignments in the Peace Corps include: Education (English, Math and Science), Youth Outreach, Community Development, Business Advising, Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, Health and HIV/AIDS and Information Technology.

WECARE: Everything You Need to Know
June 26
Speaker: Adrienne Stokols, Program Director WECARE, CSUF
WECARE, Working to Enhance Care and Resources for our Elders, is an AmeriCorps program designed to help the rapidly growing senior population live happier, more fulfilling lives.  Persons aged 50+ have been prepared for service to the elder population in a variety of ways: providing transportation, meal delivery, safe food preparation tips, home visitation, and leading classes on fall prevention and living with chronic illness.  WECARE members also provide education and outreach into the community and recruit others to participate in service delivery. Our lead agency, Cal State University, Fullerton, and a groups of organizations and agencies participate in this effort to create a sustainable and replicable framework for keeping our seniors safe and independent.

Orange County Update
July 10
Speaker: Chris Norby, Supervisor of the 4th District of Orange County representing the cities of Fullerton, La Habra, Placentia, Buena Park and Anaheim.
Supervisor Norby will provide us with an update of all the important events that are under the purview of the Orange County Board of Supervisors. Chris Norby is well known in Orange County. He is a former member of the Fullerton City Council, having served as mayor for three years. His eighteen years of service rank him among the most senior of Orange County’s elected city and county officials.

Following the Class of 1933: Using American Social Science Around the World in an Age of War
July 24
Speaker: Leila Zenderland, Ph.D., Department of American Studies, CSUF
Our speaker’s research explores the global implications of American Studies by examining the influence of American social science around the world. For this presentation, she will focus on a unique educational experiment of the 1930s: the International Seminar on the Impact of Culture on Personality. Held at Yale University, this seminar invited social scientists from a dozen European and Asian countries to spend the 1932-33 school year studying together in the United States. Dr. Zenderland traces what happened to the members of this international “Class of 1933” after they returned home, focusing especially on their experiences in World War II. She will show how knowledge gained in the United States was used in wartime in many different countries, including Germany, France, Poland, China, and Japan.


Discover, Innovate, Achieve: Fifty Years of CSUF
August 7
Speaker: Lawrence de Graaf, Ph.D. Professor of History Emeritus, CSUF
California State University, Fullerton's 50th Anniversary provides an opportunity to look at it from the perspective of the region it was established to serve. We can see many parallels. Both Orange County and what was initially called Orange County State College have grown tremendously. Our speaker will discuss and analyze the growth of the college, the ways it has grown, and how much this growth has resulted from that of the county itself. We will also consider how much it reflects developments in higher education throughout much of the country. Dr. de Graff will discuss periods in which this growth has been interrupted, even reversed in some areas, and how this relates to funding and its consequences on relations between the campus and the community.
Like much of Orange County, Cal State Fullerton has always been a place to which most residents commuted. This has limited its campus life, but still left time for many colorful and important activities. Finally Dr. de Graff will talk about the impact this university has had on the immediately surrounding communities and on the county as a whole. From this discussion, he will invite the audience to speculate on what the role of CSF might be in the future of this area.