Hello!
The month of May brings the realization that the academic year is quickly coming to an end. Two highlights are the annual Scholarship Awards Dinner on May 26th and El Camino College's 75th Commencement scheduled for June 10th at 4pm in Murdock Stadium.
The Foundation's Scholarship Awards Dinner allows our generous scholarship donors to meet their student recipients. Commencement will celebrate all ECC graduates since the Class of 2020. We look forward to welcoming everyone back on campus, as we return to in-person events after a two-year hiatus. Enjoy the El Camino news below and join us for our upcoming events.
Warmly,
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Andrea Sala
Executive Director
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Student Spotlight: El Camino Forensics Team Wins National Title |
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For the first time in the 75-year history of El Camino College, the Forensics (speech and debate) team has won the highly competitive and prestigious overall Phi Rho Pi National Championship in held in St. Charles, Missouri earlier this month.
The 12-student Forensics team has made quite a name for itself over the years by winning state and national debate tournaments several times, thus making El Camino College a “powerhouse school” in the speech and debate competitions. However, this year, the 2021-2022 Forensics team won the highly coveted Phi Rho Pi distinction, which honors the best team across all categories and divisions.
On the road to history, El Camino College was the only community college team to compete in this year’s National Parliamentary Debate Association Championship Tournament against Cal Berkeley, University of Oregon, and Rice University, as the eloquently spoken students of El Camino College won the “Season Sweepstakes” title for 2022.
Read the full news release HERE.
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ECC Forensics team displaying their awards at the Phi Rho Pi National Championship in St. Charles, MO.
Top (left to right): Brittany Hubble (Coach), Kate Gil, Cody Hagemeier, David Rekart, Josiah Edwards, Jared Hipsher, Sheriff Abdrahman, Safy Tesafay, and Francesca Bishop (Director).
Bottom: Jana Abulaban, Uzair Pasta, Sophia Dornberg, Olivia Penland, and Will Brandt.
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Program Spotlight: Vintage Typewriters Find New Home in Journalism Department |
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El Camino College alumni Jennifer Glassman and her father Keith Glassman, donated two vintage typewriters to the ECC Journalism Department. The typewriters belonged to Keith's father Paul, who attended El Camino College. They found the Underwood Lettera 22 and LC Smith & Corona in Paul's home office in Torrance while going through the family's heirlooms. Keith, who also lives in Redondo Beach, said he remembers using the Underwood typewriter and sometimes the LC Smith & Corona for some of his language, economics and accounting classes when he attended El Camino College in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Students from El Camino’s student-run newspaper The Union were present to receive the gifts.
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Thank you to the Glassman Family for your generous typewriters donation to the Journalism Department, which was coordinated through the El Camino College Foundation. |
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Community Spotlight: Warrior Pantry Receives Lots of Love from the Redondo Beach Rotary |
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John Barnett (center), representing the Redondo Beach Rotary Club, is pictured above with Warrior Pantry staff and volunteers when he delivered their club's generous contribution. |
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Then two weeks later, the Redondo Beach Rotary Club, presented the Warrior Pantry and ECC Foundation with a very generous check. We love our Redondo Beach Rotary friends!
If you or your organization is interested in supporting the Warrior Pantry with a food and/or toiletry donations, please contact Kim Cameron to schedule a drop-off at 310.660.3500 or kicameron@elcamino.edu.
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Join Us! ECC Warriors Athletic Hall of Fame - June 2, 2022 |
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Read the full Athletic Hall of Fame news release HERE.
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Join Us! ECC Diamond Jubilee Celebration Concert - June 3, 2022 |
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Read the full Diamond Jubilee Celebration Concert news release HERE.
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Community Partners Spotlight: SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union |
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SchoolsFirst FCU is a federally chartered credit union that serves the educational community in California. It is headquartered in Tustin, California and has branches throughout the state. Since 2010, SchoolsFirst has provided $66,000 in philanthropic funds to support El Camino students. Thank you to SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union for supporting the Foundation each year and for believing in our students. We appreciate you!
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Community Giving: MAY You Help Our Students? |
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There's no better time than the present to give to support student success at El Camino College. Every gift helps our students in their educational journey.
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The El Camino College Foundation (EIN 95-3874302) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, dedicated to fund and support student success programs at El Camino College. |
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