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Newsmakers: People in Palm Beach County business, non-profits
Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches would like to announce the addition of Roshan Massoumi to its board of directors. Massoumi, retired owner of French R LLC Real Estate Holding Company, has been a 2005 nominee for the Palm Beach County Medical Society’s Heroes of Medicine, and received the 1993 Dynamic Duo Award in recognition of her outstanding team efforts benefiting both the medical community and the citizens of Palm Beach County. In 2016, Massoumi served as chairwoman of the spring luncheon for the Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adults. She is a member of the executive board of directors of Le Club InterContinental of Palm Beach and a member of the Beach Club of Palm Beach. Massoumi holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, and attended the University of California, Los Angeles; California State University, Northridge; and George Washington University. -- MyPalmBeachPost
CSUN Professors’ Book Reveals Underlying Secrets of Performing Artists
California State University, Northridge kinesiology professors Victoria Jaque and Paula Thomson take readers into the minds, hearts and bodies of performing artists with their book, “Creativity and the Performing Artist: Behind the Mask.” -- AmericanTowns.com
CSUN MAKES STRIDES TO CREATE A MORE DROUGHT-TOLERANT LANDSCAPE
California State University, Northridge has answered Gov. Jerry Brown’s call to combat the Golden State’s extreme drought conditions over the past several years — and CSUN is taking steps this spring to make the campus even more water efficient.-- MyInforms.com
Daily News 10 Burning Questions for the 2017 boys volleyball season
Newbury Park will certainly be in the mix as usual. Middle blocker Nelson Kappas is a 6-6 force who ranks among the best in the area. Newbury Park can also throw 6-foot-4 Jordan Moses at the net with his 38-inch vertical leap, along with 6-5 Luke Etherington. Newbury Park also boasts three players who have had older brothers in the program: Tyler Maki (Parker is at CSUN), Tim Eschenberg (Zach is at BYU and Ian is at UCLA) and Luke Magnate. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Opera maestro gets an S.A. bienvenida
He’s a graduate of California State University-Northridge, the University of Mississippi and the University of Texas at Austin. He also attended the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. He studied conducting under Francisco Savín of the National Ballet and Enrique Diemecke of the National Symphony. The maestro has taught at UT, the National Conservatory of Mexico, the University of London Symphony Orchestra and the University of Sonora. -- My San Antonio
CSUN Alumnus Helped Develop Engines for NASA to Send Men to the Moon
Don Bostrom, at the time a recent graduate of California State University, Northridge — then known as San Fernando Valley State College — sat in a control center at Edwards Air Force Base northeast of Lancaster. The year was 1964, and Rocketdyne — a major supplier of U.S. rocket engines — was testing F-1 engines for NASA. The engineers launched the engines from test platforms on a ridge, about 800 feet from the control centers where Bostrom ’64 (Electrical Engineering) and his team monitored the test runs. The thick glass windows of the control center shielded the engineers from the fireball erupting from the test stand that mounted the 16-foot-tall test engines. -- Press Release Point
AWARD DINNER AND RECEPTION: MAJOR GENERAL(Retired) JOHN HARREL RECEIVES THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA’S PRESTIGIOUS DISTINGUISHED EAGLE SCOUT AWARD
MG (Ret.) Harrel completed the United States Army War College Fellowship at Ohio State University and holds a Juris Doctorate Degree from Southwestern University and a Bachelor and Masters of Arts degree in History from California State University, Northridge. He has published a number of historical articles with his book, The Nisibis War, The Roman Defense the East AD337-363, released in February 2016. -- AmericanTowns.com
‘Magnificent production’ satirizes politics, class struggles
Casting couples together in romantic roles is a double-edged sword—sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t—but Berg and Gibson make a charming, affectionate couple, as do Garner and Jessica Berns (as Gianetta), both of whom graduated with Master of Music degrees from Cal State Northridge and are recently engaged. -- Camarillo Acorn
Opera takes aim at class struggles, politics
Casting couples together in romantic roles is a double-edged sword—sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t—but Berg and Gibson make a charming, affectionate couple, as do Garner and Jessica Berns (as Gianetta), both of whom graduated with Master of Music degrees from Cal State Northridge and are recently engaged. -- Simi Valley Acorn
WHO’S NEWS IN RESIDENTIAL: JAMES WEICHERT JR. TAKES REINS AT FAMILY FIRM; HALSTEAD HIRES PARK AVENUE SALES DIRECTOR
Moers worked on the #1 team in the Financial District at Douglas Elliman. He sold three new developments in the last two years, and worked on the luxury condominium development, 75 Wall Street.
A graduate of California State University, he majored in marketing at Northridge’s Business Program. -- Real Estate Weekly