Alda and Larry Maisner were part of a Beach family. Their daughters, Vivian and Robin, are both alumnae. When Alda passed away, her husband Larry funded a scholarship to be augmented with a bequest to support students who receive support from Disabled Student...

Frieda is the founder and owner of Frieda’s Specialty Produce, the first produce importer in the United States founded by a woman and the first to import the kiwifruit. Frieda also supports the Department of Jewish Studies at CSULB. Frieda established the Alfred...

Alfred Schmidt, who prepared students to teach in the area of special education before his retirement as associate professor emeritus in 1992, passed away on February 19th, 2003. He taught special needs children in the Bellflower School District before beginning his...

More than 33,000 women educators around the world have discovered the many opportunities provided by membership in Alpha Delta Kappa — opportunities for recognition of their commitment to educational excellence, for personal and professional growth and for...

Cynthia Clark always knew she wanted to be a teacher. As a child she loved to play school; she worked on the kindergarten playground when she was in sixth grade and taught Sunday school when she was in high school. Cynthia graduated from CSULB in 1962 and began...

Janice Law was a wonderful mother, wife, sister, teacher, and friend. She was a teacher through and through, always using moments to teach life lessons to her 2 daughters. In addition to teaching, she led a Girl Scouts troop, volunteered in the Cerritos High School...

Judith Kaho always wanted to be a teacher because of the wonderful women and men who were her teachers. Judith received her diploma in 1971 from California State Long Beach as the first college graduate in her family. Although Judith was a classroom aide in the...

The open road beckoned to a pretty young Arkansas Traveler who saw opportunity in the Golden State and headed west. So began the journey of Miss Mary Ann Weatherton to a new life embedded in education, new friendships and a blossoming family. What a transition from...

Nancy was born in Burbank, attended the University of Redlands, and taught for three years in her home town. Then at the suggestion of a friend, she moved to Burlingame in 1961 where she had an exemplary 35 year career, teaching all the elementary grades, acquiring...

Sharon Lazo-Nakamoto spent the preponderance of her impressive career providing support for a most vulnerable segment of our K-12 students – Bilingual and English Language Learners. She was born in the Philippines and moved to Hawaii, speaking English, Tagalog, and...

Ameda Bergeron was an officer in the United States Navy. The Ameda J. and Julia M. Bergeron Endowed Scholarship was established in 1998 through an estate gift from Julia Bergeron. The purpose of the endowment is to provide scholarship support to a deserving student...

Annemarie Pellerito’s fervent passion for life, in spite of her lifelong and ultimately fatal battle with neurofibromatosis (NF) compelled her parents, Vicki and Peter Pellerito (MBA ’74) to establish a scholarship to honor her legacy. Their goal is two-fold: 1) to...

According to the donor Felice Movich Pope, Annette Movich Abrams was a compassionate, caring person with a big heart, intelligence, understanding and insight. Always available to her family and friends, she was a devoted wife, mother of two, aunt and sister. She...

Assistance League® of Long Beach is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to create a community of volunteers to identify and deliver philanthropic services. Our auxiliaries (Rick Rackers Las Hermanas, CAMEO, and Assisteens®) unite with chapter members to create...

CSULB’s most eminent Library Media Teacher (LMT) program coordinator (1968-1980), Barbara Ann Ward, passed away on September 2, 2003. In her memory, a scholarship was established with donations from friends of the Library Media Program, family, and her partner, Dr....

Beth Biddick 1917-2015 Music is my passion – Teaching is my love! Beth embraced these ideals her entire 98 years of life. She was born in a typical, small, early 1900s modest farm home in Meridian, Idaho. It consisted of two bedrooms, a large farm kitchen, parlor,...

Betty DuPont was a professor of Physical Education (now Kinesiology) from 1965 until she retired in May 1983. She taught social and folk dance, among other courses.

In 1968, Betty G. Olsen graduated from CSULB with a degree in Speech Pathology. She made a bequest to the program to create a scholarship for students majoring in Speech Pathology.

Bobit Business Media, located in Torrance, produces several business-to-business (trade pubs) magazines in the automotive and beauty industry and holds a series of special events, including trade shows and media events. Bobit Business Media is a family-run media...

Boeing created this scholarship with the CSULB 49er Foundation to assist students directly. Their goal is to create fewer loans and financial burdens for students, while improving the ability for students to utilize free time by participating in extra-curricular...

CalRTA’s mission is to protect and advocate for retired and active educators’ pensions and other retirement benefits, and to support education in our communities. CalRTA began in 1929 as the country struggled through the Great Depression. A small group of teachers...

CalRTA began in 1929 as the country struggled through the Great Depression. A small group of teachers banded together to fight for better pensions for colleagues who were living in poverty after a lifetime of teaching. In 1929, a retired schoolteacher received a...

The Carole Eichen Endowed Scholarship was created in 2003 in her memory by her husband, Robert Passovoy. Carole was an interior designer with a very successful firm based in Santa Ana, California. She pioneered the use of targeted interior design in model homes as a...

Catherine A. Allen (October 3, 1963 – October 30, 2014) was an alumnus of Cal State Long Beach, spoke highly of her college education, and made lifelong friends throughout college. During her 18 year career at Chubb Ltd. Insurance in Los Angeles, Catherine was known...

When Dr. Cedric Anderson was offered a job in 1988 to teach in an experimental program where high risk juvenile offenders would mentor severely challenged children, his friends thought he’d end up crazy or dead. Cedric Anderson’s success stories in pairing high-risk...

Dr. Keung Luke, Professor Emeritus of the Physics, taught at CSULB from 1966-1998 (FERP 1998-2003). One of the things he values most about his time at the university is the ability to be a teacher-scholar. This allowed him to teach large general education classes...

Dr. Johnson was very active throughout his career in the student personnel field at CSULB. He authored two books on fraternities and their role in American colleges and universities and was Chairman of the CSULB Student Union Operating Board when the Union was being...

Each year, the Human Resources Advisory Board within the College of Business collectively supports the HR Advisory Board Scholarship. The goal of the HR Advisory Board is to assist students who demonstrate an interest in pursuing HR as a profession. The HRAB is an...

Connie Merritt (1969, BSN, School of Nursing), used her education as a springboard into many different careers and interests from Critical Care to the Emergency Department, flying planes, scuba diving, selling real estate, and is a national keynote specialist and...

“A free nation can rise no higher than the standard of excellence set in its schools and colleges.” John F. Kennedy How prophetic these words, for it was how Dr. Consuelo Nieto lived her life. It was how she taught her students . . . “along the lines of...