thebreezeonline.com | September 17, 2012
From ‘D’ student to dean LORRAINE CABRERA
The new Dean of Mathematics and Science, Ted Younglove, comes from Antelope Valley College and has a wide range of experience that will help him succeed at Chaffey College. For six years before coming to Chaffey, Younglove was director of research and planning and then Dean of Institutional Effectiveness Research and Planning at AVC. “Before that I was at UC Riverside for about 24 years, and that was good preparation for coming here and being Dean of Math and Science,” he said. Younglove has a Master’s degree is statistics and while at UCR he worked first in the Air Pollution Research Center. Later he worked at the college of engineering and then ran a statistical consulting lab. “It was good preparation for working with the math people and the engineers and all the different science areas in the division in the school of math and science here,” he said. The new dean also taught statistics for two years at UCR before going into institutional research, but he missed working with students.
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While serving as Vice President of the California Research and Planning group, the new dean met two current Chaffey staff members, Laura Hope and Jim Fillpot, who were instrumental in Younglove’s decision to come here. “They do such great work on using data to help students succeed,” he said. “It’s a model for other colleges around the state.” Younglove is enthusiastic and is ready to begin working on his goals. His No. 1 goal is to maneuver through some tough budget times while still providing access to as many students as possible. He also wants to help increase student success rates. Younglove offered struggling students some sound advice from his early days in college. “When I started at UCR, I took freshman calculus, and going into the final I was getting a D,” he said. “But it finally started making sense the last half of the term. I ended up getting a good grade in the class. I think that’s something people might not guess, but yeah, the Dean of Math and Science going into the final was getting a D in calculus.” His message to students: “Don’t lose hope. Get help and keep trying.” KIMBERLY JOHNSON
New Dean of Mathematics and Science, Ted Younglove, poses in front of Zimmerman Hall’s shark skull, Sept. 13.
Students mourn loss of Panther ‘Momma Sherrill’ Stansbury SEVANNY CAMPOS For a group of students, their school mother and friend is gone. Sherrill Stansbury died Aug. 27 at her home in Fontana after losing her battle with cancer. Stansbury is survived by her husband, Edward Stansbury, and two daughters, Victoria Stansbury and Veronica Toothman. While she left behind a family, she also left behind a large group of students who will miss her. Stansbury attended Chaffey College most of her adult life. Because of her experience and friendly, welcoming nature she was a mother figure to a group of students who fondly called her “Momma Sherrill.” “She was a mother to us all,” said Clarence Smit. “It didn’t matter what your background was or where you came from she was a mother to all of us, and she loved us.” On Sept. 6, Smit, a theatre major, held a memorial for Stansbury at the sport center quad. Smit organized the event and invited more than 50 people to the memorial on an event page of Facebook. “I wanted to have a memorial for just her family at school, since some of us won’t be able to go to the memorial,” Smit said. “I asked everyone to wear purple because it was her favorite color.” Thirty students attended the memorial, mourning the loss of their friend and fondly remembering her — and wearing purple. “Even though Sherrill isn’t here with us,” Smit said, “she is always in ours hearts.”