Teaching, Flying, Building His Own Plane
For 30 years, during careers in engineering and computerized banking, through fatherhood and retirement and as a student and teacher at Gavilan Community College in Gilroy, Herb Spenner lived with a singular, droning dream.
Gavilan students take shot at hospital survey
After Saint Louise Regional Hospital released its results from a recent phone survey asking Gilroy voters if they would be in favor of a sales tax increase – an avenue the hospital is exploring in light of the exponentially growing need for a bigger emergency room – a group of Gavilan College statistics students took interest and conducted their own poll.
Educator, novelist, black belt appointed to Gavilan board
The Gavilan College School Board had some big shoes to fill following the recent death of late trustee Mike Davenport, whose March 2 passing left a vacancy on the college’s seven-person school board.
PHOTOS: Gilroy High School’s Class of 2021 celebrates in person
Gilroy High School celebrated its nearly 340 graduates with a socially distanced in-person ceremony on its football field June 3. The event included speeches by valedictorian Audrey Kaefer and salutatorian Nathanael Gorelik. Principal Greg Kapaku said the students have “witnessed trials and tragedy never...
Parents, ex-board members revolt at Gilroy charter school
GILROY—On the heels of a co-founding teacher’s resignation, unhappy parents at Gilroy’s only charter school want its director fired and have asked the city’s public school board to look into alleged irregularities and failures at the four-year-old academic powerhouse.
Gav theater arts major to receive $20k scholarship
Isabel “Izzy” Quistian, a Gavilan College theater arts major and active member of the Associated Student Body, was awarded the Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Program Scholarship.
