Robert Westerbeck Donation to Pasadena City College Foundation
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- I AM VERY PLEASED TO BE HERE AMONG FRIENDS,
COLLEAGUES, STUDENTS.
MY NAME IS LISA SUGIMOTO.
I’M THE VICE PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE ADVANCEMENT,
AND IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME YOU TO PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
AND TO OUR PRESS CONFERENCE HONORING ADDIE AND ROBERT WESTERBECK
FOR THEIR GENEROUS GIFT, DONATED FOR STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
IN THE NAME OF ROBERT WESTERBECK.
NOW, BEFORE I INVITE OUR SUPERINTENDENT-PRESIDENT TO THE PODIUM,
I’D LIKE THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO STAND TO BE RECOGNIZED.
FIRST, I’D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE
PRESIDENT OF OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES, WILLIAM THOMSON...
[APPLAUSE]
TRUSTEE, DR. JEANETTE MANN...
TRUSTEE, BERLINDA BROWN...
TRUSTEE, LINDA WAH...
AND VICE PRESIDENT OF OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES, GEOFFREY BAUM.
I’D ALSO LIKE TO INTRODUCE OUR PASADENA CITY COLLEGE STUDENT TRUSTEE,
WHO REPRESENTS ALL OF OUR STUDENTS--NOLAN PACK.
ALSO, JAMIE HAMMOND IS OUR PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS.
AND TO MY RIGHT, THE PASADENA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION BOARD PRESIDENT, MEL COHEN.
BEHIND ME ARE TWO OF OUR OSHER SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS--
BRITTANY JOHNSON...
AND TATEV PAPIKYAN.
I’M ALSO GOING TO INTRODUCE SOME OF THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM OUR DIGNITARIES,
AND THEY WILL BE MAKING PRESENTATIONS TO US LATER ON IN THE PROGRAM.
FROM THE OFFICE OF CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF,
TERESA LAMB SIMPSON.
FROM THE OFFICE OF STATE ASSEMBLY MEMBER ANTHONY PORTANTINO,
TANGANICA TURNER.
FROM OUR OFFICE OF STATE SENATOR CAROL LIU, CASEY LO.
NOW I AM HONORED TO WELCOME TO THE PODIUM
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE’S SUPERINTENDENT-PRESIDENT,
DR. MARK ROCHA.
- THANK YOU, LISA.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, LISA, AND WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU
ON THIS BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL DAY.
I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR COMING OUT;
OBVIOUSLY, THANK THE SUPPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE FOUNDATION;
AND ESPECIALLY FOR THE WESTERBECK TRUSTEE, HERMINA ALLEN.
MY WORDS WILL BE BRIEF, BUT THE GRATITUDE WE EXPRESS TODAY
TO BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK IS UNLIMITED.
ALMOST EXACTLY 100 YEARS AGO, IN 1911,
WHEN ADDIE WESTERBECK WAS A YEAR OLD,
THE PASADENA SCHOOL BOARD PURCHASED THE PROPERTY ON WHICH WE NOW STAND
TO BUILD A HIGH SCHOOL, AND THEN A JUNIOR COLLEGE, FOR THE COMMON GOOD.
DURING THIS 100 YEARS, THIS GREAT COLLEGE HAS HAD MANY HISTORIC DAYS,
AND NOW LET THIS DAY, MAY 3, 2011,
STAND FOREVER IN OUR HISTORY AS BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK DAY,
A DAY THEY HAVE MADE POSSIBLE FOR US TO DECLARE AGAIN
OUR INTENTION TO CONTINUE OUR MISSION TO MAKE THE DREAM
OF QUALITY PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION POSSIBLE, A REALITY,
A DREAM THAT WILL BE A REALITY FOR GENERATIONS OF STUDENTS TO COME.
THE GENEROSITY OF BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK IS INDEED HISTORIC.
YOU HEARD LISA. IT IS THE LARGEST GIFT IN OUR HISTORY,
THE FIFTH-LARGEST IN THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
BUT TODAY WE CELEBRATE NOT ONLY THIS PROFOUND GENEROSITY,
BUT A COMMITMENT BY THE WESTERBECKS TO THE VERY IDEA
OF PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION.
WE CAN NEVER, NEVER FULLY EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE,
BUT I KNOW THAT BOB AND ADDIE
WOULD ASK NOTHING OF US IN RETURN
EXCEPT TO CONTINUE OUR MISSION,
EXCEPT TO CONTINUE OUR MISSION TO KEEP PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION
OPEN AND ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE.
WE ARE REALLY GATHERED HERE TODAY TO CELEBRATE A LOVE STORY.
I INVITE YOU IN TO SEE THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK TOGETHER.
THEY WERE IN LOVE; IN FACT, THEY MET HERE
WHEN ADDIE WAS A MUSIC TEACHER AND BOB WESTERBECK WAS HER STUDENT.
[SCATTERED LAUGHTER] BOB WENT ON, CLASS OF 1938.
BOB WENT ON, CLASS OF 1938,
WENT TO SCHOOL AT THE SAME TIME WITH JACKIE ROBINSON, AND HAD A GREAT CAREER AS AN ENGINEER.
ADDIE WAS A FACULTY MEMBER HERE AND RETIRED IN 1971.
THEIRS WAS AN ENDURING LOVE STORY FOR EACH OTHER
AND FOR PASADENA CITY COLLEGE.
THEIR GIFT WILL MAKE POSSIBLE HUNDREDS OF NEW SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR OUR STUDENTS TO PURSUE THE AMERICAN DREAM
FOR WHICH BOB AND ADDIE WERE SO SUPREMELY GRATEFUL.
NOW, AS I SAY, ADDIE WAS A PIANO TEACHER,
AND ON THIS BEAUTIFUL, LATE SPRING DAY,
I ASK YOU TO LISTEN CLOSELY, AND IF YOU LISTEN CLOSELY ENOUGH,
YOU WILL HEAR THE STRAIN OF A PIANO,
AND LET THAT BE ADDIE’S PIANO.
THAT--ADDIE’S PIANO WILL GO INTO THE CENTER OF THE ARTS,
AND WE WILL HAVE AN APPROPRIATE RECOGNITION
FOR BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK IN OUR CENTER FOR THE ARTS
AND ENABLE US TO FULLY EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE FOR THIS GREAT GIFT.
I THANK ALL OF YOU AGAIN.
I THANK HERMINA, I THANK BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK,
AND I ASK US ALL TO RESOLVE TO WORK EVER HARDER
TO KEEP THIS LOVE STORY GOING.
THANK YOU.
I WANT--
AND WITH THAT, I HAVE THE SPECIAL HONOR AND GREAT PRIVILEGE
TO PRESENT TO YOU THE WESTERBECK FAMILY TRUSTEE, HERMINA ALLEN.
HERMINA?
- THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I ACTUALLY WAS A NEIGHBOR OF BOTH THE WESTERBECKS,
AND IT WAS A REAL PRIVILEGE TO KNOW THEM.
THEY WERE CERTAINLY A LOVE STORY BECAUSE THEY WALKED AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOLDING HANDS.
THAT WAS THEIR GENERAL EVENING WALK,
AND BOB WOULD HAVE DOG BISCUITS IN HIS POCKETS
TO GIVE ALL THE DOGS AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND--HA HA!
BUT THEY WERE A LOVELY COUPLE, VERY UNASSUMING AND HUMBLE.
I AM PRIVILEGED TO HAVE SERVED AS TRUSTEE
FOR THIS ENDOWMENT TO PCC.
IT’S BEEN A PRIVILEGE TO DO THAT,
AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS THEIR HOPE,
TO CONTINUE THIS INSTITUTION AND BENEFIT THE STUDENTS HERE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
- FIRST, I’D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE FIELD REPRESENTATIVE TERESA LAMB SIMPSON.
SHE’S HERE REPRESENTING ADAM SCHIFF’S OFFICE, AND I’M REALLY PLEASED SHE’S HERE.
[APPLAUSE]
NOW, FROM THE OFFICE OF STATE ASSEMBLY MEMBER ANTHONY PORTANTINO,
I’D LIKE FIELD REPRESENTATIVE TANGANICA TURNER TO MOVE FORWARD.
AND NOW, FROM OFFICE OF STATE SENATOR CAROL LIU, FIELD REPRESENTATIVE CASEY LO.
THE STUDENT TRUSTEE FROM PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, NOLAN PACK,
WHO WOULD ALSO LIKE TO MAKE A PRESENTATION.
- THANK YOU, TRUSTEES, FOR THE SUPPORT THAT YOU GIVE TO THE ADMINISTRATION
AND THE FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS WHO DO OUR WORK.
THANK YOU AGAIN TO THE WESTERBECK FAMILY AND HERMINA ALLEN, THE TRUSTEE,
TO MEL AND THE FOUNDATION, TO OUR LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATIVES,
WHO ARE ALWAYS HERE, ALWAYS BEHIND US.
LET’S JUST TAKE THIS BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY
AND THIS WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL ACT OF GENEROSITY
THAT’LL HELP STUDENTS FOR GENERATIONS TO COME TO CONTINUE TO REALIZE THEIR DREAM.
LET’S JUST TAKE THIS AS FIRMAMENT TO MOVE FORWARD
AND MAKE THE DREAM A REALITY FOR MORE OF OUR STUDENTS.
I THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR FACULTY AND STAFF WHO’VE COME OUT TODAY,
AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR THE WORK THAT YOU’RE DOING,
AND I DECLARE THESE PROCEEDINGS AT AN END.
[APPLAUSE]
COLLEAGUES, STUDENTS.
MY NAME IS LISA SUGIMOTO.
I’M THE VICE PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE ADVANCEMENT,
AND IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME YOU TO PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
AND TO OUR PRESS CONFERENCE HONORING ADDIE AND ROBERT WESTERBECK
FOR THEIR GENEROUS GIFT, DONATED FOR STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
IN THE NAME OF ROBERT WESTERBECK.
NOW, BEFORE I INVITE OUR SUPERINTENDENT-PRESIDENT TO THE PODIUM,
I’D LIKE THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO STAND TO BE RECOGNIZED.
FIRST, I’D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE
PRESIDENT OF OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES, WILLIAM THOMSON...
[APPLAUSE]
TRUSTEE, DR. JEANETTE MANN...
TRUSTEE, BERLINDA BROWN...
TRUSTEE, LINDA WAH...
AND VICE PRESIDENT OF OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES, GEOFFREY BAUM.
I’D ALSO LIKE TO INTRODUCE OUR PASADENA CITY COLLEGE STUDENT TRUSTEE,
WHO REPRESENTS ALL OF OUR STUDENTS--NOLAN PACK.
ALSO, JAMIE HAMMOND IS OUR PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS.
AND TO MY RIGHT, THE PASADENA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION BOARD PRESIDENT, MEL COHEN.
BEHIND ME ARE TWO OF OUR OSHER SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS--
BRITTANY JOHNSON...
AND TATEV PAPIKYAN.
I’M ALSO GOING TO INTRODUCE SOME OF THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM OUR DIGNITARIES,
AND THEY WILL BE MAKING PRESENTATIONS TO US LATER ON IN THE PROGRAM.
FROM THE OFFICE OF CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF,
TERESA LAMB SIMPSON.
FROM THE OFFICE OF STATE ASSEMBLY MEMBER ANTHONY PORTANTINO,
TANGANICA TURNER.
FROM OUR OFFICE OF STATE SENATOR CAROL LIU, CASEY LO.
NOW I AM HONORED TO WELCOME TO THE PODIUM
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE’S SUPERINTENDENT-PRESIDENT,
DR. MARK ROCHA.
- THANK YOU, LISA.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, LISA, AND WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU
ON THIS BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL DAY.
I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR COMING OUT;
OBVIOUSLY, THANK THE SUPPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE FOUNDATION;
AND ESPECIALLY FOR THE WESTERBECK TRUSTEE, HERMINA ALLEN.
MY WORDS WILL BE BRIEF, BUT THE GRATITUDE WE EXPRESS TODAY
TO BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK IS UNLIMITED.
ALMOST EXACTLY 100 YEARS AGO, IN 1911,
WHEN ADDIE WESTERBECK WAS A YEAR OLD,
THE PASADENA SCHOOL BOARD PURCHASED THE PROPERTY ON WHICH WE NOW STAND
TO BUILD A HIGH SCHOOL, AND THEN A JUNIOR COLLEGE, FOR THE COMMON GOOD.
DURING THIS 100 YEARS, THIS GREAT COLLEGE HAS HAD MANY HISTORIC DAYS,
AND NOW LET THIS DAY, MAY 3, 2011,
STAND FOREVER IN OUR HISTORY AS BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK DAY,
A DAY THEY HAVE MADE POSSIBLE FOR US TO DECLARE AGAIN
OUR INTENTION TO CONTINUE OUR MISSION TO MAKE THE DREAM
OF QUALITY PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION POSSIBLE, A REALITY,
A DREAM THAT WILL BE A REALITY FOR GENERATIONS OF STUDENTS TO COME.
THE GENEROSITY OF BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK IS INDEED HISTORIC.
YOU HEARD LISA. IT IS THE LARGEST GIFT IN OUR HISTORY,
THE FIFTH-LARGEST IN THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
BUT TODAY WE CELEBRATE NOT ONLY THIS PROFOUND GENEROSITY,
BUT A COMMITMENT BY THE WESTERBECKS TO THE VERY IDEA
OF PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION.
WE CAN NEVER, NEVER FULLY EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE,
BUT I KNOW THAT BOB AND ADDIE
WOULD ASK NOTHING OF US IN RETURN
EXCEPT TO CONTINUE OUR MISSION,
EXCEPT TO CONTINUE OUR MISSION TO KEEP PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION
OPEN AND ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE.
WE ARE REALLY GATHERED HERE TODAY TO CELEBRATE A LOVE STORY.
I INVITE YOU IN TO SEE THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK TOGETHER.
THEY WERE IN LOVE; IN FACT, THEY MET HERE
WHEN ADDIE WAS A MUSIC TEACHER AND BOB WESTERBECK WAS HER STUDENT.
[SCATTERED LAUGHTER] BOB WENT ON, CLASS OF 1938.
BOB WENT ON, CLASS OF 1938,
WENT TO SCHOOL AT THE SAME TIME WITH JACKIE ROBINSON, AND HAD A GREAT CAREER AS AN ENGINEER.
ADDIE WAS A FACULTY MEMBER HERE AND RETIRED IN 1971.
THEIRS WAS AN ENDURING LOVE STORY FOR EACH OTHER
AND FOR PASADENA CITY COLLEGE.
THEIR GIFT WILL MAKE POSSIBLE HUNDREDS OF NEW SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR OUR STUDENTS TO PURSUE THE AMERICAN DREAM
FOR WHICH BOB AND ADDIE WERE SO SUPREMELY GRATEFUL.
NOW, AS I SAY, ADDIE WAS A PIANO TEACHER,
AND ON THIS BEAUTIFUL, LATE SPRING DAY,
I ASK YOU TO LISTEN CLOSELY, AND IF YOU LISTEN CLOSELY ENOUGH,
YOU WILL HEAR THE STRAIN OF A PIANO,
AND LET THAT BE ADDIE’S PIANO.
THAT--ADDIE’S PIANO WILL GO INTO THE CENTER OF THE ARTS,
AND WE WILL HAVE AN APPROPRIATE RECOGNITION
FOR BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK IN OUR CENTER FOR THE ARTS
AND ENABLE US TO FULLY EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE FOR THIS GREAT GIFT.
I THANK ALL OF YOU AGAIN.
I THANK HERMINA, I THANK BOB AND ADDIE WESTERBECK,
AND I ASK US ALL TO RESOLVE TO WORK EVER HARDER
TO KEEP THIS LOVE STORY GOING.
THANK YOU.
I WANT--
AND WITH THAT, I HAVE THE SPECIAL HONOR AND GREAT PRIVILEGE
TO PRESENT TO YOU THE WESTERBECK FAMILY TRUSTEE, HERMINA ALLEN.
HERMINA?
- THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I ACTUALLY WAS A NEIGHBOR OF BOTH THE WESTERBECKS,
AND IT WAS A REAL PRIVILEGE TO KNOW THEM.
THEY WERE CERTAINLY A LOVE STORY BECAUSE THEY WALKED AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOLDING HANDS.
THAT WAS THEIR GENERAL EVENING WALK,
AND BOB WOULD HAVE DOG BISCUITS IN HIS POCKETS
TO GIVE ALL THE DOGS AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND--HA HA!
BUT THEY WERE A LOVELY COUPLE, VERY UNASSUMING AND HUMBLE.
I AM PRIVILEGED TO HAVE SERVED AS TRUSTEE
FOR THIS ENDOWMENT TO PCC.
IT’S BEEN A PRIVILEGE TO DO THAT,
AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS THEIR HOPE,
TO CONTINUE THIS INSTITUTION AND BENEFIT THE STUDENTS HERE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
- FIRST, I’D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE FIELD REPRESENTATIVE TERESA LAMB SIMPSON.
SHE’S HERE REPRESENTING ADAM SCHIFF’S OFFICE, AND I’M REALLY PLEASED SHE’S HERE.
[APPLAUSE]
NOW, FROM THE OFFICE OF STATE ASSEMBLY MEMBER ANTHONY PORTANTINO,
I’D LIKE FIELD REPRESENTATIVE TANGANICA TURNER TO MOVE FORWARD.
AND NOW, FROM OFFICE OF STATE SENATOR CAROL LIU, FIELD REPRESENTATIVE CASEY LO.
THE STUDENT TRUSTEE FROM PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, NOLAN PACK,
WHO WOULD ALSO LIKE TO MAKE A PRESENTATION.
- THANK YOU, TRUSTEES, FOR THE SUPPORT THAT YOU GIVE TO THE ADMINISTRATION
AND THE FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS WHO DO OUR WORK.
THANK YOU AGAIN TO THE WESTERBECK FAMILY AND HERMINA ALLEN, THE TRUSTEE,
TO MEL AND THE FOUNDATION, TO OUR LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATIVES,
WHO ARE ALWAYS HERE, ALWAYS BEHIND US.
LET’S JUST TAKE THIS BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY
AND THIS WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL ACT OF GENEROSITY
THAT’LL HELP STUDENTS FOR GENERATIONS TO COME TO CONTINUE TO REALIZE THEIR DREAM.
LET’S JUST TAKE THIS AS FIRMAMENT TO MOVE FORWARD
AND MAKE THE DREAM A REALITY FOR MORE OF OUR STUDENTS.
I THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR FACULTY AND STAFF WHO’VE COME OUT TODAY,
AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR THE WORK THAT YOU’RE DOING,
AND I DECLARE THESE PROCEEDINGS AT AN END.
[APPLAUSE]