Yorktown University Newsletter
August 6, 2010

Faces of Our Students

Our newest Yorktown University student, Guada Perry, was born in the Philippines and lived in Hawaii for fourteen years where she finished high school. As you can imagine, Hawaii offers recreational opportunities that most of us were never fortunate enough to experience when we were growing up. She fondly remembers barbecues on the beach at Christmas, school beach parties and the lure of the Pacific Ocean.

Guada feels that her high school years in Hawaii could have been more challenging, and that experience has shaped her desire for a good college education. Guada moved from Hawaii to Southern California’s City of Orange, in Orange County, where she attended Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.

Unfortunately, and despite Orange County’s reputation as a conservative county, she found Orange Coast College to be very liberal politically. PC ideas were forced on students, she reports. The Political Science and English Departments were the worst, favoring very liberal ideas that excluded discussion about religion and values. Other Departments were equally politically correct. In a Speech class where her instructor encouraged openness, she was ostracized for her views on sex and evolution. When her topics were non-PC, she reports, “I was shut down.” Towards her last few semesters, she simply lost interest in trying hard to excel academically while working against the tide of her professors’ views.

“It’s tough being an oddity,” Guada says.

We asked Guada how she found out about Yorktown University and she reports that she was reading Patriots History of the United States by Larry Schweikart. Dr. Larry Schweikart developed a course in the History of Western Civilization and favorably mentions Yorktown University in that book. So Guada looked us up on the Internet, made application, and was admitted as a Degree Candidate for the BA in Government.

Guada has a one year old daughter, and her husband owns and manages his own fitness facility in Irvine, California. Guada says that she intends to find a good Christian school for her daughter or she’ll become a Homeschool mother.

She has completed her first course, US History to 1800, and tells us that she believes that the recorded lectures and assigned readings in that course taught her more about American history than she had learned in all previous courses she has taken. She has chosen Govt201, Origins of the Constitution, as her next course.

Thank you, Guada, for telling us something about yourself.

On the Road with Dr. Wade Shol in Southern, California

Yorktown’s Director of Military Admissions, former U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer, Dr. Wade Shol, is Yorktown’s Charles Kuralt. Kuralt, a CBS journalist who reported the sights, sounds and the people of America, stayed on the road for a quarter-century. In order to do that, he worked from a Recreational Vehicle. Dr. Shol, similarly, is always on the road for Yorktown University and he has just returned from a tour of bases in Southern California.

Here is his report on his recent tour of southern California military bases:

“From the very beginning when this tour was planned, I was determined to finish my trip with a stop at the Ronald Reagan Library in Thousand Oaks. This presidential library is located at a stunning location that every American should visit at least once. Having stood on this tour before the statutes of James Stockdale and Chuck Yeager, I was now standing before the towering statue of Ronald Reagan at the entrance to his library. I was left wondering where America found these men of demonstrated greatness?

God’s Providence placed them at that moment in American history where from modest means they rose to save our way of life from those seeking to destroy it.

I had to ask myself, “Are we still able to produce men of such quality?”

It is obvious, from visiting military installations over the course of the week of July 18-24, that there are men and women willing to rise to every occasion. Those serving today choose to do service fully aware of the risks and sacrifices they will be asked to make.”

Click here to read his full report:

Yorktown University’s New Advisory Board in Sport Management

In order to stay abreast of developments in the field of Sport Management, Dean Gary Barrette recruited eighteen sport management professionals to guide development of Yorktown’s MBA in Entrepreneurship and Sport Management for accreditation. Here are the names and affiliations of those volunteering their time and experience:

Laing E. Kennedy, Kent State University, Athletic Director (Retired)

Kent, OH

Bruce Singman, All Pro Sports, Attorney

Pacific Palisades, CA

Nancy Hobbs, American Trail Running Association, Executive Director

Colorado Springs, CO

Paul H Viglianti, Entertainment & Sports Mgmt Consulting, Principal

Ft Wayne, IN

Kirk Goodman, John O'Donnell Stadium, Vice President

Davenport, IA

Ray Fieldhouse, Midland Rockhounds, Assistant General Manager

Midland, TX

John Benedict, Monroe Civic Center, Director EEFS

Monroe, LA

John A. Gordon, NIU Convocation Center, Director

DeKalb, IL

Josh Olerud, Rockford Riverhawks, General Manager

Loyes Park, IL

Joe Pinto, Jupiter Hammerheads, General Manager

Jupiter, FL

Keith Hackett, University of Nevada-Reno, Assistant Athletic Director

Reno, NV

Dot Lischick, World Arena, General Manager

Colorado Springs, CO

Dennis Carpenter, Boys & Girls Clubs, Palm Beach County Director

West Palm Beach, FL

Bob Kuban, Elite Coaching Concepts, Inc., CEO

Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Jeffrey Barrette, Deutsche Bank, Vice President (Retired)

West Palm Beach, FL

Darren Prince, Prince Marketing Group, President/CEO

Livingston, NJ

Jeff Barrett, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, CEO

Wilkes-Barre, PA

Robert Rosen, RLR Associates, Founder and Principal

New York, NY

Sincerely yours,

Richard J. Bishirjian, Ph.D.
President
Yorktown University