Saturday, October 27, 2007

Puentistas Attend 2007 Puente Motivational Conference at UC Berkeley October 27th.

Early start from Napa Valley College--the sun wasn't even up yet!



NVC Puentistas and other colleges gather in Wheeler Auditorium. Students, Counselors and Instructors were welcomed by Puente Program leaders and heard the featured morning speaker, Dr. Rosa Perez, Chancellor, San Jose/Evergreen Valley College.











ROLL CALL!!!

Featured afternoon speaker, Dr. Alex Saragoza, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley



Puente Explosion! Puentistas from Northern California perform.
It's Napa Valley College's turn. First up, Nataly and Daisy!









Then the rest of NVC Puentistas join them.





Other performances.




Friday, October 26, 2007

Daniel Chacon Visits NVC and Puentistas

Daniel Chacon, author of Chicano Chicanery, and the shadows took him, and the upcoming The Chicano Book of the Dead, visited the Puente class and spoke before the whole college on October 18th, 2007. All students and vistors had the opportunity to have the author sign their books after Chacon read passages from his upcoming book.

















Sunday, October 21, 2007

Puentistas Participate in AIDS Walk

Beautiful day and excited participants! Please send additional photos to cgillis@napavalley.edu so that I can upload them to this page.