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2009-11 BOARD MEMBERS
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 SAM RUSSO
President
Sam has taught at Cypress College for the past twenty-three years. He has a B.A. in Philosophy from Pomona Pitzer, and
an M.A. in Philosophy from USC. He was
also one of the core group which helped establish Adjunct Faculty United. He has been President of our local for
four terms, and served on the negatiations team . He also served for the last eight years on the Executive
Council of the CFT. On the Executive
Council, he has served on the Legal Defense Fund Committee. For four years, he was Chair of
the CFT Part-Time Faculty Committee.
He also served for two years on the AFT Higher Education Program
and Policy Council as well as the Academic Staffing Crisis Committee of the
PPC. Prior to his work with AdFac,
he served on the negotiating team of the El Camino College Federation of
Teachers and was a Vice President of the ECCFT. He has also been an official
delegate to the last ten CFT Conventions.
"Our first Contract was one of the best in
the state, and we have made significant progress in terms of compensation,
health benefits, rehire rights, grievance process, etc., but we still have a
long way to go."
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 BARBARA RUSSO
Secretary
In September, 1976, I stepped onto the Cypress College campus and never left. I was hired in a classified position for Community Relations, which Prop 13 quickly abolished; but luck was on my side and I was offered a job in the Adjunct Faculty office doing payroll and helping adjuncts with whatever they needed. In the early 1980s, I became Division Office Manager in Fine Arts where I worked until I retired in 2004. In 1986, I received my Masters in Sociology from Cal State University, Fullerton, and began teaching sociology at Cypress, and I still teach sociology there. When Adjunct Faculty United was formed, I was the third person to sign up, right after Linda Cushing, our first union president, and my husband, Sam Russo. Sam and I live in Placentia.
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 NATASHA BAUMAN
VP Cypress
I teach college composition and critical thinking at Cypress College. I have a master's degree from Loyola Marymount and an MFA in fiction from Vermont College. I am a life-long union member and activist. As Vice President of AdFac, my top priority is salary and benefits equity for all part-timers. I believe the State of California should offer full health care and retirement benefits to all adjunct faculty members who work for California's public community colleges.
And I believe each and every faculty member should receive equal pay for equal work. I will also continue to work to increase union membership among adjuncts.
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 RAY RAUGUST
Treasurer
With the recall of AdFac’s treasurer last May, AdFac appointed Ray Raugust as Interim Treasurer. In 2011, Ray was elected Treasurer of the Executive Board. Ray has taught accounting at Cypress College since 1996.He holds a BA in Business Administration from California State University, Fullerton. He is a California CPA and served as a senior tax associate and senior audit associate with Deloitte Touche, LLP before joining Hughes Aircraft as a senior internal auditor. He established and managed his full service public accounting practice in Santa Ana.He
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 JACK MIEROP
VP Fullerton
Jack Mierop was appointed VP Fullerton in
late Fall 2011. Jack teaches speech communication at Fullerton and has been
teaching there since 2005. And he is a part-time lecturer at California State
University, Fullerton. He has been teaching at the university and
community-college level for 15 years.
Jack earned his bachelors and masters in Speech Communication, with
interpersonal/intercultural emphasis at the graduate level, from Cal State
University, Fullerton. He has experience in communication education for
training seminars, classrooms and small groups. He is a motivational speaker,
life coach and founder of Jack Up Your Life, a presentation designed to
motivate and create personal peace and positive change in a wide range of
audiences.
Jack resides in Long Beach.
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 SLIMANE GUEDDI
VP SCE
Prior to joining NOCCCD as a part-time ESL instructor since Fall 1999, Dr. Slimane
Gueddi was Assistant Professor of French Language and Literature at Whittier College as well as an adjunct professor of French at San Diego City College. Dr. Gueddi
earned a JD from the University of Algiers Law School, He then earned a Ph.D.
in French
Literature from UC, San Diego. His dissertation is available on four continents. Dr. Gueddi co-edited the college textbook "Deux
Mondes" (used in about 60 colleges and Universities) with the late well-known
linguist Tracy Terrell. He also speaks French, Spanish, Arabic and Berber (oral
language spoken in North Africa).
Dr Gueddi has been the vice-president for SCE since 2004 as well as a
member of the negotiating team.
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 DENNY KONSHAK
Grievance/Negotiations Consultant
Denny taught English at Fullerton College. He is retired, having
previously taught at Yakima Valley College in Washington State,
University of Hawaii,
Maui, and Seattle University. Always
happy to discuss foreign films, Denny has also taught (and published on)
classic Japanese cinema and taught Latin American cinema, having done research
in Brazil with a Fullbright fellowship. Denny was part of the union's Negotiation
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 JUDI MCDUFF
Executive Director
Judi was elected Executive
Director in January, 2008, and is the only executive director of a part-time
only local in California.
Judi is a former part-timer in the NOCCCD who taught beginning computer
classes. She also served as Editor of the SCE Class Schedule for 9 years.
In 2000, Judi began working for the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in
the Fullerton College Organizing Project office where she helped organize
Adjunct Faculty United. She was a professional Staff Person from 2006-2008, and is serving her fourth year on our
negotiations team. Judi holds a California community college teaching credential and a Masters degree in Journalism from Penn State University.
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 CATHERINE WHITSETT
Chief Negotiator
As a student, Catherine has
taken classes through all three schools at NOCCCD. Since 1992, she has taught part-time for
the School of Continuing
Education and still teaches at Cypress College. She was here before the union came, and
she appreciates the substantial increases that have been brought through
negotiations. She served two years as Secretary of the union and became Chief Negotiator in Fall 2009. She enjoys serving on the board and would like to help
improve conditions for our union members
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 BOB FEY
Past President
Bob taught Economics and
Environmental Studies at CSU Fullerton and Economics at various community
colleges in Orange County. He has been
an active member of Adjunct Faculty United since July, 2000. He has a B.A. in
Economics from the University of Cincinnati, an M.S. in
Environmental Studies from CSU Fullerton, and an M.A. in Economics from CSU
Fullerton. His professional experience includes business management,
environmental regulation, environmental consulting, and environmental field
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 FRANK OPPEDISANO
CFT Field Representative
Frank R. Oppedisano, who replaced Mary Millet as CFT Field Representative to our local
union in 2010. Frank has served as Executive Director in the Newport-Mesa Federation of Teachers (certificated employees), Local 1794, Costa Mesa, since 2006. He began working for AFT in 1999. Originally from Syracuse, he interned for AFT in Washington, DC, organized in California for AFT/CFT until 2001, served as Executive Director of Coast Federation of Educators from 2002 to 2004, and then as Executive Director with Newport-Mesa. He’s also on the Board of Trustees for the Newport-Mesa Schools Foundation.
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 PETE CHRISTENSON
COPE Chair
Pete Christenson became AdFac’s new COPE chair, replacing retiree Tony Jordan, in spring 2010. After becoming interested
in our local, Pete volunteered to make phone calls for our COPE campaign last winter. He served as an official delegate to the CFT Convention in March. And he supported our efforts on AB 1807 at the District Board meeting in May 2010. Pete asks lots of questions and is really interested in the issues part-timers face in the current economic climate. He taught at Cypress and Golden West Colleges in the early ’80s. He has been teaching mathematics at Cypress College since 2002. He has also been a financial advisor
since 1996 and is currently with Ameriprise Financial Services. Pete and his wife, Terry, live in Brea.
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2012 Executive Board Meetings
January 20
February 24
March 16
April 20
May 18
Meetings begin at 12:30pm in the ADFAC office @ 305 N. Harbor Blvd., Suite 313, Fullerton
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