Get CPR Certified

 

Earn your CPR certification and prepare to become an emergency medical technician by enrolling in Foothill's HLTH 5: Emergency Response course. The course is offered evenings and weekends at the Main Campus in Los Altos Hills and Middlefield Campus in Palo Alto.

 

For registration instructions, access www.foothill.edu or call (650) 949-7325.

 

 

Holocaust Memory in the Literary Imagination of Germany

 

Explore the narrative and dramatic strategies with which authors in both East and West Germany resisted the official discourse on the Holocaust, and shaped Germany's current response to its criminal past by enrolling in the four-unit GERM 39: German Literature in Translation course.

 

You'll examine 20th century literature with an emphasis on the role literature plays in the remembrance of national crises and in the transformation of national identity. You'll read Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar, Bruno Apitz's Naked Among Wolves, Max Frisch's Andorra and Peter Weiss' The Investigation. Texts can be read in German or English. Class discussions will be in English.

 

For registration instructions, access www.foothill.edu or call (650) 949-7325.

 

 

Improve Your Podcasts & 'Blogs with Journalism Training

 

Help audiences get the most out of your podcasts and 'blogs by developing journalism skills when you enroll in the two-unit ENGL 114: Producing a Student Newspaper course. As part of your coursework, you can write articles, take photos or draw editorial cartoons for The Sentinel, Foothill's student-operated newspaper. You'll also learn key concepts regarding journalism procedures, laws and ethics; try your hand at auxiliary duties such as advertising, sales and distribution; and evaluate ethical and commercial issues in journalism.

 

For registration information, access www.foothill.edu or call (650) 949-7325.

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Plan to Study Abroad

Spend Spring in Florence, Italy

 

Experience the excitement and culture of a foreign country as you earn college units by participating in the Foothill-De Anza Campus Abroad Program. Courses are taught in English by Foothill-De Anza faculty, and are designed to take advantage of all the resources the host countries offer.

 

Join us for the academic experience of a lifetime in Spring Quarter 2006 for our trip to Florence, Italy, birthplace of the Renaissance.

 

For more information, access call (650) 949-7614 or access www.foothill.edu. Saturday Seminars

Intensive Travel Training

 

In addition to offering an associate degree, the Foothill College Travel Careers Program presents an exciting series of Saturday seminars for travel professionals and enthusiasts.

 

This fall, seminars include

• TC 79A: Effective Travel Sales Techniques I on Oct. 8;
• TC 79E: Effective Travel Sales Techniques II on Oct. 15; and
• TC 79D: Wonders of Egypt on Nov. 5. All seminars meet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For registration instructions, access www.foothill.edu or call (650) 949-7325.

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Stonebrook Court Owner Started His Stand-Out Career at Foothill College

"This house is like radio production on a really big scale"

 

Kelly Porter stands out.

 

As a teen, the Palo Alto native completed his FCC radio broadcasting license in 1979 at Foothill College's student-operated radio station, KFJC, before he earned his driver's license.

 

 

As a transfer student, Porter stood out at USC when the young man approached the university's president with a grant proposal to create a student-operated radio station using KFJC as a model.

 

As an advertising and management professional, he rose through the ranks of ad agencies and television networks in New York, Florida and Los Angeles, and ultimately became part of the nexus of executives that launched Fox Cable Television's Network Division.

 

As a student at Stanford, he completed the Sloan Fellows Executive Management Degree Program.

 

Back home in the Bay Area in 1998, his leadership as CEO/chairman of Catch TV led to the creation of interactive television technologies‹and a handsome buy out by communication industry powerhouse, Liberty Media.

 

The following year, Porter and his wife, Christina, purchased the one piece of Los Altos Hills property that really stands out: Stonebrook Court. The 91-year-old Tudor mansion is a local landmark, faces Foothill College and has sweeping panorama views of Silicon Valley. The estate was previously known as Morgan Manor. When the couple purchased the estate, Porter says, it resembled a cross between a beat up frat house and the Addams Family abode.

 

As homeowners of the estate that includes 25,000 square feet of house on eight acres, the Porters sought other stand-out professionals‹craftsmen, artisans and designers‹to restore the estate with great care and with a commitment to preserve the priceless artwork and craftsmanship of the estate, while preparing the home and grounds for the next century. The restoration project began in early 1999, and has involved nearly 2,000 people. "I feel extraordinarily fortunate to live here," Porter says. "I look out our living room window and see the hospital I was born in, Foothill College where I really developed my interest in radio and the communications industry, and the university where I completed one of the nation's most prestigious degree programs."

 

An alumnus of Menlo-Atherton High School, Porter developed an interest in radio by tinkering around in the high school's very low-reach radio station. When he was a high school freshman, he was ready to learn more about radio and enrolled in Foothill's popular Radio Broadcasting Program. In addition to course lectures, he got hands-on experience working in Foothill's KFJC 89.7 FM radio station.

 

"In 1979, KFJC's alternative format included play lists of artists such as U2, REM, The Ramones and other intriguing artists who you weren't going to hear on any other Bay Area station," Porter says. "I discovered that if I could plug into a place like KFJC that peaked my interest and creativity, I could learn to do anything required to run a station, including advertising, creative/talent, management and production. I was fortunate to be able to turn my interest and education in radio into a rewarding career." The experience of working in an actual radio station also gives students an unparalleled opportunity to express their creativity through a variety of programming genres. Foothill's radio courses are taught by Robert "Doc" Pelzel, who joined the college's faculty in 1980. Pelzel has trained a generation of radio broadcasting students, including Porter. "Even with the multitude of media choices we have in the Bay Area, KFJC and Foothill's Radio Broadcasting Program play an extremely important role," Pelzel says. "You come to KFJC to start paying your dues ‹you learn the technology and regulations, master production skills, work on air, and develop a solid foundation of knowledge about the communications industry." Porter echoes Pelzel's enthusiasm about the role KFJC plays in our community and goes a step further. "The media, particularly radio, is very powerful," says Porter. "For most people, that power is not accessible. Community radio stations, like KFJC, allow you to experience that power. You're able to reach audiences with your message, music and expression. Places like KFJC are critical to the democratic process." "A typical commercial radio station format will include 400 to 800 songs," Pelzel says. "More than 60,000 albums are included in KFJC's amazing and obscure music library, including 78s, 33s, and tapes that are simply not replaceable," Pelzel says. "We've also created our niche by producing live recordings of bands you won't hear on other stations."

 

Foothill classes helped Porter develop an important skills set that he would use throughout his pursuits in higher education.

 

"I attended prestigious universities and I always include Foothill in the list of prestigious schools I attended. I learned important life lessons at Foothill College because KFJC gave me the opportunity to 'learn by doing'," Porter says. "Deadlines, production work, collaborating with other students, coordinating talent and live performances, and a variety of other activities rounded out my Foothill experience."

 

"I had no idea that this is where I would ultimately land as an adult," Porter says. "This region is the best place in the country to live. Nowhere else do you find the intelligence, relationships, creativity, acceptance of newness, all of which support a genuine entrepreneurial culture. So much in life is luck. I'm lucky to be so lucky."

 

Learn more about Stonebrook Court at www.stonebrook.com. For more information about Foothill's Radio Broadcasting Program and KFJC, access www.foothill.edu.

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