Hiring History This page provides a illustrative history of the English Department's hires, including
a Hiring Lineage graphic depicting the "ancestry" of the current faculty and administrators of the English Department ;
a Growth and Productivity Chart disaggregating the rate of new hires per chair from 1961 to present;
a roster of English Department Chairs since 1961 and their legacy of new faculty hires, by name.
Hiring Lineage The English Department's "family tree" of full-time faculty, color-coded and branched by hiring Chair and arranged by year since 1961.
Growth and Productivity Chart Number and rate of hires per English Department Chair since 1961, including positions redefined, terminated or voluntarily discontinued for reasons other than retirement.
Legacy Roster
Charter Hires 1961
Grossmont Junior College District:
James K. Bell 1961-1963 Chester H. Palmer 1961-1965 George M. Washington 1961-1965* (*tenured to Foreign Languages Dept. 1965-1976)
Ray Reynolds 1961-1968* (*tenured to Journalism Dept. 1968-1983)
Charline Lamons 1961-1983 (Chair 1963-1966; 1968-1969) Robert W. Danielson 1961-1986 (Chair 1961-1963; 1967-1969)
Bob Danielson 1961-1963
1967-1968
Robert W. Danielson:
Jane R. Spooner 1962-1963* (*tenured to Speech Dept. 1963-1983)
Evangelos P. Phillips 1962-1965
Barbara W. Faber 1962-1965
John Saetti 1962-1965* (*tenured to Humanities Dept. 1965-2000)
George Kirazian, Jr . 1962-1986 (Chair 1966-1967)
Charline Lamons 1963-1966
1968-1969
Charline Lamons:
Elizabeth Juul 1964-1968
Leone Finalle 1964-1972
Jack Lynch 1964-1983 Marie W. Sweadner 1964-1985 Z. Dean Parks 1964-1991 (Governing Board Member, Trustee #4 1992-1993)Lloyd Norwood 1965-1977 Doris Alexander 1965-1981 Sylvia K. Musik 1965-1981 Glenda K. Richter 1965-1984 (Chair 1983-1984)Dr. Len Pelletieri 1965-1986 Carol (Duffy) Baker 1965-1991 Homer Lusk 1969-1996 (Chair 1974-1977, 1978-1983, and 1984-1994)Michael A. Evans 1969-2003
George Kirazian 1966-1967
George Kirazian:
Fidelia Dickinson (hired summer 1966, quit by September 1966) George M. Peranteau 1966-1968* (terminated) Harold Loumeau 1966-1968* (terminated) Robert E. Moore 1966-1981 (Chair 1969-1970)C. Frank Vittor 1966-1982 (Chair 1970-1972)Vesta Penrod Gibbs 1966-1983
Judith C. Barkley 1966-1999
Glenn Lane 1967-1991
Stanford T. Carlson 1967-1991 Frederick J. Stollenwerk 1967-1999 (Chair 1972-1974)
Bob Moore 1969-1970
Bob Moore:
C. Frank Vittor 1970-1972
C. Frank Vittor:
Jack Barranger 1970-1979 Dorothy Ledbetter 1970-1994
Ruth Anderson 1970-1999 (Chair (1977-1978)Peter Bradley 1970-1999
John Barnier 1970-2003 (Assistant Chair 1972-1974)
Frederick J. Stollenwerk 1972-1974
Fred Stollenwerk:
Dr. Elaine McLevie 1972-1979 (Division Dean Communication and Fine Arts 1979-1983)
Ruth Anderson 1977-1978
Ruth Anderson:
Glenda Richter 1983-1984
Glenda K. Richter:
Dr. Mary Donnelly 1983-2003 (Acting Dean 1991-1982; Dept. Chair 1994-1999)
Homer Lusk 1974-1977
1978-1983
1984-1994
Homer Lusk:
Patricia K. Bennett 1987-2006* (*tenured to ESL Dept. 2006-2012)
Nelson Paler 1990-2004
Susan Jensen 1990-2011
Dr. Oralee Holder 1990-2019 (Chair 2006-2019)Joseph Medina 1990-2012
Virginia Berger 1991-2006
Kamal (Kamla) Kapur 1992-2006
Cathy Harvey 1992-2018
Stephanie Mood 1993-2012
Julia Cardenas 1994-
Mary Donnelly 1994- 19 99
Dr. Mary Donnelly:
Chuck Passentino 1995-2006* (*tenured to ESL 2006- )
Paul "Gary" Phillips 1995-2011 (Chair 1999-2006)Dr. Marilyn (Estep) Ivanovichi 1999-2011
Linda (Differding) Mitchell 1997-2013
Dr. Anthony Ding 1999-2017
Gary Phillips 1999-2006
Gary Phillips:
Nancy Herzfeld Pipkin 2000-2006* (*tenured to ESL 2006-2012)
Janice Bellinghiere 2000-
Kamala Balasubramanian 2001-
Ryan Griffith 2001-
Sydney Brown 2001-
Dr. Qais Sako 2001-2018
Dr. Joan Ahrens 2005-2018 (Interim Dean , Art, Humanities, Social Sciences 2018-)Ryane Harris Granados 2005-2006
Dr. Lisa Ledri-Aguilar 2005-
Jenny Nolen 2005-
Micah Jendian 2006-
Dr. Tate Hurvitz 2006 - (Co-Chair 2019- ) Karl J. Sherlock 2006-
Oralee Holder 2006- 20 19
Dr. Oralee Holder:
Adelle (Schmitt) Roe, 2007-
Dr. Cindi Davis Harris 2008 - (Co-Chair 2019- )Catherine Miller 2013-
Alan Traylor 2014-
Daniela Sow 2015-
Sarah L. Martin 2016-
Michelle Barbeau Crooks 2016-
Enrique Cervantes, 2019-
Adam Deutsch, 2019-
