Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours
Source: The Gallery: A 25th Anniversary Photographic Directory of the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community Faculty, Administration, and Staff. El Cajon, CA: Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, 1987. p98.
Source: English Department Gallery Photos. Private Photograph and Documents Collection. Copyright Homer B. Lusk. Digitally reprinted with permission, courtesy of Homer Lusk, Grossmont College Professor Emeritus and former English Department Chair.
Source: The Gallery, 1970: A Photographic Directory of the Grossmont College Staff. El Cajon, CA: Grossmont Junior College District, 1970. p29. [Cropped.]
Source: Statesman Yearbook, Class of 1960. San Diego, CA:, Abraham Lincoln High School, 1960. p10. Image used with permission PENDING; copyright, Abraham Lincoln High School Digital Archives collection.
During the decade following World War II, Frederick Thomas Stollenwerk was initially studying to become a Roman Catholic priest and educator, earning his B.A. from St. John's Seminary College in Camarillo, California, then continuing on to graduate studies at Immaculate Heart Seminary College in San Diego. However, by 1955, while completing his Korean War service as U.S. Army Private 1st Class Fred Stollenwerk, he married in Los Angeles. Three years later, now with a wife and family, Stollenwerk moved to San Diego and began working as a Spanish and Latin instructor at Abraham Lincoln High School. By 1963, he had transitioned into English as his primary subject but continued his role as sponsor of the school’s Latin club. Also during his Lincoln tenure, he would get to know colleagues Glenda Richter and Mary Hutchinson Donnelly, who would become colleagues to him again after 1967, when Fred Stollenwerk left Lincoln and joined the teaching staff of Grossmont Junior College’s English Department in El Cajon.
As a former high school language arts instructor, Stollenwerk found that teaching vocabulary and reading improvement for Grossmont College was well in his wheelhouse and comfortable enough to go on teaching with excellence for the rest of his tenure. In fact, he earned for himself the title of 1971 "Outstanding Educator In America."
By the end of fall of 1989, after his sixtieth birthday and one year short of his twenty-five year benchmark for retirement, Frederick Joseph Stollenwerk retired in order to enjoy more time with his family. In the following spring, he was conferred the status of Professor Emeritus, then, in 1993, he settled in Vancouver, Washington, to live tax-free for the next sixteen years, never to return to San Diego.
In the summer of 2009, at age 79, Stollenwerk passed away and was buried in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Oregon.
Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours
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