Dr. Alma Alford (biology/political science ’77) is a physician for Native Americans in New Mexico.
Diana Blackledge (English ’71) is the assistant superintendant for Riverside County Office of Education.
Steve Berzansky (history ’89) and David Peery (business administration ’89), are co-founders of Steven Walker Homes. Steven Walker Homes was founded on principles of integrity and ethics, two ingredients that continue to add to their success. Steven Walker Homes develops quality, affordable homes that greatly enhance any community from California to the Carolinas.
Marilyn Blackaby (social work ’60) and her husband, Henry, produce and lead the popular Christian seminars, Experiencing God, based on Henry Blackaby’s book by the same name.
Matt Brown (political science ’95) is senior pastor of Sandals Church, which has met on the campus of California Baptist University since May 2001. He and his family began the church in 1997, targeting Generation X. In the process, young families and older couples began to join. The church now has a large congregation and will be moving to a new facility within Riverside.
Dr. Jai Won Choi (mathematics/English ’66) worked as a statistician with the Centers for Disease Control for more than 30 years. In 2008, he began working at the Medical College of Georgia, in Augusta, GA, as a full professor in the Department of Biostatistics. He has published more than 50 papers in various science and research journals.
David Fitzgerald (political science ’81) served as a Foreign Service officer for the U.S. Department of State at the U.S. Embassy in Panama.
Jack Hawkins, Jr. (business administration ’77) is the former president of Diffenbaugh Construction of Riverside. Diffenbaugh is a full service construction organization providing clients construction management and general contracting services, including pre-construction architectural and engineering assistance for corporate accounts throughout the United States. The company’s client list includes: Central City Mall, City of San Bernardino, Flexsteel Industries, FMC Corporation, General Electric, Harvest Christian Fellowship, Home Base, Home Depot, Irvine Company, Nestle, U.S.A., New Balance, Sheraton Hotels, Smart & Final, Toro Company, Wells Fargo Bank.
Gary Horn (business administration ’86) is president of Horn & Associates, a development company in the Inland Empire.
Amy Johnson (English ’90) is the afternoon news anchor at WHDH/ABC in Boston, one of the top-ranked television stations in the U.S. She was named “Volunteer of the Year” for the Hillside Boys and Girls Club while she worked in Milwaukee.
Dr. Steve Johnson (science ’77) is a Riverside dentist who actively supports the community.
Chrystal Kern (criminal justice ’76) is the CFO for APCO Worldwide, a global public affairs agency based in Washington, DC.
Martha Lamkin (English ’64) retired as president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation for Education. She directed the foundation since its inception in 1997. She was instrumental in developing the concept of the Foundation during her tenure as executive vice president of Corporate Advancement at USA Group, a post she assumed in 1991. During her tenure at USA Group, she also served on the boards of USA Group, USA Funds and USA Group Loan Services.
During her more than 30-year career, Lamkin also served as executive director of corporate responsibility and government affairs for Cummins Engine Company, Columbus, Indiana; Manager for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Indiana office; and attorney with the firm of Lowe, Gray, Steele and Hoffman in Indianapolis.
Collette Lee (information systems management ’99) is the owner of one of the region’s most successful real estate agencies, Tower Realty. Collette is a founding member of CBU’s Board of Visitors.
Cheryl McCarthy (political science/public administration ’84) is the executive vice president of Surado, Inc., a software development and consulting firm.
Angela McCathran (business administration ’01) is the president and CEO of Shell Employees Credit Union in Houston, TX.
Dr. Mary Minor (life science ’90) runs and owns Dayton Valley Veterinary Clinic in Dayton, Nevada.
Dr. George Musacchio (English ’62) taught English at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor from 1990 until his retirement in May 2004. Dr. Musacchio has published articles on Milton, John Bunyan, and J.R.R. Tolkien, but he is best known as a C.S. Lewis scholar. Dr. Musacchio was the first holder of the Frank W. Mayborn Chair of Arts and Sciences at UMHB. He currently holds the honorary title of Vann Research Professor and Professor Emeritus at the university. Dr. Musacchio taught English for 25 years at California Baptist University. Active in the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society, he edited its bulletin, The Lamp Post, from 1977 through 1980.
Dr. David Music (music ’70) is the Thad Roberts Chair of Church Music at Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, TX.
Dick Phillips (business administration ’85) is president and owner of Skytronics, Inc. in El Segundo, CA. Skytronics, Inc. is a supplier of parts to the general aviation and commercial aviation industry.
Dr. Joe Pinkerton (life science and behavioral science ’85) is a medical doctor in North Carolina.
Daniel Pryfogle (English ’90), president of Signal Hill Communications, is an award-winning marketing communications leader, specializing in the mature market. Pryfogle has created national recognized communications products and implemented successful marketing campaigns for senior housing and health care companies. He guided the launch of RetirementLife.com, one of the first web sites in the senior living industry in 1995. Prior to launching Signal Hill, Pryfogle was managing director/creative director of Seniority Communications, an advertising and public relations agency specializing in the senior living industry. Under his leadership, the firm on 51 National Mature Media awards in four years.
Barbara Sherrill (English ’86) is a book editor for Harvest House Publishing which publishes Christian fiction/non-fiction books, devotional books and gift books.
Marsha Skidmore (music ’82) is a gifted soloist and is the songwriter of the hit single “Tell the World.” An active studio singer in the Los Angeles area, her vocals can be heard on many recordings, commercials and her own project entitled, Open Your Eyes. She has recorded several albums with Maranatha Singers! and works with the Franklin Graham Ministries.
Chuck Smith (attended classes at CBU in the 60’) has been the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa since 1965. He says that God has raised up the Calvary Chapel worldwide ministries to help feed His people with His Word. Outgrowths of Smith’s ministry include the Harvest Ministries and Crusades, which make a difference in thousands of lives around the globe each year.
Charles Starr (history ’81) is presently the Program and Staff Development Administrator for Gaston County, North Carolina where he is responsible for monitoring process improvements and developing and implementing training programs focused on career enhancement for the County’s 1,400 employees. Prior to his current position, he served 25 ½ years in the United States Air Force, retiring in 2004 as a Chief Master Sergeant. In that position, he acted as the Superintendent, Field History Program and Senior Enlisted Historian for Headquarters, Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, CO. As such, he developed and implemented programs and policies for managing AFSPC’s field historians. He was AFSPC’s functional manager for enlisted historians. He coordinated on NCO historian assignments, evaluated cross-trainee applicants, provided policy guidance, and evaluated historical products. He also planed and orchestrated the deployment of AFSPC historians to ensure comprehensive historical coverage of US Air Force activities. He earned a BA in history from California Baptist University, Riverside, California, in 1981 and a MA in national security studies from California State University, San Bernardino, in 1986. During his Air Force career, Chuck served overseas in England, Korea, Canada, Egypt, Bahrain, Uganda, and Italy. His various stateside assignments included Utah, California, North Carolina, and Colorado. He is also a Gulf War veteran.
Mike Staver (business administration ’83) is president and CEO of The Staver Group, an international motivational speaking, publishing and consulting firm. He speaks to more than 20,000 people annually and has been published in Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul and many CareerTrack publications. His program topics include leadership, personal and professional development, and conflict management. Clients include FedEx, Merck, Disney, State of Wisconsin, Chief of Staff Association, and United Airlines. His book “Do You Know How to Shut Up?” was published in 2008.
John Tavaglione (business administration ’87) has been the Riverside County Supervisor for the 2nd District since 1995. The 2nd District includes the unincorporated communities of Coronita, El Cerrito, Home Gardens, Jurupa Valley and the cities of Corona, Norco and approximately 1/3 of the City of Riverside. He has served as chair and vice-chair of the Board of Supervisors. His responsibilities include serving on other government boards, such as the Agua Mansa Industrial Growth Association (AMIGA); the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO); Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC); Riverside Transportation Agency (RTA); the Executive Board of the Inland Empire Economic Partnership (IEEP); and the Riverside County Industrial Development Authority.
Rick Warren (religion ’77) is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical mega church located in Lake Forest, California, currently the eighth-largest church in the United States (this ranking includes multi-site churches). He is also a bestselling author of many Christian books, including his guide to church ministry and evangelism, The Purpose Driven Church, which has spawned a series of conferences on Christian ministry and evangelism. He is perhaps best known for the subsequent devotional, The Purpose Driven Life, which has sold over 30 million copies, making Warren a New York Times bestselling author. In December 2008, President-elect Obama chose Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration ceremony. In January 2009, Warren and Readers Digest Association partnered in the launch of the Purpose Driven Connection, a quarterly publication sold as part of a bundle of multimedia products. He and his wife, Kay (’77), met while attending CBC. They are the directors of the Acts of Mercy, RKW Legacy Partners and Equipping the Church non-profit organizations. Rick is also known for his PEACE Plan. The PEACE Plan is an initiative begun by Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. Senior pastor Rick Warren's stated intention in launching the PEACE Plan is to involve every Christian and every church in every nation in the task of serving people in the areas of the greatest global needs. The tag-line is 'Ordinary people empowered by God making a difference together wherever they are'. PEACE is an acronym for the stated methodology for achieving the plan: "Promote reconciliation - Equip servant leaders - Assist the poor - Care for the sick - Educate the next generation."
Dr. Fermin Whittaker (history/religious education ’69) is the executive director of California Southern Baptist Convention. Since 1995, he has led about 100 Fresno-based and field staff to assist churches in reaching the diverse communities throughout California for Christ. He is responsible for the overall direction of Convention objectives in the areas of church starting, healthy churches and missions advancement to assist churches in their tasking of reaching people and developing believers. During his tenure as executive director, his rallying cry for California Southern Baptists has been to “reach every man, woman, boy and girl in California for Christ.” He serves as the executive director of the Executive Board that is responsible for the business of the Convention between annual meetings. And, he serves as the principal staff advisor and assistant to all Convention committees.
A native of the Republic of Panamá, Whittaker is a product of Southern Baptist missions. He was saved in a Panamanian Baptist church under the leadership of a Southern Baptist missionary. He moved to the United States where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California Baptist College (now California Baptist University) in 1969 and an honorary doctor of divinity degree in 1997. Whittaker received bachelor of theology and master of divinity degrees from Toronto Baptist Seminary in Canada in 1964 and 1987, respectively. He received a doctor of ministry degree from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, CA in 1992.
His ministry experience is vast serving as a summer missionary for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Home Mission Board (now North American Mission Board). He served as a pastor in the Los Angeles area and as a Southern Baptist home missionary in California until taking a leadership position with HMB in 1977. During his 18 years at the HMB, Whittaker served as assistant director of the Language Missions Division, as director of the Ethnic Church Growth Department, and as a regional coordinator in the Planning and Finance Section.
He has preached evangelistic crusades in the United States and in several other nations, has been a guest lecturer at several Southern Baptist seminaries, and been involved in local denominational and civic affairs.
He and his wife, Carmen, have two grown sons, two granddaughters and one grandson.
Dr. Clifford Young (sociology ’69) is the executive assistant to the President of California State University, San Bernardino. He is also a professor of public administration and works as a Higher Education lobbyist in Washington DC for CSUSB. Young is the founder of CSUSB’s Integrated Technologies Transfer Network (ITTN).
Terry York (music ’73), Associate Professor of Christian Ministry and Church Music, is dually appointed at Baylor University in Waco, TX, serving on the faculties of the School of Music and the George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He joined the Baylor faculty in 1998 after serving three years as the Associate Pastor of Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, TX. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California Baptist University and his Master of Church Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
He has been Minister of Music in churches in California and Arizona. From 1984-1995 he served at the Baptist Sunday School Board (now LifeWay Christian Resources) in Nashville, TN. His duties at the Sunday School Board included being the Project Coordinator for The Baptist Hymnal, 1991. That hymnal contains five of his hymns including Worthy of Worship. Dr. York’s hymns also appear regularly in Christian Reflection, the journal of Baylor University’s Center for Christian Ethics. Sixteen of his hymns (set by David Bolin) appear in the 2005 Abingdon Press collection God in Time, one of the collections in the Abingdon Press Hymn Series. He is also the author of the CBC/CBU University Hymn.
Dr. York has written a number of choral anthem texts (set by composers such as Bob Burroughs, David Danner, Tom Fettke, Benjie Harlan, Mary McDonald, Earlene Rentz, David Schwoebel, and Vicki Hancock Wright) as well as articles dealing with worship, church music, and hymnology. He is a frequent guest lecturer and conference leader on those same subjects. His most recent books are Observing the Rests (Abingdon Press, 2003), America’s Worship Wars (Hendrickson Publishers, 2003), and The Voice of Our Congregation, co-authored with David Bolin (Abingdon Press, 2005).
Dr. York and his wife, Janna, have two adult children, Matt and Melody York Zuniga.