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3 unusual facts about California State University, Fresno


Duane Carter

Carter started racing midgets at the 1/5 mile dirt track in the west side of Fresno while attending Fresno State University.

Sidney Craig

Sidney Craig was a one-time child tap dancer who graduated from California State University, Fresno with a major in business and psychology.

Willie Farley

In 1997 Farley transferred to Fresno State where he had to sit out a semester before becoming eligible to play.


1992 NCAA Division I-A football season

Possibly in a show of how weak the conference was, Nevada went 5-1 in conference, winning the Big West championship and representing the conference in the 1992 Las Vegas Bowl (formerly the California Bowl held in Fresno, California).

611 Place

In the 1997 film Con Air the building be seen from an aerial view and street view as a dead body falls from an aircraft and lands on a car near the base of the building in what is supposed to be the city of Fresno, California.

Allen's chipmunk

The main populations are found in California, specifically the humid forests of the mountainous areas of Northern California including the Northern Coastal Range of California, the Trinity Alps, the Siskiyou Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada as far south as Fresno.

Aram Gharabekian

He also led the Ukrainian National Symphony, the Ukrainian State Opera and Ballet, the West Ukrainian Philharmonic, Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, Fresno Philharmonic, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra and Hangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Atlas Asbestos Mine Superfund Site

Atlas Asbestos Mine Superfund Site is located within the Clear Creek Management Area near Fresno County eighteen miles northwest of Coalinga, California.

Azteca Theater

The Azteca Theater (Teatro Azteca) is an historic Art Deco theater in the Chinatown district of Fresno, California, built by Gustavo Acosta in 1948.

Bernard Judge

He has conducted housing research in a dozen countries around the world, taught design and lectured on environmental design at California State University, Long Beach, California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona, University of California Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and University of California Berkeley.

Bill Drake

It was later at KYNO in Fresno, California that he met Gene Chenault, who became his business partner.

Bobby Burgess

In 1961, while attending Long Beach State University, he and his childhood friend (and dancing partner) Barbara Boylan entered a Calcutta dance contest held by Lawrence Welk and his orchestra based on the hit song of the same name.

Brenda Shinn

Shinn returned to competitive shooting in 2006, when her son K.C. attended the California State University in San Bernardino, California.

Bulldog Stadium

Former Fresno State coach Pat Hill had on several occasions argued for the merits of stadium expansion; however, no plans are in the works for such an expansion.

California State University, San Bernardino

The nickname was inspired by the coyotes that inhabit the area around the campus, which lies on the foothills of San Bernardino Mountains.

Chris Freiling

He is a member of the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at California State University, San Bernardino.

CSUSB College of Extended Learning

The California State University, San Bernardino College of Extended Learning is one of the several colleges of the California State University, San Bernardino, located on the main university campus in the University District of San Bernardino, California.

David Hodo

Hodo graduated from California State University, Sacramento in 1969 where he majored in speech and acted in several campus productions, including Oh What a Lovely War, Carnival and Richard II.

Deanne Bray

A California native, Bray broke into the entertainment industry after she was discovered performing with a deaf dancing group called "Prism West" at a deaf festival at California State University, Northridge, where she earned a B.A. degree in Biology.

DeShawn Stevenson

Before his NBA career, he originally committed to play at the University of Kansas, but decided to enter the NBA directly from Washington Union High School in his hometown of Fresno, California, and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd selection of the 2000 NBA Draft.

Duncan Oughton

Oughton attended the University of Otago in New Zealand, before moving to the United States to play college soccer at Cal State Fullerton from 1997 to 2000.

Eric Hardgrave

Hardgrave played first base for Bullard High School in Fresno, California.

Feminist art movement in the United States

She taught 15 students who formed the Feminist Art Program, which rented and refurbished an off-campus studio at 1275 Maple Avenue in downtown Fresno where they had reading groups, collaborated on art and held discussion groups about their life experiences which then influenced their art.

Fresno City College

Cameron Worrell Free-Agent Defensive Back has played for the Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins & New York Jets, is currently the Defensive backs coach for the Fresno City College Football team.

Fresno County Library System

The Fresno County Public Library was founded in 1910 and housed at that time in the Fresno City Library building, which had been constructed in 1904 with a $30,000 donation from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Fresno State–San Diego State football rivalry

"The oil can likely came from a time when Aztec and Bulldog fans traveled to football games between the two schools via the old, twisting, precipitous Grapevine section of Highway 99 over Tejon Pass," said Jacquelyn K. Glasener, executive director of the Fresno State Alumni Association.

Garrett Michael Hayes

Garrett was raised in Maine and moved back to California in 1969, where he later attended Beverly Hills High School and California State College at Bakersfield.

George Manross

For example, his findings that predicted an overwhelming victory for Chuck Reed was scoffed at by the media until Reed defeated his opponent, Cindy Chavez, by 19 points to become the mayor of San Jose; and, a $1.7 billion sales tax measure dedicated to public transportation and public transit in Fresno County, which was driven by the "findings" from two SRI voter surveys, received 77.7% voter support.

Greg Kading

He attended Cal State Long Beach and Calvary Bible College.

Gregory Minor

A native of Fresno, California, Minor received an electrical engineering degree from the University of California in 1960.

Henri Coulette

Coulette was born in Los Angeles, California, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 from Los Angeles State College, now known as California State University, Los Angeles.

Hooker Oak

Many of these were given to various institutions, which included the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, the Butte County Historical Society, Bidwell Mansion, Sacramento Valley Museum, Butte College, California State University, Chico, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Islam in Peru

The Latin American Muslim Unity (LAMU) organization, based in Fresno, California, United States, has drawn up a proposal for the first Islamic orphanage in Peru, although it has not yet materialized.

Jerry Rees

In 2010, Rees and voice actress/writer Deanna Oliver made an appearance at California State University, Northridge to discuss the making of their film The Brave Little Toaster.

John Schneiderman

Schneiderman is currently the director of guitar and lute studies at the University of California, Irvine, and nearby Irvine Valley College, and he has been on the faculties of Orange Coast College, California State University, Long Beach, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Jon R. Cavaiani

Though initially classified 4F, due in part to a severe allergy to bee stings, Cavaiani joined the Army from Fresno, California, shortly before becoming a naturalized citizen in 1968.

KFSN-TV

KFSN's studios are located in downtown Fresno, and its transmitter is based in Meadow Lakes, California.

Klingon Language Institute

He obtained a bachelor's degree in psycholinguistics from California State University, Northridge, and then master's and doctoral degrees in cognitive psychology from Kansas State University.

Lone Star Elementary School

Lone Star Elementary School is (located at 2617 S. Fowler Avenue, Fresno, California 93725 between Jensen Ave. and North Ave) is a school, that is part of the Sanger Unified School District, with Grades K-6 (formally K-8).

Ludmyrna Lopez

Ludmyrna holds a Masters of Science in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA from California State University, Hayward.

Mac Foster

After a military discharge, Foster turned pro, becoming the third Fresno boxer of note (Young Corbett III was a world welterweight champion and Wayne Thornton rose through the rankings to become a number one heavyweight contender in 1970.

Margie Wright

Wright has become a popular figure in the Fresno community and was inducted into the Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.

Nathan Cody

While attending CSUS in 2002, he was hired as a commercial producer and radio personality at alternative rock station KWOD 106.5fm in Sacramento.

Rao Machiraju

He has an interdisciplinary educational background: Masters in Public Health (M.P.H. from California State University, Northridge), General Systems and Information Networks (Certificate from United Nations Institute for Training and Research, University of Stockholm and UCLA), and Ed.D in Instructional Technology (Doctorate from University of Southern California).

Robert Owen Hutchins

Born in Danville, Illinois, Hutchins earned a B.S. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, an M.A. degree in phytochemistry from California State University, Long Beach in 1962, and a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Purdue University under Joseph Wolinsky in 1967 .

Robert Pope

He taught secondary school in Gonzales, California, before returning to school to earn a standard secondary credential from California State University at Northdridge.

Rory Markas

Born in Chatsworth, California, he was a graduate of Los Angeles Valley College, California State University-Northridge, and Chatsworth High School, Markas won four Golden Mike Awards, two Associated Press Sportscasting Awards, and the 2008 Radio Play-by-Play Award from the Southern California Broadcasters Association.

StandWithUs

Founded in 2010 with 12 students from UCLA, USC, and CSU Northridge, it has since expanded to include 54 students from those institutions as well as Santa Monica College, Cal Poly Pomona, Chapman University, and UC Irvine.

The Standard Hour

A 1943 brochure shows that the programs were carried on KPO in San Francisco, KFI in Los Angeles, KMJ in Fresno, KGW in Portland, Oregon, KOMO in Seattle, Washington, and KHQ in Spokane, Washington.

Wayne Jacobsen

Jacobsen began a full-time ministry in 1975 as an Associate Pastor at Valley Christian Center in Fresno, CA—a Foursquare church.

William Link

The William Link Theatre on the campus of California State University, Long Beach is named for Link in honor of his work and donation of plays.

Wilmer Carter

Assembly member Carter graduated from San Bernardino High School and San Bernardino Valley College, and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Master’s Degree in education from California State University, San Bernardino.


see also

Lancaster Catholic High School

Gary P. Gilroy, 1976, composer, arranger, music publisher, California State University Fresno Director of Bands