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  1. Chip Lenno (left) and Kevin Cahill stand where their front door used to be. Behind them, the former living room, office and kitchen with a view of the Salinas Valley.
    September 29, 2020

    Kevin Cahill came to work at CSUMB in 1998, four years after the university opened. He started as the art director of Cal State Teach, an online education program for people in rural areas to complete their teaching credentials.

  2. CSUMB alumni who are city of Monterey employees outside Colton Hall Museum with City Manager Hans Uslar (fourth from right). From left: Jay Punkar, Eric Palmer, Rafael Albarran, Kristonee Wade, Gundy Rettke, Jennifer Cleary, Ben Fowler, Paige Smith, Nat Rojanasathira, Wendy Davies, (Uslar), Vince Pizzo, Olga Maximoff and Jordan Leininger.
    September 24, 2020

    In an old bank building in downtown Monterey, Jordan Leininger opened the massive steel door of a vault filled with historical treasures. The temperature and humidity-controlled space provides an ideal environment for storing delicate and aging documents and other artifacts, he explained.

  3. September 11, 2020

    Wednesday, Sept. 9, was a rich day at California State University, Monterey Bay for advancing racial understanding and democratic participation. That's because there was a convergence of three virtual events throughout the day that, together, formed a nearly spontaneous extracurricular seminar of social and political consciousness.

  4. Kids from Girl Scout Troop 32096, some of whom have family who are firefighters, made roadside signs thanking those fighting the fires.
    September 4, 2020

    On August 16, a lightning storm ignited a wildfire southeast of Salinas, in Pine Canyon, near Mount Toro and River Road—the road that would give it the namesake River Fire. It grew to 2,000 acres that first day.

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    August 28, 2020

    The term “raft” is a fitting metaphor for this time at CSUMB, one that turns to the university’s otter mascot, Monte Rey. California sea otters gather on the water in large social groups called rafts, often holding hands or wrapped in kelp to keep from floating away. So the word, here, can symbolize strands of connection, keeping afloat, staying together.