For Immediate Release Contact: Felicia M. Torrez
May 17, 2010 Phone: (559) 934-2132
West Hills College Coalinga graduation planned
The West Hills College Coalinga graduation ceremony is slated for Friday, May 28th at 6:30 p.m. in the Coalinga High School football stadium.
Dr. Marlon Hall will be honored as Alumnus of the Year during the ceremony.
Dr. Marlon Hall-Alumnus of the Year
Dr. Marlon Hall has spent his entire teaching career serving the students of the San Joaquin Valley. He has served as the associate dean of educational services/night college at West Hills College Lemoore since 2005 and has been with West Hills College for a total of almost 10 years.
Prior to West Hills, Dr. Marlon Hall taught and coached at many schools in the valley including Chowchilla, Tranquillity, Central and Fort Miller.
He also coached at a few of the Christian schools in Fresno including Clovis Christian School and California Christian College. He took the California Christian College men’s basketball team to a third place in the National Bible College Championship in Oklahoma.
Dr. Hall taught and coached at Fresno’s Roosevelt High School for four years. His first two years, he was the assistant varsity coach and the last two years he was the varsity coach for boys’ basketball. He took his team to the North Yosemite League playoffs twice and was Coach of the Year.
Dr. Hall graduated from Hales Franciscan High School in Chicago in 1976. He made a two and a half day trip on a bus to Coalinga after learning from a former classmate about Coalinga College. He studied journalism and was the editor of The Merlin, the college newspaper, and was also a member of the yearbook team. Hall had intended to play basketball but instead ran track his second year.
In 1978, he graduated from West Hills College and headed to West Coast Christian College to continue his studies in journalism and to play basketball. West Coast didn’t have all the classes for his major so he attended Fresno State at the same time. He received his bachelor’s degree in biblical studies from West Coast in 1981 and his second bachelor’s degree in journalism from Fresno State in 1982.
Dr. Hall continued his education and received two master’s degrees, one in education administration from Fresno State and the other in reading and English as a second language from Fresno Pacific University. He followed with his doctorate degree in education from Fielding Graduate University.
Dr. Hall lives in Fresno with his wife Mary who is a preschool teacher at Ernie Pyle Elementary School in Fresno.
The graduation ceremony for West Hills College Lemoore is slated for Thursday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m. on the college’s campus.
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