Stories

If any two alumni radiate radical curiosity, it is Holly Watson (Literature ‘96) and Andrew Galambos (Art ’96)

An early video game marketing entrepreneur

Shelley Wagers, CCS Literature '73, recalls her time at CCS during its first years

Sara Milles Gupta reflects on her time as a first-generation college student at CCS

Wes Fields combined his studies in literature and life sciences at UCSB to strengthen his skills as a communicator and doctor

Frank and Karen Bowers discuss their elation at finding CCS

Fantastic Preparation for Both Academic and Industrial Work

What I learned about writing at CCS, and how it led to my first book

Harry Reese was my neighbor on Sueño in Isla Vista.  One day we said hello to each other on campus by the UCSB Library, and I found out who he really was.  He invited me to take his class which I did.  I was a senior then, and that encounter gave me the focus I needed. I think it was 1979 or 1980. I was an Art Studio major with an emphasis in printmaking.

Some relationships have the facture of fate. Only later do we realize that we had been searching for some people for years before meeting them--the impact of our meeting having been so strong that it reverberated backward in time. In that way, I have felt the effects of meeting Harry and Sandra all my life.