Sunset Spotlight

Sunset Woman Honored at White House
President George W. Bush recently welcomed Sunset District resident Virginia Ganzon-Sturwold and four other people into the East Room of the White House and presented them with an award for community service.

Present at the ceremony, which was held to honor Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, were two of Bush's cabinet members, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao and Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta.

Ganzon-Sturwold, 82, is a volunteer with Experience Corp. She currently works at the Francis Scott Key Elementary School, where she tutors third and fourth grade students twice a week, every week of the school year. She is also the creator of an afterschool knitting program at the school, which she started to cultivate creativity among her students.

Besides volunteering at Francis Scott Key, Ganzon-Sturwold also volunteers with San Francisco State University's Sixty Plus Beta and the American Cancer Society. She also spent 30 years volunteering to help battered women at the Pilot Club of Atlanta.

SFSU Offers Five Mandarin Courses
The SFSU Confucius Institute and the College of Extended Learning are offering five new Mandarin language courses that will run in June and July. Topics include survival Mandarin for business travel, basic Mandarin pronunciation and simple conversation, and intermediate Chinese characters and conversation.

The weekday classes will be held at the SFSU Downtown Center, 425 Market St.

For more information or to enroll, call 405-7700 or visit www.cel.sfsu.edu/mandarin.