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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hello ITT, Culinary Arts, and Adult Ed/Construction Training Center Teams,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you for all you’ve done for our students, our college, and our community this Fall 2025 semester. We are running vibrant programs and providing students with life-changing career training
opportunities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I appreciate your contributions and all the ways you show up for our students and for each other. I know we have some things to work on and improve in 2026, both small and large. I will
also continue to advocate for our programs and the resources we need to be successful.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I will be out of the office on vacation from 12/18 to 12/24. SRJC is then closed 12/25 to 1/4. I will be back in the office on Monday, 1/5.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dean Kerry Loewen is covering for me in my absence and will be my proxy in Escape and Chrome River.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please email Kerry (<a href="mailto:kloewen@santarosa.edu">kloewen@santarosa.edu</a>) and copy Gillian Estes (<a href="mailto:gestes@santarosa.edu">gestes@santarosa.edu</a>) if anything
urgent comes up over the next week. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I hope you all enjoy some rest and relaxation time over the next few weeks. Happy Holidays to you and your families.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">See you in 2026.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Benjamin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Benjamin Goldstein<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dean of Culinary Arts, Industrial & Trade Technologies, Construction Training Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:bgoldstein@santarosa.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">bgoldstein@santarosa.edu</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Office: 707-527-4880<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA, 95401<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.santarosa.edu%2f&c=E,1,kLziezjbU5bTVjrwbCR7EiUwpZVEDpIcBkbkGf_KUVCKknCPGSfVuMjqgE-uEyMUOKn0oKoXqIUQN3WPf5WAF0QMKpUwI-J_bGMX67kT2ENujduH5Idtz-jE2wxp&typo=1"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.santarosa.edu/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D">We acknowledge that we gather at Santa Rosa Junior College on the territorial traditional land of the Pomo People in Santa Rosa and the Coast Miwok People
in Petaluma, past and present, and honor with gratitude the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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