More than two years after her death, former Board of Trustees member Cheryl A. Epple was remembered with the re-dedication of the Board Room in her name at the Board of Trustees meeting last Wednesday.

Also, the ASCC will start fundraising for victims of flight United 93, according to ASCC President Joe Corbarrubio.

Family and Board members remembered Epple for her commitment to Cerritos College and its students.

Board President John Moore called the plaque dedication a “special occasion” and recounted Epple as someone who would put Cerritos College’s best interests first.

In unveiling the plaque on the wall of the now Cheryl A. Epple Board Room, Vice president Tom Jackson said that it would preserve Epple’s memory.

“It will keep her legacy alive,” because he said that if Epple had one purpose, it was “her commitment to what was good for Cerritos as a whole.”

Epple was a graduate from Cal State Dominguez Hills and earned a bachelor’s degree in public administration.

She was selected as a member of the Cerritos College Board of Trustees in 1993 and served as Board president, vice president and secretary of the Board twice.

On July 5, 2004 Epple passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack.

Epple’s husband, current board member Bob Epple, called the dedication “wonderful” and also expressed that his wife would have been touched by it.

“She was into Cerritos,” he said, “because Cerritos was important to her along with our daughter Nicole, and I was somewhere in there.”

The Epples’ daughter Nicole said when her father mentioned the idea of the dedication, “both my father and I cried, so it was emotional for the both of us.”

Epple’s mother Joyce was overwhelmed with emotion with the tribute to her daughter and said that, “she would have been pleased and proud of the honor.”

While the Board members were hosting a remembrance celebration of Epple, the ASCC planned a remembrance celebration of its own for a different purpose.

With the remembrance of Sept. 11 the ASCC will be raising funds for the victims of flight United 93 that will run until this Friday.

The memorial fund according to Director of Student Activities Holly Bogdanovich will be going to a proposal memorial on the field where the plane crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.

She added that there is no specific target set, “but if students can give a penny or dollar” it would go to the memorial fund.

At least 30 small piggy banks will go around campus for the fundraising and Bogdanovich said that those students or club members who were unable to attend the 9/11 remembrance will have the opportunity to do something positive.

“The money is not just for United flight 93,” Bogdanovich explained, “but that the whole day of Sept. 11.”

If students want to donate by check, they can do so through the ASCC or directly to the United 93 Memorial Fund and in addition through www.honorflight93.com.