Intro Letter

Hi,

My name is Mary Krescanko. I was born in Hawaii, but being in a military family we moved a few times, first to North Carolina then to San Diego and finally to Oceanside. I attended Oceanside public schools from Kindergarten through High School. I then moved to San Diego until 2003, when I decided my daughter and I would like to live in the "country" so I took a job in Lawton, Oklahoma. We are not "country people" and after a year and a half we moved back to Oceanside.

I have for the past 15 years been a professional photographer, the last few years more in the management end than actually shooting. Over the last year we converted from film to digital and I know some of the digital photography programs. Everything I know about computers I taught myself, which is very little, e-mail, Micro-soft Word, and a little excel spreadsheets. Until this class I had never really seen a mac computer, at home and work I always used PC's. While we were in Oklahoma I was the Human Resource/Safety Manager for a large contractor at the Goodyear Tire Plant, overnight we literally went from 20 employees to 400, besides a simple pay system they had, everything else was done by hand with paper and lots and lots of file cabinets. I put the whole company together with just basic computer programs, thank goodness Oklahoma is 10 years behind California in just about everything.

The truth is I did not read the Misson Statement until after I was attending CSUSM. I do agree with the Mission Statement and believe that it is right on track for training great teachers that will have a great impact on the education system in California.