Dear Colleagues and Friends, our Retiree’s Association has recently lost Teresa “Terri” Martinez. Terri was born October 3, 1931, and passed away April 26, 2024, of natural causes at the age of 92, in her Ventura home with her daughter Lori at her bedside. Terri worked for the College District for 36 years prior to her retirement in December of 1989. Terri started her career when Ventura High School and Ventura Junior College shared the Main Street campus. When Ventura College separated from the high school district, Terri moved to the Telegraph Road campus site and then to the District Office on Day Rd., when it was built and administrative offices were relocated. She worked in the Personnel Department, as it was known back then, and which eventually became the Human Resources Department. Terri was the only employee of the department for a time, until a Director of Human Resources was hired, and more staff was eventually added. Terri did it all. Processing and screening applications, the testing, setting up eligibility lists, sending candidates out for interview and processing all the new classified employees. A few of us were fortunate enough to work with her for many years and learned so much from her.
Services for Terri are being held on Saturday, June 8, 2024, at the Ventura Missionary Church, 500 High Point Dr., Ventura, at 11:30 a.m.
Memorial by,
Marie Soo Hoo, Secretary
VCCCDRA (Ventura County Community College District Retirees Association)