Most financial planners work for advisory firms, brokerages or banks, helping clients figure out how to invest, preserve and/or give away money.

Not Justin Kribs. He works for Oregon Health & Science University, one of the most expensive public medical schools in the nation. He helps students launch careers while saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt.

OHSU is one of only two medical schools in the country Drexel University in Pennsylvania is the other -- that employs a full-time financial planner. Both institutions hired them in 2012. Their students reportedly are keeping them very busy.

"In my opinion, it's a whole population that's been ignored from a financial planning perspective," said Kribs, manager of OHSU's student debt counseling and financial management program.

Nationwide, universities are making a stronger effort to boost financial literacy among undergraduates and graduate students in an effort to deal with their growing mountains of debt. The U.S. Consumer Finance Protection Bureau last year estimated total student debt now exceeds $1.2 trillion.

The Council on Graduate Schools, with a $1.5 million grant from postsecondary financial giant TIAA-CREF, has launched a three-year effortacross more than a dozen universities to research and boost students' financial knowledge.

But the schools are largely relying on peer-to-peer networking, classes or seminars to dispense financial help. None of them have committed as many resources as Drexel and OHSU, which pays Kribs nearly $70,000 a year.

There's good reason why OHSU is spending the money. Surveys repeatedly found students asking for more help managing their mounting debt, administrators say.

OHSU ranks as the third-most expensive medical school in the country for in-state students, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Tuition, fees and health insurance cost $44,463 a year for Oregon residents seeking a medical degree. Dental students pay slightly more.

That usually requires some hefty borrowing. Last year, the average MD-degree holder left OHSU with $198,700 of debt, up from $173,500 in 2009-10, according to the school's figures. The average dental student left with $230,245, up from $176,200 in 2009-10. Undergraduate nurses left with just more than $41,000.

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Cupertino High School has inducted four new members into its prestigious hall of fame. Two graduates from the 1980s and two from the 1990s are now forever alongside more than 100 alumni and honorary members from throughout school history.

The Cupertino High School Hall of Fame was founded in May 1978 to honor successful graduates of the school's first 20 years. Inductions are held every other year. The four new members were inducted after a rally and ceremony on May 16.

Marty Mimmack from the Class of 1980 is now a motivational speaker and teacher who specializes in disability awareness and character education. He resides in Hawaii. While at 'Tino, he was a member of the speech and debate team and the Junior Achievement business organization. He was recognized as the state's speaker of the year while a senior.

After his time at CHS, he attended Santa Clara University on a speech scholarship. As a child, he was the Santa Clara County and National Poster Child for the March of Dimes.

Shari Fairbanks, Class of 1983, was one of the top athletes in 'Tino history. She was a star in volleyball, track and basketball, and she led her team to Cupertino High's only girls basketball league championship. Fairbanks also helped resurrect school mascot Dusty the Miner during her senior year.

Fairbanks played basketball at California State University, Stanislaus, for four years where she earned a degree in business and marketing. She now works for an agriculture business in the Central Valley.

Aki Yoshikawa is the school's only national champion wrestler. He was also a state champion and a two-time CCS champion. He also had a 44-1 record during his senior year.

Yoshikawa was the first wrestler to win the Bianchini Wrestling Tournament in each of his four varsity seasons. He later attended Arizona State University and earned a certification in physical therapy from Ohlone College. Today, he works at Facebook as a physical therapist assistant.

Alex Ding from the Class of 1998 was class president and a water polo player during his time at CHS. His time after high school saw him attend UC-Berkeley on a scholarship and return for graduate school to study public health.

He attended UC-San Francisco for medical school. He completed his medical residency in Boston, where he assisted in treating victims in the Boston Marathon bombings last year. Ding at one point was the youngest member of the American Medical Association board of trustees and participated in the creation of the Affordable Care Act.

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THE Southern Island Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association (SIHSNAA) has been holding medical clinics for women and children aimed at addressing responsible parenthood and family planning.

The endeavor of St. Gianna B. Molla Women and Childrens Wellness Clinic was made possible through the efforts of officers of the association.

Our aim really was to help mothers with responsible parenthood because we cannot butthead the RH (Reproductive Health) Bill alone. Its too complicated for a small group. So we will start with responsible parenthood with an aim to teach the mothers church-inspired family planning, SIHSNAA vice president Lydia Pacaa-Baccaya said.

The associations effort was inspired by the life of St. Gianna Beretta Molla, an Italian pediatrician, wife and a mother who was best known for refusing both abortion and hysterectomy when she was pregnant with her fourth child. She decided to continue with her pregnancy even if it could result in her death. She died after three months of giving birth to her child. She was canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in 2004.

Aside from teaching family planning, the clinic also offers several other services, like marital and parental counseling, Christian values education, health education, recycling, as well as medical consultations for Cebuanos who want to avail themselves of their services.

The board members are of different expertise. We have a nutritionist, a psychiatrist, a nurse and others. So we thought of giving each of our specialties, said Baccaya.

The clinic will also provide free medicines and vitamins for children and for mothers of all ages.

The clinic, which was inaugurated last May 17, will continue to operate until funds and donations may permit.

It is open to men, women and children of all ages every Saturday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Southern Island Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association Building on Osmea Blvd., Cebu City. (Alyza Burdeos, Silliman University Mass Comm Intern)

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on May 29, 2014.

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The JIPMER International School of Public Health (JISPH) is spreading the wings of its rural outreach initiatives to raise the health status of the population in Edaikazhinadu town panchayat in Kancheepuram district.

Being run with the help of JIPMER alumni, the programme, named Uluru Health Care Project, will initially focus on a population of about 32,000 spread over 24 villages.

The choice of this region is to build on the work done by Alumni foundation, The East West Foundation of India, for over two decades. It is proposed to leverage mobile health (m-health) technology during the camps visit, for bringing expert services to community as well as monitoring of medical conditions by remote presence.

We have already started to develop some health services delivery solutions by building cohorts,wherein populations will be grouped for risk assessment and longitudinal follow up.

Now JIPMER is spreading its wings to reach out to its alumni and enhance our relationships with Tamilnadu Health Systems Project to help in moving the needle in population Health said Dr. T.S. Ravikumar, JIPMER Director.

This follows discussions the JIPMER chief had with the Tamil Nadu Health Secretary recently.

For the first medical camp being held in the town panchayat on Friday, Dr. Ravi Kumar and

Dr. Prabhu Clement Devadoss, Expert Advisor, NCD Projects will lead a team of 30 JIPMER faculty, social workers and staff to Edaikazhinadu.

The outreach initiative forms part of JIPMERs philosophy of stepping beyond merely producing graduates of its Masters in Public Health programme at JISPH, and rather become a hub for implementing universal health care concepts and driving health service delivery innovations.

JIPMER will also enhance its rural and urban health centres concurrently and is exploring further outreach with the goal of population wellness in the regions of Puducherry andTamil Nadu, Dr. Ravikumar said.

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Before this years graduating class says goodbye to four years of high school and prepare to finally receive their diplomas, two alumni who walked down the same halls before them will be honored.

Jane Derenowski and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Steven Behmer were selected as this years distinguished alumni honorees. Both are scheduled to speak to the Lake Havasu High School graduating class of 2014 during commencement tonight at 7:30.

Tonight, Derenowski will speak to the graduating class in a message projected onto a large screen. After that, Behmer will address the audience in person.

Derenowski is the medical producer for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. She graduated from Lake Havasu High School in 1986 and was involved in various extra-curricular activities. Derenowski wrote for the school's newspaper, participated in student government, spirit squad, attended the Girls' State Leadership Program.

After high school, Derenowski attended Arizona State University and graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism in 1990. She went on to work for KAET-TV, the local PBS station in Phoenix and KPHO-TV, KTVK-TV, KVOA-TV in Phoenix and Tucson and later as an assignment editor and producer for NBC News in New York.

I love the deadline pressure at my job, Derenowski said. I thrive on it; I love it.

Derenowski said that although she wasnt the best student, she always worked hard and said living in a small town made her dream about branching out to see the world and meet many people.

The isolation that I felt as a teenager in Lake Havasu City inspired me to work harder and expand my experiences, she said.

One piece of advice she would give students is to work hard and be respectful to one another.

You need to work hard but still be nice to everyone you meet, Derenowski said. You dont know how important it is to send someone a hand-written thank you letter in an age with so much social media and Internet a hand-written note to someone still goes a long way Be the first one at the job, and the last one to go home because the competition is fierce out there.

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Sechrist Elementary School celebrated its 50th anniversary with an outdoor picnic Tuesday evening.

Smiling students, their families and their teachers rubbed elbows with Sechrist alumni and retired faculty while enjoying performances by the school choir, the band and the kindergarten bell choir.

We appreciate all the parents and community members that have come out to celebrate the excellent 50-year tradition of Sechrist, said Flagstaff Unified School District Superintendent Barbara Hickman. Its a wonderful school and were delighted that everyone was here.

Sechrist Elementary first opened its doors in the fall of 1963 on a 10-acre parcel of land that used to be a county poor farm off what is now North Fort Valley Road. It was named after Charles W. Sechrist in honor of his service to Flagstaff as a medical doctor and his record 17 years on the local school board. Sechrist died in 1965, but his son, Gilbert Sechrist, attended the anniversary celebration with his wife Jean.

Its a great occasion, Gilbert said.

His wife said they are both thankful for the work the teachers at Sechrist Elementary do every day to educate Flagstaff students.

Were very impressed with what theyre doing for the children, Jean said.

The late Tony Gabaldon, who went on to become an Arizona state senator, was the first principal of the Sechrist Elementary School, which had around 200 students in grades K-7. Since then, the school has transitioned to a K-5 school, added several wings and more than doubled in size. It now serves around 450 students, some of whom have parents who also attended Sechrist when they were little. Principal John Albert was amazed to see the courtyard filled with familiar faces.

Its kind of overwhelming to know that people value public education so much, Albert said. They keep coming back here and to see generations of families, it warms your heart.

Alberts predecessor, Bob Booth, was responsible for planting all the trees that shaded the celebration in the schools courtyard. Booth, who attended Sechrist in seventh grade, later spent around six years there as a teacher and 21 years as the schools principal before retiring nine years ago. Much has changed, he said, since he first sat in the classrooms at Sechrist. His two decades as principal saw an explosion of technology that took the school from chalk and blackboards to whiteboards and computers.

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Newswise New York, NY (May 21, 2014) New York University School of Medicine will hold its 172nd annual graduation at 6:00PM, Wednesday, May 21st , at Alice Tully Hall located in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan. Established author Stephen Bergman, MD, who writes under the pen name Samuel Shem, will deliver the keynote address.

About the Class of 2014 The Class of 2014 is comprised of 157 students, all receiving Doctor of Medicine Degrees. In addition, eleven students will receive a dual Doctor of Medicine/Master of Science Degree/Masters of Public Health or Masters of Public Administration degree. Seven students will be awarded the Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy Degrees through the Medical Scientist Training Program and twelve degrees will be conferred with honors. The class includes 27 members of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national honor medical society, established in 1902.

About Stephen Bergman, MD, DPhil (Oxon), aka Samuel Shem Dr. Stephen Bergman, who writes under the pen name of Samuel Shem, will deliver this years keynote address at the ceremony titled Staying Human in Medicine.

Dr. Bergman is a graduate of Harvard College. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where he was a member of Balliol College and received his PhD in Physiology. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School, did his internship at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and was a resident in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. He has been in private practice since 1977 and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2002. He has been on the faculty for three decades.

It was his internship at Beth Israel Hospital now renamed Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which inspired the now classic book The House of God (1978) focusing on the grueling life, lack of sleep, and ups and downs of interning in a hospital. It was named by the British medical journal The Lancet as one of the two most important American medical novels of the 20th century alongside Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith. The House of God has sold over three million copies in 30 languages. Subsequent works are Fine, Mount Misery; Bill W. and Dr. Bob, a play on alcoholism and the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous ; We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Men and Women with Janet Surrey, and The Spirit of the Place.

He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife Janet Surrey and a daughter.

The Ceremony Following the procession and introductions by Anthony J. Grieco, BS (ARTS '60), MD '63, MACP, associate dean for Alumni Relations and Academic Events, class president, August Reich Dietrich, MD, will deliver the Valediction. Anthony J. Grieco, BS (ARTS '60), MD '63, MACP; Kenneth G. Langone, STERN 60, (Hon. 01) chair, NYU Elaine A. and Kenneth G. Langone Medical Center Board of Trustees; and Robert Berne, PhD (Hon. 07) executive vice president for Health, New York University will greet the graduates. Robert I. Grossman, MD, Saul J. Farber Dean and chief executive officer of NYU Langone Medical Center will then address the men and women of the class of 2014 as they embark on what Dr. Grossman in the past has referred to as an ancient and eternally noble calling on the value of hard work as its own reward.

The conferring of diplomas by Dr. Grossman and Lynn M. Buckvar-Keltz, MD 91,associate dean for Student Affairs will take place directly after Dr. Bergman delivers the keynote address and Dr. Grossman will then administer the Hippocratic Oath. Immediately following the Ceremony, a Reception in honor of the Class of 2014 will be held for the graduates, their families and faculty.

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Delivering the commencement address to the class of 2014 was state Rep. Mike Hubbard, speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives. Eighty-three cadets participated in the ceremony.

After an outdoor reception for graduates and their families at the MMI president's quarters, early commissioning program cadets changed into their dress blues to take the oath as second lieutenants. Speaking to these new Army officers was Brig. Gen. Steven Berryhill, commander of the Alabama Air National Guard.

More than 340 University of Montevallo students received their diplomas at spring commencement May 3. Maj. Gen. Frederick M. Padilla, a career Marine and the director of operations with plans, policies and operations at Marine headquarters in Arlington, Va., delivered the commencement address.

University President John W. Stewart III conferred degrees upon some 248 students for bachelor's degrees, 83 students for master's degrees and 11 students for the educational specialist degree.

After students received their diplomas, Mike Malone, president of the National Alumni Association, inducted graduates into the 21,000-member organization.

The following students graduated from our coverage area:

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Gordo: Shaunessi Tvayvonne Groover.

McCalla: Hannah E. Gentry.

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