Last Updated on Thursday, 04 February 2010 15:49 Thursday, 04 February 2010 15:36

Tuesday evening, a healing memorial service was held on the CSULA campus for Latin American Studies Graduate student Claudia Baltazar. She, passed away while writing her thesis, on December 19, 2009.  Family, friends, student peers, and professors gathered in the quad area of King Hall to remember the 26 six-year-old  4.0 student, who was remembered as “warm and smiling”. The Women’s Indian group “In Lak Ech” performed in her honor. A procession was held after the performance to the fourth floor offices of the Latin American Studies program were she spent much of her time discussing her thesis.  Claudia Baltazar will be the first CSULA student to be honored with an MA.