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RING: Was lost, but not gone forever From Page A1 noticed the ring’s inscription: “To Jerry, all my love forever, Jane. 6-20-65.” Meza thought the ring belonged to Carroll, but she told him, “This is not my husband’s name!” he laughed “I thought, oh my goodness, this must belong to the people we bought the house from in 1986,” Carroll said. Although Carroll had met Jane Hinsdale, she never knew Jerry, who coached men’s swimming and water polo at UC Davis for 33 years before his retirement in 1994. The Hinsdales, both sailing aficionados, spent their retirement years on a sailboat in Mexico, as well as visiting their children and friends across the country (John lives in Montana, Jill in Rancho Cordova). Carroll embarked on a mission to track the Hinsdales down. She posted a Nextdoor social media post about the ring’s recovery, which caught the attention of a friend of Jill Hinsdale. The friend connected her with Carroll. Jill then relayed the good news to her 86-yearold father, who moved to Isleton after Jane passed away in 2019. On Wednesday, Jerry and Jill Hinsdale, Jerry’s niece Kelley Dahmen and his companion Virginia Bendure traveled to Davis
body. At the University of California, we welcome students from all backgrounds all walks of life,” he said. Gullatt, whose mission is to keep the 10 UC campuses as diverse, accessible and equitable as possible, earned her bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. “We're here to encourage you to plan ahead for your college and to think about pursuing your dreams at the University of California,” she said. Putting herself in their shoes, Gullatt remembered listening to people just like her telling her she could go to college. “And you know what, I didn't believe that. I didn't believe that. My family didn't have any money,” she said. “But somebody did take me in and they showed me the way and I went to college, not to the University of California at first, but eventually. And you know what? I got my degrees there. It opened doors to change lives not just for me, but for my entire family.” Promoting the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan, Gullatt explained that undergraduates who have an annual family income of less than $80,000 will have their tuition and fees covered. UCD student Adamaris Perez-Venegas said she has been able to attend UC Davis because of the aid. UCD student Claire Mitchell said that she received the Middle Class Scholarship. “My family's financial position is super fortunate, but it's still not enough that we have $35,000 lying around to
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Jill Hinsdale, middle, greets handyman Americo Meza with a hug as her father, Jerry, and his companion Virginia Bendure look on. to retrieve the ring. Before long, they’d embarked on a trip down memory lane. “It’s like coming home, really,” Jill said of her childhood house, where she lived until age 18. Dahmen immediately focused on the backyard pool, where “you taught me how to swim,” she reminded Jerry Hinsdale. The group gathered in the backyard to share their fond memories of the home and photos of the Hinsdales’ wedding day and retirement years. Then came time for the big reveal. Carroll handed the ring to Meza, who slipped it
back onto Jerry Hinsdale’s finger. “Where are we going on our honeymoon?” Hinsdale laughed, but he grew emotional as he read the ring’s inscription for the first time in decades. Although he’d purchased a new wedding band, “this one has a lot more meaning. I never thought I would see it again.” “This is a beautiful moment, really,” Meza said. “It was my pleasure, and it’s such a beautiful story.” — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.
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Photos show Jane and Jerry Hinsdale during their retirement, top, and on their wedding day in 1965.
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pay for my tuition in full every year. The Middle Class Scholarship allowed me to pay for school, like without putting too much strain on my family,” Mitchell said. She said that UCD gave her the most aid out of all the six UCs she was accepted to. According to the UC Financial Aid office, for students with family income up to $191,000, and household assets of no more than $191,000, the Middle Class Scholarship will cover between 10 percent and 40 percent of systemwide tuition and fees. Similarly, UCD student Alice Atiegav said as an immigrant student, her family started as low and then middle income. She got the most benefits from Cal Grant aid, the academic scholarship (GPA verification). “UC Davis also gave me a great healthy package compared to UCLA. And I always knew I wanted to go to Davis,” Atiegav said. In a private meeting with UC officials, politicians, and Sacramento City Unified School District administrators, State Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento said this past year, the state of California expanded Cal Grant eligibility for community college transfer students. “If (people) applied for their FAFSA forms, they're guaranteed Cal Grants if they make you know roughly under $100,000 and they have at least 2.0 GPA. “I bet you a lot of kids in our high schools don't even know that and so it's incumbent upon all of us to be part of that message of upward
mobility and higher education.” Also in attendance was Pediatrician and former UC Davis educator Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), who spoke to a gathering of educators, politicians, and administrators before the event with the students, and expressed the need to help students not fall through the cracks. “We cannot let this COVID generation get lost, right?” He stated, "How are we going to be sure that those students might have struggled, whose families struggled, that we don't write them off?” He worries that students taking a break between high school and college may have difficulty getting in when the time is right for them. During lunchtime, a preselected cohort of about a dozen students sat at the table with May at one end and CKM social science teacher Lori Jablonski at the other. The students had questions such as: “What was your high school
experience like? And, what did you do in high school to better yourself?” May, who has a background in engineering, recalled becoming a part of a program called Develop Engineering Students that was set up for minority students in his hometown of St. Louis. He played tennis and was involved in student government at a Lutheran high school. Jablonski said May was very straightforward in his responses to the students: “I sense the honesty in addressing student questions about the University's racial and ethnic diversity and what it is doing to increase the number of Latinx, Black and Indigenous students.” She asked her students afterward what they thought. “All said that they learned a lot ... One said she was less nervous about the process now.”
multipurpose room, 2121 Calaveras Ave. These centers are open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, and from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday. A list of all voter assistance centers in Yolo County is available at https://www.yoloelec tions.org/voting/polling_ place and voters can check the wait time at any of the centers by visiting that web page as well. The elections office has also been operating a mobile vote center in rural areas of the county. The mobile center has already visited Guinda, Madison, Zamora and Yolo and will be in Clarksburg on Saturday, Dunnigan on Sunday and Knights Landing on Monday. As with the voter assistance centers, the mobile option has elections workers available to assist with registering to vote, casting a ballot, getting a replacement ballot and using an accessible ballotmarking device. Meanwhile, voters can also continue dropping off their completed ballots in ballot drop boxes located throughout the county, including at four sites in Davis. Two of the Davis ballot drop boxes are outdoors and accessible 24 hours a day: outside City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd., and on the UC Davis campus at 282 Tennis Court Lane. The other two are indoors at
the Nugget Markets at 409 Mace Blvd. and 1414 E Covell Blvd. Those drop boxes are available from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Ballot drop boxes will be open until 8 p.m. on Election Day. Ballots mailed back to the elections office via the postal service must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received by Nov. 15 to be counted. Voters can track their ballots easily using the “Where’s My Ballot” tracking service offered by the county and the California Secretary of State’s Office. Sign up at https:// california.ballottrax.net/ voter/ in order to receive an automatic email, text or voice call with notifications about ballot status, including whether your ballot has been received and counted. The Yolo County Elections Office in Woodland began processing and counting vote-by-mail ballots on Friday and observers are welcome. “The processing and counting of vote-by-mail ballots is open to the public and we welcome anyone who is interested in observing,” says Jesse Salinas, assessor/clerkrecorder/registrar of voters. Anyone interested in observing should email elections@yolocounty. org. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.