Jesse Gallegos
Public Relations Coordinator
Luna Community College
April 28, 2022
Luna Community College’s cosmetology program is celebrating 20 years of bringing quality education to its students. They will be having a formal event beginning at 8:30 a.m. that will run through the early afternoon on Thursday, May 5 at the cosmetology clinic on the main campus. Everyone is invited.
The theme for the celebration is past, present, and future.
“We are planning to recognize students and instructors and other people in the public that have been part of the program throughout our 20-year history,” said Luna Cosmetology Instructor Germaine Sandoval who has been teaching at Luna since January 2002.
Instructors Rosalie Ortega, Connie Ortiz, Clarice Bonney, and Adrian Quintana have joined Sandoval over the years.
Sandoval has had one of the most consistent programs at Luna, with her biggest graduating class being 18 students.
“Our students have gone on to work or start their own businesses not only here in Las Vegas but in cities such as Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Las Vegas, Nev.,” said Sandoval. “Many of our former students will be doing presentations throughout the day.”
Students can earn certificates for cosmetology or barbering within the Department of Career & Technical Education.
The two programs are aimed at students to develop basic skills, safety, work habits, and attitudes; they are designed to meet New Mexico state board standards. Students gain knowledge in such areas as sterilization, sanitization, bacteriology, shampoos, rinses, scalp treatments, chemical rearranging, perms and relaxers, hairstyling, hair coloring, and bleaching, highlighting, haircutting, facials, manicures and pedicures, salon management and retail sales.
As part of the programs, students practice skills in the college’s salon lab and in professional settings as preparation for state board examinations.
“I have always believed that education is freedom and it’s easy to teach motivated people,” said Sandoval. “Our students want to learn.”
For more information, please contact instructors Germaine Sandoval (505-454-5345, gsandoval@luna.edu) and Clarice Bonney (505-454-2572, cbonney@luna.edu).
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