“Bridges,” published by the California Tomorrow Immigrant Students Project, describes and art project for young survivors of war-ravaged countries… Junior achievement starts young (PDF)īob Smith is a State Farm Insurance agent who has been a volunteer consultant/instructor for Junior Achievement for the past five years. It is found in a detailed compendium of successful bilingual and refugee education programs throughout the states. In the masses of research material on bilingual education in California, pro and con, measured and strident, one story speaks volumes. San Francisco Recorder / American Lawyer Newspapersīilingual education: What can business do to help? (PDF).“And when I make a business decision, I worry about how it affects the retirement of everyone down to the receptionist. “It’s an employee-owned company, and I’ve never been asked to do something that was against my core values,” he said. During his entire time at Kitchell, he only had one, fleeting desire to look into a position with another company, he said. In 2008, Fox became Kitchell CEM president. Kitchell CEM is one of five separate but related companies with the Kitchell name and is based in Sacramento. He steadily moved up the ranks, first managing projects in the field, then operations, then becoming the vice president for Kitchell CEM’s western region. Instead, in 1986 Fox got a job with Kitchell based on the recommendation of a former colleague who’d joined the company.įox’s first job with Kitchell was working on state correctional prison projects when California was in the midst of a prison building boom in the 1980s. He was not enamored with the idea of moving to the desert. Fox said the work wasn’t glorious but, after growing up poor, he was happy to have it.Ī year in, however, the company wanted to transfer him to El Centro in Southern California. That paved the way for everything that’s happened in his career since.įox’s first job after college was in Stockton, building offshore oil platforms that eventually would go off the coast of Southern California. A superintendent told him that if he got a degree in construction management, he could do anything in the field.įox finished his undergraduate requirements at Shasta and transferred to the highly regarded construction management program at California State University Chico. “Community colleges helped me out.”ĭuring school breaks, he worked on a house remodeling project. “I didn’t have a clue what I was going to do when I grew up,” he said. After graduating high school in Willows, Fox took classes at Shasta College in Redding. His own experience attending community college is the reason why. Below is the original article.Īs president of one of Sacramento’s leading public-sector construction companies, Russ Fox said he’s got a special place in his heart for construction projects at community colleges. Sacramento Business Journal reporter Ben Van der Meer sat down this spring with Kitchell CEM President Russ Fox for one of the publication’s executive profiles.
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