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Alumni
Take a stroll down memory lane and see what it was like being a student here at Yavapai College. Read funny stories, special memories, and encouraging words from YC alumni. Find out what our former students are doing today. You can submit your own memories for inclusion on this page. Click on a decade below to start reading.
Don Burns, 1969 – 1971
I graduated from YC in the first graduating class. After 13 years in my chosen field, I enrolled at ASU taking night classes when I could and then 14 years later received my bachelor’s degree. I am now retired after 32 years in computer programming and have moved to the Verde Valley where I took a position as an adjunct faculty for YC teaching computer classes.
Learning programming at YC was a bit challenging to say the least. The college did not have a computer so we students would write our programs, key them in to punched cards and then every weekend would drive to Phoenix and run and madly debug our programs at Maricopa Technical College where YC leased computer time until we got our very own IBM model 25 - it had 24k of memory, what a ...
Tania Sheldahl, 1980s
When I look back on my life and say those were the best time of my life, I don’t look back at high school that way but I look at my 2 years at Yavapai College that way. This was my best experience when I look back at my education.
It really was a smaller community. Everybody from athletics came to games; the whole town came to games. You were kind of known around town. I remember we went to Nationals that year and they had a big reception for us before we went. Signing autographs like the Soccer Team now. It was very small—very ...
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Mike and Christina Wombacher, 1990s
Yavapai College was a very special place to Mike. He attended specifically for the baseball program and met some of the best people in his life. “I have met and made some of the most special relationships and friendships at Yavapai and the most important is the one I share with my beautiful wife Christina Wombacher (Thrasher). We met at Yavapai and started dating the last semester there and have been married for more than five years.”
Mike and Christina reside in Chandler, Ariz., and Mike is currently a senior manager at Costco Wholesale. He started working there in 2002 when he was released from professional baseball. He played for two and a half years in the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs organizations. During his time at Costco he finished his schooling at NAU and ...
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Jaymie Swift, Class of 2004
Jaymie shares with us this story that I know you will find interesting. “My two years at Yavapai College seemed like, well minutes. My time in Prescott flew by so quickly, but was a vital part of my life. It was my first years living the college life on my own and away from home. Not only did I gain knowledge as a student but also as an athlete. I signed my letter of intent on signing date of December, 2001, on a full scholarship to the Lady Roughriders volleyball team. So my experience at Yavapai was fun and new.
All my professors and coaches were great people who really cared and respected you as an individual. Fay Matsumoto was the most helpful of them all. She was one of my best mentors at YC. Fay really helped me to grow as a person and player. Another person that I really looked up to was...
