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FROM ONU ART AND DESIGN FACEBOOK - Two Ohio Northern University graduates are displaying their recent work during the University of Findlay’s annual Art Department Faculty Exhibit.

The show opens Jan. 11 and runs through Feb. 3 at the Lea Gallery.

Exhibiting their works are Ed Corle (BFA ’78), associate professor of art who teaches ceramics, sculpture and three-dimensional design, and Laura Barnhardt Corle (BFA ’77), an adjunct instructor who teaches watercolors.

Image: by Laura Corle (BFA ’77)

As a young man he was a top local DJ, and then he spent five years as a farmer before his decision to attend ONU Law. Now a three-term senator, recently reelected to the incoming 34th Guam Legislature, Jim Espaldon, ONU JD 2003 graduate, is following in his father’s footsteps. (Reprinted from The Guamanain Magazine.)

Jim Espaldon’s only real idol and mentor was his father, Ernesto Espaldon, Sr., a philanthropic local surgeon who also served six terms as a Guam senator.

Jim had always dreamed of following his dad’s footsteps into public service. “I would tell him, ‘I want to run for office now, and he would tell me, You’re not ready, you’re not ready.’ ’’