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PAUL OPSTAD AWARD

This award was established in 1994 to honor the memory of Dr. Paul Opstad.  Paul E. Opstad (B.A. 1940, M.A. 1954, and Ph.D. 1958) was a native Iowan who spent most of this career at California State University, Long Beach.  During his 25 years there, Dr. Opstad served as foreign student advisor, taught psychology, and worked in the counseling center.  He had a great interest in working with international students.  He spent a year in Taiwan and the Philippines on a Fulbright Scholarship and worked as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency in Calcutta.