Life West Elects New Student Council Officers
Hayward, Calif., April 28, 2004

The students of Life Chiropractic College West recently elected student council officers who will serve a three-quarter term (spring, summer, fall). This term's officers are David DeBonis, president; Topher Ruegg, vice-president; Mascha Williams, secretary; and Kara Waltz, treasurer.

David DeBonis, a junior, is a native of Spring Valley, NY. Before coming to Life West, DeBonis earned his B.S. degree in management from Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY. Along with his studies, he is active with the college's Philosophy Club and the Student International Chiropractors Association.

Topher Ruegg, a junior, from Madison, NJ, obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in environmental conservation from the University of Colorado, in Boulder, CO. In addition, he earned certifications in horticulture and landscape design from Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA. Ruegg belongs to the Motion Palpation, Gonstead, and S.O.T. clubs at Life West.

Mascha Williams, a freshman, is from Springfield, VA. Williams attended Northern Virginia Community College, in Annandale, VA and earned her B.S. degree in exercise science from Old Dominion University, Northfolk, VA before entering Life West. She is a member of the Student International Chiropractors Association, Student World Chiropractic Association, Outdoors Club and the Extremities Club.

Kara Waltz, a freshman, was raised in Westerville, OH. Before entering Life West, Waltz received her B.S. degree in biology from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. She was a soccer and track scholarship student while attending the University of Cincinnati. Along with her studies at Life West, she is active member and treasurer of the Life West Omega Sigma Phi sorority.

Life Chiropractic College West, established in 1976, is an accredited non-profit institution of higher learning offering the doctor of chiropractic degree through a four-academic-year program of academic study and clinical internship. The college currently enrolls close to 600 men and women from across the U.S. and abroad. More than 3,300 graduates of Life West are now practicing throughout the world. The college’s Public Health Center, operated by approximately 200 senior interns who are guided by licensed doctors of chiropractic, provides health care for more than 1,700 patient visits a week. Life West maintains a Web site at www.lifewest.edu.

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