85 Year-Old to Receive Teaching Credential at CSUSB Palm Desert

Press release and image by CSUSB Palm Desert Campus

At age 85, Bill McCloud will become the oldest student to complete the requirements for a Designated Subjects California Teaching Credential this spring at Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus. He joins hundreds of other students who have completed the campus’s credential program over the past 10 years.

McCloud, a resident of Banning, is currently employed as a radio programmer. He has his own talk show, “Grandpa Speaks” on KMET 1490, an ABC News affiliate, and prior to his present affiliation, he worked as a cameraman for the ABC network for more than 20 years, earning three Emmy Awards for his work in broadcasting.

He was also a businessman. McCloud opened and ran a barbeque restaurant in Hollywood called Dab’s Barbeque, and for six years, catered to the studios as well as to the public.

McCloud has a Ph.D. in metaphysical science and is the author of the book, “Setbacks…Create Comebacks: A Memoir.”

In recognition of his completion of the academic requirements required for the Designated Subjects California Teaching Credential, McCloud will participate in the campus’s credential ceremony on June 11.

The Designated Subjects credential allows holders to teach their experience in many different types of teaching venues, including the burgeoning number of career and technical academies throughout the Coachella Valley. According to his professor, Dennis Larney, “A natural target for Bill would be the media-performing arts career academy at Rancho Mirage High School.”

For more information, please contact Mike Singer in the campus’s Office of Public Affairs at (760) 341-2883, ext. 78107, e-mail msinger@csusb.edu or visit the campus website at www.pdc.csusb.edu.