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To have someone ACCEPT US, AND TAKE CARE OF US LIKE SHE DID, Liew has remained close to Sherman, cele- brating every Thanksgiving and Christmas with her for the last 20 years. Liew earned her Bachelor’s in Business Management with a minor in Fashion Merchandising from Fresno State. Now manager of Yoshi- no’s in River Park and married with a young son, she still visits Sherman weekly and helps with medical appointments and other errands. Julius Tan, another former internation- al student who calls Sherman “Mom,” earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and now designs the circuit boards that power Keiser athletic equip- ment. A native of Malaysia, he first met Sherman in 2013 when she treated him to ice cream at the Rue and Gwen Gibson Farm Market on campus. “To have someone accept us, and take care of us like she did, was really wonderful. It can be hard to be here, studying in a for- eign country, and people like Mom made it so much easier for us,” said Tan. He sees Sherman every few weeks and spends Christmas holidays with her, and due to his technical knowledge, is the first one she calls to help with her microwave or other electrical issues at home. Hosting international students and broadening one’s world view is an expe- rience Sherman highly recommends. She continues to attend weekly International Coffee Hour events hosted by the Interna- tional Office and loves to learn about the homelands and history of each semester’s students. was really wonderful “Helping these students s them successfully blend into college life was so fulfilling,” she explains. “As much as they tell me they appreciated it, I’ve been more blessed than they have.” ettle in Fresno and seeing ACCESS - The Division of Continuing and Global Education 13