Gail Cantini, Sharon McWhinney, Gaynelle Hayes and Sandra Metoyer.

Galveston College and Prairie View A&M University were hosts to a Food Science Pathways planning conference June 5 on the island to discuss the realignment of the culinary arts program at the college and four-year institutions concentrating in food science systems. The keynote speaker for the USDA-sponsored conference was Chef Barton Seaver, of the Sustainable Seafood and Health Initiative at the Center for Health and Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Wyndham hotel managers Steve Cunningham and Marty Miles were hosts to a pre-conference reception June 4 at the Hotel Galvez. Reception and conference attendees included college regents, faculty and staff, local chefs and food service representatives. Photos by Manny Chan and Joe Huff

James Palmer, Paul Mendoza, Beverly Copeland and Barton Seaver.

Deland Myers.

Jean Gutierrez, Paul Mendoza, Felipe Gonzalez and Anjelica Gonzalez.

Regents Chairman Ray Lewis, Alfred Parks, Gwen Parks, Horace Hodge and Sharon McWhinney.

Paul Mendoza, Dr. Victor Sierpina; Galveston College Regent Armin Cantini and Marty Miles.

Galveston College Regent Mike Hughes, Beverly Copeland and Regents Chairman Ray Lewis.

Galveston College Regent Armin Cantini, Beverly Copeland, Ugo Afulezi and Marty Miles.