Front & Center 2004 with Kenny Loggins

In musical tributes to the evening’s “stars,’’ students from the award-winning Theatre and Dance Department, top, entertained an appreciative audience Feb. 7 during the ninth annual Front & Center gala at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim. Alumna Vikki Vargas, NBC4 Orange County bureau chief, at bottom left, emceed the evening, which starred headliner Kenny Loggins, center, and honored the Orange County Federal Teachers Credit Union – represented by Rudy Hanley, OCTFCU president/CEO and University Advisory Board member – with the Orange County Titan Award. Below right, Gail Cochran of the Marcy Arroues Mulville Memorial Foundation presents a $100,000 check to President Milton A. Gordon as Jerry Samuelson, dean of the College of the Arts, looks on. The donation, raised during MAMM’s Music for Marcy event, will go toward naming the concert hall stage in the new Performing Arts Center.