From the anguish of loss to the passion of endeavor, City College has shared in events that made 2005-2006 the year it was.

Top left, Quarterback Justin Lucas slumps after a loss to Ventura cost the football team its playoff berth.

Right of Lucas, Henry Null, part of the City College Symphony Orchestra for 30 years, plays during rehearsal.

Naomi Watts, below, listens as director and friend Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu presents her with the Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Bottom left, Fire Captain and City College EMT Instructor Chris Mailes stages a demonstration for a photojournalism class at the Santa Barbara Fire Department.

Opposite page: Salvage workers, top left, remove the remains of a powerboat they demolished after it washed ashore on East Beach.

Softball player Kristin Geffken, below, slides home safely against Glendale.

Berenice Duarte and Roberto Gonzales, bottom left, prepare to join a crowd of 5,000 marching to the Sunken Gardens in protest of proposed immigration laws.

Marine Diving Technology student Chris Hartman, right, practices a decompression drill in the hyperbaric chamber.

Scott Jeffers, bottom right, soars through the air in a long-jump heat at the Western State Conference preliminaries.