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• Geraldine Jones, the Brownsville native who was named the interim president of the California University of Pennsylvania 18 months ago, literally grew into the job. Except for a short stint as an elementary school teacher, Jones has spent her entire career at the university. She was named to the post after the dismissal of Angelo Armenti, the long-term president of the school. Along with the title, Jones inherited a $97 million debt and a $11.5 million deficit stemming from Armenti’s efforts to modernize the school’s aging and drab campus. Fifteen months later, she told the school’s faculty that she and her staff had sufficiently cut costs to eliminate the deficit and to create a slight budget surplus.