Posted on Nov 29, 2006 You can call Twain Harte's Tyler Birkestrand a model student. Birkestrand, 22, a student at CSUMB, set out four years ago for college to study film and TV. But he has since found himself on the other side of the camera, building a career as a model. The money he has earned from modeling helped him avoid taking out a student loan this year.
– The Union Democrat (Sonora), Nov. 29, 2006