Volume XLVI (Fall 2012)

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Volume XLVI• Fall 2012 Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in Southern California Alpha Association

President’s Message THEODORE ROOSEVELT HIGH President Lincoln once said, “I am a fi rm believer in the people. If giv- SCHOOL PBK SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS en the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national cri- sis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” In hopes that the same is true of our Deborah Festa membership, I am taking the opportunity of my inaugural letter as President of our Association to describe a few pertinent facts and ask for your help in preserving the Association Pictured from left to right. Teresa Carreto, college advisor; Bette Harris, PBK for our current membership and Councilor, and students: Gerardo Lerena, Anibal Granados, and Luz Cisneros. for future generations of Phi Betes Story Inside . in Southern California. FACT: The Phi Beta Kap- COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER! pa Society is committed to promot- ing excellence in the liberal arts and Challenges from Afar: A Twenty-Year Over- sciences, and to freedom of inquiry view of Some Getty Conservation Institute and expression. We stand for life- long learning. Projects in China, Africa, and Egypt FACT: The Society’s lo- An exciting program is planned for Saturday, September 15, 2012. cal associations, including ours in Dr. Neville Agnew will discuss the Getty Conservation Institute’s Southern California, help carry out long-term collaborative projects with partner organizations around the mission of the Society by pro- the world. He will present four projects in brief: the China Principles viding college scholarships to de- (national guidelines for the conservation and management of heritage serving local high school students, sites), and their application at the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang; graduate students, and internation- the Southern African Rock Art Project at the World Heritage sites al scholars, and through the spon- of Mapungubwe and Clanwilliam Wilderness Area, South Africa; the sorship of intellectually stimulating conservation of the 3.6 million year-old Laetoli hominid trackway site events that provide opportunities in Tanzania; and aspects of the Institute’s project for the conservation for member interaction. Our last of the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. Continued, p. 6 Alpha Association Offi cers 2012-13 Councilors 2012-13 President Deborah McInnes Festa, Esq. Joan Terry Baris Earned a dual B.A. from the University of California at Los Anna Stockton Blount Angeles in Philosophy and French Literature. and her J.D. Larry Caldwell from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a partner Barry M. Connell in the corporate department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Cecilia Conrad, Ph.D. McCloy LLP’s Los Angeles and New York offi ces. Darleen DeMason, Ph.D. Keefe Ferrandini, J.D. Vice President Deborah McInnes Festa, Esq. Darleen DeMason, Ph.D. Earned a BS in Biology from the University of Michigan and Anna von Franque a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of California, Berkeley. Bette Napoli Harris She is Professor Emeritus of Botany and Plant Morphologist, James J. Herr College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Botany & Plant Laura Livingston Mays Hoopes, Sciences, University of California, Riverside. Ph.D.. John Kuechle, J.D. Recording Secretary Peggy Maradudin B. Loraine Reed, Ph.D. Sharon McNalley Earned an AB from Hollins College and an MA and Ph.D. Hermann Muennichow, C.P.A. from Indiana University. She is Senior Lecturer Emerita at Mary Peel University of California, Irvine, where she was a founding member of the PBK Chapter. James Ragan, Ph.D. B. Loraine Reed, Ph.D. Robin Romans, Ph.D. Treasurer Hermann Muennichow, C.P.A. Robert W. Templeton, C.F.A., C.I.C.. Earned a BBA at the University of Wisconsin. He is a C.P.A. Advisory Board and principal of Muennichow & Associates., Certifi ed Public 2012-13 Accountants, with offi ces in North Hollywood. Alexei A. Maradudin, Ph.D. Shari Dennis Nelson, Esq. Past President Jean Paule Laura Hoopes, Ph.D. John B. Power, Esq. Earned her AB from Goucher College and her Ph.D. from Yale Matthew S. Rae, Jr., Esq. University. She also holds a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Dean Joan M. Schaefer Goucher and a certifi cate in creative writing from UCLA Exten- sion. She is the Halstead-Bent Professor of Biology at Pomona College. Key Notes BECOME PART OF OUR TEAM! Published annually by Alpha Association is run totally by volunteers. Serving our members Phi Beta Kappa Alumni this way keeps our dues very low, plus it’s fun and rewarding! We need in Southern California, Alpha Association help in these areas: desktop publishing (newsletter), writing, photogra- phy, editing, website maintenance, computer software, database man- Cecilia A. Conrad, Editor agement, social networking (facebook and twitter), program planning Deborah Festa, Robert Templeton, (ideas for speakers and venues). If you have skills to offer, please send Laura Hoopes, Bette Harris, Contribu- an e-mail to Bette Harris at [email protected] with “PBK Volun- tors teer” in the subject fi eld. Thank you so much!

Visit Alpha Association’s website at: www.pbk-socal.org Programs inReview Fall 2011: LARRY CALDWELL SHARES COLD WAR MEMORIES AND ASSESSMENTS

Cecil H. and Louise Gamble Professor at Occi- dental College, Larry Caldwell, a valued advisor to the national government at the peak of the Cold War between the USSR and the United States, talked with a small but enthusiastic crowd at Occi- dental College on November 12, 2011. Choosing to speak informally and invite questions through- out, Caldwell explained how he began to study the Cold War and regaled the audience with some of the scary and fascinating experiences he had in those cloak-and-dagger days. He also explained that he has begun to study the letters of Sir Ivor Heron-Maxwell, a British military intelligence of- ﬁ cer during the Russian Revolution, since the end From left to right: Laura Hoopes, 2011-12 Council President; of the Cold War meant that he needed to develop Larry Caldwell, Speaker; Jim Herr, Immediate Past President. a new area of expertise.

Winter 2012: EXOPLANETS AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE

On March 11, Alpha Association presented “Exoplanets and the Implications for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.” Held at the UCLA Faculty Center before a sold-out crowd, the talks featured Dr. Taft Armandroff, Director of the W.M. Keck Observatory, one of the world’s leading astro- nomical research facilities, and Dr. Geoffrey Marcy, Profes- sor of Astronomy at U.C. Berkeley, himself a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr Armandroff discussed the various activities and scien- tiﬁ c objectives at Keck. Dr. Marcy, the most proliﬁ c dis- coverer of planets circling other stars, presented the latest results from his search for exoplanets. He noted that while Dr. Taft Armandroff no evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence has been found to date, research in this area is quite promising.

The speakers were introduced by Gary Jaffe, a Napa Valley winemaker and amateur astronomer, who gra- ciously provided the wines for the occasion. The event was a huge success, and plans are in the works for a program on black holes in the near future. SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS Ph.D., SocialEcology Chitvan Trivedi, India UC, Irvine nentoa coasi wrs International ScholarshipAwards complex dissertations inalanguagenottheirown. Thisyearcomplex dissertations was noexception. andwrite country tostudyinaforeign notonlyfortheirintellectbutalsodetermination impressive who are aid.Typically, ﬁ we brilliantscholars of limited accesstoothersources nd ourselvesfacedwithacandidatepoolof studentswho colleges very Ph.D. and universities. Theseare have California atSouthern work, their lastyear of graduatestudents, foreign usuallyin applicationsfrom ScholarshipCommitteereviews Each year, theInternational Ph.D., HigherEducation Kiriko Komura, Japan Claremont GraduateUniv. Ph.D., CriticalDanceStudies Hye-Won Hwang, SouthKorea UC, Riverside Ph.D., Philosophy Romania Marina RadianaFolescu, California Southern Univ. of Ph.D., Political Science Evis Mezini,Albania Claremont GraduateUniv. NOT PICTURED Ph.D., Bioengineering Prashanthi Vandrangi, India UC, Riverside Television M.F.A., Writing forScreenand Corda Giulia,Italy California Southern Univ. of M.F.A., StudioArt Yaron Michael Hakim,Panama UC, Irvine Graduate Study Awards

Thanks to your generous donations, Alpha Association has awarded a fellowship for graduate study to one Phi SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS Beta Kappa initiate at each of the ten member colleges and universities in Southern California. Criteria for selection include academic merit, ﬁ nancial need, community service and plans to attend graduate school during the coming academic year.

Occidental College Pomona College Univ. of Redlands Brent Magnuson Matthew Wolfson Emily Poore Mechanical Engineering, Political Science and Intel- Publishing and Communi- Carnegie Mellon University lectual History, Cambridge cations, CGU University

UC, Los Angeles UC, Riverside Tien-Phat Huynh Barbara Davis Medical Scientist Training Molecular and Developmen- Program, Washington Univer- tal Biology, UC, Riverside sity School of Medicine

NOT PICTURED

Claremont McKenna College Scripps College UC, Irvine Michelle Kahn Mirabella Korn Ronald Luu History, Stanford University Writing, Univ. of East Anglia Public Health, UC, Irvine Programs inReview

Spring 2012: KATHERINE HAGEDORN TURNS UP THE CUBAN DRUMS IN “RHYTHM OF THE SAINTS”

Katherine Hagedorn, professor of music from Pomona College, spoke on campus on Sunday, May 20, 2012. In 2000, she received the prestigious Cali- fornia Professor of the Year award, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Sup- port of Education. Hagedorn’s specialty is Cuban bata drumming. She has traveled to Cuba numerous times and she studies ethnomusicology. Toes were tapping as the audience tried to follow the complex rhythms that attracted Hagedorn, once a classical pianist, to this ﬁ eld of study. She described how during her study interval, the music of the Santeria became less devoted to religion and more to tourism, with emphasis on novelty rather than repetition, Katherine Hagedorn melodic line, and shorter lengths of pieces. In the old days, kidney failure was quite possible for bata drummers because the hot weather and lengthy play- ing intervals made it difﬁ cult to interrupt a performance for a drink of water without disgrace. Today, that is less true as the use of these musical forms has become much more tourist-directed. Hagedorn described how a new musician at a tourist event was particularly soulful and accidentally induced trances in the audience, and another event where a drummer’s mistakes resulted in his dismissal in mid-performance. In her view, the attempts of the Cuban government to move to a consumer economy seem ill- fated, since the taxes are too high to allow a living wage -- at least for the musicians she knows.

COMING SOON ALPHA’S 95TH ANNIVERSARY! A milestone anniversary is on the horizon. Alpha Association will turn 95 in 2013. Be sure to join or renew your membership to be part of the legacy – and celebration!

E-MAIL COMMUNICATION: OUR ULTIMATE GOAL Beginning with this issue, we will distribute our newsletter to members by email, rather than by mail. E-mail helps us reach our members faster and more economically, saving us thousands of dollars in printing and postage that can be put to better use funding scholarships for deserving students. Be sure to provide your e-mail address legibly when renewing your membership or registering for a program. Please know that we respect your privacy and will never share your information with any organization outside of Phi Beta Kappa. President’s Message, Continued from Page One

event on Exoplanets, described in this newslet- FACT: Our Association, approaching its ter, is exemplary of the high quality of the pro- 95th year of existence, could easily become another grams we have been offering our membership casualty of the Great Recession. We need your help over the years. in assisting us to fulﬁ ll our mission so more deserv- FACT: Our association is 100% mem- ing students may obtain college funding. ber-funded. We receive no economic support Your all-volunteer board will work hard over from the Society or from any other source. the coming years to modernize the Association’s FACT: Our membership rolls have been communications systems, plan interesting events dwindling, which has led to substantial decreases for our members and their guests, and to encour- in the number of programs we can offer, and age increased donations that will be used in large more importantly, the dollar amount of scholar- part to fund more college scholarships, particularly ships we may award. For example, in 2007 we for deserving local high school students – where it is awarded over $52,000 in scholarships. Last year, needed most. Please take this opportunity to ensure for lack of funding, we were able to award only your membership is current, and consider making an $26,000. additional gift today. As ever, thank you for your support.

HIGH SCHOOL ALPHA AWARD WINNERS: WHAT COLLEGE MEANS TO ME Luz Cisneros, Anibal Granado and Gerardo college means to me the fantastic door of my dreams...College Lerena are the 2012 Recipients of the High means the opportunity to have a better lifestyle… to help the School Alpha Awards. All three attended family… College is the best investment that I’m going to make, Theodore Roosevelt High School in Boyle because what I’m going to learn there will stay with me the rest Heights and received $500 grants from Alpha of my life…College is the place where I will meet a lot of new Association. Luz Cisneros will attend people from all over the world… I will unlock the doors to California State University, Los Angeles. Anibal success and discover a new life full of knowledge… I will be Granados will attend Long Beach City College someone in life and I will make history of it… I will make my and Gerardo Lerena will attend Princeton dreams come true and college is going to help to make it happen. University. As part of the application process, students submitted essays on the subject “What This past summer, I attended a leadership camp…held at College Means to Me.” The following passages Princeton University… I learned the importance of becoming are excerpts from the essays written by this a leader and helping others move forward with me…I came year’s recipients. back to Boyle Heights knowing that positive changes can occur… But there are several obstacles that must be overcome I come from an ethnic culture where families are supposed ﬁ rst. Due to money or bad grades, many of my peers do not to be close (and) supportive… unfortunately, I belong to get the opportunity to attend college. Instead, they fall into the the 1% of families that do not even bother to ask how I same cycle of drugs and gangs that brings the community down am doing in school or what I need in order to succeed… socially and economically. I want to change this… I plan on My mom never ﬁ nished high school and my dad never returning to Boyle Heights after attaining a college education attended high school. and creating a scholarship for promising students who want I know that attending a four year university will make to make a difference in the community… Recently, I made a difference in my life in so many ways…. I want to get presentations to tenth graders in my high school about the to college and share my culture and my traditions…My importance of attaining a college education. I am hungry to biggest dream is graduating college and coming back to show students that a better life is possible through education. I help here at Roosevelt High School because it is where all believe similar actions will ultimately transform my community my dreams began. into a better place. Coming from a low opportunity country, El Salvador, HONOR ROLL

In 2011-12, the following members have made contributions to the Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship funds in excess of membership dues.

Life Member Kermit Marsh Heather Crary Folmar Frederick B. Sainick Dr. Patrick J. Merrill Dr. Richard G. Fosburg Ronald Salovey Elizabeth J. Van Hunnick James M. Murphy Alice Frank Karis E. Say Erika Marina Nadir Dr. Ezekiel Freed Dr. Jean Schroeder 500 and Over Thomas W. Nugent Alene T. Friedman John N. Schulian Roger C. Olson Choocy Esther Gewant Jules I. Schwartz Deborah McInnes Festa Dr. Ynez Viole O’Neill Marcella A. Gilmore Jonathan Sears E. Eric Johnson William Henry Parker William K. Glikbarg, J.D. Dr. James R. Shields, M.D. John M. Kuechle Jean Paule Paula Goldsmid Ph.D. Alan Sieroty Mary E. Peel Dr. Joan M. Greenway, Ph.D. Hildi Ann Snodgrass John Bruce Power Polly K. Grimm Christine M. Sorenson 100 - 499 Dr. Simon Ramo David L. Grimmett Professor Ronald John Stern Dr. B. Loraine Reed Gilbert F. Grosslight Dr. Jeffrey Peter Stolrow Mark E. Anderson, MD Kenneth R. Schild Ingrid D. Guth Dr. Gary Edward Strathearn James K. Augur Stephen R. Smith Bette Napoli Harris Jean Elizabeth Tanaka Peter Babilo Dr. James M. Smith, Ph.D. Philip M. Hawley Nancy Boxley Tepper Mike Bantuveris Doris Newell Soriano Dr. Robert S. Hepler Pat Lebensart Walter Sylvia M. Bartlett Barbara Holmes Stevens Michael Lee Hittleman Dr. Lloyd R. Welch Jon Daniel Bosse Dr. Gordon E. Stewart Catheryn Emily Hoehn Patricia Henry Yeomans Dave Bruce Bowker Barbara Alexander Stiles Melvin Hoshiko, MD James O. York Lynne M. O. Brickner Roslyn Holt Swartz Mrs.James M. House Melinda Brandt Butler John D. Taylor, Esq. Dr. Gloria Buchanan Houston Diane Cary Robert W. Templeton Richard L. Kahler, M.D. J. Donell Cohen Michael Paul Ward Elaine S. Kamil, M.D. Dr. Courtney S. Coleman Dr. John Kino Williams, M.D. Nikhil Paul Kapur 25 - 49 Barry M. Connell Marie Diane Wood Dr. Patricia A. Kapur Dr. Kristie Daniel-Digregorio Patricia Henry Yeomans Ruth F. Kawamoto Mahsa Abdollahi Dr. Eric Harris Davidson Dr. Hong Zhong Stephen T. Klein Dr. Kent R. Adamson Patricia Ann Dillon Robert Zucherman M.D Dr. Jan Korringa Vanann B. Allen Charles E. Dunn Linda Sera Kumagai John Alan Amicarella Dr. JoAnne Higa Ebba Barbara A. Lane Bonnie Bair Allison Edith Elder David A. Lewis, M.D. Jean W. Bardenheier, M.D. Carol Colvin Faucett 50 -99 Florence J. Lin, Ph.D. Jill Adrienne Barker Mary Frances Fensholt Catharine C. Alexander David M. Luboff Mrs. Richard Neil Baum Howard A. Fine Kenneth Alpern Dr. R Duncan Luce Jimmie Lee S. Bever Dr. James Daniel Fondren Celeste M. Anderson Dr. Alexei A. Maradudin Dean Alan Bochner Dr. Ezekiel Freed, M.D. Sara Aschmann Janet Barrow Marott Bonnie Brae Dr. David H. Friedman, M.D. Dr. Tanya M. Atwater Joycelyn A. Martinez-Wade Dr. Richard Leo Brutchey Dr. David R. Garver Susan M. Baros Karen Lynn Matteson Arline Burgmeier Dolly M. Gee Lynne A. Bauer Nicole Michelle Mercer Michael Capparelli Dr. Richard C. Gilman Rabbi Sara Davidson Berman Jane Ross Mercer Robert S. Chapman Eunice Erb Goodan David Ash Bernstein Richard S. Merrick, M.D. Dr. Arlan A. Cohen Shelton Franklin Harrell, Jr. Anna Stockton Blount Dr. Stan Thomas Metzenberg Maureen C. Costello Jefferey C. Hazeltine Dr. Jonathan Braun Dr. Clarence C. Monteclaro, M.D. Dr. Julian Clark Cummings Kathleen A. Henkel Richard A. Braun, M.D. Dr. Julian S. Neistadt Vicki D. Cunningham James Joseph Herr Beverly B. Cagnon Barbara H. Ohno Jed Dempsey Mabel Wong Hogle David J. Campisi, M.D. Michael Keith O’Rell Amy Mariko Dobry Kevin Koster Harlean M. Carroll Michael Hiroshi Otsuka Maryle Emmett Wolfgang H. Kummer Allan Edward Ceran Mrs Kay McKenna Paietta Dr. Stephanie A. Fetta Munson Arthur Kwok Mark W. Decker Dr. Cynthia Eliza Parenti Lida R. Frankel Steven L. Lamy Darleen A. DeMason, Ph.D. Stanley Clark Phillips Mrs. Helen W. Fraser Mervyn Landsman Evelyn Pettitt Dignam Carolyn Derr Powell Eleanor Fraser, M.D. F. Juanita Langsford Maxine K. Dilliard Eric Roberts Alene T. Friedman Sally A. Lapiduss Jean Drum Alan G. Robinson, M.D. Gregg M. Gibbons Raymond L. Lesonsky, M.D. Arnold M. Eisenberg Vanessa Faun Roettger Peter Glickman Dr. Lester Lim Hilary Erin Feybush Tanya Morgan Rosenberg Raymond H. Goldstone Hon. Nora M. Manella Al A. Finci Dr. Fred P. Rosenfelt Phyllis Gottlieb Peggy Benson Maradudin James Allen Fishback Marshall Rowen, M.D. Fred Gottlieb, M.D. Dr. William H. Marmion HONOR ROLL

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Margaret Doyle Grant Susan Anne Cornner Melissa E. Phuphanich Peter Grant Vito Mario DeBellis Pearl J. L. Piatt Kenneth Thomas Greaves John C. Dewell Thomas Gordon Plate Dr. Dorothy R. Gregory Jeffrey Alan Dinkin Lauren Nicole Posin Theodore J. Hahn Mary E. Fitzgerald Natacha Pugeat Rafalski Dr. Elaine Parker Hannah Wayne M. Flicker, M.D. David L. Rosenblum Earl Gustav Hansen Robert James Gach Edmund S. Schaffer Gretchen Holmblad Hardison James B. Given Professor Hartland H. Schmidt Samuel Hargrave Kathleen Graham Givner Howard Jay Seller Leslie Anne Hawes Dr. Robert Ian Goodman Lillian A. Sergio Anne Y. Higgins, Esq. Mark Grady Karen E. Shaver Janeen Mary Hill Bruce M. Hale Alfred M. Sils, M.D. Joseph K. Indenbaum, M.D. Taylor Hathaway-Zepeda Dr. John M. Smart Terrence Doyle Jackson Dr. David Edward Hatoff Dr. Lawrence Ira Spinner James Jay Joseph Dr. Gary N. Holland Robert J. Starkman Barbara Hamilton Kalbus Dr. Laura L. Mays Hoopes Timothy Burton Still Kenneth Joseph Kallberg Mrs. Diana Yee Inouye Dr. David W. Sussman Kevin Michael Kallberg Howard A. Kahn Elizabeth Anne Swift Gary Locke Kaplan Allan David Kotin Carlo A. Tabellario, M.D. Karen Lynne Kay Mrs. Audrey D. Levin Ronald K. Takemoto, M.D. Diane Louise Kert Janice Loutzenhiser Martin Taller Prof Kathleen L. Komar, Ph.D. Judith Schrim Mack Dr. Virginia May Tams Joel Ernest Krischer The Reverend Nancy C. Moore Paul C. Tang Dan R. Laks Timothy Ross Morgan Norman Gregory Taylor Trudy Gottlieb Lapin, Ph.D. Kent Y. Mouton Janis H. Terada Melody B. Lembke Dr. John C. Norton, M.D. Dr. Amy Lutz Teresi Marilyn B. Levin Sharon Oxborough Prof. Virginia Trimble, Ph. D. Kurt Alan MacLean Margaret Rosato Teresa Anne Updegraff-Power Eugene Mak, M.D. Eric Norman Roth Dr. Eva M. Wessell, Ph.D. Dr. Joyce B. Maxwell Michael L. Salter Richard H. Wilde Lee C. McDonald Howard Silberman Susan Anderson Wise Cynthia L. Mercer Crista Nicole Taylor Rose Woo, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. Miller Frances Tibbits Joseph L. Wyatt, Jr. Lawrence R. Moss, M.D. Suzanne C. Turner Dean T. Yamaguchi, M.D. Christine E. Mugnolo Marilyn N. Wearda, Ph.D. Ruth Adicoff Nadel Dr. Henry C.Yang Jeffrey L. Nagin Helen Rapp Nefkens Henry Patrick Nelson 10 - 24 Albert H. Niden, M.D. Cynthia H. O’Donohue Dr. Robert Arman Audell Walter Jou Okitsu Mark Robert Beaty Linda J. Olds Mark E. Beck Conolly K. Oyler, Esq. Barbara F. Berg Dr. Jack W. Peltason Dr. Jack P. Citron

Thank you.

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