Whittier College Poet Commons The Rock Archives and Special Collections Fall 2011 The Rock, Fall 2011 (vol. 82, no. 1) Whittier College Follow this and additional works at: https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/rock Recommended Citation Whittier College, "The Rock, Fall 2011 (vol. 82, no. 1)" (2011). The Rock. 198. https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/rock/198 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at Poet Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rock by an authorized administrator of Poet Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Whittier's Kinesiology Major Gets New Focus, but Retains Foundation WHITTIER COLLEGE MAGAZINE CENTER FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH COMMUNIT ES LAUNCHES FALL 2011 ALUMNI PERSPECTIVE: TOWARD HEALTH 1 ND WELLNESS THE JOIN THE POET PARTY... ONLIINE! 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Be sure to stop by President Herzberger's blog is updated to get the latest news and updates about regularly with photos, musings, and campus Elizabeth Uribe '13 the College, as well as info about upcoming news. Students are writing about intern- CONTRIBUTORS events on campus. We encourage you to ships and other experiences related to the Susan Feder Poet campus, as well as from their semes- "Like Us" and then check-in regularly. Lance Franey '09 Facebook is also a great way to stay ter-abroad locales—most recently India, Laurence Martinez P' 11 connected to fellow alumni. The alumni Costa Rica, and Denmark, to name a few! Bill McCaroll relations office has an official page on From student concerts to commence- Nidhi Parilth Facebook, www.facebook.com/whittiercoL- ment, via YouTube, www.youtube.com/ Travis Peters LegeaLumnL as welt as "fanpages" for nine whittiercottege, you have a virtual window The Quaker Campus regional alumni chapters. Visit the Wall and to what is happening on the Poet campus. share what you are doing, post your stories, Moreover, starting in the fall, you can Sharon D. Herzberger and interact with former classmates. Browse keep up with Whittier in real-time via the through photo albums and post your own. Internet. The College will be live-streaming Think of Whittier's Linkedln site as athletic matches and important campus a virtual networking mixer, http://www. events—beginning with the Leadership Questions? whittier.edu/Linkedin. With more than 700 Forum featuring General Pete Dawkins THE ROCK, Fall 2011 Concerns? Love it? Volume 82, Number 1 Hate it? Then let Whittier alumni members, as well as a Los and businessmen Matt Espe MBA '84, us know. E-mail Angeles specific sub-group, this power- Edwin Keh '79, and Don Herrema '74 during Copyright 0 2011 Whittier College [email protected] ful alumni group can be your go-to career Whittier Weekend on October 21. To see Letters are subject THE ROCK is published by our full Live Streaming schedule go to: to publication in resource. Join to discuss topics of inter- Whittier College a future issue of est, post or find jobs, and strengthen your www.whittier.edu/tive. Our mailing address is: The Rock. professional connections. THE ROCK Office of Communications Whittier College 13406 Philadelphia St. P.O. Box 634 Whittier, CA 90608 Phone (562) 907-4277 Fax (562) 907-4927 F7 You E-mail: [email protected] 2 PRESIDENT'S CORNER ALUMNI, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS READING THE ARTI- I must thank our Society alumni for leading the way in demonstrating CLE ON WHITTIER'S the competitive spirit devoted to raising the value of giving back! NEW CENTER FOR significant scholarship funds for Whittier Many of you also share valu- ENGAGEMENT with students (see page 20). Congratulations able expertise and advice. Because Communities and its to the Lancers for starting the competi- of you, students have participated plans to host this year's tion by endowing a scholarship for in internships, practice interviews, Convocation speaker Linda Lancer actives in 2008. This year our job shadowing, résumé workshops, Biehl '66 (see page 37) led first All-Society Challenge saw the etiquette dinners, and our popular / / me to reflect on the wealth Palmers and lonians lead the pack, with "Backpack to Briefcase" series. Just this Df speakers visiting our campus over the almost half of their members (47.3 and past year, students interested in careers Last few years. And it reminded me too 45.3 percent, respectively) contribut- in medicine and health, international that these speakers often are brought ing! The outcome will be more financial business, and not-for-profit leadership 10 campus through connections with aid for Whittier students, as well as benefitted from your knowledge, with Whittier alumni, parents, or friends. an increase in our important "rate of more to come in the months ahead. Imagine being a student whose participation" in annual giving, which Then there are the many people musical and acting performance is enhances Whittier's reputation and who host events off-campus for the ritiqued by the Pulitzer Prize-winning helps us secure gifts from foundations College—events that bring small or large playwright Nilo Cruz and the Latin and other friends. groups of Poets together in locations rammy Award-winning composer Let me also applaud so many around the world; receptions that wel- abriela Frank. Think of being a young others who have contributed gifts over come new students and their parents to tudent given the opportunity to ques- the past year, much of which have the Poet family, and encourage others to :ion Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier helped create the wonderful opportuni- join us; and dinners for team members ibout his discovery of the AIDS virus ties for students highlighted throughout after athletic contests both on campus r invited to an eco-friendly dinner this issue of The Rock. At fiscal year's and on the road. with environmentalist Bill McKibben. end, that list includes 30 percent of It does "take a village" to run a nvision yourself sitting with Justice our faculty and staff, 52 percent of College, especially one as vibrant and ichard Goldstone to learn about the graduating seniors (a record, we eclectic as Whittier. And we have count- rocess of reconciliation in South Africa believe), and our Poet Parents who, less ambassadors who "work for" the ollowing apartheid. And just imagine on top of the support they give to our College, serve our students, and make )eing one of the 100 students chosen students in so many ways, contributed Whittier shine. Thank you all! o question Dr. Henry Kissinger on any nearly $1 million in gifts! Special thanks Go Poets! opic—no holds barred. are due to our growing group of "Faithful 4As usual, I welcome I was thinking about these expert- Friends" (now numbering 2,235) who ( your good advice mces—enjoyed by so many Whittier give to the College year after year, ([email protected].) ;tudents over the last few years—and boosting our participation rate, and Sharon Herzberger decided to use this column to say thanks" to you, our readers, whose PS. I look forward to seeing so many of you during the events of Whither Weekend 2011, ietworks helped bring these guests and October 21 through 23. Root for the Poets at the various athletic contests, stop by the nany more to our campus for our stu- popular Society Mixer, and hear great speakers such as our very own Matt Espe MBA '84, lents' benefit. And then I realized that CEO of Armstrong World Industries, Inc., global entrepreneur Edwin Keh '79, and a special here were many people whose work guest brought to us by our new Board Chair, Don Herrema '74: Pete Dawkins, U.S. Army n behalf of Whittier launched stories Brigadier General (Ret.), Rhodes Scholar, former Heisman Trophy winner, and former vice- ii this issue of The Rock. chair for Citigroup. And please join me for a walk around campus over the weekend; Ipromise not to take you up too many hills. 3 ARTS... AND AMERICAN FOOTBALL CHINESE UNIVERSITY PARTNERS IN INAUGURAL WHITTIER ARTS PROGRAM otos byTaUana Shabe1nk A ART IN THE CITY. Joining the 96 students on the trip were the vice dean of the school of art design, A MAKING FRIENDS. At top, KEDE students were vice director of international exchange and training, executive vice president of KEDE College, and led by Whittier students and coaches in a friend chairman of the board of directors. game of flag footbaLL; at bottom, Whittier Profes Vanessa Raabe poses with a KEDE student. ONLY A WEEK AFTER GRADUATION, of Whittier College alumnus and U.S. become a leader in developing overseas the campus rapidly revived with activity President Richard M. Nixon '34—a point of study programs that cultivate interna- as nearly 100 art students from China took pride shared with China, not lost on the tional art appreciation and enable their part in the inaugural Whittier College Arts KEDE visitors.