PomonaINSIDE: IRELAND, HAITI, HONG KONG AND TEXAS (YES, TEXAS...) COLLEGE MAGAZINE Spring/Summer 2010 An Island OF HIS OWN PAGE18 SPECIAL ISSUE: ISLANDS PomonaCollege /Islands/ / FEATURES / The Rebirth of Caelum Moor / BY DON PATTISON 38 Island Lives 18 Norm Hines ’61 brings a bit of Scotland to Texas sports country Roderick des Tombe ’01/Pulau Macan / BY MARK KENDALL 18 Haiti Before and After / BY AGUSTIN GURZA Going back to Haiti with Carlos Diy ’06 43 Bernard Chan ’88/Hong Kong / BY MARK KENDALL 20 Julie Trescott ’08/Ireland / BY ANNE SHULOCK ’08 22 / DEPARTMENTS / Jim Kelley ’63/Angel Island / BY MARK KENDALL 24 Stray Thoughts 2 Alumni Voices 52 Réanne Hemingway-Douglass ’63/Alaskan Coast / BY JOHN B. SAUL 26 Your Letters 3 Mind Games 54 Pomona Today 5 Pomona Blue 54 Offshore Treasures / BY SCOTT MARTELLE 28 Professor Jennifer Perry and the treasures of the Channel Islands Pomona Tomorrow 16 / ON THE COVER Class Acts 47 Roderick des Tombe ’01 at his island Marshall Arts / BY VANESSA HUA eco-resort of Pulau Macan, Indonesia. Mike Cruz ’06 and filmmaking on a tropical island 34 Bookshelf 50 —PHOTO BY ED WRAY SPRING/SUMMER 2010 1 / Stray Thoughts / Pomona / Letter Box / COLLEGE MAGAZINE that The Music Ma n does not address social Spring/Summer 2010 • Volume 46, No. 3 issues is inaccurate. Meredith Wilson wrote the Piping Professor Original scathing indictment of life in small-town America The eulogy for Professor Donald B. Visit PCM Online at www.pomona.edu/magazine. highlighting the prejudiced, book-banning and Island of the Mind McIntyre was deservedly impressive but didn’t perfectly dreadful citizens of River City in a man - Omission mention his bagpipes. He would wear his kilt and EXECUTIVE EDITOR/ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER ner we should all consider the next time a small- Mark Wood ([email protected]) I would like to correct an error in the article play the pipes at dances and other grand occa - town mayor asserts that she “can see Russia Kenny Rogers doesn’t know this, but the country singer helped hold my titled “North & South” in the winter issue. sions, saying a few words in his Scottish burr. As EDITOR from her house.” life together for a good chunk of 2009. On a lark, one day I popped his Pomona College was not founded “on a mesa a history major, I took his geology class in 1956 Mark Kendall ([email protected]) Other plays of the era were socially rele - ancient greatest-hits tape into the cassette player and in no time my 6-year- north of the actual city of Pomona,” as described as one of my “seven pillars.” It was my first vant, too. In 1947, Finnian’s WEB EDITOR on page 18 of this issue, encounter with a scientist, and it shocked me old daughter was entranced by the catchy tune of “The Gambler.” Lauren has Laura Tiffany ([email protected]) Rainbow attacked racism but in the heart of the with a first-quarter “C.” Apparently this thin, severe autism and can only summon a word or two once in a while. But it’s aggressively. In 1949, ASSISTANT EDITOR city of Pomona. There is quiet and very young man assumed we were easy to tell when she really likes a song because she’ll urgently raise her arms Mary Marvin South Pacific dealt with still standing an inscribed adults who would read the textbook without for you to lift her up and sway her to the music or spin her around, almost similar issues. Flower Drum CLASS NOTES EDITOR bronze and stone marker being given assignments! On exams, he wanted like you’re dancing for her. Perdita Sheirich Song , Most Happy Fella , on the corner of Mission every single relevant fact—never mind writing a Lauren’s musical tastes range from Enya to Raffi, but Kenny Rogers really Pipe Dream , A Tree Grows PUZZLE EDITOR Avenue and White Avenue liberal-artsy essay! Second quarter, I caught up a Lynne Willems Zold ’67 in Brooklyn and even The had her hooked. So we got the CD and Kenny became the go-to guy to on the original site of the few hundred pages and did much better. King and I dealt with seri - restore calm whenever Lauren was upset and we weren’t sure why, which is CONTRIBUTORS College. The bronze marker Meanwhile, some of us felt he needed a wife to ous social issues ranging frequently the case. Kenny even came along on the car ride for our one-night- Agustin Gurza (“Haiti Before and After”) is a freelance writer features a bas relief depic - feed him well and bring out his shy sense of who has worked for the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County from imperialism and slav - stay vacation to San Diego, a trip that, due to autistic issues ranging from tion of the original building humor. We were soon pleased to hear he’d Register . Two of his siblings attended Pomona College. ery to poverty, child dietary restrictions to diapering, required the sort of planning and precision “where the first session of brought one from Scotland, surely a rosy-cheeked Vanessa Hua (“Marshall Arts”) is a former reporter for the San abuse, equal rights, immi - Francisco Chronicle. Pomona College” was held, and capable woman! I was not surprised that the normally reserved for a hostage-rescue raid on a booby-trapped building. gration, feminism (slight - Scott Martelle , (“Offshore Treasures”) a journalist based in listing Sept. 12, 1888 as eulogy described him as a loving husband and Things went well enough that I floated the idea of staying another night, ly) and family relation - Irvine, Calif., is the author of Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre the date of this session. father. Certainly he was a fine person and pro - before my saner wife gave me a dose of reality. She knows when to fold ’em. and Class War in the American West. ships. There are plenty The marker was donated fessor—and a fine piper. This is just a snippet of life on our little autistic island, and country-west - of serious issues that Barbara K. Reck (“An Unexpected Reunion”) is the director of by the Historical Society of —Lucy Dickinson Phillips ’60 ern isn’t the only way to connect with Lauren. Still the formal “communica - membership for the American Public Health Association in are not race-centric. Washington, D.C. the Pomona Valley in the Dover, Mass. tion systems” used for kids with Lauren’s disabilities have been hit-or-miss. A To dismiss this late 1930s. John B. Saul (“Island Lives: Reanne Hemingway-Douglass ’63”) time period so lightly shows a lack of common method using drawings of objects and people proved too complicat - is a former Seattle Times editor who now teaches journalism part Clearly, the College had P.S. I wish PCM had more photo captions! Even information and experience. It is easy to general - ed. So now we’ve turned to a very literal approach. Lauren hands us a little time at the University of Montana. long outgrown such a small building, but it is a in the text, photo subjects can remain mysterious, ize, but it is important to remember that all of plate when she wants more to eat, she tears a Velcro-attached toy shovel off Anne Shulock ’08 (“Island Lives: Julie Trescott ’08”) is a part of Pomona College’s history nonetheless. As as in the winter issue’s “Closer,” about combined reporter for Sactown Magazine in Sacramento, Calif. the advances of the 1960s sprang from the the wall near the front door to tell us she wants to go out and play, and so a proud parent of a ’03 Sagehen, and proud res - families. incredible courage and work done in the 1950s, on. More recently, my wife has been prototyping a pocketed vest that has CONTRIBUTING STAFF ident of the city of Pomona, I think it is impor - Ben Belletto building on the foundation of the dreams of tant to recognize the role this city had in the Editor’s Note: Good point about the photo cap - Lauren’s key objects on strings for her a pull out when needed—it’s sort of a Travis Kaya ’10 social progress that began with the W.P.A. the - Will Hummel ’12 beginning of Pomona College. tions—we’ve added more in this issue. Girl-Scouts-meets-MacGyver look. atre projects. Lauri Valerio ’12 —Joan McIntire P’03 Even with the creative communication techniques, the shortcomings are I know it seems like “forever ago” but, as Pomona, Calif. still readily apparent. We can lay out choices for her, but how does she ask for Pomona College Magazine is published three we are expected to know about Shakespeare and times a year. Copyright 2010 by Pomona College. Send letters Website Reaction a food that isn’t in view? Like many kids with autism, Lauren has lots of gas - Our American Cousin in history, I think we could and submissions to: Pomona College Magazine, 550 North College Editor’s Note: Thanks for helping to complete trointestinal troubles and, also like many kids with autism, she often has trou - Ave., Claremont, CA 91711 or [email protected] . For address also learn a bit more about newer, seemingly I can only imagine how much time and effort an incomplete bit of history. The College did hold changes, class notes, scrapbook photos, or birth or death notices, “lightweight” decades—especially as we can rent must have gone into such a massive re-design of ble sleeping.