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N In his 2001 state of the university units, such as the Marshall School of address, USC President Steven B. Business, have their own online offer- Sample identified four major growth op- ings. With the hardwiring infrastructure Features > portunities for advancing the university’s and technological expertise that Infor- Doheny_Library_02 mission and strategic goals. It is no mation Services has been building in small matter that two of these four — recent years, the stage is set for USC InscriptiFact_16 libraries and distance learning — fall to continue its leadership in this bur- Kacey_Doheny_McCoy_24 directly under the auspices of USC geoning field. Information Services. When USC’s This issue of Bibliotech highlights Hancock_Museum_26 libraries, telecommunications and com- a number of topics relevant to libraries puting services combined to form this and distance learning. The award win- division in 1997, our role expanded be- ning Doheny preservation project and yond providing the USC community retrofit, detailed on pages 2-5, will serve with information resources and servic- as a model project for renewing great es; it is the job of Information Services classical library buildings for service in P PPP to build the knowledge and technology the 21st century. USC’s leadership role Editor Restored_to_Perfection_02 Alice_Does_Live_Here_11 Treasure_Trove_26 Susan L. Wampler infrastructure that positions USC as a in the next generation of the Internet Doheny Memorial Library reopens Lewis Carroll enthusiast George Located in the center of the Associate Editors after major retrofit, while preservation Cassady donates a collection of University Park campus, the Hancock global center of intellectual activity. (see pages 6-7) will enhance research Darren Schenck efforts and planning for the future the author’s works, including rare Museum combines history and art in Although technology and libraries opportunities and distance learning pro- Kevin Durkin may at first strike some as strange bed- grams at the university. Our cover story Senior Writer continue. editions of Alice’s Adventures in an eclectic setting patterned after the fellows, breakthroughs in information on the InscriptiFact program illustrates Eric Mankin Wonderland and Through the Looking- Villa Medici in Florence, Italy. technology — and the subsequent flood how sophisticated information technol- Advisory Board The_Need_for_ Speed_06 Glass and What Alice Found There. Alvin Hopkins of available information — have reassert- ogy is preserving ancient inscriptions Dark fiber is not a rock band, or a Lynn O’Leary-Archer On_Call_31 ed the need for libraries and their func- while enhancing their accessibility health food, but a tool that is enhanc- Collecting_Strength_12 Marje Schuetze-Coburn The USC Call Center serves as the tion as gatekeepers of substantiated online. The university-wide Archival ing USC’s high-speed Internet con- USC Information Services’ research John Silvester 24/7 voice of the university, answer- knowledge and information. The ability Research Center, also described in Eric Vincent nections and research capabilities. center plans to make original materi- ing more than 70,000 calls every to access and share resources elec- these pages, will use primary materials Design als and archival collections digitally month. tronically also has opened avenues for to foster original scholarship and re- Warren Group Quick_Clicks_08 accessible. Principal Photography collaborations and partnerships that search in a number of interdisciplinary Doheny Library wins preservation John Livzey American_Original_32 heretofore were not possible. Because fields. award; appointment of deputy CIO; Readers_of_the_Lost_Ark_16 Author Hamlin Garland’s vast corre- libraries remain so vital to intellectual The articles in this issue of 13th Annual Scripter Award; new Scientists around the world decode Bibliotech.usc is published by spondence (with figures such as pursuits of every kind, they continue to Bibliotech feature only a few of the ex- USC Information Services. exhibition series; high-performance ancient texts and artifacts using an Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt have a profound impact on the future citing developments in USC Information Direct inquiries to: computing; and more extensive archive and pioneering and Mark Twain), along with notes of education. Services. We hope you find these sto- Doheny Memorial Library #302 technology developed at USC Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 and drafts of some 40 books, form a Our other mandate, distance learn- ries of interest and that you will join us Chat_Room_10 through Professor Bruce Call (213) 740-3270 or send tentpole resource in American litera- ing, is poised to move the university to a in exploring the future of technology, Q&A with cyber cop Stanton S. Zuckerman’s InscriptiFact program. email to [email protected] ture at USC. Gatewood, USC’s chief information new level of recognition and excellence. libraries and learning. Summer 2001 USC has long been at the forefront of assurance officer The_Next_Generation_22 ©2001 University of Southern California From_the_Archives_back page distance education, ever since a USC Jerry D. Campbell All rights reserved Students dig experience in archaeol- Benefactor and former chair of the professor taught a course on Shake- Chief Information Officer ogy lab with InscriptiFact team. USC Board of Trustees G. Allan speare via television in 1953. The Dean of the University Libraries Hancock was a captain of industry as School of Engineering has conducted The_Real_McCoy_24 well as the high seas. courses via closed-circuit television for Kacey Doheny McCoy carries on a nearly 30 years, and other academic family tradition of support. P

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By Darren Schenck

Nearly 70 years later, Doheny will be the site of another mile- while the purpose of the ongoing preservation project is two- Restored_to_Perfection stone. Its grand reopening on October 10, 2001 — after having fold:to restore the building’s unique and beautiful artistic details, been closed for 18 months for a seismic retrofit — will usher such as painted plaster ceilings and marble staircases, and to Doheny Library reopens after seismic retrofit, in a new era for one of USC’s most historic and vital buildings. reconfigure the library for the new information environment by Preservation of historic architecture and reconfiguration of phys- remodeling its physical spaces and installing a wiring infrastruc- while preservation efforts and planning for the future continue. ical space into new areas for student and faculty research will ture for online, multimedia technologies. help redefine Doheny as a research library for the 21st century.

The seismic retrofit The opening of Edward L. Doheny, Jr. Memorial Library in 1932 was The making of Doheny Library USC’s first order of business was to ensure the structural stabil- A major university with no library? That was the predicament ity of Doheny Library.Funded in part by the Federal Emergency a defining moment for USC and a major event for Southern facing the University of Southern California in the early years Management Agency (FEMA), the seismic retrofit project has of the 20th century.As Los Angeles was experiencing a popu- strengthened the building’s very foundation with steel and con- California. On September 12 of that year, leaders of industry, gov- lation boom, USC’s unprecedentedly high enrollment placed crete.The relative fragility of countless design elements, from tremendous stress on the university’s infrastructure — and es- oak-paneled walls to ceilings painted with water-soluble paint, ernment and academia converged on the University Park campus to pecially on its scattered library centers. Meanwhile, the num- posed a considerable challenge to construction engineers, who ber of books, journals and archives acquired by the university had to move all of these components out of the way to get to commemorate USC’s first freestanding library — hailed as the “very continued to grow. Few could have envied the job of then- the original frame of the building. University Librarian Charlotte M. Brown, who was faced with The backbone of the operation lay in the insertion of con- heart of the university.” the task of providing resources and services to the university crete shear walls on every floor.Workers had to painstakingly with a tiny staff spread out among different campus library remove Doheny’s walls and everything behind them — in- centers — most of them in the basements of various buildings. cluding electrical, mechanical and plumbing systems.Workers In the late 1920s, Ms. Brown surveyed library systems at fit steel reinforcing bars over the original wall, then used high- more than 20 universities and drafted a plan to meet USC’s power concrete pumps to “shoot”concrete into the steel frame; needs.The plan didn’t move off paper for years, as potential this procedure, known as shotcrete, creates new concrete walls. donors and funding plans fell through.Then, after a tragic turn The last shotcrete operation was completed in early August of events — the death of Edward L. Doheny Jr., a USC trustee 2000.After reinstallation of mechanical and electrical systems, and alumnus — Estelle Doheny decided to memorialize her son tradesmen replaced the drywall,plaster and lath while referring through the building of a magnificent library named in his hon- to thousands of digital photographs taken of the walls before or.The Doheny family’s gift of $1 million to build Doheny their removal. Library provided one of the most enduring gifts the university has ever received. Historic preservation With a new concrete foundation set and the walls back in place, The remaking of Doheny historic preservation work — separate from the FEMA-fund- At century’s end, USC and its University Librarian — Chief ed retrofit — could begin.The façade of Doheny Library was Information Officer and Dean of the University Libraries Jerry repaired where bricks had crumbled and cracked,then received D. Campbell — were faced with their own daunting task: How a power-washing to clean off excess grout and other residue. do you redefine Doheny Library for the 21st century informa- This cleaning, the building’s first, has brightened the brick and tion environment while restoring and retaining the timeless limestone while enlivening the colorful mosaics surrounding the architectural beauty that makes it a Los Angeles landmark? main entrance. Designed to meet and surpass the highest library standards at Preserving Doheny’s interior proved more complicated. the time of its construction, Doheny faced new demands for The ceiling of the magnificent Times-Mirror Reference Room, information resources and research services. one of several rooms with ceilings decorated with painted plas- In December 1999, when the library closed its doors for ter and gold, had to be cut into pieces and dismantled for the > Counterclockwise from top: A massive light fixture, ornamented with pewter and gold, against stained-glass the seismic retrofit, it provided USC with the opportunity to shotcrete operation. windows in Doheny’s entrance pavilion; plaque inside the main entrance commemorating the library’s bene- launch the Doheny Preservation Fund.The retrofit has en- “We had to repaint these pieces after installation,” says factors, the Doheny family; preservation expert Tatyana Thompson cleans gold-leaf panels on the ceiling of hanced the safety of the building in the event of an earthquake, Kevin Flynn of Swinerton Management,the firm overseeing the the Times-Mirror Reference Room; workers had to mount scaffolding to remove wall and ceiling panels. P

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seismic retrofit project.“But first we needed to know if we were the architect created the look of a stone fresco by applying a after the library reopens. USC will look to friends, donors and going to restore the paint to its original color or to the color it mixture of finely crushed glass,giving the paint a rough texture.” alumni to support some of Doheny Library’s most exciting had become,covered with dirt and soot.When we cleaned parts To touch up the paint where the ceiling tiles were replaced, initiatives. of the tiles as part of the reinstallation, we uncovered the origi- Thompson took samples and mailed them to a conservation Reconfiguration of physical space, supported through the nal color, which is what we ended up matching.” expert on the East Coast.The conservator’s analysis, received in Doheny Preservation Fund, will open up additional public Replacement of the tiles was seamless; a close examina- November 2000, contained detailed descriptions about the areas and will enhance the accessibility,visibility and usability of tion of the ceiling reveals no chipping or damage where they layers of paint applied to each surface, as well as information on Doheny’s resources and services.An expanded humanities and have been put back into place.The only evidence that the ceil- the paint’s reactivity to certain cleaning agents,the absorbency of social sciences reading and reference room on the first floor will ing had ever been removed is an incision between each tile that the underlying plaster, and more — all of which helped her benefit students and faculty doing research in these areas and has been repaired with filling compound. determine the precise restoration method for each partic- will be available to all students; an intellectual commons will The task of restoring the ceiling to its original state fell to ular surface. make archival materials, microfilm and Lexis-Nexis accessible Tatyana M.Thompson,who has been doing conservation work Thompson’s work was completed in spring 2001.Those all in one place. Doheny also will house a new exhibition through her firm,Tatyana M.Thompson & Associates Inc., for returning to Doheny will not be able to tell by looking that series that will feature original and traveling exhibits staged at 18 years. Standing atop dusty 20-foot-high scaffolding in the these beautifully decorated walls and part of the ceiling had been Doheny throughout the year; an exhibit featuring Doheny Times-Mirror Reference Room, in casual wear and a hard removed.Anyone who has been in the facility before, however, Library will kick off the series in October. hat, Thompson looked more like an archaeologist in mid- is certain to notice its rich, reinvigorated colors. Although Doheny has had to adapt to changing circum- excavation than a fine arts specialist. They won’t notice much else about the retrofit. But that’s stances — be it increased student use or new technology — over Using a dry sponge,Thompson gently removed decades- the point — to reinforce the structure of the building while pre- the decades, what remains unchanged is its role as the heart of old dust and grime, revealing a sharper, brighter blue under- serving its historic design. In fact, one measure of the retrofit’s USC, a grand library that embodies the very best of Southern neath. If there were any doubt about the effectiveness of success will be the extent to which the library looks unchanged. California’s first university. this cleaning — and there isn’t, when it is compared to the This fact was not lost on the Los Angeles Conservancy,an For more information about the Doheny Library Preservation surrounding tile — it would be immediately erased with one organization dedicated to preserving the architectural and cul- Fund, please call (213) 740-3270. R look at her blackened sponge. tural heritage of greater Los Angeles. In honoring USC with “These are the same conservation standards and techniques its prestigious annual preservation award,the group cited the un- used in fine arts to clean paintings, and for major restoration obtrusive manner in which the various planners and contractors projects,”she says. reinforced Doheny’s walls while cleaning and repairing deco- The project was, of course, too much for one person to rative surfaces. do, so she enlisted Randall/McAnany Company,painting and wallcovering contractors who also worked on a similar cleaning Future preservation project at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles.Thompson acted as teacher and trainer, then left the work in their hands. Although Doheny Library is reopening,the effort to reinvent its Although Thompson has overseen many restoration proj- role as an intellectual and cultural center has only just begun. ects,each holds unique challenges.In Doheny,she was surprised Important initial steps will be complete this fall, including a to discover that much of the paint used on the ceilings and walls relocated and expanded Music Library, now adjacent to the is water-soluble. Cinema-Television Library on the ground floor; a new public “Paint this friable is unusual for this era of building,”she reading room that integrates current periodicals,Micrographics says.“You can’t use water to clean it — it rubs off too easily.” and Global Express (interlibrary loan) into a single unit called The paint not only was difficult to clean, it was partly Academic Resources Gateway Office (ARGO),housed in space responsible for the ceiling’s murky appearance; obvious water previously used for administration;the return of 750,000 books stains darkened portions of the ceiling.These paints were vac- to Doheny Library; and the relocation to Doheny of other uumed clean, and dry-cleaning sponges were used to remove resources, including the university-wide Archival Research additional residue. Other sources of color were not as delicate, Center (see story,page 12). In addition, a room on the second but required the same kind of patient handling. floor newly devoted to seminars, workshops and conferences “Parts of the ceiling are decorated with high-karat gold will encourage interaction among faculty and between faculty leaf,”she says.This gold is complemented by a chrome yellow and students. > Counterclockwise from left: The white filling compound marks where the reference room wall panels were paint and is interspersed with earth colors and ochre. A number of other important physical renovations at the li- cut and removed; furnishings in the Times-Mirror Reference Room were protected during the retrofit; “Many buildings of this era have ceilings that were made to brary have not yet been completed, and a major fund-raising scaffolding was erected on the stairs inside Doheny's main entrance; bronze and pewter chandeliers in the look old through various techniques,”Thompson says.“Here, campaign begun a year ago to support them will continue reference room were also covered during construction. P

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By Eric Mankin

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> USC's VP for Scholarly Technology John A. Silvester

Or imagine a future USC doctor examining a patient at a faculty to tap additional computing power from other univer- The_Need remote location.New technology allows the doctor to see,hear sities when they need it for highly demanding applications. and — with so-called haptic extensions — even touch a patient Is this effort necessary? “Yes,absolutely,”says Silvester.“It in an examining room thousands of miles away from the Health helps us maintain USC’s position at the forefront of digital tech- for_Speed Sciences campus. nology during a time when competition for exceptional stu- The technology that would make such scenarios possible is dents and faculty is stiffer than ever. Campus computing speed called “tele-immersion,”one of a whole suite of possibilities be- and sophistication are now key parts of the package that every Dark fiber is not a rock band, or a health food, ing opened up by high-speed, next-generation Internet con- university offers.This project, therefore, had the highest priori- but a tool that is enhancing USC’s high-speed nections.And thanks to innovative and fiscally savvy planning ty,and we are extremely pleased to have been able to complete Internet connections and research capabilities. by the Information Services division, USC is leading the pack it as quickly and economically as we have.” of universities racing toward this new vision of the future, and Through its Information Sciences Institute (ISI), USC was doing so at a bargain rate. deeply involved in the creation of the original Internet and has The bargain was achieved by using “dark fiber”— not the remained active in the research and negotiations that have led to name of a rock band or a health food ingredient, but the term the creation of the Internet2 consortium that is now pushing applied to fiber-optic cable that was laid several years ago back the boundaries of network technology. USC President throughout Los Angeles by the city’s Department of Water and Steven B. Sample serves on the board of trustees of the Power. University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development Most of the dark fiber is used by private Internet service (UCAID), the parent organization of Internet2. providers,who lease it and “light”it with special equipment that Internet2 has a wide-ranging menu of new tools under converts the electronic data used by computers into pulses of development that will transform research in the 21st century. light and then, after transmission, converts the pulses of light Among these are digital libraries, which will contain — in back into electronic data.These companies then retail data trans- addition to electronic versions of written works — sound record- mission services to other companies and specialty users who ings,films and videotapes that can be accessed online in real time. need extremely high capacity data links. Another new Internet2 tool will be virtual laboratories, in By leasing and lighting the dark fiber itself, USC which researchers will perform experiments in such facilities Information Services has eliminated the middleman in this as particle accelerators or astronomical telescopes on other con- transaction.To procure and install the equipment that lights the tinents by remote control. dark fiber cost the university about $150,000, plus a relatively Perhaps the most exciting new tool will be telepresence — small continuing financial commitment to supervise the system’s the creation of the illusion of being in a remote location — Imagine the job interview of the future.A USC senior seeking a position at operation.According to Vice Provost for Scholarly Technology which will be achieved through ultra-high resolution 3D video John A.Silvester,had USC gone the middleman route,it would displayed on large screens, coupled with next-step sound.The a New York corporation enters a room on the University Park campus that have cost “at least 30 times as much.” USC School of Engineering’s Integrated Media Systems Center “I expect that the good experience we have had at USC is a standout facility for research in this area. is equipped with a giant, wraparound screen. Entering a Web address on a with dark fiber will encourage other universities to do as we Silvester,while proud of what USC has done so far,realizes have done,”Silvester adds. that the university can’t afford to be complacent.The new net- keyboard, the student sees a startlingly vivid 3D image of an interviewer The new installation will create more bandwidth, the ca- work, impressive as it now seems, inevitably will be replaced pacity to carry data between USC’s campuses.The lit fiber will — and soon — by a new system with even greater speed capacity. in a New York office and hears ambient sound in all directions.The clarity enable a researcher on the USC Health Sciences campus to use “We envy Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen, who only had to a new supercomputer — located at the University Park run as fast as she could to stay in the same place,”Silvester says. of the images and sounds makes the interview seem as though it is taking campus and one of the most powerful in Southern California “We can’t take it easy,the way she could.” R academe — as if it were located in her own office. place in a single room. 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The supercomputer uses the now-pre- breadth of USC’s archival material. Hoover Corridor Project Continues ferred “cluster” architecture that links together The Cinema-Television Library — including Phase two of the Hoover Corridor Develop- numerous powerful individual microprocessors the David Wolper Collection — and the Music ment project — an ambitious plan to reconfig- > Mike Pearce — 128 in this case. Using high-speed data con- Library also will mount regular exhibitions as ure the area between Thomas and Dorothy nections, the new computer will support work part of the new program at Doheny Library. Leavey Library and Edward L. Doheny, Jr. not only on the University Park campus, but USC’s University Libraries will join some Memorial Library — is now underway. The com- also on the Health Sciences campus and at 40 Los Angeles institutions in an exhibition cel- pletion date is set for mid-October. Pearce Named Deputy CIO lished a multilingual, Web-accessible archive of ISI’s Marina del Rey facility. Another advantage ebrating the city’s vast collective resource of N The project features a 2.2-acre land- information about Asian film at USC. is that the cluster can be readily expanded as rare books, manuscripts and related objects After 25 years in the corporate world — spend- scaped quadrangle anchored by a reflecting The Asian Film Internet Database is part of additional funds become available. In Southern entitled “The World From Here: Treasures of ing about 80 percent of his time on the road pool and fountain. The beautification project the Asia Pacific Media Center, which has op- California academia, few machines are more the Great Libraries of Los Angeles” at UCLA’s and logging well over a million miles in global will visually connect Leavey and Doheny li- erated under the auspices of the Annenberg powerful than the new USC cluster. R Hammer Museum from October 17, 2001 travel — Michael (Mike) Pearce was ready for a braries and also will provide enlarged space for Center for Communication since 1996, with until January 13, 2002. R change of pace. He joined USC Information student interaction in Leavey’s popular patio additional funding from the John D. and Exhibition Program Launched Services last fall as deputy chief information of- area. R Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The new Scripter’s Wonder Boys ficer, after having held executive positions at With the reopening of Edward L. Doheny, Jr. project will enhance the existing Web site, Bausch & Lomb and Beckman Instruments Inc. Memorial Library, USC Information Services is Author Michael Chabon and screenwriter Doheny Library Receives www.asianfilms.org, which serves as a meeting “I’ve played a lot of roles for different com- launching a major new exhibition program that Steve Kloves won the 13th annual USC Preservation Award place for filmmakers, distributors, scholars and panies over the years,” says Pearce. “It’s been will be housed in the Treasure Room (next to Scripter® Award for their work on Paramount students of Asian film. The Los Angeles Conservancy named Edward a tremendous learning experience, but, clearly, the Times-Mirror Reading Room) on the first Pictures and Mutual Film Company’s Wonder The database ultimately will contain de- L. Doheny, Jr. Memorial Library a recipient of coming into an academic world was a signifi- floor of the library. Boys. tailed information about tens of thousands of one of its 20th annual Preservation Awards. An cant change.” The first exhibition will coincide with the At the ceremony, Chabon remarked that Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indian films. awards ceremony was held May 17 at the Academia itself was not a new experience library’s grand reopening and will examine the the Scripter Award was the first he had ever USA Today has dubbed www.asianfilms.org a Regal Biltmore Hotel to honor Doheny and the for Pearce, who holds California teaching cre- cultural landmark’s 70-year history. won. Just one month later, he received the “hot site.” R six other award-winning projects. R dentials in accounting, finance, banking and The 2001-2002 exhibition schedule Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his followup book, management and taught for several years at includes: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, High Performance Orange Coast College. > October 10, 2001-January 15, 2002 — for which he conducted research at USC’s Computing Center Opens “I have a strong belief that through tech- “Doheny Memorial Library: Heart of the Doheny Library. Kloves was nominated for an nology you can achieve a sustainable compet- Last fall, USC Information Services and the University”; Academy Award® for Wonder Boys and also itive advantage,” says Pearce. USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) joint- > February 1, 2002-March 15, 2002 — an wrote the screenplay for the highly anticipated Although he’s not racking up frequent fli- ly brought a powerful new supercomputer into exhibition on local visual artist and book Harry Potter, set for release in November er miles as quickly these days, his workdays are service and created a Center for High Perform- designer Varnette Honeywood as part 2001. easily as busy as his corporate executive ones ance Computing and Communication that will of Black History Month, developed by This year’s Scripter event — sponsored by were. He oversees information technology serv- work with faculty and students who will use the the USC Black Alumni Association; the Friends of the USC Libraries, emceed by ices, the telephony team, information services new machine for education and research. > April 1, 2002-July 15, 2002 — “Flying actor Gavin McLeod and chaired by Joan Jani- >From left: Wonder Boys software, Unix operations and academic USC Chief Information Officer and Dean Mice and Blue Birds, Black Cats and Mimms — was held March 3 at Hoose Library director and previous Scripter administrative software. R of the University Libraries Jerry D. Campbell Stray Dogs,” highlighting early 20th and Trousdale Pavilion on the University Park winner Curtis Hanson and says the center “provides us with an opportu- century Russian cabaret and intimate campus. Screenwriter Scott Frank chaired this CIO and Dean of the Japan Foundation Gift Puts nity to capitalize on the assets and expertise theater; and year’s selection committee, which chose University Libraries Jerry D. Asian Film Database Online of two strong organizations to provide superla- > August 15, 2002-December 15, Wonder Boys from among 54 eligible book-to- Campbell congratulate tive high performance computational capabili- Chabon and Kloves. A $30,000 gift from the Japan Foundation and 2002 — “The Tip of the Iceberg,” which film adaptations released in 2000. Hal Kanter ty for our academic mission.” Language Center in Los Angeles has estab- will provide a glimpse of the depth and served as grand emcee. R P Home_ 02_ 03_ 04_ 05_ 06_ 07_ 08_ 09_ 10_ 11_ 12_ 13_ 14_ 15_ 16_ 17_ 18_ 19_ 20_ 21_ 22_ 23_ 24_ 25_ 26_ 27_ 28_ 29_ 30_ 31_ 32_ Summer_2001 > Technology > Stan Gatewood Summer_2001 > Collections > Cassady Gift

Chat_Room By Darren Schenck Alice_Does_Live_Here

Q&A with cyber cop Stan Gatewood Lewis Carroll enthusiast George Cassady donates a major collection of the author’s works. As USC’s chief information assurance officer, ent.You must determine the ramifications of it is Stanton S. Gatewood’s job to protect the rolling out a program like this at a place like His name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, but millions of readers around the university’s communications and computing USC.You can create such restrictive securi- world know him by his pen name, Lewis Carroll.The Victorian-era author’s systems while balancing such security issues ty measures that everything else at the insti- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice with USC’s mission.Toward that end, his of- tution will break down.You also have to keep Found There were immediate bestsellers when they were first published in the fice recently established the Center for the university’s role and mission constantly in late 19th century; translated today into almost every language (there are some Information Assurance Studies to provide re- mind, and align with that.The university is 30 French translations alone), Lewis Carroll’s books continue to sell briskly. search and educational services to USC and about the free flow and exchange of ideas. Thanks to 1955 USC graduate and retired physician George Cassady,a major the surrounding community. A frequent You have to ask yourself how information collection of early editions of these speaker at national and international confer- security will appropriately fit in with that. and other Lewis Carroll works soon ences on information security,Gatewood sat will be available in the Horton Rare down with Bibliotech editor Susan L.Wampler What are your biggest challenges Book Room of Edward L. Doheny, here? to share his insights regarding this rapidly Jr. Memorial Library. evolving field. > The biggest challenge is training peo- Highlights of the Cassady Collection Cassady recently donated his ple to think subconsciously about protect- > 1872 first edition of Through the Looking personal collection of rare and first- How did you get involved in the field ing the university’s information. It’s socio- Glass edition Lewis Carroll books to the of information security? behavioral modification.USC has had a system > Sound recording of Alice with John Gielgud University Libraries, along with a > Security has been a part of my entire life. in place for 30 or 40 years. It’s like a giant > Victorian-era playing cards based on the cash gift to endow a new program My father was in the military; I thought machine; you can’t expect the university to Tenniel illustrations that will establish USC as an inter- everyone was! So I joined the Air Force and turn that machine on a dime.The key to the > Barry Moser/University of California Press national center for Lewis Carroll went into cryptology and linguistics.When whole thing is education and awareness.You large-format edition of both Alice books, with studies and will include an annual I left the military,I had a top-level security must be proactive. one of Moser’s original woodcuts symposium on the author and his clearance, which was marketable. I went > The Nonesuch edition of Alice works. The G. Edward Cassady, How often do information security to AT&T — basically doing the civilian > The Annotated Alice, book and floppy disc issues arise on a campus like USC’s? M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth counterpart to what I had been doing in the > The Letters of Lewis Carroll (Oxford) Cassady,R.N.Lewis Carroll Collec- military. > Not a day goes by that we’re not tested. > > Stan Gatewood “Reflections in a Looking Glass, Centennial > George Cassady, M.D. tion at USC will be the centerpiece A good percentage of that comes from with- Celebration of Lewis Carroll,” containing of the program. What attracted you to USC? in. With 20,000-plus students and 15,000 photographs by Dodgson from the collection A Lewis Carroll enthusiast, George Cassady is a member of the Lewis > I wanted to build an information secu- faculty and staff, it’s a breeding ground for at the University of Texas Carroll Society of North America, one of the largest and most respected or- rity program from the ground up at a large hackers and crackers.You have inquisitive > Jabberwocky, illus. by Graeme Base ganizations dedicated to Carroll’s life and works.The new program will be ad- institution. Although USC had, of course, people at a university;they like to test things. > Alice, illus. by Ralph Steadman ministered by the university’s own resident Lewis Carroll expert,Aerol Arnold been doing information security before I ar- But we have some of the sharpest gatekeep- > Hunting of the Snark, illus. by Henry Holiday Professor of English James Kincaid. rived, a unified program did not exist. USC ers anywhere.We look for anomalies, trends, > Alice in Czech “Carroll is an enormously important cultural figure,one of the most enig- is a target-rich environment because of the anything that is not normal. The scariest > “Dodgson at Auction,” a catalog of letters, matic of the Eminent Victorians, noted for his photography almost as much mixture of business, technology,people and attack is the one that looks like normal inscribed books and fragments signed by as for his writings,”says Kincaid.“He also marks an important turn not only change. business. Dodgson from 1893-1899 that have changed in the writing of children’s literature but in the way we understand ‘the child’ Creating the educational component — hands at auction in modern culture.” the Center for Information Assurance Studies What is the biggest misconception people have about information Editions of Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark also are represented — also was a great opportunity.Among the Other books by Carroll/Dodgson security? in the Cassady Collection, as are a number of the author’s non-fiction works. in early or first editions: services we offer is a free security risk review As Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Carroll was a teacher of mathematics at > People think you can buy security.It’s to internal and external organizations.We’ll > The Game of Logic not a product; it’s a process. Oxford and contributed to such diverse fields as logic, art, theater, religion, give you a grade like a restaurant, but we > Feeding the Mind medicine, science and photography.Many of these aspects of the author are won’t post the results outside your building. > Sylvie and Bruno For more information, visit the Office of Informa- captured in Cassady’s collection. > Useful and Instructive Poetry “This collection makes available highly important material to a very wide How does USC compare with your tion Assurance Web site at www.usc. edu/infosec, > Rhyme and Reason past experience? call (213) 743-4900 or visit the program’s new fa- variety of scholars and a considerable portion of the general public,” says > A Tangled Tale Kincaid.“This collection is vital for Carroll scholars because of its ability to > This is the most challenging job I have cility at USC’s Research Annex on Hope Street, > Phantasmagoria provide close access to a large number of Carroll’s writings, not only in fan- ever had — it’s nothing like industry or the just east of the University Park campus. R tasy,but also in mathematics and in symbolic logic.” Department of Defense. Every day is differ- The first Lewis Carroll symposium is planned for 2002. R P

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developed impressive holdings that come The research center plans to aug- related to this project will comprise the Collecting_Strength under the research center’s umbrella. ment its collections by gathering primary core of the collection. Jerry Campbell Among these are the archives of the USC materials from Southern California’s pio- envisions the research center as a way for School of Cinema-Television, the largest neer families and organizations that have scholars and historians to craft a fresh Research Center to make original materials digitally accessible collection of its kind in the world;and the had a significant impact on the develop- history of the region. archives of the USC School of Architec- ment of the region.These documents, “Such a history,” Campbell says, ture, which have strong collections records and photographs open the door “would give voice to the founding and regarding the building of the Wilshire to new fields of study. Scholars and re- influential families who have left their Asnew technology expands worldwide beginning with the USC University Boulevard commercial corridor. In addi- searchers will be able to draw on these mark on Southern California.” access to printed texts, it has become dif- Archives, which document 120 years of tion, more than a dozen special USC collections to compile an innovative and ficult for university libraries to distinguish academic life at Southern California’s libraries and collections, including the incisive history of the region as told by Digital gateway themselves from their peers.Gone are the first university. archives of the USC Thornton School of the people who made it. In the digital age, a major research uni- days when the greatness of a library could Other notable holdings include the Music and the USC Southern California As a part of its Historic Families versity’s libraries must not only expand be judged by how many millions of USC Regional History Collection, Social Work Archive, have holdings with Initiative,for example,the research center their own collections of primary materi- volumes its stacks contained. which houses the Hearst Collection of strong regional focuses. is documenting California Rancho fam- als, but extend the availability of such “In today’s information age,” says more than one million photographs,dat- ilies, First Century families, and early materials worldwide through the Jerry D.Campbell,USC’s chief informa- ing to the early 20th century,as well as Expanding the collections African-American and Asian-American Internet.To this end, the research center tion officer and dean of the University tens of thousands of clippings and bound As impressive as USC’s holdings are, families in the region.Photographs,maps, has begun to build a Web site that will Libraries, “major research university volumes of the Los Angeles Examiner from much collecting remains to be done. papers, art, audio and video records eventually serve as a digital gateway to libraries can no longer hope to be 1930 to 1961;the Stone Collection on the unique based on their print collections. assassination of Robert F.Kennedy; a col- The collection of primary research ma- lection chronicling the development of terials is increasingly seen as the path to the aeronautical industry in Southern Collaborative Approach distinction.” California;and the Christopher Commis- Taking a leadership role in the cre- sion archive,which details the investigation Lynn O’Leary-Archer has spent much of her career developing “When I arrived at the Getty,the research institute’s library, ation of the next generation of libraries, into the background,outbreak and conse- innovative, interdisciplinary collaborations and programs.When archives and photo archives were insular, entirely separate from USC has responded to this shift in the quences of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. she was recruited to lead USC’s ambitious new research center, one another,”she says.“I reorganized those three separate col- way libraries position themselves by cre- Additional components of the she was immediately interested. lections units into an integrated research library.”She also built a ating the USC Archival Research Center. research center include the Lion “I really believe in what we’re trying to accomplish,and I was publications and exhibition program and directed the develop- The research center has been founded on Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, the intrigued by the intellectual engagement this position offered,” ment of a fully integrated electronic library catalog. USC’s growing collection of primary Boeckmann Collection for Iberian & says O’Leary-Archer, executive director of the Throughout her tenure at the Getty, O’Leary-Archer materials, many of which relate to the Latin American Studies, the East Asian research center,and associate dean for resources negotiated major inter-institutional publications and program past, present and future of Los Angeles and Korean Heritage libraries, and the and services in USC Information Services. development contracts. She traveled frequently to such places as and Southern California. Such collec- American Literature Collection — all of “Lynn has the intellectual curiosity,aca- England,Germany,Italy,the Czech Republic,Hungary,Spain and tions are located in various repositories which house archival material related to demic training and administrative experience Buenos Aires — where she directed the research institute’s throughout USC, but they are being Southern California.The Feuchtwanger that are essential to launching our research participation in a major collaborative exhibition. brought together digitally under the aus- Library,for example, contains the most center,” says Jerry D. Campbell, USC’s chief Prior to joining the Getty,O’Leary-Archer was assistant dean pices of the research center. significant archive documenting German information officer and dean of the University for planning and administration in the former Division of Social Jewish and other exiles in Southern Libraries. “That’s a unique combination of Sciences & Communication in USC’s College of Letters,Arts and Existing collections California prior to, during, and after skills, and just what we need to develop a Sciences. She also taught in the Department of History. The research center already maintains a World War II. model digital, integrated collection.” Born and raised in Butte, Montana, O’Leary-Archer calls number of important archival holdings, A number of USC schools have “My natural instinct is to pull things together,”says O’Leary- herself “decidedly a Montana girl.”She earned her bachelor’s Archer.“The products that arise out of collaboration are different degree in English and history at Gonzaga University, a Jesuit from and, in most cases, better than what comes out of compart- college in Spokane,Washington. She received her master’s in mentalized study.” American studies and her Ph.D.in history at USC.

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> Opposite page, from top: collections that have a Southern Califor- Three growing databases, all linked objects in USC’s and its partners’ collec- lowships, guest speakers, exhibitions and Chapbook by José Guadalupe nia focus. In July,the pilot version of this to the USC research center, provide in- tions — with a particular emphasis on seminars at the research center will help Posada, late 19th-early 20th century site (www.usc.edu/arc) debuted with a creasing access to original and second- materials related to Southern California. establish Doheny Library as an invaluable Mexican graphic artist; Lion comprehensive list of the materials related ary resources related to Los Angeles and The research center is developing a intellectual resource for those with a Feuchtwanger and the handwritten to Southern California that are currently Southern California.The first of these “regional meta-collection” of digital scholarly interest in Los Angeles and manuscript of his best-selling available in USC’s archival collections. is the Los Angeles as Subject database, archival materials to provide access to in- its environs — as well as in the vast re- 1925 novel, Jud Süss; Ogden The research center also is poised to (www.usc.edu/isd/projects/lasubject/),a formation owned and housed by many sources at USC not related to the region Nash’s Musical Zoo, 1947, with serve as a digital gateway to hundreds directory of nearly 200 archival resources different regional institutions. Current that also are a part of the research center’s music by Vernon Duke; “Celestial of archives housed at other libraries, in the Los Angeles region. It grew out of partners include the Automobile Club collections. Cards” that accompanied an museums and institutions throughout a Getty Research Institute project in of Southern California, the Chinese 1830 F.G. Moon astronomy game; Southern California. One of the many which USC was a partner institution. Historical Society of Southern Califor- Global relevance a 1905 issue of Tip Top Weekly, prestigious projects that has teamed up The database was relocated to USC from nia, the Los Angeles City Archives and The 21st century has widely been char- one of a long-running series featur- with the research center is the Shoah the Getty in 2000.The database will con- the Huntington Library. acterized as the Pacific Century.To the ing Frank Merriwell, the most pop- Foundation’s Access to History project.The tinue to grow as additional repositories Nearly 70,000 digital objects exist extent that the Pacific Rim has a capital ular dime-novel hero of his day; research center currently is helping are added to the directory and as the in IDA at present, and approximately at all, it is not Tokyo or Singapore or flag carried by a Japanese soldier to support the Shoah Foundation’s depth of information about each reposi- 14,000 of these, mostly photographs, are Sydney or San Francisco or Seattle. during World War II. cataloging of video interviews with tory increases. currently available to the public. New Rather, the political, economic and cul- Previous spread, from top: Medal Holocaust survivors and witnesses who The second database,the Los Angeles collections are being added, including, tural nexus of the Pacific Rim is Los of Commander in the Order of reside in California.The ultimate goal of Comprehensive Bibliographic Database, or among others, the Korean-American Angeles and Southern California.As a re- Orange-Nassau, presented to USC this joint project is to provide schools, li- LACBD, is an integrated version of the Digital Archive of more than 10,000 sult, the history of Southern California, President Rufus B. von KleinSmid braries and other centers of learning with two leading bibliographies of resources document images and more than 1,300 as documented by the research center, in 1932 by Queen Wilhelmina of broader digital access to the Shoah related to Los Angeles. The 1973 Los photographs related to the “first wave” will be of paramount importance to the Netherlands; early postcard Foundation’s collection of more than Angeles and Its Environs in the Twentieth Korean-American community in the those seeking to understand the dynam- featuring Edward L. Doheny, Jr. 50,000 eyewitness Holocaust testimonies. Century:A Bibliography of a Metropolis, by United States; the East Asian Library ic and influential Pacific Rim. Memorial Library; photo of Captain The research center’s digital gateway USC Distinguished Professor Emeritus Map Collection of 182 color pre-20th The study of Los Angeles and Jacques Cousteau of the French received a major boost earlier this year Doyce Nunis,along with its 1996 sequel, century maps focusing on Korea and Southern California also has implications Navy, right, aboard the Velero IV for when it entered into a wide-ranging edited by Los Angeles City Archivist China; and the Japanese American for high-growth cities elsewhere in the a test of his invention, the Aqua agreement with the city of Los Angeles Hynda Rudd, are the most comprehen- Relocation Digital Archive, a statewide world. By studying original materials Lung diving apparatus. that clears the way for extensive cooper- sive and useful bibliographies yet assem- project of the California Digital Library, documenting Southern California’s ation in the digitization and wide bled for the study of Los Angeles, and designed to improve access to materials growth, for example, researchers will be distribution of the city’s voluminous they are widely consulted. USC, in part- related to the internment of Japanese able to discern which policies have records. nership with the Los Angeles City Americans during World War II. worked, which have not, and speculate “This agreement will greatly help Historical Society,has brought these two about the reasons why.As Los Angeles the research center become the source of volumes together in one Web-accessible A central gathering place and Southern California increasingly choice for information about Los edition of approximately 15,000 titles, Plans are underway to house the research serve as the 21st century urban paradigm Angeles,” says Lynn O’Leary-Archer, which became available in June 2001. center in the beautifully refurbished for the rest of the world, research con- associate dean for resources and services The third database is the Integrated Edward L.Doheny,Jr.Memorial Library, ducted through the USC University in USC Information Services and the Digital Archive, or IDA, (http://library. which will reopen in fall 2001. Located Libraries’ research center will grow executive director of the research cen- usc.edu/uhtbin/catstat.pl/37),which pro- at the heart of USC’s main campus, the tremendously in importance. R ter.“When someone wants to research vides access to digital images of photo- center will serve as a gathering place for Los Angeles,”O’Leary-Archer says,“we graphs, maps, manuscripts, records, texts resources and researchers and will foster want them to come to us.” and a growing number of other digital informal scholarly exchange.Visiting fel-

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By Darren Schenck

Scientists around the world decode ancient texts and artifacts using an extensive archive and pioneering technology developed at USC. > Scientists working to decode ancient texts and inscriptions — think Dead Sea Scrolls — often must travel to remote, inhospitable loca- tions to pursue their quarry.But in their quest to unravel the mysteries of humankind’s earliest forms of written communication,they spend most of their time in the laboratory,where they pore over hundreds of photographs of the same text, hoping to find an image that will reveal the detail they need to crack the code.

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At the time, high-resolution scanners were prohibitively expensive. But Zuckerman was betting that, within a decade, high-resolution digital scanners, like most new technology products,would come down enough in price that scholars could begin using them to make their own high-resolution images. His gamble is paying off: Zuckerman now receives inquiries almost daily from colleagues who need assistance scanning and developing their own image databases.The project also has gar- nered national media attention, including a recent feature on “CBS Sunday Morning.” The InscriptiFact project’s collective image archives today comprise the largest assemblage of image data for ancient Near Eastern texts in the world.The image archives include the Dead Sea Scrolls; Hebrew,Aramaic and Canaanite texts from the bib- lical period and earlier;Mesopotamian documents and medieval Jewish manuscripts; and numerous other inscriptions and arti- facts of archaeological and historical importance.They also contain the oldest biblical text currently extant and the oldest complete Hebrew Bible in the world, as well as what are believed to be the earliest known alphabetic inscriptions. Specially trained students use a drum-roll scanner to digi- tize images of the inscriptions and other artifacts (see story,page Which begs the question:What do you do when the im- So he called his brother Kenneth, a highly skilled photog- 22). Housed in USC’s Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Library — ages you have are unclear — and therefore unreliable? rapher,and had his older sibling teach him the craft.Bruce then in the world’s only computer imaging center exclusively The obvious response would be,“Take better pictures.”Of applied the demanding methods of commercial photography to devoted to the study of ancient inscriptions — the scanner course,static photographs will get you only so far.The ambitious his inscriptions.The results were astonishing. captures high-resolution images that are superior to any scholar ideally would have the texts in hand,but considering that Working in an artifact-laden laboratory in the basement previously available. many are carved into cave walls and other massive rock forma- of the Mark Taper Hall of Humanities on USC’s University Park tions,this is impossible.So what you really want is a perfectly de- campus, Zuckerman and his colleague Marilyn Lundberg, tailed image, one you can manipulate, rotate and study from all Ph.D.,also an expert in ancient languages,call up two digital im- Making InscriptiFact a reality angles and under various types and degrees of lighting.And ages of the same inscription: One is a photograph taken in the Once Zuckerman and Lundberg began creating this image data- (since this is a wish list) you want to be able to do all this in late 1940s; the other, an image taken 50 years later using their base, however, an even bigger challenge soon arose: How could > Opposite page: Technology the comfort of your own office — no, your living room. more exacting methods.The result:Even though the original in- they distribute the images? specialist Leta (Li) Hunt accesses Done. It’s a digital distributed archive called InscriptiFact, scription suffered five decades of exposure between photo- “We asked,‘How do we get this data most effectively into the InscriptiFact database, and and it’s dusting off an entire field of study. graphs, the professors’ image of the text is infinitely clearer than the hands of the people who need it?’” says Zuckerman. an ancient inscription that the data- Bruce Zuckerman, associate professor in USC’s School of the much older one.And by manipulating perspective, lighting Sending the images over the Internet would be impossible. base will preserve. Religion, began work on the project 20 years ago, when he was and light wavelength, Zuckerman and Lundberg can call up a Considering the size of the files — from 20 to 200 megabytes Above: InscriptiFact director Bruce a postdoctoral student recently graduated from Yale University. startling variety of images that a scientist sitting face-to-face with per image — it would be just as fast to ship the data UPS.Once Zuckerman prepares to photograph He had been researching ancient inscriptions when he began the original inscription would have difficulty seeing. again, Zuckerman and Lundberg had to think ahead and real- an artifact. confronting the problem that has frustrated scientists in his field “Fifteen years ago, we said to ourselves,‘Someday,all this ized they needed some help. Having taken the program as far Previous spread: A Gandharan for decades:Many inscriptions were impossible to study because photographic data will be able to be digitized,’”says Zuckerman. as they could using their own technology skills, they turned to Buddha head is one of hundreds the photographs taken of them were of such poor quality that “So we asked,‘How do we photograph the data so it will be use- USC Information Services. of artifacts found in the letters and characters could not be seen, let alone read. ful when it’s eventually converted to digital form?’” In 1998, Bruce Zuckerman met with Chief Information InscriptiFact archaeology lab. “Scholars didn’t know how to photograph ancient texts To extend his work,he founded the West Semitic Research Officer Jerry Campbell to discuss the possibility of extending Dating from between the 3rd and and photographers didn’t know how to read them,”Zuckerman Project, now affiliated with the USC School of Religion, and Information Services’ resources to the InscriptiFact project.“I 5th century A.D., the head says. He was also aware of another, growing, problem: Ancient researched various methods of digitizing. told him somebody was going to do this,”Zuckerman says.“It illustrates the influence of the inscriptions that hadn’t been photographed in half a century In creating a high-resolution database, says Lundberg,“We was a matter of who would do it first.We were already way Greeks on the Gandharan culture. were degrading in quality with each passing day. were planning for the future of the World Wide Web.” ahead of the game.” P

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> Bruce Zuckerman and co-director Marilyn Lundberg in the archaeol- ogy laboratory in the Mark Taper Hall of Humanities

As he told Campbell, Zuckerman expects that other uni- lowships,” whereby scholars would be granted access to versities will be assembling their own databases of high-resolu- InscriptiFact’s database and research tools while working from tion images over the next 10 to 15 years.When that happens, their home institutions — and even from their homes. each institution will then have the choice of inventing its own “You’d get space on our local net, and do your operating distributed information protocols or of using USC’s model.He remotely,”says Zuckerman.“All the manipulation of images doubts that scholars will waste time and money duplicating would be done by us on the site,then we’d send you the results.” USC’s efforts. This potentially means that a researcher at an archeological Enter Leta (Li) Hunt, Ph.D., a USC Information Services site could work within the InscriptiFact database from a lap- technology specialist whose expertise, like Zuckerman and top; all the heavy-duty manipulation requiring countless Lundberg’s, also involves translation — but of a very different megabytes of computer memory would be done at USC. kind.When Hunt joined the project in late 1998,her job was to In addition to USC Information Services, the USC take the qualities and fields by which ancient manuscripts are Annenberg Center for Communication (the university’s infor- observed and studied and put them into a language that a com- mation technology incubator project), the James H. Zumberge puter can understand. Research and Innovation Fund,and the Ahmanson Foundation “Li is the one who makes this a reality,”says Lundberg. all contributed resources to InscriptiFact. “Their vision drives the project,”says Hunt.“My job is to The university’s — especially Jerry Campbell’s — willing- make sure their vision is reflected accurately in the software.” ness to take a risk with the InscriptiFact project has enabled To do so,Hunt contacted Hewlett-Packard,the electronics the team to thrive, according to Bruce Zuckerman. giant with which Bruce Zuckerman had initiated a year-and-a- “Many top universities don’t have USC’s entrepreneurial, half-long collaboration, and posed an extraordinary challenge. technology-oriented spirit,”he says.“This university’s ‘go-to- “I told them we wanted a system whereby 20 concurrent it’ attitude has enabled us to get a jump on a project that will users could each call up a 30 megabyte file, and they’d all get transform how other universities conduct scholarship in this their files in three seconds,”she says. field — and perhaps in many others.” To the team’s happy surprise, Hewlett-Packard succeeded That jump will be fueled by private support as well. in devising a hardware configuration that met their specifica- Adrienne Underwood (BA ’33),an alumna and longtime friend tions.Now the InscriptiFact team’s task is to get their colleagues of the university,recently made a gift of $1 million to benefit the involved with the project. InscriptiFact program.The resources provided by her gift will “InscriptiFact is simply the digital end of what we do,” enable Bruce Zuckerman and his colleagues to move their im- says Lundberg.“By working with Li, we’ve been able to create age database online, to expand the database, and to create new a digital form through which we can disseminate the archive.” research opportunities for undergraduates,graduate students and “It used to be that when a researcher found a text, the post-doctoral fellows. academic community would have to wait to see it until the The InscriptiFact project is one of several state-of-the-art researcher found the time to translate the text and then pub- programs of USC’s Archival Research Center (see page 12) that lish the results,”says Zuckerman.“Not only did you have to combine digital archiving techniques with a unique search and wait,you had to rely on that researcher’s translation,which could retrieval system.The research center supports a key component contain inaccuracies or choices you wouldn’t agree with.” of the university’s strategic plan by enhancing research on the With InscriptiFact, an archaeological find can be made past, present and future of Los Angeles. It is the program behind available almost immediately to the entire academic commu- the burgeoning and acclaimed “Los Angeles School” of urban nity,allowing for open access of a sort not available previously. studies. Says Lundberg,“We want to democratize the field, give For more information about the InscriptiFact program, including people direct access to the inscriptions.” archival images, specific texts and articles, set your browser to Other scholars eventually will be able to add their own im- www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/index.html. R ages and diagnostic tools, and even to make improvements on the program’s software-hardware architecture. “Forget the ivory tower,”says Zuckerman.“We want to build an ivory condominium, to bring researchers together, not only to do their own research, but also to interact.” The team also plans to establish the first-ever “virtual fel- P

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Students dig experience in archaeology lab working with the InscriptiFact team.

In the world of scholarly research, undergraduates fortunate and the interaction you have with the faculty who are relying environment,”says Loschert.“I took a lot away from that.” enough to sign on for an interesting project often find that they on your work. Dara Purvis, an undergraduate at USC (class of 2003), first are closely supervised, given little or no room for autonomy, “It’s very easy to make simple errors,”says Loschert.“You experienced the InscriptiFact program in the classroom. A creativity or decision-making, and have little or no substantial need a lot of discipline.” theatre major, Dara enrolled in one of Bruce Zuckerman’s interaction with faculty. It’s not surprising, then, that a To create the images that build the program’s database, courses last year as part of the university’s rigorous thematic project as forward-looking and unconventional as InscriptiFact Loschert had to learn to use the drum-roll scanner and a vari- option program. would employ a philosophy of student research that invites ety of computer software, and also had to learn how to process “Professor Zuckerman talked about InscriptiFact in class,” interaction and encourages lifelong skills. film.In order for the electronic images to be useful,they have to she says.“We used that same technology for a group project to Professors Bruce Zuckerman and Marilyn Lundberg, be flawlessly clear.That means that there must not be a single study an ancient Egyptian scarab beetle,”she says,indicating that directors of the InscriptiFact program, long ago realized that speck of dust between the negative and the scanner. more than just texts are scanned into the massive electronic undergraduate students had much to offer in terms of research After the image is properly scanned, the student must database. Her group’s project won first place in the humanities assistance.Today,in fact, they could hardly get along without digitally manipulate its color to match it to the color of the division of the Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and their students. original negative. Creative Work, an annual academic contest that honors “We emphasize the value of hands-on experience for our “Once you digitize the image and print it out — to see it outstanding undergraduate scholarship and research. students,”says Zuckerman.“Those we hire are given impor- how a researcher might view it — differences in color can cause What struck Dara most about her time in Zuckerman’s tant laboratory work that requires a high degree of skill and big headaches,”says Loschert.“It can take a lot of work to match class was the access she and other students were granted to the concentration.” the color to that of the original transparency.” full range of artifacts — and technology — used by Zuckerman, Andrew Loschert, a student in the USC Masters of Once the color is adjusted, the images are stored directly Lundberg and Lynn Swartz, who runs the archaeology lab.The Professional Writing program who graduated from USC in into the electronic database, where they potentially can be ac- lab contains shelves and cabinets full of ancient pottery,trinkets, 1999 with a degree in religious studies, worked for the cessed and studied from a desktop computer anywhere in the jewelry and sculptures. InscriptiFact program last summer.As an undergraduate,he had world.Prints are not usually made,since the extraordinarily high “We were free to handle any of the artifacts in the room,” taken two of Bruce Zuckerman’s courses and was impressed resolution of the scan can only be appreciated with the use of she says. by Zuckerman’s enthusiasm not only for research but also for a computer.Prints are occasionally made for use in the classroom Dara has since taken a job in the computer imaging center, teaching. as instructional tools, but not for research. working on the InscriptiFact database. “I saw the passion he has for what he does,”Loschert says. Professors Zuckerman and Lundberg have every photo- “I’m very happy to be involved in such an important proj- “It comes out in the classroom.” graph scanned whether there is a current demand for it or not. ect,”she says. So it’s no surprise that when Loschert was on campus last “A lot of what they’re doing involves a sort of pre- In both cases — a graduate student moving toward a career summer, looking for employment opportunities, he thought of emptive strike,”says Loschert.“They scan everything, with the and an undergraduate in her first year of college — the Bruce Zuckerman. Loschert’s former professor jumped at the idea that the images they’re not using now will be needed later.” InscriptiFact program has provided far more than mere chance to employ him even though Loschert had made it Loschert also processed requests from researchers at other employment, or mere facts in a classroom. known he wasn’t going to pursue a Ph.D. in the field. universities, compiling images on CD-ROMs and mailing It’s a program neither of these students — or dozens of Zuckerman’s willingness to spend hours training a student who > Theatre major Dara Purvis and them. As awareness of the program grows, the number of others like them each year — is likely to forget. R would be available for just a few months was, for Loschert, fur- graduate writing student Andrew requests increases. ther proof of Zuckerman’s commitment to students. Loschert study film negatives “Anyone who doesn’t know about InscriptiFact quickly The project assigned to Loschert, and to the dozen or so before scanning. gets interested when they find out,”says Loschert. other students who typically work with Zuckerman during the Beyond the technical aspects, working with Zuckerman year, was the ongoing expansion of InscriptiFact’s massive im- and Lundberg gives many students their only peek into age database.Working in the computer imaging center in the academic life — a life that may seem mysterious to a typical un- basement of Leavey Library,Loschert helped build the database, dergraduate who sees his professor only twice a week for class. one image at a time. “I had always wondered,‘What do professors do in their The work is meticulous and slow-going,and Loschert is the off-time?’” says Loschert. first to admit that it doesn’t strain one’s intellectual muscles.The Tur ns out,the same thing they do in their “on-time”:work. benefits lie in the autonomy and responsibility you are given — “They love what they do, which makes for a great work P

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Kacey Doheny McCoy carries on a family tradition of support for USC’s libraries.

For Kacey McCoy, daughter of Patricia and Patrick reader who already had a soft spot for libraries, eventually was held at a venue other than Doheny Library,which was Doheny,growing up in Los Angeles made her aware from followed her mother’s example. closed for the preservation project. Still, the event broke an early age of her family’s prominence in the city’s histo- “Growing up, there was always a tacit feeling of sup- records for attendance and for dollars raised. ry.That is, if residing on Doheny Road for a part of her port for Doheny Library,”says McCoy. “I love the people involved,”she says of working with life was any indication. Still,she hadn’t seen the library since she was a teenag- USC Information Services.“The staff and students are so “The house I grew up in was adjacent to Greystone er, and wasn’t sure she could find it when she drove in to impressive.” Park, in what is now Trousdale Estates,”she says.“It was campus with her mother a few years ago. Since taking the lead in her family’s involvement with a wonderful place to live, but I feel my childhood really “I had to ask for directions at the gate,”she admits. the library,McCoy has found rewards in some unexpected wasn’t different from anyone else’s.” Considering the sweeping physical changes the cam- places. She describes looking through old photographs and McCoy lived away from Southern California only pus had undergone since Kacey McCoy’s previous visit,her documents associated with her great-grandparents and the long enough to attend the University of California, disorientation was understandable. But despite the imple- renewed connection she feels to them. Berkeley,where she studied art history and Italian.Then she mentation of several campus master plans, which have re- “Being around Doheny Library,I’ve been getting to embarked on a trip to Italy to see some of the great mas- sulted in radical landscaping projects, new pedestrian thor- know my great-grandparents better,”she says. terworks for herself — and for other, more idiosyncratic, oughfares, and many new buildings, Doheny Library Of course, Kacey McCoy doesn’t spend all her time reasons. remains what it was the day it opened almost 70 years ago raising support for Doheny Library. She and Peter still “Italy is such a deeply romantic place,” she says.“It — the most recognizable building on campus and the heart travel often; they visited Hong Kong and Bali for the 2000 probably isn’t the best place to go after a break-up,”she of USC. Christmas holiday with their two children, Patrick and adds, laughing. When Patti Doheny passed away in 1999, Kacey Shane. Patrick McCoy is an MBA graduate of the USC Kacey McCoy returned to California, and was at a McCoy took up her mother’s leadership role. Soon, that Marshall School of Business and works with his father at nightclub one evening when she ran into a childhood “tacit feeling of support” she knew as a child had bloomed McCoy Construction, while Shane applies her talent to the friend of her cousin’s whom she hadn’t seen in 10 years. into active personal participation and a significant role in competitive dotcom world, at the Content Project. Her They chatted. He called the next day.And in 1968, she and raising money for the Doheny Preservation Fund (see sto- daughter’s work provides a fitting segue to Kacey McCoy’s Peter McCoy were married.One imagines that subsequent ry, page 2).This historic initiative, designed to preserve own efforts to advance Doheny Library. trips abroad were a bit more gratifying. Doheny Library’s beautiful architecture while completing “Information technology is the future of libraries, and Her many visits to Italy and other of Europe’s pictur- the physical renovations needed to bring the library into I support Jerry Campbell’s vision for that future,”she says.R esque cities have inspired McCoy to take up watercoloring, the 21st century,was officially launched in March 1999 — to which she devotes considerable time. Her passion for at an event with which McCoy has become intimately Italy also has led her to join Save Venice,a group devoted to familiar. preserving and restoring the famed city’s unique architec- The USC Scripter® Award,established to recognize the ture and historical landmarks. She visits there every two best adaptation of a book to film, is one of the university’s years to participate in activities designed to raise money and most prominent fund-raising events.It combines the glam- awareness for the city’s needs.To enhance the quality of her our of Hollywood with a passion for books and is held trips abroad, she also has been refining her French and traditionally in the Times-Mirror Reference Room of > Kacey Doheny McCoy and her Italian skills. Doheny Library. dogs, Dewar and Jill McCoy’s love for great art and architecture doesn’t Kacey McCoy played a crucial role in the Scripter stop at Europe.When she returned to Los Angeles after col- Award ceremonies for 1999 and 2000. As chair of the event lege, her mother, Patti, was leading the family’s continuing committee, it was her job to ensure that USC produced a relationship with USC, actively working on behalf of the world-class event to match the occasion.The job was a bit Edward L. Doheny, Jr. Memorial Library. Kacey, an avid more complicated in March 2000, the first time the event P

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Eclectic Hancock Museum combines history and art.

Located at the center of USC’s University Park campus,the Hancock Memorial Museum features a treasury of art, furnishings and artifacts as wide-ranging as the life of the man it honors. G.Allan Hancock was a true Renaissance man. Marine scientist, cellist, aviator, lo- comotive engineer, real estate magnate, bank founder and philanthropist, Captain Hancock drilled 71 oil wells on his Rancho La Brea property and never struck a dry hole.Today that land includes the upscale enclave Hancock Park — as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries,on property Captain Hancock deeded to the citizens of Los Angeles County in 1916.The first finding in the La Brea Tar Pits occurred in 1875 — the year Allan Hancock was born — and by 1915,some 600,000 extinct mammal specimens had been uncovered, the world’s largest collection of Ice Age animal remains. A different kind of treasure trove exists in a little-seen section of the Allan Hancock Foundation Building at USC, located a few steps away from Newman Recital Hall.Four rooms — each decorated in the style of a different era — were moved to USC from the Hancock mansion at Vermont Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard when it was demol- ished in 1938.Today,those rooms comprise the Hancock Museum. The original 23-room mansion — patterned after the Villa Medici in Florence and built between 1907 and 1909 — reflected the unique tastes in European and > Above: A life-size statue of Napoleon greets visitors in the foyer. Opposite page, from left: Palladian styles of Captain Hancock’s mother, Ida Haraszthy Hancock, who was born Late 19th century white marble bust of Venus on a portion of the double Carrara stairway in of Hungarian nobility and spent half of every year in Europe. Captain Hancock and the reception hall; copper-gilt side chair with painted windmill, in the library; and a view of his first wife, Genevieve, moved into the mansion after his mother died in 1913. “Aurora Dispelling the Night,” the stained-glass window at the top of the marble staircase “The museum is a memorial to Ida Hancock and is filled with priceless objets d’art P

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Each room is decorated in a different style.

collected during her lifetime,”says Melinda Hayes, curator of the museum.“It is a com- bination of history and art.” In the outer foyer, a life-size statue of Napoleon by artist Moses Ezekial greets vis- itors to the museum. Inside, guests will find an eclectic collection of styles, from the early Roman style of the reception hall and the Louis XV French Rococo décor of the music salon to the Edwardian library and Georgian dining hall.The rooms also include Chinese,Thai and Flemish artifacts, adding to the unique mix of styles. The reception hall features murals of Pompeii and Herculaneum by Othmar Brioschi above the doorways; additional wall and door decorations are copies of those found in excavated Pompeian villas. Rare double Carrara marble stairways with classi- cal balustrades, stately columns and pilasters lead to a beautiful stained-glass window — commissioned in 1865 and created by Leon Zettler of Munich — called “Aurora Dispelling the Night.”The staircase originally led to the private family rooms upstairs. The dining room includes high wainscoting of carved old oak, and the embossed and gilded leather walls reflect the influence of Old Spain, according to Hayes.The oak table and red leather-upholstered chairs are English baronial and carry the Haraszthy coat of arms. “Furnishings for the dining room were collected from many parts of Europe,”Hayes adds.“The room features Sèvres china from France; cabinets from Switzerland; creden- zas from Flanders, southern France and Italy; carved sandalwood screens from Burma; ancient brasses from China; and carved bronze gargoyles from France.” The fireplace and mantle in the Edwardian library are fashioned after those found in the great banquet hall of Warwick Castle in England.Portraits of Captain Hancock and his mother grace the walls of the library,as does an imposing nine-foot-tall oak- carved grandfather clock.The library is connected to the music salon by an arched colonnade. The most striking room is the music salon,where Captain Hancock frequently per- formed with the Hancock Ensemble.The family also used the room for receptions and intimate performances by such world-renowned artists as cellists Pablo Casals and Gregor > Opposite page, from left: The fireplace in the library, modeled on England’s Warwick Castle; Piatigorsky and violinist Jascha Heifetz. a carved panel from Thailand in the dining room; and a painted porcelain vase in the music The oak floors with herringbone parquet inlays are covered with Persian rugs that room. Above: Tall pier mirrors and a 20-foot ceiling make the music room appear even larger. pair well with the rich,gold hues of the room — which also includes furniture that once P

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by Eric Mankin

adorned the palace of Mexico’s Emperor Maximillian and Empress Carlota. Lace cur- ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO PRS tains capped by curved valances of gold satin damask — and an ornate balcony from which the family watched performances — lend an Old World atmosphere.The room features a 20-foot-high ceiling and tall pier mirrors that make the music salon appear even larger than it is.A Steinway piano,circa 1910,and a Wurlitzer organ — with a paint- ing of Saint Cecelia, patron saint of music, above it — complete the room. To day,the Hancock Museum is rarely used, so that its intricate details and price- less artifacts can be preserved for future generations. Special tours can be arranged, and occasionally the space is used for special events and performances. INFORMATION 24|7 INFORMATION 24|7 INFORMATION 24|7 INFORMATION 24|7 INFORMATION 24|7 INFORMATION 24|7 INFORMATION 24|7 The magnificent museum is not the only evidence of Captain Hancock’s generos- ity to USC.The entire building is a reminder of the former chair of the USC Board of Trustees’dedication to the university.The Allan Hancock Foundation Building was con- > Gene Thompson (right) chats with structed around the old mansion rooms, and the entire facility was dedicated in 1941. On_Call one of ten staff who work the day shift. Appropriately,the exterior of the Hancock Building is embellished with an enormous sculptural panel representing prehistoric mammals found in the La Brea Tar Pits. The USC Call Center is the voice of the university. “For all time, he will live in the gratitude of the University of Southern California, where he has invested so generously both of his treasure and of himself,”said former USC Even in the age of email and Web sites,the vast bulk of questions professor; plus genuine emergencies of all kinds. President Rufus B. von KleinSmid of Captain Hancock. to institutions still come in the form of human voices calling up In this last category is “Neurolink” — a procedure to con- For more information, or to schedule a tour of the Hancock Museum, contact curator Melinda by telephone. But the job of giving the right answers speedily nect a hospital or emergency room with an on-call USC spe- Hayes at (213) 740-5141. R and efficiently gets increasingly complex. cialist neurosurgeon within three minutes of first contact.“All The staff of the USC Call Center are the voice of the personnel must know this protocol instantly,” notes Joanne University of Southern California.If President Steven B.Sample Heralda, who — together with Barbara Langlois — serves as hosts a dinner, it is the Call Center that gives guests calling in support service manager for the center. More than 100 clear and helpful directions to make sure they arrive at the right Neurolink connections have been made since the Call Center place at the right time. If the Health Sciences campus is adver- began handling the program in 1998. USC is working to preserve these artifacts for future generations. tising a campaign to raise awareness about USC’s advanced re- Technology helps, with new telecommunications equip- sources in organ transplantation, then it is the women and men ment dividing up calls so the operator knows what department at the Call Center who ensure that people who call in get the a caller is expecting to speak to, and even displaying important whole story and the right story quickly,courteously and reliably. information such a caller may need. It is not a small job.When the center was launched in 1995, But the real key is training and more training, says Gene it received 400 calls in its first month.That number has grown Thompson,who formerly helped Allstate Insurance handle calls to more than 70,000 calls per month — thousands of calls per and who stepped in as director of the center in December 2000. weekday,all handled by a still growing staff of only 22 people When a new program is introduced, the first step is distri- working around the clock. bution of a detailed question-and-answer script for representa- Ten staff members work during normal business hours, tives to master, ensuring they are aware of the big picture of with the rest making sure a human voice is on call 24/7. Being the program and not just their own roles in it. a representative is emphatically not just a matter of picking up a “Then,the crucial part is role playing,” Thompson says.The phone and saying “hello.”The staff must morph seamlessly representatives practice amongst themselves,putting themselves through a multitude of alternate identities when the phone in the place of callers, asking hard questions to help colleagues rings.They must simultaneously be the voice of numerous af- learn to have the right answer not just on the tip of their tongue, ter-hours clinics,of various administrative offices and of anyone but fluently spoken without delay or fumbling. else at the university whom a caller is trying to reach without This commitment to preparation and personal attention knowing a specific telephone number in the sprawling USC becomes even more crucial as an increasing number of univer- > From left: The Hancock family viewed performances by Pablo Casals and Gregor Piatigorsky, among others, phone system. sity departments turn to the Call Center for assistance in field- from the music room’s ornate balcony; the stained-glass window depicts the chariot of the sun being driven They must cope with all kinds of calls: irate alumni infu- ing client questions, directing calls and supplying information. by a male figure — thought to represent either Apollo or Phaeton (son of Helios); and a carved partition in riated about mistakes in the last football game;confused tourists Fortunately for USC, commitment is a quality the women and the dining room. asking directions to campus;cranks with bizarre theories or mir- men of the Call Center have in abundance. acle cures who say they must be connected immediately to a For more information, call (213) 740-1311. 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American_Original by Eric Mankin

Author Hamlin Garland’s vast correspondence and papers form a tentpole resource in American literature at USC.

He was one of the most noted American men of letters at the life,”write the editors,“[Garland] was intimately involved with turn of the last century,a man who knew and carried on ex- the major literary,social and artistic movements in American tensive correspondences with figures such as Henry James, culture.” Joseph Conrad,Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Stephen According to Ahouse, work is now in progress on a study Crane and Walt Whitman. of Garland as a “proto-feminist, which is certainly a new angle Though identified indelibly with the “middle border” on the old gentleman.”Garland was one of the first advocates Wisconsin-Iowa-Dakota farm country he immortalized, — along with his friend Theodore Roosevelt — for preserva- Hamlin Garland came finally to make his home in Los Angeles. tion of the environment.A major new biography,the first in He became a regular fixture at the University of Southern 30 years, is also in the works, again based in part on the exten- California, ultimately receiving an honorary degree. sive USC materials.And the notes that Garland made for his bi- And when he died,though his remains made the long rail- ography of Ulysses S. Grant make the collection an essential road journey to a grave in Wisconsin, his library and his papers resource for those researching the life of the Civil War hero — including his vast correspondence, and the notes and drafts and president. for his 40 books and numerous articles — remained at USC, Ahouse himself has prepared a detailed examination on where they form a tentpole resource in American literature. “Hamlin Garland’s California,”which explores the author’s life Garland (1860-1940) is not a household name today,but he in Los Feliz and his encounters with fellow Midwestern émi- has a secure place in American literature and may yet swing grés.(“As I walk among them,”Garland wrote,“I can hear them back into fashion. His long and energetic career means that the bragging of the storms they faced and the blistering harvest heat papers gathered at USC represent a treasure for researchers in they once endured,… taking it easy after a lifetime of hard work numerous fields, according to John B.Ahouse, assistant head on the level lands of the blizzard belt.”) librarian for specialized libraries and archival collections. An exhaustive index of the USC holdings is online at Renewed interest in Garland was sparked in 1998 by the http://www.usc.edu/isd/locations/ssh/special/garland/hgn. publication of a collection of his letters.“Throughout his long html; Ahouse can be reached at [email protected]. R

> From left: Hamlin Garland at mid-career in 1905 in West Salem, Wisconsin, near his birthplace; a letter to Garland from Walt Whitman, dated 1889; > On the cover: Etruscan head, circa Garland’s first book, Main Travelled Roads, which 500 B.C., housed in the InscriptiFact made him famous, and a letter to Garland on White archaeology lab (see story, page 16). House stationery from Theodore Roosevelt; the The Etruscan culture pre-dates “Dean of American Letters” on a speaking trip to Roman culture in western Italy. Hawaii in 1932; and a photograph of Garland taken This piece probably came from an by George Bernard Shaw in England, 1899. Etruscan tomb. P

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Captain of industry and the high seas, G. Allan Hancock chaired the USC Board of Trustees and was a major contributor to the university. Today, the Allan Hancock Foundation Building and its Hancock Memorial Museum (see story, page 26) are visible reminders of his life and his impact on Southern California and its first university.

> Top: USC President Rufus B. von KleinSmid was preparing to publish some reports on marine life through the University Press, when a biolo- gy student gave the president several substantial checks for the project, signed by Captain Hancock. Von KleinSmid — pictured, left, at the helm of Hancock’s “Velero III” — and Hancock soon met and became fast friends.

> Middle: Allan Hancock’s mother bought him a famous Gagliano cello on a trip to Europe. He soon began playing in the first stand of cellos in the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra and served as the symphony’s presi- dent from 1937-39. He played in both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Hollywood Bowl orchestras. Captain Hancock also devoted a great deal of time to the Hancock Ensemble, a top-rated chamber music organization that was heard nationwide on radio. He is pictured, far right, with members of the ensemble.

> Bottom: Of all his varied careers, Captain Hancock was first and foremost a marine scientist. He already had spent 20 years conducting marine research in the eastern Pacific Ocean when he became a USC benefactor. He ultimately gave the “Velero III” to the university, but the United States Navy recommissioned the vessel just before the attack on Pearl Harbor.