Magazine ot Th e American University Spring 1987
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All of the images on our cover stand out in the annals of AU's history. a. The Act of Congress by which AU was incorporated in 1893. b. An AU alum, class of '55, who has achieved national prominence. c. AU's founding father. d. Stone commemorating the completion of AU's first building. e. AU basketball star who made AP First Team All-American in 1973. Cover design: Bonnie Narduzzi and Kevin Grasty Vol. 38 No.2 1tlble of Contents
American is the official alumni magazine of The American University. It is written and designed by the University Publications and Printing Office, Office of University Relations. Suggestions and comments concerning American should be sent to American Magazine, University Publications and Printing Office, The American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016 Anita F. Gottlieb, Assistant Vice President for University Relations Martha N. Robinson, Director, University Publications and Printing Managing Editor: Anne Kelleher Editorial Staff: jill Bernstein, Mary j o Casciato, Terry Lowe-Edwards, Donna Perand Some of the more than 325 graduates who braved a winter storm to participate in AU's Designer: Bonnie arduzzi eighty-fourth commencement in Constitution Hall. For details, see page 18. American is published quarte rly by The American University. With a circulation of about 55,000, American is sent to alumni and othe r constitue nts of the university Features community. Copyright 1987, T he American University, an equal opportunity/affirmative What's "New" About the New Tax Law...... 3 action university. A look at the fundamental philosophical change in the U.S. tax system. A Teacher First and Foremost ...... 7 AU's Scholarrreacher of the Year, Edward Kessler, teaches students how to think for themselves. Pop Quiz in American History ...... l 0 American University's history is studded with famous faces and memorable moments. See how many you know. Farewell to Frailey ...... 12 Athletics Director Bob Frailey's retirement marks the end of an era.
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SPRING 1987 President's Message
f you're returning for this year's alumni I reunion-whether you've been away one year or twenty-you'll no doubt be struck by the physical changes on campus. The sports and convocation center, which required imagination to envision during the reunion weekend tour last year, now rises high in the heart of campus. Every day this long-awaited dream grows visibly, coming ever closer to reality. Another major campus addition is the nearly completed new dor mitory adjacent to Anderson Hall. As scheduled, it will be ready to house students next fall. At our Tenley Circle campus, renovations proceed apace on the facility that will be the new home to AU's Washington Semester program. As dramatic and important as these facility improvements are, they pale in comparison to renovation of a different sort on campus. Late last year, a faculty committee appointed by the provost completed an exhaustive review of our academic programs. Their task-to de velop a frank picture of our strengths and weaknesses and a plan for improvement-was daunting. The result is the elimination of some weak programs and the designation of "centers of excellence" to provide students with exceptional learning environments in areas where we are already strong: economics, finance, history, marketing, painting, and the Washington Semester Program. The faculty is now at work on another absolutely essential task that will complete the restructuring of our academic edifice: a revision of our general education program, the foundation on which the AU undergraduate education is built. Although we're writing new chapters in American's history, we're not losing sight of its proud past. You, its alums, are the most vital part of that past.
2 AME RICAN WHAT'S "NEW" ABOUT THE NEW TAX LAW
Each year for the ficient way to allo past twenty-five cate resources, but years, Congress has he taxpayers are also introduced major Tax Reform Act of 1986 bound to think of it legislation aimed at aims to change not only as unfair. "tax reform." Last the way you pay Why the general year brought the perception of un Tax Reform Act of your taxes, but the way fairness? First, by 1986 (also known as you think about them necessity, tax in- the 1986TRA). Un as well. centives create like the other ef The director of AU's "loopholes" -tax forts at tax reform, Graduate Tax Program breaks that are not however, the 1986 equally available to TRA fundamen- tells why. all taxpayers. Sec- tally reverses the di- ond, incentives rection of U.S. tax policy. The way we make the tax structure very complex. pay our taxes-and the way we think The average taxpayer doesn't under about them-will never be the same. stand the complexities, and that only Ever since it began to tax citizens' aggravates the perception of unfairness. incomes, the government has used the A widespread perception of unfair income tax law to shape economic and ness is the death knell for a tax system social behavior. Politically, lawmakers that relies on voluntary compliance. have always found it easier to support Taxpayers who feel that they carry a an activity indirectly, by giving it special disproportionate share of supporting the benefits under the tax law, than to sup government question why they should port it with direct subsidies. Not only comply with the law, particularly when is this "tax subsidy" approach an inef- wealthy individuals or corporations pay
SPRING 1987 3 little or nothing because of loopholes. Although the concept of phasing out Tax cheating, instead of being a social certain benefits makes the 1986 TRA disgrace, becomes a way to "even things s much fairer, it also meant sacrificing up." Meanwhile, the Treasury suffers, the legislation simplicity. The new tax law is very com and taxpayers demand reform. developed, it became plex, partly because not all incentives All this has happened during the past obvious that some tax were eliminated. As the legislation de decade. In response, Congress passed benefits are 'sacred veloped, it became obvious that some tax reform laws that were generally lim tax benefits are "sacred cows" and some ited to narrowing loopholes and enforc cows' and some are just are just "holy cows." Holy cows can be ing compliance through harsher penal 'holy cows.' Holy cows done in without fatal consequences, but ties and stricter requirements. can be done in without killing sacred cows would mean political The monumental 1986 TRA is com fatal consequences, but disaster. pletely different, however. Rather than killing sacred cows The 1986 TRA only slightly wounded tinkering with the existing system, it three long-standing sacred cows-home reverses the direction of tax policy. It would mean political mortgage interest, charitable contribu attempts to remove taxes as a motivation disaster. " tions, and tax-exempt interest. Even in fo r making economic decisions. the most heated debates about closing some income should be tax-free to meet tax loopholes, politicians continue to Faith through fairness personal living expenses. The problem protect homeowners. Although the is that these benefits are also available sanctity of these tax benefits has been T he primary purpose of the new law to high-income taxpayers, who reall y tarnished, they still retain most of their is to reestablish fairness. Lawmakers felt don't need the economic relief. For them, vigor. Other benefits are retained in that restoring fairness was important to lower rates on first amounts of income, greatly modified form, and taxpayers will restore fa ith in the tax system and the exemptions, and other low-income ben have to consider the new complexities legislative process. T hey hope that re efits are a windfall. and redirect their tax-planning strategy newed faith will bri ng renewed com accordingly. pliar.<:F. , which in turn wi ll bring more Taxes and surtaxes Thus, even though the tax system is federal revenues. still a factor for making economic de It is impossible to exaggerate the im Although a departure from progres cisions, its influence is greatly reduced. pact of the 1986 TRA. It affects every sive tax rates seems startling, the 1986 A good case in point is that the existing individual, investor, corporation, and TRA strengthens the "ability to pay" alternative minimum tax rate is elevated every aspect of the economy. It intro philosophy. The economic impact of the to a status equal to that of the income duces new philosophies and new ideas. new flat cax is merely that low-income tax. Under the new law, the alternative Taxpayers will have to get used to these benefits are no longer available to high minimum tax is levied at a flat rate of ideas, which until now have been dis income taxpayers. 21 percent, closer to the new maximum cussed only by economists and tax pol Beginning in 1988, the new law pro income tax rate of28 or 33 percent. Also, icy theorists. vides for only two tax brackets: 15 per the base exemption for the alternative Probably the most revolutionary and cent and 28 percent. However, at high minimum tax is now phased out at higher least understood aspect of the 1986 TRA levels of income, the personal exemp income levels. is that it abandons the basic philosophy tion, dependent exemptions, and the of a progressive tax system. Instead, it economic benefits of the 15 percent A schedular system adopts a "fl at" tax based on income level bracket are phased out. The wealthier and eliminates many special tax deduc taxpayers must pay a surtax (a tax on In another kind of fundamental phil tions and tax credits. top of the regular tax) of 5 percent. This osophical change, the new tax law goes Until now, the U.S. tax system has surtax creates a "phantom" bracket of a long way toward establishing a "sched always been steeply progressive. That 33 percent (28 percent plus 5 percent). ular" income tax system. A schedular means that taxes have been assessed ac The effect is to phase out the benefits system classifies different types of in cording to the ability to pay. The higher of exemptions for those taxpayers with come according to their source or activ your income, the higher your tax rate, higher incomes. ity; it allows deductions only for ex and hence the higher your taxes. Con In the past, benefits have been penses directly related to the activity versely, lower levels of income are taxed "phased out" at higher income levels producing the income. Many other at lower rates. only in a few isolated situations, such as countries have used a schedular con Exemptions- both for taxpayers the earned-income credit and the child cept, but the United States has applied themselves and for their dependents care credit. Now, however, the concept it only in the deduction for investment are at the heart of a progressive tax sys affects all taxpayers, because it appli es interest and expenses related to tax-ex tem. It has long been recognized that to common exemptions. empt income.
4 AME RICAN The 1986 TRA dramatically expands the schedular concept. Losses from one activity cannot be offset against losses from another. So, for example, the new law restricts deductions related to "pas Tomorrow's Ta es sive" income (income generated from rental and business activities where you don't materially participate) and limits interest deductions according to the use of borrowed funds. ax reformers are inveterate tinkerers. They often The "passive activity limitation" strikes at the very heart of tax shelters plan tax revisions before the ink is dry on a new investments designed to save taxes for law. With the 1986 TRA, lawmakers steered the the investor regardless of their economic U.S. tax system on a new course. Will they reverse viability. Real estate investors in partic • their course and revert to their old ways in the ular will be forced to change completely near future? their tax planning strategy, since the de Not likely. Congress and the administration are weary of ductions related to passive income will no longer mean tax savings. tax reform. The political turmoil brought on during the To make up for the loss of cash flow evolution of the 1986 TRA surpasses anything we've seen from tax savings, real estate syndicates in recent history, and Congress doesn't want a repeat per will raise rents, since they will have to formance. But, more important, lawmakers have succeeded produce passive income, to offset pas in convincing the American people (temporarily, at least) sive losses. Raising rents, especially rents that the new law will be beneficial in the long run. To go for commercial office space, will be ex tremely difficult, because rents are al back now would probably be viewed as a breach of faith. ready as high as the market will bear. The deficit problem persists, however, and revenue must Renters will flock to the single-family be raised somewhere. There are two possible sources other housing market. Given the inevitable than the income tax to ease the budget deficit. rent increases and the clear tax advan First, if the revenue shortfall isn't too great, existing tages remaining for homeowners, single family houses and other small unit res excise taxes might be increased. Congress took this ap idential property will become even more proach in 1981, 1982, and 1984. An energy tax, such as a attractive under the new tax law. tax on imported oil, might be introduced. Overall, coping with the 1986 TRA If large amounts of revenue must be raised, though, the will be more difficult than coping with most likely candidate is a European-style value-added tax. any previous tax change. The first step This is similar to a sales tax at every level of manufacturing. is to accept that the basic philosophy of the income tax law has, to a large extent, In addition to several practical problems, these taxes carry been reversed. philosophical problems as well. Both of these "consumption A significant sign of that fundamental taxes" are regressive: they weigh most heavily on lower change is the name of the law itself. income taxpayers. Moving in this direction would further Since 1954, all tax changes, no matter erode the historic U.S. philosophy of taxing according to how massive, have been amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. the ability to pay. Last year, in addition to all the other If the revenue shortfall from the 1986 TRA is significantly changes, the name of that law was greater than predicted, Congress might revise specific ob changed to the Internal Revenue Code jectionable provisions in the new income tax law. No back of 1986. The tax system has begun anew, ward look, however, will cause a general retreat from the and we must learn anew how it works. new tax philosophy. -MPS -Michael P. Sampson Editor's note: This article is adapted from a chapter of Sampson's forthcoming book, The Residential Real Estate Tax Hand book, set for publication this spring by Pren tice-Hal/Information Services.
SPRING 1987 5 TALKING PERSONALLY: SAMPSON ON TAX LAW, AU FAMILY TIES
'ht Resit!mtial Real J.:state 1a.x Hand inject their point of view into my classes," the class of '14. I lis sister Doris Lee boo/:, is a book for laymen. "I'' rotc he says. Sampson !her '55 and brother-in-law Tit for residential real estate bro Sampson, whose courses include Charles !her '54 arc alumni .ts is their kers. home owners, and small rc Legislati\ e and Judicial Foundations of sidental unit im cstors," says author \like daughter Deborah Baer. Deborah, '' ho Income Tax, Tax PoltC\, Real Estate is the controller for the \\'Jshington Bul Sampson. "By limiting the audience, I Taxation, and Partncrshi,; Tax.nion, has lets. has two \l dcgrces, a B. \.('HI) in found I could de-mythologize the law been a member of the KCB \ faculty quite a bit." tinancc and computers and an \I.S. ('H4) since !!.JiB. Coming to .\l was "like 111 accounting. I lowever, Sampson, the dire<.:tor of coming home," he says. KCBA's graduate tax pro- The Baltimorc-\\'ashington natiYe That's be- chose not to folio\\ his father and sister gram, ,,·arns that "there's no cause the Samp simplification'' in the new to \l because he \\anted "to sec an son fJmil~ in other part of the country." he spent tax law. "It's a fair law, but ~o cludes three his college career at Cornell l ni\ersit\ a complicated one," he says. generations of \\here he earned his bachelors, masters·. To understand its implica Al' alumni. and degrees. I lc also has an tions, Sampson advises la: law LL..\1. Sampson's late degree from Georgetown l ' ni,crsit\. mcn to "go sec a specialist." father, the Re\ .\s both a lawyer and a cer .\fter four \cars as an accountant for crcnd Paul Jen Coopers and. Lybrand, he decided to tified public accountant nings Sampson, (CP.\), Sampson is fasci S\\itch to teaching, going tirst to George \\as 3 member of nated bv tax law. "I reallv ~Jason l ni\crsit~, then to the l'ni\cr enjoy lo~Jking at how tax Ia\~' siry of Baltimore ~111<.1 the affects business and personal l ni\crsit~ ofOregon. \\'hen economic decisions," he says. he returned to the \\',tshing I Ic estimates that each year ton area, Sampson says \l1 he shares his enthusiasm for was his first choice for cm ploymen t. tax law with approximately Rev. Paul Jennings Samp~on at eleven thousand real estate his 1934 graduation from A l' "\ly father was so happY professionals and other tax \\ith his wife, Lola, !\like when I cJmc to \l ,'' says lavmen in seminars and Sampson's mother. Sampson. "I don't think he sp~cchcs a\\·ay from .\l '.This C\ er forga,·e me for not com \Car that number includes ing to school here." ~am Al' alumni because of -Mar) Jo Casciato Sampson's involvement in .\l"s Washington, D.C., winter brunch lecture series for alumni and "mini-col F.ditor's .Vote: .In' yo11 part of lege" at this year's reunion. an.\( 'familr lih .1/ih Smnp The perspective he gains son? If thtrt's morr than ont from public speaking and . \ ( ' a I'"" i 11 yo 11 r family, seminars is invaluable in the American mrtxazint rc·rmts to s 0 -"' classroom, he says, since most hear from you. {,ofltarl Jill 0.. of his students arc practicing Doris I.ee Sampson Baer at Deborah Baer 'Hl, 'H4, with- her Rt'ntS!tin a/ \merican maga her 1955 graduation with her CPAs who want to sharpen uncle KCBA professor \like zint, iltt. \merimn ( 'niz·n:rity, father, who came back to their skills. "Because I deal Sampson outside the Battelle -/-/(1[1 .lfas.wdtiiSt't/s i\c't'lllll', campus to gi\c the building. with so many laymen, I can commencement benediction. .\'.H., ll"ashingloll, D.('. .!il£1/6. 6 AMERICAN A Teacher First & Foremost
Thew ~liler of th.s year's Sr:ho.arfif_:ucher Awo:rd ~ urs :1o:~nilg oe·wt--;~ r Lirn:.;elf and his studt. )n r.
magine a class in which there zles crafted by a broad range of literary are no answers, a class in which artists. rn there is no absolute right or Emily Dickinson, he suggests to a wrong. If you can imagine class, "is serious without being sol such an experience, you have no doubt emn." He asks the class to distinguish met literature professor Edward Kessler. between the two words. The class is Finish one of Kessler's classes, and pensive, searching. After a variety of re he hopes you walk away with the un marks, Kessler jests, "Dickinson is se derstanding, "There isn't only one way rious. Undertakers are solemn. You pay of looking at anything. For it is in the them for that! Right?" His audience ap act of looking that we find out whatever proves the analogy with a ripple of truth is for us individually." laughter. Kessler realizes this notion is alarming Indeed, you will discover Kessler em to many students. Frequently, students bodies poetry in motion. His style is, in are accustomed to a fact-filled world, fact, a carefully calculated notion. Kes demanding clear-cut answers. Not so in sler says he best remembers from his Kessler's world. Here, it's "how you look own student days those classes taught at a problem, not the problem itself. If by "the teacher who danced around a you develop a way of looking at prob text. I remember the performance, not lems, then nothing is ever concluded, the text. I remember the way the teacher nothing is ever fixed, nothing is ever was engaged with the material, not in a dogma. It's always open to superficial way, but in a personal and interpretation." emotional way." This assertion is fun A class with this engaging professor damental to Kessler's teaching style. is an animated odyssey into the minds For Kessler, teaching is not just the of such poets as Emily Dickinson, Walt dispensing of information but the way Whitman, and William Blake. Lively in which that information is dispensed. gestures, earthy wit, and free-for-all dis He strives for "something more per cussion punctuate the journey. Using sonal, more human than information. It's his reading glasses as an orchestra leader certainly not lecturing; that's not the an uses a baton, Kessler rhythmically con swer. Students can get information from ducts his class through the poetic puz- books."
SPRING 1987 7 Although he's the author of three books seven other Methodist-related institu makes students and faculty alike trust of poetry and three books of literary crit tions. The award recognizes a faculty him, says Radner. icism, Kessler considers himself a teacher member who has demonstrated exem According to a letter of nomination first and foremost. "I don't write and plary scholarship, concern for students prepared by his department colleagues, teach on the side. For some people in and colleagues, and sensitivity to the Kessler "shows students how to appre this field, their primary interest is in university's mission. hend the meaning and beauty of works communicating through their work to an According to literature department from every period of literary history while audience, rather than in teaching. chairperson Jo Radner, the award was setting such a high standard for thought Teaching is subordinate to their writing. long overdue. "We felt for too long Ed ful analysis that no student can be sat It's the other way around for me." Kessler hadn't been in the limelight. He isfied with a simple answer or unsup was one of our best-kept secrets. Also, ported generalization." essler's colleagues believe his he had just published his third book [of scholarship, humanity, and critical analysis], Flannery O'Connor and raduate student David Price teaching philosophy deserve the Language of Apocalypse. It was the right has felt Kessler's intense con special recognition. So they time." cern about reaching his stu nominated him for the 1986-87 Scholar/ Radner elaborates that Kessler is gifted dents. "He is keenly aware Teacher Award. Not surprisingly, he with "an extraordinary understanding of of what students' interests are at the won. people's feelings . He can speak hon time. I've seen him very concerned about The $2,000 prize is awarded annually estly." It is this candor-the tactful abil the literature he has selected for a given by the Board of Education and Ministry ity to tell a student he has written a semester. He's always trying to get a of the United Methodist Church to an paper poorly and to help that student finger on the pulse of the times." outstanding faculty member at AU and understand how to improve it-that The benchmark of Kessler's teaching philosophy, however, embraces a sin cerely human dimension. Kessler explains, "My career has been very erratic and unorthodox. It was a late-blooming career. So I look at stu dents who are uncertain about what they want to do, and I tend to identify with them in a way that makes me useful." When he spots an undirected indi vidual, he talks to that student privately. "I don't just lecture and leave campus. You have to be available. Frequently, when you talk, you're talking about things other than the subject matter at hand. I think a teacher is constantly teaching more than subject matter." He de scribes himself as a surrogate parent, psychiatrist, and friend, all wrapped in one. Sophomore Risa Bauman values Kes sler's personal concern. She came to AU planning to major in communications, but she says Kessler's profound teaching ability influenced her to declare litera ture as her major instead. "He's inter esting. He's well educated. He doesn't bore me. He seems to care about what he's teaching." Kessler's belief that there are no right or wrong answers-just numerous pos sible answers-supports his argument for the value of a liberal arts degree. Kessler contends that liberal arts pro A class with Ed Kessler is an animated odyssey into the minds of such poets as Emily grams prepare people for a lifetime of Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and William Blake. challenge and thinking, which is more
8 AMERICAN important than simply preparing them for a particular job. He recalls a student who argued with her parents because she decided to ma jor in literature. The parents feared the education would not be practical enough. She countered, "But I like it." That attitude, he maintains, is critical for suc cess in the world. Edward Kessler essler enjoyed a family en writes about vironment supportive of his literary ambitions. Raised in unforgettable experiences. West Virginia and the last of eight children, he says his father epit omized "an American dreamer." His father never had the chance to go to college, but he wanted his children to For literature professor Edward Kes about from something I've read." have that opportunity. Kessler was the sler, writing poetry is invariably an un Such was the case with his poem only one to get through all four years of ending process, his product ever ready "Cowbird," a piece inspired by a mag college, and, subsequently, the only one for refinement. azine article. The article described the to earn a doctorate. A glance through Kessler's collection curious habits of these birds, which clev Kessler's teaching career began when of poetry bears this out. His works, bound erly hatch their offspring by laying their he was in the service in the 1950s, in in a well-worn black binder, are ran eggs in another bird's nest. structing Navy personnel in the use of domly dotted with penciled changes and Unusual, impressionable visions, he radar equipment. While in this position, notations. "Many of the poems in my says, give rise to his poetic inclinations. he realized that although he was teach collection still are not right. There are Kessler, who began writing poetry ing the same subject matter every four flaws I would like to fix." sporadically in high school, says he writes weeks, he was never bored. The new Put simply, there is no routine to his because he "can't forget." He describes ness of each group of students, he dis writing or for a poet as some covered, evoked fresh enthusiasm for mula for perfec one who can't the task. tion. But, Kes Cowbird block out a strik Before committing himself to teach sler says, he During the spring ing experience ing, Kessler worked for two years in the rarely grabs a pen construction boom when and is compelled public relations department of Union and paper to has no birds rest to write it down. Carbide in New York City. Public re tily capture a vacationing in a first-class nest Kessler has au lations did not, however, provide for him thought. Rather, of robin, vireo. or wren. tho red three the same satisfaction as teaching. So, he he spends time she squanders llme, books analyzing pursued an M.A. and subsequently a with an idea, does plops a leisurely fiction of diverse Ph. D. at Rutgers. a little research, egg, then skips the wood. American and Twigs and twine of motherhood In 196 7, Kessler arrived at AU, with writes and re English writers she hates. and trite responsibility and three books four years of college teaching expen writes until com Poor proper birdsl ence and one book-Images of Wallace ing up with a The foundling's half-grown of poetry. Stevens-already to his credit. In his final product before these sense- Yet, in spite of twenty years with the university, he has -subject, of less pawns of Providence his critically ac touched the lives of hundreds of students. course, to future make out their own. claimed profes Robert Aubry Davis, a student of Kes change and in By then he's king, sional contribu sler's in the early seventies who now spiration. a fat tyrannical pest tions, Kessler srill hosts a classical music radio program in Unlike many that nobody dares considers writing oppose. crowding legillmate heJrs Washington, says Kessler legitimized creative writers, simply his avo out of the nest poetry for him as an important way of his ideas don't cation. It has to unfamiliar ground. seeing the world and helped him to "not necessarily spring never been, he The cowbird's will says, "my main be afraid of being creative." from personal ex to choose her way to live Adds Davis, "You walk into Ed Kes perience. "Fre makes even the Prodigal Son drive." sler's class as one person, and you walk quently, my conservative -TLE out a different person. There's no turn- poems come No moral here. Just skill ing back." - Terry Lowe-Ed ward s SPRING 1987 9 POP QUIZ IN AMERICAN HISTORY How good is your American history? Did you know, for example, that AU turned ninety-four years old on February 24? That there is an AU alma mater (written by Pauline Frederick '30)? Or that Bruce Springsteen performed on campus before he became "The Boss"? Now you can test your knowledge of AU trivia. No matter what your level of expertise, this quiz should jog some memories and may even teach you a thing or two. Good luck!
-Jill Bernstein and AU archivist Bill Ross
1. Name the oldest building on campus.
2. Who was AU's founder and first chancellor? 5. To what 3. Who preceded Richard athletic confer Berendzen as AU president? ence does the university belong? 4. When did President John F. Kennedy 6. What 1964 AU coed went on to 11. When was the first issue of the address the become TV's "sock it to me" girl Eagle published? graduating and a film star? class at commence 12. What former Eagle editor is ment? 7. What was the title of literature now a Washington Post TV critic? professor Henry Taylor's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry? 13. Name the day AU students traditionally had no classes and joined forces to beautify the 8. Why were Clark, Gray, Roper, campus. and McCabe Halls originally built?
9. When did AU's last football 14. What was team play? forbidden on campus prior to 1937? 10. What were the call letters of AU's first campus radio station?
10 AMERICAN 15. What AU alum 23. When were fraternities and went on to portray sororities first permitted on iAlOIS!l.l Ronald McDonald campus? UD::l!J8UI1f Ul ·a·l.ld 'f ot:-<;z; and to achieve SSDJ:) 8tjl JO dO.L {7(';-<;1 tame as a national 24. What popular AU grad PDI Z!l.IM vt-9 TV weatherman? returned as AU's basketball coach lJOjj::J: lOJ .. 'f.. U'f <; - I .OanDH Sl8JASay ~:>GUO:) and assistant football coach and JO Jeqm:nN 16. Which U.S. president spoke at served in many university the official opening of the positions until his death in 1966? 'IDPDS-13: lO!ti.U'f IU8P!S8ld UDHcL\.63: university in l 914? U!DJS JO tti.OP!ttl. 'IDPDS-13: UDtj!f · o~ .Aop pc8u 8l.ll O!Ol.ld 8.6lDJ D UDljSOd UOjl5UI!.[SDM 8tj.1 ·soWD(Dd '6Z 17. Which U.S. Supreme Court Justice presided at ·v9. puo 99. 8!Pl0.68~ .Aou8~ puo ma '9Z the opening of the ·1Joqtt~.8N qoa ·a John Sherman Myers 'L 9. UOSU!A81 All08 '9Z Law Building? ·u8wott~. Aq p9puno1 S8!DIS p8nun 8l.ll U!JOOtj::JS tti.DJISl!l 8tjl SD/!tl. ll 'U8WOM ·sz ·9r. n8sso:::> plOJJDIS ·•z 18. What was the original name of the '61':61 · ~z AU yearbook? ·uo!Buma: 8}[I1Q ·zz ·.6mqpuos tm:::> · 1z 19. When were the drinking rules TL. uo!Butl.ISDM HWl8)! ·oz liberalized to allow beer and 25. For whom and '9961 '61 wine on campus? by whom was the '9<;61 Washington College UJ UO[Dl 8tjl 8WD::J8q lJ '(SIJV {Dl8
SPRING 1987 11 Farewell to Frailey
A n era of American Univer sity history will come to an end on May 1 when Robert H. "Bob" Frailey retires as direc tor of athletics. The sixty-one-year-old Washingtonian has spent prac tically his entire adult life at AU, serving the university as its athletic director and chair man of the Phys ical Education Department since 1964. "Bob is unique," says Harry Ballman '61, past Swimming is the sport in which Frailey demonstrated his own athletic prowess and president of the AU Alumni Board and established his personal coaching legacy at former All-America swimmer. "He's been AU. like a surrogate father to many young athletes at AU, or like the big brother at Ft. Myer when Washington scored many of us always wanted but never forty points against a John Thompson had." coached Georgetown team. In soccer, "He's always quick to tell you how to he best remembers AU's 1-0 NCAA avoid the pitfalls he's experienced. He's semifinal soccer victory over Hartwick a true friend." played before some five thousand fans Frailey's association with AU spans on the AU campus. The soccer team four decades. He first arrived on the AU went on to the NCAA Championship campus as a student and shortly there game in Seattle's Kingdome where they after became the school's swimming lost to UCLA, 1-0, in eight overtimes. coach. "There's a certain charm that belongs Those were the days when AU was to those events. The way ou~ fans turned looking for a niche in collegiate athlet out, especially the soccer game where ics. Classified as a Division II school into they lined the field. That kind of thing the mid 1960s, American has become an is rare today with the big dollars of col-. ational College Athletic Association "Speaking lege sports." ( CAA) Division I school through the metaphorically, Frailey talks proudly about the recent leadership of Frailey and his staff. And, Frailey says of his success of AU soccer teams under head AU is currently completing its third year coach Pete Mehlert, named CAA Di as a member of the Colonial Athletic early years at AU, vision I Coach of the Year in 1985, and Association (CAA). 'We were a big fish the basketball teams coached by Tom Speaking metaphorically, Frailey says in a little pond, and Young, Tom Davis, Jim Lynam, and of his early years at AU, "We were a btg Gary Williams, all of whom have gone fish in a little pond, and I always thought I always thought AU on to national prominence. AU deserved to be in the big pond and deserved to be in the Yet swimming is the sport in which still do." Frailey demonstrated his own athletic Upon his appointment as director of big pond and still prowess and established his personal athletics by Staff Cassell, Frailey ~egan do."' coaching legacy at AU. While in high improving AU's athletic lot. Ongmally school, he won the District 50 freestyle a member of the Mason Dixon Confer championship and Amateur Athletic ence AU moved to Division I and be Union (AAU) diving laurels. Then it was cam~ a member of the Middle Atlantic on to the Navy. Conference, then the East Coast Con "I came to AU in '46, registering fif ference. teen days after leaving Okinawa," Frailey "What we didn't get financially, we recalls. "I worked full time at the YMCA made up for with hard work," explatns and went to school full time." Frailey who over the years has served Upon graduation in 1949, he was of as president of the Eastern College Ath fered the job as swimming coach. " My letic Conference (ECAC) and as a mem first AU team," he says, "had several ber of the CAA executive board. "But members older than I because they were things have changed so much over the vets." years, I don't know if we could accom- Frailey's swim teams, which never had plish the same things today." . a losing season posting a 99-30-1 record Frailey's fondest memories as athlet~c under his fifteen-year reign, were known director are of basketball and soccer. Hts for the "happy times" in and out of the most memorable basketball game was pool. Diving, always an AU specialty, Kermit Washington's final home game produced a number of All-America per formers. In the after-pool hours Frailey admits, Presenting the most valuable player "We did some crazy things. One time award in tennis to Lloyd Drucker '60 in we drove into the city of Gettysburg 1960. Frailey was AU's tennis coach from with the tops down [the swim team had 1958 to 1963.
SPRING 1987 13 In 1986, hard at work at his favorite avocation---cartooning. "Clawed," above , is s one of three Eagle emblems Frailey 0 -"' designed. 0..
five convertibles] waving confederate around the AU athletic department. He placed by Joe O'Donnell (see "Campus flags. We were happy people. We were has created the logos for the CAA and News," page 15). But rest assured, with good at what we did. We weren't always the East Coast Athletic Conference the opening of the new athletic facility the best, but we were happy. And no (ECAC). Over the years, Frailey also just months away, Bob Frailey will never body got in serious trouble." designed three Eagle emblems, includ retire his fondness for AU athletics. No Frailey has also coached soccer (he ing the ever-popular strutting Eagle. doubt, he'll keep an eye on the AU sports laughs over that 0-8 season), tennis, and "Most importantly, when I look back scene. golf, the latter becoming his favorite over the years, I enjoy seeing the people -Michael Trilling personal endeavor in recent years. from our program. Most have done well." While his expertise in athletics is ev As for physical education, Frailey says, Editor's Note: Michael Trilling '63, works ident, few know about Frailey's artistic "We were able to meet changing de at the Washington Post where he's a sports talent. Says Frailey, "I probably broke mands, providing an opportunity for so layout editor, night editor, and scholastic my mother's heart by not becoming an cial skills as well as physical activity." editor. From 1965-69 he was AU's first artist." So, after more than forty years with fulltime sports information director-one of Some of Frailey's work can be seen AU, Bob Frailey retires. He'll be re- Bob Frailey's first appointments.
14 AMERICAN New athletic director named on Triezenberg, vice pres D ident for development and planning, has named Joseph F. 0' Donnell director of athletics, replacing long-time AU athletic director Robert Frailey who retires on May 1. (See "Fare well to Frailey" page 12.) Be fore joining AU on March 1, O'Donnell was assistant direc tor of athletics for Wichita State University. Triezenberg said O'Don nell's knowledge of facilities and Joseph O'Donnell Maurice O'Connell program management, his fa assistant director of admissions miliarity with the East Coast diums, an arena, and the uni O'Connell to lead at Bucks County Community sports scene, and his ability to versity's track and softball fa Division of Student College. work with faculty oversight and cilities. He was also a member Life O'Connell received his B.A. involvement were key factors in of the board of directors of the in history from St. Michael's his selection. "O'Donnell has Heskett Center, a multipur u admissions director College in 1968 and his M.A. the right combination of cre pose recreation and intramural AMaurice J. O'Connell has in history from Adelphi Uni dentials to provide a campus center. In a previous position as been promoted to vice provost versity in 1974. He has also program and an athletic pro assistant athletics director at La for student life, effective May completed graduate course gram of which we can all be Salle University in Philadel I. In announcing the appoint work in the administration of proud." phia, he was building director ment, Provost Milton Green higher education at Temple While at Wichita State, for that institution's athletic berg said, "O'Connell's repu University. 0 O'Donnell managed two sta- facilities. 0 tation among members of the American University commu nity and my personal associa Major campus tion with him give me confi facilities near dence that he is the right person completion for the position. The Division of Student Life and the stu oth the Abbey Joel Buder BPavilion and the parkmg dents and faculty are ready for the leadership O'Connell can garage adjacent to the Adnan provide to make student life at Khashoggi Sports and Convo The American University equal cation Center will be ready for to the ambitious goals we have occupancy this summer. Con as a university." struction of the center itself is on schedule, with completion nder O'Connell's leader ship, the size of the incoming expected in December. In ad freshman class has increased dition, Don Myers, vice presi more than 15 percent, and the dent for finance and treasurer, average SAT scores of these says the new dorm adjacent to students have risen more than Anderson Hall will be finished 60 percent. in time to house returning stu BeforecomingtoAU in 1983, dents in September. O'Connell was the associate di Myers also reports that ren rector of admissions and re ovations have begun at the university's satellite campus c~uitment at Temple Univer sity. He also has been the at Tenley Circle. Officially director of admissions and rec acquired by the university in December, the campus is AU's Changing Skyline: An early spring view shows construction ords at orthhampton County progress on the new sports and convocation complex. The back of the Area Community College, the the future home of AU's Wash ington Semester/Study Abroad Mary Graydon Center is visible, far right. December '87 is the target assistant director for admissions completion date for the new facility. at Temple University, and the programs. 0
SPRING 1987 15 Cleary resigns CPIA deanship
obert Cleary, dean of the RCollege of Public and In ternational Affairs (CPIA), has announced his resignation ef fective in August. "These things go in cycles," says Cleary. "It's time for me to go back to teach ing and research." Robert Cleary Dean of the college since 1980 (and acting dean in 1979), Cleary will take a year's sabbatical be programs, SGPA, 1967-1970. fore returning to his School of "Bob Cleary has been in Government and Public Ad volved in almost every aspect of ministration professorship. university life," says AU pres During that time, he plans to ident Richard Berendzen. coauthor a book on public ad "During difficult and trying ministration, to travel, and to times in the past, he has been prepare his course offerings for a stabilizing influence. I'm AU president Richard Berendzen, right, honored WCL benefactor fall 1988. grateful to him for his service to Ann Loeb Bronfman with the President's Award at the annual Besides his work in CPIA AU." President's Circle dinner on February 27. Accepting for Bronfman, ~leary has served the universit; who was out of the country, was her son Edgar Bronfman, Jr., left. Provost Milton Greenberg More than two hundred people attended the sixth annual dinner, m many other capacities as act says, "Everyone on the campus making it the largest in the gift society's history. ing president, 1975-76; ~rovost, admires Dean Cleary for his in 1972-76; acting provost, Janu tegrity and his dedicated ser ary-] uly 1980; dean for aca President's A ward to the country, was her son Edgar vice to the university. I expect demic development, 1970-1972; to continue to seek and rely upon Bronfman Bronfman, Jr. and associate dean for graduate The President's Circle is AU's his thoughtful counsel." 0 ashington College of Law most prestigious gift society. Its W (WCL) benefactor Ann members contribute $1,000 or Loeb Bronfman received the more annually to support the President's Award at the annual university's operating budget. President's Circle recognition Their donations-given as un dinner on February 27. Bronf restricted gifts or designated for man was honored for her 1986 specific purposes reflected in gift of $1.5 million to establish the annual budget-help un an endowed chair in adminis derwrite the development of trative law at WCL. In making new and enriched academic the presentation, AU president programs, enhanced faculty re Richard Berendzen said that the search and teaching opportuni chair, to be known as the Ann ties, increased scholarship funds, Loeb Bronfman Chair in Ad and improved facilities for the ministrative Law, was the first university. in the law school's history. "It Each year the members of the also has enabled the law school group are honored at a black tie to take a giant step forward in dinner hosted by President Ber its teaching program on regu endzen and the university's latory and other law that the Board of Trustees. At this event, government administers," he the President's Award is given said. to the President's Circle mem AU president Richard Berendzen, right, joins hosts Anita Reiner '69 Bronfman's gift was espe ber who, "by his or her contin '76? left,, and Burton Reiner, center, at a December reception at the ' cially timely, he noted, given ued relationship and extensive Remers Bethesda home for the newly-formed Friends of the AU Art the recent growth of both the involvement in the progress of Department. App_roxi~ately one hundred alumni, friends, faculty law school's programs and its the university, sets an example members, and umverstty officials attended the event which kicked off the department's effort to raise matching funds for ; share of the reputation. Accepting the award for all of us." 0 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation challenge grant. The funds will be for Bronfman, who was out of used to endow programs in art history and studio art.
16 AMERICAN ''Heardon Campus''
Alumni gifts match time single gift." Mellon grant funds The Mellon grant is the sec ond the university has received state gifts from three AU from the foundation to support Ealumni plus several smaller faculty and curriculum devel gifts from other donors have opment in CAS. In the past, the provided the matching funds college has used the money tO needed for the university to re support faculty research and ceive the first $100,000 install writing, the reshaping of aca ment of a $350,000 grant from demic programs, and the de the Andrew W. Mellon Foun velopment of new courses. dation . The Mellon money, Under the terms of the latest On January 29, Sen. Joe Biden (0-Del.) addressed a KPU audience which will eventually total more grant, AU received an initial on "America's Challenge: Decisions That Will Bind Our Future." than $1 million, will be used to payment of $50,000 from the create a permanent endowment foundation. The balance of the "Too many conservatives take as a fait accompli that all for faculty and curriculum de money will be paid in $100,000 media is liberal, therefore, there's an ideological apartheid velopment in the College of Arts installments for every $350,000 in this country. The last time I checked there was no and Sciences (CAS). the university raises in quali political litmus test being given in the journalism schools, At its fall meeting, the Board fying matching funds. The uni no blood tests being taken before radio stations or of Trustees accepted gifts from versity has a year tO raise the newspapers are bought and sold. Frankly, I'm tired of a lot the estates of long-time uni matching funds, which will be of the conservative media bashing [since] people are free, as versity supporters Dexter C. solicited from foundations as I am, to come in, produce programs and give commentary." Beasley '29 and Oscar Iden '28, well as from friends and alumni -Cal Thomas '68, syndicated newspaper col11111nist a11d as well as that of Robert L. Clark of AU. 0 National Public Radio commentator, ktwm•n for his conservative '63, who earned his bachelor's vir&'jJoint, speaking at an American Forum ~n "Is Public degree at AU after returning tO AU wins two AID Broadcasting Biased?" February 17. college at age forty. grants The Beasley, Iden, and Clark "On the surface, America is a nation of peace, a nation of gifts were the first to be ac U recently was awarded two prosperity, a tranquil nation. I believe America is a nation at cepted under the terms of the Agrants totaling $547,046 risk .. . . In the next few years, we're either going to end board's revised gift policies from the Agency for Interna up with the most significant arms control agreement in the statement, which says that no tional Development (AID) tO history of mankind, or we're going to nuclearize the more than $50,000 of an unre support research on Latin heavens. There's no in-between." stricted estate gift exceeding American politics. Louis W. - Senator Joseph Riden (D-Del.), in a lecture cosponsored $100,000 can go tO the operat Goodman, dean of the School by the Kennedy Political Union and the Cmterfor Congressional ing budget. The balance must of International Service (SIS), and Presidential Studies, January .!9. go intO an endowment "for a will serve as principal investi specific purpose which will gator for the multiyear grants, " As the world's largest economy, the United States has an honor the donor in an appro which will focus on the impact obligation to take the lead in international economic priate way. " Beasley, Clark, and of political parties and civil matters .... If business, universities, and government can lden will have individual en military relations on the effort work together ... we can create new jobs, new businesses, dowment funds established in to consolidate democracy in and we can reinvigorate our industrial base as well. . · . their names for faculty and cur Latin America. Other nations are forging ahead. America should be out ricular enhancement in CAS. In the first project, " Political front for the common good and our ovvn good.". Previously, income from un Parties and Democracy in Cen - Treasury Secretary James A. Baker Ill, m a jpeech restricted estate gifts went di tral America," Goodman and AU cosponsored by the Kmnedy Political Union and College rectly tO the university's oper professor William LeoGrande, ating budget, according tO jack School of Government and Republicans, Febmaty I 0. Rasmussen, an associate direc Public Administration, will " Ours is a diverse population .... We serve women with tor of development. "By chang compare and analyze the polit master's degrees from Harvard as well as those who haven't ing the gift policies statement ical systems of Belize, Guate finished eighth grade .... Ten years ago, the. average age to include long-term support, mala, El Salvador, Honduras, of a shelter inhabitant was fiftv-four. Todav 1t s twenty-f1ve. the trustees have provided a Nicaragua, Costa Rica , and Women with their whole lives. ahead of th~m are starting means for building the univer Panama. Leading scholars and practitioners directly involved them on the streets." sity's endowment generally as -Sandy Broaders, direr/or of Ho11se of Ruth, the largest well as in this specific case," he in Central American politics and shelter romplex for womm in Washington, D.C.'. speaking at a says. " Endowments also pro in the consolidation of democ racy in South America and forum sponsored by AU's Centerfor Campus Mrmstnes, vide a way tO honor donors in a more permanent way than a one- Western Europe will participate February 10.
SPRING 1987 17 in the research. Johnson and former president Goodman and AU professor of AU's Board of Trustees Jack Child, Language and For Bishop James Mathews. Liter eign Studies, will work with Juan ature professor Edward Kessler Rial of PEITHO, a private re (see story, page 7) was honored search organization in Monte as university scholar/teacher of video, Uruguay, on the second the year with a check for $2,000 project, which will analyze civil and a citation that described him military relations in ten Latin as one of AU's "most engaging American countries and explore and popular teachers." the role of the military in dem After receiving an honorary ocratic political systems. Latin doctorate of humane letters, American civilian and military Johnson, the publisher of Ebony, leaders will participate in this let, and Ebony, Jr., told the research. Goodman and his col graduates that there will always laborators expect to publish the be some form of subtle discrim results as preliminary working ination in the marketplace. He papers and scholarly books dur said that, although people usu ing the course of the projects. ally think of discrimination as a 0 problem only for blacks, women, Hispanics, and other minori Commencement ties, "you have discrimination prevails over winter against people who are too tall, storm discrimination against people who are too short, discrimina To mark the birthdays of Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, hile most Washingtonians tion against people who are and George Washmgton, AU's Department of Performing Arts held Wsat at home watching the blondes or redheads or who talk a three-day "Celebrate America" festival. AU president Richard snow fall, on Sunday, January in a different way." Combat Berendzen, left, narrates Aaron Copeland's Lincoln Portrait 25, more than 325 hardy grad these inequities by doing an ex ~erformed by the AU Orchestra in the festival finale. Other events mcluded performances by music professor Alan Mandel and uates and their families joined cellent job, Johnson told his au Hesperus, a professional musical·ensemble-in-residence. an equally intrepid group of AU dience, and "people will give administrators, faculty, and you recognition and respect, and honored guests at AU's eighty discrimination will move aside." fourth commencement in Con He closed with three guide stitution Hall. lines for success. "Don't be ad New general manager Highlights of the ceremony equate, be superior; don't be a joins 88.5 FM itself included the awarding of carbon copy of someone else, ..,. Kim Hodgson joined AU's honorary degrees to communi be an original; and don't be • public radio station cations entrepreneur John good, be excellent." 0 ~ WAiviU 88.5 FM, as general manager in January. A twenty year veteran of public radio, Hodgson was most recently vice president and general manager ofWETA-FM. He has also been general manager of KlJOW-FM at the University ofWashington and station manager of KRSW FM, an outpost of Minnesota Public Radio. Hodgson's appointment was the result of an extensive na tional search, according to Anita F. Kim Hodgson Gottlieb, assistant vice presi dent for university relations. "Kim stood our with his excel to get him. " lent background in public radio With 250,000 li steners, Winter commencement speakers Bishop James Mathews, left, and and his thorough knowledge of WAf\IU 88.5 FM is one of the publishing entrepreneur John Johnson, right, share a moment before the Washington market and the ceremony. nation's top ten public radio area," she says. "We were lucky stations. D
18 AMERICAN ,Faculty
Tamagna inspires economics fund
o celebrate the man many call "the Tfather of the economics depart ment," a group of faculty, alumni, and friends have launched the Frank M. Tamagna Education Fund. According to economics department chair Nancy Barrett, the fund will support the annual Frank M. Tamagna Lecture in Inter national Finance, to be given by a rec ognized expert in international finance and monetary economics. In addition, the fund will provide graduate and post doctoral scholarships in these fields as well as an annual cash prize to the best student in monetary economics. Barrett and her colleagues-econom ics professors Jim Weaver, Jose Epstein, Howard Wachtel, and SIS professor emeritus Warren Hunsberger-had two reasons for wanting to start the fund now. "First, we wanted to acknowledge Frank Tamagna, seated left, and his wife Irene, far left, were on hand when Warren Hunsberg~r, cen~er, and his wife Ruth presented economics department chair Nancy Frank's contributions to monetary eco Barrett, rzg!zt, With a check for the Frank M. Tamagna Education Fund. Economics nomics and international finance," she professor Jim Weaver, back right, also attended the presentation. Hunsberger is one of says. "We also wanted to recognize his several faculty members Tamagna recruited to AU. role in the development of the econom- consultantships with many national and Historian studies nervous international organizations, including the disorders in Victorian «Frank always wanted to share Bank for International Settlements, the England whatever he had. This fund is Bank of Italy, the Center for Latin our way of saying thank you to American Monetary Studies, the Organ or nearly ten years, cultural his him for all he's done for us." ization of American States, and the In Ftorian Janet Oppenheim has been ternational Bank for Reconstruction and exploring British views of the re lationship between the mind and the ics department's faculty and students." Development. In addition, he helped body in the Victorian and Edwardian Noting that "Frank personally recruited the governments of several Latin and periods. Her research has already yielded many of the people now teaching in the Central American countries establish their one book, The Other World: Spiritualism department, including me," Barrett also central banks. Having retired from AU and Psychical Research in England, 1850- says, "there are a great many people in 1976, he continues to live in Wash ington with his wife Irene, a physician. /914. working in the Federal Reserve System According to Barrett, Tamagna's AU Her current inquiry into the incidence today and in the international financial and treatment of nervous disorders among community who owe all their intellec career was marked by generosity to both his students and his colleagues. The for Bnt1sh V1ctonans and Edwardians re tual capital to Frank. We hope that many mer department chairman "often opened cently brought her both a Guggenheim of them will want to be part of this effort Fellowship and a National Endowment to honor him." Some alumni have al his home to faculty and students," she reports. Tamagna also would ease the for the Humanities Fellowship. She ex ready contributed to the fund, according way of traveling faculty members by pects that the two-year-long grants will to Barrett. These early backers include writing to his many friends abroad who provide the time she needs to finish the a group of Korean alumni organized by would then befriend the visiting AU research and draft a book that history a former student of Tamagna. chairman Robert Beisner says will be BeforecomingtoAU in 1958, Tamag professors. "Frank always wanted to share what "the first study on the topic to combine na worked for the Board of Governors both intellectual and medical history." of the Federal Reserve System, retiring ever he had," says Barrett. "This fund is our way of saying thank you to him "My current research grew out of the as chief of the International Finance book on spiritualism," says Oppen Operations and Policy Section. Other for all he's done for us." - Mary Jo Casciato heim, an AU faculty member since 1975 . professional activities have included
SPRING 1987 19 "Both the spiritualists and the scientists or another are incapacitated with a The fact that nervous collapse af of the day recognized the key role of nameless illness and can't get up off the fected as many men as women of the the nervous system in the interaction couch and face life's responsibilities," era spurred Oppenheim's interest. She between the mind and the body," she she says. "Doctors wrote about these notes that some feminist historians have notes. "Knowing that, I was led directly cases in medical journals, and accounts advanced the theory that Victorian into looking at the way in which doctors appear in contemporary letters, diaries, women were more prone to mental and diagnosed nervous disorders." While she and memoirs as well." nervous illness because of the confining is not a medical doctor and doesn't ex By using these sources as well as nine nature of their lives. Oppenheim doesn't pect her research to affect current treat teenth and early twentieth century trea think that theory is adequate, though, ment for depression, Oppenheim never tises on the nervous system, medical because "for every woman who col theless hopes to shed some light on "the textbooks, and autobiographies of peo lapsed in such an illness, there were roots of our still somewhat confused no ple who experienced nervous break scores, maybe even hundreds, who sol tions of nervous breakdown." downs, Oppenheim hopes to put these diered on against the same restrictions Her own interest in the topic aside, diseases into a wider social context. ''I'm and the same limitations on their lives." Oppenheim says no general historical interested in such questions as the social Because of the unique circumstances study about the ways in which nervous positions of patients, how the medical surrounding each person's breakdown, breakdowns were diagnosed and treated profession of the day diagnosed, clas Oppenheim's research has not sug in nineteenth and early twentieth cen sified, and treated nervous illnesses, and gested a general theory for why the Vic tury England exists, although the inci what part doctors played in defining torians and Edwardians suffered from dence of such coll apses was common. standards of normal and abnormal be nervous collapse. She points out the Vic Even the novels of the period often con havior for Victorian and Edwardian so torians "felt many of the same pressures tained characters "who for one reason ciety at large," she says. about the need to succeed and the fast p ~1 C!.) of I i f~;; rhaL W<.; do wtl uy ," Th t~Y al5o faced th e sa me life traum a·, Oppenheim's research does confirm h ~: r sense that " the twc.:ntkth century isn't any more neurotic than the nine tee nth century. Every age perceives irs own set of problems as more dire than those of any other period," she says. "It's comforting to look at the Victorians and see that they were troubled by the same anxieties and pressures that we experience." -Mary Jo Casciato
Documenting space history in the making
ow U.S. governmental decisions H 111 sc1ence policy are made and how they affect American his tory have always fascinated Howard E. McCurdy, professor of government and public administration. His present case study focuses on the Reagan adminis tration's 1984 decision to build a per manently occupied space station. In 1985, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a grant to McCurdy to support the re search and writing of a book, Settlement in Space: The Decision to Commit the U.S. J anet Oppenheim to a Permanently Occupied Space Station,
20 AME RICAN a particular administration is still in of fice." The author also faces the chal lenge of "writing a story without know ing how _it will turn out." When McCurdy began h1s research, "NASA thought that the space station's future was certain but enough opposition remains that th~ decision could be reversed." Although $7_50 mi!,lion has already been appro pnated, no one has cut metal yet," and any project still in its design stages can be scrapped. The estimated cost of the station has risen from $8 to $14 billion. Howard McCurdy at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. A_lso, completion of the project hinges hmges on the building of a replacement for the Challenger shuttle, one of four part of NASA's history series. The proj this venture because of the increasing national debt. Many experts believed orbiters needed to transport the facility's ect's rationale, McCurdy explains, is that modules into space. Thus, the contem that the same scientific and commercial future generations-the general public porary historian attempts "to write m as well as students of political science goals could be accomplished by an un manned platform, which would be less such a way that the narrative leads to will want to understand the decisions any one of a couple of endings." that determined the course of American expensive and leave funds available for conducting expe riments. Among the few As a social scientist, McCurdy envies spact: expl orati on. t ht: rwrur ~d s ·icntist' s murt: sophis ti President Reagan's announcement on advocates of the occupied space station were some Wh ite I louse smff members cated tools and more accurate methods January 25, 1984, of a major U.S. ini of discovery. And yet, he has chosen "to tiati ve w d e;; vc.;l op the;; pe rmane ntly oc and, of course, NASA. McCurdy ex plains Reagan's support for this pioject build a book, rather chan a rocket." lit: cupied space station within the decade wants to discover how the governmental at a cost of$8 billion wa a major victOry in terms of his California and cinematic b~reaucracy " muddles through, not for NASA, a nonpolitical agency. "This roots. "As governor, Reagan witnessed the favorable impact of high-tech acti v withstanding its mistakes, creating a is a case in which the government bu particular version of the vision of space reaucracy acted like a pressure group," ity on the economy, and thus he was especially interested in the station's exploration ." And he believes that, a McCurdy points out. hundred years from now, space set commercial potential. As a former actor, if As earl y as the 1950s, the space fa tlement becomes a reality, people will Reagan likes heroes. An unmanned cility had been discussed as a possibility read his book, "because they will want platform in space has no heroes." by ASA employee who saw the need to understand how the original decision McCurdy finds advantages and dis for a base for space exploration in the was made to create a permanently oc advantages in writing contemporary his twenty-first century. However, the proj cupied space station. They will want to tory. While he sees "a vital need for ect had been rejected by presidents learn what those late twentieth century recording oral histories of public admin Kennedy ( 1961) and Nixon (1969-72). space explorers at NASA thought they istrative decisions," the task is hindered Even when it obtained presidential en were doing when they started out. . . . " dorsement, the space settlement con by the fact that "policymakers some cept received more criticism than the times are reluctant to speak freely while - Lois Morris Apollo mission to the moon or the space shu~epropmals,ilieMopre~ousn~ r------~ tiona( space initiatives. Following Rea The Space Station's Mission gan's endorsement, congressional ap propriations subcommittees took a hard ASA has now designed the basic a scientific laboratory to study the earth look at this latest proposal. By a close Nconfiguration of the station, which and its galaxy, and a factory for manu margin, Congress authorized the space will be constructed out of modules and fac~~ring medicines and metal alloys re station and appropriated the initial de girders assembled in seventeen stages qumng a gravity-free environment. velopment funds. (thirry-wo shuttle flights) some 250 miles Supporters also suggest the facility's McCurdy has been probing President above the earth. Orbiting the earth once usefulness as a space transportation cen Reagan's space station decision "to un every ninety minutes, the station will ter for launching sattelites into higher derstand why it differed from the view provide an observation post to survey orbits, as a refueling depot, and as a points of his military, scientific, and eco global resources and weather patterns, repair facility. nomic advisors." Critics questioned whether the United States could afford
SPRING 1987 21 Students
Americans in Argentina
ast fall, thirty U.S. students, mostly Lfrom AU, were able to live, study, and work in Buenos Aires as AU became the first university in the United States to offer a semester in Argentina. "Buenos Aires is a very exciting place to be," says David Brown, dean of the Washington Semester/Study Abroad programs. "After years of military rule, Argentina now has a viable democratic government. We thought it would be interesting for our students to study how that government deals with its economy and the other major issues it faces." Like AU's other Study Abroad pro grams,* the Buenos Aires Semester is modeled after AU's successful forty-year old Washington Semester program. In addition to attending classes and semi nars on the country's history, econom ics, and politics, students meet with prominent citizens and work as interns in local offices. According to Study Abroad director Shaik Ismail, AU is the only university to offer this combination of work and study abroad. In Buenos American stude~ts visit with ~he former Argentine ambassador to France, Jorge Aires, as in some other AU Study Abroad Anchorena, at h1s ranch outs1de Buenos Aires. Anchorena is one of the largest landowners in the country. programs, students live with local fam ilies and take field trips to other cities taught in English. However, the stu to broaden their knowledge of the coun dents in the program last fall became so try. proficient in Spanish that, after five The Buenos Aires Semester, to be weeks, lectures were given entirely in offered every fall, was developed by Spanish. Brown with John Finan, a professor in Prominent Argentines students met the School of International Service and with this year included government of an expert on Argentina. Finan, who ac ficials, business and church leaders, and companied the students to Argentina last academicians who spoke with them about fall, says, "Of all the countries in Latin the problems and prospects of the coun America, Argentina is the least studied try today. in the United States. It's a fascinating Gretter says he was most impressed society-very conservative and tradi by a meeting with Arturo Frondizi, pres tional." ident of Argentina from 1958-62. "We Buenos Aires is a city that reflects both were able to have an informal discussion continuity and change. As the political, and ask questions," he says. "We prob commercial, and industrial center of Ar ably couldn't meet with a former Amer "They welcomed me into their family like gentina, the metropolitan area is home ican president in such a casual way." one of their own sons," says Brad Gretter, to ten million people-about one third center, posing with his Argentine host The students' internships in multi parents after the program's graduation of the country's population. "It's often national corporations, American banks ceremony. called the New York of Latin America," and domestic Argentine organization~ says Brad Gretter '88, one of the AU provided yet another perspective on the students who took part in the first Bue country. nos Aires Semester. Gretter, who interned at Citibank, did As in AU's other Study Abroad pro research on agriculture, primarily wheat grams, classes were scheduled to be and beef producers. In a more unusual
22 AMERICAN internship, Linda Harrington '88 worked ies, the students spent two weeks in for a women's rights organization. "Most Argentina's interior and wound up the Argentine women are used to the way semester with a week in Brazil, visiting things have been traditionally," she says. Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro. "The women's movement is struggling Recently, several of these "program and is far less developed than in Amer veterans" met with students going to ica, but it's slowly gaining momentum." Buenos Aires next fall to offer advice. Although the students rave about their "We told them to go with an open mind," classes, seminars, and internships, they says Dusch. "There are frustrations agree that the highlight of the semester the mail is slow, phones don't work a was the friendships they formed with lot of the time. They'll probably be their Argentine host families. homesick, but it's worth going because Unlike the current American norm, it's a unique experience." Harrington says that "dinner there was The best part of the program, she says, a major family event. Every evening, is "for four months, we were truly part we'd sit for three or four hours, talking of their society. Buenos Aires was our about our day and anything on our home." minds." She explains that Argentine -Jill Bernstein families are generally close knit, and NOTE: For the past decade, ten to children live at home until they're mar twenty Argentine students each year have ried. participated in a special six-week study Students sampled the Argentine at AU. Many of the American students nightlife where they also found contrasts in Buenos Aires stayed with the families to life back home. Says Erin Dusch '88, of these Argentine students. "Most clubs don't open until after mid No, that's not the Washington Monument, night and won't let you in without a *In addition to Argentina, AU has Study but La Obeliska, a monument to date. It's a very couples-oriented soci Abroadprograms in Austria, England, Bel Argentina's independence from Spain, gium, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Italy, located on Ninth of July (Argentine ety." independence day) Avenue in Central City, To study the contrasts between Bue and the Caribbean. Internships are offered Buenos Aires. nos Aires and other Latin American cit- in all but Denmark, Poland, and Italy. A Special Tribute to Dr. King
artin Luther King, Jr., often M said he wanted to be remem bered for having helped some body. On January 19, as most of the nation celebrated his birthday with a day of leisure, AU student Bonnie Gantt paid an active tribute to King's memory. Gantt and about a hundred others in the AU community volunteered their services to charitable and community or ganizations in the Washington area. Their efforts were part of the "Help Some body" campaign, developed by the AU Black Coalition as a fitting way to honor King. "Martin Luther King's birthday shouldn't be a holiday where people just stay home," says O'Neal Smalls, a pro fessor in the Washington College of Law and a member of the Black Coalition. "They should do something to properly The Catholic University of Buenos Aires, located in the heart_o~ the business district, was "home base" for AU's Argentina study abroad program, prov1dmg office and classroom commemorate him. That's why we came space.
SPRING 1987 23 Bonnie Gantt More than a hundred current and future student leaders attended AU's Student Leadership Convention in February. The day-long event featured a talk on student leadership by Lee up with the campaign." Knefelkamp, dean of the School of Education, a student-made videotape on current Participants contacted AU's Center perceptions and trends in AU campus life, and five workshops. Sponsored by the Student for Campus Ministries and were given Confederation and the Office of Student Activities, the convention was intended to unite a list of organizations needing volun student leadership and foster a sense of continuity from year to year. Above: Convention participants in a workshop discussion. teers. Gantt, a student in community studies and an administrative assistant at 88.5 WAMU-FM, AU's public radio station, signed up as soon as she heard about it. "I try to do as much volunteer work as possible throughout the year," she says, "but I felt particularly motivated on Dr. King's birthday." Gantt volunteered to work for "An 'Other House," a Washington commu nity outreach project dedicated to ex posing low-income children to cultural activities. On January 19, Gantt and other volunteers took a group of children to the Mall to watch the Martin Luther King Parade, then went to the Smith sonian and the Washington Monument. They ended the day with dinner and a showing of the documentary King: Mont gomery to Memphis. /873 Later, the children were asked to write /927 essays on their day and what they learned 1\\l.t~ t~... about King. When Gantt saw the essays, ~ she was so moved that she used excerpts ~ for a script that was later used on WAMU FM's "Spirits" program. Gantt, who plans to spend more time with these children, states, "I can't think Students,. faculty, and staff celebrated AU's ninety-fourth birthday on February 24 with a of a better way to pay tribute to a man cake - cutt1~g ceremony on the ~uad: Among those joining the festivities were, from left, AU who spent his life helping others." D provost Milton Greenberg, Umvers1ty Senate chair Valerie French and Student Confederation president Alan Fleischmann. '
24 AMERICAN Kamber designs course on PR in politics
hen asked to teach a course in AU's WSchool of Government and Public Administration last fall, Victor Kamber '69 had no trouble selecting a topic. With a J.D. from the Washington College of Law, experience on Capitol Hill and with the AFL-CIO, and as president of The Kamber Group, the largest independent communications/public relations firm in Washington, D.C., Kamber's forte is public relations in American politics. "The concept of public relations in politics hadn't really been explored," Kamber says. "Since it was an election year, I wanted tO give students an un derstanding of public relations in terms of American politics-how constituency groups use politics, how politicians use public relations, and how public rela tions affects overall public thinking in this country." Kamber decided to make it a "living" course by bringing together "some of the best minds in Washington to share some of their knowledge and wisdom." Utilizing his bipartisan contacts, Kam ber brought in guest speakers for ten of the classes, including Congressman Bar ney Frank (D-Mass.); Los Angeles Times reporter Sara Fritz; Republican fund r~Iser Brad O'Leary; Robert McGiotten, director of legislation for the AFL-CIO; Vic Kamber teaches the finer points of public relations in politics. Kathryn Bushkin, directOr of editorial administration for U.S. NtrdJJS and World pressed" with the students in this class. "They were extremely articulate, ani ~epon; and Frank Mankiewicz, execu Your t~ve vice president of the public rela mated, and involved. They were also tiOn~ firm Gray & Company and former more conservative than the students I Summer president of National Public Radio. taught in the sixties. I found that stim Place "No one refused when I invited them ulating and challenging. It was really a give-and-take class, where the students to speak," Kamber says. "They were all Are you coming tO visit Washington, were willing to challenge me and the enthusiastic and fascinating, and I learned D.C., or your alma mater this summer? guest speakers." a lot myself." Looking for an inexpensive place to stay? Kamber believes his class will have Kamber expected approximately Bring back those college years and stay lasting impact. "The whole concept of twenty students to enroll when he de m one of AU's air-conditioned residence public relations--of targeting an audi v~loped the class; instead, he ended up halls for only $17 a night or $68 a week ence to further a cause, a goal, an With twice that many. "For that many per person. Rooms are available May 24- agenda-is fascinating, especially in students to come that late (8: 10-10:40 August 9. terms of politics. It can have an enor p.m.) every week and stay awake and For more infonnation or resetvatiotts, write att~ntive is a good indication that we're mous influence, and I think the stu dents will look at the whole process dif to: Summer Housing Office, Room 4, domg something right," he says. McDowell Hall, The American Uni Having taught at AU in the past, as ferently now. I got a lot out of the class, and I believe the students did. I couldn't versity, Washington, D.C. 20016. Or call well as at Georgetown University Law (202) 885-2599. School, Kamber says he was "very im- be more pleased." 0
SPRING 1987 25 A few of the hundred alumni, faculty, staff, Alumni who attended the Sunday Brunch Lecture Series in February and March enjoyed a and students who attended a matinee leisurely meal and expert financial advice. Above: John Kokus, professor in the Kogod performance of the hit musical Les College of Business Administration, discusses real estate as a personal investment. Miserables in January gather in the lobby of the Kennedy Center after a private reception.
In January, alumni shared "An Evening with Henry Taylor" in New York, above, and Boston. Taylor read from his Pulitzer Prize-winning volume of poetry, The Flying Change.
26 AMERICAN pcoming special events for alumni Baltimore, June 10-A Night in the Big Um New York, Baltimore, and Boston League. Watch the Baltimore Orioles include: battle the 1986 American League cham pion Boston Red Sox. Tickets are $6. SO per person. New York, May 31- An Immigrant Walking Tour of New York City's Lower Boston, June 13-AU Night at the Bos East Side, led by AU history professor ton Pops. Enjoy an evening of music with and immigration expert Alan Kraut. Re the Boston Symphony Orchestra, con peating last fall's sold-out tour, Kraut ducted by John Williams. Look for a takes you to an array of historic sites as special announcement in the mail soon. he traces the history of immigration in Reservations for these events are lim New York. T ickets are $20 per person ited, so act fast. For more information and include a continental breakfast, lec or to reserve tickets, call the alumni of ture, walking tour, and lunch. fice at (202) 885-ALUM.
QassNotes
ARTS AND SCIENCES Audrey Ricketts Schinkel, BA'SS, ference at Tennessee Technological MA'59, and her husband, Norman, cel University. ~ank Hoadley, BA'36, is the au ebrated their 25th anniversary in July Robert Kolbe, BA'68, WCL!JD'72, ~ thor of By God's Own Hand, the story 1985. Audrey is a child welfare and Lisa Roughgarden Kolbe, BA'75, of American Baptists in Pennsylvania and caseworker. announce the birth of their daughter Delaware. Margaret Sullivan, BA'56, has Larisa Anne, November 14, 1986. Barthonhue Warn Reese, BA'42, written a book on Singapore and articles Wendy Alvey, BA'69, is an econo has retired from the Federal Reserve on Japan. mist in the income division of the IRS. Bank of Richmond, Va. Carole Miller Rayburn, BA'61, is Sherry Gale Smolov, BA'69, is as Fred D . Carl, BA'47, has retired as a clinical and consulting psychologist in sistant director of the health fitness pro national executive director of the armed private practice. She is also president of gram at Hofstra University. services of the YMCA. the Association of Practicing Psycholo Joy Spalding, BA'69, director of the Rose Corrado C renca, BA'47, was gists of Montgomery and Prince Georges information clearinghouse of the Na elected in 1986 to a third term on the counties in Maryland. tional Citizens Coalition for Nursing Montgomery County (Maryland) County Myrna B. Rosen, BA'63, married Home Reform, is president-elect of the Council, which she leads as its presi H. Jeffrey Byer, November 9, 1986. American Orthopsychiatric Association. dent. She was also re-elected vice pres Dorothee F. Mindlin, PhD'65, is Susan Mann Donnett, BA'71, and ident of the Metropolitan Washington the owner and director of Daisy Nursery her husband, David, announce the birth of their daughter Elaine Barrie, October Council of Governments. School in Oakland, Calif. Hilliard H. Goodm an, BS'48, Judith Raskin Saks, BA'66, is as 1, 1986. John Jurkiewicz, BA'71, is a sales MA'52, retired from the U.S. Inte r sistant to the dean of Peabody College representative for Charrette Corpora national Trade Commission in 1983. at Vanderbilt University. tion in Phoenix. He is now self-employed as a trade Andrea Sheinkin Costello, BA'67, Michael S. Schiff, BA'71, is vice consultant. works at the School of Advanced Inter president of supply and distribution of Ely M . Liebow, BA'48, associate national Studies of The Johns Hopkins University. CalGas Corporation. ~ro~essor of English at Northeastern 11- Lynne Rosenbaum Deckelbaum, hnoJs University, was award ed one of Elizabeth Schmid, BA'67, married BA'72, and her husband, Steve, an that university's 1986 Foundation Fel Robert L. Hines, October 18, 1986. Martin Stacey, BA'67, sold his firm nounce the birth of their daughter Fe lowship Awards. licia Amy, March 6, 1986. Harold T . Pinkett, P hD'S3, was se Nickel's Worth Publications to the Salwa Khan, BA'72, is a videotape lected the 1986 Carroll Distinguished Cowles Publishing Company but re editor for the MacNeil-Lehrer News Lecturer in history at Mary Baldwin Col mains with the company as manager. hour on PBS. lege, Staunton, Va. where he is the ar Charles Golden, EDD'68, serves as J.D. Schulz, BS'72, is a realtor for chivist and historian. director of the annual educational con-
SPRING 1987 27 Coldwell Banker based in the Kensing icut Mutual Life Insurance. Chris is the Florida. ton, Md., office. assistant town manager for Stratford, StuartJ. Sigel, BS'73, and his wife, Abbie Casper Kanner, BA'73, and Conn. Bonnie, announce the birth of their her husband, Dan, announce the birth Molly M. Fannon, MA'83, is assis daughter, Megan Taymore Sigel, No of their son Joshua, October 2, 1985. tant director of major gifts at Wellesley vember 21, 1986. Michael Stone, BA'74, is a clinical College. Thomas L. Visotsky, BS'74, is a psychologist in private practice. He works Jeffrey L. Rowan, MA'83, is a clin certified public accountant and presi with his wife, Marilyn Jablow Stone, ical psychologist at The American Uni dent of Don Richard Associates of Rich SGPA/BA'75. They have a two-year versity. He is also a musician and has mond, Va. He is also vice president of old daughter, Erica Lauren. had his first album, "Waiting Game," administration and finance of the Rich Alexander J. Brown, Jr., MA'75, released. mond chapter of the National Associa is a piano instructor at the Delaware Hesham Fouad, BS'84, married tion of Accountants and chairman of the Music School. Joanne Przypek, July 26, 1986. strategic planning committee of the Vir Joseph E. Fuller, Jr., BS'75, is a Howard Schlieper Jr., BA'84, mar ginia Society of CPAs. physician and has opened a family prac ried Kari Bierwagen, May 3, 1986. William Henegan, MBA'76, is tice in 01<.1 Saybrook, Conn. Bridget A. Wingert, BA'84, married president of Marketing Institute Inter Charles F. Hookey, BA'76, is vice ]. Ward FitzPatrick, November 21, 1986. national Corporation. president of management services at She is a marketing coordinator at Ferris John A. Dawson, MBA'78, is sen- Malarkey-Taylor Associates, a cable TV and Company. consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Richard Rosenberg, BSBA'76, and BUSINESS Mary Falvey announce the birth of their son, Nathan Falvey Rosenberg, Sep ichard F. Skelly, BS'60, president tember 3, 1986. Rof Meteor/Skelly, has been elected Paul Schloss, BA'76, is senior mar president of the National Association of keting consultant in the Tucson office General Merchandise Representatives. of Grubb & Ellis Commercial Real Estate Sharon Krenek Tuggle, BS'65, had Services. her second major work, IBM Assembler Peter F. Sauer, BA'77, is the mar Language Programming: A System Ap keting manager for Healthcare Medical proach, published by Science Research Management. He and his wife, Betsey, Associates. Her husband, Mike Tuggle, announce the birth of their son Peter CAS/BS'65, is a senior planner with Andrew Fred, July 9, 1986. IBM Corporation. The couple and their Robin Stein Cohen, BA'78, and her two children live in Rhinebeck, N.Y. husband, Mark, announce the birth of Robert G. Mayers, MBA'66, is a their daughter Jennifer Lisa, November senior systems engineer and manager for 20, 1986. IBM Corporation. Martha Mizzi, BS'78, married Roger Heymann, BA'69, is a cer Richard Bertolino, October 21, 1986. tified public accountant and owns an ac Stephanie Stahl, BA'79, is week counting firm in Rockville, Md. Richard Skelly end anchor at WSNV-TV in Miami. Richard L. Raymond, Jr., BS'69, ior transportation planner with the Del Claudine Gibson Wirths, MEd'79, is the vice president and general man aware Valley Regional Planning Com has had her book I Hate School: How to ager of Biosystems, Boca Raton, Fla. miSSIOn. Hang In and When to Drop Out published Douglass M. Porter, BSBA'70, is Sue Marcum, BSBA'79, is presi by Harper & Row. president and chief executive officer of dent of the D.C. chapter of the Amer Beverly Clendening, MS'81, mar Westwood Mortgage Company, Dallas, ican Society of Women Accountants. She Tex. ried William H. Bailey, September 27, is a CPA and tax supervisor with Grant 1986. Jeffrey R. Schwartz, BS'70, is the Thornton. Mary Jane Stark, BA'81, married chairman of the department of business George L. Shepard, MSPR'79, is John J. McGeehan, WCL!JD'90, June and economics at Montgomery College. the sales and marketing director of In 28, 1986. He announces the birth of his daughter tercontinental Consultants Corporation. Carol McGoldrick, BA'82, MS'84, Jessalyn Clare Schwartz, October 16, Marc Silverstone, BSBA'79, is vice and Christopher Gibbons, SGPA/ 1986. president of Stoneden Imports in New BA'83, MPA'84, were married in Oc Scott Kenney, BSBA'71, WCL! York City. He is also co-owner and vice tober 1986. Carol is the director of em JD'74, has been appointed Circuit Judge president of Rosalind Light, a giftware ployee health and fitness for Connect- of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of and accessories store in Long Island. 28 AMERICAN------Maria Barton, BSBA'81, married Andrew. dleton, Cal. Marco Gobbetti, BSBA'81, Novem Karen Jaffy, BA'79, married Ni Bruce Stolbov, BA'72, will have his ber 1984. cholas Paris, September 14, 1986. first novel, Last Fall, published by Dou Jonathan Engelson, BSBA'83, Diana Gonzalez, BA'83, has opened bleday this spring. married Marcie Markovitz, September her own video consulting firm, DG Shelley L. Tomkin, BA'72, married 14, 1986. Communications. Ross Eisenman, MPA'81. Douglas A. Jimerson, MBA'83, is Ellen-Mary Hackett, BA'84, is vice Elizabeth Loftus Sharp, BA'74, is the president of National Investment president of Britt-Vasarely and a candidate for an MA in secondary ed Advisors in Washington, D.C. He and Associates. ucation at Arizona State University. Her his wife announce the birth of their sec Robin Noonan, MA'85, married husband, Terry Sharp, BA'74, is the ond daughter, Kirsten Elizabeth. Stephen Price, October 12, 1986. deputy city manager for management Lynn Gitomer, BS'83, is a market resources for the city of Glendale, Ariz. ing planner at Triton Container in San CONTINUING Larry Keller, PhD'76, is an asso Francisco. She is taking a leave of ab EDUCATION ciate professor at Cleveland State Uni sence to travel around the world before versity. He is also a faculty member of her wedding in August. ev. CarlA. Fisher, MSPR'74, has the Ohio Executive Institute which trains been named Auxiliary Bishop of Los Andrew Shure, BSBA'85, is the members of the governor's cabinet. Angeles, the largest U.S. Catholic Arch managing director of Strombecker (HK). Lewis J. Leathersich, MPA'76, diocese by Pope John Paul II. He is the He directs Far Eastern operations and married Leslie R. Brown, September 27, first black Catholic Bishop in the West manages the sales office in Hong Kong. 1986. ern United States. Thomas Austin, Jr., BA'77, mar COMMUNICATIONS ried Pamela Kolby, August 16, 1986. GOVERNMENT Lawrence Strick, BA'77, and his ynthia K. Moran, BA'69, is di wife, Barbara, announce the birth of their illiam P. Miller, BA'63, MPA'75, rector of university relations at Drew first child, Derek Benjamin, on Septem Wwas elected president of the Del University. She is married to W. Scott ber 3, 1986. aware Valley chapter of the National As William D. Myhre, BS'78, married McDonald, Jr. sociation of Housing and Redevelop Henry L. Kronstadt, BA'73, Kelly A. Cunningham. ment Officials. MA'76, has published four books: Bed Myra A. Oltsik, BA'77, is project Henry J. Pratt, MA'65, is a free manager for Urban Science Applications time Stories, Soundings from the Gut, The lance writer. He has written and pub Libtdo in Action, and The Fools Chelm . He in Detroit. lished several magazine articles. Jo-Anne E. Molnar, MA'79, is vice also announces the birth of his grandson Roger Peiser, BA'68, is the assistant principal for community education at SantaLuces Community High School, Lantana, Fla. James Henchel, BA'69, is president of the Connecticut Valley Council of B'nai B'rith. Frederic Gushin, BS'70, MA'79, is assistant director of gaming enforce ment in New Jersey. Arthur Fornari, BA'71, is an artist in-residence at the Museum of Holog raphy in New York City. He is also an account executive at Burson-Marsteller. Elizabeth McKnight Paulson, BS'71, is the office manager for a phar maceutical newsweekly. Fran Laspina Clark, BA'72, opened her own market research company, Pre cision Research, July 1986. Robert L. Parnell, BS'72, is a major in the Marines and recently completed training at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Reno, Nev. Andrew Shure He is currently stationed at Camp Pen-
SPRING 1987 29 chairperson for the Montgomery County, he alumni office is now lo Maryland, Commission on Handi Tcated at 3201 New Mexico capped Individuals. We've Ave., N.W. , Suite 260, just Lisa Horn Parker, BS'79, is the two blocks from campus at director of public governmental affairs Moved! Sutton Place. for Cominco Alaska, an international Note, however, that our mailing mining company in Anchorage. address is some of the old and some Thomas A. Lunder, BA'80, mar of the new: ried Pamela Chafetz, June 22, 1986. Office of Alumni Relations Patrick Ryan, BA'81, has com The American University pleted naval recruit training in San Diego. Sutton Center, Suite 260 Gregory J. Pascale, BS'82, WCL! 4400 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. JD'85, married Maurita Kelly, August Washington, D.C. 20016 16, 1986. John Marcus, BA'84, is a commer Our telephone number remains the cial real estate broker with Lewis and same: (202) 885-ALUM. Fink in Cleveland, Ohio. Note: Alumni audit registration for summer INTERNATIONAL sessions will be held in the new office SERVICE from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on May 18 for the first session and on July 6 for the ohn W. Eyster, BA'62, was named second. Call the alumni office for more J "Teacher of the Year" by the Janes information. ville, Wis. , school district. He also serves as a consultant with The College Board. Dorothy Feltner Davis, MA'63, is is director of field education and assis John's College, Annapolis, Md. a sports writer based in Lake Placid, tant professor of contextual education at David A. Searles, JD'75, married N.Y. the University of Dubuque Theological Sachiyo Herpmann, November 22, 1986. Charlotte Jones Carroll, BA'67, is Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. David Sandler, JD'76, is a consul a senior loan officer for the World Bank. Michelle C. Kahan, BA'83, re tant ro the Department of Health in Mark M. Golden, MA'69, is the plant ceived the Juris Doctor degree from the Hawaii. He has also been admitted to engineering supervisor at the Twin Delaware Law School in May 1986 and the Bar in Hawaii. Nuclear Susquehanna Steam Electric has been admitted to the Pennsylvania James Schwenk, JD'77, is a Marine Bar. Station. lieutenant colonel. Carl Mohrwinkel, BA'69, and his Ellen Amdur, JD'86 and Douglas wife, Marion, announce the birth of their JUSTICE Rubel, JD'86, were married August 31, 1986. fourth son, Steven David, September homas Fogle, BSAJ'76, MSAJ'78, Esther Liss, JD'86, is a law clerk for 27, 1986. Carl is an attorney employed and Carla Denton Fogle, at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory BSAJ'79, live in Wenham, Mass. with the Circuit Court Judge of Montgomery Commission. their daughter Casey. Thomas is the County, Md. Marvin Liss, JD'86, her Ilene Sinsky Solomon, MA'75, is a eastern regional manager for Allied son, is a law clerk for the Circuit Court teacher in Montgomery County, Md. She Security. Judge of Anne Arundel County, Md. was included in the 1986-87 edition of Jed Snyder, BA'81, is a licensed real Who's Who of American Women. estate broker for Newhan Properties In NURSING Diane Paraskevas, BA'76, married ternational. He is based in New York Mark Kolombatovich. City. anci Mandell Hoffman, BS'78, Donald Pretzer, BA'77, is an M.A. and Kirk Hoffman, CAS/BS'80, candidate in landscape architecture at LAW announce the birth of their son Morgan the University of Virginia's school of Philip November 28, 1986. Nanci is pur architecture. He has been selected to Samuel G. Layton, Jr., JD'63, a suing a graduate degree in nursing ed participate in the university's urban partner in the law firm of Bell, Seltzer, ucation at Villanova University. design semester in Venice, Italy. Park and Gibson, has been elected pres Lesley Fourt, BS'82, married Scott Thomas J. Foley III, BA'79, mar ident of the Licensing Executive Soci Secrest, September 27, 1986. ried Laureen M. Cadden, August 23, ety of the United States and Canada. Ellen Reisner, BS'82, married Na 1986. Merle F. Maffei, JD'72, received an than Hoffman, SGPA/BA'82. They Linda D. Smith, MA'79, PhD'86, M.A. from the Graduate Institute of St. live in Los Angeles.
30 AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY AND Alexander Hromockyj, KCBA/ William J. Finzel, DCE/BS'72, ADMINISTRATION BS'67, on April 18, 1986. SOJ/MS'73, on March 11, 1984. John E. Roth, WCL/JD'67, on No Andre M. Hebert, KCBA/MS'81, ouis M. Numkin, MSTM'74, is vember 17, 1986, in Takoma Park, Md. on January 18, 1987, in Washington, D.C. La computer systems analyst with Lamarian Systems. George L. Marling, MSTM'78, has retired from the federal government and is a private consultant in information management. Rev. Ralph D. Smith Michael E. Doukas, MSTM'79, CAS/MA'25, PhD'34 earned his PhD in business administra tion in January 1987. Ralph Dela Smith, AU alumnus and Trustees in 1941 and awarded him an DEATHS trustee emeritus, died December 13, honorary doctor of divinity degree in obert D. Burr, CAS/BA'32, on 1986, at age ninety-two. A Methodist 1950. RJuly 22, 1986, in Manchester, Conn. minister, Smith spent over fifty years as Smith's wife of almost forty years, Howard P. Hare, KCBA/BS'Sl, in an active church leader in the Washing Glenice, has donated $1,000 to the uni versity in his memory. October 1986, in Danville, Pa. ton metropolitan area. J. Roger Fredland, CAS/PhD'S?, AU named Smith to the Board of on December 3, 1986, in Port Charlotte, Fla.
Sports
Swim team alums sponsor the dual donation because "together we new facility could make a more meaningful gift, something that would be a perpetual - ill Jacobs '63, WCL '66 is a New contribution to the school," says Fleer. York City businessman. Keith Fleer and Jacobs wanted to partici BFleer '64, \VCL '67 is a motion pate in the center's construction be _ picture executive in Los Ange cause "we have strong positive feelings les. Even though the two AU alums now for AU and the rime we spent there," live and work three thousand miles apart, says Jacobs. "Swimming was an incre rhcv ha\·e a lot in common. Both earned dibly important parr of that experi their undergraduate and their law de ence." grees at All. Both belonged to the same Parr of that feeling, according to Fleer, fraternity, Phi Epsilon Pi , and both were comes from the sport itself. "There was members of All's swim ream for four a real camaraderie on the ream," he says. years. "Unlike football or basketball, swim ming is a solitary sport. You can't see, The Way We Were: AU swimmers Bill It was this last association that Jacobs, second from bottom, and Keith Fleer, prompted them to make a joint pledge you can't converse as you can in other third from bottom, were members of AU's of $25.000 to sponsor the men's swim ream sports. So there's an intensity about top relay team in 1963. Their relay ming team room in the new sports and rime spent together as teammates that's teammates were Bob Williams '65, top, and convocation center. They decided on absent from other sports." Thornton "Ooc'' Saffer '64, bottom.
SPRING 1987 31 Besides the companionship, Jacobs says he learned a great deal about lead ership from his years as a swimmer. "Keeping people interested and moti vated is an important part of coaching swimming," he says, "as it is in busi ness. Looking back, I can see that my years at AU gave me role models, people like Coach [Bob] Frailey who knew how to lead and motivate." Acknowledging the Fleer-Jacobs gift, Don Triezenberg, vice president for de velopment and planning, says, "The kind of alumni support that Bill and Keith exemplify has been critical to the suc cess of the sports and convocation center project. The university deeply appre ciates their generosity." 0
Basketball results
or AU's basketball teams, the Wearing No. 13, senior guard Pat Witting set a school shooting record this season which, together with his excellent academic record, earned him a place on the national Academic 1986-87 season was one of tough All-America first team. F play against tough competition. _ The women finished 20-8 over Senior scholar-athlete wins program," says head basketball coach all, 9-6 in the Colonial Athletic Asso national recognition ciation (CAA), while the men were 13- Ed Tapscott. "He certainly deserves it. As a senior, Pat has provided leadership 14 and 5-9. ---~ hile perfection is a hard goal Individual standouts for the women on the court and in the classroom. It's to achieve, senior Pat Witting indicative of the success that awaits him." included forwards Kelly Lane, a soph W tries-and comes very close omore, and Beth Shearer, a junior. Lane The Academic All-America teams are ---.-.- both on the basketball court sponsored by GTE and the College averaged 17 points and 6 rebounds per and in the classroom. Sports Information Directors of America game; Shearer, 14.9 and 5. 9. Junior cen Witting, a guard, set a school record ter Kia Cooper averaged 6.8 rebounds (COSIDA) as a way to recognize top this year by shooting 32 consecutive free student athletes from around the coun per game. throws with a 94 percent shooting av For the men, senior guard Frank Ross try who carry at least a 3.2 GPA and are erage from the line. At the same time, vital contributors to their teams. averaged 25.2 points per game, and for he maintained a 3. 97 grade point aver ward Andy Bonsalle, a junior transfer Witting is the first male athlete at AU age (GPA) with a triple major in math, to make the Academic All-America first student, averaged 7. 7 rebounds. applied math, and computer science. In CAA tournament play, the women team since Kermit Washington '73 did This combination of athletic and aca so in 1972. Last year, AU soccer player won the first two rounds, but lost to demic achievement has earned Witting James Madison University in the finals, Glen Buchanan '86 was named to the a spot on the Academic All-America first second team, and in 1985, tennis player 74-62. The men lost to Richmond in the team. first round. 0 Michele Sheskin '85 was named to the "It's quite an honor for Pat and our fi~tream. 0
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