A World of Opportunity How Five Bulldogs Went Abroad and Discovered New Versions of Themselves OCH TAMALE MAGAZINE VOL
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FALL 2019 | VOLUME 95 | ISSUE 3 News for Alumni & Friends of the University of Redlands A world of opportunity How five Bulldogs went abroad and discovered new versions of themselves OCH TAMALE MAGAZINE VOL. 95, ISSUE 3 FALL 2019 President Ralph W. Kuncl Cover Story Interim Chief Communications Officer and Editor Mika Elizabeth Ono Managing Editor Lilledeshan Bose Vice President, Advancement Tamara Michel Josserand Director, Alumni and Community Relations Shelli Stockton Director of Advancement Communications and Donor Relations Laura Gallardo ’03 Class Notes Editor Mary Littlejohn ’03 Director, Creative Services Jennifer Alvarado Graphic Designer 20 Juan Garcia Contributors A world of opportunity Steve Carroll Bea Crespo How five Bulldogs went abroad and discovered new Michelle Dang ’14 Jennifer M. Dobbs ’17 versions of themselves. Lori Ferguson Cali Godley Giulia Marchi Coco McKown ’04, ’10 Laurie McLaughlin Michele Nielsen ’99 Katie Olson Larry Pickard Carlos Puma Rachel Roche ’02 Emily Tucker William Vasta 11 Och Tamale is published by the University of Redlands. Still fine-tuning WILLIAM VASTA his lessons POSTMASTER: Professor Art Svenson receives a prestigious national Send address changes to: distinguished teaching award. Och Tamale University of Redlands PO Box 3080 Redlands, CA 92373-0999 Copyright 2019 Phone: 909-748-8070 Email: [email protected] Web: www.redlands.edu/OchTamale Cover photo by Cali Godley Please send comments and address changes to [email protected]. Please also let us know if you are 17 receiving multiple copies or would WILLIAM VASTA like to opt out of your subscription. Global horizons An interview with Steve Wuhs, assistant provost for internationalization. Letter from the editor I don’t usually include a letter in “The phrase ‘global business’ Och Tamale magazine, but at the WILLIAM VASTA urging of some of my colleagues I’m is redundant. going to offer a few thoughts to kick ” off this issue. As someone who has — Walter Hutchens, University Endowed Chair lived in five countries and nine states, I deeply appreciate the richness that for Global Business an international perspective provides. I also understand some of its challenges—and the sense of mastery that can result after rising to meet them. Some of my favorite memories are from a five-month stay in Mexico during a gap year between college and graduate school. As President Ralph Kuncl points out, some of your most basic assumptions are challenged by international travel. Suddenly, the U.S. looked stodgy and safety-obsessed next to the fatalistic attitude toward driving on marginal GIULIA MARCHI/AP IMAGES roads, swimming in powerful rip tides, and operating ungrounded appliances (I survived a few shocks by a “live” washing machine in my host family’s home). The conveniences of the U.S. were underlined by cold showers every morning and the necessity to share my seat on the bus with the occasional chicken. 14 32 Yet who knew that laughter and conversation with people you just met could be so fulfilling? Or that avocado and cilantro make a wonderful DEPARTMENTS soup topping? Or that Coca-Cola could act as a home remedy for altitude sickness? Or that French (which I 2 View from 305 had studied previously) and Spanish shared so many words? Today, my international experiences inform my daily life with both an awareness of the diversity of human 3 On Campus experience and respect for our common humanity. Working on this issue of Och Tamale has been 11 Faculty Files WILLIAM VASTA particularly fulfilling. Hearing about the many “aha” 14 Bulldog Athletics moments that Bulldogs have lived on their international journeys makes me proud to be part of the University 32 Campaign Update 34 of Redlands and its commitment to providing a personalized education, connecting students to a 34 Alumni News world of opportunity. —Mika Elizabeth Ono 35 Class Notes COURTESY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES COURTESY 36 History Mystery Letters to the editor 53 Class Notes Reporters A good friend, an alumna, called after she had read the last issue of Och Tamale. She loved the cover story but had questions: “How much did that cost us? Will 54 Passings my future donations go to pay off this huge mortgage? I bet the U of R will be paying for another 30 years.” 56 On Schedule When I told her the University receives all property free 57 and clear, with a $30 million endowment and no debt 57 Redlands Dreamer obligations to close the acquisition, she about fell off her chair. The finance story is an amazingly positive feature of the University’s expansion. — Ken Hall ’60, University trustee The “Och Tamale” cheer Och Tamale Gazolly Gazump (see class note on p. 36 from Hall) Deyump Dayadee* Yahoo Originally called the “Psalm of Collegiate Thanksgiving,” the “Och Tamale” cheer was Ink Damink Dayadee Gazink While reading about the union with the San Francisco written by cheerleader C. Merle Waterman ’20 Deyump, Deray, Yahoo Theological Seminary (SFTS) in the last issue of Och and classmates Walter J. Richards ’21 and Jack Wing Wang Tricky Trackey Poo Foo Tamale, I reflected on a chance encounter I had with Slutsk ’22. The “Och Tamale” is recited when Joozy Woozy Skizzle Wazzle SFTS during my time as a Redlands student. the Bulldogs score a touchdown, at pep rallies, Homecoming, alumni events, or as a greeting Wang Tang Orky Porky Dominorky Letter from Norman Wong ’65 to fellow alumni. Redlands! Rah, Rah, Redlands! continued on p. 40 *also spelled Deyatty Fall 2019 | 1 VIEW FROM 305: THOUGHTS FROM THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE Even better COCO MCKOWN ’04, ’10 than predicted ne of the five foundational priorities I Ocited for the University of Redlands in my inauguration address was internationalization. Why do I believe internationalization is so important? It is not just that we are located on the Pacific Rim, the gateway to Asia; or that almost 90 percent of global growth is occurring outside the U.S.; or that international and domestic politics President Ralph Kuncl are now entangled in unanticipated new ways. addresses the Class of 2023, whose members International experiences are critical because represent 24 countries of their long-lasting educational value. As a rule, of citizenship. cross-cultural experiences make people more creative, adaptable, and open to different points of view. As Mark Twain said, “Travel is fatal to practitioners and policy, although currently The tremendous personal and professional prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” focusing on health threats such as diabetes and impact on students and recent graduates can be My own trips to places such as Japan, plague more than HIV-AIDS. The environment seen in the stories in this issue (see page 20). Thailand, and Europe challenged social is another calling: Abby Bohman ’18, ’19 But even decades later, alumni look back and assumptions small and large, and introduced (MS GIS), for example, is part of a larger recognize how they were changed. Alice Mozley me to different ways of living. Instead of storing Redlands effort to monitor deforestation in ’70, now a life trustee, was inspired to endow a month’s worth of food in large refrigerators, Panama (see page 24). the directorship of the same Salzburg program people made frequent trips to produce-laden And, as reported in the last issue of Och that she attended as a student 50 years ago. markets and plan for a single day. Instead of Tamale, our Fulbright students now number “Salzburg was the best thing that ever happened eating hurriedly on public streets while headed 24 over the last decade. The most recent trio, in my life,” she says. “Having never been outside to work, everyone expected to savor each and Brenna Phillips ’19, Lidya Stamper ’19, and Theo of California, it completely changed how I every meal, preferably sitting with others. Whitcomb ’19, are teaching and researching viewed the world. We were in Europe during Instead of the provincialism of home, one saw in the Netherlands, South Africa, and India, some major political events, and witnessing the inherently outward purview of others. respectively (not currently Central America, but them firsthand was historic. While some things Five years ago, in this very magazine, who knows what next year will bring?). from those years have faded in my memory, my I predicted a future U of R enriched by But, in many ways, the story of U of R’s extraordinary time in Salzburg has stayed active opportunities from around the world: “In 2020, internationalization is even better than I in my heart and mind.” a far greater proportion of College of Arts and anticipated because it has flourished broadly The challenges of tomorrow will be Sciences students will be international. More and more Redlands professors and students will across multiple facets of the University, pervasive ones for planet Earth—emerging and go into the world for service or research: Our including outside our traditional undergraduate virulent infectious diseases know no borders; Master of Science in Geographic Information programs. technological innovations both simplify and Systems students will provide support to doctors The School of Business offers robust amplify global communications (and can working in rural Africa to combat AIDS, while international opportunities, enabling students create massive-scale misinformation); scarcity our Fulbright scholars will teach in underserved like Jeremy Cruz ’18 (see page 26) to participate of alternative energy and water resources parts of Central America.” in a study abroad trip to England and France create geopolitical stresses; tariff barriers Here we are, on the cusp of 2020. Tomorrow and to participate in a consultancy capstone are as fractious as international borders; has arrived. How did my predictions stand up? project in Iceland. Professor Michael MacQueen transnational migration and immigration stir Despite the headwinds of current immigra- has accompanied 10 groups of business the pots of regional politics and economies; and tion and visa policies, my forecast of a larger students on cross-cultural comparative-business climate change affects the world as a whole.