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usic students in the movies had Now, of course, 1984 has come and gone, Mr. Holland and his deferred opus. and 16 years beyond that have passed. I don't M I was blessed with Mr. Higby. know if Mr. Higby is still living. My own On the first day of the semester he entered mother died in 1982, her complicated illness our high school English class cloaked in a teaching me that the future is always black raincoat and wrote his name briskly on ambiguous and it's wise to take it as it comes. the chalkboard. He was dapper and dignified, I learned from Mr. Higby that there is with a closely cropped dark beard. When he truth in any genuinely creative work. As a turned to face us he slipped off his coat and New Century's resolution, I hope once again folded it inside out. The lining was scarlet. to pick up the books that used to serve as Everyone gasped. guides for an uncertain life, and to write my Mr. Higby's coat was a sign that we own fiction. And I hope you will find in this were going to be taken on a series of first Cal Poly Magazine of 2000 some stories wonderful journeys. He was that that will touch your imagination. best of teachers - demanding, fair, In addition to many alumni who are and original. We read The Red Badge supporting the community and the university ofCourage and talked about what war really with their talents and gifts, we are profiling meant. We read Animal Farm and argued alumni and Cal Poly researchers who are politics. We read The Great Gatsby and mOVing inventively into the new millennium: discovered the great American novel an architecture graduate turned international compressed into a bright, hard gem. musical performer; a husband-and-wife team I especially remember a discussion of who founded a San Luis Obispo company George Orwell's 1984. At the time I was not developing the next generation of movie film; impressed so much by the strange world professors and students who are lighting up Orwell gave us - and had no way of knOWing plastics; and two teachers bringing high-tech that the real 1984 would be, in its own way, careers into a junior high laboratory. so much stranger - as by the sheer distance Mr. Higby, sitting on the edge of his desk of the year itself. with one polished loafer across his knee, I was young enough to assume I would would say that they all are a part of our live to see 1984, but at the same time it common, mysterious future. seemed impossible. I would be really old ­ almost 40 - and my parents would be in their 70s. Everything would be different, strange, unimaginable. I was unable to conceive of a Vicki Hanson world 20 years older. Editor

ON THE COVER Alumna Trudie (Morgan) taking the movie industry SafrerlO (AGB '92) and her on a quantum leap into husband, engineer Ty Safreno, the future and bringing co-owners ofSan Luis Obispo's film experts in droves to Trust Automation Inc., the Central Coast (see story are helping develop a film beginning on page 8). processing system that is (Photo by Ron Bez) CONTENTS

Cal Poly Magazine is published for alumni and friends of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, by ~~~d~-J-J -OJ~--)~2Jv the Public Affairs Office, with support CJ': from the Cal Poly Foundation. A University Publication for Alumni Please mail letters to be edited for and Friends of Cal Poly. San Luis Obispo publication to "From Our Readers," Cal Poly Magazine, Heron Hall 204, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 (phone 805/756-7109; fax 805/756-6533; EDITOR'S NOTES e-mail [email protected]). Submit written "Class Notes" items to the same address or via e-mail at [email protected].

Mail address changes to Advancement 2 BEING AL YANKOVIC Services, Heron Hall, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407.

6 JUNIOR HIGH TECH VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT: 8 SEEING MOVIES William G. Boldt A WHOLE NEW WAY DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Jeff Bliss

10 GOING TOWARD THE LIGHT EDITOR: Vicki Hanson

U CONTRIBUTORS: Ben Beesley/Alumni Relations, 1:1-19 Amy Hewes/College of Engineering, Mike McCall/Annual Giving, Chuck Sleeper/Athletics, Jason Sullivan/Sports Information

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IILearning by giving back, /I fall 1999 Cal Poly Magazine, page 6, alumnus Loc Truong's correct major is biochemistry and his year ofgraduation is 1999.

gCttil},g ,I},S'6C hJ.S ~efr6r&eSS' hJe86 by Jeff Bliss ~ wanted to write the "Weird AI" persona that has and fellow consummate "Boy, isn't earned him near-cult status and students used to do. No breaking Weird Al Yankovic really record sales in the millions. into funny songs about "SLO weird?" story, penning a Town." Just a calm, cool, and humorous' account of the Cal Poly ~of76eCof76;rb8 collected Yankovic taking it all architecture alumnus who has The limousine carrying in. (Later, however, he tells his gained more recognition for his Yankovic and his assistant wends appreciative audience at the music parodies than for any its way through downtown San Performing Arts Center on architectural renderings. Luis Obispo. Curled up in the campus, "Playing here brings back I discovered, however, that corner of the cavernous back a lot of memories ­ on stage, in music passenger seat, Yankovic, 40, like licking the walls of videos, in sports his trademark slip-on tennis Bubble Gum Alley.") films, shoes, a pair of black pants, and The two-time and on a lime-green pullover shirt. As Grammy-winning television, the car passes the Marsh Street Yankovic, back at Alfred storefronts, he waxes nostalgic. Cal Poly for only the Mathew "When I was going to Cal second time since Yankovic's Poly, [San Luis] wasn't as tidy," graduating, isn't just (ARCH '80) he says Wistfully. "It had its funny riding around in the reputation for quirks and character to it. Like the back of a big, fancy manic craziness ['uniquely' decorated] bathrooms car. Every stop has not just been over at the Madonna Inn." along his 80-date well-earned, but also well­ There are no bizarre imperson­ tour is an cultivated. Off stage, the "King ations of San Luis Obispo folks he opportunity to of the Parodies" is low-key and used to know. No crazy stories of promote "Running thoughtful, a stark contrast to the strange things he with Scissors," his

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cassette player in his bedroom. By 1976, and still in high schoo], Yankovic had made his first Jive appearance in Oemento's touring stage show, playing 15th album since 1983. (A World his ode to family car Wide Web site lists a complete City after rides, "Belvedere discography of legitimate and city, doesn't it all get Cruising," bootleg recordings, songs, and live old? Doesn't the road and was tracks, including "an audiO presen­ wear on him? Doesn't it cut tation" made on campus at Cal into his artistic forays (which Poly's 1979 Week of Welcome.) now include directing other Today Yankovic will visit three artists' non-parody music videos)? radio stations - including Cal "Not really," he says. "When Poly's KCPR, where he got his start ['m on the road, my brain is kind - and the local NBC affiliate, of on vacation. [ don't find myself becoming a KSBY-TV. He wilJ answer the same scrawling lyrics while I'm on "name player" among questions repeatedly, honor each the tour bus. I don't resent the a group of budding satirists request by a OJ or reporter to touring. It's a break from working and comedians. exhibit his trademark "Weird" on albums." At about the same time, side, and respond patiently to on the advice of his high school radio callers. peSflblbflbSS guidance counselor, class valedic­ The only child of Nick and torian Yankovic enrolled at Mary Yankovic, Yankovic grew Cal Poly. Just 16, he may have up in the Los Angeles suburb found himself far from familiar of Lynwood. On his seventh surroundings, but never from birthday, his parents gave him his accordion and a desire to an accordion. Seven years later, take other artists' songs and in 1973, he submitted his first "pep them up a bit." song, "Pico and Sepulveda," In 1979, he got his first big to Dr. Oemento, a nationally break. The power pop album syndicated disc jockey "Get the Knack" included the hit known for playing comedy single "My Sharona," a catchy and novelty music. No. 1 tune practically asking for Demento found a certain a parody. Yankovic set up a mini charm in the "accordion­ recording studio adjacent to powered ditties" Yankovic KCPR in the men's bathroom ­ recorded on a cheap renowned for its "famed" acoustics

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(read: echoes) - and recorded his could be said was, 'Well, the , first record release, "My Bologna." last album sold a few hundred He recalls, with a touch of irony, thousand less copies.'" He being signed by Capitol Records ­ laughs. "I mean, if that's the -~ "I~ ~ "The Beatles' label!" worst thing ...." A year later, he won interna­ The worst thing to be said tional acclaim with"Another about Yankovic is probably that One Rides the Bus," his parody his frenetic pace playing state fairs, of Queen's No. 1 single, "Another amphitheaters, and concert stages One Bites the Dust." would kill a mere mortal. One "I started getting calls from minute he's pressing the flesh all over," he says. "It wasn't just at SLO rock station KZOZ-FM Dr. Demento. I was getting calls (where he did a stint during his about the song from Australia Cal Poly days as weekend DJ "AI and Europe. It was big." Matthews") and the next minute and [say]: 'Oh, the form is following Three years after receiving he's conducting an exacting sound the function.' And I'm thinking, his bachelor's degree, Yankovic check at the performance hall. 'Yeah, big deal - it's a house!' recorded his first full album. Then he's out the door for a return "I enjoy what I do [now], and Nine more studio albums (with to his roots in a live interview at I'm glad people enjoy what I do," several compilations and a box set) KCPR. Then back to the stage for Yankovic says. "It's great to have followed, resulting in 11 million a sold-out show. them singing along, laughing. albums sold, making him "Eventually, I'd like to do "Of course it's not all just fun the most successful more directing. I'm enjoying and games," he adds. "There's a comedy working on other people's videos," lot of work." he says. "I've He smiles again. even thought "But it's better than flipping about burgers." G:J recording artist ever. After two Grammy awards and six nominations, he continues to perform on [directing] feature MTV, at major concert venues, films, and have and on other network TV series been offered a and specials on Showtime and couple of scripts. the Disney Channel. "I think it's safe to say I won't be t>aC~) to Car por~ going into "It was funny doing 'Behind architecture, " the Music' for VH-l," Yankovic he adds, smiling. says. "Those documentaries "I recently used usually chronicle the ups and my training to downs of bands. How they made remodel my kitchen, it big. How they fell off the charts. but that's as far as it gets. How they got caught up in drugs Studying architecture definitely and alcohol. And then how helped me become a more they got cleaned up and made analytical, disciplined person, a comeback. but I didn't love [it like the other "For my piece, the worst that students]. They'd see a building

CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 5 LEARNING BY DOING HELPS MAKE THE GRADE BY MICHELLE BROOM

here's a buzz in the room. Not only from the Anderson and Ponce were named 1999 honorees hum o.f t~e computers a~d machinery that fill in Disney's American Teacher Awards - two of only T the buildmg, but the whiff of young minds 39 teachers selected from more than 75,000 learning and exploring. nominees recognized for using creative teaching Stirring the brains of nearly 30 seventh- and strategies in their classrooms. Since 1989, Disney has eighth-grade students are Cal Poly alumni Richard acknowledged exemplary teachers for innovative Anderson (EE '69, fA '83) and Tony Ponce teaching methods that actively engage students in (ARCH '75), teachers at El Camino Junior High learning. School in Santa Maria. This honor was earned for the unique way Make that "extra-special" teachers. Anderson and Ponce team-teach in their Exploring Technology Lab, a career-oriented, self-directed program that gives students hands-on practical training and "the opportunity to challenge themselves in new areas, gaining increased self­ confidence through success," says Ponce. In cubicles, working in pairs of two, students experiment with digital imaging, applied physics, ...... --and robotics. They build towers and bridges, and airplanes and rockets that fly. They operate detailed machinery and learn to play digital music on keyboards. "Years of teaching at the junior high school level, combined with years of being students ourselves, has taught us that young people are excited about learning things relevant to what is going on in the real world," says Ponce. So in their shared vision for a better future for their students, Anderson and Ponce decided to focus on high-tech careers. "The greater the exposure," Ponce says, "the greater the outcome." Richard Anderson (EE '69, IA '83) and Tony Ponce (ARCH '75) In its third year, this innovative, hands-on are partners and friends at Santa Maria's EI Camino Junior High. They were named 7999 honorees in Disney's American Teacher Awards curriculum serves 850 students annually. During a for their innovative Exploring Technology Lab. 12-week session, students spend seven days at one (Photos by Marcia Wright) of 28 computer research modules learning about

& CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 electrical engineering, architecture, plastics technology, and desktop publishing. They complete assignments and solve problems with _ creative solutions. "There's never a dull moment around here," says Ponce. After 12 years in the making, the lab is well organized. The pair has worked tirelessly to raise funding for their project, often purchasing equipment on their own with whatever resources they could find. Finally, in 1996, the school board allocated $45,000 in partial funding, and Anderson and Ponce raised more than $100,000 through grants and local business donations to start the pilot program. Also crucial to the lab's real-world learning are sponsors like Marian Medical Center, which funds the healthy heart module, liTHE Santa Maria Ponce works with a student at a digital imaging module. Rotary Club, GREATER which funds T E the digital educational opportunity program (EOP) as imaging historically, economically, and/or educationally p module, and disadvantaged students, believe the university made Mid-State Bank, a big contribution to their success. "I really feel like THE GREATER Cal Poly gave us a chance," Anderson says. "This is THE OUTCOME." which funds the personal our payback to society. II -TONY PONCE finance Note: Cal Poly's fOP celebrated its 30th anniversary module. in 1998. W "We showcase this program to members of the community so business professionals can see kids on task," Anderson says. "Most of these students would be first-generation college students. Industry is teIling them, 'You can make it.'" Sitting in a soundproof booth, 13-year-old Norma says she would like to go into audio broadcasting. "I like the program because it gives us an advantage to be something better." Adriana, 13, carves her name into a key chain and says she likes working with her hands and hopes to work with machinery. "We set expectations for students with messages like, 'Not if you go to college, but when you go to college,'" Ponce says. "We set examples." Both teachers, who gained access to Cal Poly through its Anderson helps students launch rockets they have designed and assembled.

CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 ., Seeing Movies oe wW y by Jo Ann l.Ioyd

na civil, mechanical, and Roger Ebert saw it, he declared, Ostreet manufacturing engineering "It was almost as if the screen in what's in the mid '80s, and his wife, had turned into a window, and commonly Trudie (AGB '92). The you could look right into it." known as company employs 11 other By doubling the rate San Luis people, half of whom are also at which film is currently Obispo's Cal Poly graduates. photographed and projected, Ty started the company the MaxiVision48™ system in his living room in 1990 results in noticeably sharper, "It was almost as if the to "help companies in an clearer, and brighter images. screen had turned into a honest way," says Trudie. And, in much the same way window, and you could Trust Automation now that "talkies" and Technicolor look right into it." occupies an 8,000-square­ transformed the film industry, foot facility, and will soon MaxiVision's improved visual - Movie Critic Roger Ebert, on the MaxiVision process. outgrow that. images could become the next The company's close- standard in filmmaking. knit group of engineers More than a few people industrial section sits an and computer software specialists are excited about the new unassuming building in which creates products and software projection system. The Safrenos a team of engineers has that control electric motors on have demonstrated it to actors, perfected a system poised items ranging from semi­ directors, and top executives to revolutionize the film conductor robots and aerospace from major studios, as well as industry. satellites to tire-retreading cinematographers from such Trust Automation machines and airport luggage­ films as "Apollo 13," "Bugsy," Inc. is a business scanning equipment. "ET," "The Thin Red Line," owned and But by far their hottest and "Titanic." Director Martin operated by product is the new MaxiVision Scorsese has discussed assembling Cal Poly alumni projection system that dramat­ a consortium of high-profile Ty Safreno, ically enhances big-screen industry players to back the who studied images. When movie critic MaxiVision system.

B CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 "Everyone who has seen it has come away convinced that this is the way to go," Ty says. The system was the brainchild of Dean Goodhill, an Academy Award-nominated film editor and founder of the Los Angeles firm MaxiVision Cinema

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ago he set out to find someone who could put his idea to work. Easier said than done. Two firms with "a couple of famous engineers who had four Academy Awards between them couldn't pull it off," said Goodhill. His extensive search ended about one-and-a-half years ago when he found Trust Automation. The folks there made his system work. And they made it work in a way that uses industry-standard 35mm film more efficiently, which could save filmmakers about $200 million a year. That, and the fact that theater owners will simply have to retrofit existing projectors, makes the system attractively affordable. • The MaxiVision system was kept a secret for three years while prototypes were being developed and patents for the new technology were being sought. Now the issue is financing. GoodhiJl is in negotiations and Trudie Safreno and the expects to have some good news MaxiVision projector. before the year is over. (Photo by Ron Bez) "It's only a matter of time," Ty says. CD

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lightweight, paper-thin television screen you can practically slap on a wall. Want one? A computer screen­ eventually a whole computer ­ thin as a piece of glass. And you can read it from any angle. It's on its way. Lights in sheet form you can bend to almost any shape. No need for glass bulbs. Where will these amazing things come from? Electrical engineering Benjamin Braddock, played by senior Shu-Min Li Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 film shows off four small, "The Graduate," got the famous film-thin squares of one-word answer: electrode-coated "Plastics." polymer that shine Yet even the family friend with only a few volts who gave Ben that forward­ of electricity. looking tip didn't realize what (Photos by Laura tricks those pliable, organic Dickinson) "polymers" are capable of. Actually, at the time, no one ------to CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 in the world knew that THINK OF ASHEET certain OF PLASTIC WRAP. kinds of plastics NOW PICTURE THAT possess a AS ACOMPUTER. property that is about to revolu• tionize the world of lighting, electronic displays, and who-knows-what-else: The right plastics, in the right conditions, can conduct electricity, lighting up brighter than a standard light and with a lot less electricity. "Semiconducting polymers" or "light-emitting polymers" are two of the technical terms for the little wonders. A very thin film of the stuff is all it takes. The discovery was made in 1989 by researchers at England's Cambridge University. The word "bandwagon" would hardly be adequate to describe the surge of further research that took off at, well, let's say the speed of light. One of the engineers dazzled by the idea of plastic lights was a doctoral student at UC Santa Barbara who changed the focus Up to her of his dissertation when he heard elbows in the about it. He's David Braun, and Polymer Electronics now he's a Cal Poly electrical Lab's "glove box," Li engineering professor helping applies droplets of dissolved make sure that Cal Poly students plastic to a small glass square "painted" have a hand not just in learning with a transparent electric circuit. An about but also in actually evaporation process overlays squares of developing the technology. electricity-conducting calcium to complete Braun and others are working the light-emitting diode (LED) sandwich. with students on a variety of related projects. His faculty collab­ orators include professors Kevin

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Kingsbury from chemistry, Linda Vanasupa from and airport runways with lights, in effect, painted on. materials engineering, Mark Cooper from industrial The characteristics that make them so desirable in and manufacturing engineering, and Ron Brown manufactured products - light weight, low cost, low from physics. power - also make them ideal for education. Organic Much of the work is happening in Cal Poly's plastics are much safer and easier to work with than new Polymer Electronics Lab, where students are the inorganic materials used in existing technology. fabricating and testing polymer "light-emitting And, when industry gets geared up for them, diodes," or LEDs. electronic components and lighting made from Each LED is a thinner-than-paper-thin film plastics will be much cheaper to manufacture and use of plastic sandwiched between equally than your standard bulb, or silicon-based electronics, thin electrodes. Electricity is applied to or the cathode-ray technology of a TV or standard the top and bottom electrodes, the computer screen, or the look-at-it-at-an-angle-and-it­ current joins in the plastic film goes-dark liquid-crystal displays that laptop computers in the middle, and voila! Light. now have. It takes less than 5 volts to But no, you can't just insert a live wire into Aunt make them shine. Minnie's Tupperware or the kids' Big Wheel. It takes Electronics companies special kinds of plastics. This year Braun and are already putting the first Kingsbury won a $120,000 National Science light-emitting plastics into Foundation grant to find better ones, to develop and consumer products. A test new plastics that will emit light even more prototype plastic TV screen efficiently. two millimeters thick was So where's it all heading? The Braddock family unveiled in 1998. Cell phones friend would never have guessed, and maybe no with polymer displays were due on one can. the market in December. One example: Think of a sheet of plastic wrap. A dazzling series of applications will Now picture that as a computer. soon follow, Braun says. Designers envision not The science isn't a limitation, says Braun. It's just small consumer goodies like those televisions you just a matter of developing the technology to do it. can hang on the wall, but also immense areas like And Cal Poly students are already part of billboards with the lighting built into the flat surface the process. W

12 CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 UNIVE lTV N W ind orchestra raises funds for tour Do nUnder f the dream of the Cal Poly during the two-week trip to reduce then known as I Wind Orchestra's 65 student its cost to approximately $2,600 the Cal Poly musicians comes true, they will be per student, or $169,000 total. Symphonic performing in Australia's famous But as of Cal Poly Magazine press Band as one of the university's first Sydney Opera House this June. time, only about $99,000 had efforts to seek private funds," been raised, with recalled Johnson. A considerable $70,000 to go. amount of money was raised for "We have the first music tour to Vienna, an aggressive with subsequent tours following fund-raising in 1983 and 1988 to Geneva and plan," Johnson Japan, respectively. said. "But its On one blue-painted wall success depends of Johnson's office hang three in great part on framed resolutions issued by the continuing the California Legislature, graciousness of commending the band for those our alumnL" three tours. Supporters Johnson is keeping space are asked open for a fourth resolution. [li;l to consider sponsoring, Note: To contribute, call Johnson or partially at 805/756-2556 or contact him via The Wind Orchestra's French horn section sponsoring, one e-mail at [email protected]. or more members Performances there and at the of the ensemble, and if possible Sydney Town Hall would be in seek matching corporate funds. response to an invitation received Donors at any giving level are by Cal Poly Music Professor welcome to travel with the William Johnson from Henryk orchestra at a cost of about Pisarek, artistic director of the $3,200 (including hotel, 11 th annual International Music breakfast, and dinner Festival Sydney, who wrote, "The expenses). [Cal Poly] Wind Ensemble has an Johnson sees such international reputation and is sponsorship as a positive thing considered one of the best wind for donors and students alike. ensembles on the West Coast." "A lot of people make Johnson hopes to lead the donations to the university," group in a tour of world-class said Johnson, "but they don't concert halls in both Australia and have that one-on-one contact New Zealand. The latter itinerary with students. And for Cal Poly includes the Auckland Town Hall, students to be performing in The Michael Fowler Center in the Sydney Opera House is Wellington, and the municipal extraordinary - it's the theatres in Hastings and concert venue of the world. Hamilton. "In 1975, then-Cal Poly The musicians will stay in President Robert E. Kennedy The Auckland, New Zealand Town Hall private homes on several nights saw fund-raising for what was (Photos provided by William Johnson)

CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 'IS UNIV RSITY NEWS xpe ts i e"one t u II to mo ie ind stry he cast was impressive. reporter. The forum was moderated by Cal Poly film T A legendary film director, award-winning professor John Harrington. screenwriters and producers, an entertainment The panelists' review of the current state of the journalist, a ratings systems expert, an anti-censorship multi-billion-dollar movie industry was, at best, one advocate, and a government attorney looking into thumb up. the state of today's movies. Most agreed that the financial side of the film business has too much control over the movie-making process. "Creating innovative films is difficult because studios would rather rely on tried-and-true formulas expected to score big at the box office," Frankenheimer said. "There are so many forces working to bring whatever idea you started out with down to a common denominator that will open big the first weekend." Screenwriter Kazan said audiences ultimately dictate the type of movies that will be made Director John Frankenheimer assesses Hollywood today. (Photo by Tony Hertz) because they "vote ''lith This panel of Hollywood insiders and an audience their money." Weinraub of several hundred movie buffs gathered at Cal Poly agreed that where film quality in the fall for the film forum, "The Good, the Bad, and moral content is concerned, and the Movies." the audiences have the final say Topping the list of experts was John in a film's or star's success or failure. Frankenheimer, director of films such as "The "The Good, the Bad, and the Manchurian Candidate," "Seven Days in May," and Movies" was sponsored by Cal Poly as the "Ronin." He was joined by screenwriters Nicholas second of its ongoing series of public forums Kazan ("Reversal of Fortune" and "Bicentennial discussing topical issues. Man") and Robin Swicord ("Matilda"); Variety editor Forum director Herb Kamm said the forums Peter Bart; Joan Bertin, executive director of the "are essentially a means of improving communication National Coalition Against Censorship; Elayne Blythe, between the university and the community and founder of the Film Advisory Board Inc.; Federal world beyond." Trade Commission attorney Linda Stock; film Plans are under way for a forum featuring producer Lawrence Turman ("American History X"); newspaper and television columnists and pundits this and Bernard Weinraub, New York Times entertainment spring and one in the fall focusing on elections. W

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I followed on the heels of the seventh San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, directed by local attorney Mary Harris. An international film festival in small­ town San Luis Obispo? An attorney? That's right. The annual lO-day festival, which draws hundreds of people and Hollywood cast and crew members, is produced by Cal Poly alumna Mary Harris (POLS '80). In 1993, Harris turned a lifelong fascination with movies into a yearly celebration of the best and most interesting

Mary Harris (Photo by Laura Dickinson)

films of the past. She manages to pull off a success each year while maintaining her thriving practice as an attorney specializing in intellectual property. "I wanted to help bring to San Luis Obispo the movies I loved watching while I was growing up," Harris said. "it's been both challenging and very rewarding." Over the years, film luminaries such as directors Delbert Mann ("Marty"), Robert Wise (liThe Sound of Music"), actors Ernest Borgnine and Jonathan Winters, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro have attended the festival to talk with audiences about their work. Harris expects the film festival to continue into the next century, bringing the magic of movies to future audiences. ~

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Last fall, seven Cal Poly students studied the Earth's ecosystems in a 3. I-acre greenhouse in Arizona's Sonoran desert. The Biosphere 2 Center, operated by Columbia University, offers a textbook example of Cal Poly's "hands-on" experience for students. That educational philosophy is why Columbia University invited Cal Poly to become a partner institution. The Center's purpose is researching the impact of humans on the planet and the Earth's changing environment. Biochemistry student Becky Sweeney (left foreground) studied ways to preserve private land that is home to important species such as black bears, jaguars, and prairie dogs. The other Cal Poly students were (left to right) Greg Tamblyn (Biology), Julie Hopper (Biology), Chris Schmauch (Art and Design), Travis Mann (Biology), and Shelly Shaul (Biology). Not shown is Shelly Lapcevic (Biology). .

Learn -Ie having fun at April's 0 e House tudent organizers promise there will be some­ Saturday is the day the campus and its students Sthing for everyone at "Discover the Power of will showcase their excellence to the general public. Poly," the seventh annual Open House on April 14-16. Educational displays, student club booths, a rodeo, Activities on Friday, April 14, will focus on a tractor pull, music, and stage shows are there for prospective students who have been accepted for fall the looking and learning. And remember to come quarter. These students and their families will see and hungry so you can sample the food, representing hear firsthand what the university, the individual many cultures, that student clubs sell. colleges, and the faculty and staff have to offer them. Some alumni-related activities, including the A must-see on Friday is the resource fair, where second annual Open House Alumni Golf Tournament, attendees can pick up information about almost every are being planned for Sunday. aspect of campus life, such as financial aid, health and For additional information, contact the Open psychological services, athletics, and many others. House Hotline at 805/756-2764. W

t& CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 UNIVERSITY NEW Vision for future camp 5 is goal of Master Plan Update hat will the Cal Poly spaces that support the social and • Increasing the student W campus look like in 2021? physical developmental needs of residential community to A team of planners, with our students as well as their intel­ minimize community impact input from the campus and lectual growth. Coupled with that and providing services for community, is working to answer is the need to help meet the state's those students that question during a three-year expected Tidal Wave II of students." • Improving circulation and Master Plan Update process. In mapping out future land access to the university. "Balancing land uses with uses, the Master Plan team is "The Master Plan will be enrollment demands is our key exploring some of the 500 designed to meet emerging challenge," according to Linda recommendations made by needs of our academic programs," Dalton, vice provost for institu­ 10 task forces, including: Dalton said. "Colleges and depart­ tional planning, who is leading • Developing a student-friendly/ ments have identified areas for the Master Plan effort. learner-centered instructional program growth so the Master "The guiding principles of the core that would be compact, Plan can include appropriate Master Plan are drawn from Cal use the land more effectively, buildings, laboratories, and Poly's mission asa polytechnic and increase open space technology to meet those needs." university with a residential cam­ • Maintaining outdoor teaching The revised Master Plan pus," said Paul Zingg, provost and and learning laboratories will be presented to the CSU vice president for academic affairs. • Protecting enVironmentally Board of Trustees for approval "We must plan for facilities and sensitive areas in spring 2001. W

ew lab Center 0 ens for Co lege of E gineering Dean Peter Lee hosted more than 100 donors, faculty, staff, and students at the fall grand opening of the College of Engineering's Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) building. The $4 million laboratory complex is the first academic facility on campus funded entirely without state funds. The 17, OOO-square-foot ATL includes applied research and interdisciplinary lab space, computer workstations, multimedia innovations, and the latest technological equipment. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation, the W. M. Keck Foundation, Litton Industries, St. Jude Pacesetter, Northrop Grumman, Parsons, IBM, Fluor Daniel, Tandem Computers and Hewlett-Packard. (Photo by Laura Dickinson) W

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essons for i e0 ere espede Jou nalist at December Commencement

Learning, living, and loving well are what life is all about, according to Herb Kamm, San Luis Obispo Tribune editorial writer and special assistant in Cal Poly's University Advancement division. Almost 1, 100 graduates were moved by his keynote Dec. 77 commencement speech, "My Gifts for the Millennium, " a personal account of his life and times as a 65-year career journalist. Kamm served as writer and editor in New York for 25 years, and was managing editor of New York's World Telegram and executive editor of the World Journal Tribune. Later he became editor of the Cleveland Press, editorial director of the city's CBS- TV affiliate, was elected to the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame, and was hailed as "Mr. Cleveland" for his civic involvement. At Cal Poly he has been adviser to the Mustang Daily and the driving force behind public forums on the media and film (see story on page 74) that have drawn national figures as panelists. (Photo by Tony Hertz) .

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CAL POLY • 0 waste here .. FACULTY AND STAFF • We're #1 again Campus Dining, an entity • Faculty are top also ... U.S. News and World Report has of the Cal Poly Foundation, Joseph J. Jen, College of named Cal Poly the best public was a winner in the state's Agriculture dean, was honored undergraduate university in 1999 Waste Reduction as the Distinguished Educator the West for the seventh Awards Program for the of the Year by the National consecutive year, and again fifth straight year. Association of Colleges and .calls the College of Engineering Teachers of Agriculture ... the top engineering school in The 1999 International the country among those that • One more award .. Conference on Engineering don't have doctoral programs. A videotape of a Community Education recognized Peter Lee, Safety Fair, organized by College of Engineering dean, • Perfect core Cal Poly, won a 1999 Crime for his efforts in improVing Meeting all S2 criteria for Prevention of the Year Award engineering education in the accreditation, the professional from the Governor's office. global environment ... Music Bachelor of Architecture professor and conductor David program was re-accredited Rackley received a Telly Award for a full five-year term by for the music he composed for the National Architectural STUDENTS the television program "Masters Accrediting Board. • Shining stars and Madmen." Part one of the Architecture seniors won series, "The Mystery of Genius," • Isn't technology four of six scholarships aired December 1998 on the wonderful] awarded for academic A&E Network. Computers, and the people achievement and financial programming them, are need by the California ALUMNI simplifying students' lives. Architectural Foundation ... • he de erves an apple ... Students are now able to create Business administration seniors Nancy Thompson (PE '72, class schedules via the Web 24 in a marketing class developed CRED '74), who teaches hours a day, seven days a week, and carried out a plan to multiple subjects at Coast through POWER (POly WEb increase awareness of a local Union High School in Cambria, Registration), and then register auto dealership and to raise received the University Center online as well ... More than money for community child for Teacher Education's 1,600 new students last fall abuse programs. Their efforts inaugural Outstanding Teacher took advantage of an online won them the distinction of Award honoring K-12 book-ordering system, allOWing Best Four-Year College and instructors. them to order their books $3,500 in scholarships in prior to arriVing on campus. General Motors' Marketing • Twice the honor ... Returning students can also Institute's annual competition Don Borges (AGSC '85, order books online. ... The student chapter of M.S. AGRI '88), manager the Society of Automotive of the Stanislaus County Office • Award-winning market ... Engineers received a $500 of Education's agricultural The Campus Market (formerly Allied Signal Outstanding education and tech prep the Campus Store) was SAE Student Branch Award program, was honored for renovated last year, and for outstanding management his work with students by both its re-design earned a 1999 and activities. the Association of California Commendation Award from School Administrators and the the Obispo Beautiful national Future Farmers of Association. America organization. ~

CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 '19 SPORTS NEW Dust off those uniforms ark your calendars now for Cal Poly Athletics' crash. Each sport will hold an open house, M New Millennium All-Sports Reunion, highlighting photos and videos from the past. scheduled June 30 - July 2. The weekend is being organized by alumni All past and present athletes, Hall of Fame Norm Gomes (DSCI '58) and Don Morris members, coaches, support personnel, and fans of (PE '53, MS PE '59), former Athletic Director Cal Poly athletics are invited to celebrate the new Vic Buccola, and other committee members. century. There will be campus and wine-tasting tours, For more information and updates, visit golf tournament, barbecue, music, and dancing. www.calpoly.edu/-athletic or call the Mustang Athletic There also will be a brief memorial in remembrance Fund at 805/756-2255. A special effort is being made of all coaches and teammates who have passed away, to contact friends via e-mail. If you are online, with a special tribute to the victims of the 1960 plane please send your address to [email protected]. G:;;I

These Cal Poly football players didn't join the Army, but they did get a taste of military life during pre-season training at nearby Camp Roberts, an active Army National Guard base. Construction of a parking structure on campus eliminated the team's practice field, so the coaching staff, athletes, and other personnel did a two-week stint at the base - sleeping in the barracks and eating with the (real) troops. (No, they didn't get to take the tank for a spin.) .

20 CAL POlY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 PORTS NEW ate Five Mustangs sti riding high t ive fo~mer Mus~angs were i.nduc~ed into the Athletic Hall of ose F Fame In recognItIOn of their achievements while at Cal Poly. · at The honorees were: hurdles and the 4- x 100-meter fter a Louis Jackson relay team, Benford was A 25-year (1977-80), absence, golf one of the most prolific undefeated in dual meets. will return running backs in collegiate She is a two-time All-American to Cal football history, who led selection and is ranked fourth Poly Cal Poly to the 1980 National in the school's all-time 100­ at Championship. His 3,330 meter hurdle list. career rushing yards was the level school record for 18 years. Marie Lundie-Salyer competition. His record still holds for career (1979-81), Both men's touchdowns (32), rushing an All-American setter on and women's golf attempts in a game, season, Cal Poly's first volleyball team. teams will tee off and career, as well as for most She helped shape the program in the Big West into one of the best in the Conference yards in a single season. beginning this nation. She was a first-team fall. The teams' Berdy Harr Southern California Athletic home course will (1969-83), Association selection in 1980 be the Avila Beach one of the all-time winning and league MVP in 1981. Golf Resort, where baseball coaches in the school's She posted a 75-22 record players will have and was ranked in the nation's to practice history, with a record of concentrating on 297-249-5 for a winning top 10 in assists per game. the ball instead of percentage of .544. He recorded the ocean views. more than 200 wins and John Orton The program led the Mustangs to Southern (1985-87), will be self­ California Baseball Association one of three former Cal Poly supporting from and California Collegiate baseball standouts to have his community-based uniform number retired, and donations. ~ Athletic Association conference titles during a 41-20 season one of Cal Poly's top defensive in 1978. catchers. His 16 home runs make him seventh on the Janet Benford school's all-time career home (1974-75), run list. He became the highest the first female to earn major league draft pick in All-American status for any school history, selected in sport at Cal Poly. As a the first round by the competitor in the 100-meter California Angels. m

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1999 Fall Wrap-Up

FOOTBALL • The Mustangs finished the season with a 3-8 record, having faced the seventh-toughest schedule in Division I-AA. Senior tailback Craig Young (Rancho Cordova) became Cal Poly's all-time career rushing leader with a total of 4,205 yards.

WOME 's SOCCER • After capturing the Big West Conference title for 1999 with an 8-1 record, the Mustangs earned a trip to the NCAA Division I Championships. In the first round, Cal' Poly defeated Fresno State 2-1. Both senior Michelle George (Chatsworth) and junior Eryn Gerhard (Dana Point) scored against the Bulldogs. The team lost to Stanford in the second round.

VOLLEYBAL • The women's volleyball team finished the year with a loss to Michigan State in the first round of the 10th NCAA Division I tournament. The Mustangs went 20-9 for the year. In the regular season, senior Kari DeSoto (Yorba Linda) led the Mustangs with 425 kills and 151 blocks, and was third in the nation in hitting with a .416 percentage.

EN'S AND 0 E'S ass cau Y • Junior Adam Boothe (San Jose) led the team in capturing its second straight Big West Conference Championship. The men finished 29th at the NCAA Division I Tournament. The Mustangs earned a team total of 607 points.

• Senior Melissa Verlarde (San Francisco), junior Jennifer Spahr (Huntington Beach), sophomore Allison Mlllhollen (Newcastle), and junior Jennifer DeRego (San Jose) helped the Mustangs earn a third-place finish at the conference championships.

• The men's soccer team had its ups and downs, mostly due to injuries. Cal Poly ended at 4-11-3. Sophomore Anthony Dlmech (Burlingame) led the team with seven goals. .

Senior guard Mike Wozniak became Cal Poly's all-time scorer this season by surpassing former Mustang Mike LaRoche's record of 1,501 career points.

22 CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 ALU HI H WS Ca o co es o eto Cal poly by Dave Wilcox aOUR '86)

Our years removed from One of the company's most out California. Board members F his days as a Cal Poly civil exciting projects is the ongoing help the engineering college shape engineering student, Mike Cannon construction of Cal Poly's new its curriculum to better reflect (CE '83) knew his time had come. sports complex. "real-world" technological The owner of the four-person ''It's exhilarating," Cannon advances, so graduating students San Luis Obispo firm where said of his firm's engineering of are better prepared to enter jobs Cannon worked intended to the sports complex. He calls it a with a shorter learning curve. close up shop. "civil engineer's dream project" Additionally, Cannon is one of the most popular guest lecturers each quarter in the Civil Cd { eo' Y SPORTS illmler EX Engineering Department, speaking

.'I'J( hI. ~_N"t.I.l \.'It,.-n­ to students in the upper-division Col/POly Uhf~ ~ I:t.."""'""" __"""~ I~ 4oIM-~"., , I As.ml'iofed .('11 __ 1 -t.-flf'll.... -, lUdellts. Illc. r,...r (,,,"IuJl&t __ (t'i.\ "" .., Professional Practices course. .mi/IM . ., , 114tJr r-hrI: 0\ I-b_ . " ...... \ "-Ia. "We give him the honor of Depor/ment 01" IfT~. ./. ,IJI-r,.' I"at-" et..-....tn. /·..'ffl.')prrn"( .....'I".1<1h 'o. ..or flltercolJegilJte Athletic. . J..,"'-..··.'.h·.~"'WJIfliII,"' (')t"11 _'fl: lllilll,.. being the final lecturer of the duoUFh 'flo-' .. 1~ll«frl...ISf£. 'h}I'''khH~ III~. 'A'1'4n//(('~' .. C:Jmp.'/ig" '''.'''FH:r\J, t:O.VH'·\('ICJI{S quarter," said Professor Jay R 1h! .....l'/l''l''''.iI...... ,..... • ....c)f • •• ,,,.,,·,.. 1:"1: DeNatale, who coordinates the \',Irt'1ft(,J- .•1\J. C·rWo.llf"!.'..... l~ .... to, .... l.'rurr,.It./lj'I'· III'" guest lecturers. "All the things that ".'/1,r:"'1 flJ. ~'''''''' r CAL POLY , " 1..111 !rr. \/..JJt"'(I"J'fl1K."~"J(ll/~.lll< make a speaker great, that's Mike." Student evaluations bear ---~...:.._------that out, said DeNatale. "He's an extremely popular lecturer. He speaks from experience. He lives what he's talking about." Cannon's service to Cal Poly earned him the honor last year of Mike Cannon (Photo by Laura Dickinson) the Civil Engineering Department's Medallion Award. "It was hum­ Only 27, but confident he that's especially meaningful bling to be recognized by the could turn around the company's because it's at Cal Poly. When department with such a prestigious fortunes, Cannon didn't hesitate. finished, the complex will include award," said Cannon. "The educa­ "I said, 'Roger, don't close it," a lighted baseball stadium, a tion I received at Cal Poly was Cannon, now 39, recalled recently. softball field, and six playing instrumental in achieving my goals "There's something here. I'll buy fields for intramural sports. and I believe in giving back time it from you.'" Pride mixes with gratitude and energy to the university." Thus, Cannon Associates was as he reflects on the opportunity. Besides the sports complex, born, a firm that has blossomed "I want to say, 'Look, this Cannon Associates is also engineer­ into one of the most successful is the school where I learned ing Cal Poly's first apartment-style engineering companies on the engineering and now I'm part dorms, a $29 million project that Central Coast. of a team that's going to build university officials expect to begin Call it "earn by doing." a major facility for you. 1II housing second- and third-year stu­ Cannon now gUides a firm of But that's hardly the extent dents beginning fall quarter 2002. more than 80 employees that has of Cannon's contributions to his Cannon is setting his sights on been retained on major projects, alma mater. even bigger challenges, even as his including Unocal Corp.'s clean-up He sits on the Civil firm tackles increasingly complex of Avila Beach and the nearby Engineering Department's projects. Guadalupe Dunes and construction industrial adVisory board, made "We're certainly not going at Vandenberg Air Force Base. up of professionals from through­ to stop in San Luis Obispo." G:il

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(Photo by Laura Dickinson)

EGE OF AGR icuLmre: "The opportunity not only to receive the classroo instruction necessary to learn horticulture, but the opportunity to put this information to practice in the field gave me a head start on graduates from other colleges. " - Robert L. Scofield Orna ental Horticulure '53 Scofield retired from Environmental Industries Inc. after a distinguished horticultural career implementing arbor-care services, developing a golf-course management division, and recruiting staff. He is a member of the College of Agriculture's dean's advisory council.

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• OllEGE F 51 E5S UJIJttJ! "During my professional career, Cal Poly's learn-by-doing method created in me a pragmatic approach to problem-solving, client relations, and conducting

my business. II - Donald R. Fischbach Business Administration '69 Fischbach has been an attorney with Baker, Manock lit Jensen since 1972, specializing in professional malpractice defense and personal injury litigation. He is a member of many professional associations, including the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, and the American Society of law and Medicine.

COllEG OF ARCH TE lecture: VIRO ME TA "In the mid-50s the only teacher who taught engineering in the Architectural Engineering Department was Hans Mager, who gave me and other students a feel for engineering concepts that was an advantage over graduates ofother

institutions who had very little engineering background. II - Eugene E. Cole Architectural Engineering '56 In 1963 Cole founded Cole/Vee/Schubert, a leading structural engineering consulting firm in Sacramento. He is a past president of the Structural Engineers Association of Central California and a past president and current fellow member of the Structural Engineers Association of California. He is an internationally known expert in earthquake damage, and has taught courses at CAED.

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C~he ~re~~t S",~hS ~my~! po~ edllcation W~ a~u~:!~a}!j array ofengineering fundamentals and the ability to link theory with practice. The capacity to reduce a complex problem to simpler elements and not lose track

of the whole has served me well. 1/ - Rory A. Cooper Electrical Engineering '85; M.A. Engineering '86 Cooper is professor and chair for the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, director of the Pitt/VAMC Human Engineering Research Laboratories, and director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Program in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, he was an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Cal State University, Sacramento.

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"Cal Poly helped me gain the skill and confidence required to put myselfat risk offailure because I know that 'learning by doing' is the best way to continue to grow and achieve success." el ibu ir e ~ '73 Credential '74; M.A. Agriculture '77 Heuvel is program manager in agricultural education at the California Department of Education, where his work includes overseeing curriculum development and student organization advising and coordination. He is president of the National Association of Supervisors of Agricultural Education, a member of the National Council for Agricultural Education's board of directors, and a member of the steering committee for the National Council's "Reinventing Agricultural Education for the Year 2020" project.

"Putting together a senior project with [our] hands on the hardware and making things work in time to meet deadlines was particularly useful. The project's final report tends to become the product, as oftentimes it is in real industly." Uves y Phy j '67 Livesay has founded two successful semiconductor equipment companies and was a pioneer in electron beam lithography. As founder and president of ~Electron Vision Corporation, he developed and patented the first large-area electron source for use by the semiconductor industry. He sold the company to AlliedSignallnc. in 1996, where he is now director of technology.

"Cal Poly's learn-by-doing philosophy left me in a unique position to quickly size up situations and act with leadership. The many team projects prepared me to communicate clearly." a r phi, \0 unl Coudray is president of Serigraphic Design Inc., a high-quality screen printer specializing in full-color printing for corporate accounts, and owner of Coudray Graphic Technologies, formed to investigate, develop, and implement emerging digital technologies for the screen printing industry. He is a member of the Academy of Screen Printing, a group of fewer than 50 members worldwide recognized for advances in screen printing' technology, and chair of the Graphic Communication advisory board.

NOTE This year the association also presented its first annual Distinguished Service Award to the late Owen Serrat/us (SOCS 'S9, MA ED '6S), who retired in 1983 after 36 years of service to Cal Poly. During his tenure he was an assistant to former President Julian McPhee, taught business, and was acting dean of the School of Business and Social Sciences. (See "In Memoriam" section, page 47.)

26 CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 ALUMNI N WS CPM offers imp 0 e eb site he Cal Poly Alumni !!II!! T Association announces changes and additions to its Web site, which has a new address of www.alumni.calpoly.edu and a new name - Cal Poly Alumni Network - reflecting the organization's desire that llwl tal ~ AIunw>/I,.twor4c 'I .,._ PlIn:on.1 fII~fkll'lt I->omotl to f.J1o. Cal POIty ~mnI. A.IwrInI Protrtm•. tft

To encourage such Wlinl ~t Ilfl!t.1flr e-mail forwarding addrt"5.'!i or networking, the association .1I.s0alumnl.c.oIllOIy_edo? n up tor thIS serv.ce is offering free lifelong e-mail ~~~:::~Odll~T~~I:·';;;'C:'~:=:J.~.o.=;411::.b~I·.~~·r .111...... ,.... 'I.".....' t••dloKt. ~..!I.IL.Il:I1IJ jn...... ""ADeN pst"o' .-d forwarding to an online alumni ."''''.""9 __, , 1'0U bM, to Ul.

Tod.. ." ma,. th.n .".000 .rijrr'lAl 1If••tPft••n\94 by the Af,odlO'lWtn .lth "'0'" th.." directory site, with each entry 10,000 "'~.,. m.""' ...... TN. IIfIlI l0V9oU otJI 1oI''''ftl''ll but i. Nnd.d tf',1'(J"Oh .lumn, <1-".:1. If ,ill'''' 110. 1Ih1lt 'ICilY .t., 011 ,ould mll."._ "'o...... et .... M~" a.n-.nt m.mb.,. 'iGO t.­ including an e-mail address, _r~".;1111...... ~IIII-tl>d..,.M., AIII,lO,OClO ~<:...JMot;ill. _nil class year, and major. This service does not replace AOL, CIfI'....,""_...._~"...,~ _ """ Prodigy, or other Internet service provider accounts ­ it simply forwards e-mail from fellow alumni via a personal Cal Poly e-mail address to an existing personal e-mail account. portal, with the association will include alumni mentoring In the future, alumni will be receiving a percentage of each for Cal Poly students, career able to shop at an online mall purchase, many of which will be networking assistance, and through a Cal Poly e-commerce discounted. Other site services hosted chat rooms. ~

stadium en me fo Ridde Mayor Jeff Griffin reads the official proclamation renaming Reno's Moana Stadium as the Steven G. Ridell Stadium in memory of Steve Riddell aOUR '69, MBA '77) (see "In Memoriam" section, fall 7999 Cal Poly Magazine). With him are Frankie Riddell and her son Chris. Riddell was Cal Poly's director of alumni affairs in the '70s and early '80s, and in 1983 became director of development for the University of Reno's foundation. He served as associate director of advancement for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, championed Reno's downtown redevelopment campaign, and was former president of the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce. For information on donating to the Steve Riddell Memorial Scholarship, call the Alumni Relations Office at 805/756-2586. (Photo courtesy of Denny Martindale) [3JJ

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Reserve your place at 13th a nual golf tourney at Pica Pi, Society of M Printing, will present it 13th Annual Graphic Communication Department Alumni Golf Tournament and Awards Dinner on Saturday, May 6, at the Morro Bay Golf lub. The deadline for entries is April 1 and space is Limited - call Red Heesch for information and reservations at 805/756-2267. W

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After 50 Years­ ogether gai

The Class of 794 9's "Golden Grads" were spotlighted throughout the weekend of Homecoming '99, ending with a special alumni/reunion breakfast in their honor at Cal Poly's Vista Grande Restaurant. (Photo by jack Spaulding) .

Cal Poly/Pomona time trave float ins Humor Trophy al Poly and Cal Poly Pomona's crashing into the future. Every C52nd Tournament of Roses year since 1949 students and Parade entry, "Stolen Time," won volunteers from both universities this year's Humor Trophy for its have worked together to depiction of the commotion create a float for the created when a time-traveling New Year's Day scientist encounters a curious pageant. ffiI dinosaur who sends them both

CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 29 ADVANC M NT Co lege of Scienc a Mathematics establis es Cal Po y's first e do ed c air ighteen pledges totaling more Department and the coatings possible without the close working E than $1 million from industry. relationships among industry, companies and individuals will The lead gift of $425,000 is faculty, and the university." fully fund the Arthur C. Edwards being provided by Dunn-Edwards "The endowed chair is the Endowed Chair for Coatings Co. Additional gifts of $75,000 culmination of a very close and Technology and Ecology in the and $25,000 are being donated by always-growing educational and College of Science and Ken Edwards and Edward Edwards, professional partnership between Mathematics. respectively, two of Arthur the faculty and students. The gifts The chair - defined as the Edwards' three sons who now run will make it possible to create a investment of at least $1 million the family-owned corporation. center of excellence that will benefit Cal Poly, industry, and provide special opportunities for both," said Phil Bailey, dean of the College of Science and Mathematics. Bob Smiland, owner of Smiland Paint Co., seconded Bailey's sentiments. "Good and worthwhile projects deserve a quick response, and the industry provided that support to this outstanding program." All this would not have been possible without Biochemistry and Chemistry Professors Max Wills and Dane Jones. They have worked closely with the industry to provide the most up-to-date instruction. Students have benefited from the industry partnerships through internships Celebrating Cal Poly's first endowed chair are (left to right) President Warren j. Baker, and numerous jobs at coating Ken Edwards (Dunn-Edwards Corp.), and Phil Bailey (dean of the College of Science companies throughout the county. and Mathematics). (Photo by Tony Hertz) Other significant pledges have been made by Smiland Paint to support a new faculty position "This is indeed an historic Co., DuPont, Rohm and Haas, specially focused in polymers and day," Cal Poly President Warren Engineered Polymers Solutions, coatings education - is the first ]. Baker said. "As we are about Kronos Inc., Vista Paint Corp., step in creating a western regional to celebrate the university's Ishihara Corp., Ellis Paint Co., center for polymers and coatings centennial, we are pleased to have Millennium Inorganic Chemicals, chemistry. Such a center has been raised the more than $1 million Hansteck Corp., the Los Angeles a long-term goal arising from a necessary to establish the endowed Society for Coating Technology, 12-year association between Cal chair. [This is] a first in Cal Poly's Joe Reilly, Burgess Pigment Co., Poly's Chemistry and Biochemistry history that could not have been E. 1. Horn, and Jim Calkin. W

30 CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 ADVANCEM NT Patrick E. Ed ards Fund s pports studies in biological sciences ••pen Pat Edwards (BIO '75) was an Department. He created the endowment with a ..engineering student at Cal Poly, he took a personal donation of $10,000. His employer, Searle, Biology 101 class from V. L. Holland, a new professor. owned by Monsanto, will match the funds on a It was a life-altering experience. one-to-one basis, bringing the fund balance to "I'd never had biology in high school," said $20,000. Edwards, "and Holland's class - his first assignment Edwards, who represents the College of Science at Cal Poly - was a real mind-blower for me. and Mathematics on the alumni board, will It changed everything." collaborate with Holland to allocate unrestricted Under Holland's mentorship, Edwards switched monies from the fund to a variety of studies in the his major and his direction in life, becoming the biological sciences, including sending students to first person in his family to obtain an undergraduate intercollegiate competitions and supporting them degree and eventually pursuing a successful career in studies such as the Biosphere 2 project (see story in pharmaceutical sales. under "University News "). "I wanted to give back to Cal Poly not just my For more information on planned giving or time but my resources because I had such a rich other contributions to the College of Science and experience there," Edwards said. "I also wanted Mathematics, call Cary A. Bowdich, director of to credit V. L. Holland for my satisfying 25-year advancement, at 805/756-5713 (fax 805/756-1670, career. II Holland is currently the chair of the e-mail [email protected]). For matching gifts, Biological Sciences Department. contact Cal Poly Matching Gifts Specialist Kathryn Edwards has established the Patrick M. Edwards Sutherland, Advancement Services, 805/756-1555 Fund for Excellence in the Biological Sciences (fax 805/756-5409, e-mail [email protected]). W Pr ra rds Cal poly $27,000

PG&E spokesperson Missie Hobson presents Cal Poly President Warren }. Baker (right) and Vice President for Advancement Bill Boldt with a total 1999 gift contribution of $27,000. The award, part of PG&E's Community Vitality Program, was divided among the Biological Sciences Department's Marine Sciences Display, the College of Business' Project Enrichment Seminars, Cal Poly Arts' Stone Soup Festival, the College of Engineering's MESA Engineering Program, and the Solar Car Club's 1999 Sponsorship. The PG&E program provides annual financial support to organizations that promote the economic, environmental, and social welfare of the communities and markets they serve. (Photo by Laura Dickinson) W

CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 St ADVANCEMENT Arnol sesta ·sh trust the UCTE etired Los Angeles-area "As retired educators, The Arnolds' gift, R educators Lee and Allyn Allyn and Lee endorse the established as a charitable Arnold of Cayucos have created UCTE's field-based teacher remainder trust, creates a a planned gift that will benefit preparation and support future gift for the UCTE Cal Poly's University Center for the UCTE's many school while generating current tax Teacher Education (UCTE) and partnerships," Roper said. and financial benefits for the enhance the center's hands-on The UCTE has reshaped Arnolds. For more information approach. the way student teachers are on planned giving, contact "We are extremely gratified educated at Cal Poly, giving Mike McCall, j.D., Cal Poly by the Arnolds' generous gift them as much actual classroom Director of Planned Giving and to the UCTE," said Director experience as possible. The Endowments, 805/756-7125 Susan Roper. "Their contri­ center works to improve teacher or toll-free at 800/549-2666 bution is by far the largest education by actively collabo­ (fax 805/756-2711, e-mail gift the education programs rating with local schools to mmccal/@calpoly.edu). G:l;I at Cal Poly have received. foster "simultaneous renewal."

James Bre nan: An am assador w·th portfolio ames Brennan (MECH ENGR '62) has always efficiency became a hot topic again. As president J been an ambassador for understanding between of the Pacific Energy Services Company, a subsidiary the worlds of technology, industry, and the average of PG&E, Brennan educated school and hospital citizen, and, most recently, between Cal Poly and managers on the cost-effectiveness of energy-saving Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, devices. Sweden. In 1988 he became an independent energy While at Cal Poly, economics and political consultant, pointing out that "anything we can do science classes spurred his interest in technological to remove our dependency from a fossil-fuel-based applications. economy is likely to be of social benefit, including "The contribution I wanted to make was the reduction of global warming effects." bringing technology to bear on commercial and Brennan's latest venture as an ambassador/ social issues," he said. educator is his gift of appreciated securities to endow After graduation Brennan joined General student and teacher exchanges in mechanical Electric's Overseas Sales Group, selling and proViding engineering between Cal Poly and the Chalmers local support for nuclear reactors in Italy, Spain, University of Technology. (Brennan's Swedish wife, India, and japan. Gunilla Ramell, director of corporate relations for But it took up to eight years to develop, design, the World Affairs Council of Northern California, and build a plant, and Brennan wanted to make a is a strong ally in the project.) more immediate impact. He earned an MBA from "We considered a charitable remainder trust, but UC Berkeley, worked in industry and banking, then decided against it. The recipient would have to wait joined the Stanford Research Institute to help create for our deaths - we were trying to figure how to get market strategies for mechanical and electrical this thing rolling," said Brennan. "Also, with a gift industries worldWide. of appreciated stocks, we don't have to pay capital From Stanford, Brennan moved to the Bay Area gains, I can turn it over right away, plus receive a Rapid Transit Agency. "I wanted to encourage people tax benefit. It was the best possible option." to make a behavioral change, to opt for electrical For jim Brennan, positive, speedy change is intra-urban rail transport instead of cars." of the essence, and now his endowment will ensure With the OPEC oil embargo in the 70s, energy the same for Cal Poly. G:l;I

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• 0 (AD, a leader in • C'irO' ndre '> of Browns • UFGC Architecb Planners Windows-based electronic Valley has established the nc, donated $50,000 to design automation software, Ich el T Andrews Bc:'>t the College of Architecture provided the College of enior and Cap -tone and Environmental Design Engineering with software rOJcc Prize En "OIenl to create a student-support and services valued at more in memory of her husband, endowment. Over the last than $207,000. The gift, Michael (MECD AG '61). SO years the firm has hired which includes products and Her gift of $100,000 will at least SO Cal Poly training for schematic design provide annual awards graduates, and the annual and print circuit board layout for the best senior project BFGC scholarships will be engineering courses, will and best capstone project awarded to architecture upgrade the College of within the Bioresource and majors with well-rounded Engineering's Computer Agricultural Engineering professional and social skills, Aided Design/Computer Department. good grades, and outstanding Aided Manufacturing lab. leadership skills. • lice arks Nelso of San Luis Obispo has donated • The William Randolph • d pt Tedlllologv lilLo, $80,000 of local real estate Hearst Fuundation America's largest for the benefit of the Music increased the College of manufacturer of industrial Department. Business' Hearst Foundation robots and a factory endowment for preserving automation leader, has • The College of Agriculture and restoring Hearst Castle donated software and has been awarded an textiles with a gift of hardware to Cal Poly's $80,000 grant and named $35,000, bringing the Teaching Factory, a two-year a participant in the grant level to $70,000 project funded in part by the U.S Oepa tment of and enabling a continuing Cal Poly Plan. The Adept Agriculture'.~ Higher series of Cal Poly interns donation will be used in Education Multicultural to gain valuable hands-on the Factory's new Adept Scholars P Igra , experience at the castle. Technology Material where students compete Automation Cell, which for All-American Scholarships • The SST Development will focus on material to fund tuition, fees, room, Group, with the cooperation handling systems such as board, and other educational of Helena Chemical Co. simulation systems and expenses. The program's goal and C SE Corp., has robots, giving students is to increase diversity in donated software intended hands-on experience in class, agriculture. for all areas of agricultural team, and senior projects, management to the College graduate theses, and applied • lI~r S e1do (EL of Agriculture's geographiC research projects. Additional ENG '50) and Carol [ information system (GIS) funds for the automation \kif of Carefree, AriZ., laboratories. Produced by cell were provided by have established a $53,000 SST, the SSToolbox program the Soclery of charitable remainder trust is designed to manage Manufacturing that will provide future precision farming Engineering. support to the Department technologies. ~ of Electrical Engineering.

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Richard Armfield (left), general manager of San Luis Obispo's NBC local affiliate, KSBY- TV, presents Cal Poly President Warren j. Baker with a check for $5,000. The gift notes the university's community contributions. (Photo by jeff Bliss) [3:J

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• Thomas E. Bedell (ASCI 5UBMITrING elJl5s NOTES INFO '53) retired from Oregon State University in 1992, We welcome alumni news on jobs, moves, and special activities. owns 17 acres, and sells hay Please include your name - first, last (maiden) - major and and sheep, flies a private graduation year (or dates of attendance), address, phone, and airplane, and is active in employer/position. Mail your item to "Class Notes," Cal Poly resource conservation work. Magazine, Heron Hall Room 204, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, He has eight grand-children CA 93407, or send via e-mail [email protected]. and resides in Philomath, Ore.

Note: Due to the large number of submissions, we publish alumni information only, on a first-received basis, reserving later items for the next issue. We print information on events that have already • S.G. Freshour (EL '53) occurred only. We try to avoid duplicating department newsletter is a design engineer at Fisher items, and do not publish or return unsolicited photos. R~search Laboratory in Los Banos. In 1999 he spent three

months volunteering JI] the ~SOs • jerold Segall (ASCI'51) sold engineering departmellt of his auto shop and retired to Sun HClB (a short-wave radio City Palm Desert. He has his real • Ray Peckham (ACRE '38) station) in Quito, Ecuador. estate license and is a certified plays trombone in a big band organic grower of jojoba. called "Senior Class." He was in the first Collegian dance band at • jay Phillips (PE '54) has Cal Poly and was a dorm keeper • Wesley j. Webb (ARCH '51) retired to Cambria after teaching in Heron Hall. He's retired and is retired after 38 years with in the Dept. of Corrections and living in San Juan Capistrano. the U.S. Dept. of Defense public schools for 37 years. For and six years with the Yuba recreation he and his wife enjoy '40 County Dept. of Public Works. travel and golf. His writes that He lives in Bangor. his mentor was Dr. Mott.

• Robert Raybourn (ASCI '48) lives in Lake Forest and • Berend "Ben" Broersma enjoys traveling during his (DH '52) retired in 1990 after • Reginald Keddie (PI '56) retirement. He says, "Greetings operating two small animal is rotary district gover;;ar for to all the old gang." hospitals in Orange County. the northern half of (~"'gon. He lives in Los Alamitos. He owns a poultry bu,iness • Eugene Whitney (ASCI '48) near Portland and lives in Aurora, Ore. says he's an active farmer in • Eugene Starkey (DSCI '52) "excellent health." He gives talks retired from Cal Poly's Dairy in classrooms to students of all Science Dept. in 1991. He serves ages and hosts tours through as secretary and treasurer for the • Robert Olivas (AERO '57) forest and agricultural land. California Creamery Operators enjoys traveling in his new He resides in Fortuna. Association. He enjoys golfing motor home and resides in and resides in San Luis Obispo. Palm Desert. '50s

• john Sullivan (AERO '52) • Robert C. Kimball (ASCI retired from United Air Lines • O. Edward Hoiland (ARCH '50) retired in 1994 after 30 years in 1990 and lives in Pacifica. '58) is a retired architect and with Patterson Frozen Foods in "I've had a healthy retirement," enjoys bicycle trips in Europe. Patterson, where he lives. he writes. He resides in Chico.

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• Carrol R. Pruett (AH • Robert A. Bryant (AERO • Leon T. McHaney (ARCH '59) was elected chairman of '64) is a retired engineer in '68) is a staff architect with Don the board of Mid-State Bank Ketchikan, Alaska. He is Pickett & Associates in Fresno. in Arroyo Grande. He was building a new house and a founding officer of the helping to restore the • Gin P. Kremen (BIO '69) bank in 1961 and became Gromman Goose Amphibian is practicing dentistry and president and CEO in 1967. for the historical SOCiety. completed a Six-year run on the Parents and Friends board, • Ann Davis (HE '65) is a an organization that works with dog obedience trainer with developmentally disabled adults. Sonoma County Shelter and He lives in Fort Bragg. owns two businesses ­ Riverwood and Shadow Hush. She lives in Sebastopol. • Thomas Mastin Baron • Marjorie E. Hasley (MA (EL '60, MATH '60) is • Stephanie Harkness ED '70) owns Paintings & vice president of operations (HE '65) is owner and CEO Graphics in Kerrville, Texas. at Rogar International Corp. of Pacific Plastics & Engineering, and is responsible for all a Silicon Valley plastics manu­ • David Lipp (IT '70) is engineering tasks and facturing company. She was professor and department new product definitions. honored as 1999 Woman chair for computer information He lives in Midlothian, Va. Business Owner of the Year by systems at the Woodbridge the National Association of campus of Strayer University. Woman Business Owners. He lives in Woodbridge, Va. ;. Robert Loeffler (ARCE '60) is a senior structural designer • Thomas D. EastIack • Steven DeGrood (NRM at Thornton-Tomasetti/Coil (BUS '66) birdied the final '71) has been working for & Welsh Engineers in Tustin. hole to win the 1999 California the Washington Dept. of Fish State Senior Golf Championship. & Wildlife for more than 26 "Since I work for Bird Products," years. Currently he is working he writes, "I should know how as a biologist on the Upland • Joellen Jarvi (BIO '61) is to make 'birdies. 1II He resides Wildlife Restoration Program assistant project manager for in Menifee. and resides in Selah, Wash. the Space Station Biological Research Project at NASA's • Russell H. Jones (MET • Ellen Martin (SOCS '71) Ames Research Center. She '67) is a senior staff scientist is an assistant at the Alpine builds closed environmental at Pacific Northwest National County Museum and a reading habitats for fish, insects, rats, Laboratory in Richland, tutor at Woodfords Indian plants, cells, and avian eggs to Wash. He served as the Colony. She resides in go on the International Space general chairman for the Markleeville. Station. She lives in Cupertino. 9th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials • Robert Moss (MATH '71, in October 1999. CSC '71, MS MATH '72) has been the systems and • Gordon Nielsen (AERO '63) • Martin MeIer (IE '67) programming manager for is vice president at United Space consults mechanical and the County of San Luis Obispo Alliance, Kennedy Space Center, electrical engineers as for more than 25 years. for the Solid Rocket Booster chief engineer at Donn He and his wife have five Element Space Shuttle. He lives C. Gilmore and Associates. children, two grandchildren, in Merritt Island, Fla. He lives in Orange. and live in Atascadero.

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• William M. Jenkins (ASCI • Anthony Fillius (BUS '74) • Katherine Kuletz (BIO '75) '72) is an advisor for the Don is the Western U.S. director earned her Ph.D. in biology Pedro Recreation Agency. He of national accounts for from the University of Victoria lives in La Grange with his wife. Bracco Diagnostics Inc., and in British Columbia and is a has won award trips to Bermuda wildlife biologist for the U.S. • Gerald Knecht, who studied and Costa Rica. He lives in Fish and Wildlife Service in mechanical engineering in 1972, San Diego. Anchorage, Alaska. co-owns Knecht's Plumbing and Heating Inc. in San Luis Obispo. • Ed Terlau (EE '74) retired after 24 years at Pacific Gas • Cynthia Leeder (BCHM '75) • Mary Ann Baldiviez and Electric Co. He has started is a database project leader for (HE '73) has been a home an engineering consulting MOL Information Systems, a economics teacher at EI Camino company specializing in utility chemistry software company. Junior High School in Santa electrical protection and resides She also serves as the continuing Maria for 25 years. in Carson City, Nev. education officer for the Northern California section • Richard Bouslough of the American Association (MATH '73) is director of • Homer Thompson (BUS of Clinical Chemistry. Leeder computer services at Forest '74) manages the implemen­ lives in San Jose. Home Christian Conference tation of new information Center. He lives in Yucaipa with systems at Bonneville Power his wife of 20 years, Claudia Administration in Portland, Ore. • David Pritchard (FM '75) Bouslough (POLS '79). received an honorary American • William Thompson FFA degree at the national FFA • Craig Hoellwarth (ARCH (ET '74) manages the systems Convention in Louisville, Ky., in '73) started Quest Consulting engineering group at Quintron October 1999. For the past 23 in 1996, provider of facility Systems Inc. and resides in years he has taught agricultural planning, energy sustainability, Santa Maria. education at Southwest High and business development School in EI Centro. services. He lives in Elk Grove. His son, Chance Hoellwarth • Riley C. Walter (POLS '74) (PHYS '91), teaches physics joined the law firm of Kahn, at Cal Poly. Soares & Conway in Fresno • Alan J. Ragan (BUS '75) and specializes in agricultural is president of McCormack Baron Management Services • James E. Thomas (AERO ban kruptcies. Inc., a St. Louis, Mo., company '73) is a project manager in that builds and maintains Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, on contract • Kenneth E. Doty (AGB '75) to British Petroleum. He spent affordable housing in is president of Ellwood Ranch two years reconstructing a depressed urban areas. Inc. in Goleta and was past 1947 Piper PA12 Super Cruiser. president of Santa Barbara He resides in Anchorage. County Farm Bureau. • Steven M. Rogers (NRM • Linda S. Whitmore (BIO '75) retired from the County of '73) is a science teacher at Las • Glenn C. Dyson (MA '75) Santa Barbara Parks Dept. Now Flores Middle School, where she was promoted to director of he is manager of interpretation was teacher of the year in 1998. operations for ServiceMaster for Arizona Territory, a 93-acre She earned her master's degree in its Brazil location. He earned cultural heritage park that is in education and is liVing in his MBA in 1994 and resides scheduled to open to the public San Juan Capistrano. in Sao Paulo. in 2002 near Flagstaff.

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• Steven Allen, who studied • Garet Kappers (TREN ' 77) • Steven R. Knell (AE '79) engineering science in 1976, is a senior project manager on is project manager for the won salesman of the year for the engineering, procurement, water conservation and transfer Chrysalis Symbolic Design. and construction of the $188 project between the Imperial He lives with his wife, Patricia million Aden Container terminal Irrigation District and San Allen (IT '89), and their two project in the Port of Singapore. Diego County Water Authority. children in Saratoga. He and his wife have two • Richard A. Webb daughters and live in Imperial. • Janet Eastman, who studied (AERO '77) is in the Navy journalism in 1976, authored jet pilot training program the book Simple Indulgence: in Kingsville, Texas. • Russell L. Lambert (CRP '79) is project manager Easy, Everyday Things to Do for at the Dept. of Community Me, published in 1999. She is • Brent Willey (SPC '77) is Development in Yuma, Ariz. the style editor for the Los the evangelist for the Cayucos Angeles Times and resides in Church of Christ. He and his Orange County. wife celebrated their 25th • Christy (Hughart) Lesicka, wedding anniversary in October who studied physical education • KevinJ. McNamara and have three children. His in 1979, is a singer and (MATH '76) is mathematics oldest daughter, Rachel, studies songwriter for Sonshine Praise chair at Righetti High School nutritional science at Cal Poly. Singers and volunteers teaching and coaches track and field at marching, symphonic bands, Allen Hancock College. He lives • Michael Dudley (AERO '78) and drama at local high in Santa Maria with his wife. earned his M.S. in mechanical schools. She and her husband, engineering from Stanford in Donald Lesicka (IA '80), • Edwin Studor (LA '76) 1990 and is associate director have two children and live was promoted to administrative for aerospace at NASA Ames in Parowan, Utah. manager for the Riverside Research Center. He resides County Transportation and in Los Altos. Land Management Agency. • Regina Gibson Moore He lives in Beaumont. • Thomas L. Kessler (AERO (POLS '79) travels extensively '78) was promoted to program as a computer consultant. She lives in Arlington, Va., • Weston Clark (CSC '77) manager in the solar orbital with her daughter and husband. is manager of workstation transfer vehicle program at She writes, "Greetings to all my administration in the IT Dept. Boeing Co. He and his wife professors and friends, especially of PeopleSoft Inc. in Pleasanton. live in Palos Verdes Estates. Moan, Ann, Marla, and the rest of the B-suitors, and to Bayard • Richard Leflore (NRM '78) • Mike Conway OOUR '77) and Tobe." is the city editor of the Merced is district planner for the Sun-Star. He and his wife, California Dept. of Parks and Diane (Booth) Conway Recreation's American River '80 OOUR '76), have four children. District. He earned his master's degree in 1990 from CSU Sacramento and resides in Davis • Mark R. Crawford (AERO • David J. Highland with his wife and three children. (NRM '77) is a fish habitat '80) is director of engineering specialist with the California on the joint strike fighter Dept. of Fish and Game. • Bradford Boyes (ENVE ' 79) program for the Air Force Flight He lives in Atascadero with is vice president at Sierra-Pacific Test Center at Edwards Air Force his wife and two children. Environmental Inc. in Ventura. Base. He lives in Lancaster.

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• Paul B. Dumas (BUS '80) • Chris Ford (ARCH '82) • DeAnn Henderson (IE is director of finance for Remedy is president of C3 Design '84) retired after 15 years Corp. He resides in Redwood Alliance, an architecture, from Intel Corp. She resides City with his wife. project management, and in Gilbert, Ariz. strategic planning firm in San Francisco. He and his • Lynda Kiikvee (GRC '84) • Dwight MacDonald (PE Wife, April Ford (ARCH '86), is co-owner of Hartford '80) teaches physical education are active in the San Francisco Media, a company specializing at Arroyo Grande High School AlA small business committee in the design and imaging in Arroyo Grande. He and his and have a young son. wife have two young children. of personalized employee communications. She lives with • John Furtado Jr. (NRM her husband, William Kiikvee '82) oversees nationwide (ME '84), in Richmond, Calif. • Jim Schrempp (CSC '80) project management for Bank started his own company, Wired of America's Data Center Air Inc. He resides in Saratoga. Solutions Division. He lives • Alisone Kopita (NSCI '84) with his wife in Benicia. is at home in Richardson, Texas, with her two young children. • David Cline (ESCI '81) • Thomas Roche (ACRE She volunteers with the Dallas earned a B.S. in mathematics '82) is vice president of the Dietetic Association. She earned in 1986 and a secondary risk consultants division of her MM.Sc. from Emory teaching credential in 1991, EQE International, a risk University in 1986. both from UC Riverside. He management company. He is the operations staff analyst authored the Lorna Prieta, for Inland Empire Health Plan Northridge, and Kobe • Bruce Labins (ARCH '84) in San Bernardino. earthquake research publications relocated his architecture for the Electric Power Research firm to a renovated Victorian house in downtown Ventura. • Rick Habein (ASCI '81) Institute. He lives in Laguna Niguel with his wife. He volunteers his time owns a meat business in teaching perspective drawing Laupahoehoe, Hawaii. • Dixie Cavigli (SOCS '83) to elementary students and started her own business in San crews in the local J-24 sailboat racing fleet. He and his wife • Cheryl D. Kelling (ASCI Luis Obispo called "A Touch of live in Oxnard. '81) is the Central Coast area the Left Bank," where she"plans manager for First American to use talented local artists to Home Buyers Protection. teach art to people ages 9 to 90." • Maryann Quartuccio She lives in Atascadero. (HE '84) is a personal insurance • Douglas Shaw Jr. manager and personal and (ECON '83) has worked with commercial insurance claims • Rob L. Martin (BUS '81) CB Richard Ellis, a commercial manager at Dorsey Hazeltine is vice president of industrial real estate services company in Wynne Insurance Brokers in real estate at Grubb & Ellis Co. Ventura, for the past 16 years. Palo Alto. She was nominated in San Jose. for Who's Who in California • Rachelle Cohen (LS '84) for the year 2000. earned her master's in • Lori (Scheuber) Coleman Montessori elementary (AGB '82) is a stay-at-home education at Barry University • Bruce Richardson (CSC mom. She and her husband in Florida in 1994 and now '84) is a software manager have three children and live teaches a Montessori class. at Raytheon and lives in in Turlock. She lives in Boca Raton, Fla. Vancouver, B.C.

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• Robin (Nelson) Selden • Jeanne (Clouse) Evans • Kristen (Crummey) Burke (BIO '84) is vice president (AERO '85) has returned to a (AGB '86) earned her master's of marketing at FaceTime music career playing violin after in education, with a special­ Communications, an Internet doing relief work in Africa and ization in reading, from the start-up company. Her husband, working as an aerodynamics University of La Verne in 1999. Mark Selden (AE '86), is engineer after graduation. She She teaches first grade at Alvin a physics teacher at Willow is the concertmaster for Opera School in Santa Maria. Her Glen High School in San Jose. Pacific in Orange County and husband, john Burke (AGB assistant concertmaster of Pacific '78), is manager at the Nipomo Symphony. She lives in Hemet branch of Mid-State Bank. • Peter B. Smith (CE '84) with her husband and daughter. manages Charles W. David • joseph C. Dalton (DSCI Co., a civil engineering • Clifford C. Federspiel (ME '86) is an assistant professor of consulting firm in San Jose. '85) earned his Ph.D. and is a Animal Industries Management He is married to Susan project leader and researcher for in the Center for Agriculture (Elliott) Smith (MIS '84). Johnson Controls Inc. In 1997 and Natural Resources at the he received an international University of Minnesota, award honoring achievements in Crookston. He earned his Ph.D. • Patty Tindall (FDSC '84) indoor air quality engineering. from Virginia Tech in 1999 and works part time as a vet assistant his master's at Utah State. His in Fayetteville, Tenn. • Dewitt Mark (ARCH '85) Wife, Nell Oohnson) Dalton was promoted to vice (ASCI '87), earned her DVM president at the architecture from Virginia-Maryland Regional • Bradford Boulais (IT '85) firm Backen, Arrigoni & Ross College of Veterinary Medicine is manager of corporate facilities Inc. in San Francisco. in 1999. She is studying for at Metabolife International Inc. her M.S. in animal science at in San Diego. He completed his Virginia Tech and is in private first marathon for the Leukemia • Clayton Mitchell (IE '85) practice in Minnesota. Society in Vancouver, B.C., and joined the Navy in 1986 and is a volunteer for Compassion is stationed in Gulfport, Miss. International. • Moira Delumpa (ENGL • john R. Nydam (PM '85, '86) retired four years ago, after MBA '87) works for Superstore teaching ESL and English in the • Kevin Broady, who studied Industries. His wife, Karen high school and adult education graphic communications in (Lucas) Nydam (BUS '85), sectors, to stay home with her 1985, is president of Gardner works for Thomas L. Vermeulen, five children in Cupertino. Lithograph in Buena Park. C.P.A. They have two children, His wife, Marilyn Broady, live in Modesto, and are • Michael Gooch (NRM '86) who also studied graphic "looking forward to harvesting is manager of environmental communications in 1985, our first almond crop." engineering facilities at is a teacher in the Anaheim Conexant Systems Inc. (formerly Union High School District. • james A. Pena (AERO '85) Rockwell). He lives in Los is the principal at MDESIGN, a Alamitos with his Wife, Rachel consulting company involved (Racioppo) Gooch (GRC '86), • Dena Cagliero (BUS '85) with engineering and designing who worked in the printing received the vice president's electrohydraulic and hydrome­ industry before staying home award for sales performance chanica! mechanisms. "I also with their three children. in 1998 at Merck U.S. have a dozen patents in the "Thank you, Cal Poly, for Human Health. She resides diesel fuel systems area," he providing us a solid beginning." in Santa Maria. writes. Pena lives in Encinitas.

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• Martin Gopelt (BUS '86) • Beth (Landy) Swank (BIO • Candace (Trout) Pool is the international vice '87) and her husband, Stan (MCRO '88) is a laboratory president with Comerica Bank Swank (BIO '87), both are supervisor at the Division Clinic in Long Beach. He writes that faculty at Lane Community in Portland. She is also associate he has a "dream job." College in Eugene, Ore. apprentice training director for They have a young son. the Mount Hood Ski Patrol. Pool resides with her husband and • John V. Mares (ARCH '86) young son in Portland. is senior vice president at Rivers & Christian in Los Angeles. • Gary Visser (CSC '87) and his wife, Cathi (Arnold) • Tom Preece (CE '88) is Visser (CSC '88), have a young • Diego Olagaray (AGB '86) senior manager of golf club son and live in Pleasanton. is president of the Lodi District R&D at Callaway Golf. Grape Grower's Association, He lives in San Diego. working to increase vineyard development acreage in the • Matthew Woodfin • Leslie Shamma (ARCH Lodi area. (CRSC '87) works in the '88) was promoted to associate grower relations department at Wimberly Allison Tong & for Grimmway Farms. He • Heather Banks-Blackburn Goo, an architecture firm in (NSCI '87) earned her master's resides in Bakersfield with Newport Beach. in psychology from Pepperdine. his wife and three children. She works part time as a clinical dietician at Presbyterian Hospital • Robert Van Sickel (POLS '88) is an assistant professor in Charlotte, N.C., and does • Michael R. Haslett (CM of political science at Purdue private consulting. She has a '88) is assistant vice president University in Indiana. In young child. at Lowe Enterprises Destination 1999 he authored a book Hotels and Resorts. He and his about Supreme Court Justice wife have a young child and • Kim Carlson (REC '87) is O'Connor, Not a Particularly live in Encino. director of tennis activities and Different Voice: The Jurisprudence a tennis pro at Mountain Gate ofSandra Day O'Connor. Country Club in Los Angeles. She is also on the board for • Lea (Edwards) MacLean cystic fibrosis,juvenile diabetes, (ENGL '88) earned her master's • Cheryl Ades Anspach and the Arthritis Foundation in curriculum and instruction (EE '89) works in product tennis tournaments. She lives from CSU Bakersfield. For the marketing for Rockwell in Beverly Hills. past 10 years she has worked at Automation. She and her Garces Memorial High School, husband have a young daughter and live in Waukesha, Wis. • Sean Cooper (IT '87) where she is now the director is a production manager for of student activities, yearbook advisor, and teacher of American Schlumberger. He lives with • David Bradshaw (AET '89) his wife and young daughter literature. She and her husband is supervisor of the irrigation in Moorpark. have a young daughter. management unit for the Imperial Irrigation District, where his wife, Vikki (Dee) • Laura Martin-Wild (ART '87) is a part-time manager • Jeffery D. Miller (ME '88) Bradshaw (AM '90), is at Imagic Inc. in Los Angeles. is a project manager for the an environmental resource She and her husband have a U.S. Navy Dept. of Defense. specialist. They have two young son. He resides in Oxnard. children and reside in Holtville.

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• Cathy S. Cluff (SOCS '89) • Andrew Miller (ARCH '89) • Marcos Della (CSC '91) is was elected to the board of earned his MBA from the president of CSTONE Consulting directors for the International University of Washington. Inc., which designs and builds Spa Association. She is president He works at Intracorp, a real high volume platforms for of Fitness Advertising in Ojai. estate development company supporting scalable Internet specializing in high-density applications. He lives in • Kimi Cousins (CSC '89) is urban residential projects. Scotts Valley. a project manager of WebSphere He and his Wife, Sandra in the software solutions group (Mahon) Miller (ARCH '91), • Nora Milchen (AGB '91) of IBM. She and her husband live in Seattle. is a graduate student at have a young son and live in Columbia University's School Apex, N.C. of International and Public • Steve Peck (BUS '89) is Affairs in New York. co-director for a week-long • William G. DeLey (BUS camp for burn-injured children '89) earned his MBA with sponsored by the Alisa Ann • Jeff Borges (FDSC '92) was promoted to plant manager at an emphasis in internet Ruch Burn Foundation. Universal Foods in Turlock. marketing from MIT in 1999. He lives in San Jose. He lives in Boston. • Laura Fawcett aOUR '92) • Eric Recsei (EHS '89) is director of publications for • Anthony Dunn (NRM owns Acer Landscapes and lives the United States Figure Skating '89) is director of Sierra in Morgan Hill. Association in Colorado Springs Energy Center in Sonora, and serves as editor of Tuolumne County. Skating magazine. • Joel F. Silva (BUS '89) • David Furrer (BUS '89) and was named a vice president at The Northern Trust Company. • James Hauer (SPC '92) won his wife, Terri (McGuigan) the 1999 Gonzaga University Furrer (BUS '91), have two He serves in the high yield division in Northern Trust School of Law Linden Cup, children and live in Rocklin. arguing an appellate brief before Global Investments. Silva state Supreme Court justices. resides in Chicago, Ill. • Graham Gearing (CSC '89) works for Cypress • Wesley Hayes (SOCS '92) Semiconductor in its is a captain in the U.S. Marine Bloomington, Minn. facility. Corps stationed in Japan. His wife, Penny (Pinkerton) • Chris Babb (BCHM '90) Gearing (BUS 90), is a full­ • Christine Heinemann time, stay-at-home mom to their earned his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University (ASCI '92) is a project manager three children. The Gearings at Hemphill, Green & Associates, of Hawaii in 1996. He is an live in Apple Valley, Minn. an environmental administra­ assistant professor of chemistry tion and consulting company. at Berry College in Mount Berry, She lives with her husband, • Lynne Hasselman aOUR Ga. Babb and his wife have '89) earned her master of Kevin Heinemann (BUS '92), a daughter. public health degree from in Beaumont. Portland State University. She is a writer/communications • Cheryl Jantzen (AM '90, • Michael Kiley II (BUS '92) specialist for Wellsource, AGB '91) is a project manager was promoted to vice president a health communications for Advanced Training Solutions, of consulting services at AMI and wellness assessment firm. a startup Internet company. Visions Inc. He is married and She lives in Beaverton, Ore. She lives in Seattle. resides in Denver, Colo.

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• Caroline (Korock) Rankin • Marina Rubendall (OH '93) • Michelle Cannella (GRC (BIO '92) is an optometrist started her own interiorscaping '94) is studying for her master's at Kaiser Permanente in plant business, called "Mixed in finance at Denver University Sacramento. She and her Greens," in San Juan Capistrano. and works as a financial advisor husband have a young son. at Sawgrass Advisors. She lives in Golden, Colo. • Eric Schmidt (ARCE '93) and his wife, Cheryl (Bell) • David Svetich (PE '92) Schmidt (ARCE '93), have • Jeffrey Esposito (BUS '94) earned his master's in physical a young daughter and live in is a business manager for KNBR, therapy from the University of Portland, are. KFOG, KSAN, and KTCT radio the Pacific in 1995 and works stations in San Francisco. at Lodi Physical Therapy. • Charles Schreiber (AGSC '93) manages the export • Dave Glaeser (CSC '94) department at Tanimura & is a senior developer of large • Holly Sweet (SPC '92) custom software packages for is a major account manager with Antle, a produce company the agricultural industry at Monarch Marking Systems Inc., in Salinas. He is married with John Deere, Agris-Lathrop a bar-code technology company a young son. division. He and his wife, in Hacienda Heights. She is also Colbie Glaeser (ASCI '95), involved with various charities, • John A. Stob II (AERO live in Ripon. including the American Cancer '93) is a senior engineer in Society and Young Professionals the robotics division of H.R. Against Cancer. Textron. His wife, Mary Stob • Daniel Healy (IT '94) works (BUS '90), is a customer service at Newport Biosystems. He and superviSor for Valencia Water his Wife, Samantha (George) • David H. Whitaker Co. They have a young Healy (LS '95), live in Redding. (AERO '92) earned his M.D. daughter. from Western U/COMP and • Amy (Kubitz) Keefe (HE is an intern physician at • Timothy Thomas (CSC '94) teaches first grade in the Northside Hospital and Heart '93) owns Thomas Consulting Tustin Unified School District. Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. Services, which supports She lives in Tustin Ranch with VRU applications with some her husband. CSU campuses. He lives in • Claudine Auyong (PE '93) Chandler, Ariz. • Anthony Marci (AGB teaches physical education '94) owns Marci Crop Care Inc. at Harriet Eddy Middle School in Salinas. in Elk Grove. • Frank Verdecanna (BUS '93) was promoted to corporate controller at Interlink Computer • Randall Myers (EL '94) • Roger Haring (CRSC '93) Sciences. He lives with his wife is a senior electrical engineer is studying for his M.S. in in Santa Clara. at Aztek Engineering in agronomy at the University of Boulder, Colo. Florida and lives in Gainesville. • Nicole B. Yuen (SPC '93) practices law at Knox Ricksen • Kelley Olen (ASCI '94) LLP in Oakland. She also has is a certified diver and lifeguard • Michael Heatherly been serving as an adjunct and works for Sea World in (OH '93) works as a landscape faculty member at John F. San Diego. She also works pesticide applicator at Kennedy School of Law. Yuen is with children in the Special Disneyland park in Anaheim. married with a young daughter. Olympics in Santa Fe, N.M.

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• Darryl Pauls (ET '94) • Peter Piccardo (CRP '95) • Dola Contreras (EL '96) is a design engineer for Sunrise is a code enforcement officer works for Hewlett-Packard's Medical, manufacturer of power in the planning, inspections, microprocessor design lab in and manual wheelchairs. He and permitting department Fort Collins, Colo. lives with his wife in Visalia. with the City of Folsom. He is also on the board of directors for the California • Darin Grams (ARCH '96) • Reid Seidler (ARCH '94) Code Enforcement Corp. is an intermediate architect started Seidler Design, for in the health care studio for residential design and drafting the architecture firm NBBJ in services, and does residential • Susan Pinza (MA ENGL Seattle, Wash. construction. He lives in Aptos. '95) teaches reading, writing, and study skills at Bakersfield College.

• Stephen Yungling (POLS • Ann Ho (LS '96) earned '94) is an associate at the law • Jared J. Tappero (FNR '95) her M.A. in higher and firm of Coombs & Dunlap, LLP. is a forester with Collins Pine postsecondary education from He lives with his wife in Napa. Co. in Chester. the University of Michigan in 1998. She works as assistant coordinator for orientation • Kelley Bannon (POLS '95) • Cindy Thomas (HD '95) services at the University of earned her ].D. from Santa Clara works for Child Protective Connecticut and lives in University School of Law in Services. Her husband, Bobby Manchester, Conn. 1999 and lives in Campbell. Thomas (REC '95), teaches sixth grade. They live in Valley Springs. • Calvin Monreal (AE '96) • Christina Bloom (BUS '95) is assistant water master at is a self-employed clinical ].G. Boswell Co. in Corcoran. research coordinator for pharma­ • John F. Worthy (ARCH '95) He is the secretary/treasurer ceutical research and lives in and his Wife, Marci Worthy for the California and Nevada San Luis Obispo. (ENGL '94), have a young daughter and live in Ventura. sections of the American Society John works for C.S.A. Architects of Agricultural Engineers. in Santa Barbara. • Jason Choyce (CE '95) is a project engineer for DPR Construction Inc. He is engaged • Karen Ames (PSY '96) • Julie-Marie Reyes-Nelson and resides in Austin, Texas. is working her way through (MATH '96) was married graduate school studying in 1999 and lives with her educational psychology at Cal husband in Las Vegas. • Mary M. Paasch (AE '95) State Northridge. She lives in earned her master's in Agoura Hills and teaches infants agricultural engineering from and toddlers with special needs. • Ira Sorensen (ME '96) Texas A&M University. She is studying for his Ph.D. works as a water resources in mechanical engineering, engineer for Montgomery • Michelle Barker (ENGL specializing in thermal radiation Watson, a civil and environ­ '96) teaches English at detectors, at Virginia Tech in mental consulting firm in Westminster High School and Blacksburg, Va. Sacramento. lives in Huntington Beach.

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• H. Keo Springer (ME • Victor Lopez (AGB '97) • Elizabeth (Hester) Vigil '96) earned his master's in is in product development at (MATH '98) married Eric Vigil mechanical engineering Keithly-Williams Seeds in Baja (CHEM '94) in 1999. from the Georgia Institute of California, Mexico. Technology in 1998. He works for Lawrence Livermore National • Carina Burkhalter (BUS Laboratory in Livermore. • Lance Pritikin (AERO '97) '99) is engaged and lives is a spacecraft engineer for in Fremont. General Dynamics at the Naval • Gary Wells (LS '96) earned Satellite Operations Center in his teaching credential and Point Mugu. He is also president • Timothy j. Domis teaches fifth grade at Bauer and CEO of Pritikin McCormick (ENGL '99) is a production Speck School in Paso Robles. Engineering Consultants. assistant at Paramount Pictures and has been working on the • Marcy Woolpert (HD '96) new John Travolta/Lisa Kudrow is human resource director • Richard Robinson (ET '97) film, "Numbers." at Compass Health Inc. in is technology manager at Grover Beach. She obtained E-Commerce in San Ramon. her administrator's license and • Michael Glenn (ME '99) lives in San Luis Obispo. is a mechanical systems engineer • Christine (Wortley) Stabe at Raytheon Systems Co. in (BUS '97) was married in 1999. Waco, Texas, where he resides • Michael S. Arnold (ARCH '97) is a designer and planner She and her husband own a new with his wife. at Edaw Inc. in Alexandria, Va. home in Elk Grove.

• josh j. Smith (ME '99) • Shelly Baird (On '97) is a • Benjamin Swan (AET '97) received his commission licensed pest control advisor and is an agriculture instructor as a naval officer after works at Hines Color Nursery. and FFA advisor at Ripon High completing officer candidate Her husband, joe Baird School. He is married and lives school at the Naval Air Station (OR '96), is also a licensed on a 20-acre school farm. in Pensacola, Fla. W pest control advisor and works at Agri-Valley Consulting in Merced, where they reside. • Tiffany Varley (HIST '97) is studying for her master's • Michael W. Bek (BUS '97) degree and a teaching credential. was promoted to accounting She resides in Agoura. manager at USS-Posco Industries. He lives in Concord. • Christopher Conley (CSC '98) is a software engineer at • Matthew W. Cox (CRSC Intel Corp. He and his wife, '97) works for the family farm Barbara Conley (ENGL '96), and dried goods business, Cox live in Sacramento. & Perez Farms and Just Tomatoes, in Westley. • Kelly Moriarty (MIS '98) • Christie jamison (BUS works in the integration, test, '97) works for Redback and sustainment group at Networks Inc. in Sunnyvale. Lockheed Martin in Santa Maria.

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• James Antoine (08 '58), • Verne Casaretto (AERO • Gail Mandigo (BIO '71), 63, died at his home in '39), 81, died in Camarillo 51, died in September at Pullman, Wash., in October in April 1999. He worked a Beverly Hills hospital. 1998. He was a retired assistant as an aeronautical engineer She worked as a medical director of the physical for Lockheed in Sunnyvale. technologist with a blood plant at Washington State He is survived by two sons banking specialty for the University. He is survived and a daughter. Red Cross and Cedar Sinai by his wife, a son, a daughter, Transfusion Service. She two brothers, and a sister. • Robert M. Crow (ME '51), is survived by her mother. 68, died in Stanford in October 1997. He was manager of Delta • Waiter Atwood (MBA Pump Co. for 44 years. He is '71), 69, died in Visalia survived by his wife, two sons, • Ian McPherson (MA ED in August. He worked a daughter, and a brother. '70), 53, died in Santa Barbara as a controller for several in February 1999. He taught agriculture-related businesses. • Gregory Cruzat (ASCI at Santa Ynez Valley Union He is survived by his Wife, '79), 47, died in Huntington High School. He is survived two daughters, and a sister. Beach in November 1998. He by his wife, two daughters, was self-employed in the shoe and his parents. business. He is survived by his • George Beatie (FAC, parents and three brothers. MA ED '57), 74, died in Atascadero in February io Subhash Datta (ACRE • John Mendenhall (FAC), 1999. He was a professor of '66), 65, died at his home 48, died of natural causes in music emeritus at Cal Poly. in Berkeley in July 1998. June while vacationing in He is survived by his wife. He worked as an engineering Amsterdam. A professor at consultant in the Bay Area Cal Poly since 1980, he taught for 30 years. He is survived design history and graphiC • John M. Beekman (EL by his wife and five brothers. design. While in the Art and '54), 72, died in Grants Pass, Design Department he helped Ore., in August. He worked • Edward Jorgensen (FAC), develop the graphic design as a reliability engineer at 85, died in San Luis Obispo program, one of the most Rockwell International. in November. He was inducted highly demanded programs He is survived by his Wife, into the Cal Poly Hall of Fame of its kind in the country. two sons, and a daughter. in 1993 in recognition of his Mendenhall's interest in career as coach of the men's trademark design led to his basketball team from 1947 writing 13 books on the • Melvin E. Berry, who to 1966 and the men's tennis subject. He also had interests studied animal science in coach from 1956 to 1976. in typography, symbology, 1957, died in Alturas in He also taught in the Physical package design, and corporate June 1999 at the age of 64. Education Department for identity. His mother and He worked in the dairy 29 years when he retired in brother survive him. husbandry industry and also 1976. He is survived by his did horseshoeing. His wife and Wife, three children, and a two daughters survive him. brother.

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wen Sen.tlus (SOCS '59, MA ED '65, FAC OEMERITUS), 78, died in December. An alumnus and longtime Cal Poly supporter, he retired from the university after 36 years of service, beginning as an assistant to former President Julian McPhee. He taught business for more than 30 years, specializing in human resources management and industrial relations, and for 19 years was department head. He also served as acting dean of the School of Business and Social Sciences. A noted motivational speaker, Servatius also gave keynote presentations to professional associations, industrial, and corporate groups throughout the West. Servatius was a longtime supporter of the Cal Poly Alumni Association and served as the perennial secretary to the Association's board of directors, and this past fall he was honored with the first Cal Poly Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award. Servatius is survived by his wife, three sons, two daughters, two sisters, numerous nieces and nephews, and 19 grandchildren. It was Servatius' special wish that his life and contributions be honored through gifts to the Owen Servatius College of Business Scholarship Fund, begun in 1998. t3]

• james Mulrooney (BUS '75), • john Nicolaides (FAC), • Lawrence Roberson died in Folsom in March 1999. 76, died at his home in San (STAFF), 77, died in Santa Maria He was director of operations Luis Obispo in April 1999. in May 1999. He retired in 1983 for Crum & Crum Enterprises He was a professor and head as chief engineer in Cal Poly's in Sacramento for the past 11 of the Aeronautical Engineering Engineering Services Department, years. He is survived by his Department at Cal Poly, where he worked for 20 years. wife, two sons, a daughter, where he retired. His wife He is survived by his wife, two his mother, a brother, and and daughter survive him. sons, and a daughter. a sister.

• Marilyn Rea (MATH • Thomas H. Sawyer (DSCI • james Nash, M.D. (STAFF), '72), 48, died at her home '49), 77, died in Modesto in 74, died in San Luis ObiSpo in Sunnyvale in July. She August. He worked as ranch in July. He was the former San was a Santa Clara Unified lead foreman at Shell Biological Luis Obispo health officer and School District trustee, profes• Research Center in Modesto director of health services at sional storyteller, teacher, for 25 years. He is survived by Cal Poly, retiring in 1991. His and author. Her husband, his wife and three daughters. Wife, four daughters, three sons, two daughters, parents, and two sisters survive him. and a brother survive her.

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• John G. Schaub (CRSC .J. Murray Smith (FAC), • Thomas Wicks, 54, '49), 76, of San Luis Obispo, 80, died in San Luis Obispo who studied animal science died in July while vacationing in July. He was a professor of in 1966, died at his rural at Tioga Pass Resort in the theatre and speech at Cal Poly Esparto home in April 1999. High Sierra near Yosemite. for 21 years. He is survived He worked as manager of the Since 1965 he was Cuesta by his wife and daughter. antibody/immunochemical College's first dean of students, custom services division of a post he held for 20 years Antibodies Inc. in Davis. before retirement. He is • Frederick Strasburg He is survived by his wife survived by his wife, two (MA ED '72), 55, died at his and three children. His daughters, and a son. home in Palmdale in March daughter, Aaron-Marie Wicks, 1999. He was an educator for is studying agricultural 28 years and principal in the business management at Palmdale Elementary School Cal Poly and served as 1998 • Glenn T. Sherman District. He is survived by Homecoming queen. (EL '84), 36, died in his wife, Pat (Thomas) Aloha, Ore., in April 1999. Strasburg (810 '70), At the time of his death a son, and a daughter. he was project manager • Marilyn York (SOCS at Instromedix in Portland. '74, MA ED '81, STAFF), • Laurence Talbott (FAC, He is survived by his parents, 47, associate director of MS ENGR '79), 78, died in two brothers, and a sister. international education and San Luis Obispo in September. programs, died in San Luis He was a retired industrial Obispo in December. She technology professor at Cal began her career at Cal Poly Poly and had spent 14 years • Douglas Smith (FAC), in 1975. Contributions in with North American Aviation. 52, Cal Poly English her memory may be made to He is survived by his Wife, professor, died in San Luis the Marilyn York Endowment a son, and two daughters. Obispo in December. He Fund for International earned a bachelor's degree Students at Cal Poly, c/o in psychology from Johns • Frank P. Thrasher (FAC), Mike McCall, director planned Hopkins in 1969, a master's 82, died in Hamilton, MonL, giving and endowments, from Fairfield University in in June 1999. He was a crop Heron Hall Room 113. 1975, and a doctorate from science professor at Cal Poly A college scholarship fund Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute from 1963 until he retired in has also been established at in 1979. From 1971 to 1973 1980. He is survived by his Mid-State Bank on behalf of he was a Peace Corps volunteer wife and daughter. her daughters. in Afghanistan. Smith joined the Cal Poly English faculty in 1977, teaching a variety of courses including Writing • Glenn Ward (ACRE '59), • Herman Zandstra (DSCI Interactive Documents, Web 70, died in Yakima, Wash., in '70), 52, died in Stellendam, Authoring, and Multimedia March 1999. He had worked Netherlands, in August. He Projects. Contributions in his for Boeing and Richard Stern worked as an agriculture-dairy memory may be made to the and Associates prior to being specialist for the Netherlands Foundation for the Performing a consultant at the time of his Department of Agriculture for Arts Center in San Luis Obispo death. He is survived by his 23 years. He is survived by his or a favorite charity. wife and three daughters. wife and three children. G:J

48 CAL POLY MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 Jerry Counts (EE '66) is a man on a double mission.

As a Boeing senior systems engineer, he is working on the International Space Station's power system, which will be launched and installed by space-walking astronauts after the Russian service module is attached this spring. As a generous participant in Cal Poly's planned giving program, he is helping launch future engineers, partially in appreciation for Cal Poly's hands-on approach to learning and for his on-campus teaching experience after graduation. "Right out of school I was designing circuits, building and testing them in the lab, and then writing up comprehensive reports just like my senior project," he says. "And teaching those classes had as much to do with my future success as anything, making me one of Boeing's main 'presenters' as I traveled around the country to meet with NASA contractors." Jerry wanted to give Cal Poly and students in need a substantial amount, and his estate planner suggested that because his 401 (k) plan was tax deferred, it would be the best asset to leave the university. "He explained that if I left this asset to my heirs, they would receive only a percentage of its value because of the taxes that would be due. But by designating Cal Poly as my 401 (k) beneficiary, I can direct the dollars that would have gone to taxes to the university. I would encourage others my age to put in place an estate plan and consider establishing potential gifts to Cal Poly through their 401(k)'s or other retirement assets."

For more information on planned giving, contact Mike McCall, J.D., Director of Planned Giving and Endowments, at 805/756-7125 or toll-free at 800/549·2666 (fax 805/756-2711, e-mail [email protected]). Portrait of the Artist

Musical parodist AI Yankovic (ARCH '80) reveals his true self during a visit home to Cal Poly, where he brought his cast of zany characters to the Performing Arts Center (see story beginning page 2). (Photo by Johnny Buzzerio)

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