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INSIDE: Coyote Baseball Coach Exercise, socialize in beauty Don Parnell’s main game: and style at new student Dedication rec center page 21 Page 26 Volume 15 Issue 2 Spring/Summer 2007 News for Alumni and Friends of the University Insights into the Ancient, the Contemporary CSUSB’S ROBERT V. FULLERTON ART MUSEum Career Training • Continuing Education • Lifelong Learning It’s now easier to come back to Cal State! With a new downtown San Bernardino location and more online programs, choose from a wide selection of classes in the following areas: ■ Continuing Education ■ Career Training ■ Degree Programs ■ Osher Lifelong Learning (in Palm Desert) CSUSB faculty, staff, Alumni Association and Retiree Association members receive a 10% discount on the course fees for Extension courses, seminars, workshops and re-licensing programs.* * See the College of Extended Learning Course Catalog for discount exclusions. Register online today at http://cel.csusb.edu Cal State San Bernardino Magazine is published by the Office EDItor of University Advancement at California State University, San Sid Robinson MANAgINg EDItor Bernardino for alumni, friends, parents and colleagues. It is pro- Sam Romero duced twice annually in the fall and spring quarters. Art DIrECTOR/grAPhIC DESIgN This publication is partially funded with non-state resources, Juliet Conlon including a grant from the CSUSB Alumni Association. Opinions ProDUCtIoN MANAgEr Alan Llavore expressed in Cal State SB Magazine do not necessarily reflect the SENIor WrItErS views of the editors or represent the official policy of California State Jiggs Gallagher University, San Bernardino. The editorial committee reserves the Joe Gutierrez DEPArtMENt EDItorS right to edit all submitted material. Editorial and alumni information AlUMNI ADvANtAgE/NotES and photographs should be sent to: Pamela Langford Cal State San Bernardino Nick Nazarian Public Affairs: Managing Editor CoNtrIBUtIoNS Francoise Aylmer 5500 University Parkway Marilyn Karnig Volume 15 Issue 2 San Bernardino, CA PACK TRACKS Spring/Summer 2007 92407-2318 Mike Murphy StUDENt SCAPES Good quality color photographs are welcome. Polaroids or Carol Dixon News for photographs printed on textured paper are not accepted. Art ASSIStANtS Alumni and Angela Gillespie Amara Poolswasdi Friends Alumni and Graduating Students CoNtrIBUtINg WrItErS of the Please note that your name, address, phone number, school or Alicia Anderson Derek Galloway University college, and the year of graduation may be used by CSUSB for the Ann Hennessey Cynthia Pringle development of university affiliated marketing programs. If you do Damian Secore not wish to have this information used, please notify the university Teresa Sinner by writing to the Office of University Advancement at PhotogrAPhY Robert Whitehead 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2318. Lori Krueger Departments President’s Observations __________ 2 Springfield shootout Albert Karnig finishes a two-part look at (page 4) CSUSB’s activities as a major player in the community. Update ______________________________ 4 Carved from Lebanese cedar, the 2,500-year-old coffin lid of Neter Heneb A journey back in pictures and words to that is covered in fine linen over several thick planks. The rich red-ochre color tension-filled, history-making NCAA Div. II used to paint the face is evidence that Neter Heneb was male. Female faces were customarily done in a pale yellow. Page 12 battle between CSUSB and Barton. (page 4) College News _______________________ 7 Don Baker’s 2007 Arrowhead Distinguished Features Executive Officer honor. (page 8) Contributions _______________________17 Update Feature _____________________3 Ralph Petrucci’s $50,000 ode to a university At a new academic center coordinated by pillar, Gerald Scherba. (page 18) CSUSB, intelligence means more than being smart. Adding nurses (page 20) Pack Tracks ________________________ 21 CSUSB athletes post the big numbers – in class. (page 22) Contributions Feature _____________ 17 A father’s legacy re-emerges in a son’s new Student Scapes ____________________24 academic pursuit. Getting real and getting real practical with John Futch and the cost of textbooks. (page 27) Athletics Feature _________________21 Alumni Notes ______________________28 The winningest coach in CSUSB history is CSUSB alumni share some fine food trimmed still singing the same song, and that’s good. by a fine performance from ValLimar Jansen. (page 31) Student Scapes Feature __________ 24 Calendar __________________back cover How many 18-year-olds do you know who Bring the family. Relax on the lawn. Enjoy a meal. Come to Summer Wednesdays. knew what they wanted to be at 18-months-old? Child’s play Meet Annabel, artist, college graduate, bound (page 25) and determined. SPrINg/SUMMEr CSUSB PrESIDENt’S OBSErvAtIoNS THE COMMUNI T Y OF SERVI C E (PAR T II) In the previous issue of Cal psychologists, our Community Counseling Center has helped State San Bernardino Magazine, address this problem by offering professional-level assistance on I shared some of the ways our a sliding fee scale, beginning as low as $10 for a 50-minute ses- university reaches out in part- sion. nership with the communities The center, directed by professor Ed Teyber, treats clients we serve in order to benefit with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, marital problems, children. In this column, I want personal growth concerns, and other challenges in everyday to offer three brief illustrations living. Since its inception in 1973, the center has helped more Albert Karnig of other outreach activities than 10,000 clients, some of whom come for one or a few ses- – ones that are quite diverse but sions, and others who visit for the whole academic year. working to assist much broader populations. Another significant – and quite different – outreach pro- For example, every year during tax season, our accounting gram that affects thousands is our annual celebration of Native students offer free basic preparation of federal and state income American Awareness Day every September. In partnership with tax forms for elderly, disabled and low-income residents. The the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and other California program is called VITA, for Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, tribes, we host an event that celebrates Native American tradi- and Janet Courts, head of VITA, said that last year the volun- tions, including bird singing, dancing and crafts. Families with teers prepared 2,316 returns at seven sites, working four days a children are exposed to a culture about which they may have week from February to mid-April. only vague knowledge; suddenly it comes alive all around them “Our students secured $1,061,373” (since this is account- in the beautiful outdoor setting of a late summer’s evening ing, we should be exact!) “in refunds for the local residents,” on the CSUSB campus. California Native American Day caps Courts said. “In addition to providing a wonderful community a week of activities for local school children who are brought “Our students secured $1,061,373” (since this is accounting, we should be exact!) “in refunds for the local residents,” Courts said. … The students provided almost perfect service — with a 99.8 percent accuracy rate. service, our students get valuable experience.” She also said to the university for the California Indian Cultural Awareness that the students provided almost perfect service — with a 99.8 Conference, a five-day program. percent accuracy rate. These and many other programs are part of the university’s Psychological counseling is a second example. Many in need commitment to the communities we serve in San Bernardino fail to pursue counseling because of the cost involved. That and Riverside counties. We take our scores of partnerships situation has been further compounded by recent cuts in coun- quite seriously, and we hope to add many more as we identify seling services for low income individuals in San Bernardino. community needs and aspirations. Staffed by qualified graduate psychology students, and over- seen by experienced university faculty who are also licensed 2 CSUSB Spring/Summer UpDate ON CAL STATE Holding Down the Fort A unique consortium mer outreach programs for ate from school and prepare University in Washington, of seven California State high school students. for college by providing them D.C., and a Fairfax, Va., satel- Universities working in col- This summer the center with seminars and information lite campus of Missouri State laboration to prepare students will launch a national security sessions on regional studies, University. The intelligence for work in the world of institute for high school stu- cultures, languages and tech- community regularly recruits national security and intel- dents at Cal State Long Beach. nology. at CSUSB, and the university’s ligence was officially launched Clark hopes the high The NSS program at NSS students also have gone in April at Cal State San school outreach Cal State San Bernardino is on to work for legislators or Bernardino. efforts will one of three such programs the military. The California encourage in the United States, along Aside from the seven- State University students with those at Georgetown campus CSU consortium, only Intelligence to nine other universities in the Community gradu- nation have been funded for Center of such a program. Academic Excellence, CSU-ACE, is A Peek the product of a multi-year, at the CIA multi-million dollar grant from Blowing the Proverbial Cover the United States Office of the Director Off the Spy Life of National Intelligence, pro- By Derek Galloway vided through the National Ever wonder what it’s like to be a Development Center. Occasionally, quali- Geospatial-Intelligence CIA agent? There are many preconceived fied candidates are interviewed to work Agency. notions mixed with reality that paint a myste- for the CIA. Led by Cal State rious picture about how agents come by top Just meeting Joe begins to dispel myths San Bernardino, the secret information, stories of espionage and about the CIA. Instead of being quiet aloof or CSU-ACE includes secret handshakes.