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President's Message s most Marymount friends know, our College excels in A preparing our students for the rigors of the four-year college experience. What they may not know is the recipe for our success. It's really no secret: For a full two years, we offer a balanced diet rich in liberal arts, one that is fortified by the talents, passions and expertise of Marymount's outstanding faculty. In this issue of our magazine, we are focusing our readers' attention on a particular core group of these educators-those who teach the arts. When I refer to "arts," I mean performing as well as fine arts. I also include those individuals whose artistic pursuits extend beyond the classroom but redound to the credit of the College and benefit our students directly. Within our academic ranks are highly accomplished painters, photographers and filmmakers whose work can be seen in galleries and in publications and on the screen. They bring a knowledge of the art world to our students and inspire them to realize their goals. Our performing arts teachers in theater, dance and music are among the most dedicated members of our astonishingly dedicated faculty. They have been instrumental in introducing our students to the magic of movement, the beauty of voice and instrument, the genius and power of Shakespeare's language. Together, these professors and instructors have created a veritable arts community at the College, mounting stage productions, concerts and exhibitions that enrich the lives of so many on and beyond our campus. In fact, as you read this issue, you may be struck by this felicitous thought: For a relatively small college-with no more than 750 full-time day students-Marymount has a sizable program devoted to the arts. Here again, there are no secrets swirling around this phenomenon. Marymount's founders and its leadership throughout our 70 years have firmly believed that a progressive education should entail exposure not only to the traditional disciplines of language, literature, history, math, science and the like, but to all fields of "enrichment" that, sadly, are often overlooked these days. Happily, though, they are in full force at the College, and they are flourishing. Enjoy the Spring 2003 edition of Today magazine, and please note the beautiful art on the covers and interior pages. All of it was created by faculty members of Marymount's Fine Arts Department. Dr. Thomas M. McFadden President Marymount College Table of Contents Board of Trustees President's Message Inside Front Cover Dr. W.W. Castor, Chair Bright Lights, Bold Vision: 2 Dr. William J. Petak, Vice Chair The Arts Take Center Stage at Marymount Sr. Antoine-Marie Baurier, RSHM, A Splashing Affair: 9 Secretary Highlights from Marymount's Annual Gala Burt Arnold Dr. Jack L. Blumenthal News from Institutional Advancement 10 The Hon. Richard P. Byrne Welcome: 13 John Joseph Dorgan The College Welcomes Incoming Dean of Academic Affairs Dr. Kenneth Rudnick Kenneth J. Farrell James Flanigan Alumni News 14 Bonifacio Garcia Alumni Notes 15 Richard Grotz Lawrence E. Ivins Honor Roll 17 Dr. Thomas M. McFadden William P. McGinn Sr. Gregory Naddy, RSHM Dr. Max Negri Harlyne Norris Sr. Mary Leah Plante, RSHM Timothy G. Psomas Dr. Thomas M. McFadden President Dr. Alberta Samuelson Robert Nagler Miller Dr. Sue Soldoff Director of Public Relations, Editor and Writer The Hon. Sandra Thompson Hillary Merriman Designer Sr. Joan Treacy, RSHM TODAY Spring 2003 Front cover art: "Mother and Child." Patmos, Greece, Barbara Ristrom Wood TODAY is published twice yearly by: 2000. Photograph by Pat Kelley, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts. Office of Public Relations Margaret S. Zuckerman Marymount College Back cover art: 30800 Palos Verdes Drive East · "Liebestod." 1999. Illuminated eight-foot Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275-6299 gown made of capiz shells, wire, chain, Phone: (310) 303-7223 Fax: (310) 377-6223 yarn and glue by Clea Jones, Assistant www.ma rymountpv.ed u Professor of Fine Arts. E-mail: [email protected] 2 TODAY MAGAZINE SPRING 2003 The Arts Take Center Stage at Marymount ason Barager experienced a change in vision after "She let us explore the creativity in us that had not been Jenrolling at Marymount College more than a decade tapped before," Barager said of his former professor. ago. At the start of his college career, he listed studying "She allowed us to experiment. She was very nurturing business and transferring to Stanford as his top and nonjudgmental." priorities. Then he met Pat Kelley, and suddenly he was looking through a new prism. Under Kelley's tutelage, Barager honed his filming and editing skills and won several of the school's Kelley, Chair of the Fine Arts Department at multimedia awards. When he graduated from the Marymount, has a knack for helping students see the College as an Honors Program student in 1994, he world differently. A video artist, filmmaker and opted to go to the Annenberg School of photographer, Kelley quickly expanded the film and Communications at the University of Southern TV program at Marymount when she came to the California (USC) and to minor in film. He maintained a College in 1990. Her passion, energy and enthusiasm stellar academic record there, earning a place on the have hooked scores of students to the camera, and Dean's List each semester, making a movie that went Barager caught the bug soon after entering her class. on to several film festivals and graduating with honors. Above: "Incline," 2001. Oil on canvas by William Leavitt, Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts. Left: Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Pat Kelley expands the visions of her film and photography students. TODAY MAGAZINE SPRING 2003 3 A series of photographs by Clea Jones, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts. From left: portraits of Margaret Guzman, Mario Aleman and Charles Brittin. Subjects photographed behind rice paper. After college, Barager moved to New York to explore painter and sculptor Earle Roddy, who in 1968 set into the world of film but soon returned to Los Angeles, motion an arts program that continues to thrive to where he settled down at a company to do post­ this day. production work in music industry videos. For three years, he worked on commercials for Mick Jagger, Initially hired as a part-time drawing instructor, Roddy Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Sting and other pop soon enlarged Marymount's arts program to stars, as well as on home videos and cable specials, encompass painting, ceramics and TV production. His before branching out into free-lance production. He has vision and leadership in the arts earned him the post been to the Grammy and MTV awards, and he moves Chair of the Fine Arts. It was his foresight in hiring freely in the lands of movies and music. While clearly John Lane as Professor of Theatre Arts in 1973 that has on a fast track that has taken him well beyond the enabled the College to offer the full gamut of idyllic Marymount campus, Barager has not lost sight arts classes. of the origins of his success. Roddy's philosophy of Marymount's arts program was "I credit Pat Kelley for most of it," Barager said. "She clear and direct. Any liberal arts program worth its salt turned me on to film, and Marymount opened me to so includes fine arts and performing arts as integral many possibilities." components, because art, dating back to the cave dweller's murals, has been one of humanity's earliest Barager's experiences at Marymount are far from ways of expressing and explaining life as it is lived. isolated. For several decades, an exceptional cadre of And Roddy saw-and continues to see-art as a highly full- and part-time faculty members at the College has effective means of building self-confidence in students. succeeded in nurturing the talents of budding artists, actors, musicians, filmmakers and others aspiring to "I believe that everyone can draw, and if I could teach rewarding careers in the fine and performing arts. students to draw early on, they would feel successful Accomplished artists and performers themselves, these right away," Roddy said. "Success builds upon success, instructors have served as mentors and muses, guiding so that no matter whether students eventually become and inspiring hundreds, if not thousands, of students. artists or go off in another direction, they learn that They have come to Marymount on a trail blazed by they have the ability to meet their goals." 4 TODAY MAGAZINE SPRING 2003 "Spot," 1994. Oil on canvas by Janet Jenkin s, Adjunct Professor of Fin e Arts. Many of Roddy's students certainly met theirs. A good John Lane, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Clea Jones, number proceeded from Marymount to prestigious art and Associate Professor of Music Don Marino, plus schools, including the Otis College of Art and Design, many dedicated part-time instructors who add and then on to a variety of related professions. immeasurable value to Marymount's academic and cultural programming. Today, Roddy comes to campus only occasionally, remaining an esteemed adjunct faculty member. He Theater educator Lane, in particular, shares Roddy's officially stepped down from his post in 1986 to pursue vision of what the arts can do for Marymount students. opportunities outside academe. However, his legacy "It creates confidence in them," Lane said. "They can lives on-in the classrooms and curricula of Pat Kelley, mount a play if they trust themselves. The message TOOAY MAGAZINE SPRING 2003 5 they receive is 'Never give up.' And this sense of being Frauke von der Horst's classes don't memorize slides of able to stick with something and see it through great works.

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