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Rollins College Rollins Scholarship Online Rollins Magazine Marketing and Communications Spring 2012 Rollins Magazine, Spring 2012 Rollins College Office ofa M rketing and Communications Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Rollins College Office of Marketing and Communications, "Rollins Magazine, Spring 2012" (2012). Rollins Magazine. Paper 20. http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine/20 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at Rollins Scholarship Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rollins Magazine by an authorized administrator of Rollins Scholarship Online. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SPRING | 2012 ROLLINS MAGAZINE THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PLACE How does your environment influence what you do and why you do it? P. 13 Plus: Rollins Alumni Make Important Contributions to the Sciences + the Feminist Movement Forges Ahead at Rollins SPRING | 2012 ROLLINS MAGAZINE 13 | THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PLACE 18 | THE EXCITEMENT OF DISCOVERY COVE R ILLUSTRATION BY EMILIANO PONZI 28 | NEW WAVE FEMINISM The Excitement of DISCOVERY PAGE 18 1 | CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT 2 | FROM THE GREEN 34 | ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT 37 | CONNECTED FOR LIFE 39 | ALUMNI REGIONAL CLUBS 43 | CLASS NEWS 48 | THE LAST WORD TALK TO US EDITOR: LAURA J. COLE ’04 ’08 MLS CREATIVE DIRECTOR: MARY WETZEL WISMAR-DAVIS ’76 ’80 MBA ROLLINS MAGAZINE E-MAIL: [email protected] ASSISTANT EDITOR: AMANDA D’ASSARO PHONE: 407-646-2791 WRITE: 1000 Holt Ave. – 2729, Winter Park, FL 32789-4499 GRAPHIC DESIGN: AUDREY PHILLIPS, DESIGN STUDIO ORLANDO, INC. 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Rollins Magazine is published twice a year by Rollins College for alumni and online at: friends of the College. rollins.edu/magazine WRITE: 1000 Holt Ave. – 2736, Winter Park, FL 32789-4499 POSTMASTER: Send address THE ROLLINS FUND changes to: Rollins College, 1 000 If you would like to make a gift to Rollins College, Holt Avenue – 2750, Winter Park, MEMBER, COUNCIL FOR please contact the development office: FL 32789-4499 ADVANCEMENT AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATION ONLINE: rollins.edu and click on “Support Rollins” AND FLORIDA MAGAZINE PHONE: 407-646-2221 ASSOCIATION WRITE: 1000 Holt Ave. – 2750, Winter Park, FL 32789-4499 FIAT LUX: CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT Rollins’ 14 th President Lewis Duncan Interviews Former CIA Director Porter Goss n February, Rollins’ Winter Park I Institute hosted former CIA Director Porter Goss. His visit offered an oppor - tu nity for President Lewis Duncan to engage Goss (who isn’t a newcomer to Rollins—his sons Chauncey ’88, Mason ’89, and Gerrit ’92 graduated from the College) in a conversation about education and global citizenship. Rollins Mag azine is pleased to share a taste of their dialogue. S I R R O M From the uniqueness of your perspective LD: T T and experiences, what do you think are the A M principal elements of a very good, 21 st -century liberal education? Is it really true that this is the right solution? PG: I think there will be. I think this is an PG: We’re in an extraordinary time of change It’s a crisis of confidence. evolutionary process. I’m not sure we will ever in the globe. It isn’t just the technology; it’s overcome the familial instincts we have—and the amount of information flow that that LD: How do we educate young people for a I’m not sure we should—or the tribal instincts. tech nology has provided us. Having the world in which government service, community In the old days, it was very, very simple. You judgment of how to deal with that is really service, civic engagement, and democratic values never went out of your valley because you an important part of the educational process. become a defining, positive part of their lives, couldn’t look over the mountain, you couldn’t and help them move away from a kind of cynical go over the mountain. Now you can; all you do is look up at the satellite and see everything. LD: I love the quote from Jefferson that rejection of all that we’re trying to accomplish? Now what are the rules? there’s no more democratizing force than Create an understanding of what’s at PG: People overseas don’t want to be seen knowledge. Information is becoming freely stake, not just for the United States of through the lens of an American thinking available to much more of the world, and it’s Amer ica, but humanity. I truly believe there is everything is just like America. They need to much more difficult to control. Do you a mighty contest going on between good and be seen through the lens of who they are, and think the technology that makes it difficult to evil, and I’m not being particularly religious the only way you learn about who they are is if control information may signal the future end here. There is good and there is evil, and I you live there, speak their language, use their of despots and tyranny? be lieve good will triumph if people will get gestures, understand their culture. The better in volved, and that’s part of education. PG: Knowledge is enabling people to make we craft global understanding, the better we’re decisions and see things they haven’t seen able to operate as a globe that is working before, and that’s a little bit of a double-edged LD: Rollins’ mission statement says it posi tively and peacefully in coordination. sword. The problem of how to go forward with “educates for global citizenship and responsible that knowledge and make the right judg ment leadership.” When we talk about global seems to me today to be increasingly dif ficult. citizenship, do you think there is a rising To view the complete interview, visit Who do you believe? How do you know which gen eration of young people who may actually www.rollins.edu/magazine. knowledge that is coming across your desk or be global citizens? in front of your eyes is the believable knowledge? FROM THE GREEN Letters to the Editor RESURRECTING THE DEARLY DEPARTED A COACH FOR THE AGES I am writing to comment on the series of articles “The Ghosts of Rollins” (Fall 20 11). The one about the football game struck me In the Spring 2011 issue, per sonally (The Football Game That Wasn’t). I grew up in Pittsford, you ran an article about New York, just outside of Rochester. My pediatrician, neighbor, and the 60 years of water skiing one of my father’s best friends was none other than Kenneth Woodward, at Rollins (“Catching Big otherwise known to me as “Uncle Ken.” He and “Aunt Betty” raised Air for 60 Years”). As an seven wonderful children and lived down the street from us. I was educator and a former raised by a single dad, and the Woodwards were like my second family. World Champion overall Uncle Ken was truly a remarkable man. If he wasn’t seeing patients, waterskier and a three-time working to provide healthcare to low-income children, serving on men’s intercollegiate boards, or teaching, he could be found on the sidelines as a team over all champion, I am doc tor at his children’s sporting events or attending their concerts upset that Bobby Davis ’82 and other activities. He had time for everyone. made only a reference that He not only had his medical degree and was on the faculty at the a coach was with Rollins in University of Rochester, but he went back to school to earn his MBA the late ’60s. No name mentioned. This coach gave his time to the and became a medical officer for Xerox Corporation. His death from school, and the school competed with other colleges at Cypress Gardens cancer was a tragic loss. Intercollegiate Championship. I would have thought that with such We always knew he faced enormous challenges (although he was not great detail to what was printed, Davis would have been able to at one to ever complain), but my father and I had never heard this story. least identify all the coaches who have aided with the continued success of the Rollins water ski team. As this coach is now deceased, I would Brette Gillman P’15 hope his name could in some small way be added to one of your next Pittsburgh, PA articles. The coach’s name is Ken Hillier of Orlando, Florida; he passed away September 11, 2010. No ghost was part of the incident at that time [when I fell from the ladder in the Annie] (The Haunting of Annie Russell, “Ghosts of Roland Hillier Rollins,” Fall 20 11). Here’s what happened: I got shocked and fell 30 Orlando, FL feet, crashing on top of chairs and assorted clutter backstage. I think EDITOR’S NOTE: According to the archives, Kenneth Hillier was Bill McNulty ’68 ran to the board and cut the power, essentially saving coach from 1966-68 and 1969-70, Eugene Curtis was coach from my life. (I never said thank you, Bill.