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Vice President for University Advancement: William G. Boldt

Public Affairs Director: Jeff Bliss

Editor: Vicki Hanson

Staff Writers: Bob Anderson, Jeff Bliss, Vicki Hanson, Teresa Mariani Hendrix, Jo Ann Lloyd, Darlene Slack

Contributors: Richard Ellison/Advancement Kim Gannon, Nikole McCollum, Rosey Parks/Alumni Relations Chris Baker, Michael laPlante, Brian Thurmond, Steve Yoneda/Athletics Virginia Walter/Horticulture and Crop Science Bret Harrison/MESA Agricultural Initiative Christopher Dicus/Natural Resource Management Michael McCall/Planned Giving

Photographers 8 Artists: Jeff Greene, Acey Harper, Shirley Howell, Crystal Myers, Rick Smith

Design 8 Production: Shirley Howell

printing: American Lithographers What's Inside

Features 2-13 11 Joseph Cotchett An engineering alum builds a reputation for legal excellence. 29 Maliha Zulfacar A social sciences prof visits her Afghan homeland. Enterprise Projects Ag students are hands on in egg, corn production.

University 14-24 This year's Distinguished Profs named ... Engineering students collaborate with NASA ... First endowed chair filled (College of Science and Mathematics) ... Prop 47 ... Faculty research, staff appointments an industry ag partnership a Sept. 11 tribute ... and more

Sports 25-28 Ozzie Smith inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame ... a new coach is named ... a veteran athletic trainer retires ... a tribute to 1960 plane crash victims ... the Sports Roundup 25

Advancement ...... 29-30 Clifford Chapman and Gene Shidler make a generous gift supporting the 7 arts ... more Gifts to Cal Poly

Alumni 31-32 Homecoming 2002 information ... 2002 Honored Alumni ... a senior On the Cover project program ... alumni events Burlingame, Calif, attorney Joseph calendar ... and more Cotchett (ENVE '60) has built a lifelong career of standing up for what's right. He empowers all his clients, whether corporations or individuals with a just cause, by practicing his faith in the law. (See story beginning on page 2.) Photo by Acey Harper

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Cover Story

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oe Cotchett has cut an A passion for justice imposing figure through­ Considered among the most out his life. effective and renowned trial First, on the rough-and­ lawyers in the United States, tumble streets of Brooklyn, Joseph W. Cotchett has made a where, to get along, he says, career - a life, really - of "standing "You had to use your head and up for the little guy." While he has your fists." represented powerful litigants Then, during his college years, (including U.S. senators and when he resisted segregation on congress members, the National his own terms. Football League, and the world's And later, in the courtroom, largest winemaker), Cotchett has where he's dominated the legal earned a reputation and the respect scene since graduating from Cal of even his toughest legal oppo­ Poly in 1960 and the University nents by representing the down­ of California Hastings Law trodden (from Native Americans, School in 1964. to abandoned Amerasian children, to senior citizens bilked out of their life savings by white-collar felons). Left: Cal Poly alum Joseph Today he stands poised to gain Cotchell, outside the Burlingame even greater national attention as he law firm of Cotchett, Pitre, takes on some of the financial Simon & McCarthy world's dishonest practitioners and See Cotchett, page 4 And Cotchett, along with mold with her," Cotchett once Cotchett from page 3 his clients, believes he's just told a reporter. practices. In his sights are the the man to do it. Blessed with brains as well as investment banks and audit firm brawn, Cotchett entered North being investigated for defrauding GetLing his start Carolina State at the age of 1Gto investors by selling them Enron As tough as his New York play basketball and study engineer­ bonds - even while the energy childhood might have been, it was ing. In the Deep South of the late conglomerate was struggling tempered by life lessons learned at 1950s, he experienced a racial financially - and shifting funds to the knee of his mother, Jean discrimination that was codified offshore corporations that were CarrolL who herself battled and enforced. purportedly nonexistent. against the odds. She left an "] was the rebellious kid from Filed in February against orphanage as a teenager for the up north and I just had to drink financial-world heavyweights bright lights and promise of out of the 'Coloreds Only' foun­ Arthur Andersen, Goldman Sachs, Broadway, where she became one tain," he recalls with a grin. Salomon Smith Barney, and Banc of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies "Some good 01' boy sheriff took of America Securities, the Enron showgirls. She was also a cele­ me to the station to explain the lawsuit promises to be complex brated world-class bridge player. rules. The same thing would and tough. Cotchett, a partner in But it wasn't a taste for happen when I'd ride the bus. I'd the prestigious Burlingame law show business or card play that sit in the back and the driver firm of Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & was her great legacy. It was her would say, 'Boy, I'm not going McCarthy, has strong feelings sense of compassion. until you move to the front.' When about the case. "My mother was bringing I refused, he called the sheriff and "When you're talking about all homeless people into our home I'd get another lecture." of these financial scandals that have before it became fashionable," Cotchett transferred to Cal Poly, been going on, you're talking about Cotchett says. "She cared about where he studied engineering, the theft of a person's lifetime of others deeply." She also made an played basketball, and generally blood, sweat, and tears," Cotchett impression on the young Cotchett had a rip-roaring time. "All of my says. "Someone's got to stop this by hiring African-American men memories of Cal Poly are great," from happening again and help off the street to work at their Cotchett says. "I loved every minute these people get back what rightly home, then inviting them to stay of it - even the food. Hell, I'd belongs to them." for dinner. "God threw away the always be the first one in line at the

4 • www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/magazine/magazine_archive.html cafeteria. On weekends we'd hang join the reserves and go to law to the State Bar of California's out at Avila Beach or one of the school, he chose the latter. board of governors at age 33 and lakes, like Nacimiento. I had a great Cotchett enrolled at Hastings shortly thereafter to the State time and I got a great education." College of Law and while there Judicial Council. But he gained One aspect of Cal Poly life that became active in local politics. wider notice winning a civil didn't sit weJl with Cotchett, He remained in the U.S. Army lawsuit against a Los Angeles however, was its segregated Reserves, serving with the Judge tortilla manufacturer whose fraternity system. "It wasn't that Adjutant General corps, where he machinery ripped the arm off Cal Poly frats all wanted to keep retired as a full colonel and Cotchett's Mexican factory-worker blacks out," he says. "It was the commander of the 5th Military client. Cotchett convinced the jury national fraternities that wouldn't Law Center. that a $1.50 safety switch would aJlow the chapters to integrate." have saved the worker's arm. If the quiet, 4,000-student Right makes ntight That case helped propel col lege in sleepy San Luis Cotchett began his rise to legal Cotchett to a career filled with Obispo was hoping to stay that prominence when he was named taking on the "big guys." way, it had admitted the wrong Cotchett won a $3.3 billion person when it took in Cotchett. jury verdict (later reduced to Angered by a system he saw as $1.7 billion) against Lincoln unjust and out of place, he took Savings & Loan (Charles Keating's matters into his own hands and failed S&L). He helped secure a founded the Phi Kappa Sigma $160 miJlion settlement for fraternity - Cal Poly's first shareholders who alleged securities integrated greek organization. fraud when NationsBank took "Being a ballplayer, I was able over B of A. And in what he to recruit some of the black guys characterizes as two cases involving from some of the teams, as well "pyramid schemes," he won a jury as other students, for the new verdict for $140 million for 1,200 fraternity," he remembers. "The plaintiffs against Technical Equities next year, everyone started and negotiated a $62 million welcoming black members. That settlement for hundreds of inves­ was definitely one of my proud­ tors in a suit against J. David est accomplishments at Poly." DomineJli after a trial. Meanwhile, when he wasn't Even Uncle Sam hasn't avoided busy changing accepted cultural his ire, intellect, and initiative. A norms or studying the finer lawsuit he filed against the FBI on points of engineering, Cotchett behalf of a civil rights worker was an ROTC cadet. After graduat­ slain by a Ku Klux Klan member ing from Cal Poly, he became an (who also happened to be an army intelligence officer, where he informant) lost in court but rose to the rank of captain in the resulted in the bureau changing its fabled Special Forces' Green policies on informants. Likewise, a Berets. Later, given the opportu­ suit he filed on behalf of children nity to soldier on in Europe or See Cotchett, page G

Cal Poly Magazine· 5 what he calls America's slide into Cotchett from page 5 a "casino society mentality." of American military personnel "It is the erosion of ethics in abandoned when the United our nation's professions, business, States pulled out of the and government," he says. "The Philippines lost in court, but proud work ethic made our resulted in the U.S. government country great, but the pursuit of allocating millions of dollars to wealth and material gain in total fund education and health care disregard for ethical or moral for the more than 8,000 children. considerations is destroying (He views this as one of his that ethic. greatest victories.) "We have a duty to work to In addition to his good works help reverse the ethical bankruptcy before the bar, Cotchett and gripping our nation," he adds. his wife, Victoria, operate a "The core of a free and democratic family foundation that gives to society depends upon involvement children's, women's, and animal and ideals. Our democracy welfare nonprofit organizations. represents freedom but it comes They have also played a role in with a price." helping to resettle Bosnian war It is here that Cotchett be­ refugees, and both are active in comes most emphatic, tightly Bay Area community projects. gripping the arms of his office He and Victoria, an art critic and chair, surrounded by photo­ a graduate of CSU Hayward, graphs of his political friends have two children, Quinn and and heroes - many of whom Camilla. Cotchett also has three have also devoted their lives to children - Leslie, RachaeL and serving their fellow Americans. Charles - from a prior marriage. "That price is honesty, integ­ rity, and the work ethic," he says. Values for our time "Our future prosperity is not going Cotchett finds time to pass to come from money. It's going to along his experience, whether in come from each and every classes he occasionally teaches at person's own moral code, through law schools, through legal texts vigilance - to make sure we he has penned that are de rigeur continue living in a country in law libraries, or in speeches governed not by men but by laws. he gives to attorneys, jurists, And it's going to come through lawmakers, and the public. In involvement in our communities, June, speaking at Cal Poly's state, and nation." commencement exercises ­ Big words, some might say. where he received an honorary But Joe Cotchett's got a lifetime doctorate - Cotchett addressed to back them up.

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ept. 11, 200 1, changed the lives of thousands of SAmericans, and Maliha A Life Zulfacar is one of them. An Afghan woman Zulfacar, who has taught in Cal Revisited goes home Poly's Social Sciences Department for the past 10 years, is known for By Teresa Mariani Hendrix her courses in sociology on ethnic studies, global ethnic conflic!' global immigration movements, and the political and gender impacts of globalization. Born and raised in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, Zulfacar was a sociology profes­ sor at Kabul University before fleeing the Russian occupation of Afghanistan in 1979 for Germany. In 1985 she settled in California to raise her children, joined the Cal Poly Social Sciences Department in 1992, and returned briefly to Germany to earn her doctorate in sociology in the mid-1990s. On Sept. 10,2001, her son was attending the New England School of Law and her daughter was just starting her freshman year at Smith College. Zulfacar was preparing for the fall term at Cal Poly. Then the events ofSept. 11 struck. Zulfacar found herself in demand as a knowledgeable spokesperson for a country most Americans knew little about. She See ZulJacar, page 8

Maliha ZulJacar today Photo by Jeff Greene Zulfacar from page 7 was interviewed on CNN, on NPR, in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and by international newspapers, and was invited to speak at panel discussions and universities around the country about Afghan history, Afghan ethnic groups, the Taliban, and Afghan women. Her documentary film, "Guftago: Dialog with an Afghan Village," was shown outside the classroom. (The film was made in the summer of2000 when she joined an international delegation of women touring Afghan moun­ tain country held by the Northern Alliance.) And in March 2002, she was invited to return to Kabul to consider a position as deputy Top: Zulfacar, age 5 (front, center), with minister for higher education in her family in front of Afghanistan's new government to their Kabul home

help restructure the country's Above: Zulfacar's higher education system. high school portrait and with classmates After 23 years abroad, it was a (center), 1965 different kind of homecoming. Photos courtesy Mallha Zulfacar Landing in Kabul The first thing that struck airport was a modern airport with As the daughter of a diplomat, Zulfacar as her plane landed in marble walls and floors. It had Zulfacar freely admits she led a life Kabul was the physical destruc­ music and fountains and restau­ of privi lege as a child in the tion. "You could see fields of rants. It was a place where people Afghanistan of the 1950s and '60s. twisted metal and leftover planes would come in the evenings to She had private dance and music and tanks everywhere." gather and have dinner. instructors. At student events The airport is a striking ex­ "Now, there were no windows. sponsored by her all-girls high ample of what has happened to No doors. No electricity or fun­ school, she played music, partici­ Afghanistan after two decades of ning water. Everything was shat­ pated in sports, and danced. "It civil and ethnic and turmoil. tered. The floor was gutted and was not much different than "When I left in 1979, the Kabul pitted. It was a shell." American high schools," she says.

8 • www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/magazine/magazine_archive.hlml "I played basketball. I rode my floors were all damaged. There floor would take turns washing in bicycle. And," she smiles, "I was were very few walls without bullet my bathroom. the first female to drive a car in holes. The windows were all "But in the midst of all that," Kabul, at age 15." shattered. I was fortunate to be in Zulfacar says, "I was relieved After graduating from high a room with running water. Every to feel that the dark era was schooL she was also the first morning, the women guests on the See ZulJacar, page 10 Afghan woman to pursue a college education in the United States, where she earned her bachelor's and two master's degrees - one in sociology and one in community planning. "Having said that, that doesn't mean that all girls in Afghanistan had such privileges," she cautions. "But 30 years ago, I was not spit at on the street for driving or riding a bicycle. I was not stoned. I was not ridiculed. I did not suffer the punitive discrimination that mil.lions of Afghan girls have suffered in the past decades." As her taxi drove through the ruined streets toward her hotel, she asked to be taken to her old Above: A Kabul neighborhood. On what was once reunion with n hoemaker Zuljacar her family's property, three houses knew in hn­ were left standing in the rubble, childhood. He st(ll home to Afghan refugees displaced has his cobbler's stand on the same by bombing and ethnic warfare. strut comer. "They were just damaged Right: The houses," she says, "like thousands refugee family of other houses in Kabul." living in ZUlfacar's cli/ldhood home Reconnecting For the next four weeks, while touring the city and meeting with students, professors, government leaders, returning expatriates, and ordinary people, Zulfacar stayed at the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel. "The elevators didn't function. The electricity was sporadic. The

Cal Poly Magazine • 9 Zulfacar from page 9 somehow behind Afghanistan. It was an opportunity to come back and be hopeful, to believe you could start something." After initially touring Kabul, Zulfacar and other returning Afghans were overwhelmed at how much the country and its economy had been damaged. "Afghanistan was always a mountainous country, a poor country, but a functioning coun­ try. Ninety percent of the people were subsistence farmers, but the been destroyed, but what has not Maliha ZUlfacar in her Cal Poly office Photo by Jeff Greene country had a self-sustaining been destroyed is the spirit of economy," she says. the people of Afghanistan." Afghan mountain village of Bazarak Yet despite the destruction, where she filmed "Guftago." Zulfacar says, "Life was still going The Future In June she initiated a textbook on. Shops were open. People were [n the end, Zulfacar decided to drive at Cal Poly to benefit Kabul out on the street. There was music return to California and Cal Poly. University. The drive gathered 500 playing. There were weddings. There She and her children are U.S. boxes of books donated by were funerals. And there was a citizens. She enjoys teaching at Cal students and faculty here. She's sense of hopefulness everywhere ­ Poly. But most important, she currently working with Susan a sense that things were going says, "( feel like I have two homes. Currier, associate dean of the to change." I have lived 23 years of my life College of Liberal Arts, to raise The sociology professor found here, and another 23 years of my funds for a day care cen ter at that the residents of Afghanistan life there. I consider myself a Kabul University for children of "were very positive, very uplifted. global citizen. I have a sense that ( students and staff there. And she is Every person I spoke to had can serve both countries best by increasingly traveling the United bigger dreams and visions than being here." States to speak about Afghanistan. before. I talked to female stu­ Since her March trip, Zulfacar "In light of Sept. 11, [ feel like dents and they don't just want has spoken at Purdue University, the role J should play is that of an education. They want to be Indiana University, the University a bridge between the most very important decision-makers. of Arizona, and Georgetown. She privileged country in the world, They want to be part of history. is working on a second documen­ the United States, and Afghani­ Their biggest desire is to rebuild tary, using footage she shot in stan, one of the poorest, most their country. Kabul. She is also working to set ravaged countries in the world," "I was struck," Zulfacar marvels, up a sister city relationship she says. "1 think it's a very "by how much the country has between San Luis Obispo and the rewarding role."

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he words "hands on" and , Qf ' Prom "learn by doing" have been T synonymous with Cal ./1-vocados Poly's agriculture programs for more than 100 years. From ero cultivating row crops to raising Z'ucchini animals, Cal Poly believes the best way for students to learn some­ Ag students learn by growing thing is to do it. The Cal Poly Foundation helps By Darlene Slack· Photos by Jeff Greene make this a reality by providing operating capital and accounting services for more than 60 agricul­ tural enterprise projects annually. Typically, about 350 students a year participate. These projects offer many advantages to students: experience in managing a small agribusiness, working with others and working under supervision; an opportunity to learn and practice specialized skills unique to the project; practical experience complemen­ tary to laboratory and lecture instruction; and sharing in any profits. "The experience gained by students running these projects is highly valued by employers who frequently cite enterprise projects, along with senior projects, as essential in shaping the Cal Poly graduate," says Mark Shelton, associate dean of the College of Agriculture. See Emerprise, page 12

In the Cal Poly Poultry Unit, animal science major Jake Olson candles eggs to check for imperfections before packing.

Cal Poly Magazine • 1 1 The freshest of eggs systems, and wash, grade, and Enterprise from page 11 Cal Poly's egg production distribute the eggs. Each student Enterprise projects cover the program is big business - really works about two days a week in spectrum of Cal Poly agriculture big business - 14,000 chickens this seven-day-a-week enterprise. programs. Students manufacture and 280,000 dozen eggs a year. "Students want to participate dairy products; produce and In many ways, producing Cal because they gain valuable educa­ process beef, swine, sheep, and Poly eggs is a typical ag enterprise tion and job experience," Spiller poultry products; produce small project, but its size and sales of says. "They are motivated to help grain, vegetable, and fruit crops, about $850,000 and what much the hens produce as many eggs as ornamental plants, flowers, and of the money is used for sets it possible because the more we sell, Christmas trees; and process apart. "The poultry program is the more money we can make." food products. self-funded," explains Animal The optimum production life Students are not the only ones Science Professor Bob Spiller. span for the chickens is two who benefit from the agricultural "The profits from our egg sales years. Each sum mer half of the enterprise projects. The produce, buy supplies and equipment and flock is replaced. dairy products, and flowers that pay for student workers, among Spiller, who has been at Cal exceed the need of the campus other things." Poly since 1989, has seen commu­ community are often sold Typically, four students at a nity interest in Cal Poly eggs through local farmers' markets time participate in this enterprise increase over the years. "Cal Poly and supermarkets. Livestock is project. There are two egg produc­ has quite a following in local trained and tested for area tion buildings housing the 14,000 stores. We sell to eight Albertson's ranchers, and horses are raised, birds. Students look after the stores and markets in Morro Bay trained, and then sold at places birds' health, monitor water levels and Cambria." Even when such as Hollywood Park. and the electrical and mechanical Albertson's runs specials on other

Right: Fruit science major Shannon Gledhill and plant protection science major Chris Mann sell sweet Cal Poly com at the San Luis Obispo Farmers' Market.

12 • www.calpolyne.Ws.calpoly.edu/magazine/magazine_archive.htmI Ag science major Karla Canant (left) and ag education graduate Becky Judge work in Cal Poly's perennial production area. Enterprise project funds from the sale of these plants support students in Associated Landscape Contractors of America national competitions, where Cal Poly t&/Tl/S have WOIl first place in 11 0111 of the last ] 4 events. brands of eggs, Spiller says the Weeds and insects are the bane customers' enthusiastic apprecia­ store "still sells a good amount of of any farm, especially at Cal Poly, tion for their hard work. The Cal Poly eggs." which doesn't use Class 1 re­ sweet corn is also sold at two stricted chemicals. "Controlling local supermarkets. The sweetest of corn weeds and insects is a real chal­ Mann said he has come away Cal Poly-grown corn is highly lenge," Mann says. "Not using with a good understanding of the sought after by San Luis Obispo those chemicals requires a lot actual labor that is necessary in locals. Each year, between two more physical labor to keep the agriculture. "I think it's important and five acres are planted with weeds out." to acknowledge that, especially if different varieties and tended by Corn earworms are one of the you're a farm manager." agricultural enterprise students. biggest problems the students face. Chris Mann, a plant protection This year, according to Horticul­ The difference science senior, chose the sweet ture and Crop Science Professor Cal Poly products, produced corn project this year to learn Gene Offermann, the project's and sold by agriculture students more about field crops. His advisor, they will try a biological with the help of the Cal Poly background is in fruit tree control experiment by releasing Foundation, are popular because production and he has partici­ predator wasps into the fields to attention is paid to quality, good pated previously in citrus and eat the corn earworms. "We're service, and fair prices. And avocado projects. hoping for 75 percent controL" products are often fresher because "Since the spring, I've been Mann says. the operations are smaller than involved in preparing and The more enjoyable aspect of commercial ones. fertilizing the soil, irrigating, the project is selling the corn, Education and experience are controlling pests, and harvesting especially at the Farmers' Market what Cal Poly's ag enterprise and selling corn," Mann says. in downtown San Luis Obispo, program is all about, and if others "That's much more than I could where Mann and the other get to enjoy the fruits of those ever learn just in a classroom." students can see and hear the projects, all the better.

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Three Professors Tapped for Distinguished Teaching Award

While Cal Poly boasts a McLamore, and BioResource hand of this outstanding roster full of exceptional and Agricultural Engineering teacher, students come to care professors, only three are Professor Mark 20hns. deeply for the power of words, chosen each year to receive Clark, an award-winning appreciate the craftsmanship of the Distinguished Teaching poet, was cited for "his deep poems, and love the voice of Award, the university's highest love of poetry and literature ... the poet." teaching honor. that is palpable through his When Clark learned he This year's honorees, all untamed enthusiasm ...." had been selected, he called it cited for their passion for Students who nominated him, "one of the great, most teaching and learning, are and committee members who intense moments of my entire English Professor Kevin Clark, observed him, say, "His well­ professional life." Music Professor Alyson planned discussions force McLamore was recognized students to look beyond the for "challenging students and surface of a poem and 'go never settling for less than their Alyson McLamore, Mark Zohns deeper.' Through the nurturing, individual best." Supporters (center), and Kevin Clarh Pilato by Jeff Greene prodding, and ever-challenging See Professors, page 16

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Cal Poly's P-POD team members are (left to right) Michelle Creedon, Isaac Nason, and Nick Johansen (all Aeronautical Engineering), and team leader Jake Schaffner (Electrical Engineering) . Photo by Rick Smith

Cal Poly Heading into Orbit with PolySat, CubeSat Programs Student teams led by Aerospace which can be the size of a refrig­ A Delta II rocket should Engineering Professor Jordi Puig­ erator or even a school bus and blast off wi th the student pay­ Suari are on target for the first which come with corresponding load sometime in the spring launch of a Cal Poly-built multi-million-dollar price tags. of 2003. satellite next spring thanks to the In addition to building a So far, the P-POD teams PolySat program. CubeSat, Cal Poly has designed have been financed through Cal Poly has been working and manufactured the mechanism more than $230,000 in grants. with more than 20 other universi­ that will deploy the project The project has made Cal Poly ties around the globe on the satellites into space. Puig-Suari's the hub of the CubeSat program. project for the past three years. In student teams designed the [n fact, said PUig-Suari, "this the program, students design and CubeSat deployer, officially project has placed Cal Poly at the build small satellites, known as named the Poly PicoSat Orbital center of an international small­ 'CubeSats.' CPl, Cal Poly's first Deployer, or P-POD. All universi­ satellite revolution." satellite, is a solar-powered unit ties involved in the CubeSat The primary goal of the equipped with a sun sensor (the program will send their satellites programs is to teach students subject of its testing mission), a to San Luis Obispo before the about satellite projects in the real microcomputer, and transceivers. launch, where Cal Poly students world, not launch research Roughly four inches square, will integrate each into the P-POD satellites, Puig-Suari said. "The each CubeSat and its research and conduct final testing before students have been involved in a equipment costs some $40,000, in transporting the whole package to whole project life cycle. It is the contrast with traditional satellites, Vandenberg Air Force Base. epitome of learning by doing."

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Professors from page 14 Arthur C. Edwards Endowed Chair also say, "She instills a passion for Coatings Technology and Ecology Filled for learning that takes educa­ Ray Fernando has been tion to a new level. She inspires named to fill the Arthur C. students to reach high stan­ Edwards Endowed Chair for dards, and they celebrate their Coatings Technology and accomplishments. " Ecology in the College of "I must admit that the real Science and Mathematics. The moment of 'feeling like a $1 million endowed chair, the winner' came in January, when first to be fully funded at Cal I was told by the awards com­ Poly, was made possible by gifts mittee that I had been selected from 21 donors representing a as a finalist," McLamore said. broad spectrum of the polymers "The official announcement at and coatings industry. the end of the spring quarter The lead gift of $500,000 that I had 'won' was more like was contributed by Ken icing on the cake I'd already Edwards and Dunn-Edwards Ray Fernando been enjoying." Photo by Jeff Greene Corporation in recognition Zohns was said to have a of Arthur C. Edwards, the undergraduate classes and "knack for making students feel company's develop a new graduate pro­ good about themselves." Stu­ In addition to co-founder. gram in polymers and coatings dents said, "He makes lectures teaching and Industry chemistry. In addition to teaching and labs interesting [through] his recruiting donors also and recruiting students and unlimited energy and sense of students and established industry support for the devel­ humor. He has a talent for Industry support, the Bill oping program, he will be making complex concepts Fernando will be Moore actively involved in research. understandable and fun to figure actively Involved Coatings Prior to coming to Cal Poly, out. Students see him as genu­ In research. Research Fernando was the lead research inely interested in their progress. Fellowships chemist for the Corporate Science & Anyone who has studied with Endowment and the Johnny Technology Center, Air Products him knows that there are two Gordon Memorial Award. and Chemicals Inc., in Allentown, ways to do things: the right way The endowed chair benefits Penn. He is currently the program and again. He makes a positive the Polymers and Coatings committee chair and chairman and dramatic impression on the program in the Department of of the annual meeting technical lives he touches." Chemistry and Biochemistry. In program for the international "I've been on cloud nine his new position, Fernando Federation Society for Coatings since I received the news," Zohns plans to expand the content of Societies. said. "I am extremely honored by the award."

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Cal Poly launches Summer Agriculture Program The College of Agriculture has launched a new summer out­ reach program for California high-school students who show promise in technology- and science-based careers in agriculture and related industries. The first Carver College program at Cal Poly this year brought 12 boys and 12 girls to live on campus for four days of classes and workshops taught by universi ty facul ty. Above: Carlos Murillo, dairy products technology student, Named in honor of renowned discusses the use of pasteurization African-American agriculture equipment in the Dairy Products Technology Center pilot plant. researcher, professor, and pioneer George Washington Carver, the Left: Dawn Afman (SS '01), Natural Resources Conservation program was sponsored by a Service, shows Peter Katz $25,000 grant from the Cacique (Soledad High school, left) and Andre Phillip (Montgomery High Foundation, the charitable arm School) how to prepare a soil of the Mexican cheese company, sample for analysis. Photos by BreI Harrison Cacique Inc. While at the university, stu­ dents took courses in food science "Agriculture needs managers percolate, hold water, and hold and nutrition, earth and soil up to date on the latest develop­ nutrients," Harrison said. sciences, bioresource and agricul­ ments in processing, packaging, Cal Poly modeled Carver tural engineering, animal science, and marketing food commodities. College on a similar program at horticulture and crop science, It needs students who are very Tuskegee University in Alabama dairy science, and forestry and savvy with math and science and and on outreach programs already natural resources management. have the technical skills to pro­ used by other California college The program exposes students gram a computer or a GPS [global MESA programs. to the changing face of agriculture, positioning system] unit in a tractor With continuing industry explained Carver College Director to tell it how to lay the proper support, Cal Poly's College of Bret Harrison, who is also the pattern of drip irrigation line or Agriculture hopes to make Carver director of the university's MESA apply pesticides or fertilizers using College an annual event, and (Mathematics, Engineering, satellite coordinates, as well as expand the program to include a Science Achievement) agricultural people who know the chemical summer Carver Academy for outreach initiative. characteristics of soils, how they middle-school students.

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State Bond Would Benefit Two Cal Poly Projects Proposition 47, a statewide The new phase will provide Architecture and Environmental education bond initiative on the for the strategic sharing of Design to house construction November ballot in California, facilities and upgraded technolo­ management and architecture, would benefit two building gies that serve programs in both along with additional lecture projects at Cal Poly if approved. colleges, said Kitamura. "It also space. The new construction Engineering III, currently will bring together programs would total 172,000 square feet. under construction off Highland currently housed in several Renovations included in the Drive near the railroad, needs locations on campus and correct project would upgrade the Archi­ funding from the new bond for substandard conditions in some tecture, Dexter, and Engineering project completion, including of the university's older build­ East and West buildings - a total equipment. In addition, the bond ings," he added. of 165,000 square feet. would support the next phase of The project includes a new With the completion of replacement and renovation and engineering building that will these projects, Cal Poly will accommodate some of the demand incorporate aeronautical engi­ have the necessary state-of-the­ for enrollment for the colleges of neering, mechanical engineering, art facilities to sustain educa­ Engineering and Architecture and civil and environmental engi­ tional quality for students Environmental Design, according neering, and industrial and starting careers in engineering, to Robert Kitamura, Cal Poly's manufacturing engineering, as computer science, and architec­ director of facilities planning and well as planning for a new ture - fields critical to the capital projects. building for the College of California work force.

Agricultural Engineering Professor Wins National Award for Work in Irrigation

BioResource and Agricul­ Poly's irrigation program into one tural Engineering Professor of the nation's strongest. Charles Burt, chairman of Cal Last year, Burt stepped down Poly's Irrigation Training and from his original post as ITRC Research Center (ITRC), has director, but as chairman he still received the 2002 Royce J. manages several million dollars' Tipton Award from the Ameri­ worth of the center's contracts. can Society of Civil Engineers. Charles Burt To help farmers get the irrigation Photo by Jeff Greene The annual honor is given to they need, Burt has promoted an ASCE member "who has consumer-information project, the modernization of irrigation districts made a definite contribution to lrrigation Consumer BiJJ of Rights. and flexibility in water delivery, the advancement of irrigation The ITRC provides technical developed and implemented canal and drainage engineering." Burt assistance for on-farm irrigation, and pipeline automation projects was cited for founding the ITRC landscape irrigation, and irrigation throughout the West, and promoted and for advancements in district modernization throughout techniques that quickly identify the irrigation efficiency, irrigation the western United States and available options for irrigation district modernization, and a abroad, and has helped build Cal projects worldwide.

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David Wehner Named New David Wehner Dean for College of Agriculture Photo by Jeff Greene David Wehner, interim dean for the College of Agriculture the current during the past year, was named Horticulture and dean of the college April 15. Crop Science Wehner joined the faculty in Department, the 1994 as department head for what formalization of was then known as the university's a graduate educa­ Environmental Horticultural Science tion partnership Department, teaching courses in with UC Davis, turf-grass management. In 1996 he and ongoing became interim assistant dean, primarily responsible for the planning for a new wine and continuing his previous duties, undergraduate program and the viticulture major. coordinating the college's graduate college's Multicultural Agricul­ Before coming to Cal Poly, program, and assisting faculty tural Program Center. During his Wehner taught in the Agronomy members with research and public tenure as interim dean he over­ Department at the University of service programs. saw the merger of the Environ­ Maryland and in the Department In 1997 he was appointed mental Horticultural Science and of Horticulture at the University associate dean, becoming Crop Science departments into of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Cornel Morton Is New Vice President for Student Affairs Cornel Morton is Cal Poly's Morton believes that student new vice president for student affairs staff should "support, affairs. He has spent his 30­ influence, and challenge students year career in higher education to embrace personal and commu­ focusing on institutional nity conduct that fosters a sense diversity issues and student of personal accountability, su pport services. belonging, respect for human In his new position he is diversity, mutual respect, and responsible for Campus Student intellectual freedom." Relations and Judicial Affairs, Morton served as associate vice Career Services, the Disability president for student support Cornel MorLon Photo by Jeff Greene Resource Center, Health and services at Kent State; assistant vice Counseling Services, Housing president for institutional diversity Polytechnic Institute and State and Residential Life, Student at Central Michigan University; as University; in affirmative action Academic Services, and Student dean of students, executive and student affairs at the Univer­ Life and Leadership. He is also assistant to the president, and sity ofToledo; and as director of the university's liaison to the director of equal opportunity/ human relations programs at the Associated Students Inc. affirmative action at Virginia University of Maryland.

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Cal pOly, Mission Produce To Open State-of-the-Art Biological Sciences Professor Campus Avocado Operation Receives Presidential Award Cal Poly's College of Agricul­ Cal Poly oceanographer and ture and Mission Produce - a Biological Sciences Associate Southern California avocado and Professor Mark Moline was avocado products company with among 60 young scientists and annual sales of $100 million-plus ­ engineers nationwide to receive are planting a new 50-acre the 2001 Presidential Early avocado orchard this May Career Award for Scientists designed to be a profitable and Engineers. Mark Moline commercial operation as well as A White House news release Photo courtesy College of Science and Mathematics a showcase and field classroom notes that the award was for the latest and best orchard "established in 1996 [tol honor the marine food web. His management techniques. the most promising young award provides $100,000 Mission Produce will invest researchers in the nation within annually for five years to fund some $350,000 to develop and thei I' fields." related projects, including plant the orchard as well as install Eight federal departments studies with undergraduate and state-of-the-art irrigation and and agencies annually nominate graduate students at Cal Poly's orchard-care systems on Cal Poly those new Marine Science and land irrigated with Cal Poly The award was young Education Research Center, water. The company will also established In scientists where he is one of two recently fund the orchard's $75,000 1996 to honor and named Unocal Professors of annual operation costs. the most engineers Marine Science (see the spring College ofAgriculture Associate promising young whose 2002 Cal Poly Magazine Dean Mark Shelton said the new researchers In work is of cOlier story). orchard will serve as a lab site and the nation. greatest Moline has conducted field classroom for Cal Poly benefit to research in the Atlantic, the students, and the commercial the nominating agency's Pacific, and the Southern operation there will offer intern­ mission, and provide up to five Ocean surrounding Antarctica, ships for students as well. The years' funding to further their as well as a summer program at college also anticipates offering research in support ofcritical Woods Hole Oceanographic short courses and seminars for government missions. Institution in Massachusetts Central Coast avocado growers in Moline was recommended with Cal Poly students. Other the new orchard. "It will be a by NASA for the value of his support from NASA, the showcase orchard using the latest research with phytoplankton Office of Naval Research, and and best management practices, (microscopic marine plants) in Rutgers University during the irrigation, design, and frost­ developing remote-sensing last four years exceeds the protection equipment, and it will technology and understanding $1 million mark. See Avocado, page 22

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The Politics of Rap Charise Cheney Photo by Jeff Greene Ethnic Studies Professor Charise Cheney appears to have it all: the love of her students, the respect of her peers, and validation administration of the 1960s of her scholarly pursuits in the and 1970s," Cheney says. form of a highly competitive The resurgence in black Ford Foundation postdoctoral nationalism in the late '80s minority fellowship. and early '90s was bolstered by In her relatively short tenure at the music of certain political Cal Poly - she joined the faculty in rap artists. And that type of fall 1999 - the Topeka, Kansas, music could still benefit a native tied for the "Best Professor" progressive political cause, award in a 2000 "Best of Cal Poly" according to Cheney. student poll. And the Ford Foun­ "Black nationalist theory "Not all rap music is politicaL dation fellowship allowed her to asserts that due to their African but a certain genre is," Cheney take a year's sabbatical from ancestry and common historical explains. "Rap music doesn't teaching to study the link between experience of slavery, black have to be materialist, misogynist, black nationalism and rap music, people constitute a nationality homophobic, as some critics the results of which will appear in separate and distinct from white contend. It can actually be a her book, Brothers Gonna Work it Americans," Cheney says. The vehicle through which to edu­ Out: Masculinity and the Blach Black Panther Party of the late cate. It can be constructive as Nationalist Tradition from Slave '60s and early '70s espoused opposed to destructive." Spirituals to Rap Music. black nationalism. "Ultimately I would like to "Cheney's book is a cutting­ But the civil rights gained establish the fact that rap music edge work that examines the during that time, says Cheney, is potentially powerful and cultural expression of political were mostly overt. "Racism still transformative," Cheney says. "A struggle within the black commu­ exists covertly, and it's even more lot of artists are invoking the nity," says Ethnic Studies Professor insidious because it's not being most dangerous stereotypes Colleen O'Neill. "She looks at addressed," she contends. about black people. There needs politics from the perspective of To address that need, Cheney to be a balance portrayed that popular culture, the arena where believes the need exists for a more blacks are also intellectuaL most of us experience and are progressive politics than black politicaL and progressive." inspired by political expression." nationalism. "The resurgence in Cheney, who earned a doctor­ Cheney's research, much of black nationalism that occurred ate in history from the University which was done in New York among the post-civil rights genera­ of JlIinois at Urbana-Champaign during the 2001-02 academic year, tion of the late '80s and early '90s in 1999, hopes to have her book explores the works of such rap resulted from a void that existed in completed by December. It is to artists as Public Enemy, KRS-One, black political leadership during be published by New York and Boogie Down Productions. the conservative Reagan-Bush University Press.

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Cal Poly Holds Sept. 11 Memorial Tribute On the first anniversary of the nation's Sept. 11 tragedy, members of the campus and local communities gathered on Dexter Lawn to honor the memory of the victims and reflect on the meaning of that date's events. "Universities have a special responsibility to foster and defend the inher­ ent value and dignity of every human life," President Photo by Jeff Greene Warren J. Baker said. "While we are a diverse nation, we honor the memories of those of silence was observed, and remain one country, dedi­ who have been lost and the the clock tower bells tolled. cated to the idea of freedom. American ideals of mutual Baker presented remarks, It is our hope that memorial respect and tolerance." and a piano piece by Aaron events such as these will give During the ceremony the Copland was performed by individuals an opportunity to flag was lowered, a moment Music Professor William Spiller.

Avocado from page 20 also be a first-class lab for our orchard wiJl offer students product operations are all part of students," Shelton said. the chance to learn firsthand the orchard-to-consumer integra­ "The orchard is a good about large-scale commercial tion the company can share with investment for both Cal Poly avocado operation and students, Barnard said. and Mission Produce," Mission vertically integrated avocado Cal Poly's location and its Produce CEO Steve Barnard marketing practices. agriculture program - the fourth (AGB '75) said. "US. avocado "We don't have the resources largest in the nation - make it an consumption is growing while from the state to put in a excellent site for a showcase the nation's avocado-growing commercial-scale operation," avocado orchard, Shelton ex­ regions are limited, which Shelton said. 'That's why private plained, with avocado operations should ensure a solid market for partnerships with industry like and yields in San Luis Obispo the Cal Poly avocados." this are so important." County among the best in the Cal Poly already has about 17 Mission Produce's strong pack­ entire Mexico-California region. sca ttered acres plan ted with aging, marketing, distribution, "This is avocado country," avocado orchards. But the new global sourcing, and value-added Shelton said.

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Cal Poly • Cal Poly has been rated the best public, largely undergraduate university in the West by U.S. News & World Report for the 10th consecutive year. Following the major service academies, Cal Poly was the highest-rated public institution in engineering pro­ grams at nondoclOral schools. Cal

Poly also tied for 10th among all • The CSU Commission on the Horticulture and Crop Science universities nationwide in a new Extended University has awarded Professor Virginia Walter (center) is the team coach for Cal Poly's category recognizing schools with a $37,000 grant to Cal Poly's top-ranked flower judging team. superior internships and other Continuing Education program Photo courtesy Virginia Walter work-experience programs. (formerly Extended Studies) to carry out a comprehensive study visit was part of a project sponsored • For the fourth straight year, the of the educational and work-force by the CSU Chancellor's Office of Council for the Advancement training needs of northern San Global Partnership Development. and Support of Education Luis Obispo and southern awarded Cal Poly a Circle of Students Monterey counties. Excellence Award for overall • A Cal Poly business administra­ fund-raising performance. The Faculty tion graduate team competed award marks the longest current • Cal Poly English Professor John with groups from 24 universities consecutive winning streak in the Battenburg received an English in 13 states and two foreign coun­ nation. Cal Poly solicited a total Language Specialist grant from the tries to win first place in the 38th of $43.2 million in private, U.S. State Department to deliver a Annual International Intercollegiate corporate, and foundation support series of lectures in Saudi Arabia Business Policy competition in during fiscal year 2000-2001. on the subject of teaching English. San Diego. The teams, charged This was the third year he was with running a virtual corporation • Cal Poly remains among the top invited to that nation. for five years, were judged on the 100 U.S. colleges and universities quality of their strategic plans, awarding bachelor's degrees to • City and Regional Planning operating finances, written annual Hispanics, and is third to second Professor William Siembieda was report, and final presentation in agriculture, architecture, and one of five CSU faculty members before a panel of industry judges. engineering, according to numbers chosen to visit the People's Republic published by the National Center of China to share his experience in • I-Kon Chen (M.S. IT '02) was for Education Statistics in the urban planning with officials in the one of seven June college Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. northeast province of Liaoning. His See Extra Credit, page 24

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Extra Credit from page 23 graduates from the United States and Canada to receive an inaugural Italian Packaging Technology Award in Milan and a two-week packaging forum in Bologna, Florence, and Milan. In her winning report she compared several different types of bottle-capping machines.

• The 2002 Cal Poly flower Than King judging team won the GIst competes in National Intercollegiate Floral the logging team's "obstacle Crop Quality Evaluation Contest. pole" even t. It was the seventh time since 1990 Photo courtesy that the team has won the compe­ Christopher Dicus tition, which requires students to judge the overall commercial student alumni and ambassador Conclave at the University of quality of 30 separate classes of groups from more than 375 Montana in Missoula. The team flowers, ranging from fresh-flower colleges and universities through­ competed against 17 teams from snapdragons to potted hydrangeas. out the United States and Canada. all the major university forestry teams in the western United • Cal Poly's National Agri­ • The university's Society of States to win the title and the Marketing Association (NAMA) Environmental Engineers club sportsmanship award, given team took first place in a nation­ won both first and second place by the American Lumberjack wide competition against teams in the 2002 American Society of Association. Team members from the top 35 agribusiness Civil Engineers' "Water Treat­ also won individual awards. schools at NAMA's convention in ment from Your Kitchen and Nashville. Cal Poly's entry was a Beyond" competition, held at the • Three Cal Poly students won foreign marketing plan for an University of the Pacific in awards at the 2002 California Arroyo Grande tomato grower. Stockton. Students were required State University Student to contain, treat, and discharge a Research competition in Long • Poly Reps, the university's sample of contaminated water Beach. Categories included student ambassador organization while theoretically stranded on a graduate and agricultural sci­ group, received the Outstanding desert island in the Bahamas. ences, undergraduate biological Organization 2001-2002 award and agricultural sciences, and from the national Association of • Cal Poly's logging team took undergraduate engineering and Student Advancement Programs. first place at the annual Association computeT science. The national society represents of Western Forestry Clubs

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Ozzie Smith Inducted into Ozzie , mit1l Baseball Hall of Fame gives 1Ii induction On July 28 former Cal Poly speech. baseball star Ozzie Smith was Photo courtesy cal Poly Alhlella inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. During his career at Cal Poly in the 1970s, Smith set still­ unbroken records for career stolen bases (110), stolen bases in a season (44), and career at bats (754). He earned AII­ California Collegiate Athletic He went on to play with the numerous major league Association first-team honors San Diego Padres (four years) and records. He is regarded as the and led Cal Poly to a school­ the St. Louis Cardinals (15 sea­ finest fielding shortstop ever. record 41 victories and a berth sons), winning 13 consecutive (See "Mustangs' Wizard" in the in the NCAA Division II Gold Gloves and setting National spring 2002 Cal Poly Magazine.) championship tournament. League records for fielding and

Larry Lee Selected To Coach While at Cuesta, Lee produced Cal Poly Baseball Team 26 all-state players, three Southern Larry Lee, head baseball coach California Players of the Year, and at Cuesta College for 16 seasons, numerous professionals. Thirteen was named to head Cal Poly of his 16 teams finished above the baseball in 2003. .500 mark for the season, includ­ Lee led the Cuesta Cougars to ing the last seven. the California Community College Lee played for Orange Coast State Final Four in 1992, 1997, Larry Lee 2001, and 2002, and guided Photo by Crystal Myers. Mustang Daily college, transfered to Pepperdine Cuesta to qualify for the Southern his leadership, Cuesta claimed (where he was a career .304 California Regionals each of the nine Western State Conference hitter), and later played for the last six years, including a NO.1 titles and averaged 38 wins Utica BJuesox and the Seattle seed in 1992 and a No.2 seed this during the six-year stretch. Lee Mariners' Single-A farm team. past spring. was named conference coach of ''The Cal Poly team's goal is to Lee's overall record at Cuesta the year eight times, with his be a perennial playoff team and was 460-241-3, including a state­ teams producing a 267-119 get a chance to play in the College leading 44 wins in 1997. Under record in conference games. World Series," Lee said.

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Plane Crash Victims Remembered In 1960 a Toledo, Ohio, plane crash took the lives of 16 Cal Poly football players, the team manager, and a booster. This June, Everett Chandler, former dean of students and the Cal Poly Alumni Association's 2001 Distinguished Service Award recipient, met on campus with former football players and plane crash survivors Al from Toledo's mayor "memorial­ Marti Hogle presents Everell Chandler with a glass from the Marinai and Gil Stork, and izing the spirits of the young cit)' of Toledo, "the Class Capital Marti Hogle, the widow of a athletes who tragically lost of the World." Watching are Al Toledo policeman called to thei r lives." Marillai and his wife, Sandra. Pl1Oto courtesy Sports Information Office the site of the crash. In August the Cal Poly football Hogle and Marinai visited team returned to Toledo for the "The Rock," a campus memo­ first time since 1960 to play the rial to the crash victims, and University ofToledo. The final Hogle read a proclamation score was Toledo 44, Cal Poly 16.

Athletic Trainer Before coming to Cal Poly as a Steve Yoneda Retires student in 1968, Yoneda worked Steven Yoneda (PE '70, M.S. PE with the Santa Barbara Dodgers '72), head athletic trainer for Cal pro baseball team. During the Poly's Department of Athletics, 1971 season, he worked for the retired on Ju Iy 1 after 32 years of California Angels at Shreveport, service to the university. La., in the combined Texas and During his tenure at Cal Poly, Southern leagues. Yoneda oversaw a comprehensive He is currently a member of sports medicine program, manag­ Steve Yoneda the Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Photo courtesy Sports Information Office ing the department alone for 23 Fame Selection Committee. years before an assistant was hired. served a term as the program Many of his former student­ An active member of the director for the annual Physical trainers are currently in the National Association ofAthletic Education Athletic Coaches and NFL, professional basebalL Trainers and the Far West Athletic Health workshop held in San Luis colleges and universities, and Trainers Association, Yoneda also Obispo each summer. private practice.

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S arts Roundup

Baseball Second-Team selection, led the Cal Poly finished third in the team with 10.8 points per game, Big West Conference with a 15-9 and Kari Duperron was second record, posting a third straight with) 0.3 points per game. winning season at 30-29-1. Men's and Women's Golf Finishing 11-5, pitcher Kevin The men's golf team placed Correia became Cal Poly's first 10­ sixth at the conference champion­ game winner in five years, and the ships in EI Dorado Hills, with Mustang offense finished near the / Aaron Dexheimer shooting school record for batting average rounds of 69, 75, and 72 to finish with a .319 mark, led by desig­ in a tie for sixth at even par (216). nated hitter Bryan Gant (.402) Tristan Gardner played in all 24 and catcher Kyle Wilson (.361). rounds for the Mustangs this Gant broke the school record for year, averaging 75.6 strokes per career triples and is No.2 in round with four rounds under career hits with 234. par and two in the 60's. Men's and Women's The women's team hosted its Basketball first-ever tournament at the Avila The men's team posted 15 at forward and was fourth on the Beach Resort Golf Course, finish­ wins, advancing to the first round team with 9.4 points per game, ing third, and hosted the Invita­ of the conference tournament for finishing his career at a school­ tional at Cypress Ridge, coming the second consecutive season. record ranking of ninth with) 16 home as champions. Ann Marie David Henry started all 27 games career three-pointers. Costello competed in nine events, Women's leading the team with a 79.7 basketball went stroke-per-round. The team ended 1) -) 7 overall and the year with a fifth-place finish at finished fifth in the Big West Championships. the Big West Softball Conference with a The softball team concluded its 7-9 league mark. season at 25-29, hosting Cal Poly's Odessa Jenkins, first softball tournament, the honored as Mustang Roundup, in its second an All-Big West season at Bob Janssen Field. Kasey Conference Poet led with 48 hits, a .300 batting average and) 3 doubles, and came in third in RBis with 15. Odessa Jenkins (left) Photos courtesy Sports Information Office See Roundup, page 28

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Roundup from page 27 Men's and Women's Tennis Badger earned NCAA qualifying Roni Sparrey led the team in RBIs Men's tennis went 8-17 and marks in the long (25-8) and triple with 17 for the season, and was posted a 2-2 mark in the Big West (53-1.75) jumps. The latter mark second with a .296 average. Conference. Nick Tracy won 17 is the second best in school history. Men's and Women's matches, including 12 in dual Tyrone Ward set a new school Swimming and Diving matches, and Stacy Meronoff and record in the long jump with a The men's team finished fourth Davey Jones combined for seven leap of 26 feet, 7-3/4 inches, the at the Big West Conference wins at No.1 doubles in dual third-best mark nationwide. Championships. Matt Patane set a matches, earning All-Big West The women's team also placed new record in the 100 butterfly Conference honors. second at the Big West Champion­ (49.74) for fourth place and also Women's tennis went 9-13 ships. Stephanie Brown won the earned a sixth-place finish in the overall and 4-4 in the Big West title in both the shot put and 200 butterfly with a season best Conference. Highlighting the discus, while Maggie Vessey time of 1:52.63. Kyle Power set season was the play of Angie captured the Big West title in the new school records in the 1,000 Bagheri, who went 3-7 at No.1 800 meters. Kristin Hall took home freestyle (9:36.11) and the 1,650 singles in dual matches and won first at the conference meet in the freestyle (16:04.76). nine matches overall. Danielle 400-meter hurdles. At the nation­ Mary Thomas led the way for Hustedt was 11-9 and 9-7 in als, Brown placed fourth in the the women's team at the Big West dual matches for the Mustangs. discus and 14th in the shot put. Conference Championships, Both were named All-Big West Wrestling setting school records in both the Conference for 2002. The season began with a strong 100 butterfly (56.86) and 200 Men's and Women's showing in the Fullerton Open, butterfly (2:04.32) and placing Track and Field with the Mustangs winning three third in both. She was also part of The men's team placed second at straight and six of their first eight the record-setting 200 medley the Big West Conference Champi­ dual meets en route to an 11-8 relay team that included team­ onships. All-American Andrew mark. David Schenk (197 pounds) mates Stacy Peterson, Rea captured a Pac-10 title, Steve Lardelli, and Jen DeMers. Strange (174 pounds) finished Women's Indoor second, and Cedric Haymon (141 Track and Field pounds) claimed The indoor track and field team third place. Haymon finished 10th at the Mountain posted Cal Poly's best Pacific Sports Federation Champi­ finish at the NCAA National onships, with All-American Championships in eight years by Stephanie Brown placing third taking third place with a 6-1 overall in the shot put and record and tied the school record setting a new school indoor record for victories in a season as he with a throw of 52 feet, 7-1/4 finished with a 41-7 record. inches. She finished 10th at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Stephanie Brown

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Clifford Chapman (left) and Gene Shidler stand before their recently completed Asian pavilion, dedicated to the concepts of world peace, tolerance, and cultural diversity. The pavilion was designed by Cal Poly architecture alumnus Steven Puglisi and constructed by general contractor Kevin Gould and Pacific Post and Beam. Photo by Jeff Greene

ew would argue that art improves the quality of life. The Art of Helping PAnd for the citizens of the Central Coast - and beyond - the By Jo Ann Lloyd quality of life will continue to improve, thanks to the generosity dean of the College of Liberal Arts. to foster discussion among of two Cal Poly alumni, Clifford "Students flock to our music and educators, industry leaders, and Chapman and Gene Shidler. The theater classes because of the public policy-makers on issues of longtime Shell Beach residents, hands-on experiences there, and science and technology ranging known for their extensive support these programs will be enhanced from student preparation to the of the arts, have established three by this support. The gift will social and ethical dimensions endowments at the university provide them with a great legacy." related to the impact of technol­ totaling $4 million. Ralph Hoskins, director of Cal ogy on society. Chapman and Shidler's gift Poly Arts, said that the $1 million President Baker recognized includes a $2 million endowment Chapman-Shidler gift "will assure Chapman and Shidler's contin­ to support the College of Liberal that non-commercial programming ued contributions of "resources, Arts, a $1 million endowment like classical music, dance, and time, energy, and keen insight" to benefit Cal Poly Arts, and a theater will always be a part of the to the university and to the $1 million endowment to sustain university's performing arts series. larger community. the Baker Forum, an annual event This support will help broaden the "Clifford and Gene have made begun this year to honor Cal Poly community's appreciation of these a significant and lasting impact on President Warren J. Baker and his types of arts programs." the arts in our community," Baker wife, Carly. The other $1 million endow­ said, "and they have been equally "This generous gift will greatly ment will provide ongoing supportive of Cal Poly's programs. benefit our performing arts support for the Baker Forum, Their commitment to both the arts program," said Harry Hellenbrand, which was inaugurated this year See Arts, page 30

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of Agriculture, College of Arts from page 29 Liberal Arts, and College Gifts and education runs very, very deep, as • James Keefe and Lorna Lee of Engineering. these gifts attest. We are grateful for their recently donated 22 acres in the • Richard (SOCS '56) trust in Cal Poly." Ragged Point area of San Luis and Joyce Andrews added Chapman and Shidler are widely Obispo County's North Coast an additional $90,825 to for the benefit of the College their charitable remainder known in the community for their of Science and Mathematics. trust to provide future significant contributions to enhance They have also provided the support for the Intercollegiate the cultural richness of San Luis university with an additional Athletics Department. Obispo. Chapman, who studied elec­ gift of $100,000 and have • Helga R. Carden created tronic engineering at the university, committed to a pledge of a $50,000 charitable gift and Shidler, a 19GG English alumnus, $252,000 to benefit the annuity to provide future view their bequests as a way to con­ College of Science and support to the Materials tinue strengthening the arts community Mathematics. Engineering Department. and the Cal Poly educational experience. • Peter (ARCE '56) and Ida • Everett (Faculty Emeri­ "We feel fortunate to have studied at Mae Berg have established a tus) and Arlene Chandler Cal Poly and to have watched its reputa­ charitable remainder trust funded added an additional $39,234 with real estate valued at to their charitable remainder tion grow to a national level under the $700,000 to provide future trust to provide future support guidance of President Baker and his wife, support for the George Hasslein to the Ethnic Studies Depart­ Carly," Chapman and Shidler said. "The Chair for Interdisciplinary ment of the College of Liberal future of the world, we believe, is in the Studies in Environmental Design. Arts and to the Intercollegiate hands of educators. We're happy to invest • James (ME '59) and Betty Athletics Department. in tomorrow's students and leaders." Mae Locke have established • Stan (Staff Emeritus) and Chapman, a sixth-generation resident a charitable remainder trust Elaine Rosenfield donated of San Luis Obispo County, was given with real estate valued at stock valued at $10,600 to the Cal Poly President's Arts Award in $430,000 that will provide establish a campuswide 1999 in recognition of his philanthropic future support for the Mechanical scholarship endowment. service to the arts community. He and Engineering Department. • Richard (ME '58) • Harlan W. Beck (IT '60) and Barbara Burkhalter Shidler are self-described music lovers created a charitable remainder have established a charitable and longtime supporters of the local arts trust valued at $393,550 to gift annuity with stock scene. They are founders of the San Luis provide future support to valued at $10,000 to provide Obispo Performing Arts Center, and programs in the College of future support for the Mechani­ Chapman serves on the board of direc­ Agriculture and the College cal Engineering Department. tors of the Foundation for the Perform­ of Engineering. • Robert Rivers (DSCI '49) ing Arts Center. Throughout the years, • Orner (SS '56) and Claudia created a charitable gift the San Luis Obispo Symphony, the King have established five new annuity with $10,000 to Mozart Festival, the Pacific Repertory scholarships with gifts totaling provide future support to the Opera, and the SLO Little Theater have all $125,000 to benefit the College Dairy Science Department. benefited from these patrons of the arts.

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Homecoming 2002 Rescheduled for Oct. 25-27 Cal Poly's 2002 Homecoming celebration, "Homecoming 101: Continu­ ing the Legacy," originally set for Nov. 1-3, has been moved up a week to Oct. 25-27. Events include Friday evening's Honored Alumni Awards Banquet

The Collegians played at school dances and concerts in 1952. Yearbook photo and the 50th reunion for the Class of 1952. Saturday's public activities 'Golden Grads' Gather for Homecoming 2002 comprise the Homecoming parade, Cal Poly's Alumni Relations parade; the traditional pre-game the annual pre-game tailgate office invites graduates of the tailgate barbecue and football barbecue and wine tasting, and the Class of 1952 and their friends to game; and an AJl-Alumni Breakfast Homecoming football game attend a 50th reunion during on Sunday morning. against UC Davis. Saturday is also Homecoming, Oct. 25-27. Sched­ Contact 1952 Reunion Parents' Day. uled are a welcome breakfast and Coordinator Rosey Parks at For updates about Homecom­ campus activities on Friday; dinner 805/756-2586, or rparks@calpoly. ing events and ticket information, at the Madonna Inn on Friday edu. Check the Homecoming visit the new Cal Poly Homecoming night; a special breakfast at the 2002 Web site, www.homecoming. Web site at www.homecoming.cal Robert E. Kennedy Library on calpoly.edu, for more details or to polyedu, or call Alumni Relations Saturday morning before the register online. at 805/SLO-ALUM (805/756-2586).

CPAA Requests Survey Info families. To make this program on the "ACE Survey" tab located for Continuing Education responsive to alumni needs at the top of the page, or go to The Cal Poly Alumni Associa­ and interests, alumni are being www.allllnni.calpolyedu and click tion is launching an Alumni asked to provide feedback in an on "ACE Survey." Continuing Education (ACE) ACE survey. Contact Rasey Parks in program for alumni and their To access the survey online, go Alumni Relations at 1-888-Cal-Poly to http://my.calpoly.edu and click (1-888-225-7659) or via e-mail at rparks@calpolyedu with any • questions or suggestions. Cal Poly Magazine· 31 Alumni Ne~s

2002 Honored Alumni Chosen Cal Poly Alumni Association Each year Cal Poly recognizes University Center for Events (ale da individual alumni for both their Teacher Education Barbara L. Blanke personal and professional achieve­ October M.A., Education, 1985 ments. The following individuals 12 Alumni Social, Greater Monterey Bay Chapter (Contad Dean have been selected as the Cal Poly In addition, the Cal Poly Callender: 831/422-8023 or Honored Alumni for 2002: Alumni Association selects an [email protected]) alumnus or alumna who has College of Agriculture 12 cal Poly Mustang Annual Fall provided outstanding service, Manfred Sander Barbecue, San Diego (Contact B.S., Animal Science, 1953 stewardship, advocacy, and John: 760/944-0113) College ofArchitecture and support to the association. The 25-27 Homecoming: "HOmecoming Environmental Design recipient of the 2002 CPAA 101: Continuing the Legacy: Cal Milford "Wayne" Donaldson Distinguished Service Award is: Poly (See the complete schedule at B.S., Architecture, 1968 www.homecomlng.calpoly.edU.) R. James Considine 25-27 Class Of 1952 Reunion, Cal Poly College of Engineering B.S., Business Administration, Rick Sturckow 1968 November B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Graduate and Professional 1984 The Honored Alumni Awards School Day (Master'S and Ph.D. College of Liberal Arts Banquet is scheduled for Friday, programs), 10 a.m.-l p.m., Lee Sapaden Oct. 25. For details, see the Chumash Auditorium (Contad B.S., Political Science, 1972 Homecoming Web site at Ellen Polinsky: B051756-5971) College of Science www.homecoming.calpoly.edu, December and Mathematics or call the Alumni Relations 14 Commencement Mark J. Newland office at 805/SLO-ALUM B.S., Statistics, 1976 " The alumnI events calendar Is updated (805/756-2586). weekly at www.alumnl.calpoly.edu. Orfalea College of Business Michael J. Byrd B.S., Business Administration, 1982 CPAA Updates Alumni Database The Cal Poly Alumni Association is Do You Know Someone Who is 'All But Senior Project? setting up e-mail lists for its regional The Cal Poly Alumni Associa­ • you left Cal Poly in good chapters to provide more efficient tion and Cal Poly Continuing standing, with at least a 2.0 communication. These lists will be used Education are developing a grade point average to announce chapter events, monthly program to help former Cal The program will meet the socials, and general information. You Poly students complete their demanding schedules of work­ can help by updating your e-mail and senior projects. ing adults. To learn more, call mailing addresses on our database. This program could be right Rosey Parks at 1-888-Cal-Poly • Go to www.alumni.calpoly.edu/ for you, or someone you know, if: (1-888-225-7659) or via e-mail services/address or www.alumni.calpoly.edu • you completed all your at [email protected]. • Click on "Online Services" coursework with the exception • Go to "Update My Mailing and of the senior project E-Mail Addresses"

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