Letter from the President

As Pitzer celebrates an important our earliest beginnings. What we milestone this year-the marking found was an educational process of our 25th year-it is cause to that can provide students with an celebrate, too, that which reflects interdisciplinary perspective; most clearly the success and intercultural understanding and, character of any institution of significantly for a College founded higher education- the character of in the 1960s and committed to our graduates. For all of us who social awareness and action, a have been involved in the concern with the social conse­ education of our alums, and for quences and ethical implications those many Pitzer faculty and staff of knowledge and action. who maintain regular contact with It is, however, not in committee our alums, it is, indeed, a proud meetings, nor the curriculum, the reflection. classroom, nor even in our In recent years, we have worked students that the articulation and as a community to define and realization of these educational articulate Pitzer's educational goals is definitively seen. These objectives. What are the goals can be tested in the lives and educational values we strive to choices of our graduates. instill in our students, and thereby During the past 10 years, one of impart to our graduates? What my greatest pleasures has been emerged from that process meeting and corresponding with encompassed the best goals of Pitzer graduates. I am proud and liberal education-breadth of privileged to represent Pitzer knowledge; understanding in College. It is gratifying to see how depth; critical thinking, formal the lives and careers of our analysis, and effective expression. graduates reflect our educational Perhaps even more importantly, objectives. Some of the most we sought to define those enjoyable moments of my work educational goals that are are those times when I have an distinctive to a Pitzer education opportunity to talk about what and which reflect traditions from makes Pitzer College unique in the world of higher education and what Pitzer College has to offer to the world beyond Claremont. The answers to those queries are, of course, inextricably interwoven-in much the same way as the educational goals of the ' institution are woven into the values and lives of our grads. Pitzer has long attracted a special group of students: self-motivated, bright, eager to learn. They come to us full of promise and we are gratified when we see and hear that, to some measure, Pitzer helps them fulfill that promise so that they, in turn, impart those values to the larger world. This many proudly do. This special issue of "Participant" is dedicated to all of our graduates. As we celebrate our 25th year, we celebrate and honor them.

Frank L. Ellsworth President and Professor of Political Studies 2&3

Inside Story

Back from Bolivia At the Editor's Oesk In a telephone interview from her loft in Seattle's Pioneer Square, Curt Schaeffer '75 returned from In January, Nancy Martin '70 which she shares with a painter, Bolivia last year where he managed was appointed executive editor of Vandenbrink said when she's not the technical component of a The Journal of Nucleic kid making jewelry, she's doing health education project aimed at Researr;h, published by IRL Press. volunteer work for the National Martin, a biology major at Pitzer, reducing infant mortality rates in Abortion Rights Action League. isolated rural areas that have no has a doctorate in biology from "Even though I am making medical services. Bolivia's national Harvard University and is Preston jewelry that only rich people can infant mortality rate is high: out of Pope Joyes Professor of Biochem­ afford I feel I need to balance istry at the University of Louisville. every 1,000 infants that are born, that," she said. She has held the endowed chair 170 die before they are a year old, "After eight years of Republicans Schaeffer said, mostly as a result of position since 1987. and another four in store, I think dehydradration, acute respiratory She teaches biochemistry and it's really important for those of us infections, malnutrition, and molecular and cellular biology, who can to be out there on the other childhood diseases. and conducts research in the front line." Vandenbrink was a The project aimed to give mechanisms that contribute to sociology major at Pitzer, and said normal cell growth. Her research mothers the means to solve health she was impressed with the way problems in the hom~ without. is supported by the National the sociology professors got relying on health services that, III Institutes of Health and the involved in the community. most cases, weren't available to National Science Foundation. "One of the things I came away them, Schaeffer said. Martin's publication credits are from my Pitzer experience with Schaeffer lived in Bolivia from too long to list here, but just was a responsibility to be active to keeping it to the last two years, she 1983 1988, and now lives in socially and politically." New York City and works for has contributed articles to Nucleic Vandenbrink was featured in the kid Researr;h and Molecular and Cooperative American Relief May/June 1987 issue of Seattle's Everywhere (C.A.R.E.) U.S.A. as Cellular Biowgy in 1988 and 1989 Style magazine. regional manager of Latin and the Journal ofBiowgical American programs. In January Chemistry in 1988. We would like Suzanne Smith Embraces Art as a 1988, Journal ofRum I Health to list the titles of those articles, Healing Ritual published his "Bolivian Mothers but one would have to have a When a fellow artist was Clubs as Media: Building on biology degree to understand diagnosed with cancer, six artists, Community-Based Networks." them. Congratulations on your including Suzanne Smith '86, The article was about primary new appointment, Nancy! joined forces for "The Embracing health care intervention, Schaeffer A Social Conscience Circle: The Art of Well ness," a said. Journal ofRuml Health is major group exhibit and healing published by the National Rural Cathryn Vandenbrink '72 is an ritual to "honor the strength and Health Association. independent jewelry designer in fragility of human and creative Seattle, Wash., who balances spirit energies." The artists her jewelry-making with embraced "elements from the political work. sources of nature, mythology, religion and the archaic world in order to signifY the universal experience of healing," states the. exhibition catalogue. This past year has also kept Smith busy with solo exhibitions

The creations of Cathryn Vandenbrink 72: a large sterling 14 karat gold necklace and bracelet. Early Outreach Coordinator Henrie Watkins

at The Claremont Graduate Carmel also produced a video "I feel like we're finally moving School, where she did an outdoor program in the summer of 1988, somewhere on family needs," she installation; and at California State "Operation Salam," for the said, adding that employers University, Bakersfield, where she United Nations, showing the frequently refer to child care as a was a visiting artist and one of four human and environmental tragedy women's issue rather than a family national sculptors awarded a prize that has befullen Afghanistan. Issue. to execute an environmental Carmel and Girardet are about Sturtevant is the department sculpture, which she installed on to head overseas again on a two­ chair and an associate professor of the campus. year expedition along Africa's sociology at Southern Oregon seven-nation wildlife belt State College. Watkins Reaches Out (Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Designing Woman Henrie Watkins '88 has returned Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and to Pitzer to develop the Early Kenya) doing documentaries on Patti Podesta '78 can be found Outreach Program for the College. different subjects in each of the teaching a film and video class at The program is designed to countries they will be visiting. Art Center School of Design at encourage minority students to The documentary business is a Pasadena. strive for post-secondary education new venture for Carmel. He has She was the editor of a major and emphasizes giving personal spent most of his years since book on video art, The Resolution: attention to each student. "- graduating from Pitzer in the print A Critique of Video Art published A political studies major at side of journalism. Talk about in 1986 by the Los Angeles Pitzer, Watkins reports that public working your way up, Carmel Contemporary Exhibition. We policy interests him "because it started at the Christian Science should be able to see her work on affords me the opportunity to help Monimr as a copy boy in 1979 and television soon when a pilot called others in a creative way. And being was editor of the international "Kitty Hoy" is broadcast. Podesta an Afro-American, I am especially edition of the Monimr by the time was the art director ofthe pilot. interested in policy that can he left the newspaper in 1987. She's also directing a video about enhance the condition of Carmel said he hopes to visit Joan Burroughs, wife of writer minorities in our society." He Pitzer soon and give a talk about William Burroughs. credits his participation on the his experiences in Afghanistan. Rent Control Battles Faculty Executive Committee, We're looking forward to it! while a student, with exposing Rosemarie Ibanez '86 is him to the "crisis of minority Saving the Forest for the Trees currently involved in a legal battle participation in higher education, Vicky Sturtevant '72 has been between the City of Los Angeles both on the faculty and student working on a survey of people and a corporation that owns a level." Watkins believes his who live in Oregon's "urban large mobile home park in the city. exposure on FEC led him to take wildland interface," the area Ibanez is fighting on the side of the idea of early outreach and between the cities and the forest. the city, doing research to back the apply it to the Pitzer community. A lot of people from California city's defense against the "Through Pitzer Early Outreach I have been moving to Oregon, she corporation'S legal challenge to want to make the concept of a said, because of what they perceive Los Angeles' rent control law. college education a reality for more Oregon to be, and are surprised by It's Ibanez' mission to prove minority students," he explains. what they find when they get that the mobile home court owner And, he'd love some help from there. Folks who buy up acres of could have made more money fellow alums! Watkins encourages land are dismayed when the than it did under the rent control anyone interested in being a part adjacent forested land is harvested law, which applies to rental of Pitzer's Early Outreach Program of its trees. "They say, 'what properties built before 1978. to contact him at (714) 621-8000, happened to my view?'" she said. A similar legal battle was recently extension 2625. What she found was that people fought in Santa Barbara and the who have lived in the forest for court sided with the corporation, Out of Afghanistan years are happy with the timber Ibanez said. If you caught the "MacNeil­ industry whereas people who have "For us it's a big deal because Lehrer News Hour" in December moved to Oregon recently think they have a precedent now and or i~ March you may have seen the woods need to be preserved. they'll try to see how many cases the three mini-documentaries Newcomers see the woods as they can win," she said. created by Jeffrey Carmel '78 and valuable aesthetic and tourist Ibanez also worked on the three­ his partner Edward Girardet. The attractions, her survey showed. volume 1988 Rent Stabilization two started their own company, Sturtevant said she is getting a lot IBEX Associates, to produce of local press and is traveling documentaries. The company is throughout Oregon giving talks based in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., about her survey. near San Diego. She is also working on issues concerning poor women and got together a consortium of employers who are working on providing child care. 4&5

Revielvas part of the Los Angeles "I couldn't function without The experience was strange at city staff, doing research with a my computer," she said. The two­ first, he said, but "when I got to consultant firm . The review person office handles publicity and know the students it seemed more studied the effects of 10 years of subsidiary rights. Her job also normal." rent regulation in Los Angeles. involves sales and other types of Since Isenstein graduated in Ibanez recently had a reunion in promotion. 1980 ftom the School of the Art Los Angeles with Robin Lee '87 At any given time, she's working Institute of Chicago he has kept a who was on her way to Basel, on about three different types of studio going, shown his work, Switzerland, where she received a projects, either advance publicity sold l1is work, and done odd jobs one-year contract as a research for a book, publicizing a book which he described as "various assistant for a medical research that's currently on the bookstore money-making schemes." institute. shelves, or publicizing books that He had a show last December at have been on the market for a Hokin/Kausman Gallery in Smells Like a Dog while. Chicago in which nine pieces of Michel Raviol '85 has gone to Because of the California his sculpture were exhibited. the dogs ... dog perfume, that is. In connection, her job is bicoastal in What's it like to be back at 1987, at age 24, Raviol's "Les nature. Pitzer? Poochs" fragrances for the classy "That's one of the things I like "I guess I have a general canine hit the stores in New York about my job. I enjoy living in impression of Pitzer that it hasn't City. His creations are Le Pooch, New York, but I enjoy having a changed that much. Basically I for male dogs, and La Pooch, for connection with California," found the quality of students to be female dogs. The fragrances are Mecke said. good, better than the last place I " light elegant scents" and feature She comes to California about taught," he said. two conditioners to keep the dog's once a year and was scheduled to Also on campus for the spring coat healthy, soft, and shiny. attend a sales conference in semester was writer Ari Sherman A year after their introduction, Berkeley in May. '85. Sherman said he found his the fragrances "outperformed She does have reminders of teaching experience at Pitzer very many of the top ' human Claremont ftom time to time, enjoyable. fragrances ' in Bloomingdales," though. The Press is publishing a " Pitzer is a unique place to according to a press release ftom book by Pomona College English teach," he said. He described the DePavel International, Inc. professor Thomas Pinney, The students as " still curious, "It's such a hit at Bloomie's that History of Wine in America, about adventuresome, and fairly we got nationwide TV coverage the history of the U.S. wine independent thinkers." and dozens of magazine articles;' industry up to prohibition. Sherman was the recipient of a Raviol wrote in a letter to She will also be promoting Thomas J. Watson Foundation Participant. "Just goes to show Golden Inches by Grace Service, a Scholarship to study the effects of what us Pitzerites can do!! " missionary who was in China in the Holocaust on writing today in the 1930s and who later retired to Europe and Israel. Hot 011 the Press Claremont's Pilgrim Place. The "It ended up being an Amanda Mecke '73, the New book will be published in October. international conversation on York office chief of the University When she's not on the racism and writers' response to it," of California Press, said being in telephone or in front of her he said. publishing in New York City computer keyboard, Mecke is The "coup" of the year was his doesn't have to mean being on the involved in two organizations. She conversation with Italian writer fast track. is on the board of the American Primo Levi a year before Levi's "Being in scholarly publishing is Association of University Presses death. Levi was a pre-eminent different than trade publishing," (AAUP) and is a past president of writer on the Holocaust, Sherman she said. "We're publishing books Women in Scholarly Publishing said. for the long run." (WISP), which helps women with Out of the experience he wrote a Mecke has worked for the career development, education, series of poems called "Poems for University of California Press, one and training. Anni of Riga," which he said were his attempt at "finishing" the ofthe top five university presses in Can't Get Enough the country, for the last eight poems of a 16-year-old victim of years. She spent three years at Several Pitzer College graduates the Holocaust. Harcolirt Brace Jovanovich before have had a chance to experience Sherman was splitting his duties that. She received her doctorate in life at their alma mater from the at Pitzer this spnng with another literature from UCLA. other side of the desk, so to speak. English teaching job at Mount San She said she spends about half of Burt Isenstein '78 is one of Antonio College in Walnut. her time on the phone and the them. He returned to Pitzer to He would eventually like to get rest of the time doing follow-up teach ceramics for the spring his doctorate, but in the meantime letters. semester. "I'm teaching in the studio where I took my first class," he said. Ceramics instructor Burt /senstein 78

business administration degree in finance in 1979. In February 1988 her story landed on the pages of Money magazine. She was in the news because the brokerage and securities research business she had started with her husband five years earlier had attracted a loyal following of 50 is working on a novel and "just defends the interests of national top money managers. writing poems as usual," he said. advertisers on legal and regulatory The firm concentrates on the Poet Maurya Simon '80 came fronts in Washington, D.C. relationship between stock prices back to Pitzer to teach in 1984 and One issue that's before the ANA and merger value, she said. Twice a liked it so much she did it again in right now is the possibility that year, the company publishes a list 1986 to teach poetry workshops advertising may be taxed, Eger said. of stocks that are undervalued, and literature. "Eventually the cost of those which she said has been picked up The experience was wonderful, taxes is going to be borne by the by the Wall Street jour1U/.1 for the she said. consumer. The bureaucracy that last year-and-a-half. "I really enjoyed it. One of the would have to be put in place to "We're trying to help money advantages of education at Pitzer is track advertising would be managers, institutions in the classes are really small," allowing incredible. The implications are particular, outperform the more time for interaction with very far-reaching." market," she said. students, she said. "Both ofthe Eger is the vice president and She juggles her interest in the times I taught there were several director of national corporate firm with her duties as a mother of talented writers in my classes." advertising and communications 4-year-old Brian, and says she is She also enjoyed a different rela­ for Citcorp/Citibank in New York excited by both roles. tionship with her former instruc­ City. She's behind the "It's important to me to balance tors, who became her colleagues. Citicorp/Citibank campaign being a mother and being a Tom Burkdall '80 taught English known by the slogan, "Citicorp: business person," she said. at Pitzer in the fall of 1988. Because Americans want to In the Money magazine article, "I enjoyed it," he said. "It was succeed, not just survive," which she was portrayed as starting work nice to work with the small classes was launched in September 1987. at 5 a.m. and going until 10 p.m. and I had some very good Her next major marketing project Things have eased up a bit since students." is Geography Awareness Week, the then, she said. She now gets up at Burkdall is at the University of second week in November, in 6 and doesn't always work until 10 California Los Angeles teaching which Citicorp/Citibank, as the any more. She said she now has part-time and writing his sole corporate sponsor in more help at her Westport, dissertation on James Joyce and conjunction with the National Conn., home. film theory. Geographic Society, will provide Zimbalist Smith said she sees "I think there's some 150,000 teaching kits at high more of the same in her future. connection between his writing schools across the country. Her company has found its and films in general," he said . She and husband John have two "niche," she said. Burkdall was on two panels last sons, ages 3 and 5. She said her life "We perceive staying where we June in Venice, Italy, at the 11th is ruled by the schedule of the train are," she said. "We want to do Annual James Joyce Symposium. which takes her from her Stanford, what we do really well." He was scheduled to go to a Conn., home into the city. Networking with Lesbian Alumni national conference on Joyce in Mergers and Motherhood Philadelphia in June, moderating a Diane "Dee" Mosbacher, M.D., panel and presenting a paper. Linda Zimbalist Smith '75 Ph.D., reports that she finished Burkdall is going for his doctorate didn't plan on being a stock her psychiatry residency at at UCLA and wants to go back to picker. When she graduated from Harvard Medical School in June teaching English at the college or Pitzer she had a dual major, 1987. university level. English and psychology, and was "I traveled around the world He said his goal is to be a basically leaving her options open. with my lover of 13 years," she "Joyceian ." "Some people have their lives all said. "We are now settled in San She's Elected planned out," she said. "I Francisco, where I work as the didn't." medical director at Mission Day Mary Ann Jackson Eger '69 was After graduating from Pitzer she 'lieatment, a facility for acute and recently elected to the board of took a trip to the East Coast and chronically mentally ill patients. directors of the Association of was dazzled by the world of "Research is still an interest of National Advertisers, Inc. for a finance. She had pretty much mine and I am currently involved three-year term. Eger said the decided on going to business in two projects: one is a ANA is the only organization that school by then, and went on the longitudinal study oflesbians who the University of Chicago, graduating with a master's of 6&7

choose to have children and the Helping the Mentally 11/ Schnapj:> is an assistant professor other is a study of substance abuse at the UmvefSlty of Texas Medical among heterosexual, bisexual, and Bill. Schnapp '72 was recently School at Houston and director of lesbian women." appointed vICe chairman to the Community Psychiatry Tiaining Texas Interagency Council on the Mosbacher is on the board of for the Department of Psychiatry Mentally Retarded, Development­ trustees of the Union Graduate and Behavioral Sciences at the UT School and of the Lyon Martin ally Disabled, and Mentally III Medical School. Offenders by Texas Governor ~hmc, which she said provides The director's position is William Clements in 1988. inexpensIve, quality health care for primarily a teaching position "I have a bill. before the women. Schnapp said, involving , Mosbacher received a doctoral Legislature to shorten that name consultation and education with considerably," he said of the degree in social psychology from the community at large. Schnapp council. the Umon Graduate School in teaches a~mlnlstratlve psychiatry 1979 and a medical degree at the It is a six-year appointment. The and the history of public mental Baylor College of Medicine in c~unCll, which is newly created, health systems. Houston in 1983. will analyze issues relating to Schnapp received his doctoral mentally Impaired offenders in In 1987, she won a playwriting degree in psychopolitics from the Texas and make recommendations contest for her work "The Price." Umon for Experimenting Colleges "We are interested'in for their solution, Schnapp said. and Universities in 1982. The council is involved in several networking with lesbian alumni of He and wife Sherry announced Pitzer," she said. "We know you research projects and pilot service the birth of their first child, son are out there!" She asks interested programs, including a diversionary Noah, on July 9, 1988. alumni to call or write: Diane program for non-violent mentally "Dee" Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D., impaired offenders. 3570 Clay St., San Francisco CA 94118, (415) 346-2336 or E~genie Yaryan '70, 293 Via Del Rey, San Rafael, CA 94901, (415) 485-1034. Exhibiting Whimsy Paint, beads, stitching, fabrics, buttons, and more come together in the sculptural creatures of Tammy Lavanty '86. Lavanty was a featured artist this past December in Del Mano Gallery in Pa.sadena and Los Angeles, and Elizabeth Fortner Gallery in Santa Barbara. Her 12- to 30- inch creatu.res can be found doing mischievous things In galleries across, the country, including the Mmd s Eye In Scottsdale Ariwna and The Signature Gallery in ' Atlanta, Georgia. Lavanty is also expenmenting with a variety of colors and textures in other fiber forms on her wallpieces and quilts.

The dolls of Tammy Lavanty '86 can be found in galleries across the country. Ink Spot

A Classic Size and Shape and the Homonoidal Mandibular Charles W. Hedrick, Jr., '78 is a Corpus." His award-winning; classic ... a master of the classics, paper dealt with th~ mechamcal that is. design of the lower jaW of apes, He recently had an article, "The humans, and fossil humans. Temple and Cult of Apollo Daegling went to Turkey last Patroos in Athens," published in summer to do field work in a American Journal ofArchaeology. location rich with ape fossils and The article, about the cult of the plans to return there this summer. ancestral Apollo, appeared in the After graduate school, he is April 1988 edition of the journal, planning "more ofthe same," but which is published by The said he's not sure if he'll Archaeological Institute of concentrate primarily on writing America. The article is dedicated or research. to the memory of Harry J. Carroll, "I'm sure I'll be doing a little of J r. , late professor of classics at both-when you get your degree Pomona College. in archaeology, you can't be too Hedrick is an assistant professor picky," he said. at the State University of New York at Buffilo. Last summer he Of Jade and Ancient China led a session of the American Elizabeth Childs-Johnson '70 School for Classical Studies in has been so busy that we could Athens, instructing graduate devote the entire issue of students from all over the world. Participant to her activities. Her Why Do We Have Chins? most recent publication credit appears in the March 1989 issue of We're the only primates who Art Bulletin, which features a have chins, and David J. Daegling review she wrote ofthe book, '82 wants to know why. Daegling Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur was scheduled to present a paper M. Sackkr Colleetron, by Robert W. on the mandibular symphysis of Bagley. Art Bulletin is published by great apes to the American The College Art Association of Association of PhysICal America. Anthropologists in San Diego in Childs-Johnson also wrote an April. . . article that appears in the April "The big questIOn IS, why do we 1988 issue of OrientatWns have chins?" Daegling said. "I'm magazine, which is published in trying to look at if there's a China, called "Dragons, Masks, mechanical explanation as to why Axes and Blades From Four Newly we have a particular Documented Jade-Producing configuration." . Cultures of Ancient China." The The chin question is part of his article came out at the same time dissertation topic at the State Childs-Johnson was putting on an University of New York at Stony art exhibit of ancient Chinese Brook. ritual jades at the China Institute Daegling said he is "in the of America in New York City. process of being in the process of She was asked to put on the writing his dissertation." He said exhibit as the result of work she he is hopeful the paper he was to did in 1986-87 in China studying present in San Diego will end up early historic Chinese ritual art .. being a chapter in the dissertation. She did the work while on a Chma Daegling is doing research and Scholar Exchange in the People's teaching at Stony Brook. A Republic of China, which Childs­ "boiled-down version" of the Johnson said is comparable to a paper, which, in 1988, won him National Endowment for the the Mildred Trotter Award by the Humanities grant. She studied American Association of Physical recent excavations which, she said, Anthropologists, is currently "at are "changing our whole press" and he is expectmg IttO understanding of ancient China" appear this year in the Amencan and helping to define ancient Journal ofPhysical Anthropology. Chinese culture and its The paper will be titled . relationship to modern China. "Biomechanics of Cross-sectIOnal 8&9

The latest book by Hunter Lovins 72 is a lighthearted novel.

In 1987, Artibus AsU!e ran an practice giving psychotherapy to article written by Childs-Johnson depressed individuals. called "The J ue and Its And on the personal front, Ceremonial Use in the Ancestor Shuey enjoys spending time with Cult of China." It was about the daughter Lillian, 11, who, taking function of a ritual wine vessel afrer mom, enjoys science and based on literary evidence from literature. Together, they take oracle bone inscriptions, which pleasure in hiking, walking, and were a form of divination used by skiing. ancient Chinese kings and diviners On Being Conscious of Folklore to communicate with ancestor spirits, Childs-Johnson said. Peter Tommerup '75 took Artibus Asiae is published jointly advantage ofthat unique Pitzer by the AMS Foundation for the oppportunity to design his own Arts, Sciences and Humanities and major: "Consciousness Systems: the Arthur M. Sackler An Application of Folklore, Foundation. Environmental Perception and Childs-Johnson said her latest World View." His recent accomplishment is a J. Paul Getty contribution to the book Postdoctoral Fellowship in the foundation, to foster efficient Organizational Folklore, published History of Art and the resource use and global security. by Sage Publications, suggests that Humanities, which she will use to They were on their way to Greece he still makes good use of that complete research on the ritual in April so Amory could receive unusual and elaborate major arts of ancient China. She will be one ofthe world's two top today. His chapter is titled "From affiliated with the Institute of Fine environmental awards, the Delphi 1i-ickster to Father Figure: Arts of New York Universiry. She Prize from the Onassis Foundation Learning from the plans to return to China this fall­ in Greece, for innovative Mythologization of Top she goes there once or twice a approaches to energy problems. Management." year-and will be giving a paper at In 1984 the couple was pictured Tommerup explains the premise a symposium on the Shang culture in Newsweek building their of the work: "The book is of ancient China. She just alternative dream house in Old primarily a series of articles by returned from another conference Snowmass, Colo., as a showcase folklorists and management in China in November. for energy saving. science people who are all Hunting for Energy Solutions Lovins is the co-author of two concerned with the use of symbols other books: Brittle Power: Energy and the invention of culture." Hunter Lovins '72, lawyer, Policy for National Security} Tommerup's chapter focuses on political scientist, sociologist and published in 1982, a technical the study offolklore within forester, has another book out, study written for the Pentagon Hughes Aircrafr Company. Energy Unbound: A Fable for about the vulnerability ofthe U.S. Tommerup is currently a America}s Future} published in energy system and what to do doctoral candidate in the UCLA 1988 by Sierra Club Books. about it; and First Nuclear World Organizational Folklore program. According to her co-author War, published in 1983 by William Along with Michael Owen Jones, husband and partner in her Morrow about what is causing the a UCLA administrator, Tommerup environmental pursuits, Amory B. proliferation of nuclear bombs and penned "Bringing Out the Best in Lovins, the book is a "popular what to do about it. Us: Positive Management Practices novel about the lighthearted at UCLA," which was published adventures of a housewife who Iris Levine Shuey: Understanding in part in the epilogue ofthe book becomes the head of the U.S. DepreSSion, and Having Some Fun Exploring Folk Art, also from Sage Department of Energy and runs it Psychiatrist Iris Levine Shuey, Publications, 1987. as if she were running a bake sale." M.D. '68 published a technical But, back to Tommerup's Lovins and her husband travel article, "A Response to folklore roots at Pitzer- he credits the world carrying on their work Dexamethasone: A Subrype of a Pitzer course with Guy Carawan in energy policy. They created the Depression," in the Archives of (American Folk Life Folk Music Rocky Mountain Institute in General Psychiatry, July 1988. In Series) with teaching him the 1982, an independent, nonprofit addition to her continuing importance of folklore and says research and educational research in depression, Shuey that he "thrived at Pitzer and divides her time between teaching didn't want to leave." Maybe he'll in the psychology department at get that wish since he cites his Brown Universiry, working at a post -doctorate goal as teaching community mental health clinic organizational folklore and culture with chronic patients and the at "a place like Pitzer." homeless, as well as her private Lori Goldfarb '82 keeps busy with Gary Kates 74 dedicated his 1985 The teaching, research, and publishing. Cercle Social to Pitzer professors Werner Warmbrunn and Lucian Marquis.

McKenzie's Turtle Diaries Thcey McKenzie '83 found a seaworthy subject and wrote A Characterization ofMarine Mammals, Pennipeds , and Sea­ Turtles ofthe Mid-Atlantic, published in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Document put out by the U.S. Department of Commerce this past January. Currently, McKenzie is completing her master's degree in zoology at the University of Rhode Island and is working on Goldfarb: Making a Habit of Writing her thesis on the subject of Composition Teachers titled predator prey and the relationships "Composition Teaching as Lori Goldfarb doesn't let much of juvenile American lobsters. In 'Women's Work': Daughters, time go by without publishing. keeping with her studies, Handmaids, Whores and 1986 was a particularly busy year. McKenzie is employed as a Mothers." She co-authored Meeting the biologist in the Department of Reporting on the home front, Challenge ofDisability or Chronic Commerce National Marine Tuell writes that daughters Dana, Illness: A Family Guide, with Mary Fishery Service, where her focus is and Robin, 3, alternately Jane Brotherson, Jeanne Ann ?; on endangered species. exasperate, worry and entrance Summers, and Ann P. Turnbull, me, as does my husband, Steve." from Paul Brooks Publishing But Can She Say It Three Times - C~mpany. The book is currently Fast?! Tale of a Transvestite bemg translated into Italian. Sally Caldecott-Hazard '70 gets This is a special year for Gary Also that year, Goldfarb penned our vote for the alum authoring Kates '74, who teaches history at "Attitudes Toward Sex, Arousal, articles with incredibly intricate Thnity University at San Antonio, and the Retention of Contraceptive and elaborate titles. Her research Texas. It's the bicentennial of the Information," co-authored with article, "Limbac Postictal Events: French Revolution. To mark the Meg Gerrard, Fredrick X. Anatomical Substraight and Opioid event, he has an article in the Gibbons, and Thomas G. Plant. Receptor Involvement," was spring 1989 edition of Social The article appeared in the Journal recently published in Progress in Researr:h, published by The New ofPersonality and Social Psychology. Neuro-Psycho Pharmacology and School for Social Research in New One of her co-authors on another Biological Psychiatry. She also co­ York, titled "Jews Into article that year was Pitzer psycho­ authored an article with J. Frenchmen" about the logy Professor Rick Tsujimoto. Mazziotta and M. Phelps, which emancipation of the Jews during Along with Robert Fuhr and was published in The Journal of the French Revolution. Stanley Frischman, the two wrote NeuroScience and titled "Cerebral He will also be publishing an "Systematic Desensitization and Correlates of Depressed Behavior article about Thomas Paine in the Relaxation as Adjuncts to the in Rats, Visualized Using C-14-Z­ Journal ofthe History ofIdeas, titled 'lieatment of Anorexia Nervosa " Deoxyglucose Audioradiography." "From Liberalism to Radicalism­ published in Psychological Repurt;. Last year, Hazard penned "Interictal Thomas Paine's Rights ofMan." Goldfarb followed her '86 string Changes in Behavior and Cerebral Paine was always considered to be of published works with the 1987 Metabolism in the Rat: Opioid a radical; but against the back­ publication of "Sexual Abuse: Involvement," which was published ground of the French Revolution Antecedent to Eating Disorders," in Experimental Neurology. his Rights ofMan "is pretty mild' m the Internal Journal ofEating stuff," Kates said. Disorders. Poetic Tuell "If people really want to learn Cu.rrently, Goldfarb serves on Two poems, "Rescue" and about Tom Paine and the French the Children's Health Council "Heartsick" by Cynthia Tuell '71, Revolution, they should see a working with adolescents. Th~ were published in Psychological movie called 'La Nuit des Council is an affiliate of the Perspectives last year. Varennes,'" available in the foreign Children's Hospital of Stanford After teaching for eight years at movie section of video stores, University and functions as a UCLA in writing programs, Tuell Kates said. The movie recreates in training site for Stanford medical accepted a position as lecturer in fictional drama what would have residents. Goldfarb reports that the English department at she is expecting a teaching and University of California, Riverside. research appointment at Stanford She recently presented a paper at to materialize soon. the Convention for College 10 & 11

Parents should be involved in their children's education, says Claudia Guyton Jones 72.

happened "if Casanova, Tom with PKU, an inherited disease, [Paine 1and second-rate novelist should plan their pregnancies and Restif de la Bretonne had met be sure they are on their diets at during the French Revolution," the time of conception in order to Kates said. avoid possible learning disabilities Usually European historians do in their children later on, Pitzer "pretty dull stuff," Kates said, but Professor of Biology David Sadava, he's clearly putting a little spice Sutcliffe's co-author said. into the study of history. Kates has "The Effects of Maternal been on a one-year leave of Hyperphenylalaninemia on absence from his position at Learning in Mature Rats," by uinity University during which he Sutcliffe and Sadava, appeared in spent several weeks in France and 1988 in Lifo Sciences, Vol. 43, England doing research on a book Pergamon Press. As a result of about a French diplomat, the Sutcliffe's work, a major study of Chevalier D'Eon, who lived half PKU is under way, Sadava said. his life as a woman. D'Eon was a Sutcliffe is now a student at French nobleman who was University of California Los officially declared a woman by the Angeles Medical School. king of France, Kates said. The Interlocking Ecological Systems," Where There's Smoke, There's Chevalier D'Eon was at one time in Contemporary Community, Hitchcock France's ambassador to England. expected to be published in fall Kates describes his book as "a very 1989. It is a revised version of a Jan Hitchcock '77 is really odd story about gender paper presented at the annual smokin' when it comes to confusion." The working title is meetings of the American Socio­ publications. She's recently The Transexual Moment: The logical Association in New York published, or participated in the Chevalier D'Eon and the Politics of City in 1986. It argues that non­ publication of, a slew of articles on Gender. The book is in the hands profit organizations modify their cigarette smoking and health of an agent, Kates said. mission and service in response to concerns. Her article, " Adolescent Kates is also the author of an the changing community environ­ Smoking: Research and Health earlier book, The Cenle Social, The ment, she said. Policy," appeared in Millbank Girondins and the French Revolution, Also forthcoming is "Developing Quarter/x Vol. 66, Issue 1, 1988. published by Princeton University a Universe of Nonprofit The article was co-authored with Press. Incidentally, the 1985 work Organizations: Methodological P.D. Cleary, M . Semmer, L.J, is dedicated to professors Werner Considerations," which was Flinchbaugh, and J,M. Pinney. Warmbrunn (history) and Lucian expected to be published in Her most recent article is "The Marquis (political studies). Kates Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Influence of Situation and Coping added that Professor Warmbrunn Q;larterly in spring 1989. This on Relapse Crisis Outcome sparked his interest in research tool discusses the criteria Following Smoking Cessation," psychohistory, which helped him of how to go about building a forthcoming in the Journal of in his upcoming book about the universe of nonprofit Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Chevalier D 'Eon. organizations. It is essentially a Co-authors are R.E. Bliss, A.J, Garvey, and J, Heinhold. Jones: Parenting and Publishing complete list of nonprofit organizations, she said. Hitchcock also contributed Parents are Teachers, Too (1988) is In 1987,Journal of Voluntary material to the much-discussed the title of a new book by Claudia Action Research published her U.S. Surgeon General's 1989 Guyton Jones '72 from "Patterns ofInstitutionai report on smoking prevention Williamson Publishing Company, Relations in the Welfare State: activities, Reducing Health Conse­ Vermont. The book is aimed at Public Mandates and the Nonprofit quences ofSmoking: 25 Years of encouraging parents to involve Sector." She traced the forces that Progress: A Report of the Surgeon themselves in their child's drive relationships between General. education, particularly during the different institutions in the Enchanted Days years up to six. Jones and husband American welfare state, looking at Sonny have a son, Nathan, 4, and child care, health, education, Maurya Simon '80 has a second she reports feeling somewhat housing, and community develop­ book of poetry, Days ofAwe , out caught between two careers­ ment in Chicago. this spring. As with her first book, teaching and writing-but loving The Enchanted Room, it is published them both. Pregnant Rats and PKU by Copper Canyon Press. Great Expectations Based on research she started Simon was one of 30 people while a senior at Pitzer, Debbie nominated recently by the Council Kirsten A. Gronbjerg '68 has Sutcliffe '86 recently co-authored for the International Exchange of several published works forth­ an article on research which could Scholars in Washington, D.C., for coming. One is "Communities be important to the many women the Indo-American Fellowship to and Nonprofit Organizations: with phenylketonuria (PKU) who

h "",...... ,Q ...... I:& ...... ""'t- "" .... ,., h "I T,Q" ... A second book of poetry by Maurya Another book by Deb Deutsch Smith Simon '80 was published this spring. '68.

from 1896 to 1909. He later served two terms as governor of Pennsylvania. Miller said his biography on Pinchot is "due out in the next millenium sometime." The debates between Pinchot and Muir will be the subject of a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary featuring Miller. Called "The Wilderness Idea" it will premiere at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in September. The segment in which Miller appears, "The Manager and the Priest," will air sometime this full. Miller and colleague Gary Kates '74 have had an opportunity to Special Educator Deb Deutsch realize one of their dreams from Smith: Teacher, Writer, Trustee their Pitzer days . go to India for six months to teach "When we lived on Indian Hill Deb Deutsch Smith graduated and do research. If she wins, [Blvd. in Claremont] together, one from Pitzer in 1968 but she's back Simon will be giving lectures to of the things we talked about was now: she's been serving on the Indian students at the University teaching together," Miller said. College'S Board of1i'ustees since of Bangalore and working on Both are now at Trinity 1985. translations of devotional poems. University in San Antonio, Texas, The prolific author is chair of Simon lives on Mt. Baldy, near and are often in and out of each the Special Education Department Claremont, and teaches at the other's classrooms . at the University of New Mexico. University of California, Riverside. "Gary comes into two of my Her current project is a special She came back to teach at Pitzer in classes to talk about the French education course package 1984 and again in 1986. Revolution," Miller said. containing a textbook, computer They do one class, a first-year study disks, presentation Taking a Little Bit of Pitzer to the seminar which is a general educa­ transparencies, teacher's guide, Lone Star State tion requirement at Thnity Univer­ and student study guide, expected Frank "Char" Miller '75 has sity. It is fashioned around Pitzer to be published by Prentice Hall been busy pursuing one of his Professor Lucian Marquis' (political in 1991. Her co-author is Ruth joys, the history of Hawaii. He is studies) seminars, Miller said. Luckasson, also a faculty member the author of a collection of Miller and Kates have a spiritual at the University. letters, journals, and diaries of as well as an educational link­ Smith is one ofthe authors of H!ram Bingham, a leading together they were instrumental in the Peabody Language missionary to H awaii in the early­ establishing San Antonio's fourth Development Kits, programs to-mid-19th century, called To synagogue, Congregation Beth widely used by teachers in special Raise the Lord's Banner: Am, which means " House of the education. She has written The book was published in 1988 People," in September 1988. The numerous books, articles, and by Edwin Meller, a New York and synagogue is founded on a educational materials including a Toronto publisher. Miller said "Pitzerian vision," Miller said. senes of computer "games" which Bingham was the man upon whom "!he congregation is deliberately are designed to increase children's James Michener's Hawaii is based. politically to the left," he said. thinking skills. Miller also co-edited Urban Kates ' wife, Lynne Diamond '75 After receiving a degree in Texas: Politics and Development, is president of the synagogue, and psychology from Pitzer, Smith expected to be published by the Miller's wife, Judi Lipsett '75, went on to earn an master's in Texas A&M University Press in IS head of the synagogue's educa­ education from the University of Sept\:mber. Miller and co-editor tional program and on the Washington in Seattle. Before Haywood Sanders both synagogue board of directors. joining the University of New contributed chapters to the book . In less than a year, the congrega­ Mexico, she conducted research in addition to editing the volume. tion has grown from four or five and taught teachers at Vanderbilt Miller's current research centers families to more than 70 families University in Tennessee. on Gifford Pinchot, one ofthe Miller said. ' Husband James Smith, whom major figures in conservation in He reported that his two children, she met while a student at the early 1920's. Benjamin, 8, and Rebecca, 5, are Columbia, is also an author-and Pinchot " had enormous tangles "a constant delight." . so too is their son, Steven, who is with John Muir and others over And Miller's wife Judi is assistant in the sixth~rade. The youngest the use of resources," Miller said. editor of Our Kids, a San Antonio­ Smith IS wntmg a series of books Pinchot was a close friend of based parenting magazine. called Choose Your Own Adventure. Theodore Roosevelt's and was "We're all going to come to head of the U.S. Forest Service Disneyland this summer," he said. 12 & 13

Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year: Anne Archer '69

It is the fatal scene in Fatal represents a vitally needed new As we chat over lunch at her Attraction. Academy Award­ public identity. That she can home in the bucolic enclave of Bel nominated actress Anne Archer is deliver her message with Air, California, even though her the beseiged Beth Gallagher, the tremendous knowledge, passion, husband, Terry Jastrow (an prototypically old-fashioned, all­ and a professional's masterful Emmy-winning ABC Sports American wife and mom who's technique only adds to her producer and president ofJack lost her security, her serenity, and significance. Nicklaus Productions), is at the is about to lose her life to her By her own admission Archer, office and sons Jeff, three, and husband's quickie-mn-amok. who refuses to call herself an Tommy, 16, are both in school, With Ramboesque accuracy, activist and "always gets there is evidence that Archer's Gallagher aims her gun and blows embarrassed, frankly, when I see domestic unit bears strong her nemesis to the eternal one­ actors talking about things other emotional resemblance to the night stand in the sky, thereby than their art," is an unlikely warm and loving, pre-Glenn Close assuring herself of peace, justice, candidate for the front lines. It unity of her Fatal Attraction family. and a forever faithful husband. took the recent intensity of the This thought causes Archer to Score one for motherhood, family, battle for reproductive rights to break into laughter. "Am I a and the American Way. drive her to the forefront. "I think perfect mother like Beth Archer appears at the podium maybe I was a little bit lazy and Gallagher? There is no such thing. looking about as radical as Princess watched everybody else speaking You have your good days, your Di at a ship's christening. With her up. Things were going along fine bad days. Your good years, your as a spokesperson, the message until I noticed a change in our bad years." that women should have society where the conservative Almost the same can be said responsibility for their own bodies element was getting a lot of press about her career, which, even with sounds, well, obvious. and attention. the success of Fatal Attraction, can Conservatives who've come just to "The Reagan Administration has best be described as 20 years of see the woman who zapped Glenn hurt women in a lot of ways. It's being known as the right actress Close are made to see a different been a rough time, and these trapped in all the wrong films. perspective on family planning. issues are terribly important. Despite miniseries, made-for-TV Those who only wanted a chance Considering the onslaught of movies, a stint on Falcon Crest, to touch a real life movie star are AIDS, it's also a time when our and off-Broadway and Hollywood­ touched by new information. young people really need to be produced plays such as "A Coupla Armed with indepth educated-not just about sex, but White Chicks Sitting Around understanding and remarkable about how they're going to take Talking," her career has yet to take fluency, Archer- aiming her facts responsibility for cause and effect. off with the degree of success with Ramboesque accuracy­ We seem to be reverting back for anticipated by most film critics. effectively and elegantly the sake of rigid morality, not for Even Fatal Attraction has not communicates her information. the sake of what is intelligently proven to be the pot of gold at the Score one for motherhood, family, needed in our society." end of the rainbow. Since its and the American Way. It is apparent that Archer release, she has turned down In Anne Archer's case the doesn't need a script to deliver her "every thing imaginable" in medium is as important as the lines for Planned Parenthood. Off television except one made-for-TV message. Appeals to logic have no the cuff she can produce a scathing movie aired last October. In impact when the audience doesn't indictment of the current state of December, she finally accepted an find the messenger appealing and, reproductive rights, pausing only offer to costar with Tom Berenger due to masterful media to ask laughingly, "Am I on my in an Alan Rudolph film. "It's manipulation, the mom-and­ soapbox again?" Unlike many gotta be the big time or nothing, apple-pie-type spokespersons have celebrities who allow their names and that takes a lot of patience. seemed to be on the side of the to be used for a cause, her You've got to wait. That's just the right wing. For those who still commitment to the issue was nature ofthe business." mistakenly define the reproductive obviously there long before she Many actresses in her position rights movement as only for the took it public. "I think I've would be reluctant to risk a career Birkenstocked and wire-rimmed always been exceedingly interested backlash by speaking up as a high­ eyeglass set, ignoring the millions in family problems and the profile reproductive righ ts advocate. of "everyday" women firmly psychology of the family, as well as Archer completely dismisses the committed to controlling their in women and children. So, I have possibility. "I don't care [about own bodies' destiny, Archer read enough and listened enough the anti-choice women]. They're a and looked enough to know minority. They're vocal, but it's what's going on in this country not really based on intelligent and the world. That's why I feel I thinking or real caring. If we have something to offer. I don't bowed to radical and fanatical feel out of place because I'm an thinking, I don't know where actress who happens to align we'd be in this country. myself with a cause. This particular cause I feel qualified enough to talk about." Anne Archer '69 says women must be able to control their reproductive systems in order to control their destiny.

conventions, and is now awaiting her next assignment from Planned Parenthood. "Afrerthe conventions I got a very positive response; very supportive. People came up to me and said they were moved. I didn't expect that. It made me know I am being effective." As we ofren forget, a successful political movement is not defined only by the clear and fervent visionaries who come to the beginning of the fray with fire in their gut and a passion for leadership. For every Martin Luther King, Jr., or Betty Friedan with a pure sense of mission, there are thousands of unexpected heroes who, when finding their basic freedoms challenged, feel compelled to turn their private feelings into public action. It is now that we need Anne Archer. Now, when the image of the reproductive rights movement has been as much under attack as "I'm not making a film about raised in California and graduated its political position. Now, when this issue. If! try to help Planned from the prestigious Marlborough the presumption is that anyone Parenthood, it's because I'm School and Pitzer College. The who is pro-choice cannot also be helping an organization that I feel daughter of actress Ma~orie Lord, pro-family, pro-motherhood, or, is doing something good. That's who spent the most visible part of by a giant leap oflogic, sort of separate from my career. her career making room for daddy pro-American. It's also not like going to Vietnam as Danny Thomas' wife in the With her big-screen image as the and talking to the Viet Congo 1950's hit series, she could have quintessential wife and mother, "It depends on what you do and led the protected, privileged life of with her ability to articulate and when you do it-just like having a star's daughter. Instead, the represent the majority of women children," she adds with a smile. women in her family imbued her who support the idea of personal Nevertheless, she is taking an with a strong sense of choice, Anne Archer brings a new up-front position in a high-risk independence. kind of validation to the sec.tor. According to Planned "I come from a very matriarchal movement. Parenthood, bombings, arson, are family. My grandmother ruled the "My viewpoint is ultimately frequently launched against family­ roost; my mother earned a living pro-family. It's having a good planning clinics. Vandalism has all her life. I understood from the family where people stay married become commonplace. Patients day I understood language that, as and where kids are raised with a and reproductive health care a woman, I should be able to take lot of love-where women take workers are assaulted and harassed. care of myself financially. My responsibility for their bodies and Clinic personnel have received mother felt that economic indepen­ what they do with their lives, so death threats, and murder has dence gave a woman freedom, so I they can be good parents. That's been tried. The opposition, always intended to be financially all I want." committed to life as long as it's independent. I sure didn't intend -Bonnie Allen before birth, takes itself seriously. to get married at a young age and Archer doesn't consider herself in have a bunch ·of kids." any wly part of their agenda. " If! Her mission is to pass that can help young people be more information on to other women. educated about their sexuality, if! "Once you take a step back and can help women remember what deny women privacy and choice, it means to have choice, I think you put them back in the kitchen; that's an intelligent and sane you put them back in an inferior viewpoint to have." position. If they cannot control As a member of what she their reproductive systems, they describes as a "very conservative cannot control their own personal Republican family," Archer was destiny." So far, Archer has spoken at both the Republican and Democratic Profiles in Caring 14 & 15

Fighting AIDS Through Education

After finishing at UCLA, Spiegel managed a women's private health clinic in Hol/yJvood for three years. While there she started a community health education outreach program, as well as publishing a quarterly magazine and designing educatWn brochures for the clinic. Her work at the clinic positioned her well to respond to an advertisement searching for a health director for a new, young organizatWn: AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA). Spiegel got the job. That was November 1983, and Spiegel became a pivotal player in an organizatWn that was to grrnv by leaps and bounds- coincidentally ,vith the rise in ,vhat was becoming known as the AIDS epidemic. A tall woman with a casual yet commanding presence, Spiegel speaks about her work at APLA ,Pith an animation and authority that underscores her commitment to and When Judy Spiegel graduated from Spiegel went straight from Pitzer to concern for people with AIDS. Over Pitzer in 1978 with a tUmble UCLA where she completed her coffie at a Los Angeles hotel, she concentratWn in psychology and master's degree in Public Health- a discusses the challenges, pain, and organizational studies, no one had yet directWn she attributes to courses and hope in the world ofthose fighting heard ofAcquired Immune Deficiency discussions with sociology professor AIDS: Syndrome. And certainly no one Ann Stromberg. «My intentWn was When I started at APLA I was envisioned the suffering ofthousands to get into clinical psychology, but the education department. There nor the fear, panic, and prejudice of Ann really interested me in changing was so much I wanted to do. I millions directed against the victims of my direction," explains Spiegel. really set out to "save the world." AIDS. Yet it would be in combating She also credits her time at Pitzer It was a good learning experience the spread ofthe disease, and the ,Pith helping her to carve her for me to find that sometimes it's ignorance-based fear which distinctive post-graduate career niche. just not possible. accompanied it, that Spiegel,vould «Pitzer teaches you to be self At that time APLA had already dedicate the greater part of her · motivated and to move beyond what been in operation for one year, professional career. people tell you you can do- and to with an all-volunteer staff. APLA forget what people tell you you can't had just received a contract from do," claims Spiegel. «It says rorget the state and had a new $120,000 the rules. Forget the stereotypes.' I budget. I was one of the first five think that attitude challenges and nurtures women in particular who may have heard too much ofwhat they can'tdo-" I Judy Spiegel '78

Judy Spiegel '78 is angered by the public's reaction to AIDS.

salaried staff hired. By the time I In a lot of cases when I'm able to step back from the pain, to left in 1988, the APLA budget was teaching at a worksite I find people be more removed. Still, it was this between $6 and $8 million, with who are very angry. But if you presence that was always there. over one hundred people on staff. train well you can get around When I finally left APLA, I had This probably sounds pretty people's fear and prejudice. You six job offers in 24 hours for work cold and awful considering the have to be patient-that fear is not relating to AIDS. I wanted to tragedy of the increase in AIDS, something you can change instantly. branch out and work with but from a professional standpoint You have to help people understand different types of organizations the growth at APLA was their fear. What is the basis for it? and causes, but so fur all of my tremendously exciting. I thought Why does it feel better to invest in consulting jobs are AIDS-related. to myself, "I'm in the midst of an fear than to learn about the disease I'll probably end up doing a lot of historic epidemic." and let it go? Despite the panic, AIDS-related consulting this first I learned more about life and this is a disease people have power year. I have a lot to offer groups death than I ever imagined. It over. By and large, people get working in this area. I would like makes me sad to think about how AIDS through voluntary behavior. to give people who are starting many people I know who have It's preventable. organizations ideas on how to died. Still, I was so glad to be I'm just so angered about how work more effectively and to share involved. The public was getting people have been reacting in fear resources, to build partnerships so hysterical and prejudicial about and prejudice instead of reaching with other organizations. the gay community. As a out. Whatever I end up doing heterosexual woman, I believed I In the beginning at APLA, I eventually, it will no doubt be in a could made inroads in a shared the same office with a social service profession. I guess I've nonthreatening way. worker so I saw most of our clients always been interested in trying to . I remember when I started at regularly. I knew intellectually make a difference-in social action. APLA, there was so much about the kind of discrimination That's what drew me to Pitzer in discrimination and fear that, at people with AIDS were up against, the first place. Now I'm first, I was actually afraid to talk but it doesn't prepare you for considering getting another degree about what I was doing. I once actually dealing with real people. in organizational development. I went to a Christmas party and was Once, I went on a visit to the think it would help me to be even being asked about my work. apartment of this man with AIDS. more able to effect change. When I said what I did, it was like He must have been over 6 feet tall It's really part of the same course a nervous silence filled the room. and couldn't have weighed more I've been on all my life, but People are terrified. That terror than 100 pounds. You can't especially since Pitzer. I always was what I had to deal with and imagine the pain and isolation of knew that whatever I did, it would try and overcome. That's not easy. this man's living situation. The involve serving others. That's been I don't judge; I understand being stench alone was unbearable. I my interest. That's what I intend afraid~for your life. About once a realized that the public doesn't to do. year I have a panic attack myself. need to know about just the -Josephine DeYoung When you feel your gut tightening health risks. As an educator, that's up-that's fear. That's OK, it's easy to convey. The real problem is natural. But there's something you all about isolation, pain, and dying can do about that fear. You don't alone. That's the hardest part. have to be controlled by it. There's I don't know anymore how information available. many people died while I was at APLA, but as the organization grew, and I moved up the ladder, I have to say I was relieved to be 16 & 17

Social Critic, Social Worker

As a "Profile in Caring" Ross "narcissistic personality disorders to Ellenhorn, it was not a good Ellenhorn is a bundle of who have a need to be the 'fixers' fit-a baptism by fire in a world contradictions-a misfit of sorts. and to exercise contro!." where he didn't feel he belonged On completion of his master's Why all the hedging, qualifying, or could even help. degree in social work at UCLA last and contradiction? Perhaps it "I felt like I was being called to spring, Ellenhorn was selected as comes with the territory for a self­ investigate black people's homes commencement speaker for his described "sheltered white boy and tell them how to raise their class of 80 certified-and-ready-to­ from Claremont" who finds kids. I'm not good at being a cop. go social workers. Yet, the focus of himself dealing fuce-to-fuce with And lots ofthe time I was scared his address was sharp criticism of problems he's only read about. and felt really uncomfortable," he the process of training and Perhaps it comes from being says. "I had done a lot of reading certifying those very social relatively new to the job or from about whites invading black lives workers, himself and UCLA not tripping over untested ideology in and I agreed with the premise. As escaping condemnation. a harsh and demanding real world. a result, I would have too much And in his relatively brief career Or maybe there's just no way to sympathy to do the job. I knew as a social worker, Ellenhorn has avoid it if you're a Pitzer-educated that these people had been worked with some of society's social critic who wanted to lead screwed by the system but that least fortunate-Skid Row the "revolution" for social change they had to be busted. Basically, I homeless, victims of child abuse, and you find yourself dealing with tried to get out of the situations as homeless children-and is the system from within, on its soon as possible." passionate in discussion of their terms, as a social worker. After about a year at DCS, he needs and his work with them. If you're Ross Ellenhorn, was assigned to aid the homeless But question him closely about his probably all ofthe above. on Skid Row in downtown Los motivation for taking on such When Ellenhorn graduated from Angeles. It was work that required difficult work, and Ellenhorn is Pitzer and headed for UCLA he less contemplation and more quick with the disclaimers: "To had his own ideas of what it would action-a combination that suited tell you the truth, I didn't know mean to be a social worker. him. what I wanted to do with myself" "Coming straight out of Pitzer, I The tempo was quick and the • he'll say, or "I just got assigned to was interested in, and still am needs of the recipients were pretty that area." And he'll tell you that dedicated to, the social clear cut. "I dug it. It was intense. the paperwork "drives him crazy" movements in the United States," Even though there was always this and that a program to which he he says. "I'm not sure how well­ threat of violence, you really feel devotes much of his time, and is thought-out my decision to get an like you're doing something. The plainly deeply attached, "just M.S.w. [Master of Social Work] team there was just awesome and doesn't work because it's a by­ was in those terms. I had this the people who end up working product of huge and conflicting naive view that community on Skid Row are really dedicated bureaucracies." organizing was just that-getting to that kind of work." Ellenhorn And mention that he will be people organized at the did a lot of walking the streets, featured in a series titled "Profiles community level to fight for identifying the immediate needs of in Caring" and Ellenhorn is at his improvement in their lives. Now I the homeless and getting them most articulate-voicing strongly believe that, in a lot of ways, social help: places to stay, medical worded proclamations about his workers are there not to fucilitate, attention, social security income, dislike for even the word "caring." but for social contro!." or disability funds. In his opinion, care-givers are Ellenhorn's first real experience most often people with in the field came during his first year at UCLA when he was assigned to the Department of Children's Services (DCS) as a child abuse investigator. According Profiles in Caring I Ross Ellenhorn '86

Ross Ellenhom '86 says he dislikes the word "caring."

Ellenhorn does, and if it's not, as making art, keeping a journal, he protests, "caring," then two making their own snacks, keeping other "C" words come to mind: a garden and building their own conviction and commitment. 'homes.' It's all designed around His conviction about what, in the notion of creativity. They his opinion, social work can and become the creators and they are should be comes across clearly. in control oftheir own products." Those ideals are well articulated in His words tumble out quickly as his article "Toward a Humanistic he describes in animated tones the Social Work: Social Work for philosophy behind his program: Conviviality," published in "It's really applying an abstract Humanity ami Society, Volume 12, philosophy in a curative way to Number 2, 1988 (the Journal of provide children with a sense of Ellenhorn now spends his days the Society for Humanistic having a durable base, something working through the Didi Hirsch Sociology). There he writes about of their own." Community Mental Health the roots of social work, with And his conviction and Center in Culver City. There he specific reference to the turn-of­ commitment are clear when, in divides his time working in three the-century work ofJane Addams: the conclusion of his article, he schools in special satellite programs, "She believed it was the responsi~ sums up his own goals and hopes primarily directed at homeless bility of the social worker to work for social work in general: "The children, children with behavioral in 'association' with people, not essence of doing social problems, or severely emotionally for them. Her attempt was true work ...comes from seeing the disturbed or learning-disabled social work; it was the labor of contradiction in the term 'human children. He spends about a quarter making interaction more social. service industry.' It comes from of his time there conducting family this is the most transcendental, understanding that it is our therapy. All told, Ellenhorn handles ambiguous, and thus uncertifiable mission to work with, not for, a case-load of about 20 individuals aspect of social work." individuals and communities in and/or family situations each week. And his commitment is plain the development of a sensitive, But that's not all. Ellenhorn when he talks about what he healthy society." puts in an additional five hours wants to accomplish as a social - JD each week with Emergency Services worker: it is not to help others; it and another 10 doing therapy in a is to empower them. The criticism private practice. He describes his and cynicism he directs at the time with Emergency Services, a larger field of social work is hot-line service responsible for nowhere to be found when he activating the police or Psychiatric talks about a social program he is Mobile:&sponse Team to handle currently designing. " Probably crisis situations, as "really killer the most important thing I'm work-the most tiring that I've working on right now is this ever done." socialization program for homeless If there is a common thread children. It's centered around running through all that giving kids control over their environment," Ellenhorn explains. " They will be doing a newspaper, 18& 19

Finding Solutions to the Cycle of Poverty

Tom Brock knew, even in high Hoping to beef up his research From there, Brock took his school, that he wanted to do ability and get more training in creative, interdisciplinary something about the social welfare field research methods, Brock is perspective and his new master's system. He wasn't too clear what currently enrolled in the doctoral degree to the Manpower that would entail, or where it program in social welfare at UCLA Demonstration Research would eventually lead him, but he where he is doing an in-depth Corporation (MDRC) and put felt that Pitzer would be a good examination of GAIN (Greater them to use evaluating youth place to try and find out. "I Avenues for Independence), a new employment programs. There, his largely chose Pitzer because 1 was California statewide program primary task was to evaluate the interested in social programs," says aimed at a major restructuring of effectiveness ofJob Start, a Brock. "I thought that I wanted the state's welfare programs. program aimed at providing to do counseling with young But it was before leaving Pitzer disadvantaged young people with people so I started out in for Columbia University in New job skills and a high school psychology, but realized after one York (where he received his equivalency education. The target class that it was not the approach I master's degree in public group was made up of high school wanted to take." administration) that he first began dropouts, ages 16 through 21, What Brock had discovered was to gain insight into the complexity with reading levels below eighth that he was much more interested and magnitude of the social grade, all living below the poverty in figuring out the big picture. "I problems he would eventually be level, many ofthem teen parents. became more interested in how trying to battle. And, according to Brock's was a research role: he the broader policies of government Brock, he found insight in some would go out and visit program served to keep some groups at the unexpected places. sites in Texas and Los Angeles, bottom ofthe socio-economic "My experiences at Pitzer really where he would meet with the ladder and allowed others to helped to develop my interest in staff and talk with the young succeed. And I wanted to examine social policy-from a very people in the program. "I would some of those questions and to interdisciplinary perspective. I was ask staff how they structured a have some influence on the able to learn a lot about social program like this," he explains, process. I wanted to inform policy policy in classes that I really didn't "and I would try to find out from makers about what the problems expect to," he says. "I learned a the kids what they liked. Or what were and what could be done lot in my anthropology courses worked for them-what got them about them," he explains. with [Professor of Anthropology1 there in the first place." Using his Well, that's just what Tom Brock Susan Seymour when we looked at findings and comparing them to is doing today. He evaluates social strategies for survival in lower similar research from other Job welfare programs and income communities. And a Start locations, Brock and the communicates his findings to the literature course I took with people at MDRC would people who can make a difference. [Professor of English and Black determine what approaches He knows what does work and Studies1 Agnes Jackson, where we actually worked and why. what doesn't. As well as anyone examined the works of Faulkner Now relocated in Los Angeles, can, he understands the and Richard Wright, was a real Brock will be using a similar complexity of the problems, and eye-opener. approach to evaluate GAIN­ what needs to be done to make a "I was able to gain insight into California's great hope for an difference in the lives of welfare­ approaching social problems from improvement in its social welfare dependent people-how to break a variety of different perspectives. programs. And, as he points out, the cycle. When I went on to get my master's degree I found that other students didn't have the breadth of know­ ledge, or at least not the creative approach, that I had developed. I attribute that to Pitzer." Profiles in Caring I Tom Brock '83

Tom Brock '83 is interested in figuring out the big picture.

in the lives of welfure recipients-a chance to break out ofthe cycle. Brock just hasn't given in to cynicism or abandoned hope. "I guess as I map things out for myself and my future, two goals the hopes are pretty high and the social welfare system in Los emerge. One is that I want to keep task fuirly daunting. Angeles County? people aware that the needs are "GAIN recipients will be "Up till now, the system has still out there," says Brock. expected to participate in job been in the business of handing "There is a tendency to overlook training or some kind of out checks. GAIN is trying to turn problems or to try and deal with educational activity in order to things around. It gives participants them in the easiest way possible, receive aid," he explains. "They a fighting chance to enter the ignoring the deeper level of the could be taking adult basic system. It gives them, all of us, problem. There are so many, too education courses or working on some reason for hope. On a lot of many, examples of taking the easy their high school equivalency, levels we're making some really route and then paying for that taking English as a Second Language positive changes. But th~y're later on. major changes and they 1I1volve courses, or attending a community "The second is that I would like college. I'm looking at how the changing the way all these huge people to know that intervention program is being implemented 111 systems work together: the school can make a difference. Social Los Angeles County." system, the social welfure system.' programs can be created that make What makes GAIN a particularly the job-training system, and SOCial a difference. My part 111 thiS will be ambitious program, however, is its services systems that provide child­ to find out what the features of sheer magnitude in numbers. care and counseling. The question those successful programs are and Brock enumerates: "In Los is, how can we begin to coordinate then to get that information Angeles County alone there are all these activities?" he asks. out-to look down the road and about 75,000 people targeted as Another question might be, see the impact," says Brock. eligible for this program. About how does Brock muster the energy "There's a pinball effect where 40 percent of the state's total and determination to try and sort one push touches off a series of welfure recipients are in L.A. out all of these questions and reactions, creating opportunities County. To implement GAIN will systems when most people give up that offer better lives to people mean a huge amount of changes­ on trying after volatile and and better lives, in turn, for their trying to create all these slots for confused IS-minute discussions at children. I hope that through a lot adults in all these different dinner parties? "What motivates of research, writing, and programs. That means huge me is that popular notion that communication, I can make some expansion. It also means real . ' nothing works,'" he says. "And inroads in getting those messages changes in how social workers will the popular response to that across." work"with clients. There needs to notion in the I980s has been: For Brock, finally, the answers to be child care, transportation; a 'because nothing works, let's do where his interest in the social whole range of things need to take nothing.' I look at and examine welfure system will take him is place. I'll be exploring questions programs that do work. You don't looking pretty clear. And that of how the program will be have to rely on hearsay and clarity of vision may be just what structured, what will need to be prejudice," he says emphatically. the system needs. implemented. How will GAIN What seems to separate Brock change the delivery of the whole from those who, as he puts it, -JO "throw up their hands or get stuck in ideological positions that offer no solutions" is a firm conviction, based on knowledge, that changes in the social ~elfure 20 &21

Creating New Worlds for the Disadvantaged

Fifteen young people, all disad­ The experience described above vantaged inner-city youths, lie on the is what Silverio Calzada refers to as classroom floor with their eyes closed. "tactile learning," an They're wondering what's going to "interpretation ofthoughts and happen and they're skeptical because it's feelings into a multi-sensory, supposed to be a «learning experience.)) audio-tactile language that can Soft, eerie music is playing as the communicate an experience while lights bfiJin to dim. From behind their minimizing verbal discourse." closed lids they sense the darkness. In Tactile learning is a concept the distance they hear booming thunder developed by Calzada to create and cracks of lightning. Voices are " intimacy, connection, and hushed. The storm seems to be coming bonding through shared a dramatic reading, complete with closer. Nmv when the lightning cracks experiences." It is the focus of the special effects, of Poe's The Mask of they sense bright flashes of light. A dissertation he hopes to complete the Red Death. He hires dramatic dampness, an ultra-fine mist, settles soon, along with his Ed.D. in readers and mixes the reading in on their flues and eyelids. A wind Counseling and Consulting with special sound effects, loads bfiJins to blow. They feel chilled and Psychology from Harvard his van with pertinent special bfiJin to shiver slightly. Suddenly a University. With its broad effects equipment-fog and wind deep, mesmerizing voice bfiJins to applications, tactile learning is also machines, photo-flash umbrella unfold a tale of mystery and horror. a business venture for Calzada; he units, a water atomizer, sound and Only, the characters in the tale are not is director of his own company, lighting equipment. Then Calzada remote strangers: it is they, and their Interactive Technologies and and Poe weave their special magic, friends. Totally absorbed, they disappear Human Development. drawing the young people into a into a place they have never experienced: Just how does tactile learning strange new world. the eerie landscape and world that work and what are some of its And when the lights come on existed in the mind and works of applications? and the young people return to Edgar Allen Poe. Well, it's a pretty creative the classroom, what remains? The story slowly ends, but the silence concept, and definitely an Curiosity. A rare sense of lingers. Gentle music plays and the interdisciplinary approach to wonderment. A need to share lights bfiJin to lift. The young people learning and therapy. As Calzada thoughts and feelings. A desire to cautiously open their eyes, come back to describes it, it's part sociology, learn more. the classroom, and, hesitantly at first, part psychology, and part And those reactions are they bfiJin to talk. They have all just biology-with a hefty dose of measurable. Of the 15 young shared an experience, and as they acoustics, special effects people who participated, 13 took gradually come out ofit, they find technology, and an emphasis on copies of the story with them and that they also shared certain responses. the dramatic arts. 10 chose to write paragraphs about They become eager to talk about those Specifically, Calzada is presented their experience. As their teacher feelings. And what's more, they want with a situation, a problem to put it, the results were to go back to that world and experience resolve. With the Poe "amazing." more. They )vant to read. presentation, the challenge was to Calzada explains why tactile arouse an interest in learning, learning can be effective: "The communicating, and reading in a process allows these students an group of 15 inner-city young imaging process that's really people, ages 15 to 20, with reading extraordinary. I've personalized it and math abilities between the for them, and the experience second-and fifth-grade levels. becomes a metaphor for other Calzada focuses on the specific things they have experienced in group and goal before he decides their lives. These kids have low on an approach. In this case, it was Profiles in Caring I Silverio Calzada '80

Silverio Calzada '80 says some caring Pitzer professors changed the direction of his life.

skills but experiences they want to they hear birds singing, dogs especially Peter Nardi [Pitzer communicate. They're dying to barking, the sounds of children sociologist] and Inge Bell [former reveal something about themselves laughing and at play. It takes them Pitzer sociologist]. They were and don't know how. This creates back. "I try to arouse a pleasant there for me. We had really long a connection and mode for them memory for them," says Calzada. talks. Pitzer held me like a mother to articulate their feelings . I finally "They say to me, 'Sonny, you just holds a child. They had a hunch feel as ifI've discovered a vehicle reminded me of something that that I could make it and gave me that helps them to get over the happened to me when I was 15!' the confidence to stick it out. If it fear of speaking out. That's a big And then they go from there." hadn't been for Pitzer, I'd hurdle to jump in the learning Calzada charges little or nothing probably be working at the same process." when he creates his experiences for factory where my father works. But the applications go beyond the elderly or disadvantaged Instead, I'm at Harvard and helping young people with youth. He knows that the people are impressed. I've often learning problems. Calzada has financial payoff for his business been asked where I did my modified his techniques for a comes from the corporate and undergraduate work and I'm broad range of tasks. He has therapeutic applications of his proud to tell them: 'At Pitzer brought his equipment into the methods; but, clearly, it's his work College.' Now I want to give corporate world to open lines of with the needy that gives him the something back. I want to help communication between stressed most reward. And for Calzada, it's the people who were like me prior and competitive high-level not a sympathetic response-it's to Pitzer." executives who may feel alienated empathy; he, too, was a And Calzada believes he's found and hostile but are unable to disadvantaged youth. the means to make a difference express those feelings in "I grew up in the barrio, in a through tactile learning and his productive ways. He has been gang setting," explains Calzada. " I Interactive Technologies and hired to create tailor-made couldn't articulate my feelings and Human Development business . experiences for families who hope I felt really isolated. I first started "When communication occurs, to find ways to break down making tapes and creating the transmission of intimacy, the barriers and rediscover each other. experiences for myself when I was comfort of being connected, and He has worked with therapists to 8 or 9. I wanted to create a live the strength of being bonded with help patients relive experiences experience that was different than another takes place. All of us, that have become stumbling what I knew. I wanted to arouse young and old, poor and rich, blocks in their progress to mental new feelings in myself." blessed and cursed, deserve health. One of Calzada's most Calzada also had a difficult time opportunities to know and to be difficult and painful tactile scholastically. At one point he was known, and opportunites to experiences was to recreate, in a labeled retarded and placed in understand and to be understood." therapy setting, a rape victim's remedial classes. The experience Looks like the bet paid off; account of the crime so that in was painful and lowered his self­ Pitzer's hunch was right on target. "re-experiencing" it, she would esteem but didn't affect his -JD be able to accept that it was not ambition. With a mixed scholastic her fault. record and SAT scores of 620 , Because the elderly are often Calzada applied to Pitzer, knowing immobile and isolated from life in acceptance was against the odds. old people's homes, Calzada Pitzer took a chance. believes his tactile experiences "I have a huge debt to Pitzer. It present a unique means of was really a place where I didn't bringing a range of evocative belong," says Calzada. "At one experiences to them. Once again point I had my bags all packed and was ready to leave, but I had people who supported me- 22 & 23 Lucretia Peebles '71

Those Who Can, Are Teaching: For some, leaving fumiliar surroundings for the unknown of college life means A Challenge to the 'Education President' finding a new home. Lucretia Peebles '71 came to Claremont in 1967 from the San Francisco Bay Area and has made her home and built her career here ever since. The little girl who wanted to teach fourth grade has become a public school administrator. Along the way she earned a bachelor's degree from Pitzer in history, and master's and doctoral degrees in education from The Claremont Graduate School. She's taught emotionally handicapped smdents and honors and college preparatory students, Lucretia Peebles '71 wants President By Elisabeth Duran with courses ranging from "Personal George Bush to put teeth into his Adjustment" to "Ethnic History." Five promises to support education. years ago she moved into administration as an assisrant principal at Lorbeer Junior High School in Diamond Bar, California. "Teaching should be one of L.P.: Something has to be done to Bush will have to set policy that We have a program like that Peebles came to Pitzer with high America's most honored make the profession more will get states to move in the right now, a grant to fund a expectations. She quickly found a professions.. .1 do see a better honored. We never get the full direction of upgrading the [special] math program. We community of support in Claremont in America. An America that respects respect other professions have teaching profession, whether that sponsor math academic the presence of other yOUllg blacks. "We teachers." because people think 'those who be a merit system, civil servant workshops, where we take thought of ourselves as real movers and -George Bush to teachers at can, do, those who can't, teach .' system, or whatever. seventh- and eighth-grade kids shakers," she says. " There weren't many Inauguration festivities, January You shudder when you think of A concerted effort needs to be who are good, strong students and blacks there then. It was culmre shock 1989 the danger a person puts himself made to recruit new teachers. ask them to stretch beyond that. for many of us. But now those students in in trying to educate someone When I look at minorities, this is We have two college students as are lawyers, teachers, social workers­ else's kids. Many of our schools, not a field they are choosing to workshop leaders and four high they've all gone on to be people who thank goodness this one is not like enter. Schools are hard-pressed to school students as proctors. make a difference." that, are very dangerous places to find minority smdents to go It's funny, the two college Making a difference in education has be. It's a danger that comes from through their teacher education students are civil engineering always been her dream. She talks about the fact that schools are a place programs. And even when you students. Neither were smdent how Pitzer helped to ground her dreams where everything is dumped. have a state like California, with a teachers or in teacher education in something quite real. " I was attracted Society expects us to take care of higher minority population, I programs, or even thinking of to Pitzer like most people are," Peebles all its problems, but school is also guarantee you're still not going to going into education, when they says, "because it offered the support and a place where educators are see those people in teacher entered the program. But both encouragement to do different things. It thought of as nothing. internship programs. have come to me now and asked, expanded my creativity. I wanted to I think preparation to be a 'What do I have to do to get a smdy history because I have always been teacher needs to start before teaching credential?' I can relate to interested in what has gone before, in graduate school. Those are the that because that's kind of how it how we connect with what has to come. best teachers-those who had happened to me. "I feel a part of what has gone before, experience with kids before partly because I took classes on black acmally entering grad school. history. It was a real eye opener- it helped me build a sense of self, which was absent before I came here." "Money is an easy answer to the L.P.: I think that is a very The fi.nure seems clear as well, she says. problem, but it is not the fundamental idealstic, but not realistic, "I will be a principal someday. It's my answer. The fundamental answer is statement. The primary answer is next role. I can see myself as a professor to make better use of what we have." money. Our schools have not in education, too. But there's more -George Bush in campaign speech made good use of what we have, credibility when you've been in the to the National Conflrence of but that is not just a school trenches, so I will definitely be a State Legislatures problem, it is a societal problem I principal first." ._ link to the breakdown of the A lot of Pitzer grads experience those family. I don't think the kids very same trenches; many choose to come to school anymore with the enter education as a profession. And idea of making good use of what while most will continue the fight from they have. I understand why Bush there, what would they do if given the says that. But if you're looking chance to set education policy? What just for schools to do that, then advice do they have for President George you're looking at just one small Bush in the first year of his administration, part ofthe problem. and what do they think of his promises The federal government needs to to be the "education president?" give some wholehearted support It's a tough time for educators. Federal monetarily. I am in favor of cuts have sliced deep; while increasing equalization of funds to districts. concern for the preparedness of our There is still inequity [among] nation's graduates mounts pressure on districts. policy makers to do something, anything, to get America's schools back on track and make the country proud of its young "This Administration is committed L.P.: Experimentation could be support us, and we work together and she spent 50 years as a teacher. people's accomplishments and confident to the principle of more choice at the good. It's something that's and have equal weight in When I met her, she said, of the future of its leadership. Seldom local level-for students and parents missing now. I appreciate planning, if they're part of the "Whatever you do, do something has education experienced the prominence to choose the schools that best meet innovation-Pitzer has given me education process, it becomes a to help people." When I get in national debate it does now, but what students' needs; for teachers to that. I'd like to see the partnership. down, I remember her. If you can do those who wage the real battles in the experiment with techniques and community more involved in People are involved in a positive say that at 102! .. I felt it was a true classrooms of America say to Bush? ideas to help students learn better." determining the types of things we way here. Parents come to school calling, an honor [to hear her]. I "I'm not sure whether Bush coined -excerpt from President BushJs do with the kids. Schools with dances, they are aides in classes, feel I am doing what she that phrase 'education president' just to budget documents that type of involvement are they bring refreshments to our commissioned me to do. get some of us in education on the better. This is one of those academic decathalons. We have I spoke with a former student of bandwagon," Peebles begins. "I do feel schools. found ways they can be mine recently. She called up to say that there is a greater sensitivity on his I'll tell you about one of my supportive. how much I meant to her. She part towards our schools, and towards innovations. When I first came One thing you are challenged to said she always felt I was teaching other social issues. Where Reagan did a here four years ago, I said, do at Pitzer is to be a change just to her. And she asked me if! lot of cutting, and didn't seem to care, I something is really missing. There agent-for the negative or positive. thought she would make a good think Bush is aware of the damage was always the feeling that This is positive. You can't work at teacher! I'll pass the mantle on­ done ... I think he shows a greater everything was kind of a school this long and not harbor for the people who taught and respect for children, for young people, regimented. We're in a good real feelings for kids. So I'm still inspired me. for family." community; but, I thought, hopeful [for the future]. Good neJVs for all ofus-no matter something is needed-a parent I was named afrer Lucretia Neal hoJV Washington plays it. volunteer program. If parents Hill. I met her when she was 102; she died at 104. It was the summer before I came to Pitzer. She picked cotton in the fields each day to support her family,