PARTICIPANT

PITZERSPRING 2003

Coming ofAge

PitzerPitzer CollegeCollege CelebratesCelebrates aa NewNew PresidentPresident andand 40th40th AnniversaryAnniversary PITZER COLLEGE SUSAN S. PRITZKER President PARTICIPANT COVER STORY: BOARD OF Chair of the Board Laura Skandera Trombley TRUSTEES MARGOT LEVIN SCHIFF We Have Come of Age 2002 - 2003 Chicago, IL JOEL H. SCHWARTZ Editor President Laura Skandera Trombley REGULAR TRUSTEES General Partner/LLC, 95 Susan C. Andrews speaks of excellence in Pitzer’s past and HIRSCHEL B. ABELSON S.F.L.P. President, Stralem & WILLIAM D. SHEINBERG ’83 present and renewed vitality, energy and Company, Inc. Partner in The Bubble Managing Editor ITZER JILL BASKIN ’77 Factory enthusiasm for an even greater future. /10 Bridget Lewison P Chicago, IL LISA SPECHT A week of inauguration activities XAVIER BECERRA Attorney/Partner, Manatt, Editorial Assistant Spring 2003 / Vol. 36, No. 2 Congressman, US House Phelps & Phillips offered something for everyone / 12 of Representatives EUGENE P. STEIN Penny King MARC D. BROIDY ’95 Executive Vice President, Professor Hal Fairchild introduces Vice President Salomon Capital Guardian Trust Copy Editor President Trombley in verse / 16 Smith Barney Company Jessica Carey WILLIAM G. BRUNGER PETER STRANGER Vice President, Revenue Los Angeles, CA Management, Continental JOHN H. TIERNEY Contributing Writers Airlines President & CEO, The Susan C. Andrews NANCY ROSE BUSHNELL ’69 DOCSI Corporation Deborah Haar Clark Laguna Beach, CA JOAN G. WILNER LESLIE DASHEW ’70 Beverly Hills, CA Bridget Lewison President, Human Side of Adi Liberman ’79 Enterprise LIFE TRUSTEES Anne Moran SUSAN G. DOLGEN ROBERT H. ATWELL Chair, Board of Trustees, Former President, Pitzer College Printer California State Summer School for the Arts CONSTANCE AUSTIN Dual Graphics SARA LOVE DOWNEY Los Angeles, CA Chicago, IL ELI BROAD A member of The Claremont MARY BETH GARBER ’68 Los Angeles, CA Colleges, Pitzer College is a President, Southern FRANK L. ELLSWORTH California Broadcasters private liberal arts and sciences Former President, Pitzer Association College; President, institution, committed to values PETER S. GOLD Endowments Capital of interdisciplinary perspective, Irmas, Gold and Company Research and Management Co. intercultural understanding and ANDREW A. GOODMAN ’81 social responsibility. The Attorney/Partner, HARVEY J. FIELDS Participant is published by the Greenberg & Bass Senior Rabbi, Wilshire Boulevard Temple Office of Public Relations and JONATHAN P. GRAHAM ’82 welcomes comments from its Partner, Williams and PATRICIA G. HECKER readers. Address letters to Connolly St. Louis, MO Participant Editor, Avery 105, JAMES HASS ’75 BRUCE E. KARATZ Pitzer College, 1050 N. Mills President, Capital Chairman & CEO, KB Home Ave., Claremont, CA 91711- Advisors, Ltd. 6101, or submit them via e-mail PAUL C. HUDSON MARILYN CHAPIN MASSEY President & CEO, Former President, Pitzer to [email protected]. The Broadway Federal Bank College Participant is published online in DEBORAH BACH KALLICK ’78 EDITH L. PINESS, Ph.D. PDF format at www.pitzer.edu/ Executive Director, Govt. Mill Valley, CA news_events/publication/ and Industry Relations, RICHARD J. RIORDAN participant. Cedars-Sinai Health Former Mayor, City of Los System Angeles Printed on recycled ROBIN M. KRAMER ’75 DEBORAH DEUTSCH paper with Senior Fellow, California SMITH ’68 Community Foundation Professor, Kennedy soy-based ink. TERRY F. LENZNER Scholar, John F. Kennedy Chairman, Investigative Ctr. for Research on Group International, Inc. Human Development MAUREEN D. LYNCH ’77 Vice President, Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc. Cover photo and photo spread THOMAS H. MOORE ’82 by Nancy Newman-Bauer Alumni Profiles Vice President, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Campaign Update Jason Venetoulis ’95 is in tune with Alumni Notes / 26 JAMES ORLIKOFF ’76 Trustees Jamie Orlikoff ’76 and Deborah students. / 22 President, Orlikoff and Associates, Inc. Pitzer in the News 2 Bach Kallick ’78 spark giving to a special Patricia Zavella ’73 is awarded the In My Own Words / fund in honor of President Trombley. / 9 2002-03 Scholar Award from the ARNOLD PALMER National Association for Chicana and Adi Liberman ’79 is inspired by his trip Senior Vice President, Campus Notes / 3 back to Pitzer campus. / 35 Sutro & Company Faculty Notes Chicano Studies. / 23 RUSSELL M. PITZER Pitzer faculty busy publishing, presenting Kate Peters ’74, a talented performer Professor, Dept. of Student Fosters Community 24 Sports / 36 Chemistry, Ohio State papers at major conferences, exhibiting and successful businesswoman. / University First-year student cultivates community artwork, serving on national committees Joel Harper ’95 credits Pitzer education while working as a groundskeeper. / 8 and winning grants. / 18 with opening doors for him. / 25 community’s greatest needs, while Excerpts of Recent News Coverage of helping local universities enhance their Pitzer in the News: Pitzer College from Local and National Media community-based research, said Marie Sandy, director of Pitzer in Ontario program who initiated the partnership. “Fund Honors Pitzer College President” “Students Challenged to Become Advocates The grant, provided by the Department The Los Angeles Times of Housing and Urban Development for Peace” (HUD), allows colleges to assist Feb. 15, 2003 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin On the eve of her formal inauguration, Pitzer College President community groups to address residents’ Dec. 12, 2002 needs in housing, healthcare and Laura Skandera Trombley had her name inscribed on a $330,000 Licel Zayas was standing on her front porch when some kids scholarship fund raised by the College Board of Trustees. Skandera education through both research and passing by started to call her names. “They were being mean and stuck outreach, Sandy said. Trombley became the College’s fifth president July 1 when she out their tongues,’ said the Upland Elementary School fourth-grader. “I succeeded Marilyn Chapin Massey. The College held an installation wanted to say something back, but I didn’t. I just went inside my “Students Score Win for ceremony on Feb. 15. The ceremony was the centerpiece of a house.” Licel’s classmate Timmy Helton experienced something weeklong celebration of the college and its new president. At similar. “I was playing baseball with my friends and I missed the ball Trees” Thursday’s dinner for college trustees, the board announced that its and they started laughing at me,’ Timmy said. “I told them if you guys Inland Valley Daily Bulletin members had created the Skandera Trombley fund out of their own are going to be like that, I’m leaving, and I left.’ Their teacher Melissa Nov. 15, 2002 pockets. The fund will support scholarships for incoming students who LaLone, who graduated from Pitzer College in 1997, was proud to hear Members of the Claremont are the first in their family to attend college; it will also help support of her students’ commitment to peace. On the school’s fourth annual Colleges Ecology Club scored a victory academic programs. Peace Day, LaLone, the day’s founder, sat quietly in a chair at the head this week when the Staples office of her class and listened to one example after another of how the supply chain agreed to increase its use “Student Trades Places with President” of recycled paper. Jason Venetoulis, a Campus Notes

students were trying to be peaceful and be positive role models for Campus Notes Inland Valley Daily Bulletin others. “Peace is not always easy,” LaLone told them. “Sometimes it visiting professor of environmental Feb. 13, 2003 seems easier to push and shove. Sometimes it takes more courage to studies at Pitzer College, said Staples’ Pitzer College student Sterling Struckmeyer woke up Wednesday walk away; to become a peaceful person who says I don’t believe in concession was a “step in the right Students CrCreateeate morning to start his new day as the college’s president. violence and walk away.” direction. Staples could have gone Even if it was just for a day. The 22 year-old senior tackled a jam- further than 30 percent recycled. But it Exhibit Using packed schedule, which included meetings with campus officials and “College Students Tutor Preschoolers” is another compromise on the way to the mayor of Claremont, lunch with members of the student senate and The Los Angeles Times more responsible alternatives for a phone call with a Pitzer alumnus. Dec. 3, 2002 consumers.” Guatemalan Textiles Student Alma Linda Chapa thought she would have to spend the “College to Test SAT-Optional Policy” “Latino Leaders Discuss The Los Angeles Times summer working behind the counter of a mini-mart near her Long Beach home, as she had the year before. Instead, Chapa found a job Empowerment” uring the fall 2002 semester, anthropology Professor Feb. 8, 2003 DSheryl Miller’s class “Folk Arts in Cultural Context” created Pitzer College announced Feb. 7 that it will launch a three-year doing what she loves and hopes to do for a long time: teaching. A Inland Valley Daily Bulletin sophomore at Pitzer College, Chapa joined a summer tutoring program Oct. 20, 2002 an exhibit of Guatemalan textiles. The exhibit, “Weaving the trial, lifting the requirement for applicants to submit SAT scores for Mayan World: Textile Arts of Highland Guatemala,” was on admissions decisions. The action makes the Claremont school the first at an Ontario preschool that was made possible by a $15,000 grant About 100 Latino leaders gathered from the Times Holiday Campaign. The tutoring program, sponsored at Pitzer College on Oct. 19 for the display in Nichols Gallery. selective liberal arts college in California, and apparently on the West “It was a beautiful exhibit, and an interesting example of the kind of hands-on work students get Coast, to make college entrance exams optional. by a national group called Jumpstart, sends college students to Organizing for Political Empowerment preschools year-round so they can help disadvantaged children improve Conference. Keynote speaker Julie to do in some Pitzer courses,” says Miller. Ginger Bellerud ’04 of Olympia, Wash., took a particular interest in the different ways “Grant Funds Program for Troubled Teens” their social and literacy skills to prepare them for grade school and Chavez-Rodriguez, granddaughter of beyond. Allison Couch, the program coordinator, said the summer the late farm-labor leader Cesar Guatemalan clothing is worn. The Los Angeles Times session allowed more college students to try their hand at tutoring. Chavez, joined other speakers and “Although most of the villages use the same basic pattern for their clothing, it looks distinctly Dec. 21, 2002 guests to address educators, community different from place to place when actually worn,” says the double major in art/anthropology. “To A grant of nearly $25,000 from the federal Department of “Think Tank Awarded $350,000 Grant” activists, local artists, union heads and achieve this task, I rounded up three dressmakers mannequins and studied the ways in which distinctive villages wore the generic pieces, then put them on the mannequins to give the show Education will allow a program at Pitzer College to provide improved Inland Valley Daily Bulletin local politicians. “This is a chance for literacy and library services to about 200 students at a local high school some three dimensional aspects.” Dec. 1, 2002 the Latino education community to get run by the Los Angeles County Probation Department. Pitzer’s Center together with the labor community and The class catalogued the textiles, designed the layouts and wrote descriptions of the pieces, for California Cultural and Social Issues (CCCSI) was one of 94 A grass-roots community/university partnership created to educate noting particular aspects of weaving, color choice and design composition. After the exhibit was and empower residents in need has received a $350,000 boost from the the cultural arts community and agencies nationwide to receive a share of the $12.5 million of organize,” said event organizer Jose completed, the students worked as docents, answering questions and conducting tours. Improving Literacy Through School Libraries grants awarded this federal government. Claremont Graduate University and Pitzer College “Along with the textiles in the exhibit, we provided information about the political situation in received the grant to support the Ontario Community-University Calderon, a professor of sociology and fiscal year. The grant program, a new initiative aimed at districts where Chicano studies at Pitzer. Guatemala today,” says Bellerud, who would eventually like to have a career in museum exhibit 20% of students are from families with incomes below the poverty line, Partnership, a think tank made up of 26 community-based design or curation. “Amnesty International provided postcards to send to Guatemalan President aims to improve students’ literacy and academic achievement. organizations, businesses, schools, city agencies, churches and Alfonso Portillo Cabrera, urging him to improve the human rights conditions of his country. Hopefully residents. The partnership unites the various entities to determine the From the Pitzer College by showing the beauty and innovation of Guatemala, we can improve the lives of its people through Admission Office: increasing awareness and action.” Photo by S. Miller Penny King February 2003 For the past two Dancing on Common Ground Since 1997 the applicant pool has decades, Miller has Dancer Bill T. Jones, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grown by 46% and that is remarkable. I brought a group of fellowship, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for hope it adds to their sense of pride in Guatemalan the Arts, offered a free lecture and demonstration at Pitzer College in their alma mater. The total number of weavers to campus February. While on campus, Jones also conducted a series of private applications for Fall 2003 is 2,412. almost every year. workshops for Pitzer students. This is an increase of nearly 4%. – Bridget Lewison “Pitzer asks its students to dare,” said David Furman, professor of This year Pitzer received 1,076 online applications, which accounts for art at Pitzer and event coordinator. “So does Bill. Understanding who 45% of our total applications. Last year he is and what the visions and goals are of Pitzer, it’s a fit... There’s we only received 28% of our common ground between the two entities.” applications online. Since 1997 the Jones has choreographed for top ballet and modern dance student applicant pool at Pitzer has Top: Guatemalan tapestry; inset: Guatemalan dolls; above left: companies throughout the world, including the Alvin Ailey American grown by a remarkable 46%. Ginger Bellerud ’04, works on her exhibit in Nichols Gallery. Dance Theater and the Berlin Opera Ballet. above right: Bellerud’s completed exhibit using mannequins.

2 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 3 Pitzer Graduates Enrolled in Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Program Stephanie Velasco, the away from home’ for all students.” Supporting a Once delay in establishing an In addition to her academic pursuits, Gregg Segal Gregg select number of Pitzer help them start on their career Asian-American studies Velasco has been involved in spoken- graduates soon will join track,” she says. ‘Model Minority’ department stemmed word poetry, and cultural and hip-hop Athe growing ranks of Stromberg will continue to from a “model dancing. She is active in the Filipino- physicians licensed as Doctors direct the program following her Community minority” image American community, serving as a of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) retirement this year. attributed to the Asian founding member on the Board of through a linkage program In addition to the Costa Rica n 1969, four departments specific to community. In 1969, Directors for the UC Irvine Kababayan between the College and the course, students are required to minority populations were formed in Stephanie I Asian-Americans were Alumni Association, and occasionally Western University of Health participate in internships at Claremont: the Intercollegiate Velasco Sciences. COMP clinics in underserved Department of Black Studies (IDBS), assumed to be well speaking on higher education. Velasco is Established in 1999, the areas. the Office of Black Student Affairs incorporated into a new dedicated to the students at the Pitzer program offers a seven-year “The most rewarding aspects (OBSA), the Chicano Studies college society, and were viewed as center, and considers herself a mentor bachelor’s and D.O. degree of being in the medical linkage Department (CSD) and the Chicano- stereotypically good students with no and a role model. program, as opposed to the program were the clinical Latino Student Association (CLSA). need for help or representation. With CAPAS in its second year, eight years usually required to experiences during my Velasco, one of the few Filipino- Velasco says she has helped to develop become a medical doctor. The undergraduate education,” says Asian-American students at the colleges would have to wait until 1990 American staff members at The and formalize several areas, including first class of Pitzer students Alicia King ’02. “I shadowed Claremont Colleges, says she sees retention, academic support, outreach, accepted into the program will osteopathic physicians, worked at for representation when the Asian- graduate from Western a children’s hospital, was American Resource Center (AARC) was working at the center as “a fulfillment and community, cultural, social and University’s College of involved with a community free formed at Pomona College. One year of a vision to serve the community.” interracial bridge services. Osteopathic Medicine of the clinic, and I spent a summer in later, with a grant from The Ford Velasco earned two B.A. degrees – Recent accomplishments for CAPAS Pacific (COMP) in 2005. Costa Rica studying health care. Foundation, Asian-American Studies Asian-American studies and social include raising $10,000 in an ongoing Osteopathic medicine was This program is very focused, courses were established at Pitzer. It science – at U.C. Irvine. She went on to endeavor to bring comedian Margaret founded in 1874 by Dr. A.T. designed for students who know wasn’t until 1998 – 29 years after the earn her M.A. in higher education Cho to Pitzer; the establishment of an Still, who recognized the they want to become physicians, founding of the other minority studies administration at Harvard Graduate anime library; the publication of “Voices body’s self-healing capacity and would like to do so at an School of Education, where she also of the Margin,” a five-college Asian- and incorporated it into his Professor David Sadava, left, Christen Parker ’02, Alicia accelerated, yet comfortable departments – that the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies served as Vice President of Diversity. American newsletter; and a partnership philosophy of medicine. King ’02 and Professor Ann Stromberg. Below, Javaid pace.” Despite her Ivy-League education, with the new Mandarin Café in the Gold Emphasizing prevention The program is demanding, (IDAAS) was formed. Khan ’04 assists physicians during the summer six-week Velasco states that she “didn’t want to Student Center. through diet and exercise, Dr. program on the Sociology of Health and Health Care in with students required to take on Asian-American students now have Still identified the course overloads. Students leave develop an elitist mentality.” “I feel that the Lord has blessed me Costa Rica in the summer of 2002. a resource right here at Pitzer. Founded musculoskeletal system as a Pitzer having completed 28 of the by students in 2001, the Center for “It is truly an honor to be a part of with this position at Pitzer,” says key element of health. usual 32 courses, with some the many years of struggle to obtain a Velasco. “I look forward to each day Ann Stromberg Asian Pacific American Students Osteopathy utilizes modern courses counting toward the (CAPAS) provides support to students sense of community and to share the that I have the chance to learn, serve technology and the use of “hands-on” or B.A. program and the D.O. to enrich and develop their social, victory in CAPAS with others,” she and work alongside Pitzer students to manipulative medicine. program. They graduate from intellectual and personal growth. says. “My hope is to provide leadership celebrate what it means to be Asian According to the American Osteopathic Pitzer after their first year at that will establish CAPAS as a ‘home Pacific American.” Association, the discipline is the fastest COMP. According to CAPAS Coordinator growing segment of the healthcare field in Before being accepted the United States. Between 1989 and 1994, into the program, prospective D.O. growth outpaced M.D. growth by students are interviewed by of NBC Photo courtesy almost 200 percent. By the year 2020, more Pitzer and COMP while still Weekend ‘Today’ Show than 80,000 osteopathic physicians will be in high school. in practice in the U.S. More than 64 percent “We are looking for Anchor Shares His of all D.O.s practice in the primary care excellence in academics as areas of family practice, internal medicine, well as personal dedication to Pitzer Experience obstetrics/gynecology/pediatrics. medicine and community Professor David Sadava, who teaches service,” says Sadava. “This On Oct. 19, 2002, alumnus and NBC anchor David biology in the Joint Science Department is a demanding program. The Bloom ’85 talked about his experience at Pitzer shared among Pitzer, Claremont McKenna students have to mature College as part of the weekend “Today” show’s and Scripps Colleges, developed the quickly.” The course, offered through External “Homecoming Weekend on the Plaza.” David concept of founding a D.O. program with Susan M. Hanson, Director of Studies, was started in 1997 by Stromberg. sported a Pitzer sweatshirt, along with co-anchors officials at COMP. Admissions at COMP, says the linkage It was based in Guatemala the first year and Soledad O’Brien wearing her Harvard shirt, Janice “The program grew out of the fact that program has worked out extremely well. has been centered in Costa Rica since 1998. Huff displaying Florida State and Kelly O’Donnell the nearest medical school to Claremont is “The students who have matriculated The course helps to fulfill Pitzer’s representing Northwestern. Orange Pitzer College the College of Osteopathic Medicine in here have been absolutely wonderful,” says educational objective of intercultural Pomona,” he says. “An osteopath is the Hanson. “They have maturity and a depth of banners and flags also could be seen on sets understanding and concern with social same as an M.D., but is based in community background in their interest, and what they inside and outside the NBC studios in New York responsibility. service and family practice. With Pitzer’s have done as far as clinical experience and City. He said it was a dream come true to come to The Costa Rica course includes lectures dedication to community service, we volunteer work is outstanding.” sunny Southern California from his native by local experts and incorporates internship thought the two institutions had similar King, who plans to graduate from Minnesota, and recalled a fond memory of sitting experiences in health care settings. Students goals.” Western University in 2005, looks forward also take part in intensive Spanish on a roof on December 1. He said Pitzer was “a Long dedicated to the field of health to helping children in the Asian community. instruction and a family stay to maximize great little school.” care, Pitzer sociology Professor Ann “I plan to do a residency program in use of the language. The students also make “Pitzer is definitely a place where students are Stromberg has been involved with the pediatrics,” says King. “Because I am two field trips as a group to Costa Rica’s encouraged to follow their own path. I did, studying program since the beginning. Almost all of bilingual and come from a Chinese- unique ecological zones, such as the high- economics and political science, and throwing the students in the D.O. program complete a American background, one of my goals is to altitude rain forest. six-week summer course titled “Sociology serve in the community.” myself into debates. In my senior year, we were the of Health and Health Care in Costa Rica.” “It’s rewarding to see these students top-ranked debate team in the country. It was a succeed in meeting new challenges and to – Bridget Lewison great place to go to school.”

4 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 5 Students Share Visions Student Misses Out on Representing Class at Inauguration for Future Living at Pitzer to Take Part in Harvard’s Model United Nations Invitational ablo Perez ’06 was chosen as the Matt Williams ’05 freshman representative for the Jennifer Boynton ’04 Pinauguration of President Laura Skandera Kelsy Raap ’06 Trombley on Feb. 15, but he was unable to Kyle Schroeder ’04 make it because he was busy representing Pitzer James (Glenn) Hollowood ’05 College at the 2003 Harvard National Model Mark Polintan ’03 United Nations (HNMUN) Invitational. Portia Boni ’06 Instead, Jessica Davis ’06 got the nod. Tony Kim ’04 “Being the representative for Pitzer College Elise Carlson ’03 during Harvard’s Model United Nation Constance Perez ’06 invitational is really not an honor,” says Perez. The Harvard National Model United Nations “There are 13 other Pitzer students who will Pablo Perez ’06 is the oldest, largest and most prestigious represent the College.” simulation of its kind. Each year, HNMUN aesthetic than The mathematics/economics major, along I got involved brings together nearly 2,000 students and they would have with the other Pitzer students on the HNMUN with MUN through faculty advisors from colleges and universities team, represented the Netherlands in the “ across the globe and provides them with a just working on their During Professor Tom the fall 2002 own,” she says. “Goes to simulated United Nations. unique opportunity to experience the challenges “We all got chosen from a pool of students of international negotiation. semester, student visions of show that 22 brains are better than Ilgen, who directed who try out through an interview and application This year’s 49th session was held Feb. 12- new residential buildings were on one.” me to it to get “Students found the model-making exercise process,” says the resident of Millbrae, Calif. “I 15 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Delegates display in the lobby of Scott Hall. The got involved with MUN through Professor Tom involved in gained insight into the workings of the United challenging and very frustrating at times, but students created the designs as part of Ilgen, who directed me to it to get involved in something that no Nations by assuming the roles of representatives Environmental Studies 147 “Community, Ecology and ultimately extremely rewarding,” says Faulstich. “The something that no other Claremont College had – and by actively participating in the resolution of Design,” taught by Professors Paul Faulstich and Kathryn designs and models are beautiful and architecturally Model United Nations.” other Claremont important global issues. Throughout the Miller. The students conceptualized new housing ideas, sophisticated; how could the students not feel rewarded The other members of the team are: College had – conference weekend, participants interacted showing innovation as well as social and environmental and proud?” Rosa Hughes ’04 (head delegate) Model United with hundreds of other college students and sensitivity. Faulstich also says teaching alongside Miller was Jason Enneking ’03 Nations. worked together toward the common goals of “We visited some architecture in the community,” says rewarding. Gilbert Gonzales ’04 international awareness and consensus-building. Miller, “and the students were inspired and intrigued by “Kathryn and I teaching together felt, to me, like a ” working on ecological designs for the future dorms.” seamless interdisciplinary success,” he says. “She and I Among some of the places they visited were Cal Poly share interests, but have divergent training. We are two Pomona, Mark Von Wodtke’s Claremont office and the art quite different personalities, too, but I like to think that we department he redesigned for the University of La Verne complement each other in ways that are not only Student Ambassadors Help that once served as a packinghouse. intellectually enriching for the students, but entertaining Inauguration Guests Feel Welcome Pitzer College students were Miller says students took the information they learned as well.” chosen to serve as Student from the class on sustainable architectural and landscape The models will be presented to the Housing Master Ambassadors at the practices and applied it to their designs. Planning Committee to illustrate what students conceive inauguration of President “They struggled a bit at first working as teams and of for their residential housing. Some of the students also Laura Skandera Trombley on Feb. 15. They were Calvin collaborating and agreeing on designs, but in the end they made presentations at the inaugural symposium “From Bender ’05, Daniel Bendett came up with something much more complex and the Ground Up: Living Justice on Campus” on Feb. 14. – Bridget Lewison ’06, Nancy Castillo ’05, Alma Dumitru ’04, Monica French ’05, Jonathan Green ’04, Tai Johnson ’04, Chelsey Kadota ’04, Summer Keliipio ’04, Javaid Khan ’04, Judith Liberman ’03, Luis Lopez ’04, Thomas Lopez ’06, Jason Rivera ’06, Dania Rodriguez ’04, Sarah Savage ’05, Alan Siu ’03, Sterling Struckmeyer ’03 (President for a Day), Margaret Tavener ’06, Jonathan Tigeri ’06, Elysa Vargas ’06 and Alexander Will ’06. Claudia Soria ’04 (missing from photo)

6 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 7 New Faces at Pitzer

The Campaign for Pitzer College itzer College has hired Anne Donovan Moran as its new Vice President for ometimes a gesture from one individual or another can ignite a PCollege Advancement, and Susan C. Andrews as Executive Assistant to the larger group to action with extraordinary results. And, thus it President for Marketing and Planning. was with the recent Board of Trustees Welcome Laura Fund. Moran, an accomplished fundraiser and S higher-education visionary with great success When Jamie Orlikoff ’76 and Deborah Bach Kallick ’78 made in developing and establishing innovative contributions in June of last year in honor of the arrival of Laura programs, has served as the Southwest Skandera Trombley as Pitzer’s fifth president, they had no idea what Regional Director for Major Gifts at CARE in was to come. Kallick said, “I never imagined that it would have this kind of Los Angeles for the past four years. Prior to working at CARE, Anne was President and impact and become such a wonderful development program for Pitzer.” CEO of Immaculate Heart College Center. Board Development Committee Chair Bill Brunger was inspired by these Anne has worked for a number of top schools gifts and assembled a group of six trustees – Andrew Goodman ’81, Maureen such as USC, Syracuse University, Lynch ’77, Murray Pepper, Deborah, Jamie and himself – who pledged Georgetown University and Iona College, and was the $100,000 to a Welcome Laura Founding Executive Fund. Bill announced the Director & COO of establishment of the Fund at the University of Cape Town Fund Inc. September 2002 Board meeting “During these First-yearFirst-year StudentStudent CultivatingCultivating CommunityCommunity and challenged the rest of the challenging times, it is Board to match them two to one exciting to be at Pitzer where students and faculty WhileWhile WorkingWorking asas GroundskeeperGroundskeeper to create a $300,000 fund for the continue to focus attention Anne Moran Deondrae Blythe, left, Miguel Garcia ’06 and Jesus Torres work in the Mead courtyard in December 2002. new president. on social justice and a civic The high school students assist Garcia with his groundskeeping duties. According to Jamie Orlikoff, conscience,” says Moran. “While there was not a detailed “I look forward to working with trustees, alumni, plan, we took advantage of a parents and the entire By Deborah Haar Clark disabilities. Twice a week, the students When asked if he enjoys his job, Garcia great moment and things began From left: Marc Broidy ’95, David Bloom, Pitzer community to attract come from Whitcomb High School in doesn’t hesitate. President Trombley, and Bill Sheinberg ’83 to gather momentum. We have a resources to support that t’s a warm, sunny day in December and nearby Glendora to spend two hours raking, “I like it a lot, more than I would having mission.” Miguel Garcia is raking a flowerbed, pruning, watering and doing other chores an office job,” says Garcia. “I’m not really great president, great board, great Moran is responsible Ione of many that are scattered all over that keep the Pitzer campus beautiful. good at sitting in an office.” faculty and great students – the for all Advancement Susan Pitzer’s lush campus. It’s a routine task in a For Garcia, it was the first time he’d perfect combination for success. activities at Pitzer College. Andrews routine job that has taught the 18-year-old worked side by side with a disabled person. – Deborah Clark is a freelance writer Andrews, who has freshman more about the world than he “At first, I thought it was going to be a who lives in Upland, Calif. We wanted to make something of extensive administrative experience in expected. little bit of a hassle, because I thought there the notion of board commitment marketing in higher education and substantial Garcia is a pretty typical student. He’s would be communication problems,” Garcia and now we find ourselves over supervisory experience within the liberal arts currently majoring in media studies, but is says. “Then I started working with them the goal and with 100% of the environment, has served as Associate Vice thinking of going into sociology, maybe and realized they are not hard to talk to. I President for Marketing and Public Relations doing a double major. He’s not sure what he could see how they communicate with each board members participating in at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, plans to do once he graduates, but that day other, and that helps me to understand them. the Fund.” Minn. While at Gustavus Adolphus, she is too far away to pose “They really want to come here, and Board of Trustees Life developed and implemented the college’s much of a concern at that makes me glad. Some of them have first-ever marketing strategic plan. this point. planted a lot of what is on the Pitzer Member Rabbi Harvey Fields “I was attracted to the culture and the He needs to earn grounds. They have been working here for said, “We are delighted with the President Trombley, David Bloom, and opportunity to make a meaningful impact by Susan Pritzker some money while at years. Every time we pass by what they transition in leadership at Pitzer communicating the distinctiveness of a Pitzer school, and that’s why planted, they are like, ‘Look, look, I planted education,” says Andrews. “2003 promises to he’s raking. Garcia is a that!’ ” College. We believe that President Laura Skandera Trombley will bring new be a really exciting year for Pitzer as it work-study student The high school students enjoy working ideas and new vitality to an already very successful college. It is our pleasure to celebrates its fortieth anniversary and the assigned to work part- with Garcia as well. be among those who are helping to build the future of Pitzer College.” leadership of a talented new president. I am time for the Pitzer “Miguel is a nice guy,” said Sir Willie Board Chair, Susan Pritzker, announced the successful completion of the happy to be a part of an academic community College Facilities Williams, 19, who has been working at that takes its mission seriously.” Department. Pitzer for about a year. “Every time since Fund at a dinner preceding the Inaugural of the President. A total of more than Prior to working at Gustavus Adolphus, A great strength of I’ve first seen him he has always been nice. $345,000 was raised from the Trustees. The Rose Hills, Fletcher Jones, Eugene Andrews was Northwestern University’s Miguel Garcia ’06 Pitzer College – one He is talkative, sometimes he is funny.” Lang and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundations made further commitments in Director of Communications for the Division that sets it apart from Williams, who wanted to work at Pitzer of Information Technology. other institutions – is the school’s emphasis so he could lose weight for the high school recognition of the arrival of President Trombley. Andrews is responsible for Pitzer’s on encouraging students to grow as football team – a goal the job has helped The Fund will be used to support the academic excellence of Pitzer programs marketing, public relations and special individuals while building community. him to accomplish – said he enjoys the and to provide scholarships for first-generation students. President Trombley college-wide events. She also will be Sometimes that growth can come from work. responsible for developing integrated unexpected places, as Garcia discovered “I wanted to work outside,” Williams said of the Fund, “I am deeply honored by the enormous support and strength marketing initiatives in keeping with the when he began the groundskeeping job in says. “I like to sweat.” shown by Pitzer College’s board of trustees, and I look forward to our future mission of the College and will work with all September. Garcia supervises some of the high David Kim of Whitcomb High together as we work to further the excellence of this great institution.” departments and groups that market the Among the other groundskeepers is a school students and says he appreciates College or individual programs. group of students with developmental their effort. School in Glendora.

8 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 9 Saturday, February 15, 2003, was a very special day for the Pitzer College community. The day began with clouds and cool temperatures (ideal for photographs and warm regalia) and immediately after a We have marvelous group photograph was taken of our community the sun shone brightly. On that day we celebrated the founding of the College as well as the inauguration of the College’s fifth president. Pitzer community members and friends have asked that my inaugural speech be published, and thus I am sharing of it with you in this latest issue of the Participant. My regular President’s Message column will resume in our next issue. Come I would like to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt appreciation to those of you who planned and participated in a week of outstanding events on our campus celebrating the presidential inauguration and the 40th anniversary of Pitzer. To those of you who were unable to attend, we missed you, yet never fear, as we will stream video from all events on our website. Age On behalf of my family, Nelson and Sparkey, we send you warm wishes for a beautiful spring. We Have Come of Age! – Laura Skandera Trombley

stand here today for every student who ever attended Pitzer Without skipping a beat, she looked into the rearview College, for every faculty member who ever taught here, mirror, caught me dead in the eye said, “Well, you’ve had the Iand for every staff member who ever dedicated themselves idea and that gets you 50 percent of the way there. Now you to our institution. I speak for everyone who sat in a classroom just have to do the work.” illuminated by our faculty’s passion and love for the liberal I sat back astonished, marveling in my good fortune, almost arts. For everyone who has understood and worked to sustain home, just having had the thought. A quick exchange, soon the mission of this college, we owe you respect and a profound forgotten by my mother, yet never by me. debt of gratitude. And today, 32 years later, here we are together, home at There happens, at times, an intertwining of moments that Pitzer College, at such an important time in America’s history. occur in synchronistic ways; when despite practical and rational Exactly 40 years ago today, February 15, 1963, Pitzer limitations there opens a boundless space for dreamers, poets, College was chartered—a new Claremont College born of hope and us. Emily Dickinson described such a moment: and possibility. I dwell in Possibility – In April of that year, John W. Atherton, a poet and Afairer House than Prose – visionary, was hired as Pitzer’s first president, and over the next More numerous of Windows – 17 months he recruited students, faculty and trustees, and Superior – for Doors – constructed Scott and Sanborn Halls – just in time for the Of Chambers as the Cedars beginning of the fall 1964 semester. Impregnable of Eye – During the College’s first year, students and faculty created And for an Everlasting Roof the curriculum and our system of governance. The Gambrels of the Sky – That first academic year began with 10 professors and 153 Of Visitors – the fairest – students from 16 states and five countries. In the colorful words For Occupation – This – of President Atherton: The spreading wide my narrow Hands Pitzer was built of dreams – and firmly rooted in the To gather Paradise – Claremont village dump. Born from a mystical union of The Today we celebrate Pitzer College. Faculty, students, staff, Claremont Colleges, the unborn infant drew its earliest alumni, parents, community partners, trustees, and honored nourishment from the cast-off detritus of generations of guests-welcome. This is a significant day for Pitzer, and an Claremont citizens The big yellow bulldozers leveling the extraordinary moment for me. I am honored to be with you, mounds for Scott and Sanborn Halls turned up bedsprings and this one morning out of all of our lives, gathered here baby buggies all the effluvia of the early pioneers underlay the collectively in hope and trust believing in our College’s past educational hopes of the wonder child who came to transform and future. the world. Expectation and vision are fragile entities and require We certainly weren’t short of expectation. But like most constant support and belief. I have had experience with such healthy infants, we soon began to kick with our own desires. On Feb. 15, 2003, the 40th Anniversary of Pitzer College, things. We thought a new College with “an emphasis on the social and When I was a child, my family would drive past Claremont behavioral sciences” had a mandate to change the universe. Laura Skandera Trombley was Inaugurated as the Fifth President. every weekend, through the endless orange groves, to our cabin As you sit here today, now surrounded by the beauty of the in the San Bernardino Mountains. On one trip, when I was just Arboretum and in the company of buildings new and old, you 10 years old and apropos of nothing, I said to my mother from are witness to the transformation of this place by the guiding the backseat, “When I grow up I want to do something important.” Continued on Page 12

10 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 11 vision of the founders and the sustained Board of commitment of their heirs. Trustees Forty years later, we have come of age. Chair, Susan We were different from the beginning, S. Pritzker, and proud of it. From the start, our presents a community demonstrated a unity and symbolic intentionality of purpose in its respect for gift—a woven difference and independence of thought. In rug—to 1963, the Dean of Students at UC Berkeley President closed their campus to “all student political Trombley. action.” The next year, Pitzer’s faculty thanked President Atherton following a Vietnam protest rally that many in the college community had attended. In their letter, the faculty recognized that the College had set an important precedent, “concerning the right of faculty, students and administration to participate in what [they hoped would] be a continuing discussion Kathy Kile ’97 is the mailroom and debate of current social and political judgments, in all its joy and promise. rightfully taking our place among our supervisor at Pitzer College, but issues.” Martin Luther King, Jr. keenly institutional elders, having become their she is also known at Pitzer for her The letter concluded: “We feel that this understood the darkness that comes with equal. Pitzer has grown to 824 full-time skills as a seamstress. She has attitude of respect for all opinions and the Students carry international flags as part of the inauguration processional. passivity, a lack of vision, and a deficiency students from 43 states and 12 countries, and been commissioned for sewing right to express them cannot fail to create an of will: we are proud of our national ranking of 38th projects ranging from wedding exciting and intellectually stimulating For Pitzer, the heady days of exhilarating of light by which we scrutinize our lives has If we do not act, we shall surely be for academic reputation and proud as well dresses to Halloween costumes to atmosphere at Pitzer College.” creation have given way to a College that direct bearing upon the product which we dragged down the long, dark and shameful that 39 percent of our student population are doll clothes. When the installation Some of the young faculty firebrands has been recognized time and time again for live, and upon the changes which we hope corridors of time reserved for those who people of color – proving that through ceremony committee began talking who signed the letter were John Rodman, its tremendous contribution to the landscape to bring about through those lives.” possess power without compassion, might diversity excellence is achieved. about commissioning an inaugural Ruth and Lee Munroe, George Park, Werner of higher education. And while Pitzer is After 40 years of growing and changing without morality, and strength without sight. Our faculty are at the heart of Pitzer robe for President Trombley, Kathy Warmbrunn and Valerie Levy. consistently rated highly by traditional as an institution, we well know that our We are living at a time when our College. They are nationally and was the logical person to go to. Their words were prophecy. benchmarks, we are more than an excellent house will never be built. We must continue commitment to intercultural cooperation and internationally recognized scholars, artists, Considering it an honor to be asked I believe everyone here today will agree liberal arts college. We are at the forefront of to create our own tools and we must always understanding is being tested, and when our filmmakers, activists, writers, and teachers. to design and sew the presidential that this precedent for “a continuing educating for and effecting social change. keep our deeper purpose foremost in our commitment to community at the local, They are probing the molecular mechanisms robe, and mindful of the tight discussion and debate of current social and We stand as a model for other liberal arts hearts and minds: To educate young people national, and international levels is being of cancer and AIDS, they are exploring the budget the committee was working political issues” is still solidly in place at colleges of how they could and should be to see their world, in all its beauty and challenged. boundaries of the universe, and they are with, Kathy graciously contributed Pitzer and sorely needed during our current educating. tragedy, in all its socio-economic Today Pitzer has matured into one of searching the limits of the human mind. her time and services. troubling times. Audre Lorde realized that, “The quality differences, in all its prejudices and America’s great liberal arts colleges, Continued on Page 14

J. V “I liked the “Pitzer opened in the fall of 1964 and LBJ was re-elected in Inauguration Kicked Off with Weeklong Celebration . Ohlemeyer idea because it’s a nice exercise for November, and we soon drifted into the war in Vietnam. And here Monday, Feb. 10: President for a Day J. V the students, and we meet again, a week or two or three before our country plans Drawing . Ohlemeyer the challenge for a another attack on a developing country.” At 12:15 p.m. in the McConnell Dining president is to Hall, Dean Jim Marchant called everyone find opportunities Werner Warmbrunn, at the Feb. 11 Fireside Chat with Emeriti Faculty to attention as President Laura Skandera to be with the Trombley drew the winning student’s students,” said was Al Wachtel. The group was Studies to be at The Claremont name. The winner was Sterling (Frederick) President introduced by President Laura Skandera Colleges,” said Jackson. “At that time the Struckmeyer ’03. He Trombley. “If Trombley. Ginny Atherton, wife of the late students were very much involved with and the president Prof. Agnes you’re not first President John Atherton, also was in Pitzer and many of these students were traded places on Moreland Jackson teaching, there’s attendance, as well as several current the legacy of the Watts rebellion in 1965 Wednesday, Feb. 12. this danger in becoming isolated and not and former faculty, staff and students. in Los Angeles. The Civil Rights The 22-year-old getting to know them.” The faculty discussed the early days Movement was on across the nation and senior started his day Emeriti faculty gather for the Fireside Chat on Feb. 11. of Pitzer. Claremont had its share of interesting with an 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11: Fireside Chat with “Pitzer opened in the fall of 1964 and young black students and many of my meeting with the staff Ontario program house, a meeting with better understanding of it now.” Emeriti Faculty in Marquis Library LBJ was re-elected in November, and we students were very concerned about the of the President’s Admissions Director Arnaldo Rodriguez, In contrast, President Trombley had a At 8 p.m. emeriti faculty Ellin Ringler- soon drifted into the war in Vietnam. And war in Vietnam.” Office, and then went and interviews with reporters from area relatively relaxing day, doing some Henderson, Carl Hertel, Agnes Moreland here we meet again, a week or two or Ringler Henderson discussed her first Sterling newspapers. homework, taking a walk around the Jackson, Lee Munroe, Ronald Macaulay three before our country plans another year at Pitzer and the debate that took Struckmeyer ’03 on to appointments with Marchant, “It’s been busy and enlightening,” campus and attending Struckmeyer’s and Werner Warmbrunn gathered for a attack on a developing country,” said place surrounding the topic of going co- Claremont Mayor Paul Held, lunch with Struckmeyer told the Inland Valley Daily evening sociology class, “Cars and chat in the Marquis Library. The event Warmbrunn. educational. She was on the committee the Student Senate, a business Bulletin. “I didn’t realize all the different Culture” taught by Rudi Volti and Harvey was videotaped for Lucian Marquis, “In 1969, the presidents -- in their exploring the possibility: “In 1969 we development meeting at the Pitzer in aspects of the job. I feel like I have a Botwin. namesake of the library. The moderator wisdom -- agreed they would allow Black Continued on Page 14

12 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 13 Since joining the Pitzer community, I increase opportunities for students to work It is here, as a teacher, only to continue expanding upon the have traveled across the country meeting collaboratively with the faculty in their “that I have discovered what to distinctive intellectual landscape we have alumni who time and again tell me how our scholarship. be a student means, what is created for ourselves these past 40 years, but faculty have changed their lives, their Currently 60 percent of our students also the physical. intellect, and their souls. Yet even such an study abroad in 32 countries on every learning, what is education. As a Upon completion of our master housing extraordinary faculty as ours is not enough continent in the world. It is my goal to first-year student, I thought I plan, we will be one of the few liberal arts to account for the success of this institution. increase participation to 100 percent. All knew the world. Now I find colleges in the nation to raze and completely Our students who select Pitzer because Pitzer students should have the experience myself knowing less and less rebuild our student housing. Our aim is they want to build meaning through their of immersing themselves in cultures that are everyday and understanding a nothing less than to re-envision and reinvent liberal arts education, our staff and not their own so that they may gain deeper little more—to what end do I the student residential housing experience. administration who understand and seek to understanding of themselves and their native This new housing will be designed so that facilitate the uniqueness of our mission, our communities. seek to teach? To inform my our students will enjoy a wholly integrated community partners who teach and learn One of our seniors wrote to me this year students’ minds or to inform living and learning environment, and with us, and our deeply loyal alumni and from abroad: their person? If we inform their working together we will complete this next trustees – everyone who is part of our It is here, as a teacher, that I have person, then perhaps they will be phase in the history of the College. community who has dedicated themselves to discovered what to be a student means, what able to walk more clearly We are still young, yet we have proven is learning, what is education. As a first- preserving and building on our character, through their world. that a college doesn’t have to be old to be has created a treasure within higher year student, I thought I knew the world. effective. How many of our peer institutions In the early years at Pitzer, it was the practice of faculty to welcome new education. Now I find myself knowing less and less a letter written from a Pitzer” student can make the claim that their founding faculty students at the beginning of each year with a play. Inspired by that tradition, All my life I have been taught by my everyday and understanding a little more— studying abroad to President Trombley still contribute to the intellectual life of the a play was commissioned to welcome our new president. The play, titled “A family, my teachers, my students, and my to what end do I seek to teach? To inform College? And how many can claim that Welcome,” was written by Jim Krusoe, a highly acclaimed Los Angeles poet colleagues to believe what Plutarch knew: my students’ minds or to inform their knowledge and action. members of their first graduating classes still and writer. Mr. Krusoe’s most recent novel, Iceland, was named by the Los The mind is a fire to be kindled, not a person? If we inform their person, then If we are not profoundly connected to visit campus to meet with faculty and engage Angeles Times book review to the Best of the Best list in the top 10 of the vessel to be filled. perhaps they will be able to walk more our community then we have lost our in meaningful dialogue with current students? top 100 books of fiction in 2002. The play was produced and performed That fire has burned at Pitzer College for clearly through their world. connection to ourselves, and it is my goal to We are privileged as an institution to still primarily by our students, directed by Heather Thomson ’04, and produced by 40 years. I believe that serving the community is increase our social engagement through encounter our founding faculty in the halls, to Zach Weiner ’03 and Michael Woodcock, Professor of Art and Environmental We have come of age. Pitzer College has not a charity, but a reciprocal process where helping to grow and strengthen the still work together with them on our research, Studies. The female lead in the play was acted by Emerita Professor of never been stronger. partners derive equal benefit. What our community-based programming at Pitzer- and to still teach with them in our classrooms. English/World Literature, Ellin Ringler Henderson, who began the tradition of We must continue to provide our students learn in their studies around the both at home and abroad. And we are privileged as an institution to still welcoming plays at Pitzer. Pictured above: Ringler-Henderson performs in a students with the intellectual tools to world – and closer to home in our external Pitzer’s iconoclasm is a founding learn from our founding alumni. scene with Pitzer student Jeffrey Harmatz ’06. understand and to be agents for change in studies site in Ontario, Calif., or through the principle and we have always been a step I am proud and honored to see so many local and global communities. Center for California Cultural and Social ahead in our purpose. In order to support our of you gathered here today, and I would like We must increase our funding for faculty Issues (CCCSI) community partnerships – is mission, we must continue to solidify our to pay special thanks to Russell and John John, who share the stage with me now. I grateful to those founding members of the so they may continue our tradition of one of the College’s most distinctive financial base. Our future is only as secure Pitzer, representatives of the Pitzer College would like to thank every member of the College present at this ceremony today who, creating an innovative, fearless, educational objectives: Concern with social as the support we bring to it. Building the founding family, and to founding President Pitzer community for the role they have working together, crafted our curriculum, interdisciplinary curriculum, and we must responsibility and the ethical implications of endowment will guarantee our ability not John Atherton’s wife, Ginny, and grandson, played in shaping our institution, and I am Continued on Page 17 David Perez David held a town meeting at Pitzer to vote on and historic photos were spread out on David G. the issue and I know that the faculty tables for people to enjoy. President Winter, were fairly overwhelmingly in favor of Trombley liked the exhibit so much that Martha going co-educational, but I was never she asked the Office of Public Relations Crenshaw, certain of what John Atherton wanted. to leave it out for the Trustees during Richard A. But I did know where Ginny stood -- she their Friday meeting and for inauguration Falk and was clearly not in favor of it.” guests on Saturday. Dan Ward at Macaulay talked about the “absurdity” the opening of his coming to Pitzer: “I had no idea Friday, Feb. 14: Inaugural Symposium session of what I was coming to and I had no idea “The Search for Social Justice” the of what a liberal arts college was. No Pitzer played host to an inaugural Inaugural sooner than I had gotten here, I was symposium titled “The Search for Social Symposium elected the dean of faculty. Though I Justice” in Avery Auditorium from 10:30 on Feb. 14 knew nothing of American higher a.m. to 5:15 p.m. titled “Just education, I soon found myself involved The keynote session, “Just War War Doctrine in the hiring of professors at Pitzer and I Doctrine in the Age of Terror,” featured a in the Age of discovered that I couldn’t possibly have panel of high-profile experts including Terror.” hired myself.” Richard A. Falk, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Democratic Thought at Wesleyan call into question Just War Thursday, Feb. 13: Practice, Emeritus and Professor of University; and David G. Winter, professor Doctrine and instruments of International 40th Anniversary Exhibition Politics and International Affairs, Emeritus of psychology at the University of Law, which incorporate Just War On the rainy afternoon, items on loan at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Michigan. Pitzer political studies principles. Do we need new principles from Pitzer College Archives, Special and International Affairs at Princeton Professor Dan Ward was the organizer and laws for containing terrorism, or are President Trombley views the 40th Anniversary exhibition in Broad Center. Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library were University; Martha Crenshaw, professor of and presider. The panel addressed the existing laws and doctrine sufficiently on display in the Broad Center Lobby. Old government and the Colin and Nancy question of whether or not terrorism issues of the Other Side, past annuals Campbell Professor of Global Issues and presents a sufficiently new challenge to Continued on Page 17

14 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 15 established our system of shared governance, and articulated our mission. We are deeply indebted to you. The presidential medallion, presented to Introducing President Laura I would also like to express my appreciation to the inauguration President Trombley at her inauguration, was committee, consisting of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and trustees, designed by Cynthia Pierce Roberts, a By Halford H. Fairchild who over the past six months planned such a wonderful week of events. Claremont jeweler, and owner of A Small To our facilities, maintainance, and food services staff, we Extravagance Jewelry Studio. The committee appreciate all your wonderful efforts today. responsible for organizing the installation Finally, I would be terribly remiss if I did not recognize Professor t is an honor to introduce Pitzer College’s Fifth President, She has a score of scholarly ceremony asked Cynthia to take her Stephen Glass who after 40 years still teaches at Pitzer full-time, still inspiration for the design from the Pitzer IDr. Laura Skandera Trombley. articles and a dozen book serves actively on faculty committees, and still participates regularly reviews. orange tree logo. Cynthia presented the in College Council, where he reminds us of our founding principles committee with several designs, ranging I worked on a formal script She is a bold and when we begin to stray. And I started to rehearse, courageous leader from literal to abstract representations Fittingly, Professor Glass is the historian of Pitzer College’s motto: of the tree. The final design was But I tore it up and threw it away, who is making local and Provida Futuri. Mindful of the Future. Because I decided to do this in verse. national news. selected by the committee because of its Mindful of the future, mindful of the past, the two are fused fine detail, which they felt delicately and exquisitely together in a precious constancy. Together we will walk into the captured the sense of growth and possibility symbolized First, her academic credentials are absolutely impeccable: I’ve worked with her next moment. by Pitzer’s tree. The medallion is made of sterling silver BA and MA from Pepperdine on the FEC In “Life on the Mississippi”, Mark Twain commented on the with a sun stone used to suggest the orange. Cynthia PhD from USC where she was a Finkelstein Fellow. I’ve watched her from near promise of the new communities he encountered during his travels: very generously donated some of her time in crafting the and from far, Such a people, and such achievements as theirs, compel homage. ... piece, and financial assistance for purchasing it came Before Pitzer, Dr. Laura was at Coe College And I can tell you one thing This region is new; so new that it may be said to be still in its, babyhood. By what it has accomplished while still teething, one may from alumna Abby Parsons ’71 and several staff Where she served as Academic Vice President. that is certain: members of the committee. She conceived and wrote The Coe Plan, Pitzer’s Fifth President, is a shining STAR! forecast what marvels it will do in the strength of its maturity. Which set an entirely new precedent. To my parents and family, thank you for the constancy of your love. She manages Pitzer’s affairs in more ways than one To Nelson, when we met, I was a graduate student, then professor, The Coe Plan emphasized technology leadership She is thoughtful, collaborative and decisive mother, dean and now President. Clearly you possess some superior come of age! mentoring skills and I love you dearly. And so to all of you here today who have believed in the possible, and academic practica. She is second to none. To my Sparkey, you now say, “This is our College,” and in 12 thank you for the treasure of Pitzer College, thank you for this place It was as embedded in the humanities and liberal arts, years you had better make it your own. of beauty unique within higher education, and thank you for being As it was in…Mathematica. Visionary leadership is what she’s all about Pitzer College’s mandate is to change the universe and we have here on one of the happiest days of my life. In six short months she’s already made me shout She was at SUNY Potsdam before she enhanced With joy and pride in the Pitzer she leads

the standing of Coe. She inspires us to give—and give some more— J.V robust to guide our response to As Assistant Provost and Professor, in Pitzer good deeds. Ohlemega . she supervised institutional planning increasing political violence? And taught Twain and Edgar Allen Poe. When Dr. Laura came to Claremont she brought two Nelsons. The opening session, “From the Ground Up: Living Justice on Campus,” Her amazing and artistic husband and her affable son. featured Pitzer Professors Paul Faulstich, Now, upon meeting her you will be impressed Kathryn Miller and Jason Venetoulis, and by her stunning looks Speaking of Nelson Trombley, in case you did not know, Mark Von Wodtke of the Claremont But much more to her credit are her four published books. He gave a lot of time, a lot of money and a lot of talent Environmental Design Group and I won’t bore you with their titles, And now we have a new President’s House to show. professor emeritus in the College of Else this introduction will go on and on, Environmental Design at Cal Poly Besides, you can find them and buy them Pitzer’s Fifth President is a woman who is truly epic Pomona. The discussion also featured At Amazon dot com. You can see how impressed I am students who worked on models of She’s got ME environmentally friendly dorm concepts. Waxing Po-e-tic. The panel challenged the usual notion of “justice” to include issues of Well, I’ve been doing this introduction, now, for quite a while environmental sustainability. Taking Pitzer But before I end I must tell you as a case study, the speakers discussed What I like BEST about President Laura: ecological design and how it interfaces Her smile. with social justice. The closing session was titled Her smile is warm and engaging and quick “Issues in Social Justice: Student It won’t hurt her in fund-raising, Projects & Papers from the First-Year Seminars.” It featured Pitzer Professors Not even a little bit. Anne Moran, David Perez and Arnaldo Rodriguez at the Feb. 16 Arboretum cleanup. Mita Banerjee and Brian Keeley. This session presented examples of work Partial funding for “The Search for Rodman Arboretum. Gloves, shovels and So get up on your feet and stand up tall like me completed by students as part of Pitzer’s Social Justice” symposium was provided wheelbarrows were doled out and And welcome to the podium, First-Year Seminar. The inaugural by the Campus Life Committee. everyone got right to work. The activities Pitzer College’s Fifth President: symposium was inspired by the First-Year included planting Agave tequilana (tequila Laura Skandera Trombleeeeeyyyyyy! Seminar program, which encourages the Sunday, Feb. 16: Community Clean Up agave) in the Medicinal Garden. Besides development of each student’s potential Day in the Arboretum its most well-known use, the plant also for becoming a more literate person who On a foggy Sunday morning, is used for medicinal purposes, thinks, reads, writes and speaks with members of the Pitzer community according to Arboretum Manager Joe competence and discrimination. gathered to help spruce up the John Clements.

16 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 17 Faculty Notes Faculty Notes

As co-authors of a successful grant Pitzer art the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock sites in the Los Angeles area. The India: Orissa and West Bengal,” in M. proposal to the Housing and Urban Professor (April 6-May 11). His work will be sites are: the Whittier Greenway Bike Embers and C. Embers (eds.) Development Agency (HUD), Kathryn shown in May at the Venice ArtWalk, Trail, which was a railroad track that “Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender,” LOURDES ARGUELLES (Education, Miller and in support of the Venice Free Clinic. is now being transformed into a bike (Human Relations Area Files, Inc., CGU and former Pitzer faculty Michael His erotic ceramic vegetable teapots and pedestrian trail; the Puente Hills 2003). member), CAROL BRANDT (External Horner’s will be featured in the exhibition Wilderness Park; and the Arroyo Seco Studies) and MARIE SANDY (Director “Desert “Planting, Pruning and Potting: Artists of Pasadena. In October 2002 she JACK SULLIVAN (Political Studies) and Instructor of Pitzer in Ontario) Lawn” and the Cultivated Landscape” from was an evening speaker for the has been involved in the League of were invited to attend a meeting of (1994), August through November at the Symposium on Environmental Women Voters and currently the 22 national recipients of HUD’s taken from Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Affairs at Lewis and Clark serves as natural resource the cover of prestigious Community Outreach Racine, Wis. College in Portland, Oregon, person for the League of the Partnership Centers (COPC) awards in with a talk titled “Creative Arts Women Voters of the ECOVENTION Washington, D.C., in December 2002. SCOT GOULD (Physics), CAROL and the Environment.” In Claremont Area and the brochure for BRANDT (External Studies), March-July 2003 her work League of Women Voters of Friday, June MITA BANERJEE SHELDON WETTACK (Dean of Faculty (photography and artists’ Los Angeles County. He also 21, 2002, at HMC), and CHRIS CRANEY books) will be exhibited at the serves the League of Women (Psychology) will Members present her paper (Chemistry at Occidental College) Palazzo della Triennale of Voters of California as a water Exhibition gave a panel presentation on Milan, Italy, in an exhibition consultant. He is one of two titled “Metaemotion: Jack Sullivan Opening. “Tomorrow’s Scientists Need Today’s titled “Asphalt: The Soil of the League of Women Voters Links Between Study Abroad” at the national City.” She also will be representatives to the Parental Emotion conference of the Council for exhibiting artwork for the California Department of Beliefs and Parent- featured EMILY CHAO (Anthropology) Australia, where he will be taking up International Educational Exchange in Design Conference at the Water Resources Advisory Child Interactions,” and JIM LEHMAN (Economics) as a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and Atlanta in November 2002. Pitzer University of Oregon, Eugene, Committee on the California at the Western speakers and co-organizers. PAUL will be a Visiting Fellow at the External Studies has taken a in April 2003. And finally, she Water Plan Update (Bulletin Mita Banerjee Psychological FAULSTICH (Environmental Studies) Australian National University. He coordinated a three-day workshop on will lecture around the country, and leadership role nationally in creating will be a speaker at the 160-03). The California Water Association Meetings in Vancouver possibilities for greater California Association of Plan Update assesses water “Sacred Ways/Indigenous Religions.” in the Outback he will be conducting in May. numbers of science and Environmental supplies and demands for the Through CISEP, Boyle also has helped field research on “The Natural engineering students to benefit Professionals state and identifies and to create an “International Trade History of Place-Making” among NIGEL BOYLE (Political Studies) from intercultural and language Conference in Monterey, evaluates strategies to meet Academy” within Chaffey High School Warlpiri Aborigines with whom he Rudi Volti published a chapter, “National education. Calif., in March 2003. future demands. He is also in Ontario, Calif. This “school within a has worked over the past 22 years. Politics and Globalization: Varieties completing a paper in which school” started in September 2002 of Neo-Liberal Youth Labor Market The artwork of KATHRYN The photography of he examines the effects of Policy Under Thatcher and Blair,” in and it will connect a range of Pitzer MAYA FEDERMAN MILLER (Art) was exhibited in GREGG SEGAL (PACE) globalization on water “Global Turbulence: Social Activists’ faculty and students to innovative (Economics) made a the spring of 2002 at Cal Poly was featured in two resource issues in Wales and and State Responses to international studies curriculum at presentation on Pomona Art Museum in a show Kathryn Miller recent issues of Esquire in Southern California. Globalization,” by editors Marjorie Chaffey High. using small group titled “Function of Art/Art of magazine, with his Griffin Cohen and Stephen McBride discussions at a Function.” Her piece in the shots of producer RUDI VOLTI’s (Sociology) (Ashgate, January 2003). Boyle will In the winter 2003 issue of Yes!, a poster session on show was a wood and metal Robert Evans appearing monograph “Technology present his paper, “Employment journal of positive futures,in an interactive teaching table, a cross between an in the February 2003 Transfer and East Asian Programs in Ireland 1987-1999: article titled What Would Democracy techniques at the ironing board and a Boogey issue, and pictures of Phil Zuckerman Economic Transformation,” was National, Subnational and Look Like? the authors discuss an annual American Maya Federman board inspired by simple actor Vincent D’Onofrio recently published by the Supranational Governance in a experiment by Pitzer faculty member Economic African functional designs. In in the May 2003 issue. His American Historical Association and Globalized Political Economy,” at the JOSE CALDERON regarding racial Association meetings in Washington, the summer of 2002 her work photo essay about people the Society for the History of European Union Studies Association and ethnic hierarchy in the early D.C., in January. was exhibited in living next to freeways will Technology. Also, he recently served conference in Nashville on March 1990s in the Alhambra School “ECOVENTION,” a 40-year appear in a spring 2003 issue as moderator for the conference 27. As Academic Director of the District of California. DAVID FURMAN (Art) remains active retrospective of environmental Gregg Segal of Los Angeles Times “Inventing for Humanity,” held at the Claremont International in the exhibition world. His work has and ecological-based art at the Magazine. Smithsonian’s Museum of American Studies Education Project PAUL FAULSTICH been featured at the Clay Studio in Contemporary Art Center in History and sponsored by the (CISEP), Boyle organized (Environmental Studies) has Philadelphia (April 4-28) in an Cincinnati, Ohio. A catalog was SUSAN SEYMOUR Lemelson Center for the Study of institutes for Southern joined the Advisory Board of invitational exhibition titled “Faculty produced for the show and is (Anthropology) has two new Invention and Innovation. California social studies Education for Sustainability, and Students From the U. of available at Amazon.com. She chapters in recent publications: teachers on “World Religions West Coast Network. The Washington Ceramics Program, also won a National “Family and Gender Systems in PHIL ZUCKERMAN (Sociology) will in History and the Network is aimed at 1969-1996.” Furman earned his Endowment for the Arts grant Transition: A Thirty-Five-Year present a paper in April at the Pacific Contemporary World” in encouraging environmentally MFA degree from U of Washington in to be artist-in-residence with Perspective,” in D. P. Mines and Sociological Association’s annual January and “Teaching East sound practices within 1972. His work also was included in the National Park Service, S. Lamb (eds.) “Everyday Life in meeting in Pasadena titled “Cult of Asia” from January to May. colleges and universities. In the exhibition “American Potters Rivers and Trails Division of South Asia” (Indiana University Religion? The Social Construction of “Teaching East Asia” also Paul Faulstich April, Paul leaves for Working in the Realist Tradition” at Los Angeles to work on three Susan Seymour Press, 2002), and “Northeast Religious Legitimacy.”

18 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 19 other categories of ID utterances. Faculty Research “We also have an ongoing study that will compare father-generated ID speech to FACULTY BOOKS: mother-generated ID speech,” he says. “And finally, before the decade is out, we’d really Professor Fought’s ‘Chicano English Professor David Moore’s Studies like to begin looking at differences in ID speech production across cultures. That all in Context’ Corrects Misconceptions ought to keep us busy for quite a while.” Reveal Much Ado about Baby hicano Moore, who completed his Ph.D. at English in Context” (Palgrave Global Publishing, October 2002) is linguistics Professor Carmen Fought’s first book. It also is, Harvard University, is the author of the according to its publisher, “the first modern, comprehensive study of popular book “The Dependent Gene: The “C ince 1989, psychology Professor David Moore has Chicano English.” Fallacy of Nature vs. Nurture” (W.H. Chicano English in Context operated the Claremont Infant Study Center at Pitzer Fought was inspired to write after colleagues kept Freeman, 2002), which was at the center of a asking her to create such a book. SCollege. The Center researches the development of number of Science Journal columns in the “I was really surprised to find out that there was no book-length work on the infants by studying cognition and perception and is currently Wall Street Journal in 2002. language of Mexican-Americans since a few that came out in the ’80s,” she says. conducting two studies, one in math and one in infant- Nisha Gottfredson ’06 has been assisting “There were a number of recent works on the language of African-Americans, but directed (ID) speech. at the center since she expressed an interest nothing comparable on Latino communities and their language.” Infants and math? The study is a follow-up to research in doing psychology research to Moore, one Fought says Chicano English in Context that suggests 5-month-olds can add and subtract small of her professors. will appeal to linguistics researchers and students – particularly quantities. “He answers all of my questions in great “We were skeptical, and so we are looking into the Latinos and Latinas. detail, and he has been a great teacher,” says “Students in my classes are always possibility that the observed results can be explained without the biology/psychology major. “Even though awarding young infants such advanced capabilities,” says asking me, ’Where can I read more about he doesn’t have much time, he always takes Chicano English?’ after I give them a few Moore. time out of his schedule to talk to me about articles in class,” she says. “Many of the The study is conducted using volunteers. The infant is anything.” students who are Latinos and Latinas are held on the lap of a parent and Gottfredson plans to finish working on curious about is shown an object on a video the math study and then continue to help this dialect, If the baby monitor, which moves across Moore with the speech study. After leaving which might be “ the screen and comes to rest on Pitzer, she plans to join the Peace Corps one that they speak or that is surprised one side. A video “curtain” before going on to graduate or medical then comes down and covers they have heard school. in their to see only the object. The baby then sees – Bridget Lewison a second, identical object move community one, it must growing up.” across the screen and disappear Fought says be because behind the curtain. This is the book also known as the “1-plus-1” should find an he/she condition. The curtain goes up Carmen Fought audience in and, in some trials, the baby other fields like knows that sees both objects; in other sociology and trials, the baby sees only one Chicano Studies because it focuses on the 1-plus-1 object. social setting of the Chicano community, the should leave “We ascertain if the baby is elements that are important to that more surprised by one object population, and the issues of bilingualism and language attitudes. more than than two objects,” says Moore. Nisha Gottfredson ’06 and Professor David Moore with Drawing from research for her “If the baby is surprised to see 5-month-old Tristian Lopez. dissertation about the language of young one. only one, it must be because adult Chicanos, Fought completed the book ” he/she knows that 1-plus-1 The newer study, which should continue for several years while on sabbatical. Professor should leave more than one.” to come, is looking to see if infants are able to categorize ID “I think the hardest part for me was right The same experiment is speech. at the end, having to read it over and make David Moore carried out with another group “The ability to do that is necessary before pre-verbal sure it sounded the way I wanted it to of infants using the infants could possibly extract any meaning from such sound,” she says. “2-minus-1” condition. This is done to make sure the babies speech,” says Moore. “Our hypothesis was that they would be Fought says she also would like to write are not just reflecting a general tendency to look at one object. able to do this.” a book on the representation of ethnic The speech study has a babies listening to a series of dialects in the media. “Babies should – if they really are computing – spend “I think this is an exciting topic that more time looking at two objects than at one object when the soothing or approving utterances made by different speakers hasn’t been explored that much,” she says. curtain goes up because in this case, two is the more with different content. Researchers look to see if the babies “But many people get their ideas of what surprising numerical outcome,” says Moore. “So far, it looks recognize utterances that are categorically similar – or other communities are like from TV and like babies do prefer to look at one object in the ’1-plus-1’ different – from other ones they’ve been hearing. Vanessa Lopez, 32, of Ontario, Calif., films, so it’s important to look at the media condition, and at two objects in the ’2-minus-1’ condition, so “So far, we’ve demonstrated that 6-month-olds are able to holds Tristian, 5 months, in the study lab representations of different people and their we have succeeded in replicating the originally reported categorize these ID utterances, whereas 3-month-olds cannot,” in Broad Hall. language and language uses.” phenomenon.” says Moore. “This means that 3-month-olds could not –––––– The math study, which is expected to wrap up during the possibly understand what adults are trying to convey with Sociology Professor Phil Zuckerman’s new book, An Invitation to Sociology their soothing and approving utterances, but that 6-month-olds of Religion (Routledge), will be out in July. He also has written the Introduction spring 2003 semester, also has been exploring possible The Negro Church: 100th Anniversary Edition might be able to.” to W.E.B. Du Bois’ (Alta Mira explanations for the infants’ behavior that wouldn’t require Press). one to conclude that 5-month-olds really can add and subtract. Moore says he plans to begin a new study soon to look at – Bridget Lewison

20 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 21 Alumni are Alumni Profile Faculty Profile Hard at Work at Pitzer Professor Jason Venetoulis ’95 in Tune with Students College I have very fond memories of Pitzer and the anthropology “ department and the courses in Chicano studies. isiting environmental studies Professor Jason Venetoulis ’95 has seen Aja Barr ’01, Admissions The teachers were very inspiring. much of the world. Born in London to parents of Greek, Irish, Iroquois Counselor ” and Cherokee ancestry, Venetoulis’ family moved around quite a bit Yvonne Berumen ’97, whenV he was young, settling first on the island of Rhodes, Greece, then Majorca, Assistant Director of Spain, British Columbia and Echo Park, Calif., before moving to the Pomona Admissions Patricia Zavella ’73 Discovered Valley. When it came time to select a college, Venetoulis landed in Jamie Brown ’00, Assistant Claremont. Director of Annual Giving “I went to Pitzer because it is a well-respected academic institution,” Rochelle Brown ’99, Life’s Work at Pitzer College Academic Support he says. “Pitzer allowed me to imagine, create, innovate and take action Coordinator, Office of Student in meaningful ways.” Affairs By Deborah Haar Clark Testimonios, which she coauthored and Among his favorite memories as a Pitzer student is working with Grace Byun ’98, Assistant to Professor Emeritus Lucian Marquis who taught a senior seminar which won the Gustavus Myers Center for the President atricia Zavella was possibly the only the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights called Pebble and Ripples. Kiara Canjura ’99, Assistant person surprised to hear she had been Outstanding Book Award of 2002. She is co- “Lucian challenged me to the Director of Human awarded the 2002-03 Scholar Award editor of the forthcoming Chicana I have enjoyed with such great thoughts as P “ Resources from the National Association for Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader. developing courses ‘Try not to generalize and Margaret Carothers ’70, and Chicano Studies. The accolades have been piling up as that the students at try to connect – not Director of Financial Aid “I was surprised and I also felt humbled well. In October, Zavella was named one of delineate or Lois Dumont ’81, Programmer because I know other scholars out there who the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Pitzer have pushed discriminate based Analyst, Information have been very prolific and influential,” Hispanic Business magazine. She is upon differences,’ “ Technology Zavella said. currently serving a the boundaries of – In announcing the four-year term as says Venetoulis who also Paul Faulstich ’79, Professor award, the NACCS chair of the and expressed has fond memories of of Environmental Studies Robert Fossum ’88, Director was as effusive as systemwide UC appreciation for – “jamming on the piano Zavella was modest, Committee on Latino with other students at the of Special Programs and Grant Administration describing her as “an Research, which having the opportunity Grove House.” advises the Office of Karen Hamilton ’02, Urban exceptional teacher, a He says he enjoyed first rate scholar, and the President to take, i.e. Campus Fellow, Center for Intercultural an activist committed regarding research the ability to change Studies and Education (CCCSI) Sustainability and the world and campus to social change for related to Latinas Sandy Hamilton ’95, Assistant our community,” and Latinos in Wild Thoughts, Wild with his friends at to the Dean and Assistant the Paul Shepard whose innovative California. Wanderings. Director of Institutional work has served “as Zavella Ecology Center, Research the catalyst for the discovered her life’s ” which he co-founded Jessica Hardy ’01, Software work of several work while taking with Paul Faulstich ’79. Support Coordinator, Professor Jason In generations of Chicano After receiving his Information Technology scholars.” anthropology courses addition to Venetoulis B.A. in environmental Kathleen Kile ’97, Mail Room Zavella, a 1973 at Pitzer. his teaching and volunteer studies, Venetoulis stayed Supervisor Pitzer graduate, is a “I just fell in projects at the College, Venetoulis is Program Manager for in Claremont. He attended Claremont Graduate University James Lippincott ’95, professor of Latin love with the work the Boston-based Second Nature’s Education for where he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. Assistant Director of Alumni American and Latino and I decided this Sustainability West Coast Network, a position he plans on studies and co- was the work that I After stints as a visiting professor at the University of Relations continuing when he leaves Pitzer in May. director of the wanted to do,” Redlands and an adjunct professor at Chapman University, Linda Morand ’81, Business “My current research is focused on the environmental, Manager for the Center for Chicano/Latino Zavella says. “I have Venetoulis returned to Pitzer in 2001 as a visiting professor. Patricia Zavella ’73 political and economic implications of solar and other energy Intercultural Studies and Research Center at very fond memories His ability to imagine, create, innovate and take action was sources,” he says. “I am a big advocate of implementation Education (CCCSI) the University of of Pitzer and the met with enthusiasm by his students. California at Santa Cruz. She has devoted anthropology department and the courses in and action, and less so inclined to spend more time and Marilyn Ray ’92, Associate “I have enjoyed developing courses that the students at her professional life to the study and Chicano studies. The teachers were very money doing yet more research just to get another publication Director of Major Gifts Pitzer have pushed the boundaries of – and expressed understanding of Chicano women and inspiring.” – which does not really position me too well for a future in Sandy Reeves ’92, Executive appreciation for – having the opportunity to take, i.e. families. Her current research includes a study of academia, unless I can find a place that appreciates such Assistant to the Vice Campus Sustainability and Wild Thoughts, Wild She is a prolific author, and her work the HIV risk among migrant Mexican efforts.” President for College includes the first book focusing on Chicano women and an analysis of the effects of Wanderings,” he says. He also still loves making music. Advancement women written by a single author, Women’s agricultural production in central California Venetoulis also has volunteered much of his time to Pitzer. Nicole Rocha ’97, Senior “I’m working on a CD with original songs and music Work and Chicano Families: Cannery and Mexico on Mexican workers. He coordinated student led efforts to initiate a series of youth Secretary, Facilities about social and environmental issues … and that old classic, Workers of the Santa Clara Valley (1987), as – Deborah Clark is a freelance writer garden projects for troubled teens at Camps Afflerbaugh- Anthony Vaquera ’01, Office who lives in Upland. love,” says Venetoulis, who still jams at the Grove House well as Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Paige, and he helped found Friends of the Bernard Biological Assistant, Office of with students. Field Station. Admissions – Bridget Lewison Jason Venetoulis ’95, Visiting Professor 22 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 23 Kate Peters ’74 Recognized Not Only Joel Harper ’95 Starts as a Performer, but as a Businesswoman Publishing Company ate Peters ’74 is a living example of how the liberal arts fter a less-than-positive apply to business. K experience trying to get his book My poetry is a cry from Active in the arts for most of her published, Joel Harper ’95 late last “my soul to the human race life, Peters has graced the stage in A productions such as “Carousel” and year started his own publishing company, for compassion. And it is “Oklahoma” and was the featured Freedom Three. Restless Spirit: one of the ways that I performer in PBS’ “Opera Over Easy.” Harper’s first book, In addition to doing various The Eyes of a Child (2003), is a cope with the issues that commercials, voice-overs and jingles, collaboration of plague my heart. she has taught voice at the college poetry, art and level since 1975. Most recently she has photos. His words Joel Harper ’95,” from appeared in a number of acts that are illustrated by the “Restless Spirit” spotlight her cabaret talents. Her show work of friends “Sojourn: A Concert for a New Age,” Nisaa Kirtman which has played at a number of (Scripps ’01) and “I quickly gravitated toward social venues in Southern California, has Alberto Oropeza, an and cultural studies,” he says, adding that been captured on an interactive CD- artist from Oaxaca, he spent six months in Costa Rica ROM. Joel Harper ’95 Mexico, Harper has “learning Spanish and working as a She also has portrayed Hillary known and admired counselor at a group home for abused and more than 12 years, also plays several Clinton – with whom she shares a since childhood. The cover illustration is abandoned children.” This experience led instruments. His brother is musician Ben striking resemblance – in “The First by his grandmother, Dorothy Chase, who him to pursue a career in social work. Harper. Lady, and Other Stories of Our Time.” Pitzer College Life Trustee Eli Broad, Chairman of SunAmerica Inc., stands with also co-owns the family’s Folk Music Harper says he writes poetry “as an Restless Spirit may be purchased for For the past five years, Peters also Doug Simao and Kate Peters ’74 on Nov. 18, 2001, at the Orange County Center in Claremont. outlet to express the pain, anxiety and $15, plus $1.85 shipping, by calling (909) has been recognized as a leading Business Committee for the Arts awards banquet. Among the personal experiences that extreme sadness I took home with me on 624-2928, or by writing to Freedom businesswoman. Peters and her shape Harper’s poems are growing up a daily basis.” He personally financed the Three, P.O. Box 1123, Claremont, CA husband, Doug Simao, have been 91711-1123. The book also may be Technology can greatly enhance the impact of biracial in Claremont and working as an first 1,000-copy run of Restless Spirit and recognized for the work they have done elementary school guidance counselor. In has plans to publish a book of purchased at the Folk Music Center, 229 assimilating technology with the arts “the arts as a place of self-expression, the introduction of Restless Spirit, Harper Yale Ave., Claremont. photography and poetry by high school though their technology consulting communication and innovation by providing credits his Pitzer education with opening students. For more information about the book, company Narratus, Inc. (formerly Data doors to a range of disciplines. Harper, who has been writing for log on to www.freedomthree.com. Into Action). progressive tools that facilitate connection. The Orange County Business Thus, merging the arts and technology is Committee for the Arts has honored the complementary to our purpose and our values. couple with annual Distinguished ” Achievement and Business in the Arts Kate Peters ’74 Marian Last ’75 Honored as Co-Founder of Project Sister awards since 1998. They also have been n Oct. 13, 2002, Marian Last ’75 Door, which closed in 1974. Project honored for their volunteer efforts, Owas honored as a co-founder of Sister now serves the East San Gabriel including the creation of Team Cabaret, problems,” she says. “It often depends technology. In 2001, Narratus built a Claremont-based Project Sister, an and Inland valleys, a software program that teaches high upon finding innovative ways to solve web site for the Fullerton Academy of organization serving survivors of sexual a 700-square-mile region with a school students to work with a those problems by revealing, sharing the Arts and the FUHS Academy of the assault and domestic violence. Professor population of 2.3 million. Services are community through the guise of a and expanding knowledge through Arts Foundation. Students are trained Ann Stromberg presented the recognition available in English and Spanish and musical theatre production. Narratus has connection and innovation. Our through an intern program to maintain to Last at a concert titled “Continuing include a 24-hour hotline, hospital, court, been honored by the business committee involvement in the arts in simply an and create web sites. The first intern the Dream” at Bridges Hall of Music on police accompaniments, information and alongside such companies as the Los extension of that commitment.” from the program now attends UC the Pomona College campus. The referral services, individual and group Angeles Times, Wells Fargo Bank, Peters and Simao also have Berkeley and works as a tester for a concert, which featured pianist/vocalist counseling, community education, rape Cartier and First American Title. developed a program called Show Pro, software company. Margie Adam, was held in honor of the prevention programs and personal safety Peters, who earned a B.A. in the Break-out-of-the-Box-Office “Technology can greatly enhance agency’s 30th anniversary. Marian Last ’75 and Professor Ann classes. psychology from Pitzer and an M.A. in Software, specifically for the Fullerton the impact of the arts as a place of self- “It was a pleasure to honor Marian Stromberg. “I am truly amazed at the music from Cal State Fullerton, also Civic Light Opera Company. The expression, communication and Last on behalf of Pitzer as a co-founder phenomenal progress and impact on serves as the human resources person software is unique in its ability to track innovation by providing progressive of Project Sister, a remarkable accomplishment she achieved society that Project Sister has made in helping victims of for Narratus. She says she enjoys trends and information that are valuable tools that facilitate connection,” says as an undergraduate,” says Stromberg. “Project Sister has sexual assault resume a lifestyle as close to normalcy as helping others through her work. for both marketing and financial Peters. “Thus, merging the arts and become a vital organization serving survivors of sexual possible,” says Last, who majored in sociology and “Our business depends upon our analysis. technology is complementary to our assault and domestic violence, as well as providing much psychology at Pitzer. “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder will ability to provide a place where people The couple additionally have helped purpose and our values.” needed education in the community.” forever affect the lives of many survivors. Although I am not a can express what is important to them young artists by teaching them Project Sister was established in 1972 through the efforts victim of sexual assault, I have – as a second generation so that we can help them solve business marketable skills through the use of – Bridget Lewison of Last and Louise Carnachan (Scripps ’75). Last and Holocaust survivor -- endured the pain of family and friends. Carnachan began the agency after volunteering to help My experience with Project Sister was, and most recently is, counsel rape victims though a program with Pomona Open my vehicle in healing my heart.”

24 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 25 Bay Area reception Michele Kennedy Alumni pitched in to welcoming Laura (Laguna Niguel) clean up Mother’s Skandera Trombley I have four kids and teaching 3rd grade Beach at Marina in November. elementary school. del Rey in (From left:) Dave December. (From Boster (parent of Sarah Morgridge left:) Rob Smith Sarah ’04), Alyce (New York) ’91, Richard Davis, Boster (parent of My 22 year-old son attends the New Anne Turley ’75, Sarah ’04), England Chamber of Music for voice. My Jason Venetoulis Elizabeth Porter 13 year-old daughter just got accepted to ’95 (visiting (parent of Stuivesant High School. I am working in professor of Augustine ’06), the NYC council with Robert Jackson, Environmental Zander Sprague 1st term city councilman and lead Studies) ’91, and Dawn plaintiff in CFE vs. NY (campaign for Sprague Fiscal Equity). The constitution requires the state to fund schools districts depending on state for funding. They are 29 years. She is very busy traveling, I just joined the online “Alumni Talk” trying to get equal funding for schools. I planning her daughter’s wedding in area on the Pitzer Website. I am also marched in the NYC anti-war protest I have been a professor in the big garden that keeps me happily playing March, and being the volunteer director interested in hearing from the Class of on February 15th. Department of History and Philosophy of in the dirt most of the time. of the Learning Seed Foundation, which 1969 Alumni regarding the upcoming Science at the University of Pittsburg helps kids go to college and which she reunion year in 2004. I would love to Terry Sue Holpert since January 2000 – the place where I Lynn Rogo and her husband, Merritt, founded in hear from former classmates. 72 (Tucson) got my Ph.D. in 1987. Not only am I in 75 (Los Angeles) 2001. She was recently appointed by I am in my 18th year as the Assistant the neighborhood of my graduate-school Life is bittersweet. My dad passed away Governor Gary Locke to the State Elizabeth Marcum Dean for Admission at the University of teachers but, Jim Bogen has retired to this year, but my older daughter is Personnel Resources Board, which (Pacific Grove) Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, Pittsburg! My book, Biological attending USC Medical School and my determines personnel policies for the In addition to my career as a special and I still find the work captivating. My Complexity and Integrative Pluralism, will younger daughter is off to Pennsylvania. state, and adjudicates labor disputes. education teacher, I have become a husband, Alan Stein, and I have adjusted be published in July 2003 by Cambridge Mark and I are working hard. I’m now Certified Master of Medical Qigong reluctantly to our empty nest. Our son University Press. I live with my husband, selling residential real estate for Coldwell Carolyn Reznikoff (Chinese energy skill) and I am Benjy, age 21, is a philosophy and Joel Smith, who is the CIO at Carnegie Banker in Beverly Hills. (Portland) specializing in Oncology. comparative literature major at the Mellon University, and two Cardigan My daughter Sasha graduated in May University of Michigan. David, age 19, is Corgies – Emerson and Libby. Karen Singer Alumni from Hampshire College in Amherst, with Margaret Leon **posted online a freshman at Wesleyan in Connecticut. (Philadelphia) a degree in architecture. It snowed at 70 (West Covina) It is cold! Marsha Palitz-Elliott I am recently divorced and happy to be. the ceremony. Hello, all! I was able to speak last year (Los Gatos) My son Isaac just turned 7 years old. Notes at a career group at Pitzer on teaching. I Jeanie Wakeland After over 30 years of marriage, John and I am working as an artist with ceramic Ann Stanton **posted online was a teacher for 6 years, and an (Walnut Creek) I have an “empty nest,” with both donor tiles for schools and hospitals. My IT’S YOUR 35TH YEAR CLASS (Montpelier, Vt.) administrator for the past 19 years. I am I am the Daily Review Editor for ANG daughters away at college. Mikha will business, Karen Singer Tileworks, Inc. is 68 REUNION! Join us for Alumni Hello All! I just visited Pitzer briefly on a Director of Curriculum at Whittier City Newspapers. graduate from CMC this May, majoring in going well. We recently completed a Weekend on May 2-4, 2003, to reunite Highway 1 trip celebrating my daughter’s School District and am working on my philosophy with a particular interest in mural for College Misericordia (Dallas, with old friends, participate in Alumni high school graduation. The trees have Ed.D. at USC. I should be graduating this IT’S YOUR 30 YEAR CLASS ethics. Mary is in her first year at Trinity Pa.) and another one for Capital College, see how much the Pitzer grown in 30 years! I now live in Vermont, spring. My three children are all grown. 73 REUNION! Join us for Alumni College in Hartford, Conn., exploring a University in Columbus, Ohio. campus has changed, and meet the fifth teach college in a progressive program The two boys, Chris and Jim, are married Weekend on May 2-4, 2003, to reunite variety of subjects, and making friends President of Pitzer College, Laura aimed for adults who come once a and have children. The third, Kirstana, is with old friends, participate in Alumni with the snow. While we celebrate the Janel Smith-Marchi Skandera Trombley. E-mail month and also work full time. Very working for Mercury Insurance and College, see how much the Pitzer girls’ independence, the house is (Lincoln) [email protected] or visit the alumni reminiscent of Pitzer’s educational studying engineering. I’d love to hear campus has changed, and meet the fifth definitely quiet. John continues to I welcome contact from other alums. My web site at www.alumni.pitzer.edu for philosophy and ideals, so I feel from any of you in the area. President of Pitzer College, Laura practice as a civil, trial attorney in his husband retired in 1998 from his job more information. We look forward to connected even though I haven’t been Skandera Trombley. E-mail own firm, and I continue to work as an with the State of California. In 2000 we seeing you in May! back to Pitzer for 30+ years. Kathey Rupp Haas [email protected] or visit the alumni organization development consultant. moved into a Del Web Sun City 71 **posted online web site at www.alumni.pitzer.edu for I am finding work with schools and development in Lincoln, California. It’s Kirsten Gronbjerg Sarah Lothrop Duckett (Huntington Beach) more information. We look forward to communities to be especially meaningful. like living in a resort. I’ve taken up (Bloomington, In.) 69 (Hopkinton, Ma.) Greetings everyone! Paddy O’Brien and seeing you in May! Meanwhile, John and I find that world tennis and am dabbling in ceramics I am in the middle of several major It has been almost three years since I I, among others, had such a great time events rekindle memories of the late again. Although I intended to retire as projects. One project examines the started a local newspaper in Hopkinton at our 30-year reunion that we would like Betsey Tirk Coleman ’60s and early ’70s. Déjà vu, anyone? well, I made the mistake of buying a gift scope and community dimensions of the (the start of the Boston Marathon). I am to have a mini-reunion as part of this (Indian Hills, Colo.) shop-out of state. It’s required many Indiana nonprofit sector. A second still having fun and I’m beginning to year’s Alumni Weekend, May 2-4, 2003. Betsey is the English department chair Sara Schurr **posted online trips and more time than expected. project seeks to profile the Illinois actually make money! So make your plans now and e-mail at Colorado Academy. She, her husband (Monroe, Wash.) We’re selling it and I expect to be nonprofit sector. For information about Paddy or me through the Pitzer Online Charles, and daughter Phoebe live in Retired at 51? Hi all – I’m currently headed back to work in sales or these projects, see my homepage: Carolyn Feuille Community. Let us know whom you’d Indian Hills, Colorado. Her son Charlie learning how to slow down and enjoy marketing. That’s my news…! www.spea.Indiana.edu/gronbjerg. (San Mateo) like to see and what you would like to and granddaughter Victoria are in retirement at age 51. My husband, I am a corporate coach, trained through do. Come meet Pitzer’s new President Ontario. You can e-mail Betsey at Walter (age 66) retired last year and Kathryn Chapman Marsha Tadano Long Corporate Coach University International. and enjoy the beauty of the campus – it [email protected]. we’re having a great time working a little 76 (Long Beach) (Olympia, Wash.) looks a bit different than when we were here and there and playing a lot! For a I have two kids, 11 years old and 13 Marsha is enjoying the retired life having Josephine John **posted online students. It should be a great time and Sandra Mitchell recovering do-aholic, it’s a big step! We years old. I would love to hear from left Washington State government after (Houston) we hope you will join in!! (Pittsburg) live in Monroe on 2 acres where I have a anyone from the class of ’76.

26 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 27 Lisa Geller Alumni from the to have our Pitzer friends out for a round Bobby, 7 years old, and husband Robert. (Watertown, Ma.) San Antonio, Texas, of golf or a run on the ski slopes. I teach ESL at Santa Monica College. I am co-editor of a new book being area gathered for a published titled, “Double Edged Helix” Pomona-Pitzer Diane Rzegochki IT’S YOUR 20TH YEAR CLASS about Bioethics. Sagehens vs. Trinity (Seattle) 83 REUNION! Join us for Alumni College football I am a clinical supervisor for a pilot Weekend on May 2-4, 2003, to reunite Travis Silcox (formerly Shirley game in September. project with juvenile delinquents. with old friends, participate in Alumni 77 Travis) **posted online (From left:) Char College, to see how much the Pitzer (Sacramento) Miller ’75, Judi David Svenson campus has changed, and to meet the I am letting anyone who is interested Lipsett ’75, Robyn (Wrightwood) fifth President of Pitzer College, Laura know that I received tenure at Fitzberry Langham I am an artist working in neon sculpture Skandera Trombley. E-mail Sacramento City College where I teach in ’68, Kathleen Reilly medium. I teach at the Academy of Arts [email protected] or visit the alumni the English Department. It’s actually Carter ’89, and College in San Francisco. I conduct wood web site at www.alumni.pitzer.edu for pretty easy to get tenure at a community Laura Reilly ’90 carving workshops on north west coast more information. We look forward to college, but security of employment is a Indian design in Alaska. seeing you in May! nice luxury. I got my Ph.D. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz, and I live in Bob Taylor Susan Magill Sacramento with my domestic partner, aleady taken steps in preparation for our Bill Bennett (Upland, CA) (Mayer, Ariz.) Preston Rudy. Along the way, I changed 25th reunion in May: 1. Searched the 80 (Lake Oswego) Bob is a 4th and 5th grade teacher at I am living at Orme Prep School. I have 2 my name to Travis Silcox, joining two internet for Ph.D. correspondence course I have recently joined the management Mission Elementary School. He would horses, 2 dogs, and a lamb. I would family names. We are happily child free. 2. Considered whether serving at team at Cleaner Image, a privately held like to hear from other Pitzer teachers. love visitors. This summer I was a fellow in a National Starbucks one summer could be facility management company, the third He is happy to hear about Pitzer’s Endowment for the Humanities Summer considered as a “partner in the firm” 3. largest in the state. My role as the VP, decision regarding the use of the SAT. Josh Rosenthal Institute, studying Maya culture in Joined the gym around the corner 4. Corporate Services, will initially start (Washington, D.C.) Guatemala and Mexico. I teach Started watching “Fashion Emergency” for heading up HR, IT, and QA, then next Kathleen Bracy I still live on the wrong coast, but have The Orange County and Los Angeles Chapters literature of the Americas, as well as tips. Please let me know if you have any year also as their chief legal counsel. 82 (Seattle) discovered a few saving graces to living gathered for a tour and discussion with Professor many levels of composition. Preston other ideas. I can’t wait to see everyone. What sold me was an aggressive I continue to live and be well in Seattle. in Washington, DC – food, seasons, Dan Ward at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda in and I are very active in progressive I’ll keep you posted on my progress. strategy for continued growth both in the politics, and history. I am still managing February. (From left:) Donna Cutler Greenberger politics and issues. My email is state and through out the country ... a Linda Brewer research and making policy on ’69, Brenda Baumgartner ’69, Louise Thornton [email protected]. I’d love to hear Diane Diaz strategy I can play an instrumental role (Los Angeles) biodiversity and human health through ’68, and Nancy Bushnell ’69. from anyone who knew me! 79 (Murrieta, CA) in crafting and executing. I’m still raising four of my 16 my job at NIH. My wife, a professor at Diane is researching a Medicare Study grandchildren. I completed a Georgetown University, and I are raising www.theaceproject.org). This exciting IT’S YOUR 25 YEAR CLASS for Westat. She is also planning a trip to Celina (DeAguiar) Haigh directorship for private pre-schools in our two lovely daughters (5 and 3 years opportunity for me is a perfect fit with my 78 REUNION! Join us for Alumni Spain to watch her son, who is a (Kapaa, Hawaii) June 2002. I’m also very active in old) with the hopes that one day they will experience handling transportation-related Weekend on May 2-4, 2003 to reunite Fireman in West Covina, in the World I am happily living on Kauai with my “Every Mother is a Working Mother understand that California is more than a legislative affairs and community and with old friends, participate in Alumni Police and Fireman Games. husband Doug and our two sons. After Network.” place that you go to drive around and media outreach at the state and College, see how much the Pitzer being a stay-at-home mom for 10 years, visit people. congressional levels. I am proud to have campus has changed, and meet the Martha Odegaard I’m again teaching second grade and K. Michelle Doyle worked with Congressman (and formerly fifth President of Pitzer College, (La Jolla) loving it! (Troy, N.Y.) Jeanette Woo Chitjian State Senator) Schiff for the past 6 years, Laura Skandera Trombley. Email I got married in 1999, and have two I am now living in upstate N.Y. with my (Altadena) and to have played a role in our [email protected] or visit the alumni wonderful children 3 1/2 years old and 21 Terrill Helander, Ph.D. husband Kevin, Jonas (17 years old), We’re still living in Altadena and loving accomplishments on the Metro Gold Line web site at www.alumni.pitzer.edu for months old. I maintain an acupuncture (Claremont) Alison (11 years old), and Cody (9 years raising two girls. Mark and I are fully and local transportation, Oakmont and more information. We look forward to practice in La Jolla. My daughter, Meggie, is a freshman at old). Mid-wifery is still my passion. ensconced in soccer! I continue to open space preservation efforts, seeing you in May! Pitzer and loving it. I get to relive a lot of I attend births at St. Mary’s Hospital in commute to Marlborough School and can chromium 6, the Caltrans Historic Janet Suslick **posted online fun times as I hear her stories of life in Troy, NY and take care of clients age talk for hours about the advantages of Housing Fund, and so many other Amy Borenstein Graves (Sweden) Holden. I am recently divorced, still live 8-83 with a whole range of female health single sex education for girls. Hope to initiatives of importance to our (Tampa) I’m still in Sweden after all these years. in Claremont, and continue to work at a concerns. My family is very loving, and see everyone at this year’s reunion! communities. Fortunately, I will have the I wonder how you all are! I can’t make it My sons are growing like weeds. My non-profit agency in Pasadena as an wonderfully forgiving of my hours spent opportunity to continue to work with Adam to the reunion (Florida is too far!), but I “baby” has started school now (first educational psychologist. “catching babies.” Nicole Skinner and his office on the Alameda Corridor miss you all. I would love to hear from Lori grade starts at age 7 here) and my 9 85 (Branford, Conn.) east project. And certainly the most Brown ’78, Kurt Rosenberg ’78, Maria year old was just on a field trip to a Nancy Herzog Mark Gaynor Nicole wrote a new book “50 Low Cost, wonderful “perk” of my having worked in Thibeault ’78. (THAT crowd and you Stone Age village and slept away from (St. Louis) (Cambridge, Ma.) No Cost Marketing Solutions,” published Adam’s office is that it was here that I remember who you are!). I am fine. My home for the first time ever without a Our oldest son, Richard, underwent I am a first year teacher at BU. My first by her own company, Flying Point, LLC. met and married my wife Patty! daughter is looking at colleges. I can’t parent. Since November 2000, I’ve cochlear implant surgery last summer book is coming out in January 2003. Please contact her at believe it! We’re getting old! I am a full been a journalist at the Swedish Dental (such fascinating technology!) and will [email protected]. Karen Paradise professor of epidemiology at the School of Association’s magazine for dentists. I head off to college next fall. Our Sharon Marcus-Kurn (Mountain View) Public Health at the University of South write mainly about dental research and youngest son William applied to a (Chevy Chase, Md.) Paul Hubler Karen is currently living in Mountain Florida in Tampa. Please come and visit education. Latest trip: Kosovo (August program through his high school, to I am Assistant U.S. Attorney in D.C., 86 (Monrovia) View. If you are living in the Bay Area, me if you are in the mid-section of Florida. 2002). Last book read: “Underdog.” spend a sophomore semester in prosecuting sex offenders. I have a cute I resigned as Deputy Chief of Staff/Press look her up. It’s not as bad as they say! Switzerland. Oh, to be a Herzog kid! baby girl named Kaela, who is now 2 1/2 Secretary with Congressman Adam Bruce Taylor The thought of an empty nest makes me years old. Schiff, to commence my new position as Stephanie Brown Anne Kaplin (Los Angeles) cry, “Boo! Hoo!” while my husband Public Affairs Project Manager for 87 (Long Beach) (New York) My oldest son Charles (17 years old) is shouts “Yippee!”. Jacques and I just Kathryn Seidman Sucher Alameda Corridor East East project Stephanie and Joseph PO ’88, have a Hi Everyone! I don’t know about you, but I getting ready for college. Scary thought! completed our vacation/retirement home (Culver City) effective December 16, 2002. new baby named Eve Lyford, born can’t believe that I’m that old! And I’ve I hope he has as much fun as I did! in Santa Fe, New Mexico and would love I am living in Culver City with my son (For more on the project, see January 2002.

28 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 29 James McKnight The Los Angeles Tommy Bahama, heading up the women’s (Pasadena) chapter gathered sportswear division in the Midwest. It’s a I am Senior Pastor at Traveler’s Rest for an evening great job. Hi to David Greensfelder and Church in Inner City Los Angeles. wine tasting in Tammie (Stutz) Beltrand. Pasadena with Karin Labby Professor Barry Ben Goren (Los Angeles) Sanders in (Chicago) In February, baby Millie joined mother December. Susan and Ben Goren welcomed Eva Karin, father John King CMC ’86, brother Pictured: Steve Madeline to the world at 11:48 p.m., on Otis, and sister Violet. Williams ’74 and August 16, 2002. Eva was 8 lbs. And Professor Barry 20 1/2 inches at birth. To Kaz, Los, IT’S YOUR 15 YEAR CLASS Sanders James, Bussey (all ’91), we finally joined 88 REUNION! Join us for Alumni the club. Lane ’91 is next. Hey Reckard Weekend on May 2-4, 2003 to reunite ’82 and Shaver ’89, when are you going with old friends, participate in Alumni to get yourself a soon-to-be Pitzer youth? College, to see how much the Pitzer Flood ’92, are you married yet? campus has changed, and to meet the part-time as a psychologist and full time as Surgery at the University fifth President of Pitzer College, Laura a mom. I’d love to hear from old friends. of Minnesota. Allison Larew Skandera Trombley. E-mail (Concord, Ma.) Alumni representatives of Pitzer’s graduating classes at Inauguration [email protected] or visit the alumni James Huybrechts Lisa Hart I had a baby girl, April 3, 2002, named web site at www.alumni.pitzer.edu for (Makawoa, HI) (Los Angeles) Sophia Noelani Larew. more information. We look forward to I’ve been using my anthropology and I am now an ABD: all but dissertation description, i.e. Desert as a Place, Deborah and her husband recently seeing you in May! ethnomusicology skills with my world -- (I gotta get that darned thing done), in Erik McGuinness Science, and Poetry in the 17th Century. adopted a 6 year-old boy, and a 4 year- music group Ranga Pue (means clinical and industrial organizational (Oakland) I have visited many friends and look old girl. Tess Jackson Albert encircling the earth) at the Ritz Carlton psychology. I moved back to Los My wife Anne and I just had a new baby forward to seeing others, new and old, (Owings Mills, Md) Kapalua in Maui for the past two years. Angeles from San Diego and now work girl, Audrey Genevieve, born Sept. 14, along the way. Feel free to send an Sara Dehghani Charlie and I are busy keeping up with If you come to Maui, be sure to say hi to for the L.A. County Human Relations 2002, and we just bought a new house. e-mail to [email protected]. Later! 92 (Upland) 1/2 Kelsey (age 9) and Alexander (age 5 ). us in the Ritz’s Restaurant. Commission as a Senior Intergroup I will be getting married to Sean Nikbae Between Girl Scouts and Board meetings Relations Specialist. How’s that for a David Straus **posted online Seth Leibsohn in the spring. at Alexander’s school, life is happy, but Abel Martinez mouthful? I think back on my Pitzer days (Los Angeles) (Washington) hectic. We will not be able to attend (Walnut, CA) with fondness, and I would love to hear Hello to all my Pitzer friends. I am Seth Leibsohn, B.A, CGU ’93, Karla Held **posted online reunion because of a family wedding. I have been married to Veronica for 7 from folks from the good old days. My e- excited to see this new Pitzer community Northeastern University School of Law ’97 (Key Largo, Fla.) Hope it’s fun! I’m with you in spirit. years (July 1, 1995). We have 2 kids, mail is [email protected]. open on the Internet so I thought I would is pleased to announce his engagement to No class notes for 92? Maybe I am not Claire (3 years old) and Ethan (1 year old). post our first class note. On March 16, Elaine Clemons of Washington, DC. They reading this thing right, but it seems David Blechinger 2002 I married a wonderful woman Linda Orosz **posted online will be married in June of 2003 in there are no class notes for the class of (Fanwood, NJ) Joe Chatham (Denver) named Laurie Allyn Saffian. Laurie is a Washington, DC. Seth is the Director of 92! It seemed so sad I thought I would I have a new baby, Jaedan, born August 89 (Camarillo) Hi all. I got married a year ago and life Political Consultant and Marketing Policy at Empower America and the chief write a line or two. It would be great to 26, 2002. Joe and Lisa are proud and blessed to is grand. I am writing and performing Strategist for non-profits, corporations of staff to the former Secretary of hear some news from our class!! I am announce the birth of their daughter, comedy with the trio A.C.E. (Stands for and political campaigns. Most Education and Director of Office of now in an internet cafe in Peru where I Douglas Calvert Gemma Leigh, on Oct. 23, 2002. She American, Canadian, Englishman). We’re importantly she likes to laugh and has National Drug Control Policy, William J. lead trips for www.gap.ca. Come visit! (Vallejo, CA) came into the world a healthy 7 lbs. 4 taping a television pilot in a couple of an amazing gentle aura around her. I am Bennett. He would be delighted to hear take care and write some class notes! I got married (yes, married!) in 1999 to oz. And 19 1/2 inches long. Parents are months. Very exciting for us! Would love very lucky to have found her. I am from old friends at [email protected]. cheers, [email protected]. Rachel, the most wonderful woman on doing great. to hear from any/everyone. Cheers. currently working in the entertainment the planet. She and I (and the dog and world, helping filmmakers market their Jennifer Moffroid June Woo Hendley cat) live in Vallejo, California outside of Dan Daley Catherine Caporale films to festivals. (Warren, Vt.) (Chino Hills, CA) San Francisco while I finish my first two (Laguna Niguel) 90 (Claremont) I still love life in Vermont! I’ve been I am expecting a child in June. years of medical school. We’ll be moving Dan and Erin are parents to a new Catherine and Jay Cordes are the proud Mason Huffine working for American Flatbread for over 8 into San Francisco this summer so I can bouncing baby boy. parents of Jacqueline Felicita Cordes, 91 (Seattle) years now…I think I am a lifer. We just Rachel Levin begin rotations at California Pacific born on Nov. 16th at 4:38 a.m. She Calling all ex patriots! Is there anyone opened a second restaurant in (New York) Medical Center. Anyone who is silly Jill Farbarik came into this world a healthy 7 lbs. 6 living abroad? During the next two years I Middlebury, VT. The only thing missing in Rachel married Aaron Kless on Oct. 5, enough to try to track me down, can do (Seattle) oz., with a full head of brown hair! will be traveling over land on a motor- Vermont is a burrito stand! Hope to see 2002, in New York. so at [email protected]. It pains I am pregnant and due in 3 months. Mother and daughter are doing fine. cycle across central and south America, you all at the 15 year reunion. me to not be able to get to the reunion Africa, eastern and western Europe, Thomas Mills this year, but I have a week of exams Justine Girellini Adam Dorsay India, and parts of Asia…provided I can Byron Smith (Portland) starting that following Monday, and quite (Montclair, N.J.) (Petalulma, CA) press the right buttons, in the correct (San Francisco) I have a 1 1/2 year-old son, Henry Evan frankly, while I do a lot up here, I couldn’t Justine received a promotion to Adam married Aurianne Jacobs on sequence, with the approximate wire My wife Gabby, and I have a baby girl Mills, born Oct. 12, 2001. pull that one off. I’ll do what I can to Associate Director of Admissions at January 12th. He has known Aurianne connecting the various gizmos I have named Lulu, born Sept. 30, 2002. make sure I get to the 20 year reunion. I William Patterson College of New Jersey. since he was 8 years old. brought along. I will be updating a Valerie Ritter should be in a residency by then. website as to my whereabouts. Lynne Stallings (Chicago) Andrew Harrison Mary Jo Emfield www.roadmason.org. Thanks to Chris (Indianapolis) Valerie was married in 2002. She has Lisa Barnes Lanier (Minneapolis) (Tonka Bay, Minn.) Davis ’91, I will be able to put up My 2nd daughter Brooke was born a new job as an Assistant Professor at (Los Angeles) Andrew is enjoying life in sunny I am doing well, living in Minnesota with photos, descriptions of my activities, Sept.1, 2002. the University of Chicago, in the I live in Los Angeles with my husband Minneapolis with his beautiful wife and 2 my husband Gregg, our daughter Kendall along with culturally poignant diatribes Department of South Asian Languages 1/2 Gary, and two (2) children Sophie, 4 kids. He is working as Director of (4 years old) and twin boys, Travis and (observations) as to the state of the Deborah Wilson and Civilization, teaching Hindi and years, and Samuel, 15 months old. I work Opthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Austin, born Sept. 27, 2001. I work for world that will read like a Pitzer course (Colton, CA) South Asian Literature courses.

30 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 31 Gil Villanueva spare bedroom. I’ve lost touch with a few physical therapist at Ebenson Hospital Zeller’97 and I will have been married for enrolled in the MS in Education with a (Lewisburg, Pa.) friends from Pitzer, most notably Claudette of Chicago. five years too! We still live in Greenbelt, concentration in TESOL program at Cal I have a 4 year-old boy named Grant, Hatcher’91 from Washington State, and Maryland, with our two dogs. Genanne is State Fullerton. It’s a pretty cool deal. I and a 6 month-old girl named Camden. Tracy Thompson ’93. I hope that everyone Marc Garcia **posted online the Director of Operations for a software might be presenting at this fall’s regional has a great time at the reunion and I wish 95 (Phoenix) firm, and I am teaching at Georgetown CATESOL conference at Fullerton. My IT’S YOUR 10-YEAR CLASS I could be there. Rob Thornhill ’96 – where are you? Lost University while working on my Ph.D. at plan is to teach ESL in Germany so that I 93 REUNION! Join us for Alumni track of you after you left Prescott. the University of Maryland. Genanne has may pursue my work on my senior thesis Weekend on May 2-4, 2003 to reunite Angela Stengler Contact me at [email protected]. also recently renewed her interest in wherein I was trying to establish a with old friends, participate in Alumni (Oceanside) Yoga, and I remain the Co-Chair of the connection between Remarque and College, to see how much the Pitzer God has blessed us with another Kimberly Schoenstadt Graduate Employee Union at Maryland. Freud in “All Quiet on the Western Front” campus has changed, and to meet the Stengler baby! Luke Dale was born (Santa Monica) Drop us a line: [email protected] or or “Im Westen nichts Neues” for you fifth President of Pitzer College, Laura Jan. 17, 2003. Big brother Mark Jr., (5 Kimberly was married to Jonathan [email protected]. language buffs. Skandera Trombley. E-mail years old) and big sister Hope (2 years Furmanski in June, 2002. Both Kim [email protected] or visit the alumni old) are thrilled with baby Luke. We are and Jon will be showing their work in the Daniel Pacheco Andrew Samtoy web site at www.alumni.pitzer.edu for hoping to make it to the reunion and I upcoming, on-campus exhibit, “Systems (Tucson) (San Diego) more information. We look forward to would love to see our friends together of Exteriors and Interiors for Better I am now a 6th grade math teacher. Hey all. I’m living in PacificBeach/San seeing you in May! again (Anna, Pablo, Sandy-Alex, Brian, Living” on view from March 24–April 12, Diego now organizing alumni events. In my Scott, Rosa, Rob, etc.). 2003 in Nichol’s gallery. Alisa Ruby free time, I’m working with a troop of other Clay Ballantine (Santa Monica) Pitzer graduates at Milberg, Weiss, (Amherst, Ma.) Graciela Vega-Carbajal Nathan Krueger Feeling the love for the days of old ... Bershad, Hynes, and Lerach, a securities I am excited to write that I have a (Watsonville) 96 (Salt Lake City) President Massey’s kegs on the Mounds, litigation firm. I do institutional investor beautiful little boy, Caleb Ballantine, I am currently working as a 4th/5th I was married on July 5th to Jessica Michelle Mitchell ’92 pitching in during the spanish fly Jell-O shots, Dennis and his relations. I’m learning to play the who was born on July 7, 2002. Hannah grade Spanish teacher. I send my Perri and am now working on finding a Arboretum Community Workday the bacchi ball, Alexis in pasties, and Ed and Shakuhachi flute, drinking lots of tea, and (now 4 years old) and Caleb get along greetings to all those people doing good balance between teaching and being a day after Inauguration. Joel in the bathroom. If you know what I trying to read as many history and great and are wonderful kids. I have work in their community. Thank you! good husband. speak of, please send me some love. My business books possible. I’m getting been working at Hampshire College for Skandera Trombley. E-mail e-mail is [email protected]. involved in Toastmasters, a public the past year in the Development Magdaelena Aguirre-Morazan Mikako Harada [email protected] or visit the alumni speaking organization! I’m also collecting Office. Work travels bring me from (Pomona) 97 (New York) web site at www.alumni.pitzer.edu for Jennifer Stark Buddha statues and fountain pens, and Amherst, MA to California frequently I have a 7-month-old baby named I am working hard toward getting a more information. We look forward to (Claremont) have spent 10 hours in recent weeks and I look forward to seeing other Stephanie Marie. second master’s degree in Creative Arts seeing you in May! I have two new babies: Joe Berke, born writing T.S. Eliot poems on the pictures in 93’ers at reunion in May. Therapy from Pratt Institute. If there is in 2000, and Ruby Berke, born in 2002. J-crew catalogues with China marker. David Garst anyone who is also an art therapist, or Helene Ambrose Lucrecia Choto **posted online (Seattle) interested in it, please e-mail me at (Mountain View) Lindsay Berenzweig Meghavi Shah Our 10th Year Reunion!!!! I am engaged to Michelle Kobayashi [email protected]. I moved to northern California, passed 99 (New York) (San Jose) Hello Everyone, I hope to see each of PO ’96. We will be married in May 2004 the California Bar, and work as a I am getting my masters in psychology at Hi Everyone. Well, I guess the latest is you at reunion. Can you believe it’s and will be moving to Hawaii in July. Megan Dingler Jolly litigation attorney. The New School. that I had a surgery at the end of July. been ten years? I will be bringing my (Fairview, OR) Can you believe it was 9 hours long? I husband Kurt whom I met during my Jason Kirkpatrick Megan was selected as one of six Ben Ball Damian Mark Ross entered into Portland State University’s study abroad program in Ecuador and (Houston) recipients for the Police Activities (Benicia) (Ontario) TESL certificate program. It’s a neat our daughter Xiomara Raquel who is Jason was married to Elena in League of Greater Portland Volunteer In May 2002, I graduated from the Damian is an adjunct faculty at Mt. SAC program; Kind of feels like I’m back at now almost 7 months old. I hope to September 2002. Pacesetter award, which was presented Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy teaching ceramics. He graduated from Pitzer, if you can believe it. Linguistic meet your new families and/or to hear to her at the “PAL” Holiday Gala at the at Tufts University. Now I’m in Seoul, CGU in May 2002. Departments are like their own about what you have been up to in the Alleghany Meadows Pittock Mansion on Thursday, Dec. 12, South Korea for one year on a communities! I’ve been helping out with past ten years. If you would like to 94 (Carbondale, Colo.) 2002. Megan has had a major impact fellowship from the Luce Foundation. Eric Baudry a thesis on Portland dialect! It’s neat. share ideas for our reunion, please Alleghany Meadows, along with Sarah on the children in the Greater Portland Half of my time is spent working at 01 (Oakland) I’ve gotten involved in their IELP/ESL contact me at [email protected] as I am and Sam Clarkson, presented Fall area. Her support for collaborative People’s Solidarity for Participatory I got married in August 2002 to Rebecca program, so I tutor there and do a bit of working with a group of people who Exhibitions/Sales in Claremont, efforts among youth, police and the Democracy, a non-profit that works for Boyle, CMC ’00). We are living in tutoring in the IASC (academic support) want to make this a memorable event 11/20/02, at Pomona College; Santa community are making a positive transparency and accountability in the Oakland Hills, near San Francisco. I am center. I’ve started up teaching a bit of for all of us. See you soon, Lucrecia. Barbara, 11/21/02, at the Artstream difference in the lives of young people. Korean government. The other half of eager to see my old friends in the area. piano to neighborhood kids. Last spring, Nomadic Gallery; West Hollywood, She has not only devoted herself to my time is spent attempting to learn I did a practicum at my old high school. Kate Dominus 11/23/02, at the home of Robyn Glaser; improve the quality of PAL’s programs, Korean, a near impossible task. Daniel Pittaway **posted online I’m applying to education programs in (New York) Slide Lecture Dallas Texas, 12/7/02 (11 but has also demonstrated once again, (Anaheim) California; focus on TESOL. Looking Unfortunately I will be unable to attend am) at Brookhaven College, Ceramics a positive style that has won the Bryn Kanter After an 11-month stint as a Cisco forward to starting grad school and reunion this year, but I wanted to let Dept.; Dallas Texas, 12/7/02, (1 - 5 pm) respect of all those who have worked (Phoenix) network engineer, I made a life-altering finally teaching. everyone know what I was up to. After at the home of Louise and David side by side with her during fund-raising I will be graduating from Arizona State decision to pursue my true passion-- getting married in 1999, I began attending Rosenfield. events such as our annual golf University College of Law this May and tutoring. Thanks to Bob Connolly (class Maria Escudero law school. I am now working in the tournament and auction. taking the Bar Exam in July. I am of ’93), I was able to start my own 03 (Pasadena) Intellectual Property department of Pitney Leonard Plick currently clerking in the Juvenile Section tutoring ring, and now I’ve expanded it Maria will be graduating from CGU with Hardin, primarily doing trademark work and (Duarte) IT’S YOUR 5-YEAR CLASS of the Maricopa County Public into a small business wherein I have honors in education. love my new career. In my spare time Leonard is currently a music therapist at 98 REUNION! Join us for Alumni Defenders Office and hope to work here tutors handling my clients. I am always (which I don’t have much of) I’m going to Los Alamitos Hospital. Weekend on May 2-4, 2003 to reunite full time after the bar. looking for Pitzer grads who have the CORRECTIONS: be working at the Telluride Film Festival with old friends, participate in Alumni talent and the means to tutor high A story in the fall 2002 issue ”Two Special Programs at Pitzer this August. I live in a three-bedroom Joanna Sheinkop College, to see how much the Pitzer Ed Martini school (and younger) students. So, if Made Possible by Generous Irvine Grant” should have identified apartment in Manhattan, so if anyone (Chicago) campus has changed, and to meet the (Greenbelt, MD) you’re interested, let me know: CAPAS as the Center for Asian Pacific American Students. Our five-year reunion means that Genanne In the fall 2002 issue, Char Miller was listed as a 1974 graduate. wants to come visit, we always have a I started a new job early this year as a fifth President of Pitzer College, Laura [email protected] Currently I’m Mr. Miller graduated in 1975. Spring 2003 33 32 Pitzer College Participant In My Own Words By Adi Liberman ’79 off our streets and dump that into the ocean. These systems were built and ust when I thought I had escaped the controlled by enormous bureaucracies that optimistic exuberance of my youth, rarely spoke to one another, let alone Jthere I was again in orange and white collaborated on a more sensible solution to cap and gown marching by the fountain our water needs. and clock tower. It all came back to me in No wonder that a more sober a flash. pessimism had crept into my world view Twenty-four years ago, just more than a over the past quarter century. half a lifetime ago, I was in line with my But then, there I was at Pitzer, classmates, excited about the day and marching as a class representative in a eager to take my moment in the spot light. ceremony to inaugurate the college’s new My valedictory address, just like countless President, Laura Skandera Trombley. other graduation farewell speeches, spoke Maybe it was all the talk about the future, of hope and promise and how we were or maybe it was just memories triggered going to fix all the mistakes of the world. by the surroundings of my buoyant youth, Of course, we soon learned that saving but I felt it again. I felt hopeful. I would the world was going to be a tougher nut to try again. I would make a difference. And crack than we planned. even if I couldn’t, I had to try. Take water use and pollution, the nut I I’m sure it was a coincidence, but on chose to crack. In Los Angeles, billion the drive home I heard on the radio that a dollar systems were built to bring water local school was rebuilding its campus from hundreds of miles away and deliver with underground cisterns that would it to our homes. Billions more were spent capture rainwater to be used to water the on sewer systems to take the water from trees and grass that were to replace the old our homes, clean it, and then pour it into asphalt and concrete play areas. the ocean, even though it’s good enough to Coincidence or fluke, I took this as a use on our lawns and gardens. Just to top sign. it off, hundreds of millions more were If I need another dose of optimism, I spent on creating enormous concrete won’t wait another twenty-four years to channels to whisk very drinkable rainwater visit again. Adi Liberman ’79 and daughter, Emma

Poetry it fall slowly beneath the horizon. A Voice that is Great Within Us When I came home a coyote By Aaron Balkan ’98 was waiting at my door, something

I’d been sad so long it bored me to tears, I normally would have ignored, though it hardly bothered me I was so but I was in such a mood I thought indifferent. My simple soul, I could take this animal in, care for it, an empty car rolling down a hill make it a part of me. All this was possible; with a broken a.m. radio, I was alive in a new way, alive was a way I never would have put it. with a new kind of tendency, Then I woke one morning to find to live the day for all its worth, my heart - of all organs! - or however the expression goes. had climbed to the center of the sky, Waking early the next morning, replacing the sun. Sure I was scared, the sky was clouded over, but we go on, and I walked to work and I had no way of knowing as I always do, the same route, if it would be rain or tears. nothing changed, except my shadow kept far ahead of me. It was a slow day. I kept wondering how long it would last, looking Balkan was a New York Times out the window, seeing it beat there, fellow in the M.F.A. writing never missing a beat you could say. program at New York I knew everyone in the office must be University. He lives in talking about my heart behind my back. Brooklyn, N.Y. But they didn’t say a word to me, and by the time work was through I’d nearly forgotten it, and thought to treat myself to dinner at a little outdoor café, watching

34 Pitzer College Participant Spring 2003 35 Women’s Softball Men’s Roundup Sports Baseball: Pomona-Pitzer Date Opponent Place Time For more information, log on to travelled to Chapman on 3/21 St. Mary’s Away 1 p.m. Feb. 7 and upended the www.physical-education.pomona.edu 3/21 Lewis & Clark Away 3:15 p.m. Panthers, 5-2. The Sagehens 3/22 Menlo Away 9 a.m. 3/22 Claremont-M-S Away 11:15 a.m. scored all 5 runs in the first 3/23 TBA Away TBA 4 innings and then held on 3/26 Willamette Home 2 p.m. for the win. Felipe Aguilar 3/26 C.S. Hayward Home 4 p.m. ’05 led the Hens at the plate 3/28 Redlands Away 3 p.m. with a 3-hit performance, 3/29 Redlands Home 12 p.m. driving in 2. Brad Carmody 4/4 La Verne Away 3 p.m. and Rob Ruiz ’03 each 4/5 La Verne Home 12 p.m. contributed 2 hits. Ruiz 4/11 Cal Lutheran Home 4 p.m. knocked in 2 runners while 4/12 Cal Lutheran Away 12 p.m. Carmody scored twice. Alex 4/25 Occidental Home 4 p.m. Smith pitched 6 strong 4/26 Occidental Away 12 p.m. innings for the win and Mike Renery came on in relief to Men’s Baseball get the save for the Hens. Date Opponent Place Time The Sagehens improved to 2- 3/15 Chapman Home 11:30 a.m. 0 on the young season by 3/15 Rutgers Newark Home 2:30 p.m. defeating Westmont at home 3/16 Keene State (NH) Home 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 4, 11-5. Slugger Jose 3/16 Ithaca (NY) Home 2:30 p.m. Cortez ’03 led the offensive 3/21 Keene State (NH) Home 11:30 a.m. charge for the home team by 3/21 UMASS Dartmouth Home 11:30 a.m. belting 3 home runs on the 3/22 UW Lacrosse (WI) Home 8:30 a.m. day, good for 5 RBI’s. Sam 3/22 E. Connecticut Home 11:30 a.m. Whitehead ’05 also had a 3/27 Cal State Hayward Home 2:30 p.m. great day at the plate, going 3/28 Cal State Hayward Home 2:30 p.m. 4 for 5 with an RBI. 3/29 Cal State Hayward Home 11 a.m. 4/4 Claremont-M-S Away 2:30 p.m. 4/5 Claremont-M-S Home 11 a.m. Women’s 4/10 Chapman Home 3 p.m. Women’s Track & Field Roundup 4/11 Cal Tech Away 3 p.m. Date Opponent Place Time 4/12 Cal Tech Home 11 a.m. 3/15 CMS-RED-PP-WH Whittier 10 a.m. Softball: Pomona-Pitzer lost 4/23 Azusa Pacific Away 5 p.m. 3/21 Oxy Distance Eagle Rock 6 p.m. both games of a double 4/25 Redlands Home 3 p.m. 3/22 La Verne Invite La Verne 10 a.m. header at The Master’s 4/26 Redlands Away 11 a.m. College on Feb. 15 Game 1 5/2 Occidental Away 3 p.m. 3/29 UCSD Invite San Diego 10 a.m. saw the Hens fall by the 5/3 Occidental Home 11 a.m. 4/5 CLU-OXY-PP-WH Eagle Rock 10 a.m. 4/11-12 CA/NV Champs San Diego 8 a.m. count of 8-0. No Sagehen 4/18 P-P Invite Home 8:30 a.m. player got on base in the 4/26 SCIAC Prelims La Verne 3:30 p.m. game and The Master’s got 4/28 SCIAC Finals La Verne 3:30 p.m. off to an early 5-0 lead that 5/3 SCIAC Finals Irvine All Day they would not relinquish. 5/10 Occidental Invite Eagle Rock 4 p.m. Monica Belli ’04 pitched 3 5/22-24 NCAA III Invite Canton, NY All Day innings for the Hens and Marni Scotten ’06 came in to pitch an inning of relief. In the second game of the doubleheader, the Hens got hits from Monica Belli and Leanne Stein ’05, but The Master’s pounded out 16 hits for 17 runs in the game. Traci Kutaka ’06 and Marni Scotten each pitched 2 Men’s Track & Field innings for Pomona-Pitzer. Date Opponent Place Time The Sagehens fell at home to 3/15 CMS-RED-PP-WH Whittier 10 a.m. Chapman on Feb. 1, 6-0. The 3/21 Oxy Distance Eagle Rock 6 p.m. Panthers got off to an early 3/22 La Verne Invite La Verne 10 a.m. 3-0 lead and then tallied 3 3/29 UCSD Invite San Diego 10 a.m. more runs late in the game. 4/5 CLU-OXY-PP-WH Eagle Rock 10 a.m. Emily Helliesen ’03 led the 4/11-12 CA/NV Champs San Diego 8 a.m. Hens at the plate with a 2 hit 4/18 P-P Invite Home 8:30 a.m. performance but it wasn’t 4/26 SCIAC Prelims La Verne 3:30 p.m. enough to get the Hens on 4/28 SCIAC Finals La Verne 3:30 p.m. the board. Also adding a hit 5/3 UC Irvine Invite Irvine All Day for Pomona-Pitzer was 5/10 Occidental Invite Eagle Rock 4 p.m. Jameela Hammond ’05. 5/22-24 NCAA III Nat’ls Canton, NY All Day

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