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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,