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2 Our Message 3 Pitzer College News President's Column I Dining with Democracy I L.A. Times Education Forum I Nichols Gallery I Pitzer in the News I National College Recognition I Faculty Notes I Meet Pitzer's New Faculty I Study Abroad 14 Who We Are Our Legacy I Our Individuality I Our Activism I Our Creativity I Our Dedication I Our Traditions I Our Culture 28 Connections A Larger than Life Legacy I Residential Life Update I Fall Sports Roundup I Pitzer Parents Association 32 Class Notes Pitzer Alumni Board I Fall Alumni Events I In Memoriam: Jim Hass '75 I Pitzer Alumni Boe>kplate I Makiko Harada '97 I In My Own Wo_rds PITZER COLLEGE t!6' BOARD oF TRUSTEES ( ') uR Trustees HIRSCHEL B. ABELSON P'92, President, Strolem & Company, lnt ':fVtESSAGE BRIDGET BAKER '82, ExeiUiive Vice President, NBC Universal Coble ROBERT BOOKMAN P'07, Agent ond Portner, Creative Who are we and what do we do ? This is a question we, as human beings, Artists Agency frequently ask ourselves as we engage in a lifelong pursuit of finding our MARC D. BROIDY '95, Vi
FALL 2006 3 - -~YEARS (./') iio.s Angeles ffiime.s llatlmes.com. ~ f-- The L.os Angeles Times & Pitzer College 0 Partner to Present an Education Forum z The Engaged College: Educators for Social Responsibility
Pitzer College and the Los A11geles Times joined to offer an educa tion forum titled "The Engaged College: Educators for Social Former LA. 7imes Publisher Jeff Johnson and Laura Skandera Trombley Responsibility," which focused on the role of higher education in cit izenship. The event was one of several partnerships created by the Los Angeles Times in honor of its 125th anniversary celebration. "We were extremely pleased to have partnered with the Los Angeles Times in presenting this important education fontm in cele bration of their 125th anniversary," President Laura Skandera Trombley said. Forum participants included Alan Jones, dean of faculty, Pitzer College; Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, arts and education reporter, KPCC 89.3; Larry Gordon, staff reporter, Los Angeles Times; Elaine Ikeda, executive director, California Campus Compact; Ron Riggio, direc tor of the Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College; and Jose Calderon, professor of sociology & Chicano/a Studies, Pitzer College. Education Forum Panelists Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, Elaine Ikeda, Jose Calderon, Larry Gordon, Ron Riggio and Alan Jones
The Nichols Gallery Recent Exhibitions Interface October 13-27, 2006 Interface featw·ed recent works by Matthew Bryant. The works chosen for the exhibit reflected Bryant's current concerns with points of interaction and engaging with systems, structures and materials. This conceptual approach toward artistic output is espe cia lly significant given our new age of technology in which human interaction and commuJl ication is often mediated through digital means. Though Bryant is engaged in new media rhetoric, interest ingly, his output is based in the more "traditional" m.ediums of works on paper and sculpture.
By the Work of Their Hands: 18th-19tb Cent11ry Petmsy/Jl(mia Dlflcb Folk A rts and Artisa11s l"ovembcr 14-December 8, 2006 By the latter half of the eighteenth century, the By the Work of Their Hn11ds featured examples of Pennsylvania early log houses of the first Dutch folk art, mostly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Pennsylvania Dutch settlers Functional items such as wrought-i ron bam door hinges and a hand were being replaced by carved wooden hayfork exemplify the principles of this material cul large, two-story houses ture. All of the objects shown were meant to give visitors a glimpse built from hewn blocks of into the daily lives of the craftsmen who made these folk arts, their local limestone. Some of the most beautiful wrought uses and the cultural tradition they perpetuate. iron architectural hardware Sheryl Miller, professor of anthropology, and the students in her was made for these homes, seminar "Museums and Material Culture" organized the exhibition. and the huge stone-barns Representing the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges, these stu that accompanied them. At dents meticulously researched the American folk art tradition as left, a ·staghorn· hinge, well as the principles and techniques of exhibition installation. later etghleenth century, Throughout the duration of the show, these students acted as probably made in Lancaster docents, guiding visitors through the exhibit and aiding them with County. Decorative hinges like these were often the interactive features. installed on the heavy front doors of rural homes.
4 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT l N THE NEWS I N AT IONAL COLLEGE "The Sustainable University: In Search of the RECOGNITION Sustainable Campus" Chronicle of Higher Educatio11 • Nation's third best faculty October 20, 2006 and eighth most politically Laura Skandera Trombley, Pitzer's president, says sus active students in The tainability is integral to the curriculum and history of her Princeton Review's college. The convictions of the students at Pitzer, she says, The Best 361 Colleges have influenced changes iJ1 college operations, both Large and small. Students have set up vegetable gardens, com • Fifty-first overall in the posti ng areas, and a "green bikes" program, which repairs nation among liberal arts castoff bikes and offers them to students who need to get colleges in the 2007 around The Claremont Colleges, of which Pitzer is a part. U.S.News & World Report Taking a cue from the students, the college is building a America's Best Colleges new residence hall that will get gold certification from the rankings. Ranked eleventh U.S. Green Building Council, which has a rating system to in diversity out of 215 liberal evaluate the environmental impact of buildings. arts colleges Pitzer's most striking sustainability effort shows up, oddly, in the lack of green on campus. Here in thirsty Recognized by The Chronicle Southern California, significant portions of the campus of Higher Educatio11 as the lawn-which required frequent watering-have been second highest "Top removed and replaced with native and desert plants. Producer of Fulbright Awards" for U.S. bachelor's ••• institutions "Rising Stars: Leading a College with a Conscience • Editor's Choice as one of the Laura Skandera Trombley, Pitzer College" "most artsy schools" in the U11iversity Business Magazi11e 2007 edition of Tile l11sider's November 2006 Guide to T11e Colleges, which is Laura Skandera Trombley was recognized as one of compiled and edited by the five "rising star" college presidents for her close connec staff of The Yale Daily News tion with students and faculty and for being a leader who knows that moving ahead is about working together. • One of CosmoGI RL's Top 50 Colleges for 2006 for th ird ••• consecutive yea r Jim Marchant, Dean of Students and Vice Presiden t for Student Affairs, Selected as a Member of the American • At the Campus Compact Council on Renewable Energy Steering Committee 20/20 Visioning Summit on (A CORE) October 17, 2006, the Selected by ACORE's Board of Directors, representa Corporation for National tives from twenty-five accredited institutions have been and Community Service invited to establish the Steering Committee and forward (CNCS) announced that their mission to help move renewable energy into the Pitzer College is one of mainstream of the American economy and lifestyle. twenty-eight ca mpuses in California to be disti nguished ••• for commw1ity service and Ka trina relief efforts. "Thinking Outside the Box" Mother [o11es Magazine September/October 2006 There's a Wal-Mart a few blocks away from Southern California's Pitzer College, but in January, the student senate said it would no Longer reimburse purchases made For more Pitzer in the News items, visit the News at the chain, and the administration has since encouraged Center at www.pitzer.edu/news_center students and staff to look for bargains elsewhere.
FALL 2006 5 Social Responsibility & Intercultural U nderstancling Informing Our Community-Based Education
he faculty at Pitzer College have graphic analysis, to the formal and '' It is a goal of a long, and now wel l-recognized, informal political landscape of the city, the College to educate T tradition of developing and uti to ethnicity and immigration to the his lizing community-based pedagogy in tory of the city's economic development. students not on!J to be their curricular offerings. This tradition The focal point for all of these discus emerges from deep intellectual com sions is the city of Ontario itself and the thoughtfu~ accomplished mitments reflected in the College's edu immediate community in which the stu cational objectives. Two of these objec dents are engaged. By modeling respon professionals in their tives, social responsibility and intercul sible community membership and pro tural understanding, directly inform viding students with the critical skills chosen fields of endeavor the practice of community-based edu necessary to effectively engage in the cation at Pitzer. It is a goal of the community as citizens, the program is but also to be effective College to educate students not only to drawing on the finest traditions of a lib be thoughtful, accomplished profes eral arts education. and engaged citizens of sionals in their chosen fields of endeav The CCCSI model is designed to or but to be effective and engaged citi remove another significant barrier to the local and global zens of the local and global communi effective community-college partner communities that thry ties that they are inheriting. ships, the academic calendar. It is The College's thinking about and almost universa l practice that academic practice of community-based pedagogy institutions construct service learning are inheriting. '' have evolved over the years, in part projects in semester-length packages. facilita ted by the establishment of insti In the CCCSI core parh1ership model, a tutional support in the form of our faculty member agrees to be liaison to Center for California Cultural and a community-based partner organiza Social Issues (CCCSI) and the Pitzer in tion for a period of no less than four Ontario program. A consensus has years. The task of the faculty member emerged that, consistent with our insti and the CCCSI staff is to map out a tutional ethos, the character of Pitzer's continuum of educationally meaning community-based programs would be fu l student projects carried out through one of reciprocity and responsible com a combination of semester-length stu munity membership. The two distinct dent projects and intensive, CCCSI pedagogical models embedded in the sponsored su mmer internships, that work of the CCCSl and the Pitzer in move the partner organization toward Ontario progTam respectivelY- represent a realization of its institutional goals. conscious attempts to transcend the lim Thus, although individual students itations of traditional service learning may rotate into and out of a particular models and to position the institution partnership project, the continuity and itself as a model of responsible commu integr.ity of the project itself is main nity membership. tained. Again, the character of this insti In the Pitzer in Ontario model, stu tutional commitment models for stu dents essentially move into the commu dents exactly the kind of deep, effective nity of Ontario for the semester. They and endming engagement in communi take all of their classes and also com ty that we feel is incumbent on them as plete a 20-hour per week internship at a individuals to make to their communi municipal or nonprofit agency in the ties as members of a free society. city. The experience itself is extraordinar ily interdisciplinary with study topics - Alan jones, dean offacult y ranging from urban toxicology to demo-
PIT7FR r.o1 I FC.E PARTICIPANT - S UMANGALA BHATTACHARYA, 2005 2005 assistant professor of New Works 2005: Celebrating Recent Cenh·al Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, .• . . 4111 English and World Gifts to RAM, Racine Art Museum, China, June 15 • California State \~ .. Li terature, presented Racine, WI, Oct. 19-Jan. 22,2006 • University, Los Angeles, School of Fine ••. . a paper titled Mastery in Clay: 2005, The Clay Studio, Arts, April 18 • Galen Ceramics Lecture t "Between Worlds: Philadelphia1 PA, Oct. 7-22 • Series, University of Southern California, • (' ••••- •· . The Haunting o£ the International Exhibition/Teapots, Yixing School of Fine Arts, March 24. Victorian Bengali Ceramics Museum, Yixing, China, June 2- Bhadralok in Fou r 30 • NCECA 2005lnvitational Teapot Furman's work was catalogued and .. Ghost Stories of Exhibition, Yixing Ceramics Museum, reviewed in the following publications Rabindranath Tagore" in August 2006 Yixing, China, June 2-30 • Venice from 2005 to 2006: at the North American Victorian Artwalk, Auction and Benefit, Venice, Studies Association Conference held at CA, May 22 • The Third World Ceramic 2006 Purdue University, Indiana. Biennale 2005 Korea, World Ceramic Who's Who i11 American Art, 2006, Exposition Foundation, Icheon, Korea, Marquis Publications, New Providence, N IGEL BOYLE, professor of Political April 23-June 19 • Contemplating NJ • Works by Ceramic Artists from Studies, presented a Realism, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Around the World, Shanghai Fine Arts paper titled "The Sacramento, CA, March 3-April2 • Terra Publishers • Yixi11g I11ternational Cernmic Patchy Sutra ll, An Exhibition of Erotic Art, Art Exhibition, Shanghai Chinese Europeanisation of Montage Callery, Baltimore, MD, Feb. 26- Classics Publishing House • The Yixing Irish Governance" in March22. Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar, September 2006 at the Marvin Sweet, Foreign Language Press, European Between 2005 and 2006 Furman was Beijing, China • Catalog: Surface Matters, Consortium for invited to give lectures/slide presenta Eppink GaJiery of Art, Emporia State Political Research tions at the following institutions and University Publications. conferences: (ECPR) Third Pan-European 2005 Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. 2006 Cernmics Teclznical, #21, Adelaide, Southern TII inois University, Australia Califomia Desig11: The Legacy of DAVID FURMAN, Peter and Gloria Carbondale, IL, Nov 1-4 • University of West Coast Craft and Style, Luria & Gold Professor of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, Oct 2-4 • Ba izerman, Chronicle Books, San Art, had a solo exhi The Pottery Workshop/ Experimental Francisco • Ceramics Monthly, October, bition at the San Sculpture Factory, Jingdezhen, China, 2005 • Catalog: Enst/West: lntemational Angelo Museum of June 23 • San Angelo Museum of Fi ne Ceramic Artists, Yixing International Fine Art in San Art, San Angelo, TX, April21-23 • The Conference, Yixing, China • Catalog: Angelo, Texas, from Chicken Farm Art Center, San Angelo, Third World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, April 21 to June 25. TX, April22 • Boise State University, Korea • Catalog: Delightful Teapot, Third Furman also partici Boise, Idaho, April 4-6 • "Giving Back: World Ceramic Biennale, Youj u, Korea pated in a nwnber of Building Commu nity 11'\rough Electric Kiln Ceramics, Third Edition, group exhibitions from 2005 to 2006. Service," National Council on Richard Zakin, Krause Publications. 2006 Education for the Ceramic Arts Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Conference, Portland, OR, March 9 Exhibition, Jingdezhen. Ceramics Museum, Oct. 18-30, Jingdezhen, China • The Clay JOSE CALDERON, professor of soci ence, he presented tl1e Distinguished Studio, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 30-0ct. 15 ology and Chicano/a Career Award for the Practice of • A China Response, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Studies, presented Sociology to Arthur Shostak; was Fe, NM, Aug. 4-Sept. 2 • Trick of the Eye: "Ways to Advance selected to serve three more years on Trom pe L'oeil Sculpture, The Clay Studio, Diversity and tl1e Practice of Sociology Committee; Philadelphia, PA, July 7-30 • Venice Art Democrati c Culture in and was elected president of the ASA Walk, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, the Classroom and Latino/a Section. Locall y, the Pomona CA, May 20-21 • Tea Time: 1l1e Art of Community" at the City Council awarded Calderon the the Teapot, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, 2006 Department city's highest honor, tl1e "God dess of Kalamazoo, Ml, May 13-July 30 • An Chairs' Conference at Pomona" award for "serving our com Extravagance of Salt and Pepper: the American Sociological Association mw1i ty by inspiring the pursuit of Con tainers/ Shakers/ Concepts, Baltimore (ASA) Conference in Mon treal, higher education and advocacy for Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, May 6-June 4 Canada, in August. At the ASA confer- human righ ts." • 1l1e Yixing Effect, Echoes of the Chinese Scholar, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, April 15-June 30 • At Your Service, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM, March 17-April15 • Interpreting the Figure, Lawrence Gallery, Portland, OR, March 1-31 • California Drean1in', Jose Calder6n with award presen Arizona State University, Ceramic Research ters and recipients at the American Center, Tempe, AZ, Feb. 13-24 • Surface Sociological Association annual Matters, Eppink Gallery of Art, Emporia conference. As chair of the State University, Emporia, KS, Jan. 11- Distinguished Career Award for the Feb. 11 Practice of Sociology, he presented this award to Drexel University Professor Arthur Shostak.
FALL 2006 7 - PAUL FAULST ICH, professor of from Caohai, China" Environmental accepted for publica Studies, was Visiting tion in the journal of Scholar at the School Environment and PITZER FACULTY of Humanities, Development. She was Flinders University, also invited to the BOOKPLAT ~ in Australia during University of the antipodal winter. California, Berkeley, In conjunction with to give two guest lec his post, he stayed in tures for the Geography Department in BILL ANTH ES, assistant profes the remote Aboriginal community of October. sor of art history, Kunbarlanja, working with international published Native students and Aboriginal elders on an ADAM LANDSBERG, associate pro Moderns: ethnoarchaeology project documenting fessor of physics, and American lndimr traditional rock art and relationships his research on game Painting, 1940- with the environment. Faulstich was also theory were featured 1960 with Duke appointed a member of the International as the cover story of University Press Federation of Rock Art Organizations Science News. The arti in September (IFRAO). Faulstich participated in the cle, titled "Chaotic 2006 Sound Science Initiative of the Union of Chomp: The mathe as part of a series titled Concerned Scientists, where he met with matics of crystal "Objects/Histories: members of the California State growth sheds light on Critical Perspectives Legislature, advocating for AB 32, the a tantalizing game," was written by lvars on Art, Material Global Warming Solutions Act (co Peterson and appeared in the July 22, Culture, and authored by Fabian Nunez '97, Speaker 2006, issue of Science News. Representation." The of the California State Assembly). book examines a RONALD MACAULAY, professor generation of ative MO emeritus of linguistics, American artists 0ERNs published a paper who made bold departures titled "Pure from what was considered the tradi Grammaticalization: tional style of Indian painting, and TI1c Development of a created hybrid, modern works that Teenage Intensifier," compli cated notions of identity, in Language Variation authenticity and tradition, and chal and Change. Macaulay lenged stereotypes of Native also presented a paper Americans as people of the past. Paul Faulstich teaches ethnoarchaeology in Amhem titled "Adolescents as Innovators" at the Land, Auslralia. New Ways of Analyzing Variation NIGEL BO YL E, Conference at Ohio State University. professor of JUDITH V. GR.ABINER, Flora Political Studies, Sanborn Pitzer JOH N M ILTON, William R. Kenan published Crafting Professor of Chair of ...... ~·~· · · Change: Labor Mathematics, pub . . . . ·.....; Computational Market PoliC1J lished the following Neuroscience and co ' I ::.-: Pis Lissette de Pillis, under Mrs. book reviews: Gert Thatcher, with Schubring, Conflicts t: ~.·~}.: T. Gregory Dewey, between Art Lee and Mario University Press Generalization, Rigor, .. _\ tl~ · Martelli were award of the South in October 2006. and Intuition, Society ' ed a $429,878 grant for Industrial and Applied Mathematics from the National CARMEN FOUGHT, associate Revie-w • Jacob BernouJJi, The Art of Science Foundation in support of their professor of lin Conjecturing, tr. & ed. E. D. Sylla, effort to develop an innovative under guistics, pub Matlrematicnl Reviews • John Derbyshire, graduate curriculum in biology over lished Language Unknown Quantity: A Real and the next five years. and Etfrnicity Imaginary History of Algebra, American with Cambridge Scientist • Karen Parshall, james Joseph GREGORY 0RFALEA, director of University Press Sylvester, Bulletin of the American Pitzer's Center for in September Matlzematical Society • Oliver Darrigo!, Writing, spoke in 2006 as part of a Worlds of Flow: A History of August at Politics and Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prose Bookstore in series ti tied "Key Topics Prandtl, Historical Studies in tire Physical Washington, D.C., in Sociolinguistics." Sciences. She also gave a talk in July at and read from and The book reveals the the Claremont Summer Mathematics later signed copies of fascinating relation Colloquium, titled "The Changing his book, Tire Arab ship between lan Concept of Change: The Derivative Americans: A History. guage ethnic identity, from Fermat to Weierstrass." His appearance was filmed by CSPAN's exploring the crucial Book TV and appeared in October. In role it plays in both MELI NDA HERROLD- MENZIES, September Orfalea was interviewed revealing a speaker's assistant professor of Environmental about Tire Arab Americans on KPFK-FM ethnicity and help Studies, had her article titled for Don Bustany's "Middle East in ing to construct it. "Integrating Conservation and Focus." Development: What We Can Learn
8 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT - SUSAN PHILLIPS, director of Pitzer's Chemistry Research (in press). With D. LAK.O TONG UN, associate professor Center for California Neff and D. Garcia; and "Perceived of International and Cultural and Social Risks from Nuclear Testing Near lntercultural Studies Issues, participated in Scmipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: A and Politica l Studies, a conference this sum Comparison Between Physicians, was interviewed by mer about children in Scientists, and the Public," Risk Analysis Howard Lesser for his armed conflict. The (in press). With C.A. Werner and I. October 16, 2006, Voice conference was hosted Frank. Purvis-Roberts was also invited of America broadcast by the Harry Frank to present a paper titled "Particle into and article titled Guggenheim liquid sampler (PILS) for Southern "China Contributes Fotmdation in Ascona, Switzerland, at California PM-2.5 analysis" with Z.H. $1M to African Union's Darh1r Force." the Centro lncontri Umani. This fall, she Davis, A. Braun, E.L. Zeitler, B. co-organized a session for the American Brayton, J. Gordon,]. Wiggins EMILY W I LEY, assistant professor of Anthropological Association meeting CamadlO and J. Chapman at the biology, received a titled "Anthropological Contributions to Ameri can Chemical Society Meeting in National Science the Study of Gangs: Potentials and Atlanta on March 30. Foundation CAREER Futures." Her article, "Physical Graffiti Award (top 5% were West: African American Gang Dance DANIEl SEGAL, Jean M. Pitzer funded) for and Semiotic Practice," was published in Professor of "Investigating Migrations of Gesture: Art, Film, Dtmce, Anthropology and Heterochromatin edited by Carrie Noland and Sally Ness professor of Histori ca l Assembly Through (U niversity of Mi11nesota Press). Studies, was elected Histone Deacetylases to a three-year term Princi ple Investigato r. " This award, in KAT HLEEN P URVIS- ROBERTS, as secretary of the the amount of $654,000 for five years, assistant professor of American will support her research on how chemistry, published Anthropological genetic irlformation is turned on and two articles: "The Association (AAA). off correctly, and establish tlle Joint Effects of Particulate The secretary is both a member of the Science Department as a center for Matter on the Lung AAA Executive Board and the chair of undergraduate involvement in genome Function of the AAA Nominations Committee. research. Coll egiate Athletes," The journal of Undergraduate
KATHLEEN S. YEP, assistant profes sor of Asian American Studies and sociology, pre sented a research paper in April on the cultural politics of gender and class for a paper session titled "Dynamics of Social Inequality: Sport as Contested Terrain." Organized by Michael Messner of the University of Southern California, this session was a Presidential Panel at the Pacific Sociological Association and included Sherri Grasmuck of Temple University and Eric Anderson of the University of Bath. Yep also taught in july 2006 at the R2W Summer Youth Leadership Institute, which is a program of PANA Institute at Pacific School of Religion funded by the Lilly Endowment. The Freire-based, participatory class titled "How's your praxis?: The Intersections Kathleen S. Yep (far left, bottom row) with her R2W Summer Youth Leadership Institute students of Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies and conomic backgrounds. The two-hour American, Chicano/Latino and Pacific Critical Faith" was held in San class involved working with and learn Islander youth from Northern Francisco's Chinatown and included ing from East Asian, Filipino, Soutl1east California, Southern California and students from diverse racial and socioe- Asian, African American, Native Hawaii.
FALL2006 9 Milton Machuca Weare r lnistmlt J>r'!}t!SfJr PITZER'S New Faculty Members
This year Pitzer College JJJelcomed the largest group ofne1v faculty membetJ since it.r founding. The eight distinguished Field Group: Modern Languages, faculty members bring with them excellent scholarjy credentia~ Literature and Cultures (Spanish) mvards and honor~ as 1vell as publication and serv-ice Current Courses Taught: In Quest of God in Latin America; Introductory e>..perience. Their backgrounds and areas ofexpertise will serve Spanish; Intennediate Spanish to enhance the alreacfy strongfte/d groups to u;hich th~ belong. Education: PhD, Anthropology, Temple Among the group is the College} jitJt art historian. University; MA, Anthropology, Temple University; Licenciatura in Psychology, Universidad Centroamericana, El Salvador Research Interests: Latin America Jessica McCoy and the Caribbean, indigenous people l.r.r1srtmf Projtssor of Latin America, Mexican and Cenn·al American migration to the U.S. Of Note: As a graduate student at Field Group: Art Temple University, I received the Current Courses Taught: Studio: Senior T.A. Consultant Award for the Beginning Drawing and Design; academic years 1997-8 and 1998-9. As Beginning Painting a Visiting Assistant Professor at Education: MFA, University of Swarthmore College, I received the Wisconsin, Madison; MA, University 2004 Intercultural Center Faculty of Wisconsin, Madison; BS, University Recognition Award for support of and of Wisconsin, Madison commitment to the students of the Intercultural Center. Research Interests: Figurative painting and the value of aesthetics Reason for Coming to Pitzer: As a Latin American with a back Of Note: I received an Ohio Arts ground in psychology and anthropol Council lndividual Fellowship in ogy as well as experience teaching 2003-04. Spanish and anthropology at a small Reason for Coming to Pitzer: liberal arts college, coming to Pitzer Pitzer College is truly one of the most College was a logical continuation of innovative schools in the country. I my career. Pitzer's small physical size can't think of a better place to teach a but large reputation was a strong ele d iscipline that is defined by change ment of attraction; how these features and originality. interface with the larger context of The Oaremont Colleges also captured my interest. Finally, Pitzer's emphasis on social responsibility as a core value within an interdisciplinary, intercul tural and international framework convinced me that Pitzer would be an excellent place to work. So far, aside from confirming my initial expecta tions, I have discovered that at the heart of Pitzer's academic experience is the student-faculty ratio.
10 ,PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT Melissa Coleman Adrian D. Pantoja Sumangala Bhattacharya 1.m.r/anl Pm{t'J.mr l.•.roatJit Pr~f.·.r.wr J.r.a.rhmt Pro); JJIJr
Field Group: Biology (Joint Science Field Group: Political Studies & Field Group: English and World Department of The Claremont Chicano/a Studies Literature Colleges) Current Course1> Taught: Latino Current Courses Taught: Survey of Current Courses Taught: Behavioral Politics; Immigration Policy and British Literature; Rule Britannia: Nemobiology Transnational Politics; First-Year Imperialism and Victorian Literature Education: PhD, University of Seminar: Immigration and Race in and Culture; Literary Theory as a Alabama at Birmingham; BS, Samford America Critique and Expression of Society; First-Year Seminar: On the Trail of the University Education: PhD, Political Science/ Vampire Research Interests: Nemal basis of American Politics and International Education: PhD, English Literature, behavior, cellular neurobiology and Relations, Claremont Graduate University of Southern California; birdsong University; MA, International Relations, Claxemont Graduate MA, English Literature, University of Of Note: I published an article titled University; BA, Political Science, North Texas; AB, Physics, Smith "Synaptic Transformations University of San Francisco College Underlying Highly Selective Auditory Representations of Learned Birdsong" Research Interests: Latino politics, Research Interests: Nineteenth in the Jouma.l of Neuroscience 24, No. immigration and race relations cenhuy British literature and culture, 33 (2004). Of Note: In 2004 I published an with a focus on issues of gender and colonialism; gothic literature and Reason for Coming to Pitzer: article in Political Research Quarterly titled "Beyond Black and White: other popular literary forms of the I am so excited to have the opportuni nineteenth century; currently working General Support for Race Conscious ty to teach at Pitzer, within the Joint on a monograph on discourses of Policies Among African Americans, Science Department. The thing that hunger in the Victorian period most attracted me to the Joint Science Latinos, Asian Americans and Whites," Of Note: Department is the interaction between for which I had been awarded the Best My essay "Coding Famine: Famine Relief and the British Raj in. chemists, physicists and biologists. In Paper on Black Politics by the Western addition, I was impressed with the Political Science Association in 2002. I Rudyard Kipling's 'William the active involvement of students in sci was also awarded the Best Paper on Conqueror"' (forthcoming, Clio) entific research within the department, Latino Politics by the Western Political expresses in a short compass the main which substantially strengthens the Science Association in 2005 for my arti themes of my research interests: the learning experience of the students. cle titled '1\.t Home Abroad? The intermixture of literature and history Dominican Diaspora in New York City in the constructions of gender, race as a Transnational Political Actor." The and class in Victorian culture. paper will be forthcoming in Political Reason for Coming to Pitzer: Research Quarterly. I think Pitzer students are particularly Reason for Coming to Pitzer: receptive to my approach to teaching. Before deciding to come to Pitzer, I I believe teaching should be about the had other attractive offers, including d ynarnic exchange of ideas between the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson all the participants in a classroom, not Fellowship at the University of the delivery of content packaged for Michigan. Having attended a small efficiency and convenience-a Jesuit liberal arts university as an sprawling buffet of ideas, not little, undergraduate, I was anxious to be .in protein bars of concepts and facts. My an environment where undergraduate students this semester seem to be education, diversity and social change intellectual risk-takers, braving uncer are all valued. Of course no Chicano tainty, refusing to settle for the com urban smfer could resist returning to forts of the familiar-and that makes Los Angeles, the heart of Azthm and for a wonderful experience. the Latino community. FALL 2006 11 Edith Vasquez Bill Anthes Anna Wenzel I '.i/J/m;/ Prqjf.r.rm lu1J 1111 Pmj Jor !.r.ri.rtard Profisor
I ield Group: English and World Field GrOllp: Art History Field Group: Chemistry (Joint Science Literature Current Courses Taught! Department of The Claremont Current Courses Taught: Survey of Artist as Traveler; Tradition and Colleges) American Literature to 1880; Transformation in Native North Current Courses Taught! Organic Anatomy o£ Drama; Latino Literature: American Art and CuJture; Theories Chemistry and Advanced Laboratory Through Time and Across Borders; of Contemporary Art; Art Since 1960 in Chemistry First-Year Seminar: Writers, Identities Education: PhD, American Studies, Education: NIH Postdoctoral Scholar, and Communities University of Minnesota; MA, Art Caltech; PhD, Harvard University; BS, Education: PhD, English and World History, University of Colorado; University of California, San Diego Literature, University o£ California, BFA, Art History, University of Research Interests: Asynuneh·ic Riverside; MA, Comparative Colorado catalysis, organometallic chenustry Literature, University of California, Research Interests: Contemporary and organic synthesis Riverside; BA, English, University of Native American art and visual cul Calliornia, Los Angeles Of Note: I published an article with ture, and issues of transnationalism in E.N. Jacobsen titled "Asymmetric Research Interests: World poetry and contemporary art Catalytic Mannich Reactions poetics, literature of the Americas, Of Note: I think that my most Catalyzed by Urea Derivatives: Chicana/o and Latina/o writing importan.t publication is my book, Enantioselective Synthesis of b-Aryl Of Note: I wrote a chapter titled Native Moderns. It's a contribution to a b-Anlino Acids" in the Journal of the "The Body as Parchment in the Poetry vital new, interdisciplinary field look American Chemical Society 124 (2004). I of Lorna Dee Certanves," whlch ing at contemporary indigenous cul also co-wrote a book d1apter with appeared in Unveiling the Body in tures in a comparative context, and A.K. Chatterjee and R.H. Grubbs Hispanic Women's Literature: From 19th part of an effort to revise and expand titled "Olefin Cross-Metathesis" in Century Spain to 21st-Century United the histories of modernism and Comprehensive Organometallic States, edited by Renee Sum Scott and modernity. Chemistry III: Review of the Literatw-e Arleen Ouclana Y Gonzalez and pub Reason for Coming to Pitzer: 1993-2005, edited by I. Ojima and T. lished by Mellen Press in 2006. I came to work at Pitzer to collaborate Hiyama and published by Elsevier Reason for Coming to Pitzer: with sh1dents and faculty engaged in Ltd. (Oxford) in 2006. Pitzer's conunitment to integrated a global dialogue about contemporary Rcnson for Coming to Pitzer. and applied learning, community art and cuJ h1 re. I am very excited to be beginning my action and cultmal empowerment first year at Joint Sciences. Joint spoke to my own personal passions. Sciences presents a unique opportuni Also, the possibilities for constmcting ty to engage in multidisciplinary alternative approaches to learning research within a cohesive faculty have been well-tested at Pitzer. I think community. In addition, as the pro the environment at Pitzer permits for gram draws from three unique insti tu eccentricity and imagination. tions (including Pitzer!), I have the opportunity to work with a diverse student body to develop a range of research initiatives. Most of all, the presence of an active, inquisitive stu dent body at Joint Sciences was central to my selection, as it makes teaching and research all the more enjoyable!
12 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT STUDY ABROAD Pitzer En Route Responsib!J Engaging the Unfamiliar
itzer College doesn't expect sh.l at Risk" course in spring conduct fie ld exchange from the University of dents to conform to a certain research with children in settings in Adelaide in Australia, Jonathan P identity either in Claremont or Southern California. In the summer, Burrows joined a tearn of Pitzer stu abroad. It gives them space to be who she will teach a course with selected dents to help with relief efforts in New they are while helping them engage students in Botswana focusing on chil Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. people and ideas very different from dren orphaned by AIDS. Key to the Waseda University stt1dents from Japan what they are fami liar with in order to paired courses is the notion of excel wi ll be examining slices of American challenge that identity-to "startle lence in undergraduate research con life through a new course on "Directed them into alertness," as writer Virginia ducted with a view to understanding Research in American Culture," taught Woolf said. They become skilled at that research within different sociocul by Instructor Lissa Petersen. The course connecting in dialogue with a plurality tural contexts at home and abroad. will combine ethnographic researd1 of people and hearing new narratives While in Botswana, seminar partici with an internship in local organiza that chaJJenge them to rewrite their pants will also take a course on tions including sites such as the Jocelyn own stories, to re-examine what they "Entering Communities Abroad: Senior Center, Oakmont Elementary often take for granted in their everyday Language and Culh.1re," taught by the School, Foothill AIDS Project and the lives in the U.S., and to see the world faculty of the Pitzer in Botswana pro Claremont After School Program. and their lives in it from a perspective gram. Stt1dents will live with host fam In Fall 2007, eight to ten students of greater possibility. ilies in Gaborone. from Kobe Women's University (KWU) Educational philosopher Maxine Working across disciplines and Department of Global-Local Studies Greene said that the more continuous across cultures, Professors Katie Purvis will spend seven months at Pitzer and authentic personal encounters can Roberts (Chemistry) and Cheryl exploring Claremont and Los Angeles be the less likely categorization and Baduini (Biology) are supervising the with a focus on humanitarian aid distancing wil l take place. People are first latitudinal Pitzer Undergraduate organizations. To celebrate this inaugu less likely to be treated instrumentall y, Research Abroad Project (URAP) on ral year of the program, KWU has gen to be made "other" by those around. water pollution. Jenny Aleman Zometa erously provided a full scholarship for And, in turn, they may experience a '07 completed water sampling at the a Pitzer sh.1dent to attend a sense of freedom for associa tion and Firestone Center for Restoration Humanitarian Aid Seminar in Summer possibility that comes from engaging Ecology in Costa Rica this summer as 2007 in Kobe, Japan. different people as who, not what, they part of the Joint Science Department We thank the many alumni that are. Through the Study Abroad pro funded summer research projects and is have contacted us over the past year gram, students are regularly obliged now in Pitzer in Botswana doing a sim with recommendations for connecting not just to observe or encounter the ilar project as her Directed Independent with commwuty projects or under unfamiliar but responsibly engage the Study Project in the Okavango Delta. graduate research possibilities abroad, unfamiliar-to make meaning from Results will be published in Pitzer including Margaret Ann '94 and Henry that engagement and to know better Study Abroad's new on-line journal of '91 Escudero now in Panama, David who they are as a result. Undergraduate Research Abroad sched Wells 79 with contacts in Thailand, Pitzer faculty have particular talent uled to debut in Spring 2007. and Anne Klemperer '89 in France. We for imagining these creative learning Philosopher Merleau-Ponty writes welcome the opportunity to hear from environments. In Spring 2007, the first about routes being given to us, "an more of you; please contact groups of students will be selected to experience which gradually clarifies [email protected] and visit our participate in Global Communities itself, which graduaJly rectifies itself new and improved Web site at Seminars that link courses taught on and proceeds by dialogue with itself www.pitzer.edu/studyabroad. campus in the Spring semester with and others." International students -Carol Brandt, vice president courses taught abroad at our Study doing "stt1dy abroad" at Pitzer are en for international programs Abroad sites in the summer. Professor route, focusing on community-based of Psychology Mita Banerjee, for exam engagement and research that helps ple, will have students in her "Children them explore issues in the U.S. On
FALL 2006 13 How were you selected to be among the original faculty members of Pitzer College in 1964? I was a Pomona College graduate and two of my former Classics profes sors asked if I might be interested in filling a Classics position at a new col lege being established in the Claremont Consortium. It was a snowy day in the Midwest at a university where I was teaching, and I thought about the matter for thirty seconds or so and decided to apply for the job. None of the original faculty members at Pitzer ever really regretted that U R decision to join the College. We all came because of the College's fu·st president, John Atherton, former dean of faculty and dean of the English department at Claremont McKenna College. He was widely read and had an astonishing level of amiability and good will. It was hard work founding a new E G A C Y college and his unfailingly positive outlook served and comforted us all continuously in that singularly demanding enterprise. A foundingfaculty member of Pitzer What is distinctive about Pitzer? College) Professor of Classics Steve Glass Sometimes amidst all the formal rhetoric about what makes this College reflects on the College} beginning~ distinctive, it's easy to overlook a deceptively simple truth: Pitzer likes and trusts its students; it always has. One of the reasons that the College has a distinctiveness and meaning in an intervieJJJ relatively small assemblage of rules and regulations is just that: By and large we trust our students, and so it is that, whatever they propose, it is tvith Susan Andre1v~ vice president for unusual for us flat! y to say no to them. Simple, as I say, but a good deal mark.eting & public relations. rarer than one might think. From day one when the College opened its doors, we have given students a full range of genuine responsibilities. There is no sense in preparing people to go out in the world and make consequential decisions if the only oppor tunities you give them relate to the color crepe paper to hang at the dances. It is that notion of mutual trust which played a large part in our ultimate decision to institute a community government. Although it is customary for the outside world, and even us, to view Pitzer as a relatively free-wheeling col lege, it would be more accurate to say that the College is purposefully malleable. Yes, we can wield the firmer, more authoritative hand that some students look for i.n a college. That is to say if a student wishes to follow a doggedly pre plotted and entirely prescriptive course of study devoted to the pursuit of something in the standard realms of, say, economics, history, or pre-med, Pitzer stands both ready and willing to become equally conventional ... something the likes of a UCLA or USC. However, if a student wants to devise and invest i.n a more original course of study, the College enthusiastically says, OK, you can do that too and we will assist you in any way we can en route, but first we want to make sure that what you are doing is an enterprise of real pedagogical consequence, for ultimately, whether we embrace a standard or original route to a Pitzer degree, we care a lot about the legitimacy of the degree we ulti mately award.
What do students gain from a Pitzer education? I once wrote a piece years ago in which I think I said that the College doesn't so much shape its students as it molds itself around their actual aspirations. So it is that when students look back on their four years at the College they think they were simply attending, what they actu ally see in a kind of high relief are three-dimensional images of themselves that they became when they concluded their tenure here. Pitzer and its students, then, have always had something of a close, symbiotic relationship. It's nothing to do necessarily with any distinctive cun icular emphasis per se, but rather the way we choose to work with and alongside our students whether they are immersed in something like Classics or something else more in tune with our stated curricular How has Pitzer been on the forefront department or field group of economics, Princeton Guide to College Majors. of social revolution since its fo unding? but, before the middle of the sixth cen Frankly, I was somewhat surprised at People forget what it was like in the tuTY CE it is Classics, and the same is the editors' findings, but not as sur '60s-really roiling times. My students true of history, art history, philosophy, prised as they were. know almost nothing about those days, anthropology, sociology, Women's other than somewhat wistfully to regret Studies, religion and so on. Each of us Have you maintained close relation that they missed them. Meanwhile, a Classicists may not be equally adept at ships with your students? swprising number of my current col all of those constituent subdisciplines, There is always a coterie of students leagues weren't even born yet, or, if they but we are expected to be able to deal with whom you do retain close rela were, they weren't yet really sentient with all of them pedagogically on some tionships, but one of the down sides of forms of life. Anyway, most of the origi level. So, with the study of Classics you teaching is that, while it is a service nal Pitzer faculty were young, and our are enmeshed in two extraordinarily profession, it's possibly the only service students were younger (but not a lot long-lived and complex societies, profession in which you don't regularly younger) and uncommonly adventurous together with the other richly endowed learn if any service you ever provided or they wouldn't have signed on with an cultures that preceded or co-existed has had any real effect. You teach your unproven college in the first place. with the Classical world, and by which students and they go off and you never Given our chartered curricular we in the West have been enlightened, hear from them again, except for those emphasis, we found ourselves instantly engendered, or imprisoned, depending few with whom you happen to be very on the leading edge of a newer educa on yom point of view. As a result, we close. At Pitzer, this problem of the few tion without ever having taken any for Classicists are always bemused by what is doubtless much more serious for a mal steps to get there. We adopted and is to us a sudden and long-delayed Classicist than it would be, say, for a adapted to our role with Lmcommon interest in interdisciplinary and inter sociologist. speed, it seems to me. I mean ... consid cultmal studies. Welcome to ow· world. Plumbers fix your pipes or they don't, er that schools and faculty are customar In any case, Claremont and Pitzer are lawyers win their cases or they don't, ily taken by the pubhc at large to be wonderful places to teach that world of physicians cure an illness or they don't, inherently liberal, even revolutionary. In Classics. In fact, Classics was the first but what readily discernible forms of fact, however, I can think of few profes sions that aTe as prone to do things the way tl"rings have always been done. In ''s ometimes amidst all the formal rhetoric about what the teaclting profession, revolutions usu makes this College distinctive, it~ ea.ry to overlook a ally come slowly and only with frustrat ingly protracted deliberation. deceptive!J simple truth: Pitzer likes and trusts its Deliberation is, after all, part of what we do professionally. Pitzer, nonetheless, students; it always has. '' moved surprisingly quickly, often to the consternation of our sister colleges in cooperative program at The Claremont success does a teacher acllieve? What Claremont. Most folk around here take Colleges; beginning in 1948-9. really are "learning outcomes," as tl1ey for granted the existence of, say, the eth Subsequent joint programs at the have come inelegantly to be termed, nic centers and their accompanying cur Colleges have all followed its model. and, far more important, when and how ricula, or even, for example, the absence ought one to take stock of tl1ose out of parietal hours for women students in What do students of the Classics go comes? Certainly not when our students Claremont, but Pitzer led eveTy step of on to study or become? graduate, but rather ten or even twenty the way to the generation of such things, Classics majors or those versed in years down the line when one might and, I might add, we took a lot of lumps Classics go wherever they want to go. legitimately hope to discover whether or for doing so. Still, times have changed, The notion that in order to be a you have not anything that went on in a college and what was once revolutionaq is to major in a has always seemed to me education actually had any lasting and increasingly commonplace. It was, all in to be a peculia1·ly American perception. beneficial effect. a.lt a distinctive point in time and what But, it is not true. Classics is widely Eveq now and then students in continues to be distinctive about Pitzer viewed as one of the least practical, incredibly warm moments will write is its inheritance of that very point in pLu·ely intellectual pmsLti.ts that you can letters to former teachers telling them time. We were and continue to be preter engage in. And yet, over the years, some that something they had been taught naturally lively, sometimes to the point of our Classics majors have gone on to turned out to be something they really of exhaustion, but then I exhaust more business school to pursue MBAs, many valued. Those are wonderful moments easily than I used to. go on to become physicians, attorneys on those very rare occasions when they and tead1ers, but mostly they have gone happen. In the greater meantime, how How is Classics interdisciplinary? on to become anything they want, whicl1 ever, you must be content to nurture My guess is that Classics is viewed would not seem strange in, say, England. the pleasant conceit that there have as the most traditional or perhaps ven They call Classics "The Greats" at been times when you really were an erable of all the disciplines we teach at Oxford, and First Class Honors in the effective teacher, and that what you Pitzer, and yet it is by far the most Greats still is believed to prepare you for had to teach ultimately mattered. inherently interdisciplinary and inter anything you want to do. Interestingly Someone once wrote of teacl1ing that cultural; it has been so for the last cou enough, I still believe that. But, lest I "generations from now, people will be ple of thousand years. That's largely the seem to be nothing more than a county dancing to rhythms you yourself laid resLtlt of how the world of formal learn fair pitchman trying to sell his pecuhar down and they will never know it." 1 ing classifies its major subjects. gadgetry that none but he can really guess that's as much of your rewal"d in Economics in the modern Western operate, don't take my word for it. Just heaven as you're likely to acllieve. world may reside regularly in the read tl1e section under "Classics" in the
FALL 2006 15 Seven academicaljy strong and talented first-:)'ear students have Jar-mngjng interests from acrobatics to snmvboarding to itnprov comecfy. Their accomplishments are UR alreacfy vast and thry believe Pitzer rffers them limitless possibilities to achieve more. DIVIDUALITY Meet the Class of 20 10
According to high sd1ool science course. At this stage in his college teacher John Lawrence, "Sam is truly career, he has an interest ill the shtdy remarkable." What is "tmly" amazing of sign language, which he articulates is in addition to being a standout in sci is not as mined out as many other ence, Sam is also a talented young areas of scholarship. wri ter. He was named the first Anne Sam enjoyed participating in the Bay Scholar for The Dickens Project week-long Dickens Project conference Essay Contest for his essay titled in the summ.er as its youngest attendee. "Pointing Ever Upwards: Dickens' He relates that conference convener, Novels as a Guide to Good Living." John Jordon, said that people who like "I am incredibly happy to be Dickens are generally good people. If attending Pitzer," he says. "Here, I got other Dickens enthusiasts are similar to to shake the hands of the faculty on Sam, there is truth here. His former my first day. I am convinced that I will high school professor, Michael get a better education at Pitzer as Callahan comments, "Sam possesses compa1·ed with a larger school." that rare combination of attributes that Sam is enjoying his classes in sociol combine a brilliant and alive intellect ogy, language and gender, Victorian with a compassionate heart." Sam Greene I Montclair, CA Ametica and a first-year seminar -Susan Andrews
While some students may spend Beginning three years ago, Gina their high school years just focusing made a difference by offering kitten on high school, Gina Conway made foster care. She took care of up to her best efforts to branch out and four kittens in her house tmtil they make a difference elsewhere. reached two pounds. When they did, At the end of her sophomore year, she put them up for adoption. one of her activities involved a trip to Gina also took rigorous AP cottrs Cuenavaca, Mexico, with her mother, es in high school, wrote as a teen where she stayed with a Spanish columnist for the Daily Review in San speaking fam ily and attended an Leandro, and won the city's volun intensive language school. "The trip teer service award. opened my eyes to a different way of Gina loves college life at Pitzer. living and exposed me to the severe She plays il1tramw·al tennis, and is a poverty in Mexico. Seeing the reality part of the Pitzer Animal Welfare of the situation reinforced my desire Society, On the Loose and Pi.tzer to help the poor," she says. Outdoor Adventures. She explains, "I That same year Gina also went to love how there are so many trips, Costa Rica with her biology class to activities and events going on here. 1 work hands-on with endangered never feel like I don't have something Gina Conway I San Leandro, CA leatherback turtles as well as in the to do and I love how there ar·e four rainforest working on reforestation. other colleges nearby." -Jaime Swarthout '09
16 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT Alex Friedlander Moore I Florence, MA "I started gymnastics at three create her own major. "I am inter Greenberg, describe Alex as and moved on to dance and aa·o ested in self-exploration and the "Second to none-a natural per batics by ten. When I was twelve I community aspect of the College, former willing to take the physi made it into the circus," Alex which is why I volw1teer with the cal and emotional risks of a sea Friedlander Moore modestly Jumpstart program," she says. soned pro. Backstage, Alex is explains. Since she was twelve, she "I requested a deferral from equally as valuable. She acts as a has spent her summers h·aveling Pitzer from the Fall of 2005 to fue leader amongst her peers and and performing throughout New Fall of 2006, so I could participate serves as a mentor to yoLmger England with Circus Smirkus, the in an aduJt circus, The Midnight troupe members. Alex is a hum intemational youth circus. Circus, which is theatrical-based. ble and kind team player whose Alex knew that she wanted to A highlight of my experience was generosity and commitment is an attend the College after an the Halloween show at fue Daley anchor and inspiration." overnight visit to campus. She was Plaza in Chicago," Alex continues. Alex is one of several Trustee drawn to Pitzer's size and open The founders of the Midnight Community Scholars for the 2006- ness as well as the opportunity to Circus, JeffJenkins and JuJie 07 academic year. -Susan Andrews
Solamon Estin I Ashland, OR Solamon Estin not onJy made a tiona.lly by studying in Brazil for a shlfll1ing impression in high summer. He feels connected to the school academics; he also sought country through his mother who to broaden his scope of knowledge he describes as "Afro-Brazilian." on an in ternational level. He explains, "I wanted to study ln high school, Solamon abroad in Brazil because I wanted received outstanding student to reconnect with fuat portion of awards i.n numerous subject areas my heritage and resolidify my including Global Studies and abilities in Portuguese." chemistry. He took part in sports, Of Pitzer, Solamon enfuusiasti receiving a varsity letter in snow cally says, '1 was attracted to the boarding his senior year. In addi small student population and class tion, Solamon made efforts to help sizes, as well as the school's empha incoming students succeed as a sis on the social sciences and its mentor for his school's Fresh Start attention to diversity and intema progran1, a two-day retreat for all tionalism. Here, I see I have the best incoming freslunen. "Overall, of all worlds, both social and aca Fresh Start was a chance for stu demic, and limitless resources." dents and myself to engage in com Solamon is already taking advan pletely honest communication that tage of one of Pitzer's many oppor furthered our understanding of the tunities by participating in the human condition," he recalls. Model United Nations program. Solamon also chose to extend -Jaime Swarthout '09 his academic experience interna-
FALL 2006 17 Ariana Friedman I 1'iJeet the Class of 2010 San Francisco, CA A '1ane of all trades," Ariana Friedman displays expertise and talent across the board. In high school, Ariana chal lenged herself by partaking in her school's rigorous AP pro gram. Ariana was also able to make time to participate in the performing arts. She performed in her school's drama program. Her senior year, she played her biggest part as Glinda in the Wizard of Oz. She was also active in Chamber Choir, and traveled throughout Southern California with her choral group. training, and then became a full In addition, Ariana participated time counselor." She continues, in school d ubs. She was the secre "One of the things I enjoy most tary of the Writers' Paradise Club, about being a counselor is form ing Rebecca Acosta I Moorpark, CA for whicl1 students gathered once close bonds v.rith the individual a week to read each others' writ kids in my group." Rebecca Acosta prides herself on ing. She was also an active mem Ariana loves Pitzer. "1l1ere is always d1oosing what Robert Frost coined ber, and later the president, of her always something interesting to get the road less traveled. A first-generation school's Gay-Straight Alliance. involved in or some activity to run American, Becky's parents emigrated to Her multitude of activities in to," she says. Currently, she is the U.S., her mother from Mexico and her high school didn't stop Ariana involved in the Queer Resource father from Cuba. "My parents made the from taking on challenges outside Center. She has also been accepted best of their situation and have already of school as well . "I have worked in to the Five College improv gotten me very far in liie and so l am defi at ti1e Peninsula Jewish IToupe, Without a Box. nHely not going to take that for granted," Community Center for years. I -jaime Swarthout '09 she says. "I keep pushing to do the most I first volunteered as a counselor-in- can for them and the commw1ity." In high school, Becky distinguished herself academically through rigorous Sean Cashwell I course selection and a tireless work ethic Albuquerque, NM whether it was in Latin or AP courses in English and physics. She was actively Sean Cashwell is outstanding involved in the multicultural club and both on the court and off. served as a student alumni liaison. Becky By his senjor year in high also reached out to her community by sd1ool, Sean averaged twenty volunteering fo r Project One Voice and points per ga me, and was named Children's Hospital. the Group A-AAA player of ti1e One of Becky proudest accomplish year. Not onl y did it provide him ments is playing on her high sd1ool's vol with an athletic outlet, he leyball team and serving as co-captain explains, "It helped me learn during her senior year. Her high school leadership as well as teamwork. It coaches recognized her as a solid team opened up opportunities for me leader and praised her ability to rally team both socially and for college." support and morale. She now shares these His passion didn't end there, exceptional quali ties with her teammates though. Sean made sure that he on the Pitzer-Pomona voJJeyball team. branched out into other social Becky looks forward to doing archery and academic arenas as well. As a Pomona basketball team, and is and possibly joining the SC scuba diving student, he took challenging class doi ng well. "I was recruited to club. She notes that she chose Pitzer es, and became a member of both come here and p lay and I have because of its emphasis on diversity. "I the National Honor Society and enjoyed playing with other mem think the College v.riJJ widen my cultural the French NationaJ Honor bers of the team." He continues, "I and intellectual horizons and will add Society. hope to become the best basketball meaning and depth to my educational Outside of school, Sean volun player I can possibly be after my experience. Pitzer really cares about the teered at the Albuquerque Rescue four years here, and I am ponder individual and individual expression," Mission's soup kitchen. He also ing the idea of possibly playing she says. worked with a nonprofit organiza basketball overseas one day." tion called Lap Dog Rescue, which Sean hopes to major in either -Emily Cavalca11ti rescues beaten and abandoned math or science, but he explains, dogs, and finds them homes. "My options are wide open." Sean now plays on the Pitzer- -jaime Swarthout '09
1.8 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT Springsong Cooper '09 provides a glimpse u· ~ f,lj-#Jft--.UC()Iti.~ UR alternative Fall break aiding in Katrina ctrs~1mnirtzmf-'-::::::: CTIVIS
wakened by the sound of a gui des of people's lives that have been government mandates that requiTe tar and singing (Common destroyed by water, muck (mud and houses to be gutted and lawns to be A Ground's volLmteer wake-up toxins), or mold. Clothing, family pic maintained or else the government will crew), I grimace as I roll over, open my tures, china, stuffed animals, furni seize their properties. Yet, perhaps the phone, and read that the time is 6:30 ture-all are ruined, all are piled in a most difficult part of the h·ip was a.m. in New Orleans, 4:30 back in huge heap waiting to be picked up by returning to Pitzer College, the real California. The ten other Pitzer stu the city. world. New Orleans feels like a differ dents and I reluctantly emerge from We try to imagine what it must be ent world as we h·y to explain all that our sleeping bags laid out on cots in a like to lose every single one of your we have seen and experienced to our classroom on the second floor of what materia l possessions and to see a house peers and professors. How does one used to be St. Mary's SchooL Breakfast that you grew up in and yom children describe a community that has been is served downstairs in the gym, and I grew up in, filled with memories, in a wiped out from a flood that occurred am impressed that so many volunteers state of complete destruction. After emp- because the urgency and necessity of are awake and ready to begin a day of building higher levies was blatru1tly gutting houses in the ninth ward. overlooked as money flowed else After breakfast our group is given a where? The significance that the neigh safety orientation. It has been more than borhoods that were hit the hardest a year since the levies broke and the were predominantly African houses we are working in still have not American? That so many neighbor been gutted, so they are harboring the hoods have been completely aban pexfect environment for black mold and doned? Or the lack of funding, asbestos to thrive, both extremely toxic resources, support, as well as the many and dangerous substances. We have to disrupted and uprooted lives? wear full body suits, steel-toed boots, Most importantly, I want to thank the respi1·ators, and gloves, and at the end of Pitzer community for their continuous each day, all our tools and gear are dis support of the student initiative to be a infected with bleach and left to air out. part of the relief efforts in the destruc The Pitzer students break into two tion caused by Hunicru1e Katrina. I groups and work at different houses joined Pitzer students mucking and gut located in the lower ninth waTd, the area ting in Mississippi last year during our that received the bulk of the flood dur Fall break, a few months after the ing Htmicane Katrina, due to its close Hurricane hit. Now, more than a year proximity to the levies. The government later, the cameras have tmned off and has mandated that every house be gut Andrew Doty '09, China Camacho '07, Onri (Common the world has forgotten that those dev ted. The problem is that many people Ground Volunteer), Springsong Cooper '09, Samantha Field astated by the storm are still in much have left their New Orleans' homes since '09 and Michele Hatchette '09. Not pictured: Francine need of support. I am impressed that they cannot live there or they are not Mireles '09, Owen Brewer '08, Aleksander Lyng '10, Sky students again gave up theu· Fall breaks Shanks '08, Danielle J. Brown '08 and Daphne Churchill '07 physically capable of completing the to spend five days working with and arduous job and are unable to financial tying the house of all material posses learning from them, and am so grateful ly pay someone else to do the work. sions, we essentially strip it bare, ripping to the Pitzer organizations that support This is where we come into t:he pic out carpets, pulling up floor tiles, taking ed us. As long as homes need to be gut ture, young able-bodied and energetic down walls, insulation, and ceilings, ted and rebuilt and residents' lives have volunteers who have not personally until all that remains is the structure of a not retmned to normal, it is vital that experienced the devastation of Katrina. house that used to be a home passed on the Pitzer community continues its soli We soon discover that the work is not through generations of families. darity for the communities in our coun only physically challenging but emo We cannot understand how little try that have been tmned upside down, tionally challenging as well. As we carry support the government has given undersupported, and forgotten by loads of personal belongings to dump these neighborhoods in the lower ninth much of the world. in trash piles on the street, we find arti- ward. Even more disturbing are the - Springsong Cooper '09
FALL 2006 19 Lauren Dolgen '97, Allry lvmjiJJafl '01 and Maljorie Light '06 share their thot'!,hls 011 thinking outside the UR box at Pitzer and beyond REATIVITY
Lauren Dolgen '97 J VICE PRESIDE NT OF SERIE S DEVELOPMENT FOR MTV NETWORKS
What drew you to Pitzer College? I started working with VHl, which Can you describe a memorable experi During the college search process, I is in the MTV Networks fami ly and it ence of yours while attending Pitzer? was looking for a college that reflected led me to this job at MTV. l was involved in the organic garden the high school [ attended, which was when it was first dug up. We were the very Hberal and free-form in a way. T Congratulations on your recent pro first on the scene and were responsible visited a bunch of colleges and I could motion. How long have you worked for removing all of the rocks. We made tell immediately if people wanted me for MTV Networks? quite a mess of it in the beginning. to be there or not. My parents had sug MTV is twenty-five years old and l gested Pitzer in the first place and they have been here nine years since I grad What advice would you give to stu were right. uated from Pitzer. It's great to be able dents interested in working with in to grow. Starting in production, I even the entertainment industry? Growing up in Los Angeles, how did tually was able to make my way to I am open and encouraging to Pitzer you feel about going to college so development, the creative side. I love students to apply here for internships. close to home? what I do. With my promotion to vice If you show you are a hard worker, When my parents first suggested president of series development I smart and dedicated, you can learn a Pitzer, I thought, "Claremont-I am great deal during an internship; they not going to Claremont." It's not the enhance the college experience. The most picturesque drive, but after you '' J am open and encourag- Pitzer interns possess the Pitzer men make a few turns you can see and feel ing to Pitzer students to tality and have a lot of drive, stepping the charm of Claremont. up just as they do in the classroom. I was a double major: History of app!J here for internships. ... Ideas with Barry Sanders and Pitzer interns possess the Pitzer How have you remained active within Environmental Studies with Pau l the Pitzer community? Faulstich. Both of them were amazing mentality and have a lot of The friendships I built carried me influences. 1 think they influenced who dn·ve} stepping up just as thry do through all four years. One of my best I nm today, but not necessarily what I friends from Pitzer, Amanda Crosby, do today. in the classroom. ' passed away about four years ago, and a group of us started a memorial fund What ultimately led you to the enter in her name. We all had such a tremen tainment industry? report to the senior vice president of dous four years at Pitzer that we My dad has had an incredible career MTV and to the executive vice presi thought this would be a good tribute to in the entertainment industry. He irrflu dent of MTV Programming. an amazing woman. ences me a great deal because he is incredibly intelligent and inspiring. I What series have you helped develop? How would you summarize your did not grow up knowing that 1 would Jack*** is a big series that has grown Pitzer experience? be in this industry but it is exciting to into successful films; WildBoyz, which Overall, college was a great experi know I wound up following in his is another big series for us that was a ence for me. I was close with profes footsteps to a certain extent. spin-off of ]nck**"'; and Vivn Ln Bnm, sors, took interesting classes and bene What solidified for me that I wanted which is about a pro-skater who was a fited from amazing opportunities. to work in this industry was an intern cast member of Jack..,.*. Socially and in every way it was a great ship I completed with MTV's Press I also do dating shows such as experience. I have a lot of love for Department in the UK. Parental Control and Date My Mo111. I Pitzer. have a new series which is ca lled Yo Momma.
20 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT Marjorie Light '06 1 POET Marjorie Light is making noise all over town with her stunning poetry. Most recently, Light participated in the Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture (FPAC) Poetry Slam in San Pedl·o, California. Having begw1 in Chicago during the '80s, the Poetry Slam is designed to combine perform ance poetry with the atmosphere of sports competition. Each performer goes through a series of rounds, going head to head with another poet, u1 hopes of avoiding elimination and remaining the "last one standll1g." This poetry style is based on Balagtasan, a traditional Philippine cu-t form in which Filipino artists stood before an audience and debat ed various topics ranging from politi Baxter Woodward '05, Jessica Hardy '01 , Amy Kaufman '01 (center to right) and other students from The cal to philosophkal. Claremont Colleges sing a KSPC station 10 still used on the air today. Light has been writing and using poetry to express herself for many years. In her zine, Some Misplaced joan Amy Kaufman '01 I FORMER KS PC GENERAL MANAGER of Arc, she writes, "I started this zine ... at the tender age of fifteen when I was just starting to discover that KSPC radio celebrated its fiftieth my very favorite Pitzer memories are writing and art were powerful tools anniversary earlier this year, and from the Thatcher basement, and I whlle it may be located on Pomona know my station friends feel the same in the transformation and empower ment of self cu1d community." College's campus, it's in the hearts of way; several of us graduated in 2001 so many Pitzer alumni, both as former and we still find ourselves down there In the zu1e, Light expresses more than just a talent for poetry; she uti volunteers and as listeners. In a Jot of doing summer radio shows and look ways, I think KSPC embodies Pitzer's ing through photos. Visit www.kspc.org lizes collage, list-making, story telling, photography and drawing. spirit more than those of the other col to check out our KSPC websh·eam. leges- it is still one of the few stations Currently I am plU'suing a master's She also gives her audience an insight into who she is as a person in the country tn1ly dedicated to play degree at Cal State Long Beach so I can and as a minority in her essay, "What ing "undergrow1d" music (i.e. nothing become a maniage and family thera from big labels), and in which stu pist; I hope to work with adolescents. Does it Mean to be Filipino?" dents play a huge role. There is only My other current goals are visiting While at Pitzer, Light studied abroad in DaTjeeling, India, and cre one full-time staff member; the rest is every cupcake bake1y in the country, ated two of her own majors; Women managed entirely by students. and eventually of Color Art and Activism, and KSPC is known for being having World Perforrncu1ce Traditions. innovative and enough "I felt that I was always headed in a wmsual and time and creative direction, and I used my doing what medical time at Pitzer as an we think is insurance opportunity to delve best despite to skate knowing the with one deeper into my existing interests," Ligh t sort of of the explained. "Learning money we Southern about all these issues could make by California in an academic setting selling out. I roller derby leagues. flU' ther validated me would happily - Amy Kaufman '01 and proudly and reiJ1forced the say some of importance of continuing on my path." -jaime Swarthout '09
Illustration by Chartie Salazar kspc 88.7fm I 50 veors of underground rodic kspc.org Noah Rip kin '75 and Delores Abdella Combs '04 describe ho111 UR val11ing diversity and social responsibility has become a 11la.J' of life. EDICATION
he years I spent at Pitzer were descends. Camus' interpretation of this After meeting Sister John ice, 1 sug packed with stimulating academ story rests on the notion that Sisyphus gested to Roberta that we introduce her T ics, personal interactions and ultimately ot1tsmarted the gods; he and the organization to Senator Hillary close relationships with my amazing learned to take joy and accomplish Clinton. Through my work with con professors and friends. There is one ment not from reaching the top, but ducting legislative affairs for Veridian class, however, that stands out. This is rather from the purity of the effort. Corporation and later for General not because of what it taught me in the Oddly, and perhaps paradoxically, I Dynamics, I was quite familiar with the way of professional skills or training, have relied on these teachings in my senator's staff. A meeting was but rather what it taught me about life; professional career and personal arranged, and a spark was generated. how it shaped my approach to future endeavors. Along the way, I have had Now, a wonderful project is being events and obstacles. some amazing experiences and devel born. Since tl1at original meeting, I The class was a joint sociology and oped some incredible friendships. I have moved to a smaller but rapidly growing not-for-profit corporation, CUBRC, which is affiHated with the State University of ew York at Buffalo. Roberta has since left the coun ty and now manages governmental relations for a local health insu rance provider, Independent Health. Together, Independent Health, Senator Clinton, the Response to Love Center and CUBRC have joined forces to develop a showcase program titled "Sister's Care Center" for satisfying tl1e health and nutritional needs of w'lder served populations. This is a shining From right to left: Noah Ripkin 75 with son Isaiah, Senator Hillary Clinton, daughter Shanna and wife Roberta example of the lessons T learned at Pitzer: Diversity cannot, and should English literature course titled would also like to think I have had a not, be used as a wedge to isolate and "Existentialism" taught by Ellin Ringler significant impact on those in my path. generate fear and hostility. Diversity Henderson and Glenn Goodwin. Two One fascinating person I have intersect should not be used as a weapon to readings from tl1e class that have guided ed with is Sister Mary Johnice. She is a divide our social and political culture. me to this day are Albert Camus' Essay Felician nun and director of Buffalo's Rather, tl1is diversity should provide on the Myth of Sisyphus and the story The Response to Love Center located in tl1e opportunity to find common mis Way of a Pilgrim. Buffalo's east side, a deeply impover sions and goals. Certainly a more anti The latter is the tale of a nineteenth ished area. thetical group of organizations as the century Russian. It details his journey My wife Roberta was the first of us ones involved in Sister's Care Center across the country. This story cajoles to meet Sister Johnice. She was con could not be devised. Yet this coUection one to walk simply tl1rough life and ducting a site visit for Erie County's of individuals and organizations is when confronted with opportunities to Department of Social Services. When plodding together down the pilgrim's seize them. On the other hand, a differ they met, Sister Johnice was deeply path toward a common goal: helping ent perception is offered by Camus in fearful of Roberta as the authority. ou1· fellow citizens regardless of race, his interpretation of the Greek myth of Since their fateful meeting, Roberta and color, or creed. To me, this is indeed an Sisyphus. Sisyphus, being punished by Sister Johnice found common ground implementation of our collective reli the gods for his sins, is sentenced to in their commitments to serve the neg gious and patriotic beliefs and some perform the monotonous task of push lected segments of the population, and thing for which I am honored to play a ing a gigantic boulder to the top of the Roberta and I, along with my two ch il small part. same mountain for aU eternity; every dren Shan na and Isaiah, have grown -Noah Rip kin '75 time he attains his goal, the rock close to Sister Johnice.
22 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT y work as a poetic therapist began as an independent Above: An excerpt from a poem titled "Thanking You!' written by an incarcerated study while I was a New Resources student at Pitzer youth in the California Youth Authority, honors Delores Abdella Combs '04 and her M College. Dr. Sidney Lemelle of Pomona College was efforts to help him. my adviser on the project. I decided to conduct weekly poetic therapy sessions with incarcerated youth in the California Youth Authority (now Department of Juvenile Justice). I found the experience to be immensely rewarding and noticed how well the boys responded to regularly meeting with someone who was genuinely concerned with their Lives. Seeing its posi tive impact, I chose to continue the project well after the com pletion of my independent study requixement. My husband Clinton Combs, who set up his own contract ing business to pay for hls graduate study at Clm·emont Graduate University (CGU) suggested, "Why not turn your project into a nonprofit?" We thus began all the reseaxch, paperwork, and team building that was necessary. We decided to name the project "Forgotten Souls Redeemed" (FSR) since I noticed that society has largely turned its back on these youth, preferring, it seems, to forget their existence, and because we hold the undying hope that they can be redeemed. For the past two years, FSR has been privileged to have a dedicated voltmteer in Alexandra Rutherfurd '06. Alex and 1 design our workshops to help our Forgotten Souls find a way to express themselves via means other than violence and abu sivet.Pehavior. This is where the CTeative writing component comes in. By providing the young men with journals to write their thoughts, the platform for weekly dialogue, and an out Jet for poetic expression, we have seen them slowly re-identi fy both a positive self-image and sense of morality. This is not something we preach; rather it is what they discover for themselves through their writing and sell-expression. Their writing often takes the form of reflection on issues that resulted in their incaTceration. Sadly, much of their writing expresses a repeated theme of having suffered so much abuse at the hands of older family members that they came to feel powerless. ln an all-too-common attempt to regain their sense of self, these boys chose to go down the one path that was demonstrated to them. They abused someone yotmger and more vulnerable. Tragically, many of these youth face going back to tmhealthy environments upon their release from parole, sometimes to the same family members who abused them in the first place. Professor of Education and Cultural Studies Lourdes Arguelles (now also an FSR executive advisory board member) at CGU, and Director of Pitzer's Center for California Cultural and Social Issues (CCCSI) Susan Phillips have both shown interest in our project. Alex and I brought some of our pro gram graduates to in-service workshops for both professors. Thus far, FSR has operated on a small budget made possi ble through private donations. We are currently researching Delores Abdella Combs ·04 with fellow Pitzer alumna and Forgotten Souls Redeemed program evaluation methods so that we can clearly articulate a executive board member Alexandra Rutherford '06 celebrate Alex's graduation. In 2005 Combs was presented with a Certificate of Congressional Recognition by method for a thorough program evaluation. Our next step is to Congresswoman Grace Napolitano and a California State Assembly Certificate of find outside evaluators who will conduct an assessment. Ottr Recognition by Assemblyman Rudy Bermudez. FSR was mentioned in a recent Los desire behind this project is to be able to quantify our progress Angeles Times article by Patrick Goldstein written about film director Victor Salva. so that we can show proven results in grant applications. Combs can be reached through her Web site www.forgottensoulsredeemed.org or by e-mail at [email protected] -Delores Abdella Combs '04
FALL 2006 23 Elizabeth I!Vitte Stokes '68 was the first st11dent to set foot and to be greeted 011 the Pitzer College campus in September 1964. Her daughter Ch1istine and son Jonathan JIIO!Jid later follou; in her footsteps. Here thv• recount their experiences in their ozvn Jvords.
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ELIZABETH WITTE STOKES '68 tions work from my years in the Today, I live in the Bay Area and Westport Young Woman's League work in marketing at CargoSmart Esther Wagner was the one who every year but the fi rst year in a differ Limited in San jose. I majored in psy made the difference in my getting into ent board position. I also held board chology at Pitzer and earned an MBA Pitzer. She liked one of the recommen positions with the co-op nursery from New York University's Stern dations that I received and she encour school, the PTOs and the swim team. School of Business. aged the Office of Admission to accept I started the Weston/Westport I was married this past summer. my application. Advocates for the Gifted and Talented And yes, it would be grea t if a son or Ruth Munroe was my professor for in about 1983; the Weston Education daughter of mine were to go to Pitzer. several psychology classes. On a per Foundation in 1993; and the What I miss the most about Pitzer is sonal basis, she influenced me the most Connecticu t Consortium of Education learnjng. I love learning and being able with her practical and helpful advice. Foundations in 2000. to constantly learn is a luxury. It is I loved being on campus in the begin I didn't start any of these groups great to be in school full time. ning. Everyone knew everyone. It creat alone, but I was the one to do the Ellin Ringler-Henderson had a large ed a special bond and when we go back research and to get other people influence during my Pitzer years. She to reunions, we feel the bonds, which is involved. I was founding chairman or was the one who suggested I go further why a high percentage of us attend our president of each. 1 am still on the from home to study abroad. At first, I reunions. lt was a special time for us. board of the Weston Education was planning on going to England or From my perspective, I was always Foundation and am still the president somewhere in Western Europe. the quiet shy person. I came from a of CfCEF (www.ctceforg). I am good at My study abroad experience took high school with 4,280 students where and enjoy the creative process, figuring place in Bali where I was immersed in I used to put an IBM (ID) number on out the vision and getting people fired a different culture. I learned how to be every school form. At Pitzer, aU of the up about doing things. open to different cultures. My inde professors knew me even if J did not Taking classes from some of the pendent study was in Balinese cooking have a class with them. same professors is a point of overlap in and I wrote a cookbook. I love the I was the first student to arrive on our Pitzer experiences. Both Christine spicy sauces! campus in September 1964. Charlotte aJ1d I took classes from Ell in Ringler I went back to Bali five years later. I Elmott, who was the first dean of the Henderson and Ruth Munroe. l took at was amazed to see all of the infrastruc College, greeted me. least one class from Ron Macaulay and ture development-paved roads, side [loved the creating process-the he was Christine's adviser. walks and more. I also had the oppor town meetings. I was not involved in tunity to visit my host family. student government at Pitzer, but the CHRISTINE STOKES DEIHL '92 On subsequent trips abroad, I have town meetings and observing how a tried to make an effort to go off the group process is supposed to work Two things emerged from my deci beaten path. I applied what I learned influenced me later. sion to attend Pitzer: 1 moved to from my study abroad experience to I didn't just jump in and start California from out East, where I still discover cultures by immersing myself groups. I lea rned a tremendous am today, and the study abroad experi and not actin g like a typical tourist. amount about how volunteer organiza- ence changed me quite a bit.
24 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT Colleges. Without a Box steered me toward my current pursuit of comedy writing. Here in Hollywood, I've per formed improv with fellow Without a Box alumni Steve Harwood, Richie Molyneux, Wendy Molyneux and Dana Dubois. There are about eleven of us "Boxers" here in Los Angeles who are working, or trying to work, in comedy. I have agents and managers, but it's a long uphill haul! I long for the day when Pitzer has enough alumni Ln entertainment to be a resomce to prom ising graduates. I hope that Pitzer's growing Media Studies department trains its graduates to stick together Hollywood is a battlefield! Other Pitzer activities I benefited from were Student Senate and the Claremont Shades a cappella group. Legacy graduates Jonathan Stokes '98 and Elizabeth Witte Stokes '68 celebrate with Christine Stokes Deihl '92 Students don't realize that Pitzer stu at her wedding . dents started most 5C groups, like For the past two years, I have been JONATHAN STOKES '98 Without a Box and Shades. I think it's the program director for the nonprofit that grassroots spirit Pitzer instills in us. My mom, sister and I are all group WIT-NC (Women in As for professors I enjoyed, AI International Trade - Northern involved with voltmteer projects, Wachtel is a fascinating teacher and an California), which is part of an interna which we probably owe to Pitzer. I excellent scholar. And whenever I go to tional organization, OWIT. WIT-NC's served on the Pitzer AJumni Board for an alw11ni event, in whatever city across mission to provide monthly programs, five years and spearheaded the cre America, I always look forward to see ation of the Pitzer yotmg alumni pro training, and education in global trade ing the ubiquitous Barry Sanders. • to trade professionals in the Bay Area, gram, GOLD. I greatly benefited from the extracur ties in with my early international experience from my Pitzer days. ricular activities at The Claremont
SHERYL CARDOZA '76 & MICHAEL D. MARTINEZ '00 Aunt and nepheu; arep roud to be first generation college graduates in theirfamilies.
hen I entered Pitzer, I felt scared, fortu nate and undeserving. Being that I grew W up in Pomona on the "other side of the tracks," The Claremont Colleges seemed a bastion of privilege that consisted of being white and rich. ~y experience at Pitzer taught me many lessons, the majority of which I did not realize until much later. I had access to teachers who had varied world experiences and were open to sharing them with me. I learned that the social parameters are set only if you do not challenge the boundaries and prejudices, and that most free thinking and expression are open to all, regardless of their economic limitations. The size of the classes and campus allowed me the intimacy and the safety to go through these changes. My nephew, Micl1ael D. Martinez, graduated from Pitzer in 2000. He is the firs t and only college graduate, like me, from his genera tion of our family. - Sheryl Cardoza '76
FALL 2006 25 Legary gradr1ates Ellen johnson '75 and daughters, Lauren Johnson Weitick '04 and Carlin Johnson
Weirick '061 find their connection to Pitzer and its core val11es to be a lifelong mgagement.
"M Ymom was very smart to give each of us the space to become our own person," explained Carlin Johnson Weirick '06, the youngest in her family of Pitzer College legacy graduates. "The funny thing is, my sis ter Lauren and J turned out just like her which is the reason we both chose Pitzer and immediately enjoyed it." While more than twenty-five years separate their time as students at Pitzer, for Ellen johnson '75 and daughters, Lauren Johnson Weirick '04 and Carlin Pitzer legacy graduates Ellen Johnson '75 and daughters, Lauren Johnson Weirick '04 and Carlin Johnson Johnson Weirick '06, their views on what Weirick '06 celebrate Carlin's graduation. remains true about the College's culture, people and community are timeless. responsibility that permeates the Pitzer and I knew I could get used to a place They find their connection with Pitzer community is something that should like that. The more I learned about and its core values to be a lifelong never be dismissed. It is something that Pitzer, the more I knew I would be fol engagement, one that will continue to my mom, my sister and Tall attribute to lowing in my mom's footsteps." guide their individual life pursuits. Pitzer and something that we all share." Similarly, Lauren's younger sister Ellen studied psychology at Pitzer After being raised in a small city in Carlin instantly felt welcome at Pitzer. and admits that while she may have Louisiana, Lauren remembers how "Pitzer will always be a place in my been a quiet student, she reveled in all Pitzer opened her eyes to the world mind where everyone is accepted, that transpired in the classroom. "The around her. She majored in Political where everyone was treated in an equi quality of a Pitzer education is unlike Studies and psychology at Pitzer and table manner," she said. An anything I've encountered before or participated in the Pitzer in Italy pro Organizational Studies major who since. The things that are spoken, and gram in Parma during her Fall2002 minored in dance, Carlin also studied the thoughts that pass through your semester. In particular, she found her abroad in Australia. Like her mother, head when you're listening to lectures, "Children at Risk" course, whid1 she recognizes she was a quiet presence or the discourse that is taking place-it involved an internship at the Prototypes in the Pitzer community, but soon after can have a tremendous impact," she Center in Pomona, indicative of the graduating she discovered she wasn't noted. After graduating, Ellen went on interactive education at Pitzer. scared to go out in the world anymore. to earn a master's degree in psycholo Like her mother had hoped, Lauren "I knew my abilities and personality gy, to conduct psychological assess garnered a sense of empowerment at and I knew how I should be h·eated in ment of the developmentally disabled, Pitzer as well as the knowledge of life," she explained. "I was stronger to teach psychology at the university issues she felt were important. both academically and as a person." level, and ultimately to her current Immediately after graduating, Lauren Since graduating, Carlin has trav position as executive director of the joined Americorps for Community eled in the U.S. and Italy and is cur Jessie Hopkins Hinchee Foundation, Engagement in Austin, Texas, as an rently a patron services associate for whkh provides community homes for early literacy specialist. After her year the Ojai Music Festival and a dance developmentally disabled adults. of service in AmeriCorps, she attended instructor for the Happy Valley School As a professional and as a mother, the London School of Economics and and the Ojai Performing Arts Theatre Ellen treasures the strong sense of Political Science and received her mas Academy. Like her mother and older social responsibility and empowerment ter's of science degree in public policy sister, Carlin remembers the outstand she developed at Pitzer and she has and administration. Currently, Lauren ing efforts of Pitzer's faculty members strived to instill these same values in investigates corporate philanthropy both in and out of the classroom. "My her daughters. "I want them to realize and civil society issues as part of her professors knew that they too learn that they are not only capable individ work in the Hong Kong office of The from teaching," she noted. "I know uals in their own right, but also that Asia Foundation, a San Francisco that I do when I teach dance; I learn they can impact others and make a based international NGO. more about what I can improve in very positive difference," Ellen said. "When I first applied to colleges, I terms of my own ability, both as a per "We have to take responsibility for one really wanted to pave my own path," former and as a teacher. Pitzer is like another. We have to embrace diversity, Lauren recalled. "I considered every this oasis in the world, where this can try to understand where people come thing from state universities to other happen, where everyone can work from and support one another in our Liberal arts colleges. However, when T together and not hesitate to voice their various endeavors." went to visit Pitzer I immediately felt thoughts and opinions." Likewise, her elder daughter Lauren comiortable. I saw the artwork on the maintains, "The overall sense of social walls and the students on the mounds, - Emily Cavalcrmti
26 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT El Dfa de los Mnertos (Dqy of the Dead) was observed at Pitzer College on 1 ovember 1, following the ancient Mexican tradition of r-emembering and honoring our beloved departed.
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lmost ninety students and pro have always found this holiday a very be able to share it with my 'extended fessors gathered in the Fletcher solemn one, a time to remember our family' at Pitzer." A Jones Language and Culture dear deceased family members, as well Dia de los Muertos is traditionally Lab on ovember 1, at noon to cele as to reflect on our own life and death. celebrated in Mexico to remember and brate the Mexican holiday, El Dia de los I don't remember a year not having an honor departed loved ones. Whole com Muertos (The Day of the Dead). They alter set up at home, back in Mexico or munities gather in cemeteries to bring filled their plates with traditional wherever I was," Barcenas said. food, flowers and gifts that the departed Mexican dishes, such as chiles rellenos, Because of the significance of the used to cherish, and households set up enchiladas, tamales, arroz, salsa and tradition in her own life, Barcenas altars dedicated to lost family members. pan de muerto (bread of the dead). chooses to share it with her students. The altars typically display the favorite Pitzer's celebration was in remembrance "The first time I celebrated Dia de los dishes of the lost family members in of the immigrants who have perished in Muertos in an academic environment hopes that they will come and taste the the desert along the U.S.-Mexico border was when I taught at University of La food. Sometimes cleansing instruments while struggling to get to America. Verne some years ago. When 1 rea li zed are placed at the altar for the spirits to The event was organized by that students loved to be participants wash themselves after the long journey Instructor of Spanish Martha Barcenas in this celebration, 1 decided to share it home. Ute details of the celebration vary and her students, and was sponsored from then on with the community," she from region to region, bu t the theme is by Pitzer's Campus Life Committee. "I explained. "I feel extremely happy to always the same: To remember loved ones who have passed, and in doing so, to assuage the grieving process. This year's guest speaker was Yolanda Romanello '05, who majored in Latin American Studies. Though she has no roots in Mexico, Romanello explained that she feels connected with the tradition. Most recently it helped her cope with the loss of her father. To her, "cultural barriers don't matter." Romanello described the tradition of Dfa de los Muertos and concluded by stating, " It is in this spirit of keeping alive the memory of those migrants who sacrificed their lives crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and whose many bodies still rest in the desert that I would like to ask for a minute of silence." And the room of students and professors fell silent in remembrance. - Jaime Swarthout '09 Yolanda Romanello '05, featured speaker, and Instructor of Spanish Martha Barcenas
FALL2006 27 A LARGER THAN LIFE
Pitzer College Receives Lar-gest Gift LEGACY in its History from Roger C. Holden
itzer College meant more to tion funds for the residence hall that County Coast Association. Roger C. Holden than he ever bears his name, Holden [-iall. Until her passing in 2006, Holden's P possibly could have imagined. [n Holden was born in 1897 in Palmer, widow Sylvia Holden Robb, who later 1968 Holden, an early member of Massachusetts. He graduated from married Dr. Robert Cumming Robb Pitzer's Board of Trustees, bequeathed Amherst College and served in the U.S. (1903-1992), lived in the home on the his Laguna Beach home to Pitzer avy during World War I. While work property. She remained a good hiend College, at the time valued at $134,000. ing in Chicago, Holden met and mar of Virginia Atherton, wife of President In September, escrow on the property ried Sylvia Sticha. Holden began his John Atherton, for more them forty closed with a sale price of $15 mil business career as an automobile sales years. "During a visit to Mrs. Robb's lion-currently among the top five man and pursued other fields includ house, 1 was very touched to see a copy highest sales for a single family resi ing news reporting, public relations of the College's alumni magazine on dence in Orange County in 2006. It is and fund raising. His greatest single her coffee table," said President Laura the largest gift in the College's history. interest was in investments- stocks, Skandera Trombley. Holden was recruited to the Pitzer bonds and real estate. "Mr. Holden's generous gift will be College Board of Trustees by fellow From the late 1950s to the time of his applied to strengthening our academic Amherst alwnnus and founding presi death in 1968, Holden worked in a vol program, funding student scholarships dent of Pitzer College, the late John unteer capacity as the president of the and helping with other key initiatives Atherton. After the gifts of Mr. and Symphony Association of Orange of our strategic plan. We are extremely Mrs. Russell K. Pitzer to fou nd a11d County. He was also active wiU1 many grateful for om great hiend who endow Pitzer College, Holden provid Orange County organizations includ believed in Pitzer College," Trombley ed the College with its most significant ing the South Coast Community said. early gifts: the establishment of the Hospital, the South Orange County Sylvia Sticha Holden Scholarship Fund, Chapter of the Red Cross, the Laguna in honor of his wife, and the construe- Art Association and the Orange
'' Roger invigorated our Boar~ brought to his position as vice-chairman a breadth of view and humanity of spirit unmatched. ''
- Pitzer's First President John \V.I. Atherron, July 22, 1968 Pitzer College Awar-ded Prestigious RESIDENTIAL liFE PRO) ECT KRESGE FOUNDATION I CHALLENGE GRANT
he Kresge Formdation has awarded ARTHUR VINING DAVIS Pitzer College a Challenge Grant of FOUNDATIONS BOARD MEETING T$750,000 for the new residence halls being consh·ucted next to Gold Student n September 22, the Arthur Skandera Trombley that the "Board Center. In order to secure these funds, the 0 Vining Davis Foundations con left with a much deeper understand College must raise the balance of its $19 ducted their board meeting on the ing for Pitzer and The Claremont million goal ($2.6 million) by July 1, 2007. Pitzer campus, had ltmch with the Colleges." The Fatmdations have been It is widely recognized that a Kresge Claremont undergraduate college a steadfast, long-term supporter of Foundation grant is not only one of the presidents and the cue chief execu Pitzer and the other colleges and came most prestigious, but also the most diffi tive officer, toured the campuses and here in order to reinvigorate th.eir cult, to obtain. The Kresge Formdation is a participated in an evening reception appreciation of the rmique Claremont national private foundation with $3 bil and dinner at the Pomona president's consortial arrangement as well as each lion in assets that was created through the house. Executive Director Jonathan T. college's distinctive characteristics. personal gifts of Sebastian S. Kresge in Howe wrote to President Laura 1924. Through its grant-making pro grams, the Formdation seeks to strength en nonprofit organizations by catalyzing their growth, connecting them to their stakeholders, and challenging greater support through grants. The Foundation's core grant-making activity is its Capital 01allenge Grants program, whi.ch focuses on opportunities to sh·engthen leadership and giving through challenge grants for capital projects such as construction and renovation of facilities, acquisition of property and purchase of equipment Rip Rapson, president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation, indicated, "With the aid of this challenge grant, we hope that your campaign can become an even Standing: Candy Moser, Trustee Robert M. Moser, Trustee Mark DeWitt, Executive Director Or. Jonathan l Howe, more strategic opportunHy for you to Pomona College President David Oxtoby, Trustee Holbrook R. Davis, Trustee Dr. William G. Kee, Trustee J.H. Dow connect with your stakeholders and Davis, Claremont McKenna College Dean of Faculty Gregory Hess, Harvey Mudd College Dean of Faculty Daniel L. reach out to new donors, volrmteers, par Goroff, Program Director Cheryl A. Tupper, Program Director William C. Keator ticipants, and the general community. Sitting: Trustee Teresa Borcheck, Trustee Barbara Robinson Dewitt, Trustee Haley Melanson, Scripps College Your compelling plan to sustain the high President Nancy Bekavac, Claremont University Consortium Chief Executive Officer Brenda Barham Hill, Dr. Harriet Howe, Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley, Trustee Margaret Davis Maiden, Trustee Mrs. John L. levels of giving after the campaign con Kee Jr., Sally Davis, Sue Davis, and Trustee Sarah H. Davis cludes will help strengthen your organi zation well into the future." LNE LEAitN L.fAD To help the College meet the Kresge challenge you may give online at ~ ~~ ~ ~] [F!IJ Residential Life Project WEBCAM www.pitzer.edu/giving, through the Brick Campaign at www.pitzer.edu/rlplbricks.asp, The Pitzer College residence life construction project is progressing according or by calling the Office of Advancement at to plan, with completion slated for late June 2007 and first occupancy sched (909) 621-8130. uled for the beginning of the Fall 2007 semester. For more information visit www.pitzer.edu/rlp, and watch the construction process live by Webcam at http:l/134.173.115.201:8040/ FALL SPORTS SAGEHEN ROUNDUP
WOMEN'S SOCCER game at 1 in the 22nd minute and the Overall: 10-6-1 SCIAC: 8-3-1 Hens scored off a corner kick in the 57th Epic is the only word to describe the minute for the win. The team has a lot of SCIAC tournament semifinal game depth and is quite young, however, as between Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and they have been playing well, the under Pitzer-Pomona on November 3. With the classmen have had many opportunities game tied 1-1, after 18 rounds of penalty to contribute to the efforts on the field. kicks the conference championship Andrew Jacobson '08 was second team game ended with CMS ahead by one all SCIAC. The Sagehen volleyball team takes a moment together shot. All five Pitzer athletes on the team in preparation for the start of a match. were major contributors. Angie Martinez FOOTBALL '09 scored important goals for the team. Overall: 2-5 SCTAC: 1-3 costly turnovers on key ball posses Sophomore Ju lia Carr is a defensive Despite trailing 14-7 at the half, the sions kept Pitzer at bay. The final score leader for the Hens and Liz McAllister Sagehens rallied in the second half to a was 7-5 Red lands. '09 is a sb·ong defender. Jenny Medvene 31-21 win over rival Claremont-Mudd Collins, a junior, is a key player for the Scripps on Homecoming Saturday. M EN'S & W OMEN'S C ROSS team in the central midfield. First-year After a sloppy first half that saw the COUNTRY student jane Philips has earned a lot of Hens tum the ball over four times (2 Men: Overall: 6-1 SCIAC: 6-1 playing time, also as a center midfielder. fumbles, 2 interceptions), they Women: Overall: 5-2 SCIAC: 5-2 rebounded with 17 unanswered points The women's squad finished the sea M EN'S SOCCER to seal the victory and retain the Peace son November 11 at the NCAA ill West Overall: 11-5-1 SCIAC: 9-3-1 Pipe. In the forty-ninth meeting of Regional meet. The Sagehens finished The Hens had an exciting game these two teams, the Sagehens out twelfth out of sixteen scoring teams. against conference rival University of gained the Stags 405 to 215 yards. The men's squad garnered a second Redlands, defeating the Bu ll dogs place SCIAC finish, one spot ahead of 2-1. The Hens scored in the MEN'S WAT ER PO LO their performance in the SCIAC Multi 17th minute for a 1-0 lead. Overall: 16-16 SCIAC: 8-2 Duals. The Bulldogs tied the Down 4-0, the Sagehens rallied to make it an interesting match in the VOLLEYBALL SCIAC championship game against the Overall: 15-10 SCIAC: 8-6 University of Redlands. After being The season ended very well, with shut out 4-0 in the first quarter, the particularly strong performances that Hens played a better second quarter the team looks forward to carrying into with the opening goal scored by Mark next year. Sarah Amos '10 was awarded D' Avina '10. Down 6-2 after exchang Second Team All SClAC and Pacific ing goals, Pomona senior Tim Brown Coast Classic All Tournament Team, rattled in a goal and blasted another Ruchi Patel '09 received the Hustle goal home with 5.4 seconds in the third Award for the Team for her outstanding quarter. With momentum on their side, efforts on defense, and Dennica Gumaer the Sagehens had several golden '10 had 50 kills, hitting .213 on the sea opportunities in the fourth quarter, but son with 20 blocks. -Catherine Okereke '00
Liz McAllister '09 takes the ball in the game against Mike Mueting '08 builds momentum to make a pass. CMS on the way to a 2-1 win on September 13. We are the Pitzer College PARENTS ASSOCIATION
Dear Pitzer Pru·ents: PaTents throughout the nation have contributed signifi cantly to the Pitzer community by hosting events for parents All parents ru·e members and alumni at their homes. On September 30, Dr. and Mrs. of the Pitzer Parents Steven and Diane Demeter P'09 invited Pitzer parents and Association. Through programs and special events, the alumni to their home in Del Mar, California. The event fea Parents Association supports and conh·ibutes to the educa tured an address by President Trombley titled "Excellence, tional objectives of the College. The Parents Association Innovation and the Global Community." On October 14, I seeks to foster a warm, welcoming and inclusive community hosted an event for parents and alumni at my home in for all Pitzer pru·ents. Sonoma County, Califomia, featuring wines from the area. In particular, the Parent Leadership Council provides a Robert Siegel and Susan Kargman P'07 held a reception at voice to the College on behalf of parents. The Council meets their home in New York whlle President Trombley was visit twice a year on the Pitzer College campus to ruscuss pro ing the city on November 2. gramming for Parent Orientation, Family Weekend, the Silent Whether you choose to lend "hands-on" support or sim Auction and other matters relating to parents and students. ply attend functions planned in your geographic area, Pitzer Through serving as a volunteer, by hosting an event, welcomes your participation. Please keep an eye open for assisting with an on-campus event, making calls to incoming upcoming Parents Association invitations, annOtmcements students' parents, or contributing to the Annual Parents and e-newsletters that keep you informed. I look forward to Fund, you are enhancing the Pitzer community and takillg yom involvement! part in the exceptional education our sons and daughters are receiving. Volunteering at Pitzer helps me to keep in to~cl1 Sincerely, with my son Neil's education. It offers us the opporturuty for more meaningful conversations because I know what is hap f.twltL j)AC);/)V.r pening where he is-without hovering. Paula Pretlow P'08, Parents Association President
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PITZER C OLLEGE family weekend P~ """ stLENT AUCTION 2007 \.)(._ FEB 17 J<>
For more iriformation and to view the schedule visit Wlvw.pitzer.edu!Jamily_ weekend, calJ Catherine Okereke '00 at (909) 621-8814, or e-mail Catherine_ Okereke@ pitzer.edu FALL 2006 31 We are the Pitzer College ALUMNI BOARD
he Alumni 2006-07 Alumni Board Members Association Board President of Directors T EUa Pennington '81 (Alumni Board) is a volunteer group of alumni dedi cated to keeping alumni connected with each other Vice Presidents and the College. Helping to organize events, services, Jennifer Bale-Kushner '87- Strategic Planning and programs for every Pitzer alumna/us, Alumni Claudio Chavez '88- Chapters Board members are appointed for two-year terms and Alizah Salario '03 -Graduates Of the Last Decade work to enhance activities such as reunions, education (GOLD) al programs, chapter and service events, student/alum Bryan Gibb '91 -Alumni Fund ni mentoring and networking, and the Alumni Fund. Members at Large Through various efforts, Alumni Board members: Adeena Bleich '99 are educated resources about current Pitzer Thomas Brock '83 issues and events. Marka Carson '85 Ruett Foster '81 • create avenues for alumni to contribute to the Samantha Garcia-Eggen '94 life of the College and be a resource to Michael Harris '91 campus constituents. Lisa Hart '89 • dedicate their time and talents to enhance and Diane Reyes '91 promote the visibility of the College. Yolanda Romanello '03 act as Liaisons between the College and the Student Representatives alumni population. Olivia Sajjadieh '09 Rebekah Tinker '10 Photo Above. Standing: Alizah Salario '03, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Faculty Representatives David Bachman,Adeena Bleich '99, Ella Pennington '81 , Olivia Sajjadieh '09 David Bachman, assistant professor of mathematics and Ruett Foster '81 Sitting: Rebekah Tinker '10, Lisa Hart '89, Marka Carson '85 and Yolanda Romanello '05 Not pictured: Jennifer Bale-Kushner '87, Sharon Snowiss, professor of Political Studies Thomas Brock '83, Claudio Chavez '88, Samantha Garcia-Eggen '94. Bryan Gibb '91, Ben Godsill '00, Michael Harris '91, Diane Reyes '91, Professor of Political Studtes Sharon Snowiss
32 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT Fal/2006 The AluJJUli Association exists to keep our more than 6,500 alumni connected to each other and the College through a variety of means, ALUMNI EVENTS induding chapter events. 01apter events are held across the coun try and around the world, from networking activities to gatherings with Pitzer professors, social events to educational opportunities, runners and private tours. Join us at an event near you 1
"FANTASIA'' AND FIREWORKS Pitzer College at the Hoffy111ood Bo111l August 19, 2006
Far left: Michelle Guevara '03 and Irene Guevara P'03 Nea.r left: Susie Zack and Emilie Bassett Mason '71
NATIONAL SC YOUNG ALUMNI HAPPY HOUR NIGHT Natiomvide September 13, 2006 Left: Kristine Halverson '01, Terra Slavin '02 and Seamus Ryan '04 Above: Alma Dumitru '03, Andreea Constantinescu '00 and Nazbanoo Pahlavi '00
TAPAS TASTING & SAlSA DANCING WITH PROFE SSORS ETHEL JORGE. MILTON MACHUCA AND CAROL BRANDT Fernando~ Hidemvt!J, P01tfand, Oregon October 14, 2006 Above: Adriana Garcia '95, Vice President for International Programs Carol Brandt and Abel Navarrate Right: Professor Milton Machuca, Elena Rudnick '04 and Karina Nagin '04
FALL 2006 33 Fall 2006 MORE ALUMNI EVENTS
BUILD WITH US!: HABITAT FOR H UMANITY Placentia, California October 21, 2006 Left: Jessica Fitting '10 Below: Stephen Piacentini '02 and Emma Piacentini
Back Row: Brenda Baumgartner '69, Janni Richardson '97, Olivia Sajjadieh '09, Shilen Patel '07, Mike Harris '91 and Charlotte Min-Harris Front Row: Director of Alumni and Parent Relations Jean Grant and Assistant Director ol Alumni Relations Alicia Cook '03
RECEPTION WITH PRES IDENT TROMBLEY AT T H E HOME OF PARENT ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT PAULA PRETLOW, PARENT OF NEIL I'RETLOW '08 Sonoma, Califomi" October 14, 2006
Alumni Board member Tom Brock '83 introduces President Laura Skandera Trombley to alumni and parents.
RECEPTiON WITH PRESIDENT TROMBLEY AT T H E H O ME O F DR AN D M RS. STEVEN & D IANE DEMETE R, PAREN TS OF HANNAH DEMETER '09 Del Mm; Califomia eptember 30, 2006
Far left: Stella Larson '93 and Conme Milton '92 Near left Laurie Greenwood Maynard '75 and Catherine Nance '97
34 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT Obispo, California. Visit my Web site at 973 - 1968 www.ginizart.com! Thanks for the won Margreta Klassen, PhD derful Pitzer publications. It's great to Veronica Abney, PhD (Newport Beach, CA) see a wonderful school grow and (Los Angeles, CA) I am practicing with the Newport thrive. After fourteen years, I completed my Psychology Group as a clinical psychol PhD in psychoanalysis. My dissertation ogist. 1 have a diploma in Sexual Abuse was titled African-American Treatment, Adult Survivors. I live in 1971 Psychoanalysts ilz the United States: Their Newport Beach and J attended the birth Diantha Douglas Zschoche History and Stories. f hope to turn this of my eighth great-grandchild, (Vista, CA) into a book as soon as I recover. I am MacGregor House Mcnish, at Good l know this is a bit after the fact, how the second African American woman to Samaritan Hospital in Portland Oregon, ever 1 wanted to still weigh in abou t complete psychoanalytic training in los on August 10. 1 am also completing a alumni weekend. 1 appreciated the time Angeles and the only one practicing at year of working on the Heritage to see the campus and visit with those I this time. There are three African Committee of the Centennial had not seen for many years. I am also Americans practicing in the city and Celebration of my city, ewport Beach. glad I got to see the campus before it roughly fifty-six in the entire country. In June, l attended the Claremont undergoes major changes. I am still Graduate University leadership communicating with several of those I Belinda (Valles) Faustinos Conference held in Washington, D.C. got to see. I am a poet and so l will (South San Gabriel, CA) Having completed my memoir, I am share my impressions through this I was honored to speak at a recent negotia ti ng with a publisher about mode. event in Claremont for the Claremont publishing it. Any class of '68 members "Reunited" University Club so I thought I wou ld drop a note and let you know abou t the who remember me when I was Maggi The touted activities and tours, Dunn (I have been a widow for 23 great projects l am spearheading as the the frolicking and the food, executive officer of the Rivers and years), can contact me at the presentatio11s and the patter, GalpsyOO
FALL 2006 35 mstee and alumnus Jim Hass passed away October 2, 2006, and is survived by his wife Sue Anderson and his sons Andrew and Christopher. Jim Hass graduated from Pitzer College in 1975 with a degree T in psychology. He went on to University of Southern California where he received a master's degree in public administration then to Harvard University where he received an MBA. Jim served in a variety of positions including special assistant for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; vice president at Lehman Brothers; senior vice president at Capital Market Corporation; and partner at Hamilton Rabinovitz & Alschuler. His most recent position was as director at LECG, a global expert seivices firm that provides expert analysis, testimony, authoritative studies and strategic advisory services to clients around the world. In his letter to Jim's widow, Board Chairman Eugene Stein wrote of Jim: "He was an extraordinarily vibrant individual-a man with a zeal for vigorously interacting with the world around him, whether in lively discussion in the confines of a board room or as a member of the 'South Africa Ad Hoc Kalahari Motorcycle Expedition.' Through his actions Jim gave truth to the cliche of having 'lived life to the fullest.'" Stein also described Jim as treating his role as a trustee "with con siderable seriousness of purpose, yet all the while retaining his refreshingly disarming sense of humor to the enjoyment of all on the board." Jim's devotion to Pitzer as an alumnus and a trustee were considerable and we w ill all miss him deeply. If you would Like to make a gift to the Jim '75 and Cindy Hass Annual Scholarship or would like more information, please contact the Office of Advancement at (909) 621-8130 or toll-free at (877) 357- 7479, by e-mail at [email protected], or online at www.pitzer.edu/on fi11 egiving. Contributions by check may be mailed to: Pitzer College, Office of Advancement, 1050 North Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711.
On behalf of jim's family, tfla11k you for supporting Pitzer College nnd llo11oring the 111emory of our denr friend.
As one of the first "Chicanas" at Pitzer 1975 friends' lives were lost in the storm. in 1968 I can h·uly say that Pitzer Our home had very little damage. helped pave the way for me to develop Joan (Moeckel) Lebow However, we have lost many to other a career 1 would have never believed (Evanston, IL) ci ties and states as the housing situa possible. Thanks for all the inspiration! At Lebow & Malecki, LLC we have tion in New Orleans is still in a critical recently added depth to the law firm. state. Ron has a new job with Joan (Wiener) Jones Our firm is now four years old, and I input/Output and I am still at Tulane (lsrne[) am very happy to have left corporate University. The French Quarter, many I presently live in Israel with my hus practice and taken this step in my fine restaurants, the hotels, the casino band Richard H. ]ones (HMC '72) who career. We specialize in health ca1·e and and tourist attractions are up and run is our (U.S.) Ambassador. Our two (of technology and as a boutique, women ning. We had Mardi Gras and the Jazz four) youngest kids are with us-Hope owned law firm we find many large Festival without a hitch and our usual (age 14, grade 9) and Ben (age 15, grade corporate clients willing to work with festivals and events are returning. Just 10). Josh (age 29, married) lives in Santa us despite our size. I think my perspec last week the annual Tomato Festival Monica and Vera (age 26) is in her last tive on corporate prejud ice against was held in the French Quarter. In New year at the Monterey Institute of women and minorities has undergone a Orleans there is always a party! We International Studies. change as I work with more companies want to invite ya' aU to come visit our that no longer require a white man city! It is still a fascinating place to visit 1974 from an Ivy League school to act as and a great get-away. For those who their counsel. My fami ly is looking for Deborah (Fine) Norris have been here before and have fallen ward to seeing our only daughter Ellen in love with the city, now is the time to (Napa, CA) apply to Pitzer in two years. I still work at the Napa County District come again. The city needs your sup Attorney's Office. I have been there Verna Lee port! And if you still have that social consciousness that Pitzer so inspired in since 1987. My husband and I have our (Nw Orleans, LA) most of its students, plan on commit thirtieth anniversary coming up. We Ron (Bai ley) and I arc still living in ting a day or two to one of the many have two daughters- Elizabeth (age 25) post-Katrina New Orleans. We were rebuilding programs around town. and Victoria (age 22). blessed that no family members nor
36 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT Stephen Nestle - (San Jose, CA) Anne! 1 applaud your tenacity, vision and your commitment to fi lm and the visual arts. Wow. You have really kept it going. PITZER ALUMNI Remember those days in the basement TV Studio-and the hogan? What a great time that was! I was there several years ago and they BOOKPLAT .._. were remodeling the studio. There were Macs and PCs all over, and a young lady-just like you-who was the director of Media Studies. We made a mark back then. We should be proud. If we C/) had not done what we did, Pitzer probably would have abandoned Can You Hear Me Now? C/) Media Studies. I'm in Northern CA - Silicon Valley-working for a Harnessing the Power of large company developing multimedia training. I guess J took the Your Vocal Impact in 31 corporate route. Sometimes there isn't mud1 soul in it-which is Days why I applaud your efforts. Documentaries are a very pure form of z film - moving or stili. Write me at video575@t;ahoo.com. Go Girl! Kate Peters '74 teaches you how to recognize Anne Turley and a-eate a sound that 0 (Los Angeles, CA) will immediately make Women in Film screened my short "His True Nature" on September people want to listen to ~ 21, 2006 in Hollywood, California. Hi Steve, how are you? you. An educator, per t"T1 former and atrthor, 1976 Peters utilizes her C/) workshops and private Sandia (Eirls) Brands coaching to help others express (Ballston Spa, NY) themselves in ways that are support My husband and I moved to Upstate New York when I accepted ive to their lives and their work. the position of director of communications for the Troy Annual Nnrrntive Development, 2006 Conference of The United Methodist Church last October. Our two 204 pages • $18.95 dUldren stayed behind in Minnesota, and amazingly enough, we actually miss them. The Business Case for Renewable Energy 1977 A Guide for Colleges and Jean (Prinvale) Swenk Universities (Escondido, CA) In this guide Micl1ael After nearly fifteen years in college teaching and adminish·ation, I Philips '76 (with Andrea am now starting my second year as a school principal for a virtual Putnam) shares the charter school, Capistrano Connecti ons Academy. We' re a public innovative renewable charter that allows families to work at home or while traveling. We energy plans that have serve students in all of Southern California in grades K-10. It's been worked for colleges and uni a fabulous new job with enrollment tripling last year, about to dou versities around the cow1try and ble this year, gaining our WASC accreditation and, most important guide you through the process. After ly, seeing evidence of children who have been failing and ignored graduating from Pitzer, Philips be successful. Besides that, my husband and I are still here in San earned a master's degree in city and Diego County with our two dogs and two cats. regional planning at Cornell University and has managed an 1978 international clean energy consulting Lori Brooks-Manas practice for the past twelve years. (Walnut Creek, CA) APPA, NACUBO, mrd SCUP, 2006 I transferred from UCSF to UC Berkeley in March 2006. I love 171 pnges • $29.95 working at Cal! I do Macintosh computer support and work w ith a great group of people. It's also great to work a little closer to home, Falling Room of course. Reflecting on the firsthand experience of hip-hop and Deborah Shelton substance abuse, of the (St. Louis, MO) fracturLng of family, the After almost 20 years covering medicine and public health, I am loss of his father, and of leaving news and joining the editorial board of my newspaper, the the imperialism of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In my new job, I will have primary respon United States, Eli sibility for writing editorials about social justice issues, a topic Hastings '00 offers a close to my heart. This year has been one of the most rewarding of new and moving look my career. A series I wrote for the paper last year won several local at how families, and national awards, and a documentary I co-produced for CNN nations, and individuals survive recently won an International Health Journalism Award. Thank and heal. Hastings received an you Pitzer for the excellent education that made possible all the MFA in creative nonfiction from the exciting opportttnities today! University· of North Carolina at Wilmington and currently li ves with his wife in Barcelona, Spain. University of Nebraska Press, 2006 180 pages • $17.95
FALL2006 37 - 1979 1985 three. They keep us very busy with their incredibly active schedules. I arn execu Susan (Elliott) Jardin Susumu Ikehara tive VP of a large supply cl1ain solutions (Berkeley, CA) (Tokyo, japa11) company and travel the country fre My working life has gone off in a new It has been almost two months since I quently. We are a family of active soccer direction- ! have become an academic started at Nikko Citi (formerly Salomon players (I still play twice a week) and mentor/volunteer coordinator at my Smith Barney Secu rities), which is a my guitar comes out often. If anyone is daughter's elementary school in joint venture between Nikko, one of the back in this part of the country, give us a Berkeley. l have also started to write major securities firms in Japan, and Citi shout at [email protected]. again, after many years. I am currently Bank. I have been working in the IT working on a series of stories based on field for investment banking for most 1986 my experiences living abroad in my of my twenty-year career, except for the twenties (thanks to Pitzer's External last four years in AXA Insurance. Sol Jennifer Miele Studies Program!). l have also written a am back in the familiar investment (Pnsade11a, CA) review of a book on parenting teens banking field. These last four years Over the past few years I have been that appears in the online magazine, have been a very good experience for playing with the idea of running a Literary Mama me. Besides working for a French com marathon. Well, I have fi nally taken www.liternrymama.com/reviews/arcllives/O pany, J was able to elevate the IT organi that step, and wiiJ be running the OOBBO.html. Our family is busy; we have zation from one of support to one of Honolulu Marathon on December 10, a 16-year-old high school sophomore business- enabling organization that 2006. During the six-month training and a nine-year-old fourth-grader. leverages technology to grow H1e busi program lam nmning a little farther Greetings to Pitzer friends and profes ness and company. I was also glad that each week. I expect to log nearly 500 sors (and happy fiftieth birthdays to ali my management skills in teclmology miles by the time I complete tl1e my classmates that are coming up to could be applied. I guess if you are marathon. It's aJl part of the National that milestone!) See photo 011 page 39. good at something, anything, and have AIDS Marathon Training Program, confidence in making it successful, then which raises money for AIDS Project 1982 you can make it anywhere. This time, I Los Angeles, the leading provider of was asked to turn the IT organization at AIDS services in Los Angeles County. Barry Cisneros ikko Citi into a top-notch technology Although a lot of progress has been (Woodstock, GA) team in Japan. This is a very challeng made, the AIDS epidemic is far from My wife Margie and I ned SoCal and ing job, but I am enjoying it already. over. More than 450,000 Americans now live in north Georgia in the Toshiaki is at International Christian have d ied from AlDS and more than a foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains University in Tokyo. He wants to stay in million more are living with HN. AIDS where I teach. As a born-again Chicano, Japan for the first two years of college has infected more than sixty million 1 raise hell with the locals using to brush up on his Japanese writing. people worldwide and is now the lead "Mexican" to describe anyone who is Then he wants to transfer to college in ing cause of death among ali people Hispanic. I'm a grandpa and we love it the U.S. Although I miss traveling to ages fifteen to fifty-nine. I had consid here. Drop me a line folks. Paris for business trips, now I will trav ered joining a running club and train el to the U.S. more frequently and hope ing for the Los Angeles Marathon. Then 1983 to see you sometime in the near future. I stumbled upon a nier for the AIDS Lisa Bourgeault Marathon at a restaurant, and it hit Drew Kronick (Los Altos, CA) me-I could not only get into the best My husband Tony (HMC '82) and I (Westfield, NJ) shape of my life, but I could also help welcomed Colin Jules Li to our family Hello to all. I am living back in ew people fight this disease. AIDS is a dis on September 19, 2005. I am at home Jersey with my wonderful wife of fif ease that I have been forced to face on a full time with our two kids and am teen years and five terrific child ren. very personal level. T have lost a college enjoying being a volunteer in my Hannah is thirteen, Shane is eleven, classmate, a co-worker and one of my daughter's kindergarten this year. Austin is nine, Tate is six and Dylan is college professors to tl1is disease. The most difficult loss by far, though, was the loss of my brother Nick, who passed away from complications of H elp Your Alma Mater AIDS more than thirteen years ago when he was but twenty-four years old. &..." L ick had a vibrant personality and he Are you in a job or career that would be of interest to a student or fellow loved to laugh. The saddest part of los alumnus? Would you like to help Pitzer students c01mect with the working ing my brother was not only seeing this world or assist other alumni with their career transitions? If so, please consider disease deteriorate his body and spirit, becoming a Cnreer Adviser. ln this capacity, you may assist in a variety of ways but also the fact tl1at I was just getting acquainted with him as a person, and dependent on your time, availability and interests. not just as my "little brother." The You may serve as a resource for alumni in the search process, offer informa money raised through the AIDS tional sessions and mock interviews, or even visit the campus to speak to Pitzer Marathon will allow AIDS Project Los students interested in a career similar to yours. Sign up now at Angeles to continue to provide vital unvw.pitzer.edulofficeslcnreer_serviceslnlunlllil. For more details please contact services to more than 10,000 men, Career Services at (909) 621-8519 or by e-mail at [email protected]. Thank women and children. Programs such as you in advance for your assistance. prevention and education, food banks,
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38 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT Carmen Kiew '05 with Bill Clinton at ·An Evening Michael Rothstein '05 with President Bush at the Hands for Friends of Hillary• fund raiser in New York City On volunteer base in Biloxi, MS (See Class of '05) (See Class of '05)
Alexis Mackenzie Martinez, daughter of Karen Hamilton '02 in L'viv, Ukraine Michael Martinez '00 and his wife Julie (See Class of '02) (See Class of '00)
The wedding of Stephen Piacentini '02 and Emma Rines (See Class of '02)
Michael Tomlinson '90 with- his wife Erica and Yoon Jung Park '86 with her husband Roland V. Pearson Jr. and daughter, daughter Virginia Ann (a.k.a. Ginny) (See Class of '90) Siana Grace (See Class of '86)
PHOTO POLICY Photos should be a ]PEG file attached in 300 dpi resolution or a hard copy of the photo caJl be mailed. All original photos Susan (Elliott) Jardin '79 and family will be returned. Please include your (See Class of '79) name (maiden name if applicable), class Back row: Sadu Sule '85, his son Vijay, wife Supriya, Diane (Jaquez) year, and identify everyone in the photo. Wade '87, Charles Wade '87. Front row: Sadu's daughter Revati and We welcome photos of alumni gatherings Charles and Di's daughter Angela. Mumbai, India (See Class of '87) and other special events. Photos are select ed based on quality and space availability.
39 - dental care, housing assistance, child position in the Sociology Department at Elena Brand care, transportation, mental health coun Wits ... also have a meeting to discuss a (Farmington Hills, Ml) seling, case management, home health book! Things in transition this year, but I'm meeting my college roommates care and many other progra ms wUI con so fa r, going well. Now, if only I can Wendy Yamin '87, Cathy Tristant '89 tinue to help people in our community start earning some money! See photo 0 11 and Linda lriart '89 in Chicago for a live a better way of life. This p•·ogram is page 39. reunion weekend! We met in San certainly the greatest physical challenge Francisco in the winter and had a blast, I've ever faced, yet it is nothing com so we are doing Chicago in the faU. pared to the challenge that most living Jeanmarie (Hamilton) Boone, PhD When we get together it is as if no time with HIV/AJDS face every day. And I (Norco, CA) has passed since our Pitzer days. I am can't thi nk of a better way to do some In May of this year I received my PhD in happily residing in Detroit, a practicing thing to help in the fight to end AlDS. education with emphases in cultural psychologist wi th two great kids and a anthropology and language acquisition. terrifi c husba11d. Go Tigers! Yoon Jung Park, PhD After seven years of teadting high school Leeshawn (Cradoc) Moore (Park/own North, South Africa) language arts and coordinating an YES, I fina lly finished my PhD after English learner program, I have accepted (Riverside, CA) seven years, two international (from an assistant professorship in the I am in the process of writing my dis Johannesburg to Nairobi and back) and Graduate School of Education and sertation. I am a fu ll-time graduate stu two local moves (across Jo'burg), and a Psychology at Pepperdine University, dent at Claremont Graduate University. four-and-a-half-year-old daughter! I which will commence this fa ll. My office Sandy Kapteyn submitted in December 2005 and gradu will be in Encino, CA. My doctoral dis ated in june 2006 from the Department (Pasadena, CA) sertation was enti tled: W11y Some English Christopher Yoder '84 and I welcomed of Sociology, School of Humani ties, Leamers Don't Finish High School, which University of the Witwatersrand. My our second child Robert Christopher looked at reasons beyond those captured Yoder on March 24, 2006, with a perfect PhD dissertation titled Shifting Chinese in quantitative studies that account for South African Identities in Apartheid and home birth. Big sister Jessica (age five) the high dropout rates we see for many got to cut the um bilical cord. Chris, Post-apartheid South Africa, was accepted English learners. While my research \•t ill with pretty stellar examiner's comments. Jessica and I are also in a new movie, continue to focus on issues related to sec Who killed the electric car? We don't have My first article in a peer-reviewed jour ond-language learners, I wi ll begin to nal has also just been accepted and wUI spea king parts, but are in a few scenes, focus on the educa tion of boys. I would and are mentioned in the credits. It is a be published in African Studies 65, 2 be interested in talking to Pitzer alumni (2006) due out in December. I am await perfect movie for Pitzer activists and I with similar interests for future collabo figured Pitzer might li ke to know that ing word on a post-doctoral fellowship ration or simply to chat about old times. at the University of Johannesburg and a two of its alumni are in a nationally released movie by Sony.
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40 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT Diana (Jaquez) Wade and Christopher Schooler Barbara Taylor Charles Wade (Denver, CO) (Ventura, CA) - (Los Angeles, CA) J just finished details with the Denver I am with pride and excitement expect We recently visited fellow alumnus Art Museum Expansion project, set to ing my fourth grandchild (third grand Sadanand "Sadu" Sule '85 in Mumbai open to the public October 7. I have son). (formerly Bombay), India. This reunion been managing the design and con proves that the relationships fostered at struction of the landscape architecture 1995 Pitzer are sincere and last a lifetime. We component, primarily the entry plaza, Joarma Bone had one of the most memorable experi of the project with Studio Daniel ences. We would love to hear from fel Libeskind. After six years of design and (San Diego, CA) low alumni. Our e-mail address is construction, this project is wrapping We have been very busy. Maggie just [email protected] See photo 011 pnge 39. up and expected to attract some two had her first birthday and also, we just plus million visitors to Denver in its returned from her first trip back to U1e 1988 first year of being open. Come see it if East Coast. See photo 011 page 39. you're in the neighborhood and drop z Douglas Cal vert me a line if you'd like a personal tour. Kimberly Schoenstadt (Cuyahoga Fnlls, OH) (Venice, CA) 0 I have officially begun my residency in 1994 I had an exhibition in emergency medicine, and am living in Markus Engel Chinatown at 4-F ~ Cuyahoga Falls, OH, south of (Berlin, Germa~~y) gallery that ran Cleveland with my lovely wife, Rachel. t'T1 I've been Living in Berlin (originally J October 14-Novembcr We'll be here for three years, and then 11,2006. C/) . . . who knows where. am from Vienna, Austria) for the last six years working as a director for com 1990 mercials and music videos. That's how I 1998 make my money. In between jobs l do Marissa Nesbit Michael Tomlinson small theater plays and short films to (Chattanooga, TN) (Sacramento, CA) save my soul. Works out fine so far. l have returned to academia as the I can't contain my delight in reporting director of dance education at the that Virginia Ann Tomlinson, a.ka. Juliet Henderson (Lakeville, CT) Southeast Center for Education in the Ginny, was born on May 5. Everything is Arts at the University of Tennessee at going well, so well, in fact, that in july After having lived in L.A. since college, my family and I have completely Chattanooga. My position involves Ginny attended her first ultimate tourna researd1ing and writing dance curricu ment in Quincy and cheered on (welJ, uprooted ourselves and are now living lum materials, teaching, and presenting coo'ed on) her mom Erica who played in Lakeville, Connecticut (population 2,000). I teach Spanish at The Hotchkiss professional development workshops gritty defense in the finals for the win for educators. E-mail me at ~lng side. (I played too, but all the glory School and live on campus in a fresh Ma rissa-nes/Ji t@u tc.ed 11 ts due to the mother!) Drop me a line at man/sophomore girls' dormitory. My mt_trout@'hotmail.com. See photo 011 page daughters, Lola and Lucy, are now 2 39. 3/4 years and 11 months old, respec 99 tively, and thriving ln the fresh air of Anton Hill 1991 New England. My partner Stephanie is (Costa Mesn, CA) still getting used to being a stay-at J married Rachel Meyer on February 26, Jennifer (Lane) Landolt home mother! (Chicago, IL) 2006. 1 also won the 10U1 Annual Fade In Awards in screen writing and placed Greetings to old friends. Mark, Elliot Jessica Levine quarter-finalist ln the Scriptapalooza (age 3.5), Anya (age 1.5) and 1 sadly said (Minneapolis, MN) screenplay competition for my screen We have a new person in our li ves-Ezra a final goodbye to Julius in September play The Bnd Brother. hard to believe it was eighteen (or so) Yale Satran, born july 2, 2006. My hus years ago that josh and I set out to buy band Dan Satran and I are very excited. Fiona Spring his snake mice for dinner and somehow l wotmd up with my pal the Julie-kitty. Alice (Rogers) Martinson (Snntn Pnula, CA) The four of us still enjoy living in down (Columbus, 0/-1) I have continued with my literary and town 01i-town with our pals the Gorens Jeff Martinson '95 received his PhD creative passions with my letterpress whom we're trying to convince to stay from Ohio State in December and has studio, Lettre Sauvage, operating from (ha!). Drop us a line if you're in the accepted a position as assistant profes my basement. This spring my partner, neighborhood! [email protected] sor of politica l science at Meredith Genevieve Yue, and I had the wonder College in Raleigh, North Carolina to ful opportunity to coll aborate with 1992 begin this August. I will telecommute Anne Carson, one of our favorite poets, from Raleigh in order to maintain my to print a lovely broadside of Carson's Karla Held position with the start-up company I translation of the Fourth Choral Ode (Chiang Mai, Thailand) joined 18 months ago: from Euripides' Hippolytos (1268-1281), Right now 1 am working for a local www.lhedropspot.com. After seven years the classic Greek tragedy. This beautiful NGO called Empower (www.empower of graduate life in Columbus, Ohio, we translation of Hippolytos will be the first foundatioll.org) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. are both ready for a change and hope performance at the recently reopened The NGO aides sex workers. Anyone is we'll cross paths with some other Pitzer Getty Villa in Malibu, California. TI1e welcome to visit me here ln lovely grads in North Carolina! limited edition of 150 was printed by Thailand! My cell number here is letterpress on Twinrocker handmade (66)57.107.606.
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FALL2006 41 - paper. After printing from copper 2001 Asia to celebrate before returning for plates, the broadsides were scord1ed my second year of law school at the with smoldering tea leaves and a Rachel Baker University of San Diego in January. butane torch. A few of these are avail (Ann Arbor, Ml) able at www.leltresauvage.etsy.com. Six years after our chance meeting in a Michael Hamilton Contact me at [email protected] Mead Hall dorm room, Doug Wein '99 (Pitiladelphia, PA) and I (now a health care environmental After fow· years o.f living and working Ricky Torres advocate) have decided to wed. The in San Francisco, I am heading back to (Tucson, AZ) engagement took place on a glorious school to get seriously "biznified" at Hello Sagehens! I am currently living in summer evening in the vegetable gar Wharton's MBA program. Phi!Jy, you're Tucson, Arizona, wi.th my fiancee den behind the Grove House. We live on notice. Victoria and my little boy Ricky in Alm Arbor, M id1igan, where Doug is Thomas, born on May 2, 2006. This is in his final year of pursuing an MBA Stephen Piacentini my seventh year as a middle school and MS in natural resources. (Irvine, CA) teacher. Life so far has been wonderful. Emma (Rines) Piacentini and I married To all of my old Cali, Seattle, Portland, 2002 April 8, 2006, in Palm Springs. It was a New York, Africa, and India connects beautiful day and a GREAT party. Diana Bob and great friends: J want to say what's The wedding party included Anna (Spokane, WA) up, hope all is well and I miss every Goralnik '02, Liz McRenyolds '02, Eric I have been in Spokane for one year moment with all of you throughout my Nielsen '02, and Ben Cotner '02. See working as a staff attorney for Pitzer days. Please contact me if you all photo on page 39. remember me a.k.a "Rick and Dan." Northwest Justice Project, the statewide legal service provider in Washington 1003 State. My cases are always on a high 2000 way to chaos where my clients have Elizabeth Angelini Michael Martinez urgent needs regarding housing, family (Northridge, CA) (Laguna Beach, CA) law, economic security and education Hi dass of 2003 and other Pitzer alumni! Two weeks after our marriage, my wife advocacy and I don't get paid well rela I can't believe it has been three years juJie Martinez and I decided to adopt tive to other attomeys, but I love my since I graduated. I have been so preoc her niece's daughter. It's a long and com work. I appear in state courts as well as cupied since I bid farewell to The plicated story, but trust us, we think it American Indian tribal courts. I attend Oaremont Colleges that 1 hardly find the was the right think to do. She was eight ed law school at Lewis & Clark in time to visit or keep in touch. I left my months old when we got her, and she Portland, Oregon, where I earned the job at A Professional Move an.d Storage just turned sixteen months old today. environmental law certificate and at the end of November 2003 to find a Time flies! She is the love of Otlr lives, focused on Indian law. I do hope to teaching job, since I decided that being and way too smart for her OW11 good. work in that field in the future, but an educator is what T wanted to pursue. We can't imagine our Lives without her. legal services is an awesome place to Then, in December 2003, I got hired at Alexis Mackenzie Martinez, welcome to start a legal career. Also, I got married the Help Group Organization in our world. See photo 011 page 39. last spring to Brian McClatchey, anotll Sherman Oaks, California, whid1 serves er attorney who is wonderful and a to educate kids with special needs, par Meghavi Shah true parb1er in every sense of the word. ticularly autism. It is the most rewarding (San Francisco, CA) occupation in the world. There is never a Hey fellow alumni! After a long battle, Karen Hamilton dull moment. I am also enrolled iJ1 Cal I am finally a teacher. I'm now teaching (L'viv, Ukraine) State Northridge's special education cre ELD and freshman English at Gilroy Hello from L'viv, Ukraine! I am serving dential program and hope to earn my High School (and under the APLE pro in the Peace Corps witl1 my husband, teadling credential in about a year. For gram). I had three offers. The one I'd Larry Lawson. We met in graduate more information, please e-mail me at been holding out for hired me a day school at the Monterey Institute for [email protected] after I accepted this one, but I'm still International Studies where we are happy. Gilroy is a neat city. Small, but it both earning an MAin TESOL. We got KEEl IN rOUCH has everything yot• could possibly married in January 2005, and began our need. The mainly Latino population is Peace Corps service in October. Here in Share your accomplishments and really nice. I student-taught middle L'viv, I teach at a college for future milestones with Pitzer alunmi. school so I was a little concerned going English teachers, and they are always Submit a class note to: into high school, but I'm loving it. It's impressed and a bit jealous when l tell Pitzer College much better than my student teaching them about the academic freedom, Office of AJunuli Relations experience. The ELD kids are funny. friendly professors and relaxed dress 1050 North Mills Avenue The ninth-graders are sweet and shy, code at Pitzer. See photo on page 39. Claremont, CA 91711-6101 al though I am sure that will d1ange. or e-mail [email protected] Teaching freshman English is a chal Jason Feldman lenge since all my training is in ELD, (San Diego, CA) Please make stue to include your full but I like it. The support system here is I just won the World Youth Bridge name (including maiden name) and absolutely incredible and the principal Team Championship in Bangkok as dass year along with your updates, is amazing. I took this position because part of the U.S. team (for people 26 and rumouncements, and/or photos. Yo ur of the support I was going to get and I under). There is an article in the New Class Note should be written in fi rst have a nice one-bedroom apartment York Times detailing a hand. I'm cur person and may be edited for content. rently traveling and surfing in about ten minutes from my school. Next deadline: February 1, 2007 Indonesia and other parts of Southeast
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42 PITZER COLLEGE PARTICIPANT - MAKIKO HARADA '97 n Named a Mover & Shaker by Newsweek japan r "AIDS patients healed by the school and aiter being rejected for a power of art: Makiko Harada, A job she very much wanted. She > Special Art Therapist" decided to study art therapy and C/) Newsweek Japan share its power. C/) by Yori Irisawa, New York "There are a lot of people who come to her groups" said the direc There is a facility called "Housing tor of Housing Works at E. 9tl1 St. Works" in NYC attended by people "She has a sense of professionalism z with HIV/AIDS. These people are and is full of compassion. She is our facing death, but in one r.oom, treasure." 0 clients are excitedly holding crayons "I want to let the world know and markers. ~ that much joy can be experience~ . The process of drawing or mak through art," says Harada. Your life m ing things is said to have a thera will be more interesting when you C/) peutic effect on people. meet Harada. In the USA, art thera PY has long been estab Makiko Harada '97 earned her lished and Harada is one bachelor's degree in anthropology at of tlu·ee art therapists at Pitzer College. In fewerthan ten Housing Works. years aiter earning her degree, she Harada herself was was recognized by Newsweek Japan healed by taking photo as one of a hundred Japanese graphs after she fini shed women who are movers and shakers studying at Columbia in tl1e world today. University's graduate
2004 Benjamin Goldstein Gabrielle Herbst (Baltimore, MD) (Venice, CA) . . Briana Davilla Just finished a road trip up the Califorma This picture was taken at the Minority coast with Jennie Marble '05. We had a Fellowship Program Benef1t Re~eption great time! Starting my m.as ter's in edu~a that is held every year at Amencan tion and teaching credential at Pepperdme Sociological Association (ASA) annual University in September 2006. meeting in order to raise money for the program. This year, the ASA annual meet CarmenKiew in()' was in Montreal, Canada, on August (New York, NY) 11~14, 2006. Jesse Diaz Jr. '02, P'06, Jose While attending the fundraiser "An Mata '01 and I are all ASA/NIMH Evening for Friends of Hillary" ~support (National Institute of Mental Health) of Hilla1·y Clinton's 2006 re-electwn cam Minority Fellows. Since graduation, I have worked a series of paign, I had the opportunity to meet Bill jobs: New York City Public School teacher, Clinton. I currently work in New York tutor at Manhattan Community College, City for Landmark Ventures, a consu~ting demolition, parking lot attendant, valet, etc. firm for teclu1ology portfolio compantes. I cmrently reside in Baltimore, where I See photo on page 39. operate a record label, SOtmdchron Records, Micl1ael Rothstein which has been releasing music by Ayatollah, Planet Asia, and more. We also (Washington, D.C.) . . . Last spring and summer, I lived m B1loxt, do a OJ and breakdance program for the Mississippi, and volunteered for Hands ~n tin growing community of ~a and Afric.an Gulf Coast. I split my time between roofmg immjgrants, at the Span1sh Apostolate m and establishing free legal clinics for vic downtown Ba.Jtimore, focusing on expres tims of HLuricane Katrina. Although I am Pitzer Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a Studies Jose sion through Latin and African hlp hop. 1J1 not a supporter of President Bush: hls visit Calder6n P'99, P'03, Brianne Davila '04, Jose Mala '01 , L.A., Sotmdchron artist M*E can be seen to Biloxi resulted in a large donahon to the Jesse Diaz Jr. '02 , P'06, Betty S. Limon '07, Pomona performing with the seventy-piece band volunteer organization and the victims of Professor of Chicano/a Studies Gilda Ochoa, Rose Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra. Calderon P'99, P'03 Katrina who still need all the help they can get. I currently reside in Washington, D.C., 2005 and am pw·suing a Jaw degree at Loretta Arenas Georgetown University. (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) See photo 011 page 39. 1 just received my master's degree in edu cation from CGU!
FALL 2006 43 IN MY OWN c WORDS
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People with the courage and spirit to make poetry the center of their lives are the heroes who bear witness to our joy, confusjon, rage, wonder, despair, and hope and remmd us that we are more than post-modern consumers in seard1 of a non-fat latte. Here I offer a poem of mine.
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About DWD Dining with Democracy (DWD) is a new lecture series aimed at bringing today's leaders to Pitzer College to inspire those of tomorrow. Integral to the program is the stimulating pre-lecture dinner discussion with a small group of students, faculty and staff at the Grove House.
Consumer advocate, lawyer, author and 2000 presidential candidate Ralph Nader was the series' inaugural speaker in October.
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