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PRESIDENT Laura Skandera Trombley

EDITOR/DESIGNER Bridget Lewison ITZER P Fall 2002 / Vol. 36, No. 1 ALUMNI EDITOR Patricia Wilson COVER STORY: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT/ A Legacy of Leadership PROOFREADER Retiring Professors Ann Stromberg, Susan Seymour and Jackie Levering- Penny King Sullivan have brought a wealth of knowledge and a lifetime of dedication to Pitzer College / 12 COPY EDITOR Jamie K. Brown ’00 Professor Seymour’s early guidance helped to open doors for Trustee Deborah Bach Kallick ’78 / 15 AD DESIGN Four recently retired professors reflect on the changes they witnessed at Pitzer / 17 James Lippincott ’95

PRINTER Dual Graphics President’s Message: “Coming of Age” As Pitzer prepares to celebrate its 40th year, generations have come of age, and the A member of The Claremont College has matured and grown. / 2 Colleges, Pitzer College is a private institution of the Pitzer in the News / 4 liberal arts and sciences committed to values of Campus Notes / 5 interdisciplinary perspective, intercultural understanding Sowing the Seeds of Self-Esteem and social responsibility. Pitzer students volunteer their time to cultivate organic garden at local juvenile Participant is published by detention centers. / 10 the Office of Public Affairs and welcomes comments from its readers. Address Campaign Update letters to Participant Editor, Although the majority of America’s colleges and universities reported a decline in Avery 105, Pitzer College, money raised after the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, Pitzer experienced a banner 1050 N. Mills Ave., fundraising year. / 11 Claremont, CA 91711-6101, or submit them via e-mail to Faculty Notes [email protected]. Professor Judith Grabiner honored with national math award; Professor Paul Participant is published Faulstich wins prestigious Fulbright grant; Faculty Research; Faculty Books / 19 online in PDF format at www.pitzer.edu/ news_events/publication/ Alumni Profiles participant. ! Mary Williams ’90 helping Lost Boys find a home in America / 23 Printed on recycled ! Max Brooks ’94 and Jennifer Winston ’94 paper with win Emmy Awards / 24 soy-based ink. ! Pitzer put Amy Rosen ’76 on right track / 25 ! Chrystian Dulac ’92 creates Enigma / 26

Cover photo Alumni Notes / 27 Williams ’90 Rosen ’76 by Gregg Segal In My Own Words Justin Rood ’95 offers his take on those pesky toll roads between New York and Washington, D.C. / 35 Sports / 36

Fall 2002 ! 1 President’s Message

n Feb. 15, 1963, an sufficiently uncertain that they earnest Midwestern could ill afford lapses in Ofamily man who Coming of Age judgment or direction. These landed in California in 1893 raw, exciting, and iconoclastic via Colorado and Iowa President Laura Skandera Trombley times for the College were founded Pitzer College. matched by the turmoil that Russell K. Pitzer believed in the transformative value of existed in California and the rest of the nation that year. This higher education, and his philanthropy was dedicated to was a time marked by civil rights protests throughout the developing educational and medical centers in his new home South; 200,000 people marching on Washington where Dr. of Claremont. The fledgling college’s first president was a Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech; a poet, John W. Atherton, whose inauguration was held in the growing war in Vietnam; journalists and political College’s new blacktop parking lot on a cloudless, azure sky commentators taking note of a “credibility gap” in the U.S. California day. government’s statements concerning foreign affairs; and A different kind of educational philosophy would be President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. About the created here, a structure where students, faculty, and Vietnam War, President Kennedy had commented on administrators would all have a voice in determining their Sept. 2, 1963, during a TV news interview with Walter common future. College Council was instituted and emeritus Cronkite: “If we withdrew from Vietnam, the Communists faculty still remember with a laugh and a groan the intense would control Vietnam. Pretty soon Thailand, Cambodia, battles, the endless arguments, and the late nights, because Laos, Malaya would go.” everything was so important, so crucial, and the future Nearly 40 years have passed since Kennedy’s

2 ! Pitzer College Participant pronouncement. Generations have come of age, and Pitzer to the resistant pluralism of the peoples of the globe, the job College has matured and grown. The College’s first of working out creative strategies of mutual accommodation endowment campaign is under way with two years remaining rather than confrontation that will make the image of a and $29 million has been raised toward the $40 million goal. materially better future for everyone a place where global The College is in excellent financial condition, and in pluralism is protected and respected. What makes the world order to continue to maintain its position as a preeminent a larger place for us is the enormous task ahead, for each of institution in an era of us individually, as a keen competition among Pitzer College liberal arts colleges and to community and together remain true to its mission “For Pitzer, the heady days as a nation; to of teaching young people of exhilarating creation have given way communicate clearly a to question and challenge message of tolerance and established wisdoms, this to a College that has been recognized respect to our old friends, is a crucial campaign. time and time again for its to skeptics, and to people For Pitzer, the heady who regard with hostility days of exhilarating tremendous contribution to the the current position of creation have given way to landscape of higher education. the United States as the a College that has been preeminent world power. recognized time and time Pitzer College has never been stronger.” We need to say that we again for its tremendous President Laura Skandera Trombley understand that we have contribution to the a lot to learn in a short landscape of higher time about the mutual education. Pitzer College management of social has never been stronger. This year Pitzer is change; we are committed to the process of ranked the 8th most diverse campus in learning to join with others to preserve America by U.S. News and World Report traditions that are not our own; and we will with students of color representing 30% of the do all that we can to support the preservation Class of 2006. Pitzer, one of the youngest of a pluralistic global future – because we colleges included in the rankings, is rated 38th have learned an important lesson – to value out of 217 liberal-arts colleges in academic difference for its own sake and for what we reputation and 47th in selectivity of applicants can learn from it. In short, in a world made for admission. Pitzer is included in the larger by our responsibility of living in this Princeton Review’s “The Best 345 Colleges” time, we need to turn the world toward the – where it is ranked the ninth most politically values that define the mission and goals of active campus. Kaplan Publishing’s “The higher learning, and I am proud to say, that Unofficial, Unbiased Insider’s Guide to the Russell K. Pitzer define Pitzer College in particular. We can 320 Most Interesting Colleges,” cites Pitzer as start by each of us redoubling our efforts to offering “the most creative curriculum of all carry our shared values and message of The Claremont Colleges.” openness, humility, and eager dedication to Wonderful news for the College, all of it, creating fairness beyond our campus. and yet it is tempered by the realization that In that spirit of openness, Pitzer College nearly 40 years after the founding of the students travel throughout the world to study, college and Kennedy’s predictions America to learn and to contribute to their host talks again of war. As opposed to the communities. Last year, Pitzer students conventional platitude that the world has studied in 36 countries and studied 16 grown smaller, the world has grown larger languages, and of our graduates in 2002, 57% within the all-too-clearly vivid recent past. participated in an external studies program. The idea of a shrinking globe is reassuring, Because of our outreach, Pitzer occupies 39th cozy and facilitates a warm glow that we are place in U.S. News and World Report's all coming closer and all coming along into a rankings for its study abroad programs, and better near-future across the many political 19th place in its percentage of students who and economic bridges that now connect all study abroad. Education is Pitzer College’s points on the globe. But then there are the John W. Atherton deepest purpose; in the Jeffersonian sense of daily headlines and the present preoccupations a people enlightened, we educate and prepare with security that get in the way of the cozy projections, people for the task of exercising the wisdom called for by the leading to doubts about the future. The idea of a world circumstances of the historical hour. To prepare ourselves to becoming larger – as when seen close-up in newspapers and pass on a preserved and refreshed standard of freedom and broadcast media – is much less reassuring. Some of the security, every one of us must take responsibility to educate world’s peoples and cultures feel threatened by the prospect ourselves to embrace a new level of humanism strong enough of having their way of life submerged or pushed aside by to face the challenges of a changed world. Nearly 40 years alien value systems. What makes the world a larger place for have passed, new solutions are needed, and Pitzer students us, the people who live in the richest and most powerful both past and present will help create them. nation, is the task before us, the task of becoming sensitized We have come of age.

Fall 2002 ! 3 Excerpts of Recent News Coverage of Pitzer in the News: Pitzer College from Local and National Media

“Turkish Support May Be Illusory” “I believe very much in fighting against the perception that The Los Angeles Times liberal arts colleges are somehow removed from the Oct. 10, 2002 community,” she said. Alumnus Ben Ball ’98, a Fulbright scholar in Turkey in Pitzer students are notoriously outspoken. They have been at 1998-99 and a Southwest Asia specialist from the Fletcher School the forefront of campus protests over the plight of on-campus at Tufts University, wrote an opinion piece about how a possible food-service workers and in defense of the Bernard Biological political disaster in Turkey could hurt the Bush administration’s Field Station. plans in Iraq: Trombley welcomes that type of student and proudly points “While Turkish leaders voice public to the College’s second-place showing in Mother Jones support for ‘regime change’ in Iraq, they do so magazine’s survey of most-activist colleges. with clenched teeth. Although Turkey has “I am always trying to get students more involved; I’m problems with Saddam Hussein, it fears always teaching Thoreau. It’s something all young people internal political and economic instability far should know. It’s nice students are involved.” more than weapons of mass destruction. As Turkey heads for elections, Iraq is the “Claremont Chief Pulls Back Ticket only political issue that unites the country. Directive; Pitzer Student Withdraws Leftists, rightists, nationalists and Islamists all agree than an attack on Iraq now would again Complaint” unleash the specter of instability with Turkey The Los Angeles Times and its volatile neighborhood. Ball Aug. 9, 2002 While Turkey will give lip service to U.S. Claremont Police Chief Roy Brown was forced to issue a actions, the Bush administration may find that even that will new directive to officers about writing traffic tickets after a top evaporate once the true costs are revealed. Without a clear plan county prosecutor said a previous policy may have broken state for dealing with the consequences of a war in Iraq on their law. country, Turks will remain rightfully skeptical about why they Pitzer student Chris Bray ’03 had filed a formal complaint are allowing it to happen from their territory.” against the chief, but withdrew it Aug. 8, saying he was satisfied with the new memorandum. “New Pitzer President Finds Bray also said he was astonished that the city let the problem Transformation in Education” escalate, by first ignoring union complaints and then his own complaint. He followed the complaint with a letter to Los The Claremont Courier Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, asking him to step in. Sept. 4, 2002 “They ignored two months’ of warnings and then they had to Sitting in an office once occupied by the school’s own deal with the district attorney,” Bray said. “It was never students in protest over pay for dining hall workers, Pitzer necessary. College’s new president expresses nothing but delight about “It was a very minor problem, but there is this habit of taking the helm of this socially active educational institution. institutional stubbornness which turns small things into larger “I think what I feel more at Pitzer than anywhere I’ve embarrassments.” worked is a total commitment to students,” says Laura Skandera Trombley. “Every day the college continues to surpass my expectations.” “The Gender Gap” Trombley says Pitzer’s reputation for student activism – a The Modesto Bee reputation the school cultivates – is one reason she came here. July 28, 2002 “I want our students to be real citizens, to apply their liberal In a story about male and female stereotypes in sports, arts education before graduation,” she says. Pomona-Pitzer tennis Coach Ann Lebedeff says young Alongside its outspoken student body is an often times more athletes’ feelings of a same-sex barrier aren’t uncommon outspoken faculty. With her background in education, and her where females are concerned. family’s history in the the field of teaching, Trombley says she “Research shows women will listen less holds professors in the highest regard. to women coaches,” says Lebedeff, who also “There is a tremendous honor in what faculty do,” Trombley is an associate professor of physical says. “They are educators, and in my view that is as good as it education. “Women tend to give more gets.” credence to a male coach, unless it’s someone like Pat Summitt,” referring to the “New President Marks Depth of Students” hard-nosed women’s basketball coach who The Los Angeles Times has led the University of Tennessee to six Aug. 27, 2002 national titles. Pitzer College has never been a remote ivory tower Lebedeff goes on to say the sexes don’t sheltering students from society while they focus on their Lebedeff approach competition the same way. studies. At the youngest of the undergraduate Claremont “Females cherish the relationship they Colleges, students are expected to study, work and live in have more with each other. They don’t care generally where communities near and far from the college. they play on a team as much as how they get along with It was that philosophy that drew Laura Skandera Trombley everyone else. Guys want to know what number they’re going to the school. to play, the value of someone else.”

4 ! Pitzer College Participant Campus Notes

SAVE THE DATE: with David Bloom ’85, anchor of the weekend “Today” show, as the guest speaker. Pitzer’s Fifth President On Feb. 14, an Inaugural Symposium will be held from 11 a.m. to to be inaugurated Feb. 15 5 p.m. The symposium will feature Pitzer professors and expert resident Laura Skandera Trombley’s inauguration will be commentators on topics related to the celebrated with a week of events leading up to the First-Year Seminar program theme, PInstallation Ceremony on Feb. 15, 2003. “The Search for Social Justice.” Inauguration Week will be kicked off on Feb. 10 with a student An All-College Dinner and live raffle to determine the winner of “President for a Day.” Proceeds Laura Skandera entertainment will follow the from the raffle will help fund a new scholarship for first- Trombley symposium. generation college students. President Trombley and the winner On Feb. 15, the Installation of the raffle will then exchange places from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Ceremony will be held, followed by the Inaugural Picnic. Feb. 13. On Feb. 16, a Community Work Day will be held in the On Feb. 12, the “Pitzer at 40” exhibit officially opens on Arboretum. campus. For more information, please contact Inauguration On Feb. 13, an Inauguration Dinner will be held for Trustees, Coordinator Jennifer Berkeley at (909) 621-8614.

Bill T. Jones Coming to Pitzer in February hrough the generosity of a number of Pitzer Talumni and Trustees, the Salathe Committee and others, dancer/choreographer and activist Bill T. Jones will be in residence at Pitzer College from Feb. 24-26, 2003. Jones will conduct a series of movement/dance workshops geared toward participation of the general Pitzer student population, faculty and staff. He also will deliver a lecture in which he will be "miked" and freely moving about, demonstrating body movement vocabulary, and interacting with the audience. Jones, an associate of Professor David Furman, is a MacArthur fellow and a recipient of numerous awards. A teacher and iconoclast, Jones has performed at major dance, performance and opera venues throughout the world. For more information, contact Professor Furman at (909) 607-3252.

Photos by Joanne Savio (left) and Johan Elbers (above).

Fall 2002 ! 5 The Class of 2006 Arrives at Pitzer College his fall, Pitzer accepted just T56 percent of its 2,323 applicants. This acceptance rate puts Pitzer on a par with some of the most selective colleges in the country, including such Tier-One, Top-50 liberal arts colleges as Grinnell (11), Smith (15), Bryn Mawr (17), Mount Holyoke (24), Macalester (27), Bucknell (29), Colorado (30) and Kenyon (33). Even in light of a May 2002 survey conducted by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) that revealed the terrorist attacks and the sagging economy have affected college admission trends, Pitzer’s freshman applications increased by 1.7 percent over last year, when Pitzer saw a 9.2 percent increase in applications. The quality and diversity of the Summer Reading Topped Off with Entertaining new class improved alongside Pitzer’s selectivity. Of the 242 new students and Educational Visit from Anna Deavere Smith enrolling this fall, 55 percent are women, 31 percent are students of n August, the Pitzer community took part in a summer reading of Anna color and half are from outside Deavere Smith’s book “Twilight Los Angeles” (Anchor, 1994). The reading California. The average GPA for the Iwas inspired by the One City, One Book experiment that has taken place in new class is the same as last year’s several U.S. cities. Deavere Smith’s book, an oral history of the L.A. riots of class: 3.53. 1992, features the words of those who experienced the chaos firsthand. “The number of Asian Americans The author, a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York and Latinos rose, increasing from University, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient and an actress (“West 19 to 27, and from 22 to 34, Wing”) made an appearance at Bridges Auditorium on Sept. 28, and was very respectively,” said Arnaldo well received by the audience. Rodriguez, vice president for “It was provocative and funny,” says Professor Claudia Strauss, who helped Admission and Financial Aid. make the summer reading a reality. “The visit was well attended and she kept According to Michael Ballagh, the crowd’s interest with her character sketches.” director of International Programs, Strauss says Deavere Smith’s visit was a mix of performance and lecture, there also are 13 new matriculating with one of the most memorable moments being her hilarious imitation of international students in the 2006 author Studs Terkel. class. Ten of these students are Bridge Psychology Professor David Moore also was in attendance with a number of admits. The countries represented by his students. this new group include: China, Great “I was really pleased with the way she integrated her character-portrayals Britain, Hong Kong, India, Japan, into her talk; it was neither a performance nor a talk, but instead a very well Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand done hybrid of the two,” he says. “Her Korean Woman was particularly moving-- and Taiwan. Four of these admitted amazing, actually – and my students really liked her representation of the students are former PACE students behind-the-scenes look at the juror deliberations after one of the riot-related (Pitzer's academic ESL Program). trials.” In spite of the impact of Professor Mita Banerjee says the idea for the summer reading first Sept. 11, Pitzer welcomed 26 new emerged from the First-Year Seminar planning group, which was organizing the students into the PACE Program. seminars around the theme of social justice. Banerjee worked with Strauss to Countries represented include: China, put the idea into a more concrete form. Ecuador, France, Italy, Korea, “This was a real departure for Pitzer,” says Banerjee. “We’re excited to see Mexico, Japan, Spain, Taiwan, how the program as a whole works, and to have the entire community engaged Turkey and the U.S. in discussion around a book.” Strauss says she has received positive feedback about the summer reading, especially from the staff council and alumni. “I’ve been very pleased,” she says.

6 ! Pitzer College Participant 19th for percentage of students who Pitzer Remains study abroad. The College also is ranked 39th in Study Abroad, one of One of ‘America’s eight new academic reports. Pitzer, which was recognized for the quality of Best Colleges’ its external studies programs, was the only Claremont College to appear on n September, U.S. News and World any of these reports. The other Report released its “America’s Best categories added this year are First-year Colleges” rankings for 2003. Pitzer I Experiences, Internships/Co-Ops, is ranked No. 67 overall out of 217 liberal arts institutions, placing the Senior Capstones, Undergraduate College in the second tier. Research/Creative Projects, Learning Most notably, Pitzer is ranked as the Communities, Service Learning and eighth most diverse college in America Writing in the Disciplines. – up from No. 10 last year – with Pitzer also is included in the Latinos representing 15% of the Princeton Review’s “The Best 345 College’s student body. Colleges” and is ranked the No. 9 Most Pitzer also is No. 38 in academic Politically Active Campus, and No. 18 reputation, marking a 3.5 out of a in Students from Different Races/Class possible 5.0, which puts the College on Backgrounds Interact. par with such top-tier schools as Pitzer also holds its own against Another college guide that Lafayette (29), Rhodes (41) and top-tier schools such as Swarthmore (2) recommends Pitzer is Kaplan Occidental (44). This score accounts for and Wellesley (4) in the category of Publishing’s “The Unofficial, Unbiased 25% of the overall ranking. classes with 50 or more students, which Insider’s Guide to the 320 Most Pitzer is ranked as the 47th most account for only 2% of Pitzer’s courses. Interesting Colleges.” The guide says selective college. In the fall of 2002, Pitzer also shares a 90% full-time Pitzer “is a good choice for individuals Pitzer accepted just 56 percent of its faculty rate with Pomona College (5) looking for an interdisciplinary, applicants, putting it in company with and Occidental College (44). intercultural education” and that Pitzer such top-tier schools as Smith (13) and As part of U.S. News’ web- “offers the most creative curriculum of Whitman (40). exclusive rankings and lists, Pitzer is all the Claremont Colleges.”

Two Special Programs at Pitzer Made Possible by Generous Irvine Grant grant from the James Irvine If you are interested in participating incoming freshman. It will be a five- AFoundation is making it possible for next year, please contact Professor week paid internship that includes a Pitzer College to offer innovative Yamane at (909) 607-3769 by May 3, reading list, field trips to diversity faculty/staff seminars and a unique 2003. Pitzer will be offering the Irvine museums and ethnic enclaves, and summer diversity program. seminars for the next three years. discussions and activities on race and The faculty/staff seminars are This summer, five gender in the United States. After designed with flexibility in mind to interns and Center for completing this internship, the students encourage participation and feature a California Cultural and will be encouraged to continue the prominent academician or community Social Issues (CCCSI) experience by educating their peers leader to stimulate discussion and make a Urban Fellow Jaime during the school year. public presentation. Each seminar Ramirez ’02 were chosen According to Ramirez, the interns participant is to write a short reflection by the Irvine Grant already have started to pave the road for paper about his/her perspectives on the Committee to create a next year’s freshman. She says the topic and reaction to the process. The four- to five-week interns felt it important to create a papers will be collected and printed in a Ramirez ’02 summer diversity precedent for next year’s students that small booklet to be distributed to the program for incoming would allow their work to benefit the campus population, and will be posted freshman for the summer of 2003. entire community. online. Interns Constance Perez, Son Ngo, The creators of STEP went to work The four seminars being offered this Stephanie Lozano, Alan Siu and Justin earlier this semester to produce a academic year are: “Intercultural Meets Song, along with Ramirez, worked for network and foundation for the diversity Multicultural: Pedagogical Border five weeks in the Coalition for Asian organization, Students for Diversity Crossings,” with Professors Carol Brandt Pacific American Students (CAPAS) Awareness (SDA). The yearlong and Lako Tongun; “Diversity Critiques,” office to create a well-rounded program program for this academic year aims to with Professor Dan Ward; “Global that would include various perspectives help immerse students into different Feminisms,” with Professors Mita on major diversity issues. cultures. Ramirez reports this has been Banerjee, Jill Benton, Sharon Snowiss The summer diversity program was met with enthusiasm and support, and and Ann Stromberg; and “Ethnic L.A.,” named the STudent Empowerment that work will continue on finalizing the with Professors Jose Calderon and Linus Program (STEP). The program will summer program, as well as organizing Yamane. include two counselors and eight the events for this academic year.

Fall 2002 ! 7 Fabian Nuñez ’97 Speaks at Pitzer’s Convocation n Oct. 3, Fabian Nuñez ’97, a In March, newly registered immigrant voters to Oconsultant on educational and union Nuñez won the increase participation in the election issues, was featured as the Convocation assembly process. During his tenure, union speaker in Avery Auditorium. Democratic membership at the L.A. County Speaking on “Social Action: What It primary to Federation of Labor reached record highs. Means Today,” Nuñez addressed represent the 46th Nuñez is a founder of Latino Forum, government spending on the war against Assembly an umbrella organization that coordinates terrorism: “If are we truly to come District, which the activities of various community together in a unity of purpose ... let us includes groups. He also helped found the Pomona consider a unity of purpose that confronts Downtown Los Chamber of Commerce and La Alianza, a different kind of terror – the terror of Angeles, Boyle an immigrants’ rights group. poverty and economic injustice that Heights, Pico- Nuñez began his career at One Stop millions of Americans endure every day Nuñez ’97 Union, Little Immigration and Educational Center, a across this nation.” Tokyo and parts nonprofit organization dedicated to He not only spoke about the crisis of of East L.A. Earlier this month, he faced helping Latino immigrants establish poverty but on issues of education, health Republican candidate Manual Aldana Jr. themselves in the United States. He care and housing for the nation’s working (Results were not available at press time.) taught English and civics classes to poor. Nuñez’s major endorsements included immigrants and helped them become “During these recent years of boom Assembly Speaker Emeritus Antonio legal residents under amnesty law. In and surplus, many of the working poor Villaraigosa, Rep. Hilda Solis and many cases, he helped them gain U.S. families slipped even further below the Supervisor Gloria Molina. citizenship. poverty line,” said Nuñez. “In the 1990s In 1994, Nuñez was a leader in the Nuñez grew up in the San Diego in Los Angeles County alone ... poor campaign against Proposition 187 – barrio of Logan Heights. He is one of 12 families rose from constituting 36% of organizing political rallies, registering children from a poor, immigrant family of the population to 43% of the population.” new voters and encouraging the Latino day laborers. He was inspired to take For the past two years, Nuñez has community to become involved in the advanced-placement courses in high worked as a lobbyist for the Los Angeles election process. school and obtained a college degree, Unified School District (LAUSD), Prior to joining LAUSD, Nuñez attending U.C. San Diego and graduating securing millions in funding for schools served for three years as political director from Pitzer College. of greatest need, school construction and for the Los Angeles County Federation of Nuñez has three children: Esteban, 12; health insurance for children. Labor, working with union families and Teresa, 10; and Carlos, 18 months.

Joint Science Department Offers Hands-On Opportunities for Learning n the world of college science programs, bigger isn’t Biology is the most common major offered through the Inecessarily better. Hundreds of students in freshman program, followed by chemistry and physics. science courses, classes taught by teaching assistants, and a “Most of our students enter as pre-medical students,” says lack of research opportunities are common complaints related Dowsett. “Unlike some larger institutions, we do not view the to many large colleges. first years of our pre-medical education as a weeding out Such problems, however, are practically unheard of in the process. Rather, we are committed to helping all of our Joint Science Department shared between Pitzer, Claremont students in whatever career directions they may wish to McKenna and Scripps colleges. Thanks to its unique design pursue.” and opportunities, the program offers science majors what Approximately 80 percent of Joint Science students who they most desire – a hands-on opportunity to learn. apply to medical, dental and veterinary schools are admitted – “It is easy to get lost in larger universities, but at Joint twice the national average acceptance rate. The rate is even Science they really pay attention to each individual student,” higher when the number of students who go into allied health says Cathy Smith ’02 of Cupertino, Calif., who double- fields such as physical therapy and optometry are included. majored in biology and chemistry. One of the most distinguishing features of the Joint The department was formed in 1965 to serve the needs of Science Department is the fact students directly participate in the three colleges. In 1992, the program moved in to the state- research. All science majors are required to do a research of-the-art W.M. Keck Science Center. The 50,000-square-foot thesis in their senior year, with the majority doing full-year building houses the faculty and most of the courses. research theses. “The modern building, facilities and equipment made our “Joint Science offers an excellent science curriculum and program more attractive to prospective students and our extensive opportunities for research, which can be a bonus enrollments expanded very rapidly,” says Associate Dean of when applying to some medical schools such as Stanford or Science Andrew Dowsett. “This in turn resulted in growth in Johns Hopkins,” says biology Professor Newton Copp. “Our our faculty numbers and our expansion into new areas of students go to medical schools all over the country. In the last science with dynamic, young faculty. We currently handle few years, Pitzer students have gone to Arizona, Tufts, about 2,000 course enrollments per year, making us the Jefferson, SUNY, Uniformed Services University, University largest department in The Claremont Colleges community.” of the Pacific Dental School and others.”

8 ! Pitzer College Participant Helping Others Comes Naturally to Pitzer’s New Substance Abuse Counselor

oretta Abbott-Kennon ’02 has a passion for Lworking with people. After graduating from Pitzer College as a New Resources student last May, Abbott-Kennon became the College’s new substance abuse counselor. A recovering addict/alcoholic herself, she says counseling comes to her naturally. “I think we are deeply sensitive people and tend to try and dull our senses with chemicals,” says Abbott- Kennon. “When we find other outlets for our feelings, thoughts and ideas, we excel and really have a lot to offer the world.” Abbott-Kennon worked as a substance abuse counselor at a county-funded residential treatment center before returning to college at Pitzer. “My work there made me want to work with Golden young people,” she says. “I went to college planning Krishna to become a public school teacher. But while at Pitzer ’05, left, I continued doing volunteer work in local treatment centers on my own and through CCCSI and the Women’s Media Center.” Since becoming Pitzer’s substance abuse counselor, Abbott-Kennon has received many positive responses. “I don’t see many active users or abusers come into my office without some prodding from another person,” she says. “They come in thinking I am going to punish them or give a lecture, but are relieved when we sit down and talk. Talking is powerful. I offer suggestions and resources and a safe place to vent.” Everything that is discussed in The Rabbit Hole remains strictly confidential. “I keep no written records of anything that is said or who is seen,” says Abbott-Kennon, who can be found in The Rabbit Hole in Mead 107. “The only exception is if someone were to tell me of current child or elder abuse, or plans of suicide or homicide, those things I am required by law to report.” The Rabbit Hole also offers services not necessarily associated with substance abuse. “People come in with a lot of anxiety about school and social situations” she says. “I’m here to help them find help if their problems are more than what I am qualified to deal with as a substance abuse counselor.” Abbott-Kennon, who shares a home in Pomona with her partner Julie, their godson Paul, four canines and two cats, also offers “dog therapy.” “Once a week I bring one of my dogs to work because the students love it and the dogs benefit, too,” she says. “I started doing this when I was a student because I got such a response from the students who were away from home and their pets.” Abbott-Kennon says she tries to help everyone by offering the resources they need to help find some Pitzer Students Producing peace. “I think I have a gift for listening to people and New Student Newspaper I’ve been through a lot in my 41 years. Counseling … is part of my turning lemons into lemonade.” – Bridget Lewison

Fall 2002 ! 9 ALegacy of Leadership Retiring Professors Ann Stromberg, Susan Seymour and Jackie Levering-Sullivan Have Brought a Wealth of Knowledge and a Lifetime of Dedication to Pitzer College

By Holly Vicente-RRobaina

hree very influential professors are about to retire from Pitzer TCollege. Together they have given a lifetime of teaching service to Pitzer – 78 years to be exact. These Ann educators will leave a large void in Stromberg the classroom, but they also will leave has made behind a wealth of contributions an impact in through their talent and devotion. the lives of They have prepared many students to many take on life’s challenges while making students, differences in their communities. The including following profiles offer only a small (from left) glimpse into the careers of these Marlon special women. Daniels ’02, Christen !!! Parker ’02, Brianne ANN STROMBERG Davila ’04 and Alicia t has been said that experience is the King ’02. Ibest teacher. And it would seem that Ann Stromberg, Peter and Gloria Gold Photo by Professor of Sociology, and a founding Gregg Segal member of the Gender and Feminist Studies field group, has been working interning locally during the week, and She never asks students to do something hard to prove that adage. then traveling to Calexico-Mexicali for she hasn’t done herself. She actually Stromberg, who joined the College in one weekend to work in a clinic that developed the idea for the Violence in 1973, is well known for her hands-on provides no-cost orthopedic services to Intimate Relationships class while serving approach – several of her courses children from Mexico. The program was on the Board of Directors for House of included internships and community- created decades ago, says Stromberg, by Ruth, a shelter for battered women. She based work. She may very well be one of Pitzer trustee Chad Smith and his wife also has been active as a troop leader and the pioneers of service learning. Corinna, and fellow colleagues. member of the board of the local Girl “I was giving my Violence in Intimate Through these experiences, Stromberg Scouts Council. Relationships class before the term hopes students come to understand Long before she came to Pitzer, ‘service learning’ came into use, and structural problems in communities, to Stromberg already was traveling and before Pitzer defined social responsibility learn the value of research, and to doing research in South America. In the as one of our educational objectives,” she experience personal growth. past half-dozen years, she has enjoyed says. “There are many effective ways of spending summers with her students in For that course, students were required teaching,” she says. “Service learning is Costa Rica, heading up the External to intern at a shelter for battered women something I’m good at, and something Studies program she helped to create on or a home for abused children. Her that a lot of students want. The formula health in Central America. The summer Fieldwork in Health Care course, which is has worked well for me.” program offers one course in the being offered this spring, has students Stromberg practices what she teaches: Sociology of Health and Medicine, and

12 ! Pitzer College Participant Susan Seymour, shown with Ann Stromberg in 1986, says Pitzer is a place where she has flourished: “I have taken satisfaction in our co-governance system, feeling I could have a substantial effect upon the College if I, together with others, were willing to make the effort.”

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one in Spanish. Students participate in a health care internship, SUSAN SEYMOUR and experience cultural immersion through family stays and the intensive study of Spanish. hen Susan Seymour joined Pitzer's faculty in 1974, she “Part of the liberal arts education is gaining perspective on Wdidn’t set out to head the Faculty Executive Committee one’s own culture by coming to really appreciate other (FEC). And she certainly wasn’t planning to serve as dean of cultures,” Stromberg says. faculty, on top of all her other research projects and academic In her “free” time, Stromberg has had some experiences of involvements. But when she was asked to step up as the chair of her own. To earn credits toward a Masters of Public Health FEC, and to step into the position of dean, she graciously degree, she recently traveled to Morocco to examine the health accepted the leadership responsibilities. issues there. (Working toward this degree, she says, has greatly “I never intentionally tried to do any of these things,” the enhanced her teaching these past few years.) With support from professor of anthropology says. “I was just active at the college, Pitzer’s Research and Awards Committee, she also is completing and these things happen if you take the college you’re at a study of banana plantation workers in Costa Rica who were seriously and try to work for it. My husband says that India fills sterilized by a nematicide, DBCP, which was used in the 1970s. all one’s senses. Pitzer fills all one’s time and more; it is at once This project is a logical extension of her earlier research and publications in the areas Continued on next page of work and health. After she retires, Stromberg wants to continue to teach occasionally, directing the summer program in Costa Rica and to be involved in public health work on a part-time basis. She’ll also be spending time with her “other” Pitzer family – husband Rudi Volti, professor of sociology, and daughter Kate, who graduated from Pitzer in 2000.

Jackie Levering- Sullivan, who arrived at Pitzer in 1985, has developed the College’s writing program into what it is today. Photo by Hal Fairchild by Photo

Fall 2002 ! 13 stimulating, engaging and exacting.” Seymour’s many leadership positions include multiple stints on FEC – a committee in which she has served for nearly half of her time at the College – and four-and-a-half years as dean of faculty. Additionally, Seymour worked on a variety of committees through the years, most recently serving on the Presidential Search Committee. She “Since we met at also held the position of Pitzer, I consider Intercollegiate Women’s Studies program coordinator and of co- the opportunity to director of the California Center for have met her as Cultural and Social Issues (CCCSI); and she helped to develop Pitzer’s the greatest first External Studies program in fringe benefit Nepal and its newest one in Ontario – while she continued to develop a anyone has ever new curriculum. And what does she have to say received from an about her great amount of service to employer.” Pitzer? It’s a privilege. “Pitzer has been a place where I Pitzer sociology have flourished,” she says. “I have Professor Rudi Volti, taken satisfaction in our co- husband of Ann governance system, feeling I could Stromberg have a substantial effect upon the College if I, together with others, were willing to make the effort.” Seymour came to Pitzer after teaching at Whittier College for “I have always been three years, then for one year at amazed by Jackie's USC. As a small, liberal arts college set in the midst of a larger cluster of commitment to colleges, Pitzer combined the best of spending time with both worlds. “Pitzer had it all, whereas at students in a very Whittier, I was the only difficult and often anthropologist in a sociology department, and at USC, I was part frustrating job, getting of a faculty commuting environment students to take their that made close ties with students, as well as those with faculty writing seriously and colleagues, difficult,” she says. It was an interesting time to join helping them to the anthropology faculty. Pitzer overcome their fear of established Women’s Studies (now called Gender and Feminist Studies) the blank page. during her first year here, offering a Working with students new perspective for anthropology – and giving Seymour new ideas for on their writing takes a coursework. Among the courses she great patience and developed: The Family: A Cross- Cultural Examination; Family East Jackie has been able and West; Women, Culture, and to summon much Society; and Women, Family, and Gender Systems in South Asia. patience over the “I was certainly thinking about years.” gender issues a lot, having lived in Photo by Tom Alleman Tom by Photo households where lots of women couldn’t go outside,” says Seymour, Pitzer political studies Professor Jack Sullivan, husband of Jackie Levering-Sullivan

14 ! Pitzer College Participant Professor Seymour’s Early Guidance Helped to Open Doors for Trustee itzer College Trustee Deborah Bach many disciplines, which exposed her to Kallick ’78 was one of Susan different faculty and different points of view. PSeymour’s first advisees. She says her Pitzer experience supports her Kallick, who serves as the executive strong belief in the value of attending a small director of government and industry relations liberal arts college. at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los “It allows you to thrive and develop in a Angeles, says Seymour helped her to achieve dynamic environment,” says Kallick, who is a well-rounded education at Pitzer by married to attorney Ivan L. Kallick. “It is encouraging her to take on two areas of important to know your faculty members and study. to have access to them on a regular basis. “She helped me with my course of study The small class size and ability to study in a and allowed me to continue a double major seminar environment was fabulous!” in history and education,” says Kallick, who While at Pitzer, Kallick says she was is in her fifth term as a Trustee. “Education “very taken” by Seymour’s research in was not a regular major at Pitzer, but through Bhubaneshwar, India. creativity and working together, I was able to “I found it exciting and fascinating and it focus on both areas.” gave me a better understanding of the cross- Kallick, who served as president of the cultural experience and perspective,” she says. Pitzer Alumni Association from 1985-88, Kallick says she also values her also is involved in several professional community involvement and service societies. She is Chair of the Board for the experience at Pitzer. For Kallick, volunteer California Biomedical Research Society, and work through Pitzer led to a job in the not- serves on the boards of the West Hollywood for-profit sector, where she worked for five Chamber of Commerce and the Anti- years before earning her M.B.A. at USC in Defamation League, among others. 1983. “Susan was supportive, always available Kallick says she still loves to visit Pitzer and I have valued her friendship over the and is very involved as an alumna and a years,” she says. Trustee. While under Professor Seymour’s “The diversity of the student body and guidance, Kallick worked at a preschool and faculty continues to increase and this is an a high school in Claremont. important change,” she says. “We all learn “She allowed me to explore different from each other and the more diverse the educational settings. I feel that I got a well- environment the better.” rounded education and value the But some things never change, she says: understanding of different modes of “The area that has changed the least is the education and child rearing,” says Kallick, residence halls. They clearly need updating.” the mother of sons Spencer and Andrew. Kallick was able to take classes from – Bridget Lewison Trustee Deborah Bach Kallick ’78 who spent many years doing field JACQUELINE together.” research in India. She soon discovered the true nature of Seymour is the Jean M. Pitzer LEVERING-SULLIVAN the experiment: Pitzer was assessing Professor of Anthropology whose most student interest for a new program in recent book, “Women, Family and Child oming to Pitzer changed Jacqueline writing. That class would change Care in India: A World in Transition,” CLevering-Sullivan’s life. And in turn, Levering-Sullivan’s life. integrates her longitudinal study of she effected a huge change at Pitzer by Jack Sullivan, professor of political forming a program in writing. studies, was one of the faculty who took families in Bhubaneswar, India, with It began in 1984, when Levering- part in the class. many of the courses she has created at Sullivan was asked to teach an “We just were friends at first,” says Pitzer. experimental course, Academic Writing 1, Levering-Sullivan. “We’d go out to lunch. While Seymour plans to spend some created by the late Ruth Munroe. A friend asked me, ‘Who’s this “Jack” more time hiking, gardening and traveling “The class didn’t seem very you’re always talking about?’ and I didn’t after she leaves Pitzer, she won’t be ‘experimental’ to me, but it did have an even realize I was talking about him.” hanging up her academic hat anytime interesting format,” says Levering- The couple married in 1985. It soon. She plans to do more professional Sullivan, director of academic writing and became one of the reasons Levering- research, as well as something more assistant professor in writing. “Eight Sullivan decided to stay at Pitzer, personal: compiling her family history. Pitzer faculty from across the disciplines developing its writing program into what “I’ve spent my career studying other were invited to give one lecture in the it is today. families. Now, it’s coming back home,” course and, in addition, create an she says. assignment, which we then graded Continued on next page Fall 2002 ! 15 It was a daunting task to develop the program “Many of my professors from scratch, and one that Levering-Sullivan at Pitzer had a positive relished. The result: well-attended courses including Creative Nonfiction, Rhetoric and and lasting influence on Argument, and Writing in the City. me, but none more “Pitzer encourages faculty to create our own than Susan Seymour. It courses and doesn't dictate content, a luxury I wouldn’t have enjoyed at other institutions,” she was in Susan’s classes says. that I first began to see To get ideas for courses, Levering-Sullivan how I could use the attended numerous writing conferences. At one ideas and methods of conference, many educators were touting the benefits of their writing centers. She presented anthropology to address this idea to then Dean of Faculty Al Bloom, and real-world problems. I the Pitzer Writing Center was born. It began continue to draw on humbly in the late 1980s, housed in a Mead dorm those ideas and room, with only three tutors: “We only had one tutor per shift because there wasn’t room for any methods today, more,” Levering-Sullivan says. Today, the Center studying welfare and is located in a much larger space in Sanborn, and anti-poverty programs the number of tutors has increased to 12. Ever seeking ways to improve Pitzer’s writing for a social policy program, Levering-Sullivan helped create an research organization.” informal writing department across The Claremont Tom Brock ’83, former student of Susan Seymour Colleges. This group of Claremont writing faculty obtained a Mellon Grant, enabling them to hold joint training workshops for writing center tutors and for faculty. Along with Rochelle Brown, “This past summer I participated in the Summer coordinator of academic support, and the Dean of Health Program in Costa Rica and it was an amazing Students Office, Levering-Sullivan also played a experience. Through the program, I had the key role in expanding resources for students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Last year, opportunity to get to know Ann very well. She was in she received a Strategic Initiative Fund (SIF) grant my Spanish class and had lived with my host family to buy hardware and software to help the students. two years earlier. Not only is she a great Spanish Levering-Sullivan hopes the writing program – and the students who participate in it – continue to speaker, but her respect and appreciation for culture thrive. and diversity inspire me so much. Pitzer is very “Each year I have encountered students who fortunate to have had her here and I was very seemed to bloom in my writing classes,” she says. “Often students began a class with little fortunate to have worked with her as well. I can only confidence in their writing, but something hope we will continue to fill our faculty positions with happens when they became part of a community people like Ann.” of writers. The writing comes. I will miss being in the classroom and witnessing those emerging Brianne Davila ’04, current student of Ann Stromberg voices.” ! Robaina, a 1995 graduate of Claremont McKenna College, is an editorial resident at “A friend once told me that the Campus Life magazine in Carol Stream, Ill. greatest compliment they ever received was being told they were ‘interesting and interested.’ That A Lasting Contribution compliment certainly applies to In honor of the retirement of these Jackie. Rhetoric & Argument and three amazing professors, Pitzer is Writing in the City were two of the working to establish scholarships in honor of Professors Ann Stromberg, most interesting classes I took in Susan Seymour and Jackie Levering- Claremont. The passionate level Sullivan. To give, or for more of discussion and debate and the information, please contact the unique experience of exploring Advancement Office at (909) 621- 8130, [email protected] or you can L.A. from a historic literary give online through our secure server perspective greatly contributed to Hayden Hamilton ’99, at www.pitzer.edu/giving/index.html. making my experience in former student of Claremont what it was.” Jackie Levering-Sullivan

16 ! Pitzer College Participant Recently Retired Professors Reflect on Changes They Witnessed at Pitzer

our other influential Pitzer professors recently have retired, all first-generation educators who arrived during Fthe College’s turbulent, formative years. Ronald Macaulay (linguistics) and Jim Bogen (philosophy), who left in 2001, and Margaret Mathies (biology) and Bob Pinnell (chemistry), who retired earlier this year, witnessed many changes at Pitzer. But through it all, they say Pitzer held on to its original mission and today continues in the spirit of its founders. ! Ronald Macaulay, a native of Scotland, came to Pitzer in 1965. One of the founding faculty members of the linguistics program and former dean of faculty (1980-86), Macaulay says he had no idea what a liberal arts education meant before he came to Pitzer, but came to understand and appreciate the process. “Throughout my time at Pitzer, I enjoyed the interdisciplinary contact and benefited greatly from it,” he says. “I am now a committed supporter of a liberal arts education.” After graduating from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, Macaulay taught English as a foreign language in Portugal from 1955 to 1960, and in Argentina from 1960 to 1964. It was in Argentina that he learned of a teaching position at Pitzer from founding faculty member Valerie Levy, who was an assistant professor of English. She persuaded Macaulay to apply and he was hired. Macaulay earned his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1971 and became a full professor of linguistics in 1973. In his time at Pitzer, one of the things Macaulay notes as a Ronald Macaulay, above, and Jim Bogen, below, retired from constant is the way people care about the future of the Pitzer College in 2001. College. “Individuals from all sectors of the community – faculty, students, and staff – continue to be passionately concerned about the nature and future of the College,” he says. “This can sometimes lead to uncomfortable disagreements and confrontations, but it also shows that people care. As long as enough people continue to care, I see a healthy future for Pitzer.” The most notable change he has witnessed at Pitzer, however, is a shift in attitude among administrators and faculty. “It seems to have become a little more solemn,” he says. “In the early years of the College, while we were very serious about the business of the College, there was also a sense of fun that I find lacking now. There were spoof memos from Jim Jamieson, the vice-president; I wrote minutes for the Curriculum Committee, quoting verbatim some of the outrageous remarks made by Steve Glass and Harvey Botwin; Barry Sanders and Carl Hertel were always up to something exotic; a faculty group put on play-readings for orientation. I like to think that this atmosphere was good for the College. As Samuel Butler observed, ‘A little levity will save many a good heavy thing from sinking,’ and in those days we were often worried about the College sinking.” ! Jim Bogen, who came to Pitzer in 1967, says that while he saw some less-than-ideal changes take place at the College (“Community gave way to identity politics. Bureaucracy and Continued on next page

Fall 2002 ! 17 Faculty Notes Photo by Hal Fairchild by Photo

Grabiner Receives Prestigious National Mathematics Award itzer College mathematics Jim Hoste, and the Pitzer family for their universally praised for the depth and Professor Judith V. Grabiner has support over so many years.” range of her knowledge of mathematical Pwon one of the most prestigious “This is a wonderful honor and richly history and is famous for giving talks that math awards in the country. deserved by an extremely talented senior are knowledgeable, witty, charming, Grabiner, the Flora Sanborn Pitzer faculty member of Pitzer College,” says beautifully organized and hold the Professor of Mathematics, has been President Laura Skandera Trombley. interest of both the trained mathematician awarded the Mathematical Association of Grabiner is only the second professor and the ‘I hate math’ undergraduate America’s (MAA) Deborah and Franklin from The Claremont Colleges to receive simultaneously.” Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished the honor. In 2000 Arthur T. Benjamin of Grabiner, who has given talks College of University Teaching of Harved Mudd College received the internationally and has won numerous Mathematics. Grabiner shares the honor award. awards for her articles, received her B.S. with two other professors, Paul Zeitz Earlier this year, Grabiner was chosen in mathematics from the University of from the University of San Francisco, and as one of 29 section winners when she Chicago, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in the Ranjan Roy of Beloit College. The three received the MAA’s Southern California History of Science from Harvard educators will be presented the award in Section Award for Distinguished College University. She also taught at Cal State January at the MAA’s national meeting in or University Teaching. She was Baltimore. nominated for the award by Beechler, University, Dominguez Hills from 1972- “I thank the students in my classes at who Grabiner says “broke her in” at 86. Pitzer, especially those from Math in Pitzer. In 1991, the MAA instituted awards Many Cultures and from Mathematics, “You have to be a truly distinguished for distinguished teaching of mathematics Philosophy, and the ‘Real World,’ for the professor to win this award,” says in order to honor college or university inspiration and ideas they have provided Beechler. “The reason I nominated Judy teachers who have been widely me,” says Grabiner, who has been part of is that I regard the courses she has recognized as extraordinarily successful, Pitzer’s faculty since 1985. “They’ve designed for Pitzer as unique. Pitzer has and whose teaching effectiveness has sustained my faith that everybody can the best curriculum for non-math students been shown to have had influence beyond understand and appreciate mathematics of any place in the world. I really believe their own institutions. In 1993 the MAA and its infinite uses, and the honor that.” Board of Governors renamed the award belongs to them. I also thank Professor In the introduction to her nomination, to honor Deborah and Franklin Tepper Emerita Barbara Beechler, my colleague Beechler wrote: “Professor Grabiner … is Haimo.

Fall 2002 ! 19 NIGEL BOYLE (political studies) presented the paper, “Feeding the Tiger: National, Subnational and Supranational Photo by Marissa Roth by Photo Governance of Boyle the Irish Labor Market 1987-99” at the American Conference for Irish Studies Conference at Santa Clara University on Oct. 11. Boyle also spent five weeks in China this summer on his Avery China Adventure award, watching the Chinese watch the World Cup. (“The World Cup was good; China was amazing.”) While in China, he had two articles published in Beijing Today: “China: Naïve Team but a Real ‘Soccer Nation,’” and “Why Did Chinese People Not Chant ‘Dahanminguo?’” He also appeared on CCTV (singing the chorus to the Chinese World Cup soccer anthem) and twice had his picture and “reaction interviews” on the front page of the Beijing Youth Daily sports section. Boyle also climbed China’s holiest mountain, Tai Shan, in his Ireland soccer shirt on June 27. On Aug. 6, he climbed Ireland’s holiest mountain, Croagh Patrick, in his Faulstich Wins Fulbright Award China soccer shirt. aul Faulstich, associate professor of Environmental Studies at Pitzer Boyle also will become acting College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to research director of the European Union P“Ethnoecology: The Natural History of Place-Making” at The Australian Center of California this academic National University in Canberra, Australia, during the 2002-03 academic year, year. according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright In July, Boyle gave two talks at Foreign Scholarship Board. the Summer Institute for 30 area Faulstich will leave in early spring to study the Warlpiri Aboriginals and will high school social studies lecture at the Australian university. teachers, organized by the “I’m really thrilled about having received this honor,” Faulstich recently told Claremont International Studies the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. “I look forward to representing our country Education Project (CISEP). He overseas.” spoke about “Jihad versus The project will be Faulstich’s second trip to Australia. About 20 years ago, he McWorld Globalization and the Owl spent time with the Warlpiri people and was initiated into their tribe. He says he of Minerva” and on July 26 looks forward to renewing his relationship with the Warlpiri. “Xenophobic Nationalism in Faulstich is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will Europe.” travel abroad to some 140 countries through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William On Aug. 1, KEBOKILE DENGU- Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding ZVOBGO (external studies) gave a between the people of the United States and other countries. talk on “Globalization and The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange Women's Rights,” as part of the activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Summer Institute for 30 area high Cultural Affairs. Over its 56 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and school social studies teachers, professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad, and thousands of their organized by the Claremont counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United International Studies Education States. They are among more that 250,000 American and foreign university Project (CISEP). students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange programs.

20 ! Pitzer College Participant DAVID FURMAN (art) is one of 68 artists whose artwork was exhibited at the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Aichi (April 13-June 30), and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Faculty Japan (July 30-Sept. 1) in an exhibition titled “Contemporary American Ceramics 1950-1990.” Furman is one of only 35 artists worldwide invited Research to exhibit at the Yingko Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (Sept. 21-Dec. 22), in an exhibition titled, “The Art of Teapots.” His artwork has recently been exhibited at the Sullivan/Genovese Gallery (June 20-Sept. 30) in Boston and Gallery Materia (Dec. 3-30) Furman in Scottsdale, Ariz. In August, RONALD MACAULAY (emeritus/linguistics) presented the paper “Can We Find More Variety in Variation?” at the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology in Joensuu, Finland.

“Echo Park,” a photo essay by GREGG SEGAL (PACE), was featured in the Nov. 3 issue of Los Angeles Times Magazine. The piece features photos from one of L.A.’s oldest and diverse neighborhoods. Long a stronghold of Mexican, Guatemalan and other Segal Hispanic immigrants, the neighborhood is being infiltrated by artists with a knack for making the crummy exotic, the ruined aesthetic, palatable and trendy. Already, rents and property values are rising as downtown attorneys and film industry types follow the pioneering artists’ lead.

On July 22, LAKO TONGUN (international and intercultural studies) gave a talk about “Globalization and the Third World,” as part of the Summer Institute for 30 area high A Costa Rican banana plantation worker readies a bunch of the school social studies teachers, fruit for transportation to a conveyor. During growth, the organized by the Claremont bananas are protected with plastic bags, many of which are International Studies Education impregnated with pesticides. A lack of protective clothing worn Project (CISEP). by the workers allows DBCP to enter the body through the skin, Tongun as well as by inhalation. A paper by LINUS YAMANE (economics), titled “Native-born Filipina/o Americans and Labor his summer, ANN STROMBERG (sociology) worked on Market Discrimination,” was Ther research project on Costa Rica banana plantation published in the journal workers who were sterilized in the 1970s in the course of Feminist Economics this past their work with the nematicide DBCP. summer. Yamane presented his The qualitative research project is based on in-depth paper on “The Labor Market interviews with 17 men and 18 women related to the Status of Vietnamese affected workers, with questions regarding the long-term Americans” at the Western social, psychological, and economic effects of this tragedy. Economic Association meetings Stromberg plans to publish the findings with a Costa Rica in Seattle in July. colleague Hernan Hermosilla. Yamane

Fall 2002 ! 21 FACULTY BOOKS: Relive That Quantitative Methods Research Course through Professor Peter Nardi’s New Book, ‘Doing Survey Research’

ociology Professor PETER NARDI invites his former Sstudents to relive their favorite sociology course with his new book, “Doing Survey Research: A Guide to Quantitative Methods” (Allyn & Bacon, 2002). Nardi decided to write the book after trying to find the right text to fit his Quantitative Research Methods course, which he’s been teaching for 25 years. “I always had difficulty finding the right book since most texts are either methods or statistics, not both,” he says. “And if they are combined, the book is often geared more toward graduate students. Rather than struggle to find the right text, I decided to write my own primarily using the notes from my class and structuring it the way I do my course.” Nardi says he wanted the book to be “readable and not bogged down with the usual jargon.” He descovered some Nardi difficulty deciding how much to include, and in what detail. “I geared it toward undergraduates and that meant making some decisions about the topics to cover,” he says. “Of course, I also was inspired to write it so that the hundreds of students who fondly remember the class can relive that wonderful experience and excitement they all felt discovering chi-squares and designing questionnaires!” Nardi says students will find the book helpful after leaving Pitzer by using it as a reference guide, as it offers a quick review of the basic concepts taught in his course. “The book teaches people how to interpret research and provides excerpts from real journal articles, and it emphasizes how to make decisions when conducting research and analyzing data,” he says. “It is not a how-to-calculate-statistics-by-hand book with formulas.” “Doing Survey Research” took approximately six months to Harris complete. Three publishers expressed an interest in it, with Nardi ultimately signing a contract with Allyn & Bacon, which specializes in textbooks. With his seventh book now on the shelf, Nardi says he’s ready to take a breather. “I edited five books of collected articles and wrote one other book,” he says, “so I’m taking a break at this point from books, primarily to finish serving as editor of an academic journal [‘Sociological Perspectives’] and to focus on doing some institutional research for Pitzer.”

! The most recent publications by LAURA HARRIS (English & world literature/Black Studies) include a book of poetry and prose, and four articles. Her essay, “L’Abbandono: Who’s Meticcio//Whose Meticcio in the Eritrea-Italy Diaspora,” appears Sadava in the volume “ItaliAfrica: Bridging Continents and Cultures” and in Italian translation in the volume “Africa Italia: Due Genes and Crop Biotechnology” (Jones & Bartlett, 2002). continenti si avvicinano”; “Black Feminism and Queer Families: According to Bob Goldberg, the American Society of Plant An Interview with Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris” appears in Biologists (ASPB) Education Foundation Chair at the African American Review; and “Femme/Butch Family Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at Romances: A Queer Dyke Spin on Compulsory Heterosexuality” UCLA, the book “is mandatory reading for everyone who wants appears in “The Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for to separate myth from fact in the GMO [genetically modified Transformation.” Her book, titled “Notes from a Welfare Queen organisms] controversy.” Goldberg goes on to say that the in The Ivory Tower: Poetry, Fiction, Letters and Essays,” was authors have “compiled an impressive set of chapters that both just released by Face to Face Press in New York. educate and inform the reader on the basics of modern plant research and its impact on agriculture” and that the text “is a ! DAVID SADAVA (biology) and Maarten J. Chrispeels are the must for students and researchers who are interested in the co-authors of the recently published second edition of “Plants, impact of plant biology on agriculture and society.”

22 ! Pitzer College Participant Sudan

www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ ‘Lost Boys’ Find Home with Alumna ! Mary Williams ’90 is founder of an Atlanta- based foundation that is helping Sudanese Photo by Charlotte B. Teagle/Atlanta Journal-Constitution refugees adjust to life in Mary Williams ’90 welcomes one of the “Lost Boys,” 22-yyear-oold Philemon Gor, at the America. offices of the nonprofit Bridging the Gap Project, Inc., last year in Atlanta.

ary Williams ’90 believes in sharing a powerful story. The Pitzer aspects of cultural adjustment to funding the transforming power of graduate is a collective voice for college scholarships for the young men. Mstories. hundreds of young men who were “It is so hard to fund-raise with the Back in her Pitzer College days, she relocated to the U.S. following a civil war economy the way that it is now,” never missed an episode of The Oprah in Sudan that erupted in 1987. Some of Williams says, “so we had to prioritize Winfrey Show. Williams had met the talk the boys Williams represents were as our mission.” show host many times because of young as 6 when Islamic fundamentalists Williams’ humanitarian efforts date Winfrey’s friendship with actress Jane attacked their Christian villages and back to her senior year at Pitzer, when she Fonda, who informally adopted Williams slaughtered their parents. Boys who studied abroad in Africa. “The trip helped as a teenager. Growing up, “we all went weren’t taken as slaves were chased from solidify that I wanted to do social work to Colorado for Christmases,” Williams their homes with nowhere to go, and no on a global scale, in terms of what’s says of the two families. It was during one to guide them. Without food and going on in the developing world,” she one of Fonda’s charity fund-raising events water, thousands of boys formed an says. She also liked being able to declare that Winfrey had a profound affect on exodus out of Sudan toward Ethiopia, a her own major: African-American Williams. Winfrey took the stage and perilous journey that would take four literature and studies. “It allowed me to shared with the audience her life story: years to complete. Along the way, learn more about what my interests the good, the bad, and “even the ugly,” countless boys died from starvation, or were.” Williams recalls. were killed by wild animals and soldiers. Growing up with Fonda as a role “I was so amazed by what she said Those who made it to Ethiopia subsisted model and mother-figure certainly because so many people are ashamed of on leaves, berries, mud, and urine, and weighed in on Williams’ career choices. their childhoods, or ashamed of things considered themselves lucky to be alive. Her resolve to help others was that happened to them that were out of “Their story has done a lot for me, in strengthened by “watching my mom: how their control,” said Williams, who has terms of not feeling sorry for myself,” she lives, and what she does for people disclosed that she was raped by an says Williams. “It’s taught me that life every day . . . She is just a hands-on, acquaintance at 14. “I think what is really can be a lot worse than it seems.” loving person. Anyone who may have a a shame is letting things drag you down The Lost Boys Foundation has a clear problem and is within earshot of her, and make you a horrible person. But if objective: to raise educational monies for well, she is ‘all over it’ in a very sincere despite all that you’ve been through, about 150 of the Lost Boys living in way. I learned by example.” you’ve been able to achieve some Atlanta. With the majority of beneficiaries “And also,” Williams says, “because I wonderful, powerful things, then by all now in their mid-20s (ages were assigned did have such a harsh childhood, I really means share your story!” to the boys upon arrival in the U.S. since believe that all people need is an As founder of the Atlanta-based Lost family histories weren’t available), LBF opportunity and a chance.” Boys Foundation, Williams is, in fact, shifted its emphasis from the socialization Continued on next page

Fall 2002 ! 23 Class of ’94 Produces Two Emmy Award

Winners Winston ’94

wo Pitzer College alumni “As cliché as it sounds, I love from the Class of ’94 were New York more than ever now,” Tamong the Emmy winners Winston says. toasted before a national audience Working on the documentary during the award show’s 54th resulted in guilt (“It helped pay for “Especially in the wake annual broadcast on Sept. 14. rent and groceries.”) and pride (“I Max Brooks and Jennifer hope the documentary was of Sept. 11, we have to Winston earned unrelated trophies educational for those who wanted encourage resiliency in for their a closer look at this particular our children – the ability to contributions to flight.”) And while nabbing an two very separate Emmy doesn’t hurt, “this is a snap back from whatever projects. Brooks tough business,” Winston said. happens to them.” is among the What’s next? More research Mary Williams ’90, on looking beyond “Saturday Night into her independent documentary, The Lost Boys of Sudan, and why she Live” writing “Fisher Poets,” about four believes that many of America’s own team members commercial fishermen who use children also are “lost” for the simple that won an poems and images to “weave reason that they are not as resilient Emmy for together their stories of life at sea.” as they could be. Brooks ’94 Outstanding Brooks, meanwhile, says that Writing for a he hasn’t had much time to ponder Variety, Music, or Comedy the future direction of his own Program. Winston earned hers as a career. field producer for the CBS special, “I feel like I’ve barely After graduating from Pitzer, Williams spent time “9/11,” in the category of scratched the surface,” Brook said working with an organization for homeless women Outstanding Non-fiction Special. after winning the Emmy. “Right in Santa Monica, Calif., then moved to Morocco for Winston, a literature and now I’m more concerned about three years, teaching English and interning with the photography major, describes her where I’ll be at 11:30 this Saturday United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural current role as a freelance night.” Organization (UNESCO). She returned to the U.S. producer for CBS as a “fitting Brooks calls himself “lucky” to and earned a master’s degree in public health from place” to be “where images come have joined ship with SNL at “this Boston University before founding LBF in 2001. together with words.” Being at special time in the show’s history.” Her energy these days is channeled into public Pitzer, says Winston, “taught me to Recalling the evening of the awareness – bringing The Lost Boys into every take a close look at what is really Emmy’s, he says he remembers possible living room. Already in the publicity chute: taking place; to go beneath the kissing his fiancée, Michelle, when a magazine article for Essence, an appearance on surface and dig some more.” the award was announced, and CBS’ The Early Show, and an upcoming spot on a This was an especially painful new Dick Clark production called Living Large. then “stumbling up the stage and task working on “9/11,” a one-hour There also are several documentaries in the making, then staring blankly into the documentary that required Winston and plans to assist in a feature film about The Lost spotlight. As I exited, I think I to fly to Florida and spend a week Boys, and a children’s book about them. remembered to thank Lorne interviewing neighbors, landlords, Williams knows that at some point, the boys will (Michaels, SNL creator and have all grown and settled into their new lives. news reporters and law executive producer).” Asked about her future plans, she laughs: “I don’t enforcement officers in order to The best part about tapping think I’ve ever done anything for more than four or research profiles of Flight 93 into the show’s collaboration of five years. I’m intrigued by a lot of different things. hijackers. The assignment writers is feeling challenged and Things just kind of happen to me, and I go with it.” followed on the heels of watching surrounded by some of the For now, helping script a happy ending to a horrified, from a friend’s rooftop “greatest minds in comedy today, tragedy is what most consumes her time. “I want in the West Village of New York, all of them pushing to be smarter, everyone to know this story and really grow from the collapse of the Twin Towers. sharper and funnier than they were it,” Williams says of her Lost Boys. “I’m all about The state’s resulting resolve last week,” Brooks says. “It's the stories. The power of stories.” profoundly affected her. greatest education I could ask for.”

24 ! Pitzer College Participant Pitzer Put Alumna on the Right Track to a Successful Career in Transportation

By Holly Vicente Robaina

hen asked for her greatest accomplishment, Amy Rosen ’76 answers with two simple words: “My Wfamily.” It’s an unexpected response, considering that Rosen has earned a national reputation in the field of transportation. One would think she would immediately point to her position on the Board of Directors of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation – better known as AMTRAK – that she’s held since 1995. Or maybe say something about serving as vice chairman of the board of directors of New Jersey Transit, the nation’s only statewide transit agency. Or perhaps mention her experience in overseeing New Jersey’s Department of Transportation. Possibly something about Public Private Initiatives, the consulting firm she runs with her husband, Tim Carden. “We’ve never waivered or questioned “At the end of the fact that raising our kids is the most the day, important thing we’re doing,” says if I can say Rosen. The response speaks to Rosen’s I’ve been a priorities and values. And it goes a long good mom way in explaining how Rosen, engulfed and given in a world of multibillion dollar contracts and complex concepts like “full-funding Amy Rosen ’76 has served on the Board of Directors for back in some grant agreements” and “tax advantaged AMTRAK since 1995. way to those leasing,” can still be concerned about cutting 15 to 20 minutes off a less fortunate six months, she was working on the re-election campaign for commuter’s travel time. than me, Governor Brendan Byrne in New Jersey. After Byrne was re- Rosen relishes the task of taking elected, she was given the opportunity to join his administration. I feel pretty complex problems and solving them in So she decided to grab at the chance – and to defer law school. ways that improve the quality of life for good.” Then everything began to fall into place. others. For example, she has been Rosen was intrigued by the work of one cabinet member, the Amy Rosen ’76 working with the federal government, the commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation, New Jersey Transit and a private and she took the job as his executive assistant. A few years and a company to secure half-a-billion dollars toward building a light few promotions later, she became the deputy commissioner. rail system for the state that would run in a north-south “Truthfully, what I never expected to do was to find my way direction. Translated into quality-of-life terms: It has been a into working inside government, and certainly not that quickly. I nightmare for many New Jersey commuters to get onto the had a very unusual and fabulous professional experience in the trains that go into New York, and this project should shorten and New Jersey Department of Transportation; I just sort of landed ease their commute. there. I wish I could tell you there was some master plan driving Quality-of-life issues already were on Rosen’s mind at me to where I went, but there wasn’t,” she says with a laugh. Pitzer: She was involved in a movement for the College’s food Her experience and ever growing reputation eventually service workers to unionize. added up to a presidential appointment to AMTRAK’s board of “Pitzer was certainly a place that encouraged me to be an directors. She also has served as chairman of AMTRAK’s independent thinker and to not be shy about expressing my finance committee since 1996. That role has been more than a opinions,” she says. little stressful, especially with AMTRAK’s latest financial Her Pitzer experience also included a great deal of troubles and the present economic downturn – Rosen says exploration, from majoring in political science to dabbling in $1.2 billion is needed just to keep AMTRAK running through glass blowing. this fiscal year. She tries to keep it all in perspective: “I helped build the glass studio, and I don’t think that was “I just have to remind myself that intercity rail is critical for something I could have done anywhere else,” she says. “I felt this country’s future and that none of us can walk away from like Pitzer gave me a chance to grow up and figure out who I this ongoing struggle,” she says. “At the end of the day, if I can was. I felt very free to not be terribly directed.” say I’ve been a good mom and given back in some way to those That spirit of exploration may have had an effect on Rosen’s less fortunate than me, I feel pretty good.” early career choices, and thus altered her life’s course. Rosen’s father was a lawyer, and she always believed she would follow ! Robaina, a 1995 graduate of Claremont McKenna College, is in his footsteps. After graduation, Rosen moved to New York an editorial resident at Campus Life magazine in Carol Stream, and took a job as a paralegal. But that didn’t last long: Within Ill.

Fall 2002 ! 25 Alumnus Providing Unique Brand of Entertainment for Chrystian Dulac ’92 is the chief of Black & Noir Productions. Adventure Seekers hrystian Dulac ’92 is in the “I thought of a treasure hunt but I will react and how you will react to their business of creating thrills for wanted to take it to the next level, so I reaction and so forth,” says Dulac, who Ceveryday people. included actors, codenames and makes player safety a priority. For a little more than two years, Dulac challenges to be completed,” he says. “It Packages start at $425, which has served as the president/CEO/CFO/ was an amazing success and from there includes two actors, written clues, a marketing guru for Black & Noir came the idea to turn this birthday custom music CD and disposable camera Productions, a company that offers present into a business.” for the three-hour chase. A few “perks” Enigma, which, according to the Dulac, who studied theater at Pitzer, also may be thrown in, depending on the company’s website said the major forced him to be creative venue. (www.blacknoirproductions.com), “sends and think differently. He also took “One of the most amazing things is the player(s) on an elaborate chase economics and business classes. that I never have had a dissatisfied involving code names, actors, clues, “What Pitzer did for me was to teach client,” says Dulac. “Every single one of intrigue and challenges to be completed.” me how to be involved while keeping my them, giver and recipient, has been blown “Almost everyone craves intrigue and sanity,” says Dulac, who went on to earn away.” mystery once in a while,” says Dulac, 32. his M.A. in theater from Cal State Los Some have likened Enigma to the “Enigma answers the bell and, for a few Angeles. “I had to juggle sports [soccer movie “The Game,” starring Michael hours, ordinary people can relate to and baseball] with rehearsals and Douglas and Sean Penn, but Dulac says movie stars because they are the center of performances. I was always organizing Enigma is not based on the movie. attention and they, and only they, can and reorganizing my schedule to fit “It’s only after I told friends of my piece together the puzzle that will lead everything.” concept and business plan that I started them to the final destination.” For a mission, Dulac employs six or hearing about the movie,” says the Los Enigma has been featured on Fox 11’s seven people to act out “the chase,” Angeles resident. “I had never seen it, so “Good Day L.A.,” ABC’s “Eye on L.A.,” including a limousine driver, actors and I rented it and then bought it.” UPN’s “Blind Date” and in the magazine himself as the supervisor. Missions are Dulac says demand for Enigma is Entertainment Today. This unique brand personalized and can be as complicated growing and he already has plans to of entertainment began when Dulac as the client wishes. purchase his own limousine. He also wanted to do something “unforgettable” “You create a game, a scenario for a dreams of someday building a complex for a friend’s birthday. stranger and you try to think how they for Enigma.

26 ! Pitzer College Participant Alumni Notes Morris Graves, Lesly Wilson, 1968 Meg Perry and IT’S YOUR 35TH YEAR CLASS REUNION! Mary Hoskins, Join us for Alumni Weekend on May 2- members of the 4, 2003, to reunite with old friends, Class of 1972, participate in Alumni College, see how at Alumni much the Pitzer campus has changed Weekend at and meet Laura Skandera Trombley, Pitzer College in the fifth president of Pitzer College. E- May 2002. mail [email protected] for more information or to help us plan our class for Homer. I began a pilot program; May, while her daughter Lauren is a reunion. Student Philanthropy Committee at freshman at Duke. She has been We look forward to seeing you in May! Homer High School. It is the first in the married to Les for 30 years. state of Alaska. I also started a PRISCILLA FAWCETT recycling program at the high school. CONSTANCE GEISLER (Diamond Bar) (Del Mar) My two sons went to Spain in Still managing to wreak my own havoc NANCY NELSON HILL September 2001 for the World at Del Mar Chamber of Commerce. I am (Albuquerque, N.M.) Equestrian Conference. too candid when I advise people where My daughter, Emily, has finished high to eat and sleep. school and is attending the University SHELLEY DONALDSON LAFLER of Texas in Austin. My younger (Olympia, Wash.) BETTY J. HOUBION-GGREENWOOD daughter, Caroline, is in the 10th grade. I Shelley is a Parent Involvement (Vernon Hills, Ill.) continue to teach special education in Specialist at North Thurston School My daughter Raney graduated from the the public schools in Albuquerque. District. Her son is graduating from University of Cincinnati. I am still an Washington State University, and Agri-volunteer trainer for Citizen’s daughter is a sophomore at Yale. Network for Foreign Affairs. Went to 1970 Zimbabwe two times this year and will VIRGINIA NICHOLS REYNOLDS DAVETTA WILLIAMS (Claremont) be going to the Ukraine and India. I (South Pasadena) I am joyfully teaching at Chaffey College have been elected to Projects I am happily retired after for Child Development: Health, Safety, Committee for London based Country 30 years of service with the City of Los and Nutrition of young children birth to Women of the World. Angeles. I now work with my husband’s 8 years of age. Daily practice Qigong, computer-networking company. My son, regularly practice Yoga, and regularly DR. NANCY L. MARY Alan graduated from high school in enjoy Pitzer Alumni Programs. (Long Beach) June 2002. He plans to attend USC and I continue to teach Social Work at CSU major in Aerospace Engineering. San Bernardino, and coordinate 1973 admissions for our new MSW program. 1971 IT’S YOUR 30 YEAR CLASS REUNION! Join us for Alumni Weekend on May 2- ANN STANTON LISA KASLE 4, 2003, to reunite with old friends, (Montpelier, Vt.) (Oakland) participate in Alumni College, see how I just visited Pitzer briefly on a Highway I bought my first house. much the Pitzer campus has changed 1 trip celebrating my daughter’s high and meet Laura Skandera Trombley, school graduation. The trees have 1972 the fifth president of Pitzer College. E- grown in 30 years. I now live in NANCY KLEIN ABELL mail [email protected] for more Vermont, teach college in a progressive (Los Angeles) information or to help us plan our class program aimed for adults who come Nancy is a partner and chair of the reunion. We look forward to seeing you once a month and also work full-time. Employment Law Department of the in May! This is very reminiscent of Pitzer’s 800 Lawyer, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky, & educational philosophy and ideals, so I Walker LLP, headquartered in their Los CHRISTIE PLATT feel connected even though I haven’t Angeles office. In December 2001, (Washington, D.C.) been back to Pitzer for 30+ years. Nancy, was named one of Americas Top I just finished psychoanalytic training at 50 Women Litigators by the National the Baltimore-Washington Institute for 1969 Law Journal. She is a fellow of the Psychoanalysis and am practicing in VICTORIA SPEER CUBEIRO College of Labor and Employment Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. (Homer, Alaska) Lawyers. Her daughter Allison I have been elected Citizen of the Year graduated from Columbia University in Continued on next page

Fall 2002 ! 27 JUDITH SELBY Tim Christian (Forest Knolls) ’91, Anita Judith is an Art Curator of an exhibition, Ortega-OOei ’75 Turning the Tables: Food, Farms and and Sandra Sustainability opened Sept. 15. This is a Sigman ’78 at series of events exploring the the Past and environmental impact of growing, Present distributing, consuming, and Alumni Leader appreciating food. Reception in Beverly Hills 1974 on Aug. 15, 2002. CHAR MILLER (San Antonio, Texas) TRINITY UNIVERSITY – Char Miller, professor and chair of Trinity University’s history department, has been selected as a Piper Professor for London, England. 2002. The award is given annually by 1979 the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation DIANNE DAVIS-WWHITHAM SIMMIE BAER to recognize college professors in the (Amherst, Mass.) state of Texas for excellence in (Seattle) I have been married for 20 years, and Simmie Baer has been selected to teaching, advising and service to my daughter is looking at the higher education. receive WACDL’s 2002 William O. Claremont Colleges for a Masters in Douglas Award given in recognition of 1975 Public Health. Hi to anyone I know. extraordinary courage and dedication to the practice of criminal law. Simmie SHIREEN ALAFI SHERRY ZEITLER has practiced law with the Seattle-King (Vista) (Boca Raton, Fla.) County Public Defender since 1985, Shireen has 25 peacocks and five Sherry is a consultant and manager and has been the attorney supervisor baby peacocks on her ranch. for Reading Visions, a computer of their juvenile division since 1989. software distributor for the visually MARIAN LAST impaired. CHRISTINE FRANKLIN-FFINUCANE (Rossmoor) (Washougal, Wash.) Marian Last, MFT and Louise 1978 I had a baby boy last March, and Carnachan, MSW SCR ’75, founders of IT’S YOUR 30 YEAR CLASS REUNION! worked at Kaiser for 13 years. We Project SISTER (Sisters In Service To Join us for Alumni Weekend on May 2- recently moved to Washington. End Rape) in Pomona, were honored th 4, 2003, to reunite with old friends, at the Project’s 30 year celebration in participate in Alumni College, see how ADI LIBERMAN April 2002. much the Pitzer campus has changed (Encino) and meet Laura Skandera Trombley, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide CURTIS SCHAEFFER the fifth president of Pitzer College. E- announced that Adi Liberman has (Atlanta) mail [email protected] for more joined the firm as executive vice I am on a Congressional fact-finding information or to help us plan our class president and head of the public affairs trip to Cuba. I am also very active in reunion. We look forward to seeing you issues management practice in Los attempting to normalize relations in May! Angeles. Liberman is very active in the between the U.S. and Cuba. community, and was appointed by the BOB BARRY California State Assembly to the 1976 (Brooklyn, N.Y.) California State Holocaust Era VESTA CLELLAN ARMSTRONG As of September 2001, I am now chair Insurance Committee. Adi has also (Mount Shasta) of Long Island University’s Art been elected president of Heal the Bay, I have a 5-year old child named Department, Brooklyn campus. My a costal protection group based in Mackenzie. most recent work was exhibited at Mary Santa Monica. Mount College in New York City, digitally HUGH FANING manipulated Polaroids printed on KATHRINE MCENROE (Norwell, Mass.) copper sheets. (San Jose) I have started a new job at Liberty I received my Master of Divinity degree Funds and living on south shore of ANDREA BROTHERS in June of 2002, and eventually I hope Massachusetts with my wife and (Glendale) to co-pastor a church with my daughter. I am on the mend from cancer. husband.

HOUSTON PUTNAM LOWRY CHRISTY KEEFER MICHELE DEHORSEY PFAFF (Avon, Conn.) (Burbank) (Middleton, R.I.) I am pleased to announce that I was I am working at KCAL-TV with Candace Hi to my former pals at the Film Society recently elected as a Freeman in the (Jill) Bergmann ’78. Hi to Susan Berzon- (le societe d'alchemu). Greetings from Worshipful Company of Arbitrators Turcotte ’79. Newport!

28 ! Pitzer College Participant JANET SUSLICK Director of (Sweden) Major Gifts I am still in Sweden after all these Chia Yen, and years. My sons are growing like weeds. Seattle Chapter My “baby” has started school now, (first Chair Sheryl grade starts at age 7 here) and my 9- Stiefel ’80 at year old was just on a field trip to a the Seattle Stone Age Village and slept away from Chapter Event home for the first time ever without a on Sept. 23, parent. Since November 2000, I’ve 2002. been a journalist at the Swedish Dental Association’s magazine for dentists. I write mainly about dental research and education. Latest trip: Kosovo (August 2002). Latest book read: “Underdog.” 1980 JEANNIE MINTZ Saint Cellular.” ANDREA SIDOROW (Burbank) (Hinsdale, Ill.) I trained and rode in the California AIDS LOREN LACAMPAGNE Regards, to my friends, from the class Ride; biking 570 miles from San (San Jose) of 1982. Sorry to have missed you at Francisco to Los Angeles, from June 2- My wife Sandra and I have twins, the reunion 2002. 8. It benefits AIDS service organizations Thomas and Victoria, born on May 13, throughout California. 2001. KATHRYN WHEELER (Reading, Mass.) MICHAEL NOVE JON PARRO I had twins last summer, Christopher (Oregon City, Ore.) (Davis) and Alexindra. I love being a mom and I am enjoying Oregon, law and life with I am the Assistant Dean for External they are doing great. I’m definitely Kathryn, my wife of 18 years, and my Relations and Development at the New finding it challenging to balance single sons Bobby (15 years) and David (12 School of Education at UC Davis. motherhood and work. But, it’s worth it! years). Hello to the Dooley’s ’80. 1982 1983 ANNE VEAZIE SONNER MICHAEL DEVINE TH (Walnut) IT’S YOUR 20 YEAR CLASS REUNION! (Long Beach) I live in Walnut with my husband David Join us for Alumni Weekend on May 2-4, TDK Mediactive has appointed Michael and our sons Paul (7 years) and Brian 2003, to reunite with old friends, Devine to the position of Vice President (5 years). I take care of my family, participate in Alumni College, to see of Sales for North America. He will volunteer with school and scouting how much the Pitzer campus has oversee TDK’s domestic sales and work activities, write articles for a magazine, changed, and to meet Laura Skandera closely with management and the sales and create quilts for art and fun. Trombley, the fifth President of Pitzer group to implement the Company’s College. E-mail [email protected] business plan. Devine was previously BOB TAYLOR for more information or to help us plan the Vice President of Sales at 3DO (Upland) our class reunion. We look forward to since 1995. I send greetings from the 4th grade of seeing you in May! Mission School in Ontario. I would love WILLIAM DONAHUE to hear from old friends. I can be JON MYERS HASKETT (Rancho Cucamonga) contacted at [email protected]. (Pasadena) I am teaching U.S. History at Simons Jon, Claudia, and John Haskett (age 9) Middle School in Pomona. I also KAREN VOGEL live in Pasadena. Jon and Claudia are received my master’s from Chapman (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) Civil Engineers with their own University. I was promoted to full Professor of engineering and construction business; Political Science at Hamline University the Haskett Company LLC. We enjoy MICHAEL NUSSBAUM in the spring of 2001 camping and taking family trips. (Las Vegas) 1981 I was recently appointed to the editorial LINK NICOLL board of Contemporary Educational (Alexandria, Va.) LYNNE CANNING Psychology, and just completed my Link Nicoll and her husband have a (Santa Fe, N.M.) second year as an Assistant Professor baby boy named Woods, born July 25, I just started grad school at Preston at UNLV. “I am working hard at the 2001. Link also has a new website: College for religious and peace studies. tenure thing.” www.linkphotography.com ROBERT KOPPELMAN BRAD ROTHMAN (Hollywood, Fla.) (Philadelphia) 1984 I am playing music in South Florida and Hi to friends Lee Danziger ’84, and KATHLEEN ALLEN have released my first CD, “Hymn To Caitlin Horowitz ’84. (Livermore)

Fall 2002 ! 29 Kathleen is a traveling tutor working Steven with kids (through college age) with Leskin ’84, rare medical syndromes that affect President learning. She travels in a camper! Laura Skandera JAMES ARTHUR Trombley, (Burlingame) Nelson My wife Kelly Himsl ’85 and I have a Trombley and baby boy that was born in May 2002. Jim Esterkin ’75 at the SANDRA GREENBERG Portland (Oakland) Chapter Event I moved to Oakland this June with my on Sept. 24, two kids, Adam (age 10) and Beatrice 2002. (age 8). I am in a Pediatric Residency Program. soon as Sarah is ready for pre-school. in Austin, Texas, for graduate school. I DENISE NIELSEN TACKETT finished a PhD in Cultural Anthropology (Paden, W.V.) TAMSIN MAYERS SICKINGER in 2000, and have just accepted a job My new book has just been published, (Darien, Conn.) teaching in the Human Development “Reef Life: Natural History and I spent a weekend with Diana Stein Program at Cal State Long Beach. So, Behavior of Marine Fishes and ’85, who is now living in N.Y. It is so after all these years up here, I will be Invertebrates.” (ISBN: 1-890087-55-6) nice to know that the years may go by, returning to Southern California in It also is available at but we can still be the same. I’ve seen January 2003. I married Joe Lyford www.thackettproductions.com. Katharyn Pinder ’85 (who has a PO’88, several years ago, and we had beautiful baby girl named Grace), Joan our first child this past January … a girl ANDREA WEISS Titcomb Bowyer ’85, and Stanley we named Eve Kathryn Lyford. (San Diego) Casselman ’85 over the past year as Andrea Weiss has become a partner in well. The events of Sept. 11 have JAMES MCKNIGHT the firm of Munger, Tolles, and Olson certainly left us reeling, but have also (South Pasadena) LLP. reminded us how truly precious are our I am Pastor of Traveler’s Rest Church, relationships with friends and family. 1417 E. Florence Avenue, Los Angeles, KIMBERLY KRALJ CA 90001-1936. (Los Angeles) 1986 My partner and I are expecting a ENID PEREL second child in February 2003. PAUL HUBLER (Granada Hills) (Monrovia) My family and I are moving to Sun 1985 My wife Patty and I have a new baby Valley, Idaho. We welcome old Pitzer girl named Hana. NICOLE SKINNER CARON friends to visit. Our e-mail is [email protected]. (Branford, Conn.) LUIS MARTINEZ My partner and I own a direct (Whittier) marketing company in New Haven. CONNIE TIERNEY I passed my Series 7 examination (Woodstock, Ga.) Check us out on the web at (First time! Go Hens! Chirp! Chirp!). I www.flyingpoint.net. I moved here last Connie would love to hear from old am serving as a Financial Planner here friends: [email protected] year after living 14 years in Oregon. in sunny Southern California. The weather is better here! So is the sailing. DIANA WADE CARMEL MEDINA (Los Angeles) (San Pablo) Diana Wade and Charles Wade ’87 have SUZIE HABERLAND Carmel is a single mom raising a (Seattle) a daughter named Angela, who wonderful 5 year-old son in San celebrated her 1st birthday in February. I am living in Seattle, and working for Francisco. Starbucks. I live just down the street Our e-mail is [email protected]. from Susan Roberts ’85 and work with 1987 Alison MacDonald’s ’85 sister Lexie! 1988 JEANMARIE BOONE IT’S YOUR 15 YEAR CLASS REUNION! SHAZEEN HUSAIN MARVI (Hawthorne) Join us for Alumni Weekend on May 2-4, (Manassas, Va.) I had a new baby boy born on 2003, to reunite with old friends, Hellos to Laura ’85 and Whit Mead Halloween 2001. Also, I am completing participate in Alumni College, to see ’87, Hitomi Kimura ’85, and Rashmi my Administration Credentials for K-12. how much the Pitzer campus has Kumari Tulsyan ’85. My family, changed, and to meet Laura Skandera husband Nasivali, three girls Zara, STEPHANIE BROWN Trombley, the fifth president of Pitzer Zarin and Sarah are now living in (Oakland) College. E-mail [email protected] Virginia. I’m a stay-at-home mom for I have been living in Northern California for more information or to help us plan now, but hoping to go back to work as since graduating from Pitzer, with a stint our class reunion. We look forward to

30 ! Pitzer College Participant seeing you in May! Paul Hubler ’86, Matt DAVID BLECHINGER (SLOCUM) Adler ’97, (Fernwood, N.J.) Director of We are having our third child in August. Development We would love to hear from Pitzer Greg Saks alumni. and Michael Colby ’80 at ROBERT BRIONES “Lunch-nn- (Burbank) Learn” in My wife Tina and I had our first baby, a West Los girl that we named Amanda, on June 4, Angeles on 2001. Sept. 13, 2002. MEGAN MUIR (Seattle) I am currently the Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs, and General Counsel of RadioFrame Networks, Inc.

HEATHER ROSS my free time with my kids, Sophie, age BEN GOREN (Manhattan Beach) 5 and Jonah, age 2. (Chicago) I recently left a 14-year career in I joined the investment banking team at commercial real estate in Los Angeles CINDY O’CONNOR Huron Consulting Group as of Sept. 3, to pursue an opportunity writing and (Westlake Village) 2002. The focus of our group includes: directing a documentary on Mexico. I have been elected President of the mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, League of Women Voters in Los fairness opinions, private placements, ROSS ROYBAL Angeles. restructurings, bankruptcies and other (La Habra) financial advisory services. I hope to I have a 9-month-old son named Noah. I nd AMANDA REDLING be able to bring even better service and am celebrating my 2 anniversary of (New York) capabilities to the people and marriage. E-mail address is I had a baby boy, Jan. 7, 2001, named organizations I have served in the past [email protected]. Brantley. and, given the fantastic resources and team at Huron, we hope to serve new 1989 1990 clients with all their advisory needs. MARGARET BUXBAUM MARIANN SILBERMAN COULL Huron has approximately 300 professionals with offices in five cities (West Roxbury, Mass.) (Upland) in the United States and is I was married on June 2 of this year to I married Robert Coull in August 2001, headquartered in Chicago. Our website Mitchell Nash. I have been working for bought a brand new home in Upland, is www.huronconsulitnggroup.com. Massachusetts General Hospital as and we had our first child in Coordinator of Community Outreach and September. Interpreter Services in our clinic in CAROL SHELLEY (Denver) Massachusetts. I am a trained legal and LAURA REILLY I had a baby girl on April 10 named medical Spanish interpreter, so I mostly (San Antonio) Caitlin. do outreach and social services for the I am working in San Antonio at Shades local Latino community. I see Ellen of Green plant nursery. I became an DAVID TODD Schnier ’89 often, as well as Baki aunt this year. Would welcome a call or (Lake Oswego) Wright and Stephanie Milner ’89. I miss visit from anyone. I am still single. Hi to I started a new company – Applied California, but have always been a Anthony Archuleta ’88. Boston girl at heart. Hope anyone who Communications. may read this is doing well. TAMMY SCHACHET-BBRISKIN JULIA WHITE (Sherman Oaks) (Seattle) JILL FARBARIK My family was blessed by the very fast Julia had an exhibition of her new (Seattle) arrival of our second child, Micah Oren, paintings, Sept. 3-30, 2002, at the I had a baby girl on March 31, 2001, in April. He was born in the hospital Victrola Coffee and Art, 411 15th Avenue named Olivia. elevator. My life is very full with my East, Capitol Hill-Seattle. For any work with the Southern California inquiries, contact Julia at (206) 323- ANDREW HARRISON Multiple Sclerosis Society, my husband 1744 or [email protected]. (Minneapolis) Wally, my small Jewish Entertainment I am currently an Assistant Professor of Company 6 Point Productions, and the Ophthalmology at the University of daily amazement and awe of being a 1991 Minnesota. I am Director of the mom to Channa Shira (age 4½) and AARON BENNETT Ophthalmalic Plastic and Micah. (Des Moines) Reconstructive Surgery. I spend all of Aaron is pleased to announce his

Fall 2002 ! 31 marriage to his San Francisco Cesar Gomez ’94, sweetheart, the lovely Elizabeth Tullai. Robert Viteri, We were married on July 6 in Oakland. associate dean for At our wedding we were pleased to students at the entertain some of our Pitzer friends. CUC The indomitable motorcycle cool-guy, Chicano/Latino Mason Huffine ’91, the remaining BBQ Student Affairs king of Oakland, David Butler ’91, Center and Hector Hilary Strain ’90, Ted Damutz ’91 and Ramirez ’01 at the his wife Whiz, and Byron Smith ’91, Chicano/Latino and his wife Gabby. We have since Student Alumni moved to Des Moines, where we are Dinner at Pitzer on renovating an Arts and Crafts April 16, 2002. bungalow. Liz is teaching ESL for the Des Moines Public Schools and Aaron is in his second year of medical school at Des Moines University – College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery. We miss our West Coast and East Coast University of Birmingham in the UK. My EVAN COOPER friends and say, “Move to the middle!” husband, Paul, and I have just (Tunisia) celebrated our 2nd year of running a My wife Suzanne and I moved to Tunis, LAURA GATTERMEIR FORTNER successful website about Hiroshima, Tunisia, one year ago to teach at the (Redmond, Wash.) Japan (www.gethiroshima.com), which American Cooperative School of Tunis! In August 2001, my husband and I had is now getting more than 80,000 page We just returned from Portland to start our first child, a little girl, Sydney Grace views a month. Last but not least, we our second year here. If you a visiting Fortner. She is a sweet loving baby are expecting our first child – a baby Tunisia or living in Europe, drop us an e- who is crawling all over the place right boy named Felix Kona Walsh – on July mail and check out the north of Africa now. I work from home and we have a 15, 2002. with us. nanny to help with the baby. We have two dogs, Linus and Lucy. We have CHRYSTIAN DULAC lived in our home in Redmond for 1992 (Los Angeles) almost three years. We love it in the Chrystian and his new company, Black Pacific Northwest! We love to hike, bike SARAH BLACK Noir Productions, were featured on “Eye and take walks. If there are any other (Palo Alto) on L.A.,” “Entertainment Today” and Pitzer alums in this area, give me a My husband and I have created life! “Good Day L.A.” Go to call. Ethan Alexander Black was born on www.blacknoirproductions.com for more May 13, 2001. information. SHERYL KURLAND-PPLATT (Washington, D.C.) LISA BLAZER SEAN FIIL-FFLYNN I have a one-month-old named Lili (San Diego) (Pasadena) Kurland Platt, and a 4-year-old named My husband and I were very pleased to I was married to the beautiful Majbritt Drew Kurland Platt. welcome another healthy baby boy to Fiil Laugesen of Denmark in South our family last December. I look Africa, March 23, 2001. We are now JOY JARMAN WALSH forward to the reunion next year and living in Pasadena, and job-hunting in (Hiroshima) welcome any e-mails from former Washington, D.C. As of 2001, I have completed my Pitzer friends. I can be reached at Master’s Degree in Linguistics from the [email protected]. JUNE HENDLEY (Chino Hills) I married Joel M. Hendley, HMC’94, on March 11, 2002. We just celebrated our Naomi second anniversary, still living in Hino Weiss ’90, Hill, and making horrendous treks out Christina to Los Angeles for my job as a Briones, registered nurse for LA County General Robert Hospital. Hope all is well to all my Briones ’88 friends from Pitzer. and Hector Martinez ’88 JESSICA HURLEY at the Past (San Francisco) and Present Jessica Hurley, author of “Let Your Alumni Worries Go,” has co-authored Julia Leader Butterfly Hill’s new book “One Makes Reception the Difference: Inspiring Actions that on Aug. 15, Change Our World.” 2002.

32 ! Pitzer College Participant JACQUELYN KASTER Justin Gale ’97 (Newport Beach) and Margaret I would like to give special recognition Reynolds to Professor Ann Stromberg, who was SCR'99 at the responsible for my meeting my Seattle Chapter husband. My Pitzer years and my new Event on husband have transformed my life. Sept. 23, 2002.

D'ARCY NICOLA (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) I am now a certified balance teacher. I teach people to make slight shifts in their posture, so they have no undue pressure on joints and disks, they reduce all kinds of pain (back, foot, RSI), they look and feel better and they get straighter as they age. Check out opening our 1995 our website – www.balancecenter.com, new New York City office. e-mail me at [email protected] ARACELI CORTES-CCAMPOS or call me at (650) 856-2000. SARAH JOHNSON (Montebello, Calif.) (Portland) I have a daughter, 11 months old, 1993 I had a second baby on Oct. 8, 2001, named Cielo. IT’S YOUR 10 YEAR CLASS REUNION! Carter, and we have a 2-year-old named COREY FELDMAN Join us for Alumni Weekend on Max. (Seattle) May 2-4, 2003, to reunite with old I am back from a four-year tour of Latin friends, participate in Alumni College, MITCH NUMARK America. Good to be back in the U.S., to see how much the Pitzer campus (Redondo Beach) and the N.W. has changed, and to meet Laura Mitch is completing his Ph.D. in Indian Skandera Trombley, the fifth president History at UCLA. Mitch taught three JESIKA GAVILANES of Pitzer College. E-mail classes at Pitzer during the 2002 (Portland, Ore.) [email protected] for more spring semester, including Introduction Jesika Samuelson Gavilanes and information or to help us plan our class to Indian History, Introduction to Religion in the Middle East and South Enrique Gavilanes welcomed Eli Samuel reunion. We look forward to seeing you Gavilanes on July 3, 2002. He was 8 in May! Asia and History of the Jewish Diaspora. Mitch was a student of Allen lbs. 4 oz., and 21 inches. KATHERINE DOMINUS Greenberger and keeps up with him regularly. He has recently published an GRACE KANG (New York) (Irvine, Calif.) I graduated June 5 from Law School. article in the journal Jewish Social Studies: “History, Culture, and Society.” Grace says, “Lay like straw, and let the 1994 Mitch looks forward to keeping in touch water take you.” with his friends from Pitzer. E-mail him SEKOU ANDREWS at [email protected]. 1996 (Los Angeles) LAURIE HUTCHESON JEFFREY HBO Def Poet Sekou (tha misfit) is JULIAN SCAFF (Austin, Texas) crowned the Individual Champion of the (Monrovia, Calif.) After leaving Pitzer, I finished my 2002 National Poetry Slam! The Los I have a new baby, Riely, born July 4, bachelor’s in Psychology at Southwest Angeles based spoken word poet 2001. Texas State University in 1996, and returns from the 2002 National Poetry then I completed my master’s in Special Slam Competition (held this year in JOANNA SHEINKOP Education at UT Austin in 1998. Minneapolis) as the No. 1-ranking slam (Chicago) Currently I am teaching middle school poet in the nation. Following the airing Joanna is graduating Physical Therapy special education in Austin. Joshua and of his recent spoken word in June. I married in 2001, then spent a week in performances on the BET’s “The Way Belize, jungle trekking, rappelling, cave We Do It” and the critically acclaimed MICHAEL STEPHENS tubing and Belikin drinking. We returned HBO series, “Def Poetry,” this local poet (Portland, Ore.) with a souvenir, baby Zoe, born can now add the title National Slam My wife Heather, HMC’93, and I December 2001. Champion to his credits, bringing a welcomed our second child Ryan collective sense of pride to the L.A. and Gregory Stephens to the world on June ALEXANDRA LEVI Southern California poetry scene. 14. I recently quit my job as a (Chicago) teacher/administrator of a Catholic I have a new job as Forensic Interviewer PAUL JEWEL grade school to be a stay-at-home dad at Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center. I (Burlingame, Calif.) and finish my masters in history. have a master’s in Social Work at I just celebrated my 9th year with Howdy to all. Send e-mails. I’ll send University of Michigan and am getting Nelson Nygaard and recently became a pictures. My e-mail is my Ph.D. at the Institute for Clinical partner. This September I will be [email protected]. Social Work in Chicago.

Fall 2002 ! 33 KYLE PUSATERI (West Hollywood) Kyle is still in graduate school, just finished a master’s in African Studies and is now working on a master’s in Public Health.

JOANNA SAPIR (Berkeley) Joanna and Chano Uribe are proud to announce the birth of their son, Emilio, on June 4, 2002. Joanna is on maternity leave from teaching at Berkeley High School. She will return in January. She can be reached at [email protected].

Andrew Santoy ’01, San Diego Chapter Chair, Jennifer Bodine ’01, Professor Al 1997 Wachtel, and Michelle Green ’01 and guest, at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego on Aug. 25, 2002. MAKIKO HARADA (New York) Well, I am all moved in to my new Jackson and Agnes Jackson. I finished a master’s in Health home. For those of you in the Seattle Education at Columbia University, and Area, I will be having a DAMIAN ROSS am now working on a M.P.S. in Creative housewarming/finishing my master’s (Ontario, Calif.) Arts Therapy. It’s very exciting! degree party. If you want to come to I graduated from CGU with an M.F.A. in Seattle, that’s a great excuse to travel. sculpture in May 2002. My Graduate ALIX JESTROW Best wishes to all. Show was May 13-18 at the Peggy (Baltimore) Phelps Gallery, CGU. The Opening I was married to Ben Brewer in August. ELIZABETH SALICK reception was May 14. (New York) ELIZABETH HOLM KRAHN I am in my second year of a Psy.D. 2000 (Portland) Program at Yeshiva University, and I’m LINDA ARREOLA I got married May 20, 2000, to Ben living in New York. Krahn who is a professional (Claremont) th skateboarder. I am a yoga instructor. I am teaching 5 grade and going to 1999 CGU for a master’s in education. ANGELA CUMIN RANDAK AMY FLAMSON (W. Valley City, Utah) (Laguna Hills) LAUREN JOHNSON I have twin 2-year old daughters, and a I married Ryan Fox ’01 on Aug. 3, (New York) 1-year old son, Samuel Forrest. 2002. I am attending graduate school This fall I will be entering my second to become a Marital Family Therapist. year at Cardoza Law School in NYC. I LIZZY ROJAS will be working this summer at the (Bellevue, Wash.) LINDA LEWIS Legal Aid Society in the Criminal I got married in May 2002. (Long Beach) Defense Division in Manhattan. I’ve been published in Baybury Review, NICOLE ROSE in “Charity” by Red Rock Press, and the CATHERINE ROMAN (Chicago) L.A. Times. My partner, some (Los Angeles) I married Ivan Sheldon on Aug. 29. fabulous/talented women in Long I had a baby girl named Ava on July 31, Beach and myself have recently started 2001. 1998 the Out Theatre. (www.outtheatre.org). I facilitate a Write On writing workshop 2001 IT’S YOUR 5 YEAR CLASS REUNION! st rd at the Center on the 1 and 3 JASON CRAIG Join us for Alumni Weekend on May 2- Mondays every month. I live on a boat (San Diego) 4, 2003, to reunite with old friends, in Alimitos Bay, which has always been I am a full time law student. Hi to participate in Alumni College, to see a dream of mine. Zenella Marchant. how much the Pitzer campus has changed, and to meet Laura Skandera ANNA LOPEZ JESSICA FISH Trombley, the fifth president of Pitzer (Coachella) (Morton, Ill.) College. E-mail [email protected] I am going back to school. I am Director of Balanced Health for more information or to help us plan Resource Center Integrative Medical our class reunion. We look forward to KATHRYN MERCURIUS Facility that focuses on women's seeing you in May! (Rancho Cucamonga) health. I also went to Santa Barbara Good luck to the new president and I and did a program on integrated yoga BETSY FENTON hope to get back on campus soon to therapy. (Seattle) meet her. Hello to Jeff Lewis, Alan

34 ! Pitzer College Participant SOJOURNER HOWE (Santa Cruz) In My Own Words I got married June 9, 2002, to Marin Greenwood. ue to a bizarre conflux of lifestyle circumstances, I find SHIRLEY KU myself driving from New York to Washington, D.C., (Tianjin, China) regularly. nd th D I am still in China teaching English to 2 and 5 graders. If you have done this, you know that it costs more in tolls Over the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as they call it here, I visited the Philippines and fellow Pitzer than it does in gas to traverse this piddly 230-mile (or so) alum Leonard deGuzman, Taiwan, Taipei and Hualien, stretch of roadway. (For the Californians in the audience: Hong Kong, Beijing, and the Great Wall at Simatai and “Tolls” are a ridiculous invention of corrupt East Coast had lots of fun. You can read a travel log at politicians, which force the drivers who use the roads (yes, the www.ugcs.caltech.edu/-takoyaki/trip_2002/. My e-mail ones God made) to pay for their upkeep.) The ridiculous cost is [email protected]. used to torture me; in my younger days, I would keep a shoebox of change under my seat and pay the tolls in nickels DANA LOVELL and dimes (“no pennies accepted”). But now, I’ve come to love (Upland) this torture. I’ve made up a list of the best and worst toll plazas I am attending CSU Fullerton in the MFA program. ever. To wit: Best Toll: The Fort McHenry Tunnel, Baltimore. First off, SACHA MOUSTAKAS it’s only a dollar and the tunnel is hella long, so you feel like (Ann Arbor, Mich.) you’re getting your money’s worth. And, best of all, there are I am a Fulbright Scholar teaching in Korea for seven always lots of open tollbooths so there’s not much waiting. months. Value, Quality of Experience, Speediness – it’s got it all. Worst Toll: I-95, Delaware. I’m not the first to note that MAY SAETANG this is straight-up bullhonky. It’s like, what, $2 to drive on an (Montclair) interstate? On an INTERSTATE? That’s like my kid setting up I have applied to Law Schools and waiting on responses. a tollbooth at the top of our one-block street. If I had a kid, anyway. IN MEMORIAM Runner-Up, Best Toll: New Jersey Turnpike, New Jersey. DONNA DARROW ’94 passed away this summer. Donna This was tough to do. I love the NJ Turnpike – I love the great was a very active New Resources Student who earned a equality of man displayed by giving both Walt Whitman and B.A. degree in Anthropology. Vince Lombardi their own memorial rest stops; I love the alternate truck/bus lanes, and the endless arguments people can LINDA ANNE REES GERBER ’69 passed away Aug. 15, have over whether or not they’re faster than the car-only lanes; 2002, at her home in Hillsborough, Calif. Linda was an I love the straightness of the southern half; I love watching all Art Major at Pitzer. Linda is survived by her husband Jim, the tinted-window executive Town Cars and limos speed by their two children, Jim and Lindsay, of Hillsborough, four and wonder if there’s some budding Tony Soprano sucking on sisters and one brother, 10 nieces and 10 nephews. A a cigar and staring listlessly out the window as he passes me funeral service was held on Aug. 18. A memorial service by. But, it’s just too damn much money, and plus there’s no was held on Aug. 24 at the Ananda Church of Palo Alto. cool tunnel or bridge. So, NJT, enjoy the runner-up trophy. And tell the Roy Rogers to bring the Double-R Bar Burger back. JEAN ANN ROMERIL ’76 passed away on June 5, 2002. Runner-Up, Worst Toll: Lincoln Tunnel, New York. At six Services were held on June 8 at the Cutchogue bucks, it’s a rip-off. Especially given the traffic and the poor Presbyterian Church, New York. condition of the tunnel. Is this any way to welcome visitors into the greatest city in the world? The one cool thing about the SHARON MONSKY ’75, who was diagnosed with the tunnel is, they’ve done some sort of technological wizardry that little-known life-threatening disease Scleroderma, and spent 16 years raising millions of dollars to find research lets you keep listening to your radio station all the way through to find a cure, has died. Monsky died of Scleroderma- the tunnel. Fort McHenry, are you listening? That’s worth at which afflicts 300,000 Americans, most of them women LEAST another dollar from me. in the prime of their lives-May 11 in Santa Barbara. In Most Underrated Toll: Delaware Memorial Bridge, the early ’80s, Monsky launched Delaware. It’s a big bridge, but it’s not that big. It’s a toll, but the Santa Barbara based it’s not a big toll. All in all, a nice little package of a toll. I’ve Scleroderma Research never had a huge backup there, and I really do like the bridge. Foundation. This foundation funds It’s got a certain classic, almost platonic simplicity to it. It’s two research centers, the San like an archetypical toll bridge. Bonus for having a Harley Francisco Bay Area Scleroderma dealer on one side and a big energy plant on the other, so Center at UC San Francisco and there’s always interesting stuff to look at. the East Coast Scleroderma Research Center at Johns Justin Rood ’95 is the publisher of Maryland-based Robin’s Hopkins University in Baltimore. Lane Press. He has had his writings published in the Washington Post and the L.A. Times, and has read his work on Monsky NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Fall 2002 ! 35 Sports Women’s Basketball Date Opponent Place Time 11/26 La Sierra Away 5:30 p.m. Men’s Basketball 11/29-30 West Coast Classic Home 7:30/5 p.m. 11/29 UC Santa Cruz Home 7:30 p.m. Date Opponent Place Time 11/30 Carlton Home 5 p.m. 11/22 Lopata Classic TBA TBA 12/5 Chapman Away 7 p.m. 11/29 West Coast Classic Home TBA 12/10 Biola Home 7:30 p.m. 12/7 UC Irvine Away 7 p.m. 12/13 Cal Baptist Home 7:30 p.m. For more information, log on to 12/14 Biola Home 7:30 p.m. 1/2 Holy Family Home 2 p.m. physical-eeducation.pomona.edu 12/31 St. Scholastica Home 2 p.m. 1/4 SUNY New Paltz Home 2 p.m. 1/3 Oxy Classic TBA TBA 1/14 Redlands Away 7:30 p.m. 1/7 Concordia Away 7:30 p.m. 1/17 Occidental Away 7:30 p.m. 1/10 La Sierra Home 1 p.m. 1/21 Cal Lutheran Home 7:30 p.m. 1/15 Whittier Away 7:30 p.m. 1/24 Claremont M-S Away 7:30 p.m. 1/18 Cal Lutheran Home 7:30 p.m. 1/28 La Verne Home 7:30 p.m. 1/22 La Verne Home 7:30 p.m. 1/31 Whittier Home 7:30 p.m. 1/25 Occidental Away 7:30 p.m. 2/3 Chapman Home 7:30 p.m. 1/29 Caltech Away 7:30 p.m. 2/4 Caltech Away 7:30 p.m. 2/1 Claremont M-S Home 7:30 p.m. 2/7 Redlands Home 7:30 p.m. 2/5 Redlands Away 7:30 p.m. 2/11 Occidental Home 7:30 p.m. 2/8 Whittier Home 7:30 p.m. 2/14 Cal Lutheran Away 7:30 p.m. 2/12 Cal Lutheran Away 7:30 p.m. 2/18 Claremont M-S Home 7:30 p.m. 2/15 La Verne Away 7:30 p.m. 2/21 La Verne Away 7:30 p.m. 2/19 Occidental Home 7:30 p.m. 2/24 Whittier Away 7:30 p.m. 2/22 Caltech Home 7:30 p.m. 2/26 Caltech Home 7:30 p.m. 2/24 Claremont M-S Away 7:30 p.m. 2/27 La Sierra Home 5 p.m. 2/27 Redlands Home 7:30 p.m. Women’s Swimming & Diving Men’s Swimming & Diving Date Opponent Place Time Date Opponent Place Time 11/2 Pomona-Pitzer Inv’l Home 9 a.m. 11/2 Pomona-Pitzer Inv’l Home 9 a.m. 11/9 Chapman Home 11 a.m. Women’s Roundup 11/22-23 Claremont M-S Inv’l CMS 9 a.m. 11/22-23 Claremont M-S Inv’l CMS 9 a.m. CROSS COUNTRY: Pomona- 12/5-7 Speedo Cup Belmont 12 p.m. 12/5-7 Speedo Cup Belmont 8:30 a.m. Pitzer fininsed 5-2 at the 1/9 Alfred Home 11 a.m. 1/6 Colorado College Home 11 a.m. SCIAC Multi-Dual Meet on 1/14 Lewis and Clark Home 11 a.m. 1/14 Lewis and Clark Home 11 a.m. 1/15 Caltech Away 4:30 p.m. 1/15 Caltech Away 4:30 p.m. Oct. 19 with help from 1/18 Occidental Home 10:30 a.m. 1/18 Occidental Home 10:30 a.m. Susie Roley ’04, who 1/24 Claremont M-S Home 3:30 p.m. 1/24 Claremont M-S Home 3:30 p.m. fininshed 16th over a 1/25 Whittier Home 10:30 a.m. 1/25 Whittier Home 10:30 a.m. 2.95-mile course with a 2/1 La Verne Home 10:30 a.m. 2/1 La Verne Home 10:30 a.m. time of 19:22. 2/8 Redlands Away 10:30 a.m. 2/8 Redlands Away 10:30 a.m. 2/15-16 SCIAC Diving Cerritos 12 p.m. 2/15-16 SCIAC Diving Cerritos 12 p.m. 2/20-22 SCIAC Swim Cerritos 11 a.m. 2/20-22 SCIAC Swim Cerritos 11 a.m. SOCCER: The team got its 3/20-22 NCAA III Nationals Atlanta 11 a.m. 3/20-22 NCAA III Nationals Atlanta 11 a.m. first SCIAC season win on Sept. 30 with a 1-0 victory Men’s Roundup FOOTBALL: At the Oct. 26 Amick ’04 scored a goal for the over La Verne. As of home game against Whittier Sagehens, who went on to win, Oct. 30, the team was CROSS COUNTRY: At the College, Matthew Hermsen ’05 2-0. As of Oct. 30, the team 2-14-1 overall, 1-9-1 SCIAC Oct. 19 SCIAC Multi-Dual Meet, corraled 3 for 64 yards, was 8-8 overall, 6-5 SCIAC with with two games remaining. the Sagehens pulled off a 6-1 including the score on a three games left. team finish with help from 50-yard touchdown pass from VOLLEYBALL: At the Oct. 8 Golden Krishna ’05, who Justin Fenchel. The Sagehens WATER POLO: On Oct. 26, game against Redlands, th finished 14 in the 8,000m won, 14-12. As of Oct. 30, the Pomona-Pitzer defeated Katherine Hopkins ’05 with a time of 27:37. team was 3-4 with one game Occidental, 7-3. Glenn led the Sagehens with a left to play. Anderson ’06 led the team with team high 16 kills to go three goals in the game. As of along with 17 digs, SOCCER: At the Oct. 16 home Oct. 30, the Sagehens were 4- although the team lost the game against Whitter, Joe 17 overall, 2-0 SCIAC with six match. As of Oct. 30, the games left to play. team was 6-17 overall, 2-9 SCIAC with three games to go.

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