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Pomona College Alumni Weekend 2007 Schedule of Events and Activities April 26-29, 2007 Table of Contents PAGE 2 General Information PAGE 4 Alumni Symposium Schedule Registration & Check-In Information PAGE 9 Alumni Weekend Schedule Pre-registered participants can pick up their registration packets and meal passes PAGE during any of the following registration 29 Class Photo Schedule times. Participants who did not pre-register may register and purchase available meal PAGE tickets during these times as well. 30 Where is My Class? PAGE Thursday, April 26 36 Hotel Shuttle Schedules 1-5 p.m. Seaver House PAGE 38 Travel with Pomona College Friday, April 27 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. PAGE Kudos and Thanks Seaver House 38 PAGE Saturday, April 28 39 Addresses, Buildings and Campus Map 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Marston Quad, under Registration Tent TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Coop Store Smith Campus Center, Main Level, 170 E. Sixth Street Hours: Thursday, April 26 – 9 a.m. to Midnight; Friday, April 27 – 9 a.m. to 1:30 a.m.; Saturday, April 28 – 9 a.m. to 1:30 a.m.; Sunday, April 29 – Noon to Midnight. The Coop Store sells Pomona College merchandise, including clothes, glassware, stationery and hats, as well as various snacks and sundries. Alumni wearing their reunion name tags will qualify for a 20 percent discount on select merchandise. Sagehen Café Smith Campus Center, Main Level, 170 E. Sixth Street Hours: Thursday, April 26 – 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m.; Welcome to Pomona College Alumni Weekend! Friday, April 27 – 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, April 28 – Closed; Sunday, April 29 – Closed. Huntley Bookstore 175 E. Eighth Street General Information Hours: Thursday – April 26, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Friday, April 27 – 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Infant/Toddler Care Contact Numbers Saturday, April 28 – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Infant/Toddler Care: United Church of Christ, 233 W. Harrison Sunday, April 29 – Closed. Ave., Claremont (909) 625-3810. Enter by the stairs on the southwest corner of the church off Harrison Restrooms Avenue. Room is on the second level. Facilities can be found in the following buildings: Smith Campus Center, Big Bridges Auditorium, Little Bridges Hall of Music, Coop Fountain Seaver House, Thatcher Music Building and Walker Lounge. Smith Campus Center, Main Level, 170 E. Sixth Street Hours: Thursday, April 26 – 9 a.m. to Midnight; Public Pay Phones Friday, April 27 – 9 a.m. to 1:30 a.m.; Public pay phones are located in: Big Bridges Lobby, Thatcher Music Saturday, April 28 – 9 a.m. to 1:30 a.m.; Building Lobby, Oldenborg Lobby, Outdoor Arcade of Sumner Hall, Sunday, April 29 – Noon to Midnight. Seaver Theatre Patio and Smith Campus Center Main Level. Fountain sells coffee, sandwiches, burgers, shakes, drinks and snacks. (Please note: There are no public pay phones at the Seaver House.) 2 GENERAL INFORMATION GENERAL INFORMATION 3 9:30 a.m. Emotion and Cognition: How Feelings Affect Attention, Memory and Language Rose Hills Theatre, Lower Level, Smith Campus Center DEBORAH BURKE Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science and Psychology, Pomona College, is an expert in the “tip-of-the-tongue” phenomenon and role of language and memory. She teaches a seminar on the impact of emotions on memory and has long studied how we remember and why we forget. 10:30 a.m. Recalling the Humanities Rose Hills Theatre, Lower Level, Smith Campus Center Time and Memory in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway 18th Annual Alumni Symposium and Toni Morrison’s Beloved JEAN MURDY WYATT ’61 April 27-28, 2007 Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Occidental Memory, Memoir, and Madeleines: College, will explore the roles of memory and time in modern literature and the tendency to live the past in the present. She will explore the Remembering Things Past relationship between a person’s attitude toward memory and the ability to live fruitfully in regard to time’s passing. The Pomona College 18th Annual Alumni Symposium will, over the course of two days, offer participants an opportunity to test and plumb Scents of Memory — Memory of Scents (What Are We their own memories while examining the topic of human memory Talking About When We Talk About Smells?) from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the scientific to the artistic HANS RINDISBACHER to the practical. In conversation with engaged alumni and faculty, Associate Professor of German, Pomona College, has research interests participants will explore topics with great relevance to their own lives. focusing on the literary, cultural, historical and social aspects of the German-speaking world as well as olfaction in the arts and sciences. His Friday, April 27, 2007 presentation will include pointers for developing olfactory sensitivities and a classification system by which to order scent. 9:15 a.m. Symposium Welcome and Introduction Introducer – CATHERINE PORTER ’62 Rose Hills Theatre, Lower Level, Smith Campus Center Professor emerita of French at Cornell University and at SUNY, Cortland, and second vice-president of the Modern Language GARY KATES Association (MLA). Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean, Pomona College 4 ALUMNI SYMPOSIUM ALUMNI SYMPOSIUM 5 1:30 p.m. Memory as Power: Lessons from the VERLYN KLINKENBORG ’74 Recovered Memory Controversy Visiting Writer in Residence, Pomona College, has been a successful Rose Hills Theatre, Lower Level, Smith Campus Center recorder of things ordinary and often overlooked. His gifts of observation invoke the reader to look anew, to recognize how fragmentary our knowl- JOHN BEAHRS ’62 edge of the past is, and to point us to “the authority of the ordinary.” He Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, The Oregon Health and Science Uni- notes that memoirists often battle with confession versus concealment and versity, served as chair of the Task Force on Child Sex Abuse and Adult struggle to overcome certain “burdens of obligation.” Recovered Memory. Among his many interests are the adaptive functions of memory, alterations of truth by suggestion and recent “trauma wars.” Introducer – KYLA TOMPKINS Assistant Professor of English and Gender & Women’s Studies, Introducer/Moderator – WILLIAM BANKS Pomona College Professor of Psychology, Pomona College, a cognitive psychologist, is the recipient of numerous awards and grants. He was co-editor of The 4:30 p.m. Remembering Pomona: Strolling Down Recovered Memory/False Memory Debate (1986), a work focusing College Avenue by Way of Memory Lane on scientific aspects of the memory controversy. Rose Hills Theatre, Lower Level, Smith Campus Center 2:30 p.m. Ancient Egyptians and Early French VERNE ORR ’37 Photographers: Views of Time and Memory Former Secretary of the Air Force, retired businessman, and graduate Rose Hills Theatre, Lower Level, Smith Campus Center school dean, will lead a session of shared memories about Pomona’s past, of traditions that have begun and ended, and of indelible impressions KATHLEEN STEWART HOWE that stand out in the minds of generations of Sagehens. Director of the Pomona College Museum of Art and Professor of Art History, Pomona College, has among her specialty fields 19th-century Introducer – CATHERINE TROYER ROSE ’85 photography and the visual culture of travel and exploration. She is President, Pomona College Alumni Association currently at work on the complex interactions among photography, archaeology and philology in the mid-19th century. Saturday, April 28, 2007 CHRISTINE LILYQUIST ’62 Lila A. Wallace Research Curator in Egyptology at The Metropolitan 10:30 a.m. Memory and the Movies Museum of Art. As curator of the Egyptian art department, she supervised Edmunds Ballroom, Main Level, Smith Campus Center the 11-year-long reinstallation of the museum’s collection of ancient Egyptian art and artifacts. She has a strong interest in the material DAVID WARD ’67 remains that reveal relations between Egypt and her neighbors. Director and award-winning screenwriter of such films as The Sting, Major League and Sleepless in Seattle, will share personal memories Introducer – GEORGE GORSE about movies and their evocative power. He will lead a discussion explor- Professor of Art History, Pomona College ing some of the ways that cinema affects viewers’ memory and invokes spontaneous recollection. A film clip of David’s movies will be shown. 3:30 p.m. The Practical Memoirist: Notes on Taking Notes on Your Own Life Introducer – DAVID W. OXTOBY Rose Hills Theatre, Lower Level, Smith Campus Center President, Pomona College 6 ALUMNI SYMPOSIUM ALUMNI SYMPOSIUM 7 1:30 p.m. You MUST Remember This!: Passwords in Contemporary Computer Culture Rose Hills Theatre, Lower Level, Smith Campus Center JEREMY DOUGLASS ’99 Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara, is studying the digital humanities and new media studies. He will explore how we choose and remember passwords, how networked computers serve as vast external memory systems with passwords the irreducible human element to be remembered, and how the password serves as our contemporary shibboleth. Introducer – PAUL SAINT-AMOUR Associate Professor of English, Pomona College Pomona College Alumni Weekend 2007 Schedule of Events This schedule was accurate at the time of printing. Some changes may have been made in the interim. All events listed are open to all alumni and friends free of charge, unless otherwise noted. Thursday, April 26 9 a.m.-Midnight Coop Store Sale The store has Pomona College merchandise for sale. Alumni wearing their reunion name tags will qualify for a 20 percent discount on select merchandise. Smith Campus Center, Main Level, 170 E. Sixth Street. 9 a.m.-Midnight Coop Fountain Open Fountain sells coffee, sandwiches, burgers, shakes, drinks and other snacks. Smith Campus Center, Main Level, 170 E.