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PITZER COLLEGE ~ I FIRST TH 1NGS MACA>JNCH>kAWMNIA>IUf.ll''"" PARTIC I PANT ' FIRST President Lauro Skondero Trombley Parsons Foundation Gift Editor Susan Andrews Pitzer College is pleased to announce a prestigious $250,000 grant from the OF THE SCIENCE Managing Editor Ralph M. Parsons Foundation. This grant COMMUNITY Joy Collier will support the creation of a Science Designer Learning Community as part of the Robert P. Hernandez '06 Residential Life Project. The Science • Students may elect to live in a themed Learning Community will include a fac community for o semester or year, or Sports Editor ulty apartment for a scientist in-resi they may spend two or three years in Catherine Okereke '00 dence, dedicated residential rooms for one area, particularly if it is a close Contributing Writers students pursuing science majors, and match to their degree program major; Susan Andrews dedicated study rooms and living room • accommodatiens for 26 to 30 first Carol Brandt areas for science students. The goal is to year through senior-level students who Emily Covolconti create a supportive community for stu have an interest or major in science, Richard Chute '84 dents while they are exploring their dlo with accompanying communal study, Joy Collier sen fields of biology, chemistry and and meeting spaces; Tanya Eveleth physics, or one of many interdisciplinary • an apartment to be used on a two- or Eddie Gonzalez '04 fields such as neurobiology or environ three-year rotating basis by new Melinda Herrold-Menzies mental science. tenure-track science professors who, in Alice Jung '01 According to education experts addition to their formal classes, would Gino Lamb brought together by Project Kaleidoscope be available to lead discussions about Jesse Lerner (PKAL), one of the leading advocates in contemporary scientific and technolo Ming-Yuen S. Mo the U.S. for btLilding and sustaining gy issues informally with the resident Catherine Okereke '00 strong undergraduate programs in the students during non-doss hours; fields of science, "If co ll eges and univer • funding permitting, a second smaller Contributing Designer sities are to build the kind of natural sci apartment for a graduate student Emily Cavalcanti ence communities that succeed in attract who could oct as coach and tutor for Contributing Photographers ing and sustaining student interest in sci the students as well as organize peri Susan Andrews ence and mathematics, spaces must odic science-related activities such as Lourie Babcock encourage daily interaction between stu workshops, guest speakers, field trips, Emily Covolconti dent and faculty, and between student internships, etc.; Jay Collier and student." For many, it may seem • at least one "smart" seminar room Springsong Cooper '09 ironic that successful spaces for teaching that would have the technology and Catherine Okereke '00 the "hard sciences" are those that: software to enable multimedia pre sentations, Internet connections, and Cover Illustration computer-based laborotery work for Robert P. Hernandez '06 • encourage an open community, fortuitous encotmters, serendipitous such things as molecular modeling in Printer engagement; order to supplement classroom activities; Dual Graphics • are welcoming to alt kind to the user, human-scaled; • integrated indoor/ outdoor spaces • are subservient to human activity, that could be used as environmental The Pitzer College magazine for alumni education demonstration areas and and friends is published quarterly by enabling people to connect with examples of sustainable design and the Pitzer College Office of Public ease; Re lations, 1050 North Mills Avenue, native landscaping; and • meet current needs, keep future • a program fund to support all these Claremont, CA 91711 -6101. options open, and can change with On the Web at www.pitzer.edu science-related activities. The Participant is listed as ISSN 1553- grace; 1406. POSTMASTER: Send address • are open to surprise, comfortable changes to: PITZER COLLEGE, Office of with conflict; and Advancement, 1 050 North Mills • enable a community to reach Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711-6101 continually toward its potential. with sustainabili ty in mind to reduce budget costs while mitigating or elimi A member of the Claremont Colleges, Pitzer PKAL promotes the development of College is a private liberal arts and nating negative environmental impacts. sciences instiMion, committed to values of ideal spaces for learning science-spaces Ultimately, the ideal space for learning academic excellence, interdisciplinary per where members of the campus commu science is one in which students connect spective, intercultural understanding and social nity can connect with each other as they what they are learning in the classroom responsibility. The Parfici,xrl welcomes com explore the world around them. These and lab to the world beyond the can1pus, ments from its readers. Address letters to spaces, by virtue of their design and loca engaged in real-world problems and pos Participant Editor, Avery 105, Pitzer College, tions, should also signal that science is a sibilities. 1050 North Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA core discipline in 21st century liberal arts Pitzer is creating just this kind of ideal 9171 1-6101, or send them via e-mail to education and, in so doing, encourage space with its new Science Learning [email protected]. The Participant is pub and expand the community of science. Community funded in part through the lished online in PDF format at www.pitzer.edu. Moreover, these spaces should be built generosity of the Parsons Foundation. PITZER COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Trustees HIRSCHELB . ABELSON P'92. President, Stralem & Company, Inc. BRIDGET BAKER' 82, Executive Vice President, NBC Universal Coble Ji ll BASKIN '77, Chicago, ll Going for Gold: Ground MARCD . BROIDY '95, Vice President Financial Advisor, Merrill b roken f or new Residential lynch 1 0 0 life Project. WIL LI AMG . BRU NGERP 'OI , Senior Vice President, Network, ~ Continental Airlines NANCY ROSE BUSHNEll '69, laguna Beach, CA JORGE DELGADO, President and General Manager KMEX-Tv, The Pitzer College communit y Univision, & KFTR, Telefuturo los Angeles n CHARLES DIAZ '75 , Portner Murtaugh, Meyer, Nelson &Tre glia 6 responds to Hurricane Katrina. SUSAN G. DOLGEN P'97, Access & Answers 0 SARA LOVE DOWNEYP'88 , P'89 & P'91 , Chicago, ll MARYBET HGARBER '68, President, Southern California Broadcasters Association z JONATHANP . GRAHAM' 82, Vice President, litigation and legal Policy, General Electric Company ~ JAMES HASS '75, Director, l ECG, llC DEBORAHBACH KAlliCK '78, Executive Director, Government m and Industry Relations, Cedars-Sinai Health System BROOKEKNAPP, Sotheby's International Realty RO BI NM . KRAMER '75, Chief of Stoff, Mayor Antonio z Villaraigasa THOMAS H. MOORE' 82, Vice President, Morgan Stanley Pitzer College is home to ~ " To Never Forget: Faces of the Investment Management 1 6 th e Intercollegiate Media C/1 JAMES OR LI KOF F' 76, President, Orlikoff and Associates, Inc. 8 Fallen," features portraits Studies depa rtment, one of the best ARNOLDPALMER , Senior Vice President, Sanders Morris Harris painted by students, alumni, faculty, und ergra duate M edia Studies SHANA PASSMAN P'04 & P'08, Beverly Hills, CA staff and local artists. p rograms in the country. EllA PENNI NGTON '81, Vice President for Operations, Crystal Stairs, Inc. RUSSEll M. PITZER, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ohio I ~ PITZER COLLEGE N EVVS State University SUSAN S. PRI TZKER P'93, Chicogo, ll • Faculty Notes page 4 MARGOT lEVIN SCHIFF P'90 & P'95, Chicago, ll • Campus Notes page 6 Willi AMD. SHEI NB ERG' 83, Portner in The Bubble Factory • External Studies page 14 SUSAN NATHANSHOll '76, Glencoe, ll SHAHAN SOGHIKIAN' 80, Partner, J.P. Morgan Partners lLC • Sogehens Sports page 30 LISASP ECH T, Allorney/Portner, Monott, Phelps & Phillips EUGENE P. STEIN, Choir of the Boord; Vice Chairman, Capital I~ MEDIA STUDIES Guardian Trust Company CYNTHIATELL ES, Director, Spanish-Speaking Psychosocial Clinic • Univision Internship page 17 of the Neuropsychiatric Institute & Hospital/Associate • Alex Juhasz page 18 Clinical Professor UCLASch ool of Medicine • Jesse Lerner page 19 JOHN N. TIERNEY, low Offices of John N. Tierney • Tracy Bigo Maclean page 20 LAURA SKANDERAT ROMBLEY, President, Piner College • Ming-Yuen S. Mo page 21 Trustees Emeriti • Mike Simpson '86 page 22 ROBERTH. ATWEll, Former President, Pitzer College • Zoch Putnam '03 page 24 CONSTANC EAUSTI NP'78 , Los Angeles, CA • Gino lomb page 26 Ell BROAD P'70, los Angeles, CA • Enid Somogyi page 27 FRANK l. EllSWORTH, Former President, Pitzer College; President, The Japan Society HARVEY J. FI EL DS P'85, Beverly Hills, CA CONNECTIONS PETERS. GOLD P'74, los Angeles, CA PATRICIAG. HECKER P'76, St. louis, MO • Pitzer Family Connection page 32 BRUCE E. KARATZ P'94, Chairman & CEO, KBH ome • Claremont Alumni Network (CAN} page 36 MARILYN CHAPIN MASSEY, Former President, Pitzer College MURRAY PEPPER, President, Home Silk Properties, Inc. CLASS NOTES EDITHl. PINESS, Ph.D., Mill Valley, CA RICHARDJ. RIORDAN, Former Mayor, City of los Angeles • Jessica Hurley '92 page 33 DEBORAHD EUTSCH SMITH' 68, Research Professo r; Director, IRIS • Joel Harper '95 page 37 Center for Faculty Enhancement, Vanderbilt University • In My Own Words: Edd ie Gonzalez '04 page 40 PRESID ENT'S I COLUMN A Landmark Moment An enthusiastic Pitzer community gathered on a warm, sunny September afternoon to celebrate the groundbreaking of the first phase