T he Magazine of San 360Diego State University F all/Winter 2003

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International Inspiration. SDSU students are taking flight as citizens of the world.

Real-World Referee. FTC chair Tim Muris rules for consumers and fair competition.

One Singular Sensation. Musical theatre hopefuls polish their acts.

Teaching Teachers. San Diego State’s original mandate remains a top priority. The English word “excellence” comes from the Latin “excellere,” meaning “to climb higher.” Excellence is not about elitism; it is about life’s We invite you to join us in our climb. SDSU is elemental core: the struggle to fully express and increasingly recognized among the nation’s major expand one’s capabilities. urban universities. With more than 39,000 appli- cants competing for fewer than 7,300 undergraduate California’s fiscal and political difficulties do not vacancies this fall, our incoming freshmen are better exempt San Diego State from its responsibilities for prepared than ever before. Their average GPA is excellence. We will continue our important work – estimated at 3.5; their average SAT is projected at providing a high-quality learning experience for our 1071. We expect great things of these newest Aztecs students, supporting our faculty in their teaching as they pursue their education and then move on to and research, and serving our community as a assume positions of responsibility and leadership in resource and problem-solver. Climbing still higher our community and beyond. They are supported and will not only require the hard work and dedication helped on their way by faculty who are nationally of our faculty, staff and students but will also and internationally respected scholars in their fields require the support of our alumni, friends and and by caring, dedicated support staff. community partners. Now more than ever, I am grateful for your In recent years, our growing excellence – in the partnership. Together, we will continue to climb Directionspreparation of our students, the groundbreaking higher. At this critical moment, when the state of work of our faculty and the community involvement California cannot give us the support it would like, of our students and colleagues – has been rewarded we look to you – our alumni and friends – to give with sharply increased private support. In 2002-03, these students the “hand up” they deserve as they despite a dismal economic climate, SDSU attracted stretch and grow, and the “hand up” our community $43 million in cash and $19 million in pledges must extend if we are to realize our potential. from its friends and supporters. At the same time, our faculty won more than $130 million in federal, state and local grants and contracts. These funds have helped San Diego State climb still higher. Stephen L. Weber, president In this time of shrinking government allocations, San Diego State University private giving is a critical lifeline for our ascent. Philanthropy is now a fundamental building block for SDSU’s excellence. 360 The Magazine of San Diego State University (ISSN 1543-7116) is published quarterly by SDSU Marketing & Communications and distributed to members of the SDSU Alumni Association, faculty, staff and friends.

Editor: Sandra Millers Younger Writer: Coleen Geraghty Editorial: Colleen DeLory, Jason Foster, Aaron Hoskins, Kevin Klintworth, Shawn Shook, Jennifer Zwiebel Graphics: Lori Padelford, John Signer Cover Design: Lori Padelford

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY 360 Stephen L. Weber Features President Departments DIVISION OF UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT One Singular Sensation Theresa M. Mendoza With ev’ry move that they make, musical theatre Vice President Allan Bailey students grow as scholars and performers. Chief Financial & Information Officer 14 By Colleen DeLory Directions Alumni Angles Jack Beresford From the President Faculty Montys Interim Associate Vice President Marketing & Communications 2 Winners Jim Herrick 35 Executive Director, Alumni Association Kim Hill rpm Associate Vice President, Development Campus News By Degrees 6 International We welcome mail from our readers. Please submit your comments to: International Inspiration Humanitarian Given an open window, more and more students are taking Horizons Tom Weismann 360 Magazine 18 flight as citizens of the world. Provost Nancy Marlin 40 www.sdsu.edu/360 Inner Space, Marketing & Communications planned it that way. By Coleen L. Geraghty Outer Space 5500 Campanile Drive 12 San Diego CA 92182-8080 Fax: 619-594-5956 E-mail: [email protected] Philanthropy Periodical postage paid at San Diego, CA Real-World Referee The President’s Volume 10, No. 3, copyright 2003 Leadership Fund San Diego State University FTC Chairman Tim Muris rules in favor of consumers and fair competition. 34 Postmaster: 26 By Sandra Millers Younger Send address changes to: Information Services San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego CA 92182-8035

Opinions expressed in 360 Magazine are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Teaching Teachers the university administration nor those After 106 years, San Diego State’s original mandate of The California State University Board remains a top priority. By Sandra Millers Younger of Trustees. 30 Member, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) rpm Robert E. Younger, Terra Nova Photography

Engineering Memorial

A tranquil corner of campus has been dedicated to the memory of engineering professors Chen Liang, Preston Lowrey III and Constantinos Lyrintzis, all fatally shot Aug. 15, 1996 by a graduate student.

A grouping of three tables and benches shaded by three trees, the L3 Memorial Park is located between the Engineering Sociologist Is New No stranger to California, and Life Sciences North build- Arts and Letters Dean Wong moved to the Golden ings. Each table is inlaid with State at age 13 after emigrat- a circular plaque honoring one of Sociologist Paul Wong is the ing with his family from the three slain men with an engi- new dean of SDSU’s College China. He earned his bache- neering equation fundamental to of Arts and Letters. Wong came lor’s, master’s and doctoral his research. to San Diego State June 30 from degrees at the University of the University of Michigan- California, Berkeley. Wong’s “These three men were dedi- Dearborn, where he served as career has also taken him to cated teachers, researchers and professor of sociology and dean UC San Diego, Arizona State friends,” said professor emeritus of the College of Arts, Sciences and Washington State. He and former dean George Craig, and Letters. has strong family ties in who spoke at the dedication Aug. California: his three children, 25. “This memorial celebrates mother and brother all live their contributions as academi- in the state. cians and ensures their legacy will be remembered forever.” SDSU President Stephen L. Weber praised Wong for his Members of the engineering scholarship. “Paul’s rich aca- faculty and staff and Physical “Battle against terrorism cannot be demic background in public Plant and Facilities Planning fought only on military grounds. policy, ethnicity and diversity designed the memorial space. We must recognize that the allure is extremely compatible with SDSU Physical Plant donated of such movements is also group- the areas of study in our labor and materials to create “ College of Arts and Letters,” centric. Therefore, if there is any the park and its unique plaques. Weber said. “His passion for hope of controlling terrorism it must creating a better understand- “I can envision faculty and come from offering ideological ing of how social phenomena students sitting at the tables, alternatives to the people.” impact local and international reading the plaques and sharing relations can only enhance their memories,” said Scott Dipak Gupta, SDSU professor of political the college.” Burns, Physical Plant director science, speaking Sept. 22, 2003 in New York and himself an SDSU engineer- during “Fighting Terrorism for Humanity: A Wong succeeds Paul Strand, Conference on the Roots of Evil.” ing alumnus. “I can’t think of a who will take a sabbatical and more fitting tribute.” then return to the faculty.

6 FALL/WINTER 2003 360 MAGAZINE 7 rpm To gauge the degree of change in a country, study its art.

A window on the effects of rapid change in China will open to the public this month at San Diego State’s University Art Gallery. Partnering with several Balboa Park museums, SDSU’s School of Art, Design and Art History has organized two striking exhibitions of photographs and video pieces by young Chinese artists deeply influenced by their country’s rush to modernization. Taken as a whole, the images reflect a new China, saturated by Western media and wrestling with the warring notions of conformity versus individualism, traditional romance versus modern sensuality.

The University Art Gallery will display works from the collection of SDSU alumni Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild. Together, Eloisa Haudenschild and Tina Yapelli, director of the University Art Gallery, organized and curated the landmark exhibitions, which will run through April.

Haudenschild has also commissioned a new video work by Shanghai artist Yang Zhenzhong during his residency at SDSU this semester. The completed video will debut the evening of Jan. 31, 2004 at the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts. Earlier that day, the San Diego Museum of Art will host a symposium on contemporary Chinese art, also organized by Yapelli and Haudenschild. Several internationally known curators and artists will serve as presenters.

Many artists in the Haudenschild Collection have exhibited in Europe and Asia, but not in the U.S., placing San Diego State in the vanguard of institu- tions recognizing this emerging genre. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently purchased one of Xiang Liqing’s “Rock Never” series of six photographs. A complete series of the “Rock Never” photographs is in the Haudenschild Collection; a detail is shown at right.

Haudenschild, who describes the exhibition as “witty and intelligent,” believes it provides rare insight into a mysterious but shifting culture. “It’s reasonable to conclude that these artists are reacting to the speed of change in China,” she said. “There is a hyperactivity of color and fantasy, as if they are imagining the world as better than it is.” –Coleen Geraghty

8 FALL/WINTER 2003 Detail. Artist: Xiang 360 MAGAZINE 9 rpm

Tightening the Belt

Deep reductions from a shrunken 2003-04 state budget will force San Diego State to limit enrollment growth this year. But barring further cuts, the

university will still be able Robert E. Younger, Terra Nova Photography Linda S. Nye © 2003, www.lsnye.com Tom Farrington/ITS to offer enough courses and services to ensure that its

34,000 students can continue Pedestrian Crossing To see the results, along with Sciences and Molecular Biology $8 million in financing has field team, which claimed the to move toward graduation in a computer-generated renderings Institute, the new building will already been secured through Mountain West title, ending a Construction of the San Diego and video clips of the land- enhance town-gown collabora- the San Diego State University 21-year championship run by timely manner. Trolley’s Mission Valley East mark project, look online at tion and foster rapid progress Foundation. Brigham Young. The Aztecs Extension through the main San www.sdsutrolley.com/visuals.htm. across a broad research agenda went on to finish 29th at the Diego State campus reached a including disease prevention The BioScience Center will NCAA Track and Field The California State University milestone Sept. 2, the first day Funded largely by federal alloca- and bioterrorism defense. complement other new science Outdoor Championships. suffered $105 million in net budget of fall classes, with the opening tions, the $496 million trolley buildings on campus, including of a handsome new pedestrian extension will connect to existing Judith Zyskind, biology profes- the $31 million Chemical San Diego State also brought cuts last year and anticipates bridge over College Avenue. stops at QUALCOMM Stadium sor and co-founder of Elitra Sciences Laboratory opened last home regular-season or confer- $345 million in net reductions this and in La Mesa. It is scheduled to Pharmaceuticals Inc., will year, and the just-completed ence tournament titles in soft- The suspension-style crossing, open in mid-2005. direct the facility. With its renovation of the Chemistry- ball, men’s tennis and women’s year. SDSU’s share of the burden approximately 230 feet long and completion, she anticipates Geology building, a $23.4 tennis. And the men’s golf 45 feet high, provides direct expanded opportunities for million effort. team turned in a strong per- was $13.4 million last year and is A BioScience Center for access to the main campus from both faculty and students. formance, finishing second in projected to reach $15.7 million residence halls, parking garages Researchers and Biotech the conference tournament and Sports Update for ’03-’04. and commercial establishments on “Our students are a major advancing out of the NCAA the east side of College Avenue. source of research staff for area West Regional to become one The Aztec Athletics Center is San Diego State will break ground biotech firms,” she said. “Work of 30 programs to play for the displaying plenty of new hard- Meanwhile, work continues on next year on the SDSU BioScience experience within the center national title. Kudos also to Funding for enrollment will increase ware these days – trophies won the underground trolley station Center, a five-story campus facili- will enhance their career oppor- the Aztec water polo team, by spring sports teams that are only 3.8 percent in ’03-’04, and the at the south end of Aztec Green ty that will house several of the tunities and provide [the com- which finished a program-best establishing an annual tradition between Aztec Center and Adams university’s top research programs panies] an even more highly fifth place in the Mountain state has indicated no enrollment of dominating the Mountain Humanities. Construction barriers and serve also as an incubator for trained source of employees Pacific Sports Federation – far West Conference. growth funding will be available have come down, revealing the community biotech entrepreneurs. with unique skill sets.” and away the sport’s toughest next year. facade of the new transit hub. league in the country. Home to the SDSU Heart Of the $13 million needed to The season’s top headline grab- Institute, Center for Microbial complete the project, more than ber was SDSU’s track and

10 FALL/WINTER 2003 360 MAGAZINE 11 Horizons Academic Excellence

Inner Space, Outer Space The observatory, the only facility of its kind in the California State University System, operates under a special-use permit Exploring the Micro and the Mammoth from the U.S. Forest Service, which recently challenged SDSU to increase accessibility for visitors with disabilities. As a result, By Coleen L. Geraghty the telescope will become more usable for students as well.

In film and fiction, university science labs are often depicted as soundless, sterile “The issue is enabling people to look through the telescope chambers tucked away in some deserted corner of campus and permanently off limits if they’re unable to climb the ladder,” explained Paul Etzel, to the public. Get real. astronomy department chair and the observatory’s director. “We can’t lower the telescope; it needs a certain range of motion.” San Diego State’s core scientific facilities are bustling hubs. Thousands of students, faculty and private researchers stream through each year, working individually or on Instead, SDSU astronomers envisioned a remote, computer- group projects. A degree of disorder is part of the equation. operated system that would allow users seated in the visitors’ center to control a modest-sized, 10-inch telescope by point- Two of these facilities are about to become even more user-friendly. With new equip- ing and clicking on a graphic of the sky. ment and improved computer interfaces, SDSU’s Electron Microscope Facility and Mount Laguna Observatory will be more accessible than ever to undergraduates, other N EW H ORIZONS CSU constituents and the general public. “The solution opened up some new horizons for us,” Etzel said. “We thought, why not extend that capability to our beginning A TOMIC INSIGHT astronomy students? They’ve been using our campus telescopes A $390,000 grant from the National Science Foundation recently enabled the university for lab classes, but the nights are usually too cloudy for good to purchase a new transmission electron microscope, as well as a high-resolution digital viewing because of the marine layer. Why not set up computers camera to enhance the instrument’s operation. Motorized and computer controlled, the on campus with remote control of a Mount Laguna telescope? new microscope can automatically collect images of a researcher’s sample during a sta- Additionally, our undergraduate majors would have an ble, controlled rotation. The result: an accurate reconstruction of the sample quickly exciting tool to initiate their own research projects, which captured, then displayed on a high-resolution monitor. Steve Barlow, who operates the would carry over to further research at Mount Laguna under Electron Microscope Facility, is delighted. “No longer will we have to sit in a dark faculty direction.” room poring over a faintly glowing screen through binocular eyepieces,” he said. The new scope is operated in dim light, not darkness, and the computer monitor displays A $60,000 grant from the O.P. & W.E. Edwards Foundation the image with considerably more contrast and better resolution. will support a graduate student for three years to develop the remote system and help upgrade the existing 40-inch tele- A second type of electron microscope, which scans the surface of samples rather than scope’s control system, among other duties. Etzel predicts a transmitting beams of electrons through them to produce images, is also available in the day when newer and larger telescopes at Mount Laguna will be lab. Barlow will continue to use this instrument in his outreach work with Clear View controlled over the Internet. Eventually, the link could be Charter School in Chula Vista. Through an existing cable hook-up between the lab and extended to all CSU campuses where astronomy is offered. the school, students can see their own pre-prepared samples of plants, insects, pollen, sand and dust mites on a classroom computer screen linked to the microscope viewing Tom Scott, dean of SDSU’s College of Sciences, applauds the screen in the SDSU laboratory 14 miles away. The microscope operator controls the university’s advances in exploring both inner and outer space. focus and magnification, and a fixed camera in the lab allows students to videoconfer- “For most of human history, our inquisitiveness about the nat- ence with Barlow and other SDSU scientists. ural world has been limited to what our senses could convey and our minds imagine,” he said. “In rapid succession, about S TAR POWER 400 years ago, came the invention of the microscope and the About 40 miles east of the Electron Microscope Facility, at a dark site in the Cleveland telescope. The Electron Microscope Facility and the Mount National Forest, San Diego State’s Mount Laguna Observatory also serves campus and Laguna Observatory are SDSU’s ultimate vehicles for inform- community. Its primary research instrument: a 40-inch reflector jointly operated by ing people of what the micro and the mammoth worlds hold.” SDSU and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Also on site are 24-inch and 16-inch telescopes for student, faculty and independent researchers, plus the 21-inch The general public can visit the Electron Microscope Facility and “Buller Visitors’ Telescope,” donated by Reginald Buller for use by SDSU general educa- view the stars through SDSU’s campus telescope during “Inner tion students, accredited school groups and participants in special public programs. Space/Outer Space,” the College of Sciences’ annual open house, on The general public may also join the Mount Laguna Observatory Associates for access to Saturday, Nov. 15. For more information, call 619-594-6182 or special observatory events. check online at http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/emfacility/.

12 FALL/WINTER 2003 Photo: Anthony Nelson 360 MAGAZINE 13 Colleen Suddeth started to cry Recent Productions: two minutes into the Broadway production of “Dreamgirls” and Honk!, Merrily We Roll Along, continued weeping throughout the show. A performer since the A New Brain, Saturday Night, age of four, she had acquiesced to her parents’ request that she 110 in the Shade, Anything “please not take theatre” at col- lege and was studying business instead. But during this fateful Goes, Somewhere Over the trip to New York, she realized she had to follow her heart. Rainbow: Yip Harburg’s

Flash forward 10 years. Colleen America, Children of Eden, One Singular herself appears on Broadway in “Sunset Boulevard,” a moment Triumph of Love, Company, she describes now as an out-of- body experience. “I could hardly Flora the Red Menace, Berlin take in that something I’d want- ed to do since I was a little to Broadway with Kurt Weill girl was actually happening,” she says.

This is the world of musical and acting,” explains Paula theatre – where dreams come Kalustian, the program’s direc- true and stars are born. Where, tor. “We are graduating scholars from the first notes of the over- in the field of musical theatre.” By Colleen DeLory ture, the audience is swept into Sensation a world exploding with color, In fact, three alumni from the motion, drama and song. And class of 2000 have gone on to it all seems effortless. teach at the college level. One, With ev’ry move Jim Brown, joined another But peek behind the curtain, Aztec, John Bell, ’88, in the and another story unfolds: per- musical theatre program Bell that they make, formers, directors, designers launched at the University of and choreographers, spending Central Florida in Orlando. By SDSU’s musical a lifetime in the study and design, the Florida curriculum practice of their craft. In their reflects the collaborative instruc- pursuit of excellence, a chosen tional approach of Bell’s own theatre students few, like Colleen, attend San professors at SDSU, including Diego State University’s master Terry O’Donnell, on the musical of fine arts in musical theatre theatre faculty since the pro- Photo: Ken Howard grow as scholars degree program. gram’s inception in 1981. SDSU alumna Colleen “We’re very simpatico,” says Suddeth in “Beehive.” and performers Star scholars O’Donnell of his interaction One of only three graduate with colleagues Rick Simas and musical theatre programs in Paula Kalustian. “There’s some- the country, SDSU’s program is thing about the connection of dedicated not only to advancing our artistic energies and values the students’ craft, but also to that is quite cohesive; it’s a pow- furthering the field. “Our focus erful feeling in the classroom.” on the academic side of the genre is what distinguishes us from All three professors collaborate the conservatories that concen- in the studio class, the heart of trate solely on singing, dancing the musical theatre curriculum,

Photo: Joel Zwink Background photo: Joel Zwink 14 FALL/WINTER 2003 360 MAGAZINE 15 their on-stage talents receive the print,” he says. “I began collect- says. “We want to expose our stu- As swing girl in “Sunset kind of individual instruction ing from a very young age to dents to the training and opportu- they could otherwise never afford preserve this rich heritage.” nities available globally.” as starting actors. After one year, Boulevard” on Broadway, Alison Bretches is already reaping In the spotlight Another invaluable travel experi- Colleen Suddeth mastered the benefits. Students also benefit from real- ence offered by the program is world opportunities provided by the New York showcase, which One Thrilling This summer, she got a callback enables students to audition for more than 32 parts, under- San Diego’s vibrant arts scene. for a new Broadway show – a first Although New York may be the casting directors and agents. To despite having lived and audi- pinnacle of musical theatre, San fund these important trips, the studying eight women of the tioned in New York for three Diego boasts two Tony award- program strives to attract grants years before coming to SDSU. “I winning stages – The Old Globe and private donations. chorus who each had four or got in front of the full production and La Jolla Playhouse – plus a team,” Bretches says. “It reaf- wide range of smaller venues. Maintaining close contact with five roles in the show. Combination firmed the work I’m doing here colleagues in New York and other at San Diego State. I’m in a good SDSU students have understud- theatrical centers also helps the place and will be in a better place ied for musical productions faculty remain current with devel- in terms of my art and my craft at both the Globe and the opments in the field. “We produce after another year of study.” Playhouse, and have performed two musicals a year and consciously in a slew of productions at steer clear of the old war horses,” History lessons the San Diego Repertory, Kalustian says. “We focus on On the academic side, SDSU’s Starlight, Moonlight, North intriguing new pieces or find an curriculum emphasizes the Coast Repertory, Lamb’s Players, interesting way to reconstruct genre’s unique origins. “Musical Diversionary, Sledgehammer and an older piece.” theatre as we know it is really an The Theatre in Old Town, where American art form,” Simas says. Kalustian is artistic director. For example, the first musical of “From European operetta and the program’s 2003-04 season, comic opera to turn of the centu- Countless students and alumni “Honk!,” was the 2000 Laurence ry vaudeville and burlesque, have worked there in long- Olivier winner for Best Musical in American musical theatre running San Diego favorites like London, but still isn’t well known emerged from the New World “Beehive” and “Forever Plaid.” in North America. Simas will direct melting pot.” “This theatre’s been a wonderful the pop musical, which is based on way to bridge the gap between the famous children’s story, “The Students spend considerable time a university and professional Ugly Duckling.” tracing these theatrical roots. situation,” Kalustian says. “The faculty have a really firm “It’s a family musical with a great belief that to know where you’re Road shows moral about diversity, acceptance, going, you need to know where Many other students and gradu- tolerance – all the things you want you came from,” says Bretches. ates have cut their chops on the young and old people to think “We learn the history of musical road with national and interna- about,” Simas says. Photo: Joel Zwink theatre and choreography and tional tours such as “Victor study all the great American Victoria,” “The King and I,” This is the power of musical Faculty and students used three versions of the script and score to fashion the 2002 production of composers and lyricists such as “Ragtime,” “South Pacific” and theatre – to entertain and enrich “Anything Goes” in the Experimental Theatre. Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart, “Beauty and the Beast.” The us with a living portrait of a the Gershwins and Cole Porter.” current class is hoping to travel certain time, place and social to Gothenburg, Sweden, in the order. From the interracially “This program is which emphasizes the synthesis Bretches and her classmates’ spring to work on a bilingual, charged New York City of “West of acting, singing and movement studies are enhanced through cross-cultural program at Side Story” to the wartorn Vietnam helping to keep as one exercise. This holistic access to one of the most impres- Högskolan för Teater, Opera of “Miss Saigon,” the audience is an approach distinguishes San sive archives of musical theatre och Musikal vid Göteborgs active participant in life. Bretches Diego State from conservatories materials on the West Coast – Universitet (School of Theatre, hopes to carry on a distinctive the art form alive.” that teach the three disciplines libretti, songbooks, sheet music, Opera and Musical Theatre, tradition. “When one person can separately. With only eight to audio and video recordings – University of Gothenburg). turn around and touch hundreds Photo: Ken Howard –Rick Simas 10 applicants accepted into the Simas’ own collection. “In of people as a teacher and per- SDSU M.F.A. program every two musical theatre, many materials “They love American musicals former, it has a ripple effect,” she Lto R: Emily Mitchell, Laura Lamun and Colleen Suddeth years, students intent on honing are never published or are out of all around the world,” Simas says. “It’s like ‘pay it forward.’” in “Beehive.” Mitchell and Suddeth are SDSU alumnae.

16 FALL/WINTER 2003 Background photo: Joel Zwink 360 MAGAZINE 17 “The philosophic aim of education The results of Marlin’s zeal for Transborder trajectory internationalism are evident not must be to get each one out of only in Wood’s story, but also in The impetus for this current his isolated class and into the a growing proportion of SDSU wave of international interest dates back to 1997, when SDSU one humanity.” students whose lives reflect the influence of their academic and President Stephen L. Weber —Paul Goodman, American poet, cultural experiences overseas. Just committed the university to as San Diego State alumni have internationalism as part of a essayist, social theorist International always established roots in their strategic plan called Shared chosen professions and communi- Vision. “We will expand oppor- Raised on a midwestern farm, ties, those who study abroad also tunities afforded by our special Dawn Renze Wood enrolled at gain the wings necessary for location on the U.S.-Mexico the University of Northern Iowa success in the global society. border,” the plan reads. “We to study social and behavioral will seek new and innovative sciences. She never considered Tom Weismann, a former retail ways to prepare students to spending a semester overseas. manager, went back to school, function effectively in a variety studied in Hungary and plans of cultures and settings.” Inspiration But a part-time job working for to work with a humanitarian The following year, Weber the provost, the university’s top nongovernmental organization. recruited Marlin, who was academic official, changed her Jennifer Winfrey, a graduate attracted to San Diego State in plans – and her life. “I was inspired by the provost,” Wood Given an open recalls. “She was this energetic force who really supported the international programs. She wanted window, more and me to study abroad. She wanted everyone to study abroad.” more San Diego Wood took that advice. She com- State students are pleted a business program in Denmark, then went on to teach taking flight as English in the Czech Republic. Eventually she returned to the citizens of the U.S. to earn a master’s degree in international education, and now world. Provost recruits foreign students to study at San Diego State University.

Nancy Marlin And what of the woman who launched Wood’s career? In 1998, planned it that way. she became provost at another university – San Diego State.

Roots and wings student specializing in intercul- part by the collective academic Nancy Marlin laughs when tural and international communi- muscle of the faculty. Building reminded of her transformational cation, put classroom theories to on the international projects, By Coleen L. Geraghty role in Dawn Renze Wood’s life. the test during four weeks study- institutes and relationships “Dawn is one of my success sto- ing in Southeast China. Jessie already established by academics ries,” she says. “Her experience Rich-Greer enrolled in SDSU’s in every college, Weber and demonstrates that international unique CaMexUs program; he’ll Marlin charted a trajectory to study transforms people; it changes graduate with three separate transform San Diego State into a them fundamentally. There is degrees from San Diego State and global university, an institution nothing more powerful we can do, universities in Canada and Mexico, known for encouraging both educationally, for our students than plus linguistic fluency and cultural faculty and students to develop encourage them to study abroad.” savvy in French and Spanish. international perspective.

18 FALL/WINTER 2003 360 MAGAZINE 21 Global Reach: San Diego State’sState's international projects and partnerships span the globe and the disciplines. Here’sHere's a representative sample.

Faculty in the Global Change Research Group have studied the effects of climate Student and faculty exchanges with the University of change on the arctic tundra in Russia The Graduate School of Public Padova in Italy have provided entrée into Italian laboratories and Alaska. They also collaborate with Health is a long-time partner conducting world-class research in the sciences. researchers in Baja California to determine with the University of Applied the health of coastal ecosystems Sciences in Magdeburg, Germany inin thatthat region.region. inin researchingresearching socialsocial work,work, health health promotion, water management and San Diego State faculty have conducted environmental health. comparative border and regional analysis studies not only on the U.S.-Mexico border, but also on the Russian-Finnish and The College of Extended German-Polish borders. Studies and the Department of English and Comparative One of a half dozen programs run Literature this year organized map key by the International Center for a summer writing workshop in Communications, the U.S.-Japan Ireland;Ireland; the the departmentdepartment alsoalso EDUCATIONAL Communications, the U.S.-Japan runs a summer program PARTNERSHIPS Telecommunications Research Institute helps U.S. and Japanese inin London.London. The College of Extended Studies provides MULTINATIONAL companies identify and surmount College of Education courses to teachers and RESEARCH PROGRAMS barriers to creating new communi- administrators at the Beijing International cations links between the School and professional development courses GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT two countries. to parents of the students. Through CES, the AND TECHNICAL Working through the Fred J. Hansen American Language Institute also offers English ASSISTANCE Institute for World Peace, faculty and as a Second Language (ESL) courses to Chinese staff are involved in a three-year nationals associated with the school. Graduate anthropology project to assess the socio-economic students will participate impact of weather extremes in South inin aa scientificscientific studystudy ofof Asia. The Institute also funds faculty the function, history and to develop social and health-related chronology of Acanmul, programs throughout Africa. an ancient Mayan site in Campeche, Mexico. Cooperative research in mechanical By contract with the state By contract with the state engineering between San Diego State of Baja California, SDSU’s of Baja California, SDSU’s and Japan’s Gifu University is partially Imperial Valley Campus Imperial Valley Campus funded by grants from NASA and the conducts an English conducts an English government of Japan. as a Second Language The Center for Latin American Studies offers (ESL) certificate program In Ghana, students from San Diego State the only Mixtec language classes in the U.S., Fiber-optic links between the for teachers in Baja’s and Cape Coast University research plus summer study opportunities in Oaxaca, Immersive Visualization Lab and elementary schools. and prepare science lessons to present Mexico, where the ancient language is still visualization centers in Sumatra, in village schools. Back at home, the spoken. The Center’s program in Costa Rica Indonesia and in Kazakhstan on students have raised money to paint the focuses on the language, history and political the Caspian Sea may assist in the schools and buy books for their libraries. economy of Central America. Universities in search for previously untapped oil the state of Tamil and gas reserves. Nadu, India can access distance- education courses in GIS, embedded systems and wire- less communication The Center for International Business Education and systems offered by Research (CIBER), one of five original centers of SDSU’s College of excellence in business education funded by the U.S. Engineering. Department of Education, developed the nation’s first dual- and triple-degree programs for international Students from SDSU and business students, and has sponsored educational Natal University in Durban, An exchange program between partnerships in Chile, Cuba and Japan. Students in the South Africa performed an SDSU's College of Education and triple-degree program learn the language, business original theatre project created Deakin University in Southeastern and culture of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. by Africana Studies chair Australia allows prospective teachers Shirley Weber at the 2001 to examine educational theories in National Festival of the Arts each other's countries. inin Grahamstown,Grahamstown, South South Africa.Africa.

19 FALL/WINTER 2003 Others found ways to inject “There is nothing more subsequently received job offers essential for teachers to be well- global perspective into the from several Italian wineries. rounded and not naïve. Studying powerful we can do, curriculum. At the university’s in a foreign country helped Language Acquisition Research educationally, for our Leo Hamacher, a class of 2000 broaden my education, not only Center (LARC), for instance, international business graduate intellectually, but also culturally students hone their Spanish skills students than encourage who interned in France, was and socially.” by reading authentic documenta- them to study abroad.” hired by San Diego-based tion of human rights abuses in Watkins Manufacturing to run Windham typifies a growing Latin America. Since 1983, the its international service division segment of the SDSU population Institute for Regional Studies in Europe. He has just been whose educational goals dove- Academics and internships of the Californias has involved promoted to European sales tail with Marlin’s objective to students in research projects on Today, with more than 70 exchange manager and will work with graduate more globally minded transborder environmental issues, or dual-degree programs available Watkins clients in 20 countries. students. Windham’s chosen sustainable development and to students, the international career in teaching traditionally California-Mexican relations. In business program is arguably the “Leo came to us very highly would not require international fact, one could argue that San university’s premier foreign-study qualified,” said Rick Schlottman, study. In fact, the structure of the Diego State’s global mindset dates vehicle. Enrolling more than 700 director of international sales liberal studies curriculum most from 1942, when the Institute for students, the undergraduate major for Watkins. “His language skills future teachers take often deters World Affairs opened its doors as requires a semester abroad, fluency are indisputably important for students from study-abroad pro- a campus forum on contemporary in a foreign language, course work the job, as is his knowledge grams, because they don’t include international affairs. equivalent to a minor in cultural of the culture. Many U.S. the classes necessary to satisfy studies and an internationally companies don’t have people state requirements for teachers. The results have been remarkable. hope that eventually 30 percent The Institute still invites foreign oriented internship. who understand the nuances of Since 1998, the number of Aztecs of all SDSU undergraduates will diplomats and international international business.” studying overseas each year has study abroad. experts to speak on timely topics, “No one’s curriculum is more jumped from 200 to more than but the audience has changed. rigorous, innovative or interna- A practical response 950 – almost 16 percent of the “Our task – to produce liberally As a result of SDSU-sponsored tional than ours,” declares Steven annual graduating class. Citing educated students and refine exchanges and study-abroad pro- Loughrin-Sacco, chair of the inter- Robust demand for entry into the this dramatic increase, in 2002 their ability to think critically grams, many students on campus national business program. And international business program – the Institute for International and understand their place in have already lived in a country he can cite the honors to prove it. and International Security and Education ranked San Diego State the world – must have an inter- not their own. In 2002, the program won awards Conflict Resolution (ISCOR), fifth nationally among doctoral national dimension,” she says, of excellence from both the North currently the only other single- institutions for the number of pausing to add emphasis. “To That difference is a measure of America Small Business Trade degree program that mandates students studying abroad. say that international experience the success of the Office of Educators (NASBITE) and the study abroad – provides clear is one of many options we offer International Programs, estab- Institute of International Education. evidence that the “shared vision” This year, SDSU, Yale Univer- students is not appropriate. It lished five years ago with a And it placed 11th among similar of a global university is not an sity and Indiana University should be in a separate category $275,000 annual budget and a programs in the most recent U.S. idealistic goal, but rather a prac- Bloomington were singled out above and beyond other experi- director, Alan Sweedler, who News & World Report rankings. tical response to student needs. among large universities for ences in its centrality for a had taught overseas and traveled “exemplary internationalization” student’s education.” extensively. This year, a time of Since 1989, international business At Marlin’s urging, most by NAFSA, an association of fiscal restraint, Sweedler expects students have completed internships language and area studies international educators. And in 42 nations across four continents, programs also will consider Global partnerships to disburse $200,000 in competi- Marlin, as architect of San Diego tive grants to faculty members. resulting in numerous success sto- requiring foreign study for State’s global blueprint, recently Notwithstanding the provost’s The seed money will help develop ries. Scot Hecht, for example, who undergraduates. Already in received the prestigious Michael P. enthusiasm, the “international- new international programs, as graduated in 2000, interned at colleges and departments where Malone International Leadership ization” of San Diego State has well as research and internship Santa Benedetta, a small family study-abroad was once seen as Award for integrating international not been a strictly top-down opportunities for graduates winery founded in 1670 near Rome. a luxury, students consider it activities into university life. effort. Even before the Weber- and undergraduates. Hired to help penetrate the U.S. an integral component of their Marlin era, dozens of faculty, on market, Hecht was immersed for university education. But she’s not resting on her their own initiative, built a “It’s critical for SDSU students two months in the business of wine laurels. In public remarks global network of partnerships to experience another culture production, bottling, labeling and “I always had a desire to explore and private conversations, Marlin with government, business and first-hand and to meet people transport. He capped his internship Australia, and I thought what never misses a chance to share educational leaders. Simul- from different cultures in their by representing Santa Benedetta at better way to do so than to study her convictions about the taneously, they developed numer- own countries,” Sweedler said. an international wine convention and live there,” recalls liberal importance of international per- ous foreign study and research “An internationally minded faculty and negotiating the vintner’s first studies major and future educator spective, and to reiterate her opportunities for SDSU students. is essential to the process.” sale to American distributors. Hecht Holly Windham. “I think it’s

22 FALL/WINTER 2003 360 MAGAZINE 23 Student exchange

without prior training become fulfill her master’s degree intern- programs provide bilingual, bicultural managers. ship requirement in Venice by Program participants will acquire measuring levels of hepatitis A valuable opportuni- degrees from both SDSU and virus in canal water. Another of ITESM, Latin America’s top- Gersberg’s students will complete ties for SDSU ranked business school, where graduate research work in Venice they will take Spanish immersion later this year, and the Venetian classes and, eventually, a full universita is eager to reciprocate scholars to study year of coursework in Spanish. by sending students to San Diego. abroad while their Naughton and her counterparts Nearly a third of SDSU’s full- at other SDSU colleges are time tenure-track faculty have international coun- also working with William received seed money for similar Byxbee, dean of the College of international projects, but “there’s terparts experience Extended Studies (CES), to devise much more demand than we can 5- to-8-week study-abroad pro- meet,” Sweedler said. As a result, academic life at a grams targeted to specific courses some faculty are seeking inde- or curriculum. The strategy has pendent funding to send their U.S. university. a proven track record – Women students abroad. in China and Women in India were both successful study-abroad Art and design professor Wendy Overcoming obstacles programs offered by CES for Maruyama, asked the Japan/U.S. women’s studies majors. Friendship Commission to sponsor Welcoming the World to Campus Robert Carolin, assistant direc- an exchange. Woodworking tor for education abroad, works In every college, the search is on student Matt Hutton spent a The flip side of sending students abroad – attracting In addition, more than 2,000 short-term students come with deans and program direc- for quality institutions that will summer in Japan while a Japanese tors to circumvent such obstacles partner with SDSU in mutually student came here to study under scholars from other nations – is a crucial mission for any to SDSU each year through the College of Extended to foreign study. Currently, rewarding student and faculty Maruyama, head of the furniture global university, and one San Diego State embraces with Studies (CES). Most attend its American Language Carolin and liberal studies exchanges. Marlin believes such design and woodworking program. increasing success. In 2002-03, SDSU welcomed 1,429 Institute (ALI), the largest university-based program of coordinator Phoebe Roeder are partnerships will help maximize students from some 90 countries representing every its kind in the country. In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, looking at curriculum alterna- the number of study-abroad “The body of my work is still continent but Antarctica. however, CES is taking more of its programs abroad to tives that would allow liberal experiences SDSU can offer. “We directly inspired by what I serve students discouraged from entering the U.S. by studies students to go abroad are at the stage where it’s ineffec- learned in Japan,” Hutton said. The International Student Center (ISC), run by Ron tightened visa restrictions. in their sophomore year, a little tive to send one student here and “And that experience helped me Moffatt, is a gathering place for students from overseas. earlier than usual, but before two there,” she says. “We must get a job teaching woodworking Moffatt came to SDSU in 1984, a committed interna- “We have a pilot program in Tokyo, and we’re trying to upper-class requirements find good partner institutions and furniture design at the Maine tionalist who had spent a chunk of his 20s teaching and start similar programs in Thailand and Buenos Aires,” says become overwhelming. abroad and build up programs College of Art.” traveling in Africa and East Asia. But it wasn’t until William Byxbee, CES dean. with them.” President Stephen L. Weber and Provost Nancy Marlin In the College of Business Faculty efforts such as Gersberg’s Administration, travel study has For example. Richard Gersberg, and Maruyama’s, backed by Weber, arrived in the 1990s that Moffatt had the resources to “fix The college is also expanding its travel-study program, been constrained by tradition, chair of occupational and environ- Marlin and Sweedler, have con- what was broken” in the international student program. which enables students to spend from six weeks to a full not curriculum. Until recently, mental health in the Graduate tributed to San Diego State’s semester abroad, enough time to make an impact in lan- students outside the international School of Public Health, is a reputation for breadth and force His first move was to hire staff trained in the field. Now guage acquisition. Last year, enrollment in the program business program rarely studied consultant for a proposed project in its drive to globalize. Expect each overseas inquiry receives a personal e-mail response was 380 – twice the number from 2001-02. Byxbee abroad. To reverse that trend, to install floodgates in the canals even greater accomplishments from ISC staff. Other specialists from Enrollment hopes to double the total again by 2004-05. Dean Gail K. Naughton tapped of Venice to hold back the in the years ahead. As Sweedler Services manage the complicated evaluation process that Teresa Cisneros-Donahue, encroaching sea. His job involves notes, “The fundamental programs follows. Results have been dramatic. From 1998 to 2002, For the future, Byxbee envisions CES designing and deliver- director of multiple degree testing canal water for bacteria are now in place. Over time, an admissions of international students more than doubled. ing complete SDSU degree programs overseas. Each college programs, to develop study- to determine if the floodgates international experience will be would maintain full academic control over its own degree abroad opportunities for pose a potential health risk. the norm for a large number of A degree of credit for that increase goes to the faculty, programs, while CES would handle registration and admin- that population. our students.” who have rapidly developed student exchange programs istration. Already, there’s an MBA program in Taiwan and Through contacts at the The first is Project AMIGOS Universita Ca’ Foscari Venezia, with institutions all over the world. These quid pro quo the promise of an engineering program in Singapore. “It’s a (American Management Initiative and with funding from Sweedler’s If you would like to help more SDSU agreements provide valuable opportunities for SDSU boon for the academic colleges because they receive interna- for Global Operating Skills), office, Gersberg arranged for students study abroad, please E-mail scholars to study abroad while their international coun- tional exposure and extra income,” Byxbee says, “plus designed to help students SDSU student Hilary Brooks to us at [email protected]. terparts experience academic life at a U.S. university. opportunities for their faculty to go overseas and teach.”

24 FALL/WINTER 2003 360 MAGAZINE 25 Real-World Referee FTC Chairman Tim Muris Rules for Consumers and Fair Competition

Truly a mind that moves the Management and Budget and ————— Q ————— enforce the rules of the game. world, Timothy J. Muris is was for many years a law 360: You seem to have a sin- These rules are so simple a lot chairman of the Federal professor at George Mason cere passion for doing the right of people don’t even think of Trade Commission (FTC) in University and an attorney thing, and you seem to relish them as rules. They’re rules Washington, D.C. He was in private practice. your opportunity to do that as that say you shouldn’t fix prices nominated for the post by chairman of the Federal Trade or get together with your com- petitors to restrain competition. President George W. Bush, Since taking the helm of the Commission. What led to this You shouldn’t engage in fraud. confirmed by the Senate and Commission two and a half commitment to justice? You shouldn’t break your con- sworn in on June 4, 2001. years ago, Muris has earned tracts. You shouldn’t engage in high marks for his leadership. ————— A ————— deceptive advertising. By Muris graduated from San This year’s introduction of the TJM: Through my academic enforcing those rules, I think Diego State in 1971 with high FTC’s National Do Not Call training and professional life, we have a very beneficial honors and a multidisciplinary Registry delighted consumers, who I’ve come to have keen appreci- impact on the economy and bachelor’s degree in political quickly registered more than 50 ation for how our economic sys- help consumers. science, history and economics. million phone numbers.(At press tem works. There was a signifi- cant debate in the last century He also holds a law degree time, the Registry was facing ————— Q ————— from the University of court challenges.) about how an economic system should be organized. And that 360: How would you explain California, Los Angeles. debate is now over, because the the FTC’s work in terms of how In 2002, SDSU honored Tim evidence conclusively shows that it affects our everyday lives? No stranger to the FTC, Muris Muris with a Monty award, market-oriented systems are led both major branches of the recognizing him as a distin- better than state-run systems. ————— A ————— commission – first the consumer guished alumnus from the Now a market system isn’t a TJM: Most of what we do peo- protection bureau and then the College of Arts and Letters. system without rules; the rules ple don’t see, because most of anti-trust bureau – during the 360 editor Sandra Millers of the game are very important. what we do is enforce the basic 1980s. He also served with the Younger recently talked with And that’s what we do at the rules of the game that I talked president’s Office of the chairman by phone. Federal Trade Commission; we about. So most of what we do is

By Sandra Millers Younger Photo: © 2003, Washington Post photo by Joel Richardson. Reprinted withpermission. Photo: © 2003, Washington

26 FALL/WINTER 2003 Post Photo: The Washington 360 MAGAZINE 27 to go after fraudsters, as we like to increase competition in Diego State somewhat acciden- Division of the Department of to call them. We spend a lot of health care. We’ve also held a tally. When I was in high Justice and the Federal Com- time going after people for try- major set of hearings that are school, I thought I wanted to munications Commission. So ing to merge in ways we think still under way about how we go to the Air Force Academy. we’re not a significant player. would be anti-competitive, for can make the health care mar- After I was accepted at the Air fixing prices and for engaging ket more competitive and how Force Academy, they put you ————— Q ————— in deceptive advertising. we can provide better informa- through a fairly rigorous set of 360: Would the Microsoft suit “A market system isn’t Sometimes what we do touches tion about health care to con- discussions that convinced me fall under that same explana- the everyday person, like with sumers. So there’s really a lot that I really didn’t want to go tion? a system without rules; the Do Not Call Registry. And on our plate. there. San Diego State was the on our Web site at ftc.gov, only other school I applied to, ————— A ————— there’s a very excellent set of ————— Q ————— so I decided to go to San Diego TJM: Yes. In Washington, it’s the rules of the game materials on consumer educa- 360: Some privacy advocates State. I’ve never regretted the rare that there’s only one agency tion that applies to lots of pur- have criticized your focus on decision. I had a very positive to address one issue. With chases people are engaged in enforcement rather than new academic experience. I received antitrust, we have two primary are very important. and lots of things they do in legislation. How do you an excellent liberal arts educa- agencies and then a few others their daily lives. respond? tion. My major combined eco- that do it for certain industries. And that’s what we do nomics, political science and The Antitrust Division of the ————— Q ————— ————— A ————— history. It also had a broad Department of Justice and the 360: Speaking of the Do Not TJM: The privacy advocates, background in the history of Federal Trade Commission both at the Federal Trade Call Registry, because of its particularly in the last year or thought in philosophy, sociolo- enforce the same statutes, success, The Washington Post so, have been quite happy with gy and science. I thought it was although they can do criminal Commission; we enforce recently declared you “as close our aggressive agenda. They’re a very good background for law antitrust and we cannot. Also, to a hero as any Washington very happy with the Do Not school and for law and econom- we enforce the consumer protec- bureaucrat ever gets.” What Call list. They’re very happy ics, which form the basis for tion laws, and they do not. We the rules of the game.” will you do for an encore? with increased efforts toward what I’ve done with the rest of don’t duplicate each other. identity theft. We’ve sued sev- my life. And there really were ————— A ————— eral firms, including Microsoft some tremendous professors at ————— Q ————— TJM: There are some very and Eli Lilly, for breaking San Diego State, as I’m sure 360: Is there anything you feel important issues. We are step- promises about keeping data there are now. A few of my pro- is left out of media coverage or ping up our efforts to go after confidential. We’ve been fessors became valued advisors, public debate about the work the fraudsters. More and more engaged in the spam effort as and I stayed in touch with them that you do? of our problems involve the I mentioned. We now spend post-graduation. Internet; they involve people many more times the resources ————— A ————— from outside the United States on privacy than the FTC did ————— Q ————— TJM: It’s natural that the focus trying to sell to the United before I arrived here, and I 360: I have a question about is on what we do day-to-day. I States. We have a plan that think we’re spending it in the the FTC’s anti-trust actions. think there’s less attention on includes new legislation, new right way. Quite frankly, You successfully opposed a how we fit into the big picture, cooperation with people around although some of the privacy merger of pickle manufacturers. which is what I tried to explain the world to go after so-called advocates would still like legis- So how do we explain Time at the beginning. There are cross-border fraud. A lot of that lation, when they see what we Warner and other conglomer- enormous benefits from a mar- involves spam. We’re spending do, they applaud. ates in the news business, ket economy. This country is so a lot of time on the spam issue. which is so critical to our wealthy; it’s so much more Identity theft has also become a ————— Q ————— democratic process? prosperous than it used to be. growing problem. On the anti- 360: Let’s go back to your days And that’s because of our mar- trust side, we’re spending more at San Diego State. What ————— A ————— ket economy. What’s missing and more of our resources on brought you to SDSU? And how TJM: Well, the main answer to sometimes in media coverage is Photo: The Washington Post health care. We’ve done a lot to has your undergraduate experi- your question is that most of our role in making that econo- try to prevent branded drug ence contributed to your career? the issues about media concen- my work. It’s very important to companies from stopping com- tration, in fact almost all the have rules of the game, and it’s petition from generic drug com- ————— A ————— issues about media concentra- very important to have agencies panies. We’ve done a lot to try TJM: Actually, I came to San tion, involve the Antitrust that enforce the rules.

28 FALL/WINTER 2003 360 MAGAZINE 29 By Sandra Millers Younger

San TDiegoeaching State’s original mandate Teachers remains a top priority This is how it began. A group of gressive and unique curriculum program. This reflects our under- complete, but candidates must first us unique,” Meno said. “Once some that needs to be a partnership. students intent on becoming designed to ensure their real- standing that quality elementary earn a bachelor’s degree and fulfill viewed teacher preparation as uncon- Finally, we participate in ongoing teachers. A school dedicated to world success and, in the process, and secondary education is just as certain pre-requisites. nected to student performance in professional development. So their success. More than a century to continue fostering the educated important to the future of the city K-12 schools. What we’re learning instead of being involved in only later, that fledgling teachers’ citizenry San Diego’s early leaders today as it was 106 years ago.” Although other San Diego area is that there’s essential linkage one component of the continuum of institution, the San Diego and Normal School founders universities offer credentials pro- between teacher preparation and a teacher’s life, we now need to be Normal School, has grown into judged essential to the region’s A unique approach grams, Meno believes SDSU stands the preparation of younger students involved in all of those components.” San Diego State University, a prosperity. apart, not only as the region’s first so that they qualify for college; in major urban campus serving The largest department in the teachers’ school, but also because other words, we have a responsibility On-site education 34,000 students and offering “Education has been a major com- College of Education, the School of superb faculty, innovative to participate in K-12 education. dozens of disciplines. But ponent of the institutional activi- of Teacher Education each year methodology, strong relationships SDSU’s partnerships with area throughout its 106 years, SDSU ty at San Diego State for its entire accommodates about 550 new with area school districts, and “Second, we really can’t do teacher schools enable credentials has held true to its first mission: history,” said Lionel R. “Skip” credentials candidates, 180-200 involvement in all stages of a preparation if the school districts students to spend an entire year teaching teachers. Meno, dean of SDSU’s College of master’s candidates, and, through teacher’s professional life. aren’t participating in providing a with a single group or “cohort” Education. “This is a major joint programs with other institu- quality student teaching experi- of classmates, not on the SDSU Today, San Diego State’s School of national university, yet there’s tions, several doctoral students. “Partnership with the school dis- ence,” he continued. “Then the third campus, but at one of several Teacher Education offers educa- been a continuing priority to have The credentials curriculum takes tricts in the preparation of teachers stage is actual induction of new participating school sites. Student tors and aspiring educators a pro- a quality K-12 teacher education only two full-time semesters to is one of the key things that makes teachers into the work force. Again teaching occurs simultaneously

30 FALL/WINTER 2003 360 MAGAZINE 31 with coursework. This year-long The Jim and Janet immersion experience helps future teachers feel they belong to a Sinegal Scholarship “community of educators,” said Nancy Farnan, director of the New possibilities for new teachers School of Teacher Education.

The letters, as Janet Sinegal said, Seattle University and a “Our research shows that the more “tell the whole story.” director of SDSU’s Campanile communication that districts, Foundation, yet a man who schools and the university have, “I pray that I will be able to touch counts his family as his own the better they’re able to prepare the lives of the children who come greatest success. Both believe teachers,” she said. “We give com- into my classroom.” in education and consider the plementary messages about what’s preparation of quality teachers important. We’re not working at “My wish is to be a shining example “a mandate for our nation.” cross purposes, but together.” to my students of somebody who accomplished his dreams and aspira- But the couple’s decision to The concept works. In fact, the tions despite the harsh realities of invest in teacher education at City Heights K-12 Credential poor urban life.” SDSU was a matter also of roots Program, a cohort led by Farnan and value. Janet earned her and SDSU colleagues Doug Fisher “My greatest dream is to become a teaching credential at San Diego and Nancy Frey, recently was teacher. Without help like yours it State, and Jim attended as a named one of four nationwide would be impossible. Thank you for business major. “I think it’s still recipients of the 2003 Christa believing in me.” one of the great values in educa- McAuliffe Award for Excellence in tion in America,” Jim said. “I’m Teacher Education, presented by Twenty-five letters in all, from particularly proud of that.” the American Association of State the first recipients of the Jim and Colleges and Universities. Janet Sinegal Scholarship, funded The $2,000-$2,500 Sinegal for five years with a $250,000 scholarship for basic credential San Diego State administers three gift from Janet and her husband, candidates is based on academic City Heights Schools as part of Jim. “Isn’t it wonderful?” she performance and financial need. the City Heights Collaborative, a responded. “These are kids who “The initial response has been bold, educational reform project otherwise might not have the very, very impressive,” said designed to improve student per- opportunity to complete their Lionel R. (Skip) Meno, dean of formance and break the cycle of dent said she felt like she’d already Assessing results are also leading a consortium teaching credentials.” SDSU’s College of Education. poverty in the inner city. done her first year of teaching, including Stanford and University “It’s really reinforced that a lot because our program was so thor- Another distinguishing character- of California campuses to develop Janet and Jim Sinegal are like of people who want to be teach- Aida Allen, a fifth-grade teacher ough and so well supported,” istic of San Diego State’s teacher a new teacher-performance assess- that. She is a former educator who ers have significant financial at one of those schools, Rosa Parks Farnan said. education programs is an empha- ment tool likely to be adopted loves helping others succeed. He need. So this is a wonderful gift Elementary, has mentored about sis on research. The master’s and statewide. is co-founder, president and CEO from the Sinegal family.” 25 San Diego State student teach- Lily Chen, a brand new math and doctoral programs focus on assess- of Costco Cos. Inc., a trustee of —SMY ers. “I think they’re wonderful,” science teacher at Marston Middle ment as an essential teaching “It’s the first of its kind in the she said, “and one of the beauties School in Clairemont, has already tool. And faculty practice what nation,” Meno said of the CSU of the City Heights cohort is that come to appreciate the real-world they preach, evaluating creden- survey, now in its third year. “A they’re able to become part of the immersion she experienced as part tials candidates during and after lot of surveys have been sent out staff. They’re not just student of the City Heights cohort. training. “It’s important for us to to graduates to ask what they teachers; they really get hands-on know how well we’re doing with thought of their training. But we experience. They’re dealing with “City Heights really prepared me the people coming through our also ask employers, what do you reality, not just book learning, in many ways,” Chen said.“Many of program,” Meno explained. think of this particular graduate’s and it makes a big difference.” my classes focused on motivation – performance? How well prepared how to engage my students – and I Further evidence of SDSU’s was he or she?” Students also applaud the cohort think that’s really an important expertise in evaluation: San Diego approach. One graduate told part of teaching. Also, at City State is providing leadership to A follow-up question might be: Farnan she’d talked to new teach- Heights I learned a lot about how the California State University how satisfied is he or she with ers from other credentials programs to teach English language learners. (CSU) in creating a system-wide teaching? Allen, also an SDSU who felt nervous about their first Now, about 50 percent of my stu- survey to assess CSU-educated credentials grad, has an answer: Jim and Janet Sinegal year on their own. “But our stu- dents are English language learners.” teachers. San Diego State faculty “I think it’s a great career.”

32 FALL/WINTER 2003 360 MAGAZINE 33 Philanthropy Alumni Angles

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The President’s Leadership Fund Class Notes★ ’44: Francesjane O’Neill Kapsch (social science) celebrated her 80th Realizing the vision for the future birthday in January. Over the past four years she has enjoyed trips to Spain, Slovenia and Egypt. She still plays golf and looks forward to the Pre-’60 home- Remember your first day at college? Moving into the dorm? Meeting your coming reunion. Kapsch lives in Santa Ana, Calif. When I roommate? Saying good-bye to Mom and Dad? You were finally on your ’48: William Merit True II ★ (economics), with his son Deryck, has written and own. Exciting, but also a bit frightening. Perhaps even overwhelming. published “The Cow Spoke French,” a book about the elder True’s experiences as a paratrooper in World War II. He and his wife, Jane, live in Port Hueneme, Calif. was at At San Diego State, it’s easier now. This year, more than 4,000 first-time students and their parents were greeted with a first-class welcome at a 1950s special New Student/Family Convocation ceremony held Aug. 30 in Cox Arena. Lori White, dean of students, organized the new tradition, which ’52: James Kuhn ★ (accounting) has received the California Society of CPAs State… she believes will yield mutual benefits. “Helping students feel they belong (CalCPA) distinguished service award, the organization’s highest honor. A CPA to San Diego State from their very first day on campus contributes to since 1955, Kuhn is a past president of CalCPA and its San Diego chapter. He’s I was fresh out of the 101st Airborne student success and fosters lifelong loyalty to the university,” White said. also a past president of the SDSU Alumni Association. Kuhn owns an accounting practice in La Mesa and lives in Temecula with his wife, Darlene. Division Paratroops and nearly three The convocation would not have been possible without financial weeks late for the fall 1945 semester support from The President’s Leadership Fund, a new source of flexible ’58: George L. Stevens ★ (general education), former deputy mayor and when I enrolled. Everyone treated me funding available to SDSU President Stephen L. Weber to support council member for the City of San Diego, is a representative for California State wonderfully, a delightfully welcome strategic university initiatives. “We established The President’s Assemblywoman Shirley Horton. Stevens also is a member of the San Diego Unified Leadership Fund to enable President Weber to seize emerging oppor- School Board re-districting committee. change from the military. tunities, encourage academic excellence and reward deserving individuals and programs, despite limitations imposed by shrinking government ’59: Barbara A. Stewart ★ (elementary education) has For the first year or retired from working as a teacher, paralegal and California allocations,” explained Theresa M. Mendoza, vice president of so, any sudden loud University Advancement. horse racing pari-mutuel clerk. She lives in Surprise, Ariz. noise triggered my Although most colleges and universities have long relied on such unre- 1960s hit-the-ground combat stricted funds, less than .003 percent of SDSU’s overall budget was previ- instincts, but I ’62: Wayne Sander ★ (mechanical engineering; ’66, M.S., ously available to the president to invest at his discretion. With nearly 30 business administration) has donated a 1970s-vintage exotic managed to stay on founding partners involved thus far, the program is working toward a goal sports car, the Aztec 7, to SDSU’s mechanical engineering of 100 initial donors. Serving as volunteer chair is Thomas E. Darcy, ’73, my feet and avoid department, to be used for hands-on, project-based instruc- damaging my newly executive vice president and chief financial officer, Science Applications tion. Sander hopes the vehicle will rev up students’ interest in International Corporation (SAIC) and a member of The Campanile engineering. acquired civilian togs. Foundation board of directors. To walk about the ’65: Allan D. McCune (social science; ’78, special education campus and through “I believe in what Steve Weber is doing to develop and transform credential) has published “Mortimer the Magic Monkey,” a SDSU into a world-class academic institution,” Darcy said. “I’m fully book for children, ages 8 to 12. McCune teaches special educa- the quad past Monte- committed to helping him secure the necessary resources to achieve the tion and world history at Valley Center (Calif.) Middle School. zuma, mingling with university’s vision.” Bill True and son Deryck at Commencement 1948. incredibly beautiful ’67: Robert Watkins ★ (speech communication) has been The President’s Leadership Fund has also contributed to Project Lead the appointed to the San Diego County Board of Education. He is president of R.J. coeds, was a satisfying and delicious Way, a national training program linking SDSU with middle- and high- Watkins & Co. Ltd., an executive recruiting firm, and is a member of the SDSU contrast to my years in Europe. school teachers in an effort to interest their students in engineering. Alumni Association Board, the College of Business Advisory Board and SDSU Currently, a shortage of homegrown engineering professionals is forcing Ambassadors for Higher Education. I had survived the war; I had no fear area employers to look outside the county for new hires. “Engineering is whatsoever of a sudden sniper shot or the cornerstone to technology, our infrastructure and our future,” said 1970s David T. Hayhurst, dean of SDSU’s College of Engineering. “It’s critical machine gun burst; and I was fulfill- that we pave the way for future engineers, and at an earlier age.” ’71: Robert C. Brandt (communication) has joined Feinberg, Mindel, Brandt & ing my dream of a college education. Kline LLP as a named partner. A certified family law specialist, Brandt has served It was an emotional experience beyond The partnership of alumni and friends is essential in these efforts, Darcy description. emphasized. “We appreciate the support of our members in launching Please send your news to the SDSU Alumni Association, programs such as Project Lead the Way and the New Student/Family 5500 Campanile Dr., San Diego, CA 92182-1690 or [email protected]. ★ = annual member; ★ = life member Convocation,” he said, “which will allow San Diego State to reach new William Merit True II, ’48, economics heights of excellence.” —SMY

34 FALL/WINTER 2003 360 MAGAZINE 35 Alumni Association 2003 - 2004 1970sClass Notes EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The 2003 Faculty Montys as a judge pro tem in Los Angeles President: Jerry Dressel ’76 County. He lives in Calabasas. Alan President-elect: Bruce Ives ’89 For 32 years, San Diego State University has recognized the talents and achievements of distin- Brown ★ (social science; ’72, multi- Immediate Past President: Matt Dathe ’90 guished faculty and alumni with “The Montys,” awards of distinction presented by the SDSU ple subject instruction) has been Vice President for Community Outreach: Alumni Association. This year’s faculty Montys were awarded Aug. 28 in Cox Arena at elected to a 6th term on the San Erica Opstad ’93 University Convocation, the official opening of the academic year. Alumni awards will be presented harris DeGennaro Aufsesser Marcos Unified School District Board Vice President for Constituency Relations: at the Montys gala next March. Congratulations to the following distinguished faculty awardees. of Education. He teaches at Escondido Eric Reifschneider ’88 Elementary School. Vice President for Membership & Marketing: Margo Kasch ’67 College of Arts and Letters organizations. A professor in the School of Social Work for 23 years, DeGennaro has been ★ Vice President for 20/30s Alumni & Campus Outreach: Bonnie Zimmerman, Ph.D. instrumental in the development of a viable distance-learning program that enables SDSU to ’72: John L. Nunes (journalism) Chuck Luby ’59, ’64 A leader in the field of women’s studies, Bonnie Zimmerman is a stellar instructor, a devoted offer graduate education in social work to students in the Imperial Valley. has published his first novel, Vice President for Special Projects: Glen Vieira ’81 graduate advisor and a respected scholar who has pioneered in the areas of lesbian studies, “DreamCatcher Games.” Nunes is Executive Director: Jim Herrick literature and popular culture. She is a popular speaker, the author of four textbooks and a marketing and public relations direc- Secretary: Cheryl Trtan frequent contributor to journals. A member of the women’s studies faculty since 1978, College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts tor at San Diego Mesa College. Peter M. Aufsesser, Ph.D. Other Elected Directors: Zimmerman recently became SDSU’s associate vice president for faculty affairs. Jim Bartell ’76; Marco Cortes ’95; Dwayne Crenshaw Peter Aufsesser has invested his life in pioneering new ways to help others regain and main- ’73: Brian Butler ★ (M.A., com- ’93; Adrienne LaBrucherie Finley ’71; Carol Forrest ’78, tain optimal health and physical fitness. His interests in this area are perhaps best expressed munication) is manager of marketing ’82; Beverly A. Fritschner ’72; Jeff Glazer ’73, ’81; College of Business Administration through the Fitness Clinic for the Physically Disabled, a community-based program he communications for the SBA Division Randy Goodson ’88; Judith Gumbiner ’66, ’79; William George (Joe) E. Belch, Ph.D. founded in 1983 and still operates. One of only two such facilities in the nation, the clinic of U.S. Bank. He and his wife, Hamlin ’85; Joe Horiye ’92; Denise Hosford ’97; Dennis Marketing department chair Joe Belch conducts research in advertising, marketing commu- each year serves more than 80 clients and provides training for more than 100 students. Marsha, live in San Diego. Kuhn ’90; Teresa Leader-Anderson ’91; Mike Minjares nications and consumer decision-making. He is co-author of a leading textbook and has pub- ’89, ’95; Fred Norfleet ’73; Edgar Patiño ’00; Wendy lished more than 25 journal articles. A faculty member in SDSU’s executive MBA program Reuben ’78; Colin Rice ’93; Ramon Riesgo ’91; Regan ’74: Dennis A. Ackerman ★ since 1990, Belch was recently honored for outstanding faculty contribution. In 2000, he College of Sciences Savalla ’96; Jarl Turner ’88; Robert Watkins ’67 Judith W. Zyskind, Ph.D. (recreation administration; ’79, ele- was named Educator of the Year by the Marketing Educators’ Association. mentary curriculum and instruction) Honorary Directors - Past Presidents: Judith Zyskind is blazing trails in science as co-discoverer of a process that promises to is a commissioner of the California James Ashcraft ’66, ’67; Allan R. Bailey ’64; Dan expedite development of new antibiotics. Her research led to the formation of Elitra Interscholastic Federation (CIF) San Bamberg ’68; Bob Battenfield ’61; Robert Breitbard ’41; College of Education Pharmaceuticals Inc. and offers hope in the battle against drug-resistant bacteria. During her Diego Section. Lois C. Bruhn ’63; Robert Butler ’61; Denise Carabet ’73; Eleanor Whiteside Lynch, Ph.D. 20 years at SDSU, Zyskind has also helped develop a nationally ranked program in microbi- Bernard Carman ’36; Thomas F. Carter ’63; Robert Eleanor Lynch is best known for her role in transforming the field of early intervention in ology, and coursework in recombinant DNA technology. She is a past director of the CSU Chapman ’67; Nicole Clay ’67, ’72; Matt Dathe ’90; ’76: Karen McWilliams (M.S., special education to better serve the needs of infants and toddlers with disabilities and their Microchemical Core Facility and a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Gerald Davee ’58; David DeVol ’59; Jerry Dressel ’76; educational technology) has authored Sue Earnest ’28; Craig Evanco ’71; Wallace families. At SDSU she has three times been named outstanding department faculty member. Lynch is also the author of several books and nearly 30 articles. In addition, she serves on the three fictional narratives based on his- Featheringill ’50; Art Flaming ’60; Nancy Reed Gibson torical accounts of the lives of slave ’50, ’59; Daniel Hale ’54; Don L. Harrington ’57; Bill board of the Exceptional Family Resource Center in San Diego. Imperial Valley Campus Hastings ’74; Ash Hayes ’49; Thomas R. Jimenez ’66; Breena Coates, Ph.D. children. The most recent is “The Morton Jorgensen ’55; Dwain Kantor ’49; James B. Breena Coates balances a joint appointment to SDSU’s Imperial Valley Campus in Calexico Journal of Darien Dexter Duff, an Kuhn ’53; Byron Lindsley ’37; Lynn McLean ’38; College of Engineering and the School of Public Administration and Urban Studies on the main San Diego campus. Emancipated Slave.” Tamara McLeod ’72; John McMullen ’70; Grant L. fredric j. harris She excels in teaching and initiated after-class tutoring sessions to help students improve Nielsen ’48; Frederick W. Pierce IV ’84; Bernard P. A student favorite in the classroom, fredric j. harris (yes, he prefers lower case) is also a well- their writing. Currently editor of the Public Administration and Management Journal, ’78: Katha Winther (English) has Rhinerson ’73, ’78; Louis Robinson ’49; Michael known expert and international speaker in the field of digital signal processing. A member of Coates also helped plan a joint master’s program in public administration to be offered by published “As I Was Saying ... ,” a Rogers ’61; Scott Snell ’63, ’67; Joseph Suozzo ’43; the engineering faculty since 1967, harris currently holds the Cubic Signal Processing Chair SDSU and the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. book about mothering. Also an Richard Troncone ’67; Bill Trumpfheller ’87; Walter A. within SDSU’s Communication Systems and Signal Processing Institute. Earlier this year, he accomplished singer, Winther has Turner Jr. ’54; Walter L. Weisman ’76; Rick West ’71; Kendall Wood III ’58 became a fellow of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and performed in Europe and at the received an award for excellence in teaching from Northrop Grumman. Library White House. She lives in San Diego Ex-officio/ Non-voting Directors: Charles Vincent Dintrone and reports that her husband and Theresa Mendoza, Juanita Salas, Kristen Saucerman, Chuck Dintrone, head of reference services, is a dedicated librarian with more than 30 years daughter are also SDSU grads. Stephen L. Weber College of Health and Human Services of service to San Diego State. Dintrone has been a member of the SDSU Faculty Senate and Maria Roberts DeGennaro, Ph.D. STAFF has been actively involved since 1984 in the American Library Association. A reference ’79: Charlie A. Jones Jr. ★ (civil Executive Director: Jim Herrick Maria Roberts DeGennaro’s teaching and research focus on the practical application of expert in the areas of history, political science and communication, he is the author of engineering) is director of trans- Associate Director: Kerry Peter research findings and have contributed to changes in practices within social agencies and “Television Program Master Index,” a guide to the critical analysis of television. portation for the Solano County Associate Director: Tammy Blackburn ’94, ’01 Executive Assistant/Campaign Liaison: Cheryl Trtan Department of Transportation. He Alumni Chapter Coordinator: Jennifer Stein and his wife, Kathryn, live in Marketing Specialist: Shawn Shook Kornegay ’02 Zimmerman Belch Lynch Zyskind Coates Dintrone Sacramento. Membership and Marketing Assistant: Tanya Zimmer Programmer/Analyst: Rachel Lieder 1980s Program Coordinator: Jen Ranallo Student Assistants: Athena Behning, Greg Chew, ’81: David Scott Gleckman ★ Gina DiCicco, Beth Rector, Kristen Saucerman, (criminal justice) and Julie Ann Alicia Stark, Alex Vasquez Ryan Gleckman ★ (psychology)

36 FALL/WINTER 2003 360 MAGAZINE 37 1980sClass Notes Cheering on the Aztecs at 1980sClass Notes In Memoriam own an embroidery, screen printing Sandra L. McBrayer ★ (physical education; M.A., ’90, secondary curriculum and and digitizing company. The older of Homecoming 2003 instruction), CEO of The Children’s Initiative, was the 2003 commencement speaker at Alumni their two teen-age daughters is a biol- Palomar College in San Marcos. McBrayer was National Teacher of the Year in 1994. She is ogy major at SDSU. The family lives Chet Carney, ’82, has been a big Aztec fan since the early 1970s. A life also a past Montys recipient. 1926: Gilbert Dewey Judy in Mission Viejo, Calif. member of the SDSU Alumni Association and long-time member of the Aztec 1928: Chesney R. Moe Athletic Foundation, Carney is also San Diego State’s official alumni cheer- ’87: Noreen A. Grice ★ (astronomy) has published two books in Braille, “Touch the 1929: Carolynn L. Burnside ’82: Philip S. Lanzafame ★ leader. Known for his signature hardhat and creative red and black attire, he Stars II” and “Touch The Universe: A NASA Braille Book of Astronomy.” She is operations (English) received a Fannie Mae coordinator of the Charles Hayden Planetarium for the Boston Museum of Science. 1936: Gregory Peck regularly takes his place along the sidelines with the student cheer squad. No 1937: Ruth W. Sweeney Foundation Fellowship in February doubt about it, Aztec fans really rally behind this enthusiastic crowd-pleaser. and participated in the Senior ’88: Diane Slon (M.P.H., health services administration) is director of medical and busi- 1938: Mary Eleanor Jones Executives in State and Local To honor Carney for his ness informatics for Detroit-based Health Alliance Plan. She lives in Beverly Hills. 1939: Virginia Kelleher, Government Program at Harvard loyal Aztec spirit, the SDSU Joseph William Odenthal University’s John F. Kennedy School 1990s Alumni Association recog- 1943: Lois Persson Haselton, of Government. He and his wife, nized him as honorary chair Melinda, live in Glendale, Calif. ’90: Judy Cato (public administration; M.A., ’94, education) is manager of benefits and Richard B. Woolley of Homecoming 2003. HRIS at TriWest Healthcare Alliance in Phoenix. Frank J. Johnson Jr. (finance) is a 1950: Betty Jean Otterstrom, ’83: Nikki M. Gelardi ★ (journal- partner in the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hamilton LLP in San Diego. Gene Robert Schniepp ism) has been named event marketing Carney sees homecoming as Chet Carney and Tom Ables 1951: Norman M. Dilley manager and account manager for the an important tradition that ’92: Barrett Kiernan (M.C.P., city/regional urban planning) has been promoted to senior celebrates the lifelong connection between the university and its alumni. “In 1952: Robert Moore DeWitt Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. in San member at the law firm of Cozen O’Connor. He works in the San Diego office. 1953: Layton D. Morgan Francisco. She and her husband, this time of fragmented individual lives, there is a growing need to feel a part Mark, have a year-old son, Dominic, of a bigger group,” he explained. “That is one of the functions of homecoming.” ’93: Nanci A. Dalzell (marketing) is a senior manager at Accenture, an information 1964: Judith Ann Esgate and reside in Bel Marin Keys, Calif. services and management consulting company, where she provides leadership in global 1966: Alvin D. Larsen Eric Reifschneider, ’88, and Frances Meda, ’97, co-chairs of Homecoming operations and marketing for strategic projects. Dalzell works from her home in San Diego. 1967: Edward J. Yannaccone ’85: Danny Shearer ★ (psycholo- 2003, appreciate also the chance homecoming offers to renew friendships and Tim Taylor (Asian studies) is a district sales manager for the egg production unit of 1971: Abigail G. Dickson, gy; ’88, M.S., counselor education) is touch base with their alma mater. “It’s a great opportunity to see old friends Chore-Time, a poultry equipment manufacturer. He lives in Port Orchard, Wash. Sidney N. Newkirk, Nathan a family therapist with the Mental and get caught up not only with my classmates, but also with the university,” R. Smith Health Center of Boulder County. Reifschneider said. “SDSU continues to grow and evolve into one of the more ’94: David K. Beine (M.A., anthropology) has authored a new book, “Ensnared by AIDS: Also an avid mountain climber, he prominent universities in the region. Homecoming gives me and my friends a Cultural Contexts of HIV/AIDS in Nepal.” Beine teaches cultural anthropology and directs 1972: Joseph John Bredestege has climbed 37 of the 54 highest chance to show how proud we are to be a part of SDSU’s rich history.” the Oregon Summer Institute of Linguistics in Eugene, Ore. He holds a Ph.D. in anthro- 1974: Eula May Banks Colorado peaks. pology from Washington State and lives in Spokane. Scott Gordon (English) has 1975: Lawrence O’Rourke “Homecoming means tradition been named to the board of directors for the American Marketing Association, Southern 1976: Paul Dennis Colker, ’86: Laura M. Gilbert (journalism) – respecting old ones and cre- California Chapter. Shannon W. Martin (criminal justice) has joined the law firm of Lane Joseph Neil Eggleston, Cheryl is director of internal communications ating new ones,” Meda added. Powell Spears Lubersky LLP in Anchorage, as an associate in the litigation group. at Georgetown University Hospital in L. Marino, Wade Britt Roach “It means reunions and the 1979: Barbra Paulson Washington, D.C., and participates in camaraderie of friends, old and ’96: Fariborz Moazzam (M.B.A., finance) is an attorney specializing in intellectual prop- the Washington area SDSU Alumni erty law in the McLean, Va. office of multi-national law firm Shaw Pittman LLP. Andrew 1980: Stephanie Majer new. Homecoming is not just Association chapter. Cynthia M. C. Neypes (public administration), a gunnery sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, an event; it’s a time when peo- 1981: Mary Kathleen Bell Guiang ★ (marketing; ’90, M.B.A.) participated in the war in Iraq while assigned to the 3rd Civil Affairs Group, 1st Marine ple reminisce, remember, 1983: Roger J. Poirier is chief brand officer for Parker/ Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Lakeysha Wright ★ (physical edu- 1989: Kathleen Cornell Wallace White, a creative agency specializing smile, laugh and leave their cation) is head girls basketball coach at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla. in strategic brand communications. daily concerns behind.” 1991: William Francis Quinn, She lives in Del Mar with her hus- ’98: Yukon J. Palmer ★ (business; ’02, M.S. entrepreneurship) has founded Field Glen Arthur Siniscalchi, Janie band, Orlando G. Guiang ★ (’88, In addition to the big game Technologies, which provides GPS vehicle tracking systems. He lives in San Diego with his Hartson Wolfe biology). Douglas P. King (infor- with New Mexico held Satur- wife, Catherine Ficano (’98, child and family development). 1992: Craig Lee Kirkwood mation systems) is partner/vice presi- day, Oct. 18 at QUALCOMM 1995: Dawne Marie Dean Stadium, Homecoming 2003 2000s dent of DiamondCluster Intl., a con- 1996: Marie Margaret Sandoval sulting firm based in Chicago. Greg events included Friday’s Aztec Megan and Holly Norgan T. Schoonard (journalism) is war- Golf Classic at the Rancho Bernardo Inn, a party that evening and a Saturday ’01: Pedro Anaya (psychology, Chicana/Chicano studies) was one of five awardees world- Faculty den’s administrative assistant and pre-game tailgate hosted jointly by the SDSU Alumni Association and the wide to receive the 2003 Reebok Human Rights Award, presented in Boston last April. Mervin Snider, 89, professor of public information officer for the Aztec Athletic Foundation. The Golden Aztecs celebrated all weekend, begin- Central California Women’s Facility ning Friday with tours of San Diego and the campus trolley extension project. ’02: Richard P. Bobby ★ (foods and nutrition) works in quality assurance for Jack in the music, 1953-1983 in Chowchilla, Calif. He is also an On Saturday, their Pre-’60 Reunion included a ceremony at the campus War Box Inc. in San Diego. Crystal Fambrini ★ (television and film) is host of “Planet X,” an Alvena Storm, 101, professor elected member of the Coarsegold Memorial, followed by a reception and luncheon at Aztec Center. extreme sports show broadcast in San Diego. She also hosts on E! Entertainment Television. of geography, 1926-1966 School Board. —Shawn Shook

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