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"L.A. Law" has the glamour, but "AU Law" is where the action is-in D.C. How the Washington College of Law uses its proximity to the nation's capital to enrich legal education is part of our special feature coverage of AU's law school. See story, page 3.
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AU Law ...... 3 Washington Coll ege of Law students benefitfrom a strong traditional legal education, innovati ve prog.r a ~ s that build on the fundame ntals, and the school's ties to the nat1 on s legal cente r. A Capital Connection ...... 4 From Classroom to Courtroom ...... 8 An Uncommon Experience ...... 11 Facts and Figures ...... l2 Upward Mobility...... l3
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ounded in 1896, The Washington Col Flege of Law merged with The American University nearly forty years ago. Both benefit from their association. Both have grown in stature and size. One year ago, an American Bar Association accreditation team spent four days on cam pus. Its final report praised WCL's rock-solid curriculum, special activities, high standards, and student-faculty contact. It noted one in adequacy: the physical facilities. They thwart the school's devel opment. In the quarter-century since the law school moved on campus, its enrollment has more than doubled. We agree that the solution to the resulting overcrowding is a new, larger law center, one that is a part of our campus and yet is distinct. Our board of trustees made AU's commitment to such a goal official last fall. It also accepted gifts totaling $9 million, including $6 million from Alvina Reckman Myers for herself and on behalf of her late husband, former law school dean John Sherman Myers. In appre ciation, we will name the new facility the John Sherman Myers and Alvina Reckman Myers Law Center. WCL alumnus Herbert Morgan '60 heads the fundraising cam paign. Fortunately, WCL has loyal alums who will assure success for the project. But, AU is about more than buildings. It is about building edu cational excellence. The new law center will achieve that by sup porting the school's students, faculty, and activities. Some of the law school's achievements are reported in this issue. They contribute to WCL's reputation for being rigorous, innovative, and humane. We take pride in these accomplishments and look forward to the bright future of this important part of AU.
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For nearly ninety years, AU's Washington College of Law (WCL) has been a pioneer in legal education. In the past decade, it has greatly strengthened its faculty, student body, curric ulum, and graduate placement. Its successful and expanding alumni relations and develop ment programs date from 1981. It has become even stronger where all law schools must be strong, in such fundamental fields as commercial transactions, business planning, corporate law, real property, torts, contracts, and tax, antitrust, and labor law. But does WCL go beyond the basics? We explored this question with faculty and graduates and found the answer to be a re sounding yes. "Ours is a law school known as much for its stimulating professional education and close faculty-student community as for its location in the nation's capital," WCL dean Frederick An derson says. "Our programs are at once broad and progressive, embracing innovative ap proaches to legal education while giving a firm grounding in fundamental legal analysis and skills." By providing distinctive and distinguished special programs and capitalizing fully on the legal resources of the capital, WCL is able to enhance its rigorous academic curriculum with invaluable experiential learning opportunities that enrich both its students and the legal profession as a whole. As a result, WCL is no longer just a pioneer, but also very much a leader.
WINTER 1988 3 WCL's clinics "gave me great insight into how to run a practice and handle a client." Not all who start in Washington stay, A Capital however. Some WCL graduates take their talent, knowledge, and experience Connection to other states. Rose Mary Walker Fi lipowicz '40 went to work for the a tiona( Labor Relations Board in Wash Ties to Washington's legal es ington after graduation, then transferred tablishment enhance WCL's to the agency's Tampa, Florida, office. prestige and programs In 1975, Florida's governor appointed her the first woman on the state's Public Television's portrayal of the legal Employees Relations Commission. profession on "L.A. Law" may be glam orous, but many aspiring lawyers agree WCL graduates practice in every state that in real life D.C. is the place to be. in the Union. early 10 percent of the The heart of the nation's administrative members of the Nevada state bar, for instance, are WCL graduates. and regulatory system, Washington is a Wherever they end up, most agree legal mecca, home to some fifty thou that a large factor in their success is cap sand practicing attorneys. ital experience. Being in Washington The capital's vast legal network of opens the possibilities, and WCL makes seasoned practitioners and top-level g 0 the most of them. J: federal officials constitutes a umque re 0.. The school's faculty and administra source that attracts law students from all tion decided nearly ten years ago to de Andrew Popper over. More than 70 percent of the 1,058 vise specific programs that would use students attending AU's Washington Washington to expand students' edu College of Law (WCL) come ~rom out cational experience. According to law side the Washington metropolitan area. They represent 264 undergraduate professor Andrew Popper-who now di schools in forty states and several fore1gn rects one of the resulting programs-the countnes. challenge was figuring out how to avoid Studying in Washington demon compromising the school's academic in strates to students the power of a world tegrity. "Being in D.C. tempts one to value experience over classroom dignity political center and the full i~pact ~f and rigor," he says. the legal profession. It also snrs ambi tions, which many WCL graduates have Bv insisting that academic objectives dom.inate all other considerations, WCL realized by attaining prominence in the federal government (see box). developed what those involved believe Even more WCL graduates have is the most extensive federal internship launched successful careers in the cap program in the United States. The key ital, where job opportunities for young to its success, Popper says, is close su lawyers abound. Eighty to 85 percent of pervision, which "ensures academic in the school's graduates take their first job tegrity while taking advantage of Wash in the Washington area. Federal agen ington's educational opportunities." cies, major corporations, and lead1ng Student Observers Program private firms not only welcome them, but also actively recrUit them. "Being in D.C. leads students to ex Shirley H. Weiss '82 wound up with pect certain programs, ones that will ex two offers: one from the Securities and pose them to practical approaches to the Exchange Commission (SEC), where she subjects they're studying," says law pro Richard Baker '84, WCL '87, worked for the Small Business Administration wh1le interned for one semester, and another fessor Egon Guttman, who directs the earning his law degree and now works with at the private law firm where she clerked. Student Observers Program. Students a private firm in Northern Virginia that She chose the latter. She says that the interested in corporate law and securi specializes in corporate law. research skills she developed at the SEC ties regulations can spend 120 to 180 proved invaluable in preparing ~ases, and hours a semester interning with attor lawyering skills she learned m one of neys and administrative law judges at
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either the SEC or the Commodity Fu tures Trading Commission (CFTC). They experience real legal situations by doing research, analyzing cases, prepar ing evidence, writing memos, and par ticipating in staff conferences. They also attend seminars at the agencies con ducted by commissioners, senior staff attorneys, and outside practitioners. To qualify for the program, second and third-year students must have com pleted courses that cover the general le gal concepts which the SEC and CFTC apply and be enrolled in a seminar that deals specifically with an area under the agencies' jurisdiction, such as business planning and securities regulation, fi ] E nancial institutions, and regulation of j securities markets. The students earn academic credit for their internship, but j ::< no money. >· .0 Guttman stresses that the school care fully monitors the students. "We make sure our students are doing academically Egon Guttman Claudio Grossman rei evant work," he says. The extensive preparation students receive before placement and the close supervision they receive at the agency distinguish WCL's internship program from others. A number of WCL graduates who in terned with the SEC and CFTC have gone on to work for the agencies. Some have become top administrators. Mi chael Wolensky '71, for instance, be came administrator of the SEC's Atlanta regional office ten and one-half years after joining the agency. A second WCL alumnus, ]. Clifford Kennedy '67, be came head of the SEC's Middle Atlantic Regional Office. Some springboard from federal jobs to careers in private practice. Albert Hawk '85 interned with the CFTC in his sec ond year, then continued working there part time during his third year. After graduation he became a trial attorney in Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg visits with WCL students. CFTC's Enforcement Division, inves tigating commodities violations, prepar ing cases, and working with the com mission's administrative law judges. "It was a great experience," says Hawk, who is now in priVate practice. "In fact, I didn't just get experience, I was able to exercise authority. About 10 to 15 percent of my work involved lit igation."
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Federal Regulatory Process A World Capital, Too Research Benefits WCL's Program for Advanced Stud WCL also takes advantage of Wash Besides providing access to major in ies in Federal Regulation offers broader ington's stature as a world capital to offer ternational organizations and federal opportunities. Instituted in 1979, it con a global perspective through its master agencies headquartered in Washington, sists of a course in the federal regulatory of laws program in international legal WCL's D.C. location enhances the process and a summer internship. Pop studies. The seven-year-old program at school's academic prestige by offering per, the program's director, places about tracts graduates of foreign and U.S. law students unparalleled research facilities. fifty interns a summer, choosing from schools . Sixty-nine students from thirtv D.C.'s libraries are a gold mine, and the two hundred positions in major federal six countries in Asia, Africa, Europ~, Library of Congress is the mother lode. agencies and Capitol Hill offices. and Latin America, and eleven students As the nation's legal hub, the city helps Former air traffic controller Jonathan from the nited States are enrolled this WCL attract top legal scholars to its fac Stern '86 took his internship in the Fed year. ulty. WCL professor Herman Schwartz, eral Regulatory Process Program with More than 140 lawyers have already for instance, is a renowned authority on the Justice Department's Aviation Di graduated from the program. They are the Supreme Court who, besides writing vision. "I developed legal research and now employed in influential positions about the court himself, is frequently writing skills and learned better how to in government, education, and the pri quoted by leading newspapers and mag work with other people," he recalls. "The vate sector all over the world. Claudio azmes. program gave me a feel for how legal Grossman, director of the master's pro Many of the law school's professors research and writing fit into litigation. I gram, points out that the graduates con have worked for Congress, federal judges, got the bigger picture." stitute an active alumni network. and federal agencies. Some are part of The federal regulatory process course, "More than half the program's stu Washington's informal academic lobby, taught each summer, in vo lves as many dents come here because of the rec serving as advisers and consultants. Pro as fifty guest speakers, many of them ommendations of those who have pre fessor Janet Spragens counseled the senior policy officials and top-level pri viously attended and returned to their Treasury Department on portions of the vate-sector lawyers. It begins by sur respective countries," he says. The new tax law, for example. Professor Paul veying basic regulations, then focuses alumni network also serves as an im Rice was a court-appointed special mas on individual agencies and issues. Last portant resource for the graduates in their ter in the AT&T antitrust breakup. summer's speakers included commis international practice by putting them Then there is the part-time faculty. sioners of the Federal Election Com in touch with people worldwide. WCL has some one hundred adjuncts, mission, the U.S. Consumer Product Besides required coursework, the recruited from international firms and Safety Commission, and the CFTC, chief three-semester program offers optional agencies in Washington, federal agen counsel of the Food and Drug Admin internships in three areas: international cies, private practice, and the federal istration's Office of Litigation, deputy banking and trade, international human and local courts. They offer viewpoints solicitor of the Labor Department, spe rights protection, and international or and experience that broaden the stu cial assistant to the chairman of the Fed ganizations. The school helps students dents' academic, ethical, and practical eral Communications Commission, locate positions with appropriate private perspectives. deputy general counsel of the Trans law firms, international companies, U.S. All these elements combine to make portation Department, deputy director government agencies, non-governmen Washington a law student's city. By pro of the SEC's Division of Corporate Fi tal organizations, and international or viding access to its vast resources-the nance, deputy chief counsel of the Fed ganizations, such as the Organization of federal and state agencies, courts, trade eral Aviation Administration, deputy American States, Inter-American De associations, public interest groups, cor general counsel of the Nuclear Regu velopment Bank, International Mone porations, and private law firms-WCL latory Commission, and associate gen tary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Export gives its students the opportunity to ex eral counsel of the Federal Trade Com Import Bank, Overseas Private Invest cel and enrich the legal profession. 0 miSSIOn. ment Corporation, SEC, and Interna "The course is designed to instill con tional Trade Commission. fidence in the students for their own Eckhard Hellbeck '87, a lawyer from career advancement," Popper explains. West Germany, completed his intern "They see they're no different from these ship at the IMF. "I gained very valuable policy-makers." practical experience as a lawyer and in sight into the functioning of an inter national financial institution," he says. "I could not have imagined a better in ternship. o exaggeration. It was the perfect culmination of an excellent and challenging LL.M. program."
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Sen. Robert Byrd '63 Judge Sarah Evans Barker '69
Carol Crawford '78 Rep. Thomas Downey '78
WCL graduates leaders
Several Washingwn College of Law Hughes '61, former commissioner of the alumni· have had distinguished careers Federal Energy Regulatory Commis serving the federal government at the sion; Betty Southard Murphy '58, for top levels of all three branches: mer chair of the ational Labor Rela Sen. Robert C. Bvrd '63 (0-West Vir tions Board; Patricia P . Bailey '76, ginia), the Senate m~jority leader; Reps. member of the Federal Trade Com Thomas ]. Oownev '78 (0- ew York) mission; and Carol T. Crawford '78, the and James H. Bilb~ay '64 (0-Nevada); first woman director of the Federal Trade federal judges George Arceneaux '57, Commission's Bureau of Consumer Pro Sarah Evans Barker '69, June Lazenby tection, now associate director for eco Green '41, Claude Hilton '66, and Moody nomics and government at the Office of R. Tidwell fii '65; former Secretary of Management and Budget. Agriculture john A. Knebel '65; 1. David
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From The program's four clinics-Criminal justice, Appellate Advocacy, Public In to C terest Law, and Women and the Law build on the theoretical legal knowledge acquired in class by providing practical skills training. Essentially, law students Legal clinics give students the Jearn how to be lawyers. opportunity to translate theory WCL's clinical education epitomizes into practice AU's commitment to learning through experience. Many other law schools have Students seldom have a chance to something called clinical programs, but change the world. Even so, more than Professor Elliott Milstein, director of a few in AU's Washington College of clinical programs at WCL, says that some Law (WCL) have managed to make their don't qualify by WCL's definition. In mark on it over the years. ternships and independent study proj ects in legal settings, for instance, may • WCL student attorneys represent be educational, but they aren't clinics. ing a Vietnam veteran who took eight "What we consider a clinical pro persons hostage during an attempted gram," Milstein says, "is one where stu bank robbery argued that their client dents represent real clients in real con acted from delayed combat stress. The tested matters in which they are judge concurred, marking the first time supervised by full-time faculty mem a court had recognized the condition. bers." Although law schools only recently • WCL student advocate Rabindran embraced formal clinical programs, law ath Ramana '86 filed an amicus brief clinics in some form have been training with an appeals court on behalf of a vet students since the twenties. They blos eran who contended that the Veterans somed in the student activism of the Administration had invaded his privacy sixties. Washington's focal position for by releasing his psychiatric records to a such activity accelerated development prosecutor. Ramana's brief noted that of WCL's clinical program. the trial court which ruled against the The program originated in 1966 with veteran relied on the wrong statute. The LA WCOR (Lawyers in Correction and appellate court judge agreed. Rehabilitation), which WCL professor Nicholas Kittrie created to give law stu • WCL students Sally Schiller '86 and dents practical experience by aiding Benjamin Boscolo '86 represented three prison inmates. LA WCOR eventually institutionalized mental patients in a civil became part of AU's Institute for Stud suit charging their attendant with beat ies in Justice and Social Behavior. ing them. Although the team went to In 1967, several students helped start trial with no courtroom experience and WCL's Legal Aid Services (LAS) to help only a month to prepare, the jury found primarily indigent clients. In five of the for the plaintiffs. "Sitting in class, we program's six years, the American Bar don't realize what an attorney can do," Association's Law Student Division se Schiller said afterwards. "You really can lected it as the nation's best law student change things." project. Students served voluntarily and received no academic credit. Supervised These are just a few cases in which by practicing attorneys, they conducted WCL students have tipped the scales of investigations, drafted legal documents, justice. In each, the students involved and helped in trial preparation, but made an impact on the legal system while couldn't address courts. enrolled in WCL's clinical program. Al This last situation changed in 1969 though students in the program typically when WCL and other area law schools, don't set precedents or handle dramatic through the D.C. Law Students in Court courtroom cases, most leave satisfied that Project, won permission for third-year they've had a taste of real legal work. law students to practice in some D.C.
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courts. Shortly afterward, a rule allowing third-year law students to appear in Maryland courts resulted in the opening in 1971 of WCL's Criminal Litigation Clinic, the forerunner of today's Crim inal Justice Clinic, and WCL began of fering credit for LAS participation. Commitment to Clinics In 1972 the school made a major com mitment to clinical education by hiring Milstein to run its program. WCL's clin ical education expanded in new areas. The National Veterans Law Center opened in 1978 as successor to LAW COR; it eventually became the Public Interest Law Clinic. The Appellate Ad vocacy Clinic opened in 1983. A grant from the United Methodist Church started the Women and the Law Clinic in 1984. Despite clinical training's merits and advances, the academic legal commu nity nationally has been slow to accept Elliott Milstein reviewing videot~pes of students in courtroom simulations. it. Some scholars criticize its lack of in tellectual foundation and so-called trade school character. This view is largely absent at WCL, which Milstein says has integrated the academic and practical complements. Evidence of support for WCL's clinical program occurred in 1985 when the law faculty unanimously voted in favor of tenure tracks for clinical in structors, in effect acknowledging them as peers. Examples of the integration of the clinical and non-clinical faculty are ad aptation of clinical subjects for class rooms, use of simulation-developed by the clinics-as an instructional method by non-clinicians, more clinicians teach ing non-clinical courses, and collabora tion by both groups to redesign and team teach the required legal ethics course. Milstein notes that the clinics' six full time fa.culty members have distin guished academic records, in addition to being experienced litigators. WCL's clinics have attained academic Moot court competitions give students the opportunity to demonstrate their legal knowledge. legitimacy by teaching skills at a suffi ciently theoretical level to be useful be yond specific cases. Students don't just acquire experience, they also learn transferable skills they otherwise would be left to acquire on their own haphaz ardly.
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"If all you can teach students in a Clinics' Distinctions Despite the heavy workload for stu clinic are those things which they would dents involved, the clinics are popular. learn in their first six months of practice Students in the Criminal Justice Clinic The school uses a lottery to select stu anyway, it certainly wouldn't be worth spend one semester prosecuting mis dents from the pool of eligible qualified the resources we devote to it," Milstein demeanor and some felony cases under applicants. For those not admitted to says. "We try to use every case in. the the supervision of area prosecutors and the program, other courses offer train clinic as a metaphor for all of lawyenng. another semester defending indigent ing, much of it based on lessons learned Our educational objective is to help stu clients. Nancy Cook, the clinic's direc in the clinics, that lacks the reality, but dents see that metaphor." tor, says that the ideal case involves at not the realism. Criminal and civil trial Some see more. Leslie Posnock '84 least two solid legal issues; she rejects practice courses, for example, simulate had decided by her third year that she cases that are too complicated. About litigation skills, such as trial preparation didn't even want to be a lawyer. The one case in four goes to trial, and one and tactics. clinic changed her mind. Besides im of seven goes before a jury. "Students Such simulations aren't for everyone, parting the basic skills to deal with clients, win a high percentage of cases when we especially the many law students who she recalls that it taught her compassion. go to a jury trial," Cook says. do not intend to become trial lawyers. It gave her a focus, too, and she went In the Appellate Advocacy Clinic, They can gain experience through other on to become an attorney in the Phila which Cook also directs, students han programs. One is field components, or delphia Public Defender's Office. dle appeals involving both criminal and externships, related to courses covering The four clinics function under the civil cases. "Appellate cases are hard to environmental law, securities regula guise of a conventional law office. Al win," Cook says, "but we've won our tion, commodities regulation, interna though such an atmosphere is integral share." tional human rights law, administrative to the clinical experience, the educa The Public Interest Law Clinic rep law, and antitrust law. Another is the tional objective requires that there be resents Vietnam-era military veterans Program for Advanced Studies in the some distinctions. Students handle fewer seeking disability compensation or dis Federal Regulatory Process, which in cases, so they can concentrate on each charge upgrade. Because administrative cludes lectures by senior-level govern one. From the clients' standpoint, this boards, usually the Board of Veterans ment and private-sector officials and field attention more than compensates for the Appeals, rather than courts hear cases, components with federal agencies, students' inexperience. In addition, the second-year students are eligible for this congressional committees, and public faculty monitors and evaluates students' clinic. It selects cases likely to go to a interest groups. A third experiential performance. hearing with the client. "Cases giving learning program is internships with pri "The students will never have an ex students the opportunity to work on vate law offices. perience where they're as closely su complex issues are good experience," Whether through field components, pervised as they are in the clinic~! pr? says the clinic's director, Susan Bennett. classroom simulation, or actual practical gram," Milstein says. "Never agam will The Women and the Law Clinic, part experience in the clinics, WCL makes they have a case load as small and an of WCL's Women and the Law Project every effort to ensure that its graduates opportunity to get feedback on every under the direction of Ann Shalleck, ex enter the legal profession armed with a aspect of their work and think through amines how family law affects the lives fuller understanding of what a law career every decision." of men and women differently. Stu entails and how to proceed. Its clinical To enhance learning, the clinics take dents represent indigent women in the program stands at the forefront of this only as many cases as they need, se District of Columbia in child support, effort by infusing its participants with lecting ones for educational value. The domestic violence, and child neglect knowledge, experience, and confi common thread is litigation-all point cases. In addition, the clinic addresses dence-the prerequisites of success. 0 toward courtroom resolutions. legal issues of importance to women.
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An uncommon experience: consulted the plays themselves. Applying legal method to lit WCL law students Mern Horan and erary history Bryan Bachner assisted Boyle and Jaszi, respectively, in researching the man Preparing a legal case is always a chal ners, mores, and educational practices lenge, but the case that WCL professors of Elizabethan times. In a mock practice James Boyle and Peter Jaszi argued on session to prepare the advocates for their September 25 before a standing-room courtroom appearance, Horan and Bach only crowd in the Metropolitan Me ner also played the roles of the justices. morial United Methodist Church across The two law professors call the ex Nebraska Avenue from AU's campus was perience "incredible," and Horan and especially daunting. First there were the Bachner agree. "I was working seventy judges-three associate justices of the hour weeks at the end," says Horan, a U.S. Supreme Court-William Bren second-year student whose undergrad nan, Harry Blackmun, and John Paul uate background included course work Stevens. Then there was the case it in peace and women's studies, "but it self-the intriguing literary question of was fascinating to see how a legal ar the authorship of what trustee emeritus gument was developed and a brief com David Lloyd Kreeger, the organizer of piled and then to watch the brief come the event, called "the greatest body of to life. It was a fantastic way to learn literature in human history-the plays legal method." and poems of William Shakespeare." For Bachner, a third-year student who The research team: students Bachner, left, front, and Horan with Jaszi, left, rear, and WCL dean Frederick Anderson sug had taken courses in Renaissance lit Boyle. gested Boyle and Jaszi to Kreeger at the erature as an undergraduate, the case outset on the basis of "their back was an opportunity to "combine my grounds and interests." Once they took professional interest in the law with my the case, Boyle, an expert in jurisprud personal interest in literature. I learned ence, torts, and international law, and a lot about the craft of lawyering watch ]aszi, an expert in contracts, English le ing Boyle and Jaszi prepare and argue gal history, and copyright law, found the case. It was a great addition to my themselves faced with an unusual legal legal studies." challenge. While the justices' individual opin "Beyond the obvious difficulty of ar ions favored the Stratford cause, Bach guing before such a distinguished group ner feels that Jaszi's argument for de of judges, the fact that this was an ap Vere "was treated with respect and con pellate case without a previous record sideration. Even though we weren't made it a hard one to prepare," says completely successful in proving de Jaszi, who represented Edward de Vere, Vere's case, we did raise the question the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. "It that maybe the man we call Shakespeare Jaszi presents his case to Justices Blackmun meant that we had to spend a great deal didn't really write the plays." Brennan, and Stevens during the moot cour~ of time at the outset describing for our As for the value of the exercise itself, hearing on de Vere v. Shakespeare on Septem selves what we would be discussing just Jaszi says it lies in the "demonstration ber 25, 1987. so we wouldn't argue past each other." oflegal training as an instrument to clar To prepare their one-hundred-page ify and resolve nonlegal disputes. This briefs and their one-hour oral argu case is not perhaps as unusual as one ments, jaszi and Boyle, who defended would think," he notes. "There are a Shakespeare of Stratford, spent most of surprising number of relationships be four months reading everything they tween literature and law." Since the de could find on Shakespeare and his times. bate, Jaszi and Boyle developed a syl Three sources were particularly helpful labus for a course on legal themes in to them: Charlton Ogburn's recently literature thatJaszi is teaching this spring. published The Mysterious William Shake - Mary Jo Binker speare, which argues for de Vere's au thorship, and Samuel Shoenbaum's Doc For more on the event and the substance umentary History of Shakespeare and of the arguments, see American, fall 1987, Shakespeare's Lives. The lawyers also "Campus News," p. 14.
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A historical and statistical pro file of the Washington College of Law • Lawyers Ellen Spencer Mussey (1850-1936) and Emma M. Gillett (1852- 1927) founded the Washington College of Law in February 1896. Originally Emma Gillett called the Women's Law Class, it was Ellen Spencer Mussey the first law school intended primarily for women. Its first graduating class, in 1899, consisted of six women. . summer program in China at Beijing and demic careers, and 3. 8 percent went into • Mussey was the first dean, servmg Fudan universities for U.S. and foreign public service or public interest law. from the school's incorporation in 1898 law students. • WCC's regularly published peri to 1913. Gillett succeeded her, remain • The first WCL graduate elected odicals include the Advocate, the col ing dean until 1923. governor was Anthony "Toney" Anaya lege's semiannual alumni magazine; the • Women students outnumbered men '67 of New Mexico. He was the school's American University Law Review, a quar until 1914. They regained the majority 1983 commencement speaker. terly legal journal edited by selected law with the 1981-82 entering class, which • A 1985 study of publication pro school students; the American University was 51 percent women. Current enroll ductivity among tenured law professors Journal of International Law and Policy, ment is 1,058; 52 percent are women. ranked WCL faculty above other Wash which keeps scholars, students, and • Originally a night school, WCL ington-area law schools and high na professionals abreast of international le added a day division in 1929. Today tionally. gal issues; the Administrative Law Jour only about 20 percent of the school's • The Ann Loeb Bronfman Chair in nal of The American University, which students attend the evening division. Administrative Law, created in 1986, was publishes articles by legal scholars, fed • WCL awarded an honorary doctor WCL's first endowed chair and AU's eral administrative agency officials, and of laws degree to first lady Eleanor Roo third. law students on how to implement sevelt at the school's 1933 commence • Leading the undergraduate schools congressional law more effectively; the ment. represented in the 198~7 student body International Law Society's Journal of • Horatio Rodman Rogers became the was the University of Maryland (48 stu International Law and Politics, which ex school's first male dean in 1947. dents). Next were the State University amines issues relatively new to the prac • In 1964 WCL became the first law of New York system (41 students), the tice of international law; and the Matrix, school on the East Coast to change its University of Michigan (23 students), the student-run school newspaper. bachelor of laws degree to juris doctor. AU (22 students), Cornell University (21 • WCL's International Legal Studies • In 1979 WCL became the first U.S. students), the University of Pennsyl program now enrolls some eighty master law school to have a summer study pro vania (20 students), George Washington of laws candidates from thirty-seven na gram in Eastern Europe and the Soviet University (19 students), Brandeis Uni;. tions. Union. versity (17 students), and Boston' • WCL's senior faculty member is • The Alvina Reckman Myers Law Georgetown, and Tufts universities 06 Anthony C . Morella, currently in his Library opened in 1979. It moved to the students each). twenty-seventh year of teaching at the rear of Battelle-Tompkins Hall, next door • Of the Class of '86, 41.6 percent college. He also is a WCL graduate, Class to the John Sherman Myers Law Build went into private practice law after grad of '58, and serves as AU's general coun ing, in 1980. uation, 20 .6 percent went into govern sel and secretary to the board. • WCL implemented its master of ment law, 13.5 percent accepted judicial • Currently ten ofWCL's thirty-four law program in international legal stud clerkships, 7.3 percent went into cor full -time facul ty members are women, ies in 1981-82. porate law, 4.2 percent became lawyers or 29 percent- more than twice the na • Since 1981 WCL has conducted a in the military, 4 percent entered aca- tional average.
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Upward Mobility
Law school looking forward to new home
AU's board of trustees this fall voted to make construction of a new law center a top priority. Plans now being reviewed by the D.C. Board of Zoning Adjust ment call for a new building across Mass achusetts Avenue from the main cam pus, where the Cassell Center is now. The site includes an existing 100-bed dormitory, which would be converted into a facility for housing law students. The project got a boost from Alvina Reckman Myers, widow of former WCL dean John Sherman Myers, who for her self and on behalf of her late husband pledged $6 million-the largest single gift in AU's history-toward the new building. In addition, Herbert Morgan, for himself and with other WCL alumni and friends of Dean Myers, made major pledges for the project. Another gift from a memorial trust fund raises the total pledged so far to $9 million. Morgan, who graduated from the law school in 1960, will chair WCL's campaign to raise the remaining money needed for the fa cility, which will be named The John Sherman Myers and Alvina Reckman Myers Law Center. For its first twenty-two years, the Washington College of Law had no per manent home. The first classes met in the offices of the school's founders, El len Spencer Mussey and Emma Gillett, at 470 Louisiana Avenue, N.W. Soon after its incorporation in 1898, WCL moved to the second floor of a mansion at 627 E Street. Two years later it moved to the Le Droit Building at Eighth and F streets. During the next nine years, it moved twice more. In 1909, WCL leased three rooms in the Chesley Building at 1317 New York Avenue. Enrollment increased so rap idly that by 1920 the college had ex- --- 1315 K Street panded to six rooms. That year it pur- 2000 G Street
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John Sherman Myers, left, and Chief Justice Earl Warren at Myers Building dedication in 1964.
chased its first permanent home, located Myers commented on the problem in at 1315 K Street, the former residence the building's first year. Noting that the of political orator Robert Ingersoll. school had been "bulging at the seams" Founder Mussey started an endow with 392 students in its last year at the ment fund in 1924 that enabled WCL G Street location, he recalled that the in 1926 to buy a larger house at Twen college had expected about 425 for its tieth and G streets. Formerly the home first year on campus. "We opened up of Senator Oscar Underwood of Ala with no less than 488," Myers said, "and' bama, this location served the school for the seams began to bulge again." thirty-eight years. By 1972 enrollment had climbed only By 1951, two years after WCL merged to 497, but in 1976 it reached 700. This with The American University, a survey fall's enrollment was 1,058. by the Middle States Association of Col More space is not only desirable, it's leges and Secondary Schools reported also essential. The American Bar As that the law school had outgrown its sociation's reaccreditation team last year building and faced real difficulties from visited WCL and gave it high marks for overcrowding. When Myers became dean its students, faculty, and programs. It in 1956, he made construction of a law warned, however, that the school's over school building on the AU campus his crowded facility-built for half the num primary goal and worked tirelessly to ber of students it serves, inadequately raise the necessary $750,000. designed for effective teaching and The college held ground-breaking learning, and unable to accommodate ceremonies on March 9, 1963. Construc the school's distinctive programs-is a tion was complete by September 1964, liability to future development and and U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren of should be replaced. John Sherman Myers Law Building ficially dedicated the building on Oc The accreditation team's warning did tober 31. AU thus became the only D. C. not come as a surprise to the university, area university to house its law school which already was examining options. on campus. Concern for WCL's needs and aware Although the current John Sherman ness of the school's historic and current Myers Law School building is not quite significance prompted the board of twenty-five years old, it has long suf trustee's commitment to build a new law fered from overcrowding. Indeed, Dean center.
14 AMERICA Campus News
Connolly, director of academic computing and a faculty mem ber in the Department of Com puter Science and Information Systems, concentrated on com purer literacy with specific ap· plications to the technology dis played in the exhibit. Using his experience as a technical spe cialist with the exhibit in Kiev last summer, Connolly also pre pared the students for their pro spective audience. USIA esti mates that approximately ten thousand Soviet citizens visit the exhibit each day. " By the time they left AU in November, the students under Ilene Rosenberg Nathan Helen Palmer Kettler Nola Wallette Washington stood the general development and principles of computer sys Three alums elected mer '38, was AU's first alumni ucarion and corrections. She has tems, the basics of program to board director and set up the univer worked with community-ori ming, and were able to run the sity's first job placement cen ented programs, including the software contained in the ex he three newest members ter.] During World War II, Ket eighborhood Youth Corps in hibit," says Connolly. " Hope Tof the university's board of tler worked as a librarian in the Shreveport and Action for Bos fully, they also had a good un trustees are all alumni: Ilene D.C. public library system and ton Community Development. derstanding of what to expect Rosenberg Nathan '66, Helen at a high school in Norfolk, Vir A former director of the Wom on the job every day." Palmer Kettler '39, and Nola ginia. She has served on the en's ational Bank of Wash "Informacion USA" is the first Wallette Washington '80. board of directors of the Girl ington, D.C., she is a member major exhibition organized un Nathan, who was elected to Scout Council of the Nation's of the Tational Symphony der the terms of the cultural ex the board last April, majored in Capital, as treasurer of the Orchestra's women's commit change agreement signed by the marketing at AU. After gradu Northern Virginia "Reading is tee and Links, Capital City United States and the Soviet ation, the New Jersey native Fundamental" program, and as Chapter. Union in 1985. It's also the first worked for an advertising chair of both the executive board such show to travel to the Soviet agency, then taught elementary and the finance committee for Union since 1979. The multi school in New Jersey and ew the Second Church of Christ, media exhibit includes a com York. Leaving her job to start a Scientist (Arlington, Virginia). AU trains Soviet puterized grocery store check family (her eldest child, Jona A long-time university sup bound computer out system, an automated blood than, is now an AU freshman), porter, Kettler received the 1986 guides pressure monitor, personal Nathan undertook volunteer President's Award, an honor computers, and ocher comput work. In addition to being in given each year to an outstand U's director of academic erized items in common use." volved in AU activities in the ing member of the President's A computing and the staff of Visitors are encouraged to use Los Angeles area where she now Circle. A major sports center the Office of Contract Programs the equipment on display and lives, she is active with the donor, Kettler recently gave reamed up this fall to teach ask questions about ir and irs Weizmann Institute of Science $250,000 to the new sports and twenty-eight United States In use in everyday American life. and a member of the acquisi convocation center for the Ev formacion Agency (USIA) em tions committee for the Los An erett Palmer and Helen Palmer ployees how to operate and ex geles County Museum. She has Kettler Lounge. plain computers to Soviet Grad student wins also worked with a fund-raising Also elected to the board in citizens. The USIA group, Roback Scholarship group at Cedar Sinai Hospital October, Washington is a native which included AU alumnus in Los Angeles for thirteen years. of Shreveport, Louisiana, and Paul Ilinsky '86, is now in the n AU graduate student has Elected to the board in Oc received her masters degree in Soviet Union staffing the sec A won one of the most pres tober, Kettler received her AU education at AU. For six years, ond segment of USIA's travel tigious scholarships in public degree in political science. At she has been a consulting tech ing computer exhibit "Infor administration education. An AU, she was active in the uni nical writer and editor for PSI mation USA." drew]. Hunter '88 received the versity chorus and orchestra, the Associates, a private psycholog Since the USIA students were 1987 Roback Scholarship yearbook, the Eagle, Mortar ical and educational services already familiar with the Rus awarded by the ational Acad Board, and women's athletics. agency that provides treatment sian culture and language, the emy of Public Administration at [Kettler's brother, Everett Pal- and services in health care ed- AU program, directed by Frank the group's ovember meeting.
WINTER 1988 15 Given in memory of Herbert Roback, a highly respected public servant, the $3,000 scholarship is awarded annually to a talented master's candidate who intends to enter the public service. In nominating Hunter for the award, SGPA professor Anita Alpern said that "whatever An drew does, his performance ex cels." A Peace Corps veteran, Hunter has maintained a 3. 94 grade point average and is ac tive in university affairs, serving on the Graduate Council and as the graduate student repre sentative to faculty meetings. From January to September of 1987 he had a full-time co-op with the U.S. General Account ing Office (GAO). Hunter has applied for the Presidential Management In tern (PMI) program, a highly competitive, government sponsored program that selects candidates with advanced de grees and places them as interns in professional government po sitions starting at the GS-9 level. If accepted, he will be one of AU takes center stage-The Department of Performing Arts' production of Cabaret, which ran for eight hit performances in November, has been selected to participate in the American two hundred interns selected College Theater Festival. The festival, now in its twentieth year, is a national organization each year for the two-year pro that "encourages, recognizes, and celebrates the finest and most exciting work produced in gram. Since the program began university and college theater programs." Cabaret, directed by DPA theatre director Gail in 1977, AU has ranked among Humphries Breeskin, is among five productions selected from the Washington, New York, the top five colleges and uni New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania region. Muhlenberg College in versities in the number of PMI Allentown, Pennsylvania hosts the regional festival this month, where one production will be selected to perform, along with winners from eleven other regions, at Washington's Kennedy acceptances. Center for the Performing Arts in April.
Bliss gives broadcast news research collection to AU
BS news veteran Ed Bliss, before coming to AU in 1968, work memoranda, policy state Cwho founded AU's broad lection to the university be amassed the collection over the ments, and other technical in cast journalism program in the cause "my loyalty belongs to last thirty years. formation on the people and School of Communication, will AU. The years I spent teaching Besides memorabilia related events in radio and television give the university his research here were the most satisfying of to Murrow, the collection in news. Since his retirement from collection on broadcast news. my career." cludes Bliss's personal files from AU in 1977, Bliss has been Bliss, who was news editor for The papers will be housed in his years at CBS news; news drawing on the collection to write "Edward R. Murrow and the the University Archives of paper and periodical clippings a history of radio and television News" and later for "The CBS Bender Library. relating to all aspects of news news from 1916 to 1986. ews with Walter Cronkite" broadcasting; and internal net- Bliss wants to give the col-
16 AMERICAN ''Heard on Campus ''
"Why Doesn't the Washington Press Corps Report What It Really Knows?" Discussing the question at the September 29 American Forum werefrom left, Wall Street Journal White House correspondent Rich Jaroslovsky, NBC News investigative reporter James Polk, former Georgia state senator Julian Bond, SOC dean Sanford Ungar, Rep. Helen Delich Bentley (R-Md), and investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. All agreed that the press has an obligation to report news it can verify, but acknowledged that circum stances- business considerations, future advantages to be gained by withholding information, and the reputations of people involved-occasionally keep certain news from being reported. "In 1980 Ronald Reagan ran for president by asking, 'are you better off than you were four years ago?' Today, I'm running for president and asking a more pressing question. Are we safer today than we were $2 trillion ago?" Honor and remember-Sen. Jake Gam (R-Utah) gave the keynote -Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), Democratic presidential address at Washington Semester's fortieth anniversary dinner on candidate, in a speech in the School of Communication's October 29 at the Willard Hotel in Washington. The dinner honored Campaign'88 Lecture Series, September 25. representatives of member schools, speakers, and internship supervisors for their contributions to the program. Currently, more "I am not seen or heard as Marlin Fitzwater [press secretary than 350 students each semester pursue the program, which includes seminars and internships in American politics, foreign policy, to President Reagan] is. I operate behind the scenes. I offer economic policy, justice, and journalism. guidance [to the press] by trying to interpret the temper, the direction, the thrust of how the prime minister sees any issue." - Bernard Ingham, press secretary to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in a talk to School of Communication graduate studmts, October 7.
"The way to handle the budget deficit is to spend less money and have economic growth. If you're going to have a deficit, it's a lot better ro borrow for it than to tax for it." -Robert Novak, syndicated columnist, in a speech sponsored by the Kennedy Political Union, November 9.
"The chief cause of the stock market crash was the accumulat-ion of debt and the public perception that government isn't facing up to that debt." . - Senator Frank H. Murkowski (R-A laska), speakmg ar an American Fomm 011 press coverage of the stock market crash, Fiske radio career recalled-Friends and colleagues of Fred Fiske, November /6. left, including Anita Gottlieb, center, assistant vice president for university relations, and alumni David Adler '75 and Karen Feld '69, "Gorbachev is sending one message outside [the Soviet honored the WAMU-FM 88.5 talk show host at a dinner marking his fortieth anniversary in radio. Proceeds from the December 8 event Union] and another one inside. Abroad, he is creating the will be used to set up an internship for SOC students at WAMU and impression of liberalism and at home he is making it more to support the station. The event also marked the establishment of the difficult for people to leave." . . . Fred Fiske Award, which will be given annually to a broadcaster -Natan (Anatoly) Scharansky, fonner Sovtet polttuol . who exemplifies professional excellence and community concern. In prisoner and ]f:'" WINTER 1988 17 ioral rationale for deciding not to be listed," explains Baker. Such "behavioral research" may be relatively new to the field of finance, but not to Baker. He started conducting behavioral research in finance in the early seventies and has published more than twenty behavioral studies. He and Gail E. Farrelly, associate professor at Rut gers University, recently completed a study to be published in the Akron Busi ness and Economic Review analyzing how managers set dividend policies. Because many analysts consider dividends an im portant predictor of a company's value, most managers are very reluctant to re H. Kent Baker duce them--even if earnings are down. "We went to the managers themselves Taking aim at stock normally positive returns," they wrote. to determine their opinions," says Baker, assumptions "But, four to six weeks after listing, stocks "and found that, frankly, there has been have abnormally negative returns. Why? little change since the fifties in how ent Baker isn't winning any Well, there is no complete explanation managers set dividend policies." Com Kfriends on Wall Street, but he of this market anomaly. But, to try to plementing this work, Baker has un may be influencing people else get some answers, we decided to ap dertaken another behavioral study, ex where. His research into over-the-counter proach the problem from the other di amining changes in managerial policy on stocks--ones traded not on the New York rection-does a similar phenomenon oc dividend reinvestment plans. Stock Exchange (NYSE) or the Amer cur with delisting?" Baker's students agree that such "real ican Stock Exchange (AMEX) but Because so few companies voluntarily world" research is an invaluable asset in through the National Association of Se drop out, Baker and Edelman looked at the classroom. Bill Ridenour '84, now curities Dealers Automated Quotation involuntary delistings: companies that president of the Washington Bank, took System (NASDAQ)-concludes that the were delisted because of bankruptcy or three classes from Baker while earning cost of raising capital for NASDAQ com failure to met NYSE or AMEX require a master's degree at AU. A commercial panies is no different from that for ex- ments. They found that delisting really lending officer at the time, Ridenour change-listed companies. . didn't make the price of the stock fall. recalls, "often I would learn something "Essentially, holding the appropnate More precisely, Baker says, "if there in class on Monday night and then use listing on either of the exchanges doesn't were negative effects associated with it in my job Tuesday morning." He still make a company any more or less risky," delisting, they weren't statistically sig keeps some of the research results that says Baker, whose assessment appears nificant- they were no more than would Baker distributed in class. in the recently published NASDAQ occur by chance." Baker, AU's scholar/teacher of the year Handbook: The Stock Market of Tomor All this leads to the ultimate question: in 1984, is one of the university's most row-Today. "Although there are some Given the stringent requirements of the popular professors -and, according to purported advantages to exchange list AMEX and YSE, why do companies his students, one of the most demand ing, reducing the cost of a firm's equity bother to be listed on them at all? In ing. Tony Abell, a project manager for capital does not appear to be one of fact, many don't. Since 1975, the num MCI who earned an M.B.A. in finance them." ber of companies listed on the YSE in 1977, calls Baker "one of the two or In addition, Baker and his KCBA col has remained steady, and the number three best teachers I've had. You had to league Richard Edelman scrutinized of those on the AMEX has decreased. get in line early to to get into his class. other purported advantages of exchange Meanwhile, ASDAQ firms have mul He was a hard taskmaster, but not un listings. Their findings, published as an tiplied dramatically. Baker and co-au fair." Baker's classes are always diffi AU faculty working paper, were the first thors Richard Edelman and Martha cult, but never dull. In one corporate to examine the effects of removal from Johnson, a graduate assistant in the finance seminar, he required his stu the exchange listings--delisting---{)n the M.B.A. program, arenowstudyingcom dents to compete in a difficult computer prices of common stocks. panies that choose not to be listed on simulation of running a business- then "All the studies that we could find the exchanges even though they're el treated the winning team to pizza and showed that, just prior to listing on one igible. "We' re tracking the managers' beer. of the exchanges, stocks experience ab- thinking and determining the behav- A respected teacher, ground-breaking 18 AMERICAN researcher, prolific author, and capable Liberty and the High Court: we govern ourselves and it determines administrator, Baker remains a mystery An interview with WCL to a significant degree the way we live. in at least one respect. As one former professor Herman Schwartz Moreover, in the last twenty or thirty student says admiringly, "I don't know years, it's become an example for the when the guy ever sleeps." ince he joined the Washington protection of individual rights through SCollege of Law faculty six years out the world. Nations as different as ago, Herman Schwartz has spent Zimbabwe and West Germany have In finance, the future is now much of his time studying the Supreme adopted the model of a powerful su Court and writing about it for such pub preme court dealing with crucial con Academically speaking, KCBA's fi lications as the Nation, the New York stitutional issues. nance department is definitely enjoying Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the a bull market these days. About one American Bar Association Journal. He is How do you study the Court? third of all undergraduate and graduate also the editor of a recent book, The Burger I think you can't study the Court unless business students at AU major in fi Years: Rights and Wrongs in the Supreme you study American history. So I read nance. Chair H. Kent Baker and the Court 1969-1986, as well as author of the the history, I read the decisions, and I finance faculty have set some ambitious forthcoming Packing the Courts: The Con talk to colleagues. The one nice thing goals as part of the university's Center servative Campaign to Rewrite the Consti about studying the Court is that its only of Excellence programming. tution. official product-its decisions-are all During the past year, the department Schwanz, who teaches courses in con readily available. But studying those by has acquired several computerized fi stitutional law, criminal procedure, civil themselves is a very narrow and dis nancial data bases, greatly expanding the rights law, and utility regulation, came torting way to study the Court. information available for research and to AU after a long career in public in instruction, not only in finance, but also terest law. He is former chief counsel Your new book is about the Reagan admin in other areas of business and econom to the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly istration's attempt to appoint greater num ics. Daniel Weaver, who joined the AU Subcommittee as well as former chief bers ofconservative judges to the federal bench. faculty last year after teaching at Rut counsel for revenue sharing, Depart How successful has that effort been? gers, has spearheaded the acquisition of ment of the Treasury. As the founder Very successful if you consider that only the data bases and the training of stu of the American Civil Liberties Union two of the president's more than 350 dents and faculty members in their use. Prisoners' Rights project, he partici judicial nominations have been turned Baker sees this as the first step in a pated in trying to mediate the Attica down by the Senate- one district judge long-term expansion of the depart prison uprising in 1971. in Alabama and one Supreme Court ment's research capabilities. A major goal With the recent controversy over nominee-Bark. There will probably be of the finance Center of Excellence is Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nom many more appointments because there's to establish a center of financial research inees, Schwartz has emerged as an au still another year left in the administra to attract research grants and to further thoritative source for many in the media. tion. the educational and research opportun He's been interviewed on the subject ities at the university. by Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Can you characterize these appointees? "That's a long-term goal that will take Report, the New York Times, USA Today, They're conservative, and many are very several years to accomplish," says Baker. the Wall Street Journal, the Washington young-also many of them had to pass Several milestones have already been Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Atlanta a tjgh t ideological screen to be ap reached. This spring, the department Constitution as well as "NBC Nightly pointed. As a result, I think we're likely will kick off a series of guest speakers News with Tom Brokaw," "CBS Eve to see less sympathy for civil rights and on current topics in the field of finance. ning ews," "CBS ews Nightwatch," civil liberties in the judiciary in the fu The department will also continue its Cable News Network, ABC Radio, and ture than we've seen in the past. faculty research series in which finance ational Public Radio. professors from institutions around the Has all the controversy over the recent Su Washington area join AU faculty in pre Why study the Supreme Court? preme Court nominations weakened the gov senting their current research. If one is involved in civil liberties and ernmental system in any way.? Most important, the department is civil rights, then given the American The constitutional system still works. extensively revising its graduate and un system of government, one has to be The president nominates and the Sen dergraduate curricula. "We plan to add interested in the Court. With respect to ate passes judgment on whether the several new courses and revamp others," civil liberties and civil rights, it's a unique nomination is a good one. That's what says Baker. "We're developing an in institution with great power, which it happened with Bork. Had Reagan nom tegrated program, with extensive use of was either given or has arrogated to it inated someone who was less outspo computers, new data bases, and new fi self-though these powers are hardly kenly conservative, he wouldn't have nancial concepts." unlimited. The Court is part of the way had the fight he had . WI TER 1988 19 <111111 Herman Schwartz in his Washington College of Law office-on the wall, left, an inscribed photograph of Supreme Court Justice William Brennan. According to Elder Witt, another Supreme Court commentator, "the longer justices are on the Court, .the less likely they are to vote the way people say they will. " Do you agree with that view? I think there's something to it. But I also think it's primarily because the is sues change. That's why any appoint ment is problematical. It isn't because you thought a particular judge was going to be X and he or she turned out to be Y. It's that you thought he or she was X and the issues that came along in volved A,B,C, which you hadn't even considered. What's your current view about the future orientation of the Supreme Court? I'm somewhat pessimistic. The likeli hood is that the Rehnquist Court will be more to the right of the Burger Court, but how much depends on the 1988 election. Reagan has clearly tilted the So Bork's outspokenness was his downfall? Finally, there was the privacy issue. Court sharply to the right. If the next That was a lot of it. Bork made it very According to a poll Joe Biden commis president is a Republican, then I think clear that he was out of sympathy with sioned, many people in the South, es he'll pick conservative judges, because much of what the Court had done in the pecially Southern women, were very that's the only way to placate the reli last twenty or thirty"years, and the coun concerned about privacy. gious and cultural right. If that's the case, try clearly wasn't with him. But there then the Rehnquist Court will move were other factors as well. sharply to the right. If, however, the The Bork nomination really threat Apart from Bork's, Ginsberg's, and Ken next president is a liberal Democrat, the ened the Southern Democrats and the nedy's nominations, why has this particular likelihood is a court that tilts slightly to orthern moderate Republicans, both nomination been so controversial? the right. of whom depend upon uneasy coalitions Because this justice is the so-called fifth within their own constituencies to stay vote on the Court. That's what made Does that tilt bother you as a civil libertar in office. Southern Democrats voting [retired] Justice Powell so influential on ian? against Bork would have been viewed the Burger Court. He would vote with Absolutely. The Court is ~n _essential as voting with the blacks. A no vote the conservatives almost always except part of the protection of civd ng_hts and would have antagonized many white when the facts of a case or the issue got liberties in this country-pamcularly voters and turned the Southern Dem to him and then he would swing over. when things heat up in some kind of ocratic Party into a black party. That has He was the only judge on the winning domestic or international trouble. Judge implications over the long run, because side of every church-state case, every Learned Hand may have been right when the black vote is not enough to win an affirmative action case, and every case he said, "If the spirit of liberty dies in election in the South. involving illegitimate children. Right now a people, no court can save it." In our By voting for Bork, the orthern there are four quite conservative justices country, liberty doesn't die, but from moderate Republicans would have al on this Court. Another more conserva time to time, it gets a little sick. It'~ the ienated pro-abortion people, causing tive appointee will tilt the Court even Supreme Court's job to restore It to them to switch to the Democrats. more to the right. health. 20 AMERICA ALUMNI Class N o t es 8r NEws . her career had veered toward urban administration and away 1930s from the international arena. "I wanted to get back to my roots, at least temporarily," she says. '38 Kellerhouse's interest in the 50th Reunion-April 22-24, 1988 HARRY S. TRUMAN White House Fellows Program Class Chair Frances Williams SCHOLARSHIP was sparked by an old acquaint Bolling FOUNDATION ance from Harvard's John F. 4307 Aitcheson Road Kennedy School of Public Ad Beltsville, Md. 20705 ministration, where she earned (H)(30 l )498-3386 her MPA in 1979. The pro gram's selection criteria include "Greetings class of 1938! leadership, intellectual, and Fifty years sounds better than professional ability and com half a century. It's still a long munity service. time since our college days. "Even if I hadn't been cho Your committee is working sen, the application process it with the alumni office to cele self was valuable," she says. brate a special anniversary. In "The questions are extremely April it's our turn to be probing and introspective. They 'Golden Oldies.' Don't miss made me dig deep and look hard the opportunity to meet and A year in the White House at my career so far and where greet friends. We're looking hen Karen Strawser Kell tions will have established I'm going next." forward to hearing from you W eighty-three trade offices like She points out that being a and seeing you in the spring!" erhouse '73 left AU, she bade farewell to Washington, that overseas." The program that White House Fellow is an ed headed off to Harvard for grad Kellerhouse is working on will ucation in itself. In addition to uate work, then became finan serve as a point of contact for her work in the trade office, she cial manager with the Port Au those offices, providing infor joins the other fellows for weekly 1940s thority of New York and New mation and assistance in their luncheon seminars with noted Jersey. Fourteen years later, trade-related activities. figures from government, the she's back in D.C., this time as After only a few months on news media, and the private the job, Kellerhouse already has sector. So far, she's met and '42 one of twelve White House Fellows. gained an appreciation of for talked with Rep. Dan Rosten eign trade's far-reaching ef kowski (D-111.), White House Walter L. Barkdull, CAS/ Established in the 1960s un fects. She recalls listening to an Chief of Staff Howard Baker, BA, retired in May after thirty der President Lyndon Johnson, official from Iowa discussing former Chief Justice Warren years of California state gov the White House Fellows Pro foreign commodity agree Burger, ABC News White ernment service. Positions he gram gives professionals an op ments, for example, and ticking House correspondent Sam held include press secretary to portunity to work for one year off the products grown in Iowa Donaldson, and Motion Picture the governor, assistant secre at the top levels of government that they would affect. "May Association president Jack Val tary of health and welfare, ex while they are still in the early ors, governors, and other offi enti among others. "Since the ecutive officer of the board of stages of their careers. Keller cials at the state and local level lunches are twelve-on-one, I corrections, and assistant and house was chosen as one of know that their economies are think the speakers enjoy them deputy director of corrections. twelve fellows from among 850 truly global," she says. "Every as much as we do," she says. He lives in Sacramento. applicants this year. where, the old economic dis "They like talking in a small Kellerhouse is working as tinctions are being blurred. I group, off the record, and being '43 special assistant to U.S. Trade hate to resort to tired cliches, challenged with really good 45th Reunion-April 22-24, 1988 Representative Clayton Yeut but it really is a small world." questions." This spring, the Class Chair Herbert Wood ter, developing an intergovern Kellerhouse is especially group will travel to the Soviet 8826 Lake Hill Drive mental affairs program for states pleased that her position gives Union on a State Department Lorton, Va. 22079 and municipalities trading with her the opportunity to put her sponsored tour. (H)(703)690-l398 foreign countries. "You'd be training from AU's School ofln Above all, Kellerhouse re "Let's make a real effort to amazed at the number of states ternational Studies to use. She lishes the challenge that goes get to this reunion. After and cities getting involved in majored in international ser with the honor. "After all," she forty-five years I'm sure all of foreign trade," she says. "Min vice, but also completed enough says, "if you're at all interested us have plenty of reasons to nesota, for one, has a trade of courses for a second major in in public service, the White get together to celebrate our fice in Sweden. By the end of urban affairs. Later, working for House is the biggest mountain friendships and ties to AU." 1987, state and local jurisdic- the Port Authority, she felt that in the range." WINTER 1988 21 '48 'home' to AU on the occasion 40th Reunion-April 22-24, 1988 of our thirtieth reunion. This Class Chair Kenneth Jones may be the only chance some 3400 Uniontown Road of us from as far away as Wis Uniontown, Md. 21157 consin may get to see you-so (H)(301)848-5551 rake a hard look at those cal "It's not every day a class endars and make arrange has a fortieth-year celebration! ments now to be at AU for We're inviting all members of that weekend in ApriL Try the class of '48 to join us with your best and there' ll be no our friends from the classes of regrets. " '47 and '49 for a weekend of memories, friendships, and fun. Hope to see you then!" 1960s 1950s '62 Alan N . McCartney, '52 WCLJ]D, is patent counsel in the legal department at Con (]) "' solidation Coal Company. He 0 M argaret G rah am Krank lives in Peters Township, Pa. z ing, CAS/BA, is an artist. Her "' "'tJ most recent exhibit was a G '63 one-person show of water 25th Reunion-April 22-24, 1988 colors at the Spectrum Gal Class Chair Myrna Rosen-Byer lery, Washington, D.C. 9900 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring, Md. 20902 '53 (Jl) (30 1)946-0900 35th Reunion-April 22-24, 1988 "It's rime for our twenty Class Chair Virginia Day Conger fifth class reunion! The com 910 Copley Lane mittee and I look forward to Silver Spring, Md. 20904 and encourage your participa (H)(301)384-7058 tion in celebrating this note "How I look forward to worthy event. Mark your cal seeing classmates from 1953. endars now and plan to be at We are fortunate to have this AU for the festivities." :::;------(]) opportunity to meet again. So Phyllis R eynolds Naylor, 3i "" (]) .2 ti .... much has happened in the CAS/BA, is the author of The "' z c: t» · ~ c .i":'o - -o Ill (]) world and in our lives, it will Keeper, an October 1987 Ban - 0 ·u; -o (])- "0 'tl .(i) ~ ~ N ;=j 0 ::l Q be interesting to see familiar tam Starfire Paperback. She 1'1 ,_,tJ(])(])Co <;; (I) u:; a; .::::::: (]) N t:J faces and compare notes. lives in Bethesda, Md. "' Ill 'tl ,.:,c::c:J.;: u 0:: Please make an extra effort to 1'1 t · ~ :::>(f) . tl osc,_;2c:l ~ come." '64 "0 @ ~;:l82]lc: Ill .c: ~ · ~ c ;:l 0 22 AMERICAN in recognition of his work as edition of Marquis Who's Who Gil Mendelson, CAS/BA, Steven Rothenberg, director of the Brethren Ser i11 Finance and Industry. assistant controller at Pacific KCBNBS, is vice president of vice of the Polish Agricultural William L. Kendig, KCBN Resources, is president of the finance and administration at Exchange Program. The MBA, PhD'69, was presented University of Hawaii MBA Sonin, a maker and distributor goodwill program is an ex the Honor Award by the sec Alumni Group. He lives in of consumer electronic prod change between Polish agri retary of the interior in Sep Kailua. ucts. He lives in Hartsdale, cultural scientists and Ameri tember. Kendig is the director Norman "Skip" Watts, N.Y. SGPNBA, practices law in Lonnie B. Scheps, KCBN can volunteers. He is a peace of financial management for and international affairs con the Department of the Woodstock, Yr. He is also BS, is national sales manager furE. R.Ca~enrerCom sultant and Europe and Asia Interior. working parr-rime on Senator Robert Dole's presidential pany, an international con representative for the Church campaign. sumer product conglomerate. of the Brethren General '66 He lives in Richmond, Va. Board. Debor ah Bundens Scott, Timothy R. Bennett, '68 CAS/BA, is associate director KCBNBS, received the Min 20th Reunion-April 22-24, 1988 of media relations at the uteman Award from the Na 1970s Class Chair Abraham Peck White House and lives in tional Congress of the Sons of 40 I Hillcrest Drive Washington. the American Revolution. He Cincinnati, Ohio 45215 '70 lives in Falls Church, Va. (H)(513)761-9411 '69 Marty Levine, KCBNBS, (W)(513)221-1875 George J . Collins, KCBN director of taxes for Commu '"Don't look back from Howard M. Cohn, WCLI MBA, is a member of the nication Satellite Corporation where you just have been, JD, is an associate with the board of trustees of The (COMSAT), is president of look straight ahead' our 1968 intellectual property law firm Maryland Academv of Sci the Baltimore-Washington Talon states. It has been Kramer, Brufsky and Cifelli in ences. Also a rrust~e of AU chapter of the Tax Executive twenty years and now it's rime Southport, Conn. Collins is president and chi~f Institute. He lives in Rock to look back. Please join us H. Lamar Gibble, SIS/ executive officer ofT. Rowe ville, Md. on campus April 22- 24, to MA, was awarded the Gold Price Associates and chair of Melvin E. Page, SIS/BA, help celebrate our twentieth Medal of the Order of Merit, that firm's management com is professor and chair of the Reunion!" Poland's highest state medal mittee. He lives in Ellicott history department at East Patricia de Stacy Harri for citizens of other countries, City, Md. Tennessee State University. son, CAS/BA, He is also the editor of Africa is founder and and the First World War, pub president of lished by MacMillan Press, the National London, and St. Marrin's Women's Eco Press, New York. He lives in ...... _ nomic Alli I johnson City. ance, a nonprofit organization \ of leaders from business, in 8 '67 dustry, and government who c Is work to increase career and Planning a Visit? Planning a Meeting? Jon Christenson, SGPN economic opportunities for re you coming to Washing s your non-profit organization BA, is senior legislative staff women. She also serves on Aton, D.C., this summer? I planning a summer confer assistant in rhe Oregon House rhe National Board of the Looking for an inexpensive ence in Washington, D.C.? If of Representatives. Recent Medical College of place to stay? so, why not consider holding it activities have included work Pennsylvania. Bring back the college years. at your alma mater. We offer a on the enactment of the Ore Robert A. Herrmann, CAS/MA, PhD'73, is professor Stay in one of AU's air-condi full conference facility at a low gon Anti-Apartheid Act of tioned residence halls for only cost, including housing, meet 1987 and the Marrin Luther of mathematics at the U.S. $17 per night, $68 per week, ing rooms, food service, and au King state holiday and estab Naval Academy in Annapolis and di rector of the Institute per person, double occupancy. dio-visual equipme nt. lishment of a state advocate Rooms are available May 21- For more information, for women and minority busi for lVIathematics and August 12. contact: nesses. He lives with his fam Philosophy. For more information, Summer Housing Office ily in Salem. Linda A. Mercadante, CAS/BA, an ordained minister contact: McDowell Hall, Room 4 Roger W. Gale, SIS/BA, is Summer Housing Office The American University director of the office of exter in rhe Presbyterian Church McDowell Hall, Room 4, Washington, D.C. 20016 nal affairs for the Federal En (U.S.A.), is assistant professor The American University (202) 885-2599 ergy Regulatory Commission. of rheology at the Methodist Washington, D.C. 20016 He lives with his wife and Theological School. She lives (202) 885-2599 children in Rockville, Md. in Delaware, Ohio. WINTER 1988 23 George A. Fischer, SGPN S NY- Syracuse Health Sci MPA, works for RMS Tech e nces Center. A second edi nologies, in New Orleans, La. tion of Behavioral Science in He lives in River Ridge. Family Medicine, a book he coauthored, has been pub '71 lished . He lives in Liverpool, N .Y. James Daniel Brock, Jr., Robert M. Lloyd, SGPN KCBNBS, MBA'72, is senior MPA, received a Faculty Ex vice president for marketing cellence Award for his out at Piedmont Aviation. He is standin g performance as an responsible for marketing, instructor for the U.S. De scheduling, pricing, sales, ad partment of Agriculture gradu vertising, and commuter pro ate school. grams. He lives in Winston J.P. O'Neil, CTNMSTM, Salem, N.C., with his wife, president and chief executive Margaret, and their three officer of Term-Tronics, a children. computer and electronics de 0 Lawrence E . "Larry" velopment and manufacturing ] 0.. Herman, SGPNBA, is an ad firm, is a member of the vertising sales and marketing board of directors of Venda manager for Market Source Looking back-Art professor Carol Ravena!, right, and Sarita Gates Video, a manufacturer of au Corporation in Cranbury, N.J. at the opening of a retrospective of Ravenal's paintings exhibited in tomated vid eo rental equip AU's Watkins Gallery in November. Gates studied drawing and He specializes in reaching painting at AU in the fifties and is the widow of Robert Gates who ment. He lives in San Diego. consumers in the military, col was an AU art professor for thirty years. ' Gary Wallen, KCBN leges, and other niche mar BSBA, is president of Sunrise kets for Fortune 500 com Supply Company. He lives in panies. He lives in Marlboro, Auburn, N.H., with his wife, N.J. Jill, and their two sons. Roger A. Wentz, SGPN BA, is the director of Internal '73 Bank Services Group of the 15th Reunion-April22-24, 1988 American Banker's Associa Class Chair Debra Skopczynsk:i tion. He lives in Arlington, 3340 York Place Va. Decatur, Ga. 30032 (H)(404)289-0583 (W)(404)676-2283 '72 "The class of ' 73 reunion committee needs help in David F. Condon, CAS/ making Reunion '88 a special MS, emeritus professor of law event. To volunteer, please and legal history at George contact me at my home num " Mason University School of ber in the evenings." Law, presented a paper in - ~ Allyn C. Enderlyn, CAS/ ~ July on witchcraft trials in BA, is vice president for insti ~ seventeenth-century Virginia tutional advancement for The E at the eighth British Legal Washington Center, a non ] History Conference in Wales. profit educational organization "" Condon's paper will be pub- in Washington, D.C. lished by The Hambledon A rave review-Tom Shales '71 is congratulated by AU provost Noah J. Hanft, SGPNBA, Milton Greenberg at a reception in November. Shales, TV critic for Press. is vice president and counsel Stuart H . Gary, WCLIJD, the Washington Post, received the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Contributions to Film and TV Culture. Also for MasterCard International. is a principal of Huntmar As attending the reception, School of Communication professor Darren He lives in Brooklyn Heights, sociates, a multifaceted real Stucker, second from left, and Jack Jorgens, director of AU's Media N.Y., with his wife, Cecile, estate development company Center. and their three daughters. in Vienna, Va. John H. Harris, KCBN William D . Gran t, CAS/ MBA, received the Founders MEd, is the director of Association Award of Excel professional services and re lence in Teaching at the Uni search associate professor at versity of Wisconsin-Green 24 AMERICAN Join the Celebration Reunion '88: Aprll 22-24 Among the weekend's Calvin L. Hackeman, teaches English as a second highlights are two new KCBNBSBA, language at the Laica Univer events: The American Re is a partner of sity in Guayaqu il , Ecuador. union Fair (featuring mu Grant Thorn Donnie R. Pope, SG P N sic, international foods, ton, the tenth MA, is vice president-general "'T'ileAmcr~~,;an games. crafts. and enter largest ac counsel of Hydroelectric De ~Un•>~Crs•rv tainment) and Casino counting and velopment in Littleton, Colo. ~n '88 Night (dinner. dancing to management consulting firm Donald Pretzer, SIS/BA, ap;UJ22-2ft. a live band. and casino in the United States. He lives is an urban designer with FSI games). in Manassas, Va., with his Design Group, Fort Washing Graduates of all years wife, Amy Weissman ton, Md. He is working on are invited. with special Hackeman, CAS/BA'75, and the Port America World Trade gatherings planned for their two sons. Center and riverfront anniversary classes-'38, development. '43, '48, '53, '58, '63, '68, 73, '76 '78. '83-and the Golden '78 ~ Eagles (alumni past their Merrill McLane, CAS/ lOth Reunion-April22-24, 1988 _...... 1~ fiftieth anniversary). MA, has written Proud Out Class Chair Neil Young -. casts: The Gypsies of Spain 29750 Jackson Road ::;i.~~ Don't miss the biggest / ... - \' which was published last fall. Orange Village, Ohio 44022 ~B-\'h;_ ,. · alumni event of the year! " He lives in Rockport, Mass. (H)(216)831-6345 ""' ·' ~ To volunteer to help with \\.;> Andrew "Andy" L. Ross, 0N)(216)831-6900 Reunion '88 or for more in SGPNBA, is an assistant pro "AU will return tO the live ~; fessor of political science at of hundreds from the class of formation. call (202 ) 885- ~~ the University of Kentucky. 1978. I hope you will join us 1300. ·- He earned his PhD at Cornell for a weekend of reminiscing Coming in February: Watch your mail for University in 1984 and spent with long-time friends. See your official Reunion '88 invitation, featur last summer as a visiting fel you there." ing complete details and a reservation form. low at the University of Mary Susan Stark Fischgrund, land's Center for International CAS/BA, completed her mas Development and Conflict ter's degree in therapeutic J. T . Westermeier, WCLI Management. He lives in recreation administration at Bay. He has been a member Lexington. ew York University. of the UWGB business ad ]D, received the Data Pro MartinS. Sir, SGPNBA, David G. McCracken, ministration faculty since is an attorney with the firm of KCBNMBA, is associated 1978. cessing Man- . agement Asso- Smith, Farrar, Cross, Beasley with the law firm of Locke, Jarvis D. Lynch, Jr., and Sir in Nashville . Purnell, Rain, and Harrell in CTNMSTM, a marine briga ...... ciation's .. Distinguished Jo Stecher, SON/BS, is Dallas, specializing in litiga dier general, is the com the patient education coordi tion on behalf of management mander of the ten-thousand Information Sciences Award for 1987. Westermeier heads nator and an adjunct faculty and insurance companies. plus troop unit of the Second member at the Long Island Monica Shaffer, SIS/BA is Force Service Support Group. the computer law group of Abrams, Westermeier & College Hospital School of senior vice president and me He is based in Camp Le Nursing. She lives in New dia director at Biederman & jeune, N.C. Goldberg, a Washingron, D. C., law firm. He is the first York City. Company, an advertising David Sonner, CAS/BA, is Patricia Summerhill, agency in ew York. a chiropractOr with offices in attorney tO earn the associa tion's highest award. CAS/MA, is a fourth grade Jonathan Sills, CAS/BA, i. New York City and Great teacher at Wyoming Seminary president and creative dirccto 1eck, .Y. in Kingston, Pa. She lives in of Heinrich and Sills Advertis '75 Kingston with her husband, ing in New York City. '74 William, and their two Mark Soloman, CAS/BA, Douglas G. Buck, KCBN children. is an associate editor at Rob Huberman, CAS/BA, MS, is the director of human Traffic World Magazine. is the author of Video Family resources at Sinclair Commu '77 Allan Woodard, CAS/ Ponraits: The User Frimdly nity College in Dayton, Ohio. MEd, is the assistant dean at Guide to Videotaping Family He is also a factfinder and Steven B. Caruso, CAS/ the Lower School of the Wyo History, Stories, and Memories mediator for the Ohio State BA, is senior vice president of ming Seminary, Kingston, Pa. published by Heritage Books Employee Relations Board, corporate finance at Sherwood He and his wife, Sarah, and in September. He lives in Ar presiding over public sector Capital in New York City. their two sons live in Forty lingron, Va. labor disputes. Mary Goodman, SIS/BA, Fort. WINTER 1988 25 company. He is based in the '79 firm's Washington, D.C., John H. Guyton, SGPA/ office. BA, is a sales manager for Genie L. Wessel, SON/BS, Cannondale Corporation, a a nursing consultant with the manufacturer of bicycles and Maryland State Department bicycle accessories. He lives of Health and Mental Hy in Ridgefield , Conn. giene, was elected governing Terry Lowe-Edwards, councillor of the American CAS/BA, and Stewart School Health Association for Edwards, CAS/BA'80, own a three-year term. She lives in WODY-AM Radio, a full-time Ellicot City, Md. country music station, in Bas sen, Va. Stewart is presidenr '81 and general manager and Terry is vice presidenr and di Samuel B. Hoff, SGP AI rector of news and community MA, earned a PhD in political affairs. They live in science from SUNY-Stony Maninsville. Brook last May. He is an as Standing in front of the National Republican Congressional Gary S. Paer, SOJ/BS, is a sistant professor of political Committee building are, from left, Peter Pessell, Glen Bolger, Patty deputy disrrict auorney at the science at SUNY-College at Limbacher, David Johnson, and Grace Wiegers. Orange County District Attor Geneseo. ney's Office in Newport Paul M. Kratchman, Behind the scenes at the GOP Beach, Calif. He lives in La SGPA/BA, is a public de guna Hills. fender for Cook Counry Juve hen the next congres search. He and his staff also train nile Court in Chicago. He is a Wsional campaigns get un candidates and their campaign member of the Illinois and derway, many Republican can staffs in research techniques. District of Columbia bars. didates will have gotten where As northeast field representa 1980s Steven Leifman, SGPA/ they are thanks in part to AU tive, David Johnson '85 (SGPA/ BS, is an assistant public de alums. The National Republi BA) recruits candidates and fender in Miami, Fla. can Congressional Committee provides campaign assistance in '80 Cheryl M. Somers, CAS/ (NRCC) counts four recent AU Delaware, New York, New Jer BA , is director of marketing at alums among its staff, and last sey , New Hampshire, and Lisa E. Farrington, CAS/ Petree Graphics in McLean, semester it had an AU Wash Rhode Island. MA, is associate director of Va. ington Semester student as an Peter Pessell '87 (CAS/MA), Harris Fine Ans, a private Peter A. Taylor, SIS/BA, intern. who studied film and video at dealership. She lives in Asto is the international marketing The AU group has a wide AU , is a production associate. ria, N.Y. manager for Cahners Exposi range of responsibilities. As He produces and directs radio Stewart M. Kasloff, CAS/ tion Group, an organizer of deputy political action commit and television spots for Repub BA , is assistant news director rrade shows. He lives in Falls tee (PAC) director and finance lican congressional campaigns and executive news producer Church, Va. field director, Grace Wiegers '83 across the nation. for WTVD-TV in Raleigh (SIS/BA) helps candidates de Washington Semester stu Durham, N.C. '82 velop fund-raising strategies and dent Patty Limbacher, a senior Martha Milner, CAS/BS, acts as a liaison between can double-majoring in political sci is completing her final year of Alexander Kronemer, didates and the Washington PAC ence and journalism at St. Law pediatric training at the Uni SIS/BA, is a job developer for community. rence University in Canton, versity of Washington in Seat refugees at Action for Boston Glen Bolger '85 (SGP A/BS) New York, worked in the tle and serves as assistant Community Development. oversees the preparation of op NRCC's campaign division. chief of pediatrics at the Uni His wife, Luby Ismail Kro position and demographic re- versity of Washington Chil nemer, SIS/BA'84, is pursu dren's Hospital. ing a master's degree in inter He graduated from Columbus Lindemann, SIS/BA'82, Jack Shainman, CAS/BA, cultural relations at Lesley School of Law at Catholic CAS/MA'85, live in Branch has two art galleries, one in College and is a foreign stu Un iversity in 1985. burg, N.J. Washington, D.C., and one in dent advisor at Bunker Hill Tulsi R. Maharjan, Mark Meridy, SGPA/BA, New York City. Community College. They KCBA/MA, CAS/PhD'85, is earned an MPA and a Geron Robert C . Ulrich, SGPA/ live in Boston. the coordinator of interna tology Certificate from The MPA, is vice president of Par Milton C. "Tony" Lee, tional programs at Raritan Val Maxwell School of Citizenship sons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & SOJ IBS, is a member of the ley Community College, Cen and Public Affairs at Syracuse Douglas, an engineering, District of Columbia public ter for International Studies. University in 1986. He is the planning, and architectural defender service trial staff. He and his wife, Ellen J. home care program director at 26 AMERICAN Elder Services of Cape Cod tant district attorney with the Beth H. Wasserman, publican State Commirtee. and The Islands. He lives in Kings County Dist;ict Attor CAS/BA, is an actress and He is responsible for directing East Dennis, lass. ney's office in Brooklyn. lives in Miami Beach, Fla. campaign efforts in several Susan Newell Portman, Andrea Hart, SGPNMPA, Some of her recent roles in ew Jersey Stare Senate WCLIJD, is division counsel received the 1987 john]. clude Ma Dolan in "On Your races. for ational Gypsum McCloy Fellowship in Urban Toes" at Theatre-by-the-Sea, David Secunda, KCBN Company. Affairs. The fellowship in Matunuck, R.I.; Morales in BSBA, is in law school ar the Susan Rifkin Karon, cludes study of local public "A Chorus Line" at Play University of Pittsburgh. He CAS/ BA, is a campaign associ affairs in selected cities house on the Square in Mem and his wife, Peggy, live in ate for the Combined Jewish throughout Germany. She phis, Tenn.; and the female Butler, Pa. Philanthropies. She and her lives in Edina, Minn. lead in an original musical Oscar E. Soto, SGPNBS, husband Jeffrey live in Na Stephen P. Hogan, SIS/ about Jackie Mason's life is a third-year law student at tick, !\•lass. MA, is a Rensselaer County called "Oh, Jackie, Oh!" She Boston University. He plans Jeffrey R. Stein, KCBN assistant district attorney. He has also done television and to practice law in Florida after BSBA, is a regional sales di lives in Troy, N.Y. commercial work. completing his degree. rector for Central Title Re Pamela G. Holt, CAS/MA, Silvano Susi, KCBNMBA, view, i\laplewood/South Or is deputy director of the Dis '84 owns a residential construc ange, a provider of title trict of Columbia Commission tion business in Italy and is searches and insurance in on the Arts and Humanities. Cheryl A . Althoff, WCLI vice president of Young En New Jersey. He lives in West Margaret A. Mannix, J D, is manager of estate plan trepreneurs in Rome, where he lives. Orange. CAS/BA, is pursuing a mas ning at the law firm of Bruce ter's degree in journalism at W. Peters in Rochester, N.Y. Gary M. Wertheimer, Columbia University. Maria Aponte-Pons, CAS/ KCBNBSBA, is a regional '83 Peter L. Scher, SGPNBA, controller for Church's Fried 5th Reunion-April 22-24, 1988 BS, MS'87, is staff scientist earned his JD from AU's for Environ Corporation, a Chicken in Atlanta, Ga. Class Chair Chris Gibbons Washington College of Law health and environmental sci 757 S. Main Street last May and has passed the ence consulting firm in Wash '86 Cheshire, Conn. 06410 New York Bar exam. ington, D.C. (H) (203)271-2268 Terence P. Schrider, Lucia Lambert, CAS/BA, Donna Anderson, CAS/ "Class of '83! Remember CAS/BA, is a housing rehabili is a copywriter at Campbeii BA, is a public information of the Splavcr Center, tuition tation coordinator for the City Mithun Advertising, ficer in the media relations of demonstrations, the Tavern, of Woodbury, N.j. Minneapolis. fice at AU. the Hill, and all the other Neal Sherman, SGPNBA, Michael A . Marra, KCBN Brenda Cook, SO]!MS, is things that made AU and BS, a first lieutenant in the administrator for the U.S. Im Washington great? Relive your has formed Business Advan tage, a marketing and com Air Force and a logistics migration Court in Houston. memories and join the rest of plans, programs, and mobility Victoria Rosetti Cull, your class at Reunion '88. See munications firm. His wife, Pamela Weinstein Sher officer, was named the Mili CAS/MA, is assistant director you there!" man, SIS/BA'84, graduated tary Airlift Command Logis of career services at Lafayette Andrea Barash, CAS/BA, tics Officer of the Year. College, Easton, Pa. is a graphic designer for Rich from Cardozo School of Law and works for Decheft, Price R. Jill Sieminski Maxwell, Jacqueline Kosko, SIS, ard Danne & Associates in and Rhoads in Washington, CAS/BA, works for KXTX CAS/BA, was selected as the New York City. She received TV 39 in Dallas. 1987 Miss Union County, her MFA from Yale last May. D.C. Kenneth J. Skuba, SIS/ David O'Neil, CAS/BA, is .] . (an official Miss America Nelson E. Canter, SO] / BA, is vice president for the a Brother of the Christian preliminary) and won an out BA, graduated from Seton Mid-Atlantic Division of East Schools and teaches at La standing ralent award at the Hall Law School and is an as ern Environmental Services, a Salle Academy in Providence, Miss New Jersey pageant. She sistant district attorney for public company specializing R.I. is a reporter with Knight-Rid Westchester County. He lives in asbestos hazard abatement der Financial Information in in Purchase, N.Y. in the eastern United States. '85 New York City and lives in Donna Lee Hansen He lives in Drums, Pa. Clark, N.J. Fliedner, CAS/BA, is a na Maysoon Abbass Sukkar, Cathi M. Lert, KCBNBS, tionally certified counselor CAS/BA, is pursuing a mas earned an MBA in profes '87 with the Witness Aid Services ter's degree in development sional accounting from Rut nit in the Manhattan Dis gers University. She is a staff David L. Aldridge, CAS/ trict Attorney's Office. I Ier banking at AU. Belinda Rumac Wasser accountant with Touche Ross BA, is a staff writer for the husband, Mark J. Fliedner, man, KCBNBSBA, earned an in Newark, .]. Washington Post. He covered CAS/ BA'84, graduated from MBA in management informa Christopher Nicholas, the 1987 World Series and the ational Law Center at SGPNBA, is a regional direc League Championship Series. George Washington University tion systems from George Washington University. tor for the New Jersey Re- Martin Jim Cooperman, last May. He is now an assis- WINTER 1988 27 WCLI]D, is associated with 1987. Th~y live in Branch the ew York City law firm burg, N.J. of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Susan M. Rifkin, CAS/ Hays and Handler. He lives BA'82, and Jeffrey H. Karon. in Great Neck, . Y. They live in Natick, Mass. Sue Ellen Glazer, WCL/ Richard J. Ross, CAS/ ]D, is a judicial clerk for BS'82, and Susan G. An Chief justice William Pryor of drews. They live in Wren the D.C. Court of Appeals. tham, Mass. Candace Jones, SGPNBA, Ann E. Stanley, KCBN is a legislative aide for the BSBA'82, and Andrew j. Grif Federal Government Service fin, July 11, 1987. They live Task Force in Washington, in Red Bank, .j. D.C. Maysoon A. M. Abbass Lisa L. LeBlanc, CAS/ Sukkar, CAS/BA'83, and BA., works for Silver, Burdett H ave you been missing Sagger M. Damiri, October and Ginn, a division of Simon alumni events and ser alumni events in your area? 11, 1987. & Schuster Publishers, Lex vices. You should have re ington, Mass. Are you unaware of the ceived your most recent is Jeffrey M. Berman, CAS/ Jane Birdsong Lockhar t, special programs and ser sue (January/February) BS'83, and Elizabeth A. CAS/BA, and her husband, vices available to AU early last month. Look for Abbe, June 28, 1987. James Terry Lockhart, alumni? If so, please re the next Alumni Scene in Kevin S. Deery, CAS/ SGPNMA'82, SIS/MA'87, member that the Ameri early March and send in BS'83, and Cathleen A. Ma son, May 23 , 1987. They live live in London. jane is an ac can Alumni Scene, the new the response form as soon in Syracuse, . Y. countant, and Terry is pursu tabloid publication you will as possible. A lot of events ing a PhD at the London receive five times a year, Julie Galloway, CAS/ are coming up--d.on't miss BA'83, and Phillip anchu School of Economics. is your sole source of infor out! Y Lisa Northcutt, CAS/ mation regarding most lis, CAS/BS'83, December 6, MFA, teaches at the Harvey 1986. They live in Alexandria, School, an independent coed Va. Hewlett, CAS/BA'80, June September 6, 1987 . boarding and day school in 27, 1987. They live in Be Elisabeth C . Goodman, Katonah, N.Y. She lives in thesda, Md . Jeff Stetekluh, CAS/BS'78, WCLIJD'83, and John A. MS'85, and Ann Marie owa Ridgefield, Conn. Brooks. They live in Cam Robert W. Hoffbauer, kowski, February 7, 1987. Tamara J. Stringer, bridge, Mass. SGPNBA'74, and Catherine They live in Arlington, Va. WCLIJ D, is a staff attorney at Lawrence Husick, WCL/ S. Walsack, june 28 , 1987. Robyn Paul, CAS/BA'79, the Securities and Exchange They live in Colts Neck, N.j. JD'83, and Margaret Levy, Commission and lives in and john B. Segal, Jr. , Sep August 23, 1987. They live in Kenneth Becker, KCBN tember 13, 1987. They live in Washington, D.C. BS'76, MBA'78, and Sharon Wayne, Pa. Scarsdale, . Y. Belinda Rumac, KCBN Bobnar, November 22, 1986. Patrick B. Burns, SGPN They live in Washington, BSBA'83, and David Wasser BA'81, and Anne C. Stringfel man, September 1987. They ~~H(:tit·1!ii1 N.J. low, September 26, 1987. MartinS. Sir, SGPN live in Rockville, Md. Samuel B. Hoff, SGPN Terence P. Schrider, BA'76, and Anna Lambert, MA'81 , and Phyllis Rose M arriages May 24, 1987. They live in CAS/BA'83, and Patricia A. Oliveto, August 1986. They Rainey. They live in Dept Nashville, Tenn. live in Avon , .Y. Mark G . Lynch, CAS/ ford, .]. Christopher F renze, Frances W. Carey, SON/ MA'65, and Karen R. Dawes, SGPNBA'77, and Karen Al Debr a A. Savage, CAS/ August 1987. They live in Ra BS'82, and Donald F. Mac BA'83, and Michael ]. Bella. exis, CAS/MA'78, july 25, Master, july 25, 1987. leigh, N.C. 1987. They live in Trenton, N.j. Michael D. O'Toole, CAS/ Donna Friedman, CAS/ Lobna "Luby" Ismail, Donnie R. Pope, SGPN BA'82, and Chris Meyer, BA'70, MA'74, and Regina H. MA'77, and Deborah A. SIS/BA'84, and Alexander St. Clair, September 1987. CAS/BGS'82, October 1987. Kronemer, SIS/BA'82. They Chroniak, june 13 , 1987. Barbara Kase, They live in Charlotte, N.C. KCBN live in Boston. They live in Littleton, Colo. BSBA'82, and Charles Avner, Kenneth Mann, KCBN Robert H. Deyerberg, R. Jill Sieminski, CAS/ BS'73, and Barbara Schenkel, October 14, 1985. They live BA'84, and J. Brandon Max KCBNBSBA'78, and Lisa A. in Cherry Hill , N.j. May 24, 1987. They live in Long. They live in Vienna, well III, May 29, 1987. They Penn Valley, Pa. Ellen J. Lindemann, SIS/ live in Irving, Tex. Va. BA'82 , CAS/MA'85, and Douglas N . Moore, CTN David J . Goldsmith, WCL~ I Monica Shaffer, SIS/ Tulsi R. Maharjan, KCBN MSTM'73, and Mary S. BA'78, and Richard I. Karo, JD'85, and jody E. Lieberman. MA, CAS/PhD'85, May 23, They live in Queens. N.Y. 28 AMERICA Audrey Grant, SO I live in onh Tarrytown, N.Y., with their other child, the top salesman in his region BS'85, and Nicholas Psaltis, and was third in the country by September 12 , 1987. jonathan Issac. Stephen B. Caruso, CAS/ 1970. After a promotion, he be D. Blair Imbody, SIS/ came one of the top five sales BA'85, and Dawn G. BA' 77 , and Leslie Caruso, a girl, jennifer oelle, March 5, managers in the country. Schwartz, August 15, 1987. He was promoted to corpo They live in Glendale, Ariz. 1987. They live in Darien, Conn. rate director of major account Nancy C. Weigner, marketing in 1980. In that po KCBNBA'85, and james A. William Clark, SGPN BA'77, and Jaclyn Senese, sition, he was charged with de Muuse, September 26, 1987. veloping a new marketing pro Donna Anderson, CAS/ SOJIBS'77, a girl, Erica Lynn Clark, july 26, 1987. They gram for Fortune 1,000 BA'86, and joshua Ederhei live in Wheat Ridge, Colo. companies. At the same time, mer, August 23, 1987. They Mary Goodman, SIS/ his job was complicated by Xe live in Washington, D.C. BA'77, and jorge Luis Lai A course worth copying rox's troubled position, largely Victoria Rossetti, CAS/ nez, a boy, David, May 7, due to japanese competition. MA'86, and Frank A. Cull, areer advancement does not 1987. They live in Guayaquil, "I had to start a new mar july 11, 1987. They live in Calways require hopping from keting program and approach," Ecuador. job to job. As A. Barry Rand '69 Rand says. "We had people Somerville, N.j. Karen Doninger Yarosh, I. Russell Peusch, Jr., can attest, loyalty pays off, too. within the company who didn't CAS/BS'77, and Daniel Ya KCBNMBA'86, and Patricia Twenty years ago he joined the want to change the way they did rosh, a girl, jenna Alyse, May L. Loney. They live in Wal Xerox Corporation as a Wash 30, 1987. They live in Mer things. But we were successful." ington-area sales representa He went on to become vice dorf, Md . rick, N.Y., with their other tive. Today he is vice president president of field operations in Kirsten E. Kezar, KCBN child, Haley Lauren. in charge of the company's do 1983 and vice president of east MBA'87, and John T. Lancas Susan Stark Fischgrund, mestic marketing group. Work em operations the next year. He ter, June 20, 1987. CAS/BA'78, and Mark Fisch ing out of the company's head was elected a corporate officer Mario C . Lightfoote, CAS/ grund, a boy, Evan Matthew, quarters in Rochester, New in 1986. MA'87 and Erin H. Wil August 4, 1987 . They live in York, he directs a $5 billion op Rand attributes his success to liams, 'cAS/BA'87, September Lido Beach, N.Y. eration with thirty-three thou a number of factors: hard work, 5, 1987. Mark Solomon, CAS/ sand employees. the company's nationally rec Gary A. Pudles, WCLI BA'78, and Gayle Brown While Rand's ascent brought ognized commitment to hiring JD'87, and Linda j. Wall. Solomon, CAS/BA'79, a boy, him accolades as a business and promoting members of mi Paula R. Reinhart, Matthew, March 21, 1986. man, it also brought him na nority groups and women, and KCBNMBA'87, and Thomas They live in Silver Spring, E. Stacy, August I, 1987. tional recognition as a black a support network of black em Md. "pioneer." The New York Times ployees within the company. They live in Silver Spring, Janet Dauber-Deneroff, spotlighted him in an article last He considers himself a role Md. CAS/BA'81, and Martin, a May, saying that this appoint model for other blacks in the Thomas B. Trimble, girl, aomi Cheryl, june 15, ment places him "in the highest company and believes his per WCLIJD'87, and Shelly M. 1986. They live in Elberon, ranks of a rare group: black ex formance will determine how Foerster, August 22, 1987. N.j. They live in New York City. ecutives in the upper tiers of willingly Xerox and other major Donna Martell Martino, management in corporate corporations promote members SGPNBA'81, and Wayne A . America." of minority groups. Births Martino, SGPNBA'81, a bo y, Growing up in Washington, Success in his current posi William james, August 26, D.C., Rand says his parents tion would also make him a likely Stan Godoff, SGPNBA'71, !987. They live in Hamden, made it clear early on that he candidate for the Xerox presi WCL/jD'74, a boy, Tyler Conn. "was supposed to go to college dency. But Rand prefers to con Bradford, june 26, 1987. The and graduate school and be a centrate on his immediate goals: family lives in Weston, Mass. Deaths professional." He attended to alter the strategy for selling Noah J. Hanft, SGPN Rutgers University before Xerox's copiers, computers, and BA'73, and Cecile Hanft, a John I. Hoover, CAS/BA transferring to AU, where he other office equipment to place girl, Genevieve Suzanne, Sep '35, June 21, 1987. earned a bachelor's degree in greater emphasis on customer tember 1, 1987. They live in Ruth Rinke! Spaeth, CAS/ marketing. Later, at Stanford, satisfaction and to increase Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. BA'29, August 1986. he received two master's de profits. David Sonner, CAS/ Malinda Runyan, CAS/ grees, one in business admin "We've got to develop an BA'73, and judy Sonner, a MEd'75, July 1987, as a result istration and the other in man obsession with satisfying cus girl, Lily, August 12, 1987. of a plane crash. agement science. tomers and do everything we Martin Stephen Levine, Nancy J. Shulkin Rabi Rand launched his career at can to meet their needs," Rand KCBNBSBA'75, and Terise nowitz, CAS/BA'79, August Xerox in 1968 with a running says. "That's what my job is Levine, a boy, jeremy Ian, start. In his first job, he became really all about." September II , 1987. They 1987. WINTER 1988 29 I · Sports 0 • • • The dream's a reality! Sports center opens _ he sports center has opened, bringing AU athletics into a new Tera . The center provides a true "home court" for men's basket- bailwhich has been played off campus for ~enty-one years, as well as facilities that alums can use year round. To make it easier to see the Eagles in action in their new home, tickets are available from three sources: at the box office before games (cash or credit card only), over the phone from ~U's ticket office, (202) 885-SEAT (credit card), or through Ticket Center, (800) 448~9009 or (202) 432-0200 (credit card, calling at least twenty-four hours before the game). Individual ticket prices are: Courtside box: $10 adult, $8 youth (12 and under) . Courtside reserved and mezzanme box: $8 adult, $6 youth Mezzanine reserved: $6 adult, $4 youth End zone seating: $5 adult, $3 youth The center, with its four courts, ex ercise studio, weight rooms, track, two swimming pools, and four ra9uetball/ squash courts, will .also be available ~o r alumni memberships at a substantial Fall sports roundup discount from general public member- ships. . . . - he men's tennis team continued and Jennifer Lowndes '90 won the B Beginning March 1, alumn.I can J?In to excel in its fa!l season, .winning flight doubles championship in the the center for a six-month tnal penod Tits second straight Capital Col Mount Saint Mary's Tournament. at half the yearly rates. One-y~ar ~e':1- - legiate Conference (CCC) tour berships will be available begmmng m name nt as well as the Towson State • The soccer team improved upon September. Members will be able to use tournament and finishi ng with a 6-2 dual last year's record, coming in second in the facilities seven days a week. . . . meet record . Sophomores Charles Hoots the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Alumni will be charged a $100 Initi and David Martella, junior Edgardo Ar with a 5-1-1 record, and ending up at ation fee upon joining the center. An anda, and freshmen Miles elson and 11-7-2 overall. Several of the team's losses nual alumni membership dues are: Matthew Schwartz each compiled eleven were close contests, and in the one to si ngles wins on the season. Regular alumni $350 George Washington, Eagle midfi el?er Alumni spouse $350 In an exceptional showing of endur Jon Hall '91 made soccer history, sconng Alumni child $100 ance, Martella played seven hours with two goals in nine seconds. Family only two breaks (totaling35 minutes) on Commenting on Hall's "historic dou (2 or more children) $900 his way to winning both the C flight ble" in the Washington Post, soccer his Young alumni si ngles, and with freshman Adam Pe torian Mickey Cochrane said, "it's cer (first three years out of school) $250 tricoff, doubles titles in the CCC tour tainly unusual for a team to score that nament. For more information on center mem quickly, but for the same player to do berships, call (202) 885-3000. it is fantastic." According to Cochrane, • T he women's tennis team broke Hall's feat established a collegiate rec even with a 5-5 record. L isa Mackee '89 ord and is possibly a world record. Hall's 30 AME RICA 0 • goals also were noted in the November 30 issue of Sports Illustrated in its "Faces in the Crowd" section. Hall was also named to the second aii • CAA team, and midfielder John Diffley '89 and forward Stephen Marland '89 were named to the first team. Also in the spotlight was forward Billy Corbett '89, who was named CAA soccer player of the week November9: Corbett • earned the recognition by sconng goals David Nakid '87 in the Eagles' victories over Richmond After the draft and University of Maryland-Baltimore County. ina! results of the professional sports drafts for AU class of '87 • Some fine individual perfo F were mixed. marked the play of AU's women's vol - • Frank Ross '87 made it to the leyball team. Two freshmen, Tricia Gil last round before being cut by the Phil bert and Karin Churchfield, were named adelphia 76ers basketball team on No to the aii-CAA second team, and sec vember 2. In eight preseason games, ond-year coach Kizzie Mailander was 0 Ross showed what Sixers' coach Matt recognized as CAA Volleyball Coach of Guokas is quoted as calling "real good the Year. The team, made up solely of • athletic ability," accumulating sixty-two freshmen and sophomores, had an 8-22 points, twenty-one assists, and six steals ...... record. ---- He is now looking at opportunities to / ' ' play in the Continental Basketball • The field hockey team finished the ' League. season with a 7-11-2 record, with junior ' • Keith Trehy '87, drafted in the first Li a McHugh leading the Eagles in round by the Dallas Sidekicks in the scoring with six goals an~ on~ ass1st. Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL), The team is under the d1recnon of a decided that rather than make the move new coach Anne Wilkinson. to Texas, he'd stay in the area and play Wilkins~n decided to coach after outdoor soccer for the Washington Dip coming within one step of making ~he lomats in the newly formed American U.S. Olympic team. She was one ofth1rty Soccer League and look for a job in en field hockey players who part1c1p~ted m • vironmental chemistry. Trehy hopes that the Pan Am national trials, w1th Sixteen the outdoor league will develop so that going on to prepare for Seoul. . it offers a viable full -time income, but The team continued to receive en if not, he plans on being a free agent in thusiastic parent and alumni s~pport, and • the MISL next year, which will allow Athena Smith '78 was recogn1zed for her him more control in determining which continued contributions to the program • team he joins. at the annual field hockey banquet in • David Nakhid '87, also drafted in the December. Former coach Barbara Rei 0 MISL, made the Baltimore Blast team, man remains close.to the program in her joining another former AU soccer star, new role as athletic academic coordi Michael Brady. Nakhid played in all five nator. • of the preseason games. "As time goes on, I feel more comfortable playing the • Both cross country teams did well boards," he says. At presstime, Nakhid this year with the women finishing 6-1 , · had not yet played in a regular season and the men, 3-4. Tim Noonan '88 and game, hampered for a while by a minor Denise Byrnes '90 qualified for th_e Na knee injury. "With fifty-six games, it's tional Collegiate Athletic Assoc1aoon a long season," he says. "Hopefully, I'll Regional II Championships, held No get a chance soon." vember 14 at Lehigh University. oonan *(See "Three AU athletes drafted," came in 267th out of 338 runners, and American, Fall 1987) Byrnes, 207th out of 286. WINTER 1988 31 Letters AU unforgettables Thanks for producing such a reada ble alumni publication. I receive alumni publications from four univer sities; of the bunch, American is cer tainly the most informative, combin ing news of the university with broader integration with the world. My only constructive comment would be to include a bit more on what current and emeritus faculty are doing. I remember AU best in terms of the faculty "characters" who trained me. People like Sam Sharp, Abdul Said, and many others are un forgettable. Keeping tabs on the fac ulty (not forgetting emeritus profes sors) would make American stronger from my perspective. Gare' LeCompte '67, '71 Executive Director International Institute of Continuing Education Edmonds, Washington Editor's note: School of International Service professor emeritus Sharp died this year. Professor Said still teaches in SIS. We welcome your comments on the magazine and its contents and also encourage your recollections of the campus, classmates, and unforgettable professoTJ. If you don't want your remarks published, please say so; otherwise, we'll print letteTJ as space allows. Write: Editor, American Magazine, University Publications and Printing Office, Cassell100, The American UniveTJity, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W., Washington, D.C. 20016. 32 AMERICAN AU ALUMNI TRAVEL Wings Over Kenya then on to 1\[oscow. After say Air Safari ing farewell to Russia, you wind up your trip with a night in February 19-March 4, Frankfurt, West Germany. 1988/$3,500* from New York City Spain/Portugal Your African adventure begins Adventure with eleven nights in Kenya, in cluding Nairobi, where you can Fourteen days in tour the city and visit the Nai September 1988 (date robi ational Park. Depart Nai TBA)/$2,500* from robi via private air safari to Nv New York City eri (Treetops). Then travel to Nanyuki (Mount Kenya Safari Your vacation begins with three Club), Samburu National Re nights in the Spanish capital of serve, Masai-Mara Game Re Madrid, then moves on to Se serve, and Ambolesi. The trip ville, Granada, and Barcelona, is limited to thirty-three pas and ends with three nights in sengers, and travel between Lisbon, Portugal. itinerary locations is by two chartered planes. 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"I hope this building reflects the beginning of what this university can accomplish," said university trustee Butler '58 of the major component of the university's new sports and convocation center. To mark the occasion, board of trustees chair Cyrus Ansary '55, inset, left, surprised Butler with a plaque in recognition of his support to the university. AU president Richard Berendzen, right, was among the members of the university community attending the event.