NEW COLLEGE
A publication of the New College Alumnae/i Association Volume 42 Winter 2000 Nimbus Talks With .... Daniel Bosch '82-'85
By Alexis Simendinger '75 No, you have to find something else. The obvious thing for most Daniel Bosch has had a single people is to teach, but anyone who minded desire since his youth in could possibly make a living doing California: to be a poet. Which is something else while being a poet what he is, although his keep is should do so. The academic poetry earned as an instructor in expository world is ugly. It's full of backbiting writing at Harvard University, where and climbing and lying and sly he's also a resident tutor in aca smiles. It's very costly, and I think demic writing and an instructor in the more you can stay out of it, the advanced poetry writing for better. Harvard's open-admission extension school. His work is not yet on Q. How did Tom Hanks and his bookstore shelves, but a year ago he movies get into your poetry? won the first -ever $1,000 poetry It all began as an experiment prize offered by the literary maga where I was trying to do what {New Poet Daniel Bosch '82-'85 zine, Boston Review-an accom College Professor] Mac [Miller] Hanks title. They loved that and used plishment that landed him on the taught me. It's called the negative it to interpret the poem. And I "Arts" pages of People magazine. image experiment. I was doing these thought, "Geez, that works." So I The reason the mass-market celeb negative images of an (Osip) thought, I'll call this, "Philadelphia rity bible showed an interest? Mandelstam (20th century Russian] Starring Tom Hanks." Then I thought, Because his winning series of four poem. He mentions the City Taurida since people liked that so much, why complex poems written in 1997 had [ancient Greek reference]. I needed a don't I do some more Mandelstam beguilingly accessible titles: "Phila word that had the feel of a contem versions, directly going after Tom delphia Starring Tom Hanks," "Big porary American word, and I chose Hanks' movies, since they seemed to Starring Tom Hanks," "Apollo 13 Philadelphia. I ended up submitting think that was so fun? I did three Starring Tom Hanks," and "Forrest the poem, as Mac would sometimes more [and) had a lot of fun doing it. Gump Starring Tom Hanks." [Boston do in his workshops, to my own The final one, "Forrest Gump," has Review's website has links to Bosch's summer workshop at Harvard some of my best writing in it, even prize-winning verse at www summer school, an anonymous though, in some sense, it's very polisci.mit.edu/BR23.5/Bosch.html] workshop. This poem was picked for difficult to understand. discussion and the people fixed on Q. In today's marketplace, can the term "Philadelphia," and thought Q. What's important about your anyone make a healthy living as a it must refer to the Tom Hanks approach, described in one article as poet? movie. At that time it had no Tom your "commitment to the measured line The difference between poetry in Q. If asked what her father does, The Crucible prose and poetry in verse is that the would your daughter say, "he teaches," by Daniel Bosch verse is written in lines and written or "he's a poet"? in good lines. She'd say I was a poet. After virtue, under the eye of the clock, Q. Who are some living poets whose Q. What was important about your Patterns of culture in our time, work you would recommend to readers, time at New College? our bodies, and why? Having been to three other Ourselves, let us now praise Boston was a destination for me undergraduate schools, I used to famous men, because of Derek Walcott being here. think that New College is wasted on Invisible cities, pride and I had intended to move here and people who aren't transfers because prejudice. work with him somehow. He's they don't see the enormous possi phenomenal and in a sense, has really bilities. But I could see the freedom After Babel, to the land of the raised the standards for poetry in and the chance to get engaged with cattails, recent times. There's an Irish expatri professors. It was extremely exciting Tender is the night of ate who teaches at Princeton named to me-the freedom to design my grammatology, Paul Muldoon, who is wonderful and major and just sit at the beginning The well-wrought urn, silence in writes some of the most alive verse of every semester and say, the snowy fields, that's going now. The language is "What do I want to do?" I was Paradise lost from here to speaking through them. Their work is quite ready to do aesthetics and eternity. not only personal and vivid in its ethics and poetry. [After moving imagery, but it also ends up being with his family to Florida from Other criteria hopscotch on about bigger things, and that's what California at age 17, Bosch decided to liberty, art is supposed to do, I think-to not give college a try, although he didn't On deconstruction, on dreams. express itself but, rather, to connect believe college was necessary for a The separate notebooks cry "the itself to things that are bigger than poet.) My first year at USF con beloved country." that. vinced me that ordinary education Mimesis travels with Charley, was not going to be good for me. So, islands in the stream Q. What did you do with the $1,000 I maintained my residency in Califor poetry prize? nia and transferred to UC-Santa Cruz. Marry me. Far from the madden I gave $300 to New CollAge. On the plane to California, I sat next ing crowd, the possessed New CollAge magazine was a great to [a woman]. and the first thing I Bang the drum slowly against opportunity for me. I got to read all noticed was that she was barefoot. I interpretation, these submissions that really helped struck up a conversation with her, Pale fire, men and women, ground me as a poet. Mac, also, used and she said, "You're going to Santa labyrinths, the best to be so supportive of me. And I Cruz? I go to this college kind of like Short stories of 1988, civilization bought a telescope for my daughter that." And that's how I first heard of [Michaela, 6]. New College. When I ended up And its discontents. Language of moving back to Florida, there was art, Q. How do you think that being a this idea that there was this other I know why the caged bird sings: parent has affected your writing? place that was non-traditional. To have and have not a part of It's been a tremendous thing I took a course from [alum] speech, for me. Children are authentic, and Carol Flint on reading poetry. That Of time and the river, and the my daughter models for me ways I'd was a nice thing at New College. I order of things. like to be. I also think that when one find no one who's studied poetry, First Appeared in Harvard Review has a child, one can't help but get even at a master's degree level, has excited about language again in a taken a whole course in reading ofpoetry as the fundamental unit"? rawer way. I have, since I've been a poetry aloud. That was a very rare If I didn't like lines, I would parent, been more concerned about gift from New College. write paragraphs. I think that's the accessibility. I've written a series of question to ask any contemporary poems about fruit in this period that Q. What are the prospects of seeing American poet: Why are they writing are really accessible and fun and a book published of your work? lines that aren't any good, and what complex. I definitely don't want to be I put out little chapbooks do they have against paragraphs? an academic, dusty, musty poet. Bosch continued on poge 22 NCAA President's letter Strategic Planning Committee. Here, portfolios of programs for our key for your consideration and comment, constituencies. We'll need to are our key priorities. establish clearer benchmarks of Develop, define, and implement a success for current programs and comprehensive communications and distinct evaluation criteria for future community-building strategy, and programs. And, we'll need to find leverage technology in its implementa creative solutions to fund, staff, and tion. We know that fostering links administer programs as we expand. among alums and between alums Advance NCAA's fUnd -raising and campus is the cornerstone of a capabilities and results to the next Mike Campbell healthy alum association and a level. Here's the motivation: both NCAA President healthy college. The Nimbus and New College and the NCAA need biennial directory are our traditional financial support to grow in a way Dear New College Alums: means of promoting these relation that will enhance the recognized ships, but we're continuing this strenghts of the College and the When I last wrote to you, New spring to enhance the content and Association. Increasing average gift College remained in the midst of a functionality of our web site. Cur amounts is key to this effort, but year-long transition-one of leader rently or in the very near future, increasing the percentage of alums ship, of faculty, and of administrative you'll find the Nimbus, program who provide annual support is structure. The Blueprint for the descriptions, directory information, critically important as well. Why? Future, a collaborative effort of NCAA message boards, and the Breadth of alum support is a univer students, faculty, and staff from both ability to make donations via sal metric by which external con New College and the University internet at our website, stituencies (charitable foundations, Program, had offered a number of www.newcollege.org. accreditation agencies, and college suggestions for the future of the Develop programs aligned with our guidebooks) judge educational College and the campus. While New constituents' needs and with the NCAA institutions. Our support translates College creates a clearer picture of mission and program evaluation directly into increased grant funding its future, it faces transitions result criteria; establish an operational and enhanced national image. ing from the passage of time and foundation for routinizing these Proclaim the past and current shifting trends in higher education. programs. During the past decade, contributions of alumnaeji to New This year, for example, will mark the we've incrementally expanded our College and the broader community, retirements of Doug Berggren, Lazlo programs for alums (reunions, and advocate their perspective on the Deme, Jim Feeney, and Jane chapter activities, Nimbus, and the College's fUture. Alums embody Stephens. These latest retirements directory), students (Student Grants, what's wonderful about New are the culmination of the graying of Alumanefi Fellowships, Alumnaefi College, and the NCAA is best faculty, a national trend made more Mentors). and faculty (Faculty positioned to showcase, locally and palpable here by the intimate scale Development Grants, support for nationally, the diverse achievements of the place. At the same time, the external program review, provision of our members. At the same time, campus continues with the Blueprint, of data for institutional research). we want to provide strong voice to and you'll find in this issue some We've undertaken, and are near the passion and commitment of New examples of how plans might look in completion of, a major challenge College alums. whether to champion practice. campaign to fund a memorial faculty the College's future or to let NC In a parallel but independent professorship (the CHAE Chair). leadership know that the Emperor process, the NCAA has revisited our We've been presented with even has forgotten where he left his strategic plan. We've done so in an more opportunities in the past year, clothes. effort to keep pace with the College including sponsorship of the Alum Improve the efficiency and effective and, especially, to provide a clear naefi Music Series and increased ness ofNCAA Board and staff opera voice for alums as New College support for admissions efforts. As tions. We're likely to have growing moves forward. Many thanks to we continue to grow, the NCAA will pains as our membership increases John Hansen '76-'82 for leading the need to think in terms of integrated continued on page 23 The Career Center ot New College: Isn't thot on Oxymoron?
By Karen Patriarca interested in discussing career-related students, I often hear them say, "what When I interviewed for a posi issues. a relief, I didn't know I had this many tion as a career development As time went on and I got to options." Another discovery I made is coordinator here almost five years know more students, I realized how that New College graduates can be ago, I was amazed to discover that committed NC students were to their found in just about every profession New College, a nationally known studies and to improving the world and career field, but few found their "Best Buy" in higher education, did around them. For most, going to way easily. Most took a circuitous not have a career center. To be graduate school was the only option route to get where they are. An perfectly honest, I thought every they had ever considered, and New opportunity for career guidance and college had some type of career College was a great place to prepare. advice could have prevented confusion development or placement office. I also discovered that many students and anguish for more than a few New After all, wasn't college a prepara had "Fear of Leaving New College" College graduates. tion for the future? And, didn't that syndrome. New College was the first So, what exactly are we doing at future usually include work? the Career Center to help students While lack of an existing career overcome the "Fear of Leaving New center was actually one of the things Wont to be a Mentor? College"? Our services include indi vidual career counseling and job-search that attracted me to the position, Please contact either: nevertheless, it was curious. I was preparation, job and internship told that, at several points in time, e New College Alumnae/ i listings, graduate school advising and the campus had discussed and Association: resources, studyfwork abroad advising agreed on the need for a career 941-359-4324 and resources, career-related work center. A career services position had [email protected];or shops, and a comprehensive career even been approved and funded. library. Some of the books that appeal But with budget problems year after e New College Career Center to current students are The Career year, the position was left unfilled. 941 -359-4261 Guide for the creative and Unconven· Finally, in 1995, the campus made a [email protected] tiona!, Making a Living While Making firm commitment to career develop a Difference, Create a Life Worth ment: the Career Center was created. Living, and Offbeat and Unusual The Center is designed to serve place that many of these talented and Careers. (By the way if you're wonder both New College and USF students. gifted students had ever felt truly ing how to become an executioner and From the beginning, it was clear to comfortable. Not only were they how much it pays, the last book can me what interested the USF stu accepted: they were encouraged to tell you.) Some of our services are dents-they wanted assistance with excel, no matter how offbeat their available via the web and can be finding professional jobs in the local interests seemed. But, to a good accessed through the New College area. The Novo Collegians, however. number of New College students, the homepage at www.newcollege.usf.edu were a different story. My problem world of work was viewed with (double-click on Career Center). By the was not in trying to understand anxiety and fear. way, most of our services are also what one could do with a liberal arts I'm not saying that in four short available for free or at a low cost to degree. I could articulate the value years the Career Center has com alums, so if you are in need of career of a liberal arts education as well as pletely quelled these fears. And I'm assistance, feel free to contact me at anyone. After all, I had spent the not saying that, at times, work (941) 359-4261 or career@' sar.usf.edu. previous four years as director of shouldn't be feared (after all, I have I have found that some of the most internships at the public honors certainly had my share of dreadful valuable career resources for New college in Maryland, which, like New workdays). Nor am I implying that College students are people like you College, offers only liberal arts every New College student should alumni and alumnae who are success programs. It was just that most skip graduate school and go directly fully navigating the world of work. New College students did not seem into a career. But after working with Career Center continued on page 9 ~ Alumnoe/i Mentor Success Story Henry ... Alum Mentor Tracy ... Recent Alum
Henry Smyth ('76) good indicator of the Tracy Rahn ('90) (required for the seminar) In a previous issue of quality of the New College it all seemed like so much the Nimbus a couple years education.) I think it was the work and something so back, I wrote about Bonnie Over the course of the phone tag between Henry trivial next to the thesis Gorla, a New College next several months and and my roommate Bonnie that was ruling our lives. student who called me out telephone conversations, it Gorla that made me feel So we put down anything of the blue looking for an became clear that despite like I'd known him forever just to have something and internship. She my best arguments to the without even meeting headed for the Fishbowl. subsequently came to work contrary, Tracy was headed him. Bonnie had done an That was probably a for me as an intern in New to public sectorville USA. internship at the bank mistake as Henry York. I think the point of She ended up at the where Henry worked the immediately caught on my article was something International Finance summer before (1992) and when he called on my about the value of that Corporation {IF C) as an was now being a huge friend Dana Lockwood and experience not only to analyst. Over the next few help with Bonnie's thesis asked her how and when Bonnie but also to me. years we would speak on telecom privatization she became fluent in Based on my experience every few months. The in Latin America. So Portuguese. He was with Bonnie, I went back conversations usually every morning (ok, that's interested, as he had spent to New consisted of her an exaggeration, but it a semester off-campus in started to feel that way), Brazil to learn Portuguese. College and 1"1 went back to New telling me put together College and put about the Henry would call looking After a long pause, but a workshop together a workshop valuable for Bonnie to tell her of a short enough to stop for students for students ... " experience she good research source, find Henry from conversing in on making was out about her progress, or Portuguese, Dana fessed up the transition from New accumulating and her plans encourage her to seek out that she just placed it College, the importance of for graduate school and me more internships. And there to fill up her resume. internships, resumes, urging her to abandon because Bonnie was Well at least he knew we interview skills, that sort Sodom-on-Potomac for hardly ever there (early tried! After giving us all of thing. I've done two of some hardcore private classes), and I was great comments on the these workshops, and am sector experience here in (procrastinating on my resumes we submitted, as about to do a third. Sodom-on-Hudson. Just own thesis). we would get well as general rules of During the first of these when I thought poor Tracy to chatting about the thumb, and a sense of workshops, I was was doomed to the fate of thesis progress (or lack what to expect in the introduced to Tracy Rahn. an IFC Hfer or worse, an thereof) of both Bonnie process, he was nice She was an economics economics Ph.D. gulag, I get and myself. enough to make himself student and highly a call from her saying we When Spring came and available in the future by recommended by her need to talk because she Bonnie and I could phone/fax, saying that he advisor. I believe we spoke was moving to New York. actually envision the end would be happy to critique a bit about what she was About this time, our of our thesis torture, further drafts. I don't interested in and planned Senior Economist let it be Henry came down to New think he had any idea to do upon graduation. I known on our trading floor College to give a seminar when he made that offer gave her my card and told that he was looking for a on "Entering the Real that he might still be her to call me if she needed junior economist for his World" -- advice on critiquing my drafts six someone to talk to about team. Tracy by this time resumes, cover letters, years later! her plans or help with her had moved to New York and interviewing, etc. Before But here we are in the resume. (New College was working as an analyst the seminar, several of my year 2000 and I have to say students almost without on a short-term assignment friends and I hustled that Henry has made good exception write lousy at S&P and had around trying to get a on his word and resumes. To me, this is a Henry continued on page J 2 draft resume together Tracy continued on page 23 The Changing Campus Scene
The Betty Isermann Fine Arts Building was the first of five new fin de siecle structures. The 5,600 sq. ft. building, part ofthe Caples Fine Arts Complex, was dedicated in january 1998. It houses two large studios and a teaching gallery. The building complements the Felsmann studio building, and together they define the west side of the Caples Fine Arts quadrangle.
TWO RESIDENCE HALLS
.:• Opening just one year apart, the adjacent Dallas and Elizabeth Dort Residence Hall (1998) and the Ann and Alfred Goldstein Residence Hall (1999) on the East Campus add 150 rooms for New College students, ensuring that at least 80 percent of the students are able to reside on campus. A palm-lined walkway will connect the new halls with the Pei complex, creating a New College residential neighborhood that includes the Palm Court, the Pei three residence courts (now bearing the names Peggy Bates Hall, Bob johnson Hall, and Elaine and Harvey Rothenberg Hall), Hamilton Center, and the Hamilton Classrooms. MARINE BIOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER
Progress continues on the 9,300 sq. ft. Rhoda and jack Pritzker Marine Biology Research Center, located on the north side of the Bayfront Campus, near psychology's Bonseigneur Hall. The new facility replaces inadequate and obsolete laboratories of the established marine biology program. The center is scheduled to open late in 2000.
NATURAL SCIENCES COMPLEX
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Construction of the R.V. Heiser Natural Sciences Complex nears completion. The 36,000 sq. ft. V-shaped facility will house biology and chemistry in the Selby wing, physics, mathematics, and computer science in the Hanson wing, and the Soo Bong Chae Memorial Auditorium at the structure's vortex. Dedication of the complex is scheduled for Friday, February 4, 2000, at 11:30 a.m. The old Selby and Hanson buildings, constructed as temporary quarters in 1964 and 1973, are to be demolished. NC Students and Local Interests, Buoy 'Theatre of the Community' Proied
By suzanne Janney Eleven New College students are leading a weekly workshop this fall at nearby Booker High School on the theory and techniques of participa tory theatre applied to community issues. This "Theatre of the Commu nity" undertaking may sound ab stract, but to the students involved, helping to address social issues of immediate concern on stage and in a spirit of camaraderie and shared enterprise, it is learning at its potent best. The students presented a Dr. Augusto Boal explaining "Theatre of the Community" techniques to a workshop at the October '99 Planned capacity crowd of students and community members on February 20th, 1999. Parenthood State Conference in Tampa, and staged a presentation for members on stage to try out different ing day, the scenes based on everyday Healthy Start, a local organization solutions to human problems por issues from life on the North Trail advocating good care for expectant trayed by trained actors. Within a few were performed by student actors mothers and infants, at Emma Booker months, Brayer had read all of Baal's from New College, Booker High Elementary School in Sarasota in work and various critical essays, and Schdol and audience volunteers. The December. met Dr. Boa! at a conference of the reception by a community audience The New College tutorial of Association of Theatre in Higher of over 100 at the Ringling School of 11 is sponsored by Associate Profes Education in Chicago. Brayer orga Art and Design was wildly enthusias sor of Literature john McDiarmid and nized a course on Boal with Prof. tic. Local TV covered the event and Dr. led by student Lori Eisenberg; the 15 McDiarmid, attended the 1998 Peda Baal's photo was on the front page of Booker students, who meet for the gogy and Theatre of the Oppressed (or the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. workshop after school, are organized Community) conference, and decided Planned Parenthood's Pat by Jeremy Lourde, history teacher and that Baal's methods could be applied Diodati was in the audience; she was former Asolo actor. "Theatre of the locally. so impressed with the impact of the Community" is based on the theories While writing his senior "Theatre of the Community" tech of interactive theatre developed by Dr. thesis on interactive theatre and Dr. niques that she arranged for the August Boal, an internationally Boal, Brayer realized his dream of Theater continued on next page recognized Brazilian dramatist, whose bringing Dr. Boal to Sarasota. An work was first introduced to New $8,000 grant from the Florida Humani College by Associate Professor of ties Council and the cooperation of Spanish Language and Literature Terry New College Foundation and numer Palls. ous community partners made it Student initiative with possible. A "Theatre of the Commu faculty support is the connector nity" Workshop was held at New Florida between Baal's work and its applica College in February 1999, in which Humanities tion to the Sarasota community. In a Baal himself directed New College Council 1997 course taught by Prof. students (including Lori Eisenberg, Project McDiarmid, literature student Robert this year's tutorial leader), who had Director, Prof. Brayer became fascinated with Baal's been prepared by Brayer and fellow John techniques of inviting audience student Arkady Medovoy. The follow- McDiarmid Theater contiuned from poge 8 Malcolm visited his family in Sara her application to have a portfolio group to present some of Planned sota. Malcolm stopped by the Career with articles and by-lines from a Parenthood's own issues at the state Center and spent some time talking regional newspaper. conference mentioned earlier. with me about what he was currently With the help of the New "Theatre of the Community" doing. Malcolm was living in Gallup, College Alumnaeji Association, this promotes new, creative approaches New Mexico, and working for The year the Career Center will sponsor to difficult and sensitive community Gallup Independent as a reporter a series of alumni career panels issues, and is flourishing, just as editor covering the local reservation. titled "From New College to a Robert Brayer hoped it would. We Thinking that at the very least, some Career in ." The first in the are a better community for it. students might be interested in series, Thursday, November 4'h, chatting with Malcolm, I asked him if discussed communications careers. he would consider becoming a Three alumni generously partici CareerCentercontinued .. . mentor. On the spot, he completed a pated: Alexis Simendinger, Susan mentor form. Burns, and Gilda Saakes-Dennis. Hearing from New College graduates During the january ISP, I was As you know, New College who are happy and successful gives walking down the hallway in PME. students have varied interests. In current students the confidence that noticed a student working in the my work with students, they have "yes, indeed, you can become a __ career library. As I often do, I asked inquired about environmental even if you don't have grades and a her if she needed any help. jennifer issues, consulting, sustainable GPA''. The New College Alumnaefi Campbell told me she was hoping to development, social justice, medi Mentoring Program has been a find a journalism internship for the cine, radical education, law, and tremendous asset for students. The summer. In an effort to assist her, I international careers, to name a program is a simple one: New College asked if there was any particular few. If you have a desire to come graduates agree to share their publication that she was interested in back to campus and share your expertise and assist current students. interning with. As long as it was a hard-earned wisdom with New Could you offer a student an intern newspaper, jennifer was open. I then College students, an alumnaefi ship or summer job? Could you help asked if she had any particular issue career panel could be your chance. with an ISP or research idea? Could or topic she would like to cover. Contact me and we can easily make you offer a student doing off-campus jennifer told me it would be ideal if convenient arrangements. study a temporary place to stay? she could cover Native American As you read this issue of the Would you be willing to talk with a issues. Well, bells and whistles went Nimbus and reminisce about the student about your career? Could off in my head! I told her about my good old days at New College, think you offer a soon-to-be graduate a full visit with Malcolm, and we searched about what the transition to the time job? If you answered "yes" to out his mentor form. The result was world of work was like for you. any of these questions, you're ready that jennifer spent the summer Maybe, just maybe, you can make it to become a mentor! working for The Gallup Independent easier and a little less stressful for One of my favorite mentor stories and living with Malcolm and his the next generation of Novo concerns Malcolm Brenner, class of family. The last time I saw Jennifer, Collegians. '69 and jennifer Campbell, class of she was headed off to a graduate '93. During january break in 1996, school of journalism. It didn't hurt The Four Winds Cafe The New College Student Coffeehouse Work in an alternative environment! Help make a New College dream Positions Available: come true. Full-Time Manager For more information: Starting$7.25/hr Cafe at (941)359-4488 Assistant Manager (part-time) Elissa at (941)360-9054 Starting $6.15/hr l New College Student Wins Fulbright Grant News: Grant to Ecuador: Sixth Fulbright for October 1999 New College in Six Years By Suzanne Janney (I.) Explorer 'Club Youth By suzanne Janney ~~=~ Activity Grant upport The i Bridget Emily chcttler, Denver, Research in Corn Island . Colorado, wa elected in the pring Elis a Mendenhall, fourth-year for a highly competitive Fulbright student at ew College from grant upporting a year tudy in Omaha, ebra ka, received a Ecuador. The Fulbright Program, 700 grant from the Explorer ' ponsored annually by the Club to support her thesis Information Agency. is the U.. research on the anti-malarial Government' flag hip international propertie of a plant found m the academic exchange activity. In the Corn I land , 40 miles off the 1 coast of icaragua. As a biology/ last ix year , ix ew College enior Briget Emily Schettler '99 have received Fulbright grants which chemistry major interested in natural medicine, she is intrigued provide international travel, tuition, country's linguistic diver ity in with natural product and e pen e for a year oversea . The Eng! i b translation. pharmochemi try and finds that campu Fulbright Advi er is Profe or chettler's fa cination with under tanding the context of of Gem1an Glenn Cuomo. foreign languages stemmed from a a plant's medicinal use, both chettler graduated from desire to understand the speech of cultural and physical, is integral ew College in May, 1999 with a the growing Hi panic population in to under tanding the plant's major in Romance Language and her hometown. Her study of French efficacy and mechanism of action. Literature and aspire to a career in began at ew College, where he Elis a report that traveling to literary tran lation. The Fulbright received the Alliance Francaisc Central America last January to year will be her third experience in Award for Excellence in French in conduct her own re earch wa Ecuador. While in high school, he 1997. She pent her junior year at more exciting and rewarding than spent a ummer there on an American the University Haute Bretagne in practically anything else she had Field Service homestay program, and Rennes, living with a French family. ever done. Eli a plans to attend in January 1997 she returned to While at ew College, M . Schettler naturopath school after gradua conduct a month-long ew College organized and participated in tion and hopes to work toward I P on informal language use, pani h and French discu sion integrating cultural sources of partially supported by a Travel Grant groups. he erved as a volunteer information with medicinal from the ew College Alumnae/i panish tutor to high chool tu research. he transferred to ew As ociation. This year Ms. chettler dents, a tutor for elementary students ollege from Smith. will enhance her familiarity with the at the ewtown Re ource Center, a linguistic and ociopolitical complex teaching as istant to ew College (2.) Rotary International Amba - ity of Ecuador and develop strategies French classe , an intern in the sadorial Scholarship Goe to ew for effective Engli h translation of Admission Office, a study abroad ollege Senior Ian Hallett, an Ecuadorian literature. An interdisci adviser, and a student representative economics/biology major who plinary Certificado program at the to the International Studies ommit will graduate from ew College Univer idad Andina imon Bolivar in tee. Her senior thesis, under the in May. Ian ha won a Rotary Quito will provide grounding for an ponsorship of assistant profe ors lnternational Amba sadorial analy is of ociopolitical themes in Amy Reid (French) and Alberto cholarship from Rotary District contemporary Ecuadorian literature Portugal (Spanish), explored the 6890 to upport three month of and a period of field work in Cuenca, ways in which four twentteth-century language tudy in Quito, Ecuador, observing the regional and cultural Caribbean novels present individual starting in January 2001. A characteristics of language, will help responses to colonial and neo graduate of the International her develop trategies for representing colonial conflict. the Ecuadorian etting a well as the Grants continued on page 22 Student Grants
Through the Student Grants Program, the New College Alumnaeji Association gives direct financial support to students for outstanding student research and independent study projects. This fall the Alumnaeji Association funded the following Fourth year student and NCAA Student G rant reci pient, El issa projects (partial list): Mendenhall in the Cova Islands of Nicaragua Travel to Salvador, Brazil to in the UK during the late 18'h the Biology of Marine Mammals held study Lavagem do Bonfim: a century. Given the historical in Kahului, Hawaii. Although modem celebration expansion of the British into Africa cetacean researchers have been Lavagem do Bonfim is a and India during the 18th century, commenting for years on the modern celebration which occurs on Britons were able to formulate new synchrony as a species typical the second Thursday in january on explanations of racial difference to behavior, no one has attempted the Streets of Brazil. This celebra constitute their own civilized careful study. While synchrony may tion demonstrates the combined identity in contrast to the savage, appear as a rather simple behavior, expression of Catholicism and and to justify much of the mother since fish also school, in dolphins it Candomble in Brazilian culture. country's activities in the colonies. may be considerably more complex. Historically, Candomble was a In this project Brit will investigate Dolphins are the only mammalian mixture of African Religions and images available only in the Na species to demonstrate both vocal indigenous animism. It is only tional Gallery in London, the and motor mimicry. The import of recently that the religious practices National Portrait Gallery, and in this lies in the fact that imitation is of Candomble have been legitimized. archives of the British Museum. a source of cultural transmission of Lavagem do Bonfim demonstrates There, he will examine how these behavior. Synchrony may be one of the combined expression of Catholi images established patterns of the foundations of dolphin's sophis cism and Candomble in Brazilian representation that involved in the ticated mimetic capabilities. culture. Kate Chandler, a third year signification of otherness. Finally, Wendi has studied the student, will travel to Salvador, Brit will consider how differences development of delphinid synchrony Brazil during the Lavagem do may have been conceptualized and through pains-taking analysis of Bonfim to focus on the role of public how this perception of difference videotapes of a mother and calf space during the celebration, and translated into images of the late bottlenose dolphin. The student's the way in which public space is 18th century. research has been recognized by the used and mediated by the various acceptance of three papers at up groups involved. Presentation of the is work at coming conferences. She has also the 13th Biennial Conference on recently co-authored a paper with the Chair of the Division of the Art Hi tory Thesis Research on: the Biology oCv1arine Mammals Difference and the Body in Late Social Sciences and Psychology Wendi Fellner, a fourth year Professor, Gordon Bauer, on mana 1 18 h Century Images thesis student, will be presenting tee vision. Bauer will also present Brit Dunn, a fourth year groundbreaking research on syn the paper at the Marine Mammal thesis student, will travel to Britain chronous behavior among dolphins Conference. to study popular images of the body at the 13th Biennial Conference on Student Grants continued on page 15 people who made life more interest George's teaching was a delightful ing, who saw the most difficult or mixture of cynicism, anecdotes, and Remembering irritating things in your life, or his, superb learning. George knew and or Bill Cinton's, with an ironic loved history in a way that made George Moyer twinkle of that sharp eye, and a you want to know and love it. His chuckle in that clipped, distinctive lectures were crisp and amusing. He By Luke Salisbury ('65) voice, which put everything in was masterful at picking details to It was with the greatest sadness I perspective. George made you feel make the past come alive, or simply heard the news George Mayer had there was an intellegent and humane spice his conversation, like when he died. My wife and I visited George in way to look at things, and if you did, told me an essay was "entertaining, Vermont in October, and though he nothing could be that bad. He was but probably not as entertaining as a looked frail, George was just as that way about his health, saying, prize fight between a miner and a precise, warm, entertaining and as "In India, at dinner parties, people Kodiak bear during the Alaskan Gold much George as ever. A guest at used to complain about their Rush." I can still hear the mock dinner complained that President servants. In Sarasota, we sit around anguish in his voice describing the Clinton was the only President to be and complain about our bodies." night President McKinley said he was impeached, and George in that George Mayer arrived at New told by God Almighty the U.S. should wonderfully emphatic voice, ex College from Purdue in 1965, driving annex the Phillipines, or illustrating plained that Andrew Johnson was a yellow Corvette Stingray, wearing the passion FDR stirred with the not only impeached, but the vote bow ties and trim suits that looked example of a Purdue colleague who was so close, "They brought Grimes like they should have been part of disliked the man so much "he of Iowa in on a strecher." Henry Truman's Whistlestop cam wouldn't even accept Roosevelt George Mayer was one of those paign in 1948, not the emerging dimes." world of long hair and love then New College, like the sixties, was arising on the American horizon. I an experiment in freedom. There remember George striding across was no blueprint for all the wild campus from the old circus-baron ness, craziness, license and trouble buildings to the Palm Court, looking you could get into. George was one for "scholars" as he used to call us, of the people you could turn to if to "encourage" us to do some work. you're life spiraled out of control. In He seemed to be an ambassador 1968, when I had been kicked out from a country of discipline and and passed a draft physical, George manners, a country quite removed was instrumental in helping me get from the bursting, free-loving, drug back in. It was a time in my life experimenting, booze-soaked world when I needed help and George gave some of us made. We needed George it. He was a refuge for many of us. Mayer. We needed someone who The novelist Robertson Davies knew what excellence and prepara said, "Every man who amounts to a tion and hard work were. We damn has several fathers," and "the needed someone who knew all along fathers you choose for yourself are the world wasn't New College, and the significant ones." There are knew that pleasant as New College many of us, men and women, who George Moyer was, one had better be ready to chose George. leave. We could hardly have done better.
Henry continued ... job. To my amazement, she took it. get when I can do something with To my utter amazement, she my time and/or experience for an negotiated a permanent position. actually likes it. Which is good, as individual student. I hope Bonnie I gave her resume (suitably the alternative is too horrible to and Tracy and those poor souls who doctored} to our economist with a contemplate. endured my workshops will do the strong recommendation. He Like most alums, I give money same in turn. That's what makes brought Tracy in to interview and each year to the NCAA. I think it's New College well ... New College. she beat out three other money well spent. But the visceral candidates and was offered the feeling of giving something back I When I met him, I was a shy, insecure 19 year-old with issues. Frank was only 18-but he had the Frank Cooper confidence and assurance of a much older man. It wasn't just the arro (1967-1999) gance of youth-although he had plenty of that too. Frank had no time for By Samantha Kavy ('85) insecurities, no tolerance for self It is impossible to sum up a pity. He taught me the equation life. Frank Cooper gave New College between self-doubt and self-absorp (and me) his love and devotion from tion. Frank never wasted time on his 1985 to 1989. And while the three of failings; he had more important us eventually separated; the love and things to do-like trying to make devotion remained intact. Frank died the world a better place. this july at Woodstock. The follow Frank taught me that Frank Cooper ('85) 1995 and ing words are adapted from some kindness consisted of actions rather Wendy Hoon ('88) at Fronk's 30th reflections I presented at his funeral than words. The victim of Frank's Birthday Party in August. They seem very inad acerbic and irreverent tongue one equate to me, and will certainly day would be the beneficiary of his more fully, more richly, more expan seem so to those who knew Frank. I helping hand the next; for, from sively than anyone I know; after all, it never had quite his way with Resident Assistant to Social Worker was Frank's World. Everything he did words- to Special Education teacher, Frank's he did well-the best. Always he Frank was a teacher; I occupations always consisted of strove to be the best, the smartest, consider myself lucky to have been helping and teaching others. That the fastest, the winner of every one of his students. In fourteen says volumes. contest-but he wanted everybody years of love and friendship, Frank Frank taught compassion he loved to be so too. taught me many things. For one don't let his abrasiveness fool you. He was my best friend. thing-how to speak. And subse Frank cried at movies. Frank taught I believe his greatest lesson and gift quently, how to argue. generosity-he gave all of himself. to me was to teach me how to laugh. After five years of intensive Frank taught openness, honesty, Frank laughed a lot and he laughed training followed by nine years of integrity. He was never a hypocrite. loud! And the sound of it will resound refresher courses-! feel I can now He was who he was-take him or in my psyche for the rest of my life. win any argument with anyone, leave him, no concessions, no So when I laugh to ease the pain, I anytime. apologies. He lived in this world thank him.
and his field of computer science. today's hand-held digital devices, Mark died at his home in Palo Alto in as well as the evolution of Mark Weiser April, 1999, of cancer after a short embedded technologies which illness. at the age of 46. give everyday appliances a Mark was a well- ~~~~~-~ measure of intelligence, (1953 -1999) known figure in Silicon are outcomes of ByTom Newman ('69) Valley, where he was Mark's approach. chief technology officer Many have predicted Mark Weiser ('70) attended New at Xerox PARC, a bona that the third computer College before being directly fide visionary, and an revolution (mainframes admitted to graduate school authority quoted in was the first, personal without a degree. He contributed publications as diverse as computers the second) much to the intellectual quality of Wired and the Wall Street will come as a result of the school in the time he was a journal. He coined the this kind of radically Mark D. Weiser '70 student and he had a profound term "ubiquitous distributed computing influence on those who knew him. computing" around power. A web site http:/ In an analogous manner, his life which emerged a paradigm of highly /www-sul.stanford.edu/weiser I was too short, but his legacy will specialized, low-power, miniaturized dedicated to his work and resonate through friends, family, technology. The development of Weiser continued on page 27 IBook No1es I traditionally faced by women in their twenties must now be postponed until a women enters her fourth decade ... when the pressure to make them has greatly increased. Facing Thirty is available at book Queer Family Facing Thirty: Women stores or by calling New Harbinger Values: Talk about Constructing Publications at 800-748-6273. Dubunking the a rea/life and other Myth ofthe scary rites ofPassage Nuclear Family Valerie Lehr, Temple University Lauren Dockett and Kristen Beck, Press, Pennsylvania, 1999 New Harbinger Publications, Inc., Oakland Ca., 1998. In Queer Family Values, Valerie Lehr The Danger of ('79) reviews conservative arguments " The grunge generation grudgingly Dreams: German against lesbian and gay rights as part turns thirty. Are they ready to be and American of the ongoing debate ofwhat grown?" Imperialism in Latin constitutes "family values." She Press release America asks what many may perceive to be a disturbing question: "Why, Valerie "Thoughtfully written advice on Nancy Mitchell, The University of Lehr asks, debate over the right of how to deal when people start calling North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and gays to take part in a socially defined you 'ma'am' instead of'miss'. Funny, London, 1999. institution designed to perpetuate refreshingly direct, and tremendously Nancy Mitchell ('72 ) is assistant inequalities among people?" (Temple helpful" professor of history at North Carolina University Press New Titles '99). ___Jancee Dunn, Rolling Stone State University. The Danger of Dreams is Valerie contends that the model of an epic work described by one of her the nuclear family is flawed and calls As a woman who recently turned colleagues as " ... a genuine intellectual for changes in family issues and forty, I was more than slightly reluc landmark, completely recasting our individual liberty within a family that tant to confront the issues and understanding of U.S. German rivalry in challenges power and inequalities questions raised by Lauren Dockett the early twentieth century." rather than demands access to the ('86) and Kristen Beck. After reviewing Nancy Mitchell has drawn from a perceived privileges of the nuclear this honest appraisal of the fears of tremendous amount of research and family. women turning 30, I am actually documentation to demonstrate that Publisher's Weekly writes: looking forward to a sequel. In Facing American imperialism in Latin America "Throughout, Lehr cogently argues Thirty , Dockett and Beck have identi was as much paranoia with regard to that the 'traditional' concepts of fied fears confronting women turning German activity as it was any actual marriage, family, gender roles and thirty and have interviewed an action taken by the Germans. It is sexuality that conservatives are impressive sampling of women. Their Mitchell's firm contention that the trying to defend are unstable and work reveals shared feelings of United States consistently exaggerated often detrimental to those involved." unfulfilled expectations, difficulty the threat that Wilhelmine Germany saying goodbye to their twenties, and posed to Latin America. America was Valerie is associate professor of indecisiveness and uncertainty able to respond to boastful proclaimed Government and Coordinator of regarding relationships and child threats and intervene in Latin America Gender Studies at St. Lawrence bearing. perceived as protector rather than University. One compelling topic revealed as imperialist. common to women turning thirty is For copies of The Danger of Dreams the anxiety created by the increased please contact: The University of North pace of educational and career goals. Carolina Press PO Box 2288, Chapel Hill, Many decisions that have been NC 27515-2288/www.uncpress.unc.edu. Student Grants continued ... between rural and urban sectors; the Gilund Project hopes to rectify this Thesis research on the Antima oversight. Robert has participated in larial Properties of"Sorosi": A three previous digs in different geographic locations. As a part of Biochemical Analysis the Gilund Project's excavation in Last spring Elissa Mendenhall, a january 2000, Robert will be work third year thesis student, was awarded a grant from the NCAA to ing with the team to unearth the remains of the site. He will also be travel to the Com Islands of Nicara involved in the mapping and plot L------J Pink Slip gua to research the medicinal use of ting of architectural features, and "sorosi." Her ethnobotanical study Rita Ciresi, to be published as a preliminary written and photo has led her into the lab to analyze Delta Trade Papeback by the graphic recording of the excavation's the chemical properties of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group on finds. extract of the plant, Momordica January 4, 2000. charantia, or "sorosi," as the Island ers refer to it. Sorosi has been found WolfEcology of the Minnesota/ "It is refreshing to find a female to have a number of therapeutical narrator with an authentically Wi sconsin Border and the orth and medicinal activities in the lusty voice ... Rita Ciresi has created Shore laboratory, these include: immune just such a character in Pink Slip." Heather Trew, a first term system cell production and prolifera - The New York Times Book Review transfer student, will be working tion, blood sugar level regulation; with the Wolf Ecology Program at and protein-denaturing constituents Rita Ciresi ('78) is the recipient the Minnesota/Wisconsin border that act on a microbial level. For the of the Flannery 0 ' Connor award and the North Shores during the second phase of research Elissa will for short fiction for her collection January ISP interim. As a part of have to travel to the Tampa USF of short stories Mother Rocket. She the Wolf Ecology Program, Heather campus to use laboratory equipment has also been awarded the Pirate's will work with a team of students, which is not available at New Alley Faulkner Award for Fiction who will be instructed by special College, in order to complete her for Pink Slip. ists at the Audubon Center of the research. The heroine of Pink Slip , Lisa North Woods, in Sandstone, MN. Diodetto, busy ducking bridal bouquets while entangling herself Archeological xcavations at in Manhattan's singles life, decides Gilund to make a change. She leaves her Robert Rollings, a third year THE SPLENDORS OF underpaid job in New York for a student of Anthropology, has been much more lucrative position at a invited to work on 'The Gilund SOl 'TH,VEST FRANCE Join A , elect Group of ~ cw Co ll eg-e more conservative company. Lisa Project," an archeological project led Alumnae/i, As~oc i ates and Friends of begins writing a novel that by Professor Possehl of the Univer the College. satirizes corporate life. Enter new sity of Pennsylvania. The archeologi boss Eben Strauss, love interest cal excavations at the Indus Valley M Y l GTO 29, 2000 that brings out the best and worst border village of Gilund aim to Visit Dordogne and outhwest in Lisa. "Breezy, irreverent uncover clues toward the Indus France l,'ltided by J ean Rcnoux, humor .. .unexpectedly moving Valley Civilization's internal work owne r of Art
Lourey Bwner Couhoto ('87) 8 9Mary Tyll is currently and Cathy Herndon (Craig's working in the Department of wife) . Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami as senior research asso~iate. She said, "We are studying the effect of HIV seroposi tivity on alterations in cognition among asymptomatic individuals. Life is good in Miami Beach!"
9 0 Steve Barney is working as a eighborhood Planner at the City of Austin Planning Department. This year's highlight included sampling 100 different kinds of hot sauce with Leo Demski ('91) and Sam Field ('91), touring an aban doned subdivision in Houston with Jeff Morton ('88) and Sally Alt ('87), and having a visit from Bill Chase ('88) and Michelle Miller ('89) on their transcontinental journey. The cats are fine. Rick Doblin ('77) with son Kristine Adams graduated and Steve Horwitz ('77) from FSU College of Law in May ~'--- 1999 and is now back in her home state, California. She says, "f am Read about it at ''I'm in my first semester of the MEd getting ready to take the bar in http://www.auschron.com/ February 2000. I haven't decided program at UIC to pursue a degree in is ues/voll8/issue 15/pols.naked.html zoo and museum education. I which area of law I will practice; I'm Jason Coleman and his wife literally "ran into" Tony Lenzo ('91) still reeling from the nasty law school Kathryn have a new addition in their on a corner downtown and hang out experience. The only experiences family. On August 31, at 1:00 p.m., with him often. He's making a lot of worthy of mention are my internship Kathryn gave birth to a healthy, progre getting into th film indus at the Florida Supreme Court (I happy, 7lb, 9oz baby girl: Lena Isabel try. clerked with justice Shaw) and my Coleman. To see pictures of Lena on summer job at the 12th Judicial line go to: http:// Circuit in Sarasota (I worked on wwW:memeber .home.nct/ 91 Raymonda Burgman has criminal appeals and civil cases)." ja on.coleman!Lena/ begun teaching economics full-time Sabrina Burmeister has Rosa Greenbaum has at Santa Fe Community College in become the best known citizen relocated to Tallahassee, Florida, Cainsville, FL. activist in Austin. She spearheaded where she has begun working as an Cynthia Harington has been the eighbors of Triangle Park, a investigator for the Capital Collateral accepted to the University of Wiscon group that successfully opposed an Regional Counsel. This state agency sin at Madison to study conservation auto- oriented, strip mall develop is a part of the judiciary branch, and biology and Sustainable Develop ment in Central Austin. The new handles post-conviction appeals for ment. She will also be studying development plan, created with death row prisoners in the northern environmental journalism. extensive citizen input and the Florida region. Suzanne Krasny (formerly assistance of Cal thorpe As ociates, Melissa Williams continues Waterman) would like to announce will likely include significant green to work for the University of Illinois the birth of her son, Alexander space, reduced parking, and a mix of at Chicago in the Menta] Health Calder Krasny (Zander). He was residential and commercial uses. Services Research Program. She said, born at home on May 24,1999. -
IClASS Notes (OHTINUEO FROM PREVIOUS PAGE I Konnie Kruczek received still intend to return to the moky her MEd from the University of 9 4 Anjna Chauhan, is Mountains some day ... " Florida. he currently t aches currently attending her fir t year at Language Arts and Te~hnology at a the Univer ity of Florida College of charter middle chao! m arasota. Law. he wrote, "I am inter sted in 9 5 Wolf Bowden has been She and Doug Perry ('90) were working with a ew College . recently appointed the "Official married in 1ovember at Ne':" Alumna who practices law or who ts ArtExpo Arti t of the Millennium" College. Doug works as a n _twork in any bu inc that incorporates law and will pearhead a multi-million pecialist at Sara ota 'v1.emonal into her field. I will be seeking a dollar adverti ing campaign for Hospital. ummer as ociate position for the ArtExpo South Miami 2000. Thi Yonina" ina" Smuckler year 2000. I can nd/ e-~·nail my can1paign has chosen his painting has rcc ntly graduated from re ume if intere ted partiC would e Autumn Mask to appear on 22 Georgetovvn Univers_ity Law ~e.n~cr mail me [email protected]. Thank billboards, 350 airport/public and is working in a f1rm pee~ahzmg you." tran<>portation advertisements, in telecommunications law. She has Sara Graham is currently 350,000 Sun-S ntinel Po ters, Festival entered a happy marriage with Jim working a. the administrative Banner , and in multiple film and Mrose on ovcmber 14, 1999. She a istant at a fine dinning restaurant media formats. will be changing her name to Yonina in t. Louis, 'vli ouri's We tEnd. A media party, featuring Mro c. She says, "This i a great job for me Wolff and the subject painting right now, a I have always wante~ Autumn Mask will be held in early January, followed Terry Glenn is planning to open up my own restaurant. Thts 9 2 by the two day to finish up law school at F U in job is teaching me the bu ines side how on January 7 December of 1999 and then sail back of it all- I always tended to focu and 8. to Fort Myer after graduation. more on cooking! lam thoroughly Ben Hodge has Karin Skougard i heading enjoying life in the city, especially to Erasamus lJniversit\' in Rotterdam w1th Forest Park practically in my been shooting a lot. to get an \ttBA after >vorking in backyard! I will be going back to 1 he evidence i. Abidjan as head of the documenta school part time in the fall to start a available at tion department for Maer<>k Line thi Masters in Environmental Studies www.sit.8k.com Autumn Mask last year. Anyone who with a concentration in Education. J want to keep in touch can contact Karin at: [email protected].
9 3Lizzie Dobbins would like to announce her engagement to Damon Agosto. She and Damon plan to marry on ew Years Fve 1999/2000. Lizzie is working on mosaics in Tampa and she and her fiancee have finally built their house. You can reach Linie at: [email protected]. Anne Tazewell has ju t completed a vear of traveling around the CS and Mextco. She said, "My family and I have moved to orth Carolina. I'm enjoy ing my new job a a Hou e Matt Posner('87) and Julie Gupta were married March 12, 1999 in Syosset, New York. hold 1iazardous Waste Matt ond Julie ore living happily in Miami, FL. Other alumni present include James Program Administrator." Rogauskas '84, Arlynda Lee Boyar '87 and Mattew Rogge. lcLASS Notes (ONTINUEO FROM PREVIOUS PAGE I
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Mark's memory is cherished by his Photo and graphic credits: imbus logo ond des1gn - Elame Simmons; p.1 Don1el Bosch; p. 3, family, by the computer scientists he Christopher 8unn, p. 6 ond 7, Jim Harmon; p.OB Rod Millmgton of the Sarasota Herold Tri mentored and collaborated with, and bune; p.B Susanne Janney, p. 1O, Suzanne Janney; p 11, Elissa Mendenhall; p.l2, Luke Salisbury; the many friends whom he inspired p.13, courtesy of Ed Freemen; p.l3 courtesy of the New York Times, p.19 courtesy of Lorry Vernoglio; p.20 courtesy of MattPosner, p.26, Malcom Hall. with his intelligence, wit and heart. Grant News continued ... processes of environmental change, Bosch continued ... shifting commercial patterns, and Baccalaureate Program at myself whenever I feel like I have broader pan-Mayan and Hillsborough High School in Tampa, one. I've put out two: One called Mesoamerican political develop Ian has held a New College Founda "Passion Fruit" and another called ments. Professor Andrews has tion Scholarship for eight semesters. "Homages and Elegies.'Tm not conducted archaeological fieldwork That support enabled him to pend an going to wait around for this and ethnohistoric research on the academic term participating in a system [of winning poetry contests Maya coast for 30 year , and Global Stewardship Study Program in that interest publishers] to work Belize. (During an earlier sojourn in participated in 16 field projects in for me. I'll save my money and self Belize, Ian worked at the Belize Zoo, the Maya area. This project, his publish books and mail them out which wa founded by Sharon Matola, fourth funded by the ational to people I care about. And there's ew College '81.) More recently, he Geographic Society, will run from the Internet, too. I've got some was one of 16 college students selected February to June 2000 under joint things coming out in some print to participate a ational Science sponsorship with the lnstituto magazines. And I do readings in Foundation-funded Re earch Experi Nacional de Anthropologia e Boston, infrequently. ence for Undergraduate Program in Historica ( AH) of Mexico. ew Mexico on Southwe t Earth Through a program of survey, Q. What's the most unpoetic Studies. Thi eight-week program took surface collections, and mapping thing you enjoy doing these days? place in the desert and focused on and test excavations at selected A. Hmmmm [laughs]. You tudy of a phenomenon in which sites, Professor Andrews hopes to caught me. Basketball! minerals in the mountains exposed to obtain new data on coastal adapta water and air, produce acid that tions and coastal-inland exchange at dissolves heavy metals and carries tbe micro-regional level in several them into the water supply. Ian was different areas of the north coast of able to draw on hi background in the Yucatan, hawing evi both biology and economics to fathom dence of economic and the many cientific issue and govern political ties between major mental policie that affect this inland centers and coastal situation. His senior thesi , "An communitie . Hi preliminary JOH DEARMAN & Overview of Acid Rock Drainage" work on this project was CATERINA LICHTE BERG resulted from thi experience. After supported by a grant from the the Ambassadorial cholar hip in USF Latin American and Ecuador, Ian is thinking about further Canibean Studies Center, work in Latin America before going which brought hi JNAH co on to veterinary school or graduate director to Sarasota last school in economics, focusing on spring, and a USF Re earch environmental economics or national and Creaitve Scholarship 1kut.SI2 economic development in Latin Program grant, which funded America. an archeological reconnais sance ofthe northwest corner (3.) Professor of Anthropology of the Yucatan last swnmer. Anthony P. Andrews recently received a $27,000 grant from the National OCT 24. WliJi.om ~. r-JW Geographic Society's Committee for NOV 21; Scou Tf1lllll'll. 8flll1ll' WI 16 John o..m..o t Ctlt'l'lna Licht•nbo<'g. ~ l ,..l!ldohn R~ e.arch and Exploration. Hi project fD 13: n.. l!randri$-Bonlln ~ l!.wmbl• wtll mvestigate the changing relation IMIII2: A>""-Yctl.fld- AI'II 9: Los AtwrJo1 Cu~~or Quar1"' ships between the coast and the interior of the prehispanic northern Maya lowlands of the Yucatan Penin sula, and how these relationships were affected through time by regional New College Alumnae Music Series advertise ment for the January concert and all remaining performances. Tracy continued ... Financial Markets and can give me a then some. In fact, Henry has push anytime he thinks I need it _ served as resumejcover letter even today he was yelling at me Soo Bong Chae critiquer, career path adviser, about getting business cards in time morale booster and occasionally, the for this seminar. I am eternally kick in the pants I needed to get ~rateful .for Henry's never-tiring Chair going! He has always been ready mterest m my career and his and willing to go over my career eagerness to help. Of course, I'm not Endowment ideas -with perfect timing (he's entirely sold on this private-sector almost telepathic, calling me the thing (but what New College student very same day I started besides Henry could be?), but I have Update contemplating a career move!) gotten great exposure to the nitty and always interested to hear of the gritty in fmancial markets and have The campaign to raise progress of other alums in my class. learned a great deal in these last six S600,000 needed to endow a It was so helpful to have someone months. professorship in mathematics with a both a New College and At Henry's invitation, I will soon began in 1994 with a generous financial sector background who be traveling to New College to challenge donation of S300,000 knew how to transform our unique participate in his third seminar on from an anonymous alum. educational experience into "Real World Skills." My "career" only The campaign to raise the something the private sector could began about six years ago, so the $300,000 needed to match the pledge is ongoing and has relate to. transition from NC is still fresh in my received support from many of Of course, Henry and I haven't memory. I know how important you. One alum alone gener always agreed on all my career path what I learned at New College was to ously donated $108,000. We choices. Until 1999, I had been my professional development and I are now very close to meeting living in Washington, D.C., working look forward to coming back now as our goal. as a research analyst at the an alum and communicating this The Soo Bong Chae Audito International Finance Corporation, value to students. rium will be dedicated in early the private sector arm of the World President's Letter continued ... February and it would be a Bank (perhaps, in part, due to my and the College asks for greater levels credit to all New College wonderful resume skills!). And of support. We'll need to revisit our Alumnaeji to announce that while I loved my job and the staffing and budget needs as we we have raised the funds to international work environment I expand the scope of our operations. endow the Chair. In early felt I still lacked some skills I . The Board must continue to recruit November of this year two thought I could get out of a talented and energetic members New College alums together business school program. Henry (there is no shortage in the pool) and offered $35,000 as a challenge felt that was just pure nonsense and to increase focus on strategic priori match to gifts and pledges partially a result of 1) being ties. We're also working to establish raised for the Chae Chair in the surrounded by Harvard Business more consistent means to assess our same amount. School grads and 2) working too progress. The NCAA thanks everyone long in the "bubble" of the public Define the ideal nature of our that has contributed to this sector. He was adamant that a taste working relationship with New College endeavor. This will be a of the "real world" of financial Foundation, campus administration, tremendous success for an markets would do me good. And and other constituencies (e.g., faculty, organization of our size. We so, when I finally decided to make students). We want to ensure that hope to be able to announce that step and move up to New York our fundraising goals and strategies soon that we have raised the City, Henry finally got the call he complement- and augment- the necessary funds and have was waiting for - I was ready to work of New College Foundation. As endowed a mathematics chair. try the real thing. And fortuitously, the administration of New College Please contact us if you would the economists he works with at increasingly relies upon us for like to send a gift, make a NatWest were looking for a junior program support, institutional pledge, or fulfill an existing economist. research, and public relations efforts pledge. So now Henry sits just a few feet (especially admissions visibility), the away from me at NatWest Global NCAA will need a clearer understand- President's Letter continued on poge 24 1999 Action Auction
The 1999 New College Foundation Action Auction was the first ever Chaired by a New College Alum. Charlie Lenger ('78) chaired the event which was well attended by Alums from across the country. The 2000 Auction will be From Left to right, front row: Altom Maglio ('90), Mike Cambell ('87); second on March 18. row: Jenny Gore Maglio ('89), Shown Richardson ('88), Gaia Goldman ('92), For informa Aaron Gubin ('95), Andy Cohen ('89), and Christine Hamilton-Hall ('78); back tion call NCF at row: Caroline Chambliss Bunn ('79), Steve Borbeaux ('88), Jeff Cianci ('76), 941-355-2991. Charlie Lenger ('78). From Left to right: Chris Hamilton-Hall ('78), Bruce Chrissy, and Caroline Chambliss Bunn ('79)
President's Letter continued ... members. Please let us know what Do you have particular expertise, ing of how best to collaborate with you think of the strategic plan (the experience, or just the willingness to others working with like purpose. entire text will be available on our get your hands dirty in one of the We must also think about how to web site). areas of strategic emphasis noted marshal the individual talents of our And let us know how you'd be above? Interested in hosting a members most effectively and willing to help. Your money is chapter event? How about volun efficiently in support of the College. important, but no less so than your teering for NC Admissions, serving There you have it. What this talent. We're particularly eager to on a program committee, or offering means for alums and for New College have alums from outside the Board your expertise as an Alumnaefi itself ultimately depends on you. take a greater role in helping to Fellow? You've got creative ideas of That's no cliche, since the NCAA is develop and to implement our your own? Send those along too. supported almost entirely by its programs and activities. We'd love to hear from you. Enjoy the Nimbus. I hope you'll meet old and new friends in this NEW COLLEGE Nonprofit issue. Organization Sincerely, U.S. Postage Paid Mike Campbell '87-'91 Permit #61 President Manasota FL New College Alumnae/i Association 5700 N. Tamiomi Trail To All Alums who have Sarasota, FL 34243-2197 made pledges and sent gifts.
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