In This Issue FEA TURfS On Campus Participant is published by Pitzer A House, a Garden, a Philosophy: Pitzer Completes Renovation of College, 1050 North Mills Avenue, the Grove House Claremont, CA 91711 A uni<]Ue p.m of Pitzer .md ,t pl.tce ofimpir.nion t(,r man ~·, the· Gro\'l' House prm·e~ tht'l't'\ more ro the residemi.tl college Cover opnienn: than dorm li1·ing .md dining halls. For Alumni Only: It was 10 years ago that the Zetterberg house was moved 16 David Meets Goliath, or, Pitzer Goes to Harvard to Pitzer from its original location. As llaving g.lrne'l'nl .1 list tid of' J\l'arth, Pitzer p.111icipams in the its story has evolved over the years. 191{<) ,\·I UN Cont~ rcnce· share their experinKe·-tht· inll.:nsity, the· the House reflects community excite'llll'lll , the dulknges. investment in Pitzer's future as many 18 Brave New Class groups worked to turn it into a unique This year\ mtning tinsh prow Pitzer" no longer the best kq>t student center. sl'net in Cbremonr. Enrollme·nt is nor only up. hut so arl' the The Pitzer College Magazine (~I'A .md .SAl' scort·~ of this year's ti·c·shmen, haikd .Is onl' of the· Fall 1989 most well-routllkd d.t"es t·i·cr. Volume 24, Number 1 20 Commencement 1989: Putting Pitzer in History l'rc·sidellt h~mk Ellsi\'Oilh presided mw Pitzer\ 25th Editor: C:omme'IKellle'lll - and his Hhh - 11hik l i ,und i n~ l'rc·stde·m John Elisabeth Duran t\thnton .tddtl'"nl the· ( 'l,t" of I<JX'I on dw ( ·.,)kgc··, hi story. Assistant Editor/Copy Editor: Faculty Focus Binah Taylor-McMillan 24 China Spring Staff Writer: l'miL·s.~or of .Sociology l'et<T N.1rdi \\Till to C hin.tl.1~1 ,\by ro Marianne Aiken study magic .md m.tgici.ms. l.ittk did he know he would .tlso he Production Assistant: swdying t ht• "narurt· and J>rocess of rnulurions." Sandy Corbett 26 Italian Journey Design: l'rokssor of' Politic;ll S!lldit·s l.uci.111 .\Ltrquis rn·e.tb his t.tkllls ,Is Cinnamon Design .111 .Ill thor with ;m degant pic·,·e of'ticrion th.tt appe.1rcd ren·mly Typography: in the NoniJ Amt·rimn Rn•itll'. College Press. Inc. Alumni News Printers: 28 Karen Payne '73: Author, Film Maker, Peace Activist- But Still Not Premier Printing Ready for a 'Real Job' From ami-w.1r protest 1110I'l'ml'llts to ;t hest-sdling hook .md a Photography: mm·ic in Africt, alumn.1 K.tren 1\wm· sm:ci:cds wit hour hcin!-\ J Page 7 Jacquie Harlan nine·- ro-lin-r. · • PageJ Joel Pilcher 32 Reunion 1989: At Last, We Meet Again! Jacquie Harlan Page 5 Jacquie Harlan Pitzer !!pds trom the C:l.1sses of ' 69, 7 4, .111d ' 1{4 return tin· n:ne11·:d tricndship, .mother look .ll l'itt.er, and a good timl'. Page 7 Gene Sasse Page 8, 10 George Adams 37 Honor Roll of Donors Page 11 George Adams I 'ern (;old, Chairman of the Board ot" Ji·ustces, presc·ms rht· Leland Holder 19XX-X<J Honor Roll of nonor;. Page 12, 13 John Kruissink Page 15 Jacquie Harlan Page 17 Nickolas Page 18-20 Jacquie Harlan IN EVERY ISSUE Page23 Peter Nardi Pages 25, 27 Jacquie Harlan Page29 Jacquie Harlan Suzanne Zetterberg 1 From the l'residt·nt PageJO Sandy Corbett '87 2 Inside Stor\' Suzanne Zetterberg 4 Ink Spot . Marianne Aiken 30 Alumni Upd.lte 33 The Scoop Letter from the President Knowing the Past, Mindful of the Future: Founding President and Ute 7fustee John W. Atherton; President Frank L. Ellsworth; former Chairman of the Board of Trustees Odell S. McConnell; and Chairman of the Board of 7fustees Peter S. Gold. One of my most pleasant and interaction, they are responsibilities is to welcome diminished in their essence and students and their parents to validity. Pitzer. During my address to the By evaluating the effects of our Class of 1993, at the August 1989 individual actions, including the Orientation, I asked students to ethical implications, we learn to pause for a moment and reflect on take responsibility for making the the relationship between freedom world we live in a better place. In and responsibility. As graduates of recent months Pitzer students Pitzer, you know better than have done just that: they have anyone that this theme is at the participated in the development of core ofour College's identity. our "WeUness Program"; drafted My message to the Class of 1993 our alcohol policy and our judicial argued that we are here today code; collected food and clothing because someone in our past rook for the Rt:d Cross; expressed their social responsibility-even if it views on public policies in meant paying a heavy price, whkh Nicaragua, the Philippines, El was usually the case. Maybe it was Salvador; spoken out on nuclear paid by an Irish family who left issues and clean water; volunteered their home ro escape the potato nt the House of Ruth and Project famine in the 1840s. Perhaps it Sister; worked this pnst summer ro was paid by those Eastern assist the oil spill cleanup in Europeans who came via Ellis Alaska. These arc just a few of our Island. Or by Asians who as a students' contributions to\vard matter oflaw had to wait for making the world a better place decades for their mates to join through social responsibility. them. It may have been Africans As we enter the 1990s I am who survived the insufferable happy to say that Pitzer continues journey from Africa and the to provide an uncommon conditions in which they were opportunity to explore the eventually placed. freedom and responsibility which Now it is our tum to give back give rise to that which is known as to our feUow human beings­ education. This tradition, I regardless of whether we are believe, is a fine investment in the teachers, students, la,vyers, future of our society. entrepreneurs, doctors, entertainers, surfers or poets-and eradicate injustice through love. It ikMY~~ calls us to move beyond the prejudices inherent in our human Frank L. Ellsworth nature and learn how to recognize President and Professor and respect the differences of Political Studies between individuals and peoples. This learning, I believe, is not something separate from the pursuit of the Liberal arts. On the contrary, it is essential. When ideas arc not related to human action 4&5 Ink Spot Engrossed in Ethnology McKenna College, now at State Albert planned to rake special University of New York, Albany; courses on longitudinal studies Donald Brcnneis, professor of and Barbara Gurek, formerly of during July and October 1989 at anthropology, has been selected as Claremont Graduate School. Gutek Raddifte College in Cambridge, editor of Americatl Etlmowgisr, the is now at the University ofAriwna. Mass. journal of the American The third volume was published Explaining Scientific Theories Ethnological Society, considered in 1988. T he series brings together the leading American journal of research, critical analyses and Among Piner Professor of social and cultural anthropology. review articles on the topic of Philosophy Jim Bogen's most Published quarterly, American working women. At least three recent publications is "Saving the Etht1owgist con rains articles, book more volumes will be published. Phenomena," with co-aurhor reviews and critical commenta1y Professor Stromberg plans to James Woodward, professor of focusing on a broad range of spend her full sabbatical in philosophy at C.1lifornia Institute ethnological issues in such areas as Washington, D.C. , where she and ofTcchnology, in the July 1988 ecology, social organization, . husband Rudi Volti, Pitzer issue of PIJiwsophicnl Revien>. Bogen ethnicity, politics and symbohsm, professor of sociology, will both be says many people believe scientific among others. on professional leave. Volti was theories predict and explain things Brcnneis' four-year term as awarded a senior fellowship by that arc observed. editor began in July 1989. In the Smithsonian Institution, \vherc "Woodward and I argue [in addition to editing the journal, he will be spending his sabbatical. "Saving the Phenomena"] that Brcnneis will be responsible for Stromberg plans to do advocacy typical scientific observations arc soliciting pertinent articles and work on behalfof children with only of raw data which scientists reviews, for evaluation and the Children's Defense Fund and typically cannot and don't want to ultimate acceptance or rejection of to conduct an explorarory study explain or to predict," Bogen said. articles, as well as overseeing with foster parents. " Instead scientists try to explain production of the journal. and predict unobserved things Eminents Are People Too Women at Work detected through the usc of what Why it is important to see the is observed." In the 10 years since the first gifted as human beings is th.e Another recent Bogen publica­ edition of Womm Workii!!J came subject of the recently pubhshed tion is "Cohercntist Theories of om, women's participation in the "How High Should O ne Climb Knowledge Don't Apply to workforce has continued to rise and to Reach Common Ground?" in Enough Outside Science and some of the problems women fucc Crenti1>ity &senrr:h journal, 1988, Don't Give the Right Results in the work force, such as lack of Vol. 1, by l' itzer Professor of When Applied ro Science," in TIJe child care, have been exacerbated. Psychology .Robert Albert. Curnmt Stnte ofthe OJhenmce T hose are some of the areas Another of Albert's works, Theory: Critical Essays on the explored in the second (1988) "Identity, Experience and Career Epistemic Theories ofK£ith Lelmr edition of Womm Workit?B, co­ Choice Among the Exceptionally and Lmmmce Bonjour, with &plies, edited by Pitzer Professor of Gifted and Eminent," edited with edited by University of Ohio Sociology Ann Stromberg a~d.