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The UnsToppable James R. WilbURn MeMories & Reflections on 40 intrepid years at Pepperdine. heaRing heR sToRy Milestones Women judges speak from the bench. oUT of The sTRess Zone From Pepperdine’s How do students deal with the pressure?
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From professor to provost to dean of two graduate schools, School of Public Policy dean James R. Wilburn remembers the struggles and successes of four decades at Pepperdine. Full story page 19
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FEATURES commU niT y d E p ARTm E n TS
2 scholarship Letters 4 PersPectives
6 News
12 sNaPshot
34 aLumNi
48 iN Focus
36 ripe for change 38 The Great and the Just
14 pepperdine turns 75 spiritual life memories and milestones from Pepperdine’s historic 75 years.
40 hope & victory 42 service, Granted in malibu
athletics 19 the unstoppable 23 hearing her story James r. Wilburn women judges speak reflections on 40 intrepid from the bench. years at Pepperdine.
44 The wilson era
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27 31 out of the stress negotiating the 46 zone how do students deal future Personal finance The illuminated exhibit with the pressure? tools for planners of all ages.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 1 10/13/11 1:16 PM PePPerdine has sPecial reason to celebrate this CorPs Values year. During the recent Waves Weekend 2011, the university kicked I enjoyed reading the article about the off its 75th anniversary celebration. alumni, students, faculty, staff, Peace Corps and the involvement of so many Pepperdine alumni. It is great and friends came together to honor the school’s mission, heritage, and to see such dedication to a worthy community, while remembering the founding vision of Mr. Pepperdine cause. Many people may remember l e t t e r s that made it all possible. that just a few years after the creation of the Peace Corps, President Lyndon In this issue of Pepperdine Magazine we celebrate this anniversary by Johnson created the Job Corps. This sharing some of the many memories and milestones from Pepperdine’s program, which was also headed by historic 75 years. We hope you’ll visit magazine.pepperdine.edu and www. Sargent Shriver, was developed to pepperdine.edu/75th to share your own personal stories and explore our create a stronger and better-educated photographic timeline. In addition, you will learn about commemorative items young work force in America. The to mark the occasion and the many upcoming events taking place around first national director of the Job Corps the globe that will pay tribute to the transformative university Pepperdine is appointed by President Johnson was today. former Pepperdine University professor We also recognize other special anniversaries being reached at Pepperdine Dr. Stephen Uslan. I wonder how many this year. We take a look back on the 40 remarkable years school of Public Pepperdine alumni have been involved Policy dean James r. Wilburn has given to Pepperdine, and shine a spotlight with the Job Corps through the years? I on the school of law’s top-ranked straus Institute for Dispute resolution and would love to hear those stories. the seaver College Great Books Colloquium as they reach 25 years. Thank you for joining us as we celebrate 75 years of strengthening lives —Glen Uslan (’81) for purpose, service, and leadership. We look forward to hearing from you throughout this landmark year. Ed. Note: We would love to hear these stories as well. Please e-mail magazine@ MeGan HuarD pepperdine.edu to share your memories editor of serving with the Job Corps. And please keep the article ideas coming! We’re happy to hear from you.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 2 10/13/11 1:28 PM What a wonderful tribute to a gifted The Triple ThreaT athlete and academic. it has been Farrell Gean is a gifted human being. my privilege to work with Professor editor Megan Huard Those who learn from him are not just Gean at Pepperdine university. He has art director Keith Lungwitz his students in his class but everyone enriched the lives of his colleagues, photographer Ron Hall (’79) who engages with him. He has the students, friends, and brothers and writers Gareen Darakjian, Sarah Fisher warmth, sincerity, and generosity sisters in christ with his humor, grace, copy editor Vincent Way of spirit which allows him to be poetry, and love of the Word. being production manager Jill McWilliams remembered by all who meet him. inducted into the athletic Hall of Fame web manager Kyle Dusek (’90, ’97, MS ’99) i thank him for his gift of friendship is well deserved, but merely a reflection web developer Kimberly Robison (’10) to my family and am awed by his of his many natural, God-given talents, humility and talent. He is a mentor to and excellence in service. PubLiSHeD by THe oFFice oF PubLic aFFaiRS his students and they will count him vice president for public affairs always as one of the best. —Connie James and church relations Rick Gibson (Mba ’09, PKe 121) assistant vice president for integrated —Alice Cone Osur The best stories in this life are the “real” marketing communications ones, and this well-written article helps Matt Midura (’97, Ma ’05) Farrell had a profound effect on set the stage for the many adventures, director of creative services brett Sizemore shaping my life and served as a learning experiences, friendships, director of web & multimedia real role model for me in my early and opportunities that the Lord has ed Wheeler (’97, Ma ’99) days at Lipscomb. i always felt he provided for Farrell and our family over was responsible for me getting the the years. His devotion to his family is Pepperdine Magazine, Volume 3, issue 3, Fall 2011. Pepperdine Magazine is the feature magazine for opportunity to be recruited and signed proof that even though the miles may Pepperdine university and its growing community by Lipscomb to play basketball for logistically separate us, the ties that of alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends. it is published quarterly by the university’s Public affairs the bisons from 1974 to 1978. The bind us are even greater. division. Pepperdine university, 24255 Pacific coast christian environment on campus was Highway, Malibu, california, 90263 just what the doctor ordered for a guy Pepperdine Magazine is produced with —Ondie Mitchell guidance from an advisory board representing a who was “rough around the edges” cross-section of the university community. and liked to “push the envelope” and Send address changes with publication name to: “live on the edge” when it came to office of advancement information Management at Pepperdine university, 24255 Pacific coast Highway, behaving. The four years at Lipscomb Malibu, california, 90263. other information and taught me the value of a christian queries should be directed to the editor. all material a Fine Balance is copyrighted ©2011 by Pepperdine university, education and showed me the way i Wonderful! Product of a good Malibu, california 90263 should live and the light i should be education, and a whole lot more. guided by. i owe all that to Farrell and 310.506.4000 i’m deeply indebted to him for that. magazine.pepperdine.edu —Mary Estes a portrait of pepperdine —Eddie Clausel
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In the summer of 2010, I each other, and they don’t know each other because they are often separated went to Kigali, Rwanda, and spent from each other.” Dr. King’s words one afternoon at the Nyamata would become my marching orders Catholic Church. On April 14, as dean of Pepperdine’s International Programs. Hate is the product of fear, 1994, ten thousand Tutsi squeezed ignorance, and separation. International into this church believing that Programs would be part of the solution. this would be the safest place to In my experience, there are two things that are necessary to combat hide from the Hutu. In a matter of hatred, fear, and misunderstanding four days all 10,000 people were between people: 1) We must cross brutally killed. In a period of 100 physical boundaries in order to break down social boundaries; 2) We days, 800,000 Tutsi and Huti killed must avoid the tendency to associate By CHARLeS HALL one another; over 20 percent of the with like-minded groups and start interacting with people who are dean of international programs population was lost. As I stared at and associate professor of sociology different. at Seaver College the massive piles of clothes still Physical boundaries create social present in the church, blood stains boundaries. When social groups are physically segregated from others, they still visible on the walls and the will not interact with other people. instruments of genocide still lying When Americans aren’t interacting on the floor, I asked myself: Why with the rest of the world, they become irrelevant to the global conversation. did this happen? How was this Senator Lee Hamilton, chair of possible? the 9/11 Commission, expressed the urgency of this when he said: As I reflected on these questions, I “Ignorance of the world is a national remembered the words of Dr. Martin liability. The U.S. cannot conduct itself Luther King: “Men hate each other effectively when our most educated because they fear each other, and they citizens lack minimal exposure and fear each other because they don’t know understanding of the world. If we don’t
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send more students abroad, America’s In his book, Going to Extremes, could very well live a whole year in international prestige will continue to Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein another country without really knowing decline.” says that like-minded groups tend to anything about people outside their This is why study abroad programs adopt more extreme positions over own group. have become so essential to a university time. Polarization is a consequence of Crossing boundaries is not just education. At Pepperdine, we want to the company we keep. You join a group about crossing oceans. Sure, it’s a get as many students off the Malibu of like-minded people. You interact necessary step, but crossing boundaries campus and over to one of our with them, to the exclusion of others. requires that we take the next step, the Pepperdine campuses in Germany, You approve of what they say. And more uncomfortable step, of crossing Italy, England, Switzerland, Argentina, before you know it, your views are those “invisible” boundaries that or China. And we’re doing a good job. even more extreme. Over time, group exist between individuals of different Last year the Institute of International polarization can go terribly wrong. cultures. We want this generation of Education ranked Pepperdine’s Sunstein explains that the Rwanda students to be the change agents for International Programs number one genocide, the Holocaust, terrorism, the future. Pepperdine’s International in the nation for the percentage of and Abu Ghraib were all abuses Programs has the ability and reputation students we send overseas. It’s a good, that resulted initially from group to lead the educational community in first step toward breaking down social polarization. this endeavor. We want to educate a boundaries. Diversity of thought is a necessary new generation of students who are But, we have to do more. Why? ingredient for a working democracy like comfortable with difference, who are Because our students do exactly the United States, and the university better listeners than talkers, and have what most people do when they’re of today must do all it can to expose the skills to create understanding and confronted with difference—they students to the people, ideas, and peace between polarized groups. stay with each other. It’s a predictable cultures of the world. Yet one of the As I left the genocide memorial in pattern of human behavior. We are main criticisms of American study Rwanda, I couldn’t help think about our more comfortable interacting with abroad programs is their insular nature. unique responsibility as a Christian those who are most like us. Here’s the Students live together, eat together, go university to break down the social problem: What we don’t realize is, by to class together, travel together. They boundaries that too often undergird acting this way, we contribute to “group never really engage the people of the such devastating human tragedies. Can polarization.” When individuals only culture. Few could tell you what foreign Pepperdine’s International Programs hang out with people who act, think, students care about, what concerns make a difference? Can we create and believe like them, they are only them, how they view Americans, how expert listeners? Can we produce exchanging information with people they view certain political issues, or healers and peacemakers? Yes, we can. who reinforce their own viewpoints. what gives their life meaning. They And yes, we will.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 5 10/13/11 1:19 PM Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Sheryl WuDunn Opens the 2011–12 n e w s seav er Dean’s DistinguisheD Lecture series
Sheryl WuDunn, the first Asian American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize, opened the 2011–12 W. David Baird Distinguished Lecture Series on September 21 with a discussion of her best-selling book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Monte Cox W. David Baird—Dean Emeritus of Seaver presents 32nD annuaL WiLLiam m. College, Howard A. White Professor of green DistinguisheD christian History, and namesake of this series—led the schOLar Lecture second presentation this year, hosting a panel discussion October 6 on “Pepperdine at 75,” Monte Cox, dean of the College of Bible and Religion at in commemoration of the University’s 75th Harding University, addressed the theme “Through a Glass anniversary. Baird is currently authoring a Dimly: Christian Knowing in a Pluralistic World,” during book on the history of Pepperdine. Pepperdine’s 32nd annual William M. Green Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecture on October 3 in Stauffer Chapel. Journalist, social critic, lecturer, and novelist Cox’s presentation focused on the epistemological shift Earl Shorris took the podium the following that is driving worldview-level changes in Western culture, week on the topic “The Moral Life of and offered a Christian response to those changes. Downtown: Bringing the Humanities to the Poor.” Shorris is founder and chair of the “I hear many Christian figures speaking about advisory board of the Clemente Course in ‘postmodernism’ as if it is only an enemy of the Christian the Humanities, a college-level course in the worldview,” says Cox. “At the heart of the ‘postmodern’ humanities for people living in poverty. movement is a different view of knowledge. As theologian Millard Erickson has written, ‘modern’ people understood Throughout its history, the W. David Baird knowledge to be certain, objective, and good. The most Distinguished Lecture Series has drawn radical forms of ‘postmodern’ philosophy would strongly scholars and public figures from many disagree with all three of those descriptors.” disciplines, including Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State (2005-2009), and best- Cox served as a missionary to Kenya from 1982 to 1992, selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran when he began teaching full-time at Harding. He served Azar Nafisi. Author and actress Donzaleigh as director of the Center for World Missions until 2008, Abernathy, environmental scientist Chris when he accepted the position as dean of the College of Field, and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio Bible and Religion. Cox also teaches courses in missions, rounded out the lineup of speakers last year. anthropology, world religions, North American culture, and textual Bible, and continues to have an integral part in The Distinguished Lecture Series is made the Center for World Missions. possible through the generous support of Melanie and Richard Flamminio. All of the lectures are available in The William M. Green Distinguished Christian Scholar the series’ streaming video archives. Lecture Program began in 1980 to perpetuate the memory of the accomplished Christian scholar William M. Green. Throughout the years, these lectures have featured outstanding scholars from Churches of Christ. Pepperdine offers the program to provide its students with a forum for seaver.pepperdine.edu/dean/lectureseries the advancement of Christian scholarship.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 6 10/13/11 1:22 PM School of Public Policy honorS GSEP ProfESSor and ronald rEaGan cEntEnnial with alumnuS dEvEloP fAIth And publIc Mood-IMproveMent polIcy foruM App for iphone A Graduate School of Education and Psychology professor The School of Public Policy, in partnership with the Ronald and an alumnus have teamed up to develop the MoodKit, a Reagan Presidential Foundation Centennial Celebration, mood-improvement mobile application for the Apple iPhone presented a lecture on the faith of Ronald Reagan on and iPod Touch. The app, collaboratively imagined by September 13 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. professor of psychology Drew Erhardt and clinical and police Dean James Wilburn presented the introductory remarks, psychologist Edrick Dorian (PsyD ’03), helps users identify followed by a discussion of “Faith in the Power of Freedom” and change unhealthy thinking by applying Cognitive Monte cox by Natan Sharansky, chair of the Executive of the Jewish Behavior Therapy principles and techniques to engage users in mood-enhancing activities. PrESEntS 32nd annual william m. Agency for Israel. Sharansky is a Soviet dissident and former prisoner who has credited Ronald Reagan’s faith, moral GrEEn diStinGuiShEd chriStian The interactive feature was developed after the two clarity, and courage in the freedom of Russian immigrants discussed and recognized “the need for disseminating some Scholar lEcturE who fled to Israel. of psychology’s most effective, evidence-based principles Monte Cox, dean of the College of Bible and Religion at Born in 1948 in Ukraine, Sharansky graduated from the and techniques both to mental health professionals and to Harding University, addressed the theme “Through a Glass Physical Technical Institute in Moscow and immediately the general public,” says Erhardt. “The advent and growing Dimly: Christian Knowing in a Pluralistic World,” during became a human rights activist known as the spokesperson popularity of mobile applications seemed to present an Pepperdine’s 32nd annual William M. Green Distinguished for the Helsinki movement. At this time, Sharansky was excellent way to respond to that need.” Christian Scholar Lecture on October 3 in Stauffer Chapel. denied an exit visa to Israel and in 1977 was accused of The MoodKit app provides four integrated mood Cox’s presentation focused on the epistemological shift collaborating with the Central Intelligence Agency. Despite improvement tools to its users: Activities, Thought Checker, that is driving worldview-level changes in Western culture, denials from the U.S. government, he was found guilty and Mood Tracker, and Journal, which collectively allow its users and offered a Christian response to those changes. sentenced to 13 years in prison. Due to intense international to take an active part in their treatment. Its innovative design pressure from Ronald Reagan, Sharansky was released in “I hear many Christian figures speaking about enables it to be used on its own or to enhance professional 1986, emigrated to Israel, and arrived in Jerusalem on the ‘postmodernism’ as if it is only an enemy of the Christian treatment. “Incorporating an app like MoodKit as an adjunct same day, becoming active in the integration of Soviet Jews worldview,” says Cox. “At the heart of the ‘postmodern’ to treatment can help people to take a more active role in and forming the Zionist Forum. movement is a different view of knowledge. As theologian their own therapy, thereby improving both its benefits and Millard Erickson has written, ‘modern’ people understood Sharansky also cofounded Peace Watch, an independent the durability of those benefits,” explains Dorian. knowledge to be certain, objective, and good. The most nonpartisan group committed to monitoring the Erhardt and Dorian will further explore MoodKit’s benefits radical forms of ‘postmodern’ philosophy would strongly compliance to agreements signed by Israel and the by pursuing clinical trials to test the efficacy of the app in disagree with all three of those descriptors.” Palestine Liberation Organization, and served as associate improving mood and well-being among clinical populations. editor of the Jerusalem Report. In 1996 he founded the Cox served as a missionary to Kenya from 1982 to 1992, political party Yisral B’Aliya, established to accelerate the when he began teaching full-time at Harding. He served “Mobile technology has the potential to revolutionize absorption of the massive numbers of Russian immigrants as director of the Center for World Missions until 2008, health care, and we view psychology apps as part of that into Israeli society and to maximize their contribution. when he accepted the position as dean of the College of process,” says Erhardt. “We designed MoodKit as the app From 1996 to 2005 he served as minister, as well as deputy Bible and Religion. Cox also teaches courses in missions, we would recommend to our own clients, colleagues, prime minister, of Israel. anthropology, world religions, North American culture, family, and friends so that they might benefit from the ‘wisdom’ of the field.” and textual Bible, and continues to have an integral part in Sharansky was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in the Center for World Missions. 1986 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006. He is the author of several books, including his memoir of his time The William M. Green Distinguished Christian Scholar as a prisoner, Fear No Evil, which was published in the United Lecture Program began in 1980 to perpetuate the States and has been translated into nine languages. memory of the accomplished Christian scholar William M. Green. Throughout the years, these lectures have featured outstanding scholars from Churches of Christ. Pepperdine Drew Erhardt (left) offers the program to provide its students with a forum for and Edrick Dorian the advancement of Christian scholarship. publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu
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Step Forward day 2011 Heralds annual day of service
Pepperdine students, faculty, staff, and alumni kicked off the school year by giving back to the community at the 23rd annual Step Forward Day on September 10. The yearly day of service united approximately 1,400 participants in service projects around campus, across the nation, and around the world.
“Any college or university can be an environment where the community gets really wrapped up in campus life,” says Meredith Miller, assistant director of the Pepperdine Volunteer Center. “To kick off our year getting to know our community again and getting connected to our neighbors is really significant and sets a major tone for doing both.”
This year the Salvation Army joined the almost 65 community partners participating in the event and hosted a team of 100 Waves to set up obstacle courses and other outdoor activities for the Malibu Canyon Dirt Dash. Funds raised at the sixth annual event will send approximately 2,000 children of low- income families to camp each summer.
Step Forward Day began on the Malibu campus in 1988, when two students recognized the need for volunteers in the local community and wanted to share their passion for service with their peers. The projects began as small acts of service from helping with repairs on homes of local senior citizens to planting gardens at Webster Elementary.
Now, 23 years later, the reach of Step Forward Day has grown to include work with over 60 organizations spanning from Ventura County to downtown Los Angeles and alumni chapters across the nation and world.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 8 10/13/11 1:24 PM Kenneth W. Starr Headlines tHe FiFtH annual William FrencH smitH memorial lecture
Ken Starr, president of Baylor University and former dean of the Pepperdine School of Law, returned to Malibu October 11 to present the Janet Kerr fifth annual William French Smith Memorial School of laW Lecture. announces neW endoWed cHair Starr spoke on the topic “The Justice Department: School of Law alumna Laure Sudreau-Rippe From Reagan to (JD ’97) has provided Pepperdine with a Obama,” along with generous gift to establish the Laure Sudreau- conversationalists Rippe Endowed Chair at the School of Law. and former justice department colleagues “The Pepperdine University School of Law is F. Henry Habicht II, a so grateful for the generosity and friendship of pioneering figure in the Laure Sudreau-Rippe and her husband. Their areas of environmental Laure Sudreau-Rippe remarkable understanding of the role the business and policy and Pepperdine Law School can play in educating a leading contributor to lawyers and serving the community is a model that inspires and environmental innovation; challenges all of us,” says Dean Tacha. Ambassador Douglas W. Kmiec (ret.), Caruso According to the wishes of Sudreau-Rippe, the first alumna to Family Chair and professor of constitutional endow a chair at Pepperdine, preference for future occupants of law at Pepperdine School of Law; and the the chair will be given to those who have overcome significant Honorable Carolyn B. Kuhl, supervising judge obstacles in their careers. The new chair’s first occupant, Professor of the civil departments of the Los Angeles Janet Kerr (’75, JD ’78), was selected by Sudreau-Rippe because she Superior Court. Deanell Reece Tacha, Duane is dedicated to helping women through microfinance opportunities, and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine Law and and throughout her career she has championed the cause of former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for women in law. Kerr was also a mentor to Sudreau-Rippee when she the 10th Circuit, served as moderator. was a Pepperdine law student. Named in honor of the former attorney general, “I am very honored to be the first occupant of this new chair and the William French Smith Memorial Lectures on especially so since it is from an alumna who has such a great vision Law and the Judiciary will be an ongoing tribute of giving back and changing lives,” says Kerr, who serves as the to Smith. Smith served as U.S. Attorney General executive director of the Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and from 1981 to 1985 and was a longtime friend the Law. and confidant of President Ronald Reagan. “In particular, this chair will make possible very important Past speakers in the Pepperdine series include enhancements to the work being done by the Palmer Center for Supreme Court Justices the Honorable Anthony Entrepreneurship and the Law,” Tacha notes. “It will enable students M. Kennedy, the Honorable Sandra Day to be involved in the essential links that must be forged in training O’Connor, the Honorable Clarence Thomas, lawyers and businesspeople to work together in their mutual efforts and the Honorable Samuel Alito. to strengthen the economic fiber of the nation and the world.”
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 9 10/13/11 1:25 PM PEPPERdinE adds sand VollEyBall E2B REachEs 200th MBa to Its LIst of sponsored n e w s consulting PRojEct nCAA sports Pepperdine Athletics will add women’s sand volleyball Students at the Graziadio School of Business and as an intercollegiate sport under the direction of indoor Management completed their 200th real-time MBA-level case-consulting project this summer, providing valuable volleyball coach Nina Matthies, one of the best beach insight for company executives and experiential learning volleyball players in the history of the sport. opportunities for students. “We are excited to add women’s sand volleyball to the The school’s Education-to-Business (E2B) program is a Pepperdine athletic program and believe it will prove “real-world” learning experience embedded within the to be a popular sport for our community,” says director curriculum of various classes, including marketing, global of athletics Steve Potts. “Volleyball has a great tradition markets, finance, and information technology. Since the here and we are committed to building a championship program’s inception in 2002, the school has conducted women’s sand volleyball program.” 100 projects over the course of the first six years, 100 in the last three years, and now hosts more than 35 projects In January 2010 the NCAA added sand volleyball to its list each year. of emerging Division I sports for women beginning in the 2011-12 school year. The sport will begin competition in “Pepperdine University’s E2B program allows companies to Spring 2012, likely at the start of March, and will run for expand their intellectual resources and capacity and at the approximately two months. same time gain solutions to complex issues,” says Doreen Shanahan, marketing professor and E2B program director. Pepperdine’s first-ever recipient of a sand volleyball “It also provides business students with practical education scholarship is junior Caitlin Racich, who has chosen to that allows them to apply MBA-level business concepts forego playing indoor in order to focus on sand volleyball. outside the classroom. Now in the program’s ninth year, Matthies anticipates 12 to 14 of the 18 players on her we are thrilled that companies are returning for multiple 2011 indoor roster will end up playing sand volleyball this projects and to see Graziadio School MBA graduates, who spring. completed projects as students, are returning as clients.”
Over the course of one trimester, students provide rigorous analysis, fresh perspective, and actionable recommendations on how to move the company’s business forward. At the end of the trimester, the MBA teams MEEt PEPPERdinE’s present a report, both oral and written, to the company’s nEwEst Faculty executives. The beginning of the new school year brought to “The difference-making insights delivered by the Pepperdine campuses 25 new faculty members starting a Pepperdine E2B teams were clever, actionable, and new phase of their careers at the University’s five schools, powerful,” remarked Robert Bellack, executive vice where they will educate, inspire, and collaborate with president, new ventures, for the Los Angeles Times. students to maximize their full potential. “Clearly the Los Angeles Times and our products benefited as much from the students’ hard work and unique perspectives as the students benefited from exposure to the business case we challenged them with.”
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 10 10/13/11 2:08 PM “Where we are is such a great spot for sand volleyball,” Matthies continues. “We’re one of the few schools that can truly say we’re right at the beach already. Pepperdine and sand volleyball are like two peas in a pod.” The Waves will begin competition by using one of several already-existing sand volleyball spots in Malibu to practice and compete. In the future, the possibility exists that on-campus facilities will be added.
Matthies, who begins her 29th year as head coach of the Waves women’s indoor team in 2011, was recognized as one of the top beach players in the world before she retired in 1992. An inductee into both the Women’s Professional Volleyball Association Hall of Fame and the Manhattan Beach Volleyball Walk of Fame, Matthies won 43 titles and had 93 Nina Matthies podium finishes in 139 career beach appearances.
Volleyball Magazine named Matthies as one of the “Most Influential People in the First 100 Years of Volleyball.” In 2004 she was named to the 75th Anniversary All-Era Team by USA Volleyball.
“My vision is that eventually we’ll have six kids on sand Many of her players have gone on to success on the volleyball scholarships, six kids on indoor scholarships, and professional beach tours as well, most notably Nicole others on indoor scholarships who are hybrids that will play Sanderson (’97), who finished fourth at the 2004 Olympics both,” Matthies explains. for her native Australia; Mary Baily (’84), who recently retired after more than 25 years of competition; Christina Hinds Matthies and the Waves began gearing up for sand (’05), who is attempting to make the Greek sand volleyball volleyball by taking a date out of their spring schedule each team for the 2012 Olympics; and Carrie-Romer Wright (’97). of the last three years to take part in the USA Volleyball Beach Collegiate Challenge. Pepperdine won the team title in both 2009 and 2011. pepperdinesports.com
View an in-depth introduction to the newest additions to Pepperdine’s distinguished roster of faculty: magazine.pepperdine.edu/new-faculty
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n September 21, 1937, George Pepperdine College opened its doors in south Los Angeles, welcoming 167 students and 22 faculty to a brand new school. Today Pepperdine University spans the globe, with more than 370 faculty Oand 7,600 students enrolled in its five schools at 13 campuses. In its 75-year history, Pepperdine has seen successes and failures, miracles and tragedies, all on its remarkable journey of strengthening lives for purpose, service, and leadership.
Following the launch of the anniversary year at Waves Weekend 2011, Pepperdine Magazine takes a look at some of the many memories and milestones from Pepperdine’s historic 75 years
Read more memories, share your own story, and explore the photographic timeline: magazine.pepperdine.edu/75th
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 14 10/13/11 3:28 PM graduated in June 1958, the last of three brothers to earn their BA at the old Vermont campus of Pepperdine. For my last three years at Ischool I worked nights for the Los Angeles Examiner, the start of a 52-year career as a newspaper journalist working for six different papers over that time. But I started my journalism traditions by working on the staff of the Graphic, the Pepperdine weekly newspaper, all four years. By October 4, 1957, I had risen to the position of feature editor. That night editor Phil Pennington 1930s and I were working late on the layout for that . week’s edition. It was a few minutes after 10 p.m. 1937 George Pepperdine College opens in south Los Angeles with when we left the little old office building about in 167 students and 22 faculty. the middle of the campus, just west of the Dolores 1937 . Batsell Baxter becomes founding president of George statue and midway between the business lecture Pepperdine College, and Hugh Tiner the founding dean. building and the bookstore. As we locked the door, a streak of light distracted us. We looked up and 1937 . Pepperdine’s school colors are adopted after students vote to approve President Baxter’s suggestion of blue and orange: blue witnessed the third orbit of the earth by Sputnik 1, representing the Pacific Ocean, and orange representing California. the universe’s first man-launched orbiting satellite.
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1951 . A master’s degree in psychology is offered for the first time, becoming the genesis of what eventually evolved into the Division 1938 . George Pepperdine College graduates its first class of of Psychology in the School of Professional Studies. students, including Carmen Landrum, the school’s first woman . graduate. 1957 M. Norvel Young is named Pepperdine University’s third president. 1939 . Hugh Tiner is elected as the second president of Pepperdine . College. 1958 Associated Women for Pepperdine (AWP), a scholarship support organization, is founded.
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1942 . “The Oasis” student center opens for business.
1943 . The inaugural Pepperdine University Bible Lectures commences.
1947 . Pepperdine wins national small college football championship in the Will Rogers Bowl.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 15 10/13/11 3:29 PM fter spending my freshman year at a college y history with the University and the in Texas , Charles Runnels persuaded me to Law School goes back to 1975. In those attend Pepperdine during its first year on days, we did not have computers at our Athe Malibu campus in the fall of 1972. My plan was desks.M Staff members—collectively there were 10 to spend a year at Pepperdine and then return to of us—had electric typewriters. All of our systems my original college. I met my future wife within two were manual systems: the admissions process, days of arriving in Malibu (we ended up having our student registration and billing, grade posting and
f e a t u r e s first kiss in the cafeteria a few days later), met many reporting, all written correspondence, etc. During wonderful friends, participated in the first Songfest the late ’70s, I served the law school as records (we begged students to come for free), and enjoyed coordinator. Part of my responsibility was to record the adventures that came with many other “firsts.” grades, calculate GPAs and class standing, and The campus was not quite ready for us (e.g., manually type transcripts. At the end of the each ongoing construction and no toilet seats in the girls’ semester, it was also my job to post the grades using dorms), but we were ready for it. We witnessed first- an anonymous exam number—after dean approval, hand the Miracle of Malibu and were blessed by of course. the experience. By the way, I never made it back to At the end of my first semester in this capacity, I Texas . Instead I’m approaching my 30th year on the was walking down a long corridor which separated faculty at Pepperdine. the administrative wing from the classrooms. I was openly (and foolishly) carrying grades for all DENNIS LOWE (’75, ’77) to see. It was a little disconcerting and unnerving M. Norvel and Helen Young Endowed Chair to have about 20 students follow me down this in Family Life and Professor of Psychology corridor. They followed closely, but were careful not Graduate School of Education and Psychology to overtake me. I was relieved when they stopped about two feet behind me and allowed me to post the grades; it was then my task to make it out of the crowd unscathed. It was a close call, but I made 1960s it. After that lesson in judgment, I always posted grades as discreetly as possible. 1963 . The first contingent of students leave Los Angeles for the inaugural CAROL SHADRICk 1978 . Pepperdine wins its first-ever NCAA team title in 1978, Year-in-Europe program in Heidelberg, when the Waves men’s volleyball team defeats local rival UCLA. Germany. Executive Director, Fiscal and Financial Services School of Law . . 1978 The Odell McConnell Law Center, situated on a 30-acre 1969 Pepperdine University acquires promontory overlooking the Pacific on the Malibu campus, is Orange University College of Law. dedicated by United States Supreme Court Justice William H. . Rehnquist. 1969 . Pepperdine University’s graduate 1971 Pepperdine becomes a University. business school is founded. 1971 . Pepperdine’s School of Education is established.
1971 . William S. Banowsky becomes Pepperdine 1980s 1970s University’s fourth president. 1980 . The Graduate School of Education confers its first four 1972 . Pepperdine University opens the Malibu doctorates in graduation ceremonies at Firestone Fieldhouse. 1970 . Ronald F. Phillips becomes the founding dean campus. of the School of Law. 1982 . Beloved Los Angeles campus 1973 . Inaugural Songfest takes place at Pepperdine. symbol Dolores is installed at “One 1970 . Malibu campus plans are revealed by architect Great Day!” event, Pepperdine’s annual William Pereira and Governor Ronald Reagan at the historic “Birth . 1975 The newly endowed Frank R. Seaver College of Letters, Alumni Picnic. of a College” dinner. Arts, and Sciences becomes the flagship undergraduate school of Pepperdine. 1982 . The Graphic earns the Pacemaker Award, the country’s highest . 1978 Howard A. White becomes Pepperdine recognition for a collegiate publication, University’s fifth president. then takes top honors again in 1983.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 16 10/13/11 3:33 PM hen I was at the crossroads of my s a young man, John Drescher had worked decision to attend Pepperdine, Dr. as a mining engineer, and when I heard Wilburn’s unwavering, strong yet that he had been awarded several patents gentleW style reinforced my decision every day. A AI was eager to discuss this with him, since I teach a single event, however, was solidified it all. Mikhail course in Creativity and Innovation at our Graziadio Gorbachev (former U.S.S.R. president) was a guest School. My wife Molly accompanied me, and as we of the School of Public Policy for a small intimate got closer and closer to the address we were given gathering in a conference room. No fanfare or for Mr. Drescher, it looked like we were not headed bright lights, a low-key gathering with public policy for a fancy residence but for old industrial property. students and their mentors and teachers for a short At the address, an older man who looked like a conversation. factory worker came to the curb and waved at us. It We had time for just a few questions and I was was Mr. Drescher! He took us to lunch in a beat-up blessed enough to be called on. I asked how he could diner, with cracked linoleum on the floor. The owner have made such unpopular moves in his political life greeted us with, “Got your tuna sandwich ready, that certainly would have doomed his presidency. John.” He looked over at me and the rest of our gathering, His nearby office was lined with faded Hawaiian and spoke of family and how the importance of grass mats, and his office couch was the back seat our actions today will affect generations to come. of an old automobile. He told us stories about the He went on, but the meaning was as important as days when he rode the rails as a hobo during the the many reasons we were at Pepperdine: to serve Great Depression and was grateful for finding work others, with the benefits to be all encompassing in building the Hoover Dam. So Molly and I have no and not self-serving. It was a true foundation of our memories or associations of luxury or of a mansion class, our program, our professors, our University, from that day; instead, we treasure vivid memories and our leader James Wilburn. of a modest, generous soul we will admire always. We are so humbled and grateful whenever we think ANtHONy SCARDINO (MPP ’99) of John Drescher.
ED ROCkEy Professor of Applied Behavioral Science . 1978 Pepperdine wins its first-ever NCAA team title in 1978, Graziadio School of Business and Management when the Waves men’s volleyball team defeats local rival UCLA.
1978 . The Odell McConnell Law Center, situated on a 30-acre promontory overlooking the Pacific on the Malibu campus, is dedicated by United States Supreme Court Justice William H. 1982 . The School of Education is renamed the Rehnquist. Graduate School of Education and Psychology.
1983 . Pepperdine launches London campus.
1980s 1984 . Pepperdine University selected as the 1984 Olympic water polo site. 1980 . The Graduate School of Education confers its first four doctorates in graduation ceremonies at Firestone Fieldhouse. 1985 . David Davenport inaugurated Pepperdine University’s sixth president. 1982 . Beloved Los Angeles campus symbol Dolores is installed at “One 1985 . Pepperdine’s volleyball team defeats Great Day!” event, Pepperdine’s annual local rival USC to claim its second NCAA Alumni Picnic. title. Waves volleyball defeats USC again in . 1986, taking the NCAA title for the second 1982 The Graphic earns the consecutive year. Pacemaker Award, the country’s highest recognition for a collegiate publication, 1985 . Pepperdine launches Florence then takes top honors again in 1983. international campus.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 17 10/13/11 3:34 PM 1988 . Inaugural Step Forward Day encourages Pepperdine community to come together for a day of service. he psychology clinic at our Irvine campus opened on October 17, 1994. Two weeks later my wife and I were vacationing up on 1990s Tthe central coast of California with some friends. Someone turned on the news and there was our . 1992 The Pepperdine baseball and men’s volleyball teams become campus—on fire, the whole building in flames. NCAA Champions. The entire north end of the three story building
f e a t u r e1992 s . Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art is established on the was destroyed. We lost classrooms and offices, and Malibu campus. though the clinic didn’t actually catch fire, thick, oily, greasy soot and smoke came through the 1996 . George L. Graziadio endows ventilation system and covered everything inside. the Pepperdine business school, which is renamed in his honor. We had to throw everything out and start from scratch. . 1996 School of Public Policy School was in session, so the campus rolled a founded at Pepperdine. few vehicles up to the front for the administrative 1997 . The men’s golf and men’s offices and rented out hotel rooms in the local area water polo teams become NCAA for classrooms. The clinic stumbled along in new Champions. quarters (we met even in my private practice office), while our space was stripped of carpeting and cleaned with Q-tips. Everything was soaked from 2000s the fire hose and giant fans were installed to dry it. Clean up and restoration happened at the same . 2000 Andrew K. Benton named seventh time. president of Pepperdine University. Everything was eventually cleaned up, repainted, 2000 . The Davenport Institute named in and we held a Christmas party that year in the honor of David Davenport, the University’s clinic itself. By February it was complete. The sixth president. whole process was unforgettable and gave us an opportunity to take an outdated setting in an old 2000 . Geoffrey H. Palmer Center for campus and reconfigure it. I still keep a great big Entrepreneurship and the Law launches at the School of Law. piece of melted aluminum here in my office.
2002 . W. David Baird Distinguished DUNCAN WIGG Lecture Series commences with inaugural lecture given by U.S. Clinical Faculty, Clinic Director–Irvine, senator Barbara Boxer. and MFT Program Director Graduate School of Education and Psychology 2005 . Inaugural Frank Pack Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecture program begins as a continuation of the Thomas F. Staley Lecture series.
2006 . The men’s tennis team becomes the NCAA Champion.
2007 . International Programs opens Lausanne campus, followed by Shanghai in 2008.
2008 . School of Law attains membership in the prestigious Order of the Coif.
2010 . Pepperdine hosts inaugural Waves Weekend.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 19 10/13/11 2:34 PM The year was 1996. It was pre-9/11, post-Berlin Wall, and all was relatively calm on the Western front. James R. Wilburn
had been dean of the School of Wilburn working f e a t u r eBusiness s and Management at with President Pepperdine for 12 years and was William Banowsky in the early ’70s itching to devote more time to teaching and to finish writing a book he’d been working on. There had been times before, in his 25 years at the University, that he’d almost left to pursue his varied Wilburn. “When I returned, I said I’d at Abilene Christian University do it—for one or two years m a x .” before joining the Pepperdine scholarly interests, but he had This year marks a double celebration administration in 1971, a year before always chosen to stay because of his as Wilburn commemorates a landmark the Malibu campus officially opened. deep-seated belief in Pepperdine’s 40 years at Pepperdine University He soon saw the divisions inherent and the School of Public Policy in maintaining two campuses; in its mission. But this time was different. enjoys its 15th anniversary, with early days in Malibu, Pepperdine Wilburn at the helm throughout. This time, Wilburn really meant also kept open the original campus Davenport’s insistence that Wilburn it: he was ready to retire from in south Los Angeles, creating two lead Pepperdine’s infant school came separate undergraduate programs. administration. from knowing one important fact about As University provost, Wilburn him that others across Pepperdine have long admired—that he truly and was integral in transitioning the honestly believes in, supports, and will University entirely to Malibu, a move that was met with some skepticism At that same time, David Davenport, fight for the University’s mission as a then president of Pepperdine, was Christian institution that strengthens from the community at the time. getting ready to launch the University’s students for lives of purpose, service, “There were people who were fourth graduate school, the School of and leadership. disappointed, who felt that Pepperdine Public Policy (SPP). There was just “Jim lives out the value and mission was abandoning the inner city. But I felt one problem: the foundling school was of Pepperdine, and always promoted it that with limited resources, Pepperdine minus one dean. Davenport considered and attracted people to i t ,” comments really couldn’t afford to have two Wilburn a fearless leader who inspired Patti Yomantas, who was hired by complete liberal arts undergraduate hard work and admiration from Wilburn in 1979 when he was the vice programs,” he asserts. students, faculty, and staff, and, as such, president of University Affairs; she Despite the turmoil, Wilburn is now the director of advancement was the only person for the job, but cites this time as one of the most Wilburn turned him down three times communications. She cites him as one exhilarating eras at Pepperdine for when offered the inaugural position. of the strongest forces tying her to him. “Every era has its own excitement After the third refusal, Wilburn Pepperdine more than 30 years later. but when president Bill Banowsky was sat on a task force to help design the “When you work with Jim, you catch program before Davenport asked him, the vision that he’s got.” doing all of the work he outlines in one last time, to run the school for just His vision for an environment the Malibu Miracle it was definitely one year to get it off the ground. “I had that nurtures Christian values and exciting—though I don’t know that I’d always wanted to go to the Amazon community grew from his early roots want to live through it again. If you’re River and had planned this trip to go all in the faith. He earned bachelor’s and not sure you can meet the payroll, each by myself for a couple of w e e k s ,” recalls master’s degrees in biblical studies week you lose a little sleep.”
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 20 10/13/11 2:35 PM Wilburn points out the location of the future Drescher Graduate Campus, 1982 I got on a horse and rode around this spot, picking the right place. The Los Angeles Times did an article on me as the new dean, they took me up on this hill and had me point out over where the [Drescher Graduate] campus is now. Then I spent the next 10 years raising money.
the founding of the donor membership Management,” he remembers. program Pepperdine Associates in Already known for making 1977 at a time when unrestricted giving impactful leadership decisions, Wilburn By 1980 Pepperdine’s community was wholly reunited at the Malibu accounted for a massive 10 percent of wasted no time making known his campus and Wilburn was the vice the University’s budget. “The thing that commitment to the business school. president for University Affairs when was the most rewarding of that period On the day of his inauguration in he faced another big test of leadership: was getting to know our donors with 1982, he announced that the land arsonists attacked the school and set such close, intimate friendships,” he above the Seaver and School of Law the advancement offices alight. reflects. campuses would be used to build a new “We got a call early in the morning By the early 1980s the scholar was professional campus for the business from Jim to come in immediately,” beginning to feel the pull back towards school. remembers Claudia Arnold, who was academics and sought a change of “I got on a horse and rode around hired by Wilburn in 1976 and is now career trajectory. He decided to earn this spot, picking the right place,” campaign director and vice chancellor his MBA from the Pepperdine business he says from his office at SPP on the for donor relations and strategic school while still serving as the vice Drescher Graduate Campus. “The Los initiatives. “The next year-and-a- president of University Affairs, and Angeles Times did an article on me as half we were tucked into little spaces had quietly set his mind to work for the new dean, they took me up on this available around campus and it took us a venture capital firm with former hill and had me point out over where a year to rebuild. But the way he kept astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Instead he was the campus is now. Then I spent the everyone together and kept morale called to another role at the University next 10 years raising money—it was up—there isn’t anyone more inspiring when he was invited to be the dean kind of a gutsy thing, if I think back on than Jim when he starts waxing lyric of the now Graziadio School—an it, to just announce this plan without about community and the Pepperdine opportunity and challenge he couldn’t even calling a committee or anything, mission.” turn down. but after you get $8 or $10 million At that time, Wilburn’s main “The same graduation ceremony dollars raised for something it’s hard to concentration of community outreach where I got my MBA, I walked back up say no.” was fundraising and building on the stage and was announced as the His plans took 15 years from relationships with donors. He oversaw new dean of the School of Business and announcement to reach fruition,
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 21 10/13/11 2:35 PM facing opposition from Malibu, Los was falsely accused by the KGB of being Program; taking on a second Angeles County, and the California spies for the CIA. “President Davenport deanship—and for a brand new school, Coastal Commission, but the Drescher called me one day and said, ‘Hey Jim, no less—meant that teaching would Graduate Campus opened with we’re opening our mail over here and have to take a back seat once again. aplomb in 2003 and now houses the we have a $25 check from one of our Fifteen years after accepting the Graziadio School, SPP, the Graduate alums that had a letter with it addressed position as dean of SPP, Wilburn admits School of Education and Psychology, to the Pepperdine Spy Program in that he still misses teaching. f e a t u r eand s residences for faculty, staff, and Russia,” laughs Wilburn. “I just don’t have time to teach in students. Wilburn was also dean at President Ronald Reagan also a classroom right now, but I always the time when the Graziadio School appointed Wilburn to head the board of take each new group of students out of was the third largest business school the Citizens for the Republic Education town for three days at the beginning of in the nation, so it’s little wonder that Foundation in late 1978, and he worked every year and get to know them,” he extensively with Baron Rothschild and former president Davenport thought says, adding that ”the students are the Women judges share their reflections from the bench. of him first and foremost as the biggest inspiration to me because they best candidate to lead Pepperdine’s never cease to amaze and inspire me school for public policy graduate by their own energies and their own studies. eagerness to make a difference.” Recent graduate and filmmaker Eli Steele (MPP ’11) reciprocates, noting how Wilburn has shaped both Meanwhile, Wilburn’s news- a challenging educational experience making public policy work with and an open, trusting environment. a post-Soviet Russia may also “My memories of the dean are simple: have played a part in Davenport’s him eating lunch at the cafeteria,” decision. From 1991 to 1996 Steele adds. “I think that sums up Wilburn served as cochair of the who he is in many ways: accessible, U.S. Committee to Assist Russian willing to talk to any student who sits Reform, a program funded by at his table. By doing that, he is both the U.S. Department of State and available and has his ear to the ground authorized by Boris Yeltsin. so he knows what is going on, which “I was invited by the prime allows him to make sure the school is minister of Russia to put together heading in the right direction.” a committee of business leaders Dean Wilburn and his wife Gail with the 9/11 to serve as advisors to Russia on commemorative flag display in Alumni Park. privatizing and trying to move from a communized economy to a free-market economy,” he recalls. After 40 whirlwind years at “They asked me to look at three areas: the European Parliament Industrial Pepperdine, Wilburn remains housing for the soldiers coming back Council during the late 1980s. unstoppable in his commitment to the from the end of the Cold War with After an action-packed 25 years at University, and he does it all for love nowhere to live, food distribution, Pepperdine and in international and of the mission of service to students. and tourism. My last few meetings domestic affairs, by 1996 Wilburn “If I’m going to invest my life, my time, there were actually inside the Kremlin was ready to stand back and focus my energies, my talents, I can’t think in Boris Yeltsin’s office, so that was on teaching and writing. Throughout of any other way to better leverage that obviously an exciting time to be there.” his tenure at the business school investment than by having an influence His work made headlines across the he had taught business strategy in in the world through the lives of world, to the point that his committee the Presidential and Key Executive talented students.”
Read more from Wilburn, his colleagues, and his students, and share comments of your own: magazine.pepperdine.edu/wilburn
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Women judges share their reflections from the bench.
“I spent 25 years on the UnIted states CoUrt of appeals, and in the process I met women whose journeys have been very similar to my own, and they are journeys and stories that have very little been told. We were soldiering through all those years and unlike some other groups, our stories haven’t hit the light of day. What happened to us in the early days of our careers and where we are now in our careers is the story I’ve asked three of my closest friends on the judiciary to tell. You have made me feel very welcome, welcome enough that it’s time to hear these stories.”
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 23 10/13/11 3:37 PM With those remarks School of Law dean Deanell Reece Tacha opened “Hearing Her Story: Reflections of Women Judges” to an eager audience in the law school’s Caruso Auditorium. Tacha, former circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, shared the stage with her distinguished panel of guests: the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King, circuit
f e a t u r e s judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson, circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and the Honorable Rosemary Barkett, circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The September 23 event officially welcomed Dean Tacha, who took office June 1, and served as a stop along her national tour (law. pepperdine.edu/tachatour). Before the discussion began, Dean Tacha sat down with her fellow judges for an exclusive interview with Pepperdine Magazine, conducted by Shelley Saxer, professor of law and director of Pepperdine’s Byrne Judicial Shelley Saxer (right) with the Honorable Rosemary Barkett Clerkship Institute.
Saxer: Judge King, what do you think has been the biggest impact for you in your professional career, going through several years? The Honorable Carolyn Dineen King
The Honorable Carolyn Dineen King: I’ve seen myself as a beneficiary of the Civil Rights Act. I began practicing law in 1962 and the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964. I don’t believe that I would be here today—and I would certainly not have the accomplishments that I have had—if it hadn’t been for the Civil Rights Act. The first job interview I had was with the United States attorney in Houston. I came with a letter from the assistant attorney general who I had worked for the preceding summers I’ve hired me a Black and I‘ve hired He had hired the first black assistant saying, “This woman is fine; you should me a Mexican, but I ain’t up to hiring United States attorney and the first hire her.” He took me to a stand-up me a woman y e t .” By the way if you are Mexican one in the country, but such coffee spot instead of his office, and wondering if he used racial epithets, the was the prospect of hiring a woman when we got back to the reception area answer is he did. in 1962 as a lawyer that he wouldn’t he put his Stetson up on the hat tree The amazing thing about the man even think of it. The second interview I and said, “Don’t get me wrong ma’am. is that he was a bleeding heart liberal. had was at Fulbright and Jaworski with
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Saxer: Judge Nelson, you bring a unique experience here having been a woman dean and then a woman judge on the Ninth Circuit. How have you managed your professional and your personal life in both of those The Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson (center) tells her story at the Dean Tacha welcome event. capacities?
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Dean Tacha shares a humorous anecdote with the Honorable Rosemary Barkett.
the wooden floor and you could hear religious order everyone is extremely this thunderous kind of noise as you deferential and people treat you with entered. The same thing happened in respect, at least they did in those days. class. If a woman was called upon or You develop this sort of attitude that Saxer: Judge Barkett, let me ask you a woman volunteered an answer, she expects people to be kind and nice about your experience in law school would be shuffled in class. I certainly to you, and once you generate that and how you found that experience to was aware of it, but I’m not sure if it attitude, it sometimes happens—not all be as a woman. had the desired effect on me. the time, but that was my experience in The Honorable Rosemary Barkett: I went to law school a little bit law school. The law school at the University of later in life. When I graduated from Now they no longer shuffle and it Florida was, of course, primarily male. high school I entered a religious order is such an ancient custom that when I This was 1968 and they made it very because I thought I had a calling to went back to the University of Florida clear that they were going to embarrass do that and I was there for about to talk to the law review and made the women students there. They had eight years. After I left I taught school mention of shuffling, I got blank looks a custom called shuffling, where if a for a year and then decided to go to from everyone. When I explained it woman entered the library, the men, law school, so I was about 27 or 28 they were properly horrified about the the boys, would shuffle their feet on years old. I think when you are in a practice.
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124973_Pep Mag Text_R1.indd 26 10/19/11 11:49 PM religious order everyone is extremely deferential and people treat you with respect, at least they did in those days. You develop this sort of attitude that expects people to be kind and nice As students pile more on to to you, and once you generate that attitude, it sometimes happens—not all their plates, how do they the time, but that was my experience in deal with the pressure? law school. Now they no longer shuffle and it is such an ancient custom that when I went back to the University of Florida to talk to the law review and made By Sarah Fisher mention of shuffling, I got blank looks from everyone. When I explained it they were properly horrified about the practice.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 27 10/13/11 2:41 PM Francis, a junior at of workload experienced by Francis students’ pressure to achieve is self- Pepperdine, keeps a is not uncommon for students at driven, or for undergraduates, comes Pepperdine’s five schools, and students as an extension of their high school daunting schedule. When nationwide, who pile high their identities. features he’s not studying for his major in extracurricular activities to stay busy and pad their resumes. “Many of them were top of the class organizational communication as high school students and now they and a minor in industrial “This can lead to an inability to are with others who were top of their concentrate, sleep disturbance, classes, so they are trying to make sure organizational psychology, he is feeling overwhelmed—like they just they stay there—and part of it is good copresident of the Black Student can’t handle it anymore, like they and legitimate since they are trying to Association, treasurer of the are trying to carry too many bricks, just work hard. But stress is almost a and it’s just . . . too heavy,” says badge of accomplishment, along with microfinance club, a student Horton, who oversees a team of the related symptoms or sacrifices. worker in the admissions office, professional counselors providing a I’ll hear one say, ‘I’m not sleeping at free, confidential service to students and a participant in convocation all,’ to which another will reply, ‘I’m who need someone to talk to. “When sleeping four hours a day, that’s just organization and mentoring you ask them what they could do the way it has to be,’ and another will programs. He rarely has time to differently, at first they are locked into come back with, ‘Oh four hours, I don’t thinking that this is just the way it has even get that!’” rest, let alone stop and reflect to be: ‘I have to be a double major, I on whether or not he might be have to graduate by . . .’ To which I Horton notes that the drive to maximize extracurricular and pre- overdoing it. like to ask, ‘How’s that working out for you?’” professional experience while “I don’t consider these to be huge maintaining a top GPA at the The statistics from a review of projects, but once you make a list of all same time—though laudable in a Pepperdine students conducted by the of them . . .” he says, trailing off as he competitive market—can have the National College Health Assessment contemplates his workload. “I don’t like opposite of the desired effect when (NCHA) II last spring show that it’s disappointing people, and they don’t applying for the next stage of the not working very well at all—34.2 like to be disappointed. I set the bar so educational or career ladder. “I’ve been high and don’t want to perform below percent of students actually identified on the admissions committees of a it. I think sometimes I just set unrealistic stress as a factor affecting their graduate school and frankly sometimes expectations for myself that become a individual academic performance, and a 4.0 scares me a little bit. I wonder stress factor.” a breakdown of more specific stress what they’re not willing to try. I tell factors yielded higher percentages. For them once in graduate school to hurry Stress on college campuses has become example, 87 percent reported feeling up and get their first B so that they can an increasingly discussed problem in overwhelmed by all they had to do, get on with training and learning.” recent years, says Connie Horton (’82), 86 percent felt exhausted specifically director of the Pepperdine Student not because of physical activity, and One of the repercussions of stress “one- Counseling Center, especially as 53 percent felt overwhelming anxiety. upmanship” is that students can be left students try to squeeze in more and Horton adds that in a highly selective with the sense that being stressed to more commitments to a day. The type school like Pepperdine, a lot of the breaking point is normal and that
Stress by definition really has to do with being stretched or challenged. Some people use the metaphor of metal and a bridge: when it’s stretched to a certain point it is at its strongest, but you don’t want to stress it too much so that it breaks.
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Stress by definition really has to do with being stretched or challenged. Some people use the metaphor of metal and a bridge: when it’s stretched to a certain point it is at its strongest, but you don’t want to stress it too much so that it breaks.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 29 10/13/11 2:48 PM my room to not be around panic. And clients, as they face stressors similar to the next morning, i purposefully went undergraduates as well as additional in at the last minute to get registered, concerns like more advanced careers but sure enough in the hallway the and family responsibilities. other psychologists were asking each Connie Horton’s other specific details. i knew not to put “they are increasingly focused on Tips for myself in that stressful situation.” the world outside the classroom,”
f e a t u r e s observes nivla Fitzpatrick, assistant sTress A strong sense of community is director of the Counseling Center. “A managemenT also one of the best medicines graduate student may have more of for stress, she adds. on top of an eye towards how their symptoms the director of the all his commitments, Francis is of anxiety will affect their job, family, an international student from and potential for success. But they’re student Counseling Uganda, coping with his workload also usually more motivated to attain Center offers advice for while separated from his family by a sense of relief from their concern. two continents, an ocean, and a on the whole, they tend to be more students on the brink. hemisphere. He struggles with the eager and persistent about accessing distance, saying it adds additional resources that will work for them.” Physical coping is one of the most stress but, like most students, he important things: getting enough relies on his community of friends as Despite all the negative language sleep, eating healthfully, and of a surrogate family. Joan agrees that surrounding stress, Horton emphasizes A course exercise is a huge stress she and her friends keep each other that it’s not always a bad thing, per se, relief. Aerobic exercise multiple strong, saying she always tries “to find and that in small doses stress can be times a week can be very helpful. time for the people who mean the utilized for positive, affirming results. most” to her. “stress by definition really has to do social support has shown with being stretched or challenged. Horton states that friends are usually repeatedly to help people remain some people use the metaphor the first ones to notice if a fellow resilient under stress. if you are so of metal and a bridge: when it’s student is struggling, and that friend busy that you don’t have time to stretched to a certain point it is at its referrals account for the largest B get coffee with a friend for a half strongest, but you don’t want to stress hour, something is wrong. Attend number of students who visit the counseling center for support. “it’s it too much so that it breaks,” she to your social relationships. okay to say to a friend, ‘You’ve tried explains, adding, “it’s good to push yourself.” Cultivate gratitude. increasingly, managing this on your own, but why don’t you talk to someone, you’re studies in the field of Positive if the balance between good stress miserable!’ that’s what we’re here for; Psychology show that simple and bad stress becomes too heavily that’s why we made it free.” practices, such as keeping a daily weighted on the “bad” side, Horton C gratitude journal, can make a open to all undergraduate and advises students—and all those who nAviGAtinG tHe PAtH to significant difference in emotional graduate students, the Counseling need the advice—to deal with it as FinAnCiAl inDePenDenCe CAn wellbeing. Center offers individual and small early as possible, perhaps setting up a group counseling, consultations regular walk with a friend or a visit to a Be An intimiDAtinG exPerienCe At Pepperdine, we recognize a for friend referrals, and medication therapist. “if you’re dealing with stress at any age. Alongside young people entering the spiritual dimension. Frame your counseling; it also hosts outreach and and you can’t sleep, or when you’re thinking to remember that you are prevention programs on campus on so stressed that you can’t think and world of mortgages and mutual funds are older loved no matter what, that God is a range of topics, stress included. in are crabby and agitated . . . just don’t D generations who have been feeling the effects with you, that there is grace, and the 2010–11 year, graduate students wait until it gets to that point. talk to that none of us has to be perfect. comprised 23 percent of the center’s somebody. let’s get this sorted out.” of a wavering economy for years. the situation is even worse when these individuals aren’t
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 30 10/13/11 2:49 PM Negotiating the Future
Graziadio School of Business and Management professor Joetta Forsyth offers personal finance tools for planners of all ages.
By Gareen Darakjian
NaviGatiNG the path to concerned by the state of the U.S. financial crisis and her college-bound son’s financial inexperience, Joetta Forsyth, FiNaNcial iNdepeNdeNce caN assistant professor of finance at the Graziadio School of Business and Management, penned a rigorous personal Be aN iNtiMidatiNG experieNce finance book for high-achieving youth. also meant to be at any age. alongside young people entering the a useful resource for readers of all ages, Financial Wisdom Volume 1: Personal Finance and Career Skills to Guide Teens world of mortgages and mutual funds are older and Young Adults on Their Journey to Success and Happiness generations who have been feeling the effects suggests that being in control of personal finances at an of a wavering economy for years. the situation early age helps ensure a better life later on. is even worse when these individuals aren’t here Forsyth shares her insight, revealing the reality behind sometimes-unwise financial decisions and offering tools to equipped with the knowledge necessary to make help both young adults and their older, more experienced sound fiscal decisions. counterparts achieve financial success.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 31 10/13/11 2:49 PM “I’m too young to “It’s time to buy funds) are another way to diversify— save for retirement.” my first car.” they have their own unique issues and risks. Forsyth recommends Car salesmen love first- Quick tip: Brokers make money when starting as early as your first time buyers—and not for their clients trade and will encourage paid job. “You can leave altruistic reasons. One them to do so. Forsyth advises to not yourself destitute when you’re old,” thing you can do to protect yourself, let them pressure you into trading she explains, noting that many young according to Forsyth, is to get a car features frequently and suggests a “buy and people don’t save simply because they loan from a credit union. “Dealers hold” strategy for inexperienced don’t want to think about getting offer some of the worst interest rates investors. Broker fees and taxes older. out there,” she explains, “while credit on winning trades may add up for unions tend to offer very low rates.” frequent traders. “You have to make a Quick tip: “You should always Forsyth also advises that potential lot of money just to break even,” she contribute at least 10 percent of your buyers shop for the best rates and get explains. income to retirement, and preferably preapproved before even starting to more,” she asserts. “Consider it to be look for a car. Another piece of advice: owned by someone else—your elderly let someone else do the negotiating for self, who is depending on you to not you. “Roadside assistance companies “I have to pay leave them penniless.” and even retailers negotiate low rates off my student and prearranged prices on cars for their loans as soon members.” as possible to eliminate debt.” “I am ready to Quick tip: Like houses, cars come with buy a home other unexpected costs. Operation, Forsyth insists that you should not pay and have saved maintenance, and gas “can be very off your student loans if you are paying enough money expensive in the first year,” she says. higher rates elsewhere. “First, calculate for a down And don’t forget insurance. what your after-tax interest rate is on payment.” your loans,” she advises, suggesting “Be careful,” insists Forsyth, who that higher rate loans should be paid explains that new homebuyers are “My savings is off first. “It may be better to not pay off especially vulnerable because they burning a hole all of your student loans.” New college do not have enough of a savings in my bank graduates pay higher rates when they cushion. The emotion of buying a account. I’m borrow due to poor credit ratings. house for the first time also leaves new ready to invest.” “Showing that you are steadily paying homebuyers susceptible to overpaying off student loans can help you build a Taking care to assess both the gains and overlooking hidden costs. These better credit score,” she maintains. and losses is vital to investing. include property taxes, maintenance, Quick tip: If you think you can earn Forsyth warns new investors about insurance, and homeowner association more on an investment (after-tax) than investment fees and the impact they fees, which can “easily wipe out the your after-tax student loan rate, then can have on how much you earn. advantage of the mortgage interest keep the loans and put your money in Taxes are also detrimental to capital rate tax deduction and more,” she says. the investment. gains. “If you are in a lower tax Quick tip: “Compare the cost of bracket, you are in a better position renting for a year with the price of to invest in higher tax investments a comparable home,” says Forsyth. that offer a higher return,” and vice “Preferably, annual rent on a versa, advises Forsyth. Another way to comparable house should be at least 9 avoid risk is to diversify, or distribute percent of the home price or more.” your money in different kinds of investments. “While investments tend to do poorly or well at the same time, they will also go their own way,” says Forsyth, who suggests investing in mutual funds. ETFs (exchange traded
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 32 10/13/11 2:53 PM “It is more paying jobs and a more exciting difficult to get career,” Forsyth explains. “Just ahead than it manage your money wisely so that used to be.” you can take the best advantage of graduate school.” “A long time ago, children learned about personal finance on their family farm or business,” “We’ve been she explains. However, when parents married for a few started working at corporations, years and are schools did not fill in the gap. Time ready to expand and again, people leave home and our family. make serious financial mistakes. It The financial is important to invest wisely in an details will work education. With the tough economy, themselves out.” jobs are more difficult to come by in general. However, unemployment is The key to making a smooth transition much lower among college-educated to parenthood is to practice simple workers, and investing in an education living before having children. Forsyth that provides a foundation for a advises to “rent the smallest apartment successful career is all the more vital. possible, avoid eating out, and go to Quick tip: Forsyth warns not to free concerts,” prior to adding to your Forsyth has been an assistant choose a career based merely on brood. professor of finance at the Graziadio whether or not studying that field in Quick tip: Start saving wisely for their School since 2002. Her research college is fun. Talk to professionals in education once or before your child is interests include: how bank employee the desired area to find out all of the born. plusses and minuses of that career, compensation is related to risky mortgage such as retirement options, long work lending practices; how stock misvaluation hours, long hours of travel, and so on. “My financial and corporate governance influence the troubles only awarding of options to CEOs; and the hurt me and my “I can avoid the bank account.” relationship between corporate governance ‘real world’ for a and firm value. She has also developed few more years by Rather, “it has become a model that explains how the advent of going to graduate a social issue,” Forsyth argues. She school.” explains that many people point to world trade contributed to the corporate financial distress as the number one restructuring wave of the 1980s. Graduate school is a big investment cause of divorce and an important and should be investigated carefully, cause of suicide. “It’s hard for people to Forsyth earned her PhD from a joint Forsyth insists, but it is possible to describe the fear of losing everything program with the Harvard Business fund a graduate education without and having to explain it to their racking up excessive debt. “You do families.” School and Economics Department, with not want to be burdened with heavy Quick tip: Educate yourself. With an emphasis in finance and industrial student loans upon graduation,” she the rise of debt-talk in the political organization. She received both her says, advising graduates to resist the discourse, people with financial training temptation to emulate luxury-seeking bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the become better citizens. “They will peers in the years they work before understand what people are talking University of Chicago and has held graduate school. about and be much wiser voters as a professorial posts both at the University Quick tip: Be smart about your result.” of Michigan Business School and USC’s decision. “Graduate school is an important stepping stone to higher Marshall School of Business.
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Clark encourages all alumni to connect with their alma mater and with their fellow alumni. There are many ways to get involved: Graziadio School alumnuS (alc) and served on the alc BoB clark (mBa ’79) has taken the executive board for four years. he is X Career mentoring and reins of the Pepperdine university the proud parent of three Pepperdine workshops alumni affairs as the newly graduates: daughter marshawn appointed executive director. The (mBa ’97) and sons Jonathan (’08) X Waves of Service alumni association is over 90,000 and Benjamin (’10). Bob and his alumni strong and includes 30 wife amy were instrumental in the X Waves Hiring Waves regional alumni chapters in the u.S. creation and development of the and abroad. These groups host 250 colorado “mile high” Waves chapter. X Regional socials and Night- alumni events annually, welcoming They have served on the Seaver to-Network events alumni from all schools, parents, Parents council and Bob has worked X Lifelong learning seminars family, and friends of the university. closely with the alumni affairs office and iTunes University “Bob clark has served Pepperdine over the past seven years. (itunesu.pepperdine.edu) for seven years and knows clark and his staff, in collaboration Pepperdine very well,” says lou X School and University with each of the five alumni affairs drobnick, executive vice chancellor lecture series offices and the office of athletics, of advancement. “he has a fabulous share mr. Pepperdine’s challenge X Annual giving to support appreciation for the university’s to build a vibrant community student scholarships christian heritage, our mission, of alumni and leaders who “will and the diversity and interests of work diligently to carry out the X New campus building our undergraduate and graduate ideals set before them while in our projects alumni.” college and multiply my life’s work X And many more! clark was the founding president a thousand fold, or more as the of the alumni leadership council number of alumni increases.”
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 34 10/13/11 2:53 PM Introducing BoB Clark (mBa ’79) Executive Director of the Pepperdine University Alumni Affairs Reignite YouR PePPeRdine exPeRience WAves of seRvice volunteeR MAtch through PAn online launching this fall! Whether you graduated recently or many years ago, PAN Online—the Pepperdine X Serve with Waves Alumni Network—is the place to reconnect. X Find ways to volunteer Looking for attendees for your 75th Anniversary Celebration Party? PAN Online X Track your service hours can help. X Search for group events If you don’t have a PAN Online account, join today and discover how to stay connected to X post volunteer opportunities Pepperdine. X discover family-friendly options X Search the alumni directory for classmates, mentors, and alumni in X and much more! your industry or profession WaveSoFServiCe. X post and search for resumes or find volunTeermaTCh.org Waves to hire
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Modern classrooms, however, Alumnus show a different scene and a clearer divide between the Thomas Bangert natural environment and classroom setting. So Bangert works to create has taken the “nature first” sustainable concept of kindergarten (German for “children’s garden”) and changes in developed a modern K-5 curriculum based on what students students’ diets. Two cenTuries ago used to learn from the beginning. in The earliesT days “A lot of people around this By Gareen Darakjian of kindergarTen planet still do farm and rely on fresh produce,” says Bangert, classrooms, children who became a master gardener learned the basics of nature in 2007. “I thought of how I could reintroduce this concept to before being introduced kids of kindergarten age and see to the rigor of the ABCs what would happen over a few years.” Carrying this idea with him and 123s. The approach throughout his 13-year teaching was meant to integrate career, Bangert applied it to his GSEP leadership project called the their language and math LA Human Garden, an elementary curriculum resource encouraging lessons with what they the study of food systems focused already knew about their on sustaining the environment, growing, and cooking. environment. “It was a good introduction to get Today Bangert implements the foundational concept of growing, kids to transition from preparing, and sharing food as a mantra in his classroom at being at home with their Westside Global Awareness K-8 family to the school site,” Magnet School, where he teaches his students to sustain their crops explains Graduate School of and prepare and share recipes Education and Psychology made with ingredients grown in their classroom garden. alumnus and elementary school teacher Thomas “I want ‘Grow, Prepare, Share’ to be part of the culture of our planet Bangert (’97, MS ’09). so that when we teach children,
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 36 10/13/11 2:54 PM I want ‘Grow, Prepare, Share’ to be part of the culture of our planet so that when we teach children, we teach them to grow their own food. If we do that, we increase quality of life.
we teach them to grow their own In an effort to make a difference in While he continues to write the food,” he explains. “If we do that, we district-wide school meal programs, curriculum necessary to build a new increase quality of life.” Bangert recently joined celebrity literacy for growing, preparing, and chef Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, sharing food in schools in his district, Students also visit nearby farmers’ a grassroots campaign to educate Bangert will soon take his crusade out markets to sample local crops and communities about the unhealthy of the classroom and into children’s become more aware of the fresher food options present in American homes. He is currently working with options that exist around them. “Many schools. “When I look at our food an animation studio to develop a series students rely a lot on quick, fast food— system for these kids, none of the to teach kids about earth, physical, and life science through animated only what they get at school—but I adults eat the food,” says Bangert, characters he has envisioned. “A want them to understand we have a who is now a social justice advocate for lot of parents and teachers, even schoolchildren. “Unfortunately, that’s responsibility and the ability to grow administrators, feel like they are all that’s left for them and that’s what our own food, share flavors, and trade faced with this reality that they can’t Jamie Oliver saw.” fruits and vegetables.” really change, and that’s not true,” Bangert’s role involves brainstorming contends Bangert, whose tireless Not all children, though, are fortunate with Oliver and a cohort of 15 teachers pursuits continue to shed light on the enough to have that ability. Through to change the system on behalf of the possibilities available to change food his research, Bangert learned that children. One of their first steps has systems for children. out of 650,000 total students in the been putting cafeterias back to work Los Angeles Unified School District “You have to be an agent of change,” and teaching children about food he asserts. “When you can effect (LAUSD), 80,000 children in smaller, procurement and preparation—what change on a local level by changing underfunded schools were being Bangert calls basic life skills. “The whole the status quo, that wakes people up to served mostly chemicalized and idea is that we have to teach it hands- their reality and revitalizes their passion commodified foods. “The idea that on,” he explains. “When you show a to change what they’ve accepted for these foods are passed off on our child how to cook, when you physically a long time. Now people see there are children is a crime of sorts; a true social demonstrate it, then they can see it better choices out there for food. That’s justice issue,” he laments. and actualize it.” now the new shift.”
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The Great and the Just Celebrate Years at Pepperdine Great Books Colloquium
c o m m u n i t y By Sarah Fisher
StudentS The Great Books program was and discuss the works that have been founded at Pepperdine in 1986 most formative for civilization.” of the by Michael D. Gose, professor of The October anniversary celebration Great BookS humanities, and Victoria Myers, the honored the special occasion with a Blanche E. Seaver Chair of English great variety of events, particularly Colloquium Literature, as an integrated series of the formal opening of the Great Books at Pepperdine four courses in which students read and Room in Payson Library, Malibu. enjoy a vast discuss some of the most influential, “Virtually all the Great Books faculty thought-provoking, and enjoyable were there,” Ditmore notes. The room is scope of books ever written. dedicated to the Great Books pedagogy, literature, from including the collection taught on “Whatever their majors, ‘my’ Pepperdine’s syllabus, and features a the philosophies grand marble table designed by Ilan Dei alumni write me that the of the ancient of Venice, California. colloquium was instrumental Other events to celebrate the Greeks to the to the development of serious anniversary included a lecture by natural world academic intent, reading and Earl Shorris, founder and chair of the advisory board of the Clemente Course Michael D. Gose explored by thinking critically, and becoming in the Humanities. The lecture, titled Darwin, learning better students in whichever major “The Moral Life of Downtown: Bringing they chose.” —Michael Gose the Humanities to the P o o r,” was about the human experience as presented as part of the W. David Baird seen through the eyes of some of Readings encompass literature, Distinguished Lecture Series at Seaver the best writers of the ages. This philosophy, politics, psychology, College. American comedy troupe the science, and religion, with authors Reduced Shakespeare Company also fall at Waves Weekend the program ranging from Plato to Nietzsche, from performed “All the Great B o o k s ,” a reached its own landmark age and Homer to Dostoyevsky, from Augustine riotous compact compendium of great to Freud. Throughout its 25 years, the literature from Confucius to Tennyson. celebrated 25 years of engaging small classes and lively discussions have Additionally, Gose hosted an alumni students in the study of the most solidified the colloquium as a cherished symposium titled, “How Have the part of the undergraduate experience. Great Books Shown Their Significance seminal works of literature. “I think it’s one of the very best in Your Life After Graduation?” and “It’s hard for me to believe that it’s things Seaver College has to offer its Don Marshall, recently retired Fletcher been 25 years,” muses the program’s undergraduates,” says Paul Contino, Jones Chair of Great Books, oversaw interim director Michael G. Ditmore, the Blanche E. Seaver Professor in discussion groups based around who is also director of American Humanities. “It’s very important that readings of Tocqueville’s Democracy in studies and professor of English. students read, think about, write about, America.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 38 10/13/11 2:55 PM The Great and the Just Celebrate 25 Years at Pepperdine Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution By Gareen Darakjian
When Randy LoWRy fiRst explains Tom Stipanowich, academic one or more director of the Straus Institute, the people with joined the School of Law faculty, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute whom to vet he was tasked with creating an Resolution, and professor of law. new ideas and innovative dispute resolution “Today, the knowledge and skills discuss current imparted by institute courses are at the developments program. Twenty-five years later, heart of current U.S. and international in the field.” with the support of benefactors law practice.” The various Over the years, Straus has offered programs Leonard and Dorothy Straus, skills-training materials and academic within the Lowry’s vision has developed into courses at the School of Law that Straus Institute address the intersection of dispute have also the Straus Institute for Dispute Tom Stipanowich and Peter Robinson resolution, religion, apology, and enhanced Resolution, which has cultivated reconciliation. A commitment to faith- the learning problem-solving lawyering skills based reconciliation has also developed process. In particular, the active and encouraged training sessions Dispute Resolution Externship Program in thousands of Pepperdine around the world in the management has allowed students to translate theory law students and professionals of conflict, the theology of conflict, into practice, with enrollment totaling and biblical reconciliation. As each more than 100 externships per year. worldwide. area has matured, they have together Students are able to practice and hone created an internationally recognized their mediation skills at the institute’s program that has topped the U.S. News Mediation Clinic, which allows them to & World Report rankings as the number mediate limited jurisdiction cases for one dispute resolution program in the the Los Angeles Superior Court, as well nation for the past seven years. as the Financial Industry Regulatory At the heart of Straus’ educational Authority (FINRA) Investor Advocacy experience is the faculty, made up of Clinic, where they represent investors nationally and internationally known in arbitrations and mediations. Randy Lowry scholars engaged in a wide range “In addition to the great experience of scholarship and policymaking. learning how to conduct arbitrations “Pepperdine is fortunate to have through FINRA’s arbitration forum, “When the Straus Institute began developed a ‘critical mass’ of faculty we learned a significant amount its life 25 years ago, it owed much to expertise,” adds Stipanowich, who about client interaction, professional the sudden emergence of mediation as leads the institute along with managing responsibility, and arbitration strategy,” a tool for settling litigated cases and director and associate professor of recalls student Maxfield Marquardt, a on the growing market for mediation law Peter Robinson. “Those of us who Spring 2011 participant of the Investor training among experienced lawyers,” teach and write here nearly always have Advocacy Clinic.
Learn more about the Straus Institute and upcoming anniversary events: straus.pepperdine.edu
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By Sarah Fisher
My thinking was this: ‘this is far- fetched to say the least, but if i don’t at least try, then nothing will happen.’” Senior Nevin James recollects the moment he decided to stop dreaming about a project that had been brewing in his mind for awhile but to actually make it happen—to make himself sit down to write and compose a full-length, socially conscious rock opera called Death and Victory in Paris. Inspired by the message of Mike Masten (’08), Pepperdine alumnus and founder of the anti-human trafficking nonprofit Project Exodus, at a Convocation event in March 2009, James felt “a lot of sympathy for people caught up in the nightmare of human trafficking.”
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 40 10/13/11 3:09 PM “It’s a terrible thing to be trapped,” people, but moving them to action,” he laments. The United Nations says Detweiler. “It’s also rare to find Faith & estimates that 2.5 million people are an original voice, especially when it’s in forced labor at any given time as coupled with powerful performance Learning a result of trafficking, and most are skills—Nevin is the complete singer- in Action women between 18 and 24 years of songwriter package.” age, as well as children. “I want to James, whose given name is The Center for Faith and help rescue these young women and Robert Shogry, started his college Learning (CFL) was founded children from the horrendous people career with a very different focus, who have no respect for the lives or however. As a star golfer at his high at Pepperdine to enhance the happiness of others.” school in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, connections between Christian He imagined doing something his music took more of a back seat faith and practice, scholarship, radical—something to really call and he was recruited for golf by and classroom teaching. CFL attention to the issues at hand— Georgetown University. Having regularly hosts conferences for when it occurred to him to use played the piano since the age of 7, he his talent for writing and music to transferred to Pepperdine when the Christian faculty, moderates create a call for change disguised as golfing didn’t go to plan and decided challenging book discussions entertainment. instead to “give music a shot,” he says. that bring faith-focused authors Death and Victory tells the stories As evidenced by the success of of three Californians impacted by to campus, and awards three his first rock opera, he has gone human trafficking in Paris. “There categories of financial grants beyond giving music “a shot.” is a young woman who is swept up Death and Victory enjoyed a two- that encourage and enable into the sex trade, a young man who night revival at Pepperdine in early student-led service and ministry has turned his back on his faith and October, featuring the majority of the projects. family, and a mother who wants her original cast of talented Pepperdine estranged son back,” James explains. Every year, dozens of students students. James also appeared on the The Center for Faith and Learning and recent graduates receive songwriting contest show Platinum awarded James a 2010–11 Service either a Service and Social Hit, which aired over the summer and Social Action Grant to stage his on Bravo and gave him a chance to Action Grant, which funds rock opera at Pepperdine and then showcase his own style of folk/rock projects aimed at promoting take it on tour this past summer. The team, including fellow students of songwriting that he taps into on his social justice; a Ministry Jealousy producing, music, and acting, visited debut full-length album, . Internship Award for Seaver While music has taken priority of venues across nine eastern states, College religion students who late, James is a creative writing major volunteering in homeless shelters of wish to pursue ministry as each city on the tour to interact with with an emphasis in film and he and serve those without homes, some hopes that finalizing the edits of the their vocation; or a Professional as a result of human trafficking. Death and Victory tour documentary School Student Service The experience, including will help tie together these two Internship Award, which funds performances, downtime, and service creative paths and demonstrate graduate students’ summer where he can do the most good in the to the homeless, was filmed for a internships with service-based, documentary that James and his co- future. producer Alec Eagon are currently “I’ll go wherever God sends me, be and preferably faith-based, editing for their senior project with it music, film, or anywhere e l s e ,” he organizations. the help of mentor Craig Detweiler, says. “This production is not only a director of Pepperdine’s Center for call to action, but also a catharsis and Turn the page to read about Entertainment, Media, and Culture. an expression of truth. God tells us repeatedly in the word to champion some of this year’s grant “Nevin is a refreshing combination of artist and activist. the cause of the widow and orphan, recipients. He’s interested in not just moving and that’s all I’m trying to do.”
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 41 10/13/11 3:09 PM spiritual life c o m m u n i t y ServICe, GranTed Amanda Schulze, a GSEP learning technologies doctoral student, volunteered for five weeks this summer The Center with the Unity Charitable Trust in GSEP student Sharon Dalmage the Indian village of Virudhunagar, received a Service and Social Action for Faith and helping rural women empower their Grant for “Providing a Road Map to lives with technology. College for Disadvantaged Youth,” Learning I have been assisting the women her initiative to provide vocational with their English, learning about and community college awareness their businesses and technology use, to high school youth in Hawthorne, nurtures and have worked at the preschool California. established by the organizations. As a product of inner-city, the ideas Originally I was also supposed K-12 schools in Los Angeles and to volunteer at the computer lab Inglewood, California, I know of students the organization established. As firsthand that many disadvantaged happens in many poor communities, youth are unaware of the robust the computers were donated—but opportunities available to them called to there is no money left for ongoing through obtaining a college degree. payment of electricity, Internet In Hawthorne, 17.3 percent of service and connection, or maintenance needed residents live below poverty level for the computers. I am going to and only 68 percent of youth ministry. search for some possible grants the graduate from high school. organization can apply for to get I worked with 10 youths to a new computer lab for girls and provide them with leadership In their own women to use. skills, complete college entrance words, James’ Speaking English and being able essays, apply for scholarships, to use a computer are two skills identify a personal vocation, and fellow CFL grant women need to gain meaningful recognize the pathway to their recipients share employment in India. However, career, as well as social and service many women in India have arranged group activities. Speaking to youth their stories of marriages at an early age and must regarding the variety of college service, ministry, leave school to take care of the opportunities and the reward of a and living out home; all of these responsibilities degree was gratifying. It was even leave little opportunity for education more pleasing that students from the Pepperdine beyond grade school. Meeting the my group were accepted to schools mission. women in the village and hearing such as Cal State Northridge, their personal stories of struggle and Dillard University, and Los Angeles success has been a highlight for me. Trade-Technical College.
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124973_Pep Mag Text.indd 42 10/13/11 3:12 PM Religious studies major Stanley Tyrone Talbert earned a Summer 2011 ministry internship with the Normandie Church of Christ in Los Angeles, California, where he preached sermons, taught adult and youth classes, and served the church as a worship leader. Reginald Green earned a Summer At an early age I began to pursue 2011 internship with Keeping It Real School of Law student Rebecca ministry because I wanted to be Ministries in Winnetka, California, Getman received a 2011 Professional an ambassador of Christ. When I where he preached twice a month, School Student Service Internship preached at Normandie Avenue, my founded and led a small group, award and travelled to Hyderabad, task was to preach within the overall helped plan a summer conference, India with the Dalit Freedom theme of the year: “God is.” I had and worked with at-risk youth in his Network, as part of the SOL Global the opportunity to preach sermons community to share the gospel. Justice Program. There, she spent eight under that focus: “God Is Our I grew up as a pastor’s kid; I weeks as part of the city’s Anti Human Shepherd,” “God Is Our Father,” and remember at age 12 saying to myself Trafficking Unit. “God Is Jealous.”
that I never wanted to be a pastor. The Anti Human Trafficking Seeing the exponential growth magazine.pepperdine.edu/faith-and-learning At the age of 17 my father gave me Unit (AHTU) recently moved 15 numerically and spiritually at the the opportunity to minister at our girls, ages 6-13, into a shelter. All young adult class on Tuesday nights youth group and my life has never of the girls are children of temple has impacted me as a young adult. I been the same. Ministry is about prostitutes, and their mothers believe young adults have been loving God and loving people, and gave them to the shelter in hopes placed in an ambiguous position God has taught and is teaching me of finding a better life. They are in our society; this transitional to do both. very behind academically and are phase is key to the discovery of One of the greatest things I enrolled in an English school, but ourselves. Finding ourselves in learned during this summer was their proficiency is well below where Christ in the process of being how to serve God in the mundane it needs to be, so we tutored them— transformed as a person is a great times of life. Not everything is trying to get them caught up to be blessing. hyped; life is not a movie or fairy able to succeed in their schooling. One of the most challenging tale. So I learned to say, “God, I I feel like God has blessed me aspects of ministry from my don’t care how I feel because it’s not with so much in life and truly experience is receiving credibility about my feelings but it’s about you provided for me. It makes me want and being trusted—this is especially and other people.” to be a blessing to others and help true for young people like me. I We serve a big God so I have them out of the difficult situations believe it was important for Read the accounts of more CFL award recipients at: some massive dreams and visions for they face in life. Although I’m not Paul to tell Timothy to not let my future. A few things I do hope sure exactly how I will use my law anyone despise his youth in his for is being in the place that God degree, I see it as a tool to help the ministry. The way that I worked wants me to be and nowhere else. I oppressed and ensure they get the through this challenge was by being
want to be where Jesus is—any place representation they need and that humble, serving others, and being a that needs his love and redemption. their voices are heard. workman for the Lord.
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c o m m u n i t y Marty Wilson has spent only months at the top of Pepperdine’s basketball program, but he’s not exactly the new kid on the block.
By Gareen Darakjian
college athletics coach What first drew you to Pepperdine as a on the process of whole development: must possess the spirit of young student-athlete? on the floor, in the classroom, in the community; and trying to put 12 a cheerleader, the A I came to the team camp at Pepperdine to 15 individual kids, mindsets, and the summers before my junior and stamina of a drill sergeant, and goals aside and try to focus on one, senior years of high school. That was the guile of a salesman. The which is the team. The main vision is my first time on campus and I fell in just building something that everyone winning combination of these love with it. As a basketball program, associated with Pepperdine can be has led Marty Wilson (’89) to Pepperdine was at a very high level proud of. the top as the new head coach with very good players. I knew I was going to have to compete to play of the Waves men’s basketball You’re often heard saying “Both Feet In.” initially, but it made me better and What does this phrase mean to you? team. tougher. Over the last 25 years, Wilson It’s a motto. Obviously, every guy How does it feel to be the head coach of has compiled an impressive wants to get in the NBA. They have a team you used to play on? to understand that they have to buy record in Malibu as a student- It’s been awkward, especially when I into everything we’re teaching. They athlete, assistant coach, and, first came back as an assistant in 2007 can’t complain about being at an early for the past three seasons, because I didn’t expect to ever return. morning practice. That’s what we have associate head coach. Buoyed But when the opportunity presented to do to be successful. It’s a conscious effort that says, “I’m in.” Whatever we by his passion for Pepperdine, itself, and coach Asbury [who retired after the 2010-11 season] got the OK have to do, we have both feet in. dedication to excellence, and to have me succeed him, it was a no- commitment to cultivating a brainer for me. Who is your coaching hero? new crop of star athletes, Wilson Former Pepperdine coaches Harrick What does the future of Waves basketball stands behind his product: a and Asbury, who gave me the look like? solid, talented basketball team opportunity to earn a degree. I was the with a whole lot of heart and We are in the process of changing the first one in my family to go to college culture of our program. We can’t just and the first one to graduate. Another drive to succeed both on and say we want to win, and then go out is my high school coach, Bob Hawking. off the court—and everyone is and win. There are 340 other teams Also, all of the other guys I’ve worked buying in. that want the same thing. So we focus for who have given me something that
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During your time as a student-athlete, Pepperdine We focus on the process of whole famously defeated Santa Clara—led by two-time development: on the floor, in the NBA MVP Steve Nash—in 1995–96. What has been the highlight of your basketball career at classroom, in the community; and TheWilsonEra Pepperdine? trying to put 12 to 15 individual kids, Marty Wilson has spent As a player, when we won the WCC mindsets, and goals aside and try to only months at the top of championships (then WCAC) my freshman focus on one, which is the team. and sophomore years. We had the opportunity Pepperdine’s basketball to beat Santa Clara twice on the road when program, but he’s not exactly they were sitting at the top of the conference. I remember telling the guys that we want to the new kid on the block. have their crowd leave the gym with their heads down. We had the pleasure of seeing that.
When I was coaching, the highlight has been winning back-to-back conference championships, then going back-to-back in NCAA tournaments.
What are some of the challenges of being a head coach?
Hiring a staff. No matter how great you think you are as a head coach, you’re not good without a great staff. Another challenge is that I have to make decisions now instead of suggestions as an assistant. I have to make those decisions that I believe are best for the players. My goal is to paint the big picture for them.
What is the Marty Wilson Basketball Camp?
We have two different camps: one for little kids, where we teach them life through the fundamentals of basketball, and one for high school-aged kids, which is a one-day, high- intensity camp to teach them some of the things we’re doing at this level. We can impact the kids in a positive way. They step on campus with us, see the University, and learn more about it to hopefully give them motivation.
Is there a possibility of professional coaching in your future?
I would never say never, but after hearing some of the horror stories about it, that lifestyle doesn’t fit me. I would have a tough time being around some of the things some of those guys are doing and not saying something about it. College basketball, for me, is the perfect level.
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By Sarah Fisher
s the first handwritten, “The term ‘illuminated’ refers “We see Bibles from time to time not only to the luminous effects of and we see art books from time to time, illuminated BiBle to be gold, silver, and other vibrant colors but we don’t often see them joined as and materials used to illustrate and one as this book i s ,” Roosa notes. “It commissioned by a Benedictine decorate these manuscripts, but also continues a time-honored practice of Abbey in 500 years, the Saint John’s to the divine light of the Word of G o d ,” careful, painstaking writing down of the explains associate professor of art word of God in a way that is attractive Bible is a throwback to a tradition history Cynthia Colburn. “For many to contemporary audiences. It’s seldom Christians, the light of God’s Word that we have an opportunity to acquire that has largely disappeared in became a physical reality in these a work as precious as this one.” works.” The Heritage Edition is divided the West: art created primarily Handwritten, illuminated Bibles into seven volumes containing 160 as religious worship. It was a were mostly discontinued from this intricate, unique illuminations of tradition after the invention of the everything from Old Testament tradition responsible for colorfully printing press in the mid-1400s, due stories to the life of Christ—with a to the length and cost of creating such twist. “It’s quite unique in the sense designed stained glass windows, works. So as soon as Mark Roosa, dean that the illuminations are artistic in of Pepperdine Libraries, learned that interpretation of scripture. Even in the Michelangelo’s celebrated paintings the restorative Saint John’s Bible project earliest of the illuminated Bibles, the included 360 handwritten “Heritage illuminations were quite literal,” Roosa in the Sistine Chapel, and Edition” copies of the new, original explains, adding that the interpretive intricately illuminated manuscripts manuscript, he immediately set about style, providing a modern touch, is just trying to secure one for Pepperdine’s one of the features that audiences will of scripture. collection. appreciate.
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124973_Pep Mag Text_46-47.indd 46 10/17/11 7:17 PM “Those who are familiar with the However, he stresses that Pepperdine Gospels and the Bible will be drawn didn’t acquire the Saint John’s Bible for to the Saint John’s Bible because admiration as a static exhibit in Payson it’s another way of understanding Library but as a living, working piece the Word. But I think it will also be of history for the community of Los attractive to the novice, who may not Angeles. He has begun reaching out be familiar with manuscripts or Biblical to congregations, of different faiths texts; they’ll be drawn to it, I think, as an artistic work.” and traditions, to make it known that The Saint John’s Bible The majority of the design was volumes will be available for worship, created by Donald Jackson, who study, and enjoyment. Heritage Edition went on conceived the project in the early 1970s “There are different worship public display in Payson and earned the commission in 1998 traditions and faiths that involve Library during the launch of to begin work on the Bible from the looking at illuminations and having th Benedictine Monastery of Saint John’s prayerful meditation through them, Pepperdine’s 75 anniversary in Collegeville, Minnesota. Jackson which can be a jumping off point celebrations this fall. is the official scribe and calligrapher for going deeper into one’s faith. to Queen Elizabeth II, and is the Conversely, we can also see it being author of The Story of Writing and The used for more straightforward worship Calligrapher’s Art. Learn how “The art of calligraphy is terribly in which the text is read,” says Roosa. you can explore the exhibit: detailed and hard to do well, so this “We want to bring the book alive in our library.pepperdine.edu will be held up as an iconic work in the community and celebrate it as much as world of calligraphy,” Roosa predicts. we can.”
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