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American is the official alumni publica eric an tion of The American University. It is TABLE OF CONTENTS WINTER 1995 VOLUME 46 No. I written and designed by the University Publications and Printing Office. Personal views on subjects of public interest expressed in the magazine do not necessarily reflect official policies of the university. Suggestions, com ments, and letters concerning American may be mailed to American Magazine, University Publications and Printing Office, Constitution Building, Tenley Campus, The American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20016-812 1, or s~ nt vi~ E-mail to [email protected].
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American is published by The American and offers practical advice on how our offspring get from "goo-goo" to good English. University. With a circulation of about 70,000, American is sent to alumni and 18 other constituents o f the university commun1ty. Copyri ght 1995 , The Benjantin Ladner inaugurated as AU's president Amencan University, an equal opportu It was a day of celebration, reflection, and promise, as Benjamin Ladner mty/affirmative action university. was officially inaugurated as AU's president.
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De Klerk: South Africa can be economic success story
the award with South African president Nelson Mandela), invited to speak at AU by the Kennedy Political Union, didn't dwell on the past. Rather, he used the forum to encourage foreign investment in the -fledgling democracy. "We in South Africa are in a building process," said de ¢BKkey Klerk, who is second in com mand to Mandela in the transi tional government. "We have a Key honor vision of a prosperous coun try. We see ourselves becom Not long ago, College of Arts ing part of the great process of and Science dean Betty economic development that is Bennett went looking for her transforming societies from Phi Beta Kappa key and found Malaysia to Mexico, from it- in a bank vault, underneath China to Chile." her son's coin collection. De Klerk emphasized that ''I'm glad I found it because much work lies ahead "to con now, after thirty years, I have solidate the progress that a real reason to wear it," she [South Africans] have made." says. Last summer, the oldest Toward that end, he met with and most prestigious honor business and political leaders society in the country voted and economists during his overwhelmingly to admit AU visit to the United States and to membership. assured them and his audi- Only 249 liberal arts col ~ ence that the political climate leges in the country have met j is right for investment in the rigorous qualifications to ~ South Africa's rich natural join
2 AMERICAN sciences program must under School of Public Affairs will be go examination of its faculty's eligible for membership con backgrounds and teaching sideration, says Bennett, who loads, as well as faculty and led the university's multiyear student research, institutional effort to obtain a Morella resigns Global enterprise After twenty-five years of capacities he "provided more service to the university, than just legal advice," accord First-year Kogod College of Business Administration Anthony Morella '58 resigned ing to board chairman Edward MBA students Rebecca Astin and Jim Gallagher have a as general counsel and assis R. Carr '62. "Tony has been a brush with global enterprise, Kogod-style, as they help tant secretary to the board of great counselor to the board," paint a giant map of the world on the playground at trustees last fall. Morella, a says Carr. "His vast institu Washington, D.C.'s, Horace Mann Elementary School. senior partner in the tional knowledge and commit About seventy-five new M.B.A. students worked on the Washington law firm of ment to the university have map project, raked leaves, mowed the athletic field, and Hewes, Morella, been invaluable to did other fall spruce-up chores at the public school as a Gel band, the trustees, to me, community service project during orientation for and Lamberton, and to those who Kogod's innovative, redesigned M.B.A. program. will continue to preceded me as (See American, Spring 1994.) * teach at the Wash chairman." ~ ington College of Morella's other 8 Law (WCL), where AU accomplish- ~ he has been a facul ments include ty member since serving as associ- ~~ 1960. ate dean of the law 15 As general school from 1967 ::lu; counsel, Morella to 1969 and raising helped guide the funds for the uni- !5 it university board ANTHONY MORELLA versity's new law and administration school building. for more than two decades, He is also the longest serving serving as a university vice member of the WCL faculty, a president, 1969-72, and as record he will continue to hold, assistant secretary to the since according to Carr, "Tony's board since 1972. In all these still a university citizen." * WINTER 1995 3 Leonard Haynes named senior assistant to Ladner Radio romance Leonard L. Haynes III, former University of Maryland, Col Panel in Washington, D.C. To hear his old pal, "Today" assistant secretary of the U.S. lege Park; a consultant to the Before that, he was director of show weatherman Willard Department of Education, has German/U.S. Fulbright Com academic programs for the Scott '55, tell it, "nobody loved been named senior assistant mission in Bonn, Germany; U.S. Information Agency. He radio more than little Johnny to AU president Benjamin and a senior consultant for has also served as assistant Hickman." For the last thirty Ladner. In that capacity, he the National Education Goals superintendent of Louisiana's years, Hickman '66 has shared will work with Ladner in the State Department of Education that love with the listeners of areas of planning, government and executive vice president WAMU 88.5 FM via "The Big relations, community rela of academic affairs for the Broadcast," a program he cre tions, diversity, and interna three-campus Southern ated based on his extensive tional activities. University System, among collection of vintage radio news Haynes, who served as other positions. and entertainment recordings. assistant secretary for post He holds a B.A. from Last summer Hickman donat secondary education from Southern University, an M.A. ed the entire collection to the 1989 to 1991, oversaw the from Carnegie-Mellon, and a university's Bender Library. nation's $13 billion budget for Ph.D. from Ohio State, as well Spanning nearly forty years of Title Ill programs. as nine honorary degrees. * "the golden age of radio" (from Prior to coming to AU, the 1920s to 1961), the 10,000- Haynes was a visiting scholar piece collection includes epi LEONARD L. HAYNES lii in educational policy at the sodes from such popular pro grams as "Amos n' Andy," "Dragnet," and "The Fred Allen Show," along with such historic radio broadcasts as Charles Lindbergh's 1927 return to the Athletics review starts United States following his trans-Atlantic flight and the AU has launched a year ensure that athletics athletics on campus. first three days of the D-Day long review of its athletics departments at NCAA mem After AU completes the invasion in 1944. Musical program as part of a new ber institutions operate self-study next fall, an exter selections range from a 1920s certification process with high standards. nal team of reviewers will John McCormack concert to required by the National "We welcome this make an evaluation visit to the big band sounds of Benny Collegiate Athletic Associa review as an opportunity campus. Consisting of Goodman and Glenn Miller in tion (NCAA) for Division I not only to show where we peers from conference the 1940s. When fully cata schools. are but also to examine offices and other colleges logued and made available to The study will cover how we might position AU and universities, the team historians, scholars, and the four specific areas-acade athletics in the future," says will report to the NCAA general public, the Hickman mic integrity, rules compli AU president Benjamin Committee on Athletics collection of broadcast-quality ance, financial integrity, Ladner of the process, Certification, which will audio recordings will be among and commitment to equity. which also gives AU the determine the university's The purpose of the opportunity to foster a certification status. * mandatory review is to broad-based discussion of 4 AMERICAN Top of the dial It was out of the studio and into the spotlight for popular WAMU 88.5 FM talk show host Diane Rehm during a Septem ber 12 celebration of her fif teenth year behind the micro phone at the university's mem ber-supported public radio station. About four hundred guests gathered at Washing ton's Four Seasons Hotel for the Rehm anniversary salute, emceed by veteran newscaster Roger Mudd and highlighted by tributes from novelist Kate National Public Radio special correspondent Susan Stamberg says thanks Lehrer, Newsweek contributing for the memories to former WAMU 88.5 FM colleague John Hickman '66 editor Eleanor Clift, civil rights at a July 27 campus ceremony celebrating Bender Library's acquisition of Hickman's collection of broadcast-quality recordings of vintage radio news activist Roger Wilkins, and the and entertainment programs. Stamberg worked for WAMU in the sixties Rt. Rev. Jane Holmes Dixon, before moving on to NPR. suffragan bishop of the Episco pal Diocese of Washington. September was a banner month for WAMU. The station the nation's top radio archives. owns the collection, Walker, which had just earned the Hickman began his labor of the current host of "The Big number-one spot among love in 1963, when he visited Broadcast," was quick to Washington area public radio the NBC archives in New York remind Hickman of his first stations in summer 1994 lis City and saw the treasures love during an informal cam tenership surveys- also offi there. At that time, no one pus reception last July. "Don't cially marked its move into thought the old radio broad let too many of these profes new state-of-the-art facilities in casts had any value, so Hick sors 'borrow' the tapes," Northwest Washington with WAMU 88.5 FM talk show host man, then producer of "The Walker told Hickman in front two events. In a small ceremo Diane Rehm makes her way to the Joy Boys," a local Washington of an appreciative crowd of ny on September 8, National dias during a September event in radio show starring Scott and Hickman friends and admir Public Radio's Susan Stamberg her honor at Washington 's Four Ed Walker '54, got many of his ers. "WAMU needs them to (see also "Radio romance," Seasons Hotel. first items gratis. The rest he keep the show going." * page 4) placed the WAMU logo scrounged from antique deal on the front window of the ers and other collectors. new broadcast center at 4000 Although the university now Brandywine Street, NW. Nine days later, friends and fans flocked to the facility to check out the new digs and offer their congratulations to Rehm at an open house. * WINTER 1995 5 Fall for the record books Just how good was AU field ranked nationally for the first paign, the Eagles in one stretch last three years. hockey player Stacy-Ann Sui time, at number 15; and upset won 23 straight matches He, like Wilkinson, hopes Butt '98 last fall? She was good then top-ranked Old Dominion another all-time best. last fall's success will con enough to finish second among during the regular season. No The reason for the success? vince more of the nation's the nation's National Collegiate team at AU, to the best of "It's been a gradual building," top female student-athletes Athletic Association Division I Wilkinson's knowledge, had said Goldberg, who has lured to attend AU. * teams in scoring and to win the ever beaten a number one. several top recruits over the Colonial Athletic Association The hockey team wasn't Rookie the Year Award. And, the only team celebrating a as women's field hockey coach record-setting season. The Anne Wilkinson had anticipat women's volleyball team, led ed, Sui Butt was good enough by eight-year coach Barry Gold to take the Eagles with her. berg, capped its winningest The Trinidad national team season ever (34- 8 record) player, regarded as one of her with its first appearance in a country's greatest athletes, postseason tournament, the helped the program reach National Invitational Volley unprecedented heights. The ball Championship in Kansas Eagles registered a program City, Mo., the first weekend in best 15- 3 record; finished December. During the cam- Dancing life World-renowned choreographer Mark Morris, founder of the Mark Morris Dance Group and sometime choreo grapher and dancer for Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Project, joined Washington Post arts critic Alan Kriegsman on campus October 19 for a verbal pas de deux that whirled from an exploration of Moms· 's ere a u· ve process (his .dances usually come to life as interpretations of music) to h1s thoughts on contemporaries (he "wo rs h"1ps , Merce Cunningham but otherwise doesn't much care for the state of modem dance). As for his own work, the MacArthur Foundation winner, who appeared at AU as part o f a senes. sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences' MFA ro- g . t" • • p ram m. crea IVe wntmg, said audiences e xpect" mg c h oreo- graphic razzle-dazzle will be disappointed: "I like to get rid of things," he said. "I like to make th" . , AU hockey star Stacy-Ann Sui Butt, second from right, drives the Eagle mgss1mp1 er. offense in a game last fall. The presence of the freshman from Trinidad on the field elevated the Eagles to an unprecedented national ranking last season and program-best 15-3 record. 6 AMERICAN Lights, camera, action! Allison Silberberg '84 wanted Anacostia teenager and his syndicated comedy "Mama's to tap her expertise in film grandfather, is the first fruit of Family." making and inspire inner-city a nonprofit program Silberberg Silberberg hopes LCA! kids. And so she hit on an founded called "Lights, Camera, teaches her students to apply idea: She could help them Action!" (LCA!). The program, the same persistence they make a movie. designed to expose young showed in making the film to Meeting once a week for people to the exacting craft of realizing their potential and four months with seven stu filmmaking, began with Silber discovering opportunities dents from Anacostia Senior berg having students watch beyond what they accom High in Southeast Washington, and critique old movies. Even plished with Poppy. D.C., Silberberg, a School of tually, the students collaborat Ernest Solomon, one of the Communication adjunct facul ed on the Poppy script and stars of Poppy, appears to ty member, and her team of finally starred in the film itself. have gotten her message. budding writers, actors, and "There's more to (making a "Hard work really pays off," directors, produced Poppy, a movie] than shooting a frame says the senior. "I feel that if twenty-six-minute film that of film," says Silberberg, a pro students could get into pro premiered September 25 at fessional screenwriter whose grams like this [one] they the American Film Institute at credits include interning with could achieve a lot more." * the Kennedy Center. Hollywood director Sydney Poppy, the story of an Pollack and writing for the Allison Silberberg '84, middle, joins Poppy cast members Rayvon Hicks, left, and Emest Solomon at a reception hosted by Planet Hollywood in Washington, D. C. , following the premiere of their movie at the Kennedy Center in September. The film was the first effort of "Lights, Camera, Action!", a nonprofit group Silberberg founded to teach filmmaking to inner city high school students. WiNTER 1995 7 "If the majority of a country wants to "Governments, for some reason, are be somewhere else, there's something just not willing to pay for top talent. I fundamentally wrong with that coun guess ... the public won't stand for it. try. ... This is not a Love Boat cruise the ... Public institutions, public bodies, [Haitians fleeing Haiti] are taking. ... If that suppress the compensation for the they make it, they are turned back. If very best people are really shooting they return to Haiti, they are' killed. But HEARD ON CAMPUS themselves in the foot. I am firmly con they still do it. It means that the state is vinced that good talent, properly com so repressive, so repulsive, that the pensated, is a very good public international community must act." investment." Albrecht Muth '91, SIS, an adviser ta United Nations Edward W Kelley Jr. , member of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, at a lecture the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors, sponsored by the Kennedy Political Union, September 28 at a leadership conference cosponsored by Kogod College ofBusiness Administration and the School of Public Affairs, October 27 "There's an unfortunate food chain now in our society. . .. If you want to make it in print journalism ... you've "This is a community that should be got to be noticed. To be noticed, you've having more people wanting to live got to be provocative. To be provoca here. Instead, we have a tremendous tive, you've got to say something nasty; amount of flight. In the last five years of the nastier the better. ... Ifyou're nasty my opponent's administration, we lost enough or provocative enough, maybe a net total of 76,000 residents. Here we you can get on television. And if you're are, in the nation's capital, this beauti on television, you get validated. " ful city, rich in diversity. We should be standing at our borders with our arms David Gergen, then special adviser to outstretched, trying to keep people President Bill Clinton and Secretary ofState from coming in, because we're too Warren Christopher, at the School of Communication convocation, October 3 crowded. Instead, it's just the opposite. · · . I hope you realize that this election is not about the recovery of one man. It "The laws that regulate how pesticides is about the renewal of an entire city." are used on our food supply are thirty years old. They have never been updat Carol Schwartz, Republican D. C. mayoral candidate running against former mayor ed. That means that two-thirds of the Marion Barry, at a speech sponsored by chemicals used on food today are the AU College Republicans, October 28 World War II chemicals. They have never been subjected to a health-based "Much has been made in the election analysis. That's what the law allows. campaign in this country of the anger ... We believe that should be changed." of voters. I wonder if perhaps they are angry because after all of the years of Carol Browner, head of the Environmental the cold war, they expected things Protection Agency, at the Public Interest Law Career Fair and Conference, sponsored by National Association would be so much different, or better, for Public Interest Law and hosted by AU, October 21 once it was over. They are perhaps more disappointed . .. that this has not been the case. " Barrie Dunsmore, diplomatic correspondent for ABC News, at a Contemporary International Issues Forum sponsored by SIS, November 2 8 AMERICAN fEATURE ------ From chemistry classes to Shakespeare studies, computers have fast become an integral part of teaching and learning on the AU campus. by Diane Henry he Internet- that almost magical the MTV generation, says interim provost connection of computers, wires, Ann Ferren. "They can turn on television and cables, and satellites that links twen see the inside of the brain; they can see it ani ty-five million people around the mated and they can see it real, with juxta globe-is just one of the computer posed examples of [Olympic gold medalist] technologies making fundamental Greg Louganis diving and what his brain wave changes in the way teachers and students go patterns are. They expect to learn through about their work. many different media." In cyberspace, great libraries are open By the end of the year, every classroom twenty-four hours a day, their databases building, residence hall, and office on campus available to the public, their computer will be linked, by cables and wires, in a $2 mil shelves filled with information about every lion project called EagleNet. Already many thing from antiquity to outer space. Econo everyday functions on campus have become mists can find a full text of the General Agree easier and more efficient as academic and ment on Tariffs and Trade. Students of for nonacademic units are connected to one eign affairs can communicate directly with another. When the hookup is complete, the their counterparts in hot spots around the system will even allow faculty, students, and world. Even the Louvre is a resource on the staff to work at home and connect, by Internet, as images of its paintings are trans modem, to anyone or any place on campus. mitted with remarkable clarity to computers EagleNet not only links different parts of with the right receiving equipment. the campus; it is also the gateway to the "Chalk and talk is not very compelling" for Internet, which links AU to the world. WINTER 1995 9 The electronic classroom Beyond theory, Yates is one of many facul Conversely, Greg Welsh, director of academic ty members setting the pace for their col computing at the university, believes the leagues even before the scheduled comple world will also be able to come to AU, elec tion of the EagleNet project later this year. tronically. "We can use our size and special Yates hooks his laptop computer into an over ties, put them on the network, and play to our head projector for his lectures and has set up strengths globally," he says. electronic discussion groups for each of his "We have the possibility now of creating classes so that students can continue their classrooms where age, time, and distance are academic dialogue outside the classroom. no longer barriers," Welsh says. Using Research in cyberspace the network, "we Other faculty converts to the new technology can have group have learned to enhance their research and teaching, group pro expand their collaboration with other schol jects, or students ars via the Internet. For example, Mary Gray, collaborating on a math and statistics professor in the College projects for class of Arts and Sciences, says she "uses the Inter even though they're net constantly to collaborate on papers." not in the same Moreover, she notes, the Internet can lead to place. Software is discoveries that might not be made using available now that conventional research methods. will allow multiple "I was looking for books about women individuals in differ- mathematicians who lived several hundred ;:; ent locations to edit years ago," Gray recalls. "And I found some 5 what is seen on the c.______~_..;;: thing written about a person that I would not Danyelle Murray, a first-year graduate student in the art department, screen." Such tools, have known about otherwise .. . a French studies Beach at Trouville, by Claude Monet, on a CD-ROM disc he says, "are avail woman named Sophie German [1776-1831]. from the National Gallery of London. able and they are I discovered a reference to her in a Paris not inordinately library and got somebody I knew to go and expensive." get the copy of the book." Brian Yates, a psychology professor in the Gray's friend sent the material she needed College of Arts and Sciences, suggests that via E-mail, and Gray used it in an article for the computer developments may even lead to a forthcoming Encyclopedia of Mathematics. more "old-fashioned style" of learning. "Maybe Physics professor Bruce Flanders, also in we will go to the European style system, the College of Arts and Sciences, says the which is based on having a lot of educational complexity of the experiments he works on resources available and when you think you're requires the collaboration of anywhere from ready, you take the big test," he says. ten to as many as fifty physicists in different "We already do a lot of remote learning locales. Every day he taps into the Internet to when we assign people textbook reading chat with colleagues, scan journals, read elec instead of sitting there, meeting one-on-one tronic bulletin boards, and check on the sta and going over the reading," he notes. "We tus of data analysis for experiments at a variety could remove it further," Yates says. "I could of accelerator facilities from Bloomington, create an electronic version of myself and Indiana, to Villigen, Switzerland. probably some of my best lectures, and Renee Marlin-Bennett, a School of Inter points could be encapsulated that way. That national Service professor, recently reached idea gets some professors nervous, of course, out to experts she has never seen and knows myself included." only through the Internet to set up a scholarlY 10 AMERICAN panel at the February conference of the Inter national Studies Association in Chicago. And, as Marlin-Bennett found out, the world of the To beep, per chance to dream Internet, so valuable for teaching and research, INnR can also have a very human dimension. Shakespeare scholar Jack Jergens, CAS, spent hundreds of hours The mother of two young children, Marlin over the past two years developing and perfecting a multimedia Bennett often turns to an electronic discus program for his AU students to use outside the classroom. He sion group called MISC KIDS. Normally a sort believes it is the first of its kind to be developed. of backyard fence for swapping advice and Using two machines, a computer and a laser disc player, side ideas about raising children, the discussion by-side, his students can switch back and forth from film versions of group included a family with a child who Shakespeare plays on laser discs to a computer program written by later died of a brain tumor. Via E-mail, "the Jergens. With Jergens's program, students can search for different family received love and support from all over themes in Shakespeare's writing-fatherhood, for example, or the world," Marlin-Bennett recalls. "Money madness or dreams. was collected; people sent prayers and best The computer allows the student to read split-screen text for wishes. different performances of a play. Imbedded in the 2,500 screens "On the one hand, the Internet is wonder available are citations from various experts and information on ful for research and scholarly debate, and on everything from costumes to beggars. the other hand, there are some really human Using index numbers that refer to specific frames on the laser things that go on there," she adds. discs, students can bounce between the computer dialogue and the For all the electronic marvels of the Inter fil m, viewing part or all net, however, the time has not yet come to of a play, freezing a throw away your library card. frame if they like, switch ing to slow motion, or So what about books? jumping to a different Given that about half the liberal arts colleges scene to illustrate another in the country have, to some degree, hooked point. The multimedia up their campuses to the Internet, Stephen program is so effective, Gilbert, the technology expert at the American Jergens says, one student Association for Higher Education, predicts a played with it for nine future with a mix of traditional and electronic hours before getting up learning. from the computer. "The issue isn't one replacing the other," -DH says Gilbert. "The fax hasn't replaced the use of the telephone, and the telephone doesn't JACK JORGENS really replace getting together in person. You learn that different kinds of things work bet ter for one situation or another." Christopher Simpson, who teaches in AU's School of Communications embodies this mixture of new and traditi~nal approaches to "Listserves [electronic discussion groups teaching and research. on the Internet] are good sources for net Simpson gives assignments and even final working, tips, and experts in a field ," he says, exams on-line. In one class he assigned groups and text of important documents is often of students to prepare reporters' guides to the available on the Internet. However, Simpson Internet on such subjects as Latin America and cautions against thinking of the Internet as an labor. US. News and World Report is among "information Garden of Eden. It's just not the publications using the guides, he says. true. The Internet can be a rather frustrating WINTER 1995 II ferent from the one you've worked in before. The time that you normally spend searching for proper literature has been vastly reduced," she says. Jack Child, who teaches Latin American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences' language and foreign studies department, has begun collecting data that suggest that stu dents who use an interactive computer pro gram Child designed specifically for his courses actually get better grades. With a Macintosh hypercard, one thou sand 35-mm slides, video, and text, Child has developed his own programs, in both English and Spanish, that allow students to move through the material in his course at their own pace. Since the program is interactive, students know immediately whether their answers are correct. Another professor using computers is "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." James Lee, of the School of International Service, who invented a computer game tool. ... Like the ocean, there's an enormous called the Chinese House Game to help his body of data out there, but one needs to know students learn about international relations how to navigate to learn how to do anything in a quantitative manner. In the game, which useful with it." is sold by the American Political Science The best source for much information, Association for use at other universities, particularly history and classics, he says, is teams of players simulate world events and still a book in the library. conflicts by creating countries and choosing among various options to determine types of Beyond the Internet government, politics, budgets, GNP, tax rates, The Internet is one large piece of the comput environmental resources, use of espionage, er picture, but other computer developments military capabilities, and other factors, most are also sweeping college and university cam involving numbers. The goal, which changes puses, including multimedia programs and in every game, could be to gain military CO-ROMs, electronic library catalogues such supremacy, or eliminate poverty, or react to as the ALADIN system that links AU with other an environmental crisis. Lee also asks his stu area university libraries, and textbooks that dents to invent their own games as part of the are sold with software. course work. Interim dean of faculties Ivy Broder likes Legal education, too, has been "trans CD-ROM materials for her own research in formed" by computers, says Elliott Milstein, economics. "You can get up to speed on the dean of the Washington College of Law. Using latest research in an area much more quickly commercially available software, Washington than you've ever been able to before," says College of Law students are drilled on legal Broder. basics. They also have access to WestLaw, "The really remarkable change is the ease LEX.lS, and NEXlS-what Milstein calls of doing a literature search, especially if "incredible research tools," data bases that you're moving into an area that's slightly dif- contain virtually every federal court ruling 12 AMERICAN and adjudication in the nation as well most state court rulings. Normally very expensive data bases to access, LEXIS and NEXIS are An electronic bill of rights offered free to WCL and other AU students. INIIR O nce upon a time in cyberspace, a student at the University of The art of computing Texas repeatedly entered a discussion group on the Internet The revolution in data technology has also which he accessed through his university's computers- with com touched the art department in the College of ments about the sexual behavior of Russian leader Boris Yeltsin. Arts and Sciences. AU art-slide curator, Kathe O utraged Internet users bombarded the university, as well as the Albrecht, whose office houses the universi student, with complaints about proffering such inappropriate mate ty's collection of 75,000 art slides, has begun rial on the Internet. to acquire CO's from different museums. The Was he exercising free speech? Do the guarantees of the U.S. quality of the CD images, she says, is as good Constitution extend to cyberspace? There are other issues as well. or better than pictures printed in a book. For example, who owns an idea on the Internet? W ho can repub Moreover, the CD-ROM allows viewers to zero lish material from this connection? in on any detail of the painting, and the video These are the kind of issues that Frank Connolly, a professor in component allows viewing from different per AU's Department of Computer Sciences and Information Systems, spectives, an especially important feature CAS, wrestled with as he and a small group of other college pro with something like the National Gallery of fessors and administrators, working with the American A ssociation London's fourteenth century wooden altar by of Higher Education, developed the "Bill of Rights and Responsi Giusto De'MenabuoL The video captures the bilities for Electronic Learners." altar panels opening and closing, giving More than two years in the making, the three-page document added perspective. addresses the rights and responsibilities of individuals and institu "This is definitely the wave of the future," tions. It emphasizes the right of free speech, the need to recognize Albrecht says. and honor the intellectual property of others, the need for integrity Echoing her enthusiasm are Anita La Salle of information, and the importance of respect for the rights and chair of the computer science and informa- ' opinions of others. Institutions are responsible for providing com tion systems department, CAS, and Charlotte puter resources, maintaining security procedures, protecting privacy, Story, who teaches design in the art depart and training faculty, staff, and students. ment. For the past year La Salle and Story, Connolly says, "As we rushed into this new environment, we along with others in their departments, have found it so different from that of our previous experiences that the been working together on a new mix of arts [existing] ethical guides didn't seem applicable." and science. Connolly, an AU faculty members for thirteen years and the for With graphic design revolutionized by mer director of academic computing at the university, is a past vice computer technologies, the art department president of EDUCOM , a consortium of six hundred colleges and and the computer science and information universities that works to enhance information technologies used on systems department are trying to give art stu college campuses. dents both the creative experience and the The information superhighway, says Connolly, is a two-way ttechnical m· formatiOn · they need, especially. street. 'While you can communicate with peers and luminaries in hose who want to enter the new field of mul your discipline via electronic networks, you also can become vul timedia design. nerable to being deluged by malcontents," he said. "The network Story is working with two students who may be 'virtual,' but the challenges it brings are real-abundant in put together their own majors in multimedia both promise and problems." co~munications. "You can't, in graphic -DH design, learn everything about multimedia, and you can't in computing," says Story. "It's really pulling together different fields ." WINTER 1995 13 Poets and PC's Even the poets have embraced computers, as Molecular modeling and simulations Henry Taylor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet INIIR and professor in the College of Arts and Frederick Carson, an expert in molecular modeling, has been using Sciences' literature department, can attest. computers in his classes for more than twenty years. "I continue to write poems pretty much A chemistry professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, the way I've always written poems ... with a Carson has written more than two dozen programs for simulating fountain pen and many sheets of a legal pad," various phenomena such as protein structures. says Taylor. "But when the poem gets to the For example, he says, students use his programs to "simulate point where I used to type it up, I now put it the nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of molecules, to check their on the machine." own calculations, and to make predictions where the hand calcula "Once it's there, I do something that tions would take an inordinate amount of time." would horrify some people," he says. Using a Carson also uses commercially available software programs for software program written by a friend, Taylor teaching. One program allows students to display and move 3-D makes sure that there are no inadvertent rep images of small molecules as well as proteins, DNA, and RNA etitions of the same word. Some people, he Another animates the Krebs cycle, "making it somewhat more adds, think poetry is sacred or sacrosanct, entertaining," Carson says. {The Krebs cycle is a sequence of reac and that subjecting it to the cold, hard tech tions in a living organism in which oxidation of acetic acid or nology of a program might be "like dissecting acetyl equivalent provides energy for storage in phosphate bonds.) butterflies ." Another tool Carson uses is the Internet, a cheap and easy way "I think that's nonsense myself," says Taylor. to communicate with colleagues in Europe. E-mail, he said, is "of great value for sending the special coordinates of large molecules." Linking to the futo: ..e For his own research , Carson heads up W isconsin Avenue to Back in the fifties, when computers were room the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, to use NIH's king-size size monstrosities, the thought of a poet using computers. software would probably have been as incon Carson and AU graduate student Richard Venable are working ceivable as satellite communications or ATMs . with colleagues at NIH And just as inconceivable would have been and the Food and Drug the degree to which the use of computers now Administration using, permeates everyday life at the university, from Carson says, "powerful computerized student registration to the parallel processors to technology used to produce the words and investigate the structures images in this story. What computers allow is and properties of pro linkage, whether it's colleagues exchanging teins which are important information across the world or the regis in AIDS, cancer, and trar's office making sure a student gets a spot malaria research ." in a class. -OH As Ann Ferren says, the EagleNet hookup, linking AU to the Internet, and other electron ic advancements are essential ingredients for FREDERICK CARSON making the university a first-rate academic institution in the twenty-first century. On that point, she says, there is university-wide agree ment. The completion of EagleNet will, she said, "make it possible for us to teach better, do more large-scale, complicated, interesting kinds of research, be more efficient, be more productive, and be part of the modern world." 14 AMERICAN fEATURE II oes it take a few w iles?" Making sense of language acquisition by Jim Edwards o how do we do it? Learn to talk, that is. For more than twenty years, Naomi Baron- a linguistics professor in the Department of Language and Foreign Studies and former associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)- has been asking questions about and finding answers to the mystery of how people come to communicate. Her latest book, Growing Up with Language (1992), which made Baron something of fixture on media talk shows and in newspaper columns across the country, deals with how human beings acquire language. Although Baron herself has a wealth of education to draw from (she minored in linguistics as an undergraduate at Brandei Univer ity and earned her doctorat in linguistics, specializing in child language acquisition, at Stanford University), much of what she has learned about language acquisition came from watching her eight-year-old son, Aneil, and his playmates in their infant, toddler, and preschool years. Here, edited, is what she has to say about how we learn to talk. American: You mention your son, Aneil, in talking about your work children vary from each other in their language-learning strategies. on language acquisition. How important was he to your research? We know some children start with one word at a time, and some children start with more socially oriented phrases- "Thank you," Baran· G,-, · , , . • owmg up wtth Language was going to be done two weeks "Gimme," and that sort of thing. But I also found that some chil before Aneil was due to arrive. He decided to come six weeks dren are risk takers and some children are far more cautious. For early, so that plan was totally shot. And I'm very glad, because example, not all children are willing to try out a word that has a much of what I had learned earlier about how children acquire sound in it they can't handle. language turned out not to describe very much of what my son and h.is friends were doing. I began to get very different answers to American: For example? questions I had been asking for almost twenty years: "Why do chil dren learn language?" and "How, really, do they do it?" Baron: My son loved airplanes from the time he was six or seven months old. Unfortunately, he didn't have a way to name them, American: What did you learn from watching Aneil and his friends? even when he was two years old. While he understood the word "plane," he wouldn't try saying it, because he couldn't get the "pi" Baron•· At fIr st , I watched children try to turn over. Babies have to sound combination out. Most two- or three-year-olds settle for I~arn how to turn over from their front to their back. We take this "pane," or "Jane," but not Aneil. Like other cautious learners, he ~mple act for granted until we see children struggling to do it. would not attempt a word unless he knew he could pronounce it hey work very hard at it. We used to say language acquisition just correctly. I strongly suspect we're going to find as we do more sort of happens, that we're biologically programmed for language research that some of these aspects of personality that we thought to happen. Yet, when you spend hours observing children learning had nothing to do with language are indeed very predictive of the to talk, you see that they work hard at it. I also noticed how much kinds of strategy a child uses to form [language] . WINTER 1995 IS American: What else did you learn? Baron: Do you assume your eat's going to learn to talk? Baron: I got a sense of the breadth of strategies children try. We've American: No. known for a long time that many children do what's often called "overgeneralization." Instead of saying, "I saw two men," they might Baron: Yet you speak with both of them, even though neither say, quite reasonably, "I saw two mans." "Pot" is to "pots" as "man" answers you back. You address them in similar ways: high-pitched is to "mans." Makes sense, right? They have to learn later that, "Oh, tone, lots of repetition, frequent use of questions, and simplified 'men' is an exception." There are other kinds of strategies children grammar and vocabulary. Why? Because it makes YOU feel as if end up using that we just call ungrammatical, but they are actually you are being understood, even though, rationally, you know you the child's creative attempt to work out the language. For example, probably aren't. a child says, "Would you please don't do that?" As it stands, the sentence is ungrammatical. What the child did is combine "Would American: When do you think language development actually begins? you please" and "Don't do that," because both phrases are said all the time. This "scissors and paste" strategy, like overgeneralization, Baron: It depends on what you take to be language. When I was often yields constructions that defy adult correction. going to graduate school, I was told that language development begins around age two, because linguists at that time were mainly American: You have written that adults, as well as little children, feel interested in the structure of sentences. And children, on average, the need to communicate- what you call the "conversational start putting two words together around age eighteen to twenty-two imperative." What do you mean? months. But if your interests in language are broader-if you want to understand the communicative bases for language- you need Baron: At least in contemporary, Western society, when in the pres to begin your inquiries much earlier. ence of sentient beings, we have a tendency to talk- whether or not the interlocutor understands us. We talk to strangers on air American: Could the first cry out of the mother's womb be a form planes, foreigners with whom we don't share a common language, of communication? very young children, and even pets. Baron: I wouldn't go too far. When an infant cries upon birth, as American: I was thinking about how I talk to my cat and how I talk to best we know, he or she is not saying, "Hi Mom, hi Dad." That child my eight-month-old son. is trying to breathe oxygen for the first time, which is enough of a challenge. The kinds of sounds you hear the first couple of weeks Baron: And what do you say? of life, sometimes called "vegetative noises," aren't really commu nication. That's just getting the pieces of the vocal apparatus to American: The same sorts of things: "Do you want some milk? move. The same as children starting to figure out, "What are these Do you want some milk? That's good." things that are attached to the end of my shoulders?" Once an infant can establish eye contact and gain control over vocaliza Baron: I assume you believe your son is going to learn to talk. tions, then you start the rudiments of communication. Generally speaking, children begin to understand pieces of language much American: I assume it, yes. earlier than they can articulate those pieces themselves. Com pre- Ready! Set! Talk! As Baron points out in her work on language acquisition, .Challenge your child linguistically. Language games, inter little children work very hard at learning how to talk. But estmg words, and adult grammar provide models for children parents can help. Here's how: to emulate. Talk with your child. Rates of language acquisition Be patient. Children vary enormously in their rate and style typically correlate with the amount of language addressed of language acquisition. Unless you sense a real problem in to children. language development, avoid comparison with other chil Give your child ample talk time. Encourage children to dren's language milestones. Just as girls develop physically express themselves, and resist the temptation to break in on sooner than boys, understand also that girls tend to develop slow or awkward language attempts. more quickly linguistically than boys; second-born children, Build on your child's conversation. Expand on what chil on average, are slower than first-born children. dren say, acknowledging their success in communicating. -J.E. 16 AMERICAN hension begins by at least six or seven brain is best suited for learning languages months of age, if not earlier, though first early on. Around the age of puberty, lan words are usually not articulated until ten guage learning becomes neurologically or twelve months. The gap between com harder. Then there's the social issue. Eight prehension and production is explained, een-month-aids are much less self-conscious in part, by the challenge of learning to con than eighteen-year-olds! Learning two lan trol the vocal apparatus. We know that guages is very natural. It is done th roughout children who are born into signing envi much of the rest of the world. Very com ronments, whether they're hearing or deaf, monly, one parent will speak one language, generally start signing words a month or one parent will speak another. So the chil AU professor Naomi Baron posed with dren learn, for example, If Mommy's talking, two earlier than children born into speak her son, Aneil, in this photograph for it's going to be Span ish. Many parents don't mg environments articulate their first words. her 1992 book, Growing Up with Language. And with good reason. have the opportunity to ra ise their children American: Why are signing novices more After more than twenty years of study bilingually but others ignore golden oppor advanced? and research on language acquisition, tunities. Consider American parents who Baron drew new conclusions about have a full-time caregiver who speaks a lan how we learn to talk, by watching her Baron: It's harder to control the vocal appa guage other than English. I see many sad son 's development. ratus than it is the muscles in the hands. instances on playgrounds in the Washington Actually seeing a sign for a boy, girl, or tree area where non-English-speaking caregivers is also much easier than hearing "boy." sit in silence with their young charges. I wish more parents would encourage their international nannies and American: Besides the mode used to communicate what other babysitters to speak with these children naturally- in Portuguese, forces affect language development? ' Spanish, Russian, or whatever. Today, it's fairly easy to reinforce second-language learning. You can go to ethnic grocery stores, lis Baron: We know the amount of language addressed to a child has a ten to foreign language programming on radio or television, go to strong bearing on the rate of language development. Children who international festivals, and travel abroad. Even if you can't make hear more language directed at them tend to be faster overall in your child bilingual, in the sense of being accomplished in two their early stages of language development. Why? You have more languages, you can still develop an understanding of and apprecia opportunity to decipher the code and, hopefully, practice. Twins tion for linguistic diversity. tend to be a little slower in language development because, quite literally, there isn 't as much time in the day to address two children American: What are some advantages of being bilingual? as to address one. Not surprisingly, younger siblings generally lag behind older sisters and brothers in their rate of early language Baron: All the research we have now tells us that children who grow development. When a mother addresses her two-year-old but her up bilingually not only have the access to a second language and ten-year-old answers, the two-year-old isn't getting much of a culture but also have some cognitive advantages. Those advan chance to practice language. tages come from learning early that an object such as a tree can have more than one name. Researchers call this "cognitive flexibil American: But are there any advantages to being a twin or the ity," and that tends to correlate with measures of intelligence. younger child? American: There's so much to talk about but so little time. Just answer this one question about yourself. You are quoted in arti Baron: Things do tend to even out. One of the things we find in cles. You have written extensively. Your books are reviewed . You twins and with siblings who are similar in age to each other, is are interviewed in the media. What have you learned from all this th~t often their social language- their ability to carry on a conver s~tion , to know how to take the floor- develops faster than with experience? smgletons, who tend to be more advanced in their grammatical development. Baron: What I've realized is the enormous amount of interest and insight the general public has regarding children's language devel opment. I believe linguists have an obligation to share their under American: Your research spills over into the acquisition of second standing with parents and professionals who have real and practical la~guages. What advice would you give people who want their Children to be bilingual? concerns about how children learn language. If I can pass along the theoretical understanding that I come to and share it with people who need to make use of it in their daily Baron: Begin as early as possible. The more we learn about the neu lives, then I've accomplished something. rological development of children, the clearer it becomes that our WINTER 1995 17 fEATURE Benjamin Ladner inaugurated as AU's president Says the university's one great challenge is "to claim the full measure of its own unique identity" he November 4 inauguration More than fifty delegates represent Tof Benjamin Ladner as the ing other colleges and universities, thirteenth president of the learned societies, and foreign gov university was a time of celebration, ernments attended the event- many reflection, and promise. In his inau wearing colorful academic regalia gural address during a traditional that added to the festive scene in academic ceremony in Bender the arena during the ceremony and Arena, Ladner reminded the audi at the reception following. ence of AU's historical strengths The day came to a lively conclu and its special heritage as a private sion as hundreds of AU faculty and institution with a strong sense of staff members, students, and alum public responsibility. He encour ni, and other delighted guests aged the university community to danced the night away beneath the "embrace what has been welling chandeliers of the main hall of up through a century of hopes and Washington's National Museum of dreams and courageous decisions." Women in the Arts. The mix of peo Ladner said, "If you remember ple at the inaugural ball, their care nothing else of what I say, remem free exuberance, and the general ber this: There is one, and only feeling of goodwill in the air made one, great challenge facing The for a memorable encling to a mem American University over the next orable day-and an auspicious few years- it is to claim the full beginning to a new era. measure of its own unique identi ty." (For the full text of Ladner's address, see page 21.) Ladner's appreciation of AU's uncommon role in higher educa tion and public life was echoed in greetings from the Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton, delegate to the U.S. House of Representa tives for the District of Columbia; ..t. Before an audience of faculty, students, staff, alumni, distin AU trustee Roger Ireson, general guished guests, and the president's family and friends, AU board f.f secretary of the Board of Higher chairman Edward R. Carr '62, left, invests Benjamin Ladner, Education and Ministry of the center, with a new symbol of office minted for the inauguration . \ United Methodist Church; George a large silver medallion bearing the university seal. The medal ~ Washington University professor lion hangs from a pair of silver chains on which are also placed James Millar, representing the emblems of AU's six schools and colleges. Carr also ceremonially American Council of Learned presented the new president with a copy of the university's Act of Incorporation and its bylaws. Helping Carr with the chains is Societies; and Judy Jolley Mohraz, communications professor John Douglass, who as chair of the president of Goucher College. University Senate serves as university marshal. 18 AMERICAN 4 During the inauguration ceremony, Student Confederation (SC) president Jesse Heier '95, left, congratulates Ladner, as Student Bar Association (SBA) president Melissa White looks on. On behalf of the SC, the SBA, and the Graduate Student Council- represented on the 4 Nancy Bullard Ladner joins her husband for platform by its president, David Carlson-Heier presented Ladner with a plant, a symbol of a an informal portrait following the inauguration red oak tree later planted on campus in the new AU president's honor. Alan Ford, chair of the ceremony. Staff Council, Pamela McCarthy Deese '80, '83, president of the alumni association, and 1994 Scholar/Teacher of the Year Roberta Rubenstein, literature, CAS, representing the faculty, also made presentations to Ladner. 4 The American University Concert Choir, under the direction of Elise Eisenhower, center, performs during the inaugural ceremony. Faculty, distin guished guests, and members of the platform party processed into the arena to music performed by the AU Symphony Orchestra under the baton of resi dent conductor Alfonso M Pollard while-in a traditional touch-Ladner was piped to the platform by kilted' bagpiper Mark O'Donnell, a graduate stu dent in AU's School of Public Affairs. 4 In the robing room before the ceremony, AU professor of education Sally Smith chats with now retired math professor Basil Korin, CAS. In keeping with the traditional academic tone of the proceedings, faculty and other - WINTER 1995 19 ~ Ladner accepts a congratula tory hug from Princeton University history professor Michael Mahoney, one of more than fifty distinguished dele gates attending the ceremony. Mahoney is a trustee of the National Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, the organiza tion Ladner headed before he came to AU in July 1994. .A From left, Kogod graduate student Alain Kinsch joins undergraduates Carole Pignorel '95 and Khalid Alaraimi '96 at the campus reception following the inaugural ceremony. Kinsch and Pignorel hail from France; Alaraimi is from Oman. More than a thousand guests mixed and mingled to the sweet notes of Dixieland jazz and sampled the sweet and spicy tastes of Southern cuisine at the reception . .A His father, Bill, left, and eldest son, David, flank AU's new president, Benjamin Ladner, following the ceremony. Many members of the Ladners' families attended the inauguration . .A Members of the campus community-including an exuberant group of students in an impromptu conga line-crowd the dance floor and second-floor balcony of the National Museum of Women in the Arts during the ball celebrating the inauguration. .A AU alumni association president Pamela McCarthy Deese '80, '83, and AU trustee Roger Ireson, center, greet Edward R. Carr '62, chair of the university's board of trustees, in the robing room prior to the 20 AMERICAN ceremony. The inaugural address of Benjamin Ladner November 4, 1994 American University over the hairman Carr, distin next few years- it is to claim Cguished trustees, the full measure of its own esteemed faculty, excep unique identity. tional students, honored guests, devoted friends, and his university, as much amazed family: I am enriched Tas any university I know, and humbled by your pres has inherited its com ence on this occasion. plex identity from the idea of There are few human its founding. Late in the 19th endeavors with so certain a century, Methodist Bishop destiny of oblivion as inaugur John Fletcher Hurst sensed al addresses. The causes the need for a national univer range from boring to just plain sity reflective of and respon bad. But it is also true that the sive to the broad public word "inauguration" (from interests uniquely characteris "augury," meaning "to divine tic of the nation's capital. He or foretell the future") breeds and others set out to build a late-night murmurs in the university that would serve brains of new presidents, leav the building of a nation. The ing them woozy with feelings idea of The American Univer of prescience and tempted to sity was self-consciously con try their hand at divination. nected to and supportive of These brain-murmurs have what we knew about ourselves sometimes erupted without as a young nation. The private warning in inaugural address interests of the university and es. I have seen otherwise nor the public interests of the mal presidents abandon country grew in tandem. shame and common sense to In 1893, The American espouse grand, eccentric University was formally char visions and make godlike tered by an Act of Congress. It promises they could never began as a graduate school keep. with a public affairs curriculum. Symbolically, the gavel I am myself a survivor of these late-night skirmishes but George Washington used to lay the cornerstone of the U.S. have been chastened by my family, who admonished me not Capitol was used to lay the cornerstone of our Hurst Hall , to_ say more than I know, thereby ensuring I would be brief. completed in 1898. In 1907, university officials purchased for Still, I do have something to say; and this ceremony, as $465 a letter written in 1795 by George Washington in which he described his vision of a national university in the mu~h as together we can make it, may yet inaugurate what, nation's capital. This letter was often cited as the real gene un~Il now, we had not fully imagined for The American Umversity. sis of The American University, and early university docu ments sometimes referred to the university as "George . Although I have been here only a few short months, your Washington's National University." Presidents William Investment in the university and in me requires that I say as McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin Harrison, Warren clearly as I can what I understand about who we are, where Harding, and Herbert Hoover served as members of our ~e have been, and where we are going. And when I have fin board of trustees; and later, Harry Truman and Dwight Ished ' 1·f you remember nothing else of what I say remember Eisenhower served as honorary trustees. this·· Th ere IS· one, and only one, great challenge facmg' · Th e WINTER 1995 21 Those early days swirled with nationalism and Protestant or a very long time, our major institutions have been enthusiasm, so it did not seem unrealistic to plant the seeds Fthe essential vehicles for meeting the needs of the pub of a great national university and expect it to grow. But the lic. They were understood to have transcended the money did not come as planned; and World War I turned the views of any one of us, protecting what we collectively campus into Camp American agreed should be preserved for our University. Our beginnings were selves and our children. Now we are complete, and they would define the "It is more than inaugural perplexed by the vulnerability of character of this institution for a these institutions to the relentless century: the dream of a great nation rhetoric to observe that assaults of narrow self-interest. In al university in the nation's capital; reaction, many institutions have the influence of Protestant religion; The American University come to resemble an awkward evo strong academic leadership; a need has reached a pivotal lutionary creature adapted to the to build and expand, but lacking the modern world by a specialized financial means to do so; steady moment in its history. capacity to turn our fondest hopes progress interrupted by unexpected into competing interests that breed events; and a lingering sense of a Poised between memo- misunderstanding, political paraly dream deferred, of the university's sis, and widespread cynicism. When potential never fully realized. ries and expectations, that happens, "what we think," says R.D. Laing, "is less than what we we are called upon by know; what we know is less than ow, again, we are engaged in a our history and present what we love; what we love is so Nceremony of beginnings. It is much less than what there is. And to more than inaugural rhetoric circumstances to declare that precise extent we are so much to observe that The American less than what we are." (The Politics University has reached a pivotal ourselves and to chart a of Experience, p. 30) moment in its history. Poised Unlike the crisis of authority in between memories and expecta specific future:' the 1960s, in which institutions were tions, we are called upon by our his accused of failing to embody the val- tory and present circumstances to ues they were created to protect, declare ourselves and to chart a specific future. The past now every value has become a special interest, and institu few years have been of a piece with the experience of our tions are pressured to meet the conflicting demands of radi founding ancestors, leaving us somewhat uncertain about cally individualized strategies for self-aggrandizement. the long-term impact of recent events upon our century-old Institutions are increasingly regarded solely as a functional dreams. means for attaining private ends. It would be irresponsible to describe in sweeping terms a "When the public domain is so regarded," says Richard future of unlimited possibilities. The future of American Sennett, "the space where we might meet as strangers gath University, and any university for that matter, is not simply ered round a common reality which is mutually sustaining open. It will be defined not only by these times of economic to each of us has become empty. ... We cannot presuppose stringency and intense competition but also by our own a common understanding, a common acknowledgement of capacities to confront old and new human dilemmas, and by beauty, or a common virtue; first gestures are regarded as the depth of our resolve to face up to them. hostile; values made public are necessarily competing val An institution of higher learning in Washington, D.C., with ues, rather than grounds for the attainment of common pur the auspicious name of "The American University," spurning pose." (The Fall of Public Man, p. 27) the temptations of pretension or perpetual self-analysis, When it is impossible to recognize what we hold in com knows that its future is inescapably tied to a specifically mon, then, in the strictest possible meaning of the term, we American destiny. That destiny, however, is now clouded by have lost our "common sense." It is, after all, what is a remarkable crisis, which may well be the most alarming between us, what is not possessed by any single one of us, dilemma of our time: namely, the extent to which the self-set and yet what must be maintained and cared for by all of us, goals of private individuals are unrelated to the expanding that is the defining mark of a civilized people. When the needs of the public domain. commons deteriorate, we can then be persuaded that a fail- - 22 AMERICAN ing national educational system or health care system or quality of what we are able to imagine about ourselves and system of litigation is an acceptable price to pay to accom our culture, and whether we have the courage, as the poet modate ideological cliches and bumper-sticker causes that Shelley urges, "to act that which we imagine." Because of the lead repeatedly to impasse; or that thoughtful efforts by historic interconnection of this university to the culture public institutions to solve urgent problems affecting wide which has brought it into being, that culture now has a right segments of our own or the world's population can be to turn to us in uncertain times and ask, "Where do we go deferred indefinitely in the name of political opportunism; from here?" or that the vast bedrock of inherited wisdom about the To realize the dream of our beginnings, The American human condition on which societies and universities alike University must take as its special purview the hard work of were built can be reduced to mere opinion, contributing lit restoring the commons, of fashioning new and more com tle to what we must know and do in order to live healthy, pelling images of human community, of demonstrating the productive lives in an increasingly troubled world. positive effects of institutional change and collective action These last years of the twentieth century look like noth in our own manner of operating, of bridging more immedi ing so much as a giant historical crucible within which polit ately and more effectively the traditional gap between pri ical, ethnic, economic, religious, and environmental forces vate interests and public responsibilities, of configuring commingle and clash. So many of the conventional sign within the public space of this campus the idea of an posts we thought would provide direction for at least a life American university, distinctly different from any other by time either have disappeared or become unreadable. In the virtue of its capacity to create the conditions for genuine interim, we have fallen victim to the bizarre, titillating social plurality and diversity sustained by mutual dependence. fantasy- now as familiar as the air we breathe- that enter The special task of The American University, woven inex taining ourselves is a fair trade for knowing ourselves. tricably into its historic mission, is to construct a communi Educational institutions, let us admit, can be among the ty of ceaseless, thoughtful discourse in which, over and least responsive and isolated operating structures in our over, we deliberately place ourselves in contexts of compar society, notwithstanding the extraordinary liberating impact ative thought and inquiry that, as individuals, we ourselves the quest for knowledge can have on any individual on a may not fully understand; in other words, to begin anew the given day. Some would argue that the very purpose and age-old process of discovery. The American University meaning of universities have been rendered suspect by their thoroughly American, thoroughly university- must be will pitched ideological battles, entrenched bureaucracies, exor ing to be defined by how we respond to what we do not yet bitant costs, and outdated arguments of self-justification. At know, which is the essence of discovery, rather than by the a time when nearly every major structure of human interac efficiency with which we accumulate and dispense familiar tion is undergoing dramatic, sometimes bewildering, alter information. ation, it is unrealistic to suppose that universities can remain unchanged as he goal of education is not simply self-evidently precious bastions of T the accumulation of knowledge, knowledge. however vast, however profound. "Education," says Hannah Arendt, "is the point at which we decide whether we love t. is neither presumptuous nor preten the world enough to assume responsibility Itious to claim that The American for it and by the same token save it from University still has a chance to be a that ruin which, except for renewal, except different kind of university and, for the for the coming of the new and young, first time in a long time, to realize the would be inevitable. And education, too, is dream of its beginnings. It is not primari where we decide whether we love our chil dren enough not to expel them from our ly a dream of greatness or national pres world and leave them to their own devices, tige. Greatness and national acclaim nor to strike from their hands their chance could only be byproducts of who we are of undertaking something new, something and what we do. They cannot be sought unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in and attained for their own sake. advance for the task of renewing a common Our difference, our distinctness as a world." (Between Past and Future, p. 196) university, will rest on the depth and iO ~ WINTER 1995 23 Moving to a next level of institutional maturity requires a for service, between the deep human impulse to serve and renewed confidence in who we are and what exceptional the potentially tragic drama of competing needs and values. efforts have brought us to this point. But we must also be We are free now to believe again what we have always willing to admit that we have not fully stretched ourselves known about ourselves but have been told too infrequently: as an academic institution. We have this university, without any changes, been working hard, but we have is much better than we have dared hardly begun to tap the exceptional "Every day we ask our believe; the faculty is much, much talent and energy of our faculty, stu better than we have been able to dents, staff, alumni, and trustees on students to understand make them feel; the students are behalf of the university as a whole. deliciously bright and curious, and Every day we ask our students to more than they thought like the institution to which they understand more than they thought have come-are full of potential; the they could and to reach for more they could and to reach trustees have guided the institution than they had imagined was possi through crisis and opportunity but ble. We can demand no less of this for more than they had are still ready to take up the mantle institution in building a structure to imagined was possible. of leadership; the staff is not just make that possible. marking time in mundane jobs but is We can demand no less actively and creatively working to make this a better place, because came to this position not because of this institution in build- they believe in it and care about it; I there are some interesting things and the alumni- 65,000 strong-are going on at The American ing a structure to make eager to show that they, too, still University, or because there is belong and want to contribute to (believe me!) a real challenge to that possible:' this vibrant community that molded build the endowment, or because and shaped their very lives. there are unmet needs similar to You have bestowed a great respon those at other universities. I came because I heard in the sibility upon me. This ceremony of presidential inauguration words of the people I met, another, deeper voice, older, can now also bestow upon the entire community a new free blending strands of a history, pushing insistently into the dom to embrace what has been welling up through a centu present, and speaking of what may yet be possible. You are ry of hopes and dreams and courageous decisions-to a remarkable people, and because you are, this university become more than we have been and all that, deep down, has always grown from the inside. There has been no great we already are. financial gift that dramatically turned us into something "And the end of all our exploring," says T.S. Eliot's greater than we had dreamed, no outside agency to deter famous poem, "Will be to arrive where we started/And to mine what we should be. We have always done it ourselves. know the place for the first time." After so long a journey, we Now, there is a bold experiment in American education have arrived again at the beginning. What we all want most waiting to be undertaken. It is not simply to try to encom for The American University awaits only our courage to pass academically all that could possibly be imagined but know it and to claim it. instead to redraw the boundaries of the university to embrace the bewildering contradictions of the American experience itself and to design ways of operating to foster and support the simple joy and delight of the daily-ness of being our best selves with each other. What is special, what is distinctive about this university, what has brought it to a moment unlike any other in its his tory, poised now to claim an uncharted future for which it is nevertheless uniquely prepared, is this: The American University is a private university with a public responsibili ty. Its peculiar institutional genius is to have gone further than other institutions in bridging the gap between individ ual and society, between private values and public responsi bility, between the theoretical and the practical, between traditional forms of knowledge and nontraditional demands 24 AMERICAN I PAGES Rattlebone, by Maxine Clair, 1994, the book: "Folks who don't read [Clair's] Ghost Letters, by Richard McCann, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, work ... will be missing out on some 1994, Cambridge, Mass.: Alice James 213 pages thing special. We need stories like these Books, 72 pages to replenish us." In Rattlebone, a fictional black commu The poems in this col nity located near 1950s Kansas City, the lection by Richard lives of the town's residents are bound Pulitzer Prize Editorials: McCann, professor of together as tightly as the rubber America's Best Editorial Writing literature, CAS, and band- clasped covers of a young girl's 1917-1993, second edition, edited co-director of AU's diary. Maxine Clair '84 begins her much by Wm. David Sloan and Laird B. MFA program in cre praised collection of Anderson, 1994, Ames, Iowa: Iowa ative writing, are Ghost Letters interconnected short State University Press, 263 pages described by poet stories by conjuring Mark Doty as "posted up French-teaching, This anthology of Pulitzer Prize-win from our moment's shoulder-padded ning editorials, coedited by Laird most laden and poignant territory, the dress - wearing Anderson of AU's School of Commu zone where mortality and desire inter October Brown: "We nication, provides background on the sect. These poems have as much heard it from our most coveted prize in journalism and courage as they do craft . ... This fero friends, who got it explanatory headnotes that put each ciously tender poet instructs us that to from their near eye year's winner in context. How has the be fully alive is to be entirely haunted." Witness grandmothers and their must tone of editorials changed over the Winner of the 1993 Capricorn Poetry be-psychic neighbor ladies, that when years? Compare the institutional voice Award and the 1994 Beatrice Hawley she was our same age, our teacher, Miss that accompanies your morning cup of Award. October Brown, watched her father fire coffee with this excerpt from Atlanta through his rage right on into her moth Constitution editor Ralph McGill's 1959 Briefly noted ... er's heart. In a fi t of crazy-making grief, winning entry, an editorial composed in October Brown threw herself at walls just twenty minutes Research Methodology and African and floors and cursed the name of God, after McGill learned Studies, Volume I, edited by Abdul Karim Bangura, 1994, Lanham, Md.: apparently not mere blasphemy but about the bombing of University Press of America, Inc., 262 mutterings that could cause limbs to Atlanta's largest syn agogue: "Let us face pages ~rimp and men to yowl like jackals." hrough the lives of the people October the facts. This is a Abdul Karim Bangura '82, assistant pro Brown touches-her pupils Irene harvest. It is the crop fessor of political science and director Wilson and Irene's "fourteen-going-on ---- of things sown. It is of the Public Policy Program at Bowie twenty" friend Wanda; Irene's father, :::;M~A;~;~s~~;:,N the harvest of defi- State University, edited this collection James, who leaves his family for the ance of courts and of ten essays on African studies and also fancy-dressing teacher with the wavy lit the encouragement of citizens to defy contributed two of the essays and the tle white scar on her cheek; and Thomas law on the parts of many Southern introduction. Notes, figures, tables, bibli and Lydia Pemberton, owners of the politicians. It will be grimly humorous if ography, notes on contributors. rooming house where October Brown certain state attorneys general issue statements of regret. And it will be quite lives-the world of Rattlebone comes Jacket design from Rattlebone by Maxine Clair. alive. Novelist Terry McMillan said of a job for some editors, columnists and Copyright © 1994 by Maxine Clair. Jacket design © commentators, who have been saying 1994 by Debbie Glasserman. Reprinted by permis that our courts have no jurisdiction and sion of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Also giving American magazine permission to reproduce book that the people should refuse to accept jackets are Iowa State University Press and Richard their authority, now to deplore. It is not McCann. PHOTOS BY MELISSA LAITSCH possible to preach lawlessness and restrict it." WINTER 1995 25 I DEVELOPMENTS Law school gets big gifts; Annual Fund programs generate more dollars, donors As the Washington College of Law (WCL) pre of American States and current vice chair of pared to renovate its new home at 4801 Massa the center's advisory board; newswoman chusetts Avenue last fall, phase two of the extraordinaire Helen Thomas, UP! White campaign to raise funds for the new facility was House Bureau Chief and dean of the Washing already in full swing. Warren Bronsnick '72 ton Press Corps; and Ismat Kittani, special was the first to contribute, augmenting his advisor to the Secretary General of the United initial gift made during phase one of the fund Nations. The tribute-cum-benefit raised more raising effort. In addition, the law school than $80,000 for the center. received building fund gifts from Albin Gess '71, Meanwhile, back on campus, the cognoscenti G. Stephen Ingram '68, and Susan Drescher of Washington's art world were on hand at the Mulzet '82. And that's not all. The dean's dis Watkins Gallery in November to view selec cretionary fund also got a boost from Leonard tions from the collection of alumni couple Jaques '62 and the Intertech Corporation. Nick Keating and Carleen Butler Keating. Moving on to programs, the Center for the Now California expatriates, the two native From left, AU president Benjamin Study of the Global South received a gift Washingtonians, who first met in the cafeteria Ladner, Nancy Bullard Ladner, from benefactor Abdul Al-Qattan, while another of the Mary Graydon Center, have three AU Carleen Keating '64, and Nick benefactor, Khalid Ali Alturki, donated funds Keating '63, '64, at the November degrees between them. Nick, currently chair opening of a Watkins Gallery show to the Peace Studies Program Development man of the board of Graphic Equipment Tech featuring prints loaned by the Fund. nology, earned his bachelor's and master's alumni couple. In addition, the Royal Embassy of Saudi degrees from the School of International Arabia honored Dr. and Mrs. Jerold Princi Service in 1963 and 1964 respectively, while pato by making a gift to the Keck Art History Carleen completed her bachelor's degree in Fund. The fund is named for art professor art history in 1964. Avid collectors of folk and emeritus Andrew Keck. decorative arts, the Keatings, spurred on by Other gifts to the university last fall included Carleen's art consulting business, have also scholarship funds from the Charlotte New developed a strong interest in prints-twen combe Foundation and the United Methodist ty-four of which were on display. Several Church, as well as support from one of the artists whose works were represented in the university's honorary alumni, Masanobu show stopped by to visit, including Sam Fukamachi, chancellor of Aoyama Gakin, a Gilliam, Willem de Looper '57, Marguerite Methodist Church-related school in Japan. Saegesser, and Joseph Zirkin. Also making In the this-is-your-life department, a star the scene were AU president Benjamin studded crowd of Washington insiders gath Ladner, Nancy Bullard Ladner, and Warren ered at the headquarters of the Organization Robbins, founding director emeritus of the of American States last October to pay tribute Smithsonian Institution's National Museum to Clovis Maksoud, director of AU's Center of African Art. for the Study of the Global South. Among While the gang at the Watkins Gallery par those praising the accomplishments of the tied on, staffers at the Office of Annual Giving former diplomat-lawyer-journalist turned aca were doing a little celebrating of their own demic were H. M. Queen Noor of Jordan, over the successful launch of several new honorary chair of all the center's highly suc programs that together have added more cessful conferences; former U.S. senators gifts to the university's Annual Fund. As of James Abourezk and Charles Percy; December 15, 1994, the Annual Fund had Ambassador Joao Clemente Baena Soares, received $390,000 in unrestricted support former secretary general of the Organization (an increase of 11 percent over this time last 26 AMERICAN year) from 2,832 donors. Among those shar tant, since the Class of '95's gift this year is a ing in the kudos were the AU students who scholarship to be awarded to two juniors to staffed the phonathon center for the first help supplement their senior-year expenses. time last fall. Working nights and weekends, While it's too soon to say how the Senior these kids telephoned undergraduate alumni, Class Gift Program and the Parents Fund parents, and special reunion gift classes in a will fare this year, we can report that the new fund-raising program designed to bring Reunion '95 gift campaigns are getting under the campus closer to the university's donors. way. Young alum trustee Carlos Cisneros '90 The result? More than $260,000 in pledges is chairing his class's fifth reunion effort, for the Annual Fund. assisted by Michael Buckley, Maureen Craw Not to be outdone, the leadership of two ford, and Anneli Shearer. Heading up the other university gift-giving groups met on Class of '85's effort will be television produc campus this fall to work on ways to increase tion executive Donald Taffner Jr. '85. His support among their individual members. In committee consists of classmates Maria November, President's Circle Council mem Montanez and Jeffrey Ferrell. (fhis bunch bers gathered to discuss fund-raising strate already has a leg up on the project since an gies and techniques and to meet newly anonymous donor has given them a $5,000 inaugurated AU president Benjamin Ladner, challenge grant.) who was attending his first leadership session Alumni association president Pamela of the university's premier gift-giving society. McCarthy Deese '80, '83, will chair the Class On hand to welcome Ladner were PC Council of '80's reunion gift program. To date, class chair Mark McCombs '81; Kogod College mates Loren Danielson, Joseph Gallagher, faculty member Donald Brenner and his J. Montgomery Gingery, and Dana Hollinger wife, Gail; parent representatives Roberto Goldinger have signed on as committee and Connie Coquis; Jonah Gitlitz '55; Sam members. Keker '39; Charlie Kligman '49; Greg Chairing the Class of '75's campaign is AU Weingast '84; and Magenta Yglesias '79. trustee/benefactor Suzanne Hillman. Her Meanwhile, the joint was jumping at the committee consists of Elizabeth Campbell Young Alumni Fund (YAf) leadership steering and David Adler. committee meeting, as members Jessica Stuart Bindeman '70 is chairing his class's Kavoulakis '87, Stewart Small '89, Jennifer effort, while former President's Circle co Mayer Copersino '91, Carol Dolnick '91 chair Marcia Cloobeck '65 chairs hers with Lisa Krainski '91, Stuart Nolan '92, Cindy assistance from Sherry Mueller. (Class of '65 Schranghamer Nolan '91, Cathy Ware people please note: Cloobeck has already Partridge '91, Laura Pawlowski '92 Tom made a leadership gift to get the ball rolling.) Cicotello '92, Brandy Corcoran '92,' Matt AU trustee Stuart Bernstein '60 and his Glassman '92, Anjali Kochar '93, Lynn wife, Wilma '60, will spearhead their class's Bagorazzi '93, Sue Holub '94, Frank Rose '94, effort. Just to make things interesting, they, and Steve Shapiro '94 discussed their group's too, have given a leadership gift, and their expansion efforts. committee members Richard Skelly, Amelia Aspiring alumni givers in any age bracket "Mimi" Wright, and Morton Levine are ca~ learn a great deal from watching longtime already hard at work. university supporters Charles Gianni '69 and Leading the Class of '55's reunion gift cam his wife, Eleanor, in action. Right now these paign will be Jonah Gitlitz '55, past chair of two university stalwarts are involved with two the President's Circle Council, who, not to be different Annual Fund programs, the Parents outdone by Cloobeck and the Bernsteins, has Fund and the Senior Class Gift Program, co also made a leadership gift to his class's effort. chaired · by Bethany Mascena '95 and Ayanna Finally the Faculty/Staff Campaign, Maharry '95. As parents themselves [two of chaired by Kogod College professor Donald the Giannis' four children are AU alumni] Brenner, is looking for support for its yearly ~hey know what it costs to educate a child. effort to benefit the Annual Fund. Last year hat's why they've given a $25,000 challenge faculty and staff contributed more than rant for new gifts to the Parents Fund and a $52,000 in unrestricted funds to the universi S,OOO challenge grant to the Senior Class Gift ty. This year, already, fifty individuals have Program. This last grant is particularly impor- made their commitments. WINTER 1995 27 I ALUMNI Alumni link up at East Coast events Even before AU's incoming students could also offered some food for thought, as Wash· say goodbye to family last summer, AU alums ington Post reporter Pamela Constable told were busy welcoming them into a new one. forty SIS alums that life for U.S. journalists Alumni chapters in Philadelphia, Long Island, covering Latin America is no gira (picnic), in Manhattan, Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, and a talk called "Years of Living Dangerously: Boston hosted send-off receptions that, as all A U.S. Journalist Covers Latin America." good parties should, included good chow The chapter also offered real food for con like that at the bagel "nosh" in New York's sumption, as the group sat down to, naturally, Central Park or the conti- fajitas, burritos, and enchi nental breakfast in Atlanta. ladas. Also in Atlanta, an Later in the month, a August gathering of alumni group of School of Public from Washington-area col Affairs graduates met with leges and universities the Honorable James H. brought to the table ideas Bilbray (D-Nev.) '62, '64, on how to participate in at a breakfast hosted by the 1996 Olympic Games the SPA Alumni Chapter short of actually compet in the Rayburn House ing. Alumni from AU, Office Building September Georgetown, George 21. The session was such a Washington, and George hit that future breakfast Mason met with a repre meetings are in the works sentative from the Atlanta for SPA alums working on Committee of the Olympic Capitol Hill. Games at Clarence Foster's Speaking of hits, a record Tavernjn the popular Buck crowd of 170 young alums head area, to sip cold drinks, traded summer vacation and talk about getting into experiences at the Young the spirit of the Olympiad Alumni Chapter Happy by getting involved. For Hour at City Blues Cafe in mer AU Atlanta Alumni Washington. New and Chapter president Roberta familiar faces from the Lynn '81 was instrumental New Atlanta chapter president Deb graduating years 1984 to in organizing this cospon Shapiro '88, left, and Katy Stapleton '93 1994 were present at the sored event. were among alumni from American, chapter's second happy A School of Interna Georgetown, George Washington, and hour event this year. George Mason Universities who gathered tional Service Chapter In New York, about thir at Clarence Foster's Tavern in Atlanta lecture-reception Septem ty AU grads had a bloody ber 13 at the National August 2 for a meeting to discuss ways alumni from Washington-area colleges good time as they attend Press Club in Washington and universities can get involved in the ed the Broadway show 1996 Olympic Games in that city. 28 AMERICAN Alumni audit, summerl995 AU alumni may audit one nontutorial course per semester for $75 plus depart Upcoming ment costs, if applicable. Sixty dollars of the fee sup events ports the alumni Scholarship Fund. The fee is nonrefund Homecoming '95 Ball able unless the course is cancelled. Course availabili Sat., Feb. 25 ty is limited, and some courses require department The Pavilion or instructor approval. Reg at the AU president Benjamin Ladner, right, and wife Nancy Bullard Ladner, ister in the Office of Alumni Old Post Office second from right, with Betsy Ashton '66 and her husband, Jake Underhill, Relations, Constitution at a reception at th e Museum of Television and Radio October 24. Th is event Building, Suite 140, Tenley 9pm and another in Philadelphia gave more th an 250 alumni and parents a Campus, 4300 Nebraska chance to meet AU's new president. Avenue, NW, Washington, Tickets: $25/couple D.C. Summer Session I class $20/individual es begin May 15; Summer Blood Brothers, featuring Shauna Hicks '84. Session II classes, July 3. Hicks dazzled her fellow alums not only in the role of "Linda," but also as host of a private Dates and times for Summer For tickets, call the backstage tour. Afterward, the group ven Session I alumni audit regis Bender Arena box oHice, tured over to the pub "Don't Tell Mama" for tration are: (202) 885·3267. spirits and conversation with the Broadway actor. May 15, 9 am- 7 pm Meanwhile, more than 250 alumni and par May 16,9 am- 7 pm ents from the Philadelphia and New York May 17- 19, 9 am- 5 pm City areas are still talking about their meet ings with AU's new president, Benjamin Dates and times for Summer Ladner, and his wife, Nancy Bullard Ladner. Session II alumni audit regis AU's first couple attended receptions at the tration are: Philadelphia Museum of Art October 17 and New York's Museum of Television and Radio July 3, 9 am-7 pm October 24. Whether surrounded by beautiful July 5, 9 am-7 pm Works of art or by twenty television screens July 6-7, 9 am- 5 pm displaying the AU seal, Ladner used the oppor tunity to talk about the university's priorities and answer alums' questions. WINTER 1995 29 The best oftime(s) When Jack Haire '74 picks up his copy of clients- while getting twice as much busi Time magazine each week, he heads ness done as his competitors." straight for the news section. When he That description of his sales prowess is reads Newsweek, however, he checks the a bit much, Haire says, but he acknowl ads first. A perfectly understandable pat edges that he has always enjoyed the tern considering Haire is the man who team-building aspect of his job, which now publishes Time magazine. involves managing a 100-person sales and Looking out for the competition- and marketing staff in the U.S. and Canada. He staying one step ahead of it- are two of also disputes the article's characterization the secrets of Haire's successful fourteen of his golf swing as "ugly but effective." "I year career with Time's parent company, think they got that from the disgruntled Time-Warner, a career that has included Sports Illustrated publisher who played stints in advertising sales and advertising with me once in Chicago," Haire says. "It's sales management with Fortune, Time, and not ugly." Entertainment Weekly, plus time spent as Haire honed his competitive instincts one of four regional advertising sales vice as a wrestler at AU, where he regularly presidents for all the communication matched wills and skills with coach, men giant's New York- based magazines. tor, and still good friend Bob Karch, CAS, The third is a personal style that, as the director of AU's Health and Fitness 1993 Time article announcing his appoint Management Program. His sales savoir ment said, involves "endless time to listen faire comes from his father, who was pres to the concerns of his colleagues and ident of his own trade magazine publish ing company. In fact, magazine advertising sales is something of a family business for the Haires. Besides Jack, sister Janet is West Coast sales manager for Life maga zine, while sister Ann is the consumer marketing director for all of Billboard's magazines. These days, when he's not at home in Connecticut with his own family-wife Kathleen, and sons Billy and John- Haire spends a fair amount of time visiting his far-flung sales force and "getting . .. to meet and know our advertisers and their businesses." With a rate base of 4 million U.S. circulation and readership at its high est level in a decade, Haire is confident that "Time's best years are still ahead." And so, says he, are his. JACK HAJRE -Mary Jo Binker 30 AMERICAN Maxine Clair: Creating a life Between 'teaching at George Washington wrote: "Above all, one celebrates the quiet University and promoting Rattlebone, her assurance of her talent." critically acclaimed book of short stories How has her life changed since (see Pages, page 25), Maxine Clair '84 has a Rattle bone? crowded schedule these days. "It's been a confirmation for me that But the author's up-before-dawn regimen one should have dreams and that they do must seem easy compared with the chap come true, and that one holds on to one's ter of her life that opened in 1982, when vision and one's goal, and eventually, if you she entered American University's master keep working at it ... you'll realize it. ... of fine arts program in creative writing. "It's about the way that we live a life. It Back then, she was forty-two years old, the has something to do with creating what we chief medical technologist at Children's want as opposed to sitting back and hop National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., ing it will happen." and the mother of four children. -Charles Spencer "I didn't believe at the time that I could get in [to AU] because I did not have a lit erature background and my undergraduate degree had been in medical technology," she said. "But I called and just had a chat with Myra Sklarew [now codirector of CAS's MFA program in creative writing] ... and she told me ... that her undergradu ate degree had been in biology." As it turned out, landing in AU's writing program was the easy part. Determined to attend classes full-time, Clair still had to support her family and pay the bills. She quit her position at Children's Hospital and took a job as a lab tech, working six teen-hour days on the weekends. During the week she was a teaching assistant in the writing program and attended classes. After graduating and publishing her first book, Coping with Gravity, a volume of poetry, Clair started working on the stories Rattle bone. Critics that would later become MAXINE CLAIR including Charles Larson, whose African American literature class Clair took while at AU-have praised the book. Larson, in his review published in the Chicago Tribune, WINTER 1995 31 I CLASS NOTES Reunion '95 1947 1959 1963 June 2~, 1995 Fred Carl, CAS/BA, a captain Karen Friedmann Beall, Carolee Kahn, CAS/BA, in the U.S. Naval Reserves, was CAS/BA, an art historian spe received an M.A. in education 1945 reelected national vice president cializing in graphic art and folk with a specialty in instructional of youth programs for the Navy arts at Carleton College, taught technology from San Jose State 50th Reunion League of the United States in at Doshisha University in Kyoto, University in May 1994. She August. He and his wife, Murial, Japan, during the fall semester lives in San Jose, Calif. 1950 live in Rolling Meadows, Ill. of 1994. She and her husband 45th Reunion live in Northfield, Minn. 1965 1948 Theodore Hutchcroft, CAS/ Philip Burgess, SIS/PhD, 1955 Kenneth S. Jones, CAS/BA, MA, returned to Winrock lnter president and CEO of the retired after thirty-eight years nationallnstitute for Agricul 40th Reunion Denver-based Center for the as a United Methodist Church tural Development following a New West, gave the commence minister and now serves as UMC two-year assignment as head ment address- later reprinted 1960 coordinator for Volunteers in of the Information Center at in Vital Speeches of the Day 35th Reunion Mission for twelve northeast the International Rice Research at the University of Toledo last ern states. In the past year, he Institute in the Philippines. He June. In addition, he was pro 1965 led teams of volunteers to became a senior associate at filed in a fall Forbes ASAP arti Russia and Zimbabwe and Winrock in September and was 30th Reunion cle about his "Lone Eagle joined a group providing flood also elected to the College of Project" study of people like relief in the Mississippi Valley. Fellows of the Public Relations himself who communicate with 1970 Just before his seventy-fifth Society of America. He lives in their workplaces electronically 25th Reunion birthday, he soloed a Cessna Morrilton, Ark. and about his own move to 150, fulfilling a lifelong dream. Annapolis, Md., with his wife, 1975 He lives in Gaithersburg, Md. 1961 Mary Sue, and their two 20th Reunion Wilda Webber Morris, youngest children. 1950 SGPA/BA, resigned her posi tion as associate professor of 1966 1980 Robert DiChiara, CAS/BA, was named first vice president Christian Education at North Ellen Goss, SGPA/MA, 15th Reunion and financial consultant at Smith ern Baptist Seminary and is a traveled with two other mem Barney. He lives in Greenvale, N.Y. Christian education consultant, bers of her church to Dushanbe, 1985 parent educator, and free-lance Tajikistan, to follow up on the lOth Reunion 1954 writer who was part of the writ delivery of supplies to refugees Ed Walker, CAS/BS, host of ing team for Building a New there. She lives in Arlington, Va. Community, antiracism materi 1990 WAMU 88.5 FM's vintage radio show "The Big Broadcast," and al published by Cokes bury. 1967 5th Reunion She lives in Bolingbrook, Ill. colleague Richard Paul, CAS/ Lee Marrs, CAS/ BA, cele BA'81, special projects produc 1962 brated the twenty-second anni er at WAMU, won an Achieve versary of her computer graphics ment in Radio award in October Barbara Robin Cooper animation company, Lee Marrs in the category "Best Special One Steenstrup, SIS/BA, SIS/MA'63, Artwork, by producing anima Time Programming Feature," for consults and manages donor tion of bounding ozone for their four-hour program "Radio funded projects in the Small Chevron's "EcoSpeak: Hole in Covers D-Day: The Allied Inva Enterprise Development sector the Ozone," an environmental sion of Europe." Ed lives in of Price Waterhouse. She lives in video for high school students. Bethesda, Md. Nairobi, Kenya. She lives in Berkeley, Calif. Michael Weinstock, CAS/BS, Sharon Spector, CAS/BA, 1956 director of emergency medicine was promoted to senior execu Beverly Barwick Herring, at Good Samaritan Hospital in tive vice president at the CIT Kogod/ABA, retired in June Suffern, N.Y., was elected secre Group/Commercial Services. 1993 after twenty-three years tary-treasurer of the board of She lives in New York City. of teaching elementary school. directors of the American College She and her husband, Ronald, of Emergency Physicians in live in Marlboro, N.J. September. He and his wife and three children live in Stamford, Conn. 32 AMERICAN Don't Sell Yourself Short! 1968 cal specialty products. He and his wife live in New Canaan, Michael Fulda, SlS/MA, Conn., where he serves as chair SIS/PhD'70, was appointed by man of the Republi can Town West Virginia governor Gaston If you're locked into appreciated securities Caperton as state delegate to Committee. you can't afford to let go of, don't sell your the Aerospace States Associa 1970 self short. Use that stock to give a gift to AU tion last spring, and has testi fied before a subcommittee of Timothy Braithwaite, SGP A/ instead. the House Appropriations Com MPA, wrote Information Service mittee regarding U.S.-Russian Excellence, published in 1994 Such a gift allows you to avoid capital gains by the American Society for cooperation in the Human tax, receive a charitable income tax deduc Space Program. He lives in Quality Control- Quality Press. Fairmont, W.Va. He lives in Columbia, Md. tion, and help your alma mater, all at the Katherine Ann Hagen, SIS/ Frederic Gushin, SGPA/BS, same time. MA, SIS/PhD'73, was named SGP A/ MA'79, managing di rec deputy director general of the tor of Spectrum Gaming Group, International Labor Organization taught a course last October in Here's how it works: office in Geneva, Switzerland. casino management at the Glion Gift of appreciated stock $10,000 She lives in Geneva. Hotel School in Montreaux, George Margolies, SGP A/ Switzerland. He lives in (cost basis $2,000) BA, WCL/JD'7l, having served Lawrenceville, N.J. for thirteen years as legal coun Sally Tassani, CAS/BA, CEO Inco me tax savings at 36% tax rate $3, 600 sel to the superintendent of the of Tassani and Pagli a, Inc., and D.C. Public Schools, was appoint a member of the Heizer Entre Ca pital gains tax savings ed assistant superintendent preneurship Research Center for compliance for Baltimore Advisory Board of Northwestern at 28 % tax rate $2,240 City Public Schools in October. University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate ($8,000 capital ga in x 28 %) He lives in Rockville, Md. School of Management, was named Advertising Woman of Total Tax Savings $5, 840 1969 the Year by the Women's Adver tising Club of Chicago and was John Bittermann, Kogod/ designated one of Chicago's Net cost of gift $4,160 MBA, was promoted to assistant Top Women Business Owners vice president in the Corporate by the Chicago chapter of the Systems Department of State National Association of Women Farm Mutual Automobile Insur Business Owners. She lives in For more information on how to avoid selling yourself ance Company. He his wife T. ' ' Chicago. short, please call or write Bnsh , and. their sons, Andy and rad, hve m Bloomington, II I. 1971 Barbara K. Kincaid Karen Feld, CAS/BA won Director of Gift Planning t wo awards- Best Radio Feature' William Bufkins, CAS/BA, Office of University Development for "Dateli ne Washington " ' was named senior consultant in The Ameri can University '!fWRC, and Best Speech.' for the Houston office of KPMG Peat Constitution Building, Tenley Campus Marwick. He lives in Plano, Tex. 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW 1C~pital Connections: A Glimpse nside the Nation's Capital"-in Stephanie J eanne Rocken Washington DC 20016-8143 ~e National Federation of Press baugh, CAS/BA, is worki ng in (202) 885-5905 omen's annual communication the Human Resources Depart contest. She lives in Washing ment at Frederi ck Memori al ton, D.C. Hospital in Frederick, Md. She d Jim HoopeR", SIS/BA, is maintains homes in both Ueputy chief of mission at the Gaithersburg, Md., and Harper's .S. embassy in Warsaw, Poland. Ferry, W.Va. Dennis J . Taylor WCL/JD Michael Stapleton, DCE/BS, Was n amed vice president' and ' received an M.A. in education ~eneral counsel for Degussa with a specialty in instructi onal orporation, a developer and technology from San Jose State manufacturer of chemical pre- University in May 1994. Cious m eta1 , and pharmaceuti-' W INTER 1995 33 1972 Board of Chosen Freeholders. Douglas Buck, Kogod/MS, 1976 Caryn Goldenberg Carvo, She, her husband, Richard, was named associate vice pres Robert Buenning SOJ/BA, SIS/BA, an attorney with the and their three children live in ident for human resources for an advertising photographer, firm of Stein, Rosenberg and Fanwood. Nova Southeastern University. and his wife, Denise Zaraska, Winikoff, was elected president Karin Wade, SIS/BA, moved He lives in Plantation, Fla. CAS/BA'75, and their two daugh of the Florida Association for from Wyoming to Massachu Kate Gage, CAS/BA, is pur ters welcomed son and brother Women Lawyers for 1994-95. setts last August to assume the suing a master of education Andrew Ellis, June 21, 1994. They She lives in Coral Springs, Fla. position of rector of St. Mary's degree with a concentration in live in Overland Park, Kans. Mechele Flaum, CAS/BCH, Episcopal Church in Rockport. Waldorf education at Antioch Jane Levine Goodman, CAS/ chief operating officer of Brain Michael K.L. Wager, SGPA/ New England Graduate School. BA,herhusband,Bryan,and Reserve, New York, was named BA, a partner in the law firm of Catherine Russell Gira, CAS/ their daughter, Molly, welcomed to the additional position of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan PhD, president of Frostburg son and brother Gabriel Bennett, president in April 1994. She lives and Aronoff, relocated from the State University, received the February 1, 1993. They live in in New York City. firm's Columbus, Ohio, office to W.S. Jackman Award of Distinct Canton, Mass. its Cleveland office. He lives in ion last June from California Charles Hunnicutt, Kogod/ Stuart Sanderson, WCL/JD, Shaker Heights, Ohio. University of Pennsylvania for BSBA, a partner in the law firm was named president and chief of Robins, Kaplan, Miller and Ronald Walton, DCE/MTR, her accomplishments in the operating officer of the Colo retired from the U.S. Geological Ciresi, accepted a one-year as field of education. rado Mining Association in Survey in Denver in May 1994, signment as an adviser to the Christopher Gontarz, SOJ/ October. He and his wife Janice after thirty-four years of federal government of Ukraine on its MS, a partner in the law firm of and their children, Jesslca and' service, and was appointed an negotiations to join the GATT1 Updegrove and Gontarz, special Timothy, live in Denver. assistant professor for comput World Trade Organization. He izing in criminal law, was elect ing information systems at will live in Kiev until October ed president of the Newport 1977 Colorado Christian University. 1995. County (R.I.) Bar Association. He and his wife, Judith, live in He lives in Portsmouth, R.I. Jon Bowermaster, CAS/MA, Jeffrey Krida, SGPA/BA, is Evergreen, Colo. wrote his fourth book, The president of the Delta Queen Richard Peabody, CAS/MA, Andrew Welebir Ill, CAS/ coedited Mondo Marilyn, pub Adventures and Misadventures Steamboat Company. He and his lished by St. Martin's Press, of Peter Beard in Africa, pub wife, Rebecca, and their three BS, CAS/MS'77, CAS/PhD'78, is president and research director and Coming to Terms: A Liter lished by Bulfinch/Little Brown. children live in New Orleans. of Bio-Gard Agronomics and will ary History of Abortion, pub He lives in Stone Ridge, N.Y. Steven Leeds, CAS/BA, was Timothy V. Johnson, SGPA/ named vice president of Video appear in the twelfth edition of lished by the New Press. He Marquis Who's Who in the World. lives in Chevy Chase, Md. MPA, retired from active duty and Alternative Radio at Island with the Coast Guard after thir Records. He lives in New York He lives in Falls Church, Ya. Christine Plater, DCE/MPR, director of planning and admin ty years of service, having most City. 1974 recently served at First Coast Michael Mercer, CAS/BA, a istration for the Division of Michael D. Moore, Kogod/ Business Resources at the Mary Guard District, Boston. business psychologist, wrote his Wendy Simon Klappholz, fourth book, How Winners Do It: BSBA, was named vice presi land Department of Economic dent/commercial loan officer of and Employment Development, CAS/BA, lives in Los Angeles, High Impact People Skills for where she is school adminis Your Career Success. He lives the Bank of the West's San Jose graduated in June 1994 from Main Office. He lives in Dublin, Johns Hopkins University's trator of the Willows Commu in Barrington, Ill. nity School. Kenneth Middleton, CAS/ Calif. Leadership Development Pro gram for Minority Managers. MA, was named president of Russell Williams II, CAS/BA, 1978 Mountain States Broadcasting the 1994 recipient of the Alumni She lives in Baltimore. and general manager of KMSB Recognition Award, and his wife, .Denise Zaraska, CAS/BA, William Corcoran, SOJ/BA, TV in Tucson, Ariz. He lives in Renee, welcomed their son, national advertising manager was promoted to captain of Tucson. Khemet Ellison, June 23, 1994. for Sprint Corporation, and her police at the Ridgewood (N.J.) They live in Altadena, Calif. husband, Robert Buenning, SOJ/ Police Department. He lives in 1973 BA'76, and their two daughters Ridgewood. 1975 welcomed son and brother William Massengill, CAS/ Mitchell Nedick, SGPA/BA, Andrew Ellis, June 21 , 1994. They BA, was named vice president is senior vice president for Gary Bleetstein, SGPA/BA, live in Overland Park, Kans. of community affairs for Wash finance and administration of runs a major life insurance ington Natural Gas Company. Warner Brothers Television Net brokerage firm in New York He lives in Duvall, Wash. work. He lives in Encino, Calif. City. He and his wife Marilee William Parcher, CASfBMS, linda deMilt Stender, CAS/ welcomed their daughter, Ali~ headed the cast as Prospero in BA, is the mayor of Fanwood, N.J., Whitney, April4, 1994. They Peter Westergaard's produc and was elected to a three-year live in Edison, N.J. tion of The Tempest, which term on the Union County opened the Opera Festival of New Jersey's second decade. 34 AMERICAN 1979 Moseby in August of 1993, and is on the advisory board of Shape Sharon Beckman Edelstein magazine for special issues. She SON/BSN, is a pediatric nurse' and her family live in Beach practitioner for Kaiser Perma nente. She and her husband wood, Ohio. Debbie Levine Gottlieb, SOJ/ Paul Edelstein, WCL/JD'93,' BS, and her husband, Jonathan, Thanks welcomed their first child welcomed their second child , a Rebecca Sommers, May 30, '1994. son, Seth Joseph, June 9, 1994. They live in Annandale, Va. They live in Bethesda, Md. Harvey (Covell) Morrell, SIS/ Doreen Burnett Gounard, BA, WCL/JD'84, and his wife for the CAS/BA, and her husband, Marc, Mindy, welcomed their first ' built a 10.2-meter catamaran, ~hild, Olivia, July 5, 1994. They which they plan to sail on an hve in Baltimore. extended cruise through the • Patrick Monis, SIS/BA, Kogod/ South Pacific Islands with their memorres MBA'82, joined HIP Health Plan children, Maya and Tristan. of Florida as an account execu They live in Sausalito, Calif. tive last spring. He lives in Catherine Kannenberg, CAS/ Miami Beach. MA, returned to the United 1980 States after serving since 1985 as an overseas lecturer for the Your AU years were a special time. The Marla Volin Allentuck, CAS/ University of Maryland European people you met, the ideas you encoun BA, and her husband welcomed Division and is a visiting profes their first child, Zachary Ryan, sor of psychology at Guilford tered, the skills you acquired all helped March 11, 1994. They live in College. She lives in Greens Laurel, Md. boro, N.C. shape your life. What better way to Fred Bickford, CAS/BS, was Vicki Looney, SIS/BA, was the 1994 president of the McLean promoted to vice president of celebrate those memories than by par Arts Club in Northern Virginia sales at Rosenbluth International. ticipating in the reunion gift campaign? before retiring to Advance, N.C. She lives in Herndon, Va. Stewart Edwards CAS/BA Cynthia C. (C.C.) Spence, wa ' ' s named general manager of CAS/BA, owns a multiethnic KO~N-FM, a community radio and African-American clothing If you're a member of the Class of '45 stat10n in Columbia, Mo. business. She lives in Takoma ' Joseph P. Foley, SIS/MA, Park, Md. '50, '55, '60, '65, '70, '75, '80, '85, or '90, was a candidate in the fall for a seat in the Maryland House of 1981 check page 28 of this issue for the Delegates, representing District Joni McFarland Baker, 15 (western Montgomery names of the reunion gift committee SGPA/BS, a foreign service offi County). He owns Foley Govern cer for the State Department members for your class and find out ment Relations, which repre since 1984, is regional refugee sents high-tech companies and coordinator for West Africa. how to get in touch with them. Then municipalities on Capitol Hill, She is based in Abidjan, Cote and teaches in the School of celebrate your reunion with a generous Public Affairs' Leadership d'lvoire. Eric Dranoff, Kogod/BSBA, gift that says thanks for the memories. rr~gr~m as a guest lecturer on and his wife, Debra Selman : bymg. He and his wife Dranoff, CAS/BA'84, welcomed Bdrienne , and their child~en their second child, a son, Edward Nrendan and Corey, live in ' Justin, April 24, 1994. They live orth Potomac. in Upper Grandview, N.Y. SO~aren Friedman-Kester, David Eubank, Kogod/ S /BS, married Mark Kester MBA, is associate portfolio THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 1, 1991, and gave ' b~Ptember manager with Legg Mason irth to Johanna Sari Kester Octob 9 ' Wood Walker and is a member tw er ' 1992. She contributed of the Finance Committee of the ANNUAL FUND ato chapters to Clinical Prevent- Historic Fredericksburg, Va., we Medicine, published by WINTER 1995 35 Foundation. He and his wife, shop it designed for the Insti Debbie Rose, SON/BSN, is ropsychology at the Colorado Anjela, and their daughter, tute of Museum Services. Kirstin director of Army Health Promo Mental Health Institute last Alessandra, live in Spotsyl and her husband, Kim Kirk tion at the Pentagon, a supervi July. He lives in Denver. vania, Va. patrick, and their daughter, sory community health nurse, Jack Shea, SIS/BA, was pro Diane Byas Green, CAS/BA, Kendra Josie, born May 30, and director of the Army Health moted to the rank of lieutenant and her husband, Darryll, wel 1994, live in Silver Spring, Md. Promotion Program. She and commander while serving with comed their first child, Jourdan Karen Borkoski-Durkin, her husband, Eyal Halevy, and Director, Office of Naval Intel Elizabeth, September 7, 1994. CAS/BA, is co-owner of Karen their children, Ari, born Decem ligence, Washington, D.C. They live in Chicago. Lee's Restaurant and Wine Bar ber 4, 1993, and Jordan, live in William J. Smith Jr., SGPA/ Samuel B. Hoff, SGPA/MA, in Bridgehampton, on Long Rockville, Md. BA, won the Second Annual an associate professor of his Island, N.Y. She lives in Bridge Peter L. Ross, Kogod/BSBA, Association for Disabled Ameri tory and political science at hampton. and his wife, Marcia, welcomed can Golfers ational Tourna Delaware State College, was David C. Cohen, Kogod/ their daughter, Megan Hamilton, ment. He lives in Hillside, N.J. selected for inclusion in the BSBA, is cofounder of and part August 29, 1993. They live in 1995 editions of Who's Who in ner in Masterpiece International, Darien, Conn. 1984 the World and Who's Who in Ltd., a customhouse broker, Tracy Threefoot, CAS/BA, Todd Bush, Kogod/BSBA, the East. He lives in Dover, Del. freight forwarder, specializing works for the Literacy Council was promoted to vice president Madeleine Hulnick Klipper, in the transportation of works of Montgomery County (Md.). of the Private Banking Depart CAS/BGS, her husband, Ken, of art for major museums, gal She and her husband, Alan ment of CoreStates Hamilton and their son, Jeffrey, wel leries, and auction houses. He Esenstad, welcomed their sec Bank. He lives in Mt. Wolf, Pa. comed daughter and sister Ali and Lesa Tinker were married ond child, Benjamin Lee, July 16, John Dale Jr., WCL/JD, an Estelle, June 8, 1994. They live in August 1993 and live in 1994. They live in Silver Spring, immigration and civil litigation in Richmond, Va. Manhattan. Md. attorney with an interest in Tanya Matthews, CAS/BS, Bruce Fleishaker, Kogod/ 1983 import/export with China, is a was promoted to vice president, BSBA, financial controller, Loan member of the Esperanta Jura marketing, at Glen Construction Products, in the Corporate Renee Hancher, SIS/BA, Asocio, an international group Company. She lives in Fairfax, Va. Origination Division of Citicorp, and Dennis Thurman were mar of attorneys and law profes Richard Paul, CAS/BA, graduated as valedictorian from ried May 21 , 1994. They live in sors who use the Esperanto special projects producer at lona College with an M.B.A. and Arlington, Va. language. He lives in Falls WAMU 88.5 FM, and colleague received the Joseph E. McKenna Alan J. Harris, Kogod/ Church, Va. Ed Walker, CAS/BS'54, host of Memorial Award and the Finance BSBA, left the New York City Debra Selman Dranoff, CAS/ WAMU's vintage radio show Departmental Award for acade Law Department to become an BA, and her husband, Eric "The Big Broadcast," won an mic excellence. He, his wife, Sue, associate in the law firm of Dranoff, Kogod/BSBA'81, wel Achievement in Radio award in and their daughters, Dana and Thurm and Heller. He lives in comed their second child, a son, October in the category "Best Rachel, live in Scarsdale, N.Y. Manhattan. Edward Justin, April24, 1994. Special One-Time Programming Susan Rutter Jacobson, Star Jones, SOJ/BA, is host They live in Upper Grandview, Feature," for their four-hour CAS/BA, and her husband, ing her own syndicated TV talk N.Y. program "Radio Covers D-Day: Richard, live in West Orange, legal show, "Jones & Jury," pre Shari Berk Gramuglia, The Allied Invasion of Europe." N.J., with their children, Rachel siding over real-life, small-daims Kogod/BSBA, and her hus Richard lives in Arlington, Va. Amanda, born January 4, 1992, cases in which the litigants band, Vincent, welcomed their Giovanni Snidle, SIS/BA, and William Rutter, born agree to accept a decision by second child, a girl, Eri ka Rose, was awarded the Arthur S. February 27, 1994. the studio audience. May 11 , 1994. They live in New Flemming Award last May for Susan Rifkin Karon, CAS/ Barbara Ann Kelly, CAS/ York City. BA, and her husband, Jeffrey, exemplary service to the U.S. PhD, was appointed director Dauri Sandison Malpartida, government while assigned to welcomed their first child, a son, of managed care at the Mental SIS/BA, Kogod/MS'86, and her the U.S. Arms Control and Michael Jonah, April27, 1994. Health Resource Center of Jack husband, Luis, welcomed their Disarmament Agency. He lives They live in Natick, Mass. sonville, Fla., and promoted to first child, a son, Lorne Paul, in Arlington, Va. Cynthia Kegley, CIS/BSTM, the rank of lieutenant colonel March 5, 1994. They live in and her husband, Jim, wel in the U.S. Army Reserves. She Spotsylvania, Va. 1982 comed their daughter, Courtney lives in Jacksonville. David Oriel, Kogod/BSBA, Marguerite Hickerson, July 10, Kirstin Austin, CAS/BA, is Sharon Liss, SON/BSN, was promoted to the position 1993. They live in Bluemont, Va. vice president of Titus Austin, works for G. D. Searle as a of senior account manager at Gary Marsh, SGPA/BA, Inc., a human resources devel pharmaceutical sales repre Kellogg's in New York. He and was made a partner in the law opment firm that won the sentative. She lives in his wife, Robin, and their son, firm of Long, Aldridge and National Society for Performance Manhattan. Jared, live in Virginia Beach. Norman in January. He and his and Instruction's 1994 Outstand Jonathan Richard, CAS/BA, Michele Geist Parsonnet, wife, Sherry, and their children, ing Instructional Product Award was appointed chief of neu- Kogod/BSBA, and her husband, for a reviewer training work- Andrew and Alison, live in Atlanta. 36 AMERICAN Jon, welcomed their third child for Alpo Pet Foods. He, his wife, Robert, welcomed their son, Jacques Comet, Kogod/ a son, Schuyler Tate, January ' Randi, and their children, Brian David, August 4, 1993. 31, 1994. He joins Halley Ann, BSBA, and his wife, Jill Brann Courtney and Jared, live in They live in Boca Raton, Fla. schweiger, Kogod/BSBA, wel born March 29, 1988, and Macungie, Pa. Jill Hammer-Mendelson, Brianna Gwen, born September comed their first child, a girl, David Secunda, Kogod/ CAS/BA, and her husband, Nicole Chana, Aprill9, 1994. 16, 1991. They live in Silver BSBA, senior attorney for Elliot Mendelson, welcomed Spring, Md. They live in New York City. Legent Corporation, and his their first child, a boy, Jordan Jane Fry, SIS/BA, CAS/ Michelle Sague, CAS/BA, wife, Peggy, welcomed their Edward, April27, 1994. They received her master's degree MA'92, and Christopher Emond first child, a boy, Zachary live in New York City. were married May 28, 1994, and in literature from George Mason Augustus, February 4, 1994. Mark Lyons, Kogod/BSBA, University in May 1994. She and both work for the U.S. Bureau They live in Pittsburgh. is national account manager for of Economic Analysis. They live ~er husband, Francisco Ojeda, Ronald Sharps, CAS/MA, J.C. Penny Business Services. in Rockville, Md., where Jane is hve in Springfield, Va., with is director of the Banneker He and his wife, Mary Jane their children, four-year-old a mayoral appointee to the City Douglass Museum in Anne Fogarty, CAS, welcomed their of Rockville Planning Commission. Francisco Daniel and Gabriel Arundel County, Md. , a muse first child, Luke Ellis, June 9, Alexis, born July 26, 1994. Noel Moenssens, Kogod/ um devoted to preserving 1994. They live in Frisco, Tex. BSBA, and his wife, Sandra African-American history in Anthony Pinto, SIS/BA, 1985 Birkelbach, CAS/BA, welcomed Maryland. He lives in and his wife, Cecilia Connolly their first child, a girl, Nicole, Christine Bell, SIS/BA, Washington, D.C. Pinto, Kogod/BSBA'88, wel July 21 , 1994. They live in became director of develop Lesley Wallace, Kogod/ comed their first child, Mada Orlando, Fla. ment for the American Youth BSBA, is director of human lyn Marie, June 28, 1994. They Carlos Naida, SIS/BA, Foundation in St. Louis, Mo., resources for the National Food live in Harrington Park, N.J. graduated with honors from last July. She lives in St. Louis. Processors Association. She Marigloria Sierra, CAS/BA, George Washington University's Douglas Blank, Kogod/ and Herbert Ahmuty Jr. were was promoted to director of National Law Center in 1993 BSBA, who works in the jewel married August 27, 1994, and public relations and publica and is an associate with the ry industry, married Leslie live in Silver Spring, Md. tions at Moore College of Art Washington law firm of Wiley, ~linger, June 18, 1994. They live and Design and is working on a Rein and Fielding. He and In Great Neck, N.Y. 1986 master of liberal arts degree Sioban Maguire, SP A/BA'90, Oliver Chamberlain, CAS/ Sharon Reed Abboud, SIS/ with a concentration in wom were married August 20, 1994, MA, executive director of the BA, SIS/MA'90, and Roger, wel en's studies at the University of and live in Springfield, Va. Center for the Arts at the comed their daughter, Melissa Pennsylvania. She lives in Upper University of Massachusetts Christine, June 30, 1994. They Darby, Pa. 1988 Lowell , was elected president live in Fairfax, Va. 1987 Gary Berberian, SIS/BA, of New England Presenters and Patti Papier Adler, CAS/BA, a third-year law student at appointed a member of the and her husband, David, wel Scott Arnold, SIS/MA, a his Hamline University School of Government Affairs Committee comed their second child, Kevin tory and government teacher at Law, is senior associate on the of the Association of Performing Pierce, April 11 , 1994. They Boise High School, married Ham line Law Review and was Arts Presenters. He lives in live in Colorado Springs. Maura Goddard, May 14, 1994. named the Robert Linn Levine Chelmsford, Mass. Carolyn Cobel, CAS/BA, They live in Boise, Idaho. Scholar for 1994-95. He lives in Janine Weiss Pollack, CAS/ spent the summer of 1993 doing Randy Panster Belfer, St. Paul. BA, copublishes The Literary public health program devel Kogod/BSBA, her husband, Jeff Berger, SP A/BA, Cafe, a newsletter geared opment on the Crow Indian Michael Belfer, Kogod/BSBA, received a juris doctor degree toward reading groups, and is Reservation in Montana and in and their daughter Lauren Paige, from the New York Law School. a speaker on the book circuit. May 1994 received her B.S.N. welcomed son and brother Mark D. Blackman, CAS/ She and her husband, Michael, from Johns Hopkins University. Jonathan Craig, September 8, BA, is creativ.e services man Welcomed their son Zachary She and her husband, Carl 1994. They live in Springfield, N.J. ager with the accounting firm ~ouis , August 7, 1994. They Hamstead, live in Rockville, Mindy Berk, Kogod/BSBA, of Coopers and Lybrand. He hve in New York City. Md ., with their daughter, a manager at KPMG Peat Mar and his wife, Deana Conviser, .. David E. Rogers, WCL/JD, Alannah, born AprilS, 1994. wick, and her husband, Robert CAS, live in Sharon, Mass. JOined the law firm of McDermott Finfer, Kogod/BSBA, national w·11 ' Lynn Luria Fanaroff, CAS/ Ellen Cirilis, SGPA/BA, and 1 and Emery as a partner in BA, her husband, David, and sales director for Franklin Robert Weiner were married the Employee Benefits Depart their elder son, Josh, welcomed Acceptance Corporation, wel August 27, 1994. They live in ~~~t. He lives in Chevy Chase, new son and brother Alec Daniel, comed their daughter, Sydney Wayne, N.J. March 1, 1994. They live in North Lauren, September 10, 1993. Alan Hertz, Kogod/BSBA, M Scott Rosenberg, Kogod/ Bethesda, Md. They live in Rockville, Md. is district operations manager BA, was promoted to senior Alexandra Clough Feldman, of the Facilities Management rnanager of operations finance CAS/BA, and her husband, Division at Pitney Bowes. He WINTER 1995 37