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The Pitzer College magazine, Fall 1982 2 From the President

2 From the Editor The Pitzer Participant (USPS 970-280) is 3 Pitzer on the Population published quarterly by Pitzer College, Studies and Public Health lOSO N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, Ca. 917ll. Second class permit granted by Map Claremont, Ca. 91711. by Joanne Siegmann '79

Volume 17, Number I, Fall 1982 with assistance from Ann Stromberg Editor: Katharine M. Morsberger Staff Photographer: Sue Keith 6 Technology, Politics, and Design: Shields / Stoddard Society in China Cover: Brad Kadel '82 (right) and by Rudi Volti Terry Schuler, Director of Personnel Relations at Avery On Confronting the labels, confer a moment about 7 an aspect of production. Meaning of Human Photo: Sue Keith Meaning Photographers: George Adams, by Glenn Goodwin Shireen Alafi '76, Sue Keith, John Kruissink, Kathryn Lamb '78, 8 Organizational Studies: Agnes Lawson, Arthur Mathern, Linda Mooser, Robert E. Morsberger, Internships: Students in the Bob Penn '78, Glenn Potts, Workplace Saul Schuster, Wesley Tanimura '85, Toru Yamazoe by Anne Lieberman '83 10 New Resources: Earning a Degree While on the Job II Management Seminar: Business Comes to Campus I2 Five-Year Program: Pitzer B.A., CGS M.A. 16 From the Trustees 13 A Brief Social History of Conjuring by Peter M. Nardi IS Pitzer Profiles: Inge Bell by Laud Humphreys Homer Garcia by Martha Quintana '83 17 From the Alumni 17 At Pitzer 18 Beyond Pitzer From the From the President Editor In the following pages, you will learn more about some of these inter­ ests in a large measure through the CCASIONALLY, I encounter HEN PREPARING this issue on wo;ds of a number of Pitzer's graduates O someone who wonders how Pitzer W sociology and organizatio~al College can be both a liberal arts college in sociology and organization~ studies, studies, your editor began to feel hke an interdisciplinary concentratIOn. You and a college emphasi~ing th~ study of Cecil B. DeMille with his casts of thou­ the social and behavIoral SCIences. Is will find many indications. that the sands. The alumni whose careers are de­ this not a contradiction? On the con­ disciplines they studied at PItz~r ~ave tailed in "Pitzer on the Population helped to enrich and shape theIr hves. trary: is my usual response. To quote Studies and Public Health Map" repre­ They are translating the values. of the Jackson Bate, the liberal arts deal sent many more whom we tried to Walt~r liberal arts into valuable work m such with "human nature in all its diversity." reach. Again, the al~mni and stud~nts The liberal arts are a crucial means of diverse fields as law, social work, teac~­ appearing in the artIcles on organIza­ ing, medicine, film, business, andsoClal shaping society. The need for the p.racti­ tional studies represent an even larger research. cal translation ofthe values ofthe hberal number of people who participated in Whether or not the liberal arts have arts into action on such problems as conferences and who helped write let­ outlived their usefulness is a subject of ters and locate writers and photo­ changing social institutions an~ t~e im­ much debate both inside and outside pact of technology on human hfe IS cru- graphers. "Beyond Pitzer," t~anks espe­ academe. It is with pleasure that I in­ cial and urgent. . . cially to the many alumlll who re­ The disciplines compnsmg the so­ troduce this evidence of their continued sponded to our letters, and to the fac­ cial and behavioral sciences contribute vitality. ulty members who took time to write to greatly to our compre~ension.ofhuman so many people, reached epic pro­ nature and human socIety. It IS not sur­ portions. Production credits are due to prising, therefore, to find that sociology AI Schwartz and to Paul Goldman, who - studying the social and ~ultura~ con­ gave valuable and muc? appreciated texts of the human enterpnse - IS one behind-the-scenes aSSIstance. Ann of Pitzer's most heavily enrolled con­ Stromberg, from the initial planning centrations. Some of the faculty's inter­ stages to final deadline, even after she ests indicate the range and scope of the had left for the University of Michigan discipline: social psychology,. al~enation and a well-earned sabbatical leave, gave as expressed in l~teratur~, cnmmology; most generously of her time and exper­ population studIes, socIal stereotypes, tise. To her, a very special Academy alcohol and drug-related issues, to Award, with your editor's warmest name but a few. thanks. 2 Pitzer on the Population Studies and Public Health Map

by Joanne Siegmann '79 with assistance from Ann Stromberg tional incentives to attract health professionals to work in underserved In its broadest definition, sociology is Deirdre Chatman '74 the science of society. As this discipline Los Angeles, California areas. The program also encourages has matured, it has developed many medical schools to develop programs specialities, including demography (the EIRDRE CHATMAN graduated designed to meet the special needs of study of population) and medical D from Pitzer in 1974 with a concen­ underserved areas. sociology. In the careers of six Pitzer tration in human biology and "a great One particularly challenging aspect alumnae who are working in the related interest in sociology," which influenced of her work is trying to introduce new fields of population studies and public her entry into the public health profes­ courses and concepts into medical edu­ health we find reflected the breadth of sional field. Mter earning her Masters in cation. Medical school curricula are al­ concerns in these two areas. Public Health from the University of ready crowded; in addition, much in­ California, Los Angeles, School ofPub­ formation is new and many concepts are lie Health, she is now employed at the still being researched. For example, to Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical introduce a course in clinical nutrition, School, the academic arm of Martin Chatman first established a task force of Luther King, Jr. General Hospital in representatives from the primary care Los Angeles, as program director for units: internal medicine, obstetrics and the Southeast Los Angeles region ofthe gynecology, pediatrics, and family California Statewide Area Health Edu­ medicine. By examining curricula from cation Center System. Each medical other institutions and bringing in con­ school in the state has such a center, sultants, (in this case Dr. Marion dedicated to improving the supply, dis­ Nestle, the Associate Dean of the tribution, and quality of health man­ University of California at San power in medically underserved rural Francisco Medical School,) she was able and urban areas. "Most people do not to assist the faculty in planning and realize that the problem is as great, or setting up a course in clinical nutrition, perhaps greater in urban areas," she now being taught at the hospital. commented. Chatman also has taught courses in Responsible for the overall adminis­ the Department of Family Medicine at tration of fourteen programs, ranging Charles R. Drew, designed to instruct from undegraduate medical training to medical residents in the areas of health continuing medical education, she ad­ education, for example, ongoing treat­ ministers those that provide educa- ment of hypertension and diabetes. 3 Eventually she may go on to medical In her role as consultant to the State (November, 1982); "Income Stratifica­ school, but "I am really enjoying what I Department of Health, she has been tion: Bringing Families Back In," ap­ am doing right now, and hope to be able working on projects de~ing with diabe­ pearing in Sociology and Social Research next year to devote more time to re­ tes in Ute Indians and with the inci­ (April, 1982); and "Women's Employ­ search in my special interests of health dence of hypertension in the state. Over ment and its Implications for the promotion, health risk education, and and above her involvement in all of Economic Status of the Elderly of the lifestyle planning." these projects, ("my regular job,") Future," appearing in Aging: Social Schuman is gathering data and writing Change (edited by S.B. Keisler et ai., her dissertatIOn on "Stress, Social Sup­ Academic Press, 1981). port Networks, and Breast Cancer," as In addition, Treas has been a very Kathy Schuman '75 part of a university study funded by the Salt Lake City, Utah active alumna, and served on the Board Center for Disease Control on the role of Trustees in 1977-78 as president of the of hormone (birth control) pills in Alumni Association. TT ATHY SCHUMAN graduated cancer. Stress, she commented, is rec­ ~'- from Pitzer in 1975 with a B.A. in ognized to have an adverse effect on the biology. She worked at the City of immune stystem, and in her dissertation Hope, a research hospital in Duarte, she hopes to establish whether the re­ Miriam Kadin '74- while still an undergraduate. She was, duction of stress might affect the inci­ Ann Arbor, Michigan however, unsure about pursuing a dence of breast cancer. The American career in the health sciences until Ann Journal of Epidemiology for September, IRIAM KADIN '74 recalls in de­ Stromberg interested her in the area of 1982, published her article on "Neonatal M tail how she became a demog­ public health through her medical Mortality in Utah." She is married to rapher. "In my senior year at Pitzer I sociology class. Now finishing her doc­ John Weist, who is in his final year of was introduced to population studies in toral dissertation for the University of residency in general surgery at the Uni­ two courses offered by Ann Stromberg. Washington, Schuman is working as an versity of Utah. Although I had completed a concentra­ associate instructor at the University of tion in political studies with a speciali­ Utah medical school and as a consultant zation in international relations, the for the State of Utah Department of appeal of population studies was Health. She has her Master of Science in immediate: it offered a major social Public Health with an emphasis on problem that could be examined quan­ epidemiology and has worked at the titatively. Here I saw also a fascinating Charles Drew Post-graduate Medical political issue on which to focus a School, Los Angeles, researching health career. problems associated with poverty, in­ "After graduating with a concentra­ cluding infant mortality. tion in political studies and a year of Kathy Schuman explained that so working, I made plans to enter graduate many people do not know what an school, specifically in demography, one epidemiologist does that she has been aspect of which is the study of popula­ known to wear a T-shirt saying "I am tions processes. Training in demog­ not a skin doctor." Epidemiology, the raphy occurs primarily within the study of the distribution and determi­ Miriam Kadin )74 (left) on a visit to Clare­ disciplines of sociology or economics. I nants of disease in human populations, mont) in conversation with Ann Stromberg) finally chose the demography program deals with both infectious diseases such associate professor ofsociology. in the Department of Sociology at as botulism and chronic diseases such as Photo: Sue Keith Brown University in Providence, cancer. Rhode Island. In addition to teaching classes in epidemiology, Schuman's work at the Judith Jennings Treas '69 "At Brown, I found my Pitzer edu­ University of Utah involves her in a Pacific Palisades, California cation transferred very well to another discipline. I had received a solid founda­ number of research projects. Under a tion in the principles of demography, in grant from the American Cancer Soci­ UDITH JENNINGS TREAS '69 the scientific approach to the study of a ety is a project on exposure factors in received the M.A. and Ph.D. in problem, in research and the use ofdata, causing excess risk of childhood cancer. Jsociology from the University of and in seminar preparation. (The stu­ The University has a grant from the California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is dent body represented every continent National Cancer Institute on factors in now Associate Professor ofSociology at in the world, and there was a free flow of diet that may cause colon cancer, specif­ the University of Southern California information on all topics and from ically the relationship of dietary fat and (USC). Her special field of expertise is many perspectives.) other high-calorie diets to the incidence the demographic aspects of gerontol­ of the disease. The project that has re­ ogy, an interdisciplinary field dealing "Mter completing the dissertation ceived the most national publicity is the with the effects of aging on individuals in August, 1981, I became a National one on the long-term effects offallout in and on societal institutions. Institute of Child and Human De­ Southern Utah and Southeastern Among her recent publications are velopment (NICHD) Postdoctoral Nevada during the early 1950'S. Under a "Postwar Trends in Family Size," in Scholar at the Population Studies grant from the National Cancer Insti­ Demography (August, 1981); with Center of the University of Michigan. tute, University researchers are reas­ co-author Vern L. Bengtson, "The De­ Thi~ ye.ar, in additioJ?- to research, my sembling high school classes to study mography of Mid and Late Life Transi­ duties ~clude teachmg a population the incidence of cancer in these groups tion," in the Annals of the American course m the ~epa~tment of soicology as compared to the general population. Academy of Political and Social Sciences here at the Ulllverslty of Michigan. My 4 general research interest is in mortali­ "I've worked as a movement available from AID. While Peru seemed ty/morbidity research. I had a major in therapist for three years now. For me, ready for a publicized national family demography and a minor in medical dance/movement therapy is a terrific planning program with the recent sociology at Brown, and my research is blend of sociology, psychology, and the election of a civilian, President crossdisciplinary. My current research joys of dance. The field addresses im­ Fernando Bellaunde, the past military projects are on social determinants of proving communication as well as governments had so repressed family mortality and definitions of illness. In exploring oneself. It looks at an planning programs that it was not clear April, I982, I presented a paper, "Socio­ individual's role within his/her society. if such a program would be accepted. economic Measurement in Mortality Often when I lead movement therapy "I began working with one Research: An Examination of U.S. groups, a sense of community evolves extremely motivated physician who had Data in the Twentieth Century" at the among the group members. What could time available only after he completed annual meeting of the Population As­ be more wonderful than contributing his hospital obligations. Without office sociation of America." to this communication?" space, secretarial support, and without a staff, the project began. Today there is now an official family planning office Julie Porter '75 Ellen Alderman located in the heart of downtown Lima Natick, Massachusetts Lima, Peru in the Social Security administrative offices adjacent to the office of Dr. ulie Porter '75 is now an expressive "S INCE FEBRUARY, I98I, I have Octavio Mongruet, the President of the therapist in a mental health unit of a been working for United States Social Security Institute. There is a Jpublic hospital in Natick, Agency for International Development full-time staff of two secretaries, three Massachusetts. The unit provides (AID) in Lima, Peru, in the Family nurses, one nurse-midwife, one social short-term psychiatric treatment for Health Office as an advisor to the worker, a part-time physician who is adolescents and adults. "My role," she Ministry of Health and Social Security director of the national program, and explains, "includes leading movement Institute for AID funded projects. AID another part-time physician who is therapy, art therapy, and relaxation currently has nearly 20 million dollars in director of training?' groups and doing some individual the health sector specifically in Ellen Alderman has her M.A. in movement therapy. Before this job, I populaion (i.e. family planning) and urban planning from UCLA. Before had extensive experience working with primary health projects. working for AID in Peru she worked a variety of special needs children. I "My responsibilities with the for Kaiser Permanente Health Plan as a decided that in order to get a clearer Ministry are to act as an AID liaison and Planner and for American Medical perspective on children with problems, provide technical assistance to the cen­ International, one of the largest I needed to gain a better understanding tral level as well as regional ministry hospital chains in the United States. of adult pathology. Hence I sought personnel in the development and work with adults. implementation of their health pro­ "It's intriguing to me that I pursued grams. I have most recently been a more psychological than sociological assisting each of the twelve health re­ path after leaving Pitzer. My sociology gions involved in the project to develop training at Pitzer led me to look at soci­ their detailed 1982-83 implementation Joanne Siegmann '79 went to Mexico for ety's functioning and changing. Then I plan which identifies training, a one-month vacation after graduating found that, in working with autistic supervision, medicine, contraceptives, with a concentration in English and children, I was extremely interested in equipment, transportation and logistics American literature. She stayed for a individuals' behaviors, patterns, and needs including specific dollar budgets. year and a half, working for Ogivly and growth. I had taken many psychology "I also work as technical advisor to Mather as an advertising copywriter and courses at Pitzer and felt myself moving the Peruvian Social Security Institute also for Mexico's largest advertising more in the direction of that field. Also, National Family Planning Program. agency. Returning to New York, she I had always loved to dance and found This nationalized health care system is worked for D'arcy Advertising Agency and then for a Hispanic advertising that movement and dance were available only to the nearly two million agency. She is now a freelance writer. successful ways to communicate with employed persons who are eligible for the children I worked with. So I social security benefits. The system is explored the field of dance/movement similar to a Health Maintenance Ann H. Stromberg, associate professor of sociology, has her B.A. from Pomona therapy, and off I went to graduate Organization (HMO) in the USA, College, her M.A. from Columbia school at Lesley College (Cambridge, except that it is government sponsored. University, and her Ph.D. from Cornell Massach usetts) in its Expressive The first ten months I was in Peru I University. Before coming to Pitzer in Therapy program. worked exclusively with the Social Se­ 1973, she had been a Special Assistant at "I was delighted to find some curity Institute setting up a national the Pan-American Development Foun­ Pitzer-like features to Lesley College's family planning office and assisted the dation and had done research in Colom­ program - close contact with faculty, Institute establish a population policy. bia, Belize, and Venezuela. Her current small classes, flexibility in planning "My involvement with Social Secu­ research on women, health, and one's program, and emphasis on one's rity has clearly been one of the most medicine draws together her interest in growth. While at Pitzer, I learned to medical sociology, demography, and rewarding activities in Peru. When I women's studies. With Shirley Harkness think and challenge information rather first started working with Social Secu­ of the University of Kansas, she edited than just accept the world as it is rity I had no idea if I could really Women Working: Theories and Facts in presented. Pitzer and its style were an facilitate the establishment of a national Perspective (Mayfield, 1978). Together, excellent preparation for my experience family planning policy and program they are beginning preparation of a in graduate school. that would use the I million dollars second edition. 5 Technology, important, has enacted a series of or­ HE DEATH OF Mao Zedong and ganizational reforms that chal!enge ~e established system of economiC admm­ T the deposition of the ."G:mg of istration. By delegating greater pow:ers Politics, Four" in 1976 marked the begmnmg of a to individual enterprises and offenng new era for China. Under the leadership new incentives (such as a partial reten­ of Deng Xiaoping, China embark~d and tion of profits) to their managers, the upon the ambitious program of reahz­ leadership hopes to create a r:nore con­ ing the "Four Modernizations" o.f ag­ Society genial climate for technologiCal trans­ riculture, industry, defense, and SCIence . formation. But so profound a restruc­ and technology. In many ways, all of In turing has its hazards? greater enter­ these changes are dependent on the de­ prise autonomy may qUlck~n the pace of velopment and application of ~cie?ce economic and technologiCal change, and technology. Without extenslv~ lffi­ but at the cost of a loss of central contol provements in equipment, te~hlllque, and the concomitant ability to direct the and productive pro~esses, slll:ggish rates course of technological change it;J- .ac­ of development wIll constnct ~~ ag­ cordance with other social and POhtiCal ricultural, industrial, andmlhtary sectors. goals. . At the same time, the advancement The political goals are hIgh, and the acceptance and continuation ofthese re­ and effective utilization of science and forms will depend in large measure on technology present many problems :md the rate of technological advance and dilemmas. Technological moderlllza­ the extent to which new technologies by Rudi Volti cion entails more than the simple addi­ stimulate economic development. tion or substitution of new pieces of These will not be swiftly or easily hardware, for significant technological achieved. Although some encourage­ changes often necessitate parallel ~ul­ ment can be taken from recent upturns tural, social, political, and orgalllza­ in agricultural and light indu~trial tional changes. The enactment of ~e~e changes is particularly problematiC m production, the Chinese peopl~ WIll s~e China, a nation compounded of an an­ only gradual improvement l.n t~elr cient civilization and post­ standard of living. TechnologiCal. 1I~­ provements will be central to Chma s revolutionary social order. The scien­ quest for wealth and power, but China's tific and technological achieveme?ts of leadership will continue to face man­ China's long history paradoXlcally create numerous obstacles to the acqUl­ ifold difficulties in providing ~ effect­ ive framework for technologiCal ad­ sition and application of technologies vance while at the same time maintain­ developed elsewhere; efforts to advance ing the political structure that for dec­ technological capabilities through the ades has defined the essential configura­ use of foreign importations underscore tion of the Chinese social order. the quintessential Chi~ese dil~mma .of pursuing what one emm~nt ~molog?st described as "modermzatlOn wIth pride." Recent history has also gener­ ated obstacles' decades of revolutionary struggle in China have left a socialist legacy that cannot be ~asily ob~iterated by the presumed lmp~ratlves ~f mo~erlll­ technological and economiC The preceding article i~ based on yolt~'s zation. The vigorous purSUit of book Technology, Polit~cs, and SOCtety ~n technological development ofte~ r~­ Chin~ published by Westview Press in suIts in specialization, elitism, and mdl­ spring, 1982. vidualism. Equally important, the ad­ ministrative and organizational changes Rudi Volti, associate professor of sociol­ essential to technological development ogy has taught at Pitzer since 1969. He can attenuate the historic role of the has' his B.A. from the University of Communist Party and provide a fertile California, Riverside; and his M.A. and ground for the .rise of a te~hnocracy Ph.D. from Rice University. In 1972, he whose perspectIves may dIffer pro­ was a Research Fellow at the University foundly from those of the Party estab­ Services Centre, Hong Kong. He is a Vis­ lishment. iting Scholar at the University of Michi­ China's current leaders are engaged gan's Graduate School of B~siness Ad­ ministration for 1982-83. HIS research in a struggle that has no easy resolu!ion. interests include the social structure of In a far-reaching challenge to Chm~se China and Japan; political and economic Communist orthodoxy, the governmg development; formal organization; elite has opened up China to joint ven­ technology and society, and social tures with foreign firms, and, even more stratification. 6 On Confronting the Meaning of Human Meaning

«Gregor)) with (left to right) Ted Ellenhorn )82, Glenn Goodwin, professor ofsociology) and David Shapinsky )82. Photo: Sue Keith by Glenn A. Goodwin The first half of this final class was to be ment that Weber warned about, and the given to two Pitzer seniors (David anomie that Durkheim feared had been Shapinsky; sociology and history major, linked thematically with Camus, Sartre, T 6:45 TUESDAY evening, I was and Ted Ellenhorn, sociology and Beckett, Conrad, and others. Social sci­ A preparing to meet my last class for psychology major) to make their joint ence, humanities, natural and physical the Fall, 1981 semester on sociology and "class presentation." Both Shapinsky science majors had learned to talk with existentialism. My purpose had been to and Ellenhorn had talked to me about each other about a theme common to get students to consider the issues rotat­ presenting a play that one of them had them all. ing around the question of human written, saying little else about its con­ The creativity and enthusiasm ofthe meaning - its sources and conse­ tent except to assure me that it was "rel­ students in this class convinced me that quences - by attempting to synthesize evant" to the theme of human meaning the transcendence of disciplinary sociological theory with absurdistjexis­ and that most of the class would "par­ boundaries in the classroom is both tentialist thoqght. Was there a way of ticipate." necessary and desirable. I am offering synthesizing' the insights of Marx, With apprehension, I entered the class again in Fall, 1982, this time Weber, Durkheim, with such literary Fletcher I04. The first thing I noticed teaching it jointly with Ellen Ringler­ figures as Camus, Sartre, Beckett, was that the entire class, for the first Henderson, professor of literature. Kafka, and others on the question of time all semester, was present and By the way; the gigantic figure of human meaning? I thought so. Could I seated. The second thing I noticed was Gregor Samsa now resides in my office, convince a class consisting of Pitzer and to remain with me to this day. In front much like the body of Jeremy Bentham Pomona students, majoring in such di­ of the room, next to the chalkboard that resides in a hallway of the Univer­ verse disciplines as sociology, philoso­ where I usually sat, was a gigantic sity of London. Unlike the tradition of phy, biology, psychology, and God papiermache replica of Gregor Samsa, London, however, I have yet to wheel knows what else, that it was possible? qua cockroach. On the board (as if Gregor out to an annual meeting of the The class had gone well, and, to a great "Gregor" were thinking such) was this Board of Trustees. Perhaps the next extent, tonight's class would answer inscriptio.n: "Sociology II7 has been time the Trustees meet on Pitzer's those questions. cancelled this evening. Goodwin awoke campus ... In addition to other class require­ this morning feeling very peculiar." ments, the students were directed to After I was seated in my usual spot, with "make a presentation" that both incor­ "Gregor" hovering beside me, porated and went beyond the readings Shapinsky and Ellenhorn proceeded and papers dictated by the course syl­ with their play. They handed out scripts Glenn A. Goodwin, professor of sociol­ labus. During the last few weeks, we to most members ofthe class (including ogy, has his B.A. from the State Univer­ had discussed Camus' The Stranger and myself) and gave cues as to the reading sity of New York, Buffalo, and his Ph.D. The Fall and had concluded our con­ of the lines. The next hour and a half from Tulane University. Since coming to Pitzer in 1969, he has been a visiting pro­ frontation with Kafka's The MetJamor­ ~itnessed a brilliant summary of the fessor at the University of Bath, Eng­ phosis. I recalled vividly the students' major theme of the class - the meaning land, and the American University, puzzled reaction to Kafka's first lines of of human meaning. We spent the final Cairo, Egypt. Goodwin has also served Metamorphosis: "Gregor Samsa awoke hour and a half "digesting" it all, and I as a consultant for the University of one morning to discover he had been went home satisfied that the alienation California, San Francisco, concerning transformed into a gigantic cockroach." that Marx wrote about, the disillusion- their Ph.D. program in sociology. 7 Organizational Studies: Juvenile Hall. Through close supervi­ sion and positive role models, Boys Re­ public enables the boys to live with a Internships: sense of stability, something many of Or them have never experienced. Students in Buzz, an organizational studies senior, counseled the boys both indi­ vidually and through group therapy. the Workplace Considering that the program involves gap the human factors of growth and be­ by Anne Lieberman '83 havioral change, Buzz expected the program at the facility to be more in­ formal and process-oriented. "WHAT CAN you do with a de- 1 gree in organizational However, he found the organiza­ studies?" Depending upon one's addi­ tional structure "highly bureaucratic tional coursework and fields of intern­ and constructed along vertical lines." ship, the answers are endless. Organiza­ What some organizations aspire to do za tional studies - understanding the and what actually occurs are often dif­ process and structure of organizations ferent. Buzz attributes the difference to - is a growing field, and people with a organizational composition (as in the background in it are in increasingly case of Boys Republic) where two al­ great demand. As individuals who un­ most conflicting purposes are involved tion derstand the process and structure of in the desired result. A correctional in­ organizations, they have a positive in­ stitution needs formally structured fluence on company growth at a time rules and programs by definition of its when human factors such as job satis­ stated purpose. Yet, Boys Republic, faction and employees' feelings are be­ working solely with boys in their grow­ al coming significantly more important. ing and forming years, tries to assist To enhance their knowledge and them in improving themselves and be­ understanding of the field, students coming better people. concentrating in organizational studies However, much can be done within Studies are required to take part in two intern­ the organizational structure at the facil­ ships for completion of their major. ity. Since the majority of his work done Students agree that they gain an enor­ at Boys Republic concentrates on group mous amount of knowledge through therapy, Buzz's coursework in group internships. psychology was helpful during his in­ "For my own self, I learned how to ternship. relate better to others, helping others Classes provide students with the and becoming more facilitative instead necessary theory; internships give them of prescribing behavior and being an opportunity to apply what they judgmental," Buzz Evers responds learned in the classroom. about his internship at Boys Republic. "At this time in my college career," The boys are adjudicated to this correc­ notes Gina Gould, "I was getting anx­ tional institution as an alternative to ious to try the theories I had been ac-

Buzz Evers )83 in a representative counseling session at Boys Republic. Photo: Sue Keith

8 cepting from the chalkboard. I wanted a As an intern and a new employee, Internships in conjunction with chance to apply theory and see how Claire met with what seemed to her to coursework have proven highly valu­ practical it was, and to see how I should be suspicion and distrust from some able to Brenda Magee, senior organiza­ actualize the information that's in my employees who possibly feared her as­ tional studies and sociology major. head." As a senior organizational suming some of their responsibilities. Through these experiences she became studies and psychology major, Gina Once they became better acquainted, aware of what kind of person she is and finds that all of the classes she has taken those feelings disappeared, .exposing the kind of organization in which she helped her with her internship at Union the warm, casual atmosphere that works best. Bank. Her task there involved the re­ helped Claire feel comfortable and wel­ As coordinator of the student dance search and planning of a "Customer In­ come. She appears to be pleasantly sur­ recital for Joann Warner Dance Arts, formation File," to assist the bank in prised that the "real world" (as college Brenda performed all the "behind the defining and improving its relation­ students put it) is not as serious and scenes" work, including fitting and or­ ships with its customers. At first, this conservative as she expected. The prac­ dering costumes and contracting with a work, done in the Marketing Programs tical knowledge gained from this in­ theater. Joann Warner is meticulously Department, was totally separate from ternship, Claire states, "was my most professional and actively involved in the existing requirements of Gina's in­ valuable experience in college life." several well-known dance organiza­ ternship class. As these two obligations Brad Kadel, a I982 economics tions. In her internship, Brenda found merged, she began to see her internship graduate, was equally positive about his the employer-employee relationship ex­ in a new light. She realized that she internship at Avery Labels. "The most tremely important. Her social science could offer her supervisor observations impressive feature of my entire resume background provided a good founda­ about the marketing program and also is this internship." He even received a tion in the techniques of interpersonal supply him with a marketing perspec­ job offer based heavily on this experi­ communication. tive different from his own that might ence. "I think one of the most important direct him to previously unrecognized Avery Labels wants to institute a things that I did in my internship," ex­ resources. supervisory training program and asked plained Brenda, was that "every time In contrast to her expectations of a Brad to do the background research for Joann assigned me a task, she explained directed internship, Gina discovered it, including some interviews with first­ it to me, and the first thing I would say that in addition to doing a job, she had line supervisors. Although traditionally, was, 'Okay, let me explain it back to you also to devise an appropriate method these :first-line (and first-time) super­ the way that I perceive it.'" By a for doing it. Thus the internship visors are not well-educated, Brad was combination of active listening and re­ provided her with practical experience surprised by the considerable amount petition, Brenda learned to demon­ of what is needed in the workplace. of training they had through seminars, strate that she clearly understood what Claire Gunn, a I982 graduate major­ ~ight schools, and management train­ was required of her. ing in organizational studies and lan­ mg programs. One recurring reaction to organiza­ guages and art, had a similar experience. Brad found that the role-playing tional studies internships is that they are Her internship with Torrey Pines Bank techniques, organizational language a special plus for the college students confirmed her interest in banking so and concepts, and literature research who take part in them. Lynn Perls, a much that she is now pursuing a career which he learned through his course­ 1982 graduate in organizational studies in the field. By developing a manual work prepared him for many aspects of and sociology, thinks that the most val­ containing product definitions, fea­ his internship. Though he is not an or­ uable part of her organizational studies tures, and benefits for use by all bank ganizational studies major, Brad concentration is the internship, which employees, she increased the level of believes his organizational studies in­ took place in Albuquerque, New employee product knowledge and serv­ ternship has been a definite asset for Mexico, with Harris Consulting Com­ ice skills. entering the work world. pany. As she explained, "This was his

Claire Gunn '82 at Torrey Pines Bank. Photo courtesy of Shireen Alaft '76

9 first time working also as a management Organizational Studies: creasing and the end to mandatory re­ consultant and that is why he hired me. tirement, the presence of older people He was intrigued by my actually having in the work force increasingly will studied [organizational studies] and New present problems, especially since the having a background in the whole or­ Social Security issue will become more ganizational management issue." Resources: acute. Convincing management in gen­ Her task in consulting with an es­ eral that this trend must be creatively crow company was twofold: defining Earning a prepared for, Hutchinson remarked the work being done by each individual, ruefully, can often be "like shoveling and defining the problems. Discovering Degree While manure against the wind." We are learn­ that the escrow company had no or­ ing a great deal from the Japanese about ganizational structure, Lynn then human resource development: avoiding helped organize the seven women on the Job specialized career paths, including employees, none of whom had any ad­ workers in decisions, and paying atten­ tion to the quality of worklife. ministrative or managerial experience, ERMAN HUTCHINSON '79 by defining the work responsibilities of H completed his degree in organiza­ Now enrolled in the executive man­ each. tional studies while working at Xerox in agement program at Claremont She was pleasantly surprised by the Pasadena, where for the past eighteen Graduate School, he finds that there is large amount of autonomy and respon­ years he has been manager for security "something missing" in company per­ sibility. Being away from Pitzer, Lynn and environmental health. "Every once sonnel departments. As organizations did not have the advantage of taking in a while, the company would suggest grow, the newer personnel managers simultaneous course work, but thinks that I go back to school, but until I tend to have degrees in business rather that her good academic training pre­ found Pitzer's New Resources pro­ than in the behavioral sciences. To pared her for her internship. gram, I couldn't get really interested compensate, he would like to see more By the time they are eligible for their because I would always be directed psychology and more of a total organi­ internships, most organizational toward business courses, which simply zational studies approach in business studies students are juniors or seniors. were not stimulating for me." studies. As the experience of these organiza­ While at work on his B.A., he be­ The degree makes a difference in tional studies interns indicates, an in­ came interested in rilidlife career many subtle ways, particularly "when it ternship can provide not only a valuable changes, "industrial gerontology," and comes to rocking the boat to get some­ link between college and the workplace, the problems workers with many years thing done," and in improving the qual­ but also allow the intern to apply what on the job may develop: stagnation, ity of both life and worklife. "There is he/she learned in the classroom. burnout, decline in performance, also a bit more money, most useful with technological obsolescence. Now he is three children in college." Steve is at the conducting a workshop, "Managing University of California, Davis; Amy at Anne Lieberman '83 has a double con­ Your Growth at Xerox," especially de­ Westmont College, Santa Barbara; and centration in organizational studies and signed for employees in mid and late life Joel at Pitzer. David and Neil are still in psychology. During the summer of 1981 career stages, and pre-retirement work­ high school. His wife is an R.N. and she did market research and planning for shops for employees over fifty. He pro­ C. M. Mushroom Company in Hayward, works in the emergency room at Ca. She also acted as a student poses moving people around in jobs Pomona Valley Hospital to help sup­ coordinator in the development of the rather than have them specialize, to save port the children's education. The de­ Pitzer Social Science Clinic in 1981-82 "a tremendous investment in training," gree makes Herman Hutchinson a rar­ school year. Anne comes to Pitzer from as older workers know the organization ity among alumni: he is also a Pitzer San Antonio, Texas. well. With the general average age in- parent.

Herman Hutchinson)9 (left) with Lewis Ellenhorn, professor ofpsychology. Photo: Sue Keith

10 Organizational Studies: and formulate ideas as to the dynamics ing an active volcano and a variety of behind it. plants and animals. The students were R. Do you forsee being able to make told that they were marooned there, to Management recommendations to alleviate the prob­ organize themselves, and find a way to lem? survive. Through this exercise they Seminar: L. The role of a good consultant is to learned about the process of organiz­ define the problem and then support ing. Should they, for instance, organize Business the company in finding its own solu­ along functional lines (as fishermen, tion. farmers, soldiers), territorial lines, or Comes to R. The idea of students going into or­ some other fashion? How could they ganizations in this manner seems handle communication between Campus unique to me, as students are generally groups? Simulations involve the entire viewed only in a "learner" capacity. person. The exercise was videotaped What advantages might they have over and viewed the following week to aid in analysis of organizational processes. On April 21, 1982 a conference was held people currently in an organization or for the Pitzer Organizational Studies professional consultants? One of the things I'd like to do in the Clinic. The following is part of a conver­ L. They're fresh, naive, eager and in­ future is develop a computer simulation sation between professor of psychology, dependent, capable of developing a game. Lewis Ellenhorn, one of the sponsors of view that someone from within may not the clinic, and a participant, Robin El­ see. Being inside an organization can ledge '80. blind you to its myths, culture and After receiving her B.A. with honors in R. In planning the conference, what folklore. An outside person can provide psychology, Robin Elledge '80 went to did you hope to accomplish? a mirror. work for Southwestern Industries, Los L. First, it provided us with a timeta­ R. Is there any cost to organizations Angeles, as Personnel Administrator. In ble and deadline for organizing the that utilize the clinic? August, 1981, she became Employee Rela­ tions Manager for Kraft, Inc., in Buena Clinic. Secondly; it introduced profes­ L. We hope to encourage host organi­ zations to pay for services to the extent Park. Aviation, snow skiing, scuba div­ sionals from the community who were ing, and racquetball are among her av­ that the clinic can become self­ able to give us a different perspective ocations. In 1983, she plans to begin an and help us define the problem we want supporting. I think the conference was M.B.A. program. to focus on during the coming year. The wonderfully successful in a number of ways. The general ambience of the conference also gave some of our stu­ Lewis J. Ellenhorn, professor of dents the opportunity to demonstrate group was terrific. There was a lively psychology, has taught at Pitzer since their skills in group facilitation and ob­ give and take of ideas. I think the or­ 1966. He holds the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. servation. ganizations came away with a real re­ from the University of California at Los R. Tell me about the Organizational spect for the type of training our stu­ Angeles, where he was a Haynes Foun­ Studies Clinic. dents are getting. Several are specific in dation Fellow and Assistant Professor in L. The models have been some of the their desire to utilize clinic teams. residence. He has been Management De­ engineering and math clinics in the R. What other teaching experiences velopment Coordinator, TRW Systems; community, such as those at Harvey have you been involved in at Pitzer that Human Relations Consultant, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of Mudd College. Through the clinic, a are similarly unique? California, Los Angeles; and Senior team of students would enter a business L. I have used simulations extensively. Psychologist-Consultant, Peace Corps; organization to study a specific prob­ Last year in my organizational psychol­ Associate, National Training Labora­ lem. They would gather data on it, ogy class I used a huge island (built by tory; and is now actively involved in or­ analyze it with the help of Pitzer faculty; David Furman's ceramics class) contain- ganizational research and consultation.

Lewis Ellenhorn) professor ofpsychology) and Robin Elledge )80 (right) strolling in downtown Claremont. Photo: George Adams

II Organizational Studies: the joint program must have completed R. I feel this is great! Prospective 28 Pitzer courses (calculus included) employers are seeking students with a and have taken the GMAT exam. liberal arts background for Five-Year Usually the student wilf begin taking management positions because they graduate courses in the second semester have a broader preparation and more Program: of the senior year. Since I spent one less well-rounded perspective on the busi­ year in school, the program was a great ness world. Pitzer B.A., advantage to me both in financial J. Which course or set of courses was savings and in giving me a jump on the invaluable? CGS M.A. job market. As a professor, what do you R. It was very important from a think are the advantages and personal perspective to push myself to disadvantages of the program? take math. The courses I most Raquelle Holmes '82, who concentrated J. There is the practical advantage of appreciated within the organizational in organizational studies and has her receiving two degrees at the same time. studies concentration were in sociology, M.B.A. in business administration from Another is exiting the M.B.A. program economics, and political studies. Claremont Graduate School, returned with a liberal arts background from J. What's missing in Pitzer's to campus for a talk with her advisor, Pitzer. I believe CGS now requires organizational studies program? John Sullivan, professor of political sixteen rather than twelve courses, and R. I think more business-related studies, about the status of the joint B.A./M.B.A. program with CGS. The four must be more liberal-arts-related. courses could be provided as prepara­ discussion ranged from the problems The chairman of the department, Jim tion for CGS or any other business students face after graduation to the Giles, said that Pitzer students should school. And a full-time faculty member liberal arts emphasis of the not be affected because of their liberal would be a great asset to the program. If organizational studies concentration, arts background; the restructure is one is not obtained what happens? the advantages and disadvantages of the geared more towards economics and J. The College may lose the joint program, and the meaning of the business majors. An additional organizational studies concentration, M.B.A. in the present job market. advantage of the program is the which would really be a mistake. Holmes is now working in the Space combination of a Pitzer liberal arts R. If that were to happen, would the and Technology Group of TRW, Inc. in background with the technical training joint program have to be abolished? Redondo Beach, in Schedule Control for one of the large satellite systems that the necessary to move into marketing and J. Not necessarily. CGS is happy to get company is manufacturing. She was management. One disadvantage is that Pitzer students because of the quality of recruited for the Career Selection Pro­ students must make a decision fairly their preparation. CGS is more gram for Business Managers, a two-year early, usually in their junior year. concerned that students have had the program that allows rotation to differ­ Another is that many opportunities are proper courses and scored well on the ent divisions within the organization provided by organizations that students GMAT. every six months. A part of the have some concern about from a moral conversation follows. perspective, such as defense-related John D. Sullivan, professor of political studies, has taught at Pitzer since 1975. J. How would you evaluate the Pit­ companies. Yet another is that one must He received his B.A. and M.A. from San zer ICGS program? learn math and statistics. Francisco State University and his Ph.D. R. I give the program a high rating. R. That was the most difficult area from Stanford University. He has taught There are twelve courses students must for me. at Yale University and Claremont complete to receive the degree. Seven J. It may have been, but you set your Graduate School. With Merrill R. are required core courses; the others goal and accomplished it. How do you Goodall and Timothy De Young he is the author of California Water: A New may be tailored to the student's specific feel about the liberal arts background Political Economy (Allahheld, Osmun & emphasis. A Pitzer student who enters versus a straight economics one? Co., 1978).

John Sullivan> professor ofpolitical studies> (left) and Raquelle Holmes )80. Photo: George Adams

12 by Peter M. Nardi

s SOCIETIES and cultures A evolved from religious to scientific, so too did magic evolve from labels of witchcraft, to street entertainment to scientific experiments, and to feats of skill. In all its forms and presentations, magic has held the interest of all classes of society, fascinating and bewildering people of all educational levels, and in­ voking dimensions of science and the supernatural. Magic is a form of enter­ tainment which raises interesting ques­ tions concerning its role in a society's belief system, the role of women in its presentation (note the virtual absence of women magicians historically and presently), and the social psychological properties of everyday life as exhibited in the interactions between performer and audience. The history of magic as entertainment and of the social role of magicians is an enlightening excursion into answering some ofthese questions. The role of magician as entertainer and the definition of magic as enter­ tainment have changed over time, a function, in part, of people's knowledge of science and beliefs in the super­ natural. During the medieval period, itinerant entertainers traveled about performing cups-and-balls routines, sword-swallowing, and sleight of hand coin tricks. Documents from the 13th century describe jugglers performing sleights and cups-and-balls on street corners and at fairs. However, these en­ tertainers did not enjoy a high status; they were looked upon as jesters or buf­ foons. Usually called jugglers rather than magicians or conjurers, these per­ formers were often denounced by the church or accused of witchcraft. 13 Unquestionably the most im­ entertainment of scientific magic," magic in America and who represent portant extant document on the nature "natural magic with the resources de­ the "golden age." Contemporary magi­ of entertainment magic is Reginald rivable from the sciences," and "strictly cians, such as Doug Henning, Harry Scot's 1584- book, The Discovery of moral." Blackstone, Jr., and David Copperfield, Witchcraft. This is the first recorded Invoking the rationality of the age, owe much to these performers. Their evidence exposing some secrets of the 19th century magicians overplayed shows have built on the classic styles magic and demonstrating that the feats the scientific and educational aspects of and tricks of the "golden age" show­ performed by jugglers were not ac­ their shows while certifying the "exper­ men. complished in league with Satan, iments" with clergy and royalty ap­ In the last 10 years, magic has en­ providing documentation that people proval and without the aid of the devil. joyed a revival of interest. Television in the 16th century believed that One 184-6 playbill for Professor Ander­ specials featuring magic are once again jugglers' tricks owed something to son advertised the ·show as "new popular, and magicians appear in supernatural and unholy means. Scot astounding feats of dictiliomancy, Broadway shows. Magic is clearly a exposes the "entirely normal and ex­ rhabdology, arithmomancy, phylac­ form of entertainment; it no longer plainable means" by which the "jug­ teria, ketopteomancy, keratomia, needs clergy approval. Contemporary gler's wonders" are accomplished. stenography, ornithomancy, papyro­ audiences continue to marvel at the Public interest in magic as enter­ mancy,chicatachy, klydomancy, kap­ classic illusions and tricks, admiring the tainment increased in the 17th century, nomancy, pyrotechnomancy, rhurlap skill and showmanship of the per­ with Scot's book leading to the publica­ husicanology." An 1853 playbill for Pro­ former. Today's audiences do not attri­ tion of numerous forgeries and some fessor Macallister assured the audiences bute the unexplainable to supernatural original books on the "art ofjuggling or that "performances consist entirely of forces (except for some people when legerdemain." Numerous references are mechanical, chemical, scientific and they view a mentalism or seance act), made by Restoration dramatists and philosophical experiments, both amus­ but to talent and years of practice. They poets to magic performances at fairs, ing and instructive, and may be may know a rational explanation exists, such as the Bartholomew Fair, as magic witnessed by all classes, there being no­ yet should be unable to detect it. historian Sidney Clarke demonstrates. thing affecting the religious or political This modern view of magic as enter­ But by the early 18th century, magic still feelings of any sect or denomination - tainment and ofthe magician as an actor was not a very popular attraction, in as a proof, his exhibitions have always portraying someone with supernatural part because of its lingering association been attended by ministers and heads of powers reflects our culture's scientific with witchcraft and gypsies. churches, schools, and colleges." and rational orientation. Television, As magic moved from street corners By the late 19th century, magic had special effects in the movies, and even and fairs to hired rooms in taverns and become a widely popularized stage act, computers are examples of what in halls about the mid-18th century, its less dependent on other forms of enter­ other eras might have been viewed as popularity began to be rejuvenated. tainment (juggling, ventriloquism, magical or supernatural, but today are Much of the impetus came from Italy performing birds) and more a show in seen as technological wonders. We may and France, in the hands of such noted itself. The so-called "golden-age" of not know how they work, but most of conjurers as Pinetti, Bosco, and Louis magic, beginning around the 1870'S, can us don't attribute them to the devil's Comte. In America, magic was seen as be attributed to the work of Robert­ doing. So it is with magic: we may not exotic and even nostalgic when Euro­ Houdin ("Father of Modern Magic"), know "how it is done," but we believe pean and British performers exhibited the famous French magician who, in the an undetected rational or technological their "dexterity-of-hand" with coins, 1850's and 1860'S, changed the presenta­ explanation exists. cards, and handkerchiefs. Magic was tion of magic. No longer just an act in a Thus, how a magic act is viewed and rarely done alone but usually performed variety show, magic became an elabo­ what definitions are brought to the along with other forms of entertain­ rate, staged, sometimes scripted prod­ situation reflect a society's belief and ment, such as ventriloquism, fire­ uction, similar to the current TV knowledge system in science, religion, eating, puppetry, and gymnastics. magicians' shows. Robert-Houdin not and technology. In our modern era, that Around 1800, as the age of science only developed this style of presenta­ definition is entertainment, and magic evolved, major changes occurred in the tion, but also incorporated numerous performances become so the more they performance and popularity of magic. uses of the latest scientific discoveries: play with the rational-scientific Many of the elementary principles of clock apparatus, automata, electricity, frameworks this generation and culture science, not yet known by the general and mechanical devices. As the 20th have produced. public, were adapted by entertainers for century began, magic became a popular the production of wondrous "illu­ part of vaudeville entertainment, no sions." longer merely a street-corner or tavern Peter M. Nardi, associate professor of Simultaneously, the emergence of room close-up show or a stage full of sociology, has his B.A. from the Univer­ music halls and legitimate stages in the scientific experiments. Rather, it be­ sity of Notre Dame, his M.A. from Col­ 19th century led to the development of a came an elaborate theatrical production gate University, and his Ph.D. from the form of magic employing less sleight of employing the knowledge of the University of Pennsylvania. Before com­ hand and more mechanical apparatus psychology of perception and decep­ ing to Pitzer in 1975, he was Research suitable for larger audiences and stages. tion to fool a more scientifically aware Assistant and Lecturer at the University Many of these entertainers advertised public relatively free from the religious of Pennsylvania and Instructor at Rut­ gers University. His research and teach­ themselves as "Professors" performing beliefs of devil-assistance or supernatu­ ing interests include sociology of educa­ "scientific experiments." Most famous ral powers. It was Houdini (taking his tion, adolescent development, social was Professor John Henry Anderson, name in tribute to Robert-Houdin), psychology, and alcoholism. He is also the "Great Wizard of the North," who Blackstone, Kellar, Herrmann, and an amateur magician and a member of advertised his show variously a,s "grand Thurston who popularized modern the Magic Castle in Hollywood. 14 Before coming to Pitzer this year, he was an assistant professor of sociology Pitzer at the University of Arizona and was ail acting instructor at Yale University. Garcia's professional interests include Profiles Chicano studies, social stratification, research methodology, sociology of education, and social psychology. luge Bell The research center in which Garcia by Laud Humphreys worked while at Johns Hopkins was in a nineteenth-century carriage house. Ac­ cording to Garcia, people were in close Q. How did you get to Pitzer? communication there, and as a result he A. I came here in '68, four years after realized that he needed to find a place getting my Ph.D. from Berkeley. I had where people worked closely together. been fired from Irvine for insubordina­ Consequently, when Garcia came to tion to the Dean, so I was a refugee visit Pitzer, it was "love at first sight." Inge Bell cuts the cake at a farewell party in from the University system. One of the "There seems to be a great rapport her honor while Judith Wahnon )82 (right) and understanding among the faculty. nice things about Pitzer was that I got a looks on. Photo: Wesley Tanimura )85 letter from students requesting a course I've found a warm, humanistic com­ mitment towards students," asserted on the problems of young blacks - so I to help students. But I'm retiring be­ taught a course on minority youths. Garcia. "Ray Buriel (director of the cause what I really want most to do now Chicano Studies Center) epitomizes Those years were most exciting. It was is gardening. the late sixties, and everything was this concern. He's always looking for sparkling. We had that wonderful better ways to teach Chicano studies. Laud Humphreys, professor of sociol­ cross-fertilization of people coming Buriel strives to bring support for the ogy, has taught at Pitzer since 1972. He from oppressed groups and into contact student into the classroom." has his B.A. from Colorado College, the Garcia sees much potential in the with ideas that they could apply to their M.Div. from Seabury-Western Theolog­ lives. College for creating the next generation ical Seminary, and his M.A. and Ph.D. of social scientists. "In the past, Q. Did the courses you offered change from Washington University. Before over the years? coming to Pitzer, he taught at minorities have been defined by non­ A. Mter the Black and Chicano Studies Washington University, Southern Il­ minorities. We need to start defining Centers started, I withdrew from race linois University, and the School of ourselves. Pitzer is the place where I and ethnic courses. I started teaching Criminal Justice, State University of hope I can help shape the social scien­ "Who Gets the Goodies." In the mid­ New York, Albany. He received the C. tists of tomorrow." seventies, I offered a course in the Wright Mills Award for his first book, Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Martha Quintana '83 is from Taos, New Movements of the Sixties, and that was Places. a lot of fun. The next big innovation Mexico. Now in her fourth year at Pitzer, she is concentrating in philosophy. She was to bring Eastern philosophies into was editor of The Other Side, Pitzer the curriculum. I was taking the trip all Inge Bell, professor ofsociology, came to Pitzer in 1968. She holds the B.A., M.A., student newspaper, in 1980-81; a the radicals were taking: we had been and Ph.D. from the University of Resident Advisor in Sanborn Hall in defeated, so we turned to Eastern reli­ California, Berkeley. Previously she 1981-82; and in Holden Hall in 1982-83. gion. What I tried to do in that course taught at the University of California at She was elected Student Convenor for was bring sociology, humanistic Irvine and at Santa Barbara. Her pub­ 1982-83· psychology; and Buddhist philosophy lications include "Buddhist Sociology: together in a form the students could Some Thoughts on the Convergence of relate to. I wanted to show them that it Sociology and the Eastern Paths of Lib­ isn't inevitable that they be wholly crea­ eration," in Theoretical Perspectives in tures of this society, that they can resist Sociology, St. Martin's Press, 1979. that, that an alternative exists. For peo­ ple who can take it, this might be a short-cut to sanity. Homer Garcia Q. You said earlier that you must have taught 25 different courses in your 15 by Martha Quintana '83 years here. Were the students' needs al­ ways foremost in your designing those courses? "I THINK I've finally found the A. I've always wanted to give students place where I want to work," an ~nd~rstanding of the situation they Homer Garcia said on first coming to are ill nght now. I've always thought it Pitzer. Garcia, assistant professor of preposterous for social scientists not to sociology and Chicano studies, received ~lue students in to the system they are his B.A. from the University of Texas at Homer Garcia, assistant professor ofsociology ill. That's what I'm trying to do in the Austin and his M.A., M.Phil., and and Chicano studies, with Sociology 163 book I am writing, An Emotional Survi­ Ph.D. from Yale University. In students Alonzo Robinson )85 (foreground) val Manual for Undergraduates. I want addition, he has done post-doctoral and Robert Blume )85. to use whatever I've learned about life work at the Johns Hopkins University. Photo: Wesley Tanimura )85 15 From the Trustees Giles W. Mead, Chairman of the Board

EVERAL YEARS AGO, a Pitzer S annual fund brochure featured on its cover a single, wooden kitchen match with the message, "Pitzer is un­ matched." The brochure was success­ fully used to highlight an alumni gift­ matching program. If a brochure were to depict this year's programs, an entire box of matches would be required for the cover. Pitzer currently has three distinc­ tive gift-matching programs: one for alumni, another for faculty and staff, and one for all constituents. A Cover design for The]ames I rvine Foundation Alumni Giving Incentive Challenge Grant description of each follows. I hope you Program brochure. Design: Shields/Stoddard will want to participate with us in these efforts. the Midwest in the mid-'70S, tailored to the needs and constituency of each Steele Foundation Awards Pitzer With your help, Pitzer will continue $1,000,000 Matching Grant to be unmatched. college. In consultation with. the selected The Harry G. Steele Foundation has institutions, the Irvine Foundation de­ awarded Pitzer College a $1,000,000 veloped a match tailored to each par­ matching grant over a four-year period ticipating institution. Pitzer has an to assist the College in generating opportunity to gain at least $40,000 another $1,000,000 for scholarships. over the next three years. The base year Pitzer could receive the maximum of of 1981-82 will be used to calculate $250,000 per year in matching funds, if Pitzer Selected by Irvine Founda­ matching funds and bonuses for 1982-83. the College raises an equal amount an­ tion for Annual Giving Incentive The matching formula is $1 for $1 for nually through contributions. Grant Program total increased giving. If the number of The Steele Foundation will match $1 Pitzer is one of nineteen independent donors increases by at least IO percent for $1 all new scholarship gifts begin­ institutions selected by the James Irvine over the prior year, a bonus of $25 for ning November I, 1982, and continuing Foundation of San Francisco and New­ each new alumni donor giving .$lO or through October 30, 1986. port Beach to participate in their more will be awarded. Alumni gifts, up three-year Annual Giving Incentive to a maximum of $IO,OOO each, will Grant Program. The program, which enter the matching formula. Staff-Faculty Gift-Matching began on July I, 1982, is designed to en­ The Irvine Foundation will review Program courage increased giving from alumni the incentive program annually. De­ Trustees Polly Plesset and Anthony and the amount of the average gift; at­ pending upon the results, the Founda­ Barash have established the tract more gifts from non-alumni, based tion can interrupt or even discontinue Plesset/Barash Staff-Faculty Gift­ on increased alumni giving; and the program, in the case of unsatisfac­ Matching Program at Pitzer for 1982-83. provide participating institutions with tory performance, or can increase The program responds to a suggestion an additional source of unrestricted awards in the event of superior per­ made by a Pitzer staff member. While funds. formance. completing her pledge card to the Col­ The Irvine Incentive Program, first The Foundation's matching funds lege, she questioned whether Pitzer of its kind in the West, is based on the will be unrestricted and paid to Pitzer could provide an employee gift­ experience of the Bush Foundation of following the year in which the match­ matching program, similar to those Minneapolis and the Joyce Foundation ing funds are earned. Alumni funds existing in corporations, as an incentive of Chicago, and a desire on the part of matched in 1982-83, for example, will be for staff and faculty giving. The pro­ the Irvine Foundation, in these times of paid in 1983. gram will match, on a $2-to-$I basis, all limited resources, to increase the ef­ One fourth of the total number of staff-faculty contributions which are fectiveness of their contributions. In alumni donors to the 1981-82 annual doubled this year over last; $2-to-$I 1972-73, the Bush Foundation initiated fund made their first gift to Pitzer, the matching funds for the total increase of an alumni incentive program among largest number of new donors in any new or renewed gifts of $lOo or more; colleges in Minnesota and North annual fund year. The Irvine Founda­ and $I-to-$I for new or renewed gifts of Dakota that achieved excellent results. tion has provided the incentive to make $99 or less. The trustees have pledged Similarly, the Joyce Foundation de­ each of the next three years a record funds totaling $lO,ooo for the matching veloped an alumni challenge plan for year. gift program. I6 From the Alumni has a paper, "Aristotle's Forbidden Sweets" (with Julius Moraucsik) in the Spring, 1982 issue of the Journal of the History of Philosophy: an article, "Traditional Epistemology and Naturalistic Replies to its Skeptical Critics" in the forthcoming Naturalistic Epistemology (ed. P. K. Macnamer, University of California Press); pro­ duced "The Desert Home Companion," a radio show and concert for KSPC in April, 1982; and delivered a paper, "Aristotle and theArchai," at the University of Pittsburgh Conference on Ancient Greek Science and Scientific Exploration in May, 1982. Newton Copp, assistant professor of biology has an article, "Temperature-Sensitive Behaviours and Cluster Formation by Ladybird Beetles," forthcoming in Animal Behaviour. Marcia F alk has a recently published book, Love Lyrics from the Bible: A Translation and Literary Study of the Song of Songs (Almond Press, 1982). Dennis Farber, assistant professor of art, had a one-artist exhibit at the Tom Luttrell Gallery in San Francisco, fall 1982; and work in two group exhibits, "Sleight of Hand," at California State University, Fullerton, fall 1982, and "Rancho de Taos, a Photographic History,'" beginning in Lincoln, Nebraska in October and then touring the U.S. Glenn Goodwin, professor of sociology, was the Discussant for a session at the national meetings for the Society for the Study of Social Problems in San Francisco in September; was moderator for a session of the national Two Day Social Justice Teach In at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco, September 7, a "counter­ Alumni share evening at the Hollywood Bowl, August I982. Photo: Bob Penn '78 convention" to the national meetings of the American Sociological Association. With Laud Humphreys, professor of sociology; he is the author of "Freeze-Dried Stigma: Cybernetics and Social Control," appearing inHumanity and Soci­ ety. At Pitzer Linda MaIm attended the National Professional Conference of Women in Communications, Inc. in Denver, Colorado, Warren Montag, instructor in English, took his enroute to spending a month as guest at the Mary B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley, and Ingrahm Bunting Institute, Schlesinger Library OURTEEN FACULTY members represent­ is a doctoral candidate at Claremont Graduate on the History of Women in America at Raddiffe F ing eleven different disciplines joined the School. Antonis Ricos, instructor in film College. Sheryl Miller presented a paper, Pitzer faculty this fall. Sociology is represented by studies, holds a B.A. from Middlebury College "Lukenya Hill, Site GvJm+6; Research of the Homer Garcia (see "Pitzer Profiles") and by and an M.F.A. from UCLA where he is now a Later Stone Age of Kenya," at meetings of the Charles Goldsmid, visiting associate professor doctoral candidate. N azif Shahrani, assistant Society for Mricanist Archaeologists in America, of sociology, who has his B.A. from New York professor of anthropology, was educated at Kabul and was also elected to serve on the Administrat­ University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University, the University of Hawaii, and the ive Committee of the organization. Beverly University of Chicago. For six years, Goldsmid University of Washington where he received his Palmer, assistant professor of writing and assist­ directed a national study of the teaching of Ph.D. Donald Yacavone, instructor in history; is ant to the Dean of Faculty for the New Resources sociology for the American Sociological a Ph.D. candidate at Claremont Graduate School. program, has an article, "The American Identity Association, and is the author of Passing on Charles Young, visiting associate professor of and Europe: Views of Emerson and Sumner," in a Sociology: The Teaching of a Discipline philosophy; has the B.A. from Rice University recent issue of the Harvard Library Bulletin. (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1980). and the Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Albert Schwartz, professor of sociology, will be Other new members come to Pitzer from University. A member of the philosophy serving as a part-time Special Assistant to the many places. Jessica Beagles-Roos, assistant department at Claremont Graduate School, he President for 1982-83. professor of psychology; has her B.A. from the will be teaching a course on Plato. Harry Senn, associate professor of French, University of California, San Diego, and her New admissions counselors are Patricia has written a book, Were- Wolf and Vampire in Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Abilez, who has her B.A. in psychology from Romania (East European Monographs, Colum­ Angeles (UCLA). Dennis Farber, assistant Pomona College; and Jon Y. Parro, who has his bia University Press, 1982). He also has a review of professor of art, is a graduate of Trinity College B.A. in psychology from Pitzer. Sarah D. Gail Kligman's Calus, Symbolic Transformation in and holds an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate Neiman has been appointed associate director of Romanian Ritual, appearing in East European School. Subhashis Gangopadhyay, instructor development. She holds the B.A., with honors, in Quarterly and inSteaua (a review ofliterature and in economics, has the B.A. from Presidency political science and American literature from the poetry from Cluj, Romania). Susan Seymour, College, Calcutta, and is a Ph.D. candidate at University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and the professor of anthropology, received a Haynes Cornell University. Christine Hepburn, assist­ M.A., with distinction, from the University of Foundation Summer Fellowship; she traveled to ant professor of psychology, received her B.A. Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and has been a lecturer seven women's universities in Korea, Japan, from Hofstra University and her Ph. D. from New in twentieth century literature at the University of India, and Pakistan, to research the effects of ma­ York University. Nader Khaliliy, !visiting California at Riverside. Her latest position was as ternal employment on daughters' self-concept: professor of art, is a licensed architect and a assistant to the president for the College of achievement, career ambition, and sex role member of the American Institute of Architects. Osteopathic Medicine for the Pacific in Pomona. attitudes. Sharon Snowiss, associate professor He received his architectural training in Iran, Robert Albert, professor of psychology, of political studies presented a paper, "Feminist Turkey, and in the United States. Clive Miller, gave a talk, "Parents of Gifted and Eminents" Political Thought: The Search for Alternative lecturer in creative writing, holds degrees from before the Covina Valley Gifted Program Foundations" at the Western Political Science Harvard University and Stanford University. Council. Jim Bogen, professor of Philosophy, Association annual meetings in San Diego. 17 '65 My husband has just written me saying that you would like to know what we former students are doing, writes Nicole Buser from West Germany. What I'm doing right now is traveling in the States and refreshing my feeling for the language and for what Americans are like. It's a wonderful experience and it feels good to be American again. As to what I'm doing at present, I have just finished a course in group leadership - practical as well as theoretical - and have now begun planning and directing family weekend retreats, women's discussion groups, parent seminars, etc. I enjoy it very much, probably because getting people active is so American! I think real communication between people is very important, and that's what I'm working toward in the groups I plan. It's exciting combining some ofthe best aspects of two cultures. It really keeps me learning.

'66 From Tokyo, Japan, Fusako Takemasa Ishibashi writes After spending an exciting two years in the genesis ofPitzer College, I spent two years at the Harvard Yenching Library, and then came back to Japan. After doing various work for a year or two, I joined the American Embassy in Tokyo almost ten years ago. Working in the fields of educational and cultural exchanges, I have been involved with two countries, both ofwhich I love so much. One of the highlights of our recent work was to have had the Los Angeles Philharmonic directed by Carlo Guilini. I had an occasion to talk to him in person at the reception and was so im­ pressed by him. I remembered going to L.A. symphony concerts when I was at Pitzer. Another highlight was that I had the honor ofaccompanying and interpreting for Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Douglas when he came to Japan as a GoodwillAmbassador of the United States, and for Mrs. Bush, wife of the Vice President, in March and April respectively. It was such a thrilling moment when Mr. Douglas asked me where I went to school. We all felt so close when we found out that their youngest son and I went to the same school. We Japanese people welcomed Mr. Douglas as a Goodwill Ambassador. It was also very exciting when I accompanied and interpreted for Mrs. Bush, who visited the Japanese elementary schools during her busy schedule. She impressed people here tremendously. At this moment, I am busy with preparation of the U.S. - Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) to be held on June 23 through 2S in Tokyo. One of my concerns is how to play the triple roles of being mother, wife and working woman. Meeting with so many great, Fusako Takemasalshibruhi )66 (right) with interesting and exciting American women, who are Mrs. George Bush. Photo: courtesy of The mothers too, I learned much. One of the things I want to do when I have more time is to write about Yomiuri Shimbunj Toru Yamazoe, working mothers. My husband, Koji, is very photographer supportive, but it is still not common in Japan for women to work after having children. There are some difficulties,. and working mothers encounter biased attitudes against them. But to me, there is no other way of life. I could go on and on to talk about my two boys (Mitsuharu, six, and Masaharu, four) but I won't! 18 '68 InI974 Carol Corden received her Ph.D. development, and agricultural land use. When triplets (two boys, one girl now 4 years) temporarily from the University of Chicago and Brown, Jr. was elected went to work for Adminis­ interrupted my career and brought me my own accepted a position as assistant professor ofsociology tration's planning and research office. I started classroom. When the children were one year old, I at New York University. University of California, Hastings, Law School in began a private practice in educational therapy. I I976 and graduated in I979. Summers took me to work with both learning-disabled children and those In I970 Kristin Gronbjerg received her M.A. and Washington, D.C. to work for a House who require a more enriched educational program. in I974 her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. subcommittee and to Denver to a law firm (It buys the bacon and Mom's sanity by getting me Now on the faculty in sociology at Loyola University specializing in natural resource litigation. During out ofthe house four afternoons a week.) My interest in Chicago, she is the author of Mass Society and law school I became very interested in "Indian law" in working with individuals andgroups was piqued the Extension of Welfare, 1960-70 (University of and at the same time fell in love with New Mexico. I in my sociology classes, and work with children and Chicago Press, I977). met Paul Nathanson, at that time (I979) director of theirfamilies and their schools requires a sociological Lynn Thompson Long received her J.D. from the National Senior Citizen's Law Center in Los perspective. Angeles and Washington, D. C. I took a job with the Boston University, and has worked as an attorney, Marilyn Lester received her M.A. and Ph.D. from investment banker, and real estate developer. She McCutchen law firm in Los Angeles for a few months until Paul obtained a faculty position at the the University ofCalifornia, SantaBarbara inI974. became Vice President, Tmde Publishing Group for She has taught at Indiana University and is now a Houghton Mifflin in I980. University of New Mexico's Law School. We got married inJanuary ofI98o, moved to New Mexico in professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, February, and I took Bar and went to work for a Las Vegas. '69 I am writing this pressing down on top small law firm in Albuquerque specializing in Ann Stanton Snipper is now an Assistant of a Fisher-Price puzzle writes Sarah Indian Law - including energy development and Professor ofPsychology at Wells College in Aurora, Lothrop Duckett from Hopkinton, Massachu­ water litigation. The firm represented the Pueblo of N. Y. Wells is a small private libeml arts college for setts. My life has changed substantially since I left Laguna, J acarilla Apache tribe, and most recently women. Pitzer in I969: marriage, teaching, running a serv­ the Blackfeet Tribe in Montana. The work was very ice office in communications, a divorce, and job satisfying, climaxed by winning a significant case in changes. I am now remarried (6 years) with a one­ the U.S. Supreme Court: Merrian and Bayless v. and-a-half-year-old son. I live in a small, New Eng­ Jicarilla Apache Tribe in which the soverign power land town of7,ooo and am a member of the Demo­ of the tribe to levy severance taxes upon non-indian cratic Town Committee and the clerk-member ofthe oil and gas producers on the Reservation was Appropriation Committee. Ifind myself thoroughly affirmed. Three weeks ago I had a trial in Santa Fe , Elizabeth Brown is now a social worker involved in town politics, fighting through our own and a baby boy that night. I've quit work to care for 72 in Adult Protective Services, employed version ofProp. I3 (Prop. 2-I/2J, and am enjoying it Benjamin and in anticipation of moving north of by San Mateo County and the Chairperson of the tremendously. I am also involved in the Humane Taos, where we're having a passive solar adobe built Board of Directors of the San Mateo County Society, work part time and try to keep up with this summer. Have talked with Carl Hertel a couple Economic Opportunity Commission, Inc., and Brendan, a late arrival but a most important one. I of times and hope to connect with his Pitzer pro­ also working on her MSW at San Francisco State am entertaining thoughts of returning to school to gram. Eventually I plan either to practice law part­ University through a part-time program. As a finish my Master's. My husband is involved in the time or start a community development consulting social worker I provide supportive services for adults manufacture, sale and service of air monitoring firm. Northern New Mexico is very poor, and there is I8 and over who are emotionally or physically fragile. equipment and has recently returned from six weeks a lot to do to make living conditions for the old as well In addition I perform as a Representative Payee for in the People'S Republic of China. As he is "in as the young better. clients who are on assistance and are not competent charge" ofa large sale offurther equipment, he will to handle their own checks, and when necessary I also be returning for longer periods oftime and, ifat all For the past eleven . years I have worked as an initiate probate and psychiatric conservatorship. My possible, we will be going with him. I am looking elementary bilingual teacher, writes Barbara caseload of approximately 40 individuals is forward to the experience. Lessman from Avon, Colorado. I have focused on increasing steadily as our staffing is being cut in remediating language development and on reading order to meet budget cuts both from the Federal and problems of children with language backgrounds State governments, and from the County Since graduating from Pitzer I've followed a other than English. Most recently I have taught in a contribution. This is difficult because my clients are number of different paths, all somewhat connected, self-contained bilingual second grade in Vail, either developmentally, physically, or emotionally writes Marcia Green from Albuquerque, New Colorado. This coming year, I plan a leave ofabsence disabled or suffer from an organic brain syndrome Mexico. My first job was as a probation officer in from teaching, as I am expecting my first child in affecting memory, concentration and ability to cope Placerville, California - known during the gold late August. with everyday life. Smaller caseloads allow for more rush as "Old Hangtown". From a law enforcement thorough work. The San Mateo County Economic perspective it would still be appropriate to give it that Opportunity Commission, Inc. is a private non­ name. I lasted ten months, having worked IO-I2 profit corporation that has been designated by the hours a day, wearing out two sets oftires andfalling County Board of Supervisors to administer pro­ asleep every night counting the knots in my pine­ , After graduating with a major in grams for the poor, Federal, State, County and paneled cabin. Went directly to Sacramento into a 70 sociology, Betsy Brown Braun began private funding. I was promoted to the position of two-year community organization Jplanning work as a nursery school teacher in Los Angeles. Social Worker after seven years as an Eligibility curriculum in a MSW program. Later I was Simultaneously, I completed work on my teaching Worker in San Mateo County. I got involved with awarded a grant from the Social Science Research credentials (early childhood education, elementary the Economic Opportunity Commission as a result of Council funded by the Ford Foundation. I was to be education, adult education) and Master's in my involvement with the labor unions in San Mateo sent to South America, preferably Colurr/bia, to Human Development. Following that work I County. I represent my local union (American work the field of land use planning and housing participated in a program at Thalians Community Federation of State and County Municipal development, but the program fell through due to Mental Health Center and trained as an Employees,AFSCME, L. 829) to theAFLCIO Cen­ unstable political conditions in Bogata. I was then educational therapist. All that education led me to tral Labor Council in San Mateo County. The hired by the Planning and Land Use Committee of teaching in the upper elementary grades in the pub­ Labor Council selected me to. represent labor on the ~he Assembly. Spent two years developing legislation lic school system, then four years teaching Economic Opportunity Commission. The Board In the area of land use, energy conservation and kindergarten in a private school. The birth of our then chose me as their Chairperson.

19 shelter for battered women and their children. At lived on the road, lacking any home other than our the same time I also worked at the Ocean Park big, brown suitcase named "House». We have Community Center, a grassroots crtstS travelled the world, speaking at hundreds of events intervention/social service agency. My daughter, in Europe, North America and the Far East. We are Emily Rose Klancher, was born inAprilI979. Emily now underway with our latest project: the design recently turned three and wants to be a doctor when and construction ofour home and research center, a she ''grows up". My own interests have turned semi-underground, super-insulated, passive solar increasingly toward the health care field. Last bio-shelter in the Old Snowmass Valley ofColorado. November I began working at Santa Monica We have founded the Rocky Mountain Institute to Hospital again, this time as an administrative sec­ carryon our work in energy policy while hopefully retary in the nursing service, with predominantly allowing us to travel less and work more on issues of administrative assistant responsibilities. Thus far I land, food and water policy, and especially on peace. have co-organized a community-wide Child­ And though my lifestyle will change somewhat care /Children's Resource Fair and am currently (more work in the garden and with critters, and a developing an occupational health and safety pro­ lot fewer airplanes), the guiding principle remains, gram for two nursing departments. I'd like to go as a line from a Kate Wolffolksong says: "Find what back to school to study health-related science, you really care about and live a life that shows it." perhaps through nursing or public health school, and work creatively incorporating the knowledge I have fond memories of Claremont in the early and skills with my sociology background. seventies and discussions of the sociology of the absurd! writes William B. Schnapp from Signa Larralde is now in the Ph.D. program in Houston, Texas. During the past ten years I have archaeology at the University of New Mexico and been involved in a number of positions relating to plans to work with Lewis Binford. This summer services to persons society has chosen to call "mentally I'm working on a high altitude early Archaic site disabled." Given the paradigmatic chaos which with hints ofadobe structures. Prior to that, I spent continues to surround public psychiatric and several years in "contract" archaeology, mainly psychological services, I spent most of my energy walking (and walking and walking) through the oil trying to untangle the complexities of large human Nancy Buell )72 "dressed as a social fields and coal lease area of northwestern Colorado service bureaucracies to promote the rights and well worker.» Photo: Linda Mooser and northeastern Utah. That gave me an being of the "disabled." Some months ago, after my appreciation for hunters and gatherers. The heart attacked me, I retired from public life and the sociological perspective I obtained at Pitzer has been human service advocacy business to complete my quite valuable in the New Mexico program, which is doctoral thesis. It concerns the intricacies of the probably more theory and "sociology of archaeology" politics of "mental health" and "mental When I left Pitzer ten years ago, I had no idea what oriented than any program in the country. I plan to retardation" services in America. After completing I would do for a job, much less a career, reports concentrate on cold desert hunter and gatherer it, I will probably travel for a few years, or teach, or Nancy Buell. I mded up workingfor three years in adaptations in the long run, and on passing Ph.D. both. I am interested in teaching courses a community-based, storefront drug abuse pro­ comps next fall in the short run. I'm curious to see participating in seminars that involve a gram, which was organized and run by a highly exactly what my cohorts have been doing, after multidisciplinary approach to the history, sociology, politicized and diverse staff. After this, I spent a year having recently read several editorials accusing us politics, philosophy, economics, law, etc. of human travelling and working at odd jobs, including some late '60'S - early '70'S folks of being self-indulgent, service systems. On the personal side - I have lived travel in South America and some time on a irresponsible whiners compared to the more indus­ with Sherry for two years. Our family includes construction crew in Vermont. I returned to trious students that followed us. Such is life. Merlyn (a sheep-dog) and Tara (a Great Dane). California and to BerReley where I got my MSW When not out of the country scuba diving, I'm Pitzer's programs in both sociology and political usually close to home playing chess or pinball. degree. This fall I expect to become licensed as an studies enriched my tendencies to activism writes LCSW Currently, I am working on an acute, in­ Hunter Lovins. On leaving Pitzer, I took a law Vicky Sturtevant will receive her Ph.D. in patient psychiatric unitfor adults in San Francisco. degree, (Loyola University School of Law) taking sociology from Cornell in fall, I982. She writes I am developing a role there as a family therapist as and passing the California Bar Exam inI97S. Decid­ from Ashland, Oregon, Basically, I'm carrying out well. I continue to be interested in issues ofgroup ing early that the practice of law was more problem the mission and spreading the Word (sociology) in process, class, culture, the social definition of self, than solution, I helped, in I974, to establish the Southern Oregon, continually falling back on my especially as these issues are involved in mental California Conservation Project (Tree People) notes, exams, and papers from Pitzer, which are health treatment and treatment agencies. Most and served until I979 as its Assistant Director. relevant and interesting. The rest ofmy life (and all recently, I have been training in family systems Planting trees, fighting fires and floods, teaching of Alan's) is consumed with our family, which has therapy, a treatment approach and systemic way of children and wrangling with Sacramento turned recently doubled in size (Thomas and Jonathan thinking which often reminds me of sociological out to be much more fun than my law partnership, so arrived in October) . I'm a bit more contrite when I thinking (being concerned with the relatedness of I pretty much quit law and devoted myself to lecture about popUlation explosion in my social parts, the structure ofsocial organization, the creating and directing the Project's programs in demography classes. social definition of reality). Outside of work, I urban forestry, environmental education and regularly play softball on a women's team in energy policy. In I979 I married Amory Lovins, After leaving Pitzer, Christine Maxwell Vassar Oakland, and go backpacking whenever I can. author of Soft Energy Paths (and six other books). worked in publishing, completed a certificate of Since then we have worked as a team in IS countries, education, and taught for two years at Oxford P.S. I've included a picture of myself dressed as a Middle School, England. After several years at A. social worker. I usually hand out FOOD when I serving as policy advisors to Friends ofthe Earth. We have co-authored S books: EnergyjWar: Breaking Wheaton & Co., Ltd., as an editor, she is now wear this outfit, but I expect to be cutting back on President ofVassar Publishing Services, Inc., a West this. the Nuclear Link, Least Cost Energy: Solving the C02 Problem, and Brittle Power: Energy Coast branch ofthe Pergamon Group ofCompanies. From Pitzer I went to Tulane University in New Strategy for National Security (recently the subject Orleans and received an MA. in sociology, writes of an article in Newsweek and Congressioal Karen Hilfman, now in Santa Monica. New hearings,) as well as numerous articles, including '73 Veronica Abney is presently a licensed Orleans was a very magical city and this was a very "Nuclear Power and Nuclear Bombs" in the clinical social worker employed in Los special time in my life. I was active in the women's summer '80 Foreign Affairs. In I98I a I6mm film, Angeles in the Children's and Adolescent movement and studied as hard as I could until I "Lovins On the Soft Path" was made on our work. It Outpatient Department at Kedun Community knew how to know. This was one ofthe greatest gifts has since received the Best ofCategory Award in the Mental Health Center, where I do individual, that sociology gave to me. I moved back to California Audobon International Film Festival and is a group and family therapy. I am also in part-time in I973, and have been working at Santa Monica Finalist in the American Film Festival. In I982 private practice where I see children and adults. My Hospital Medical Center, in a newly established Amory andI received joint appointments as Visiting future plans are to be in private practice full time social service department, and pioneered in Professors ofEnvironmental Studies at Dartmouth and to consult to children's treatment and residen­ developing a variety of services including the College, and will also teach in the Distinguished tial programs. I am currently using much of my hospital's nationally recognized Rape Treatment Visiting Professor Program at the University of energy to expand my private practice by January, Center. In I977 I left the hospital to help organize Colorado at Boulder. The central feature of our life I983 to a full-time operation so I can survive the and run Sojourn, Los Angeles County's second has been continual motion. For three years we have recent cutbacks in mental health. 20 , Linda Glimm writes, I will be , 5 Michael Christie writes from Moore, consulting business. We hope to work with local 7-4 graduating from the UCLA Graduate 7 Oklahoma, I am no longer with B. Dalton industry and the private sector in presenting pre­ School of Management this month after having Bookseller, but have taken a leap offaith and am in retirement counseling, employee assistance completed the two-year, full-time, MBA program. business for myself. I offer a service I call Growth packages, and workshops in the field ofaging. If all My field of concentration is Computers and Options Consulting, which matches the individual goes according to schedule, we will begin working Information Systems. The program emphasized the looking for assistance with the appropriate resource. with the private sector by the fall. This has been a managerial problems of information systems rather I am also producing seminars for people in the dream come true and has been in the making for than the technical aspects ofcomputers. I have found helping professions. My partner, Ruth Cohen, andI over two years. that the design and analysis of information systems are just getting started, but we expect big things. requires taking much the same view that a We are off to an exciting beginning. Mary Zinkin plans to enter the master's program sociologist might when looking at a social system. My in Urban Studies at the University of Oregon and decision to go to business school was reached after As Project Coordinator of the Yolo County Sexual continue to work part-time for United Way. The spending six years working in an administrative Assault Center, writes Nancy Grant from Davis, Urban Studies program is research-oriented - supervisory capacity for an advertising company. In I am responsible for maintaining contact with all identifying urban problems and issues, policy July I will begin working for Atlantic Richfield as a local community organizations; medical facilities, analysis and the relationship between human Systems Analyst. I am extremely excited about the law enforcement and criminal justice agencies and behavior and the urban development. I'm especia,lly position andI am lookingforward to new challenges. legislative groups having impact on the issues ofrape interested in the criminal justice area of I have been living in Van N uys for the last four years and sexual assault. I provide professional training specialization. I also am a volunteer on the women's and intend to stay here for some time, as I have on rape and victim trauma to these and other crisis line and am taking piano lessons. found that being a home owner is tremendously agencies and also provide rape awareness Jeducation satisfying. programs to community groups and schools. I supervise and train the Center's crisis line counselors After my B.A. in sociology from Pitzer in 1974, I and provide direct services to clients referred to the went on to Rutgers for post-graduate work, writes office. I was just elected Chairperson for the Far Ken Levy from Canoga Park. Coming back to Northern Regional Coalition of Rape Crisis California, I worked in a bookstore and tried to Centers and have recently begun meeting with the digest what I had learned. After a few years, I took a Yolo County District Attorney's Office to develop a job with the State Employment Development· prosecution protocol for treatment ofsexual assault '76 Alison Denning, who graduated with a Department as a Job Placement and Unem­ victims. The job is underpaid and all of us in this double major in art and sociology, re­ ployment Determinations Worker. At the same profession are overworked. But the challenges ofpub­ ports from Pomona, recently I have been using my time, I worked with the Alliance for Survival, the lie speaking, counseling, political advocating, fund background in Sociology to serve my interest in Los Angeles area anti-draft network, and the raising, teaching and always learning sometimes American Indian pottery. I have been collecting telephone crisis line at Cal State Northridge. I compensate for the lack of monetary reward. Before information in libraries, museums and among the realized that I wanted to work more substantively realizing that money ain't everything, I used my potters still working on the reservations. Someday I with people and would need additional training. I sociology background and education in a far more hope to write some articles to help preserve the knowl­ enrolled in the Clinical Psychology program at lucrative field: I was a waitress and bartender for edge of these ancient techniques. I continue my own Antioch University Los Angeles (a most Pitzer-like years following graduation. My time off (time ojJ?) work in pottery, but must fit it around "making a school) and will have my M.A. at the end ofthe year. is spent in a rewarding relationship with a man I've living," which I do by carving teeth for a dental lab. Concurrent with my studies I work as an intern at known offand on since childhood, my two dogs, one She is a ceramicist who makes art rather than a the Santa Monica Bay Area Drug Abuse Council cat, a house I am buying, and many long-term crafter of utilitarian objects. Her work reflects the (New Start) and am involved in individual,group, slightly crazy friends. fragile beauty of the arid Southwest environment. and family therapies. By now, sociology and She works by hand, using the pinch and slab psychology have merged for me. Each can serve to Verna Lee, writes, after graduating from Pitzer, methods of construction, digging her own clays clarify our circumstances and our potentialities; completed a master's program in Sociology at Tulane from the mountains and deserts of Southern each illuminates the other. I plan to combine clinical University in New Orleans. On May I, 1981 I California and Arizona. She has studied with Paul work, teaching, writing, and community married Ronald e. Bailey, a fellow sociology student Soldner and with world-renowned Indian potters organizing, making clear (in e. Wright Mills' from Tulane. For the last five years I have been in Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso) and Lucy Lewis words) the interrelationship between "personal New Orleans working at River Oaks Foundation, a (Acoma). troubles and public issues." non-profit organization dedicated to education and research in psychiatry. It is associated with River Oaks Hospital, aloo-bed private psychiatric facility. As the Research Associate, I coordinate the data collection of the longitudinal study of former patients, which includes measures of symp­ tomatology, attitudes toward illness and evaluation ofvarious treatment aspects. I am also involved with evaluation studies of hospital policies and proce­ Graduating with a major in women's studies, dures. Lindsay Munter Rahmun moved to Iowa, in '74, holding many small and short-lived jobs like wait­ I am married and have a little girl, Adria, who is ressing, and left there for parts East. I homesteaded two and takes up quite a bit of my time, writes and framed a house in Maine. Returning to Clare­ Susan Seligmann-Moreno from San Antonio, mont, I worked in the Pi"tzer TV Studio briefly and Texas. I have been involved in the field of drove a van in a Senior Citizens Transportation gerontology for about six years now, having received program, then worked as a work supervisor in Jerry my M.A. from Trinity University in Gerontology. Brown's CCe. When I got the chance I moved on to For the past two years I have been the Executive Carter's YACC and Oregon, where I feel at home. Director for a private, . non-profit organization I've done some time with the Brotherhood ofCarpen­ called RAMPARTS which provides transportation ters andJoiners (AFL-CIO) where you can imagine as well as other social services to persons 60 years and I fit right in, and now I'm in day care. I've decided older. This past job has given me quite a bit of to go to graduate school in some field or mixture of administrative experience, and I have successfully fields that will help me understand peace, violence, written grant proposals to several private foun­ oppression, justice - and related factors in the dations. Our present objective is developing a Alison Deming '76 at work. world. If anyone out there has any suggested people private non-federally-funded home-delivered meals to ask for advice, please let me know. My hus!?and is program for the frail elderly, for which we received a Photo: Agnes Lawson not Lebanese, Indian or Chinese. He's German­ grant from the Valero Energy Corporation. We are English-American, just like me. His name was very excited about this program as it was presented Rahner, and when we married we mixed the two at the Western Gerontological meetings in San names: Rah ner plus Mun ter. Our new name may Diego lastApril, andI hope to return nextyear with not tell too much about our cultural heritages, but it an update. I am presently working with another tells a lot about our values. colleague in order that we may go into our own 21 After Pitzer, I spent the next three years at the Robin Mintzer writes from Los Angeles, cur­ adult population living in Silicon Valley. Come University of Chicago and, in I979, graduated with rently I am a student of clinical psychology by day June Igraduate and am let loose on the job market. an MA in Social Services Administration and an and a professional cocktail waitress in Hollywood by During this era ofReaganomics, I know not what MBA, emphasizing accounting and human night. My dissertation will examine the differences the future holds. If any Pitzeroids hear of any hot resource management, reports Stacie Stutz between gibson and martini drinkers. My hypothesis demands for a M.S. W, don't hesitate to pass the Wooten from Encino. In August, I979 I married is that slimy cocktail onions are correlated with word. Meanwhile, long live Pitzer, sociology, Michael Wooten (jD, Univ. of Chicago, now an schizophrenia and pimento-stuffed olives are McConnell Dining Hall and Inge Bell. attorney in Century City) and returned to correlated with the borderline phenomenon. Southern California to pursue a career in Eventually I hope to become a clinical consultant to Between May and October of'78 I worked at a boys management counsulting. During my years with the Tanqueray Corporation. Best regards to all who home (great!), as a sales person at the Broadway the consulting department of Arthur Young & remember me fondly. As life proves to consist ofsmall (eh!) and eventually was placed in the South Pacific Company, an international CPA firm, I specialized heartfelt details - I hope that you are all happy, with the Peace Corps, reports Gael S. Brown­ in designing and implementing new and revised healthy, in love, and out of debt. Pullen from Pasadena. Meeting basic human accounting systems and defining and solving needs, here or abroad, doesn't necessarily require organization structure problems. About a year ago, , 8 After Pitzer, with a major in organiza- college degrees, but it has helped me to serve as a role I left the 60. to 70 hour work week life for a more 7 tional smdies, Valerie Bordy attended model to many. As a result, I suppose, I have been personally satisfying (and lucrative) alternative. I the University ofKansas working towards aM.BA. invited as guest speaker of the Pomona Unified joined Accountants Overload, a 30-year-old, seven­ Early on in the coursework, a professor advised me to School District's "Assure Success For Kids" three office firm, specializing in recruiting and placing major in something other than organizational be­ years in a row, to Big Bear High School and the permanent and temporary accounting Iftnancial havior so I would round out my academic skill set. I recipient of an Outstanding American Woman professionals. As Manager of the San Fernando chose finance. While I was learning the jargon as­ nomination. Between January and October of '79 I Valley Branch, I'm a combination executive/public sociated with business I worked as a graduate assist­ was employed as a Counselor for a now defunct relations pro /consultant to industry/social workers. ant in the Women's Resource and Career Center on CETA program, unemployed three months, I enjoy the diverse roles and have happily struck a campus, my lifesaver because business school is totally temporary secretary three months and then hired as balance between career time and time for my centered on the theoretical and the Women's Center a Counselor/Social Worker in the Infant/Pre­ husband, friends and just being with Stacie. In the kept me in touch with real human issues. At times School Unit ofan agency serving the handicapped. I future, I see myself growing with Accountants business school offended my "Pitzer-gained sense of enjoyed it. It was challenging, paying a lot more Overload. (Women make up most of the firm'S top the world." Aftergraduate school, I started work as than the others and it was so refreshing to hear management!) And as for a family, at 27, I don't a financial analyst at Xerox Corporation in Roches­ "You're perfect for the job!" During that two years of hear the clock ticking too loudly yet. ter, New York. An opportunity was presented to me regular employment I attended a Pitzer Career in June of last year in the form of a field telecom­ Planning Night in the media/communications munications consulting job with a subgroup of the field. What an inspiration to see so many other department - Voice operations (before, I was in­ people who hadgraduated while I was at Pitzer and volved on the data/computer center and planning to hear how they too "hit the pavement." Many '77 Prior to graduating from Pitzer, Nathan aspect ofthe business). I have thus spent the last year found themselves moving in new career directions, Lewis, Jr., recalls, I was hired by River­ learning more than I ever cared to know about feeling similar anxiety about having to start at the side County as a drug counselor. I worked for the telephones, analyzing ways to control this expense, bottom. Most of the females found themselves county from February, I977 to October, I980, at which ways of making the Bell system truly work for you, expected"to start in secretarial positions which had time I was hired by Investors Diversified Services and working with Xerox people at much higher more glamorous titles such as Administrative As­ (IDS). I am into my second year with IDS, have levels than myself I have also been exposed to the sistant to the Executive Director of something. My signed my independent contractors contract and am politics of working with different divisions, in large Claremont friends continue to be a great source of now self-employed for all practical purposes. The groups and in small groups - this job has it all! My inspiration because we're people of determination work is exciting and challenging and requires con­ two-year anniversary with Xerox approaches on July and possess a seemingly rare quality ofgetting the tinuous study. In just the short time I have been with I. Once in a while I get homesick for the California most out of any and all situations - even IDS, my performance has enabled me to move to the easy-going life. unemployment. Over a year ago my husband, first level of management - that of training other Mark, and I co-founded Better Communications representatives in the field. My goal is to become a I have been accepted in the Ph.D. program in Inc. (BCI), a non-profit corporation specifically de­ District Manager by October, I983. epidemiology at the University of Washington in signed to increase minority representation abroad Seattle and am entering school there in the fall, via educational and professional exchange ofpersons After graduating, I went to work for the Ontario­ writes Amy Borenstein. I changed jobs last Sep­ Montclair School District working in the Personnel and business skills. We're expecting our first child in tember, and I am currently workingfor a consulting October! Praise God! ! (Happy Smiles). I'm still Department on Employee Relations and on TITLE firm that specializes in environmental technology. IX Legislation, reports Kate McLaine. That job doing some freelance writing and also an internship I'm really excited to be starting school (and even with Meredith MacRae and Geoff Edwards of brought me to the attention ofthe TITLE IX people more excited to have my Ph.D.!). I realized that if in Sacramento and I went to work for them as a KHJ-Channel 9, Mid-Morning L.A. television you want to do your own research in epidemiology, show. consulting analyst and principal writer for Project you really have to have a Ph.D. or you'll wind up SEE (Sex Equity in Education). My job was to being someone's research assistant your whole life! After graduating, I went job-hunting, Pitzer de­ travel around the state, review school districts for gree in hand writes Edie Burge, and initially met compliance /implementation of TITLE IX, analyze After graduating from Pitzer in cultural an­ with little positive response except for employment the results, and complete a report based on the re­ thropolgy /women's studies, I worked for the proceed­ agen<:ies who were eager to place me in clerical po­ sults. I wore a suit, carried a briefcase, and looked ing summer as an Information Assistant for the sitions. (Must have been that Kelly Girl experience like an organizational studies graduate. Environ­ Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, on my resume . ..) It was a depressing period, as I mental and entrepreneurial interests soon led to the Santa Fe, New Mexico writes Lori Brown from was waiting on tables at night and sending off formation of a small-group educational tour com­ Berkeley. From there it was off to the farmlands of hundreds of letters during the day. Finally, one of pany. It was a lovely idea that didn't work, but did Iowa, where I worked as a VISTA volunteer for a the letters paid off and I got a job working for the give me time for a return to my music. Since then year as a Community Education Coordinator for Southern California office ofGeneral Foods, whereI I've established a teaching studio in northeast the Legal Services ofIowa. From rural Iowa I came began to realize what it was that I wanted out of a Claremont, working with private students and with to Los Angeles, experiencing "culture shock" along career, and what type ofjob environment would best band workshops. With my return to music I've come the way. There I held two social services jobs, one suit me. I think that this experience really helped in full circle, for this was the area in which I was working with the low income unemployed, the other, sorting through the myriad of job decisions that I trained, both classically and as a working jazz musi­ with the nursing home-bound elderly. During this faced in graduate school. In September of I979 I cian. Throughout all ofthe twists and turns that my time I decided to apply for graduate school in clinical started the MBA program at UCLA's Graduate life has taken since graduation, my education has social work. This precipitated yet another move, up School of Management. It was an incredible two served me well. I think it will be most interesting to north to Berkeley, California. For the last two years years, marked by hard work, frustation, under­ me to see what comes to fruition as I return to my art I have been steeped in graduate training. Part of standing (finally!) andsomegoodfriendships.After with all that I am at 4I. This summer I began work the training involves ''fieldwork,'' a work experience graduation in June Of'8I I gathered the last of my on an album - an avant-garde music-visual effort which is parttime, heavily supervised, and, most money and went to Europe for two months. There's for video-disc. I've thrown out the three-piece suit. unfortunately, unpaid. During my first year I nothing like the Italian beaches or the chateaux of My briefcase has jam pedals in it. Endings. Begin­ worked with psychotic adults in a residential setting. the Loire to help you forget Cost Accounting or nings. I'm definitely a Pitzer gradu.ate. Things I am, during my second year, providing counseling Model Building. I'm now living in Minneapolis and have never been better. and psychotherapy to a more highly functioning workingfor General Mills. I like my job a lot. I work

22 in Marketing, which means that I basically deal ofeither? How does one establish rapport and trust, with promotion and advertising. One of my fellow as the representative ofa governmental entity, when marketers is Barbara Harris '78, who came here most institutions have failed the person he is after receiving her MBA at Thunderbird. I'm keep­ interviewing? How does one tell the obviously strug­ ing busy by taking photography classes, doing volun­ gling person that he is not eligible for training? In teer work with the Minnesota Zoo society, and work­ the near future, I look forward to working with a ing out on Nautilus a few times a week. I still keep labor union or firm specializing in labor law. I am in touch with fellow Pitzies such as Lori Brown, entering the last year oflaw school at the University Amy Borenstein, and Georgia Harvey. And, ofLa Verne. A sociological background is an advan­ on a recent trip to New York I walked into a bar and tage in approaching a comprehensive analysis of found that the host was none other than Richard legal principles. A sociologist's perspective is critical Duggan '78, who's living in New York and living to a goal of acting as an advocate for labor. Labor the life of a struggling actor. negotiations on the value oflabor will become issues of immediate concern to many. This opens new op­ Setting up the funeral shot for the CBS Movie portunities to pursue public interest activites, in of the Week "Hear No Evil,J) which I shall continue to participate. Photo: Kathryn Lamb Judy Spiegel has been managing a women's When my work permits expired, I moved to San health care clinic in Hollywood for about a year Francisco and spent six months helping produce a and a half. When I came to the clinic, it was just local television show designed for women. After it opening - which meant I had a lot of input in its was cancelled, I went into programming and development. Close to one year ago we went through scheduled morning and afternoon movies for a Bay a major transition in reorganizing, absorbing the Area TV station. In january, I worked on "The medical responsibilities and supervision ofa counsel­ Next Sting» in Santa Cruz amidst record rainfalls, ing /referral agency with which we were affiliated. mud slides, and even snow! All of our scenes were Since I have been with West Coast Medical Group, I night shots - BRRRRRRR. Come March, I finally have been active in planning - services, outreach, Roni Grodnik )78 "in the (War Room/ our decided to settle down into something more comfort­ policies. While I love working with my staffand the planning room.» Photo: Glenn Potts able and a bit stabler. Currently, I am working on variety of activities, I'd like to get into a consulting the Burger King account with a crazy crew at J. role within the health care field. (What a shame Roni Grodnick writes, Life has been treating me Walter Thompson in San Francisco. A very meaty that the U.S. administration is cutting the budget well here in Phoenix. Since graduating, I have been role. During my free time, I have been shooting in areas like health, education, and social services workingfor First Interstate Bank ofArizona, where photographs in exotic locales (Africa, Mexico), tak­ that need so much help.) I am now Budget Director. I work closely with our ing a playwrighting course with Sam Shepherd and financial analysts in developing a working profit working on a book about life after college - the plan. I am responsible for planning and coordinat­ things they never teach you. I have yet to be asked , After receiving an MA. in sociology from ing the bank)s budget, as well as the budgets for each much about my extensive education - it's the ex­ 79 the University of California, San Diego, branch and department throughout the system. The perience that counts! What can you do with a Sociol­ and after some trials and errors, periods of position has been very challenging and rewarding. I ogy degree? You tell me. unemployment, worry, and temporary losses of self have redesigned our budget process allowing for esteem, I have finally embarked on what I expect to more participation from the branch and department Monika (formerly Johnson '79) and I are living be an excellent future with a wonderful company, managers and better information accessibility on in Riverside, along with our vicious protector, Meat­ Gravity Guidance, Inc. out in Pasadena, computers. I am currently awaiting the publication ball, writes L. Gilbert Lopez. Monika works as California writes Ellen Chapman. We are the of a pamphlet I wrote on Corporate Planning and an auditor for the I.R.S. I work in the Planning makers of a corrective exercise equipment product Budgeting that will be distributed to other banks and Contracts section on the Comprehensive line called the GRAVITY GUIDING SYSTEM and outside agencies. I have continued school on a Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs which was pioneered by Robert Martin, M.D. Some part-time basis and am slowly, but surely, working of Riverside County. My tasks include compiling of you may be familiar with our INVERSION onmyM.BA. and assembling labor market data) the review of BOOTS which were first featured nation-wide in training program proposals, and analysis of pro­ American Gigolo. I was recently (April, 1982) The Midwest was a big change for a California posed legislation and legal issues. The overriding named the Dealer Relations Coordinator. In resident; the climate, pace oflife, and the absence of goal is to, in a year or less, equip clients with a simpler terms, I am the one who decides who will be an ocean required adjustment, writes Shaheen marketable skill in a labor-demand occupation; or if our dealers and who won)t (I make the decisions!) I Husain. Happily, I have grown to love Kansas this is not possible, to prepare that person to move am also the liaison between our dealers and the City, Missouri, and consider it my home. Two factors from a pre-vocational to a vocational education pro­ company, making sure they have proper support from which have helped me feel comfortable here are the gram. As the recession continues, and the us. I work closely with the Public Relations enthusiasm for my work and the ever expanding Reaganomic "magic of the marketplace» continues Department co-authoring a monthly newsletter for network offriends. The organizational studies field to make jobs disappear, we are finding that CETA is our dealers. I'm finally in management (it really group combined with my major in psychology has becoming increasingly important and turned to. I didn't take long and it did not take an M.BA.!), provided an ideal blend of knowledge and skills for also did eligibility and assessment counseling ofgen­ and it)s a real challenge. I learn more each day, but the consulting career I am pursuing in one of the eral job Corps program applicants. This could be best of all, I'm moving up!! largest banks in Kansas City. Currently, I am part difficult: how does one make concepts of "success» or ofa three-person Departmental Studies Team which "achievement» relevant to one who has known little Debra Feiven is working in Boston, reports directly to the Bank President and to the Massachusetts, for the Massachusetts Psychological Chairman of the Board. My colleagues and I are Association, the affiliate of the American assigned to various organizational units and are Psychological Association in Massachusetts. I am responsible for in-depth analyses of operations and called an administrative assistant and am subsequent recommendations for increasing effi­ combining my psychology/organizational studies ciency and productivity. majors to be as productive as possible. After leaving Pitzer, I worked at various jobs and eventually went After a halfhearted attempt atgrad school in film, back to school for my paralegal certificate, which I I traveled throughout Greece and Western Europe received in December 1980. I worked as a paralegal until! ran into Davidj anssen whom I worked for in for a time. This job is both rewarding and Rome during the filming of "Inchon,') writes challenging, as I am involved with state politics Kathryn Lamb from San Francisco. Next stop (working with lobbyists and our Legislative was London where I was a Production Assistant on committee) and psychologists in their many different numerous commercials, ranging from "n/IJ,ppies» environments. This ranges, of course, from private (diapers) to Clearasil, and music promotional practice (and issues dealing with Blue Shield) to shorts. My more infamous job, however, was attract­ organizational and industrial psychologists. I am ing the seagulls with dead mackerel on "The French L. Gilbert Lopez )78 ponders "the joys of legal finding the course "Bureaucracy» especially helpful Lieutenant's Woman.» If you ever see the film, analysis» at the Riverside County Law in this job (as well as real life). I will begin a please note how they break up the gray skyline! Library. Photo courtesy ofArthur Mathern part-time M.BA. program at Bentley in the fall. 23 Since leaving Pitzer in '79, I have worked in hospital as a nurse's aid for a year, while studying In August I982, Mardri-Maria Williams taught Riverside County in the Department of Public halftime at the university. After a couple ofmonths high school Social Studies at Paso de Robles Social Services (aka Welfare) writes Susan Howe of travel (in the Soviet Union and the U.S.) I School, California Youth Authority (CYA), in from Sacramento. While there I decided I wanted worked for a year with chil4,ren and teen-agers. I Paso Robles, California. I am also a certificated to be actively involved in community change and in learned a great deal from all of these jobs, but I employee of the San Luis Obispo County Commu­ community awareness. So ... I moved to discovered that sometihing was missing. When I nity College District teaching Introduction to Sacramento to escape the smog and to attend graduatedfrom Pitzer, about aliI knew for sure was Sociology. This fall I will again teach the same course California State University. I received my Master's that I wanted to work with people. Now I know that at Cuesta Junior College. I transfered to Fred C. in Social Work from CSUS May I982. My thesis: I want to work with people and information. Plenty Nelles School (CYA), Whittier, where I teavh reme­ "The Silent Victims: Elder Abuse in the Family," ofpeople want to work with people. Now I've discov­ dial mathematics and computers. I received an has been used in a Family Violence Symposium and ered skills I have that not all ''People'' people have. award from Prescription Learning on the fourth of is currently being utilized by Adult Protective Serv­ I'm good at sorting information, remembering im­ June I982 for outstanding service and dedication to ices, Sacramento Department ofSocial Services as a portant things and finding the right details when education. The wards in the laboratory say: "Our resource guide for implementing data gathering on they're needed. I'm also good atformulating ideas in teacher is a person, and to her so am I - this has elder abuse victims. As of May first, I have been writing (even in Swedish) - something that not more effect than anything she does." I am very proud employed (full-time, yes, there are jobs for social everybody can do. After Erik and I split up last of this statement. I feel I have a real, exciting, workers, despite Reagan's attempts to eliminate us) summer, I decided to stay in Sweden anyway. Last challenging, and constant behavioral changing as Program Director for ·a residential treatment fall I began a year-long education called "study­ atmosphere in my Math lab and in retrospect, I center for women ex-offenders. I am busy enjoying consultant line." (A "study-consultant" works as an think Pitzer provided all the resources I needed to being full-time employed after two years of unpaid organizer/administrator of Swedish-brand adult bring many interests together. internship service and I am active in a Working education). In August, I'll be moving to Fran­ P.S. The Pitzer spirit lives- this fall my daughter, Class Marxist political organization that focuses on defors, a town with a population of2,ooo, I-I/2 hours Felicia, will be a freshman on Pitzer's campus. community involvement. I have been accepted into north of Goteborg, in order to start my career. the Ph.D. East-West Psychology program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San After graduating from Pitzer, David Warshaw Francisco. My studies will emphasize the blending of was selected as a Public Affairs Fellow in the Coro Western psychology with Eastern philosophies and Foundation's Fellowship in Public Affairs. I com­ transpersonal teachings ofEast and West. I am also pleted the nine-month Fellowship inJune, I980, and enjoying the colors ofthe seasons, the clean(er) air of hopped on a plane for Israel. There, I spent the central California, the heat of the summer, living summer on a ''Journalism in Jerusalem" program ten blocks from the Capitol (and the Legislature), sponsored by the Hebrew University and the and living in a restored Victorian in downtown Jerusalem Post. I stayed on in Israel at a kibbutz for Sacramento where everything is within walking five months. This past year, I have been working for distance. myfather's publishing business, Diablo Press: I have been an editor-researcher-typographer for the revi­ As aNew Resources student with four grown chil­ sion ofa guidebook to the University ofCalifornia at dren, I received my degree in organizational studies Berkeley and the Bay Area. (California: A Guide, in I979, reports Helen Ketchum. I had worked in forthcoming in September.) I am planning to at­ various positions at The Claremont Colleges for a tend law school in San Francisco this fall. Is this all number ofyears and now with fewer responsibilities related to my sociology major? As Rudi Volti would at home I decided it was time to move on to a career say, "That's axiomatic!" '79 with greater responsibilities. In July I980, I became Mardri-Maria Williams and Felicia Registrar at Scripps College. The last two years have Williams '86 share a quiet moment during been filled not only with lots of the day-to-day work orientation. Photo: Robert E. Morsberger associated with record keeping and registration but with planning and experimenting with new proce­ dures. A major step has been the gradual change from a completely manual record-keeping system to a computer-assisted system. , 8 0 After two years as an associate account exec Ben Stevenson writes from Bieber, if I were a and staffwriter with the Los Angeles Pub­ lic Relations firm Braun and Company writes multi-millionaire, I would donate millions to Pitzer for a distinct department for organizational studies Karen Staben Sontag from Pasadena, I decided to make the break in May and pursue my writing on majors, with "Models of Man" at the center of the a free-lance basis. Even though this isn't as lucra­ curriculum. Now, to speak about my life, job, and tive, it does give me freedom both in my time and life'S plans. My job consists of being a Correctional creativity. In March ofthis year I married William Program Supervisor I. My duties consist of the "Paul" Staben, III - (not a Claremont person). custody control, and management of about 85 state We are living in Pasadena where I continue my felon inmates. We are located in a beautiful work and Paul is establishing his general contract­ California State Forestry and Conservation setting ing business. Life after Pitzer has proved to be very in the mountains ofNorthern California, with open good! dormitory living for the 85 inmates. The inmates are trained fire fighters; they are dispatched all over the '81 While attending Pitzer as an NABW State of California when needed. I also carry a (National Association of Banking 20-man caseload. This consists ofwriting personality Women) Organizational Processes student writes reports for the parole division for later supervision of Pat lUg from Tucson, Arizona, I was at the same our inmates when they are released to the commu­ time working in banking and had been for many nity. For the past five years I have also served asArts years. The Organizational Processes Program has and Crafts manager, organizing Arts and Crafts helped me prepare for the rapid changes that are shows for the surrounding communities. I will retire occurring in the finance industry. In coping with the in less than five years. Presently I am a graduate stress and anxiety related to change, the emphasis on student at the University of Nevada at Reno. My psychology has been ofgreat benefit. The diversified goal there is to seek aPh.D. in social philosophy, and courses required have helped to give perspective to my after that probable writing or teaching or both. job and banking in general. Numerous economics courses have given me some background from which I've been living in Sweden since graduation in De­ to work in evaluating different opinions on economic cember I978, writes Janet Sus lick. Originally, I trends. All in all the Organizational Processes Pro­ came here mostly .because I'd fallen in love with a Ben Stevenson '79 Photo: Courtesy MGM gram has enabled me to handle my position as the Swede while traveling in Europe after a year ofstudy Studio ofReno, Saul Schuster, photographer. branch manager ofa medium-sized office with more in Denmark ('77-'78). I studied Swedish at the Uni­ ease, a broader prospective, and a better mental versity of Goteborg. Then I worked at, a nearby attitude. 24 The Sociology program has been established to Participant is mailed on a complimentary help our students both to achieve and contribute to a basis to alumni and donors. systematic understanding ofsocieties and the varied social contexts ofhuman enterprise, including their own. We conceive ofsociology as an integral part of Your comments on articles published in contemporary liberal arts as well as a specialized scientific and scholarly discipline. Accordingly, our Participant are invited. Letters should program is intended to meet the needs of students be sent to Editor, Participant, Pitzer who enroll either in a single sociology course or a full College, Claremont, California 9I7II. sociology concentration; of students who pursue Letters are subject to editing. careers in sociology and allied fields or careers that are far afield. The curriculum has been flexibly arranged and grouped into three categories. "Topics" are for students wishing to acquire an Typography: understanding ofsome particular aspect or problem Mergenthaler Galliard Roman ofsociety. "Topics" have no prerequisites. "Advanced Via Type Corporation Subjects" are for students wishing to build upon previous sociology coursework. "Sociological Theories and Methodologies" are for students wishing also to Printer: concentrate in sociology. The faculty consists of Penn Lithographics Homer Garcia, assistant professor of sociology and Chicano studies; Glenn Goodwin, professor of sociology; Paul Goldman, assistant professor of sociology and organizational studies; Charles Pitzer College admits students of both sexes Goldsmid, visiting associate professor of sociology; and of any race, color, national and ethnic Laud Humphreys, professor of sociology; Peter origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and Nardi, associate professor of sociology; Albert activities generally accorded or made Schwartz, Special Assistant to the President and professor of sociology; Ann Stromberg, associate available to students at the College. It does professor of sociology; and Rudi Volti, associate not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, professor ofsociology. color, handicap or national or ethnic origin Organizational Studies is an interdisciplinary in administration of its educational policies, program which helps the student integrate the admissions policies, scholarship and loan insights ofthose social science disciplines - sociology, programs, and athletic and other psychology, political studies, economics - that tra­ ditionally have studied organizational phenomena. College-administered programs. By taking courses in each of these areas, students develop an awareness of the complexity of organizational phenomena and of the intellectual Pitzer College is a liberal arts college with and practical utility ofvarious perspectives. During curricular emphasis in the social and behavioral the students' junior or senior year they take a year­ sciences. It is a member of The Claremont long, ten-hour-a-week internship in a business, Colleges: Pomona, Claremont Graduate School, government, or non-profit organization, usually working on a specific organizational project or Scripps, Claremont McKenna College, report. Beginning in I98z-83 some organizational Harvey Mudd, and Pitzer. studies concentrators will satisfY their internship requirement by working with the Pitzer College Social Science Clinic. The Clinic will use student­ faculty teams to address specific problems brought to it by participating outside organizations. Faculty members include Harvey Botwin, professor of economics; Donald Brenneis, associate professor of anthropology; Lewis Ellenhorn, professor of psychology; Ira Gang, assistant professor of economics; Paul Goldman, assistant professor of sociology and organizational studies; Karen Kennedy, associate dean of students; James Lehman, assistant professor of economics; Peter Nardi, associate professor of sociology; Ann Stromberg, associate professor of sociology; John Sullivan, professor of political studies; and Rudi Volti, associate professor ofsociology.