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Hearing with the Heart e are at a critical crossroads in the historyW of California and of San Diego State University.

The obstacles that confront us are perhaps the most challenging we have ever faced. California is not “them;” It is us. So if we Last year California withdrew $18 million of its are to be the land of opportunity so many support for our work. This year the state took of us believe in and aspire to, then we—you away another $55 million. and I—must pick up the challenge and rebuild our state. Because of that, there are approximately 600 fewer faculty and staff on campus as we begin this fall It is our collective responsibility: to students semester than a year ago. who are developing their talents and abilities for future leadership of California; to faculty Most of those employees who remain are being and staff who work so hard to serve those stu- forced to take unpaid furlough days. dents; and ultimately to the state of California.

Each of our approximately 34,000 students will If California is to have any hope of a viable be paying $1,000 more in fees this year, but that future, that hope lies in a well-educated work- additional revenue will not come close to offset- force, to which San Diego State and our sister ting the state funding we have lost. CSU campuses hold the key.

Even more appalling, reduced funding from the I encourage you to visit the university’s web- Directionsstate forced us to turn away 22,197 qualified new site—sdsu.edu—and sign up for our eAdvocacy and transfer applicants who were seeking admis- tool that can send a letter on your behalf to our sion to San Diego State University. state’s elected leaders.

At two feet per person, the 22,197 students we We are not powerless. We have a voice. Use it turned away would form a line 8.4 miles long— to save California. from campus to Balboa Park. But California has slammed the door on them and on its own future.

This is a deep and fundamental wound, not only to the students who have been denied the opportunity to learn from and work with our extraordinary Stephen L. Weber, president faculty and staff, but also to their families and our society itself. The human carnage from this San Diego State University fiscal train wreck will be felt in California for a generation.

Higher education and the opportunity it represents are worth fighting for. 360 The Magazine of San Diego State University (ISSN 1543-7116) is published by SDSU Marketing & Communications and distributed to members of the SDSU Alumni Association, faculty, staff and friends.

Editor: Coleen L. Geraghty Editorial Contributors: Sandra Millers Younger, Michael James Mahin, Gina Jacobs, Nicole K. Millett, Tobin Vaughn, Golda Akhgarnia, Gregory Block Additional Editing: Sandra Millers Younger Art Director: Lori Padelford 360 Graphic Design: John Signer Cover Photo: Lauren Radack San Diego State University Stephen L. Weber, President DIVISION OF UNIVERSITY RELATIONS & DEVELOPMENT Features Mary Ruth Carleton Departments Vice President - University Relations and Development Jessie Brooks Alums, it’s Time to Come Home Associate Vice President - Development The Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center takes Gregory Levin Aztec Pride to a whole new level. Directions Giving Back Chief Financial Officer From the President The Campanile The Campanile Foundation 14 Foundation Jack Beresford 2 Associate Vice President - Marketing & 34 Communications \A Proud Tradition Jim Herrick Compass SDSU’s commitment to educating military Executive Director - Alumni Association Campus News Alumni Angles veterans is as enduring as ever. We welcome mail from our readers. 6 Class Notes 360 Magazine By Gina Jacobs 37 Marketing & Communications 16 5500 Campanile Drive Aztecs in Motion San Diego CA 92182-8080 E-mail: [email protected] Operation Education High Hoops By Degrees Read 360 Magazine online at A partnership with Nangarhar University opens 32 Katie Martin www.sdsu.edu/360 hearts and minds in Afghanistan. 44 Periodical postage paid at San Diego, CA Volume 16, No. 3, copyright 2009 18 By Coleen L. Geraghty San Diego State University Circulation: 85,000 Postmaster: Send address changes to: If I had a Hammer Information Services, San Diego State New people, new tools power an University, 5500 Campanile Drive established San Diego industry. San Diego CA 92182-8035 By Michael James Mahin Opinions expressed in 360 Magazine are 24 those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Special thanks to the staff of the university administration nor those of The Hearing with the Heart California State University Board of Trustees. Lindsey Higgins never imagined that her SDSU Children’s Center for their help with this issue. Gold medal winner, Council for Advancement audiology studies would get so personal. and Support of Education (CASE) 28 By Sandra Millers Younger Compass

Old Quad, New Traditions Flu Fighters

Thousands of SDSU freshmen As Student Health embraced a new Aztec tradition this Services mobilizes to inoculate SDSU fall when they completed a ceremo- students against nial walk through the arched portal to swine flu and other Hepner Hall and into the Old Quad, strains of influenza, signifying their passage into the researchers on cam- Aztec community. pus are working to develop more effective flu vaccines. While a group of alumni cheered, the newcomers paused in the Quad to Of five prominent immunolo- record their hopes and expectations gists who joined SDSU’s research in books that will be on display again faculty this summer, two are “flu fighters.” Ed Morgan is pursuing when these students graduate. Colorized influenza virus images courtesy novel approaches to vaccine devel- opment for influenza and cancer, of SDSU Electron Microscope Facility. It was all part of Welcome Week and and Joy Phillips is developing an Aztec Nights, sponsored by Associated influenza vaccine adjuvant effec- Students and organized by the Office tive in the elderly population. explored here, and our students of New Student and Parent Programs. will benefit from their knowledge Phillips, Morgan and three and mentorship.” The programs, which provide alcohol- others, formerly of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, came to The researchers will be located in free alternatives to new and returning SDSU with active grants from the Donald P. Shiley Center for students during the first five weeks the National Institutes of Health. Cardiovascular Research within of the semester, have been desig- Their work intersects with heart the SDSU BioScience Center. nated as national models by the U.S. disease—the primary focus of Darlene Shiley donated $1.25 Department of Education. research at SDSU’s BioScience million last year to establish Center. the center in her husband’s name. Though final numbers are not yet “The vision of the in, Aztec Nights 2009 is expected to BioScience Center San Diego State’s rival the success of last year’s event, has always been to BioScience Center said Randy Timm, director of Student bring in top-level No university is an innovative Activities and Campus Life. researchers,” said research facility Roberta Gottlieb, has been more with the mission M.D., director of to understand how In conjunction with a five-week ban welcoming to the BioScience our veterans infections contrib- on all fraternity house parties, Aztec Center. “These new ute to cardiovas- Nights 2008 helped reduce the number “ colleagues will than SDSU. cular disease and of alcohol citations to students from help us expand other chronic, age- Michael R. Lehnert the science being related diseases. 487 during the first five weeks of the Major General, fall 2007 semester to 209 during the Marine Corps. same 2008 period, Timm said.

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A Heavyweight in its Class

The Cost of College San Diego State University students have been doing some heavy lifting this year. The sharp decline $ in state support for higher education means that SUNY Albany...... 6,698 students are shouldering more than 40 percent of SDSU’s operating expenses. Ten years ago, the students’ share—comprising tuition and fees—was about 25 percent. Arizona State, Tempe...... $6,528 While CSU fee increases do place a heavy financial burden on students, SDSU remains among the top universities in the country in terms of value for U of Colorado, Denver...... $5,712 money. Undergraduate fees at most peer institutions are $1,000-$2,000 above SDSU's fees—even with this year's increases.

$ Nevertheless, some students and families struggle SDSU...... 4,902 to meet the cost of college, and to help them, SDSU Photo: Sandy Huffaker has launched Fuel Potential, a campaign to increase

2009-2010 tuition and fees for undergraduate state residents living on campus scholarship and fellowship funding for young Aztecs. Go to sdsu.edu/fuelpotential. The Fire Danger is High acreage burned and lives lost— Diego’s tourism industry, as looked at factors not typically well as damage to infrastructure, It’s wildfire season again analyzed after a major wildfire. according to Matt Rahn, direc- and California is on alert. They found that the actual eco- tor of research and education at nomic impact of the Cedar and SDSU’s Field Stations Programs, Of the 20 largest fires docu- Paradise fires was $2 billion-plus who led the study. Slice of the Pie through the American Recovery One SDSU researcher also mented by the California more than estimated. and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of received a prestigious NIH Department of Forestry and “Think about the effects of shut- San Diego State University faculty 2009. Grand Opportunity Award for a Fire Protection, 11 have Why such a large disparity? ting down the city of San Diego have competed successfully for collaborative project. Linda Gallo occurred since the year 2000 Because historically, reports for a couple of days, which is federal stimulus funds earmarked Four of the awards were com- will lead a team of researchers and five in the last two years. about the economic impacts of essentially what happened,” for educational and scientific petitive NIH Challenge Grants of from Northwestern University; wildfires have looked at suppres- Rahn said. research. nearly $1 million each. They went the Albert Einstein College of This trend toward more sion costs, federal assistance and to: Mark Sussman for his work Medicine of Yeshiva University; destructive fires is a national loss of property. They neglected The study includes recommenda- The National Institutes of Health on regenerating cells damaged by the University of Miami; and the one. Across the country, the to analyze long-term impacts, tions for improving cost assess- (NIH) and the National Science heart attacks; Richard Hofstetter University of North Carolina, average land area burned such as watershed and water ments and helping the state Foundation (NSF) are among the and Melbourne Hovell to evaluate Chapel Hill; in a nationwide during wildfires has more quality mitigation, sensitive prepare for future wildfires. agencies distributing stimulus alcohol consumption among recent investigation of Hispanic health than doubled since the 1970s species and habitat restorations, Among them are: developing a funding to projects that can pro- immigrants; John Clapp and Susan practices. from 3 million to 7 million and bond offerings for firefight- statistically valid and standard- duce meaningful results within Woodruff for a screening/inter- acres. ing investments. ized protocol for future damage two years. vention for drug users; and James Other ARRA awards to SDSU assessments; devising a strategy Lange to develop communications researchers will support research San Diego State researchers The real cost of the 2003 to assess impacts to cultural and As of Oct. 1, San Diego State about nutrition and alcohol con- on developing anticancer agents studying the 2003 San Diego wildfires should account for historic resources; and ensuring researchers had received 45 tent intended to monitor and mod- and designing drugs to treat and fires—the most devastating disruptions to transportation adequate staffing and resources awards totaling $11.5 million erate individual consumption. manage lung allergies. in California in terms of and business, including San for effective response.

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The young Baldessari also gravi- Pure Beauty. John Baldessari’s art tated to the library, poring through books and nurturing an apprecia- upends convention with words tion for language that suffuses his work. and imagery. For example, “Bloody Sundae” There once was a young artist who set fire to his paintings. He was looking for a consists of two distinct scenes new direction—beyond abstract art—and besides, he was tired of people telling him, within the shape of an ice cream “My kid could do that.” confection. On top, two men attack a third beside a stack of paintings; After the cremation, the artist experimented with photos and text and unexpected underneath them, a couple lounges arrangements of found film imagery. Dozens of other artists imitated his bold in bed. All five faces are painted techniques, and in time, he became a huge international success. over with Baldessari’s signature color circles. The story may read like a Hollywood script, but in fact, it’s an abbreviated version of the life of John Baldessari, champion of the conceptual art world and Baldessari’s 1986 work, “Heel,” a 2009 winner (along with Yoko Ono) of the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime is an irregularly shaped puzzle of Achievement from the Venice Biennale. black-and-white photographs. Most show human legs with scarred or Baldessari is the most influential artist ever schooled at San bandaged heels, but two depict Diego State University. His work has been called humorous, young men that appear vaguely untrustworthy—perhaps examples ironic, complex, yet accessible. At 78 years of age, he continues of the archetypal “heel.” to produce art and to teach it. In both pieces, Baldessari’s This month, the most extensive retrospective of Baldessari’s work to date will open at the Tate Modern in London. “John Baldessari: Pure Beauty” will travel to clever wordplay reinforces Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art a serious point: the visual (June 20–Sept. 12, 2010) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, language of art is every where it will close in early 2011. bit as complex and diverse as the verbal language we Though honored in this country with membership in the American Academy of Arts use to describe it. and Letters and honorary degrees from SDSU and the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Baldessari has a more established following in Europe. “Artists want to communicate, to say hello to the world,” Baldessari “Years ago, when I was taking my paintings around to galleries with no success, one of explained when asked about the the gallerists called my work ‘European,’ Baldessari recalled. “Maybe it’s because I’m a importance of language to his art. first-generation American. There’s a phrase I’ve always loved—the shark is the last one “I tried to give people a language to criticize salt water. You don’t recognize something when you’re immersed in it.” they could understand by combin- ing the photos and the words.” Baldessari was born in National City during the Depression to a Danish-born mother and an Austrian-born father. His father found work tearing down houses Jessica Morgan, curator of contem- and selling the materials—everything from faucets to floorboards. When he had accu- porary art at the Tate Modern, said mulated an adequate sum, he would buy a lot and build a house with recycled material. Baldessari’s visual language obliges the audience to reexamine tradi- “I’m proud of what my father did,” Baldessari said. “He had nothing and saw the value tional expectations of art. of everything.” “John’s significance, both as an At San Diego State College in the 1950s, Baldessari enjoyed the social scene as an artist and a teacher, cannot be active member of student government and Sigma Chi. The fraternity recognized him as overestimated,” Morgan said. “His a Significant Sig in 1999. relentless interrogation of how we

Junction Series: Landscape, Seascape, Prisoner, and Acrobats, 2002 Digital photographic prints with make art and how we view it is an acrylic on sintra board 84.75 x 63.75 inches. extraordinary legacy.”

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Google Us Surf's Up or shapers, including nine locals. Boards were selected to represent From the historic Hepner Hall to Now, alongside San Diego the chronological evolution in the modern suspension bridge over “experiences” like the zoo, the shape from ancient times to 1985. College Avenue and everywhere Hotel Del and the fish taco is in between, the landmarks of San the town’s newest attraction— The museum was conceptual- Diego State University’s 281-acre the Imperial Beach Outdoor ized and designed by CWA Inc., campus are now on view around Surfboard Museum. a graphic design firm with strong the globe, thanks to a unique part- ties to San Diego State University. nership with Google. The first of its kind, the museum Calvin Woo, president and princi- pays homage to San Diego’s surf- pal, is a former lecturer in SDSU’s SDSU is the first university in the ing heritage and to Imperial School of Art, Design and Art world to participate in the Google Beach’s famed big-wave surf History; Susan Merritt, principal Maps Street View Partner Program, break, the Tijuana Slough. and executive vice president, is which provides 360-degree, head of SDSU’s graphic design ground-level photos of unique sites Visitors can see 25 tubular program; and three of CWA’s and properties. stainless steel surfboards in graphic designers are alums, bright red, lining both sides of Lyubov Klimova, ’06, Sivly Ly, Images used to produce the Street Old Palm Avenue. The tallest ’07, and Yad Hamawandi, ’08. View map of SDSU were collected is 16 feet; the most primitive,

Illustration: Tristan Elwell by Google over the course of two a model of an early Waikiki To visit, begin at 3rd Street days in April, using a tricycle spe- redwood. and follow Old Palm Avenue cially modified for pedestrian-only to Seacoast Boulevard, where areas. The installation also honors the display ends— the cavernous underground king- a violinist, composer, filmmaker prominent interna- naturally— Aztec dom of the Puddlejumpers— and photographer; and currently These “Google Trikes,” which tional surfboard at the 11-inch-tall water creatures with artist-in-residence for the Jewish weigh more than 300 pounds, are designers, beach. Authors whom Ernie has a mysterious Studies Program in SDSU’s outfitted with a nine-camera appa- connection. College of Arts and Letters. ratus used to collect the images “Puddlejumpers” that produce the 360-degree Street by Mark Jean “The Wedding That Saved a “Poetry’s Playground” View maps. The trikes also use Town” by Joseph T. Thomas Jr. GPS units and 3-D laser scanners “Puddlejumpers” (Hyperion by Yale Strom to ensure a comprehensive and effi- Books 2008) is the first novel by Aficionados of children’s cient collection process. Mark Jean (’77, television and Yale Strom’s book won the San literature may enjoy “Poetry’s film), an award-winning direc- Diego Book Association’s award Playground: The Culture Google Street View, launched in tor and screenwriter. The fan- for best illustrated children’s of Contemporary American 2007, has expanded to cover many tasy adventure, co-written with book and is a finalist for best Children’s Poetry (Wayne of the largest cities and rural areas Christopher C. Carlson, tells the children’s picture book of 2009 State University Press 2007) in more than 10 countries, includ- story of Ernie Banks, a troubled, from ForeWord Magazine. Based by SDSU assistant professor of ing the United Kingdom and thirteen-year-old orphan named on a true story, “The Wedding English, Joseph T. Thomas Jr. Japan. for the legendary Chicago Cubs That Saved a Town” (Kar-Ben Recognized as an honor book shortstop. As a last reprieve Publishing 2008) tells of a by the Children’s Literature “This will be a great tool for stu- from the juvenile detention Jewish orphan bride and groom Association, the text discusses dents, parents and others who’d facility, Ernie is sent to a work- who marry in a cemetery in Robert Frost, Randall Jarrell, like to get a sense of the campus ing farm. Fascinated by the order to ward off a cholera epi- Theodore Roethke, John Ciardi geography before coming here,” town’s famous “Quilt Baby” kid- demic in their tiny Polish town. and Shel Silverstein, as well as said Aaron Hoskins, SDSU’s man- napping, Ernie teams up with Strom (’80, art) uncovered the the poetry of the playground. ager of new media. Joey, a local tomboy, to investi- tale while researching a genre of Currently, Thomas is working on gate clues that lead them into Yiddish instrumental folk music a book about the life and works of The Google Street View of SDSU a forbidden world of dark known as klezmer. He is an Silverstein, whose books include is available at http://maps.google. secrets, magic puddles and international expert in the field; “The Giving Tree.” com/help/maps/streetview/partners/ Photo: CWA Inc.

12 FALL 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 [email protected] | 360 Magazine 13 Alums, it's Time to Come Home Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center is the new campus hub for Aztecs

After decades as a dream and A celebration of friendship its rotunda, guarded by a the spokes of a wheel. Each sity, such as campus pho- For Aztec alumni every- more than eight years in the is what put fundraising replica of sculptor Donal of the more than 480 stones tos dating back to SDSU’s where, it’s the perfect place works, the elegant Parma for the $11 million center Hord’s iconic 1937 creation, bears the name and message founding in 1897. to come home to. Payne Goodall Alumni Center over the top. Longtime “Aztec.” The statue was of an Aztec alum or friend. stands ready to welcome visi- friends Leon Parma, ’51, nicknamed early on and is The Allan Bailey Library, The public is invited to the tors at its 55th Street location. Bob Payne, ’55, and Jack instantly recognizable to Inside, visitors will be named for the late SDSU PPG Center dedication and The new headquarters of the Goodall, ’60, together con- generations of San Diego greeted by an expansive professor, administrator and ribbon-cutting ceremony at SDSU Alumni Association is tributed $2.7 million to State students as Monty. lobby sporting a prominent alumnus, will contain works 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. expected to serve as both a name the new facility. exposition of the center’s by Aztec authors and a grand 17 with an open house to gathering place and a gateway From the sculpture’s base major donors. Other dis- ballroom with space for 214 follow at 11:45 a.m. to campus for alumni and Outside, the building’s extend rows of stone pavers plays showcase historical will serve as the center’s friends of San Diego State. most imposing feature is set in six lines, resembling elements from the univer- main location for events. Photo: Jim Brady

14 FALL 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 [email protected] | 360 Magazine 15 The Magazine of San Diego State University fall 2009 featuring:

A Proud Tradition, Operation Education, Hearing with the Heart, If

I had a Hammer, the Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center, Super

Strasburg, High Hoops and much more.

Veterans of every “I joined the military because at for student veterans—located on the time I wasn’t really interested Fraternity Row, east of 55th St. major war in the last in college nor could I afford it, SDSU President Stephen L. Weber but once I got out, I was ready to financed the first year of the century have walked pursue my education,” said Cortez, lease, but the university is seeking A Proud Tradition the San Diego State a business management major private funds to extend the lease specializing in entrepreneurship. for the next three years. University campus as That pursuit is possible thanks Cortez was one of the earliest students, athletes, to the 21st Century GI Bill and residents of Veterans House. He faculty and staff. funding from the Army College hopes living on campus will enrich Fund. For emotional support, the college experience for himself The normalcy of academic life proved student veterans can turn to SDSU’s and the students he meets. a welcome change from the rigors of Veterans Center, an on-campus war for men and women returning facility helping prospective and “We’re not coming from our par- from foreign battlefields in Europe, current veterans, active-duty and ent’s homes; we’ve lived on our the Pacific, Korea and Vietnam. dependent students to secure own,” Cortez said. “Especially dur- benefits, find work-study oppor- ing times of stress, like midterms After WWII, nearly half the under- tunities, navigate the campus and graduate men on campus were vets, adjust to civilian life. financing their education through the GI Bill. Troops to College “Campus life was “Campus life was the only life In the late 1970s, Lt. Col. Thomas for the veterans,” recalled Jim Richards returned from Vietnam the only life for the Erkenbeck, a football player on with a Purple Heart and enrolled scholarship, whose teammates were at SDSU in order to move up the veterans; they were mostly WWII vets. “They were on Marine Corps Command ranks. a mission to get good grades and on a mission to get get their degrees.” As an undergraduate, he didn’t experience the pro-military culture good grades and get Today, a new generation of veter- evident on campus after World ans is walking the SDSU campus. War II and the Korean War. their degrees.” Supported by the benefits of the post-9/11 GI Bill, about 275 veter- “While some students and ans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars faculty members were friendly enrolled this fall, lifting the number towards veterans, the general or finals, I think we can provide of student vets on campus to approx- overall culture was anti-war, a good base line, because we’ve imately 1,000. Not since the 1940s anti-military and anti-veteran,” been in stressful situations before.” has the university seen this kind of said Richards, who later obtained surge in the veteran population. master’s and Executive M.B.A. Richards, the Vietnam vet, degrees from SDSU. believes this current generation And that’s no accident. SDSU is of veterans will stimulate U.S. Photos: Lauren Radack determined to be a national leader Current student veterans find the economic growth as the “greatest in educating those who’ve served campus more accommodating. The generation” did when they in the military. university is a partner in Troops to returned from WWII. College, a statewide initiative to New to SDSU this fall is undergrad- increase opportunities for active- “I think it’s in the best interest uate transfer student Juan Cortez. duty military and veterans to of the U.S. and our communities, Eighteen years old and straight out attend college in California. both politically and economically, Red and Black resonate with a new of high school, Cortez enlisted in the to nurture their academic endeav- U.S. Army in 2001. He served for SDSU is also the first university ors and encourage their leadership generation of veterans four years, including a tour in Iraq. to designate a campus residence and community service,” he said.

By Gina Jacobs

16 Fall 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 Images courtesy of Jeffrey L. Brown and SDSU Special Collections [email protected] | 360 Magazine 17 Operation Winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan For almost as long as U.S. organization, we’re not accountable Interloper at work troops have been deployed in to major institutions.” Afghanistan, a small group of San All that changed after a chance Education Diegans has traveled in and out of When Iranian-born Moini first meeting between Brown and the eastern province of Nangarhar, visited the region in 2002, the fellow Rotarian Steve Spencer, near the Pakistani border, on what very thinnest of threads connected an SDSU faculty member in the might be called a counterinsur- Jalalabad to the rest of the world. College of Education’s Interwork By Coleen L. Geraghty gency mission. Most Afghans had never seen a com- Institute. With plans for the puter, or even a phone. To send an Rotary school already under way, While military personnel kept e-mail home, Moini had to drive 45 Brown asked Spencer to set up the province largely secure from minutes to the nearest nongovern- a computer lab in Jalalabad Taliban violence, these civilians mental organization (NGO) office— and train local officials to use built friendships with local lead- and hope the system didn’t crash. the Internet. ers, patiently working to open the region to the world and change ingrained attitudes about educa- tion and the role of women.

And while U.S. aid to the region ebbed and surged, a steady stream of dollars from San Diego financed not only the Rotary school in 2003, but also a com- puter learning center and a wom- en’s residence hall on the campus In the shadow of Afghanistan’s Every morning, some 4,500 students fill of nearby Nangarhar University in its 20 white-washed, sparsely furnished Jalalabad, the provincial capital.

classrooms. Flocking through the building’s La Jolla Golden Triangle White Mountains, where U.S. square stone entrance, they pass under Rotarians Stephen R. Brown and Fary Moini raised most of those blue letters that spell out “La Jolla Golden dollars—nearly a million over soldiers fought Taliban insur- Triangle Rotary Club.” seven years. Veterans now of the long, hard journey from San Diego to Nangarhar Province, they’ve One third of these students are girls— achieved a status unusual for for- gents in the Battle of Tora Bora, eigners in eastern Afghanistan. young Afghans who might never have

entered a classroom were it not for the “Most officials have to travel with armed guards for security—not there now stands a school. commitment of La Jolla Rotarians, the exactly a welcome sight,” Brown assistance of San Diego State University said. “We can travel with local Afghans and a lot less fanfare faculty, and the serendipitous pairing of because, as representatives of our San Diego and Jalalabad as Sister Cities. Rotary Club or the Sister Cities

18 FALL 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 [email protected] | 360 Magazine 19 education in Afghanistan. Three “In a country that has endured program. Frustrated for years following the contested presi- years later, with SDSU President decades of conflict and struggle, by the slow pace of his students’ dential election that looks Stephen L. Weber’s blessing, San education is the key for chang- progress and his own inability to likely to return Hamid Karzai to Diego State’ Interwork Institute ing from a culture of war to a set effective curriculum objectives, power. Creating uncertainty in officially partnered with Nangarhar culture of peace, democracy and he now characterizes his lessons as Afghanistan and consternation University in a long-term program positive growth,” said Professor “100 percent successful.” in Washington, the surge in vio- to educate faculty and provide cur- Emeritus Fred McFarlane, co- lence led to the bloodiest month riculum support for a new bachelor director of SDSU’s Interwork Spreading knowledge in years for American forces of arts degree in English language. Institute and the administra- fighting Taliban extremists and tor of the Nangarhar University But for Rasool and his colleagues, forced the Obama administration More than 10 Nangarhar faculty partnership. it’s not all about syntax and to reconsider its strategy in the have participated in the program. sentence structure. The partner- ongoing war. Each summer, a small group of Updating ideas ship between Nangarhar and these instructors comes to SDSU SDSU also represents a victory in Jalalabad, however, has remained for intensive seminars focused on But of course change seldom Afghanistan’s internal struggle relatively tranquil in the midst language development and teaching comes easily, especially in to modernize and join the global of national unheaval. Nangarhar strategies. They return home with isolated cultures. community. University students returned to the skills to coach their colleagues classes in September as usual. and enhance the curriculum for “The illiterates in Afghanistan “Some of us professors knew a approximately 300 Nangarhar stu- still have old ideas,”said Baryali little about the outside world, The World Bank dents now working toward English Rasooli, head of Nangarhar’s but we never thought this knowl- continues financial language degrees. English department. “Tribal edge would become widespread support for SDSU's "You should have Going in, Spencer knew that he’d chiefs teach people to see the in Jalalabad,” Rasool said. “Then be considered a foreign interloper, Early success with the English outside world negatively. It’s Steve set up the computers, and partnership with seen their faces at best, and, at worst, a government program led to a second collabora- like Afghanistan is caught in it became a reality.” Nangarhar University. agent. So he worked to disarm such tion—this one between Nangarhar the primary stages of life.” when they first concerns, hiring a translator fluent and SDSU’s College of Engineering. Baryali Rasooli, the department The World Bank continues in the local dialect to help with a As a result, seven Afghan professors At 29, Rasooli represents a chair, agrees. Afghans are learning financial support for SDSU’s understood what meeting of the Jalalabad hierarchy. “ generation of Afghans who see and adapting to new ideas. partnership with Nangarhar, After setting up an Internet connec- The illiterates in new ideas as stepping stones which the university’s new those computers tion, Spencer registered the elders Afghanistan still have to a better future for the coun- “We teach public awareness as well chancellor, Mohammad Saber, for e-mail addresses. try. Recruited to establish as English,” he said. “The educated enthusiastically supports. could do." old ideas. (They) teach Nangarhar’s English language understand the world.” Then, so skeptics in atten- people to see the outside program from a post as director Meanwhile, Brown and Moini dance wouldn’t see the comput- world negatively.” of an English school in Pakistan, As proof, Rasooli points to continue to raise money for ers as foreign propaganda tools, Rasooli had previously com- Afghanistan’s proudest achieve- education and infrastructure Spencer pulled up an online copy are now earning master’s degrees in pleted medical studies there. ment of recent years, an increase development in Nangahar. Most of the Qur’an written in Pashto, civil engineering here and at other That training proved valuable in the number of girls and women recently, they’ve begun setting Afghanistan’s official language. universities, while working with in Afghanistan. For months, the attending school. At Nangarhar up networks to connect profes- Suddenly, the Afghans’ concerns dis- SDSU faculty to rewrite Nangarhar’s university could not afford to University, more than 10 percent sionals in Jalalabad’s medical solved, and with them, Jalalabad’s undergraduate engineering curricu- pay him, so he started working of students are women. and public health fields with centuries of isolation. lum, which hadn’t been updated in part-time in a medical clinic. their counterparts around more than 20 years. He still does. In fact, most of Home to uncertainty the world. “With Steve’s help, we connected the faculty at Nangarhar hold the community to the outside world The two SDSU-Nangarhar partner- second jobs. On Aug. 15, the day before Rasooli Eager to join Rotarians in work- and all its knowledge,” Brown said. ships are funded by the World Bank and his colleagues left San Diego, ing toward world peace and “You should have seen their faces through Afghanistan’s Ministry Professor Gul Rasool also worked their luggage stuffed with books, understanding, the leaders of when they first understood what of Higher Education, which spon- gratis for a year after joining the scarves, jewelry and other small Jalalabad have established a local those computers could do.” sors only 11 joint programs at four Nangarhar faculty. He supported gifts for family and friends, two Rotary Club to help their own Afghan universities. Such wide- himself by teaching English to bombs exploded in southeastern citizens. Interestingly, there is spread efforts speak to shared opti- the staff of several NGOs work- Afghanistan, killing 14 people, no Pashto word for “volunteer.” International collaboration mism among educators that knowl- ing in the area. After studying including three children. But if the people of Nangarhar edge and constructive relationships at San Diego State this past continue to follow the lead of Spencer’s visit was also the begin- with the outside world can help summer, Rasool expressed high The incidents came during a wave of their San Diego friends, they ning of San Diego State University’s undo the effects of Afghanistan’s praise for the SDSU-Nangarhar increasing political volatility may just have to create one. involvement in modernizing higher troubled past.

20 Fall 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 [email protected] | 360 Magazine 21 SUPER Strasburg Aztec phenom leaves a legacy

Stephen Strasburg rose to fame at San Diego State about as rapidly as his fast ball whizzed past the luckless batters facing him at Tony Gwynn Stadium. In three seasons pitching for SDSU, Strasburg took nearly every award in college baseball, ending his Aztec career as winner of the Golden Spikes Award, the Dick Howser Trophy, the College Baseball Foundation’s Pitcher of the Year Award and Collegiate Baseball’s National Player of the Year recognition. Arguably the best college pitcher of all time, Strasburg was picked first overall in the 2009 MLB Draft and signed with the Washington Nationals in August for $15.1 million.

Photo: Ernie Anderson [email protected] | 360 Magazine 23 22 Fall 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 It was a simpler time. A time when Americans could work their way to the top through hard, honest labor. A time when the country’s work force joined together to climb back from a decade of depression.

Musicians Peter Seeger and Lee Hays is still reeling. Since a 2006 peak of In San Diego, where construction is captured that national moment of 100,000 workers, regional employment the fifth largest industry, some of the hope and resilience in a single song. in the industry has dropped by about biggest names in the business have “If I had a Hammer” celebrated a a third. collaborated to increase the pool of If I had a post-Depression America ascending young professionals who will guide to renewed prosperity on the concrete But today’s construction managers the region’s construction industry arches of its bridges and the steel need more than a hammer to repair the into the future. frames of its mighty skyscrapers. problems presented by a new century. Their commitment helped establish the Echoes of that enduring folk anthem Even as the housing market slowly J.R. Filanc Construction Engineering still ring true today amid the worst recovers, construction engineering and Management (CEM) program, one economic downturn since the 1930s. professionals face a host of other chal- of San Diego State University’s newest In San Diego, the construction lenges. They must manage a diverse and most successful degree programs. industry, in par- labor force; understand the complex ticular, physical and structural demands placed The brainchild of Pete Filanc, former Hammer on buildings; and stay abreast of the CEO of J.R. Filanc Construction, and morphing policies, codes, guidelines Janusz Supernak, chair of SDSU’s civil and logistics that govern the and environmental engineering depart- Tools for a new industry. ment, CEM addresses the acute shortfall of qualified and competent engineers In short, not only do who also possess advanced construction the buildings have and project-management skills. to be “smart,” but era in construction also the builders. The program was established in 2005 with major gifts from Jack and Jane Filanc, ROEL Construction and other members of the Association of General Contracters (AGC), San Diego chapter. By Michael James Mahin To run it, SDSU recruited Ken Walsh, a professional engineer and former professor at Arizona State University, who now holds the AGC-Paul S. Roel Chair of Construction Engineering.

Concrete solutions

While architecture and civil engineer- ing are the traditional academic paths to a career in construction, today’s professionals need further skills in advanced construction and project management. The industry’s ability to improve and innovate depends on a workforce that can bridge the gap between practical experience and theoretical expertise.

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“It’s one thing to know the New faces, new ideas For Ramirez, an AGC scholarship expertise in these areas, and SDSU properties of concrete, and quite recipient, this support has been students are in a great position to “The another to know how to deal with As the first in their families to go to life-changing. be at the forefront of these trends,” the issues that arise when you start college, Sical and Ramirez represent said Walt Fegley, president of to pour it,” said Steve Doyle, an the changing face of construction “My parents are hard workers and we Reno Construction. construction engineering alumnus and president management. The industry’s work- would have worked together to pay of Brookfield Homes’ San Diego/ force has always been multi-lingual for college. But this scholarship from Lean construction is aimed at industry is Riverside division. and multi-ethnic, yet management AGC means that I don’t have to rely reducing waste and literally getting remains largely English-speaking, on them. It makes their lives a little lean; not just trimming the fat, but At SDSU, Walsh and his colleagues white and male. Walsh said the need easier, and mine a lot easier. I can transforming the business model. two million teach students to build bridges, for new leadership is clear. focus on my studies and my future, literally and figuratively. Bridges not my bank account.” In the past, an independent devel- workers and that link people and ideas, theory “How else can we connect with the oper would hire several independent and practice, academics and indus- vast pool of ideas and resources this In addition to financial support, sub-contractors for a single job. try—for an economy whose needs population brings to our industry?” the CEM program gives students Today, developers are turning to 200,000 are vast. he asked. “They are the lifeblood crucial networking know-how by large general contractors to provide of innovation.” connecting them with the industry fully integrated design and building managers “Nationwide, the construction through internships, field studies teams that manage and shepherd industry is two million workers and and industry-sponsored events. projects from concept to concrete. 200,000 managers behind demand,” behind.” Walsh said. “The problem going ”Construction Last year, SDSU’s AGC student At the same time, the industry is forward is that there is a shortage chapter met local industry leaders, embracing sustainable building of built resources, and construction isn't such as John Daly, president of Daly tools and strategies in response to isn’t something you can outsource Construction and former president consumer demand for buildings to India. Our hope is that CEM’s something of AGC-SD; Kevin Elliot, president with U.S. Green Building graduates will lead the industry as of ROEL Construction and the new Council’s Leadership in Energy it meets the infrastructure develop- AGC-SD chapter president; and and Environmental Design (LEED) ment and maintenance needs of the you can Doug Barnhart, founder and former certification. Managers and region, the state and the country.” chairman of the board of Barnhart, employees with LEED accreditation outsource Inc., who now serves as AGC supply added value in a competitive The combination of engineering national president. industry. and management skills that to India.“ makes CEM’s curriculum unique “These people have donated valuable “We’re re-tooling and re-schooling,” among university programs also time,” noted College of Engineering said Fegley, who will join several of explains its appeal. The College This industry-wide focus on creating Dean David Hayhurst. “They are Reno Construction’s top managers of Engineering had hoped for an culturally sensitive managers who some of the biggest names in San in earning LEED accreditations enrollment of 100 students in the are able to engage with their workers Diego construction, and yet they at SDSU and attending seminars program at the end of five years. has a practical side as well. As Walsh make time to engage with our on lean construction, led by CEM Instead, there are 150 after only observed, managers need to under- students.” professor Colin Milberg. two years. Abraham Ramirez and stand their employees’ concerns and Ana Sical are two of them. be able to address them. Lean and green Many San Diego construction companies are using this time of “If you had asked me what con- In an attempt to foster diversity in Frequent interaction with industry respite to regroup and plan for struction was before this class, I management, AGC-SD partnered leaders also gives SDSU students the next big boom.With new would have said ‘building,’” Sical with SDSU to provide scholarships an inside track on new trends in standards, new tools and an said. “But now I realize it’s so to promising, ethnically diverse high construction engineering. Two of influx of enthusiastic new managers, much more. Construction is an school students from the Kearny the latest are lean construction the construction engineering indus- expression of culture. Not only Mesa Construction Tech Academy, and green construction. try is hammering out a strategy to did I learn how the Egyptians one of four magnet schools developed connect San Diego’s people to their designed and built the pyramids, on the education model championed “Construction companies will environment more efficiently and but also why.” by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. be investing in personnel with artistically than ever before.

26 Fall 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 [email protected] | 360 Magazine 27 SDSU has paired its nationally ranked with the audiology program with UCSD's exper- Hearing tise in neuroscience and medicine. Lindsey’s senior project at Biola point processed only one narrow University in La Mirada focused on a frequency range, or channel, among controversy triggered by the advent the thousands of frequency ranges of cochlear implants—bionic devices that contribute to normal hearing. that mimic a healthy cochlea, or inner ear, by converting sound waves Bottom line, Richard’s bionic ear into electrical signals the auditory never worked well enough for him to Heart nerve then transmits to the brain. fully participate in the hearing com- munity. And because his first school Children as young as 14 months have had focused on teaching him to speak She hadn’t seen him since received cochlear implants and the rather than sign, he couldn’t commu- potential exists for successful implan- nicate with other Deaf people, who seventh grade, when tation at younger ages. Proponents didn’t accept him anyway because of her family moved from of the technology hail it as a revolu- his implant. tionary advancement that essentially Oregon to California, eliminates deafness. But many in the “What’s wrong with me?” he won- but the minute Lindsey Deaf community view the implants dered. “I don’t fit anywhere.” Higgins started research- as unnecessary, risky and a threat to their unique culture. Lindsey knew No wonder Richard was delighted ing a college paper on Richard could provide insight to receive an “out of the blue” mes- Deaf culture, Richard into the subject. He’d spent his sage from Lindsey, the girl who’d life caught between the deaf and always made him feel normal. It McMahan was the first hearing worlds. person she thought of. After meningitis destroyed his Even in grade school she’d understood hearing as a toddler, Richard was him despite his distorted speech, the accepted into a test group of 10 result of learning to talk without children surgically fitted with being able to hear one’s own voice. cochlear implants. The 1985 experi- They’d developed a bit of a mutual ment would later merit mention in crush, passed a few notes in class. But Lindsey’s audiology textbooks as a of course when their little brothers watershed event, paving the way to got hold of one and broadcast the con- widespread use of the technology in tents, they’d both denied everything. children as young as one year and allowing many to develop nearly nor- “I suppose somewhere in the back- mal speech communication skills. ground [Richard] had something to do with my getting into this field,” Richard went on to attend a school Lindsey acknowledges now as she for the Deaf before being main- heads into the fourth and final year streamed into Lindsey’s fifth-grade of California’s only doctorate of audi- class. But even with the implant, he ology (Au.D.) program, a joint cur- really couldn’t hear accurately enough Children as young as 14 riculum offered by SDSU and the to understand others or to speak nor- months have received By Sandra Millers Younger University of California, San Diego mally himself. Hardly surprising, (UCSD). considering the technology at that cochlear implants.

28 FALL 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 Photos: Lauren Radack [email protected] | 360 Magazine 29 was great rekindling their friend- accommodate the new standards, ship and helping with her project. by pairing its nationally ranked Eventually he began to think they audiology program with UCSD’s might even have a future together. expertise in neuroscience and medi- Nothing you've seen about cochlear implants in popular So in December 2005, the same cine, along with its authority to month Lindsey graduated from confer doctoral degrees. Biola, Richard took the next step. television shows like "House" is accurate. “I’ll be driving through California The resulting four-year, year-round at Christmas,” he messaged her. program combines coursework, labs “Can I stop at your house?” and clinical hours, plus a unique tangles, they were referred to Lindsey’s Now a year later, Richard confirms things beyond the clinic. And medical rotation enabling audiology instructor Sara Mattson, who’d estab- that his new 22-channel implant has that’s important. Any audiologist, Lindsey, at home for the holidays students to work with physicians lished the cochlear implant program- given him expanded communica- no matter what they’re going to with her family in Santa Rosa, con- and observe surgeries. A working ming center at UCSD’s Thornton tive abilities. For the first time, he’s do, has to know the personal daily- sented, but she found the request internship, augmented by online Hospital in La Jolla. talking on the telephone and hear- life issues to be able to relate to a little disconcerting. Would she coursework, caps the curriculum. ing sounds he could never pick up patients and counsel them. It’s and Richard still get along in per- “Sara Mattson, she has been amazing,” before—water dripping, pizza siz- not just about programming Her husband's advocate son after so many years? Would Lindsey says. “She took over and start- zling, skateboards on concrete, waves their equipment.” she even be able to understand his Aside from holidays, Lindsey ed making things happen.” on the beach. thick deaf speech? would have only one real break in And Richard, who predicts his wife her schedule, a month before the When it was finally determined Home again in Santa Rosa, Lindsey will be a personable and empathetic As it turned out, “I could under- start of her second year, squeezed that Richard needed a new cochlear is fulfilling her fourth-year working clinician “like Sara,” certainly knows stand him right away,” she remem- between summer classes at SDSU implant, Mattson ran tests during the internship at a Kaiser facility where he can count on her expertise and bers. “My family couldn’t very and the fall-quarter medical rota- surgery to be sure the new equipment she hopes to stay as a full-fledged support as he moves toward a long- well, but for some reason I could.” tion at UCSD. So that’s when was working correctly and then met Au.D. and help establish an implant deferred career goal of his own. After Richard’s visit turned into a two- Lindsey and Richard got married. with Lindsey outside the operating clinic, much as Sara Mattson did at years of warehouse and production day stay, and the relationship shift- room to share the reassuring results. Thornton Hospital in La Jolla. jobs, Richard is looking forward For some time before their wed- to studying architecture in San ed into high gear. By the following Hearing the sea September, when Lindsey arrived at ding, Richard had begun encounter- “I didn’t think I’d ever want to work Francisco. SDSU to begin her graduate stud- ing glitches—screeching, shooting Nothing you’ve seen about cochlear with cochlear implants,” she says, Cochlear ies, Richard had found a job in San pains down his neck—caused by the implants in popular television shows “but now I really like working with “I couldn’t do it before because you Diego and moved there himself. upgraded 16-channel implant he’d like “House” is accurate. The entire them. Because I’ve been on the fam- have to talk a lot,” he says. “But received during high school. No one process is slow and deliberate, allow- ily-member side of things, I know now what’s stopping me?” Suddenly, it seemed, Lindsey found could figure out what was wrong ing time for careful evaluation and implants are herself living a totally unimag- or how to fix it. He finally got so decision-making. The surgery is per- ined life. She certainly hadn’t frustrated he just quit wearing the formed by highly talented and expe- expected to fall in love with her implant’s external processor. For rienced specialists. The rehabilitation seventh-grade crush, and she hadn’t nine months, Richard couldn’t hear is thorough and gradual, including bionic devices expected to be pursuing a doctoral at all, and his speech deteriorated. multiple clinic sessions to tune and degree, either. She’d applied to the customize the implant. competitive SDSU/UCSD audiology Although she had studied cochlear program, not ever imagining she’d implants with SDSU alumna Sara And then the patient must learn to that mimic a actually be one of the 10 applicants Mattson, Au.D., Lindsey wasn’t understand and replicate what he or admitted. particularly drawn to it as a career she is hearing. Previously Deaf tod- emphasis. All that changed when dlers don’t wake up from anesthesia In the past, audiologists needed Richard’s implants began malfunc- singing nursery rhymes. But the out- healthy cochlea only a master’s degree. But over the tioning. comes can be dramatic. last 25 years, in large part because of rapid technological advances, the Lindsey became his advocate, ral- After his surgery, Richard took two profession has evolved dramatically. lying the full resources of SDSU semesters of speech and listening ther- or inner ear. In 2007, its entry-level require- and UCSD hearing and speech spe- apy at the SDSU Speech and Language ments were upgraded accordingly. cialists. Jacque Georgeson, Au.D., Clinic, a community service staffed Of the numerous master’s-level director of SDSU’s audiology clinic, by SDSU graduate students under audiology programs in California, referred them to UCSD Medical the direction of Charlotte Lopes. As a only SDSU’s School of Speech, Center in Hillcrest. Midway result, Lindsey—and her classmates, Any audiologist...has to know the personal daily-life Language and Hearing Sciences through the ensuing gauntlet too—noticed “a huge improvement” proved able to of medical tests and insurance in his speech. issues to be able to relate to patients.

30 FALL 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 [email protected] | 360 Magazine 31 Aztecs in Motion

High Hoops. Fisher and Burns return to the court with aspirations for post-season play.

With 50 combined wins and post-season appearances for both teams, 2008-2009 proved to be one of the most successful seasons in San Diego State University’s basketball history.

And the 2009-2010 season could shape up to be even better for the both Aztec teams and their coaches Steve Fisher and Beth Burns.

Coming off of its first-ever appearance in the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) semifinals, the men’s team will take the court for its Nov. 3 opener without Ryan Amoroso, Kyle Spain, Lorenzo Wade and Richie Williams, all lost to graduation.

But stepping in, and Fisher hopes up, are D.J. Gay, Tim Shelton and Billy White and much-anticipated newcomers Brian Carlwell, Tyrone Shelley and Malcolm Thomas, who has been selected as the Mountain West Conference’s (MWC) preseason Newcomer of the Year. Shelley and Thomas are local products who played together at Pepperdine (where they were Nos. 1 and 2 in scoring), before transferring to SDSU. Carlwell, a 6-foot-11 junior, hails from the University of Illinois. Together, the men’s team is one of the highest rated recruiting classes in the country.

Their season is not without challenges. The schedule includes games against Arizona and Arizona State of the Pac-10 and an ESPN televised matchup against St. Mary’s, whom SDSU defeated in a dramatic first-round NIT game last season. Still, Sporting News predicts SDSU will win the MWC and several other forecasters believe the Aztecs will again play in the post season this March.

The Lady Aztecs return with Burns, last year’s MWC Coach of the Year, and four starters from a team that in 2008-09 upended then-No. 2 Texas, won a school best 24 games and advanced to the NCAA tournament. Led by senior Jené Morris, who is on the preseason national player-of-the-year watch lists for both the Wade Trophy and John R. Wooden Award, the Lady Aztecs have been ranked the 22nd best team in the country by Lindey’s College Basketball, and 23rd by ESPN.

First team all-league pick Paris Johnson and MWC all-defensive honoree and career assists leader Quenese Davis headline a team that will open at Viejas Arena Nov. 6; play Notre Dame and Oklahoma in a tournament in the U.S. Virgin Islands; and also take on Wake Forest at home this season.

— Greg Block

Aztec fans will have ample opportunity to watch both teams in action, as the men will play 17 home games, and the women will host 14 home games this season. Tickets are available at 619-283-SDSU or goaztecs.com.

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Individual support

Several Campanile Foundation board members have made gifts The Sound of Success that gratify their individual passions while supporting key The Campanile Foundation academic programs and initiatives. Ron Fowler’s commitment led to the creation of the Entrepre- celebrates a decade of growth neurial Management Center, the lynchpin of SDSU’s entrepre- neurship program, which ranks among the top 25 in the country. By Nicole K. Millett Fowler is founding chair of the Campanile Foundation.

San Diego State University’s campanile or bell tower heralds the most significant A seed gift from L. Robert Payne ’55, current board chair, events on campus – convocation and commencement, homecoming and Founder’s Day. sprouted the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, one of SDSU’s fastest-growing academic programs. Payne— Appropriately, it has become the symbol for a dynamic entity whose creation a decade along with close friends Leon Parma and Jack Goodall—also ago set SDSU on a path to becoming a leading urban research university. contributed the naming gift to the new Alumni Center. The Campanile Foundation is SDSU’s philanthropic auxiliary, created in 1999 to “At some point, you recognize that you’re very fortunate to have provide investment oversight of assets derived from private support and to advocate achieved the success you’ve had. It’s payback time,” said Payne. for San Diego State in the community. Christopher (Kit) Sickels, ’60, is a patron of the children’s lit- The people behind the Campanile Foundation are mostly SDSU alumni—influential, erature program, while gifts from Terry Atkinson, ’69, support civic-minded philanthropists who understand that private giving is an increasingly general scholarships, athletic scholarships and faculty excellence critical source of revenue for the university as state support for higher education withers. in the College of Business Administration. Powerful collective Board member Nicole Clay ’67, ’72, and her husband, Ben, As the Campanile Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary, SDSU President Stephen ’69, are cornerstone contributors to the Parma Payne Goodall L. Weber, who spearheaded its launch, assessed the foundation’s impact. Alumni Center.

“In the last decade, the size of the Campanile Foundation board has more than doubled “As we look at the first 10 years of the Campanile Foundation, from 15 to 34; and this powerful collective has helped us raise upwards of $520 million the alumni center is one of our major accomplishments,” said in private support,” he said. “That figure is 250 percent more than total funds raised Nicole Clay. “This new home for Aztecs will help reconnect during the previous 102 years.” our 200,000 graduates to their university.”

Thanks in part to the board, the last two fiscal years have been the best ever in With wide-ranging networks in Southern California and par- fundraising for SDSU. Gifts and pledges from July 2007 through June 2009 totaled ticularly in San Diego, Campanile Foundation board members $138 million. To appreciate the magnitude of the total, consider that giving to SDSU also extend SDSU’s outreach to longtime residents who may averaged less than $20 million annually in pre-Campanile Foundation days. not have appreciated the academic powerhouse that is SDSU.

The board’s investment oversight is also partly responsible SDSU’s growing endowment, And that outreach grows with the addition of each new board which rose as high as $97 million in 2008. The worldwide financial market implosion member. This year, the Campanile Foundation welcomed: reduced that figure, but improved yields this year helped the endowment recover to Terry L. Atkinson, ’69, former managing director for UBS $101.6 million by Sept. 30, 2009. PaineWebber Inc.’s municipal securities group; Alan D. Gold, ’82, ’88, chairman and chief executive officer for Biomed Realty “The Campanile Foundation has been a catalyst for change at San Diego State, and Trust, Inc.; Greg T. Lucier, chairman and chief executive officer its growing impact mirrors the progress of our campus community,” said Mary Ruth of Life Technologies; and Kenneth McCain, ’70, ’75, executive Carleton, SDSU’s vice president of University Relations and Development and CEO of vice president and founding principle of Wall Street Associates. the Campanile Foundation. “We’re incredibly fortunate that members of our extended Foundation board members champion SDSU in the community, reconnect the Aztec family are choosing to invest in SDSU,” said Carleton. university with “lost” alumni and strengthen its partnerships with local industry. “Their support is helping us to recruit and retain top faculty, This town and town interaction has given rise to new academic programs training attract meritorious students, build top-ranked academic pro- students to work in San Diego’s leading industries: biotech, construction engineering grams and conduct groundbreaking research—all of which and hospitality and tourism are a few examples. increases SDSU’s contribution to a thriving regional economy.”

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Class1930s 1940s Notes 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1950s When I

’55: L. Robert Payne ★ (management) was selected Mr. San Diego 2009 by the San Diego Rotary. was at ’56: Roland Schneider (industrial arts) was inducted into the California Shuffleboard Association Hall of Fame for 26 years of sportsmanship and outstanding service. State… ’59: Robert Coates (geological sciences), a San Diego Superior Court judge, was nominated for the Outstanding Jurist Award by the San Diego County Both my wife, Marilyn, and I were Bar Association. born in 1925; both 1960s delivered by Dr. Gillespie at Scripps ’60: Edwin Mullin ★ (physics) Hospital when it was published “The Creation of Sensation on Prospect Street in and the Evolution of Consciousness.” La Jolla. We attended The Campanile Foundation ’64: Bill Kolender (public admin- La Jolla Elementary istration), re-elected three times as School from kinder- sheriff of San Diego County, retired garten through At a Glance after a 50-year career in law enforce- ment. He will be honorary chair of second grade, and this year’s Homecoming Festivities. although we don’t Purpose To manage philanthropic assets, increase private giving, lead advocacy efforts remember each other ’65: Angela Hawkins (education, from that time, we do Founded August 1999 ’71 Ed.D) and her husband, Douglas, both retired educators, opened a remember common Current Chair L. Robert Payne, class of 1955 residential care home for the elderly friends. Founding Chair Ron L. Fowler in San Diego. We met at State as CEO Mary Ruth Carleton ’67: Richard Troncone ★ (real Photo from the 1943 yearbook, Del Sudoeste. estate), a past president of the SDSU freshmen in 1943. Members 34 Alumni Association, is the new president of the Rotary Club of San Diego, the In those days there were lockers, and Alumni percentage 74 third largest Rotary in the world. hers was near mine. I began going to my locker for no other reason than to Total funding raised $520 million in 10 years ’69: Sue Palmer (political science), band leader for Sue Palmer and her Motel Swing Orchestra, won the International Blues Challenge Award from the Blues see this cute little redhead. We were Total raised FY 2008-2009 $65 million Foundation for best self-produced CD. married in 1948. Endowment $101.6 million on Sept. 30, 2009 1970s Fred Livingstone left SDSU to fight Comprehensive campaign Quiet phase launched in July 2007 ’70: William Eason (marketing), formerly a 2nd Lt. in the USAF, retired last in WWII. He and Marilyn live in Total raised for campaign $154 million year from Continental Airlines; Arts educator William Virchis ★ (M.A. the- Crown Point. atre arts) was inducted into San Diego’s Theatre Educators Hall of Fame at the ______

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38 Fall 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 [email protected] | 360 Magazine 39 Alumni Association 2009 - 2010 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Executive Committee Class Notes Class Notes President: Brig Kline ’01 1980s Immediate Past President: Adrienne Finley ’71 President Elect: Sherrill Amador ’64 1970s Playing for the President Vice President for Membership, Marketing and in September as part of the Communications: Tim Young ’91 2009 Bravissimo Awards ceremony and also received the Visual and Performing Arts Concert for Pakistan. Vice President for Finance and Contracts: Jeff Marston ’77 John Mula (’87, M.A. music) can trace his award from the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE). Vice President for Planning and Special Projects: Tom Karlo ’75 roots back to John Philip Sousa. Vice President for Alumni Center Operations: ’83: Michael Barnard (kine- Jerry Dunaway ’99 ’71: After a 14-year hiatus, Tom Blair (journalism) is back writing his City Not his actual heredity, but the musical roots siology) has published an aging Vice President for Constituencies: Deanna Shoop ’97 survival guide, “What I Learned Column, this time for the website of San Diego magazine, of which he is editor-in- that began with a stint in his high school Liaison to The Campanile Foundation: Bill Trumpfheller ’87 at Work Today – A Collection of Liaison to Athletics: Martha Beckman ’73 chief. marching band and culminated in a coveted Lessons on Life;” Cynthia Haas Executive Director: Jim Herrick position in The President’s Own U.S. Marine Secretary: Cheryl Trtan ★ (business administration, ’92 ’72: Capt. Peter Welch (finance), a retired U.S. Naval Reserve officer, was Band, once led by Sousa himself. Other Elected Directors: elected for a six-year term to the board of the Military Officers Association of M.P.A.) is the new deputy city Debbie Cushman ’87; R.D. Williams ’87; Marco Polo America. manager for Carlsbad. Cortes ’95; Bill Earley ’86; Bob Raines ’68; Jerry Dressel Since 1996, Mula has numbered among this ’76; Bill Holmes ’73, Ken Kramer ’74; Janine Pairis ’01; elite group, which provides music for the U.S. Marlene Ruiz ’75, ’79; Barbara Powels Bowen ’05; ’73: Rev. Jerry Lowney (sociology), a sociology professor at Carroll College in president and his guests, the Congress and ’84: Robert Lowe (journalism) Ernest Dronenburg ’66; Joe Farrage ’89; Katie Rogow Helena, Mont., published “Stoned, Drunk, or Sober? Understanding Alcohol and the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. is assistant athletic director for ’90; Deanna Shoop ’97; Peggy Stephenson ’84; Kirk Drug Use Through Qualitative, Quantitative, and Longitudinal Research;” Bob communications at Greensboro Walwick ’81; Tim Young ’91; Robert Garvin ’76 ’81; Dan The 130-member band also performs at more Sigall (psychology) teaches marketing at Hawaii Pacific University and is the College in North Carolina. Guevara ’70; Don Wozniak ’68 ’74; Kathleen Lang ’06 ’07 than 500 public concerts each year. Past Presidents: (* denotes deceased) author of “The Companies we Keep.” 2009 Adrienne Finley; 2008 Bill Trumpfheller; 2007 “My life is exactly what I hoped it would be,” ’85: Stephen Sayles (kinesiol- Chuck Luby; 2006 Erica Opstad; 2005 Bruce Ives; ’74: Susan Cassidy Lewis (art, ’75 teaching credential) was teacher of the year Mula said in a telephone interview from his ogy) is head athletic trainer for the 2004 Jerry Dressel; 2003 Matt Dathe; 2002 Tamara for the San Marcos Unified School District; Her husband, Brian Lewis (marketing, home base in southeast Washington, D.C. “One week I might be rehearsing two Oakland Athletics baseball team. McLeod; 2001 Bill Trumpfheller; 2000 Ash Hayes; 1999 John McMullen; 1998 Richard West; 1997 Frederick W. economics), celebrated his 20th year as president of CopyVend. or three mornings for an upcoming concert and another week, I might be on Pierce, IV; 1996 Lois Bruhn; 1995 Tom Jimenez; 1994 ceremonial duty at the White House or Arlington National Cemetery.” ’86: Joan Anderson (account- Nancy Reed Gibson; 1993 Jerry Dressel; 1992 Walter ’75: Larry Glasco (public administration) retired from the Defense Logistics ing), a tax professional in Ernst Turner, Jr.; 1991 James B. Kuhn; 1990 Art Flaming; 1989 Agency after 35 years of service; Walter Schlotter (television, film and new Mula is one of 25 in The President’s Own clarinet section. Created in 1798 by & Young’s Denver office, was Bernard P. Rhinerson; 1988 Craig Evanco; 1987 David an Act of Congress, The President’s Own is America’s oldest continuously active promoted to executive director; E. DeVol; 1986 Dr. Morton Jorgensen; 1985 Denise media) is executive producer of “Residue,” which won Best San Diego Short Film at Carabet; 1984 Robert Chapman; 1983 William Hastings; the 2008 San Diego Film Festival; Cliff Telfer (business) is chief financial officer professional musical organization. Marc Cannon (M.B.A.) is vice 1982 Thomas Carter*; 1981 Walter Weisman; 1980 Don with the Metropolitan Transit System in San Diego. president of services for Convio, Harrington; 1979 Nicole Clay; 1978 Daniel Bamberg; President Thomas Jefferson gave the band its distinctive name and President the Austin, Texas-based provider 1977 Allan Bailey*; 1976 Richard Troncone; 1975 & 1974 Abraham Lincoln requested a performance at the dedication of Soldiers’ National ’77: Richard Golden ★ (accounting) has received critical praise for his novel of software to nonprofits; Sandra Robert Battenfield; 1973 Robert Butler; 1972 R. Scott Cemetery where he delivered the Gettysburg Address. Sousa led The President’s Snell; 1971 James H. Ashcraft; 1970 A. Kendall Wood; “Depth of Revenge;” Susanne (Coffey) La Faver (journalism) donated surplus McBrayer ★ (kinesiology, ’90, 1969 Michael Rogers; 1968 Gerald S. Davee; 1967 funds from her campaign for Lake County (Calif.) supervisor to found a local chapter Own from 1880 to 1892. M.A. secondary curriculum), CEO Dr. Louis Robinson*; 1966 Daniel Hale; 1964 Wallace for The Children’s Initiative, an of the National Women’s Political Caucus; Lisa Lieberman (M.S.W. social work) Mula’s march to musical celebrity was influenced by several teachers who had Featheringill; 1963 Ed Blessing; 1962 Hon. Frank advocacy agency, was appointed Nottbusch, Jr.*; 1961 Bryant Kearney*; 1960 & 1959 has written “A Stranger Among Us,” a guide to hiring providers for people with played in military bands. As an undergraduate, he majored in music education, to the Corrections Standards Lynn McLean; 1958 Harvey Urban*; 1957 Ken Barnes*; disabilities; Jill Nash ★ (journalism) joined Levi Strauss & Co. as chief commu- but by the time he enrolled in the master’s program at SDSU, he had switched 1954 Dwain Kantor*; 1948 Joe Suozzo*; 1947 Robert Authority; Eric Solomon nications officer and vice president of corporate affairs; Daniel Pedley (account- his emphasis to clarinet performance. Breitbard; 1945 Barney Carman*; 1940 Sue Earnest*; ing) joined CB Richard Ellis as a residential land specialist; Charles Ullmann (finance) celebrated 20 years 1939 Bert McLees, Jr.*; 1938 Donald Clarkson*; 1937 working in the corporate head- Robert Barbour*; 1936 Jefferson Stickney*; 1935 (marketing) is air traffic manager for Southern California Terminal Radar Approach “I have fond memories of my professors and fellow students at San Diego State,” Terrence Geddis*; 1934 Richmond Barbour*; 1933 Helen Control (SCT). Mula said. “The School of Music was amazingly supportive.” quarters of Public Storage in C. Clark*; 1932 Earl Andreen*; 1931 Vesta Muehleisen*. Glendale, Calif. Ex-officio/ Non-voting Directors: ’78: Bruce Golden (English) has published a third novel, “Evergreen” (Zumaya In March, Mula spent several days as a guest music coach and lecturer at the Edith Benkov, Tyler Boden, Mary Ruth Carleton, 2009). School of Music and Dance. He led a Master class for clarinet students and ’87: John Clapp ★ (psychol- Stephen L. Weber performed with the SDSU Wind Symphony and the Woodworks Clarinet Choir. ogy, ’91 M.S.W. social work) is Staff ’79: Eunis Christensen ★ (finance, ’93 M.B.A.) has been elected for a third term the new director for the U.S. During the week, Mula and Marian Liebowitz, professor of music, joined Executive Director: Jim Herrick as president of the American Association of University Women, San Diego branch. Department of Education’s Higher Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center Facility Manager: Woodworks in a concert for veterans undergoing rehabilitation at the San Diego Education Center for Alcohol, Mike Sweet ’93 Veterans Village. Associate Director: Tammy Blackburn ’94, ’01 1980s Drug and Violence Prevention. He Director, Alumni Programs: Cheryl Trtan After 13 years as a member of The President’s Own U.S. Marine Band, Mula is also a faculty member at SDSU; Alumni Chapter Coordinator: Diane Barragan Richard Dixon ★ (sociology) ’80: Joel Bryden ★ (speech communication), who retired from the San Diego can’t imagine doing anything else. Playing for dignitaries at the nation’s most Assistant Membership Coordinator: Robin Breen received the Bronze Star for his Administrative Assistant: Donna Buttner ’91 Police Department after 28 years, is now chief of police for the city of Walnut Creek, historic sites never gets old. And there are certain perks that come with the job. Program Coordinator: Jen Ranallo Calif.; Stephen Doyle ★ (civil engineering) was inducted into the Building work in Ghazni, Afghanistan in Membership & Marketing Assistant: Kelley Suminski Industry Association’s San Diego Hall of Fame. He is president of Brookfield Homes “I was fortunate enough to shake hands with both President Bill Clinton and support of Operation Enduring Analyst/Programmer: Ed Tuley Robin Robinson Freedom. He is a civil affairs Tobin Vaughn San Diego and a 2008 Monty Award winner; (journalism), President George W. Bush,” he said. Communications Specialist: officer; Brett Ellingsberg Student Alumni Association President: Garett Gomez co-anchor of FOX Chicago News, was inducted into the National Television Student Intern: Natalie Coppernoll Academy’s Silver Circle; Yale Strom (art) performed for the UN General Assembly (marketing), a real estate broker

40 Fall 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 [email protected] | 360 Magazine 41 Class Notes Class 1960s Notes 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1980s Test for Success 1990s Homecoming with Prudential California Realty, has joined the board of The story of Zeynep Ilgaz is a quintessen- ’92: Arnold Baldeaux ★ (kinesiology) was named Region X referee of the year for the American Red Cross of Santa tial California rags to riches tale. 2008 by the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association; Jack Degnan Barbara. He was a volunteer at (English, ’95 M.P.H. public health) developed the new party game, Funny Business, Ground Zero; David Hauser 2009 She and her husband, Serhat Pala, came for the manufacturer Gamewright. (biology) joined the science to San Diego from their native Turkey in department of the Pennington 1998 with dreams of starting a family ’93: Jason Belport (psychology) plans to marry Vicki Lynn Kaiser in October. He School in New Jersey; business. Five years later, armed with is a published underwater photographer and general manager of Little Cayman Beach Rebecca Wilke (M.A. M.B.A. degrees from San Diego State Resort Ltd., Reef Divers; Lisa Druxman (’97, M.A. psychology) is founder of Stroller education), co-founder of University, they launched a home test kit Strides, recognized in StartupNation’s 2009 Leading Moms in Business competition. LEADon, Inc., co-authored distribution company from their garage in Stroller Strides is an exercise program for new moms and their babies. “Tough Choices for Teachers: Kearny Mesa. Ethical Challenges in Today’s ’97: Desiree Grimes Arias (education, ’03 curriculum) is a teacher, mother of two Schools and Classrooms.” The fledgling firm filled online orders for and co-owner of Say Vende, a novelty t-shirt printing business. testing kits for pregnancy, fertility and ’88: Jodi Shelton (political infectious diseases. Ilgaz and Pala agreed ’98: Mark Fulop (M.A. educational technology) is partnership and development science), president of Global that he would build the distribution director for Reclaiming Futures, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Semiconductor Alliance, was business while she went to work for a Foundation that helps teens overcome substance problems; Linda McCarty (sociol- invited to ring the closing bell local startup. ogy) an attorney at the law firm of Wall Esleeck Babcock LLP in Winston-Salem, N.C., on the NASDAQ exchange for a has been named one of the “40 Leaders Under Forty” by The Business Journal. second time. Their plans changed when company revenue rose from $300,000 in 2004 to $1.1 million in 2005, and $2.6 million in 2006. Ilgaz, then working for CONNECT, ’99: William Hammett IV ★ (public administration), president of the San Diego ’89: Mark Lambson ★ (public left her position to become CEO of their company, Confirm BioSciences, while Association of Health Underwriters, is also on the board of directors of the Aztec administration) is vice president, Pala took on the role of chief financial officer. Football Legacy; Dana-Lynn Koomoa (biology,) a junior researcher at the Cancer Tour the New PPG sales and marketing, for Green Research Center of Hawaii, was one of 11 young scientists to receive a national 2009 Concepts Intl. in San Diego; Working together, the couple saw an opportunity to expand the business by Young Investigator Award from the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. Alumni Center Carolyn Peters (’93, M.A. catering to a growing demand for workplace drug testing. They secured exclusive kinesiology), an assistant athletic rights to cutting edge technology from labs around the country and created new 2000s This Homecoming trainer with SDSU Athletics, test products, including the hugely successful HairConfirm, which was featured Weekend received the Robert Moore on national news programs and is now available in over 25 countries including ’01: Tyler Banks (M.B.A.) is vice president and sales leader for private client services Distinguished Alumnus Award the U.S. in Marsh USA’s Los Angeles office. from the Department of Exercise Homecoming weekend begins Friday, Oct. 16, at 9:30 a.m. with a and Nutritional Sciences; Jack Thanks largely to HairConfirm, Confirm BioSciences was sixth among San ’02: Jennifer Guerin (art) was a finalist on the fourth season of the HGTV show Rice (history) is an international Diego’s fastest growing companies in 2008, according to bizSanDiego. “Design Star;” Teresa Siles (advertising) is account supervisor and director of social wreath-laying ceremony at the War journalist whose show, “Live in media for Nuffer Smith Tucker. Memorial on Aztec Green followed Washington with Jack Rice,” is With samples of hair from the scalp or body, the product can reveal an indi- by the Golden Aztec Circle lunch broadcast on Air America. vidual’s drug use over the previous 90 days. Not only can HairConfirm identify ’06: Phillip Ciarriocco ★ (M.S. accountancy) is a senior account executive at with guest speaker, Ken Kramer, the type of drug used (cocaine, marijuana, codeine, morphine, crystal meth, Ingram Micro in Santa Ana; Binita Patel (M.S. accountancy) is a senior tax associate ’74, host of the popular “About 1990s Ecstasy); it can also determine if the individual is a recreational or habitual user. at Grant Thornton Intl., in Phoenix. San Diego.” “Drug testing is a controversial topic,” Ilgaz admitted. “If a family chooses to The weekend moves into high ’90: Dorenda Phillips (kine- ’07: Brandon Fischer ★ (real estate) is pursuing a Juris Doctor degree at test, the product is available. But my husband and I agree that communication gear on Saturday with the grand siology) has worked in the PE Southwestern Law School and working an externship with the U.S. Bankruptcy between parents and children is the number one way to discourage drug use.” department of Temescal Canyon Court; Miyuki Freeman (M.S. accounting) and Andrew Roth (accounting) were opening of the Parma Payne High School, Lake Elsinore, Goodall Alumni Center. An open Ilgaz frequently refers to her husband in conversation. Earlier this year, as one of promoted to senior associates with Macias Gini & O’Connell LLP; Heather Shearer Calif., since 1991. She coaches (public relations) is account executive and new media director at Heying & Associates, house from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 cheerleading. eight College of Business Administration alumni to win the Lamden Rising Star Award, she began her acceptance speech by thanking Pala. a marketing and public relations agency. p.m. will allow visitors to tour the alumni center and check out its ’91: Mary Ann Barnes (M.S. “When I’m speaking to SDSU students, they often ask me what it’s like to run a ’08: Martin Tamayo (economics) completed the U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit historical displays, beautiful library, nursing) was named senior vice business with your husband. For me, it has been the most wonderful experience, Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill.; Mick Terrizzi (undergraduate studies) president and executive director expansive terraces, grand ballroom, my dream really. We’re building a family and a business together. ” founded and directs a student drum corps at Blenheim Elementary School in Kansas and more. for Kaiser Permanente Health City, where he began his second year in the Teach for America program. Plan and Hospitals in San Diego She laughed. “He’s my partner in crime.” Then it’s on to Qualcomm Stadium, County. She joined Kaiser as a ’09: Niccolo Bodner, aka Tyrell Lloyd (film) premiered his urban drama, where the Aztecs take on the BYU staff nurse in 1974. “Turnover” at the San Diego Film Festival in September. Cougars. Kickoff is at 3 p.m.

42 Fall 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 [email protected] | 360 Magazine 43 In Memoriam The 2009 Faculty Monty Award Winners 1933 Virginia Davidson, 1960 Elaine French 1980 Ruth McKinnie Braun, Richard Each year, the San Diego State Alumni Association recognizes outstanding faculty and alumni. Constance Jenkins 1961 Conrad Bley, Allen Jacobus, Davies, Willard Fellows, Denise 1934 Marjorie Nelson Yick Ng Quon Glover, Paul Nelander, Phillip Perry, The 2009 faculty awards were presented Aug. 27 at SDSU's All-University Convocation. Alumni Monty 1935 Robert Dahlgren 1962 Phyllis Boers, David Burney, Peter Ring, Harold Toothacre winners for 2010 will be honored at the Montys gala on April 24 at the Hotel del Coronado. 1937 John Dirks, Ralph Fogerty Grace Graham, Dennis Hill, 1981 Robert Brown, Umberto Esquibel, 1938 William Faust, Jeanette Frash, Warren Keller, Alice Marquis Frances Hines, Gary Liggett, College of Arts and Letters College of Health and Human Services Charles Hampton, Loraine Schmidt 1963 Jennie Elliott, Robert Henderson, Mark Suzukawa, Ralph Weekly 1939 Leslie Carr, Vincent Silva Lois Kessler, Denise Legrand, 1982 Paul Chin, Gail Hum, Elizabeth Dipak Gupta Loring Jones Dipak Gupta, professor of political science, holds the Fred Supported by more than $3 million in funding, the Vincent Martin Mahoney, David Rodriguez J. Hansen Chair of Peace Studies. He has received more research of Loring Jones, professor of social work, focuses 1940 Alice Lewis, Norman Roberts Ph.D., 1964 Jacques Carter Jr., Edwin Fix, 1983 Glen Takahashi than $2 million in funding and has written nine books on factors impacting child welfare. He is a consultant and Carroll Wight Arthur Hester, Charles McGregor 1984 Phillip Burke, Frank Gomez, on terrorism, political instability and public policy, of board member for public and nonprofit agencies and has 1941 Virginia Brown, Shirley Perry, 1965 William Calhoun William Shelton which “Analyzing Public Policy” is required reading developed an international reputation through Gracielle Tipton 1966 Madeline Logan Magin, 1985 Michael Shubert in universities around the world. He is an Albert W. conference presentations across the globe. He 1942 Patricia Barth, Jackson Hacker John Petzold 1986 Christopher Kuhn, George Logan, Johnson Lecturer, the highest distinction bestowed participates in the School of Social Work’s 1943 Margaret Blake, Robert Thomas 1967 Thelma Thompson Ph.D. Brian Marshall, Mary Timian by SDSU for research and scholarship. summer internship in Bangkok, Thailand. 1944 Barbara Darnell, Margaret Hallahan, 1968 Bruce Blauvelt, Robert Bourke, 1987 Alan Graham, Catherine Sanchez Isabel Whitehead Eloise Johnston, Cherrie Sevick, 1988 Genevieve O’Connor, Jeffrey White College of Business Administration College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts 1945 Herman Fritzenkotter, Paul Syverson 1989 David Potts Kathleen Krentler Jeanne Nichols Charles Gurling Jr., Mary Rainey, 1969 Francie Baker, Kenneth Hamilton, Kathleen Krentler, professor of Jeanne Nichols, professor of exercise and Marjorie Watrous Roderic Perry, Edward Reed Jr., 1990 Mathew Kofler marketing, has written extensively on nutritional sciences, has a long history of 1947 Joyce Clark, Robert Cleator, Gary Rothwell 1991 Mary Alcantar the role of Internet-savvy individuals in involving students in her applied research, which Patricia Kellaway 1992 Felicia Flanagan, David Kelley consumer decision making. A Distinguished focuses on bone health in aging populations and 1948 George Gross Ph.D., Barbara Healey, 1970 Robert Crowther, Robert Hughes, 1993 Sheryl Colburn Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science, teenage girls. She and her team were the first to Rev. Theodore Livingston, John Isaksen, Nancy Robertson, 1994 Felicia Baxter, Deborah Newton, she is director of both undergraduate programs report exercise-related disorders in high school William Mohler, Steward Worden Mildred Rubin, Mary Wolfe Michael Palmer, James Thibault, and assessment for SDSU’s College of Business athletes. Since 1985, she has been affiliated with the 1949 Margie Garrison 1971 Robert Daellenbach Jr., Allen Brad West Administration. In the latter role, she leads efforts to SDSU Adult Fitness Program, now named the Center Knutson, Dimple Monteleone, 1995 Thomas Beckman meet the demanding assessment requirements for for Optimal Health and Performance. the college’s reaccreditation. 1950 John Brixey, Tom Hunter, Adylin Rosenblatt, Ivar Stromberg 1996 Michael Allen, Carol Banegas, College of Sciences Walter Moore Jr., Thomas Petrone, 1972 Norman Bell, Jerry Engle, Alexander Maas College of Education Russell Pratt M.D., Charles Printz, Alex Sanchez 1997 Marian Dyer, Marie Walker James Sallis Robert Saunders, Robert Sutherland, 1973 Katherine Belding, Steven Coons, 1998 Chris Acosta, Cynthia Bishop, Nancy Farnan The research of James Sallis, professor of The scholarship of Nancy Farnan, professor of psychology, applies behavioral science to physical Major John Webb Richard Cross Jr., Anita Johnson, Jason Jensen, Michael Murray, teacher education, centers on teaching writing and lan- activity, healthy eating and smoking prevention. Author 1951 Jack Bruner, Stuart Clark, Rudolph Johnson Jr., Robert Perkins guage arts to young people. She co-developed and taught in the of more than 375 peer-reviewed publications, he developed Milton Katz, Florence Miller, John Lippert Jr., Gregory Lowe, 1999 Corey Ferguson, Marci Honstead, City Heights Writers’ Institute and co-directed the Partnership the SPARK physical education program used in more than 2000 Nancy Thomas, Robert Thurman, Helen Murawsky, Wilma Poland, Steve Oh, Brian Simnjanovski, in Reading Video Project. In 2003, she accepted the Christa schools. He directs Active Living Research, a national program Helen Vogel Michael Vaca Brian Whitfield McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Preparation on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 2007, the Society of 1952 Donald Hankins Jr. 1974 John Orr of SDSU’s School of Teacher Education, of which she is director. Behavioral Medicine named him Distinguished Scientist, its 1953 Eugene Janoff, Ferman McPhatter 1975 Glenn Birdwell, Leroy Cutler, 2001 Navy Lt. Florence Bacong Choe, highest honor. 1954 Frederick Cicalo, Bernard DeSelm, Harvey Gersenfish, Muriel Dena Endo College of Engineering E. Dean Milow, Frederick Smith, Goldhammer, Michael Jeffers, 2002 Tuan Trong Lai, Melissa Porter Eugene Olevsky Library and Information Access Edwin Specht Larry Mead, Hugh Vandiver 2004 Sue Russell Eugene Olevsky, director of the SDSU-UCSD joint doctoral Pamela Jackson 1955 Earle Brucker, Howard Hervey, 1976 Raymond Atkins, Sharon Huebner, 2005 Adrian Voorhees program in engineering sciences, is an expert in powder sintering. Pamela Jackson, information literacy librarian, has used social David Hoffland, James McCarty David Kemp, Glenn Kennedy, 2007 Bruce Jarvis, David Riley Research from his Powder Technology Lab is applied to fuel and networking to reach students in creative and effective ways. She 1956 Arthur Butler Jr., David Limbacher, Roger Lee, Katharine Morgan, 2008 Chau Phoi Nguyen solar cells, hydrogen storage and nanotechnology. He has received established a YouTube channel to distribute multimedia productions, Lawrence Siegel, Donald Swift, Virginia Ream, Charles Wilcox Jr., a National Science Foundation Career Award, a TRW Excellence including her library video tour, and in Second Life, she created the Jereth Vanhooser, Dale Worm Janice Woolston Year Unknown: Francisco in Teaching Award and the Albert W. Johnson Research 3-D virtual SDSU Library. Her work distinguishes SDSU as a leading 1957 Norman Brinker, Richard Brunelle, 1977 Melinda Bue, David Grigsby, Ballardo, Mariella Benton, Rick Lectureship, the highest research honor bestowed by SDSU. provider of information services beyond the library’s physical walls. Norvell Freeman, Mary Goodall Januril Prewitt, Robert Ramsey Carlson, Gertrude Clarke, Ruth 1958 Joseph Daly 1978 Robert Holtz, Brian Lattarulo, Dunsmore, Phillip Giannangeli, Imperial Valley Campus 1959 Linda Alessio, Jack Felson, Theodora Streeter Susan Mannis, June Moeser, Ariel Juan-Carlos Ramirez-Pimienta Amy Fishel, John Johnson, 1979 John Chess, Danette Dierdorff, Oberg, William Odencrantz, An expert in Mexican and border literature and cultural studies, Juan-Carlos Ramirez-Pimienta is among the most Fred Rowbotham, Arthur Gunther, Hubert Hubbard, Melvin Parish, Floris Pittman, incisive contemporary researchers into the corrido, a popular and influential Mexican ballad form. He is particularly well- Kathryn Scoggins, Donald Stenger Jessie Martin, Charles Miller, Ronald Potts, John Scouller known for his work on narcocorridos (drug-trafficking ballads). At Imperial Valley Campus, he coordinates the Spanish Barbara Zimmerman program, and also served on the 2006 organizing committee of the International Conference on Immigrant Rights.

44 Fall 2009 | sdsu.edu/360 [email protected] | 360 Magazine 45 By Degrees Katie Martin Katie Martin, a sophomore, is the first winner of the SDSU Alumni Association Legacy Scholarship.

What did winning the Legacy Scholarship mean to you? It helps me carry on my family legacy as an Aztec. Both my parents, Laura and Derrick Martin, are Aztecs; my father’s four siblings attended SDSU; and my grandfather, the late Barry Jones, was chair of the Department of Communicative Disorders and an assistant dean of the College of Health and Human Services.

What are your post-college plans? Someday, I hope to own a non-profit for international humanitarian work or become a human rights lawyer for the United Nations. That’s why I’m majoring in interna- tional studies and conflict resolution (ISCOR). It’s exciting to be surrounded by other ISCOR major who share my passion for global service. Thank you for reading 360 Magazine online! I want to study abroad multiple times and the Legacy Scholarship will help me do that. To receive your own subscription, join the SDSU What was the high point of your first year at SDSU? I joined Aztecs for Africa and became Alumni Association or help support the uni- vice president in the spring semester. Through Invisible Children, Inc., Aztecs versity with a financial gift. Contact the editor at for Africa was paired with Sacred Heart Secondary School in northern Uganda. I [email protected] for more information. organized a book drive for the school and we collected more than 33,000 books, the sixth highest total donated by a U.S. group.

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