The Emeritimes Official Publication of The Emeriti Association, California State University, Los Angeles Volume XIII, Number 1 Winter, 1992 First Emeriti 14th Anniversary Celebration Fellowship Goes Emeriti Association to Observe Birthday With Variety to Scott Lamp of Events During the First Two Weeks of February by Carol Smallenburg * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Emeriti Association will celebrate its 14th birthday this year with a sequence of events Scott Lamp, who is pursuing a master's wrapped around its actual date of birth—Sunday, February 9. degree in Management in the School of The first opportunity for emeriti to gather will take place on Sunday, February 2, with a Business and Economics, has been awarded matinee performance in English of "Corona de Sombra" under the direction of Dean Bobby the Emeriti Association's first annual gradu- Patton of the School of Arts and Letters. A luncheon will precede the event. Information about ate fellowship of $1,000. reservations will be included in a special mailing, so just reserve the date on your calendar now. The awarding of the fellowship took The second day of celebration will take place on Tuesday, February 4. Emeriti faculty will place at the Opening Day luncheon of the be honored with a special ceremony at the meeting of the Academic Senate at 1:30 P.M., then Emeriti Association in September. The pre- at 3 P.M. the Emeriti Association's annual reception honoring the University faculty will be sentation was made by Association Presi- held at the University Club ("Choices"). For emeriti faculty visitors wishing to have luncheon dent Carol Smallenburg (See photo at right, on campus prior to the afternoon's activities, the Marianne Moore Room in the University Club below.) has been reserved for the gathering. Lamp was selected as the top candidate The final event on the calendar will be on Tuesday, February 11, when the Faculty in a tight competition among six applicants, Colloquium will honor the emeriti by presenting as its guest speaker Emeritus Professor of all whom had a grade point averages of 3.54 Music Robert Strassburg. His subject will be "The Music of Walt Whitman." The lecture will to 3.94, matched by excellent letters of rec- be presented in the University Club at 3 P.M. Professor Lou Elrod will appear with Dr. ommendation and interesting records of ex- Strassburg. periences in community service. Lamp earned his undergraduate degree in Biology. In his letter of thanks to the Emeriti Association, he stated as follows: "Thank you so much for selecting me as the recipient of the first annual Emeriti Fel- lowship Award. It is always a privilege to be selected for an academic award, but it is especially significant to receive it from such a highly esteemed group of the University as the Emeriti. Continued on Page 4

FAIR WARNING! Persons coming to campus should be prepared for changes in traffic patterns and availability of parking spaces, as a result of the beginning of construction on the new Fine Arts Complex. Campus Drive has been made two-way, has had most parking re- moved, and dead ends in the vicinity of the parking lot which adjoined the Theatre and Music Complex. Most of that lot has been Association President Carol Smallenburg and fellowship recipient Scott Lamp. removed. In Memoriam Fellowship Fund Is NEW EMERITI Growing, but Needs Arlene F. Bock Additional Support Members of the University faculty who Arlene F. Bock, Librarian Emerita, were granted emeriti status during the Fall died on October 31, 1991. She had been at by Carol Smallenburg Quarter, with the year they joined the faculty California State University, Los Angeles (in parenthesis), their academic field, and from 1961 until her retirement on Nov. 30, Since 1987, Emeriti have responded their address after retirement, are as follows: 1977. handsomely to raising money for the Arlene received a BA from the Uni- newly established Emeriti Fellowship RICHARD BALVIN (1956) versity of Akron in 1933 and a BSLS in Fund. Seventy percent of the projected Psychology 1940 and an MSLS in 1960 from the endowment fund of $20,000 has been re- Route 1, Box 914 University of Southern California. She ceived, and donations continue. Eastsound, WA 98245 taught in the Montebello Schools prior to More than a few donors include this attaining her Master's degree. note: "Except for fellowship funds in DOUGLAS L. CURRELL (1957) Arlene joined the library staff as Edu- those graduate years, I would not be here Chemistry cation Librarian. She then went on to be- now." Said another: "It is nostalgic to 639 Chestnut Street come a Science and Technology Refer- think that the times then and now are not San Francisco, CA 94133 ence Librarian until the time of her retire- dissimilar. Only thing, everything costs so ment. much more now." CHARLES M. HABERMAN (1959) After retirement, Arlene continued to In an interview Professor of Chemis- Mechanical Engineering live in the Los Angeles area with her try Costello Brown stated: "Not only are 1432 Kallegrande husband, Irving, who survives her. graduate students hurting for tuition Fullerton, CA 92635 money, they also find there are many extra expenses attached to graduate study, re- HOWARD P. HOLLADAY (1959) The EMERITI search, and field work." Speeech Communication ASSOCIATION Although a major portion of the 808 Old Mill Road University's enrollment is in graduate- San Marino, CA 91108 California State University, Los Angeles level work, fewer than 10 percent of the ASSOCIATION OFFICERS, 1991-92 available funds are earmarked for gradu- MARY A. KRAMER (1972) Carol Smallenburg, President ate students. Family Studies and Consumer Sciences Mildred Massey, The Financial Aid Office, which re- 13708 S. Grider Avenue Immediate Past President ceives and processes applications and Hawthorne, CA 90205 James Dunkelberg, background information about candi- Vice President, Administration and President Elect dates, indicates that they have a sizeable JANE S. LEWIS (1968) Mary Gormly list of graduate students requesting finan- Family Studies and Consumer Sciences Vice President, Programs cial help. Of 35 persons who qualify, one 6206 Aura Avenue James Dunkelberg, third had grade point averages of 3.81 or Reseda, CA 91335 Secretary higher and three had GPAs of 4.0. Laird Allison, Treasurer Selection of recipients is based upon EDWARD A. MALJANIAN (1963) Gerald Rasmussen, scholarship, service to the University and/ Health Sciences Membership Secretary or the community, and demonstrated ca- 10414 E. Olive Street Leon Schwartz, reer potential. In case of equally qualified Temple City, CA 91780 Academic Senator candidates, the factor of financial need John Houk, Leonard Mathy, These names and addresses of newly William Lloyd, and will be considered. Warren Reeves, Emeriti who know of highly qualified designated emeriti faculty members should Members at Large of the Executive candidates should direct those persons to be added to your copy of the directory en- Committee make application for the Emeriti Fellow- closed with your Fall 1991 Issue of The Emeritimes. All communications to the Emeriti ship through the Financial Aids Office. Association should be addressed to Also, emeriti faculty who would like Administration 815, Cal State L.A., to help build the Fellowship Fund to the 5151 State University Drive, $20,000 sum needed to provide the $1,000 Los Angeles, CA 90032. a year for funding the annual award, are invited to send their contributions to the Emeriti Association in care of the Univer- sity Development Office. Reminiscenses of Abd al-Malik by Charles Beckwith

Butrus Abd al-Malik retired and catalogue; primed and ready, he officially from Cal State L.A. in was taken into the enterprises, 1990, but he has continued teach- which eventually produced a ing selected courses in Middle weighty classic of scholarship, the Eastern History and Languages, to first to bear his name. the gratification of his students and More degrees followed, culmi- colleagues alike. He looks back on nating with the Princeton Ph.D. in over twenty-two years in this Uni- 1935 and in turn followed in the versity, but on a still longer period course of time by honorary degrees of intellectual adventure and ex- from other institutions. Through citement—and above all of teaching positions at Princeton and achievement—that preceded his elsewhere, his career took flight. arrival here in 1969. "I had," he Then came a second stroke of luck. says, casting his thoughts back to Impressive to his teachers as a stu- 1931, the year of his first coming to dent, he was now impressing his this country, "a voracious appe- own students, and in one class im- tite." And he repeats, moved by the pressed a particularly bright student memory of new worlds then open- with interests and aptitudes like his ing to the young scholar, "a vora- own, one Daniel Crecelius. cious appetite!" Crecelius, subsequently at Cal State He matched that appetite with and himself beginning to grace its a comparable aptitude. And both History Department—both would were shaped and guided by the in later years be named Outstanding world of religion in which he was Professor—saw the chance to bring born. Egypt had been the first true lustre to the department, and Middle Eastern country to adopt recommended that he be added to its Christianity, within a generation faculty. after Christ; and young Butrus' Again his career took flight ancestors in the ancient university and capi- So, when young Butrus went up to Cairo from new ground; Crecelius was only the tal city of Asyut where he was born held to to attend the University, he brought along a first to recognize his remarkable merit. A the Faith—even with the coming of Islam, rich and complex background, which was to few years after his arrival, he passed on rendering tribute to God and Caesar as ap- reflect on all his subsequent studies and campus our then Vice President, John propriate. They were Coptic Christians, who teaching of history, languages, and Christi- Palmer, who said to him in his bluff way: preserved the ancient language of Egypt in anity ancient and "modern." "Butnis, I hope you never leave us!" But their rituals, as they do to this day. The three In due course he attracted the special there was at that time, he reminded Palmer, ruling interests of his life—religion, history, notice of his teachers, and while earning the a rule of retirement that would catch up with and language—came thus to him inter- first of many degrees, that of Bachelor of him soon. One more stroke of luck: Palmer, twined. Divinity from the Evangelical Seminary in ever resourceful, went back to his office and Circumstances soon added what was in Cairo, he was urged, and helped, to attend the wrote to the Governor a description of Pro- effect a fourth strand: the Christianity of the Theological Seminary of Princeton, the lead- fessor Malik's achievements, with a request western world, in the form of ing institution of its kind—the best for the that the rule be waived for such a prize as this. Presbyterianism, to which Butrus' father best. There he was again singled out and Back came approval: a good day's work for was converted by Scottish missionaries, and urged to seek still higher degrees. Money, Jerry Brown. The rules are now freer: but it in which he in turn was brought up. Preco- however, was a problem, as always with was Palmer's timely reaction that tided him ciously, while still a child he read the New students but never more than in the thirties. over until that time. Testament in Arabic, unknowingly planting But here occurred one of several strokes of Above is his picture taken in 1969, the the root of thought and study which would luck—for him and, as it would turn out, for year of his arrival on this campus: the begin- lead to his own translation of both Testa- Cal State L.A. His adviser told him of an ning of a second career that will always ments from the original Greek and Hebrew enormous collection of Middle Eastern honor us. sources in later years. documents in Arabic which a team of schol- ars were just beginning to translate, describe, Construction Begins Zall Researches Views of Colonial Youth On University's New by Mildred Massey Fine Arts Complex Prominent among those Cal State L.A. ments such as the framing of the constitution. emeriti who have remained as wrapped up as Recently the Los Angeles Times re- Construction has begun on the long- ever in their lifelong research activities is ported on some of Professor Zall' s findings, anticipated Harriet and Charles Luckman Paul Zall, a retired professor from the De- such as the contents of the diary which the Fine Arts Complex at the northwest corner of partment of English. He currently is pursuing then 16-year-old Benjamin Bache wrote in the University campus. his interests in the American colonies and the 1785. The grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Groundbreaking ceremonies hailing the fledgling USA, though not from the usual young Bache was traveling in France with beginning of construction took place De- perspectives. his grandfather, who was there to negotiate a cember 12. Serving as the official represen- Professor Zall is in the midst of writing treaty with the French. However, the young tative of the Emeriti Association at the event a book that deals with colonial youth and man's interests were hot air balloons, hypno- was its president, Carol Smallenburg. how they viewed their times and the events sis and girls, not his grandfather's diplomatic The major additions to the University's that shaped the birth of our nation. pursuits. continually expanding facilities will cost $22 Basing his conclusions on dozens of In another journal, that of Abigail million and represents a unique combination diaries and personal letters of over twenty Adams, Professor Zall discovered that the of private giving and state funding. The fund- young people who lived in America during 18-year old daughter of John Adams was raising effort began several years ago, when the latter part of the eighteenth and early most absorbed with the young men that she the Luckmans gave more than $2 million nineteenth centuries, he finds that they were encountered at home and on her travels in dollars as a starter. An internationally ac- perhaps not as impressed with the historic, Europe. claimed architect, Charles Luckman has world-reshaping events that were taking The thoughts of these two and many long been a supporter of education. He place as we might expect. They were much other teenagers will be the focus of Professor served as the first chairman of the California more involved in matters that concerned Zall' s forthcoming book. One conclusion, State University Board of Trustees during them personally than in the politics in which no doubt, will be that the nature of subjects the 1960s. the distinguished statesmen of the times were paramount in a young person's mind has Other major contributors to the project enmeshed and the monumental accomplish- changed very little in 200 years. have been the Ahmanson Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and the Chinese nation of Taiwan, whose gift of $400,000 may be attributed to the fact that Cal State L.A. Albert's Shaw Collection to Brown boasts one of the nation's largest Asian- American student populations. The John Hay Library of Brown Uni- parate sources, frequently connects directly Designed to promote multicultural the- versity in Providence, RI, has acquired a with other items in the collection, because atre, music, dance, and the visual arts, the collection of George Bernard Shaw materi- the collection was assembled with a facility will be the first of its kind to be als formed by Professor Emeritus Sidney scholar's eye toward composing a broad constructed on a California State University Albert, according to an announcement by picture of Shaw and his influence on litera- campus. There will be four main compo- Brown University Librarian Merrily Taylor. ture, the theater, politics and the world at nents: a "Main Theatre" designed to seat Albert, a member of the Department of large." 1200, an "Intimate Theatre" limited to 300 Philosophy for 23 years (1956-79), is an seats and providing radio and television internationally know Shavian scholar, and broadcasting studios, an art gallery with an authority on Shaw's Major Barbara. His First Fellowship (Cont. from Page 1) more than 7,000 square feet of space, and a collection of Shaw's books, manuscripts, center concourse, "The Street of the Arts", photographs, and other memorabilia is rec- "When I came to California State Uni- linking the elements of the complex. ognized as one of the world's finest private versity, Los Angeles, I made a promise to At the groundbreaking ceremonies, collections. myself to try and be the best, because after President James Rosser stressed that plan- There are more than 2,000 books by and working in heart research for the last six ning had been under way during the admin- about Shaw in the collection, among them a years I realized the absolute importance of istration of former president John Greenlee, substantial group of his pre-1900 publica- education. To know that people like yourselves and there were times when both wondered tions and works by critics, many of them have not only taken the time, but also your hard whether the project would really come inscribed. earned money, to recognize my academic through. "Clearly, one of the reasons we "This collection is rich in manuscript achievement is a wonderful inspiration. wanted to do this was so that we could materials," noted Librarian Taylor, "includ- "With your support and guidance the become a cultural resource serving the entire ing more than 90 autograph and typed letters, University will remain strong and you can San Gabriel Valley", he stated. post cards, notes, inscribed books and signed rest assured that people like myself will be photographs, as well as costume designs, and eternally grateful." a fragment of music by Shaw. The manu- (For additional story about the fellow- script materials, although gathered from dis- ship program, see Page 2.)