Magazine of The American University Winter 1986 Vol. 37 No.1
American Literature: An Intellectual Adventure...... 3 .AMERIG.IN Publication of several new books mark an especially productive year for AU's American is the official alumni magazine of Department of Literature faculty. The American University. It is published by the l ' niversity Publications and Printing Office, Pursuing a Dream...... 7 Office of University Relations. Suggestions and AU's Department of Performing Arts comments concerning American should be sent attracts people with dreams and gives tO American 1\lagazine, University Publications them an opportunity to develop their and Printing Office, The American University, ~~00 1\lassachusetts Avenue, N\\', WashingtOn, talent. DC 20016 Khashoggi Center Anita F. Gottlieb, DirectOr, University Groundbreaking ...... 17 Relations A very special event for the AU l\lartha N. Robinson, DirectOr, University , community is pictured. Publications and Printing Marion 1\lartin, Assistant DirectOr/News & Development Publications, Llniversity Cover note: AU's soccer team, with its Publications and Printing President's Message ...... 2 best record ever, went to the NCAA EditOrial Staff: Amy Alotta, lary Jo CasciatO, championship game-the farthest any Campus News ...... 10 Terry Cornwell , Bob llalliday, Anita Kelly. New master's in economic Pally Ondrasik, Gerry Snyder, Betty Lynn AU team has ever advanced. See story Sprinkle page 33. communication; World Food Day; Designer: Bonnie Narduzzi Watkins Gallery celebrates 40 years; Cover Design: Kevin Grasty Jihan ei-Sadat is commencement ilmerican is published quarterly by The speaker; Berendzen writes a book American llni,ersity. \\'ith a circu lation of about being president. about 55,000, Amnica11 is sent tO alumni and other constituents of the universi[\· communi tv. Faculty ...... 13 Copyright 1986, The American l ' ~iversity, an' Professor emeritus Charles Clark is equal opportunity/affirmative action university. teaching more than literature; economics chair Nancy Barrett combines academic and political instincts; philosophy and religion professor Theodore Rosche reviews ancient thoughts for modern times. Students ...... 16 Activities include special weekends for students and parents, a Career Expo, and an open house; graduate students receive new scholarship. Tamara Sobel, Aaron Shields and Hortence Claver are profiled. Alumni ...... 23 News-Vic Kamber talks about the annual fund , alumni come back to school, and distinguished alumni are recognized. Caroline Aaron, john Hildreth, Stephen Lester and alumni behind the scenes of professional sports are profiled. Class Notes. Sports ...... 33 The soccer team goes to the NCAA championship; basketball season is underway; field hockey. l 1'86-421 Letters ...... 36
WINTER 1986 President Berendzen's message opens with a quote from his newly published book, Is My Armor Straight?: A Year in the Life of a University President. An article in this issue's Campus News section tells more about how and why AU's president wrote this book.
In 1981, Gail and I, waiting to board the New York shuttle, noticed a student and her mother reading an AU brochure. I introduced myself and asked if I could help them. Surprised, they asked a torrent of questions. At the end, the mother said, "My daughter and I know the university much better having met you and your wife. I'm far more interested than I was before." Neither of us had attempted to sell AU; rather, we had answered questions, calmed fears, and, most of all, humanized the institution. Is My Armor Straight?
he above excerpt from my book is representa Ttive of many similar incidents that I have ex perienced since becoming president of The American University. For the last three years, the university's provost, deans, administrators, and fac ulty members have joined me in what has become an annual tour, with breakneck scheduling, predawn wake-up calls, and checks of the calendar watch to make sure that, yes, if it's Tuesday, it must be New Jersey. And in New Jersey ... or Connecticut ... or Florida ... or Illinois, we meet with prospective students, parents, and school counselors to convey the story of The American University. The frenetic travel and meeting schedule-known as the annual road show-has proved what that airport conversation with a prospective student demonstrated to be true. There is no substitute for this personal contact. Over time, we have expanded our "road show" concept to include major recruiting and fund-raising visits to London and Los Angeles. This issue of American contains a photo of the latter trip. Doing their own bit of "humanizing," AU alumni and parents in the different cities we've visited have been of immeasurable help. They've hosted receptions and given their own warm encouragement to those who want to know more about the university. Your help is needed, too. As this issue reaches you, we will be winding up our annual road show tour of Northeastern cities. Other recruiting visits are planned, however, for February-in Los Angeles on the 17th and Miami on the 25th. The Miami visit, incidentally, coincides with a major AU basketball contest with the University of Miami on Feb. 26. Also, throughout the academic year, uni versity representatives travel the country and the world to visit local sec ondary schools and meet prospective students. If you would like to help by meeting with prospective students and their parents, please write our alumni office, which, in coordination with admis sions, will alert you to events in your area. You, too, can be an ambassador for AU.
2 AMERICAN American Literature: An Intellectual Adventure
Observation and analysis lead n campus, some of AU's best-known professors to the sharin~ of new knowl are the members of the edge with the world beyond the literature department. campus, \\'hich ha~ Ion~ been That's because all full- a measure of excellence in uni 0---- time faculty members versit} communities. This ar teach one semester of College Writing ticle focuses on recent creath e every year. This course is the outward expression contributions and scholarly re of the faculty's commitment to promote search by Al ''s Department of literacy through the study of literature. I .iterature faculty as reflected "I try to teach students what makes in its current publications. The literature an intellectual adventure- and books published by members of I think it is just that," says faculty mem ber Jonathan Loesberg. this one department exemplify Loesberg and six other literature fac the academic link beh\een ulty members (out of a department of teaching and publication exist 17 full-time professors) had ten books ing broadly in all AU depart published or accepted for publication in ments acros8 campus. the 1984-85 academic year. Ranging from critical analysis of an individual author Through the example of their and discussions of types of literature to professors, students can ob poems and novels, the works are char sen-e firsthand the discipline acteristic of what department chair Jo required to conduct original re Radner describes as "a very rich group. search successfully, the jo} of The department has a tradition of flex seeing hard-\\ On ideas and lan ibility about scholarship and teaching." Among the critical analyses is Loes ~uage accepted for publication berg's book, Fictions of Consciousness: Mill, for the world, and the prestige Newman and the Reading of Victorian Prose such recognition brings not only (to be published by Rutgers University to the authors but to their stu Press next summer) which develops a method for reading Victorian prose us dents and univen~ities. More- ing philosophical and literary analysis. 0\'er, students benefit even more Loesberg says having a lot of people directly from the intellectual around you conducting research "is the e:xcitement and inspiration that most direct aid to a researcher. It forces scholars who '' ork on the you to make your own cases very clear." frontier of knowledge can pro He uses his research directly in his teaching, especially for graduate stu vide in the classroom. dents. -M.N.R. He sees the critical analysis of liter ature as an integral discipline, apart from the creative writing process: "The critic does not try to answer questions about how people write books, but about how cultures produce literary works and how literary works produce culture." The cultural aspects of writing are part of Roberta Rubenstein's new study, Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction, (to be published this fall by the University of Illinois Press). Rubenstein uses literary, cultural, psychological, and
WINTER 1986 3 feminist perspectives to explore a con women produce popular culture, how undergraduate minors in literature and cept used by contemporary women writ certain media are produced for women, cinema studies, the department also of ers. and the assumptions made about women. fers an M.F.A. in creative writing. She says her research has a direct role Mussell's expertise is in American stud The classes of the department's cre in her teaching in that she has taught or Ies. ative faculty complement the work of will be teaching about the writers she She says critical analysis is central to their colleagues in critical analysis. has studied. "And teaching often brings the teaching of literature. "It is impor "Part of what we try to do is help the out approaches to subjects I might not tant for students to learn to read care writing students learn to be better read see in isolation." fully and analytically, so they can have ers," says Myra Sklarew, director of the Feminist criticism tries to bring in a sense of each work's richness." master's program in creative writing. sights from several disciplines, says Mussell's next project is a book about Giving aspiring writers a broad back Rubenstein. Her earlier book on fem America's First Ladies and how the me ground in literature, as well as the skills inist novelist Doris Lessing brought to dia portrayals of them shaped their roles to evaluate what they read, is essential bear "several areas of overlapping in and illustrate society's expectations of to their development, she says. terest. Language exists in a cultural and women. Sklarew, a poet whose latest book is psychological matrix. It is valuable to "An absolutely wonderful thing about Travels ofthe Itinerant Freda Maron (Water see how this matrix influences writers the department is the flexibility here. Mark Press, 1985), founded the creative and their readers." The atmosphere is conducive to ex writing program in 1980. She believes Rubenstein believes women's studies ploring new areas. There is enthusiasm that its dual emphasis on the critical as are important because they enable us to and support for your work and for you pects of literature and the actual writing look at subjects that have been omitted, to branch out into other areas." of literature make it different from other slighted, or treated with bias in literary Edward Kessler echoes that senti writing-oriented university programs. thinking. Women's studies represent a ment. "This department is unusual in "A program like this can be compared way of correcting the omission or bias. that you do not lock yourself into a pe with an apprenticeship program in an "This is something I feel strongly about," riod or area of concentration. That at other field," she says. "A writer's ed says Rubenstein. mosphere provides vitality, and that leads ucation has to go on for a lifetime." She finds the department's atmos to a lot of discoveries. This has been a In addition to helping students ·sharpen phere of plurality and community very characteristic of the department for a their critical skills, Sklarew says the cre nourishing. "It's great to be able to talk long time." ative writing faculty members also "pro to colleagues with so much diversity in Kessler, whose book Flannery O'Con vide a community" for aspiring writers. their approaches and areas of literary nor and the Language of Apocalypse was "Writers need a hearing for their work; expertise. There's good will in the de published by Princeton University Press, they need to be with people who are partment about our differences. I think says that research for a class he taught absolutely serious about writing." that is something the study of literature on O'Connor spurred him to write the Henry Taylor, Sklarew's colleague and develops-you recognize that there are book. "Nothing I read explained her to director of the creative writing program many ways to interpret literary works me satisfactorily," he says. "Many stud in alternate years, stresses the need for that don't necessarily cancel each other ies developed her themes from a re community for aspiring writers as well. out., gional or religious perspective, but noth Students who come into the program Another literature faculty member ing studied her fiction as language." and into literature in general, he says, studying women's fiction is Kay Mus An earlier Kessler book on Coleridge are seriously committed to its study and sell, whose book, Fantasy and Reconcil also came directly out of teaching. He practice. iation: Contemporary Formulas ofWomen's found little had been done on some of Despite his success last fall in pub Romance Fiction (Greenwood Press) was Coleridge's later poems. lishing his third full-length collection of published in 1984. Mussell studied not Kessler says he does not approach lit poems, The Flying Change (Louisiana State only the authors but the roles of pub erature with a particular theoretical bias, University Press), Taylor says making a lishers and marketing departments. "so I can be open to the text. The best career of literature is not for the faint "The classic romance plot has been critic is the best reader-the one who hearted. used by many writers, including Emily can simply read text and explain it to "It's risky going into literature. Peo Bronte, Jane Austen, Henry James, and others." Kessler says he reads an author ple don't idly go in for fiction." Henry Adams. It is one of the venerable over and over again "to get the creator Teaching writing presents special ways of structuring a novel." Mussell's behind the words." challenges, not the least of which, Tay study of contemporary fiction sought to In addition to a B.A. and M.A. in lor says, is dealing with a set of delicate analyze how women are portrayed, how literature, a B.A. in cinema studies, and temperaments.
Flannery O'Connor and the Language Fictions of Consciousness: Mill, New Boundaries of the Female Self: Gender, of Apocalypse. Edward Kessler demon man and the Reading of Victorian Prose. Culture, Fiction. Roberta Rubenstein ex strates the poetic method of O'Connor's fic Jonathan Loesberg shows how literary form plores the representation of female and cul tion in which her metaphors transfigure the can have philosophic importance and how tural identity through works by Margaret At language of literal narrative. (Princeton Uni philosophic positions can be understood in wood, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni versity Press, 1985) terms of literary form. (Rutgers University Morrison, Penelope Mortimer, Marilynne Press, in press.) Robinson, and Leslie Silko. (University of Illinois Press, 1985) 4 AMERICAN The literature department faculty took a moment from a meeting to take advantage of a warm fall day. The members are, from left to right, standing, Frank Zapatka, Jack Jorgens, Jo Radner, Laura Tracy, Eric Smoodin, and student Brian Baker. Seated are Bill Stahr, Jeanne Roberts, Kay Mussell, Roberta Rubenstein, Deborah Payne, Jonathan Loesberg, Myra Sklarew, and Edward Kessler. Other members of the fulltime faculty include CAS Dean Betty Bennett, Arnost Lustig, Jane Stanhope, Eileen Sypher, and Henry Taylor. Kermit Moyer and John Hunt Peacock are on leave; Frank Turaj, Charles Larson, and Thomas Cannon are on sabbatical.
"Many techniques of writing cancer life. A native of Czechoslovakia and a ten screenplays and the libretto for a tainly be taught, just as a plastic artist survivor of several concentration camps, dramatic cantata, "The Beadle of can be taught ways of working with clay, Lustig uses his personal experience with Prague." This work was performed at or stone, or wood. We can try to help the Holocaust as inspiration for much of the Smithsonian Institution in Decem young writers determine the stumbling his fiction . ber 1983 at a concert marking the open blocks they ought to get rid of. But we Written in Czech, more than half a ing of an exhibit of European-Jewish welcome a variety of approaches, and million copies of his books-mainly short artifacts dating back to the Middle Ages. we have no preconceived way of doing stories-have been sold in Czechoslo Lustig's latest novel is The Unloved a poem or a short story." vakia. They also have been translated (Arbor House, 1985). He says he gets Arnost Lustig, a teacher at AU since into twenty languages. up at 4 a.m. every morning to write be 1973, says that teaching completes his In addition to books, Lustig has writ- fore coming to class.
Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contem The Unloved. Arnost Lustig's new novel Travels of the Itinerant Freda Aharon. porary Formulas of Women's Romance cakes place in a "model" concentration camp Myra Sklarew presents a poetic sequence Fiction. Kay Mussell studies authors as well in 1943; it presents, through her diary, the about a woman explorer in the medieval as the roles of publishers and marketing de experiences and feelings of Perla S., a sev wanderer tradition whose feet never cross partments in the popularity of romance fic enteen-year-old prostitute, who, through her the threshold into the world . (Water Mark tion. (Greenwood Press, 1984) profession, wanes to save her life without Press, 1985) losing her soul. (Arbor House, 1985)
WI TER 1986 5 "I like to teach, because it's the au dience I write for," he says. Like Sklarew, Lustig believes that a writer's education extends beyond what is taught in a classroom. "Writers should study everything-writing is the science of man. In that sense, a university is an ideal place to study. "Creative writing classes are valua ble," he says. "Both Hemingway and Steinbeck took creative writing classes and they never felt that they lost any thing by it." In addition to literary analysis and writing courses, the Department of Lit erature in cooperation with the School of Communication offers an M.A. in film and video. The curriculum for these courses includes campus screenings of eighty to ninety feature films each se mester which are also free to other stu dents. Literature faculty member Frank Tu raj, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has been a moving force behind the growing prominence of AU's film program. Called by the New York Times, "the leading expert in the West Writer David Slavitt, right, discusses his work at a recent campus appearance in the on Polish cinema," Turaj is currently on Department of Literature's Visiting Writers Series. sabbatical to work on a number of pro jects including a book on Polish film. professors, as well as to Washington's students. The literature department's interest theatres was very important," says the This year the series included poet in performance extends also to theatre. drama scholar. Carolyn Kizer, fiction writer David One of its newest members contrib The city of Washington also provides Slavitt, novelist Robert Coover, and utes to the diversity of the department student writers with many resources. AU alumni Joseph Thackery, CAS'82, with her revolutionary ideas about per "For a writer, Washington is a thrill Patricia Lynn Hunt, CAS'83, Jacklyn formance theory [the analysis of how a ing place to be," says Sklarew. "Not Potter, CAS'83, and Chapin \'asilake, play is staged and performed]. only is there a chance to meet leading CAS'83. "I became interested in writing a text writers on a one-to-one basis through "The general lack of competitiveness book on performance theory because such institutions as the Library of Con in the literarv communitY here is also there was a need for such a book," says gress, the ational Archives, and the good," Sklar~w says. "There's no jock Deborah Payne. She is working on her Smithsonian Institution, there also are eying for position like there is in ew first book, a study of Restoration com many local writers who hold public read York and other cities." edy. She says that teaching itself sug ings of their works." Of all the resources the Washington, gests topics, especially in areas where The literature department contrib D. C., area has to offer, the members of little or nothing has been written. utes to the diversity of speakers avail the literature department regard one an A native of Los Angeles, Payne says able to all AU students as well as to the other as most important collaborators in she was drawn to AU because of the local literary scene by sponsoring a Vis creating an atmosphere conducive to supportive faculty, as well as the school's iting Writers Series as part of the mas scholarship, teaching, and the nurturing Washington location. ter's degree in creative writing. These of individual creative efforts. "For me, having access to the Folger ries brings poets, novelists, and nonfiction - Mary Jo Casciato and Library, with its resources and visiting writers to campus to meet informally with Betty Lynn Sprinkle
The Flying Change. Henry Taylor's third full-length collection of poems. The indi vidual poems have appeared in twenty-five periodicals including The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. (Louisiana State Uni versity Press, 1985)
6 AMERICA A dream, a dril'e, a heady optimism: A pedorming artist needs-and usually has-them all.
''~e attract people who Theatre them the odds are against them. Many have dreams," says Val actors do well in public relations and erie Morris, CAS'68, In 1965, Goldie Hawn was one of those other communication fields; they have chair of AU's Department of Performing AU students who had a dream of star a good sense of audience and can write Arts (DPA). "And maybe it's best to dom. What she had was so special her good advertising copy." have that dream-that you will be one professor, F. Cowles Strickland, could For others, marketable skills result of the few to make it, that you will be see it then, and he advised her to get from the Creative Writing Performance a star." to New York. The rest of the story is Lab conducted by Kenneth Baker, who AU offers undergraduate and gradu show business history. directs the theatre program. ate degree programs in dance, music, Leilani Jones, a student in the de "The lab attracts a wonderfully cre theatre, and arts management. Students partment's summer academy in 1979, is ative mixture of students who aspire to major in one of these areas or design a another dreamer who "had something be actors, writers, and directors," says program that combines two or three. Each special," says Morris. She won the 1985 Baker. "They may meet for the first field focuses on the theory and history Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress time on that first day of class, but by of the art form and emphasizes perform in a musical for her role in Grind. the end of the course they have together ance while also giving students a broad "Performing arts is a hard field to earn created some of the most exciting things view of each of the arts to help them a living in," Morris says. "But we don't you have ever seen in your life." The acquire versatility and adaptability. give students any false hopes. We tell lab produces a "depth of creativity, orig-
WINTER 1986 7 member of the Paul Taylor Dance Com pany), :\'ina Wiener (formerly with the Twyla Tharp company), Ken Rinker (Twyla Tharp), and Laura Dean and Gus Solomons, who have their own companies. Last fall, a special choreog rapher/composer team (Deborah Glad stein and Sam Kanter, CAS'68) taught a combined class of music and dance students about artistic collaborations. Dance performances are scheduled everv semester. The recent annual fall ~.:tHH..' t.;rl \\a~, t'ur dw fir~t trme, pe r- form ·d with dancers fro m Geo rge \\'as h ingr
Annetta Dexter, second year graduate student in dance (Left), and Marla Eist, CAS'86, rehearse for the fall dance concert. 8 AMERICA Music
The music program offers a wide range Alumni in New York include Robert of performance opportunities such as the Fisher, CAS'S9, who is music director Opera Workshop, the University Sing of the Broadway Musical Theater. Wil ers and Chorale, chamber ensembles, liam Parcher, CAS'78, debuted with the Collegium Musicum, and the Univer New York City Opera this year. Andrea sity Orchestra. Varied and individual Rounds, CAS'83, is affiliated with Co programs of study are designed to rec lumbia Artists Management, Inc., one ognize the goals and capabilities of each of the largest artists' agencies in New student. York. Headed by G eorge Sc hue tze , the m u- Virginia Mark!l , CAS' 7.'i , is ht':nd of 5lc progrtlm's fu ll -tim e t'ac ul~y include th ~ piano o~pa n ment at Bowling Gr~e n noted composers, mu sicologists, and Sum~ University ln Oh i~. Oliver Chfifl'l· Jl ' ffb rm l;! rl; , Th m usltl p r u~n1 m I ' e lh btHiuiM, CJAS'i!S, ~ ~ Ul!it! OM d1 e mU ~ I e hunced by its adjunct fa c ulty, which in- fa ~; ul ty ar Bowling G reen, clud es pluyers from th e Nutlonul Sym " phony Orc hc ~ trn. "Sirtee yo u 'LII1 ' r tnl{c a flute lesson or learn to play the piano in a large class," Morris says, "much Arts Management rnu sic t<: Alan Mandel WINTER 1986 9 "Campus News Watkins Collection lection of about 400 paintings, Celebrates Forty drawings, and prints. The next Share a Years at American show in the series, planned for University next fall, will exhibit prints and Weekend to drawings. Remember n exhibition of paintings The Watkins Collection Amarking the fortieth an originated as a group of paint niversary of the creation of the ings given to the art depart Watkins Collection at The ment in memory of its chair American University will open man, C. Law Watkins, after February 17. his death in 1945. Donors were Among the American artists the artists themselves, who whose work will be shown are were friends and students of twentieth century modernists Watkins, and art collectors Milton Avery, Arthur Dove, Duncan and Marjorie (CAS'49) John Marin, Earl Kerkam, Karl Phillips, directors of the Phil Knaths, Grace Hartigan, and lips Collection. Jack Tworkov; early twen These contributions made tieth century painters Ernest in Watkins' memory were fol Lawson and Henry Varnum lowed by further donations by Poor; and impressionist Fred collectors. From 1946 to 1952, erick Karl F rieseke. E u ro the collection was increased pean painters to be exhibited by acquisition, but since the number of well-known jour AU Offers New include Henrich Campen mid fifties, the growth of the nalists, economists, and pub Program in Economic dock, Louis Marcousis, Paul collection has depended on lic officials to campus for its Communication Klee, and Ben icholson. gifts by artists, the families of programs. Through center This exhibition is the first artists, or other friends of the programs as well as its regular he university launched a of a series reviewing the col- collection. 0 Tunique graduate program courses, says Kohlmeier, "AU to educate journalistic inter has become a national center preters of today's complex for economic communication. econom1c 1ssues. "To my knowledge," he This economic communi adds, "we are the first uni cation program, which began versity to offer this degree." fall 1985, is offered jointly by The full-time, yearlong pro the School of Communication gram will benefit from the and the Department of Eco teaching strength of the nomics in cooperation with communication and econom AU's National Center for ics faculties, as well as there Business and Economic Com-. sources available at govern munication (NCBEC). ment agencies and business Graduates of this new mas and labor organizations in the ter's degree program will have Washington area. the skills and understanding The program should attract to write clearly and accurately· students from throughout the about business, economic, and , country, Kohlmeier says. He financial issues, says NCBEC sees these applicants as being director Louis Kohlmeier.· experienced, mature, and fo Kohlmeier, an experienced cused on their goals. "They economic and business jour have made career decisions." nalist, won the Pulitzer prize While professional experi Pictured left to right are Ilene Nathan, KCBA'66, President for national reporting while on ence is not required for ad Richard Berendzen, hostess Linda Rosenberg, and vice president the Wall Street Journal. mission to the program, ap Don Triezenberg at a reception in Los Angeles that was attended by more than 150 AU alumni, parents, and friends. The plicants must submit a He came to AU in 1979 as reception, hosted by the Rosenbergs, parents of Cindy, CPJA'87, founding director of CBEC, statement of objectives 10 was part of week-long recruiting activities in the L.A. area this which since has brought a pursuing the degree. 0 fall. 10 AMERICAN distributed by Harper & Row. ens the job to running a major The title comes from an in corporation. cident Berendzen describes in Early reactions to the book IS MY the book. Newly arrived at AU from educational leaders in in 1974 as the dean of the Col dicate Berendzen has cap lege of Arts and Sciences, Ber tured the essence of the pres endzen took several admin idential role. istrative actions that were "There have been many ARMOR books about management and unpopular with one depart ment's faculty. The faculty leadership, but few are as per asked for a meeting. ceptive ... a fascinating study The Berendzens had long of effective management STRAIGHT. been collectors of varied ob style," says Dr. Gary H. jects of art, including a suit of Quehl, president of the Coun armor. Despite its sixty-pound cil of Independent Colleges. A Year tn the weight, the armor seemed just Says Dr. Robert Atwell, the thing in which to meet a president of the American L i f e 0 f a hostile army of faculty. "For Council on Education, "Few U n i v e r s i t y tunately, the startled profes people have Richard Berend p sors took my prank with hu zen's energy and enthusiasm r e s t d e n t mor," writes Berendzen. ... It's all there-the job, the 0 •••• 0 • The armor, notes Berend sadness, the anger, the exhil zen, is an apt metaphor on at aration, the fatigue, and, best RICHARD least two levels. On the one of all, the pleasure taken from hand, during the year covered doing something really im BERENDZEN by the book, 1983-84, pres portant." Foreword by sure built from many sides for "We all need to laugh at David Riesman him to don the armor of a cru ourselves occasionally. Rich sader and secure a large nam ard Berendzen shows us how " ing gift for the long-dreamed comments Thomas Shanno~ of AU sports and convocation executive director, National With Armor, Pen: A President's Life center. Other pressures-from School Boards Association. disgruntled employees, Former University of Cali he midnight-to-two a.m. tronomy and education, his equivocating donors, and stu fornia chancellor Clark Kerr Twriting regimen got old fields of specialization. dents up-in-arms over a can compares Berendzen's tales of quickly, but by then he'd in It all began in 1983 with a celled concert-made a suit of 203 nights and days to the wit vested too much time and ef lengthy, thoughtful letter on armor seem a necessary pro and wisdom of Scheherazade. fort to stop. "It was a self the state of elementary and tection. The combination of And, succinctly, "This is a imposed discipline. I'd never secondary education from these and other demands, he great book," says former dreamed how hard it would Berendzen to Trevor Arm writes, brought him to the U .S. Education Secretary be," says AU President Rich brister, a Reader's Digest senior brink of resigning. Terrel Bell. ard Berendzen of the seven editor. What he describes in the What early reviewers of the day-a-week routine that pro Instead of a response to is book, in very personal terms, book have spotted, too, is that duced his new book, Is My sues discussed in the letter, is the changed role of the uni its underlying theme is one of Armor Straight?· A Year in the Armbrister said, let's hear versity president in these times values, personal and family as Life of a University President. about what a university pres of intensifying competition for well as institutional. In fact Since he used no notes or ident does, day by day, for a students, rising costs, and Berendzen is concerned tha~ tape recording, he found he year. burgeoning litigation. As David he may have been too per had to follow a daily writing The result, Is My Armor Riesman, the renowned Har sonal, too revealing, in the schedule religiously in order Straight.?, is scheduled for vard sociologist, writes in the book. to keep the details of events publication in January by the foreword to the book, " ... Nevertheless, he hopes that sharp and immediate. This new Washington publishing the stresses on a university its publication not only fulfills process, as well as the use of firm of Adler & Adler, whose president are comparable to its original intent to continue dialogue and subjective inter current list also includes books those on a big-city mayor, at his efforts to publicize the pretation, made this effort far by Sen. Gary Hart and former least if one is at an institution university but also has that different from writing his pre UN Secretary-General Kurt like The American Univer personal touch with readers vious scholarly works on as- Waldheim. The book will be sity." Berendzen himself lik- that is exemplified by an in- WINTER 1986 11 cident prompted by one of his Jihan el-Sadat is many media appearances. Winter During a live call-in segment Commencement on cable TV's "Ask Washing ton," one of the listeners, a Speaker recent high school dropout, called to say the program had Jihan el-Sadat, teacher, influenced him to change his scholar, and proponent of equal mind and return to finish his rights for women, gives the education. "That's one of the principal address at the uni extraordinary moments, the versity's annual winter com absolutely stunning reward that mencement on January 26, makes it all worthwhile," says 1986, in Constitution Hall. Berendzen. 0 Sadat, widow of former Egyptian President Anwar el Editor's note: Is My Armor Sadat, will be awarded an Straight? is available in book honorary doctorate of humane stores across the country or by letters during AU's eighty calling 800/638-3030, or, tn second commencement. Maryland, 301/824-7300. As a distinguished professor in residence at the university last spring, Sadat conducted a Campus Observes symposium, "Women in the World Food Day Changing World." The sym posium featured a series of s part of a campus aware eminent women, who spoke Aness program encouraged of the role of women from their by President Richard Berend own unique perspectives. zen this year, AU held a three Her own talk launched the day World Hunger Observ- series, which drew capacity ~ ance in October. crowds of AU students, fac o Singers John Denver and ulty, staff, and friends. Sub · ~ Joan Baez and experts from sequent speakers were Betty 2 ~ - several national and interna Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Jeane c ] tiona! agencies participated in Kirkpatrick, Caretta Scott "- acttvltles. King, Barbara Walters, and A debate, "Why, When John Denver talks with students Barbara Bush. There Is Surplus Food in the Sadat holds baccalaureate U.S. and Western Europe, Are Agency for International De Peggy Atwood also performed and master's degrees in Arabic People Starving in Africa, Asia, velopment, the UN Food and in the Quad in commemora literature from Cairo Univer and Latin America?," began Agriculture Organization, the tion of World Food Day. Fol sity. the observance. A discussion Soviet Embassy, AFRI lowing the concert, students on the role of private initiative CARE, the World Hunger and other members of the uni in agriculture was presented. Education Service, and mem versity community walked to Denver, Harvey Korman, bers of the university faculty. the Washington National Ca Cliff Robertson, Dennis A display on the Quad enti thedral for the interfaith wor Weaver, and Raul Julia joined tled "The World Comes to ship service held there. President Berendzen in ad Dinner," with representative "Here was an opportunity dressing students, faculty, and meals and place settings from for our entire campus to ex staff on hunger issues at the five continents, was prepared press its concern about world Washington Hebrew Congre by the School of Nursing. hunger," says Berendzen. "I gation. Baez was featured in a con was pleased with the partici The World Human Needs cert sponsored by the Student pation of the campus com Institute sponsored a sympo Confederation, Student Union munity-students, faculty, sium on "Approaches to Re Board, and the Kennedy Po and staff-who focused our solving Hunger and Poverty," litical Union. Folksingers Tom thoughts about this basic hu with representatives from the Chapin, Tom Paxton, and man issue." 0 Jihan el-Sadat 12 AMERICAN numbers bear very little resemblance to reality; the deficit is never what it is projected to be." All Aboard For a Over the past decade, she adds, a lot of myths have been perpetuated by pol Moonlight Party on icy makers that somehow we don't know the Potomac what to do about the economy and that government intervention policies don't work-when what really needs to be done is to reaffirm basic goals, with unem ployment and its economic and social consequences the main problem. "Look at the wasted resources that are associated with the present 7.1 -per cent unemployment rate," she says, "and add up what could be produced by peo ple who are not working. Then compare Combining Academic and it with what we were producing when Political Instincts it [the unemployment rate] was only 4 percent. This GNP [gross national prod vory tower economics has never in uct] gap is about $185 billion in wasted I terested ancy Barrett. As professor resources. All of the other things we are of economics and chair of AU's De worried about- capital shortage, pro partment of Economics, she enjoys an ductivity, resources for state and local extremely active career that combines governments, and unemployment-are academic life with public policy inter directly linked to the GNP gap." ests. She emphasizes, "Many of the prob "Literally on a daily basis and in every lems that we've got in our economy right way," she says, "my life revolves around now are linked to the fact that we are my students, teaching and my interest operating with a good deal of economic in the university, and with public policy. slack. It's difficult to do anything about Being here in Washington makes it very affirmative action, let's say, when there easy for me to remain active." aren't enough jobs to go around.'' Calls from congressional Democrats Barrett doesn't let herself get carried for advice from Barrett, who took time away with just talking about her expe offfrom her AU duties to serve as acting riences or her beliefs. In the economics assistant secretary and deputy assistant department, she is known as one of the secretary of labor for policy, evaluation, "tough technical teachers." But she and research in the Carter administra deems it extremely important tO teach tion, never stop coming. Besides teach not only the basic tools of analysis, as ing micro- and macroeconomics and a Nancy Barrett given in the textbooks, but to present doctoral level theory course, she finds practical examples of how the economy time to testify before congressional com really works. mittees, serve as an advisor to numerous Whenever she is testifying on the Hill, congressional groups, give speeches, her concern for the big picture, she says, she lets other people in the department write books and articles, and travel ex meaning "basic principles-what our know and they often send their stu tensively to other countries as a teacher, goals ought to be and how we should be dents. Congressional experience through lecturer, and researcher. achieving them." internships and cooperative education Her students reap the benefits of this For example, she asserts, while the programs is encouraged, and results have experience. "I can't give a lecture with debate over the budget deficit is im paid off. "Our students have a lOO-per out talking about something that hap portant, it has become "a gigantic fig cent job placement rate," she says. "Al pened," she says. "Although I teach leaf for not talking about the funda most an entire division of the Congres economic theory, I teach it in a way that mental issues- full employment, eco sional Budget Office is made up of former has public policy applications." nomic growth, income distribution, and AU students. And they hire each other." Barrett's personal views on the state poverty. Instead, we talk each year about Among Barrett's numerous pursuits is of the American economy grow out of what the deficit ought to be. These her drive for giving economic parity to WINTER 1986 13 women in the labor force. She has been Indulging an Interest in The a leader in the effort to fund more money Arts to research the issue and has pushed economists to study the problem. fter twenty-six years of teaching Another of her concerns is economics A the literature of nineteenth cen education for journalists. For the past tury England, professor emeritus two years, she has worked closely with Charles Clark has found a new teaching Louis Kohlmeier, director of AU's Na mission with a new group of students. tional Center for Business and Eco Those students are enrolled in his dis nomic Communication. Kohlmeier, a cussion groups at AU's Institute for Pulitzer prize-winning journalist for Learning in Retirement (ILR). merly with the Wall Street Journal, came ILR has given Clark, who retired from to AU to develop the center. In con the AU literature faculty in 1981, the junction with the School of Communi opportunity to indulge his interests in cation and the economics department, many of the other arts. This term, for the center has developed a master's de example, he has been coteaching a course gree in economic communication. (See with Beatrice Higgins, another ILR study story, page x.) Barrett will teach one of group leader. In this course, he is lead the courses. ing students from the most diverse back Barrett, who earned her M.A. and grounds through a survey of the history Ph. D. at Harvard, came to AU in 1966. of opera, a subject of passionate and life She was named AU's Outstanding long interest. Woman Faculty Member in 1971. Two Last spring, he helped conduct a dis years later, as a Fulbright scholar, she cussion group on the French Impres went to the University of Gothenburg, sionist painters. ("I see," he says, "that Charles Clark Sweden, and the Institute of Economic some of the paintings we talked about Studies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In ad were stolen recently, including the one dition, travel to study various aspects of that gave Impressionism its name.") technology. "But," he adds, "as a teacher economic policy has taken her to Latin The opera discussion group uses films I'd hope that those who've spent their America, Asia, the Middle East, and to explore a chronological series of works, time on business training and so on would Europe. including those on this season's Wash come back later to literature. The real Sweden particularly fascinates her be ington Opera program, and will culmi function of literature is to enlarge ap cause it is a country, she says, that is nate with a close look at Alban Berg's preciation of life. Without wide reading, always willing to experiment with eco Expressionist nightmare, Wozzeck. An a lot can be missed." nomic policy. She was interested to see other course called "First Person Sin For those who did possess the insight how such experimentation worked and gular," taught by Clark together with to enroll in his literature courses, Clark frequently goes back. "In the United ILR study group leader Nancy Leben seems to have been an unusually influ States we have to first determine whether sohn, teaches the methods of autobio ential figure. "He never saw students it will work," she notes. "In Sweden, graphical writing. as little academic pieces to be formed," they would try it to see if it worked." When asked about the literature he says Abby Warlock, CAS'67/'68, a Barrett has written numerous articles taught for a quarter-century, Clark is still Faulkner specialist who studied with on economic policy and labor markets full of enthusiastic opinions. Although Clark and now teaches at Hamilton Col and was a major contributor to The Subtle he did his doctoral work in Fielding rather lege in Clinton, N.Y. "He always was Revolution, a collection of works on the than a nineteenth century writer, he able to interest the students in the ma growth of the female labor force. Her quickly identifies Dickens as his choice terial they were reading. I especially re books include Prices and Wages in U.S. for the Great English Novelist. "He's a member his anecdotes about writers we Manufacturing and The Theory of Macroe great entertainer with a very profound studied or his impressions of writers. I conomic Policy. sense of what life is." recall one of Lord Byron waking up on "My whole life is this-my week Clark observed a trend among stu the morning after his marriage, looking ends, my nights," she says, and still she dents away from studying the humani over at Lady Byron, and then putting has found time to raise two teenagers. ties in his last years of college teaching his hands to his head and groaning, 'I'm She tries not to disturb them when fre in the late 1970s. "I think young people in hell!' quently she gets up in the middle of the are very much impelled to study sub "He had a tremendous influence on night to write articles on her home com jects that will get them jobs," he says, me; his teaching was directly responsi-. puter. and notes that students often have ble for my changing my course of study Those she calls her "3 a.m. avoided courses that did not appear to from history to literature. And we've re specials." D plug directly into careers in business or mained close friends." 14 AMERICAN Recently, Clark has been following Rosche first began to explore his the thropological bent. "Understanding up on another interest far removed from ory in 1974 by contacting the University people's beliefs is just beginning to be the literature of nineteenth century Centers for African Study in Cameroon. part of anthropological studies," says England. He has just returned from a "Back then, traditional African thought Rosche. "I'm a philosophical anthro study trip to Japan, where he was struck was just beginning to be explored and pologist. Knowledge about beliefs is by the divergence of present lifestyles written about. I contacted some of the necessary, because the tribes' activities from traditional values. "It's a fast-lane authors of those books about their work. are based on traditions and concepts. society," he says. "Together with all the They were very interested in me- and These provide a conceptual framework traditions--and two religions, Buddh surprised that I was studying ideas that on which to hang everything else." He ism and Shintoism-which emphasize traditionally were thought to have been also has studied traditional African art a contemplative approach to life, there supplanted by later concepts." for which he received a grant from Le exist all these electronics, all this speed." His field study makes Rosche "more Grand Trust last summer. Clarke attended a Noh play, the classical convinced than ever" that there is a par Rosche, who has lived in many dif Japanese dance-drama while there and allel between ancient Hebrew concepts ferent parts of the world, says, "I never "felt it to be a kind of reassertion of of God and the African religious con experienced such hospitality as I did in tradition." cepts. "The holiness and yet presence Africa. I think that was so because the Previously, Clark had made three trips of God of the ancient Hebrew thought traditional religious view is inclusive, not into China, including one as far west as parallels the African concepts of a high exclusive. If they encounter something the Gobi Desert, where he retraced an god and lesser gods who are present," they do not understand, they assume it cient silk routes together with a study says Rosche. "In many Nigerian tribes, came from the source of reality-God. group. there is no separation of the secular from So their initial reaction is not fear or Experience gathered on these tours the sacred-everything secular is sa hostility, but acceptance. Their beliefs may well turn up eventually in the course cred. That concept parallels the Old are not monotheistic but are amazingly offerings of the ILR. Few people four Testament teachings and even the more effective for the communities in which years into retirement have the chance, orthodox Jewish teachings today." they live." or the interest, to embellish a long and Rosche says he has "lived in all pos A member of the department of phi varied academic career, but Clark is ex sible circumstances" in his visits to Af losophy and religion for twenty-five years, cited at the prospects. "I certainly am rica. "I have lived in the bush country Rosche teaches courses on the Old and having an opportunity to teach things and traveled the Niger River, where I New Testament and uses his research that I never thought I would teach," he had only river water to drink and smoked in Africa for the course he offers on tra says. "And that's the fun of it." D fish to eat." ditional African thought. "I have been Because their religious beliefs are so very lucky that I have been able to in Ancient Thoughts for tied to everyday life, Rosche says his dulge this interest." D Modern Study studies of African tribes take on an an- ' ' y ou learn a lot by being forced to live as other people do," says Theodore Rosche, professor of philosophy and religion, of his visits to remote areas of Africa. "Out in the bush, there are no Howard John sons, there is no alternative to being native." Rosche has studied traditional African religions for the past ten years, visiting seven West African countries at various times. He contends that this interest is not so far afield from his study of the Old Testament. "I became interested in the preliter ary or primitive ideas behind some of the biblical teachings," says Rosche. "For instance, the idea of the spirit of God being identified with breath or wind is paralleled by concepts of breath, wind, and spirit in traditional African thought." Theodore Rosche WINTER 1986 15 U Students Receive First Bryce Harlow A Scholarships Three government profes ing on a master's in political sionals are the first recipients science. of the newly established Bryce Rogers is a purchasing agent Harlow Foundation Scholar for the Agency for Interna ships. AU was the sole partic tional Development. Her ipating school this fall. Part bachelor's is in economics, and time graduate students Dianne she is working on an M.B.A. Bongiorno, Todd Hauptli, and at the Kogod College of Busi Paulyette Rogers, CAS'80, ness Administration. have been awarded $1,500 The foundation, named for scholarships under the pro the man considered to be the gram. founding father of business Bongiorno is a budget ex government relations, pro aminer for the federal Office vides scholarships for part of Management and Budget. time graduate-level studies to She received her bachelor's in congressional and executive political science from UCLA branch staff members and in 1982 and has completed one other individuals interested in Elaine Johnston, CAS'85, left, director of employment and year toward an M.B.A. at UC pursuing a career in business benefits for Perpetual American Bank, was among AU alumni Irvine. She will complete the government relations. and trustees who participated in the third annual Career Expo degree at AU. The three recipients were last fall. Sponsored by AU's Career Center, the event brought Hauptli is a research analyst selected on the basis of aca representatives from more than 130 business concerns, federal for the House Republican Re demic ability and financial agencies, and other nonprofit groups to campus to meet informally search Committee. He re need as well as their interest with AU students to discuss careers. ceived his B.A. from UC-Santa and potential success m the Barbara in 1984, and is work- field. 0 Nearly 600 parents attended AU's annual Parents Weekend in Sabrina Montesa, CAS'87, left, conducts a tour of the AU October. Events included a continental breakfast (pictured above), campus for prospective freshmen and their parents during a a picnic lunch and ice cream social on the Quad, a lecture on freshman open house last fall. The day-long sessions, sponsor:ed by H alley's Comet by President Richard Berendzen, a buffet brunch the Office of Admissions, give prospective freshmen and their featuring a quartet from the National Symphony Orchestra, and parents a chance to visit the campus and meet informally with special sports and performing arts activities for the guests. faculty, administrators, and students. 16 AMERICAN GRO BRE NG Adnan Khashoggi Sports and Convocation Center October 25, 1985 A thlete' cepte,ent ing AU's major sports pro grams joined to invite the community to the ground breaking at the site of the new Adnan Khashoggi Sports and Convocation Center. With the exception of David Raff, CAS'86, all the students are freshmen who will use the new center when it opens in 1987. They include, from left to right: (top row) Frank O'Con nor, swimming; (middle row) Victor Valerio, baseball; David Raff, tennis; Terry Brent, basketball; Liz Morrison, swimming; Kelly Lane, bas ketball; Joan Dillon, volley ball; John Richardson, golf; (bottom row) John Diffley, soccer; Suzanne Rulishauser, cross country; Mark Snuffin, wrestling; Kristin Wallace, tennis; Carleen Fritz, field hockey; and John Granito, cross country. WINTER 1986 17 Artist's renderin!!,s (above and right) show how the new center will look and where it will be on campus. o ' l'"dm"k cclebmt;oo, Imembers of the university community gathered to break ground for the long-awaited Adnan Khashoggi Sports and Convocation Center on Oc tober 25 . Donors, trustees, faculty and staff members, students, and friends of the university participated. 18 Al\IERICAN Participating in the groundbreaking ceremonies: (clockwise from right) Board of Trustees chair and sports center donor Cyrus Ansary, CAS'SS; Adnan Khashoggi and Sondra Bender; President Richard Be1·endzen; Carolyn Cassell Harrison, wife of the late AU athletic director Stafford Cassell; and trustee and spo1·ts center donor Stuart Bernstein, KCBA'60. WINTER 1986 19 Khashoggi Center exempt bonds in early Octo Update ber, proceeds of which will provide long-term financing The university completed for the Adnan Khashoggi issuance of $52.1 million of tax- Sports and Convocation Cen ter. The AAA-rated bonds, which are due October 1, 2015, carried an initial interest rate of 5.35 percent and were sold in denominations of $100,000. The funds will also be used for the purchase and renova tion of the Immaculata/Oun blane School, which will serve as a campus for the universi ty's law school. Proceeds were also used to refinance some existing long-term debt of the university. "Availability of these funds Clockwise from top: Carol and ensures that The American Don Treizenberg, vice University will be able to pro president for planning and ceed with the two capital pro development (right), with jects we consider most vital to Charles and Ann Reed, our continuing develop daughter of former chairman of ment," says Vice President for the board of trustees and Finance and Treasurer Don Khashoggi Center benefactor, John Mercer Reeves. Kathy ald Myers. D Gibson, supervisor, work control center, Plant Management, and Don Myers, vice president for finance and treasurer, take their turn with the shovel. Gloria and Bob Frailey, AU athletic director. 20 AMERICAN Profiles fornia. "It is important for an been both his director and actor to be versatile," he says drama professor, says, "It takes about his appearances in film great sensitivity, intelligence, Explore the and on the stage. reading, and insight to be a When discussing his favor good actor. Aaron has all those Magic of the ite actors, Robert DeNiro and fine qualities as both a student Universe Dustin Hoffman, he speaks and an actor." in hushed tones of rever Shields considers himself to ence--of their quests for per be an actor and is proud of his fection in their performances. talent. Since the Hecht's Shields tells how he and the commercial, he has been asked cast of Incident at Vichy sought to do other ads, but he de to perfect their performances clines the offers because of the before going on stage. "We seventeen credits he is taking would not speak to each other. this semester, his job as a The actors playing the guards teaching assistant to Baker, his father's urging, he chose AU. would intimidate the other roles in AU plays, and his Shields appeared in his first characters," he says. commitment to refine his abil play in the eighth grade. As a "When I was losing the fo ity to act. senior in hi gh school, he landed cus of the character [Le Due] As he prepared for his per ****ith A Little Bit his first professional role with during a rehearsal, I punched formance in Man of La Man W cha, Shields said, "I've got time of Luck-and the Midwest Shakespeare a wall. I then channeled that Talent Company. He has also ap pain and anger into my char on my side to grow as an actor. peared in student films at the acter." I'll keep acting until they put Both talent and luck have University of Southern Cali- Ken Baker, DPA, who has me under." D gotten Aaron Shields, CAS'88, his roles in six AU theatre pro ductions and a part in a tele vision commercial. Student's Goal: As a freshman, Shields CPA landed his first college lead when an older student bowed Hortence Claver, KCBA'87, out of the role of Cocky in had a job in Suriname's equiv Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell alent of the U.S. General Ac of the Crowd after two rehears counting Office when she saw als. a newspaper ad about schol Luck then brought the cast arships. Now, two years later, ing director for a Hecht's com she is pursuing an accounting mercial to the Department of degree and the designation of Performing Arts production of CPA. The Children 's Hour, in which Claver is one of seven stu Shields played a delivery boy. dents from the small South He made such an impression American country of Suri that, nearly a year later, he name (formerly Dutch Guiana) was asked to audition for the studying at The American role of a delivery boy in the University under her govern commercial promoting the ment's sponsorship. Hecht's opening at Metro "I saw the ad offering schol Center. "I was so excited about arships to become certified public accountants. I met al l the audition," he says. "I went the requirements," says dressed as a delivery boy, white Claver, "so I applied. I like suit and all." Shields got the part. this kind of work." Claver was notified about Shields grew up in Kansas her acceptance into the pro but decided to come east be gram but not her departure cause the "Mecca of the the date. When she received no- atre is the East Coast." At his Aaron Shields in his role in Incident at Vichy WINTER 1986 21 sey Ballet Company, who to ancing for a day enjoys aerobics, became DGood Cause interested in the marathon as a freshman because it was a Tamara Sobel, CAS'86, be chance to dance. lieves in working hard for a The more she participated, good cause. There's an added however, the more she began bonus when the cause in to see the event in a wider volves her interests in medi context. cine and dance. "Raising money for mus Sobel recently completed cular dystrophy is such a good her second consecutive year cause," says Sobel, whose as cochair of AU's muscular other activities for muscular dystrophy dance marathon, dystrophy include working in which raised $5,100 for the the Washington office, at charitable cause. Over the past tending other local fund-rais seven years, students partici ing events, and, last year, being pating in the marathon have featured on the Washington, raised more than $75,000. D.C., segment of the chari Sobel, who says she can't ty's national telethon. remember a time when she "Apart from the good feel Hortence Claver didn't want to be a doctor, ing you get from helping peo tice of a definite date of de "I did not expect to meet plans to enter medical school ple, it's easy to have a good parture, "I had about three somebody who would show us next fall. She has studied dance time at the marathon," she days to pack," she says. so much attention," says since she was a child. The for says. "The fun just keeps Claver lives in Nebraska Claver. "He has been very mer member of the North Jer- coming at you." D Hall with another Suriname helpful to all of us." student. Einhorn says when he re She finds Americans much ceived notification that the more open about themselves program was set, he really had than people in her country. to hurry to get the students "People come up to you and started in the fall semester. tell you their life story." An "The great cooperation I re other cultural adjustment ceived from the admissions Claver is making is to the food. office, the housing office, the "We are used to very spicy financial aid office, the Inter food," she says. "But I think national Student Center, and if I had some real homemade the KCBA office of academic American food, I would like counseling enabled me to get it." these students started in the Claver likes the, city of program that first fall semes Washington. "I have lived in ter." big cities in Europe and had Einhorn says the students an impression about their being from Suriname have done very big, gray, and impersonal. I well since they arrived. Be was surprised that Washing cause of her background, ton was such a nice, clean city." Claver was eligible to take tests And Claver is also surprised to waive some of the courses at the personal attention she required for her degree "and received since arriving at AU. passed them with flying Professor Raymond Einhorn, colors," says Einhorn. KCBA, is faculty advisor to all Claver hopes to finish her the students from Suriname, degree in two more years and and it is largely through his then take the CPA exam be- efforts that the students were fore returning to her enrolled so quickly. country. D Tamara Sobel 22 AMERICAN Feast With Family News and Friends Under Alumni are Honored for Distinguished Service the Big Top he Alumni Recognition Awards ac Tknowledge graduates who have dis tinguished themselves in their profes sions, service to The American Cniversitv or service to the community. This vear's honorees are l\fark I\lurphy, KCB.A'83, Ron Nessen, CAS'S9, Patricia Shel hamer, SGPA'SS, and Carmen Turner. CPIA'71. The Al' Alumni Association also is bestowing a special lifetime atch up with special friends and make some new ones achievement recognition award on Judge C as you share the fun and excitement of AU Reunion '86, June L. Green, WCL'41. These awards April18-20. This celebration weekend will honor alumni will be presented at the Alumni Re from all graduating classes, while specially honoring classes com union banquet on April 19. memorating their tenth, twenty-fifth, and fiftieth anniversaries. Green was appointed to the l'nited An evening cruise down the Potomac ... An alumni awards States District Court for the District of Columbia by PresidentJohnson in 1968, dinner dance at one ofWashington's finest hotels ... A stunning after an active twenty-five-vear trial astronomy presentation by AU president Richard Berendzen, practice in Maryland a~d the District of an expert in the field ... A barbecue feast under a tent on the Columbia. Quad ... These are just some of the exciting events planned Green served as chair of numerous to make Reunion '86 a weekend to remember. committees as well as director of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia Share the excitement and be a part of Reunion '86, the year's and president of the Women's Bar As major event for all AU alumni and their families. sociation of the District of Columbia. Keep a lookout for your invitation in the mail and return the She received the Lawyer of the Year response card to the university by April 11. award from the latter org~nization in 1965. She is a founder of the National Lawvers Club in the District and served as tru~tee tunitv to enroll in one academic course of the Legal Aid Society. She is a charter Audit Program Offers each ·semester. Enrollment is open dur member of the D.C. Commission on the Opportunities for Alumni and ing the late registration period of the fall Status of Women and has been a mem Students and spring semesters. ber of the Judicial Conference of the All holders of earned degrees from the District of Columbia Circuit for more auline Caffey, KCBA'83. manager university may audit one nontutorial than thirty years. Pof affiliate relations for Black En course each semester on a space-avail Mark i\lurphy is assistant to the ex tertainment Tele,·ision, is taking a course able basis. A $50 audit fee is required; ecutive director of the National Football on advertising campaigns. Stella Daw all fees support student scholarships. League Players Association, dealing with son, CAS'82, is a real estate writer tak This vear, twentv-one students are labor negotiations, administering the ing a course on nineteenth century novel. attending AU with financial assistance agent regulation program. and coordi i\lario Lopez-Gomez, SIS'79, i~ an ar from the alumni scholarship funds. nating the union's drug abuse preven chivist with the National Archives Awards range from $500 to $1,500. The tion program. studying statistical foundations of econ student recipients come from Pennsyl Murphy is probably best known for ometrics. Joan Topalian, CAS'65, an ad vania, Illinois, Kansas, Connecticut, New his career as a safety with the Washing ministrative officer with the · ational Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, and ton Redskins. He joined the team in Cancer Institute, has signed up for a North Carolina as well as the District of 1977 and held the club mark for con course on Renaissance painting. Columbia, i\laryland, and Virginia. secutive games as a starter from 1978 to All of these alumni have taken ad Alumni may recommend students for this 1982. He was selected to the l iP I AII NFC second team in 1982 and named :~n. tage of the alumni audit program. scholarship. by contacting the Office of l h1s program offers alumni the oppor- Alumni Relations. D to the NFL Pro Bowl squad in 1983. He WINTER 1986 23 June L. G1·een Ron Nessen served as a player representative to the NFL Players Association from 1980 w 1983. Mm·k Murphy Murphy donates his time extensivelv to such charitable organizations in th~ Washington area as Walk-America and the Easter Seals Foundation. He is ac tive in the KCBA graduate chapter and often speaks to classes on campus. Ron Nessen, as vice president of news for the Mutual Radio Network, super vises Mutual's news and public affairs programming. Previouslv, he was executive vice president and managing director of \tar stan and Rothenberg Public Affairs, Inc. Nessen was press secretary to Presi dent Gerald R. Ford from 1974 to 1977. -""' He was a television news correspondent Patricia Shelhamer Carmen Turner with NBC for twelve years and prior to that was a writer/editor for l'nited Press to solvency by persuading the church to civil rights for the Urban !\lass Trans International. He received the George lease its facilities to the entertainment portation Administration and acting di Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award for industry. Today, movie companies re rector of civil rights for the U.S. De work on an NBC special in 1963. hearse musicals and film weddings in partment of Transportation. Nessen has written three books: The the church which has an auditorium Turner is a member of the board of Hour, his most recent novel, The First modeled on London's Westminster directors of the American Public Transit Lady, his first novel, and It Sure Looks Chapel. Association and serves on the Howard Different From the Inside, an informal his The first woman to pass the U.S. For University board of trustees. This vear, tory of the Ford administration. eign Service exam, Shelhamer was a for she was named Woman of the Ye~r by Patricia Shelhamer, was a founder of eign service officer in Frankfurt, Ger the Phillis Wheatley YWCA the YWCA CHIP-IN, the Communitv of Hollv many, at the height of the Cold War. National Capital Region, a~d the Iota wood Investing in People 'in Need,' a Carmen Turner, is general manager Phi Lambda Business Sorority. coalition of churches and other organi of the Washington l\letropolitan Area zations in the area that feeds 1,000 hun Transit Authority (\Vl\1ATA), one of the f:ditor's Note: Turner is a second gmeratio11 gry people a week, runs a family crisis largest public transportation svstems in alumna. Her father, lames A. Pawley, intervention program, and is working to the nation. She is responsible for a $423- SGPA '47, encouraged her academic career establish a shelter for the homeless. million-a-year operating budget and a and was o-verjoyed when she retumed to school For the past decade, Shelhamer has $325 million annual rail construction after droppi11g out ro get manied. Pawo/ey, been administrator of the First United program. 8/, plans to attend A lJ Reunion '86 a11d the Methodist Church of Hollywood, taking In twentv-six vears of federal service aru•ards dinner where his daughter ru>i/1 be the organization from near bankruptcy Turner has 'serve.d as deputy directOr ot: honored. 0 24 AMERICAN Kamber Heads Annual Fund tions." Kamber says an additional advantage ''AsAmerican University grows in to attending AU is "the relationships prestige, it enhances all of us that result. I am delighted with people who have attended in the past," savs I meet on a dailY basis who have AU Vic Kamber, WCL'69, this vear's v~l degrees and are ·proud of them. This unteer chairman of the annua·l fund. ''A gives people a common bond. And these lot of alumni have started to realize that alumni want to help each other. The American llniversitv is a real!\ ex "This year. we hope to continue what citing place to be," he ·says. Cor~trib others have begun with the annual fund uting to the annual fund is an ideal wav drive," says Kamber. "Alumni can carry for alumni to help their universitv con~ forward the outstanding programs AU tinue to grow in quality, Kamber str~ssed. has begun in recent years. And I would The annual fund supports all items of remind them that the more AL1 grows the operating budget, including student in prestige, the more all of our degrees scholarships and loan programs, faculty have value." research grants, new library materials, The Office of University Develop- an~ the special programs that make AC ment sponsors an annual phonathon in umque. support of the annual fund. This year's Ill/ ','''h·:.. '' '" Kamber is president of The Kamber drive raised $82,670, exceeding the goal Group, a Washington, D.C., public re bv more than $12,000. Contributions for lations firm. He says the discipline he this year's annual fund will be accepted acquired in his law studies is a great help thro~1gh April 30, the end of the fiscal President Richard Berendzen, to him in his business. "The research vear. Call or write the Office of Uni foreground, participated in the ~ · ersity Development. 0 phonathon, along with faculty members and writing required helps, as well as from KCBA and students. the impact of the law on communica- Cannen Tunzet·, CPIA'71, right foreground, talks with Peggy McGuiness, SIS'88, far left, at the annual Student l Alumni Association reception hosted by President and Mrs. Richard Beretzdzen Among the guests at a reception this fall honoring AU alumni in media were, left to last fall. Others at the t·eception included, right, Beth Robertson, CAS'76, Mary Beth Fmnklin, CAS'75, and Leslie Halpern, left to right, Bruce Krafte, CAS'79, who CAS'76. Robertso11 works for MCI, Inc., Fra11klin works for United Press works at the Library of Congress, and International, and Halpenz is with the American Broadcasting Company. More than Miriam Tmcy, CAS'86. one hundred alumni, faculty membet·s, students, and staff attended the reception sponsored by the Office of University Relations. WINTER 19R6 25 Profiles Actor's Career: It All Started Here**** he summer before she enrolled at TAU, Caroline Aaron, CAS'75, was flipping through the catalog, showing her mother the acting courses she wanted to take. ''I'm not paying for those if that's all you take," her mother said. Aaron took the entire curriculum and is using that liberal arts background in her acting career. She is playing the fe male lead in Jose Quintero's Broadway production of Eugene 0';\Jeill's play, The Iceman Cometh. While the play was at the Kennedy Who Is the AU Alum in This Photo? Center this fall, Aaron came back to AU to speak to an acting class about the life N one of the current members of the all the AU grads in sports management of an actor and the influence AU had on Los Angeles Lakers graduated from five or six vears ago," says Rosenfeld. her career. "It all began here," she says. American University, but the director of He still ke~ps track of some of them. "Aspiring actors are still misinformed their public relations did. As a matter of He moved to the West Coast to become about the amount of work required in fact, several AU alumni have positions a sports writer for the LA Herald Ex acting," says Aaron. ''The more I work in the management offices of profes aminer and later took the job with the in theatre, the more I find that acting sional sports teams. Lakers. is the subject of everything. You need Andy Dolich, CAS'69, is vice presi Menchel has lived in eight states since to learn as much as you can about every dent for operations of the Oakland A's. his graduation, working for various thing. Study everything to study act His unusual video promotions were re professional sports organizations. He says ing." ported in a September USA Today arti his AU ties help him settle into each Aaron was a student in the Depart cle. Steve Hines, CAS'68, handles sea new community. "I find other AU grads, ment of Performing Arts when it was son tickets for the Washington Bullets. and we already have something in com just being formed. Murray Arnold, CAS'60, is an assistant mon. It's a great starting point." "One of the reasons I loved going here coach with the Chicago Bulls. Roger Menchel says there is also a camara was I had the opportunity to work in Moskowitz, CAS'76, Henry Brehm, derie among the graduates working in plays all the time. I tried to be in as CAS'75, and John Hauser, KCBA'82, all sports and the media. "The AU logo many plays as I could. Your best teacher work for Pro Serve, a professional sports seems to go everywhere," says l\lenchel is the audience, and you need to get in management organization. Mark Mur "When I come to Washington I always front of one every chance you can. I phy, KCBA'83, recently became an as get with Warner Wolf[CA..')'60] and Frank liked being part of a small department.J' sistant to the executive director of the Herzog [CAS'72]. I have a great love for After graduation, Aaron worked in the NFL Players Association. American University." That matches his Washington Theatre Laboratory. She Michael Menchel, CAS'74, is public love of sports. He still subscribes to the then moved to New York and worked relations director for the St. Louis Foot Washington Post, "so I can keep up with in off-Broadvv·ay and off-off-Broadway ball Cardinals. He could identify the AU the soccer team." And he says American productions. "I have worked in every alumnus in the photo. "There are not magazine helps him keep up with his basement there is to work in in New that many redheads," says Menchel of former classmates. York," she says. She advises students Josh Rosenfeld, CAS'74. "We played Oh, yes. Josh is the second from the to keep working any way they can, to intramural basketball against each other right. 0 take anv part just for the experience. while we were at AU." She made her Broadway debut in Rosenfeld, who has been with the Editor's note: We know there are more of Robert Altman's Come Back to the Fif•e Lakers for four years, served as sports you out there in professional sports man and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. information director at AU for two years agement. Drop us a fine and let us ( andyour "When you step out on that stage, after he graduated. "I did a story about fellow alums) knorn• rn•here you are. vou are just doing the work. It is the 26 AMERICAN to play." Aaron says this is a verv ex citing time robe a woman, but dra~atic literature has not caught up. She feels she has capacities for more demanding roles than ever before in her career, but the roles simply are not there. If allowed to play any part she wished, she would choose Blanche in A Streetcar Named De sire, she says. Her final advice to students contem plating a career in acting is, ''Follow your heart. Get to know yourself during your college years. This is a verv secure environment. Get your ancho~s here. Find out what you know and what vou believe. Take the next four vears to ·de cide if you really want to b.e an actor. You are getting a fabulous education as an acror and as a human being here. Take advantage of it." D Finding a Job That Fits ~ r John Hildreth, SGPA'78, his job ~ truly is an extension of his beliefs. "I've always had a deep interest in issues of integrity and ethical conduct in the political process and in the issues of citizen participation," says the ex ecutive director of Common Cause of Texas. Hildreth, who as a new graduate served as an AU trustee, lobbies state legisla tors on behalf of such causes as more rigorous campaign financing legislation. Hildreth acknowledges that, while the Caroline Aaron traditionally freewheeling atmosphere same as being on any other stage," says the stage, Aaron has appeared in the film of Texas politics is changing, there is Aaron. "It's only later, when vou are version of Come Bock to the Fivermd Dime, still room for great improvement. outside and see the marquee an'd think and movies The Brother From Allother "\Ve're battling lobbying operations 'I'm in that plav,' that vou feel the thrill Planet, Without a Trace, Baby, It's You, that have several staff people, hundreds of being on Br~adwav."" and O.C. & Stiggs. She will appear in of thousands of dollars to work on cam Aaron discussed the sense of com Mike Nichols' film of Nora Ephron's paigns, and thousands of dollars to spend munity in the theatre, too. Whether it Heortbum, playing Meryl Streep's good on entertainment. was a production in a basement or with friend. "We had a governor's race in 1982 in well-known stars on Broadway, "you have When asked about the difference be which about $27.5 million was spent, to work together to make the play work." tween working in movies and on the the largest amount of any nonpresiden stage, Aaron says, "Acting is the ability tial campaign in the country. It's en She. found this tO be true in workinab With Cher, Karen Black, and Jason Ro- to be private in public, whether it's a tirely possible that in 1986 even more bards. theatre full of people or the camera crew. will be spent." Aaron says actOrs must be both ex Exciting acting is what happens be As a lobbyist for a public interest group tremely thick skinned and extremelv tween people--whether on the stage or dedicated tO political reform, Hildreth vulnerable. It was reassuring to see tha't in front of a camera." says more is expected of him than of Robards (the lead in !reman) was inse Aaron says the most difficult thing other, more traditional lobbvists. cure, too, she savs. about her career now is that she realizes "You have to have a certain standard In addition to her extensive work on "there are parts I will never be allowed for yourself, a certain integrity, [and] a WINTER 1486 27 abled Hildreth to attend a farewell re ception for Poynter, who left.\l' in 1985 to become \ice president of \\'esley Theological Seminary. After his graduation from Al', Hil dreth attended the Lyndon B. Johnson School ofPublic Affairs at the l niversitv of Texas at Austin, where he received a master's degree in public affairs. "When I was at AC. I ne\-er thought that I'd be working for a public interest group. But Common Cause fits me perfectly." 0 A Clean Course on Life tephen Lester, CAS '71, was work Sing as usual in the Arlingron, \'a .. office of the Citizens' Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes when a frantic schoolteacher called him from Florida, saying that roofers were slapping tar on her elementary school and the fumes Stephen Lester were making the children ill. John Hildreth It was a call typical of those Lester community groups and reaches nearly a way of conducting yourself to meet that gets at the Citizens' Clearinghouse, a million people with its programs and challenge." nonprofit group that helps people re publications, according to Lester. Hildreth credits his upbringing in the solve problems of hazardous and chem Along with the job comes a lot of per United Methodist Church with giving ical waste. sonal satisfaction for him. ''The tech him the standards he applies in his daily "Hazardous waste is a problem that nical work that I do helps to empower life. affects evef\ man, woman, and child in people to take control of their lives." he The l'nited Methodist Church also this countf\<'' savs Lester. "It hit<> across says. gave him his first exposure to politics as all spectrums." Lester originally intended to be a bi president of llnited i\1ethodist Youth in He gave the teacher some pointers: ologist. As a junior at :\ll in 1969, he Alabama and contributed significantly Find out what chemicals arc invoh·ed; enrolled in a course taught b) :\lartha to his decision to come to Al'. get safety data sheets from the roofing Sager. chair of the Department of Bi ''I always had an a\·id interest in pol company and learn whether the mate ology. The course. Em·ironmcntal Sys itics, so Washington was a natural place rials are being used correctly; determine tems Analysis, was worth an imposing [for me to come]. AL"s connection to the risks; then ask local authorities why sixteen credits, and it opened his eves the L'nited l\1ethodist Church was also such work is being done during school to environmental issues. an important factor." hours. Lester worked at . 'ew York l lniver He cites his freshman economics class Lester is science director for the ac sity's Institute of Em iron mental ~led with professor Jim Weaver as one of the tivist group begun b) Lois Gibbs, the icinc after graduation. He earned an \I.S. most important influences of his un Love Canal housewife who waged war in environmental health from the insti dergraduate career. against a toxic waste dump that poi tute in 1976 and an ~l.S. in toxicology "Jim had a tremendous influence on soned her upstate .:\'ew York neighbor from Harvard in 1977. Still. it was Pro me in terms of his teaching style and hood. (She spoke at Al' last year.) Les fessor Sager's course that Lester sa~ s what he had to say. He really generated ter joined her battle in 1978 after reports influenced him the most. excitement for the students. of the toxic leaks began to make world "It was unique, because it taught me "Bruce Poynter [former vice provost headlines. Interrupting his work as a the political application of science, gi\ for student life] and Carmen .:\'euberger Washington consultant at the time, Les ing me a chance to sec how the em i [acting vice pro\·ost for smdent life], who ter went to Love Canal, planning a two ronment was affecting people's lives," was Mortarboard advisor when I was week stay. His im·olvement lasted two he says. president, also had tremendous influ years. ''It became clear tO me that this [en ence on me as a student." In 1982, he and Gibbs established the vironmental work] is \\hat I wanted to A fall business trip to Washington en- clearinghouse, which works \\ith 670 do with my life." 0 28 Ai\IERICAN Class Notes ARTS AND SCIENCES author (with Robert T. Crowley) of The Attention All Former Resident Ad Nr& KGB: Engine of Soviet Power, re visors: The Office of Alumni Relations ames T. Johnson, BA'31, is Col cently published. wants to hear from you! They are plan J orado state coordinator of the Tour Denise L. Duddleson, BA'69, is ning a special gathering of RAs during aide program sponsored by the Ameri publications manager for the Alban In Reunion '86 weekend (April18-20), but can Association of Retired Persons. stitute, Washington, D.C. Donna Newman Taub, BA'70, is they don't know how to reach some of Suzanne M. Smith, BA'32, and a travel agent in California. She is mar you. Please call or write the alumni of Daisy M. Smith, BA'70, have written ried and the mother of two children, fice today at 4400 l\1assachusetts Ave., and edited a book about architect A.B. ages seven and four. NW, Washington, DC 20016, (202) 885- Mullett, Suzanne's grandfather and Edmund N. Fulker, EdD'70, re 1300. Daisy's great-grandfather. He is best known for his design of the San Fran tired as director of the U.S. Department cisco Mint, later copied by Frank Lloyd of Agriculture Graduate School in 1985. Wright, and the old Executive Office He plans to write, teach, and consult American magazine received the following Building, Washington, D.C. part-time. infomtation from Meta Scantlin Hoover, Bertram Meister, M.D., BS'49, an Renee Garfinkel, BA'71, obtained CAS'JS, a member of last year's Golden nounces the marriage of his daughter her PhD at Lund University and re Anniversary class, about one of her class Barbara in March 1986 and his daughter turned to the U.S. to direct the women's mates. (See Letters for background.} Lynn in June 1986. program office of the American Psycho -Editor Martin Ries, BA'SO, will be repre logical Association, Washington, D.C. sented in the next edition of Interna She lives in Chevy Chase, Md. ary Louise Robbins, CAS'34, con tional Atts Directoty. His article on "Am Joan Lafer Rosemarin, BA'72, and M tinued her scientific studies at the bience/Stimuli at the Alternative her husband, Carey, announce the birth George Washington University where Museum" appeared in Re-Dact: An An of their first child, Benjamin, on No she earned a master's degree, and, in thology of Art Criticism. He exhibited his vember 3, 1984. 1944, a Ph. D. She became the first full paintings in the LID-Brooklyn Campus Marilyn Fenner, BA'73, celebrated time woman professor of the George Resnick Showcase Gallery in 1985. four years with the office systems de Washington University Medical School. Donald Leavitt, BA'Sl, retired in partment of Arkwright Boston Insurance In 1966, she was honored by her alma September from his position as chief, as in-house consultant in October. mater with an Alumni Recognition music division, Library of Congress, after Terence Hoagwood, MA'73, now Award. nearly thirty years of service. in the Department of English at West Dr. Robbins spent a year's sabbatical ordinator of the Municipal Access Cable Virginia University, has written two in Japan in 1968-69, where she was af Cyrus A. Ansary, BS'SS, chairman books: Prophecy and the Philosophy of;l1ind: filiated with Japan's National Institute of The American University's board of Traditions of Blake and Shelley (1985) and of Health in Tokyo and later with the trustees, was elected to MBI's board of an edition of Sir William Drummond's Kyushu University School of Dentistry. directors on September 17, 1985. Academical Questions (1984). Another, Ten years later, she accepted the in Ron Harold Nessen, BA'59, vice Skepticism and Ideology, is in preparation. vitation of her colleagues in Japan to president-news, Mutual Radio Net Rob Huberman, BA'74, received return. She is visiting researcher at the work, was interviewed in Broadcasting, an honorable mention in the entertain NIH in Tokyo. She teaches courses in June 24, 1985, tracing his career since ment category at the Hometown USA scientific writing in English, corrects and he graduated from AU. Video Festival Awards in Boston in July. His show, "Watch Out Arlington!," was ~dits biomedical articles written in Eng Florence Frauwirth Barr, BA'66, lish by Japanese physicians and medical is "happily married and the parent of named Best Comedy Show at the 1985 scientists, and serves as editor of the four beautiful children" in Rockland AMMY Awards sponsored by Arlington Japanese 1 ournal ofClinical Oncology. Dr. County, N.Y. Community Television. Robbins is also a part-time faculty mem James Butcher, EdD'66, president Sherry Icenhower, BA'74, presi ber at Kyushu University School of Den of Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, dent of Gold mark International, Inc., of tistry. W.Va., was featured speaker atthe 47th Arlington, Va., was elected delegate to Mary Lou finds life in Japan exciting annual homecoming of Job's Temple, the National White House Conference and enjoyable. She is a great represen Gilmer County, in August. He is former on Small Business in August 1985. She will represent Virginia at the National tative not only of The American Uni professor of education at AU. Conference in Washington, D.C., Au versity, but also of the United States of John J. Simkovich, BS'68, a pros America. thodontist in the U.S. Navy Dental gust 17-21, 1986. Corps, is married to Jana Buehler. They Andrea Lomrantz, BA'74, and her -Meta Scantlin Hoover, CAS'35 have one child, Suzanne, a year old. husband, Larry M. Rosen, announce the William R. Corson, PhD'69, is the birth of their first child, Samantha Lind- WINTER 1986 29 say Rosen, on September 10, 1985. Ience in Landscape painting in 1985, by Gwendolyn Glenn, MA'83, was James C. Manuele, BS'75, has re the Art League of Alexandria, Va. Her awarded 1985's first-place radio jour tired as Lt. Colonel, Army Corps of En studio is in Strasburg, Va. nalism award by the National Associa gineers. While in Egypt and Israel as Darla Davenport-Powell, MA'81, tion of Black Journalists, on August 2, deputy resident engineer for the con is an artist-in-residence for 1985-86 with 1985. She is with News 820, \VOSU struction of the multinational peace the Institute for the Preservation and Al\1, at Ohio State Universitv. keeper facilities in the Sinai Desert, he Study of African-American Writing in Richard Bozanich, MA'S4, moved received the Multinational Peace Medal Washington, D.C. to Dallas to serve as copy editor on the and U.S. Meritorious Service Medal. He Dallas Morning News. is deputy program director of Mc Tracey A. O'Shaughnessy, BA'84, Cormack Place Expansion Project, in and Mark H. Baechtel, BA'84, were charge of the design and construction of married on October 5, 1985. Tracey is the world's largest convention center in a reporter for the Potomac Almanac in Chicago. Maryland. Ina Schecter, BA'75, won first prize Robb Deigh, MS'85, is a general as in the July show of the Washington Water signment reporter in insight, a new na Color Association at the Rockville, Md., tional news weekly published by the Civic Center. Washington Times. Rodney D. Green, MA'76, PhD'80, Mary Ellen Duke, MA'85, was one wrote Forecasting with Computer Models of thirty-nine summer interns at the Voice (April 1985 by Praeger Publishers). of America's American Republics Di Peter Fred Sauer, BA'76, married vision, selected from 1,200 applicants. Elisabeth Fincke de Trevilole in Wood stock, Conn., on June 29, 1985. He is BUSINESS executive director of sports medicine and cardiac rehabilitation at Capitol Hill avid B. Thompson, BS'60, joined Hospital in Washington, D.C. The cou D the First American Bank of Mary pie lives in Greenbelt, Md. land as regional vice president/com Adrea Senzer, BA'78, married Darla Davenport-Powell munity banking, :\tontgomery County. Howard Moss on December 23, 1984, John D. Hampshire, Jr., BS'70, has in Beverly Hills, Calif. The couple lives Elizabeth Madonia, BS'81, married been named manager of business de in Santa Rosa. Joel Phillip Feldman in Julv. They live velopment in the Gilbane Building Randi Fetner, BA'79, married Dr. in Philadelphia. Mrs. Feldman is seek Company's office in Baltimore, 1\ld. His John E. Sherman in June. She is North ing her master's in business from Drexel major projects in Baltimore include a east advertising manager and foreign Universitv. retrofit of a General \lotors assembly marketing manager for Corporate Meet Suzan.ne Tawfig, BS'81, married plant and the Six Flags Power Plant en ings and Incentives magazine. Rick L. Schoenthaler on August 17, 1985. tertainment center in Inner Harbor. Linda Boyd, BA'80, graduated from She is a microbiologist at Spiral Systems Robert Snider, MBA'70, of Snider/ the University of Medicine and Den in Maryland, and the couple lives in Snider Bros. Property 1\lanagement, Inc., tistrv of New Jersey-School of Osteo Fairfax, Va. was named "Realtor of the Year" by the pathic Medicine in 1984. She practices Jamie Sue Zuckerman, BA'81, Washington Post in October 1985. medicine in the state of New Jersey as married Robert ScottYoung, BA'81, John Coulon, BSA'71, promoted to a doctor of osteopathy. in Mav 1985. She received her master's the office of vice president at Shearson Richard Wolfin, BA'80, received his from Harvard and is producer for XYZ Lehman/American Express, Inc., spe JD from the New England School of Productions in New York City. He is a cializes in the sale of loans to hospitals Law and is currently a candidate for ad controller for Marvin & Sons in New in the Northeast. mission to the New Jersey Bar. York Citv. James H. Boykin, PhD'72, director Monica F. Rascoe, MEd'80, is di Stella: H. Dawson, MA'82, re of the Virginia Real Estate Research rectOr of the Center for Minority Stu ceived two UPI awards in 1984 for best Center and the Alfred L. Blake Chair dent Affairs at Georgetown University. news operations and best in-depth re Professor of Real Estate, school of busi She received her JD from Georgetown porting while news reporter at WAGE ness, Virginia Commonwealth Univer in 1985. AM radio in Loudon County, Va. She sity, was elected chairman of the Real D. Lee Snarr, BFA'80, MF A'83, is. also editor of Development and Land Estate Center Directors and Chairhold of .Mutual of Omaha, has won several Use Newsletter in Northern Virginia, and ers Association at its 1985 annual meet awards for her paintings, the latest the special writer for the real estate section mg. Annual Grumbacher Award for Excel- of the Washington Post. David A. Carver, BS'73, was ad- 30 AMERICAN mitred to the partnership of Touche Ross a special award for his efforts in the cre H. Thomas McGuire, BA'65, has & Co., international public accounting ation of the Fellows of the Illinois Bar been re-elected to the New Castle (Del.) firm, in 1985. Foundation. Fein is president of the Il City Council and serves as finance chair Douglas G. Buck, MS'75, received linois Bar Foundation, the charitable arm man. the degree of doctor of public admin of the Illinois State Bar. He is a partner Jay L. Rothberg, BA'69, was elected istration from t'\o\'a l lniversitv in juh in the firm of An·ev, Hodes. Costello & international president of Zeta Psi 1985. Buck is directorofhuma~ sen ice~ Bu.rman of Chicag;) and lives in 1'\orth Fraternity of North America, Inc., at its and salarv administration for the Da\- brook. Illinois. 138th annual con\'ention in San Fran ton, Ohi<;, public schools. · cisco. He lives in ~ew Orleans and is Harry A. Harrison, CPA, BS'76, executive director of the Societv of Lou became a partner in the CPA firm of CTA isiana Certified Public Accoun~ants. ,\ronson, Greene, Fisher & Co .. char William R. Fuhrman, BA'70, cel tered, Bethesda, ~Id., on june 1, 1985. heodore W. Howard, MSTM'74, ebrated his eleventh wedding anniver 1 sary in August; his first child, Shastina Jack Clifford Carver, Jr., MS'81, Tis attending the l .S. Army War Col Elizabeth, was born on St. Patrick's Dav. married ~lichelle Lvnne Karas on .\u lege at Carlisle B WINTER 1986 31 Bellefonte, Pa. He administers the Job Maria C. Rebeck, BA'78, married 1985, in Allentown, Pa. The couple lives Training Partnership Act in Center, Alan W. Blair June 8, 1985. She is a in Schnecksville, Pa. Clinton, Lycoming, and Mifflin coun chartered property/casualty underwriter Juanita E. Hoyle, MS'83, recei\·ed ties of Pennsylvania. and a controller's assistant '.vith Allstate an Executive Citation for outstanding Lisa J. Stolaruk, BA'78, is chief of Insurance Co. The couple lives in services to the community for her work the political party committee/political Schaumburg, Ill. as counselor in the Baltimore County action committee branch of the Federal Jacqueline Denise Wyatt, BA'79, police department community correc Election Commission, Washington, D.C. married Donald Steven Gray in July. tions program. The citation, given in She was Miss American l'niversity and 1984, was from the Baltimore County INTERNATIONAL Miss Washington, D.C. The couple lives government. SERVICE in California. Marina Kamenakis, BA'81, mar dward A. Raymond, PhD'52, is ried Kinan Hreib, BS'84, on June 29. LAW Eretired, living in a house built in 1756, She is an export consultant with the U.S. and writing The Jlfodern History of Litch Department of Commerce; he is en everly Anne Groner, JD'59, was field, Con11ectirut. gaged in postgraduate work at Boston Bthe only lawyer in the Washington Earl E. Huyck, PhD'56, retired in University. The couple lives in Boston. area selected bv Tomw aud CoutttT)' as one July from the National Institutes of Joe T. Reece, BGS'81, received his of the ''best la~vyers in Americi' in the Health and returned to China as asso JD from the Cniversity of Denver and category of family and matrimonial law. ciate director of the division for popular now lives in Denver with his wife and She is chairman-elect of the family law and social sciences at the Institute for two children, Bethany Robin, born June section of the American Bar Association. Biomedical and Health Sciences of the 20, 1983, and Joe Tennyson lll, born Walter Joe Stewart, JD'63, vice Li Chen-Pien Memorial. June 13, 1985. president for government affairs of Philip M. Burgess, PhD'66, was Theodore R. Walters, SIS'85, is a Southern National Resources (SONAT), named executive director of the Dem trainee officer with the Bank of Credit has received a citation for thirtv vears of ocratic Policy Commission. He will re and Commerce International. He will outstanding government servi~e 'and his main president of Burgess Associates, enter the bank's international manage work on the Washington Council. Inc., Denver. ment development program. Robert C. Mussehl, BA'64, JD'66, Roger F. Pajak, PhD'66, is national was elected to his third three-year term security advisor for Soviet and Middle JUSTICE as an assembly delegate of the American East Affairs to the U.S. Secretary of the Bar Association in July. A specialist in Treasury. He was senior foreign affairs ol. Robert V. Jones, U.S. Air family law, he is senior partner in the advisor with the U.S. Arms Control and CForce, MS'75, was assigned to firm of i\.lussehl, Rosenberg, Grieff, Disarmament Agency. He and his wife, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Mussehl & Cotter in Seattle, Wash. Lid, and three children, Melinda, Lisa, He is a director of operations with the and Jeff, live in Annandale, Va. Air Force office of security police and Lt. Col. Wolf D. Kutter, BA'69, is was assigned in West Germany. NURSING attending the U.S. Army War College Jan Fritz, PhD'78, consultant to the at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. sociology department, Bowling Green heri E. Bleich, BS'79, National Gregory L. Johnson, MA'74, is at State University (Ohio) has been se SHealth Care Service administrator, tending the U.S. Army War College at lected chair of the American Sociological married Larry Meller on August 24, 1985. Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Association Sociological Practice Com The couple lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. Edward L. Rowny, PhD'77, ad mittee. dressed the Channel City Club and Richard E. Potter, BS'78, is a mis Women's Forum inJulyon arms control. sile launch officer with the 321st Stra DEATHS He was chairman of the Strategic Arms tegic Missile Wing at Grand Forks Air Reduction Talks delegation in 1981 and· Force Base, North Dakota. He partici dward 0. Tate, CAS BA'33, on Joint Chiefs of Staff representative to pated in the Global Shield 85 exercise EJuly 16, 1985. the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks in August. George Harvey Bloom, WCL from 1973-83, and is special advisor to Carolyn J. Vicari, MS'78, married JD'4l,onJune 11,1985, Clinton, N.J. the President on arms control. Dudley R. Appelman III in June. She Dr. John Kain Read, CAS BA'48, Patrick Bellgarde-Smith, PhD'77, is director of program services, depart on June 1, 1984, Chapel Hill, N.C. ' wrote !11 the Shadow of Powers, published ment of correction, Boston, Mass. The Charles Kent 0. Miller, Esq., by Humanities Press, and is working on couple lives in Sharon, Mass. BA'69, Key West, Fla. a book for Westview Press to be pub Ronald E. Paret, BA'81, married William Antonio Medina, PhD'76, lished next year. Cynthia Geradette Lynch on June 9, July 28, 1985, Portland, Oreg. 32 AMERI~C~A~N~------Eagles Go to NCAA Finals The soccer team's outstanding season ----e watched in the tavern, in ended in the Seattle Kingdome with dorms, in the den at home. A outstanding work from ... W lucky few watched from the -~....;..-s tands in the Seattle King dome. Win or lose, the Eagles were our team. And in the wee hours of the morn ing when the score of the longest title game in NCAA soccer history came in, we wept. They had come so far and played so hard. And that was what mat tered in the end. In defeat, they were still champions and the university com munity joined to cheer a remarkable re cord, an extraordinary .season. At the beginning of the season Pete Mehlert didn't dream his team would be pla)'ing for the national champion ship. But this most successful season in AU sports history was made of the stuff of dreams. The Eagles entered the twenty-three team postseason NCAA event sporting the best soccer record in AU history- 16-2-2. A series of outstanding perfor mances by the Eagles carried them to Seattle. Ranked number I in the South At lantic Region, the team received a first round bye in the tournament. They then defeated George Mason University 3-l to win the regional championship. The Eagles reached the Final Four with a 2-0 victory over South Carolina at Co Serge Torreilles ... Keith Trehy ... lumbia, S.C. Hosting its first-ever Final Four game, AU defeated favored Hartwick 1-0 to advance to the finals against UCLA at the Kingdome in Seattle. "Before the season, a lot of people felt we had too difficult a schedule to return to the tournament," says Meh lert, CAl\ coach of the year. "I figured we would be competitive, but never did I think we would play for the national championship. It's a credit to our play ers, because to be the best, you have to beat the best." • One of the reasons the Eagles ended up in the national championship game was the play of senior striker Michael Brady, who was among the country's Troy Regis ... and'Coach Mehler!. WINTER 1986 33 leading scorers. Brady topped his pre vious school scoring marks with twenty four goals, eight assists and fifty-six total points. The three-time all-America selection scored the decisive goals in eleven of the Eagle's contests. In his four-season career, Brady has notched the game winner twenty-seven times-another school record. Brady was 1985 CAA con ference player of the year and Soccer America magazine's player of the year. "It's quite an honor to be a part of this team. I couldn't have asked for a better group of teammates or a better coach," says Brady. Other factors were involved in the Eagle's first-ever trip to a national cham pionship-the emergence of junior David Nakhid as a scoring threat (ten goals and A hopeful crowd watches the championship game in the tavern. three assists) and the strong play of freshman starters John Diffley, Serge Torreilles, and Steve Marland. demic all-America candidate and one of leading returning rebounder with an av Stephen Pfeil, a junior transfer from the team's top defensive players. erage of 7.8 per game. Columbia, enjoyed a stellar perform The 1985 dream season is on the re Dana Diller's rebounding ability, ance as the Eagles' goalie with eleven cord books. Congratulations to the team which illustrates her versatility, allows shutouts. and the coaches. We, the enthusiastic Ziemke to go with a three-guard offense A large part of the credit for AU's 19- students, alumni, faculty, and staff who without losing board strength. 3-2 season has to go to a group of seniors. cheered you on, thank you for giving us Sophomore center Kia Cooper is the One of them, midfielder Fernando a soccer season to remember. In our Eagles' "chairperson of the boards," Iturbe, was out with injuries and scored hearts, you are the champions. 0 leading the squad with a team-record only three goals this year. But he will 221 rebounds and 24 blocked shots last always be remembered for the one that Depth and Experience: AU season. put the Eagles in the championship Women's Basketball Junior forward Kathy Hughes returns game. Iturbe headed the ball in with an to action after a near-debilitating hip in assist from Brady to defeat Hartwick - uoyed by more depth and expe- JUry. December 7. rience than any team in recent Janine Lorimer, who was slowed last Other seniors leading the team to Se Byears, The American University year by thumb and ankle injuries, has attle included back Troy Regis who was - women's basketball team entered greatly improved her defensive game, named to several postseason teams. He the 1985-86 basketball season hoping to says Ziemke. was the player the Eagles relied on to be a contender for the newly formed Hilary Hershey entered her final sea shut down the opponent's top scorers. Colonial Athletic Association's crown. son this year. The only senior on the Forward Eduardo Estinto provided re "This is the deepest team we've had team, Hershey is adept at analyzing game liable depth as did midfielder Henry in both quality and quantity," says head action, says Ziemke. Wagner, who scored the game-winning coach Linda Ziemke, who is in her eighth Blending with this experience is a goal against Towson State in the regular season at AU. "And we have more ex group of newcomers. The most notable season. perience than in recent years." is freshman Kelly Lane, one of the most Winger Barry Henderson scored the This experienced core of players is actively recruited players in the East. game-winner against George Mason that led by junior guard Jody Thornton, who Adding to the inside game are Alison helped escalate the Eagles' national last year was a first-team All East Coast Sutron and Shauna Walden. Depth at ranking. Duane Gonzalez was another Athletic Conference South performer. the guard position is provided by trans back who provided depth for the Eagles She is the leading returning scorer in fer Julieta Stack. and sparked the team with play in the the CAA with a 14.3 average. Also new this year are assistant coaches Clemson tournament. Last year's freshman sensation, Beth Shirley Hess and Jim Livelsberger. Back Glen Buchanan, a member of Shearer, is the second-leading returning After the opening six games, the Ea- various postseason teams, was an aca- scorer in the CAA (13.8) and is the fourth- gles were 5-1. 0 34 AMERICAN Eagles Seek Improvement despite missing nine games last year, is White leads the AU front line return in '85-'86 the chief offensive threat this season. ing as the team's leading rebounder (5. 9 He leads a group of guards that could per game). He gets support from Long be the deepest in talent in many sea mire Harrison, Rod Brown, Pat Morris orne familiar faces returned to the sons. Sampson runs the point and an sey, and freshman recruit Terry Brent. floor for the Eagles men's bas chors the backcourt defense. He led the Junior Henry Hopkins, AU's center, Sketball team along with some new Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in received extensive training with soph - ones. The Eagles started the sea steals last season with sixty. West, a omore Tom Scherer at a summer bas son with their most experienced team swingman with a shooter's touch, will ketball camp. Freshman recruit Steve since 1982-83, when they compiled a 20- see plenty of time on the court, says Rye provides depth. 10 record. Head coach Ed Tapscott says Tapscott. Tapscott named Karl Hicks as a new the Eagles are much better this season. Other guards include Greg Stewart, assistant coach for the Eagles. A former Among the returning starters are Billy Stone, Pat Witting, and Manual assistant at the University of New sophomores Frank Ross, Eric White, Nadal. "I think we've got as good qual Hampshire, Hicks played at UNH after Mike Sampson, and Chuck West. ity depth at guard as anyone in the con attending Gonzaga High School in Ross, who led the Eagles in scoring ference," says Tapscott. Washington, D.C. The Eagles' schedule includes twenty- seven games before the CAA tournamenL D Young Field Hockey Team Has Promise ---e:spite a difficult season, AU's field hockey Eagles sported D some fine defensive playing, es- .--..-pecially by freshman goalie Car leen Fritz, who made more than 300 saves at the cage. Fritz played in high school in Lawrenceville, N.J.-not as a goalie, but as a left wing her first three seasons and as goalie her senior year. Three other freshmen--Suzy Smith, Lisa McHugh, and Meg Dolan-all started this season. It is unusual to have four freshmen starting. "We're a whole new team with a lot of young people; we need to get used to each other and the schools we play," says Fritz of the 3-16 season. Fritz, who encountered some tough matches against Duke, Ursinus, Princeton, and Tem ple, managed to break an AU record of 165 saves by Kathy Handschin in 1983. The Division I Eagles played three of the top ten teams, including the 1984 number-one-ranked Old Dominion University. Junior co-captain Kathy Kerns led the defense and scored three goals and made one assist. Junior cocaptain Margaret Taggart, who led the offense, scored three goals and made one assist. AU's leading scorer was sophomore Me gan Burns with four goals. Sophomore Cindy Christy played a consistent sea Michael Sampson (center), faces two George Washington defenders in the local rivalry. son as link, scoring two goals and mak Teammates Terry Brent (left), and Henry Hopkins come to assist. The Eagles won 67-66, ing two assists. D giving them their best start (5-0) since 1972. WINTER 1986 35 Dear Editor: years. Linus Pauling spoke in Hurst Dear Editor: I just received my first copy of Hall the following year. Washington Last spring, it was my privilege and American magazine. It is absolutely Professors for World Peace was active pleasure to return to American Uni superb .... all through the period 1964-70 and versity for the fiftieth anniversary cel If there is an AU alumni associa helped coordinate the National ebration of the Class of 1935. The tion, I would like to become an active Teach-In on the Vietnam War in the alumni office helped me get in touch member as a method of contributing spring of 1965. with Mary Louise Robbins in Tokyo. to the community and to AU. Keep 2. The person most closely associated I was scheduled to be in Japan in July up the fine work on the magazine. I with this activity ought not to go un with a world tour seminar group and take great pride in being a member of named and unremembered. He was was eager to renew my friendship the AU graduate alumni and your Daniel M. Berman, professor of gov with Mary Lou, whom I had met dur magazine is an excellent way to keep ernment and head of the Washington ing my student days at AU and whom informed regarding other alumni Semester program, who died very un I had not seen for almost twenty members and AU in general. expectedly at the age of 39 (in 1967) years. while on a research visit to India. For We had a wonderful reunion and Sincerely, some years, there was in the School oJ spent an entire day together. It oc Government an annual Berman Lec curred to me that many alumni of Daniel K. Hatton, CTA'85 ture. I do not know what has become American would be interested in the Major, U.S. Army Medical Service of that custom. achievements of this distinguished al Corps umna. Before we parted, therefore, I Dale City, Va. 3. The plaque commemorating the made some notes on Dr. Robbins' founding on the AU campus of the professional career, which I am send All AU graduates automatically become Chemical Warfare Service was not ing to you. [See Class Notes.] I en members of the alumni association and re torn down; it was merely defaced by close also a picture taken that day. ceive American magazine and other mail students who did not believe that a Mary Lou is on the left ... and I, on ings if a current address is available. university, as a center of learning, the right. Those who wish to become active in should honor those who aid and abet alumni activities should contact the Office the destruction of human life. Most sincerely, of Alumni Relations at (202) 885-1300. I should like this to be printed to -Editor Meta Scantlin Hoover, CAS'35 set the record straight. Sincerely, Dear Editor: A note on John Quale's story about Rudolph von Abele, Professor Emeri AU and times of war [in Fall 1985 American]: tus, Department of Literature 1. He does not anywhere in his story mention that a group of AU faculty, of whom I was one, organized in opposi Dear Editor: tion to the Vietnam war in the fall of At this time, I would like to com 1964 and held numbers of meetings mend the staff of the magazine for that generated a great deal of campus publishing a sophisticated, interesting, confrontation. I. F. Stone spoke to an and enlightening quarterly. I look for overflow crowd in the SIS building in ward to receiving it! ... Keep up the October of 1963, the first time he had good work!! spoken on a college campus in many Sincerely, Lisa J. Stolaruk, SGPA'78 36 AMERICAN Alumni Getaways Alpine Passage and the Glacier Express July 24-August 4, 1986 This is the land of scenery extraordinaire ... snowcapped peaks, sparkling lakes, idyllic valleys, and flower-bedecked chalets. Travel first class on spotless Swiss trains and thrill ro a ride on the exciting Glacier Express, through tunnels, over snowy peaks, across bridges. Your 12-day itinerary includes: • Scheduled, wide-bodied jet service • FULL DAY aboard the historic to GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, GLACIER EXPRESS from the and return from ZURICH, base of the MATTERHOR to SWITZERLAND. ST. MORITZ, with lunch en • Full AMERICAN BREAKFAST route. each morning. • TWO IGHTS at the deluxe • THREE NIGHTS at the elegant ST. MORITZ PALACE HOTEL. MONTREUX PALACE HOTEL. • Private motorcoach transportation • SIGHTSEEING EXCURSION of from St. Moritz to LUCER E, the highlights of J\1ontreux. with lunch included in the • First-class train transportation to principality of LIECHTENSTEIN. ZERMATT. • THREE NIGHTS at the • TWO NIGHTS at Zermatt's LUCERNE PALACE HOTEL. HOTEL MO T CERVIN • SIGHTSEEING EXCURSION of SEILERHAUS. Lucerne. • DINNER for TWO NIGHTS in Zermatt. Plus many included "extras!" Special Alumni Price*: $2,225 from WASHINGTON, D.C. •Per person based on two per room occupancy. - Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Permit No. 966 WASHINGTON, DC Washington, D.C. Office of University Relations Washington, D.C. 20016 A ddress Correction Requested