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THE MAGAZINE OF WHITTIER COLLEGE

WELCOMING KATHERINE HALEY WILL, WHITTIER COLLEGE'S 13TH PRESIDENT

SPECIAL INAUGURAL ISSUE Endorsed Candidates for Alumni Trustee

THE FOLLOWING AT-LARGE ALUMNI HAVE BEEN HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY THE ALUMNI BOARD OF

DIRECTORS AS ALUMNI TRUSTEE CANDIDATES FOR THE WHITTIER COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. TO

ENDORSE THESE CANDIDATES, PLEASE USE THE BALLOT INSERTED IN THE MAGAZINE. You MAY INDICATE

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TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR SELECTION, HE OR SHE MUST RECEIVE MORE THAN 300 VOTES.

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES WILL APPROVE FINAL CANDIDATES AT THE FALL 2000 MEETING.

Wayne L Harvey'60 Amy L.S. Pulver'72 Rancho Mirage, California Denver, Colorado Managing Partner, Retired Executive Director Harvey & Parmelee Sand Creek Regional B.A., Business Greenway Partnership, Inc. Administration, Manager/Member, Iris Whittier College Snapdragon Enterprises, LLC MB.A., Golden Gate B.A., English Language and University, 1977 Literature, Whittier College Activities MA., Anthropology, University of Texas, 1974; As Student: football; basketball; member, Lancer MBA, University of Denver, 1977; MA., Economics, University of Denver, 1978 Society, Omicron Delta Kappa, Squires, Knights; sophomore class president; ASWC treasurer Activities As Student: president, Intersociety Council; senior As Alumnus: Visiting Lecturer in Accounting and class chair; member, Thalian Society, Soseco, Cap & Taxation at Whittier College, 1965-85; past president Gown; Who's Who in American Colleges of Alumni Association, 11-9-5 Club, Purple & Gold; recipient of Alumni Service Award, Lancer Alumni As Alumna: founder, Women and Business Achievement Award; past president of Whittier Enterprises, Inc.; board president, SafeHouse for Uptown Association, Whittier Area Chamber of Battered Women; board member, YWCA of Commerce; board member of Presbyterian Metropolitan Denver, Girl Scouts-Mile Hi Council, Intercommunity Hospital Foundation, Whittier Area Equality Colorado, The Park People; national Economic Development Corporation, Tour de Palm operational volunteer for on-site visits, Girl Scouts Spring; member, American Institute of Certified of the USA Public Accountants and California Society of Statement Certified Public Accountants The opportunity to be re-connected to Whittier College in a formal way 28 years after graduating is Statement both welcome and exciting. I owe a huge debt to the I am honored to have been selected as an alumni college—one I can never fully repay. My financial candidate to the Board of Trustees. Throughout the contributions may someday approach the scholarship years, Whittier College has meant a great deal to my funds that paid for my education, but will never family and me. I am especially pleased to be able to equal the value I received. To be able to apply my represent alumni interests at this important time in work experience in higher education, private the unfolding history of the college—a new corporations, government and non-profit organizations president, a new millennium and a new focus. to the issues confronting my alma mater is truly a We all have a vested interest in our alma mater. We welcome challenge and will add to the repayment want to ensure its continued academic and financial ledger. But, I suspect, as with all other volunteer jobs, success. Please let me know your thoughts and I'll end up learning many new things and being concerns so that I can properly represent your further indebted! I am also looking forward to interests. I can be contacted through the Alumni hearing from Whittier College alumni with your Office or at [email protected]. issues, concerns and comments. 00

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THE MAGAZINE OF WHIt TIER COLLEGE

Editor Caye Brundage

Managing Editor Shawn Fitzpatrick '98 FEATURES

Senior Writer Judy Kidder Browning HARVEY'S WORLD: POLITICS Art Director OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM Lori LeBeau Walsh This popular January interim class Advisory Board gives Whittier students a look at Roy F. Clason,Jr. '84 Beth Fernandez '82 politicians in their natural habitat, Al Martinez, LH.D. '96 G Dean Rowan '81 By Shawn Fitzpatrick '98 Ted C. Snyder Roy M. Wallack '78 Susanne Weil On the Cover: Thomas D. Wood '50 WELCOMING KATHERINE HALEY WILL, WHITTIER COLLEGE'S 13TH PRESIDENT President Katherine Haley Will The Week-long festivities

Vice President for Advancement celebrated the liberal arts and Joseph M. Zanetta Whittier's heritage while 11 looking to the future, Director of Alumni Relations Christine (Reel) Nelson '72 GREETINGS TO THE PRESIDENT The Rock, SPRING/SUMMER 2000 VOLUME 71, NUMBER 1, Representatives from various Copyright © 2000 constituencies brought Whittier College greetings to Whittier's new 20president.

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WHITTIER COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Charlotte D. Graham, L.H.D. '99 Chairman Ronald R. Gastelum '68, J.D. PRIES Vice Chairman ID INTT Willard V. Harris, Jr. '55 Vice Chairman CORN ER Rayburn S. Dezember '53, L.H.D. '94 Treasurer By Katherine Haley Will Joseph M. Zanetta, J.D. Secretary Dolores L Ball '33, L.H.D. '96 s the academic year drew to a close, so too did my first year as Paul W. Bateman '79 C. Milo Connick, Ph.D. Apresident of Whittier College. What a marvelous year it has been. Christopher T. Cross '62 Richard H. Deihl '49, D.B.A. 84 I believe that to be effective as a leader, you must know the institution Kristine E. Dillon '73, Ph.D. Sharon W. Ettinger and the people you are leading, and although I have spent my entire adult Douglas W. Ferguson, L.H.D. '97 life working in liberal arts institutions, each institution is unique. One of Gary Steven Findley, J.D. '79 Richard I. Gilchrist '68, J.D. my goals this year was to get to know the people who make up this won- Alfred J. Gobar '53, M.A. '55, Ph.D. Barbara Ondrasik Groce '57 derful community. It has been my great pleasure Clinton 0. Harris '34, L.H.D. '95 Charles E. Hawley, Jr. '51 to get to know our community members through Donald J. Herrema '74 Caroline P. Ireland '43 such specific strategies as holding open office Paul R. Kiesel, J.D. '85 David C. Lizarraga hours for students, visiting academic and admin- Alice Darling Lowe '37 Alan H. Lund '71 istrative departments, and meeting weekly with David D. Mandarich William H. Marumoto '57 small faculty groups at Wardman House through- R. Chandler Myers, J.D., LL.D. '88 Lee E. Owens out the spring. I have also had the good fortune Ernie Z. Park, J.D. to meet many Whittier College alumni at events Carole Martin Pickup '57 Robert H. Rau '62 on campus, in Southern California and at recep- Ruth B. Shannon, L.H.D. '92 Willard W. Shepherd, Sr. tions held in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Judith A. Swayne '63 Tornio Taki Seattle, Honolulu, and Denver. Each of Whittier's Maxine M. Trotter '47 Roberta G. Veloz '57 constituencies has a particular perspective on the Joan M. Woehrmann '52 Donald E. Wood, L.H.D. '98 College, and I deeply appreciate how open all have been in sharing their ALUMNI TRUSTEES insights into the College in constructive and helpful ways. Sandra Butzel 62 Humberto R. Gray '84, J.D. '87 A high point for me this year was the inauguration, held on campus Steven Weston '83

March 3. When we started planning the inauguration, we knew that we PRESIDENT OF wanted to celebrate Whittier College's heritage and contemplate its ALUMNI BOARD Penny (Cams) Fraumeni '68 future. The week-long celebration brought together alumni, students, TRUSTEE EMERITUS faculty, staff, trustees and distinguished guests in multiple fora to Benjamin B. Tregoe '51, Ph.D., I.L.D. '90

discuss such central issues as the liberal arts, diversity, the fine arts and PRESIDENT EMERITUS the future of academic disciplines. In this special issue of The Rock, we Eugene S. Mills, Ph.D., I.L.D. have included coverage of that very special inaugural week, including OFFICERS OF THE COLLEGE Katherine Haley Will, Ph.D. the truly wonderful speeches that were delivered by the platform party. President John A. FitzRandolph, J.D. So eloquent and fine were those speeches that we've had innumerable Vice President for Legal Education & Dean of Whittier Law School requests to print them. Hoang Hau Interim Vice President for Finance During the week of the inauguration we also celebrated the and Administration David J. Muller successful completion of our capital campaign, Endowing the Tradition. Vice President for Academic Affairs & Dean of the Faculty At our March 2 board meeting, Charlotte Graham, new chairman of Joseph M. Zanetla, J.D. Vice President for Advancement the board of trustees, announced that we had eclipsed our $70 million David Leonard Interim Dean of Students goal, and had accomplished it a full year-and-a-half ahead of schedule. Urmi Kar So while the campaign's success puts the College in a position of Dean of Enrollment strength to move forward and reaffirm our identity as a national liberal arts college, the inauguration provided a focal point for Whittier's new sense of momentum and possibility. I thank all of you for the roles you have played in bringing Whittier College to this pivotal point, and I look forward to working with all of you as we move together into the future.*

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WHAT'S IT Imperial Palace." A large group yearning to be corrected. of alumni and friends met early If you're really committed, or ALL ABOUT, for lunch at a restaurant near would just like to see your name ALUMNI? the museum as Robert Marks, in print, volunteer to write an ar- professor of history, shared his ticle. We will produce the next expertise on Imperial China. issue this fall. Please send your he ultimate strength of —Barbara (Brucher) submissions to the Office of TWhittier College rests with Sentell '68, chair Alumni Relations by July 31. its alumni. Administrations come —Dean Rowan'81, chair and go, and facilities may change, COMMUNICATIONS but alumni provide the continu- The Whittier College Alumni STUDENT ity that perpetuates the college. Association Newsletter—need we RECRUITMENT Once you graduate, say more? We love to talk about membership in the Alumni By now you should have re- Whittier College. In fact, that's Association is automatic. The 51 ceived the first two issues of the all our committee does. members of the Alumni Alumni Newsletter and read them Each of us has had the Association Board of Directors thoroughly. opportunity to attend high school who represent you all work on Producing these issues was college fairs to promote Whittier one of four committees to keep our primary focus for the last College. We tell prospective alumni informed and involved. year, and now you've had a students about the spirit of chance to enjoy the fruits of our friendship, community and fun ACTIVITIES AND labor. But we're not selfish—we that defines our alma mater. EVENTS want to extend the same It's so great to help young It's no secret—we think we opportunity to all our fellow adults discover Whittier while have the best job on the alumni Poets. Send us your ideas, your helping the college find students board—we plan events for photos—your addresses Continued next page Southland alumni to help them reconnect with Whittier College and the campus community. We have toured the Long Beach Aquarium with Warren Hanson, professor of biology,

and enjoyed an "All Gershwin" '9 evening on campus with a dinner

and a concert. The Whittier SWITZER College Choir's Madrigal Feaste GARDNER) has become an annual get- ( together, too. Our big event this Members of the activities and events committee discussing upcoming spring was a visit to the Bowers events include, from left, Marilyn (Griffin) Rasmussen '55, Lyn Museum in Santa Ana to see the (Johnson) Sandahl '53, Sandy (Tahmoush) Hansen '69, Barbara "Secret World of the Forbidden (Brucher) Sentell '68, Sharon (Lott) Person '78, Dory (Gray) Fisher '69, City: Splendors from China's Brian Miles '71, Ken Aikens '77 and Yvonne (Cutler) Huffaker '97.

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who truly belong on this campus. But the best part is that we always know what's going on at the school, so we can share information with possible Poets. Starting this fall, there's a way for you to help out, too. The Office of Admission needs more volunteers from across the coun- try to attend college fairs and spread the news about Whittier. Let us know if you're interested. Checking out the first edition of the Alumni Newsletter are —Sanjay Das '93, chair communications committee members, from left, Kathy (Robertson) Mischo '73, Katheryne (Heacock) Nighswonger '57, Editor Dean STUDENT Rowan'81, Dianne Mattingly '85, Gwen (Vaden) Woirhaye '60, Sue RELATIONS Hodson'71 and Linda Harris '71. There are 1,300 stories on the Poet Campus—this is one of them. college and let others know abut click on Alumni, then click on "Patty Poet '00 just figured out the joys of criminology, but he Jobtrak—the rest is as easy as she wants to be a criminologist. doesn't know how. parodying an old TV program. She's talked with her professors Alas, Al just needs to register —Barbara (Vallentine) and she's visited Career Services, onJobtrak (easily accessed from Garrett-Summers '69, chair but she wants more; she wants to the Whittier College Alumni talk to someone who actually horn epage) to help Patty fulfill her If you have comments or works in the field. dream. Sadly, Al overlooks this suggestions, or are interested in Cut to Albert Alumnus '68, a possibility, and Patty, lacking his joining the Alumni Association hard-working forensic specialist input, decides on a career in the Board of Directors, contact the and well-known criminologist. entertainment industry." Office of Alumni Relations at Albert loves his alma mater as Are you—like Al—interested (562) 907-4222 or via email at much as he loves his job. He real- in mentoring Whittier College . • ly would like to keep students and alumni? Just go to in touch with the the Whittier College homepage,

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From Alumni ince its debut in 1998, the College to campus Salumni Webpage has been tours to President undergoing revisions and im- Katherine Haley Will's State of the provements, with the most College address, recent redesign happening this many events were spring. Along the way, more scheduled that than 450 Poets have signed the were guaranteed to make Reunion guest book, from class years as Weekend 2000 a early as 1942 to the "almost" big success. Last alums who graduated this

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The ROC K Spring/Summer 2000 Hary,ey's World: Politics Out side

By Shawn Fitzpatrick '98

With its white dome rising in the blue sky and Classroom for 18 years, with the trip to Sacramento briefcase-toting pedestrians in dark suits and skirts funded by the Richard M. Nixon '34 Endowment. hustling up and down its steps, the California "I want to expose students to professionals in State Capitol stood out like a glittering prize for the field—directly rather than in a class with a the students on their first day in Sacramento last professor and textbooks," said Harvey. "I want January. them to see politicians in their natural habitat, so While it was impossible to tell exactly what the to speak." next two days had in store for them, Richard B. And like some bizarre urban safari, the natural Harvey, distinguished service professor of political habitats of California's political elite are exactly science, and the 10 students in his Interim course, what the group pursued and located—not only in Politics Outside the Classroom, left their Sacramento, but also in Los Angeles. In fact, the Sacramento hotel rooms by 9 a.m. After a brisk trip to Sacramento was only one of many. walk to the Capitol, they entered the inner flurry This year, the class's itinerary consisted of meet- of activity and strolled down a long corridor to the ings with local figures from party headquarters and department of finance and their first of 11 special interest groups, as well as political reporters appointments over the next 48 hours. and commentators in the media, individuals from "Our appointments and meetings are wide campaign management firms and, of course, the open," said Harvey. "Topics of conversation politicians themselves. are primarily determined by student questions, but they also develop as a result of who we're meeting with and what they do." With big money and budgets being a logical starting point to their further political adventures, the class met with Bob Miyashiro, deputy director of finance, who discussed California's expenditures, the $1.2 billion surplus the state is expected to have this year and how every politician in Sacramento would like a piece of the pie. The first-hand witness of California government in action, however, is nothing new for this man and his From left, Danielle Pere '00, Leanna Wilson '01, Ean White '00, students. Harvey, author of The May Lee '02, Dana Fitchett '02, Kevin Nicol '01, Matthew Leos Dynamics of California Government '02, Morgan Galli '02, Thomas Beecher '02 and Richard Harvey, and Politics—now in its sixth edition— distinguished professor of political science, visit the California has been teaching Politics Outside the State Assembly Floor. Not shown is classmate Philippe Hug '02.

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The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 the Classroom "Whittier College gave me values and a great sense of community. I was blessed with an education from Dr. Harvey ... [he] was one of the factors that lead me into One of the favorite local trips was to politics. Now I'm a political junkie." the Staples Center to meet with political —WILLIAM WARDLAW 168 heavyweight William Wardlaw '68, Attorney, financier and personal friend of and advisor called "one of Los Angeles' most to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. Wardlaw influential political insiders" by the Los engineered both of Riordan 's successful campaigns Angeles Times. and was primarily responsible for bringing the Democratic National Convention to Los Angeles' With the faint sound of the Los Staples Center this year. Angeles Clippers running drills and dribbling on the hardwood court below, "I took Politics Outside the Classroom and the class sat upstairs in a luxurious, went to Sacramento. Eventually, that landed double suite with Wardlaw and Noelia me here with a job in Gov. Davis' office. Rodriguez, deputy mayor of Los Angeles. Now I have to think ahead of [Davis] ... I try to meet his needs before he knows he needs While discussions ranged from the them, and that's not always easy." coming Democratic National Convention —LANA KIM 198 to the current state of politics in Aide to California Governor Gray Davis Washington, D.C., much of what was said centered on L.A.'s Mayor Richard Riordan, Wardlaw's personal friend. "I spoke many times with Doc Harvey at Whittier College and my interests turned Of all the field trips, though, the trip from basketball to politics. I became very to the state capital was clearly the most involved in politics at Whittier." popular with the students. —TONY STRICKLAND 193 "Sacramento was simply Republican Assemblyman for the 37th District unforgettable," said Philippe Hug '02. "It's not every day that college students "He truly presents all sides of the [political] get to mingle with politicians." story in his classes ... I feel honored and And there was certainly no shortage lucky that for the majority of my time at of political figures or politics on this trip. Whittier, I was able to spend time with this Following their appointment at the great man." department of finance, the class went —JONATHAN S. COLLARD '01 down the hall to the governor's office, President, Associated Students of Whittier College across town to the attorney general's office, to the other side of town for a "I didn't have much interest in politics until meeting with the Fair Political Practices taking his class. Now I can't stop watching Commission and then to dinner with CNN and CSPAN to find out what's going on Tom Konovaloff '55, lobbyist for a in politics and what the [presidential] candidates are doing." variety of organizations. And that was just the first of two —MAY LEE 102 full days. Member of the final Politics Outside the Classroom course Continued next page

The ROCK Spr,e9 srer,,e, 2 000 Interestingly, a number of Whittier College is all about. "It's been a life-long interest of mine," alumni in Sacramento attended some of the he said. But now, after 40 years at Whittier appointments with the class. One of those was College-30 years teaching and 10 years as an Lana Kim '98, a former student of Harvey's who administrator—and numerous trips to Sacramento, now works as an aide to Gov. Gray Davis. Harvey is ready to call it quits; he retired after the Kim took the students on a tour of the spring semester. governor's office, including the inner chambers, "I'm getting old, and 40 seems like a nice, even presented each of them with a signed photo of the number to go out on," he said jokingly. "It's a new governor, and even made it possible for the class to millennium and a new century ... it just seems like sneak into a press conference on education that the right time to do it." Davis held that morning. Without a doubt, his unique, hands-on All that, however, paled in comparison to the approach to political science has influenced, and main event at the governor's office: Much to the will be missed by, many. So much so that close professor's surprise, Kim presented Harvey with an friends and associates recently have established the official proclamation from Davis, citing February 1, Richard B. Harvey Endowment Fund to honor him. 2000, as "Dr. Richard B. Harvey Day." The purpose of this endowment will be decided by The second day in Sacramento was no less Harvey himself, and all political science alumni are hectic and no less of a safari. The day started early encouraged to support it. with an appointment on the Assembly floor to meet Ralph Romo, assistant chief clerk of the Assembly. After hearing about the inner workings of the Assembly and the voting that takes place there, the class toured the Assembly floor—something not many tourists get to do. After the Assembly tour, it was time for the class to venture over to the Senate side of the Capitol. There, they met in the office of Senate majority leader Richard G. Polanco (D 22), and with Senator Martha Escutia, a Democrat representing the 30th District—which includes Whittier—to discuss some issues that were very close to home. One of the more interesting situations Usurping the chair, desk and office of occurred during an impromptu lunch meeting California's governor, Harvey flashes his best with Harvey's former student, Assemblyman Tony "Gray Davis" smile. Strickland '93 (R 37). Not surprisingly, the lunch chatter was dominated by political discourse, and "I feel like my classmates and I got lucky," said sometimes even heated political debate. May Lee '02. "It was definitely quite an experience "I like the students to meet with alumni in being in Harvey's last January Interim class." Sacramento," said Harvey. "It's good for them to see Harvey's thoughts on all this business can be politics and the political process in the flesh ... it's summed up in only a few lines: "I have done this good for them to see people they can identify with.,, [class and trip] for many years. I have even spent Morgan Galli '02 agrees: "[The alumni] were a my own money on it ... and I have loved every great resource. They made me want to became second of it." • more active in California politics." And California politics is exactly what Harvey

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Betty (Hester) Thompson, A NOTE TO ALUMNI Barbara (Holloway) Smith, Alice (Lacy) Johnson, Marie We welcome your Poet to Poet submissions and will include them (Lindahl) Palmer and Mary as space permits. Mail the information to your class agent or to Joyce (Whitlock) Funk. The late The Rock, P.O. Box 634, Whittier, CA 90608. You can also fax it to us Jane (Gray) DeCamp also par- ticipated. at(562) 907-4927 or send it via e-mail to [email protected]. Milton A. Buffington is enjoying retirement in Sun Lakes, Western Art, Steuben Glass and Ariz. He is active in Kiwanis and Antique Toys. 1929 works with the American Society Imogene (Sproule) Jones of Mechanical Engineers in Nyna (Hagen) Pickering is in- moved to a retirement community Phoenix. He enjoys traveling, volved in activities at her in Santa Rosa, Calif. particularly to visit his son, Stanton, Calif., retirement home. Milton P. Buffington '68, in She traveled to Washington and Lila (Wing) Kishbaugh writes Washington, D.C. Oregon last year. that at 90, she is active as a vol- unteer in the P.E.O. thrift shop Doris (Capps) Phillips enjoys and enjoys playing bridge. traveling. She and her husband 1933 also play bridge and volunteer with Meals on Wheels. Alice (Barmore) Snedecor lives 94 Dean (Dice) Thompson writes at Quaker Gardens in Stanton, that she and her husband are Calif., with her husband, Harvey. Grace (Mills) Coopmans and her husband, Ted, celebrated happily ensconced in the Max Goldman lives in their 60th wedding anniversary Providence Point retirement com- Templeton, Calif., and writes that Last year with three months of munity in Issaquah, Wash. They he is happy to be a great-grand- events, including a reception, enjoy visits with classmates Carl father. dinner and barbecue during their and Jane (Taber) Randolph. Adella (Hayes) Valla lives in anniversary weekend in August. Robert "Tippy" Dye volunteers Long Beach, Calif., with her hus- The family took a cruise to with the Honolulu YMCA as the band, Louis. Hawaii, and Ted and Grace took a executive for the Hawaii cluster Jessie (Hyans) Pohlman lives fall foliage cruise through New of YMCAs and the annual "Friends in a retirement community in San England and Canada, followed by of Youth" financial campaign. He Luis Obispo, Calif. a five-week trip to Holland, and his wife, Esther (Boyle) '44, Denmark and Sweden. William Krueger lives near visited Austria, England, France his two daughters on a nine-and- and Germany last year, including a-half acre spread in Port 1943 a trip to Dachau Concentration Haywood, Va. Camp in Munich. Philip Martin and his wife, Jo (Barmore) Mann writes that Bill Eichelberger writes that he Jean, have been married more she and her husband, Lou '41, is "still flying whenever we can than 61 years. They live in who is recuperating from a find a place to go to." Last year, Greeley, Cob. stroke, would love to hear from he traveled to Spain with a hiking old friends. group. Gladys (Olson) Baldwin writes that she celebrates each birthday Betty (Bartlett) Grubbs retired Jane (Francis) Douglas moved with a trip to the opera—most from her business, "Smashing to lone, in California's Mother recently "La Boheme." Interiors Ltd.," after 27 years. Lode Country, last fall. Eldon Paddock is enjoying re- Betty (Brydon) Dunn and sever- Bruce Giguette writes that he tirement in San Diego, Calif. al of her classmates have been and his wife, Fran (Rogers) '42, penning round-robin letters to keep busy visiting "places like Bob Rockwell invites any of his each other since graduation. Yosemite, Disney World, classmates who are traveling in Besides Dunn, the circle of writers Yellowstone, etc. We hike weekly the Corning, N.Y., area to visit includes Jo (Barmore) Mann, with friends in the nearby parks him at the Rockwell Museum of Continued next page

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and often volunteer at the local and sells articles on travel and adult center." 946 psychology. She is a member of Carol (James) Frank and her the executive board of the Jung Helen (Chisholm) Wilson husband have a Cadillac V12, is Society of Claremont (Calif.) and 1935 Town Cabriolet show car, planning a trip to Greece this year. works in family relations with the one of only 13 manufactured. It She writes that she is taking ten- Orange County Habitat for is completely restored, and they nis and tai chi lessons, saying My Humanity. athletic skills were always defi- travel with it throughout the Clifford Cole writes that he cient, now they are embarrassing— United States for benefits. traveled to Pakistan last summer, but it is fun to try to improve." Frances (Jones) Timberlake visiting his daughter and son-in- plans on moving to a retirement Shirley (Freeburg) Lilienthal law and their six children. 'We community near her home in writes that she is enjoying retire- spent two weeks in the foothills Salem, Ore. ment and gardening in spite of of the Karakorum Mountains at the constant wet weather at her 9,000 feet elevation, hiking every Mary (King) Flint writes that home in Fruitland, Ind. day on beautiful, uncrowded she is enjoying life in her Tulsa, trails, shaded by tall trees. The Okla., retirement community. Keith Walton and his wife took an Alaskan cruise last summer. weather was ideal, with the ex- After traveling all over the world, ception of one afternoon hail Grace (Miks) Meierding is en- storm when we got drenched." joying life in Prescott, Ariz. 1944 Arlene (Mitchell) Bird and her Leland Mahood enjoys walking husband divide their time be- Lorna (Appleby) Pfluke has a two to three miles a day, swim- tween Sonoma, Calif., and Yuma, part-time practice as a marriage ming, reading, traveling, theater Ariz., where she enjoys line danc- and family therapist and writes and is taking a class in computers ing classes. at a local school. Barbara (Robinson) and Art Hobson moved to the Oakwood MARRIAGES adult community in Santa Rosa, Calif. Alphonso Pepito '80 and Cheri Sudyka, on Oct. 8, 1999. Robert Schilling is president of Karen Hew '83 and Warren Bartholomew, on March 13, 1999. Behind the Classroom Door, a pri- vate foundation that funds pro- Kerry Clarke '91 and Troy Berry, on July 31, 1999. jects in the U.S. and abroad. Its Katrina Diller '92 and Joseph Jafek, on April 10, 1999. goal is to improve the interaction Maria Sanchez '93 between teacher and student. and Mike McCullough, on July 1, 1999. With two U.S. schools involved, Deborah Fisk '94 and Ross Boelsen, on July 3, 1999. three in Chile and one in Kenya, Genevieve Haines '95 and Fred Buescher '96, on Jan. 30, 1999. he travels quite a bit. Barbara (Stambaugh) and Alicia Hobbs '95 and Glen Cruz, on Oct. 3, 1998. Norfleet "Cal" Callicott '42 Barbara Mayer '95 and Nick Reskusic, on May 29, 1999. attended a family reunion last summer that was a conclave of Christine Quinn '95 and Daniel Chafins, on Aug. 9, 1997. Poets. In addition to aunts, uncles, Kay Ryan '95 and Eric Nay, on Feb. 6, 1999. cousins and grandchildren, the Lorraine Combs '96 and William Ortiz '97, on July 31, 1999. gathering included son John Callicott '60, daughter and son- Linda Lee '96 and Brett Schraeder '95, on Aug. 14, 1999. in-law Carolee (Callicott) '66 Colleen Windham '96 and Philip Hughes, on Aug. 27, 1999. and Dennis Robertson '66 and daughter Linda (Callicott) Chantelle Soto '97 and Amare Belay, on Feb. 27, 1999. Mele '70. In September they Jason Trumpler '97 and Jennifer Goebler, on Jan. 9, 2000. 10 attended a reunion of Cal's Air Force 319th bomb group in Lindsey Badillo '98 and Daniel Pira '97, on Sept. 12, 1999. Savannah, Ga. After selling their travel agency, Erlene (Woodward) and Jack .-.----. € Mele retired and are enjoying golf and travel.

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Ken Scheel lives in Hemet, Calif., Episcopal church, treasurer of her travels have taken her to Mexico, which he cabs "Heaven for retirees." hospital auxiliary and a member Greece and several Civil War sites. John Shultz keeps busy maintain- of P.E.O. She writes that she is Hal Jones lives on the 16th hole ing his property in La Habra, Calif., Looking forward to cutting back of a golf course and country club and he and his wife are active with on volunteering and doing more in San Jose, Calif. traveling. their church. Stacy Richards, associate pro- Joseph Waddington writes that Lois (Cooper) McKeand enjoys fessor of counseling and psychol- his wife, Lena, is recovering from traveling with her husband, Bob, ogy at Northern State University brain surgery. They have adopted and keeping in touch with in Aberdeen, S.D., received the a 17-year-old son, D.J. Whittier College classmates. Distinguished Service Award from Marion (Woods) Silva enter- Carol Harris and her husband, the South Dakota Mental Health tained four other Whittier grads John '51, have a ranch in Association for his work in estab- at her home in Los Osos, Calif. Yerington, Nev., where they raise lishing licensed professional Joining her "for a week of talk- Llamas, mini-donkeys, water buf- counselors and his service on the ing, touring and fun" were class- falo and zebras. Board of Counselor Examiners. mates Laurel Meyer, Betty Anne (Monson) Fritz moved to Ruth (Stickney) Shook writes (Ternquist) Hang, Marjorie Lakeside, Calif., to a home she that she and her husband, Jim, (Finley) Magnusson and helped design and her oldest son are enjoying retirement on their Marjorie's husband, Alan '43. built. mini-ranch near Carpinteria, Calif. Donald Morales writes that he They travel frequently to visit 1950 Lives and fishes in Oregon after children and grandchildren. working as a teacher and assis- Marilyn (Votaw) Dickey visited Bill and Margaret (Frees) '53 tant superintendent of schools in Norway and England last summer, Witthuhn enjoy tennis, bridge, Yuba County, Calif. In his long including a two-week tour of church activities and sightseeing career, he also served as coordi- Quaker country. She participates around their home in Hayden, nator of the interstate migrant in a Rolling Reader program, Idaho. Bill writes that he was program for the California reading to classes of young chil- able to sell several copies of his Department of Education, special dren in the public school near her book, More Than Luck, at a bas- assistant to the director of the home in Anaheim, Calif. ketball clinic for youth league Office for Civil Rights in the of- Cecilia (Wiant) May lives in coaches last year. They keep in fice of the Secretary for Health Tustin, Calif., but traveled to touch with several members of and Human Services, director of Washington, D.C., and visited the 1949 and 1950 championship education for the Torres Martinez family in Ohio last year. baseball teams and also saw sev- Indian tribe, and director of re- eral Whittier graduates at their search for the California high school reunions in 1999. Democratic Party. He writes, "1 95 4 had a great time working—but fishing is a lot better." Elizabeth "Betty" (Soults) Garlinghouse wrote to say she 95 Teddy (Payne) Calaway volunteers as a storyteller and writes that she and her husband, Marilyn (Holmes) Hale retired reader in schools and libraries be- Don '56, enjoy retirement. They from teaching more than 10 years cause she is "still inspired by the volunteer at their church, are ago but keeps active as a volun- children's literature classes care-givers for Don's mother, visit teer at her grandchildren's school taught by Mabel Rice." their children and grandchildren and with the Long Beach and enjoy camping in Idaho and Symphony. For the past two Montana, where Don likes to fish. years, she worked as a supervisor 959 for emergency-credentialed Joan (Peters) Woehrman moved Sharon (Anderson) Haskell teachers at California State from Whittier to Rancho Mirage, writes that she and her husband University at Long Beach. where she and her husband, Bob, enjoy the desert environment. have settled in Las Vegas, Nev., after six years of traveling and 1952 Living in their motor home. 1953 Jim Johnstone writes that there Retired teacher Kathryne was a mini-reunion in Beaverton, A. Joy Huss enjoys traveling in (Clifton) Weldon is president of Ore., last July. "Present were her motorhome and attending the Ventura County (Calif.) Math Nancy (Koehler) Preston '56, Council, senior warden of her Elderhostel programs. Recent Continued next page

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Martha (Fasholtz) Dean '56, Suzanne (Redman) Sargent in Escondido, Calif., and singing Harriet (Iittley) Schultz '56, writes that she is enjoying retire- with a local music club. He works and Jim '59 and Vava (Van de ment on her 18-acre ranch in part-time for United Way, raising Mark) Johnstone '59. Harriet Cottonwood, Calif. She is a volun- funds for 197 social service and and Jim are fellow grads of West teer at the local library and health non-profit foundations Whittier School and Whittier High. judges rodeo parade horses each serving San Diego County. It was a great nostalgia trip." spring. She is "working on a book lvydell (Kellam) Dyer lives in John Mineghino retired from about teaching reading while try- Cameron Park, Calif., but writes the family fish business to Lake ing to learn about my computer." that she visited seven countries Havasu, Ariz., in 1997. He enjoys in Africa last spring. Known as hunting and riding dirtbikes. 96 the Bear Lady for her collection Kate (Wiquest) and Don of 500, she has a Bear Museum at Harner '57 sold their home and Nadine (Applegate) Hathaway a local school. travel full-time in a 32-ft. fifth- is director of the Hathaway Ranch Shari (Lowe) Westmoreland wheel motorhome. They enjoy Museum on property that her hus- sold her Hallmark Card shop and hiking in national and state band's parents bought and farmed is enjoying retirement in Yorba parks, bicycle rides and motorcy- in 1905. On exhibit are old farm Linda, Calif., with her husband, cle riding as they travel, but plan machinery, clothing, furniture, David '62. to retire near Bend, Ore., some- toys, appliances, kitchen equip- Jackie (Karker) Grosso spent time in the future. ment and photographs, spread some time kayaking in Alaska last out over five acres located in summer and hopes to visit France 1960 Santa Fe Springs, Calif. this year. JoDee (Boyle) Pettine runs the Charlotte (McWilliams) Stal Ed Bain writes that he is still family business in Medford, N.J., retired from the Cairo American teaching, coaching and traveling with her youngest son, Marc. School in Egypt and lives in as much as he can. Phyllis Cairns is manager at Laguna Beach, Calif. Deanna (Daly) Graham and her Washington Talking Book and Barbara (Phelps) Binns took husband, Ken, live in Fullerton, Braille Library in Seattle. She and early retirement after 30 years of Calif., but have spent much of the her partner are foster parents teaching in the Mill Valley (Calif.) Last two years taking their sailboat to a two-year-old girl who joined School District. An artist, she is back and forth through the Panama the family when she was seven preparing work for an upcoming Canal, visiting Central America, the weeks old. show and serving as her own gen- Caribbean and Florida. Sister Mary Charles eral contractor as she restores Joan (Harter) Cavenah writes Culbertson lives at All Saints and remodels her home. that she and her husband, Dick, Convent in Baltimore, where she As a vocational education special- sold their flooring business and is in charge of the kitchen and ist for the Chancellor's Office, are enjoying two-day weekends St. Michael's Gift Shop. She also Peggy (Sprout) Olivier works for the first time in 20 years. is on the staff of St. Michael's with all 106 California community Conference and Central Council of Pat (Inouye) Endsley is enjoy- colleges. Forward in Faith. ing retirement in Lahaina, Myron Puckett writes that he is Hawaii. Michael Doyle retired from the still creating state-of-the-art edu- Alta Loma (Calif.) School District Janice (Maraist) Wirth retired cational software. in 1995. He is an adjunct profes- after working for Orange County Bob Rice retired and is building sor at National University and Cal for 31 years in various assign- a home on the Rogue River in State San Bernardino, supervising ments. She worked in human re- Grants Pass, Ore. student teaching. He also serves sources, the county administrative as organist and choir director at Pat (Rieboldt) Van Vliet writes office and the health care agency, St. Paul's Lutheran Church in that she is retired and loving it in where she was division manager Pomona. Fullerton, Calif. responsible for medical services After 34 years of teaching, Alice for indigents and emergency med- Lesley (Green) Huffaker is a (Rosene) Mitchell retired and is ical services. She and her hus- resource specialist for the Alpine enjoying travel with her husband band, Phil, will divide their time (Calif.) Union School District and Jim '57. They have visited South between their home in Trabuco works with grief support groups America, China and Australia. Canyon, Calif., and a new condo at the Methodist Church. They also breed and show minia- at Mammoth Lakes, where they Bill Johnston writes that he is ture schnauzer dogs. enjoy skiing. unofficially retired, playing golf

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AND THE Orange County (Calif.) Board of Supervisors acknowledged her 10 WINNER IS... years as a Reserve Park Ranger Just ask Sandra (Lemay) with a proclamation last fall. In Bruesch—sometimes it is an addition, she serves as secretary to honor just to be nominated. the Orange County Human Relations Bruesch, a 1966 Whittier Council, with special interest in graduate, was one of only 39 their high school and middle teachers across the country school Building Bridges and Walk honored by the Walt Disney in My Shoes programs and the Company with their 1999 Community Policing Awards Pro- American Teacher Awards. gram. In the political arena, she Although the envelope an- serves as the 46th Congressional nouncing the Outstanding District Coordinator for the Human Teacher of the Year during Relations Council Action Line. She ceremonies last fall did not also works part time for the Row- (Lemay) Bruesch '66 contain her name, Bruesch land Unified School District as the and friend. said the experience was ab- training site coordinator for the solutely fabulous. "It felt internship module of the Health/ pretty good to be one of 39 Disney 'honorees' in 12 categories when Medical Services Certificate Pro- there were 120,000 nominations and 75,000 applications to start with," gram. She lives in Santa Ana with she said. "My category was math and science, and I was the only math- her partner of four years, where, ematician in the group." she writes, they have just com- Bruesch teaches advanced placement calculus and statistics at Whitney pleted landscaping the front yard High School in Cerritos, Calif. She was nominated by one of her students of their "new" home. for her classroom expertise and for such extracurricular activities as coach- Ralph Fetterolf works for ing the academic decathlon team and training students in the Boeing Lockheed Martin in Moorestown, Space Settlement Competition at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. N.J., where he directs and coordi- Bruesch's honor netted $2,500 each for her and the school, in addi- nates computer program projects tion to a VIP trip to Hollywood for the filming of the awards ceremony— for U.S. Navy defense contracts. and a side trip to Disneyland. "All of the teachers were in the parade, from Small World to the end of Main Street," she said. "I was on a float with Mickey Mouse, with people cheering and waving. It was lovely." 963 The ceremony aired—on the Disney Channel, of course—Nov. 15, 1999. Chevy Chase was the host, and Bruesch says it was a lot like the Glen Warner and his wife, Academy Awards, with an all-star cast and special appearances by astro- Nancy, divide their time between nauts John Glenn and Buzz Aldrin, along with filmed vignettes of the Southern California and Ohio. He teachers in action as part of the entertainment. Her favorite souvenir is is vice president of new products a videotape of the two-hour show. and markets for Molded Fiber "It was incredible and crazy," she said, "and the beautiful little girl Glass Manufacturing Company and they focused on at the beginning of the show—with 40 million people serves as pastor of Second watching—was my granddaughter." Congregational Church UCC in Ashtabula, Ohio.

Judy (Stratton) Cooper retired District. Gary is superintendent of and writes that she spends her the San Gabriel Unified School 1964 days in "unstructured bliss." District. In their spare time, they Han "Sonny" Ching, chairman Alberta "Bobbie" (Voss) enjoy sailing. of the board of Aloha Air Group, Chase is back in Worcester, Vt., Henrietta (Weber) Reeser is Inc. and Aloha Airlines, was after 11 years of living and teach- enjoying life with her husband, elected to the board of trustees ing in Saudi Arabia. Don, in Makawao, Maui, Hawaii. of Punahou School in Hawaii. Marion (Voss) and Gary Goodson live in Brea, Calif., and 962 are both in education. She re- 965 ceived her master's in education Although she retired from teaching Susan (Clough) Wyatt retired from Azusa Pacific University last in 1994, Barbara (Billedeaux) after more than 20 years as a year and teaches third grade in Muirhead continues to devote family counselor and is writing the Walnut Valley Unified School many hours to volunteer work. The Continued next page

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family memoirs. When not travel- tual funds, employee benefit school music and is a church ing, she and her husband, plans, insurance companies and choir director. Richard, live in Corrales, N.M. other institutional accounts. Former instrumental music 1973 1966 teacher Richard Neighbarger retired from the 133rd Army Band Susan (Baker) Buis lives in Joe Jennum is division chair for and is a freelance musician and Hathaway Pines, Calif., and is a physical education and athletics civil service recreation worker. second-grade teacher at Mark at Napa Valley College, where he Sinara (Stull) O'Donnell sold Twain Elementary School in is the golf coach. two articles to the Wall Street Angels Camp. Journal's interactive Web page, Stephanie (Caiopolous) 1967 "Dos and Don'ts of Interview Lubian, who lives in Diamond Follow-Up" and "Five Myths of a Bar, Calif., with her husband, is a Holiday Job Search." Mary (McCown) O'Brien writes systems analyst. She writes that that she has been working on she'd love to hear from her toxics issues and conservation of 1970 Whittier College friends. Halls Canyon in northeastern James Clendaniel has been a Oregon for a long time. She is in- Jim Armstrong is principal at teacher and coach at Yucaipa volved in implementing a toxics Righetti High School in Santa High School for more than 17 right-to-know law in Eugene. Her Maria, Calif. His wife, Vicki years. He is head cross country book, Protecting Life on Earth: A (Lee) '71, teaches first grade at and track coach, and his teams Better Way to Make Environmental May Grisham School in nearby have won five CIF cross country Decisions, will be published by Orcutt. They have two daughters. championships, three state titles, MIT Press this spring. Jon Frandell is a vice president 39 league titles and one national at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. title. His wife, Kay (Hickey) '74, (S manages the local branch of the 66 Bill Jones is an educational learn- 196 Bank of America and is treasurer ing specialist at Monterey Peninsula of the Chamber of Commerce. Margie Stern is a speech and College and teaches at California language pathologist for an State University at Monterey Bay. Barbara (Coulson) Davis is a infant-toddler program in the He surfs and does a daily surf report clinical laboratory scientist with Solano (Calif.) County Office of for a local public radio station. He St. Mary Medical Center in Long Education, working in Vacaville organizes medical clinics for The Beach, Calif. and Fairfield. Flying Doctors, Rotary International Leonard Couzijn is a real estate Michael Younger appeared in a and the Surfers' Medical Association broker in Kailua, Hawaii. He writes commercial for hotjobs.com that and travels the world looking for that he is still single and would aired during this year's Super surf spots and doing clinics. His Like to hear from his classmates. Bowl game. next SMA clinics will be on the Debra (Mann) Brighton is li- Mentawai Islands, off the coast of brary director at the El Segundo Sumatra in July, and in Hidalgo, (Calif.) Public Library. 1969 Mexico, in August. In addition to Kathleen (Morgan) Jarus planning the clinics, Jones writes moved from Whittier to Monarch Brenda (Bartling) Furlong was that he performs optometry in Third Beach, Calif., last year. She works appointed chief investment offi- World nations and does some trans- in her husband's medical practice. cer of The Hartford Financial lation. "1 am always on the lookout Services Group, Inc., and presi- for medical supplies and donations, Christine (Parkey) Coleman is dent of Hartford Investment and I specialize in used prescription a public school teacher in El Management Company (HIMCO). eyeglasses and non-prescription Monte, Calif. She wilt oversee approximately sunglasses, as well as hats, to give $60 billion in invested assets, in- to people in these tropical areas." cluding almost $17 billion on a 974 discretionary basis for non- affiliated institutional investors. 197 Linda (Whalen) Arizmendi and HIMCO is a registered investment her husband, Mike, celebrated advisor with the Securities and Laura (Neville) Bell lives in their 30th wedding anniversary Exchange Commission that pro- Cypress, Calif., with her husband, Last year. vides investment services to mu- Walt. She teaches elementary Continued on page 16

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1925 1933 in several of Richard Nixon's politi- cal campaigns, including the 1950 John L. Compton died Oct. 18, Bob M. Farnham died June 24, victory over Helen Gahagan Douglas 1999. Following a long career in 1999. An economics major, he was for the U.S. Senate. education, he retired as a member of the Orthogonian superintendent of the Bakersfield Society. 1941 (Calif.) School District in 1963. He Vivian (Van Hellen) Jordan died received the Alumni Achievement Yvonne (Bonser) Willford Dec. 24, 1999. She was a music Award, and was a Whittier College died on Dec. 4, 1999. A member of major and choir member. trustee from 1948-73 and an the Athenian Society, she was a honorary trustee from 1973-94. teacher for many years at Dexter Survivors include his wife, Gladys 1934 and Katherine Edwards schools in (Foster) Compton '25. Ralph Rich died Jan. 22, 2000. Whittier, heading the physical education and student counselor 1927 departments until her retirement 1935 in 1983. Ruth M. Price died June 6, 1999. Margaret (Cederquist) Smith After graduation, she taught in the died Sept. 19, 1999. She was a 1942 Whittier College science department Broadoaks Pasadena alumna. for a year and then went on to Paul Higgins, notified in teach in public and private schools Marian Jenkins died April 6, September of 1999. for 39 years. She was a zoology 1998. major and a member of the Palmer Ann (Sanborn) Prestridge died Dec. 17, 1999. Society. Survivors include her sister, 1937 Margaret (Price) Sowers '35, and niece, Patricia C. Sowers '59. Dorothy (Baker) Ott died Nov. 1948 15, 1999. She was a member of the Mary (Abbott) Lemke, notified 1929 Metaphonian Society. Survivors in- clude her husband, Frank Ott '36. in October of 1999. Eleanor (Marshall) Wildman Walker "Tex" Hannon, notified Gladys Claypool died June 22, died Dec. 23, 1999. in September of 1999. He was a 1999. member of the Lancer Society and 1931 played on the baseball team. 1949

Louise (McConough) English, Marion L. (McGregor) James W. Baldwin died in March notified in September of 1999. Thomason died Aug. 24, 1999. of 1998. Survivors include his wife, Harold Spencer died Jan. 24, After receiving her degree in ele- Rosalind (Miller) Baldwin '51. mentary education, she taught in 2000. The co-author of The Trees of Phil Campbell died in August of Banning, Calif., and then at Whittier, he was a biology professor 1999. He was a member of the Valencia School in Pico Rivera until at the college from 1934-39 and Orthogonian Society. dean of the college from 1940-63. her retirement in 1978. He served as acting president of Robert Guyer died in September the college during the 1943-44 1938 of 1999. He was a member of the academic year and received an Franklin Society. Leslie Garlinghouse died Nov. honorary Doctor of Science Degree 19, 1999. A math and physics Howard R. Harrison died April 7, in 1963. Among his survivors are a major, he was a member of the 1999. daughter and son-in law, Florence William Penn Society. Survivors in- (Spencer) '59 and Bill Wilkins '58, Ralph Myers died Nov. 6, 1999. A clude his wife, Elizabeth (Soults) and niece Marilyn (Griffin) business administration major, he Garlinghouse '58. Rasmussen '55. owned Myers Department Store, a Arthur George died in September fixture in Uptown Whittier for many Marjorie (Wildman) Vinger of 1999. years. died July 20, 1999. George Prince died Jan. 3, 2000. 1939 A physical education major, he was a basketball player and member of William H. Patterson died Aug. the Franklin Society. 7, 1999. He was a member of the Orthogonian Society and was active Continued next page

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IN MEMORIAM ceived the 1999 Teacher of the Year Award from District VII of Continued from page 15 the California Continuation 1950 1964 Education Association last May.

Lyman R. Farmer, notified in Jean V. Tennant died of cancer September of 1999. Aug. 14, 1999. A history major, 1979 she retired in 1997 after 29 years 1951 at Peoples/U .S.Bank as a vice pres- James Caiopolous is an attor- ident in the trust department. ney practicing law in Irvine, Calif. Thomas J. Clagett, notified in September of 1999. 1973 James Jones died on Oct. 28, 194 0 Beverley Gin, notified in August 1999. He was a psychology major of 1999. and a member of the Sachsen Linda Prunier is an accountant Society. An active alumni volun- 1974 for the Atlantis Hotel and Casino teer, he served as class agent and in Reno, Nev. was a member of Purple & Gold. He Barbara Jane Anderson died on was a retired pharmaceutical sales Nov. 6, 1999. A sociology major, representative for Schering Plough she worked as a dental hygienist. 1982 Corporation, where he worked for 34 years. Survivors include his 1980 Cathy (Frankenfield) Danahy is wife, Barbara (Bolton) Jones '51. product manager for Intergen, a bio- Albert H. Wilson IV died Nov. tech company in Gaithersburg, Md. 1952 11, 1999.

Elise (Jenkins) Quackenbush FACULTY, STAFF 19 4 died in June of 1999. AND FRIENDS Alma Martinez was awarded the Jean (Shore) Raulston died of cancer on Sept. 15, 1999. Survivors Herold Lillywhite, who estab- Cesar Chavez Dissertation Fellowship include her sister, Ellen (Shore) lished the speech and hearing clin- from Dartmouth College, where she Conklin '44. ic in 1946 and was chairman of the is spending the year writing. She department of speech and drama also has received fellowship awards 1957 from 1947-52, died Dec. 13, 1999. from the American Society of Theatre Research and from Stanford Joel Irwin, Jr. died in July of 1999. University, which awarded her a 1959 graduate summer research fellow- ship and the Latin American stud- Donald E. Thomas died March 1, ies summer research fellowship. 1999. Cary Sowers is in his 13th year with the PGA Tour. He writes that his 12-year-old son "plays even eastern coast of Australia last sum- par and can almost beat me." 1975 mer, studying the history and envi- ronment of the country. One of his Wendy (Whitcomb) Marsh is a students was Kellie Russell '94, 9.(4 school psychologist with the an eighth-grade science teacher in Madera (Calif.) Unified School Dis- Downey, Calif., who took the trip Mark Henry is head men's and trict. She writes that her dentist is to earn continuing education cred- women's tennis coach at the Whittier grad Philip Debry '79, it and add an Australian environ- University of California at and she works with two other ment unit to her classes. Riverside. He lives with his family alums, Ardis Williams '60, also a in Big Bear Lake, Calif. 16 school psychologist, and Dennis Richard Louis II is vice president Ensminger '70, who works in ed- 977 of College Health Enterprises in ucational services with the district. Cerritos, Calif. James Tiedt, who has been Larry White, professor of psy- teaching in the Whittier Union Mike '85 and Catherine chology at Beloit College in High School District for almost 20 (Mendoza) Herbert live in Wisconsin, was faculty director of a years—the last 13 at Frontier Pasadena, Calif., where she is a program that traveled along the Continuation High School—re- Continued on page 33

The ROCK SprngIs,r,,,,,,r 2000 WELCOMING KATHERINE HALEY WILL, WHITTIER COLLEGE'S 13TH PRESIDENT Awl lftft The first step of a neu' journey

BY SHAWN FITZPATRICK '98

The inauguration of Katherine Haley Will as the liberal arts and their nature. The series— the 13th president of Whittier College was more planned by Joyce Kaufman, professor of political than just the installation of a new leader: It was a science and director of the Whittier Scholars week-long celebration of the liberal arts and of the Program, and Anne Kiley, professor of English— values Whittier College holds dear. The week began Monday, Feb. 28, with a speech by the celebrated a new direction for the college in a new former leader of the Black Panthers. On Wednesday, millennium, and the college community looked to March 1, an evening combining music and poetry the past for a sense of bearing and then to the explored the importance of the arts and literature future in preparation for a new journey. to a liberal arts institution. At 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 2, faculty from Whittier College's three academic divisions (humanities and fine arts, natural sciences, and social sciences) explored the future of their academic disciplines. By Thursday evening, a new exhibit featuring the work of Endi Poskovic—opened to coincide with the inaugural festivities—was on display in Mendenhall lobby. Thursday evening was a time to celebrate, as Whittier faculty and trustees

GAF gathered in the Shannon Center for a formal dinner. The week culminated on Friday with the inauguration itself, SCOTF BRINE preceded by a lunch for trustees, John "My goal is to reaffirm our mission squarely on our identity as a national college of the liberal arts," Will said. Greenleaf Whittier Society members and delegates to the inauguration. The day "The inauguration committee began planning ended with a campus-wide reception attended by the celebration in the fall," said Joseph M. nearly 1,000 people. Zanetta, vice president for advancement and chairman of the inauguration committee. "We THE INAUGURAl. COLLOQUIA: WHITTIER wanted to create a series of events that would COLLEGE IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM celebrate both Whittier's future and its heritage, The inaugural colloquia events provided a as well as honor our new president." forum for the college community to come The week leading up to the inauguration together and celebrate Whittier's heritage, as well featured a series of five colloquia that examined as think together about issues important to the

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The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 college and the liberal arts. Because of California Baptist University, and Whittier's commitment to diversity, student poets Dawn Finley '00 the first event in the series dealt with and Alison Outschoorn '01, related issues. joined Barnstone in the Memorial As part of Whittier's First-Year Chapel. Student Convocation—designed to Complemented with piano provide all first-year students with a selections ranging from Haydn common experience—Elaine Brown, and Brahms to Schoenberg, former leader of the Black Panthers, A new exhibit featuring Barnstone read works from his the work of assistant was invited to speak to the largest book of poems, Impure, professor of art Endi as well as freshman class in Whittier's history Poskovic was on display a number of Arabic, Chinese, and others in attendance. in Mendenhall lobby. Japanese and Persian translations. Speaking to a Whittier population Finley read from her own that includes more than 40 percent minorities, poems, including "Mr. Mine" and "Killing Years," Brown stimulated thought and discussion. and Outschoorn, from Sri Lanka, read a number "What are you doing here in school?" she asked. "What is it you want to accomplish?" "Why am I here?" and "Why are you here?" Brown cited the many difficulties facing minorities and—using history as her guide—said, "We have to confront the page before we can turn the page." Followed by a lively question-and-answer session, Brown stressed the point that all people need to find common ground, regardless Following their presentation of poetry and music, of the dissimilarities Jeanette Wong '81, Alison Outschoorn '01, Dawn Finley '00, and Tony Barnstone rise for the between groups. audience's appreciation and applause. Wednesday's event featured the musical and literary z talents of Whittier's faculty, students, and alumni. Tony Elaine Brown, the first and only Barnstone, associate woman to lead the Black Panthers, professor of English was the first speaker in a week- long celebration of the liberal arts. and a published poet, orchestrated an evening combining music and poetry, illustrating the importance of the arts and literature to a liberal arts education. Jeanette Paul Kjellberg, sitting next to Ann Topjon, reference librarian, and Shelley Urbizagastegui, Wong '81, pianist and professor of music at government documents librarian, searched for truth at Hartley House.

The ROC K Spring/Summer 2000 QUESTIONNAIRE By Tony Barnstonc (read Wednesday night) Please answer quickly, without taking time to think. What is your destination? How much time have you spent on Earth? of her own poems including "Tideless" and Did you speak to the panhandler who stands "Thin Line." outside the terminal? Did he kiss you? Thursday's trilogy of talks, held in the Faculty What did he tell you was wrong with you? Masters houses, featured Whittier College faculty Did he give you anything to hold, discussing the future of their respective academic his heart, his sweat, his diseases? Please stand against the wall with the red painted lines. disciplines. Do not move. Paul Kjellberg, associate professor of What is the total value of all the goods philosophy, explored the liberal arts through you have given away in your lifetime? philosophy and its history. What is the total amount of hours you have been asleep? According to Kjellberg, truth in philosophy Look straight ahead and open your eyes. Why do you look so surprised? unraveled at the beginning of the 19th century Has anyone given you any dreams to carry for them due to the discovery of many new languages and or did you pack them away yourself? the systematic studies of these languages. This Are you carrying more than ten thousand focused much attention on the relation between miles of memory or oblivion? What have you signed your name to? language and truth. Please stand up and face the front. "The current philosophical problem is not that Wait patiently. we can't find truth—the problem is that we've Soon we will tell you what to do. found too many," said Kjellberg. "Truth is language dependent, thus the sentence 'the grass is green' is true if and only if we agree that the stuff spoken "But a society of experts will not necessarily be about is grass, and that the word 'green' does informed as a community. What's needed is represent the color green. To this end, things aren't expertise, the ability to communicate across true or false, but sentences and/or words make disciplines and the ability to be open-minded," said them true or false." Kjellberg, "just like what the paired courses Moreover, said Kjellberg, all truths in all featured at Whittier teach." languages and jargons are true in their own terms. "For a long time, however, I was stuck," he We cannot simply choose the right ones because said. "An individual who is informed, they are all correct. "This tower of Babel we find communicative and open-minded could be an ourselves in, though, gives a unique opportunity excellent con-man or an unscrupulous lawyer. to see the strengths and weaknesses of the many Then I realized that sincere concern for the well- ways we now have to view the world around us. being of other people was missing. With these The question is not how to get out of this qualities, an individualis in a position to exercise situation, but how to make the most of it?" good judgement. With good judgement, the "We used to think we had to know what was individual can wade through the language and true before we could figure out what was good, jargon to pick and choose appropriate truths for but now we realize we can't separate the two any situation. That is what the liberal arts at questions. What it requires is not just intelligence, Whittier can do." but good judgement." This, Kjellberg explained, is Speaking to a mixed group of students, faculty, where the liberal arts are extremely useful. staff, alumni and trustees, David Bourgaize, the "People must be informed, but given the Fletcher Jones Professor of Molecular Genetics, w amount of information available, we must become discussed DNA, genes and what they mean to a informed as a community, with each expert— knowledge-based world view. informed in their own field—bringing knowledge "We live in a world where knowledge is to the community. sufficient to cure any ill," Bourgaize said.

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The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 "Knowledge represents the power to understand, determined (genetically or otherwise), then to control and ultimately to intervene. Such a social efforts to improve conditions are worthless knowledge-based world view stems from the and cannot succeed. Boundaries are therefore dramatic successes of science, which has mostly established. worked through reductive methods: the "These boundaries define what is normal and dissection of systems into smaller parts to acceptable, while restricting alternatives and discover their structures and functions." possibilities," he said. "Restriction creates Bourgaize believes these reductive approaches value—what is acceptable and desirable becomes are limited by technical capabilities because we valuable." can only study those systems for which we have Conversely, Bourgaize added, what is the appropriate tools and techniques. abnormal then becomes undesirable, or even "Modem molecular biology— detrimental. "What is the study of genes and genetic detrimental can then be information—is a perfect blamed. When blame is example," Bourgaize said. assigned, any hope of "DNA is the molecule of incorporating the 'abnormal' information, and genes are the into the solution of the unit of organization that can problem disappears." best and most easily be studied. All of these implications Through techniques presently stem from a knowledge- available, we understand genes based world view that the best, therefore, they seem At Garrett House, David Bourgaize assumes we can figure the most important to study." pondered the implications of DNA everything out and then and gene research. Such studies, Bourgaize control it, he said. A better maintained, have unearthed way might be to assume an "evidence" for many genetic influences upon "ignorance-based" world view—one that ensures human traits, including schizophrenia, we realize that we can never understand or depression, various addictions, violence, IQ, control everything. homosexuality, psychotic behavior and the "There are educational implications to this predisposition to certain diseases. "Such genetic train of thought," he said. "To what degree is influences are usually reported as correlations educational performance predetermined? between having certain genetic material and "What is acceptable performance?" he asked. exhibiting such traits," he explained. "What standards are established and how should "Unfortunately, the correlations are almost they be met? What is the value of college? Is it always reported as explanations and understood simply a degree, or is it a process? How can we as a cause and effect: The genes must cause the tell whether we do a good job or not?" trait." The problem with this, he said, is that it Bourgaize said the answers to these questions— removes the impetus for understanding more and therefore the approaches we take in complex social concerns. educating through the liberal arts—depend a "Reductionist explanations may yield great deal on what society believes is valuable, inaccurate representations of the world and can what is possible and what can likely be changed. be harmful," Bourgaize said. "Such explanations Joyce Kaufman discussed the future of the lead to cause and effect relationships, which lead nation-state from the perspective of the social to deterministic beliefs. If conditions are sciences. In her talk at Johnson House, Kaufman

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The ROCK spring/summer 2000 Whittier College in the New Millennium

KATHERINE HALEY WILL Inaugural Address

MARCH 3, 2000

AMAZON.COM AND THE LIBERAL ARTS INAUGURAL ADDRESS Katherine Haley Wilt MARCH 3, 2000

Come into this place ofpeace and let its silence heal your spirit. Come into this place of #nenwFy and let its history warm your souL Come into this pinrf of prophecy and power and let its vision change your heart.

Preface ood afternoon. Here we are in "March our identity as a national college of the liberal arts. 2000." It has the sound of an My topic is "Amazon.com and the Liberal Arts." Gimperative—doesn't it? "March!" An You are probably wondering, "Oh my gracious, order to go forth! And 2000. Such a nice, round what can Amazon.com possibly have to do with the number. It seems auspicious, promising of new liberal arts?" My title, though whimsical, does truly beginnings and renewed hope. point to the direction of my talk today, for I want Did any of us really imagine that we would see to think about the liberal arts in the digital age, to this date in our lifetimes? Or perhaps we all did consider issues of tradition and change. What imagine it, but just didn't really believe that about the liberal arts is eternal? What this day would truly come. Here, at the needs to evolve or be transformed in beginning of a new century and a new order to adapt to our modern era? What millennium (if we use a metaphorical rather can properly prepare our students for a than a mathematical definition), here we time of increasingly rapid change? My stand at Whittier College, contemplating a hope is that by considering these two BRINEGAF new century and a new millennium. It tugs very disparate entities—"Amazon.com" scorr at the imagination, does it not? and "the liberal arts"—we will come to a I cannot express how honored I am to be better understanding of the latter term and will standing before you here today, now officially make some progress in articulating the essential inaugurated as the 13th president of Whittier elements—and the enduring value—of the liberal College. Believe me, I feel a tremendous sense both arts. I cannot resist quipping here that perhaps of responsibility and awe as I contemplate the task Amazon.com and the liberal arts have more in before me. common than you might first suppose—for both began with a love of books, and both are, the last ENDURING VALUES AND time I checked, non-profit organizations. CHANGING TIMES As we at Whittier consider what the college The Digital Environment should be in the new millennium, perhaps our As you may know—who could fail to know central area of focus will be our nature and identity these days—Amazon.com is one of the best-known as a liberal arts college. My mission as new examples of the new high-technology, Web-based president—and I know the Whittier community companies which have fueled a revolution in our has wholeheartedly sought and supports this understanding of business and our economy—and initiative—is to reaffirm our mission squarely on which, I might add, have challenged our notions about stock prices and "value." This is because Because it is a business, it is customer-service Amazon.com is about the future, about potential, oriented, there to please and serve the customer. It about change and evolution—the next new thing. delivers commodities—and it doesn't talk back. It's intriguing, it's fresh, it's successful, it's exciting. You can order anything you are willing to pay for. I love Amazon.com—what a great bookstore! It's I think the fact that it was, first and foremost, fun, it's convenient—and I can order books while an online bookstore was what first gave me the idea sitting at my computer in my pajamas. In fact, Time that Amazon.com might help us to elucidate the magazine recently named Jeff Bezos, its founder, as value of the liberal arts. Further, Amazon.com the man of the year 1999. New, exciting, digital, represents the environment in which the liberal arts fresh, futuristic—that's Amazon.com. must operate. It is the new world—and those of us The liberal arts on the other hand. Say these who care about the liberal arts must pay attention words to a young person—to most persons—and to it. Not only does Amazon.com represent the new their eyes will glaze over. For one thing, as opposed economy, it represents the digital age, technology, to "Amazon.com," which I chose on purpose as a and all that those things make possible. concrete, vivid example of a high-tech front- So what are the implications and challenges for runner—the term "liberal arts" is generic. In fact, education in the modern digital and consumer age it's a term that has become so generic, so clichéd, that Amazon.com represents? A great deal has been even, that those who hold the liberal arts in the made lately of the ability of technology to make highest esteem have difficulty agreeing on what it education more efficient—that is, cheaper—and to actually is. In the second part of this talk, once I make it more accessible. Already, according to have established Amazon.com as a comparison Business Week, colleges and universities offer over point, I will focus my attention on attempting a 6,000 accredited courses on the Web. Clearly, this definition of the liberal arts. poses a threat and a challenge to traditional So allow me to extend our exploration of institutions of higher education. Amazon.com as a point of contrast. Amazon.com— But the new drive in distance education arises, I Wow! This is an exciting new technology. am here to say, mostly from the assumption that Amazon.com is basically just one big online catalog education can be packaged, like a commodity, and of things you can order, which they will then send delivered to a consumer. This, of course, is exactly you within days. Amazon.com sells recognizable, what the liberal arts is NOT, for the liberal arts is a brand-name merchandise through a whole new process of being educated, not a set of facts that one medium—the Web. You can access it 24 hours a learns. When you buy a book—or even an day, seven days a week on any computer, including educational video—from Amazon.com, does that that in your home—or even from a taxi using your really mean you are buying "knowledge" or wisdom Palm Pilot, its Web interface is colorful, visual, on that topic? No. Why, then, do we think that inviting, stimulating—in short, very pleasant education can be packaged for consumers like a indeed. Its catalog describes in vivid detail precisely commodity and shipped to their homes via UPS? what you will get—and you can order exactly what Why do we think that reading about a topic online you want. It sells books, videos, CDs, DVDs, tapes, is in any way, shape or form the same thing as gifts, cards, and so much more. You need not leave "getting an education" on that topic? One might your home, and you can access it anytime. Further, argue, though I think its simplistic, that the digital it has all the search engine abilities of a high-tech medium is just a new way of delivering information. library, probably more. Think about it: Who has respect for correspondence More than anything, Amazon.com—note the courses as a medium for being educated? Distance ".com"—is a business. It exists for profit (someday!). education in its simplest form just takes the concept

2 of the correspondence course and puts it on the Web. One piece of advice I would give to every college Now, of course, I can (certainly being a college professor today—and it reminds us to stay true to professor, I easily can and consider it my duty) the values of a liberal arts education—is: "Never complicate this issue by asserting, quite justifiably, teach in a way that would allow you to be replaced that the medium does and should influence the by a video or a computer." That is, never lecture message. That is, there are some promising without interacting with students, never fail to be developments in "distance education" through student oriented, and always be a true mentor to technology to which liberal arts colleges must your students. If what you do in class could be easily attend. For one thing, technology gives teachers substituted by a video of your lecture, then you face one more way to stay in touch with their students the chance of being replaced by a more "efficient" and to continue conversations that were begun in distance education delivery system. Equally, if you class discussions or to answer questions or issues teach in the spirit of the liberal arts, you can never that arise outside of class—or to hold class be replaced. "discussions" through chat rooms. There are promising developments in direct "Larger Is Better" hookups of distant sites to actual classrooms, with Our example of Amazon.com also suggests the backup by e-mail for a professor who is distant to motif of size. Amazon—whether a mythological keep in touch with the students. As the technology tribe of women or a river—is associated with improves, I think all of us will need to consider largeness. In business, being big is often a very how technology can both enhance and perhaps good thing—we have "economies of scale," volume transform what we strive to do, which is to educate discounts, and a sense that the more successful our students. something is, the bigger it gets (i.e., the more it We must recognize that students find sells, the more customers it has), and conversely, technology immensely engaging. It is a medium to that the bigger it is, the better it must be. which they are well accustomed, often better so At liberal arts colleges, of course, we believe than the faculty. You will often hear it said that if that our small size is our special advantage, you have a technology question, ask a college particularly in undergraduate education. The senior; if the question is really tough, ask a high challenge we face is that the business and public school senior. The liberal arts in the digital age environments equate size with quality and with means that we must respond to our environment efficiency. I've heard people say, "Well, I want my and explore how technology can appropriately child to go to a good school—a large place." The enrich and transform our curriculum. We can stay public often equates large with good, and this too is true to our ideals while incorporating the new. In the challenge of small liberal arts colleges in the fact, if this talk has one message, it is: The liberal age of "Amazon.com." arts must retain what is excellent and fine and true about the tradition while adapting to the future— Consumerism in Students and seeking to shape it. Another challenge for higher education to If we are not responsive to these opportunities, which Amazon.com points is the increasing we will lose our students. For they are children of consumerism of our age. We exist now not only in the digital age, as we are not. Technology is natural the digital age but also in the new service economy. to them; it is attractive to them. It can enliven Students expect service as never before, and, their almost every course. And it can bring new consumerism understandably influences their dimensions and ways of doing things. But it should interface with education. It can prompt them to never change the essence of what we strive to do. believe that professors are service providers and

3 that students are the customers—that a degree is it becomes almost sacrilege to name it is central to indeed a commodity purchased with their tuition our problem. A statement I like a great deal comes checks. We must, of course, respond with good from Jim Freedman's book, Idealism and Liberal service to our students, but also educate them to Education. Freedman quotes Benjamin Franklin understand that an education is a process, that it is responding to the question, "What is the use of the earned through hard mental work, that professors new document you have drafted at the are mentors, and that students are apprentices and constitutional convention?" "What is the use," partners in the learning process. Franklin replied, "of a newborn child?" As dear to us as life itself, with all the promise of a newborn Quick Tempo of Change child, a liberal arts education has a value we can The modern digital age is also one of incredibly barely speak, because it is so precious that words rapid change. As a company, Amazon.com fail us. But we must define it if we want others to responds to change, adapting and transforming understand and appreciate what we hold so dear. itself almost weekly by acquiring other businesses and responding to consumer demand. Liberal arts BEYOND SPEAKING colleges—I think we all have some stories—do not DEFINING THE LIBERAL ARTS change very quickly. This is partly due to inertia, A natural move for an academic seeking answers yes, but mostly because small liberal arts colleges would be to go to some of the great sources of are about enduring values. And at their best, liberal inspiration on the liberal arts. John Henry Cardinal arts colleges teach the ability to move into the Newman would be the first to whom I would turn. future—to adapt and change, to think ahead, to be His classic statement is that the art of education is creative, to work together and to forge the future the "art of social life, and its end is fitness for the through new ideas. world." A more modern source, Lee Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the What Is the Product? Support of Teaching, states that "knowledge is Amazon.com is also great at marketing. Liberal enriched and elaborated by social interactions." arts colleges—not really. Our key problem— especially on the West Coast, where awareness of A Sense of Place liberal arts colleges is not high—is that it's not clear So, first of all, when seeking to define the special to our public what we are selling. And it is not clear qualities of the liberal arts, we would say that unlike to our public, I would posit, because it is not clear Amazon.com, the liberal arts rely on a keen sense of to us. Nor are we convinced, in our ivory-tower place—and I don't mean a Web site! "Residential high-mindedness, that we even should have to liberal arts college" should be the full phrase that we "sell" the liberal arts at all. use for colleges like Whittier. For our goal is to But we must tell our story, for the public in the create a community of learners, a place of learning, digital age understands less and less what we are and this element is critical to our endeavor. We about and fails to perceive and appreciate what we invite students to a special place, where we create a conceive to be our manifest and obvious attractions. unique community of learners. A place dedicated to So, we must be clear about what we are and student growth. A place dedicated to thoughtfulness, what we are trying to do. We must learn to define learning, and creativity. A haven where students and what we do and to "sell" it to those who think faculty interact to discuss and explore ideas. Our bigger is better, those who think technology can resistance to distance learning arises from our belief replace the classroom experience. That we hold the that one must participate in this special community concept and practice of the liberal arts so dear that in order to receive all the benefits of the small

4 residential liberal arts experience. property among fellow learners so that it can be I cannot think of a more appealing way of tested, examined, challenged, and improved before describing this sense of place than was found in a we internalize it." Unitarian/Universalist prayer that was recently When it comes to pricing and economy of used at a Wellesley conference on spirituality and scale—for liberal arts colleges are small, boutique- teaching. This passage evokes and invokes most like institutions—folks still look at our sticker beautifully that sense of place so much at the heart price when judging the cost of a liberal education, of the small residential liberal arts college: and, no doubt about it, our sticker price evokes sticker shock. But our sticker price is not by any Come into this place of peace and let its silence means the whole story. It is evident that we are not heal your spirit. yet wholly effective at advertising our price and Come into this place of memory and let its history products, when so few of the public know what a warm your soul. large proportion of the tuition of small liberal arts colleges is returned in the form of financial aid to Come into this place of prophecy and power and let its vision change your heart. worthy but needy students so they can experience our special sense of place. Isn't that inspiring? We view our colleges as living and learning communities, as sacred places, A Key Element of the Liberal Arts— almost, devoted to memory and hope, to making Teaching/Professing as a Spiritual Calling meaning together. Key to this sense of place are the people who The importance of place and community is cultivate it—the faculty. They are the keepers of reinforced by Alexander Astin in his study of the the prophecy and power and vision which transform effects of liberal arts colleges on their students. Astin our students. They are mentors, advisors, dedicated points to a number of factors which make this kind teachers, scholars, friends. Our institutions of education so effective for undergraduates—and specialize in undergraduate teaching, and so our unique in higher education: frequent student-faculty full professors teach and mentor our first-year interaction; frequent student-student interaction; students, our sophomores, our juniors, our seniors. generous expenditures on student services; frequent To our faculty, teaching is not just a job but a use of courses that emphasize writing; frequent use calling, and their dedication is central to the of narrative evaluations; frequent involvement of enterprise. But they are also scholars who model students in independent research; frequent the life of intellectual engagement and inquiry for involvement of students in faculty research; and the their students. frequent expenditure of time by students on Diana Chapman Walsh, president of Wellesley academic work. All these factors are more likely to College, captured this fact in her recent article in happen at a small residential college, with small Change magazine: "the significance of 'professing,' classes and a faculty devoted to undergraduate with its root sense of being bound by a vow and teaching and research. expressing allegiance—is that it 'succeeds or fails in Lee Shulman, who has thought a lot about terms of motivation, not cognitive transfer of teaching, emphasizes the social and contextual information. It succeeds if it instills in students a advantages of the residential liberal arts experience, willingness to pursue knowledge for its own sake; making possible as they do the "active, collaborative, it fails if students learn simply to get a degree." reflective reexamination of ideas in a social context." The residential liberal arts experience, then, is "Learning flourishes," he asserts, "when we take predicated on the dedication of faculty and their what we think we know and offer it as community vision of instilling in our students a love of learning.

5 The faculty themselves live this love of learning, and of friends and associates do I want in my life?" their example is the most motivating force of all. One of the best statements I have seen on the liberal arts comes from William Cory of Eton Habits of Mind College, written back in 1861 and still true today: One of the most important points to make about You go to a great school not for knowledge so liberal education is that its aim is to create habits of much as for arts and habits; for the habit of mind. A well worn, if useful, analogy is that we attention, for the art of expression, for the art think of students not as empty vessels to be filled of assuming at a moment's notice a new but as individuals on a journey. I've often used a intellectual posture, for the art of entering Doonesbury cartoon as a good example of this. The quickly into another person's thoughts, for the series of strips shows a professor lecturing to a habit of submitting to censure and refutation, classroom full of students. He is clearly frustrated for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms ... for taste, for discrimination, with getting them to think. They busily take notes, for mental courage and mental soberness. Above but he can tell that they are not really "listening." all, you go to a great school for self-knowledge. So the professor begins to shout out outrageous things, things like: "Hitler was one of the greatest Creating Citizens for a Democracy - men of the century," "Black is white," and "Jesus The Encounter with Diversity was the Antichrist." The students, to his dismay, Diversity is much prized at small liberal arts take notes ever more furiously, commenting, "Boy colleges for its powers to enrich the educational this is really great stuff; I've just got to get this environment. The encounter with diversity is an down." In the next strip, the students are now element critical to the process of creating good literally "Baaaaing" like sheep in response to the citizens for American society now and particularly for professor's lecture. Clearly this is precisely the the future. We are becoming a more and more opposite of what we are looking for—and what we diverse nation. We must all learn how to navigate find—in our students. A liberal education invites this diversity and how to work together for the future and encourages students to be engaged in their of our nation. The encounter with diversity is an classes, to think, to challenge, and to respond. elemental part of learning. There is a William Carlos We are not in the business of filling empty Williams poem that illustrates this point vividly: vessels with facts, but rather of preparing travelers A dissonance for their journey through life. What travel and In the valence of Uranium survival skills will they need? Certainly problem Led to the discovery solving, certainly the ability to work collaboratively with others, certainly critical thinking (e.g., the Dissonance ability to analyze information and draw conclusions), (if you're interested) leads to discovery certainly the love of learning and the desire to learn throughout life and certainly the ability to think When confronted by dissonance—something creatively—and to sort through their values. that does not conform to our own sense of reality As Astin states, "a liberal education in a small and normalcy—we learn. Difference signals to us to residential setting is really about encouraging the pay attention; it catches us off guard, forces us to student to grapple with some of life's most reevaluate—all essential conditions for true. fundamental questions: What is the meaning of learning and growth. life? What is my purpose in life? What do I think A liberal education, as we all know, is not and feel about life, death, God, religion, love, art, learning how to be socially or politically liberal—it music, history, literature, and science? What kinds is about having a liberal mind. What is a liberal

6 mind? It is a mind capable of seeing many students, is thoughtful, always progressing, and is perspectives, a mind open to new ideas, a mind scholarly. We must field and redesign curricula which is well-informed, a mind which makes that are innovative, inviting and demanding at the decisions thoughtfully. In short, it is the mind of a same time. We must incorporate new technologies good citizen, capable of participating effectively in into our curricula and embrace this transformation a democracy. by technology without losing sight of our As James Freedman, the former president of fundamental values. Dartmouth, has stated: We must reconsider the walls that have long been established between the disciplines, in other Students attending colleges and universities words, question how we organize ourselves and today—white and black [and brown], majority and minority—are part of a transitional how we categorize our academic fields. As Daniel generation, the members of which are learning to O'Hare, president of Dublin City University, has relate to one another in ways not yet entirely stated: "Within the university some of the most familiar and comfortable, but they are doing so exciting developments take place where discipline with an earnestness and good faith that in the end boundaries meet and where they overlap. This is will create a far better climate for the achievement not incidental, it is systemic; and it illustrates how of true equality than this country has yet known. boundaries between disciplines can inhibit rather 1 am very proud to say that Whittier College than encourage the progress of knowledge." He has the most diverse student body among national ponders whether we are capable of questioning liberal arts colleges. Our dedication to diversity has such traditional structures as the disciplines brought us a minority student population of full 40 without going on the defensive, and then states: percent. Our tradition of Quaker values has taught "We ask our students to transform themselves, so us to value individual rights and individual we should be ready to embrace change as well." inspiration and to embody those values in our The values of liberal learning require that we be practices. Here at Whittier College, we are living open to change, that we embrace new ideas, that the experience of democracy and enjoying the we be willing to respond to the future. Balancing tapestry of diversity which very much represents a receptivity to change while maintaining our picture of America's future. traditional values is our challenge and our undeniable task. The Future of the LLberalArts - These are questions we must ask. I will not The Next New Thing pretend to know what all the answers are. Where shall liberal arts colleges go in the future? While valuing our past, we must live our Conclusion beliefs by continually reexamining them. As Alfred As I conclude, I want to tell you a story. It's North Whitehead has stated: "Those societies about some young graduates of Whittier College which cannot combine reverence to their symbols whom I met at a San Francisco alumni gathering. with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay They work in Silicon Valley at Yahoo!, another very either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a successful e-commerce internet company. They are life stifled by useless shadows." We must grapple doing very well (even in their twenties, they want to with new technologies and new workplace contribute to the college-1 was so impressed!), and demands and new kinds of students. We must they are very interested in recruiting more Whittier rethink our traditional ways of teaching and graduates to work at Yahoo! because, as they said, organizing the disciplines. We must assure Whittier College grads are just the kinds of people ourselves that our pedagogy focuses on our whom Yahoo! wants to hire.

7 What is Yahoo! looking for? I think we know. be a place for the kind of education we do at The ability to adapt and change and imagine the Whittier College—an education based on a close future, to be creative, to "think outside of the box." community, on a sense of place, on great teaching, And the ability to work with others, collaboratively. on the formation of habits of thought, on diversity These skills come .not from having been narrowly and challenge. We will always want to produce trained but from having been liberally educated. students who are liberally educated, who are good As I look back on my own experiences, I citizens, who have examined their values and who consider what I have learned from my own liberal yearn to make a contribution to the world. education. Communication skills, the ability to We have responded, and must respond further, meet people on their own turf—seeing how they to the digital consumer age, addressing issues like see it, acknowledging how many different ways technology, how our students have changed over there are to look at an issue, knowing how the years in preparation, attitude and diversity. Our important it is to pull oneself out of one's own little dedication to learning will, I know, keep us forever world of assumptions, embracing the encounter of evolving, open to new ideas and ways of doing "difference," learning to take chances and try out things, ever embracing growth and change. new ideas, learning to work with others to build an We believe, and the workplace affirms, that a idea, or develop a concept or solve a problem. And liberal arts education prepares students well for perhaps the most important thing: learning traditional careers and for new kinds of professions. intellectual humility. I am grateful for what I have We at liberal arts colleges produce folks who will learned, for these are, whatever we may say, very have "the next new idea" and will lead us into the practical skills. They have helped me out of many a future, while—or perhaps because—we remain true difficult or challenging situation, and they have to our traditional values: educating the whole enriched my life. person, focusing on teaching and student learning, Liberal arts colleges are about enduring inviting students to think for themselves, modeling values—enduring because they have always taught collaboration, critical thinking and thinking across an ability to move into the future. What is enduring boundaries. about a liberal arts education is that it allows us to An education which creates folks who, like Jeff recognize and survive the ephemeral, to adapt to Bezos, come up with wonderful, revolutionary new change, and to create the future. There will always ideas—like Amazon.com. Yahoo!

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\ 00 onno LThTTftR defined the nation-state as having two of disintegration can be parts: the nation, or people with a seen in numerous common identity; and the state, or dissolutions like that of governments and boundaries. the Soviet Union and

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nation-state come together and RINEGA In the future, Kaufman B reinforce each other. In reality, though, TT predicts that "pressure for few states follow this ideal. It's an SCO statehood will continue Joyce Kaufman illustrates a point artificial construct imposed on people during her talk on the future of and national groups and it carries in it the seeds of its own nation-states. within states will continue destruction," Kaufman said. to assert themselves and In the past, some nation-states were held fight for independence. The growing pressure will together by vested economic interest, but most lead to increased conflict." were forced together by coercion and boundaries Kaufman also predicts that non-state players drawn for political or war-time purposes. Today, (regional blocs, multi-national corporations, non- things are similar: Boundaries—enclosing governmental organizations) will play a larger dissimilar groups of people—are drawn in role in the international system. reaction to war and other circumstances, not only "To understand the situation," Kaufman said, in Europe, but also in other areas of the world "we must go beyond disciplinary boundaries and such as the Middle East. combine political science with economics, "The seeds of conflict we see today are from sociology and history. This integration of studies lines being drawn with little regard for identity. in order to view situations from different angles "Nationalism is not easily taken from people,11 and points of view is the crux of the Whittier continued Kaufman. "We see flags, banners and College liberal arts education." saints, as well as a host of other THE INAUGURAL symbols that people DINNER: cling to, as part of A TIME TO CELEBRATE their identity—it's Thursday's dinner who they are. brought Whittier's faculty Unfortunately, all of and trustees together for a these can be points formal celebration. of conflict within Eager to start the recklessly drawn RNS revelry, attendees at the boundaries." TEVE BU dinner offered toasts, S Furthermore, the Presenting an 1893 volume of john Greenlcctf congratulations and some forces of integration Whittier's poems to Will, Gene Mills, president pleasant surprises to Will and disintegration emeritus, quoted from Whittier, "Then of what is to and Whittier College. be, and of what is done! Why queriest thou?!The past can occur at the and the time to be are onel and both are NOW! The Robinson Theatre same time, said in the Shannon Center Kaufman, citing as was beautifully transformed examples of integration the move toward a for the event, complete with a band, dance floor common political system in Europe and and a dining area where trustees and faculty sat formation of regional trade blocs, while examples side by side.

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The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 INAUGURATION DAY: THE CULMINATION OF THE WEEK By Friday morning, the campus had been

S 0) transformed into a festive setting for the ceremony. The mood was one of anticipation. Taking a moment with part oJ their Jamily, Delegates representing nearly 100 colleges and Katherine and Oscar Will, with daughters Dana universities began to arrive. Shortly before 2 p.m., (left) and Becca Arneson, paused outside the the academic procession, the traditional Shannon Center before the inaugural dinner started. beginning to all such ceremonies, began. Charles Adams, associate professor of English and chair of the faculty, lead the way. The ceremony, presided over by Charlotte D. Graham, chairman of the Board of Trustees, began with a moment of silence and reflection, a tribute to Whittier's Quaker heritage. Michael Harper, University Professor and professor of English at Brown University and the first Poet Laureate of the state of Rhode Island (1988-1993), read a poem that he composed for the occasion (for poem, see page 25).

RNS STEVE BU With the theater seats removed and risers placed to level the floor with the stage, the Robinson Theatre became the perfect setting for a formal dinner for faculty and trustees.

Just prior to a heartfelt toast by Will's eldest SCOTT BRINEGAF daughter, Becca Arneson, who called her mother Not even a slight drizzle dampened the spirits of "a key influence and a role model," Gene Mills, Chuck Hill, professor of psychology, or the rest of the crowd. president emeritus, presented Will with a leather-bound, 1893 volume of John Greenleaf Next, representatives from Whittier's faculty, Whittier's The Early Poems. student body, alumni, academic institutions, the "The inaugural dinner was a warm, festive city of Whittier and Will's family greeted the new celebration of the Whittier College community," president. In a hilarious speech, Nancy Bekavac, said Will. "It was a truly memorable occasion." president of Scripps College, said ironically, "Being a college president is easy... everyone

The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 Holding the mace—a symbol of authority dating back to the Middle Ages—Charles Adams led the procession to the North Lawn. Flanking Adams (from left to right), are Phil O'Brien, college librarian; Les Howard, professor of sociology and Fritz Smith, professor of mathematics. "The liberal arts must retain what is excellent and fine and true about the tradition while adapting to the future—and seeking to shape it," said Will.

knows how to do it."(For complete text of greetings, see pages 26-29.) The Whittier College Choir, under the direction of Stephen Gothold '63, professor of music, presented two pieces written 400 years apart, both chosen to express the joy of the occasion. Robert A. Oden, president of Kenyon College, delivered the keynote address, discussing higher education in the United States, the distinctive mission of Whittier College, and Kate Will's abilities (for complete text, see pages 30-32). During the ceremony, the audience—including delegates Graham performed the investiture of the representing nearly 100 other academic institutions— listened intently to presentations from the platform party. president, presenting Will with the symbols of authority appropriate to the office of president— the charter of the college and the seal, engraved on a medallion. In the inaugural address, Will contrasted the liberal arts with technology and Amazon.com. "Amazon.com represents the environment in which the liberal arts must operate," she said. "Flt's] one of the best-known examples of the new high technology. It is the new world ... it represents the digital age, technology and all that those things make possible. Amazon.com is about the future, about potential, about change and evolution—[it is] the next new thing."(For the Referring to him as her "mentor and friend" in her complete text of her address, see insert.) inaugural address, Will spent afew moments of her Following the ceremony, the procession led the day with Robert Oden, president of Kenyon College. standing-room-only crowd to the academic quad for a reception.

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With an abundance of multi- cultural cuisine—including Asian, Italian, Mexican and Mediterranean—as well as a center table filled with fruit, cheese and desserts, a band and a large ice Soft-spoken yet commanding, Michael Harper read his sculpture, the crowd gathered original poem "THE inside for a number of toasts and PRESIDENTIAL VOICE OF stayed well into the evening. KATHERINE HALEY WILL: 13th president, Whittier "I thought it was a first-class College" for the first time event," said Anna Neese '00. "The ever on March 3, 2000. food was terrific and it was nice to see such a mixed crowd of people— it was definitely a party fit for an inauguration." It was one of the largest parties Whittier College has ever seen. All told, nearly 1,000 people attended the inauguration of Katherine Haley Will, Whittier College's 13th president. By all accounts, the inauguration was indeed a celebration of a new leader, as well as the first step in a new journey. •

During the investiture, Charlotte D. Graham, chairman of the board of trustees, said, "Yours will be the privilege and responsibility of leading Whittier College to the fulfillment of its great promise for years to come. Now, I commit to your hands the charter of the college and I place over your shoulders the great seal of the college—the symbol of the high office which you now hold. On behalf of the trustees, I welcome you as president of Whittier College. I assure you of our confidence in you, and pledge our support to you as you strive to continue the greatness that is this college's destiny."

On stage with the platform party, Will and Graham share a lighthearted moment.

Judy Browning and Caye Brundage also contributed to this story.

The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 PHOTOS THIS PAGE SCOTT BRINEGAR THE PRESIDENTIAL VOICE OF KATHERINE HALEY WILL: 13TH PRESIDENT, WHITTIER COLLEGE

Between revolution and religion, poetry is the other voice. Its voice is other because it is the voice of the passions and of visions. It is otherworldly and this- worldly, of days long gone and of this very day, an antiquity without dates. Heretical and devout, innocent and perverted, limpid and murky, aerial and subterranean, of the hermitage and of the corner bar, within hand's reach and always beyond.—Octavio Paz

You must begin with fresh news about ethical teaching: antidote to a violent culture so we don't flunk life: simplify: distribute between need and want a strict remembrance—balm to heal in the broken places. Make sure healing happens. Aegean/Caribbean archipelago heals, Thoreau heals, Jeannette Rankin Dorothy Day, Jeannetta Sagon, Harold Hughes teach us "you can no more win a war than win an earthquake;" but my conscience has me; "no other will do it if! didn't" WHAT IS LOVE? prayer service non-violence: Victims understand non-violence; seek justice. Cultivate the peace gene; let us sense these gifts your health, intellect, passion lest comfort zoning consort with abusive authority: your commandment: action to define any problem never allow denotation alone to prevail; to avoid rematches YOU and ME against any problem; list shared concerns vs. what we don't share; never ask what happened: ask "what did I do?" work on what is do-able; work on listening skills: conjure a PEACE place (you can't resolve much on a fight-site): WORK ON FORGIVENESS: Dr. King beckoned Wallace in Montgomery; PURIFY YOUR HEART: (Gandhigy's backbone sweetened in paradox of sugar) remember the spirit is useless without heart: find that intuitive organ within you: enact your VOICE.

Michael S. Harper

The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 Greet*S TO THE ,Pre, d , de n t

REPRESENTATIVES OF W H I T T I E R COLLEGE'S

CONSTITUENCIES BROUGHT GREETINGS TO THE NEW PRESIDENT.

THEIR REMARKS ARE CAPTURED BELOW.

FROM THE FACULTY possibilities in life, given the oppression of chance Charles S Adams and social forces. But those were the things in life Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Faculty that he felt required his attention, and which he knew to be the great hurdle in many lives. And rise on behalf of my colleagues, the Whittier when he became a poet, he did not abandon his ICollege faculty, to welcome all our distinguished concern with these problems, but brought a new, friends, students and colleagues to our campus deeper, formal vision to their analysis. This is the today to mark this important occasion. We wel- job of a true poet. It strikes me that it is good in a come all of you, and president, and we have seen evidence of it already through your presence we in our short acquaintance. We take great pleasure celebrate Whinier College. at your becoming our poet-president, and we Most particularly, the know we will see something new, something faculty officially welcomes creative, something unusual. It shall be a new our new president, kind of poem for us by a new kind of poet. And Katherine Haley Will, her we look forward to the challenge you will give us husband, Oscar, and the to become real poets too, and to writing our part rest of her family into our with you. Welcome. community. President Will, we have already begun to FROM THE STUDENTS appreciate the positive energy you bring to us. We Jonathan Collard '01 can learn a great deal from, and enjoy, your President, Associated Students of Whittier College optimism, intellectual vigor and integrity. If I may, I wish to make one brief comment of a s president of the Associated Students of literary nature. President Will, I know of your AWhittier College, I stand before you with early scholarly interest in the work of Thomas open arms and heart as we usher in a new era for Hardy. For those not in the loop, Hardy was one of Whittier College. All of us at this ceremony are the great 19th-century English novelists, who, after joined by one simple thread, a thread of educa- considerable literary struggle, ultimately abandoned tion—the students who learn, the faculty who the novel and became a poet. Arguably, it was as a teach, the administration who lead, the alumni, poet that Hardy found his most original voice. As a donors and trustees who support. novelist he was controversial and unusual—one It is a very honored and memorable time to be commentator accuses him of being too obsessed a student at Whittier College. President Will with improbabilities, coincidences and intractable stands at the threshold, ushering in a new era of situations to be of interest to those who have too leadership and direction. As students, we celebrate much of those things in their lives already. Our in her commitment to not just listening, but to new president's own doctoral dissertation speaks hearing. The doors of the past are now open to of the theme of irresolution in his novels— the students of today. indifference and a kind of lukewarm-ness to the Whittier College has renovated and refurbished

The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 PHOTOS BY SCOTT BRINEGAR the foundation of our you success in all your future endeavors as our structure and endowment. new president. We now have a woman who will lead us toward FROM ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS the soul of 'Whittier Nancy Y. Bekavac College. The Rev. Henry President, Scripps College Ward Beecher said, "the mother's heart is the am honored to represent my fellow college presi- child's schoolroom." Tdents in welcoming you to our band. I have spo- President Will, the student ken with several of them who, I am sure, will deny body has longed for someone to celebrate in our di- it after hearing this speech. I have thought long and versity, hear our voices and invigorate our souls. hard about what to say, Kate. I have decided, at You, President Will, are that leader and mother. some risk, to say in public what all college presi- We rise with outstretched arms, and welcome you dents know. I thought I'd give you some advice on home. President Will, welcome home! how to be a great college president, based on exten- sive research and conversation.

FROM THE ALUMNI First, you will discover, as all new presidents Humberto R. Gray '84, J.D. '87 discover, that being a college Alumni Trustee president is easy. I know that because s a graduate of Whittier College, the Whittier everyone knows how to be a ACollege School of Law, and as a member of college president—students the board of trustees, I congratulate, welcome and and their parents, alumni and embrace you, Dr. Katherine Haley Will, as the faculty, trustees and staff. 13th president of Whittier College. Luckily, all of these people It is indeed an honor to be able to acknowledge are eager, willing—indeed you and to offer some insight into Whittier passionate—about explaining College as an educational institution. how to be a college president, often in words of one Whittier is a society of friends—deeply rooted in or two syllables only. Quaker tradition. I have spoken to many alumni in Dealing with the advice—and the correspon- an attempt to define our collective, unique dence, the phone messages, and the meetings to experiences while at hear such advice—is one of the first burdens visited Whittier. Most describe the upon college presidents. Then, the fledgling presi- experience as living in a dent only need follow the advice. Alas, it is my sad utopia, with classmates of duty to tell you that there's the rub. diversity, from all parts of Embarrassingly simple as our jobs are, clear as the world, growing socially the directions for success are, there are just three while receiving a quality factors that stand between you and membership on liberal arts education. the All-American College Presidents All-Star Team. In order for this fine The first is an odd phenomenon that could be tradition to continue, we labeled the Fickle Arrow of Fate Principle: Simply need a president who understands, believes in and stated, the advice is contradictory. Students have cherishes the principles upon which this great their own needs and wishes, parents always want college was established and built. lower tuition and higher standards, faculty We are confident that you will indeed continue members want to be supported as scholars and the tradition. You are amply qualified to confirmed in full participation in the academic undertake the duties associated with the position. community without, however, too much service We look forward to your leadership, and we wish on committees. Trustees and alumni want the

The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 college the way they remember it, perfect in every colleges, existed for a way; and staff members want only what is best for time chiefly as a symbol the college and the long-range future of X (X for the community..." being their particular field of expertise). and that the symbol The second barrier to presidential nirvana is became viable and the Problem of Excessive Simultaneity: All of the survived. advice must be acted upon at the same time. As If you read about the we know, it is impossible to maximize, actualize development of the or apologize for one piece of advice at the same college, you find that it time that one is busy following, ignoring or has been inextricably compromising all of the other pieces of advice. bound to the city, and that the success of both has Alas, one's advisors always seem only too aware of depended upon the generous townspeople and the this contradiction. benefactors, the professors and the student body. Finally, even if you manage to deal successfully I am pleased today to welcome Dr. Katherine with the preceding problems, you are likely to en- Haley Will as the 13th president of Whittier counter difficulties with the third barrier to colle- College and as the first president of the new giate leadership. That barrier is the Principle of millennium. Dr. Will brings impeccable credentials Unexpressed Advice: Even when you follow all of and remarkable insight. Just a few weeks ago I the advice. on a given subject, and even if the advice observed her as she addressed 400 teenage girls at is, or can be made to appear to be consistent, some- an American Association of University Women one who knew what you really should do will have symposium on math and science. She possesses neglected to tell you, and you will therefore fall that rare ability to communicate to youngsters and into error. There are, to my knowledge, no fail-safe adults in a meaningful fashion, and she most strategies for avoiding this danger. certainly will continue to bind the college and the This said, I offer my own advice, from one community in even closer ties. On behalf of this woman college president to another: Send yourself city, I am proud to celebrate the inauguration of flowers, big extravagant bunches of them, without Dr. Katherine Haley Will. a card, and send them often. It will keep you smiling and everyone else wondering. They'll also FROM THE FAMILY think you must be doing something right. Oscar Henry Will III Congratulations, Kate. I'm sure you will do just fine. After all, each college president is perfect in elcome all, especially students, friends, her own way. Wcolleagues and family. It is with consider- Welcome to the club! able pleasure that I share this day and these few words with you. Although I am somewhat uncer-

FROM THE COMMUNITY tain about my place in this ritual, so heavily Janet R. Henke '63 cloaked in the formal robes of academic mystery, I Whittier City Council Member and former Mayor have chosen for myself the role of telling you a story about the new leader of Whittier College. hen the City of Whittier was founded over This story might not be found in her Curriculum Wa century ago, the Quaker tradition of Vitae, but it is a true story. providing higher education for their children When I first came to know Professor Kate became a priority. Friends' College, incorporated Arneson at Augustana College in 1983, I found her in 1888, ultimately came to be Whittier College. to be interested, interesting, engaged, engaging, In the preface to Dr. Charles Cooper's excellent always making connections and thinking. Kate was history of Whittier College, Jessamyn West, the thinking about her own field of Victorian literature distinguished author and alumna, wrote that and she was thinking about her own chosen "...Whittier, like most other small denominational profession, the academy, and how it might be

The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 improved ... improved dramatically. Kate was also mothers. As we got down to the work at hand, Kate thinking about computers and calculus, physics, again in her overalls and Redwings, commented on music, art, food (especially raspberries), family, the exceptional growth of calf number 12, who at gardening, dogs and cats. I fondly recollect how six months of age weighed 697 pounds. exhilarated and exhausted I often found myself as She noted the pungent aroma of large animals, the result of a late afternoon conversation with her the earthy must of the composted barn floor and after some shared committee or task force meeting the sweet summer of the still green-colored hay such as Curriculum Council or Technology that tumbled from the mow. We spoke of family Planning. In many ways, a conversation with Kate and place and purpose and profession and she was, and even more so today, is a full dose of the mused that while she was making a significant liberal arts. difference as provost, she could REALLY make a Some years later, I can recall a late South Dakota difference as president at a private liberal arts spring day and a particular conversation with then college. And would I mind if she could find a place Associate Dean Kate Will. As I recall it was a day to with a rural enough setting for my comfort. behold, a golden day, if you will. The air was cool, Some few months later (and not so awfully the atmosphere was clear, and the cloudless Dakota long ago), I can recall a golden winter California sky was cobalt blue. Meadowlarks were defending day. We heard coyotes singing in the hills, we saw territory with rich throaty notes, kingbirds blue jays without crests, or were they small blue entertained with aerial crows? We saw other strange new birds in the acrobatics, the black strange new shrubbery around our house. We organic earth was giving hiked together to the top of a hill looking down up the scent of life and on Worsham Canyon. We gazed up at snow- the wind was calm. Kate covered peaks, and out on Catalina Island, and I were working in downtown Los Angeles, the Hollywood sign and the middle of our half- Palos Verdes. We spoke of family and place and acre raspberry patch purpose and profession and she wondered if I was across the lane from our comfortable in this very non-rural setting. home, which we had We watched two red-tailed hawks ride the just finished building together. We marveled at the thermals up from below us, and I admitted to sparkling day and the bounty of berries. As we got myself that Kate is the best thing that ever down to the work at hand, Kate in her overalls and happened to me. Redwing boots commented on the exquisite flavor And so I offer to you Whittier College's 13th of this variety of berry and the prickly spines of president, Katherine Haley Will. See her and you that variety of thistle. We spoke of family and place will agree that her likeness is pleasing. Engage her and purpose and profession and she mused that she and you will find her to be honest, thoughtful, would like to be provost at a liberal arts college so stimulating and wickedly smart. Hear her and you that she could really make a difference. And would will marvel at true eloquence. Work with her and I mind terribly if she could find a place with a you will find a leader beyond compare. Work with setting rural enough for my comfort. her and you will go home tired and proud. Some years after that, I can recall a golden late Observe her and know that although her manner November Ohio day. The hardwood trees were in is indeed exceptionally calm and gracious, full fall glory with deep crimsons, brilliant oranges President Will is as comfortable loading 2,000 and blinding yellows. The sun was just melting the pounds of angry Angus bull into a stock trailer as 29 frost off the grass in our little Knox County valley she is meeting head-on any challenge to her and the coalescing flocks of bluebirds were flitting beliefs and any impediment to her "making a across the path as we drove our cattle to the difference." Believe in her and be prepared to working pens ... weaning day 1998 ... time to enjoy her gifts. weigh, vaccinate and separate calves from their

The ROC K Spring/Summer 2000 Keynote Address

R 0 B E R T A. 0 D E N, J R.,

PRESIDENT OF KENYON COLLEGE

hank you. I am at once proud the world's finest colleges and uni- Tand grateful to be with you versities are to be found within our this afternoon, to share in your joy shores. I know this sounds like in the inauguration of Katherine partisan, small-minded, parochial Haley Will as the 13th president chauvinism. It is not; it is demon- of Whittier College. strably true. My gratitude comes in part More importantly, still, what is from everything so many at most distinctive about our colleges Whittier have done, continue to and universities in a global context

do, to make me feel entirely com- e1 is that so many American institu- fortable. I feel as well great pride. tions of higher learning devote a

My pride comes from what I share JIhr part, sometimes the entirety, of with you in formally welcoming their curriculum to the liberal arts. Kate Will to Whittier. If you saw, across time and across the world, Such a devotion carries with it appreciated, respected and wished American higher education is a pe- some altogether extraordinary to be the beneficiaries of Kate's culiar and peculiarly wonderful costs costs, to be sure, which are many talents—we at Kenyon did, phenomenon. It is at once the eminently justifiable, but costs too, and we did first. Following a promise of Plato's Academy ful- which still merit full disclosure. national and highly successful filled and it is among America's For students and their families, search in 1996, we extended, with greatest gifts to the world. It is also the costs are literal and can be mea- hopes all around, an offer to Kate, easily and widely misunderstood sured in strained budgets and in and she happily accepted Kenyon's and underappreciated. Second, that the assumption of second jobs and offer to become the leader of the much which is most distinctive loans. America's finest colleges, are, college's central division. I knew and best in American higher edu- to be sure, expensive—expensive in we had someone special as provost, cation is at the heart of the mission money, but in time as well. To most knew as well that Kate possessed a of this college, of Whittier College. of the world, this seems not only a host of talents in addition to key at- And finally, that you are certain— lavish, but also an extravagant if not tributes; a sense of humor and an not likely, certain—to continue a profligate, expenditure of money altogether appropriate sense of self- and to enhance your mission be- and of time: Four full years, four confidence. So, in June of 1996, I cause of your wisdom in selecting years between secondary school arranged for Kate to be given the Kate Will to lead the college. and either graduate and profes- key to the provost's office in antici- America's colleges and universi- sional school or full-time employ- pation of her arrival in Ohio—and ties possess several attributes ment; four years devoted to the then I left town. I knew Kate would which distinguish them from study of disciplines like history and use the key, would open the door higher education globally and his- biology and drama which bear, to her new office, and ask: "The torically. Some of these include our critics would insist, little obvi- president is gone, what do I do the following: ous relationship to what comes now?" I also knew that Kate would First, a far higher percentage of next. Nor are the demands upon answer her own question by know- Americans go on to post-secondary students in settings like this limit- 30 ing precisely "what to do now." She study than do most young people ed to those I've noted just now: did then, she does now. in the world. We expect and we see in our stu- I have a singularly uncomplicat- Then, too, America's colleges dents an independence of thinking ed rhetorical itinerary and here it is, and universities are rightly regard- and living which is, in fact, quite in three parts: First, that in the ed as among the world's finest. without example in many of the global context of higher education Something like 75-80 percent of world's universities.

The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 There is a second and distinc- sented with clarion clarity in what create time when time there is not tive cost to those who are a part of you say about the college, and I to write comments on your essays American liberal arts colleges, a have read what you say about the as long as the essays themselves. cost which many elsewhere in the college with care and admiration in Whittier faculty team-teach paired world do not bear. I speak of the the course of the past months. courses, where the effort involved cost in time and dedication for fac- What, then, are the words and is not only not halved, it is more ulty members. We have few truly phrases which echo and re-echo in than doubled. comprehensive accounts of the what you and others say about Secondly, diversity. This word, time faculty members at Whittier Whittier? And how do these serve too, appears with admirable fre- and similar institutions devote to as ample justification for the ex- quency in what you write about the their calling simply because there is travagant commitment which stu- college, and here, too, what you no accounting for the hours spent dents, their families and faculty write about is what you do. More in the classroom, the hours devot- members make in choosing a life than 40 percent of your students are ed to advising, the time necessary at Whittier? from under-represented groups. to create and revise and re-revise First—and this I say with con- Why is this significant? Standard course syllabi, the days spent read- fidence without actually counting answers there are to this question, ing and assessing student work, the words—first, what shows up most and they are all of value. Diversity is evenings and weekends necessary often and most clearly in what important because the world in to compose countless letters of rec- you say about Whittier are these which we will live and work ommendation, the time and energy words: "Relationships, rapport, throughout our lives is, thank heav- and intelligence needed for faculty interaction and connections." ens, a marvelously diverse world. to remain fully engaged with their The reasons not to choose Diversity is important because, in disciplines, engaged in shaping Whittier are legion and at first the words of a recent Vermont State what counts as knowledge in those glance compelling. Major research Supreme Court ruling, because in disciplines. Faculty members here universities proudly include among the end we must grant recognition give to their students and their col- their faculty members Nobel Prize to our shared humanity. leagues in ways beyond measuring, winners and those who have re- In his recently published and in ways of which most outside the ceived comparable international admirable volume, The Pleasures academy remain bafflingly ignorant. awards. These same universities' li- of Academe, James Axtell argues And that is but a beginning of braries include collections of mono- both that "college is the best place the costs of this special kind of ed- graphs and journals incomparably to develop an understanding and ucation. Trustees offer uncommon, more extensive than Whittier's. appreciation of 'the other'," and unfailing support, as do graduates Their laboratories can be shinier that there are profound reasons and friends and parents. This and more fully equipped; their stu- for gaining such an understanding magic, that of American residential dents and faculty are offered far and appreciation. colleges, is not magic individually more opportunities to establish in- "While our own beliefs and shaped; it is the joint result of ternational research reputations. values," Axtell continues, "are countless hours of work and com- Why, then, chose a Whittier, or worthy and ought to be defended mitment and loyalty. a Kenyon, a Pomona, a Williams, with reason, not mere habit or All of this and more, I submit, rather than a major research univer- prejudice, the beliefs and values of is worthy and worth it. All of these sity? The answer is as simple as it is other people are equally deserving hours and dollars are well and compelling; the answer comes of respect and explicable in their properly spent. Let me move to a squarely and clearly from what you own terms. ... We could do worse demonstration of this, and let me so say about Whittier: You chose than recapture the insight of move through my own attempts to Whittier because of relationships, Montaigne who, after closely ob- understand what is central to you at rapport, interactions, connections. serving and speaking with a Tupi Whittier. To be sure, I claim noth- You chose Whittier because of the war captain from Brazil in the ing like the knowledge of Whittier quantity and quality of student- 1550s, recognized that 'each man which every one of you possesses, faculty time together. Whittier fac- calls barbarism whatever is not his from first-year students to profes- ulty know you, students; they know own practice.' 'Barbarians,' he sors who have devoted their entire your names, they know your talents warned, 'are no more marvelous to professional lives to the college. But and limitations, they know what us than we are to them, nor for what matters most to you is pre- you need to know. Whittier faculty better reason'."

The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 My own ultimate defense of and done so from the beginning. are vitally significant. diversity is simpler, but I think Finally, and as important as It was Kate Will who led our not less compelling: We value, we anything, Whittier accents in pub- own efforts toward diversity. work toward enhancing diversity, lic statements and in how you live Toward the close of Kate's first year because it is from the experience and work together decency, friend- at Kenyon, we had two continuing of difference that we learn most ship, respect and a sense of social African American faculty members. and best. awareness and justice. What we Today, today, that number is in Thirdly, you possess at Whittier learn as undergraduates is not just double figures. We are hardly satis- and your statements about the col- what we learn through syllabi, fied with the progress we have lege accent the liberal arts core curriculum and more. We also made; we know that we need to curriculum. I have long noted that learn how people treat one anoth- work harder still. But the progress one of life's most notable and real er. And what we learn, if you will we have made is simply stunning, perversities is this: that life's most forgive my homely formulation, is and the more so for a small college important questions are those eas- that life is too short for us to treat in a rural setting in central Ohio. iest to avoid asking. Questions one another with anything but re- We know that it is to Kate that we like that posed by John Greenleaf spect and decency and even love. owe much of this progress. Whittier: "What and where is To those of us gathered here Closer still to the heart of what truth?" Questions like: What are today, much of the above may we are all about, Kate Will is not my obligations and responsibili- seem self-evident. But to many simply a manager or an adminis- ties as a free citizen? Questions others, the claims we make on the trator. If there is a trend in like: What are the sources, literary behalf of Whittier College are any- American higher education which I and historical and spiritual and thing but self-evident. Our claims most lament it is that toward col- personal, wherein I might find need defending. And our claims leges' choosing as their presidents strength to lead a worthwhile life? need leading. And it is here that professional managers whose These questions are anything but you have best demonstrated your knowledge of the life of the class- easy, and many there are who con- concern for the future. You have room, the lives of scholars, is sec- clude their lives without systemat- chosen Kate Will to lead Whittier. ond-hand at best. Not so with your ically addressing them. But these Your choice, of course, mirrors president. Not so with Kate Will. questions and more we cannot our good fortune and blessedness She is a teacher and a scholar. She avoid, and by design, in the setting at Kenyon. At Kenyon, we came to is a lover of books and of reading. of a liberal arts education. In the know and to regard Kate's quick- And those passions are more un- end, our best defense of a liberal ness of mind and her sureness of common, more to be treasured, arts education is this: Such an ed- judgement; her energy and her than much of the world will know. ucation is a beginning at thinking laudably lofty standards. We came The idea of this college, like the seriously about what it means to to treasure and to expect, especially idea of American higher education lead a worthwhile life. when it was needed most, her generally, is an improbable idea, an Fourthly, what Whittier long sense of perspective and humor. unabashedly idealist and romantic has known and what the rest of We knew, too, that Kate's dual idea. Think of it: the notion that we the world now begins to discover knowledge of the benefits and can disagree, disagree deeply and is that authentic progress in any snares of technology is a knowl- fundamentally, and yet come to- college's life comes from the edge of inestimable importance gether and discuss, openly and pas- building of consensus. Again, for a residential college. And, sionately, our disagreements. Alvin Kernan writes recently (In more important than any or all of Think if it: the notion that we can Plato's Cave): "... without quite the above, we came to respect her gather in one place faculty and stu- knowing what was happening, the integrity and her courage. dents from across the globe and academy during the latter twenti- Still, these attributes I have dare to discuss common concerns. eth century experienced structural proudly listed do not exhaust It is a brave idea. But your courage changes, still in process, that laid what we had, what you have, in is sure to succeed now and in the down the foundations of a new Kate Will, nor do they quite get years ahead because of the presi- kind of democratic university." to what is most remarkable and dent we are inaugurating today. Well, that "new kind of democrat- most admirable. Additional tal- Congratulations to Kate and ic university" or college is just ents and passions she possesses to you. And thank you. how Whittier has governed itself, that are as uncommon as they

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If you think being a lifeguard is all "Baywatch" bump and jiggle, Al Pepito '80 can set you straight. For one thing, as a lifeguard supervisor and state park police officer patrolling Huntington and Bolsa Chica state beaches in Southern California, Pepito wears his trunks under his uni- form. And his most memorable rescue didn't in- volve a buxom blonde, but two fellow officers. - "It was a foot pursuit in June of 1992," Pepito - said. "The officers were after six individuals, who 2 11 turned on them and started beating them quite badly. By using my baton and weapon to intimi- Al Pepito led a training program for Lifeguards date them, I was able to stop the beatings and in Acapulco, Mexico, Last fall. protect the officers until more help came." Pepito, who didn't have to fire a shot during the ruckus, said that incident resulted in alcohol being banned from Huntington and Bolsa Chica state beaches. Besides patrolling the beach, Pepito—who majored in physical education and got his teaching credential at Whittier—is a training officer, instructing classes in defensive tactics and riot and crowd control at the depart- ment's training facility in Pacific Grove, Calif. He also coordinates the lifetime fitness program at the Criminal Justice Training Center at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, where he teaches fitness, nutrition and riot and crowd control to police recruits. Pepito traveled to Mexico twice last fall, once for his work and once for his avocation. In November, he and some coworkers were invited to Acapulco by the Mexican government to train 80 local lifeguards in first aid and rescue techniques. In December, he and his wife, Cheri, visited El Niño, a village just west of Tecate, where they and several members of their church built three homes and a church rectory in three days. "Saving my fellow officers in 1992 was an experience that changed my outlook on society in a negative sense," Pepito said. "Meeting the Acapulco lifeguards who work for $6 a day, and then later seeing the faces of the fami- lies as we handed over the keys to their new homes—well, those were positive experiences that gave me a new outlook on life."

full-time mother to her two chil- S S adults and their families, dren in addition to working on 194 4 advocating elder independence the neighborhood board. and growth. Paul Albertini writes that his Nora (Piibe) Frolick is a graphic Melissa (Hallen) Basta writes business, Phenix Enterprises, relo- designer and event planner in that she is enjoying time off to cated from Santa Fe Springs, Calif., Granada Hills, Calif. take care of her young daughter. to larger quarters in Pomona. Jim Waddell lives with his fami- Damon Hess competed in the Robert Kimo Baject is a club- ly in Lake Forest, Calif., and 194-mile Hood to Coast relay house director for the Boys and works at Union Bank of California. race last summer. His team Girls Club of Hawaii. included classmates Peter Roger Brake is a sales represen- McGarry, Steve Sather, Jim 19 7 tative in the communications- Waltman and Karen Wright. data division of Graybar Electric, Other Poet participants were Petra Bauer is a secretary with a Fortune 500 company. His Sabrina (Kiechler) Hess '91, VLSI, a company in Germany. wife, Kim (Kelley) '91, is a and Amy (O'Neil) '91 and Rob Hansen is president and chief stay-at-home mom with their two Paul Lomanto '91. Their coach executive officer of Blindgift.com, daughters. is Eddie Brooks '89. an e-commerce site that allows on- Stephen Dow lives in Kansas line shoppers to send gifts using City, Mo., with his daughter. He just an e-mail address. (61 is a table games supervisor at a 19 9 Lisabeth (Harris) Marziello casino. Jeff Reeves is assistant executive director designs Web sites Sharon Gray lives in San Carlos, of the Boys and Girls Club in for an internet company in Irvine, Calif., where she works with older Green Bay, Wis. Calif. Continued next page

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District. She lives in Trabuco of Law and passed the California 1990 Canyon with her husband and son. Bar exam in 1997. He is a staff at- Kimberly Powell-Albarian is a torney for the office of dispute Michele Dodge is a special edu- community services supervisor for resolution for NASDR, INC. cation and art teacher at Whittier cultural arts and recreation for Cheryl Fehringer is working as High School and will receive her the city of Whittier. a speech therapist for 3- to 5- master's degree in special educa- year-olds in the Chicago area and tion from Chapman University training to be a bilingual this spring. 1993 therapist. Ion (Hoyt) Budd completed her Bridget Goodman writes that Kirsten (Belknap) Shore and master's degree in biology from after spending four years living in her husband, Mike '92, are Montclair State University in New Maryland and working for a gov- mourning the loss of their 16- Jersey. She is working toward cer- ernment contractor on drug abuse month old daughter, Emma tification and a second master's database management, she has Kathleen, from a brain tumor last degree in physical education. She decided to follow her heart into December. lives in Boonton, N.J., with her English as a second language. She husband, Michael. Susan Donahoe is a gemologist is working toward a master's de- with Christie's in New York. gree in teaching English to speak- Brian Krylowicz completed his ers of other languages at the Ph.D. in counseling psychology Jason and Veronica Meneses- University of Pennsylvania. from Texas Tech University and is Fish are both studying at Cornell the director of the counseling University Medical School in New Kevin Hall is a software develop- er for J. D. Edwards. He recently center at Casper College in York. She is in her third year, and traveled to Europe and has plans Wyoming. he is a first-year student. to visit South America. Roxann (Sykes) Mike is a spe- Sandra Sarr is director of com- Laura Hitchingham works as a cialty pharmaceutical sales repre- munications at the University of senior account coordinator for sentative with Abbott Labs in the Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. the Hibbert Group, a marketing East Bay area of Northern company in Denver. California. She lives with her fam- 994 Kate Innes is a customer service ily in San Francisco. manager and flight attendant for Megan Brenner is in medical Sky Service USA in Denver, in ad- 99 school at the Medical College of dition to working toward her Virginia in Richmond. She com- teaching credential in French and Andy Roach is a reading spe- petes in marathons and Spanish. triathalons in her spare time. cialist with Jefferson Leadership Joshua Isaac lives in Baltimore, Academies in the Long Beach Tim Browder is in a surgical where he writes for a utility (Calif.) Unified School District. residency at a hospital in Las company. Jefferson is the first single-gen- Vegas, Nev. He graduated from David Keane sings in the New the University of Nevada Medical der public middle school in the Mexico Symphony Orchestra School in 1998. United States. He enjoys tennis in Chorus in Albuquerque. his spare time and has won six tro- Lawrence Collins lives and Aaron Knutson works as a phies in the last couple of years. works in Austin, Tex. strength and conditioning coach After completing an M.F.A. in with a Midwest League Class A 1992 creative writing at Syracuse baseball team in South Bend, Ind. University in New York, Jennifer Kirsten (Larsen) Scott works Colville teaches writing at Pima Jennifer Burrell received a mas- with the Smithsonian Institution College in Arizona. She is writing ter's in education from Stanford in the horticultural services divi- a novel. University last year. She lives in sion. She received her master's Rossmoor, Calif., with her hus- Elizabeth (Dewey) Brown degree in landscape horticulture band and two sons. graduated from the University of from Colorado State University. New Mexico Medical School last Araceli Gonzalez Sean Lilly writes that he is work- is a member of spring and is in a family practice ing as a technology policy analyst the Cudahy, Calif., city council. residency in Whittier, where she at the U.S. Department of Kierie (Hassmann) Brown Lives with her family. Commerce after a two-year stint teaches third grade in the Michael Edmiston graduated at the Pentagon. Saddleback (Calif.) Unified School from Pepperdine University School

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Marie (Krubski) and Morgan BIRTHS Smith live in Whittier. Marie is pursuing a master's in special ed- To James '79 and Susan Caiopolous, a son, Alexander James, on July ucation at California State 24, 1999. University at Los Angeles, and Morgan is director of promotion To Pam (Reineman) '81 and Michael Winter, a daughter, Jacqueline for radio station KOLA 99.99 in Michelle, on Jan. 1, 1999. the Inland Empire. To Kimiko (Warner) '81 and Benjamin Broder, a daughter, Naomi Gianna Luszko received her Erin, on Nov. 17, 1997. medical degree last June. To Susan (Bryan) '82 and Gabor Benda, a daughter, Hanna Rose, on Daniel Meadors is studying law at Oct. 26, 1999. Indiana University School of Law. Joel Rush teaches English in To Carole Maccaulay '82 and Douglas Wolfe, twin daughters, Erin Yokohama, Japan. Teresa and Elisabeth Irene, on March 10, 1998. Michael Thomas writes that he To Karen (Hew) '83 and Warren Bartholomew, a daughter, Danica relocated from Los Angeles to New KrystaL on June 21, 1999. York City and changed careers from To Nora (Piibe) '85 and Stuart Frolick, a son, Japhy Kael, on June film and music video to art and 22, 1998. design. He is the director of mar- keting and new media for a small To Laurie (Barrett) '86 and Gary Benson '84, a son, Wyatt Russell, company in Greenwich Village. on Oct. 11, 1999.

Trisha (Williams) Dulken teaches To Kristin (Muller) '86 and Sven Pearson, a daughter, Annika Main first grade in Norwalk, Calif. Johanna, on Sept. 14, 1999. Megan (Wittorif) Crawford To Melissa (Hallen) '88 and David Basta, a daughter, Zofie Danika, lives in the West Los Angeles area on Sept. 24, 1998. and works for MGM. To Roxann (Sykes) '90 and Christopher Mike, a daughter, Chloe 995 Alexis, on Jan. 4, 1999. To Jennifer (Jacobs) '91 and Terry Subia, a daughter, Evanne Carey Baker is finishing her Elizabeth, on Dec. 17, 1999. second year at Columbia Business To Kim (Kelley) '91 and Roger Brake '88, a daughter, Hannah School and has just accepted a Grayce, on Aug. 7, 1999. full-time position with the investment bank Goldman Sachs. To Katrina (Diller) '92 and Joseph Jafek, a daughter, Haley Anne, on Sept. 29, 1999. Brett and Linda (Lee) Schraeder '96 live in Orange, To Kierie (Hassmann) '92 and George Brown, a son, Trevor Marshal, Calif. Brett is associate director on Sept. 27, 1999. of admission at Whittier College, To Andy '94 and Shelley (Vaught) McDonald '93, a daughter, and Linda is a sales representa- Abbey Elizabeth, on Sept. 13, 1999. tive for CareCredit. Barbara Mayer is persuing a To Elizabeth (Dewy) '94 and Fred Brown '95, a son, Gareth, on master's degree in international Aug. 29, 1998. affairs at George Washington To Dawn (Galitz) '94 and Tom Spicer, a son, Tyler, on Aug. 31, 1999. University in Washington, D.C., while working at the Department To Alberto '94 and Liz Herrera, a son, Isaac, on Oct. 4, 1999. of Commerce. To Julie (Terral) '94 and Nicholas Seewald, a son, Keegan Nicholas, on Oct. 19, 1999.

1996 To Tricia (Williams) '94 and Scott Dulken, a daughter, Haley Alexandria, on Sept. 23, 1997. Kimberly Bates participated in both the Los Angeles and Long To Christine (Quinn) '95 and Daniel Chafins, a son, Jacob, on Beach marathons last year, with Jan. 8, 1999. times of 4:13:10 and 4:22:45, To Jeanne (Smith) '97 and David Froberg, a daughter, Laura respectively. Charlotte, on Dec. 16, 1999. Continued next page

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Jiten Bhatt and his sister, riage and family therapy, and she Raakhee, are both in a physical 1997 is working at elementary and therapy master's program at middle schools as a counselor as Western University in Pomona, Kimberly Huddleston writes part of her training. Calif. that she recently transferred to Heidi Mankoff started her own the Washington, D.C., area and Julie (Hill) Borda is a teacher business, Prose for Pros, a résumé Loves her new job. She traveled to with the Norwalk-La Mirada service aimed at helping graduat- Egypt last fall for two weeks of (Calif.) School District. ing students and executives in training with the U.S. Army Alex Houston transistion find jobs. She offers completed his Reserves. master's in public administration Web-ready résumés, cover letters, at the University of Southern Manuel Mann, Jr. is in his third résumé updates and fax and mail California last May and works as year at Villanova University service. School of Law in Philadelphia. an administrative aide with the Marc Sahara is a second-year West Covina Police Department. William Ortiz is applying to med- Law student at the University of He writes that he recently ob- ical school. His wife, Lorraine Missouri. He was selected for the tained a $90,000 grant for the (Combs) '96, graduated from Law Review and serves as a teach- department. Santa Clara Law School last spring. ing assistant. Jeffrey Kaskela lives in Parul Patel published Aimee Williamson teaches Huntington Beach, Calif., and is a "Pharmaceutical Agents in the eighth-grade language arts and teacher and coach with the ABC Year 2010" in the journal New social studies at Hillview Middle Unified School District. Horizons last year. He is working School in Whittier. Gina (McMahon) Bartok writes with Stan Louie, associate profes- that she is "working for a group sor of clinical pharmacy at the home for girls where I am case University of Southern California 999 managing. My husband and I are School of Pharmacy, researching Alex Burrola is the Republican hard at work with our recent immune factors that modulate disease. candidate for the California State acquisition of a private franchise, Assembly's 58th District. which is coming along Danny Reynolds is indeed a fi- fantastically." nancial planner as reported in the Andy Murphy is director of last issue of dealer development at Sea Meryn (Perryman) Singla is The Rock. However, Recovery Corp. studying at St. Louis University his clients can rest easy, as he Law School. Lives and works in Whittier, not Ajay (Ramesh) Thakarar is an Sylmar, Calif. analyst with the MONY group in Liza Robinson is in her second Christopher Suriano New York City, providing term life year with the Peace Corps in is clinical insurance and investment options Antigua. She started a remedial health and fitness director in to his clients. school for delinquent youth in a charge of a $500,000 wellness/ local village in her first year and therapy expansion project in Erica Strode is junior advance- is now teaching at the Eagan, Minn. He received his ment associate for the Office of Directorate for Women's Affairs master's degree last year and will Alumni Relations at Pitzer College and would like to open a shelter attend the University of Minnesota- in Claremont, Calif. for abused women soon. Twin Cities this fall as a part-time Yumi Yamazaki is working with doctoral candidate. Laura Smith is assistant director Americorps in the Athletes of education for the Boys and Committed to Educating Students Girls Club of La Habra. She lives 199 program in Chicago. She works as in Uptown Whittier. a teacher's aid for a fifth-grade Rebecca Anino class and is a tutor-mentor in an Colleen (Windham) writes that works in the after-school program. she and her husband, Philip Legal department at El Camino Resources, near her home in Hughes, took the surname Esham, Tarzana, Calif. a hybrid of their former names. 36 Alisa Boyer will receive her mas- ter's degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University this spring. Her emphasis is in mar-

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SPORTS S OIKIIS

HONORS & second team for offense, and Rob McShea '02 and Rob Martinez '02 ACCOMPLISHMENTS were named to the All-SCIAC second team for defense. By Shawn Fitzpatrick '98 On the men's soccer team, ever mind rhyme, form Sergio Macias '01 and team co-captain Shawn Power '00 N and meter, these Poets MVP Cj. Carty '00, also chosen was named to the All-SCIAC have other things to worry All-WWPA first team and second team, and in women's about, like smoking their All-WWPA second team, soccer, team MVP and co- competition and earning respectively. Joe Gonzalez '03— captain Alisa Quist '00, as well distinguished athletic honors. a new name on the roster—was as Erin Hurley '03 and Desiree After a great season, it should named to the All-SCIAC second Wagner '00 were named to the come as no surprise that men's team as well as being chosen All-SCIAC second team. cross-country had its fair share of the team's rookie of the year. Finally, women's volleyball— talented runners. Among them After a surprising football who played quite well this were team and Whittier College season, two Poets from offense season—saw co-captain and co- Fall Sports MVP, Matt Stuart and two from defense were MVP Mandy Arnold '00 named '00, who was named to the All- honored: Offensive MVP Otis to the All-SCIAC first team, and SCIAC first team and was an All Carmichael '01 and Pete Salazar Kathy Abell '00 named to the West Region runner. Stuart also '01 were named to the All-SCIAC All-SCIAC second team. • placed 65th of 214 runners in the NCAA III National Meet. Joining him on the All-SCIAC Box SCORES first team—who also were All West Region runners—were Teams competing in the Southern California Intercollegiate teammates Luis Ibarra '02 and Athletic Conference (SCIAC) are Caltech, Cal Lutheran, Peter Maksimow '01. Additional Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, La Verne, Occidental, cross-country honors went to Pomona-Pitzer, Redlands and Whittier. Chris Lahti '01, named to the Not all schools participate in every sport. All-SCIAC second team. Here's how Whittier's sports teams fared. With no runners named to All-SCIAC teams, women's FALL cross-country did not fare as Overall Conference Conference Team Record Record Ranking well as men's, but they did name Allison Graham '02 their Men's Cross-Country 6-1 6-1 2nd team MVP. Women's Cross-Country 0-7 0-7 8th Boasting a second place Football 0-9 0-5 6th conference finish, men's water Men's Soccer 2-17 1-13 8th polo had no shortage of SCIAC Women's Soccer 5-14 4-8 6th champions. Once again, the Women's Volleyball 13-15 7-5 3rd team was led by SCIAC first Men's Water Polo 23-10 7-2 2nd team members and co-captains,

The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 CAPITAL CAMPAIGN ENDS endowing Garrett House and Hartley House. EARLY AND SUCCESSFULLY "We established dozens of endowed scholarship funds for hittier's capital cited some significant our students, restored Naylor Wcampaign, Endowing highlights of the campaign: Hall for classroom use as Deihl the Tradition, exceeded its $70 "We secured seven Hall and created Lautrup-Ball million goal more than a year endowed chairs, made Cinema in Hoover Hall. We ahead of time. substantial additions to the are building a new track and Although the campaign Upton Chair and fully funded field; we created the Allen accounting had not officially the Ferguson Chair," Deihl Fitness Center, opened closed when The Rock went to said. "We added major Weingart Hall and renovated press, the amount raised as of endowments in support of many other facilities." March 1 was $70,029,634, Broadoaks, the Shannon Deihl and his wife, Billie according to Joseph M. Center, the Graham Center (Beane) '50, in addition to fund- Zanetta, vice president for and other programs, as well as ing the Richard and Billie Deihl advancement. During the campaign, Whittier received the largest gift in its history, $5 million from the Rose Hills Foundation to upgrade and expand the Bonnie Bell Wardman Library. Seismic retrofitting of the building, phase one of the $13 million project, could begin as early as this winter. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded $100,000

to support a campus-wide BURNS

strategic planning process that STEVE will "involve all of the college's Trustee Dick Deihl '49, chairman of the public phase of the capital constituencies in a thoughtful campaign, shown here with his wife, Billie (Beane) '50, celebrated the successful completion of Endowing the Tradition at an inaugural examination of issues central to dinner for faculty and trustees on March 2. the mission and future of Whittier," said President Will. ERRATA "These include student reten- tion, diversity, financial aid, The following names were inadvertently left out of the technology and excellence." Whittier College Community section of the 1998-99 Honor Roll of Donors: Marcia Miller and Kristin Tranquada. Speaking to the Capital In addition, Sherrill R. Cartt is a member Campaign Cabinet, Campaign of the Class of 1964, not 1973. Chairman Richard H. Deihl '49

The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 THE BOTTOM LINE

WHO'S BEEN SITTING IN WH ITT I ER' S CHAIRS?

Chair, have provided $100,000 to create the New Millennium Fund, a new endowment that will function as a presidential discretionary fund. They have asked all of Whittier's trustees to contribute, and it is hoped that the fund eventually will reach $1 million.

F Endowment must remain A the college's highest priority, T BRINEL however, for in spite of the SCOT most successful fund-raising campaign in the college's avid Bourgaize (second from right), the Fletcher Jones history, the general endowment DProfessor of Molecular Genetics and faculty master at is not where it should be. Garrett House, presented "For Whom the Genes Toll: "Although we have made Perspective of the Sciences," one of five special inaugural significant strides in increasing week colloquia. The Fletcher Jones Chair was one of seven our endowment," Zanetta said, that were either created or fully funded during the capital "we are still below the endow- campaign. The others are the C. Milo Connick Chair in ments of peer institutions. Religion (held by Professor Glenn Yocum), the Genevieve Our endowment today is $50 Shaul Connick Chair in Religion, the Richard and Billie Deihl million. When all of the cam- Distinguished Chair (held by Gregory Woirol, professor of paign pledges are fulfilled, and business), the John A. Murdy Chair in Business and with market growth, we Economics, the W. Roy and Alice Newsom Chair in should be close to $75 million Chemistry and the Nadine Austin Wood Chair in American in three to five years—but we History. Among those attending Bourgaize's talk were, from really require an endowment left, David lyam, James Irvine Foundation visiting assistant of at least $100 million to re- professor of anthropology, Maurine Behrens, professor of main competitive."• psychology, and Trustee Barbara (Ondrasik) Groce '57.

RECENT GIFTS TO WHIT TIER COLLEGE

Gift Donor Purpose $100,000 The Estate of Max Alcorn Endowed Scholarships 39 $5,000 Borchard Foundation Faculty Development Grant $40,000 Educational Foundation of America Art Department Computers $926,478 The Estate of ArthurJ. Hanson '29 Endowed Scholarship $233,000 Weingart Foundation Student Loan Fund

The ROCK Spring/Summer 2000 CALEN-DAR 0 F EVENTS

JULY 2000-2001 FRIDAY- SHANNON SUNDAY 14-3D CENTER The Lost World presents the Equity world premiere of COMING ATTRACTIONS Horton Foote's "The Day Emily

ST Married," Shanon Center, 14-30 ALL THAT JAZZ Friday-Sunday only; 8 p.m.,

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EM Friday & Saturday; 2 p.m., Vocalist Herb Jeffries,

ROS Sunday with The Paul Smith Trio he Lost World presents The Modernaires, Tthe fully staged, Equity 1940s recording artists world premiere of "The Day Emily Married" by Horton SEPTEMBER ALOHA SERIES Foote (pictured), Shannon The Brothers Cazimero Center, July 14, 2000. SATURDAY- HAPA 2-B WEDNESDAY Hawaii's hottest new group First-year Student Orientation JUNE CLASSICAL SERIES B WEDNESDAY Guitarist FRIDAY- Registration confirmation Robert Bluestone 23-25 SUNDAY "Carmina Burana," Reunion Weekend, Whittier 7 THURSDAY performed by the College campus Fall Semester classes begin Whittier College Choir, Chorale Be] Canto and the Rio Hondo Symphony QUESTIONS ABOUT EVENTS? JUST FOR KIDS For information on events at the Ruth B. Shannon Center SERIES for the Performing Arts, contact the The Bremen Town Shannon Center Box Office at (562) 907-4203. Musicians For information on Music Department events, contact Peter Rabbit the Music Department at (562) 907-4237.

For information on alumni events, contact NOSTALGIA SERIES the Office of Alumni Relations at (562) 907-4222. The Coasters, Rock 'n' Roll For information on The Lost World, Hall of Famers 40 contact Crystal Brian, associate professor of theatre arts, at (562) 907-4832. The Limeliters, folk music trio

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE...

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n 1996, Whittier College announced its most ambitious capital campaign ever, which was expected to conclude in October 2001. Now, with more Trustees Dick Deihi '49, D.BA. 84, chairman ofthepublicphase of the capital campaign; Charlotte Graham, LH.D. '99, chairman of than $70 million in gifts the Board of Trustees; and Ray Dezember '53, L.H.D. '94, chairman and pledges, Whittier's of the campaign's "quiet" phase, announced the successful donors have exceeded completion ofEndowing the Tradition at the inaugural dinner for faculty and trustees on March 2. the original goal, and they did it 18 months ahead of schedule!

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