MAKING NEW FACES

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FROM THE PRESIDENT

It is in the profiles of some of the - students who have received scholars hips, which help them to attend Pitzer and thereby enrich all of our lives. And, it was present in the demands of students for greater racial diversity throughout The Claremont Colleges, not only to provide representation and role models for students of color, but also to enhance the entire community by the multiplicity and diversity that constitutes our world. Clearly, the numerous recent achievements of our faculty, staff, n this issue, I am pleased to and alumni reflect Pitzer's share the address I gave at the '. commitment to cultural diversity fa ll convocation. At this and social responsibility. And our Ioccasion, I talked about the value new buildings, about which you of being in a place that allows will find a brief update, wi ll and, indeed, encourages one to provide new academic, cultural "make faces." I chose "making and social opportunities for our faces" as a metaphor for the students and facu lty to tryon new profound empathy that is required ideas and perspectives. to capture the depth and I am increasingly struck by the complexity of multicultural will and energy of Pitzer, and I perspectives. At one level, the thoroughly enjoy being a part of freedom to make faces enables this dynamic community. one to be truly oneself, to express important emotions. At another leve l, making a face in empathy with another's feelings is a skill that is required for us truly to understand one another. Only such understanding can permit us Marilyn Chapin Massey to cross the barriers of history, President tradition, fear, and prejudice that separate cultures. Pitzer is, I believe, a rare place where this liberating capacity to be oneself and to go beyond oneself is allowed and nurtured. This capacity is reflected in many of the articles here. It is found in the volunteer work of our students at the medical clinic for children in Calexico, California, where they met fami lies who taught them much about themselves and the human spirit. 2

INSIDE STORY

Jim Lehman to Head Watson several racial incidents in recent Foundation years. The course will continue fa ll semester, with students from Dean of Students Jim Lehman Calderon's and Betty Farrell's will begin a two-year term as classes compiling information and executive director of the Watson developing models for Foundation in Providence, Rhode intercultural appreciation and Island on June 1. The foundation, cooperation, whi ch they wi ll which is celebrating its 25th present at the end of the year at a anniversary this year, offers conference sponsored by Pitzer college seniors the opportunity and the Alhambra School District. for a year of post-graduate study and travel abroad. A Watson In Memoriam: fe ll ow himself in 1973-74, Trustee Nick Williams Lehman termed his experience in Belgium and Zaire, where he Former Los Angeles Times examined vocational and technical editor and Pitzer College Life trustee Nick Wi lli ams passed away education, "an opportuni ty for a focused and disciplined wander­ July 1. Willi ams served as a year of the fellow's own devising." trustee from 1971 to 1986, and was named a Life trustee in 1981. Calderon Receives Grant to Study His daughter, Eli za beth Inter-Ethnic Relations Agajanian, is a 1969 graduate of the coll ege. Jose Calderon, professor of Editor of The Times from sociology and Chicano studies, 1958 to 1971, Williams is has received a grant to involve credited with transforming the Pitzer students in a study of inter­ city's largest daily newspaper ethnic relations within the nearby "fi'om mediocrity to excellence," Alhambra School District. The in the words of staff writer David grant was one of five awarded Shaw. Willi ams saw The Times throughout the country by the open several national and fo reign Ohio Campus Compact. bureaus, expand news and feature This semester, 25 students are sections, win Pulitzer Prizes, visiting the District's three high double its news staff, and greatly schools to obse rve interaction increase its readership, thus among Asian, Latin o and Anglo movin g the newspaper from lists students, who have experienced of the 1 0 worst big city newspapers in America to the 10 best. Lehman Kwassui Women's University Celebrates Tenth Anniversary with PACE Edythe & Eli Broad Center (top), Students from Kwassui Academic I (middle), and Student Women's University exchanged Activity Center. lessons in Japanese language, calli graphy, home furnishings, and priorities as newly appointed etiquette fo r instruction from director of career planning and Claremont students and faculty in placement. "We're working on . English and American culture developing new resource matenal during this sprin g's tenth and making the library more user anniversary program, hosted at friendly," says McConnell, who Pitzer by the Program for also plans to incorporate display American College English space fo r student art work into (PACE). The annual three-week the facility. Software programs for program matches 15 students researching graduate sc hools, from the five colleges with 45 career opportunities and Kwassu i students and two practicing tests are also on the professors. menu. New Faces at Career Planning and The new director anticipates Calderon Internship Office in corporating alumni into the program, developin g workshops A face- li ft for the resource library is one of Jon McCoi1l1ell's (continued on page 32) ~ «>

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Ganahl, Gorchow and McConnell Pitzer welcomes Kwassui students

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

New Buildings Take Shape New York architect Charles Gwathmey has fine-tuned plans for the three new campus buildings, and construction on The Edythe & Eli Broad Center wi ll begin this June. The mixed use gateway building will house the president's and admissions offices, faculty offices, classrooms, a gallery, and a multicultural performance space. Toward summer's end, earth wi ll be moved in the quad to make way for the new academic building, and students will be back on campus for the October start date of the new Student Activity Center. Claremont Environmental Designs, a local landscape consortium, has been working closely with Professor John Rodman to design environmentally sound landscaping, which will integrate the new buildings with the rest of the campus. Only $500,000 remains to complete the funding of the $11.2 million project. The Weingart Foundation contributed a $250,000 grant last fall; trustee Kenneth Pitzer and his wife, Jean, have directed a gift for the computer center, and his son, trustee Russell Pitzer, along with wife, Martha, and brother and sister, directed a pledge to establish the Jean M. Pitzer archeology laboratory in honor of their mother. Trustee Deborah Bach Kallich directed an additional donation for the Student Activity Center. Pitzer Parents Pitch In Each year parents provide much needed support to Pitzer's educational programs through the Parents Annual Fund. We are pleased to recognize Kay and Craig Tuber of Chicago, Illinois, as co-chairs of the 1992-93 Parents Annual Fund campaign. Their daughter Missy is a junior at Pitzer this year. In the past several years, parents have contributed more than $100,000 to sustain Pitzer's outstanding and innovative educational programs. Mayr Foundation Hosts Luncheon for Scholarship Recipients Pitzer joined with Harvey Mudd College in hosting a lunch for 1992-93 recipients of George F. Mayr scholarships February 23. Foundation chairman Benjamin Grier presented the 16 students-eight from each college-with commemorative pens. The scholars then introduced themselves and briefly shared their goals and experiences with the donors. Pitzer invites any alumni who were Mayr Scholars or held a named scholarship of any type to contact the Advancement Office at 909-621-8130 so we can relay your successes to donors. "Where There's a Will .. . " Several alumni and friends have provided for a future gift to Pitzer by naming the College in their wills, life insurance policies, or trusts. Please let us know if you have done so. We'd like to include you in the Pitzer Heritage Circle. Of course, if you'd prefer anonymity, that's fine, but we want to thank you for your thoughtfulness and foresight. If you'd like to make such a gift to ensure the quality of future students or a favorite project, please contact Terry Jones, College Advancement, for information . New Communications and Foundations/ Corporations Directors Anna Ganahl joined the College Advancement staff in January as director of communications. She will be working with Pitzer constituents to enhance recognition for the college through campus publications, media exposure and other outreach activities. Prior to joining Pitze r, Ganahl se rved as public relations director at Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, CA, and as vice president for a regional communications agency. She holds a Ph.D. in English from University of California, Irvine. Sheryl Gorchow was appointed director of foundation and corporate relations in November. She is responsible for bringing Pitzer's message to foundations and corporations, and is presently seeking innovative partnerships within that community which may support scholarship funding, faculty projects and the college's three new buildings. Previously she held fund-raising and public relations positions with The Academy of Natural Sciences and The University Museum of Archaeology/Anthropology in Philadelphia, PA. She holds a master's in journalism from University of Missouri-Columbia. 4

Wachtel Snowiss Goodwin

keeping Southern California soil hospitable to native plants. He recently published "Restoring FACULTY FocuS Nature: Natives and Exotics," in Nature/Discourse, eds. Wm. Chaloupka and Jane Bennett. By Lynn Warner Psychology and Anthropology Profs, Students Join Forces James Joyce Divined Thought," and Hertel discussed Professors Ruth and Lee the prospect of bringing Qi Gong Monroe teamed up last semester "One of the wonderful to elderly and other residents of with psychology and discoveries Joyce made," says Western urban areas such as Los anthropology students to examine English professor Al Wachtel, Angeles. key issues uniting the two "was the way a literary work can Hertel and Snowiss are disciplines. Pitzer students John be organized and have a se nse of planning an Apri l conference at Harrelson and Ann Suppe helped totality wi thout eliminatin g the Pitzer with Professor Si Tu on examine the relationship between chance events that are part of "Chinese Culture, Qi Gong and dreams and personality in East life." In Joyce, Wac htel cl aims in Art." Representatives of Shanghai Afi-ican people, and the effects of his recently published book, The Traditional Medical College and early father absence on the later Cracked Lookingglass, chance Western medicine will discuss behavior of children fi-om Africa, events become absolutely essential topics such as cultural issues and Asia, Central America and the to the unified action-a technique the use of calligraphy to direct the Pacific. The students helped Wachtel call s "psychocasuality." Qi. analyze data the Munroes had Last spring Wachtel attended gathered through extensive field the International James Joyce Sabbatical Re-Energizes Courses work and assisted in writing up Symposi um at Dublin 's Trinity Sociology professor Glenn the findings. Articles on both College, where he chaired a panel Goodwin returned from a fa ll topics have been submitted for on "Joyce and the Philosophers." journal publication. His review of Shakespearean sabbatical rejuvenated and ready Criticism, vo!' II, appeared in to teach what he called "beefed A Cross-Cultural Look at Self and Analytical and Enumerative up" courses. He is incorporating the Other statistics on the distribution of Bibliography, vo!.!. wealth, poverty and crime, culled Carl Hertel, Sharon Snowiss In January, the San Francisco and Lourdes Arguelles are team­ Chronicl e printed an opinion from 1990 census data, as well as introducing "underlying teaching a new course this piece in whi ch Wachtel proposed a resolution to the controversy of epistemologies of people of color" semester entitled "Consciousness, bilingual education by requiring and their differing views of the Environment and the Self: that all students know two world in his Introduction to Multicultural Perspectives." Topics range fi-om Descartes and languages-thus ensuring that Sociology. Goodwin was recently Western perspectives on the split ESL students prepare for life in America and that English­ appointed chair of the Pacific between body and mind, to concerns about land and speaking students become better Sociological Association's prepared for functioning in the committee on teaching, for which consciousness in T ibetan, increasingly in ternational context he organized a series of seminars American Indian and other of business, government and and papers to be presented in communities, and alternative Portland, Oregon, in March. He reali ties such as Shamanism and leisure. has also been elected to the board virtual reality. Students are Oi Gong Redux of directors and the executive required to integrate experience committee of the ACLU of with consciousness by choosing a Political studies professor Southern California; venue such as meditation or Sharon Snowiss and art professor prayer to practice on a daily basis. Carl Hertel traveled to China last Alien Plants Threaten Native Soil September to in vestigate practices Seeing Red ofQi Gong ("chee kung"), the Professor of political and environmental studies John How do babies learn to art of directing the vital energy of Rodman, board member and categorize what they see? breath. Qi Gong's holistic secretary-elect of the Society for Psychology professor David approach to health was the subject Ecological Restoration, is Moore is investigating of the Fourth International concerned with non-native plants "perceptual categorization," the CoIiference on Qi Gong at that intrude into the native phenomenon by which babies as Shanghai Traditional Medical vegetation of the area. He has young as four months can Coll ege, where Snowiss spoke on helped organize the California recognize two shades of red as the "Knowiedge, Morality and chapter of the Exotic Pest Plant Health: Qi Gong and Western same color. He presented a paper Council, whose mission is on the topic at last spring's eradicating these pests and' 5

Monroe Brenneis Volti Pachon

International Conference on Students Help Staff American California. His works wi ll be on Infant Studies, in Miam i. Ethnologist ex hibit April 26 through May 2 in Moore is also investigating a benefit auction at the Museum babies' visual and auditory Ap ril Henderson is servin g her of American Craft in New York responses to other stimuli . He sets second year and Sarah Kapocias City. up two television monitors that her first semester as editorial simultaneously show one dot assistants for American Automotive Technology becoming bi gger and appearin g to Ethnologist, the national anthropology journal edited by Sociology professor Rudi Volti approach, and another dot spoke on "Alternative Internal becoming smaller and seeming to professor Don Brenneis. The upcoming May issue's article Combustion Engin es, 1900- recede. At the same time a 1915" at the annual meeting of speaker positioned betw;en the "Uniting the German Nation" required updating to the last the Society for the History of minute as the trial of Erich Technology in Uppsala, Sweden, Honecker unfolded. Articles on last August. Focusing on an earl y Mediterranean culture in clude a phase in the evolu tion of discussion of women's fu neral automotive technology, he laments in Crete, an elucidation clarifi ed how a combinati on of of the use of magic in Greek technical, marketing and Cypriot society, and a discussion production factors led to the of how Greek women se rve as demise of alternative designs of symbols of their communities and lI1ternal combustion engines in the outside world. Under favo r of the currently prevalent Brenneis's leadership, the journal structure. A ve rsion of his paper has published interdisciplinary was published in the U ni ve rsity of work, which has contributed to Gothenburg'S Automotive the growing recognition of Engin eering in a Dead End: Pitzer's strengths in anthropology. Mainstream and Alternative Developments in the 20th Year of American Craft Century. The recently published Engin eer in History, co-authored David Furman's ceramic with the late John Rae of Harvey sculpture "In the Bathroom with Mudd Coll ege, covers Molly" will be featured in an engi neering fro m Babylonian exhibit honoring the Year of through present time. American Craft, proclai med for 1993 by George Bush. The 80- Pachon Sweeps the Airwaves piece exhibit, "Tales and Traditions: Storytelling in the Political and C hicano studies 20th Century," will debut in June professor H arry Pachon was at the Washington University fea tured last September in a Gallery of Art in St. Louis, national PBS special "Power Missouri, before traveling in Politics and Latinos,'" broadc~st September on a two-year tour of locall y on KCET, in whi ch he 10 museums across the country. discussed the effect of the Furman's ceramic sculptures developing political power of the were featured at the 1992 Latino community on local International Ex hibition of elections ac ross the country. Ceramic Art at the National He spoke in January to viewe rs Museum of H istory in Taipei of CNN's Spanish-language "In the Bathroom with Molly" Taiwan, at the Laguna Beach 'Art broadcast to 21 Latin America n by David Furman Museum, Tortue Gallery in Sa nta nations on the parallels between Monica, and the LA92 Bill Clinton's and John F. Kennedy's inaugural speeches TV ~ets emits car sounds that international art fa ir. More recently, his work has been calling for people to make become alternately louder and personal sacrifices on behalf of softer. Moore's findings ex hibited at the Judy Youens Ga llery in Houston, the their country. Pachon also contradict previous studies which appeared on the local Spani sh indicated that babies looked at the Schneider-Bluhm-Loeb Gall ery in ChIcago, and the Faith television station I

Bogen Senn Arguelles Ringler-Henderson

Cultural Re-Visions USC conference on "Aristotle and She was a plenary panelist in the Entrapment of Matter." This January at the Association of Daniel Segal, associate paper is forthcoming in the Pacific American Law School's annual professor of anthropology and Philosophical Quarterly. Bogen's meeting in San Francisco, where historical studies, edited Crossing recent publications include she discussed the effect of Cultures: Essays in the "Observations, Theories, & the multiracial teaching in Displacement of Western Evolution of the Human Spirit" undergraduate education on law Civilization, published last spring (with Jim Woodward Caltech) school curriculums. She was also by University of Arizona Press. Philosophy of Scienc~, and ' plenary speaker at the Interracial The essays demonstrate the "Contrariety & Change in Unity Conference in Pomona importance of colonial encounters Aristotle," Phronesis, #1,1992. California, last November, wh'ere for the formation of modern she spoke on "Education and Europe. At the annual meeting of From Werewolves and Vampires to Exploitation: Challenges for the the Jane Austen Society in Incan Ruins '90s." Also in November she October, Segal spoke on "Jane French and folklore professor teamed with a clinical so~ial Austen in the West Indies" Harry Senn explored Romanian worker from Kaiser Permanente discussing the importance' of racial beliefs that monsters such as to 'present "Violence, Gender and ideologies and colonialism for werewolves and vampires are part Migration: Conversations with understanding Jane Austen. In of the natural world in a lecture to Some Women We Think We December, Segal traveled to San the Alliance Francaise of Pasadena Know" at the American Francisco to present titled "L'Ecologie de Loups­ Anthropology Association annual "Anthropological Re-Visions of garous et Vampires: Se Sintir meeting in San Francisco. What Historians Teach" to a Chez Soi parmi des Monstres" In October, Arguelles spoke presidential session of the ("The Ecology of Werewolves and on "Spiritual Emergencies and American Anthropological Vampires: Feel at Home among Psychotherapeutic Practices with Association on multiculturalism Monsters"). Gay Latinos with HIV Disease" at and the curriculum. Most Senn's interest inthe mix of a conference on the impact of recently, Segal's essay '''Race' and spirituality and psychology led HIV in the gay community in 'Colour' in Pre-Independence him to Peru's Sacred Valley and Rancho Santa Fe, California. She Trinidad and Tobago" was Machu Picchu for two weeks last also spoke on "Cross-Cultural published by MacMillan in an fall, where he investigated Incan Lesbian Studies" at the Working edited volume titled Trinidad traditions. He worked with a Out Gay and Lesbian Studies Ethnicity. leading archaeologist and an conference at UC Berkeley. Her A Fiery Talk anthropologist who is the son of paper will be published in Tilting Peru's foremost scholar in the the Tower: Teaching Lesbian Aristotelian chemistry does not field. Studies, J. Garber (ed.). believe in atoms. To see how it Professor Senn's interest in Arguelles is co-author, with compares with present day psychology is further reflected in Pitzer professor Peter Nardi, Ken chemistry, philosophy professor his recent completion of the Plummer (U. of Essex) and Beth Jim Bogen has been investigating written and oral exams for state Schneider (UC Santa Barbara), of what Aristotle would think the licensing as a marriage, family and A Critical Sociology of Gay and connection is between the child therapist. He spends Lesbian Lives, a forthcoming elements that comprised approximately 12 hours each week book from Routledge Press. hamburgers your parents ate, their counseling at a county agency in Travels Inform Literature Classes flesh, the reproductive materials nearby Ontario. you developed from, and the Ellin Ringler-Henderson's six­ organic compounds your body is A Voice for Diversity week journey around the United made of. Borrowing his title from During her fall sabbatical, States during her fall sabbatical Sam Kean's Fire in the Belly renewed her "appreciation for the (Aristotle thinks fire is a basic Lourdes Arguelles, associate professor of gender and feminist richness of our country." In element and knows that bellies studies and Chicano studies addition to exploring Native have a lot to do with body traveled to Costa Rica, Mexico American ruins in California and chemistry), Bogen and UCLA and Guatemala to interview wandering through the Civil War logician Kit Fine presented papers women ecological activists and battlefield at Gettysburg, on this hot topic in December at a lesbians working in grassroots Pennsylvania, she and her movements. She was investigating husband revisited 19th century the ways women define their New England. Her courses in community and domestic spheres 19th century American literature to include ecological concerns. have been enriched by her Her findings will be included in a "renewed sense of the English forthcoming publication on past of American history." gender struggles in the Third World. 7 RAY MARSHALL: COOKING UP A BETTER WORLD

by Anna Ganahl

Mexican culture of the house hold chefs the easy way to West. Moving as far from the East peel an avocado and mince Coast as possible, he eventuall y garlic- to patrons of non-profit arrived in Los Angeles, where he organizations throughout held odd jobs and interned as a Southern California. He suppli ed cook at the elegant downtown the food at no charge-to be Biltmore Hotel. sampled by the patrons-requesting After serving in the South only a dollar per guest, which he Pacific during World War II (he donated to the Culin ary Institute had been readin g in the in H yde Park, New York. Huntington Library when he Accordin g to his son, his The founder of the Acapulco heard about the outbreak of war, relationship with Pitzer was based Restaurant chain served on folded up his book and enl isted on his appreciation for the good Pitzer's Board of Trustees fi'om for a fo ur-year tour of duty), Ray that was bein g done on behalf of 1977 until his death in July, returned to Los Angeles, where society. "The end was clear," John 1992. H is son, John, tells of his he purchased and operated coffee says, "Though he may not have father's COl011ul and cal'ing life. shops. agreed with all the politics." In 1964 he bought a "Ray valued education when it e was closin g the restaurant restaurant in Pasadena named The brought together practical one night when Ray Acapulco-the si te of hi s experience with new knowledge Marshall heard a baby encounter with little T heresa a and understandin g for students," crying. Investigatin g the year later. Unable to afford the says past Pitzer president Frank H cost of changing the eatery's sign, Ellsworth. "He urged me to have booths up fi·ont, he discovered an abandoned infant. The child, he he opened under the sa me name, a vision for Pitzer. As a trustee, he was told by the local official s to introducing recipes he had wanted to be part of a college whom he took her, would be acquired since his days in with vision. 'Where's your eli gible for adoption if she wasn't Colorado. The popular restaurant plan? What do you want your claimed within six months. soon spawned others-38, when students to become? How is Upon his return, agency he sold his interest many years Pitzer different?' he would ask. I officials advised him against later. began thinkin g of a master plan. I takin g the little girl, whose His humility, says John , was became a frequent guest at Ray cerebral palsy had left her blind. reflected in his parking and Gert's, where we would sit But he ignored their advice an d arrangement at the wa rehouse down and doodle on napkins and took the baby home. headquarters from whi ch his talk about facilities . H is emphasis Vulnerable to a variety of restaurants were supplied. The de was always on the students: 'what illnesses, Theresa suffered an rigueur parking place close to a do they need?' In many ways, Ray acute respiratory reaction to an corner office stacked hi gh with was the fa ther of the master plan insect bite when she was 16 years books and clippings was which is now we ll under way. old , an d Ray called an am bulance designated for him with a "I t always touched me that to take her to the hospital. On the sign-which he roundly Ray Marshall believed the sole way, the vehicle collided with a eschewed, choosing to park his function of a trustee was to give car, and the occupants, including old station wagon behind the money to support the dream. I Theresa, were killed. warehouse by the produce trucks. can remember his saying often, That's when he became In 1981 he "moved up in the 'Frank, you know what you're invo lved in children's world of cars," says John . "We doing, but we have to help you philanthropies, recounts hi s son were coming back fi·om the get there. '" John Marshall, contributing to airport, and he kept buggi ng Ray Marshall 's appreciation for United Way and March of Dimes me: 'What does your mom want goodness and service reflected hi s and many other charitable for Christmas?' I saw a car on the own, and came back to him many organi zations. "Pitzer came late in freeway, and I said, 'That car.' It times over. "He was appreciated his life," says John, who was a Mercedes convertible, by everyone," says John graduated from Pitze r in 1992. wh ich of course he bought for proudly. "He had no enemies. He "He;was on a pedestal he never her. He li ked hers so much that knew what he wanted-the thought he should be on. ' I'm he bought one for himself. But he quality he expected-and he was just a cook,' he would say." kept the parking place." we ll respected for that." An orphan, Ray was raised in In addition to conventional Not long ago, the Marshalls an institution in New York, where duties as trustee for va ri ous decided to decorate a game room the punishment for misbehavior charitable organi zations, Ray in the fami ly home. They was kitchen duty. "He got into Marshall brought a personal rummaged through boxes of trouble as much as possible," says touch to fundraising. Using a awards which had never been John . portable, self-designed wooden framed or displayed, and gleefitl ly During the mid-1930s, Ray structure containing an oven and covered the walls. ran away from the orphanage, stove top with overhead mirrors, hopping trains to Colorado, he presented Mexican cooking where he encountered the lessons-teaching a myriad of 8

by Tere Strombotne CALEXICO CLINIC: STUDENTS LEARN THE JOY OF GIVING

Pitzer's chairman of the Board of Culiacan, the city where my "A patient with whom I spent Trustees, Dr. Chad Smith, and his parents are from originall y. I the day on Friday in the wife, Corinna, were among the spoke with this lady and her son examination room, cast room, handful of volunteers to staff the at length, and after the other and waitin g room was a 14-year­ Valley Orthopaedic Clinic, in patients saw I could communicate old girl who had come with her Calexico, CA, when it opened with them, I felt they were more grandmother to the clinic. She nearly 30 years ago to provide care at ease, which made me more had been coming to the clinic to children from nearby Mexico. comfortable. " since she was about three rponths Still active with the clinic, Chad as Consuelo Salcido, Pitzer old. She had had a pretty bad case medical director of the of club feet, but her condition was International Children's Program Cases almost completely corrected since which runs it and Corinna as "I was placed with Dr. Chad she had been getting the medical volunteer par exellence-"I change Elsner, an excellent doctor doing attention she needed. She had just casts, paint murals, make bologna his residency at USc. I began had an operation at the hospital in sandwiches, and drive the translating for him since he is not Los Angeles . van "-the Smiths invited 13 fluent in Spanish. "I helped her throughout the students from Professor Ann "Our first two patients were day, and we became good friends. Stromberg's Sociology of Health brothers who had traveled over 20 I know that she wi ll be returning and Medicine class to assist at the hours to get to the hospital. One to the clinic, just as I wi ll, and we clinic fall semester. Following are would never imagine anything to both hope to see each other there excerpts from their journals. be wrong if it weren't for their in the flaure." physical illness . They were two Diane Verano, Pitzer First Impressions simply gorgeous boys who listened to Nirvana and Guns-n­ "My job at the eye clinic was "When we walked through the Roses. Antonio, 14, and hi s to test people's sight by means of doors of the clinic and I sawall younger brother, Jesus, share a a letter chart. Many of the those children with casts and genetic problem that makes their patients did not know how to crutches, I knew the day would be bones brittle. Antonio had read, so a special chart was used full of painful cases. I was very recently had surgery, yet he was for them. This chart consisted of excited about going and am still unable to walk. It just hurt the letter E. The legs of the E extremely gratefld for the him too much, and he had also would be up, down, to the right experience, yet I never imagined gained more weight than he could and to the left. They were the pain and the loss I'd feel once sustai n. Yet he had to start supposed to tell me where the we returned to Pitzer. I felt such walking; if he didn't try now, he patitas, or legs, were facing." an attachment to many of the would neve r be able to walk Carla Rodas, Pitzer children and their parents that I again. When I translated this to felt I would be betraying them if I them I saw the grief in their eyes. Clinic Life never went back. This is one of What did they possibly do to the reasons I write about my first deserve this?" "While I handed out experience in Calexico because I Araceli Cortes sandwiches, I realized how patient hope to have many more in the these people were. Everyone was future." "One child was wrapped in her sitting quietly waiting for their Araceli Cortes, Pitzer mama's arms, her crooked spine turn; even the little children were exposed for the doctor's extremely cooperative. I began to "It was easy for me to speak examination. Unable to walk at wonder how my little sister would with people from Sinaloa because age three, she had traveled with act if she had to walk for two my parents are from there. The her mother for four days to get days, and then wait for hours to first thing I would do when I saw care. The mother said that the see a doctor for five minutes. I patients was ask them where they child had fallen from a chair and feel it is safe to say she would not were from, hoping I could use her spinal deformity was due to be as agreeable as the children I some of my knowledge about the this fall. The doctor mumbled saw before me." regions of Mexico to make them under his breath, 'Looks like a Elizabeth Tesh, Pitzer comfortable while speaking to classic case ofTB.' After looking me. at the child's X-rays, the doctor "When we first entered the "At first it was a little difficult called the other physicians to have clinic I quickly realized that I was to get started because there was a look. Sure enough, the other one of the few white people in the deafening noise, from the cast doctors believed that this child room. At first I felt very self­ saws and the crying children. had pulmonary TB and must be conscious, but this feeling faded When I asked the mother of a sent to the Orthopaedic Hospital when we sat wi th the children and 16-year-old patient what city in in Los Angeles for further care. watched them draw pictures. Sinaloa they were from, she Had the mother not come in to "Some of the pictures reflected responded that they we re from the clinic now, this baby could the children's interests, while have died." other drawings told of how they Kendra Brandstein, Pitzer got to the clinic. A few of the chi ldren drew of somethin g The opportunity for Pitzer students to travel to the Valley Orthopaedic Clinic in Calexico to observe and to serve as volunteers came out of an annual faculty/trustee spring retreat, reports Pitzer College professor of sociology Ann Stromberg. At the retreat, Dr. Chad Smith, chairman of Pitzer's Board of Trustees, presented a slide show on the International Children's Dr. Chad Smith; young patient Program (ICP) , which brings and family await treatment at children from developing nations Calexico clinic; Professor Ann to the U. S. for orthopaediC Stromberg chats with children surgery. The Valley Orthopaedic (clockwise from top). Clinic in Calexico , founded about thirty years ago by the Los Angeles OrthopaediC Hospital, is Pitzer, Pomona and Scripps part of this program. students assisted patients, Kate Irvine, a Pomona College translated for medical staff, and observed health problems and student enrolled in Professor Stromberg's class, writes: "Four treatment at Valley Orthopaedic full-time paid workers and ten Clinic in Calexico, CA. permanent volunteers run the clinic and its supporting services. These people organize the clinic 's services, set up appointments, house and feed some patients and families, make braces, and help patients on their way to Los Angeles for surgery. Once a month several volunteer doctors, medical interns, medical students, technicians, translators, cooks, and others gather at the Calexico clinic. They remove casts or braces from previous care , take X- rays , recommend patients for surgery, and provide minor treatment. Surgeries take place at the Los Angeles OrthopaediC Hospital, which provides five surgical beds, free of charge, for the ICP. connected to death. I began to several of them would chime in "All the patients of the Valley reali ze that these kids had been and try to explain the object in Orthopaedic Clinic are children through so much at such a young simple words or draw it on their and teenagers. Virtually all are age. Not only did they have sheets of paper. Those who could from Mexico, although children tremendous courage, but they had write would label it for me and from Russia, Romania, South not lost their creativity and make me repeat it until they were vi tality. " satisfied that I knew the word. America and the Middle East have Bob Connolly, Pitzer Somehow they had completely been treated through the ICP. cast aside any pain and found a The patients wait at the border on "Juan Luis typified the many way to giggle and talk and smile the day of their appointment for a children, most of them under 10 even more than most children representative of the clinic to yea rs of age, that I chatted with do." meet them. A border guard while coloring. I could not get Joy Sellers, Pomona over their sweetness, sincerity, and records their names whe n they se lfless ness in dealing with their "After meeting several enter the United States and pe~rs and with me. They never patients, I began noticing that checks their names off when they hesitated to share crayons with most of them came from around leave." one another. The minute one the sa me area: Nayarit, Sonora, Stromberg says that when she child would look up and ask me Sinaloa, etc. Many of them have asked Dr. Smith if a few of her for amarillo, two others would to make the trip every three students cou ld partiCipate as jump up and offer a yellow crayon months. One woman walked with volunteers at the Calexico clinic, whi ch happened to be in front of her child for two days because she them or which they even might could not afford the bus fare. he "ve ry graciously and have been usi ng at that very Another young child traveled to enthusiastically agreed ."Given the moment. the clinic from Yucatan!" success of the first student trip, "IfI could not understand a Araceli Cortes both Stromberg and Dr. Smith particul ar word one of the are hopeful that this can become children used whil e talking to me, (continued on page 32) a regu lar experience for Pitzer 10 • President's Convocation Address, Fall 1992

Several weeks ago, thinking about how to say what I bell hooks in her book Black Looks. Both of these feel in joining you at this convocation of Pitzer's writers talk about making a face as an act of resistance twenty-ninth academic year, the phrase "making new to constraints on freedom. Anzaldua says, "For me, faces" came to mind. I have a habit of mixing haciendo caras has the ... connotation of making gestos metaphors, but in this case, I realized that I had subversivos, politically subversive gestures, the piercing thought of a slight variation of part of the title of a look that challenges or questions, the look that says, book I had read this summer, Gloria Anzaldua's 'Don't walk all over me', or 'Get out of my face'." anthology, Making Face, Making Soul. This book is bell hooks writes, "I remember being punished as a about the struggles of women of color to effect change child for staring, for those hard intense direct looks and express identity in this culture. As I considered children would give grown ups, looks that were seen as how to tell you what making new friends here meant to confrontational, as gestures of resistance, challenges to me, I was drawn to Anzaldua's title term "making authority." Being free enough to make this sort of face face," (haciendo caras), which means to put on a face, and, equally important, to see and read the meaning of to express feelings by deliberately distorting or shaping this sort of face is vital. I have made many of these the face. faces, and these are the ones that get me into the most I thought of tllis phrase for three types of trouble. But, I have come to learn that making these reasons-personal, intellectual, and institutional. First, sorts of faces, especially inside a college, is crucial. As let me give you a hint of the personal. Like St. bell hooks' description of the staring face shows, there Augustine, I will start with a confession. Mine is: I is a link between making a face and assuming the right cannot play poker. I am constitutionally incapable of a to look. poker face. All through my life, from the age of reason Recognizing tlle right to stare back is tied to to today, I have gotten into trouble because I make exercising tlle right to look. Of all places, a liberal arts faces. Indeed, not long ago someone told me that no college should be a place where there is no prohibition matter how talented I was I could never be a college on looking. Here is granted a fundamental right to president unless I learned not to make faces. When that look-to look back at someone, to look at the yet happened, I asked myself, Is being a president wortll unknown, and to raise one's eyes to see behind the giving up making faces? I answered, no! look of one trying to define us. In the relation between I refused to accept the logic of the warning, the face-making and unfettered looking, therefore, we find horns of the dilemma, the either/or of making faces or an essential aspect of a liberal arts college. It should be being a president. Instead, I set out to look for a a place where one is free to look at the previously college where I could make faces and, indeed, learn to unexamined and unquestioned-the unknown and the make some new ones-even as President. And, I have all-too-known-to look across the fence of another found that college in Pitzer. Although I am not sure we discipline to see as much and as well as we can. want to put this honor on the front page of the When our looking is truly unfettered, we see that catalogue, I believe Pitzer is rare among colleges there are two relationships between knowledge and because it not only allows but also encourages the freedom. The first is the one we have always attributed making of new faces. to a liberal arts education: the positive and direct To begin to explain what I mean by tllis, I will say relationship between growth in knowledge and growth something about the intellectual reasons for making in freedom, between truth and good. The second faces that I find significant. I will say more about the relationship is that between the limits of knowledge face, finitude, and particularity. Throughout my own and the lack offreedom. It is possible that if we do not scholarly work, I have wrestled and played with tlle pay attention to tlle partiality of our knowledge, if we concepts of tlle body, finitude, and particularity in do not name it for what it is, it will walk all over Western religious and philosophical thought. Recently, someone or get in her or his face. I believe that what I have come to see that having bodies that differ from guarantees that we remain sensitive to the second one another witllin a group oflearners and teachers has relationship-the limiting potential of our profound pedagogical and philosophical implications. knowledge-is that we place no ban on looking and Some of those we can grasp from focusing on the face. that we make and carefully read faces of resistance. Anzaldua describes the face as "the most naked, There is, however, another kind of face-making that most vulnerable, exposed and significant topography of is also indispensable to teaching and learning to which, the body." "Face," she writes, "is the surface of the I must confess, I am also prone. This is empathetic body that is the most notably inscribed by social mimicking, the tracing of another's face on one's own structures." Our faces are marked with instructions on with the purpose of understanding, not mockery. One how to be what we are supposed to be, how to live up analogy for this kind of face-making is that which goes to the images that our community, family, school, on between caretaker and child, especially a young college want us to wear. The face is where social baby. Loving caretakers make faces at children, trying expectations are written and where we read people. to copy their faces to let them know that they are Because the writing is not merely individual but also understood. In fact, the act of making a face in this societal, we read worlds in faces. instance is an act of attempted comprehension, of But the face is not a mere tablet. It is an actor, an trying to imagine what is going on in the child's mind. actress. It can make itself. We can make faces. In fact, I Moreover, not long into life, as babies grow in believe it is a fundamental human freedom to make a complexity of mind, they start copying the caretakers. face. Another analogy for this second sort of face-making For me, the liberals arts, that to which Pitzer is might be that which occurs between people who have dedicated, are the arts of being a free person, and one !ived together and loved each other for a long time. As of those arts is that of making faces. in the tale of the Great Stone Face, some of these In further explaining this, I would like to return to people grow to look like each other. In both these 11 mimicry holds incredible human power. It is the basis It feels to me that here at Pitzer, the night is roundest, for human physical growth, sustenance, and support. the fragrance of the autumn, this autumn, warmest, And, I believe, for intellectual growth. closest, and strongest. And, that is why I think that I Reserving always the right to make the face of can keep myoid habits of face-making here. What do I resistance, all of us should cultivate the art of tracing see that convinces me? I see a faculty whose members other faces on our own in order to understand deeply are enormously talented, as accomplished as any I have the individual and his or her social and cultural worlds. known at Duke or Harvard, but with a difference. We all know how to do this, not just from our Some have been here from the beginning, when Pitzer, childhood, but from any time in our lives when we founded to be one thing, rapidly took on its own have wanted or been required to learn how to fit into a character as a college in whose heart was embedded new culture or subculture-in another country, in a social concern. Academic excellence is married to social different social and economic strata, in a new college, concern, first, by prominence in the academic in a new work role, in any place that is not our original disciplines of the social sciences, but, equally, by a home. There is no question that we possess this skill, symphony, necessarily and beautifully atonal at times, this art, in a more or less developed way. What we need of individuals committed in thought, life, and creativity is the recognition that in the pursuit of knowledge, of to furthering human freedom. While delighting in the the knowledge that frees, we are never finished with brilliant sparks of mind detected in every eye, I delight exercising that art. Our particularity is never the whole, equally in that commitment I see in every face. and thus, we must keep on searching faces and through I see exceptionally talented students who excel in them crawling into skins that are not our own. studying such aspects of our world as the amount of In her essay "Playfulness, 'World' -Travelling, and lead in California wines, who have the creativity and Loving Perception," Maria Lugones describes a process persistence to erect the 29-foot James Turrell called "'world' -travelling" as a complex skill, the installation, who have the talent and ingenuity to acquired flexibility of an outsider who enters a new perform Without a Box, and who have the courage to culture to shift to and from "mainstream constructions study in areas of the world about which we in the of life to other constructions where she is more or less United States know the least and have the most to 'at home'." As Lugones contends, it is not only learn. I see care and deep concern on the faces of an outsiders to a dominant culture that can possess this administration and staff who help find, serve, and fund skill, this flexibility. Those at home in mainstream, or our students, while enjoying and respecting their dominant, culture can acquire the skill of "'world'­ efforts. When I look around beyond the faces, I see a travelling," of reading another world in a face that one grove house, a yurt, a lonely clock tower, and traces so deeply that one not only understands that octagonal buildings around which one can go round world but also how one is perceived from that alternate and round and never find the President's office. I see space. Ifwe think for a moment about what we do as mounds and orange trees and new trellises awaiting learners and teachers, I believe we can see how vines. I see spaces with definition rarely found on other empathetic face-making is essential to the trips we campuses, and I see spaces waiting for definition. But, attempt to make to the boundless particularities of most of all I see in the faces and spaces a revealing human experience that are foreign to us. particularity. Here the faces and spaces are eclectic, A close friend of mine, Sharon Welch, introduced singular, and, perhaps, anarchic. Given all that, me to Wallace Stevens's poem "On the Road Home," however, Pitzer has a more definitive character, a more which speaks to me, and, I hope, to you, about focused identity, than that of any other college I have "'world' -travelling" and the richness in boundless known. particularities. It goes: I talked with many of you when I visited you before. I told you that I was attracted to Pitzer because its curriculum addresses the complexities of our present It lvas lvhen I said, and future reality. Pitzer has placed international, «There is no such thing as the truth," intercultural understanding, the appreciation of That the grapes seemed fatter. diversity, and the recognition of the social and ethical The fox ran out of his hole. implications of knowledge at its center. Today I want to suggest that what will give this important center real You ... You said, life and uniqueness is the fostering of the art of making "There are many truths, faces. The reason for this, I believe, is to be seen in But they are not parts of a truth. " your faces. What I see written beneath, between, and within all the sparkling individualities is awareness of Then the tree, at night, began to change and resistance to human pain and injustice and the smoking through green and smoking blue. resolution to teach and learn to provide a more free and just future. We were two figures in a lvood. In his book Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, the We said we stood alone. philosopher Richard Rorty tries to answer the question at the origin of many of the quandaries and conflicts in It was when I said, higher education today: how can we have any common «Words are not forms of a single word. goals, any solidarity, when we accept the relativism of In the sum oftbe parts, there are only the parts. all knowledge, of all positions, to contingent cultural The lvorld must be measured by eye"; conditions? Rorty believes such solidarity is possible in the shared recognition of human suffering and resistance to it. I do too. But, I do not think coming to It was when you said, «the idols have seen lots of that recognition is easy. I do not think it entails a mere poverty, philosophical assertion or stance. Rather, it necessitates Snakes and gold and lice, strenuous acts of knowing that involve well-honed But not the truth"; expertise coupled with humility, generosity, and acceptance of our own and others' particularity. It is It was at that time, that the silence was largest this arduous, most disciplined mode of knowing that and longest, the night was roundest, constitutes academic excellence. The fragrance of the autumn warmest, For us, for Pitzer, to continue to embody that Closest and strongest. excellence, I invite all of you to exercise-with me-the freedom and art of making faces. 12

WANDA COLEMAN GIVES VOICE TO BLACK L.A. The poet is teaching two courses of creative writing as a visiting writer this semester.

Yet here she is at Pitzer, where she believes her status as a writer provides her students the advantage of immediate insight into current literary trends. Rather than stressing ethnic writers, she focuses on post-World War II authors, identifYing the cultural influences that affect one generati on to the next. "My being Black only adds another dimension to that picture," she says. T he Pitzer students themselves, she reports, seem to be dedicated and interested in doing the work; they're not playing. She was "pleasantly surprised" by student demands early in the semester for greater representation of faculty of color on the Claremont campuses. "Except for protests over hiring cuts and raising tuition," she observes, "this hasn't been a part of the political

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burst of laughter prefaces the fledgling manuscripts and gave answer. her "rough advice." "H e didn 't AAsked if her experience as a spare me," she explains, "and single mother on we lfare that's what I needed. A lot of politicized her, Wanda Coleman people don't digest criticism very replies, "My birth was we ll, or give it well. They make it COFFEE political! Politics goes with the a personal thing. He didn't." turf. As if I had a choice!" She also discovered the Writers steam rises over my nose A visiting professor of creative Guild of America, whose West against this night writing at Pitzer this semester, Coast Open Door program Coleman's seven books of poetry we lcomed her as its eighth cold empty room as wide as my throat; eases/flows and fiction are lyrical yet tough, minority writer. Yet despite the river a mocha memory from aunt ora's sometimes Whitmanesque, encouragement, she found little reflections on her li fe as a Black market for Black themes. "The kitchen. she made it in the Angelena. doors were closed," Coleman big tin percolator and poured the brew into thick Her own academic training is says. "I was told blatantly that minimal. Struggling to put herself with the end of the civil rights white fist-sized mugs and through community college, movement, there was no need to put lots of sugar and milk in it for me and Coleman worked two jobs to buy Black product." support herself and her two An Emmy award wi nner in the other kids who loved it better than chocolate children. The added pressure of 1976 for her work with Days of and the neighbor woman used to tell her and us racist teachers was so unpleasant, Our Lives, Coleman in sists that she recounts, that she dropped racism on television persists. More it wasn 't good for young colored children out of school, looking for other Blacks may seem involved on the to drink. it made you get blacker aven ues to pursue the poetry she surface, she explai ns, "but if you had begun in kindergarten and look at what they're doing, you'll and blacker published locall y as a teenager. see that they are in an untenable Beginning her search for position. They're allowed to be mentors in the late '60s and early funny or dangerous-clowns or '70s, she chanced upon poet John bad guys-but little in between. T homas, who took a look at her "Racism may change, but not fast enough to be of any value to me," she says with another shot of laughter. "I li ke to think tbat Copyri ght 1979 by Wanda Coicman. Reprinted from Afri",n Sleepino Sickness: Stories ,wd Poems writers like myself are helping with permission of Black Sparrow Press . bring the change about." 13

HER VOLUNTEER HOURS ARE WORTH MILLIONS Last year's conference on "Counting Women's Work" led to a course this semester by visiting instructor Margaret Prescod.

by a United Nations mandate that all countries include women's unwaged work in the home, on the land, and within the community in their economic statistics and GDP. Such an accounting could be accomplished by assessing the market value and replacement costs of services such as hi ring a nanny, a housekeeper, an accountant for the family business, or a teacher's aide. Prescod's effort to realize this mandate in the United States continues this semester, as her organization initiates a campaign on behalf of the Unremunerated Work Act ofl993, introduced by Barbara-Rose Collins (D­ Michigan). The measure calls on the Bureau of Labor Statistics to do time-use surveys on the waged and unwaged work of women and men and include this data in GDP figures. A new, comprehensive GDP wi ll then exist alongside the present GDP. The bill would recognize previously invisible and argaret Pres cod is no teaching elementary school in undervalued contributions to exception to her family's Ocean Hill Brownsville in society, which is sustained by Mhistory of activism. A Brooklyn, New York. The women millions of hours of unpaid Barbados ancestor who paid for who volunteered their help, she labor. In calculating the GDP, says his own freedom from slavery was says, were not the weary parents Prescod, we have been looking at later elected to Parliament in that who worked in sweat shops, but the end product and ignoring the country-as one of the first Black unemployed mothers on welfare earlier stages of people to hold such an office who had the time to help there production. Women who dedicate anywhere. Her parents were and elsewhere. "These women themselves to home and teachers-at Third World were holding entire communities community, or who experience wages-first in Barbados and later together," Prescod notes. "Yet the "double day"-low waged in New York, where Prescod not only were they unseen, they work outside the home and immigrated with her mother at were getting a bum rap as welfare unwaged work within-contribute the age of 13. Even her daughter, mothers'" to the value of goods and services, a 10-year-old caught in a This and other unwaged work, too. They deserve to have their classroom controversy following according to a Department of entire workload counted and not last spring's Los Angeles riots, Commerce study, amounts to be treated as charity cases . shyly yet resolutely confronted her $1.46 trillion, and according to "As women, our unwaged teacher, who had spoken some esti mates would account for work is seen as unproductive. Like disparagingly of the anger at least 51. 3 percent of the this is nothing! Like we're not expressed by the rioters. country's GDP. Casting a broader producing the labor force in the Prescod herself is crusading to net, studies conducted for the first place!" she exclaims. have the unpaid work of women United Nations Decade for Counting women's work wi ll and men counted into the Gross Women show that while women reveal how much women are Domestic Product of this country. do two-thirds of the entire producing and will thus engender Such labor would include world's work-valued at $4 political power. housework, care for children and trillion-they earn only five The issue pertains to women in others, farm and family business percent of its income. all walks of life, from the Third tasks, and volunteer activities. Prescod co-founded World to industrialized countries, Prescod observed the need for International Black Women for such recognition, she says, while Wages for Housework in 1975. Ten years later she and her colleagues in related organizations were rewarded for their activism (continued on page 14) 14

(Coleman continued) more sophisticated and subtle; own voice and the intimacy of the they haven't gone away. form. "Look how much rhetoric A challenge she surely scene in Southern California for a we've already had. Beefing up welcomed. "I consider myself a long time. The 'me' generation law enforcement is not the writer," she says of her mastery of nullified all that. Perhaps this answer." Instead, she suggests, we television scripts, newspaper indicates that people are should recognize that the notable columns, short stories, and the bottoming out on the climate of rise in gang activity which began poetry for which she received a the last 12 years . It also reflects in 1971 coincides with the year Guggenheim Fellowship in what happened in Los Angeles Proposition 13 took money from 1984. Each requires discipline and last year." education and other programs demands different parts of the About the city itself, she is that support children. The psyche. She enjoys the personal pessimistic. "I see the same solutions have been articulated challenge of tackling a variety of pattern here as in St. Louis and decade after decade, century after forms, like an athelete who excels other parts of the country," she century, without being in one or two sports and can play says. "Blacks are being forced out resolved. "We all know what the well in others. and further marginalized as the answers are: social parity, reflected Yet "I prefer poetry above land is reclaimed. I expect to see everywhere-in housing, in everything else I do," she says. "If South Central white again one of education. But some people just I had my druthers, that's what I these days, as Blacks move out to don't want that." would do exclusively. That's how places like Riverside and Blythe." Despite her despair, she has I would make my living. That there should be a federal contributed a poem to Grand "But that's not possible in the trial over the Rodney King Hope Park, to be dedicated in time I live in . I have to survive, beating underscores the political June as a fairwell to L.A.'s Mayor and when that agent calls, I go impotence of Blacks: "The city Tom Bradley. The lines will be into my pitch!" and state have already told us sandblasted and painted into the Another long laugh. 'your life is of no value.' As far as beams of a covered pergola, for I'm concerned, this is the deep visitors to read and By Anna Ganahl South. The Klan is on a contemplate. Creating the poem computerized network and they posed a challenge for Coleman, wear three-piece suits. They're who wanted it to speak to the public without compromising her

(Prescod continued) women and other women of work." She hopes her course color-not be forgotten. "The fact can be duplicated at other is," she explains, "the poorer we colleges "Feminist and gender from the inner city to the suburbs are, the harder we work." studies programs must integrate to rural areas. "Wherever we find Change, insists the grassroots the issues of unwaged work ourselves as women, this is work activist, must occur out of building into the curriculum," she we all know," she observes. power from the bottom up. "It's insists. "Otherwise there will be a Phoebe Jones Schellenberg, not about room at the top for a lag between the academic co-coordinator of Wages for select few, but money and programs and where society Housework, holds a Ph.D. and is a resources for those of us at the actually is." full-time homemaker from an bottom, who are the majority. Asked about her own busy established Philadelphia Quaker That's what the 'no justice, no schedule between teaching in family, notes Prescod. peach' chant during the L.A. riots Claremont and attending meetings "I'm optimistic," she says, was about. in Washington, D.C., she replies, "because I'm working on an issue "When unwaged work is "My daughter used to travel that crosses the divide of race, counted," says Prescod, "We will everywhere with me. Now she nation and economic background. have for the first time in this stays at home with a close network I know the anger and pain of country evidence that women at of family friends so she won't miss everyday living with racism. But to the bottom-women of school. Phoebe Schellenberg and I make change anywhere, you need color-work the hardest. We will laugh at how many people it takes friends and allies. I'm willing to give visibility to women of color as to replace us when we're away find my way, but without guilt or never before. from home: someone to take care tokenism. I can't stand either." "The focus of feminism until of Chanda, someone to water the At the same time, she notes, now," Prescod continues, "has plants, take care of the cat and the "who understands unwaged work been on getting women into the dog-someone to teach my class'" better than Black people? We came labor force and moving up the to this country as unwaged ladder. We must go beyond that By Anna Ganahl workers!" It is her special interest and reflect the whole area of that women at the bottom-Black women's Ii es, wages and 15

by Kim Peasley MARINE TEAM Bruce Hecker '76 and Wife Nedra Share Love of Marine Life

ruce Hecker '76 has always loved the ocean and marine Blife, and when he took time off fi·om school between his junior and senior years, one of the things he did was to go on a sea expedition in the Florida Keys to study various types of coral reefs . The Atlantic coral reef specimens were fascinating, but it was another member of the expedition who really caught Hecker's eye. Nedra Foster had just graduated from a small Iowa college, and she, too, loved the sea. Three years later the two were married and now they both work at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Bruce is curator of fishes, which means he oversees the daily operations of the aquarium (except the rain forest and marine Hecker takes his boat into Delaware several times a year. mammal facility). Nedra is the Chesapeake Bay almost every "It's basically commercial type curator of marine mammals. She weekend, often taking his fishing," he explains. "We set up and nine other employees care for children, Nicholas, 7, and long lines, bait them, and check the marine mammals and train Caroline, 5. them twice a day." But catches them to perform a variety of "They are learning to handle are kept alive and brought to behaviors. fish properly and how to Baltimore in special transport "I was a fish nut ever since I understand wildlife," he said. trucks. "It's not dangerous if you was three," Hecker recalls. "I "We've tried to teach them a know what you are doing." remember my mom helping me respect for nature." Bruce and Nedra work in crush the anti-chlorine pills for Bruce and Nedra Hecker are different buildings and deal with my goldfish tank - it was the among 250 behind-the-scenes different types of animals, so they kind that had little glass marbles employees at the nationally don't cross paths during their at the bottom." known aquarium. Hecker working day. While Bruce is Hecker graduated from Pitzer supervises a staff of eight who watching over fish and with field group concentrations in maintain the aquarium's displays invertebrates, Nedra is working biology and psychology and and care for more than 6,000 with marine mammals. Five times recalls taking lots of classes in the specimens of fish and daily she dons a full wet suit and old Joint Science building. invertebrates. joins three trained bottlenosed During college Hecker kept both "Making a good display is one dolphins in an educational salt water and fresh water tanks in of the exciting challenges of the demonstration, including a swim his dorm room and in his job," Hecker asserts. "The best in a new 1.3 million gallon pool. apartment while he was living off exhibits make a strong In addition to dolphins, she also campus. "I remember him educational statement. I love trains seals. feeding goldfish to his piranhas," watching the kids' reactions when Nedra moved to the aquarium his wife recollects. they see an unusual animal. three years ago after leaving a She, too,has had a lifelong That's a great motivator." position caring for primates at the love of sea creatures. She says Hecker's team also handles a Washington D .C. National Zoo. that she was about 13 when she variety of research projects, Prior to that she worked seven announced to her mother that she including a breeding program for years at the New England wanted to train sea mammals. tropical fish . Sometimes the work Aquarium in Boston with their The couple lives in Annapolis helps keep alive the gene pool of dolphins, sea lions, and seals. on the Chesapeake Bay, where an endangered animal until it can Bruce has worked at the aquarium their free time is devoted to work be reintroduced into the wild. since 1985 after working eight for the aquarium. Fish and crab Hecker is also responsible for years at the New England traps line their backyard where it supervising the acquisition of new Aquarium. borders the water, and their animals from their natural The husband and wife team various boats are tied to their environment and from other agree that the most rewarding dock. Fish caught end up in some aquariums around the world. part of their work at the aquarium of the aquarium's exhibits, and Each spring, Hecker leads an is educating the public. crabs trapped end up (among expedition to Key West, Florida, other things) as food for the to supplement the aquarium's aquarium's giant Pacific octopus. Atlantic Coral Reef exhibit. He also organizes sharking trips to 16

FINANCIAL AID: ENRICHING THE MIX AT PITZER

By David Coons What happens when you go beyond statistics and dollar amounts to meet the students who are on scholarship at Pitzer? A mixture of serendipity and predictability. Each of the students profiled here will be the first in their families to complete a four-year education. Their stories match hardship and struggle-in ways which surpass the ordinary-against creativity, determination and promise. Yet not surprising to find such qualities among students who have qualified for scholarship support at Pitzer, and who personify the values of diversity which we prize among our students and within our curriculum. Pitzer's $3 million in scholarship endowment is augmented each year by approximately $300,000 contributed by alumni, parents, trustees and other friends of the college, and by donors to particular scholarship funds. As state and federal sources of financial aid diminish, unrestricted contributions become all the more important. As we continue to pursue a variety of sources for scholarship funding , your unrestricted gift remains our most important resource. Meet five students whose presence at Pitzer demonstrates the power of scholarship dollars.

Lilia Hernandez, Sophomore "My mom and dad were always into education ," says soc/psych student Lilia Hernandez of her parents, who met at the local manufacturing company where her father has worked since the age of 17. "They preferred we go to school rather than work." Which is not to say that Pitzer isn't work. Last yea r, as a freshman , Lilia Hernandez augmented her studies with jazz dancing performances and volunteer assistance at the Pomona Valley Homeless Shelter, where she cared for children whose parents were seeking jobs or receiving job training. This year, she says, schoolwork is taking priority. Part of the reason she chose Pitzer, she explains, is that it was close to her family's East Los Angeles neighborhood. With the recent move of her parents and two younger sisters to Te xas, where her father's job has been transferred , however, Pitzer has become Lilia Hernandez' local source of community. "There's a lot of openness here- and a willingness to discuss-from President Massey on down ," Lilia Hernandez says. "I feel that things are open to me, and that I can get involved ." Matthew Simpson, Senior In the morning he herded cattle or worked in the fie lds; he studied during the day, and at night he drank beer with the men , recalls senior Matt Simpson of his experience last year as an External Studies student in a Zimbabwe vi llage. No electricity or running water. Four hours each day of intensive training in the main Bantu language-and then practice with the non-English­ speaking family who treated him as a so n. Staying with fami lies in the village and in a township and city suburb for five and a half months, says the English and world literature student from Salem, Oregon, "was a completely mind-expanding experience . It forced me to think through many of my ideas and assumptions about my own and other cultures. " In addition to his academic studies, Matt Simpson has written film reviews for The Other Side, served as editorial assistant for American Ethnologist, and worked part-time as a writing tutor. After graduation this spring and a year of work to payoff college loans, he plans to drive the Pan American highway from Los Angeles to Tierra del Fuego with his roommate. Then graduate school-and further pursuit of the values of analytical and critical thinking that drew him to Pitzer. 17

Roselyn Tran, Senior "We were fortunate," says Roselyn Tran of her escape from Vietnam more than 10 years ago. As a seven-year-old , she hadn't really felt afraid until the boat taking her from China to Hong Kong ran out of fuel and her father was held hostage on the fishing vessel that offered to rescue them. Telling her father's boss that they were going on a short trip, her family had fled their small Hanoi apartment in 1978, when tensions escalated between the Vietnamese and Chinese. They traveled to China by train , then boarded the boat. Eventually the passengers gave the fishermen their money and jewelry, and were towed to port in Hong Kong, where they lived in a refugee camp four to five families to a room. "Other boats sank, or we re attacked by pirates," Roselyn Tran says quietly. "We were fortunate. " Later an aunt sent money to come to Los Angeles-but she was far from the rich woman they had envisioned. At first the family lived on welfare in a sma ll apartment. "My parents' goal was to have my brother and sister and me go to college," Roselyn says. Though her mother and father found jobs, life remained difficult. "It wasn 't easy to make a living and raise ch ildren at the same time, " Roselyn Tran observes. "I never thought I could go to a private college ," she says. But a high school counselor told her that Pitzer was the place to go if she wanted to major in psychology. Fulfilling her parents' dream at Pitzer, Roselyn likes the balance of attending a small liberal arts college within the larger context of the Claremont Colleges. She was also glad to be able to study abroad as a scholarship student. Bryant lemelle, Junior "Where the L.A. riots sparked is whe re I grew up ," says Bryant Lemelle. "When that happened , I felt as if I didn 't fit in here. I felt such a sense of frustration , as if there was no real tie or bond. " But Bryant did return to Pitzer. "I thought, the way I can go out and do my life's work is by being here. I can still go on with my broader goals, my ideas for the future, my plans. This is one step in my path." A film and video student who attended community college and wo rked for several years before enrolling at Pitzer, Bryant Lemelle plans to go on to graduate school in writing or cinematography. He has written two short film projects and is working on a full scree n play about the experience of a black family in these "turbulent and scary" times. "Film has shown itself again and again as an incredibly powerful force to shape opinion and change the way things are in the world, " he says, pointing to the infamous Rodney King incident and to the influential films of Spike Lee. A program assistant with the Pitzer Activities program (PAct) and a member of the Student Senate, Bryant Lemelle is looking forward to graduation next spring. "This will be such an achievement in my family," he says. "They'll be so enthused. It's very important to do this for us all-for those of my family who couldn't actually be here, in school. To do it for them. "It will be a tradition my kids will be expected to carryon: to go to college and graduate. I'm paving the way. I'm setting the foundation." Annette Far~olin, Freshman "I always knew I was gOing to college, " says Annette Farbolin, whose mother, a truckdriver, salesman father and grandmother encouraged her to further her education. As an honors student in high school , she was enthusiastically advised by several teachers from the Claremont Colleges to apply to their alma maters. At Pitzer, she is concentrating in science-with time her first semester for an introductory ceramics course. She likes the accessability of Pitzer faculty and the openness of her fello w students and friend s in her dorm . "My main requirements for a colleg e," says Annette Farbolin , "were that it be small and close to home. Pitzer fits perfectly-and the campu s is beautiful!" 18

By Sheryl Gorchow PROTEST! Students Demand Greater Representation of People of Color on the Claremont Campuses

he morning of February 1 was students agreed to face arrest in not a typical Monday occupying the building. Tmorning for administrators Rallying under the name arriving for work at Pomona's Liberation Through Education Alexander Hall. They found the (LTE), the students insisted on doors locked, banners unfurled the importance of education as a across the building proclaiming medium for social change. "It's the college closed "Due to hard for some people to Racism." Not until Wednesday understand why we did this," would they return to business as commented Omowale, who usual-to offices left tidy, plants explained that the apparent watered, by student activists who backpedalling by Scripps and had chosen extreme measures to Pomona had merely catalyzed voice their demand that the their frustration over lengthy Claremont Colleges actively struggles to establish programs in pursue greater representation of African-American, Chicano and people of color throughout the Asian-American studies. "If campuses. education is depriving us, it's The spark that ignited the depriving everyone," added Pitzer blaze of student activism was a sophomore Mance Thompson, rumor which had circulated the whose demand for specific previous Friday: Pomona's search measures, like those of the other to fill an African-American protestors, reflected a literature position had been fundamental desire for a context dropped, with none of the three that acknowledges and nurtures finalists to be hired. Earlier that the experience of people of color. week, lack of funding had Early Monday morning the prompted Scripps Coll ege to students assembled at Alexander abandon a Chicano Studies Hall. When the maintenance crew search. arrived to unlock the building, 60 "The group assembled students followed them in. through word of mouth," Distributing flyers in Spanish and explained Pitzer sophomore Yusef English to let staff know what was administrators to negotiate. "It Omowale, holding their first about to happen, they spread was a staged piece," contends meeting Friday night. Feeling that throughout the building, securing ligen of the meeting, which the two unfilled positions doors and closing windows. concluded abruptly when students reflected a lack of commitment Several students began to contact stood and left in unison. "Just a throughout the Claremont the media. rehash of their excuses," Colleges to racial parity, and "I was not really surprised," countered a student negotiator. agreeing that the circumstances recalled President Maril yn Chapin By 10:30 that evening the merited more than a letter-writing Massey, who was informed of the administrators submitted a written campaign or vigil, they decided to incident while in Washington, response to the students, agreeing occupy Alexander Hall, whose D .C. on coll ege business. "I was to permit the students to stay in prominent College Avenue aware of how concerned they the building overnight while they location would call attention to were last spring," about the issues considered their response. the protest. raised by the Los Angeles riots. Monday night passed slowly Over the weekend, the In President Massey's absence, on the hard floors of the students formed task groups to dean of faculty Tom lIgen administration building. Food plan publicity, communication, convened with Pomona president arrived from the dining halls, local and takeover strategies. Sunday Peter Stanley, Scripps president restaurants and the kitchens of night, recounts Pitzer junior Karl Nancy Bekavac, Harvey Mudd nearby residences. Halfman, "we pulled an all ­ dean of faculty Samuel Tanebaum "Nobody was sure what we nighter." The group made posters and Claremont McKenna dean of should do," Karl Halfman said. As and wrote press releases. A students Torrey Sun to discuss the the night wore on, feelings of graduate school staff member situation. Some of the frustration surfaced. "We were conducted civil disobedience administrators viewed the tired and arguin g," Thompson training, and discussed with them takeover of Alexander Hall as the said. "It wasn't perfect. You go in the possibility of police primary issue, ligen recalled, "But idealistically, but that's not intervention. Twenty-three I fe lt committed to a satisfactory reality," said Yusef Omowale, resolution. It's our college observing that his own father had agenda." joined protests in the 1960s. "The Later that afternoon the sad thing is that this is still students met with the 19

Pitzer sophomore Yusef Omowale was among students from the Claremont Colleges who barricaded themselves into Pomona's Alexander Hall while negotiating with administrators for improved representation of people of color.

teach-in as the protest continued into Tuesday. Not everyone supported the demonstration, which disrupted routine business for students, faculty and administrators alike. A petition signed by 100 Pomona students decried LTE, stating: "The demands of this small group of uninformed protestors are for the most part unreasonable .... Their means of accomplishment are repugnant, illegal, and should be dealt with appropriately." Faculty played an important role in soothing tensions and Bulletin, Chronicle of Higher keeping the students focused on Education and campus their goals. Several Pitzer newspapers. Newscasters from all professors, including Jose three networks provided live Calderon, Alan Jones, Lourdes coverage over the two days. Fox Arguelles, Norma Rodriguez, and CNN carried the protest Karen Goldman, Agnes Moreland nationally. Jackson, and Richard Stalher­ The students received Sholk, checked in on the endorsements fi'om such groups demonstrators over the two days. as the Malcolm X Grassroots Calderon was one of a number Movement in Los Angeles, Multi­ of faculty invited to lead a teach- Cultural Council in the Pomona Valley, Peace and Freedom Party and area MEChA chapters. Several Pitzer alumni phoned in their support as well. Out of town until the second day of protest, President Massey managed to keep close tabs on the unfolding events. On her Tuesday flight from the East Coast, she recalled, "J felt like Air Force One directing Desert Storm from the phone on the airplane." Upon landing, the president drove directly to Pitzer. A bomb threat-for which LTE denied any responsibility-had evacuated Fletcher and Scott Halls. After the buildings had been cleared for re­ entry by Claremont police, President Massey joined the negotiators. As Peter Stanley'S Board of Trustees pressed for an end to the occupation, President necessary," he added. "We should in for about 100 students. "We Massey supported the appeal that be moving on." talked about many issues," he the police not be brought in. 9utside the building another said, "including the rapidly Final negotiations began at group of students slept in the changing demographics in 10:30 Tuesday night. As college growing cold. Hortensia Baltazar, Southern California. Whether administrators met with 20 a Pitzer sophomore, remained at Claremont sees these changes as students in the COOP, a crowd of her post, glad that campus strengths or as a liability, there's nearly 300 students gathered security stayed with the building no way for the colleges to close outside Alexander Hall . all night as well. their eyes." Discussions at the negotiating In the morning, she and other Milling among the students table were strained. The five LTE members shored the outside Alexander Hall were protestors' energy, arranging for reporters from the Los Angeles speakers and organizing a faculty Times, Claremont Courier, Daily (continued on page 32) 20

by Andrew Starbin '93 PITZER IN PARMA

pring Semester 1992 was a very exciting time for me and Sfor Pitzer, because it marked the beginning of the third Pitzer College foreign study program: Pitzer College Experience in Parma, Italy. I was attracted to the Parma program and its goals of intense language study, interaction (with students and my host-fam ily), and cultural immersion and

((For me) my host family was truly my (bridge) leading me away from (traditional academic learning.) ))

understanding. With most international endeavors I feel as though a small dose of Americana is transplanted into a foreign setting. However, Pitzer offers a unique difference through its programs and by working individually with students. "The biggest challenge for an external study program is to build bridges between traditional forms of learning and more personal forms of education abroad," says Tom Manley, assistant vice president for international programs at Pitzer. "We at Pitzer try to make all our programs The foundation of Pitzer's new experiential - but with the Parma program rests on language analytical/academic components study (12 to 15 hours a week), a necessary to make them journal divided into specific intellectually and socially chapters, and an independent meaningful. " study project developed with Pitzer believes in a "hands on" Pitzer faculty and professors in concept for studying abroad: the Parma. Of equal importance is the student penetrates the topsoil to host family . .For me, my host find cultural nuances and patterns family was truly my "bridge," which, for others, might remain leading me away from "traditional undiscovered. academic learning." Situated about an hour and a The Coccoi family opened half south of Milan in the Po their home to me; I was not River Valley section of Northern simply a stranger who had rented Italy, Parma is an intimate and a room. Three days after I arrived, accessible city with a grand we planned a surprise birthday historical tradition. The university party for their daughter, Rossella. began in the ninth century, and We ran around town buying the city'S development stretches decorations and gifts, and then from the Middle Ages through the mother, Madelena, began my the eighteenth century. education in the art ofItalian cooking as we prepared the birthday feast. 21

Andrew Starbin and Maya de Leon visited many sites in Parma including these 13th century frescoes.

This warm family atmosphere For me, though, the best by or inaccessible to the average prevailed for the entire time I was example of their kindness is the student or tourist. By the last with them. The son, Sandro, and fact that they reserved a ticket for month, we were sufficiently I went to films and played pick-up Madam Butterfly several months ski lled to plan and spend, on our basketball almost every week. prior to my arrival. We viewed the own, a week in the SOLlth: Naples, Together we all went to see performance from our own box, Pompeii, and the Amalfi Coast. Maxicono, Parma's professional and it was acclaimed by the The end of the program came in volleyball team, win the severest of critics: the Italian the form of a capstone seminar championship. Sergio, the father, opera goers. The opera itself was with Peter Nardi, professor of who is a professor of literature tremendous, but I was truly sociology. Maya and I played and Latin, arranged for me and shocked when Sergio lead us to "tour guide" in Parma, and gave my companion on the program, the backstage area and we were Peter a history of the City. We Maya de Leon '93, to join his class to see an eight-hour theater­ in -the-round performance of Faust in Milan. Whether on ((J was truly shocked when Sergio lead us excursions to other cities, or simply around the dinner table, we all felt as though I was a to the backstage area and we were able member of the family. Our relationship had several "functional" advantages as well , to meet the diva) Rainsa J(aibavanska.)) not the least of which was the fact that I had two professors to instruct me in my language, history, art, and so on 24 hours a able to meet the diva, Rainsa went over our projects and day. They helped me mail letters, Kaibavanska. It was one of the journals, an the three of us made find books, buy groceries, and most memorable and "educational" a day-trip to Venice. I saw and plan sightseeing. They even nights I have ever had. experienced so much, and yet welcomed friends of mine who In addition to our stay in there is still so much more to were studying in Europe as well . Parma, Maya and I spent a week explore. each in Rome and Florence where My time in Parma easily we were instructed and guided by highlights my four years as a Italian and American university Pitzer student. I hope to go back professors. Through their efforts to Italy, and I still keep in touch Pizter's most recent foreign study and knowledge we explored with my host family and our program is located in an intimate subjects in greater depth, and wonderful director, Franca Feboli. and accessible city with a grand gained access to sights overlooked I was always challenged, but history. just in terms of assignments and exams. We spoke with students of all ages about once a week, and we visited museums, churches and other cities and places of interest. I can now hold conversations in a language of which I had no previous knowledge. For my project research, I was able to visit companies such as Fiat and Barilla and read Italian books and documents. Our courses were usually held at a professor's home, and the discussion followed the direction that we dictated. The Parma experience, essentially, emanates from the interests, desires and ideas of the students involved. The program exemplifies the Pitzer spirit. 22 by Katherine Peters Class of 1974

IN My OWN WORDS THE SONG IN HER HEART

The path to a career in the arts in community outreach settings as for prison performances! He was is paved with hopes and dreams, well as in concert. Unable to find intrigued with the idea and came brutal self-analysis, and other an existing 20 minute theater up with a proposal to develop a people's opinions-often brutal as piece that we liked, Edward 40-minute piece based on well. My path has been no decided to write one for us. An interviews with juvenile women exception. Furthermore, along acclaimed composer who had convicted for felonies, which the way I have encountered trained at Julliard and held would then be performed in the detours that have led to battles commissions from the Boston and prison schools. Thus, A between my vision and the visions Virginia Operas, among others, he Symphony of Secrets was born, that others have had for me, both was certainly we ll -equipped to with grant support from the positive and negative. It is come up with such a piece. National Endowment for the Arts difficult at times to wake up to I was thrilled with the result of and the Los Angeles Department the fact that I am not the opera his work: a one-woman, six­ of Cultural Affairs. This piece singer at the Met I once dreamed character musical fairy tale, called completes our show, which will of being, nor the Broadway star The Vagabond Queen, about a premier this summer in Los someone else saw in me, yet I woman who rescues her husband. Angeles or New York. think I have finally embraced the This show allowed me to help Part of the uniqueness of these vision of being my own creation. develop a new work from its pieces is due to foundation grants, Now, when I say "creation," I inception and to breathe the first which seek to serve those not do so with the full knowledge that whiff oflife into all six characters. generally addressed by si ngers rarely create anything in The Vagabond Queen was very professional artists. We hope to the true sense of the word. They well-received by groups as diverse bring some sparkle into the lives may bring a role to life or lend as churches, schools and National of people who would not their own interpretation to a Opera Association audiences, and normally see li ve theater and to song, but the definition of a we began to see it as the first act embody the value of music and singer as a "creative artist" is of a three-act show. We wanted theater as a constructive means of somewhat erroneous. This is why the acts to be distinctive, with the expression. for me, personally, there has been players as the common thread. We The challenge throughout has something missing fi'om my work also felt that we should involve been to keep sight of my own in classical recitals, musical theater, more players than just ourselves, vision and its expression in my opera and oratorios, and why I so we formed the Metro work. It is quite a challenge to have become so interested in Ensemble, a group consisting of balance the often conflicting contemporary "classical" music. Tony-nominee choreographer demands of the non-profit and As the first performer of more Kimi Okada, Edward and myself, commercial markets-both of than 30 new pieces, I've been able with dancers and instrumentalists which I have needed to appease in to create interpretations and added as the pieces required. For order to succeed. characters that were not, for example , I perform the second act My primary motivation, better or worse, bound by of the show-a character study of however, comes back to the desire tradition. a modern-day witch, called Old to express myself as a A few years ago, I realized that Aunt Dinah's Sure Guide to performer-the same desire to although new music was more Dreams and Lucky think for myself that led me to interesting to me than standard Numbers- with two dancers Pitzer and was so encouraged repertoire, the audience was small accompained by a pre-recorded there. Though I can't show you and the opportunities few. I tape, featuring music and sound my resume and say that I've would have to reach beyond what effects that are almost exclusively performed at the Met, I can say I had experienced previously in my vocal sounds. This 30-minute that I've made the choices that are order to claim more satisfaction. piece was developed with grant important to me. I am working Not much later, I was fortunate support from the Los Angeles with someone who shares my to meet someone with whom I Department of Cultural Affairs values and vision, and with whom could share in a more creative and has been performed in high I have been able to coll aborate to approach. This partnership began schools throughout the area in a make something special. fairly traditionally, with me as a sort of rock-concert form. And who know what lies ahead singer and Edward Barnes the Grant support has been a great when one follows one's own path? pianist. help in bringing our work to Having performed new fruition. Given the success ofV.Q. American music recitals for a and Dinah, Edward and I felt that couple of years, we found we could attract grant support for ourselves on our way to the the final act as well. One day we Midwest with a tour sponsored by were talking about a concept for the Kansas Arts Council. We the third piece and he mentioned needed a piece that we could use that he wanted to write a murder mystery in which I would be accompanied by a jazz ensemble. Somewhat jokingly, I suggested that such a piece would be great 24

By Melissa Devor '18 Director of Alumni ALUMNI UPDATE

Alums Join in Recruitment Campaign Our hard workin g admissions team hits the road three times a year to talk about Pitzer to prospective and admitted students and their parents throughout the country. This past year we reinstituted an opportunity for al ums and parents to provide an insiders' view. In the fa ll , John Hoel '84 invited us into his home in Washington D .C. to talk to prospective students, as did Joyce and Bob Kern (parents of Barbara '95) in San Francisco, and Rebecca Baron '75, who took us to the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle. The results have been encouraging. Of the many applicants who were introduced to Pitzer in this fashion, we ll over half have decided to become Pitzies! Big thank-yo us to all who particip'ated' If you would li ke to join thi s program, as either a host or an alum speaker, please cal l the Alumni Office, 909-621-8130. We would love to talk to you about your participation. No Strangers Here Pitzer trustee and former chairman of the board Peter Gold has produced a film called A Keeping in Touch Five Colleges Visit Baltimore Stranger in the Land. Alums Written by his late brother, Lee President Marilyn Chapin Gold, and starring Sam Massey and Vice President of Pitzer, Pomona, Scripps, Waterston, the film deals with College Advancement Terry Jones Harvey Mudd, and Claremont Soviet American relationships. We made a whirlwind visit to San McKenna Colleges have joined were honored to have a January Francisco last December, where forces to recreate The Claremont 27 premiere screening party in parents Joyce and Bob Kern Colleges experience away from New York with a wonderful post­ (Barbara '95) were gracious hosts campus. Our alums from the film gathering at the home of to over 50 alums, parents and Baltimore area participated in a Peter Wormser '75 and Liz Mil we friends. half-day program of lectures, '76. Peter Gold joined the group While President Massey and luncheon and glee club activities and spoke movingly about the Terry Jones were in Washington with faculty from the Colleges. film and its screenwriter. D.C. in February, they had the Pitzer was well represented by opportunity to visit with alums Harriett Crosby '68, our and parents at the home 00on distinguished alumna who Graham '82 and Elizabeth Ulmer. founded and runs the Washington The crowd just kept growing until D.C. based Institute for Soviet there were over 40 people. What American Relations. Harriett's fun' topic was "Citizen Diplomacy: Many thanks to Pitzer trustee Ten Years of Change in the and parent Margot Levin (David Former Soviet Union." '90 and Emil y '94), who opened up her home in Chicago to Pitzer alums, parents and friends for a festive reception in March with President Massey and Vice President Terry Jones. David Straus '90 and crew filmed President Clinton's inauguration.

David Straus . .. Just Keeps on Going

David Straus '90 was awarded the fifth annual Beverle Houston Memorial Prize for achievement in film. He is the first alumnus to receive the award, which has previously gone to Pitzer students.

Currently enrolled at UCLA's Film School, Straus headed one of only two crews-the other was Warner Bros.-permitted to document President Clinton's inauguration. Assisted by Pitzer junior Matt Karatz, he acquired exclusive footage of Clinton's arrival by bus from Monticello and ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial. He is developing a one-hour documentary on the event. Straus had been a member of Clinton's National Advance Staff during the campaign last year.

While at Pitzer, he arranged for the visit of Russian refusenik Benjamin Charny to the mathematics faculty and studied in Hungary as a Fulbright Fellow. He also founded Pitzer's improvisational theater group, Without a Box.

Hot Food, Spicy Art Waite '68 (Pitzer) and Les Waite '67 (CMC) hosted this great The Third An nual Alumni Pasadena-based gathering of Association "Thai One On" alumni and faculty March 23. Benefit Art Auction was a Our own Al Wachtel and CMC's smashing success. On Sunday, John Roth discussed "Uniting a February 21, at Pichai "Teng" Disunited America." Chirathavat's Santa Monica restaurant, Talking Thai, we Polling Pitzies entertained a capacity crowd with fabulous art and wonderful food. We want to be sure you are . . truly a great afternoon. This receiving the information about event continues to attract a Pitzer that most interests you, and growing number of Pitzer artists, will be talking to groups of alums whose jewelry, furniture, this spring for input. We welcome sculpture, mixed media, paintings your ideas by mail as we ll: What and lithographs contributed to a would you like to see in your successhti hlI1draising activity on alumni publication? What do you behalf of student scholarships. like about Participant? What don't Stanley Casselman '85, President Special thanks to the Alumni you li ke? Suggestions for new Marilyn Chapin Massey, and Pichai Council, Stanley Casselman '85, features such as letters to the "Teng" Chirathavat '85 at Talking and Teng '85 for their efforts in editor? Greater frequency? Tabloid vs . magazine format? Thai. making this event happen. Please write to Melissa Devor or Teaming Up to Talk Unity Anna Ganahl, Pitzer College. Claremont McKenna and Pitzer professors in the same room talking to the same audience? You bet! Nancy Sanders 26

THE SCOOP

Class of 1969 her 13 year-old daughter, Emily American Association for Artificial Klancher, whose father, Kenneth, Intelligence last year. LIZA WILLIAMS is also a Pitzer alumnus, is a math JEWELL ELVOID AGAJANIAN (Irvine, California) wiz, flute and viola virtuoso, and SHELTON (San Bernardino, works as a consultant for Data all around great kid! California) continues to build on Design Corporation in Irvine. the sociology education he began JENIFER MACKEY Class of 1972 at Pitzer, He has developed a (New York, NY) is planning to JANET BLACK (Honolulu, Male Studies Curriculum and is move to France, near Geneva. She Hawaii) has "taken the big plunge regularly adding new courses to it, has been living in New York and and returned to school." She will "in celebration of males, men and working on arms limitation for receive her M.A. in Library and masculinities. " the United Nations. After the Information Studies in June and move, she will continue to work Class of 1974 hopes to reenter the job market for the UN at the Conference on with a position in the information HARRIET ARCHIBALD­ Disarmament. She is married to a industry, She encourages anyone WOODWARD (Claremont, lawyer and has three children: with any job leads to drop her a California) is teaching fourth Nicole, 9, Paul, 7, and Julia, line! grade full-time at a year-round 1 1/2. She apologizes that "all of ALICIA BLOOM, HOLLY school after seven years of job­ this has kept me too busy to write HIDINGER, SUE THORN, sharing. Her seven year-old to you previously'" DAVETTA WILLIAMS, and daughter, Katie, will have her TINA HEHMEYER ROSSO KATHY JONES ('73) met at El mom's special attention when she (Chicago, Illinois) chief of the Adobe Restaurant in San Juan is off-track in December, April, Illinois attorney general's Capistrano, California, for the and August, When she is not Antitrust Division and president first "Official Pitzer Reunion working, she enjoys spending of the Chicago Hearing Society, Luncheon." They had a great time with Katherine Peters, Anne encourages visitors to Chicago to time recalling Pitzer days, and Harnagel, and Bonnie Optner look her up. She has two children; their next meeting will be in San Lewis, all class ofl974. She her daughter, Christie is 12, and Diego, "loved Sheryl Miller's Hopi Way son, Mark, is 10. GABRIELLE DOLPHIN lecture and show at Southwest Class of 1970 (AJameda, California) is listed in Museum." the 1991 edition of2000 Notable ELIZABETH RUSSELL MARGARET ADAMS LEON American Women. She has (Pasadena, California) is a health (West Covina, California) is expanded her role in neonatology care contract manager and has finishing her sixth year as a at the Children's Hospital to completed two masters degrees principal in the Whittier City include humanitarian aid from USC in Business School District in Whittier, coordination for the neonatal Administration and Health Care, California. Much has been "Heart to Heart" program, an She would love to hear from Lori happening in her family lately' alliance providing assistance to Rifkin '72, Norah Morley '73, Her son James just graduated hospitals in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Pam a Dickie '73. from high school, and her Having recently returned from LEIGH CORNELISON daughter, from eighth grade. there and expecting to go back in TOBIAS is entering the fourth Another son, Chris, who is in the June, she calls this new year of a doctorate program in army, and his wife recently assignment "a beautiful marriage psychology at the California welcomed Margaret's second of my work and anthropology." Graduate Institute. Her daughter, grandchild to their family. FRANK FLEMING Liz, is in the first grade and loves DEBORAH SCHNITZER (Woodbridge, Virginia) is a Delta school. She sends "warm NOVACK's (Portland, Oregon) Airlines mechanic. His daughter greetings to all former daughter Melanie is a freshman at Quincy graduated from the Naval classmates, " Pitzer, living in Sanborn, the same Academy in 1991 and is now in dorm that Deborah lived in flight training in Pensacola, His Class of 1975 during her freshman year' son Skye, a "B+" student and JEFF GOTTLIEB Class of 1971 soccer player, looks forward to (Menlo Park, California) received training in Europe and then the George Polk Award for KAREN HILFMAN playing soccer for Pitzer or CMC! reporting the Stanford University GOLDSTEIN (Santa Monica, Class of 1973 research scandal and has been California) is continually grateful nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer for her Pitzer education and DAVID MIKE HAMILTON Prize. experience. She is working in (Palo AJto, California) is a ROBIN GROCH Hurhan Resources as employment publishing consultant; he recently (Concord, California), Correction manager at the USC/Norris acquired Apple Computer as from last Participant: Robin's Cancer ,Hospital. She writes that another major client. CAROL youngest child is 12 years old, NANCY MCKENNA HAMILTON ('77), his wife, was named executive director df the 27

ANN MCNAMARA running her own motorcycle shop Class of 1978 DUCLOS (Middlebury, called "Two Wheels." She was Vermont) went into labor with fortunate to survive the wrath of KAREN COHN her first son while teaching cross Hurricane Iniki in September APPLEBOME (Larchmont, New country skiing to fifth graders! All 1992 with little damage. Ann York) received her master's in involved are well and thriving. encourages travellers to stop by social work from Columbia the rejuvenated island and pay her University in 1983 and worked in Class of 1976 a visit. geriatrics until her first son was 2 years old. Karen is now at home ELIZABETH 'BETTE' JEAN M. PRINVALE (San Diego, California) received a in Larchmont full-time with AMADOR (Rancho Palos Verdes Noah, age 4 1/2, and Julian, age California) has two great kids ' master's in sociology and a Ph.D. in higher education from Stanford 2, and enjoys watching them (and one great husband!). For grow. over three years, she has been in October, 1992. Jean's job search lasted nearly a year and led MICHELLE MARKS enjoying full-time motherhood CLAWSON (Silver Spring, but says "it's still a lot of work!;' her to a position at the National University in San Diego. As of Maryland) is very busy as she has HELEN ASBURY, PSY.D a nine month old daughter, Mara (Cincinnati, Ohio) is enjoying January, Jean is assistant to the vice president for academic affairs Ehse, and has returned to law part-time private practice doing school. She plans to practice assessment and psychotherapy and a part-time faculty member in the university'S School of biotechnology patent law. with children and adults. Helen TOM FINK (San Diego, and her husband, Chris Rowe, Education. 1993 promises to be full of challenges for Jean! California) and his wife Iris have a wonderful baby, Allison welcomed a second chiid E~in Asbury Rowe, born on February STEVE AND LAURA TEMKIN ('79) (Highland Park Micaela, last July. ' 25,1992. Happy Birthday to the DONNAABOFF one year old! Illinois) are doing fine and would love to hear from old Pitzer HARRISON (Huntington, New SHERYL L. CARDOZA York) and husband, Scott, are the (Fairfax, California) comments friends! Max, age 5, and Ross, 3, are fantastic and "are our best proud parents of two year old that "the past issue of Participant Jordan Maxwell. When she is not was great in terms of diversity and buddies!" Steve and Laura's business is challenging, but fun, enjoying her time with him culture-I was jealous that I was Donna directs musicals witl; 7th not a student." Currently vice­ especially in this undependable economy. They "miss the old and 9th graders at East Woods president of Global Securities School, a private school in Oyster Services for Bank of America in Pitzer days." CONRADO TERRAZAS Bay. San Francisco, she splits her time PATTI STIX LEVY between San Francisco and New (Los Angeles, California) is running in a highly contested race (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) has taken York City. a leave of absence from practicing BRIAN FOLB (Beverly Hills for Councilman of the 13th District of Los Angeles, a seat law. Her 2 year old daughter was California) celebrated 8 years of' recently joined by a younger marriage this past September. He currently held by Michael Woo who is running for mayor of the brother, Jeffrey, born on July 3, and his wife, Kate, have two 1992. Patti keeps herself busy by children, Aaron,S, and Olivia, 3. city. He was a Chicano studies major at Pitzer and has since doing volunteer work for Planned Class of 1977 received an MFA from USC's Parenthood, the Milwaukee Ballet, the Milwaukee Public ROBERT ESTREN (New School of Cinema -Television and a master's in public and private Museum, an inner city day York, New York) recently made a care/camp, and the Jewish career change. Robert, who was management from Yale University. Terrazas has been involved in Federation. Sounds very busy! using his B.A. in biology as a TERRI MILLER laboratory technician, recently public affairs in the L.A. area since he graduated. The election is this (Los Angeles, California) was receIved a B.S.N. in nursing. He chosen as one of five out of 3 500 IS currently employed at Mt. Sinai month - Good luck! JAMEY TIPPENS (Efland, applicants to receive a ' Medical Center in New York City screenwriting fellowship. As a as a registered nurse on a vascular North Carolina) extends "hello's" to Patresha Mandel and Kris winner of the Nicholl Fellowship surgery floor. Among the patients from the Motion Picture he cares for are some who have Russell. Jamey is still working as a building contractor, Academy of Arts and Sciences undergone vascular-bypass Terri was given $25,000. ' surgery and those with problems "transforming damp and dingy garrets and cellars into airy rooms Congratulations! related to diabetes. SHERI HUTTNER ANN BROADBENT filled with light." ELYSE WEISE (North RAPAPORT (Los Angeles, LEIGHTON (Kapaa, Kauai, California), husband Marc, son Hawaii) is still living on Kauai and Hollywood, California) works for First Interstate Bank and writes Willi Max, age 6, and daughter "I'm living the American Drea~ Ali Jo, age 3, welcomed Robyn in North Hollywood!" 28

Nicole, born on August 6, 1992, continue his study ofJames Joyce Laura is in a private practice in into their family. as a visiting scholar at Columbia. o bstetrics/gynecology. MICHAEL COLBY Class of 1979 (Marina del Rey, California) is Class of 1981 JIM ARHELGER(Watertown, working in the technical side of KRlSTI KING Massachusetts) is still touring in a computer marketing and sales ETCHBERGER (Pasadena, band and loves playing music. (despite his psychology degree! ) California) is settled in Pasadena RENETTE BEDARD HIER and is alm ost done with his after working for years in New (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and her master's in business York City and Mexico. Her two daughters, Olivia, 15 months administration. He worked for husband attends Fuller old, and Caitlin, 7 years old, wi ll IBM for seven years until he Theological Seminary. They have be joining her husband, Jim moved to a younger, growing a 15 month old son, Matthew, (CMC '78), in Saudi Arabia for computer connectivity company. and feel they have been richly three years. Jim is employed as a Last year, Michael and his wife, blessed. sales and product management Carolyn , adopted an infant JORDAN JACKSON (Seattle, manager for a Dutch bank, Saudi daughter, Cassandra Rachel Washington) was awarded a Hollandi, in Riyadh. They are Colby, who celebrated a very certificate in garden design from excited to be li ving in the special birthday this past UC Berkeley in 1990. Jordan American compound and learning Valentine's day! Michael extends returned to Seattle after seven about a whole new culture. hellos to several Pitzer al ums and years in San Francisco and is LORl S. KOPPEL (Altadena, peers: Pam Savic, Carole running a design business there. California) was just promoted to Goldberg, Hirsch Larkey, Stu ROBERTS. KOPPELMAN first vice president of Shearson Smith, Lee Kleinman, Adi (San Diego, California) hopes to Lehman Brothers, a major Wall Liberman, Noah Rifkin, "the complete his Ph.D. in English at Street firm. She received her infamous LRG," Lisa Spiwak, and the University of Oregon this Series 7 license in 1984 when she all the residents of Cl corridor year. He is writing a dissertation was an account executive. Lori 1978-1979. on Robert Penn Warren and is specializes in non-profit DAVID GASSNER (Mountain pleased with how it is going. His organizations, pensions, and high View, California) is running his wi ldest dream is to return to net worth individuals. Her own one-person software Claremont as a professor I account sizes range from a $2000 company, Blue Pearl. In addition, EDITH ROMERO IRA to a $60 million pension. She he is acting and directing at Bay (Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico ) may be seen periodically on Area theaters. is working for Colomex O il and channel 22, the Los Angeles CELINA (DE AQUIAR) Gas Company. She hopes life has finance station. Lori was recently HAIGH (Kapaa, Hawaii ) and her been good to all her friends and honored as one of the top 25 husband and two year old son are would love to hear from brokers in the nation. On a settled in a new hurricane-proof everyone. personal note, she wi ll be getting home on Kauai. Celina runs a day ELLEN STEIN married in May in San Diego. care business (she's up to her ears (San Francisco, California) now BLANCA E. ZARAZUA in diapers!) and encourages has two children: Joshua is 16 (Carmel Valley, California) droppers-by to the island to pay months, and last August she gave opened her law office in her a visit. birth to a baby girl , Emma Fanny Monterey after working as a tax MAURYA SIMON Mi ller. Ellen is preparing to apply attorney with Bank of America (Mt. Baldy, California) continues to medical school in the near World Headquarters in San to teach as an assistant professor future. Francisco. Blanca's practice in the creative writing program at ELLEN WEISSBUCH emphasizes tax controversies and the University of California, (Barcelona, Spain ) worked as the business matters. Riverside, and for one quarter a English announcer in the year as a visiting writer at Caltech basketball arena at the last Class of 1980 in Pasadena. Olympic games and regularly TOM BURKDALL (Los BARBARA SINOR, M.A., teaches English to children and Angeles, California) received his CHT (Rancho Cucamonga, teenagers at the North American Ph.D. in English from UCLA in California) recently had a new Institute. Her main love continues June 1991 and is an assistant book, Gifts From the Child to be ceramics, and in November, professor at Occidental College. Within, published. She has 1991, she and a friend had a joint He and his wife, Lisa, traveled for relocated to Southern California exhibit in Barcelona; her biggest two months through Iberia and and is starting a private exhibition to date took place in Mo,rocco celebrating the counseling practice this summer. February. She and another completion of his degree. They She sends her best to Ann, Rudi, ceramist fire their works in a 200 will spend this summer in New Glenn and Peter! year old wood-burning kiln York City, where Tom will LAURA SIROTT, MD located in the mountains above (Pasadena, Cali fornia) married Yury Stashevsky last May. They are living in Pasadena, where 29

Barcelona. In addition, she has Class of 1983 Pacific Northwest. She loves it, been studying Arabic (belly) even though the hours are long! dance for two years, participates TOM BROCK (New York, She has cut back on the hours in a meditation group, and loves New York) completed his PhD. in si nce she got married in Barcelona. social welfare at U.C.L.A. last September 1992. Malee Stearns June and then moved back to ('83) attended her wedding and Class of 1982 New York City. He is currently they all had a blast! working on a national study of ANNE DUPONT (Manhattan ROY E. TOMKINS education and job training (Redlands, Californi a) is working Beach California) is now workirig programs for people on welfare. as a se;lior analyst for the Price in Montclair and has three sons: BILL AND CHRIS BURTON Roy Jr. , 9, Franklin, 7, and Curtis, Waterhouse real estate group. ('86) (Phoenix, Arizona) happily ANDREW GOLDEN (Los 6. announce the birth of their JENNIFER ANNE Angeles, California), married to second daughter, Madison Sharon Golden, is a cardiovascular WOODWARD (Monmouth, Kathleen on June 30, 1992. Oregon) recently received a Ph.D. technologist and is teaching Madison;s sister, Chl oe Jane, is 2 echocardiography in Los Angeles . in geography from the U I1I Verslty years old. of Colorado at Boulder. She also DEBORAH LAUTERBACH BETSY DANFORTH (Studio City, California) and her has graduate training i~l . (Bozeman, Montana) loves li vin g demography. Jennifer IS teachll1g husband had a beautiful baby boy, in Bozeman, where she's been for Ethan Max, last August. Deborah part time at Western Oregon State seven years . Betsy marri ed a fellow College in Monmouth. is working as an independent New Yorker four years ago. For contractor. the last two years she has been the Class of 1984 N. LYNN PERLS director of the Women's Center at (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Montana State U niversity. KATRELYA ANGUS (S ierra continues to live on the mesa ALICIA GORDON Madre, California ) proudly overlooking the Rio Grande (Pasadena, California) completed announces "A+ Plus River, sharing her home with her MBA in finance at the Peter Transcription," her word Brenda Broussard, who IS an Drucker School of Management processing service. Katrelya also Indian Public Health Nutritionist, and is now working in investor belly dances at parties' Katrelya and has a growing general civil relations for The Vons Company, can be reached at 818-355-7837 by anyone who needs word litigation practice in Albuquerque. Inc. She ran into Martha QUIntana MICHAEL S. HABIBY processing or belly dancing! ('83) at the Clinton victory party. (Cohoes, New York) tired of CHARLES W. BREER DANIEL S. RADER wants to beautiful but recessed New (St. Paul, Minnesota) works at know where Morris H asson ('83) H ampshire life and has moved to Northwest Airlines and adVises is. the "Capitol District" of New alumni and graduates to stay away MATT WALLACE (San York where he is pursull1g hiS from the unstable airline busll1ess Diego, California) says hello to sales 'career. H e saw George ('84) for a while! everyone! and Karen Somogyi over New JAMES F. DICKIE As noted KIM WHEELER (Seattle, Years vacation in San Francisco in the Fall 1992 Participant, Washington) has news of missing and is always glad to hear from James died in May 1992. Jamie alumni: Courtney Spencer lIves 111 any East Coast al umni! felt that his Pitzer years were Portland, Maine, where she is RUSSELL F. LEDONNE special and he treasured the many married and has a son, Spencer, (New York, New York) has associations he formed here two years old. Kim has run into enjoyed his first four years of among faculty, administration and Kevin Flood twice in Seattle, marriage and three years of students. At the time of hi s death, where he is completing his M.D. teaching at the Bronx High . Jamie was completing his Masters Kim is trying to get her School of Science. He and IllS degree in international busll1ess at dissertation finished before she wi fe have a baby on the way, due the University of South Carolll1a. starts an internship in Houston. in October. Russell is still Should anyone want to contact In her spare time, she works as a influenced by his Pitzer years and Jamie's wife, Caroline, her address whitewater rafting guide every is in touch with Libbi Ball ('82), is 2 Place J.B. Clement, 75018 sprin,g. Andy Heyt ow ('82), Linc Nichol Paris, France. M. KAKO WOODDELL (Los ('83), and Susie Levi n ('81). HEATHER ROCKHILL Angeles, California) and husband, TIM AND SUSIE MAGILL NELSON (New Castle, David Holtz, welcomed their first (Tucson, Ari zona ) continue to Deleware) is a technical writer at a child, Lauren Makanaaloha Holtz, li ve in Tucson and enJoy the systems house in Delaware, where on October 20, 1992. They plan company of their daughter, her husband, Allen, (HMC '83), to return to Hawaii or Northern Brittany, born May 1, 1992. works. Their son Andrew James Cali fornia after she finishes her TRACEY P. MCKENZIE was born April 3, 1992, and their residency this Jul y. (Edmonds, Washington) has been daughter Jennifer is almost 4! working very hard as an Heather would love to hear from environmental consultant in the anybody from the old Folklore Corridor gang. 30

ANDREW R. ROSENTHAL Class of 1987 Tim White. And to Mark (New York, New Y~:k) just " Morrison, Wendy hopes you're finished producing Frog Baby, SUE CALVIN (New York, still knee deep in ceramics. She a short narrative film, for hIs new New York) returned to school to can't forget "cheese brain," production company, "Spatnik study photography. after working Tamar Hermes! Wendy thanks all Productions, Inc." WhIle the film to coordinate the pro-bono of Pitzer College for making her is making the rounds of film program at the Central An1erican future brighter. festivals Andrew is fast at work on Refugee Center on Long Island. Class of 1988 a featur~. He will begin filming in After leaving her job, Sue went to late 1993 or early 1994. EI Salvador, where she took photographs and recorded D. LIPTON ELLNER TAMSIN MAYERS (Los Angeles, California) received SICKINGER (Darien, testimony about human rIghts abuses committed during the an M.S. degree from San DIego Connecticut) gave birth to State University and is currently Abigail on November 9,1992. early eighties. She submitted the testimony to the Truth And Ad working with displaced adults Two weeks late, she weighed in at with psychiatric disabIlItIes. a healthy 7 pounds, 6 ounces and Hoc Commissions created as a result of the peace accords and is JUANITA B. GONZALEZ was 19 inches tall. They are both (Amherst, New York) says "hello" doing great! now putting together a book of photographs which she hopes to to old friends from the classes of Class of 1985 publish. She extends hello's to '86, '87, '88 and '89. Juanita Professor ligen, Professor Ward, started the MPH program at LYNNE E. MILLER, PH.D. and Norvetta Williams. UCLA in September 1990 and (Davis, California) was recently CLAUDIA GARDNER soon after married classmate awarded her Ph.D. in DAVIS (Sonora, California) and Yasser Al-Antably. They finished anthropology from the University husband, Eric, have moved to the the program in March, 1992, and of California, Davis. She has spent beautiful Sierra Foothills where are now living outside of Buffalo, over two years in the interior of they opened a restaurant, the. New York, where Yasser is doing a Venezuela studying capuchin Diamondback Grill . ClaudIa IS post-doc in epidemiology at monkeys in their native habitat. enjoying the comfortable pace of SUNY-NB. At Davis, Lynne won a specIal life there. She loves being only 2 DEBRA HUTCHENS award for outstanding teachll1g. 1/2 hours from San Francisco, (Chino, California) received her Her mother made a contribution where good friend Rachel J.D. degree in Septemb.er, 1.992. to Pitzer in Lyn ne's name and she Warrington ('87) lives. Her from Western State U mverslty is inordinately proud of her hello's go out to all those long College of Law, the largest law l daughter lost friends from the class of '86: school in California. ALEXANDER B. PLATT BT, Farrell, Tim, Mike, Christina, CHRISTINE PERALA (Boulder, Colorado) married. etc., and of course to all her co­ (Bayside, California) entered Karla Dakin of San FranCISCo In alumni from '87! graduate school at Humboldt April, 1992. Alexander now works JENNIFER KAPLAN -LEIDS State University to pursue a as an architect in Boulder. (Westwood, California) Master's at the Institute for River Ecosystems. Class of 1986 announces her marriage to Asher Leids, attorney at Graham and BEATRIZ PONT (Barcelona, BRIAN L. CARROLL James law firm in Los Angeles. Spain) worked for a year at the (Santa Barbara, California) and Since the July 4, 1992, wedding, U.S. Embassy in Spain and then Karen Carroll (Scripps '86) Jennifer and Asher have been returned to the States to attend announce the arrival of healthy, living happily in their townhome graduate school. She received a happy daughter Natalie Christine, with their kitten, Snickers. Masters in internatIonal affaIrs at born March 3, 1992. BrIan IS CHARLOTTE WHITELEY Columbia University in 1991 and practicing law in Apple Valley. A MILAN (Medford, is back in Spain working as a message from the Carroll's: "Y'all Massachusetts) is in her second government consultant for . . give us a call" at 619-245-9599. year at Boston University'S School Anderson Consulting. She ll1Vltes DANNY SHAIN is an artist of Social Work. She and James any Pitzer grads visiting Spain to and recently had a show with enjoyed spending time this look her up: Abogado Ballbe 11 - Emil Lukas at Thomas Solomon's summer with Lisa Turner, Lance 13,2 1,08034, Barcelona. Garage in Los Angeles. He also Auer and Jennifer Bale-Kushner Phone: (93) 204-8736. recently received the UCLA at Jel~nifer's wedding in Portland, Class of 1989 Wight Art Gallery'S :'Art U~der" Oregon. Charlotte sends 30: the Fiar InternatIOnal PrIze. greetings to Maria D:Alessandro SHERRY BUSHNELL ANN SIMUN (Rancho and wonders ifJlm FIsk IS on the (Honolulu,Hawaii) is a Watson C u~amonga, California) East Coast? fellow and is finishing an MBA exchanged vows with five-year WENDY LEE MORRIS degree, with a focus on beau Ronnie Park on December (Old Tappan, New Jersey) visited international business, at the 31. She reports that Arica Weiss Beth and Jason Steinberg amId 20 University of Hawaii. ('87) just got her MFA in ?ance inches of new snow in Asp,en! JAMES E. LANGE (Si lver from Cal Arts and her theSIS Wendy says to Nancy Whalen and Spring, Maryland) and Desiree M. performance blew everyone away! Susan Pratt that she thinks of Herbert ('90) were marrIed on .. h ""' ...... ,....tt. "", ." u; t-..... "t:: ..;r "C ...... n~ AUQ:ust 1 L 1991. Darrin Greitzer 31

('89) attended the event sporting opened in September, 1992. applying to the Peace Corps and a beard. Jim just finished his Karen's two year old daughter for a Rotary Scholarship to study second year in a Ph.D. program in helps in the store. Karen is still visual anthropology. social psychology at University of painting and writing poetry. CLAIRE MILAM Maryland at College Park. Desiree VIVIAN HUTCHISON (Monteverde, Costa Rica) has just completed her second year of (Seattle, Washington ) moved to been hired as the head teacher at law school at the American Seattle after graduation and loves the Monteverde Bilingual Kinder University, Washington College of all that the city and surrounding and is enjoying life in the cloud Law, in Washington, D.C., and area have to offer! She enjoys forest. In September, 1993, she clerked for the Epilepsy going to the symphony, back will begin a bilingual education Foundation legal department after packing, and skiing. Vivian is master's program in Manhattan. her first year. Professor Jim working for a fine -art/ poster MELINDA RENNERT and Lehman's sister Cynthia is the company and plans to attend JEANNETTE HOLMES director of the legal department paralegal school in the fall. She (Honolulu, Hawaii) say "Aloha" that Desiree is currently clerking wants everyone to stay in touch! to all their friends on the for. Small world! RENEE MATEZ (Redondo mainland from their apartment in Beach, California) and Michael Waikiki! Class of 1990 Goldstein (Pomona '88) will MICHELLE SARKISIAN FORD EVANS (Galveston, exchange vows in May. Lori Fine (Alfred, New York) is freezing in Texas ) is a fishery biologist with (,91 ), Naomi Weiss ('90), and New York! She is working on her the National Marine Fisheries Mariann Silberman ('90) will all master's in education and will be Service in Galveston, Texas. be in the wedding. student teaching art this spring. Michael Sturtz is also in New COLEEN LEAVITT­ Class of 1992 MARTINEZ (Upland, California) York working toward his degree married Hector Martinez ('88) on REIKO GOMEZ (Hollywood, in sculpture. Michelle says "hi" to June 13, 1992, in Claremont. California) recently left her job as Mychal, Venna, Erin and Geoff, They would like to thank all of a professional fund-raiser for a and misses everyone! their Pitzer friends who shared non-profit organization. She is JASON PAUL SINGER is the their special day and extended currently going through the recipient of a Fulbright Program kind wishes to them. It was all interview process for the scholarship I As one of 5,000 perfect! C.O.R.O. and is looking into law students, teachers and scholars to schools on the East Coast for fall, receive this grant to conduct Class of 1991 1994. Reiko hopes all '92s are research around the world, Jason is spending the 1992-1993 TARO AOKI (Osaka, Japan) is happy and healthy! academic year conducting working in the accounting section KARLA HELD (Galveston, research in Trinidad and Tobago, of the Osaka Finance Department Texas) is a resident advisor at the West Indies. ofNajase & Co., Ltd. Brush Ranch School in Terrero, KAREN BARAG (Portland, New Mexico, and also teaches Oregon) has her own women's & photography/journalism. Anyone children's retail business that is welcome to visit! Karla is GIVE Us THE SCOOP

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(Inside Story, continued) who are not yet ready to commit intergroup and race relations as to a particular career. well as research methodologies and computer applications. He to ease the transition from campus Halford Fairchild to Join earned his Ph.D. fi'om University Psychology, Black Studies to workplace, and encouraging of Michigan and has taught at students to actively investigate Programs UCLA, Cal State Long Beach and career directions throughout their Hal Fairchild will join Pitzer California School of Professional four years at Pitzer. and the Claremont Colleges in Psychology. He is a past president Peter Deyo, who joined the the fall, when he begins his joint of the Association of Black office as assistant director last appointment in psychology and Psychologists. August, is expanding internships Black studies. A practicing to include brief assignments in a psychologist, Fairchild specializes variety of professions for students in Black psychology and

(Calexico, continued) "Teco gave me and two of the and inconsequential in the other students a tour of the grander scheme of things. In the home. An aroma of delicious back of my mind, though, I am Halfway house and other boiling soup. A number of bunk very aware now of the need for Volunteers beds and a grand TV room for adequate health care for movies and relaxing everyone." "The 'supporting cast' at the entertainment. This used to be Joy Sellers clinic includes everyone from the the home ofTeco's family and clerical staff to the translators, now it is the home for children in "These people were very many of whom were volunteering need. He has a corazon thankful. Although I didn't do their time just as the doctors do. grandisimo. " much, they felt as ifit was a lot. "Corinna Smith, Dr. Smith's Kendra Brandstein Some of the patients told me they wife, served as 'grand hostess' and were pleased to see a young general organizer. She was so Latina helping out her people. I gracious in welcoming us and Final Thoughts told them I was a student and was remembered all our names. In the "While touring the halfway interested in medicine and their two days we were there I never house, my two peers and I ran reaction was one of happiness. It saw her without a smile on her into some of the patients we had made me feel really good." face. worked with the day before, and Carla Rodas "Another component of the without hesitation they program is the halfway house approached us and embraced us, "My two days at this clinic located in Mexicali on the other smiling and clasping our hands in rank in the top experiences of my side of the border. It provides a theirs. A feeling of desperation life. I hope that in the future place for people to stay until they overcame me at this point. How others can profit from such an are allowed to cross the border. It could I go back to Claremont and incredible experience. I became also houses physical therapy continue leading my sheltered life good friends with the doctors and apparatus and an eye clinic. The where I never worry about volunteers who work there and manager was yet another receiving medical attention or will definitely be returning on my incredibly motivated individual finding food for my next meal? own to donate my services. I will who insisted on being called But I'm back, writing papers and never forget the patients I met simply by his nickname, Teco." listening to CD's and going to there." Joy Sellers the movies-doing all those Diane Verano things which seem so self serving

(Protest, continued) While Pitzer shares the students," said Professor Agnes students' commitment to racial Moreland Jackson. "They parity, the college could not insist understand the world is small and coll eges are in different places on that its colleagues comply with wherever injustice occurs it the issues, explained Dean Iigen, their demands. "We model social concerns us all. " and the small group of student commitments that are not at "There's a real importance to negotiators was being pressured center of the other colleges," said issues being addressed, and I'm by students on the periphery. Massey. "As a president, I think proud of the students," added Media staff had also encouraged the most effective mode is by Dean ligen. "Their actions might students not to settle. "Their example." Most LTE members make us uncomfortable, but they ability to withstand these believed that Pitzer was out in were putting their convictions on pressures increased my admiration front on many diversity issues, but the lin e." for the student negotiators," they also believed the college is The students themselves commented ligen. responsible for promoting these continue to seek change, though Wednesday morning at issues within the Claremont not necessarily through such l:30-more than 42 hours since consortium. dramatic action. "I felt relieved they had walked into Alexander Faculty and administrators when the Alexander Hall protest Hall-the students emerged. were not surprised that many of was over," Mance Thompson "Victory is ours!" proclaimed the LTE leaders were Pitzer admits. "But it's just the Yusef Omowale as he and the students. "Pitzer student activism beginning for me and the rest." other students left the building. says something about Pitzer