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Pomona COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2012 INSIDE: A RACE ACROSS SPAIN THAT SHAPED THE MAP OF AFRICA WHITE-KNUCKLE RESEARCH: FAThe RaNcing ICssue Y THREE DAYS AT RACECAR SCHOOL A SENIOR ART PROJECT FOOTWORK HITS THE ROAD TO VEGAS /home ·page / ANNIE LYDENS ’13 LUCY EMBICK KUNZ ’78 PAGE 13 PAGE 32 “Run the first part with your head, the middle part with your personality... PHOTO BY CARLOS PUMA PHOTO BY JENS IHNKEN Pomona /THE RACING ISSUE/ FEATURES FLIGHT TOWARD THE FIGHT A knock on the door in 1961 sent Kimball Jones ’60 on a race across Spain with the map of Africa in the balance. / BY SALLY ANN FLECKER 17 WHITE KNUCKLES 24 DEPARTMENTS Tammy Kaehler ’92 wanted to write about a racecar-driving sleuth, but first she’d have to get behind the wheel. / BY TAMMY KAEHLER ’92 POMONA TODAY 7 Pomoniana 8 Sports 10 FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 27 The Arts 14 When Sam Starr ’10 set out to create his ambitious senior project, Circulus, he never imagined its strange afterlife. / BY MARK KENDALL LIVES OF THE MIND 41 Bookshelf 41 SWIMMING FOR HER LIFE Class Acts 44 32 Daring Minds 48 Facing a combination of aggressive cancer and family tragedy, Lucy Embick Kunz ’78 took her fight underwater. / BY RHEA WESSEL ALUMNI VOICES 50 Alumni News 52 THE 100-MILE MAN 38 In Memoriam 54 Ultramarathon racer Zach Landman ’08 runs and runs until Mind Games 56 it hurts—and then he runs some more. / BY ADAM CONNER-SIMONS ’08 Pomona Blue 56 ON THE COVER The swift feet of Annie Lydens ’13 (Story on page 13)—Photo by Jeanine Hill KIMBALL JONES ’60 PAGE 17 ...and the last part with your heart.” —Marathoner Mike Fanelli www.pomona.edu/magazine PHOTO BY CASEY KELBAUGH /stray ·thought s/ /letter ·bo x/ /follow ·up/ Reaction to ing going on, it wasn’t conservative back lashing. In the current world of tabloid historians, rapa - A Tragic Loss cious bankers and cult politicians, a little experi - As reported briefly in the fall issue of PCM , “It Happened” mentation might be in order again. David A. Waring ’03 died on Sept. 28, 2010. Re: “Pomona College Museum Curator —David Noon ’68 Twenty-nine years old, he had suffered for many Rebecca McGrew ’85 and the Making of It Hap - New York, N.Y. years from an illness that continues to confound. pened at Pomona”: I was a student at Having been in touch with the Waring family, When Bad Things Happen Pomona from 1964 –68 and lived in the and having come to understand better both the area throughout the ’70s. While I know challenges his life involved and the impact he nothing of the inner workings and politics of had on friends and family, I offer here a bit It’s a famous truism that bad things happen to good people. What isn’t so clear, the Art Department in those years, I never more about David’s life. sometimes, is that bad things also happen to good institutions. had the sense that the College was ever ar - Classmates, friends and family held a me - This thought came to me recently as I contemplated the black-on-black cover of tistically conservative, especially in terms of morial service in Claremont in May. According the latest issue of the Penn State alumni magazine—about the terrible scandal that collaborative artistic efforts and multi-media to Matt Leavitt ’03, a roommate and friend, “He has rocked that university to its core—and thought about another, very painful situ - events. was absolutely intrigued by how people be - ation closer to home: the work authorization dilemma that in recent months has left I remember quite vividly various campus haved, why we did what we did, why we were many here at Pomona feeling saddened, disillusioned or angry. (If you aren’t famil - performance art pieces, “happenings,” mid - who we were. … Dave’s musical talent and iar with this situation, I suggest that you visit www.pomona.edu/work-documentation night concerts and a heady artistic extrava - ability were otherworldly. I used to tell him that before reading on.) After a great deal of thought, we at PCM have decided not to ganza in a deserted winery in Cucamonga. while I played guitar, he was a guitarist. … Per - Art, dance, film, theatre and musical enter - haps one of the most tragic aspects of Dave’s try to cover these events hurriedly in this spring issue of the magazine, but to wait tainment combined frequently and pushed affliction was we’ll never know what he could until the summer issue, which we plan to devote primarily to the issues surrounding cultural limits routinely. have accomplished with the world of music. … immigration and borders here in the U.S. and around the world. However, as I was I’ll never forget performing in a piece by the It is in his thoughtful interpretations of art, music I read with great interest Suzanne Muchnic’s considering what I should do in this little introductory missive, my thoughts kept philosopher/composer Pauline Oliveros: loud and life that Dave truly flourished both intellectu - excellent article about the Museum of Art and the turning back to why bad things happen to good institutions. electronic music filled the air inside and outside Lit - ally and spiritually.” “It Happened at Pomona” exhibitions. As one fa - Besides costing 17 longstanding Pomona employees their livelihoods, the chain tle Bridges, Ms. Oliveros worked furiously in the Dave’s mother, Pat Waring, said that “in his miliar with the museum and its history, I have a of events unleashed by a complaint to the Board of Trustees last year has plunged us balcony projecting ever-changing colored lights freshman year, Dave was ‘beside-himself-ex - good sense of the challenges involved in this all into the midst of a divisive political issue, strained the College’s relationships with throughout the hall, and I had to improvise on my cited’ to find a seminar on mathematics and hugely ambitious undertaking and applaud the bassoon while a film of a walking rhinoceros’ music. Professor Ami Radunskaya nurtured his important segments of the College community, generated a range of conspiracy the - staff, which is richly deserving of the accolades armpit (leg pit?) was projected on me. love of ideas in music, and for her he wrote a ories, threatened the College’s reputation for inclusivity, driven many to tears of sor - flowing their way. I also know paper on ‘the relationship of set theory and im - row or anger or frustration, and raised legal and moral questions to which there are how difficult it must have been to provisation in jazz.’” She also spoke of his love no easy answers—or, at least, no answers that satisfy everyone. When must com - reconstruct a period for which of sports, with baseball his favorite. At Pomona, “MS. OLIVEROS WORKED FURIOUSLY only sparse records exist, and plaints be investigated? What do our immigration laws really require of us? Must we he was a DJ at KSPC, a calculus grader, a psy - how important it is that this has always obey those laws? Can anyone commit an entire institution to a path of civil IN THE BALCONY PROJECTING EVER- chology experiment designer and an assistant in now been accomplished. disobedience? Who can we blame for the bad things that happen in our midst? CHA a Claremont arts program for the disabled. NGING COLORED LIGHTS The innovative art of the pe - Few today take the Medieval view that bad things happen as a judgment from After graduating from Pomona and while in THROUGHOUT THE HALL, A riod in question, recollected now God. Still, when we hear about bad things happening to presumably good people, ND I HAD Osaka, where he was teaching English, he was in relative tranquility, was under - our sympathy is sometimes leavened with judgment. Lung cancer? Must have been TO IMPROVISE ON MY BASSOON stricken with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic standably unsettling to the status a smoker. AIDS? Probably promiscuous. Auto accident? Careless driver. At heart, fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Pat Waring noted, WHILE A FILM OF A WALKING quo—such is the nature of the “Dave valiantly battled ME/CFS, a disease one we may understand that sometimes bad things really do happen to people for no cutting edge. Developing as it RHINOCEROS’ ARMPIT (LEG PIT?) expert pronounced ‘monstrous’ and ‘subtle’ in good reason, but it’s more comforting to think that they somehow invited it. It’s did during a period of wide - WAS PROJECTED ON ME.” the same breadth. … In the end, he remem - easier to sleep at night when you believe that character is synonymous with fate. spread unrest on college cam - bered others who suffered from ME/CFS. He Maybe that’s why, when bad things happen to good institutions, we’re so quick puses nationwide, it would have requested that his organs be donated to med - represented an additional challenge to already to assume that maybe they weren’t quite as good as we thought. Or even that there I remember, too, when Tim Paradise ’69 (sub - ical science to be used for research to solve the beleaguered administrators. One can only imag - was something sinister going on behind the scenes. An assumption of ill will simpli - sequently the clarinetist of the St. Paul Chamber biological questions swirling around his dis - ine the conversations the activities of the Art De - fies matters. It makes it easier to believe that if we had been there making those Orchestra) and I, amongst others, sat around an ease.

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