Pacific Review Fall 2009 Alumni Association of the University of the Pacific

University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons Pacific Review University of the Pacific ubP lications Fall 8-1-2009 Pacific Review Fall 2009 Alumni Association of the University of the Pacific Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacific-review Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Alumni Association of the University of the Pacific, "Pacific Review Fall 2009" (2009). Pacific Review. 17. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacific-review/17 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University of the Pacific ubP lications at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pacific Review by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT What I’m Hearing: Pacific Is a Place of Strength and Potential By Pamela A. Eibeck, President reetings to all of Pacific’s Pacific’s strengths are centeredness and whole person Galumni, parents and clearly evident through the education, and to providing friends! I am so proud to accomplishments of our a superior education to be President of this fine alumni, as highlighted in this talented students regardless communities, I also hope to University, and I treasure the issue. The Pacific community of economic background are meet many of you at alumni responsibility to lead Pacific is greatly honored to celebrate important values that provide and university events this year. at this promising point in the lifetime achievements of a strong foundation for our Thank you for supporting its history. My many Dave Brubeck ’42 work together. this great University. I look conversations over the who will receive I plan to use much of forward to hearing from you. last several months the prestigious my first year to deepen my with faculty, students, Kennedy Center knowledge of the University so staff, and alumni on Honors in that I can articulate my vision each campus, have December, and for building on these strengths. helped me to better the NASA shuttle While I will dedicate time to understand Pacific mission to the get to know our three campus from the perspective of those International Space Station who study, teach and work from which here. As part of my “listening Jose Hernandez ’85 campaign” this year, I have has just returned. I welcome your ideas at heard many expressions of Pacific’s commitment [email protected]. Pacific’s strengths and promise to high quality academic You can also find me on for Pacific’s future. programs, to student- face book or visit my website at www.Pacific.edu/President. President Pamela A. Eibeck Pacific Review Editorial Staff Pacific Review is published three times a year Provost Philip Gilbertson Editor Kevin McKenna by University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA, 95211. Readership Managing Editor Sheri Grimes Vice President, consists of 58,000 alumni, parents, friends, Business and Finance Patrick Cavanaugh Get Connected and faculty, students, and staff. Material herein Vice President, Class Notes Editor Corrie Martin does not necessarily represent the official External Relations Ted Leland ’70, ’74 position of the University. Material in this FA L L 2 0 0 9 Contributing Writers Patrick Giblin | Vice President, Sheri Grimes Corrie Martin publication may not be reproduced in any Student Life Elizabeth Griego Joyce McCallister Michael G. Mooney form without permission. Rhashad Pittman Postmaster: Send any address changes to Executive Assistant Pacific Review, Advancement Services, to the President Art Direction & Design Kärri Johnson N O . 1 Hand Hall 3rd Floor, 3601 Pacific Avenue, | and Secretary to the Production Assistance Hareem Cheema Stockton, CA 95211-0197. Board of Regents Jean Purnell ’02 Samantha Kowalski Executive Director, Contributing HOW TO REACH THE REVIEW: Pacific Alumni Photographers Jon Draper E-Mail: [email protected] Association Bill Coen Cary Edmondson Randall Gee Voice: 209.946.2311 Executive Director, Kevin Hogan Patrick Giblin Fax: 209.946.3111 Marketing and University Adrian Mendoza Phil Schermeister Send Class Notes to Communications Richard Rojo Mary Sibert George Steckler [email protected] V O L U M E 9 6 Max Whittaker Steve Yeater 2 fall 2009 LETTERS Mailbox Thank you for sharing your thoughts and memories. Counting on Pacific Review Sorority Memories When the Pacific Review arrives in the mail, my husband, Thanks for the Back in Time in the spring 2009 Pacific Charles Parsons ’39, and I read it from cover to cover. We Review. I was both a Delta Gamma and also a sweetheart and remember the wonderful times we spent at Pacific and look for belle of Archania in the 80’s and have a lot of great memories of the names of people in the classes of 1935–1939. Sadly, many of the traditions of the Greek system at Pacific. Some of the great our friends are no longer with us, but we treasure our memories memories include: Band Frolic, Sunday night dress dinners at of them. I was an Alpha Theta Tau girl, Mardi Gras Queen and Archania, and riding in the Archania fire engines on the way to received a teaching certificate along with my degree. I taught football games. briefly in the Stockton school system before marrying Lloyd Test. What I remember most were the parties: Tour de Tahoe We had a wonderful life for 59 years, when he passed away. (all night bus tour to Lake Tahoe); Off to the Races (trip to the Two years later I married Charles Parsons whom I had gone Bay Area to watch horse racing), and, of course, toga parties. through school with in Stockton from the third grade, and who But the highlight each year was the Archania “Fireman’s Fling.” attended Pacific and was a Rho Lambda Phi. We married at age We waited all year for this one. 85 and have had seven years of happiness traveling and creating a The “set up” was that your sorority house was “on fire” and the new life in a Monterey, Calif. retirement community. brave Archania firemen had to rescue you. Someone from the We feel very blessed to have been a part of Pacific in the days of house would design a T-shirt each year for everyone to wear. All Dr. Tully Knoles, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Patty Pierce, DeMarcus of the girls had on their special T-shirt and special color coded Brown, the Toonerville Trolley and the rising of the campus “underwear.” I remember the DG color was red. The Archites buildings when the college moved to Stockton from San Jose. We brought over their fire engines and put the ladder up to the top were both “townies” raised in Tuxedo Park, one mile from the floor. We would have to come out of the top floor of the house to campus. Those were the days my friend. be “rescued” by the firemen below. Yes, we had to climb out of — Verna Test-Parsons ’39 the house backwards onto the ladder. It was, looking back, silly, but so much fun. The house was decorated ‘to the nines’ and Old Friends Meet Again usually there was a slide built from the top of the third floor to Nine women, all who graduated from Pacific in the 70s have the yard to slide out of the ‘burning building.’ been keeping in touch for thirty-one years through a letter called These were some great memories. Thanks for asking. the “Round Robin!” The Round Robin is a large envelope filled — Lisa (White) Hartley ’85 with letters and pictures from each of these nine close friends. We have talked about changing to e-mail, but we all love We’d like to hear from you! receiving the large envelope bursting with letters. Pacific Review welcomes signed letters from readers. One weekend in July 2009, seven of the nine friends gathered Brief letters (200 words or less) are encouraged. The editor for a reunion. Four of us reside in California, two in the state reserves the right to select letters for publication and to edit of Washington, and one is teaching American for style and space. Please send to: students in Dubai. Kristin Sanford ’78 and Marta Anderson ’78 were unable to come. Mail: Pacific Review At the reunion, we friends shared hours of University of the Pacific laughter, rich memories and special stories of our 3601 Pacific Avenue days at Pacific. Before the gathering was over, Stockton, CA 95211 we were already planning the next Fax: 209.946.3111 Deanna Hay Cornett ’78 E-mail: [email protected] get together. We all agreed that we Darcy Miller Fluitt ’78 will always be lifelong friends and are Karen Brelje King ’78 grateful that our Pacific experience Cheryl Smith ’78 Nancy Hurlow Houghton ’78 brought us together! Mary Heinrich Thomason ’77 — Karen King ’78 Renee Williams ’77 pacific review 3 Campus HappEnIngs Stockton HonorS Pacific For Urban Beautification University of the Pacific received two “Awards of Excellence” from the city of Stockton in July for its recently built DeRosa University Center and Biological Sciences Center. Stockton’s City Planning Commission and the Cultural Heritage Board granted the awards for “significant contributions to urban beautification” in Stockton. The awards are granted Top: Biological Sciences Center to encourage improvement and beautification of the local community, create awareness toward Above: Students on the patio by building preservation and maintenance and to promote imagination and sensitivity when the fire pit at the west end of the DeRosa University Center designing new buildings. Pacific received the recognition previously for the renovation of the University Library (May 2006), the Baun Fitness Center addition (May 2005) and the residence facility Monagan Hall (June 2002).

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