California State University, San Bernardino CSUSB ScholarWorks CSUSB Magazine Arthur E. Nelson University Archives 1993 Fall 1993 - 1994 CSUSB Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/alumni-mag Recommended Citation CSUSB, "Fall 1993 - 1994" (1993). CSUSB Magazine. 9. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/alumni-mag/9 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arthur E. Nelson University Archives at CSUSB ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in CSUSB Magazine by an authorized administrator of CSUSB ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. dSlafle Fall 1993-94 SAN BERNARDINO NEWS FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY DISNEY CONSULTS CSUSB BIOLOGIST PAGE 2 PARTNERSHIP 2000 PRO' REPORT PAGE IS CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO OBSERVATIONS Replenishing Inventory for Scholarship Shoppers The good news is: More students CDSTATE than ever before may be eligible for fi­ SAN BERNARDINO nancial aid this year because of changes in CAL STATE SAN BERNARDINO state and federal regulations qualifying MAGAZINE IS PUBLISHED BY THE them for assistance. The bad news is: OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY RELATIONS There is less federal money available for AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, grants and only a modest increase in SAN BERNARDINO FOR ALUMNI, state-funded assistance, so students may FRIENDS, PARENTS AND COLLEAGUES. need to take out larger loans in order to IT IS PRODUCED TRIANNUALLY AT THE complete their education. BEGINNING OF EACH ACADEMIC For some students, these trends in QUARTER IN SEPTEMBER, JANUARY college financial aid will translate into AND APRIL. THIS PUBLICATION IS $100 less in Pell Grants, which will be a PARTIALLY FUNDED WITH NON-STATE maximum of $2,300 this year. For oth­ RESOURCES, INCLUDING A GRANT FROM THE CAL STATE ALUMNI Juan Gonzalez ers, state university grants could be slashed from $1,440—what once was a "full ASSOCIATION. OPINIONS EXPRESSED ride"—to $100 or less. The reality is that many students will be bearing a bigger IN CAL STATE MAGAZINE DO NOT percentage of the cost of their education than ever before. This comes at a time when NECESSARILY REFLECT THE OPINION a 10 percent increase in California $tate University fees brings the surge in the cost of OF THE EDITORS NOR REPRESENT THE a CSU education to 80 percent over the past four years. OFFICIAL POLICY OF CALIFORNIA While still a bargain when compared with other states (California' s state university STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNAR­ fees are the 48th lowest in the nation), the cost of a C8U education could be reduced DINO. EDITORIAL AND ALUMNI INFORMATION AND PHOTOGRAPHS greatly by expanding privately endowed student scholarships available through SHOULD BE SENT TO THE CSU8B. Currently, only $100,000 of the nearly $15 million in assistance awarded CAL STATE SAN BERNARDINO through om Financial Aid Office is in the form of academic scholarships. EDITOR, Meanwhile, the percentage of students who are applying for financial assistance CSUSB PUBLIC AFFAIRS, has doubled within the past two years. Now nearly 68 percent of our 12,500 students 5500 UNIVERSITY PARKWAY, have an application pending in the office. Each of them rightfully claims significant SAN BERNARDINO, CA need, but only about half of their requests will be met. 92407-2397 Fortimately, a few more students will be assisted this year through recent private contributions made to the university. Three students will benefit from the newly GOOD QUALITY B&W PHOTOGRAPHS established Jack H. Brown 5cholarship for the School of Business and Public ARE WELCOME. POLAROIDS OR Administration, which has been created by the Food Industries Sales Club of Riverside PHOTOGRAPHS PRINTED ON TEXTURED and San Bernardino Counties. An accounting scholarship honoring the first dean of PAPER ARE NOT ACCEPTED. the business school. Dr. Hal Hoverland, wiU support students majoring in that field, while another privately endowed scholarship, estabhshed through the estate of Julie EDITOR and Ann Ronning, will offer advantages for students studying the real estate industry. Cynthia Pringle A fimd established in honor of retired Barstow teacher, Clara McKinney, will assist ART DIRECTOR / DESIGNER future educators. And a scholarship started by former Cal 8tate Professor Arlo Harris Jay Wampler win benefit future chemists. PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Each of these funds created within the past academic year will make a significant Chad Timmreck difference in the pursuits of students for years to come, and is turning the bad news into good tidings for some deserving students. EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Mary Colacurcio Sam Romero PHOTOGRAPHERS Dan Moseley Larry Rose Vice President for Student Services COVER: Biologist Stuart Sumida, the Bone Man to Disney artists, applies his I#L expertise in comparative SAN BERNARDINO animal anatomy as a consultant on major motion pictures. CONTENTS OBSERVATIONS INSIDE FRONT COVER A Less Than 1% of $15 Million in Financial Aid Awarded is in Scholarships Benuty, Beasts and the Biologist 2 Anatomically Correct Disney Animals Result from CSUSB Biologist's Advice GAL STATE UPDATE . Pag<s 5 Air Force ROTC Launches Unit Here Japanese Gift Launches Building T ^ SCHOOL NEWS 6 Blackstone Magic Team Donates Theatrical Scripts ... 8 COYOTE SPORTS 12 Scholarship Golf Tournament Tees Off Oct. 22 Page 14 ALUMNI PERISCOPE 13 Victorville Probation Officer Captures Alumnus Distinction Art Museum Half Funded GIFT RAP 14 Retired Executives Needed as Volunteers 15 lAP Partnership 2000 Campaign Update. 16 L# Recognizing Campaign Leaders, Friends in Inaugural Year Honor Roll of Donors 19 MM Our Annual Tribute to Thousands of Generous Supporters Back Cover Catch Coyote Contests This Fall ALUMNI NOTES 33 T Author Joanne Fluke Publishes Two Novels CALENDAR 37 Jazz Ensemble Holds Pre-Holiday Concert FALL 93-94 CAL STATE SAN BERNARDINO How TO BUILD A HORSE ot very long ago, in a land not too far away, professional animators began to envy Cal State biology professor Horse sketches done Stuart Sumida, whose job, they said, was very by Disney animator wonderful. Stuart admired the animators and Ross Edmunds. their jobs, too. For they worked in the pleasant and prestigious Walt Disney studios sketching out pictures that always became famous. But no, no, no, thought the animators. It was Stuart who had the fun of hunting hidden treasures in places like the four corner states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona, or in Germany, where Stuart spent six weeks this past summer. Treasure hunting like this im­ pressed the animators. Because once upon a paleontological period ancient animals left for Stuart and those with his brand of curiosity a THE MOST SPECIAL GIFT very special gift, the most special gift beasts BEASTS COULD could ever leave: Bones. EVER "There are a lot of paleontologists who use LEAVE the fossils they find to figure out the rocks," ARE says Stuart. "Well, I use the fossils I find to figure out the animals." BONES Stuart is the Bone Man to Disney artists, their "teacher," the specialist in comparative anatomy who stepped into Animation Land on the reference of a friend and an invitation by Disney and had world-class animators draw, a ahem, anatomy! He is the man who sees beauty in animal locomotion, who illustrates -•S. his research with his own (improving, even if they are diagrammatical) drawings of animals, who has liked and watched good cartoons ever since he was a boy, who tells animators how a bird folds its wings, and maybe how they, the animators, err in thinking that digging up the past is glamorous work; fascinating, yes. But picking your way through dirt around a valued fossil can be as tedious as drawing a thousand STUART BEGAN SHOWING THEM HOW pictures to animate a descending leaf. SIZE, WEIGHT, Disney animators, says Stuart, are "meticu­ lous. " Experts have come to lecture them GRAVITY AND before. But under a formal program set up in BONE the late '80s Disney wanted to train new as well STRUCTURE as experienced animators, and that's when SHARE AN Stuart began showing them how size, weight, ANIMAL'S gravity and bone structure shape an animal's movements. For one week during the produc­ MOVEMENTS tion of " Beauty and the Beast," he lectured on wolves and horses, and worked closely with Pencil sketches by Disney Russ Edmunds, the lead animator for Belle's animator Larry White are his first pass at an analysis horse, Philippe—Disney animation that amazes of a waif run used to Stuart, as does the detail of Bambi, the dino­ animate the wolves in "Beauty and the Beast." saurs of "Fantasia," and, above all, the flight of the golden eagle in " Rescuers Down Under," because its " movement is true to the form of the animal, yet communicates personahty and feeling without turning into a human being." Stuart now is advising Disney animators on a mwi film to be released next year, "Lion King." And next year he will address the 50th anniversary convention of the National Science Teachers Association in Anaheim about his work at Disney, and about this fairytale marriage of biology and fine art. "You need to understand some of the hological sciences to do certain kinds of art. lat's something most biologists wouldn't m ^^hink about, or they've been trained not to Nthink about." Story by Sam Romero, editorml assistant, Public Affairs. Photos of Stuart Sumida were taken by Larry Rose. Photos from "Beauty and the Beast" motion picture are printed ' by permission of Disney, and are copyrighted by The Walt ' Disney Company. All riphts reserved. CAL STATE SAN BERNARDINO CAL STATE UPDATE LARGEST CASH DONATION LAUNCHES BUILDING CAMPUS PLANT EXPANDS TO MEET 21ST CENTURY NEEDS An ambitious plan for $172 mil­ lion in capital construction projects at CSUSB in the next five years will more than double the amount of physical space currently housing classes and com­ munity gatherings at the university.