“Starting withissuesconcerning humantreatment ofthenatural environment,we arrive FALL 2003 FALL at principles that shedlight onthe totalhuman condition.” JohnR.Rodman 1933-2003 Pitzer College PARTICIPANT Magazine for Alumni and Friends President PARTICIPANT Laura Skandera Trombley Editor Pitzer College FALL 2003 / Vol. 37, No. 1 Susan C. Andrews Managing Editor/Designer Jay Collier Editorial Assistant Penny King Contributing Writers Jay Collier Deborah Haar Clark Patricia Barnes Melonie Galloway Penny King Cassandra Meagher Jose Calderon Jamie Brown ’99 James Lippincott ’95 Jim Stricks Ari Sherman ’85 Steve Glass Paul Faulstich ’79 Kelly Howell Amy Kerkhoff Printer Dual Graphics Printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink. Cover photos by Joe Clements John Rodman quote from “Four Forms of Ecological Consciousness Reconsidered,” in Historical Roots of Deep Ecology A member of the Claremont Colleges, Pitzer College is a private liberal arts and sciences institution, committed to values of interdisciplinary perspective, intercultural understanding and social responsibility. The Participant is published by the Office of Public Relations and President’s Column / 2 Full Circle welcomes comments from its Professor Paul Faulstich’s Fulbright readers. Address letters to Participant Editor, Avery 105, Pitzer in the News / 3 research marked his return to the people Pitzer College, 1050 N. Mills Ave., with whom he began his career / 10 Claremont, CA 91711-6101, or submit them via e-mail to Pomona Day Labor Center / 6 [email protected]. The Participant Advantage: Pitzer is published online in PDF format Melinda Herrold-Menzies joins Pitzer at www.pitzer.edu Faculty and Staff Find Recipe as new professor of environmental for Success / 9 studies / 14 PITZER BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2003-04 TRUSTEES PETER STRANGER HIRSCHEL B. ABELSON Los Angeles, CA President, Stralem & JOHN N. TIERNEY Company, Inc. President & CEO, The JILL BASKIN ’77 DOCSI Corporation Chicago, IL LAURA SKANDERA MARC D. BROIDY ’95 TROMBLEY Vice President President, Pitzer College Smith Barney JOAN G. WILNER WILLIAM G. BRUNGER Beverly Hills, CA Vice President, Revenue Management, Continental LIFE TRUSTEES Airlines ROBERT H. ATWELL NANCY ROSE BUSHNELL ’69 Former President, Pitzer Laguna Beach, CA College LESLIE DASHEW ’70 CONSTANCE AUSTIN President, Human Side of Los Angeles, CA Enterprise ELI BROAD SUSAN G. DOLGEN Los Angeles, CA Access & Answers FRANK L. ELLSWORTH SARA LOVE DOWNEY Former President, Pitzer Chicago, IL College; President, MARY BETH GARBER ’68 Endowments Capital Research President, Southern California and Management Co. Broadcasters Association HARVEY J. FIELDS PETER S. GOLD Beverly Hills, CA Irmas, Gold and Company PATRICIA G. HECKER JONATHAN P. GRAHAM ’82 St. Louis, MO Partner, Williams and BRUCE E. KARATZ Connolly Chairman & CEO, KB Home JAMES HASS ’75 MARILYN CHAPIN MASSEY President, Capital Advisors, Ltd. Former President, Pitzer PAUL C. HUDSON College President & CEO, Broadway MURRAY PEPPER Federal Bank President, Home Silk DEBORAH BACH KALLICK ’78 Properties, Inc. Executive Director, Govt. EDITH L. PINESS, Ph.D. and Industry Relations, Mill Valley, CA Cedars-Sinai Health System RICHARD J. RIORDAN ROBIN M. KRAMER ’75 Former Los Angeles Mayor Senior Fellow, California Community Foundation DEBORAH DEUTSCH SMITH ’68 TERRY F. LENZNER Professor, Kennedy Chairman, Investigative Scholar, John F. Kennedy Group International, Inc. Ctr. for Research on Human Development, MAUREEN D. LYNCH ’77 Vanderbilt University Vice President, Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc. ALUMNI BOARD THOMAS H. MOORE ’82 Vice President, Morgan JENNIFER BALE-KUSHNER ’87 Stanley Dean Witter Chair, Strategic Planning JAMES ORLIKOFF ’76 JEANMARIE HAMILTON President, Orlikoff and BOONE ’87 Associates, Inc. Chair, Educational Programs ARNOLD PALMER PARKER DOUGLAS ’88 Senior Vice President, Co-Chair, Career Development Sutro & Company RUETT FOSTER ’81 ELLA PENNINGTON ’81 Chair, Community Service Vice President for Operations, Programs Crystal Stairs, Inc. ANDREW GOODMAN ’81 RUSSELL M. PITZER (Immediate Past President) Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, CESAR GOMEZ ’94 Ohio State University Co-Chair, Career Development SUSAN S. PRITZKER GAYLA HAMIK-BECKLEY ’02 Encouraging Words Natural Advocate Chair of the Board Co-Chair, Student Alumni Bea Hollfelder award rewards creative Profile of Michael Harris ’91 / 26 MARGOT LEVIN SCHIFF Relations Chicago, IL ELLA PENNINGTON ’81 writers / 18 JOEL H. SCHWARTZ President Alumni Notes / 31 General Partner/LLC, 95 S.F.L.P. DIANE REYES ’91 WILLIAM D. SHEINBERG ’83 Co-Chair, Alumni Admissions The Nuts and Bolts of Partner in The Bubble Factory AMANDA SHER ’02 Conservation / 22 In My Own Words / 38 LISA SPECHT Co-Chair, Student Alumni Attorney/Partner, Manatt, Relations Phelps & Phillips JONATHAN STOKES ’98 Chair, Graduates of Last Decade Remembering Lost Alumni / 25 Sagehens Sports / 40 EUGENE P. STEIN Executive Vice President, JEANETTE WOO CHITJIAN ’83 Capital Guardian Trust Co. Chair Alumni Fund Securing the Future of the Arboretum n the world of arboreta and botanic gardens, Pitzer’s Arboretum is truly one Iof a kind. John Rodman provided a unique vision and the inspiration to us all over the years as he enlisted the devotion of Pitzer’s many constituencies in shaping the Arboretum. Today the College seeks to continue his legacy by assuring careful administration and dedicated stewardship of this shared treasure. In the past year, Arboretum Manager Joe Clements and his staff have accomplished much good work, aided by staff, students, Food Service workers, and dedicated volunteers and friends. What follows are just a few of their accomplishments. The Grove House Garden and South Classroom areas were thinned out and Photos by Marc Campos replanted. The Farm Project Garden received a new watering system and new friends may remember alumni, students, maintenance and development of the seedbeds. The Ellsworth Garden was faculty, staff, and special friends. The collections as an educational resource, and groomed and filled out with plantings of garden provides a reflective place to heal has begun to explore grant opportunities succulents and drought-tolerant shrubs and and find renewal in natural surroundings. trees. The Medicinal Garden adjacent to for assessment and development of the A future project looming large in the Scott Courtyard received a fir bark mulch collections as an educational resource for imagination involves the drought-tolerant layer and well-defined, crushed granite students and the general public. The funds paths. The lovely contours of the landscaping that will define garden spaces for these ambitious projects have come in Intercultural Garden are now crisp with in our residence halls, to be constructed as from many sources. Most important is the well-nourished plantings. Finally, in all of part of the campus Master Plan. Our support that continues to come from these gardens, aging irrigation systems overarching goal is to eventually define Pitzer’s friends and alumni. have been much improved. and unify the entire campus landscaping in John once characterized the Arboretum One new garden came into being this terms of an Arboretum environment. as a search for “patterns of stewardship and past spring — the David Bloom Garden of But there is much immediate work still restoration that take us beyond ‘social Remembrance, located on the site of the to be done. In addition to maintenance and responsibility’ to ‘ecological Arboretum’s Sage Garden that marks the upgrading of irrigation systems, pressing responsibility.’” The Arboretum’s sixteen northwest entrance to campus bordering projects include acquisition of new plant unique yet interrelated garden areas are in Harvey Mudd. The intent of this garden materials and the documentation, labeling, keeping with the mission of the College was twofold: to remember Pitzer’s David and mapping of the existing collections. itself. Gifts in support of the Arboretum Bloom ‘85, who died while on assignment The College established the John R. help sustain this vital part of the Pitzer for NBC to the war in Iraq, and to create a Rodman Arboretum Endowment Fund in experience. place of natural beauty where family and John’s memory to assure the long-term Cassandra Meagher Assorted flora from the Community Garden and the David Bloom garden in the Pitzer Arboretum 30 Pitzer College Participant Campus Notes Artinin actionaction Students in Kathryn Miller’s class test the watercraft they built with recycled materials. tudents in “Mixing It Up/Ceramics and Mixed Media,” a class taught by Sprofessors David Furman and Kathryn Miller, put their talents to use Students relax in beautifying the courtyard area outside the art the renovated classrooms in the basement of the courtyard outside McConnell building this past academic year. classrooms at the Under the supervision of Furman and McConnell Center. Miller, students collaborated on the design of seating areas and tables for the two spaces. Bricks from a defunct kiln were recycled along with cement slabs. Students glazed and fired ceramic tiles and then smashed them to did they know that one of those functions and is the largest in the country. Last year, the make mosaics for the surfaces of the tables would be to support their weight in the Gold landfill received 33 ½ million tons of trash. and benches. The project required long Student Center pool. Five out of eight canyons have been filled hours. The students worked diligently, Students spent the semester building and have