PARTICIPANT Table of Contents The Pitzer College magazine, Fall 1982 2 From the President 2 From the Editor The Pitzer Participant (USPS 970-280) is 3 Pitzer on the Population published quarterly by Pitzer College, Studies and Public Health lOSO N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, Ca. 917ll. Second class permit granted by Map Claremont, Ca. 91711. by Joanne Siegmann '79 Volume 17, Number I, Fall 1982 with assistance from Ann Stromberg Editor: Katharine M. Morsberger Staff Photographer: Sue Keith 6 Technology, Politics, and Design: Shields / Stoddard Society in China Cover: Brad Kadel '82 (right) and by Rudi Volti Terry Schuler, Director of Personnel Relations at Avery On Confronting the labels, confer a moment about 7 an aspect of production. Meaning of Human Photo: Sue Keith Meaning Photographers: George Adams, by Glenn Goodwin Shireen Alafi '76, Sue Keith, John Kruissink, Kathryn Lamb '78, 8 Organizational Studies: Agnes Lawson, Arthur Mathern, Linda Mooser, Robert E. Morsberger, Internships: Students in the Bob Penn '78, Glenn Potts, Workplace Saul Schuster, Wesley Tanimura '85, Toru Yamazoe by Anne Lieberman '83 10 New Resources: Earning a Degree While on the Job II Management Seminar: Business Comes to Campus I2 Five-Year Program: Pitzer B.A., CGS M.A. 16 From the Trustees 13 A Brief Social History of Conjuring by Peter M. Nardi IS Pitzer Profiles: Inge Bell by Laud Humphreys Homer Garcia by Martha Quintana '83 17 From the Alumni 17 At Pitzer 18 Beyond Pitzer From the From the President Editor In the following pages, you will learn more about some of these inter­ ests in a large measure through the CCASIONALLY, I encounter HEN PREPARING this issue on wo;ds of a number of Pitzer's graduates O someone who wonders how Pitzer W sociology and organizatio~al College can be both a liberal arts college in sociology and organization~ studies, studies, your editor began to feel hke an interdisciplinary concentratIOn. You and a college emphasi~ing th~ study of Cecil B. DeMille with his casts of thou­ the social and behavIoral SCIences. Is will find many indications. that the sands. The alumni whose careers are de­ this not a contradiction? On the con­ disciplines they studied at PItz~r ~ave tailed in "Pitzer on the Population helped to enrich and shape theIr hves. trary: is my usual response. To quote Studies and Public Health Map" repre­ They are translating the values. of the Jackson Bate, the liberal arts deal sent many more whom we tried to Walt~r liberal arts into valuable work m such with "human nature in all its diversity." reach. Again, the al~mni and stud~nts The liberal arts are a crucial means of diverse fields as law, social work, teac~­ appearing in the artIcles on organIza­ ing, medicine, film, business, andsoClal shaping society. The need for the p.racti­ tional studies represent an even larger research. cal translation ofthe values ofthe hberal number of people who participated in Whether or not the liberal arts have arts into action on such problems as conferences and who helped write let­ outlived their usefulness is a subject of ters and locate writers and photo­ changing social institutions an~ t~e im­ much debate both inside and outside pact of technology on human hfe IS cru- graphers. "Beyond Pitzer," t~anks espe­ academe. It is with pleasure that I in­ cial and urgent. cially to the many alumlll who re­ The disciplines compnsmg the so­ troduce this evidence of their continued sponded to our letters, and to the fac­ cial and behavioral sciences contribute vitality. ulty members who took time to write to greatly to our compre~ension.ofhuman so many people, reached epic pro­ nature and human socIety. It IS not sur­ portions. Production credits are due to prising, therefore, to find that sociology AI Schwartz and to Paul Goldman, who - studying the social and ~ultura~ con­ gave valuable and muc? appreciated texts of the human enterpnse - IS one behind-the-scenes aSSIstance. Ann of Pitzer's most heavily enrolled con­ Stromberg, from the initial planning centrations. Some of the faculty's inter­ stages to final deadline, even after she ests indicate the range and scope of the had left for the University of Michigan discipline: social psychology,. al~enation and a well-earned sabbatical leave, gave as expressed in l~teratur~, cnmmology; most generously of her time and exper­ population studIes, socIal stereotypes, tise. To her, a very special Academy alcohol and drug-related issues, to Award, with your editor's warmest name but a few. thanks. 2 Pitzer on the Population Studies and Public Health Map by Joanne Siegmann '79 with assistance from Ann Stromberg tional incentives to attract health professionals to work in underserved In its broadest definition, sociology is Deirdre Chatman '74 the science of society. As this discipline Los Angeles, California areas. The program also encourages has matured, it has developed many medical schools to develop programs specialities, including demography (the EIRDRE CHATMAN graduated designed to meet the special needs of study of population) and medical D from Pitzer in 1974 with a concen­ underserved areas. sociology. In the careers of six Pitzer tration in human biology and "a great One particularly challenging aspect alumnae who are working in the related interest in sociology," which influenced of her work is trying to introduce new fields of population studies and public her entry into the public health profes­ courses and concepts into medical edu­ health we find reflected the breadth of sional field. Mter earning her Masters in cation. Medical school curricula are al­ concerns in these two areas. Public Health from the University of ready crowded; in addition, much in­ California, Los Angeles, School ofPub­ formation is new and many concepts are lie Health, she is now employed at the still being researched. For example, to Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical introduce a course in clinical nutrition, School, the academic arm of Martin Chatman first established a task force of Luther King, Jr. General Hospital in representatives from the primary care Los Angeles, as program director for units: internal medicine, obstetrics and the Southeast Los Angeles region of the gynecology, pediatrics, and family California Statewide Area Health Edu­ medicine. By examining curricula from cation Center System. Each medical other institutions and bringing in con­ school in the state has such a center, sultants, (in this case Dr. Marion dedicated to improving the supply, dis­ Nestle, the Associate Dean of the tribution, and quality of health man­ University of California at San power in medically underserved rural Francisco Medical School,) she was able and urban areas. "Most people do not to assist the faculty in planning and realize that the problem is as great, or setting up a course in clinical nutrition, perhaps greater in urban areas," she now being taught at the hospital. commented. Chatman also has taught courses in Responsible for the overall adminis­ the Department of Family Medicine at tration of fourteen programs, ranging Charles R. Drew, designed to instruct from undegraduate medical training to medical residents in the areas of health continuing medical education, she ad­ education, for example, ongoing treat­ ministers those that provide educa- ment of hypertension and diabetes. 3 Eventually she may go on to medical In her role as consultant to the State (November, 1982); "Income Stratifica­ school, but "I am really enjoying what I Department of Health, she has been tion: Bringing Families Back In," ap­ am doing right now, and hope to be able working on projects de~ing with diabe­ pearing in Sociology and Social Research next year to devote more time to re­ tes in Ute Indians and with the inci­ (April, 1982); and "Women's Employ­ search in my special interests of health dence of hypertension in the state. Over ment and its Implications for the promotion, health risk education, and and above her involvement in all of Economic Status of the Elderly of the lifestyle planning." these projects, ("my regular job,") Future," appearing in Aging: Social Schuman is gathering data and writing Change (edited by S.B. Keisler et ai., her dissertatIOn on "Stress, Social Sup­ Academic Press, 1981). port Networks, and Breast Cancer," as In addition, Treas has been a very Kathy Schuman '75 part of a university study funded by the Salt Lake City, Utah active alumna, and served on the Board Center for Disease Control on the role of Trustees in 1977-78 as president of the of hormone (birth control) pills in Alumni Association. TT ATHY SCHUMAN graduated cancer. Stress, she commented, is rec­ ~'- from Pitzer in 1975 with a B.A. in ognized to have an adverse effect on the biology. She worked at the City of immune stystem, and in her dissertation Hope, a research hospital in Duarte, she hopes to establish whether the re­ Miriam Kadin '74- while still an undergraduate. She was, duction of stress might affect the inci­ Ann Arbor, Michigan however, unsure about pursuing a dence of breast cancer. The American career in the health sciences until Ann Journal of Epidemiology for September, IRIAM KADIN '74 recalls in de­ Stromberg interested her in the area of 1982, published her article on "Neonatal M tail how she became a demog­ public health through her medical Mortality in Utah." She is married to rapher. "In my senior year at Pitzer I sociology class. Now finishing her doc­ John Weist, who is in his final year of was introduced to population studies in toral dissertation for the University of residency in general surgery at the Uni­ two courses offered by Ann Stromberg. Washington, Schuman is working as an versity of Utah.