APRIL
2010
magazine
ROSE PASADENA’S
S
PRING
IN STYLE *Fashion & shopping *Perfect picnic spreads *Saké simplified
MILITARY WOMEN
LOCAL LEGACY
Dead Sea Scrolls unbound
W om fin en al o is f D ts is in tin si c de ti o
n
Playing the game of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
UPGRADE TO A DIGITAL SLR - WITH HD VIDEO! NEW!
18
18
MEGA PIXEL
Increased light sensitivity for low light photography
MEGA PIXEL
•Improved EOS Movie mode with manual exposure control, expanded recording, new Movie Crop recording in 640 x 480 and external microphone IN terminal for access to improved sound quality
21.1 Advanced movie mode with manual exposure control •18MP CMOS Dual DIGIC 4 Image Processors •ISO 100-6400 •8.0 fps continuous shooting •Advanced movie mode with manual exposure control
12.3
12.3
MEGA PIXEL
MEGA PIXEL
Record 720p HD movie clips •Vari-angle color LCD monitor •One-button Live View •19 Auto-exposure Scene Modes
MEGA PIXEL
Canon 5D Mark II Owners:
FREE HD Video Firmware Upgrade!
In Samy's Stores. Call for an appointment.
Full frame CMOS sensor •The EOS 5D Mark II has a stunning 21.1 MP full-frame CMOS sensor, a vast ISO Range of 100-6400 expandable to 25600. •Capture cinema grade, Full 1080 video at a fluid motion 30fps
12.3 Record cinematic-quality movie clips at up to 720p HD
MEGA PIXEL
Capture cinematic 24pfs, 720p HD movie clips •One-button Live View •3-inch Super-density 920,000-dot VGA LCD Moni-
•Continuous shooting as fast as 4.5 fps •3” super-density LCD monitor •Low noise ISO sensitivity from 200 to 3200
Lens not included
COMPACT CAMERAS HD MOVIES
NEW!
DMC-GF1
P100 KIT
10
MEGA PIXEL
3.8X ZOOM
Bright f/2.0 lens & 3” LCD •High Sensitivity System and higher ISO speeds •Improved low light performance
10.3 MEGA PIXEL
26X ZOOM
ALL CANON ADVERTISED MERCHANDISE INCLUDES CANON USA 1 YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY REGISTRATION CARD
with 14-45mm lens
Faster. Zoom Closer. Shoot Faster
•Incredible 26X zoom with high-speed action and HD movie capability •High-speed 10 frames per second •Bright 3” vari-angle high resolution HVGA Clear Color Display
12.1
MEGA PIXEL
Full-time Live View, Interchangeable Lenses •Micro four thirds interchangeable lens •Manual Settings in Creative Movie Mode •3” LCD with full-time Live View
ALL NIKON PRODUCTS INCLUDE NIKON INC. USA LIMITED WARRANTY. AUTHORIZED NIKON DEALER, NIKON USA INC.
SINCE 1976
DIGITAL CAMERAS DIGITAL VIDEO
PASADENA
AUTHORIZED APPLE RESELLER & SERVICE PROVIDER
(626) 796-3300
PHOTO ACCESSORIES
41 E. WALNUT ST.
CAMERA CLASSES
(East of Fair Oaks)
FILM AND PROCESSING RENTALS
Locations also in Los Angeles, Orange County, Culver City and Santa Barbara
Elegance
...this estate chooses not to flaunt its magnificence, but quietly reflects its dramatic presence behind the veil of privacy, simplicity and serenity.
1060 SAN RAFAEL, PASADENA Price is $8,900,000
This impressive Roland Coate’s designed estate situated in the prestigious area of San Rafael in Pasadena becomes available for the first time in 25 years and only the 2nd time since its debut in 1935! Featuring a 14,000 square foot home on just under 4 acres, plus a carriage house over the garage and a second home with its own address, this estate is truly a “one-of-a-kind” that takes your breath away both inside and out. The estate features three stories of exquisite detail including 5 bedrooms and 5 baths upstairs all masterfully situated on awe-inspiring grounds.
A small reflection of the stunning design of this estate includes a quaint carriage house, a two-story wood paneled library housing over 4000 books, a fully automated 12-seat home theatre, a billards room, an exercise/workout room, and an arcade/game room. The carriage house situated over the 4-car garage offers 1336 sq. ft. (per tax assessor) of living space and the second home, complete with its own address and drive, offers its own private quarters measuring 1022 sq. ft. (per tax assessor).
Careful planning strategically situated the magnificent estate on the equally magnificent and breathtaking grounds measuring just under 4 acres. There are numerous architecturally designed “areas” all masterfully woven together to create a sense of unity, simplicity, seclusion and inspiration seamlessly branching off the main grass area which itself rambles under stately oak trees.
Please visit www.1060sanrafael.com for full views of this magnificent estate.
John Fredrickson/Tammy Fredrickson The JT Group/Sothebys International Realty 459 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91101 John’s cell 626-688-9890 • Tammy’s cell 626-233-4854
magazine magazine
ROSE ROSE
VOLUME VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2, ISSUE 3 3
Publisher: Publisher: Steve Steve Lambert Lambert steve.lambert@inlandnewspapers.com steve.lambert@inlandnewspapers.com Editor: Editor: PiaPia Abelgas Abelgas Orense Orense pia.orense@sgvn.com pia.orense@sgvn.com Assistant Assistant Editor: Editor: Evelyn Evelyn Barge Barge evelyn.barge@sgvn.com, evelyn.barge@sgvn.com, @EvelynBarge @EvelynBarge Calendar Calendar Editor: Editor: Emma Emma Gallegos, Gallegos, emma.gallegos@sgvn.com, emma.gallegos@sgvn.com, @EmmaGGallegos @EmmaGGallegos Contributing Contributing Editors: Editors: Catherine Catherine Gaugh, Gaugh, Frank Frank Girardot, Girardot, Hector Hector Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Steve Steve Hunt, Hunt, Larry Larry Wilson Wilson Photo Photo Editor: Editor: Bernardo Bernardo Alps Alps Writers: Writers: Ryan Ryan Carter, Carter, Richard Richard Irwin, Irwin, Kate Kate Kealey, Kealey, Claudia Claudia S. Palma, S. Palma, Michelle Michelle Mills, Mills, Stacey Stacey Wang, Wang, Janette Janette Williams Williams Photographers: Photographers: LeoLeo Jarzomb, Jarzomb, Walt Walt Mancini, Mancini, Watchara Watchara Phomicinda, Phomicinda, EricEric Reed, Reed, Sarah Sarah Reingewirtz Reingewirtz Copy Copy editor: editor: Kate Kate Kealey Kealey Designers: Designers: Evelyn Evelyn Barge, Barge, Mary Mary Roy, Roy, PiaPia Orense Orense Photo Photo toning: toning: Mark Mark Quarles Quarles
Advertising Advertising Manager: Manager: Jesse Jesse Dillon Dillon
jesse.dillon@sgvn.com jesse.dillon@sgvn.com Sales Sales Executives: Executives: Mercedes Mercedes Abara, Abara, Jose Jose LuisLuis Correa, Correa, Linda Linda Hammes, Hammes, Erica Erica Jimenez, Jimenez, Bethany Bethany Gilbert Gilbert Jones, Jones, David David Grant, Grant, Candace Candace Klewer, Klewer, Robin Robin McDonald, McDonald, Ralph Ralph Ringgold, Ringgold, Stephanie Stephanie Rosencrantz, Rosencrantz, Chris Chris Stathousis Stathousis Sales Sales Assistant: Assistant: Peter Peter Barrios Barrios Advertising Advertising Graphic Graphic Design: Design: Christie Christie Robinson, Robinson, Lead Lead Designer/Production Designer/Production Coordinator Coordinator Kathy Kathy Cox-Turteltaub, Cox-Turteltaub, Designer Designer
PPASADENA ASADENASS TAR TAR -N-NEWS EWS
San SanGabriel GabrielValley ValleyNewspaper NewspaperGroup Group Editor Editor & Publisher: & Publisher: Steve Steve Lambert Lambert Senior Senior Editor: Editor: Steve Steve Hunt Hunt Star-News Star-News Editor: Editor: Frank Frank Girardot Girardot Star-News Star-News Advertising Advertising Manager: Manager: Jesse Jesse Dillon Dillon Vice Vice President President of of Sales Sales & Marketing: & Marketing: JimJim Maurer Maurer Vice Vice President President of of Circulation: Circulation: Kathy Kathy Michalak Michalak Vice Vice President President of of Operations: Operations: John John Wartinger Wartinger Vice Vice President President of of Finance: Finance: Kathy Kathy Johnson Johnson Vice Vice President President of of Human Human Resources: Resources: Louise Louise Kopitch Kopitch Finance Finance Director: Director: David David SilkSilk CONTACT CONTACT US:US: Editorial: Editorial: (626) (626) 962-8811, 962-8811, Ext.Ext. 2669 2669 or or Ext.Ext. 2472 2472 therose@sgvn.com therose@sgvn.com Advertising: Advertising: (626) (626) 578-6300, 578-6300, Ext.Ext. 4466 4466 jesse.dillon@sgvn.com jesse.dillon@sgvn.com 911911 E. Colorado E. Colorado Blvd., Blvd., Pasadena, Pasadena, CACA 91109 91109 www.therosemag.com www.therosemag.com www.insidesocal.com/rose www.insidesocal.com/rose ww.twiter.com/RoseMagazine ww.twiter.com/RoseMagazine
Inland InlandCustom CustomPublishing PublishingGroup Group Publisher Publisher & CEO: & CEO: Fred Fred Hamilton Hamilton Sales Sales Development Development Director: Director: Lynda Lynda E. Bailey E. Bailey Research Research Director: Director: Shawna Shawna Federoff Federoff
Copyright Copyright 2010 2010 Rose Rose Magazine. Magazine. NoNo part part of this of this magazine magazine may may bebe reproduced reproduced without without thethe consent consent of the of the publisher. publisher. Rose Rose Magazine Magazine is is notnot responsible responsible for for unsolicited unsolicited manuscripts, manuscripts, photos photos or artwork or artwork even even if if accompanied accompanied by by a self-addressed a self-addressed stamped stamped envelope. envelope. Printed Printed by by Southwest Southwest Offset Offset Printing Printing
4 |4 ROSE | ROSE | APRIL | APRIL 2010 2010 RoseApril_outline.indd 1
3/25/10 6:02:58 PM
ROSE
magazine april 2010
20 SPRING FROCKS
24 EATING OUT
10 GO
26 KAMPAI!
Darn-goodlookin’ chairs
Don’t be fooled: saké is best served chilled
36 TURN THE PAGE Abraham Lincoln as vampire hunter; Who knew?
44 PLAYING THE GAME “Don’t ask, don’t tell” and women in the military
52 SISTER ACT Life inside the convent’s walls
16 SHOP Treat shopping as an urban adventure
28 EAT Get into the head of Elements Kitchen owner Onil Chibas
66 SEEN Hillsides Foster Care and Elizabeth House
69 GALA
EXTRA
Pasadena women rise to the top
It’s elementary, dear amateur sleuths
Eye candy from the galaxy
Opening the gate to onceheavily guarded antiquities
58 PEERLESS
13 PLAY
34 THINK
38 DEAD SEA SCROLLS
DEPARTMENTS
10 16 24 26 34
Grab your wicker basket — it’s time for a gourmet picnic
BEST BETS
FEATURES
What to wear on a day trip or a casual date
Meet the finalists for the Women of Distinction awards
On the cover
O
Our spring cover shoot took place at the beautiful Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens in Arcadia, where we encountered plenty of preening peacocks in full plumage. On occasion, it seemed they were either trying to flirt with or upstage our very talented model Laura. Make-up artist Rose Lopez created the spring look you see here, and hair stylist Constance Whaley from Crowned Studio gave Laura romantic, goddess-like curls. And we were lucky enough to consult Pasadena fashion maven Elisa Bruley of Elisa B. The spring frocks you see in our fashion spread starting on Page 20 came from her hallowed shelves.
Crowned Studio 89 E. Green St. (626) 844-5042 crownedstudiosalon.com
Q: What’s your experience been in owning a salon/business in Pasadena? A: I love Old Pasadena and wanted to be here all along ... When the market dipped, I jumped and sold (my salon in San Marino) Starr House and moved my family and staff to our new location. ... I have loved serving the community that makes Old Pasadena a special place. Old Pasadena is becoming the Westside but with Eastside prices.
Pro tip
The big trend in hair now is PRETTY, says Auman. That means: soft color, loose curls and pretty haircuts. Auman is thrilled hair trends are moving away from harsh up-dos and freaky color and are going back to caramel blonds, soft reds and deep, rich brunettes.
Q: What can your clients expect when they visit Crowned Studio? A: ... We will never be called a factory or assembly line for hair. I wanted to do something different this time around and open a high-end, boutique salon. We know what we do best: We do hair and only hair. I don’t want to confuse the message with waxing or makeup.
ONLINE EXTRA See more photos from our cover shoot and from Crowned Studio at insidesocal.com/rose
> Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/RoseMagazine 6 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
PHOTOGRAPHY: Sarah Reingewirtz MAKEUP: Rose Lopez, roselopez.net HAIR: Constance Whaley, Crowned Studio FASHION: Elisa Bruley, Elisa B. TALENT: Laura Hughes
Q: How would you describe the team of stylists who make up your salon? A: I have handpicked the best people around, and they have been part of my beauty team for years. I am a colorist; That’s all I do, and I have a cutter, Christopher Duran, and that’s all he does. I have Christina Vega who is a master stylist; Her work is beautiful. I have Constance Whaley, who is a master stylist and deals with difficult hair textures. I have Aimee Voges, who is newer to the floor and her prices for her stunning work cannot be beat. I also have a few junior stylists who are great. The most important thing about my team is that we are a family — we have been through a lot with each other. The good and the bad, and it makes us stronger.
> Friend us on Facebook. Search “Rose Magazine” at facebook.com
> Visit our blog at insidesocal.com/rose and rosemag.com
PhoTOS BY SARAH REINGEWIRTZ
Q&A with Crowned Studio owner Andrea Auman
! " #$
!"# $ !$%&' ( ) * + * , -' . / + # $$& " 0
APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 7
NOTE
T
FROM THE EDITOR Pia Abelgas Orense
THERE WAS A TIME when the sight of a nun in a habit and veil would make me run in the opposite direction. I was taught to fear them (my high school was operated by very strict Catholic nuns) and for years my mind associated nuns with a repressive academic environment. Then the movie “Sister Act” came along. And I thought, those sisters are ... fun. A couple of months ago, public relations maven Jenine Baines introduced me to the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles. The Sisters were rehearsing for their very first public concert when I first met them at the Madonna Hall in Duarte. Sister Timothy Marie, a woman whose eyes gleam with mischief when she’s telling a story, greeted me with, “Are you scared of us? Because if you are, I can tell you a joke first.” And she did. I have found the merry nuns of “Sister Act,” except these real ones are better. They are funny, intelligent, caring and humble. They are extremely talented — their concert was amazing and I doubt there was a single heart that wasn’t touched that night. But, more importantly, they are happy. They have a lightness of being
Visit
that comes despite, or maybe because of, the sacrifices they made when they professed their vows. When I asked where this peace comes from, one of them used the refrain of their favorite song — words that came from the foundress of their community — to explain it: “Whatever earth contains cannot suffice the soul ... Knowing this, my heart now sings, I was born for greater things.” In this issue, we meet amazing women who were born for greater things. The Sisters describe life inside and outside the convent’s walls (page 52), and as you get to know them more, the more you will appreciate the strength of character their calling demands of them. Also, women in the military talk about living a double life, and the fine line they have to toe, because of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy (page 44). And in this issue, we introduce the finalists of our Women of Distinction awards (page 69). It is a truly distinguished group — 30 women who have dedicated their lives to helping others and building a better community. We, the Rose Magazine staff and our readers, are honored to give them the recognition they deserve. R
SocalGiftCards.com NEW STOCK, BIGGER SAVINGS! Choose from:
Gift cards available
SAVE UP TO
50% OFF! We will mail your items directly to you at no additional cost.
If you have any questions, or prefer ordering by phone, feel free to contact our customer service department Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. at 1 (877) 525-8185. 8 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
GO
A stitch in time
A group exhibition at the Armory Center for the Arts this spring will have you bobbin and weaving. Curated by Sinead Finnerty-Pyne, “Stitches” highlights 12 culturally diverse artists who approach craft, textile and fiber art in an unconventional manner. In a versatile — and sometimes obsessive — art form, the works use materials ranging from yarn and thread, to found objects and recycled clothing. Contemporary artworks approach the homespun techniques of sewing, knitting and weaving, including two-dimensional and freestanding sculptural works, along with large-scale installations. Runs through June 6. Caldwell Gallery at the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave. (626) 792-5101, armoryarts.org
The finer things in Fenyes’ life
A generous patron of the arts with discriminating taste in the finer things, Eva Fenyes was one of early Pasadena’s most prominent and influential residents. Get to know Mrs. Fenyes through a docent-led tour of the Pasadena Museum of History exhibition, “Pasadena Patron: The Life & Legacy of Eva Scott Fenyes,” followed by a taste of her lifestyle with a sumptuous tea at the nearby The Raymond Restaurant, 1250 S. Fair Oaks Ave. The Raymond was originally the caretaker’s cottage of the famed Raymond Hotel. Take the Pasadena Patron Tour and Tea at 12:15 p.m., third Friday of each month, through the exhibition’s end on Aug. 29. 12:15 p.m. April 16, Pasadena Museum of History, 470 W. Walnut St. Museum members, $4; non-members, $8. Tea, $25,
Furniture as art
In a showcase gathering more than 40 pieces from 10 museums and several private collections, The Huntington will host the first major exhibition of furniture and decorative art by American craftsman and designer Charles Rohlfs. Rich, ornate and pulling from the tone and customs of art nouveau, Asian, Moorish, English and German traditions, Rohlfs was a designer of “artistic furniture.” The inimitable artist preferred not to identify his work as part of any particular style, embracing instead an art-for-art’s sake sensibility. Rohlfs’ work, too, was influential in the developing hallmarks of the Arts and Crafts movement. The exhibit, including new scholarship based on Rohlfs family archives, is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Chipstone Foundation and the American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation. May 22Sept. 6, Boone Gallery, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. (626) 405-2100, huntington.org
10 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
PHOTOS COURTESY of the HUNTINGTON
payable at The Raymond Restaurant. Reservation required, (626) 577-1660, Ext. 15. pasadenahistory.org
• Customized Marketing • Stress Free Approach to Selling and Buying
The
s
s sssssssss
ss
ss
sss
ss
ss
sssssssss
Circle
sss
s
in San Marino, Pasadena and Surrounding Areas
President’s
ss
Most Recognized Team
s sTsI Os s sNsA N s sA s sR sLs s sTE
IsN
sssssssss
DIMITRIU
• Experienced in Probate and Trust Transactions
sss
MONTALVO
ss
Lil & Mercy
Specialized Senior Services
Residential Brokerage 2065 Huntington Drive San Marino, CA 91108 626.685.5235 626.685.5280 lilmercy2@aol.com Web Page: LilandMercy.com Lil Montalvo Lic #00854401 Mercy Dimitriu Lic #00923009
GO
If you’ve visited the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, you’ve probably also peeked through the veiled windows of the Queen Anne Cottage, and maybe fantasized about living among the grand, Victorian furnishings. The doors to the unmistakable red-and-white cottage are rarely opened to the public, but on Mother’s Day — May 9 — docent-led tours will be held throughout the day. Waltz Tea service takes right across the threshold and get an up-close look at the historic on an air of regal treasures that fill the spaces. Free with admission, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. May 9,
Tea time
tranquility at Descanso Gardens’ Japanese-style oasis. Beginning in April, private parties of six or more can enjoy this intimate tea service with Japanese savories, sushi and dessert, served up elegantly by Patina Catering. By reservation, (213) 842-2934, descansogardens.org
Arboretum, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. (626) 821-3222, arboretum.org
Architect of sunshine and shadow
BRIGHTEN BRIGHTEN
Architectural historian and writer Dana Hutt reconstructs the story of Lloyd Wright, eldest son of Frank Lloyd, who moved to Los Angeles before his father had even built his first structure in the city. The younger Wright designed buildings and landscapes in the vein of his father’s pioneering modern style, but the stamp of Southern California and its brash vitality was all his own. He would practice architecture in Los Angeles for the rest of his life, in a career that spanned six decades. Spectacular 1920s houses, orchestral shells for the Hollywood Bowl and the celebrated Wayfarers Chapel: Wright emphasized the theatrical, and yet his work is widely under-appreciated. Hutt touches on Wright’s efforts to fashion an architecture exclusive to Southern California, on his building materials and technologies and on his most significant works. 7:30 p.m.
May 1, Art Center College of Design, Ahmanson Auditorium, 1700 Lida St. May 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tour of Lloyd Wright homes, locations to be announced at gamblehouse.org. Members and students, $35; General admission, $45.
Try the latest addition to the LUXIVA® Brilliant-C System! With exclusive Bright+Complex.® Try the latest addition to the LUXIVA® Brilliant-C System!
With exclusive Bright+Complex.®
Olga West Merle Norman Cosmetics
Burlington Arcade 380 S. Lake Ave., Suite 107, Pasadena 626.449.4070
MERLENORMAN .COM
© 2010 Merle Norman Cosmetics, Inc. Merle Norman Cosmetic Studios have been independently owned and operated since 1931.
12 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
LUXIVA Brilliant-C System Ad Slick 07-4 S.A.U. system: 2 columns x 7" (4-1/4" x 7")
ustomizable area wner's contact
Queen (Anne Cottage) for a day
Streak show Grab a front-row seat at the venue of your choosing as the Earth passes through the dusty tail of comet Thatcher. The rendezvous of celestial beings causes the Lyrids meteor shower, often with bright trails that remain suspended in the sky for minutes at a time. Ideal meteor viewing takes place during the dark hours before dawn on April 22. In rural areas with little light pollution, a meteor should be spotted every few minutes. While this particular meteor shower typically produces 15 to 20 visible meteors per hour, unpredictable surges in the past have brought as many as 100 meteors streaking by in an hour. Will this be an extra-active year? Look to the sky to find out. No fancy equipment required for this astronomy demonstration: Only the naked eye is essential. 5 p.m. April 21 to 5 a.m. April 22
Was it Miss Scarlett, in the conservatory with the lead pipe? Did you sneak a ride on the Reading Railroad and get sent to jail? Oh, now you’re just SORRY! Get your game on at the monthly Pasadena boardgames meetup group, with players of all ages. The meet-up is held the third Saturday of every month, starting at 10 a.m., and games continue through the day. Bring your favorite games — new, old, obscure — but be prepared to teach them to others. Join the group online to see the meet-up location. boardgames.meetup.com/373/
TAKING WING AT KIDSPACE You’ve worked hard to be the best parent possible, and now it’s time to celebrate your little one’s metamorphosis. Kids and families who adopted caterpillars from Kidspace are invited to a graduation of sorts: The Grand Butterfly Release Ceremony on April 17. Friends and butterfly lovers of all varieties are also welcome to see these creatures off into the world. If your adopted caterpillar emerges as a beautiful winged thing between April 14 and April 17, bring it in its bungalow to the festival and be a part of the ceremony. If the emergence happens before or after those days, it’s important not to keep your butterfly in captivity, so design your own back-yard ceremony — and don’t forget to take photos for posterity. 2 p.m. April 17, Kidspace Children’s Museum, 480 N. Arroyo Blvd., Pasadena. kidspacemuseum.org,
PLAY
Get on board COME, WATSON! THE GAME IS AFOOT
Are you feeling a bit Sherlock or Watson lately? Do you fancy yourself an old-school gumshoe, but seem stuck to the spot? Get a new look at the world around you that’s way more exciting than the ole binoculars-and-a-neighbor’s-open-window combo. Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunts puts teams of six up against mind-stretching, bellybusting queries about objects and places you’ll discover. They’ll pair you up with likeminded sleuths at the start of each hunt, or you can bring enough people to round out the team. Upcoming hunts include The Murder at the Getty Museum (April 17), The Murder at the Natural History Museum (April 24), The Haunted Hollywood Scavenger Hunt (May 1) and The Wizard School Scavenger Hunt (May 8). Some scavenger hunts are adults-only, some are kid-friendly; Check the Web site for your dossier. Above all, don’t forget to bring a sharp mind and a good pair of shoes. watsonadventures.com
(626) 449-9144
A
B C
O M
N
D E F G
H
I
J
K L
M
N
O
Bonnie B’s Barbeque
626-794-0132 1280 N. Lake Avenue www.bonniebssmokin.com
The Carter Agency
1015 N. Lake Avenue 626-345-1413
Crown City News
1015 N. Lake Avenue 626-676-9403
JBA International
1192 N. Lake Avenue 626-844-1400
La Caravana Restaurant
1306 N. Lake Avenue 626-791-7378
Pasteleria Miriam’s
1274 N. Lake Avenue 626-797-4948
Property Owner
Joe Brumfield 1284 N. Lake Avenue 626-794-6650
Offices Available
Reasonable Rate/Great Location 596 N. Lake Avenue Contact Paul Jacoy 626-825-2621
Property Owner
Jack Setian 1415 N. Lake Avenue 626-794-3518
Starmakers Costumes & Parties
1380 N. Lake Avenue 626-797-6384 www.starmakerscostumes.com
Westlyn Realtors
1199 N. Lake Avenue 626-398-0055 Ext 1642
WYNK Marketing
732 N. Lake Avenue, Suite 103 626-376-4599 www.wynkmarketing.com
Melody
755 E. Washington Boulevard Tel 626-797-7800 www.melodycuisine.com
Casa De Rosas
Sara Villegas 1326 N. Lake Avenue 626-398-2018 www.casaderosas.com
Pasadena Journal
1541 N. Lake Avenue 626-798-3972 www.pasadenajournal.com
APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 13
Coldwell Banker Arcadia
Proudly Congratulates the 2009 International Diamond & Sterling Society Agents
Patricia Dmytrow
Phil Daniels
Marsha Fields
Sterling Society
Diamond Society
Dean Griffith
Sterling Society
Sterling Society
Arc 115
Over 1 area. 4 and sh large L sunroo great fo many p
Imy Du
Connie Hanson
Bill Lee
Diamond Society
Song Liem
Sterling Society
Diamond Society
Susan Pruett Miali Sterling Society
Arc 612
Marti Moore
Ash Rizk
Diamond Society
Ranchin pre approx kitchen floors, yard. G
Nicola Speranta
Diamond Society
Sterling Society
Connie
CUSTOM BUILT
ARCADIA $1,100,000 2211 Highland Oaks DrIVE
MONROVIA 220 N. MAY AVENUE
$499,000
PASADENA $399,000-$629,000 2424 OSWEGO STREET
PAS 500
Lovely 3BR, 3BA home with grassy lawn, sparkling pool and large parking area in back. Beautifully remodeled with 2 fireplaces and new countertops in kitchen. Large living room and dining room have views of mountains and landscaped lawn, patio and built-in BBQ.
This completely remodeled and upgraded north Monrovia home features 2BR, 1BA, great floor plan, large living room with coved ceiling, recessed lighting, fireplace and arched entry to formal dining room. Gourmet kitchen with granite counters, covered patio and spa area, gated wide driveway and RV parking in backyard.
7 brand new luxury custom-built condos with attached garage. Condos range from 2 to 3 bedrooms, open floor plan, bamboo flooring and skirting, crown molding throughout.
Design 1900, 2 charm hardwo moldin FDR, s pool an
Carolyn Papp
Lisa Ta
Peggy Fong Chen
Janie S
626-353-7443
626-590-5350
Coldwell Banker
626-208-7788
A r c a d ia R e g iona l O ffi c e
l
000
ce
Coldwell Banker Arcadia
RESIDENTIAL
Arcadia $3,398,000 1150 Singing Wood Drive
Arcadia 2131 louise avenue
$998,000
Arcadia 1328 OAKWOOD DRIVE
Over 1 acre estate in prestigious upper Rancho area. 4 suites, including huge master, Jacuzzi tub and shower, 2 spacious BRs with den upstairs, large LR with fireplace, FDR, 4 A/C units, very large sunroom, views to park-like backyard, pool, spa, great for entertaining! 3-car attached garage with many parking spaces.
Charming 4BR, 3BA. Meticulously maintained. Custom-designed kitchen with hand made cabinets, Caeserstone counter tops. 3 baths completely redone, wood floors throughout. 3-car attached garage. Completely renovated in 2009. Gorgeous backyard with pool! Prestigious Arcadia Schools! Hurry – Won’t Last!.
Highland Oaks area , this 3BR, 2BA ranch-style exudes charm and warmth. Large LR with hardwood floors and fireplace. Cozy kitchen with mountain views adjoins the FR with vaulted ceiling, 2nd fireplace. Private backyard, covered patio, lush landscaping ideal for entertaining. Award-winning Arcadia schools, transportation and shopping close by. www.1328oakwooddrive.com.
Imy Dulake
Ash Rizk
Amy Ellis
626-664-1280
626-574-2321
$998,000
626-278-5838
PENDING
Arcadia 612 SANTA MARIA ROAD
$829,000
Arcadia 5528 MARSHBURN AVENUE
$450,000
MONROVIA $1,050,000 273 N. MAGNOLIA AVENUE
Ranch-style pool home with cul-de-sac location in prestigious Gardens area offers 3BR, 2 BA, approx. 1,900SF and 9,060SF lot. Large eat-in kitchen and formal dining area, gleaming wood floors, fireplace in living room, beautiful back yard. Great condition!
You will feel pride of ownership with this traditional home featuring a bonus area in the garage. There are many amenities such as hardwood floors throughout, ample storage, covered patio plus a gated entrance to the rear yard and garage areas.
Stately Victorian in foothills of North Monrovia. Combination of 1888 charm restored and updated with 1990 remodel/addition. Spacious, 2-story with French doors, 3 gardens complete with fountains. Vaulted ceilings, custom moldings, FDR, gourmet kitchen and so much more! Call for your own private showing.
Connie Hanson
Lorraine Mairs
Susan Stone Rey
626-688-9120
626-589-8778
626-354-1306
PENDING
PASADENA 500 LOCKE HAVEN
$1,988,000
PASADENA 3573 E. VILLA STREET
$539,000
PASADENA 1328 FAY PLACE
$449,000
Designed by noted architect Joseph J. Blick in 1900, 2-story, 4BR, 3BA architectural treasure has charm and warmth of Craftsman period. Original hardwood floors and hardware, high ceilings, wide moldings, 2 fireplaces and natural light thruout. FDR, spacious kitchen, breakfast room, FR, den, pool and spa. www.500lockehaven.com.
Spanish-style bungalow in northeast Pasadena in lovely tree-lined neighborhood. Hardwood floors, LR with fireplace, large kitchen, French doors, backyard with deck, awning, nice landscaping. Central heat/air, auto. sprinklers, partical copper plumbing, ceiling and attic fans. Easy 210 freeway access, minutes to downtown Pasadena, colleges, restaurants, shopping, etc.
This Spanish revival with character and period style accents combined with quality upgrades make this a welcoming home ona private culde-sac street. Featuring Batchelder fireplace, hardwood floors, terra cotta tiles, 2BR, new bath, inviting garden sitting area and much more.
Janie Steckenrider
Patricia Dmytrow
Patrice Jacobs
626-254-1042
15 E . Foothill Boulevard 626 . 4 45. 550 0 c aliforniamoves.com
626-589-6519
Arc adia , C A 910 0 6
626-221-0213
SHOP
Store owners Marcia Ellinger of Marz, Camille Frances DePedrini of Camille DePedrini and Mimo Boghossian of Rue De Mimo all arrived at their present, inter-connected boutiques on Mission Street after starting out under the umbrella of Fair Oaks’ famed Sonnie’s.
ONLINE EXTRA See more Shop the Block photos at insidesocal.com/rose
MISSION ST.
Camille DePedrini
For special occasions, there is a haven for weary shoppers called Camille DePedrini, its owner the namesake. Camille has a message for the huddled masses: “Shopping should be enjoyed,” she proclaims. Her boutique is a beacon of hope, filled with natural light, playful garments and 1516 Mission St., sophisticated textures. A South Pasadena designer with a background in 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; wedding gowns, formal wear and millinery, Camille’s noon-5 p.m. Sun.; know-how translates into a sense of permeating calm. closed Monday (626) 441-7868 Camille encourages shoppers to bring in fashion pieces they already have, so she can mix, match and get the most mileage out of your new finds. Camille and her staff make the casual-to-dressy transition feel effortless. Find your signature.
16 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
PHOTOS BY KEITH BIRMINGHAM
1516
1514
MISSION ST.
Rue de Mimo
The Rue De Mimo way, as they say, is to love and to be loved — in great clothes. Mimo Boghossian and Paulette Ledyard have a spirited flair for fashion, blending urban styling with colors, shades and textures inspired by an international design sense. Here, you’ll find one-of-akind collections of clothing, accessories and shoes rooted in a cosmopolitan sensibility, and with a dash of bright whimsy. Rue de 1514 Mission St., Mimo’s hand-curated assemblages South Pasadena 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; — which manage to be both chic noon-5 p.m. Sun.; and full of winning personality —are closed Monday designed for the sophisticated belle. (626) 441-2690
SHOP the block MOUND AVE. MISSION ST.
1512 1514 1516
EDISON LANE
(NOT TO SCALE)
FAIR OAKS AVE.
CENTRAL ALLEY
1512
MISSION ST.
Marz
This boutique is your ace 1512 Mission St., in the hole for unique gifts. When South Pasadena a social engagement presents 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; itself, rest assured your gift for the noon-5 p.m. Sun.; hostess will surpass all the others; closed Monday (626) 799-4032 present it with a demure smile, and watch the compliments roll in. Owner Marcia Ellinger has a penchant for the uber-eclectic, and makes it her mission to stock novelties you won’t find anywhere else. Gorgeous stationery, fine beauty products, original playthings for the tots: The shelves overflow with possibilities. “That’s why people love coming here,” Ellinger says.
APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 17
SHOP
C
by Michelle J. Mills
Christine Silvestri was working in downtown Los Angeles and knew the area well. More importantly she knew how to shop there. The largely wholesale atmosphere of the Fashion District can be intimidating, but Silvestri wasn’t afraid to find the best bargains and barter. One of Silvestri’s friends noticed her shopping savvy, as well as the need for someone to help others conquer their wholesale fears, so she suggested that Silvestri start a shopping tour. In November 2003, Urban Shopping Adventures kicked off in downtown L.A.
“I love to shop. I am a bad example though, because I don’t buy that much; I prefer looking, which makes me well-suited to what I’m doing,” Silvestri says. “I like to show other people and see what they like.” The company blossomed and gained the notice of the Pasadena Convention Visitors Bureau, which invited Silvestri to bring tours to the town. The Old Pasadena and Colorado Boulevard & Paseo Colorado tours were launched in 2007. Participants meet at a pre-set location for a 2½ hour tour. Before
Rose Bowl Flea Market
Colorado Blvd. & Paseo Colorado
Old Pasadena
1.5 hours
2.5 hours
2.5 hours
Second Sunday of every month
10:30 a.m. Monday-Saturday
10:30 a.m. Monday-Saturday
Get an overview of the market with highlights of the best finds in each category and meet with veteran shoppers.
Discount to designer duds, gifts and jewelry in the area and its alleyways, including an antique mall.
Discover hidden corners of the city and trendy hot spots, including international finds in fashion, gifts and jewelry.
Express Preview Tour: 8:15 a.m., $28, includes market admission Regular Tour: 10 a.m., $23, includes market admission Reservations: (800) 307-7977, visitpasadena.com Same-day tickets available if space allows, $18-$20 plus admission ($8-$10). Purchase inside admission gate, near first red canopy.
18 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
$36 each tour, includes complimentary shopping bag, bottled water, snack bar, maps, discount book and more. Reservations: (800) 939-1293, urbanshoppingadventures.com
PHOTOS BY ERIC REED
Join Urban Shopping Adventures for a tour in Pasadena
Christine silvestri’s five best shopping seCrets 1. Keep an open mind, don’t exclude something you weren’t looking for, it might be the greatest find of the day. 2. If you’re on a budget, keep that in mind and don’t be afraid to ask for a better price. If you decide to haggle, be sure to treat the shopkeeper with respect, you get better results by being polite. 3. Shop locally when possible and try build a relationship with the stores, which can lead to better deals. You can also be advised of upcoming sales by placing your name on customer lists. 4. Take a friend who is willing to share their opinions about possible purchases (or ask your shopping guide). 5. Have fun.
heading out, they receive a complimentary shopping bag, bottled water, snack bar, maps, discount book and more. Silvestri gets a feel for her tourists’ tastes and styles, as well as their budgets and then leads them to many of the unique shops they might otherwise miss. Because of its setting, Pasadena offers an experience unlike many other cities. It is lush, with historical buildings and its side streets and alleys reveal boutiques that are not seen everywhere. “We find gift shops full of imports from Tibet or antique places; vintage clothing. It’s the unique mix of one-of-a-kind shops like nowhere else,” Silvestri says. Urban Shopping Adventures has recently launched two tours of
ONLINE EXTRA See more photos at insidesocal.com/rose
the Rose Bowl Flea Market. During 1½ hours every second Sunday of the month, you have an opportunity to receive an overview of the market, which includes the best finds in each shopping category, a chance to meet veteran shoppers and more. “The point is to de-mystify the Rose Bowl Flea Market because it averages 2,500 vendors and has five miles of shopping,” Silvestri says. Other tours Silvestri offers include the L.A. Fashion District, Melrose Heights, West Third Fashion Boutiques, Rodeo Drive & Robertson Blvd. and the L.A. Fashion District & Walt Disney Concert Hall, plus sample sales and vintage shopping. R
indows & Doors W Shop Local. Buy Factory Direct!!
Create Your Own Jewelry! Call us for a current workshop schedule!
Family Owned • We are the Factory • Very Competitive Pricing
$1500 Tax Credit
For window replacement Call for details
• Licensed Installation • 10 days from Order to Install • Top Grade Materials • Entry Door Specialist
Beads Books Gourds Tools Metals Friendly Service
VISTA
WINDOW MFG
Mon. - Fri. 9-5 pm • Sat. 10-3 pm
600 E. Fig Avenue, Monrovia, CA 91016
Call Now!
626-359-3600
Tues.-Thurs. 12-9pm • Fri. 12-6pm Sat. 10am-6pm • Sun. 12-5pm
For Online Discounts Visit:
www.vistawindowmfg.com
626.447.7753
Lic. #894762
www.beadcompany.com APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 19
S
SPRING THINGS
PHOTOGRAPHY SARAH REINGEWIRTZ FASHION ELISA BRULEY, ELISA B. HAIR CONSTANCE WHALEY, CROWNED STUDIO MAKEUP ROSE LOPEZ TALENT LAURA HUGHES LOCATION LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARBORETUM
D
DAY-TRIPPING
Belted eyelet sun dress in deep coral with turquoise accents
S
SPRING FEVER
Layered sheath dress in alabaster white with nude pumps
APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 21
F
FORMALLY ENCHANTED
Empire-waisted floorlength dress in fog gray with crystalline-drop bib necklace
Accessories by Nine West, Target, Ella Bella
2010 GTI
2010 JETTA
2010 CC
2010 TIGUAN
Come in today for details and qualifications.
Volkwagen Carefree Maintenance
No-charge scheduled maintenance. VW’s new Carefree Maintenance Program comes standard on all 2010 VW models and covers all scheduled maintenance for your new vehicle at no additional charge for the term of the new vehicle limited warranty (the first three years or 36,000 miles, whichever comes first.)
www.volkswagenpasadena.com 130 N. Sierra Madre Boulevard Pasadena
1-866-626-3402
EAT
Picnic in the springtime
Nicole’s Gourmet Foods 921 Meridian Ave., Unit B, South Pasadena nicolesgourmetfoods.com (626) 403-5751
Bring a touch of rustic elegance to your picnic with a menu that evokes images of the European countryside. Nicole Grandjean, owner of Nicole’s Gourmet Foods in South Pasadena, fills our picnic basket with classic Bordeaux wines, artisan cheeses and light gourmet dishes.
Château Le Barrail Médoc 2004 (Bordeaux blend made from cabernet sauvignon and merlot)
Arnaud Petites Nice Niçoise-style olives from Provence, France
Sant Gil d’Albio, goat’s milk cheese from Catalan, Spain
French baguette Château Cadillac 2006, red Bordeaux blend
Demedici Leggeri classic olive oil breadsticks Soureliette du Fedou, sheep’s milk cheese from French Pyrenees
Sweet stuff Lemon tart, crème brulée, flourless chocolate cake. Fresh Atlantic Poached Salmon Atlantic poached salmon, served chilled, topped with homemade lemon mayonnaise. Comes with potato and cucumber salad.
24 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
Shrimp Brochette with Curried Mayonnaise Grilled shrimp, served on a bed of greens, topped with curry mayonnaise.
Photos by Walt Mancini
Parmesan and pecorino crostini
CHARLIE’S TRIO
Your Neighborhood Italian Restaurant
Celebrating 40 Years of Serving the San Gabriel Valley. 47 W. Main Street Alhambra, Ca (626) 284-4943 CHARLIESTRIOCAFE.COM
5769 N. HUNTINGTON DRive Nearest Cross Street, Alhambra Road (323) 223-3871 CHARLIESTRIO.COM
Craft Beer and New American Grill
100 W. Main Street Alhambra, CA 91801 t. 626.282.2038 38DegreesAlhambra.com Come for Happy Hour – Stay for Dinner Happy Hour Monday - Friday 3-7pm APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 25
‘
Saké is a beverage that is prevalent in every aspect of Japanese culture, for births, marriages, death. Koji Wong, owner, Japon Bistro and Sake Only Store
Drink like a samurai
If you want to really enjoy saké in a traditional way, try it samurai-style: Drink it with a flatter bottom (glass), so the saké hits the middle of the tongue. This enhances the flavor, says Kenji Tateishi, sales manager of Japan Prestige Sake. Nigori saké is called the samurai saké because the unfiltered kind was all that was readily available to the samurais. They would use it to rub their wounds to make them heal faster.
Saké basics
The process of making saké can take up to a month or more. As with wine, the region and diversity of the elements can change the flavor. Water, rice, koji, brewers and the environment are the five key elements that determine the variety and quality of saké. Saké starts with brown rice, which is then polished.
Small changes in the process, or adding other elements to these three basics, create different varieties.
japonbistro-pasadena.com sakeonlystore.com
XX | ROSE | MARCH 2010
PhotoS by Sarah Reingewirtz
There are three basic saké type - junmai, ginjo and daiginjo. Junmai, considered the lowest quality, is made with rice that is polished until about 70 percent of the rice grain remains. This is the only saké that is suggested to be served warm or at room temperature to give it a different flavor. It is warmed in a tokuri — a clay pot — almost like a tea pot. Ginjo is considered a middle quality variety that has more body that most saké drinkers prefer. It is made with rice that is polished until about 60 percent of the grain is left. Daiginjo is a more refined saké, the rice grain is polished to about 50 percent. It is much smoother than other sakés but typically does not have much natural flavor.
SAMPLING
Saké
N
by Claudia S. Palma
Not quite wine or beer, saké is in a world all its own. The Japanese tradition of creating and drinking saké began many centuries ago but many diners have yet to have a proper experience with this unique drink. “About a year ago, I realized there was a huge void of good saké for American palettes,” says Clarence “Koji” Wong, owner of Japon Bistro restaurant and Saké Only Store in Pasadena. Wong launched the Saké Institute of America last summer with partner Wendy Fujihara Anderson. Through the institute, they began offering classes, lectures on history, tastings, pairings and more to anyone willing to learn about saké, including those in the restaurant industry. “Saké is meant to be enjoyed with food,” says Wong, who proudly claims that the restaurant does not serve saké-bombs (a drink where a shot of saké is dropped into a glass of beer) like more trendy Japanese restaurants. “You drink saké not to get drunk, but to taste and have more interest in what you’re drinking.”
saké is traditionally served chilled, according to Wong. The only time it is served warm in Japan is during winter, and only the junmai variety can be warmed or served at room temperature. The Shirataki brand Jozen is an example of this variety. Japon Bistro’s most popular saké is the Narutotai brand, a ginjo, which has more body and a stronger taste. Another favorite at the restaurant is a namasaké and genshu blend, which is not diluted with water like all sakés but is also not seasonal. “We call it Rocket Fuel because of it’s packaging (a fuel-bottle shape) and as a tribute to JPL,” Wong says. There are also saké varieties that can serve as apéritifs or dessert, such as the Satsuma Godai, which has the slightly sweet Umeshu or plum liqueur. For the bolder palettes, there is aged saké, which can last for a few years. In spring, there are fruity and floral sakés, the summer has lighter varieties, while winter usually brings about more dry saké — all to complement the food typically served in that season.
Sparkling saké
Trade in the old champagne toast with a sparkling saké one. This special variety is naturally fermented to have bubbles and has less alcoholic content than most champagne or regular saké. Regular saké has about 14 percent alcohol, while sparkling saké has about 6 to 7 percent alcohol content. “The very top of the vat of saké (that is being fermented) creates a natural carbonation and that’s where the sparkling saké comes from,” Wong says. Sample the Star Rabbit, which has a blueberry flavor, and the Moon Rabbit, which has a slight cloudiness and lighter flavor, both by the Bonzai Beverage Co.
the shochu kind: For those looking for a cocktail, Wong suggests the iichiko brand of shochu, known as the
Japanese vodka. Shochu is a distilled spirit (sake is brewed) and can be served with rock, sugar, straight, on the rocks or with club soda. Wong says it is usually used to make saketinis or other cocktails. "It is also a clean alcohol, highly filtered, which means no hangover the next next day," he says.
EAT
Kitchen symphony 28 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
PhotoS by Sarah Reingewirtz
Q&A: Chef Onil Chibas Owner, Elements Kitchen, CafĂŠ and Catering
O
Onil Chibas is happy he took a few detours that eventually led him to where he is now. At 43, the Pasadena resident, who once played in an orchestra and dabbled in Disney animation, has launched a catering business and opened up a cafe and a new restaurant within the past five years. “I feel very blessed in that I have a restaurant and a lot of people who have supported me,” Chibas says. With a music degree from Boston and production of an award-winning short film, about food, of course, under his belt, Chibas felt it only logical to go into cooking and business. Not long after graduating from the California School of Culinary Arts and a brief stint at Patina restaurant in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Chibas launched Elements catering. With the help of his staff and Executive Chef Alberto Morales, with whom he went to culinary school, Chibas hopes to take diners to a variety of new culinary experiences. by CLAUDIA S. PALMA
ROSE: Have you always liked to cook? When did you start? Chibas: Ever since I was little, about 4 or 5 years old, I loved watching “Galloping Gourmet” and Julia Child. I always loved food and creating something. I love entertaining. Even in high school I would make cinnamon rolls for friends. R: Why did you major in music in Boston? Chibas: I took piano lessons as a kid, I played the viola, bassoon .... I played in a youth orchestra. Then I went to school for music and management and started in hotel management. I worked at a hotel for four to six years doing a lot of different things there and I always watched the chefs in the hotel. I still had a passion for food then. Then I worked at Biba restaurant in 1989 and I learned a lot from working there. I still use their menu as inspiration. They had gutsy, amazing food. R: How did you go from music to film school? Chibas: In the Chibas brain, you never know why. I never want to regret not trying something. I had a non-performance degree in music but I knew I didn’t want to teach music, I didn’t want to be a musicologist. I even thought about law school but did horrible in the admissions test. I then decided I wanted to learn filmmaking. I thought, “It’s not rocket science.” I (moved to Los Angeles), went to film school and within a year I was working at Disney, where I was at for six years. I started as a production assistant. I developed a lot of management and common skills there. After about 12 years in animation, I made a food-related movie. I loved the idea of being creative. R: When did you know you wanted to have your own business in food? Chibas: I needed to find what I love to do. I thought “Who do I want to be like?” I thought I could be like Martha Stewart. I admired how she took being a housewife into an art. I wanted to prepare myself to be like her so I went to culinary school. There, we learned about the business part and we had to build a business plan as part of our studies. I built a business plan
to start a catering company, then a cafe, then a fine dining establishment and I did just that. R: Cooking, music, filmmaking — what do they all have in common for you? Chibas: A creative refrain was always in my mind. I liked working in teams, even in music, I preferred working in an ensemble. I couldn’t imagine not being in a group. I like being a conglomerate, from a synergistic and business standpoint. There’s endless amounts to learn about business in food. It’s fun to be in a business where all we do is create and have fun. R: Are you more passionate about cooking than music or filmmaking, or just better at it? Chibas: I have a lot of passion for music, that is still important to me. Cooking allows me to have a business and I like business. I like entertaining. When the restaurant opens up at 5 (p.m.) and the first customer comes in, I’m excited. I feel this is a performance every day, that’s why I felt it was important to have an open kitchen. I’m better at building a team, I’m a good APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 29
have an open kitchen. I’m better at building a team, I’m a good team leader. I don’t want my staff to just be efficient but also be inspired. I want all my staff to enjoy their job here. I’m nothing without my team. They have a say in a lot. Wednesdays we do sketches, where I basically pick an ingredient and ask them to find different ways to use that ingredient. Elements Cafe 107 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena (626) 440-0100 Elements Kitchen 37 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena (626) 440-0044 Elements Catering 25 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena (626) 440-0001
R: What’s the difference between dining in the East Coast vs. the West Coast? Chibas: East Coast diners can be a little snobby. I do think that even in Pasadena, we’re going to have to kick it up a notch. We need to have chefs who are really involved. There’s potential. There needs to be a real chef’s presence. It takes being bold enough to get diners to come to Pasadena instead of Los Angeles. There’s a lot of restaurants in Pasadena, but they are mostly chains.
elementskitchen.com
R: Are chefs born or made? Chibas: I think they are made. I think you have to have a real good palette, and you can develop that palette. You have to be fearless, just go in and say “I’m gonna try this” and if it doesn’t work, you start over again.
R: What’s your favorite dish to cook? as like F OChibas: OD W I N EI don’t S H O P P have ING JA Z Z much R E PA R Ttime EE Fas O O DI would WINE S H O P Pto I N Gbe J in A Z Z theR E PA R T E E
kitchen. I love to cook pork, it’s so versatile. I like making quick things. You can make a nice curry, a chutney, that’s quick. I usually pour a glass of wine, put on some music, and look at what I have (in the kitchen) and make something. R: What is your favorite restaurant and/or cuisine? Chibas: My favorite restaurant is Hatfield’s (in Los Angeles), and Palette in Glendale has very much that chef’s vision in everything (from menu to decor). Then I like places like Roscoe’s (Chicken and Waffles). I love Asian food, Indian.... I like a lot of big flavors and a balance. R: What influences or inspires the dishes you serve? Chibas: Dining out is a big influence, reading old cookbooks and magazines. Even a dish (plate) can be an influence. We think of what we can put in a certain plate, how to plate a certain dish. The seasonality, what produce is in season is inspiring, even childhood things. Alberto and I love talking about food. I’ll say, “Wouldn’t it be great to make a portobello burger.” Then he’ll say, “What if we do this with it?” And then it’s like playing tennis, we keep going back and forth. Because my parents are Cuban, whenever I get stuck while cooking, I look to who (chef Morales and I) are, he is Bolivian, then we incorporate those kinds of flavors. R: What does “elements” mean to you? Chibas: We like to look at ingredients as elements, it’s not that aI Nfusion we look and F we’re OOD W E S H O Pfood, PING J A Z Z just R E PA R T E E at F Oingredients OD WINE SH O P P I Nsee G Jhow AZZ R E PA R T E E
Friday, April 23, 2010 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Benefitting Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley’s Health Education Programs
Buy tickets now at pppsgv.org or 626.794.5737 ext. 102 styleuncorked@pppsgv.org Find us on Facebook
Distinctive wine tasting Cakebread, Casa Lapastolle, Chalk Hill, Deep Sea, Gloria Ferrer, Lincourt Vineyards, Robert Stemmler, Sonoma Cutrer, Transat Bordeaux Imports…
GENEROUS PARTNERS
Tantalizing fare 1810 Argentinean Restaurant, Choctál, El Portál, Elements Kitchen, Gale’s Restaurant, Green Street Restaurant, The Kitchen for Exploring Foods, redwhite+bluezz, The Spot, Susan the Baker… Sublime shopping, a silent auction offering cellar-worthy wine selections, large formats, and limited releases. Opportunity drawings and top-notch jazz music! ©2010 Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley | Creative: Pfeiffer Design
30 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
STYLE UNCORKED Ad ROSE 04-10 C.indd 1
3/12/10 1:25:45 PM
Experience does make a difference! One of a Kind Old World Victorian... 1424Royal Oaks Drive Duarte Completely renovated, 2 story on a 20,000 sq. ft. lot. 22 avocado trees, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths and master suite downstairs. Formal dining room, living room, fireplace and hardwood floors. Kitchen features breakfast bar, granite counters and stainless steel appliances. Office, basement for laundry and storage. Upstairs features 2 bedrooms, one with large deck with views of the valley. 2 car with storage over garage and separate studio behind garage. This home has lush gardens in the front and back yards, paved driveway, separate side yard with above ground pool. www.1424Royaloaks.com
Offered at
$949,900
Pam Del Rey Broker
ART DEL REY REALTY, INC.
626.358.4560 626.841.2387 333 E. Foothill Boulevard Arcadia pameladelrey@adelphia.net artdelreyrealtyinc.com DRE #00864033
SRES
速
Seniors Real Estate Specialist
6007 N. Walnut Grove San Gabriel
ART DEL REY REALTY, INC.
Delightful Spanish in North San Gabriel, featuring 2 bedrooms, 1.25 baths, living room with fireplace and hardwood floors, formal dining room, new interior and exterior paint, central air/heat, Large lot: 7593 sq ft, 2 car detached garage plus bonus room behind garage. www.6007NWalnutGrove.com
Offered at
$498,000
SINCE 1963
we can exploit them (laughs) and use them in different ways. Some people call it New American cuisine. Southern California has a large Mexican population but there’s also a lot of Asian influences and Indian influences, so New American is a real melting pot. We mix different things and we always try to make it make sense. R: Why did you choose Pasadena for the restaurant? Chibas: When we started the catering, we were working out of (my business partner’s loft in downtown), then we thought we needed to look for a place, we found the spot in Old Pasadena. I didn’t think I would have two restaurants. I wanted to be really good, if I was going to start the restaurant. I’m not competitive with other chefs or restaurants, I’m competitive with myself. I was thrilled to open (the restaurant) in Pasadena (in 2009), people knew us here so it worked out. It’s great that the cafe and restaurant are a mile away from each other. R: What do you hope diners will get from eating at the restaurant? Chibas: Good service. It needs to be natural, attentive and warm. I hope that they always feel like they were coming to my home and having dinner. To feel welcome and feel warm — one of my investors told me that — and that’s why we thought of colors that accomplish that. It’s comfy, homey. R: Do you have other hobbies or passions? Chibas: There’s not much time for new hobbies. I would like to read more. I like going to the movies, maybe having a nice dinner
out. Right now, I’m pretty focused on the business. R: What’s the next step for you and the restaurant? Chibas: I want to see the business grow and see what it becomes. I feel great that we opened (Elements Kitchen) but now I have to start thinking about the business part and making money. I call it stabilizing. Just continuing to refine and refine. It’s like dancing, at first, you start counting, ‘1, 2, 3, 4...’ Eventually you want to dance without having to count. We want to start having a cocktail hour (the restaurant just acquired a full liquor license) with specialty cocktails and special appetizers. We are talking to mixologists. We want to keep the bar (adjacent to Elements Kitchen) open until 2 a.m. R
Developing People to Lead People & Projects Pam Wiedenbeck Member Tournament of Roses www.plansmadeperfect.com
info@plansmadeperfect.com
Congratulations to all the Outstanding Women of Distinction Nominated in Pasadena
Voted Pasadena’s Best Med Spa Look and feel your “Best” with Liza Papadopoulos, RN and Certified Advanced Injector/Laser Specialist at
Offering advanced cosmetic and aesthetic services that enhance a person’s appearance.
Liza Papadopoulous RN
Certified Advanced injector/Laser Specialist START YOUR JOURNEY AT EQUINOX.COM
130 North Brand Boulevard, Glendale 91203 • 818-551-1682 www.oubeauty.com 32 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
Assisted Living
Uncompromised Affordable Care 925 East Villa Street, Pasadena, CA 91106 Phone: 626.796.4303 Fax: 626.796.0720 www.regencypk.com
THINK
Her immortal lineage “Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot By Crown Publishing In stores now Because of Henrietta Lacks, we have a polio vaccine and drugs for treating leukemia, influenza, hemophilia and Parkinson’s disease. She helped uncover the secrets of cancer and the effects of the atom bomb, and led to advances in cloning, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping. But she never knew it, as Rebecca Skloot documents in her book “Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” When Lacks developed what she described as a “knot in her womb,” she turned to the public wards of Johns Hopkins Hospital for help. Lacks died within months of her diagnosis — aggressive cervical cancer — but not before a doctor took a sample of both the cancerous and noncancerous part of her cervix without bothering to ask. These cells — unlike any others before that — seemed to be immortal and they grew like crabgrass in a test tube. Today you can log on to the website of the American Type Culture Collection and order a part of her cell line for $256. Some estimate that as many as 50 million metric tons have been used for biotesting. Lacks would never know how the aggressive cancer that killed her lived on in medical testing that would lead to drugs, cures and Nobel prizes. And her family wouldn’t know until 25 years after the fact when researchers were curious about the genetic line that had lived on in perpetuity. Author reading, book signing: 7 p.m. April 30, Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, (626) 449-5320. Vromansbookstore.com
Five’s a crowd “The Lonely Polygamist” by Brady Udall W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. In stores in May Golden Richards could use a break. His construction business is struggling, forcing him to take jobs farther away. And when he does manage to make the 200-mile trek back home, he must face his four wives and 28 unruly children. Encumbered by the pressure to provide for his family, the loss of a daughter and stillbirth of a son, Golden engages in an affair that threatens everything. In “The Lonely Polygamist,” author Brady Udall tells the bittersweet story of an American family — with all its dysfunction, heartbreak and comedy — pushed to the limits. Book signing: 7 p.m. May 11, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. (310) 659-3110
34 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
Open house
WISE-eyed
We promise you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to enjoy the spring day that Jet Propulsion Laboratory opens its campus to the public once a year. Check out the mission control room for the Deep Space Network or appreciate all the demonstrations of cool new toys, er, robots that can roll, crawl and climb. JPL’s annual open house, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., May 15-16, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, (818) 354-0112, Jpl.nasa.gov
Sometimes a cigar galaxy isn’t just a cigar galaxy. In the visible spectrum, the galaxy Messier 82 is a slim bar of white light against the dark night sky. It has tapered ends like a cigar that gives the galaxy its nickname, but maybe the nickname Exploding Cigar would be more appropriate. The infrared spectrum shows a different picture: red plumes of dust billow like a starburst from the cigar’s center. The Spitzer space telescope captured those plumes in 2006 in its scan of the Milky Way, but the Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer launched in December has been mapping the entire sky through the lens of its infrared telescope. In February, WISE released its first batch of delicious eye candy to the public. In the infrared, the spirals of our galactic neighbor Andromeda glow like the coils of an electric stove turned on high. WISE project scientist Peter Eisenhardt will discuss the scientific payoff of being able to see the cool, dusty regions of the universe. “Mapping the Infrared Sky with WISE,” April 15, 16. Lectures are at 7 p.m. The first night is in the von Kármán Auditorium at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, and the second night is at The Vosloh Forum at Pasadena City College, 1570 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures
On the Road Along the Tokaido Road, the famous route that links Kyoto to Edo, there are 53 stations. The mid-19th century artist Utagawa Hiroshige created a woodblock print for each station, which will be on display at the Norton Simon exhibit “Hiroshige: Visions of Japan.” Hiroshige was working in the tradition of Katsushika Hokusai, who introduced the landscape print like his famous “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa.” Shortly before he died in 1858, he created his version of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” the name of a series by Hokusai. These, as well as bird and flower prints popular in “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo,” will be on display. June 4-Jan. 17, The Norton Simon Museum, 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. (626) 449-6840, Nortonsimon.org
SM
Generations of Trust for Generations to Come.®
R E A L E S TAT E
SENIOR SERVICES DIVISION Seniors -
Hire A Specialist
Maggie Agler Pasadena 626-431-2247
SYLVIA BARTLETT Arcadia 626-437-6403
MELSYNE BROWN Arcadia 626-652-2338
MEG MIDDLEMAN South Pasadena 626-441-3449
JILL NELSON Arcadia 626-622-6702
RITA PADILLA Arcadia 626-462-2460
JOHN POER Pasadena 626-818-3452
MIKKI PORRETTA Arcadia 626-462-2416
STEVEN PURVES Arcadia 626-437-0670
EVELYN & JIM REICHGELT Glendale 818-259-8331
MARY MARGARET ROLF Arcadia 626-233-1078
BILL TEMA Pasadena 626-431-2273
ANN-MARIE VILLICANA Pasadena 626-319-0585
Kim Villalobos Burbank/Glendale/SF Valley 818-694-1090
KATHY WALES Calabasas 818-231-9872
SHELLEY WINGATE Pasadena 626-431-2288
If the thought of moving, finding new accommodations, downsizing personal possessions and arranging the move seem overwhelming - hire a specialist. The agents in Dilbeck’s Senior Services Division all have a Senior Real Estate Specialist Designation and are trained to recognize special needs, provide solutions and understand the various living arrangements available to seniors. They will help you get started and make your entire transition as easy as possible. Call an agent in anyone of Dilbeck’s offices close to you. The consultation is free, no obligation.
Specializing in Seniors Buying or Selling Real Estate
okstore)
THINK
by KATE KEALEY
Abraham Lincoln as a vampire hunter? Seth Grahame-Smith’s latest novel tops the list of new books suggested by Vroman’s book buyers Marie Du Vaure and Sherri Gallentine
“Girl in Translation” by Jean Kwok Riverhead Books In stores April 30 Adolescence is often a tough time of transition. It’s the period of development when children lose their innocence while striving to be understood. But that process can be made even more difficult when the child is an immigrant. For 11-year-old Kimberly Chang — the heroine in Jean Kwok’s debut novel, “Girl in Translation,” — that change takes root in Brooklyn. After emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong, Kimberly, an intelligent girl with a talent for school, feels pressure to set the course for her family’s future. And so she begins to lead a double-life: attending an exclusive school during the day and helping her mother in a Chinatown sweatshop by night. Pushed by her ambition, Kimberly must make tough choices all while learning to interpret the two cultures she finds herself caught between.
“Take Good Care of the Garden & the Dogs” by Heather Lende Algonquin Books In stores May 18
“Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter” by Seth Grahame-Smith Hachette Book Group In stores now
Heather Lende’s position as a local obituary columnist gives her a unique perspective on the meaning of life. And in the tiny town of Haines, Alaska — with its bleak, vast landscape and eccentric population — what better place to ponder life’s big questions? In her first nonfiction work, “If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska,” Lende introduced the reader to the quirky characters that have lived and died in the tiny hamlet. Shortly after its publication, Lende was struck by a truck in a near-fatal accident. In her latest book, “Take Good Care of the Garden & the Dogs,” the examination of matters both spiritual and earthly become more personal for Lende as she recovers and learns to move past the setback.
Abraham Lincoln has been celebrated for freeing millions of slaves and saving the Union, but his efforts to defeat the undead have been largely overlooked — until now. In “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter,” author Seth GrahameSmith (“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”) recounts the fictional tale of how he stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, which details the axwielding exploits of our nation’s 16th president. After learning his mother’s death was the work of a vampire, a young Lincoln vows revenge. Grahame-Smith uses the journals to tell the story of the man who navigated the country through the Civil War as he waged his own war on legions of bloodsucking immortals. Honest. Don’t miss the historical mockumentary for the book: hachettebookgroup.com
“Imperfect Birds” by Anne Lamott Penguin In stores now In her latest novel, “Imperfect Birds,” bestselling author Anne Lamott checks back in with Rosie and Elizabeth Ferguson, characters from “Rosie” and “Crooked Little Heart.” Recovering alcoholic Elizabeth, her workaholic husband James and daughter Rosie have settled into their new home in Landsdale. Rosie, now 17, is a smart student and former state-ranked tennis doubles champion finishing up her junior year in high school. But as the summer nears, clues emerge that indicate Rosie may not be the model child her family thinks she is, and Elizabeth fears her daughter may be straying into the same dark path she did. As the lies accumulate, Elizabeth and James must confront Rosie’s deception and the consequences that come from her choices. Book signing: 7 p.m. April 14, hosted by Vroman’s Bookstore, at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium, 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, (626) 449-5320 (Vroman’s)
36 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
Comedy saves author’s life by Richard Irwin
Growing up in a Chicago family torn by domestic violence and alcoholism, Barbara Corry relied on comedians to fill her turbulent young life with laughter. “I loved all the famous comedians on early television, like Ernie Kovacs and Red Skeleton. They were exploring the new medium of television and made me laugh instead of wanting to cry,” she says. She has held comedians close to her heart ever since. Corry, who has a master’s degree in sociology, has worked off-stage at The Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena since 1993. While working on a doctoral thesis, she interviewed more than 100 comedians and eventually wrote about them in a book, “The Ultimate Green Room: 100 Stand-up Comics Talk about Learning Their Craft.” “... They really want the public to know how hard they work. They may make it look easy, but it’s taken them years to perfect their stand-up acts,” she says. In “The Ultimate Green Room,” veteran comedians offer sage advice learned the hard way. “Someone might have a great sense of humor, but it takes a lot of training and hard work to make it in this business,” Corry says.
Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz
ore orium,
Booking agent
W
by EVELYN BARGE
When it’s thrown into relief, the surface of a Dead Sea Scrolls fragment could be a view from the pocked surface of Mars, or maybe a lunar landscape — somewhere with channels, troughs and peaks that spread out in no predictable arrangement.
38 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
UNLOCKING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
BIBLICAL TREASURES An exhibition of Dead Sea Scrolls fragments at Azusa Pacific University will also include other biblical antiquities from the university’s special collections and from outside institutions.
As a small, private university in Azusa joins a local legacy of antiquities scholarship, the once-fortified gate of access to the scrolls is being pushed open by Southern California researchers and scientists. From his chair in a conference room at Azusa Pacific University, Bruce Zuckerman is bringing light to this tiny universe, controlling its intensity and angle with the shift of his index finger across a laptop keypad. Zuckerman is the director of the West Semitic Research Project at USC, and he’s brought to Azusa some of the advanced digital images the group has captured of the university’s recently acquired Dead Sea Scrolls fragments. Zuckerman and his team at USC have spent several decades walking the line between artistry and method, discerning what is actually the form of a letter in 2,000-year-old ink, amid shadows and tears and blackening vellum. “In the past, we were lucky if we could see any letters at all,” Zuckerman says. Now, as technology advances and more underground fragments find their way into the public domain, scholars in Southern California and abroad are standing on the precipice of unprecedented access to Dead Sea Scrolls content.
APU, which last summer purchased its five fragments out of private hands, is poised to inherit a legacy forged by local institutions that have played a role in broadening the path of scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. The school is now tasked with enlisting scholars and experts to study, publish and preserve the content of its fragments. Two of the fragments contain passages from Deuteronomy, one fragment is identified as from Leviticus, and another as the book of Daniel. The fifth < A fragment of fragment, previously the book of Daniel, thought to be from photographed and Exodus, remains specularly enhanced using Hewlett-Packardunidentified. It developed technology contains the fewest called polynomial number of visible texture mapping. characters. Courtesy of the West Semitic Research Project The pieces are at USC believed to have
originated from Cave Four in Qumran, the ancient settlement in Israel where the Dead Sea Scrolls were unearthed between 1947 and 1956. Stored in 11 caves near the Dead Sea, the ancient Qumran library — including the oldest known surviving version of biblical manuscripts, along with important secular texts — is considered among the most important archaeological finds of the 20th century. Today, most of the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed in Jerusalem; A few are on public display at the Shrine of the Book, a wing of the Israel Museum, and the rest reside in a preservation vault on the museum’s campus. An unknown remainder of scroll fragments, like those acquired by APU, are still held by private owners and are mostly inaccessible to scholars. “What’s really interesting is, in the last few years, these additional Dead Sea Scroll fragments have been coming to light,” says Marilyn Lundberg, associate director of
Gutenberg Bible leaf 1455
Tyndale New Testament 1552
Rheims New Testament Leaf 1582
Doves Bible 1903-1905
the WSRP and adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. “It’s important and a good thing these are being preserved and made available to the public after being hidden away ... for many years.” The door to scholarly access on the Dead Sea Scrolls was first kicked open in 1991 by William A. Moffett, then director of the Huntington Library in San Marino. Before then, an exclusive team of international editors — by some accounts, a coterie or, worse, a cartel — controlled access to the scroll fragments and images of them. It was very nearly a coincidence that the role of Dead Sea Scrolls emancipator fell to Moffett, and another local institution was the unwitting vessel for his landmark decision. At the Claremont School of Theology, philanthropist Elizabeth Bechtel in 1980 founded the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center. As financier, she partnered with the Huntington’s head photographer, Robert Schlosser, to produce 3,000 images of the original scroll fragments in Jerusalem. But after a falling out with ABMC leadership, Bechtel took her money — and her master set of photographs — to the Huntington, where a special, air-conditioned vault was constructed to hold the images. When Bechtel died in 1987, the photographs stored in San Marino were widely unknown to scholars, and had become the property of the library, Moffett told the New York Times in 1991. He announced that year in September that the Huntington would make the scroll images immediately available to all scholars, and in doing so touched off a frenzy of praise and controversy. “In a way, it was partly an accident that we ended up involved at all,” says Stephen Tabor, curator of early printed books at the Huntington. Tabor was, in 1991, working on contract for the Huntington, charged with a cataloguing project of English books. He recalls noticing in the photography archive a door labelled as the Bechtel vault; Tabor didn’t know it, but within the temperature-controlled repository lay the master set of microfilm negatives, the most extensive Dead Sea Scrolls resource outside the hands of official scroll editors. “... People look at the Huntington as a stable repository in the area,” Tabor says. “So it was not by virtue at all of having any specialty in the field ... and we simply became a place to park the archival negatives.” Moffett’s role in shattering the 40-year-long bottleneck on Dead Sea Scrolls access stimulated an explosion in research, and helped dispel mounting suspicion that the texts were being suppressed by Jewish or Christian leaders because of controversial content. “It was a very exciting time period,” says James H. Charlesworth, a leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar with Princeton Theological Seminary. He remembers being first in the proverbial line to receive copies of the photos. “It begins now the open era that all the material is available to everyone.”
OUT OF DARKNESS
40 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
A high-resolution photo of APU’s Deuteronomy 27 fragment, photographed in visible light. To the naked eye, the fragment appears similar to this image. Courtesy of Azusa Pacific University
In Azusa, five previously underground fragments have been returned to scholarly light. The university plans to open research on its holdings to scholars of any background or faith. What can researchers hope to glean from APU’s five small fragments — each roughly the surface area of a silver dollar — one of which is thus far indecipherable? Scholars do not expect to find serious theological implications within the text, but already they are unraveling some important linguistic details recorded on the shards. “The more letters and whole words you can get, you start being able to put them into a literary context,” Tabor says. “The most exciting stuff is when you find a text that has a different wording from the known manuscripts.” Indeed, they have. A fragment of Deuteronomy 27, photographs of which were earlier released to researchers by APU, is generating scholarly debate about the location where an altar was to be built in ancient Israel. The university’s fragment denotes Mount Gerizim as the location, Charlesworth says, while modern Bibles indicate Mount Ebal. If the fragment is indeed an original copy of Deuteronomy, the revelation has the potential to change the understanding — and possibly even the wording — of the modern Bible, Charlesworth says. “Even though these are little bits, they do provide some very significant information on the history of the biblical texts,” says Robert Duke, assistant professor of biblical studies at APU. “Future editions — critical editions — of the Hebrew (scriptures) will have to take into consideration what our fragments preserve.” On the fragment from the book of Daniel, Charlesworth notes an additional word in a reference to the “holy God.” “In all our (known) texts of Daniel, it’s ‘God,’” he says. “... So we have to ask: Did ‘holy’ fall out, or did some scribe add it” to this version? “The text we have here in Azusa is one of the earliest copies of Daniel in the world,” Charlesworth notes. “It’s basically written
An infrared photograph of the Deuteronomy fragment reveals lines of text that were before difficult to read. Further into the infrared spectrum, the age-darkened parchment appears light, while the letters remain dark. Courtesy of the West Semitic Research Project at USC
within a generation of the author.” In realizing the potential for dialogue around the Dead Sea Scrolls, Duke says APU must now embrace its identity as a preserver of documents that are critically important to many people of faith. And, in May, the public will also have the opportunity to see firsthand the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments and other biblical antiquities, including a 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablet and a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible. “For modern people — who don’t necessarily have to understand the letter of what they’re seeing — viewing these things is always impressive,” Tabor says. “The fact alone that it is human writing. ... Now just imagine sitting in a room full of these things and trying to piece them together.” At a meeting of scholars and local religious leaders in late March, Duke clicks through an on-screen presentation and halts on a black-and-white photo iconic among Dead Sea Scrolls insiders: In it, Catholic scholar and priest Jozef T. Milik is holding a lighted cigarette — and a fragment, in his bare hand. The image, from the early days of Dead Sea Scrolls research, has come to symbolize carelessness on the part of scholars in preserving these most important of antiquities. Duke declares, “We’ve come a long way,” to laughter from the gallery. Conservation efforts, scholars are pleased to report, have gone up exponentially since then. So, too, has documentation. “We learned early on that photographic records were the best way to preserve readings of ancient manuscripts,” says Marvin A. Sweeney, chief executive officer of the ABMC in Claremont. “Over time, these documents start to deteriorate into a chocolate goo, which isn’t conducive to reading them.” The manuscript center is home to the first major collection of color photographs of Cave 1 Dead Sea Scrolls, captured in
early 1948 by John C. Trever. Trever became legendary for producing these important, early images using expired portrait film — the only thing available to him as war broke out in the Holy Land following the United Nations’ vote to partition Palestine. “He photographed those scrolls at the point of their greatest state of preservation,” Sweeney says. Up to present, on-location scholarship in the Middle East has challenged researchers, who must remain resourceful. Former ABMC director Sheila Spiro remembers a 1994 trip to Israel for an imaging project with her husband Gregory Bearman, then a physicist and spectroscopy expert at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. To protect the temperature of their high-tech camera, Spiro and crew hauled around a duffel bag, kept cool by a liquid nitrogen canister, only to have the camera unexpectedly fail. (They were able to borrow a last-minute replacement from a facility in Israel, she says.) For a time, the couple also moved into an apartment that doubled as a photo laboratory in Jerusalem, and the Israel Antiquities Authority “would send over some scrolls with an armored vehicle and a conservator.” Bearman, who is now retired from JPL, was a pioneer in merging digital imaging technology with the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. And for him, too, it was partly an accident that he wound up involved at all. In the early ‘90s, Bearman says, government laboratories had plenty of Cold-War developed technologies but a dearth of applications for them. “We had some equipment in our lab that, at the time, nobody else had,” he says. That included highly sensitive cameras and cutting-edge infrared imaging systems, which they began applying to the study of ancient objects. With the Dead Sea Scrolls, “the substrate has gotten very dark, so you have dark ink and dark parchment,” Bearman says. “But as you get further and further out into the red — further into the infrared, and further than the human eye can see — the ink is still dark, and the parchment becomes much lighter.” Suddenly, Dead Sea Scrolls fragments that were once completely obscured became legible, lines of text instantly drawn out and captured. Today, Bearman is working with the Israel Antiquities Authority on a new digital imaging project that will document the thousands of fragments in its possession and will place photographs of the manuscripts in a public Internet database. The massive undertaking will combine high-resolution color imaging, to capture the current state of the fragments, and high-resolution infrared imaging, to render the fragments more readable. The third aspect of the project, the one that most captivates Bearman, is focused on conservation: Spectral imaging will be used to monitor changes in the conditions of the scrolls. Pnina Shor, head of the department for the treatment and conservation of artifacts at the IAA, has described the objective to “graphically record the APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 41
condition of a scroll fragment, and in several months ... photograph it again under identical conditions.” In this way, Bearman says, it will be possible to see the physical evolution of the scrolls, before those changes become apparent to the naked eye. With digital technology ramping up at a breakneck pace, Zuckerman and his colleagues at the West Semitic Research Project are spearheading some promising developments for scholars of antiquities. Researchers in Azusa hope they may not have to wait long to unravel more clues about their mystery fragment containing few visible markings. The USC researchers are applying advanced 3-D imaging technology, developed by Tom Malzbender at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, to cast a whole new, interactive light on ancient objects. Called reflectance transformation imaging, an object is first photographed from many different light angles. HP’s program then takes the data from that series of images to create a texture map with interactive lighting. On the computer, users simply move the cursor to choose their own lighting angles and to enhance the image, as Zuckerman demonstrated at APU. Zuckerman recalls meeting Malzbender more than 10 years ago, when the HP researcher introduced him to this notion of “polynomial texture mapping.” To demonstrate, Malzbender showed him an image of a bowl of rice photographed using HP’s emerging technology. “I said, ‘Tom, you see a bowl of rice, but I see a cuneiform tablet.’” The technology has exciting potential for Dead Sea Scrolls research, Lundberg says. The highlydetailed images not only show in sharp detail the conservation status of the fragments, but they also may help researchers identify from what kind of animal skin the parchment was made based on hair follicle patterns. Another view of the fragment from “We could also Daniel, photographed with reflectance see on some of imaging. Courtesy of the West Semitic Research Project at USC the fragments that the ink was sort of raised up off the ONLINE EXTRA surface,” Lundberg See more images and a demonstration of HP’s texture mapping and says. More detailed interactive light technology at pictures, she notes, insidesocal.com/rose may even reveal in what order the strokes that form letters were made. “It’s one of the ways we can decide if these texts were written by the same scribe,” she says. “Are these letters made the same way? It can help us date the manuscripts, and it’s important in understanding how the different 42 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
scripts change over time.” SEE THE SCROLL FRAGMENTS In recent weeks, the USC researchers have taken these “Treasures of the Bible: The Dead Sea Scrolls interactive light images a step further, and Beyond” by combining it with infrared imaging May 21-July 18 that lightens the parchment surface 10 a.m.-8 p.m., and draws characters out of darkness. Wednesday-Saturday; For Zuckerman, necessity played 12 p.m.-6 p.m., Sunday a role in his invention of the West Azusa Pacific University, Semitic Research Project, but it had Darling Library, 701 E. more to do with his frustration as Foothill Blvd., Azusa a doctoral scholar in the 1970s. “I $18, general admission; would try to read an ancient text, and $8, students; $5, children under 12 I couldn’t get very far,” he says. Where photos were available, they were apu.edu/deadseascrolls likely to be murky, resulting in dozens of different interpretations of the same artifact. Professional photographers don’t often know how to read ancient texts, and scholars don’t often know how to shoot quality images, Zuckerman says. He decided to bridge the gap between scholarship and good photography, and turned to his photographer brother Ken Zuckerman to lead the technical side. “I can’t remember a time my brother didn’t have a camera,” he says. “So I knew how to find problems, and he knew how to solve them.” Since then, the WSRP has become a clearinghouse for images of antiquities, sought after by scholars in more than 35 countries. To facilitate the transmission of photos into the hands of international researchers, the organization runs a vast image database called InscriptiFact, putting more than 30,000 images at the fingertips of any scholar with a computer. Poking around in the InscriptiFact archives is “like looking around in someone’s really neat attic,” Zuckerman says. Sitting in the conference room at APU, Zuckerman poses a rhetorical question: “So why aren’t we sitting at Yale or Harvard talking about this?” “What we’re doing at USC is a microcosm of what’s going on in Southern California,” he adds. “There’s a lot of this type of work that’s driven from the West.” It may be, as Zuckerman theorizes, that the West is still a bit wild, a bit flexible: a place where the most advanced technologies link up easily to the highest order of humanities. Duke, of APU’s School of Theology, sees scroll scholarship growing up around important, local cultural centers. “It’s really a full sweep of institutions here in Southern California, particularly in the San Gabriel Valley,” he says. “Without them, Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship would not be where it is today.” From five recovered fragments at a local university, to advancements in imaging that will unlock data encoded in even those already publicly known, the primary goal for scholars is removing every possible obstacle to important research, Zuckerman says. “How do you protect (these materials) and at the same time give people the ability to study them?” Zuckerman says. “People want and demand that kind of access all the time.” Soon, scholars may have more than they’ll know what to do with. R
Women in the military have the most to gain in overturning “don’t ask, don’t tell”
STRAIGHT SHOOTING TEXT EMMA GALLEGOS ILLUSTRATION MARY ROY
When Tracey Cooper-Harris joined the military in 1991, she marked the “no” box she marked
the “no” box to answer the question of whether she was gay. “I didn’t think I was gay,” Cooper-Harris says. “I it might just be a “Ithought thought SHUTTERSTOCK PHOTO USED
phase.” it might
just be a phase.”
46 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
Army Secretary John McHugh warned soldiers April 1 that they still can be discharged for acknowledging they are gay, saying he misspoke earlier when he suggested the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy had been temporarily suspended. The public stumble by a senior service official is an indication of the issue’s legal complexity. The Pentagon has said it wants to hear from gay troops as it conducts a broad study on how it could lift the ban, as President Barack Obama wants. But to do that, gay service members would have to break the law, which prohibits them from discussing their sexual orientation. Defense Department officials say they plan to hire an outside contractor to survey the troops. — Associated Press
Gays still can be
dismissed
if they speak up
GETTY IMAGES
Eventually she realized it wasn’t just a passing phase. Soon she found herself both in the military and in a long-term relationship with another woman. She served as an animal care specialist from the Gulf War through the “shock and awe” campaigns in Iraq. In 1993, just a few years after Cooper-Harris joined, thenPresident Bill Clinton signed into law “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the policy that caused a dust-up in the military. “There was a big brouhaha at the time — people were saying we were letting the gays in,” says Cooper-Harris, a kinesiology student who lives in Pasadena with her wife. Although no one else would be asked to check a box saying they were straight before entering the military, Cooper-Harris still went to great lengths to keep her sexuality from getting her in trouble. She invented a boyfriend and called herself a “supersoldier,” who went above and beyond the call of duty, so that no one would ask her questions or harass her. “I saw it as a game to keep me sane,” Cooper-Harris says. “I did everything in my power to make it look like I was straight.” Cooper-Harris served for 12 years and she won the game as she saw it: She left the military on good terms and without ever having to answer any questions about her love life. The more than 13,500 service members who have been kicked out under “don’t ask, don’t tell” since 1994 weren’t as lucky. Women have been hit especially hard, according to Department of Defense data obtained by the Palm Center at UC Santa Barbara. About a third of the discharges in 2008 — 209 out of the 633 that year — under “don’t ask, don’t tell” were women, even
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proud to entertain my family and friends at The Fair Oaks. We enjoy the casual elegance and impeccable service.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Louise B., Resident
Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve designed The Fair Oaks to make the lives of our residents richer, fuller and more independent. Visit us and see how well weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve succeeded.
Independent and Assisted Living Senior Living Pasadena Styleâ&#x201E;˘
(626) 204-1700 3OUTH &AIR /AKS !VENUE s 0ASADENA #! WWW REGENCYPK COM s ,ICENSE .O
Presenting Pasadenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Premier Luxury Independent And Assisted Living Community
though women make up only about a sixth of the military. The numbers were even higher for women in the Air Force that year: 56 of the 90 discharges under “don’t ask, don’t tell” were women, even though they make up 20 percent of the service. Cooper-Harris attributes the higher number of female discharges to the fine line women have to tread in a mostly male military. In some units especially, women are a rarity, so it wasn’t unusual to receive a lot of male attention, Cooper-Harris says. She says women have to be careful about how they respond. If they are too receptive to male attention, women will get a reputation for being too slutty or not serious. But if they rebuff too many men, that can look bad, too. “If you rebuffed a guy or a lot of guys, they’d assume you were a dyke,” she says. She says that’s how her friends, who were booted out under “don’t ask, don’t tell,” ended up in trouble. But experts who estimate how many people serving in the military are gay or lesbian — and they have to estimate, since it’s against the law to ask — say that more of the women who enlist are lesbian compared to men who are gay. While women made up 14 percent of the military, one study estimates that women make up 43 percent of the gay population serving on active duty, according to the Williams Institute at UCLA. Even though thousands have been kicked out and others discouraged from entering the military, at the time the law was signed, “don’t ask, don’t tell” was viewed as being a step toward allowing gays to serve. But public opinion has been softening on the issue in the 17 years since it was implemented. President Barack Obama has stated that he wants to see the law overturned, and notably Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in February that it was time to look at overturning the law. “It is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do,” Mullen told the committee. “No matter how I look at this issue I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that
Reinterpreting
Lt. Robin R. Chaurasiya wasn’t exactly asked, but she told anyway: she is a lesbian, and in a civil union with another woman. Her commander at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, Lt. Gen. Robert R. Allardice, could have discharged her under the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Instead, he determined in February that she should remain in the Air Force because she acknowledged her sexual orientation for the purpose of “avoiding and terminating military service.” The decision had the flavor of a Catch-22: if you admit to being homosexual you can be discharged from the military, but if you admit it for the purposes of being discharged you won’t be. Yet that action is being cited by some opponents of the controversial prohibition on open gay military service as a sign of willingness to reinterpret rules after President Barack Obama called on Congress to overturn the controversial 1993 law. At the very least, said Nathaniel Frank, an expert on “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the Chaurasiya case appears to turn the rationale behind the gay ban on its head. “If commanders are ignoring or rejecting credible evidence of homosexuality because of the alleged motive of the person who makes the statement, the bottom line is they are keeping gay people in the service,” said Frank, a senior research fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Palm Center. “That gives the lie that known gay people undercut the military.” Under existing regulations, the military has the ability to retain service members who say they are gay for the purpose of avoiding service, according to Cynthia Smith, a Pentagon spokeswoman. Such rules have been used to discourage or stop recruits from falsely claiming they are gay to back out of boot camp. — McClatchy-Tribune
THE RULES
48th Annual
Sierra Madre Art Fair Saturday, May 1 - 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, May 2 - 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Free Admission
“Thames Sailing Barge” by Featured Artist David Darbyshire.
About 100 Artists, Children’s Activities, Live Entertainment and Food Court Sierra Madre Memorial Park
222 West Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, CA
for event information: 626.355.7186 or www.sierramadrelibraryfriends.org Benefits Sierra Madre Public Library
GETTY IMAGES
Former service members Stacy Vasquez of Texas, Anthony Woods of Virginia and David Hall of Washington, D.C., speak with Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) before a March 3 news conference on Capitol Hill. At top, retired U.S. Navy Captain Joan Darrah waits to share her personal experiences of being a homosexual service member during a March 3 press conference on Capitol Hill.
forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.” The question officials are wrestling with now isn’t if but when to overturn “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The tentative answer: not anytime soon. Despite throwing his weight behind overturning “don’t ask, don’t tell,” Mullen announced with Defense Secretary Robert Gates that they would need to form a committee to study how they should do it. Although they use guarded language, the biggest worry is how the change would go over in the military. “That there will be disruption in the force, I cannot deny,” Mullen told the committee. But the military is already taking baby steps in that direction. Gates announced in a press conference in March that it would be just a little harder to get kicked out of the military. It will take more stringent evidence — not just hearsay or third-hand information — to get someone kicked out of the military. It will also take someone higher up the command chain — either a one-star general or admiral — to begin an investigation that could lead to a discharge under “don’t ask, don’t tell.” No one denies that many gays and lesbians are already serving under “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Gary Gates with the Urban Institute estimated in 2004 that 36,000 gays and lesbians were serving on active duty — that’s about 2.5 percent of the military. That number rises to 65,000 when the National Guard and reservists are included.
N_\e \m\ip j\Zfe[ Zflekj%
Pfli jg`kXc `j Pfli Pfli n pfli _fjg`kXc `j Pfli _fjg`kXc `j _fjg`kXc `j efn pfli `dXip efn pfli efn pfli gi`dXip kifb\ gi`dXip gi`dXip jkifb\ \ek\i% jkifb\ jkifb\ Z\ek\i% Z\ek\i% Z\ek\i%
Huntington Memorial Hospital’s stroke program has received the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission, designating the hospital a primary stroke center. Our multidisciplinary stroke team is on call 24-hours-a-day, N_\e \m\ip j\Zfe[ Zflekj% seven-days-a-week. Emergency department Huntington Memorial Hospital’s stroke physicians program has received N_\e \m\ip j\Zfe[ Zflekj% N_\e \m\ip j\Zfe[ Zflekj% the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint and Commission, workingHuntington with neurologists, neurosurgeons internists Memorial Hospital’s stroke has Huntington Memorial Hospital’s strokeprogram program hasreceived received designating the hospital a primary stroke center. Our provide a comprehensive care team that may save you the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission, the Gold Seal of Approval from theisJoint Commission, multidisciplinary stroke team on call 24-hours-a-day, designating the hospital a primary stroke center. Our or a loved one from a disabling designating the hospital a primarystroke. stroke center.physicians Our seven-days-a-week. Emergency department
multidisciplinary stroke team multidisciplinary stroke teamisisononcall call24-hours-a-day, 24-hours-a-day, working with neurologists, neurosurgeons and internists seven-days-a-week. Emergency physicians seven-days-a-week. Emergencydepartment department provide a comprehensive care teamphysicians that may save you ?lek`e^kfe ?fjg`kXc ]\Xkli\j1 working with neurologists, neurosurgeons and working neurologists, andinternists internists or with a loved one from aneurosurgeons disabling stroke. provide a comprehensive care team that may you ƌɄɄ $ 'Ʉ $ /*-ƇɄ! ''*2.#$+Ɲ/- $) Ʉ$)Ʉ./-*& Ʉ provide a comprehensive care team that maysave save youɄ orora aloved one from a disabling stroke. loved one)/Ʉ$)/ from a disabling stroke. ƌɄɄ ( -" ) 4Ʉ ?lek`e^kfe ?fjg`kXc ]\Xkli\j1 + -/( -1 )/$*)ƇɄ$) '0 $)"Ʉ/ ƌɄɄ /*-ƇɄ! ''*2.#$+Ɲ/- $) Ʉ$)Ʉ./-*& Ʉ - Ʉ ƌɄɄ $Ɲ+' ) Ʉ) 0-*$)/ -1 $ 'Ʉ $)/$*) 'Ʉ Ʉ ?lek`e^kfe ?fjg`kXc ]\Xkli\j1 ?lek`e^kfe ?fjg`kXc ]\Xkli\j1 ƌɄɄ ( -" ) 4Ʉ + -/( )/Ʉ$)/ -1 )/$*)ƇɄ$) '0 $)"Ʉ/ /*-ƇɄ! ''*2.#$+Ɲ/- $) Ʉ$)Ʉ./-*& ƌɄɄ $-./ɄŵŴŲɄ / ƌɄɄ /*-Ʉ Ʉ. )) ' . Ʉ ƌɄɄ $ 'Ʉ $ $ 'Ʉ $ /*-ƇɄ!-Ʉ$)Ʉ *.Ʉ )" Ʉ -Ʉ Ʉ ƌɄɄ $Ɲ+' ) Ʉ) 0-*$)/ -1''*2.#$+Ɲ/- $) )/$*) 'Ʉ - Ʉ Ʉ$)Ʉ./-*& ƌɄɄ ( -" ) 4Ʉ + -/( )/Ʉ$)/ -1 )/$*)ƇɄ$) '0 $)"Ʉ/ ƌɄɄ 0'/$(* 'Ʉ ɄɄ ƌɄɄ ( -" ) 4Ʉ + -/( )/Ʉ$)/ -1 )/$*)ƇɄ$) '0 $)"Ʉ/ ƌɄɄ $-./ɄŵŴŲɄ / /*-Ʉ Ʉ. )) -Ʉ$)Ʉ *.Ʉ )" ' . ƌɄɄ $Ɲ+' ) Ʉ)Ʉ)0-*$)/ Ʉ Ʉ ƌɄɄ $Ɲ+' ) 0-*$)/-1-1)/$*) 'Ʉ )/$*) 'Ʉ ƌɄɄ 0'/$(* 'Ʉ ɄɄ ƌɄɄ )0( - Ʉ ) Ʉ Ʉ '*/Ʉ/-$ 1 'Ʉ 1$ . ƌɄɄ $-./ɄŵŴŲɄ / / /*-Ʉ Ʉ. )) ' .. ƌɄɄ $-./ɄŵŴŲɄ /*-Ʉ Ʉ. ))-Ʉ$)Ʉ *.Ʉ )" -Ʉ$)Ʉ *.Ʉ )" ƌɄɄ )0( - Ʉ ) Ʉ Ʉ '*/Ʉ/-$ 1 'Ʉ '1$ . ƌɄɄ ' ( $ $) ƌɄɄ 0'/$(* 'Ʉ ɄɄ ƌɄɄ 0'/$(* 'Ʉ ɄɄ ƌɄɄ ' ( $ $) ƌɄɄ /-$/-$1 'Ʉ 1$ . ƌɄɄ - ). - )$ 'Ʉ *++' -Ʉ./0 $ . -Ʉ./0 $ ƌɄɄ )0( - Ʉ ) Ʉ Ʉ '*/Ʉ)0( - Ʉ ) Ʉ Ʉ '*/ɄƌɄɄ - ). - )$ 'Ʉ *++' . 1 'Ʉ 1$ . ƌɄɄ ' ( $ $) ƌɄɄ ƌɄɄ ' ( $ / $ $) Ʉ./-*& Ʉ0)$/ ƌɄɄ $ / ƌɄɄ - ). - )$ 'Ʉ *++' Ʉ./-*& Ʉ0)$/ -Ʉ./0 $ ƌɄɄ - ). - )$ 'Ʉ *++' -Ʉ./0 $. . )/Ʉ- # $'$/ /$*) ƌɄɄ 0''Ɲ. -1$ Ʉ$)Ʉ ) Ʉ*0/+ /$ ƌɄɄ 0''Ɲ. -1$ Ʉ$)Ʉ ) Ʉ*0/+ /$ )/Ʉ- # $'$/ /$*) ƌɄɄ $ / Ʉ./-*& Ʉ0)$/ ƌɄɄ $ / Ʉ./-*& Ʉ0)$/ ƌɄɄ 0''Ɲ. -1$ Ʉ$)Ʉ ) Ʉ*0/+ /$ ƌɄɄ 0''Ɲ. -1$ Ʉ$)Ʉ ) Ʉ*0/+ /$)/Ʉ)/Ʉ-# $'$/ /$*) # $'$/ /$*)
For information about the Primary Stroke Center at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, call (626) 397-5464. Visit us on line at www.huntingtonhospital.com For information about the Primary Stroke Center at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, call (626) 397-5464. Visit us on line at www.huntingtonhospital.com APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 49
If gay service members are allowed to serve openly, the military will face another tough question: Should gay partners be entitled to military benefits? One former service member who is watching the “don’t ask, don’t tell” debate is Melanie Costa, 34, of Franklin, Mass. The Iraq veteran said she left the military after four years in the Marines and six in the Army Reserves so she could marry a woman in Massachusetts, where gay marriage is legal. She said if the repeal is dropped she’ll re-enlist — if her wife gets benefits. “If I got deployed, and she wasn’t able to get all the benefits as another married couple, there’s not really a point,” Costa said. — Associated Press
NEED A TAX BREAK? Is your business looking for ways to save money? If so, then the Pasadena Enterprise Zone may be of assistance. What We Do? x x x x x x
State Tax Credits and Deductions Planning and Development Permit Fee Waivers* Business License Fee Waivers* Site Selection Assistance Job Placement and Training Referrals Youth Programs
To learn more about the Pasadena Enterprise Zone, call the Enterprise Zone Manager at (626) 744-7347 or send an email to malva@cityofpasadena.net. Please visit us at our website at www.cityofpasadena.net, click on “Business” then “Enterprise Zone.” *Local Fee Waivers May Not Apply to All Pasadena Businesses. 50 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
AP PHOTO
Would partners get benefits, too?
Discharges under “don’t ask, don’t tell” have dropped sharply during wartime. In 2001, there were 1,273 discharges but in 2008 there were 633. But acknowledging that gays and lesbians are quietly serving is different from allowing people to serve fully out of the closet. Some members — particularly men — worry about what the tightknit military experience would be like knowing the guy in the next bunk is gay. For instance, U.S. Marine Cpl. Kenneth James, who served in the early 1980s, says that while he thinks gays should have the same rights as all Americans, he bristles at the notion of letting openly gay men serve together with straight men since they live in tight quarters and shower together. He recalls his reaction after hearing about a fellow Marine caught having gay sex. “From that time, I felt really dirty, and betrayed and deceived,”
‘
James says. “My logic is, ‘Damn, I want harassment he endured. Discharges under to shower with the women (...) if I can be “It wasn’t pretty,” Cooper says. “don’t ask, don’t tell” potential eye candy (for a gay Marine).’” McCue says people serving in the military That’s why the committee looking might be macho, but they aren’t as openly have dropped sharply into “don’t ask, don’t tell” is considering opposed to homosexuality as might be during wartime. In changes to infrastructure to deal with the expected. He says he heard more slurs against 2001, there were problem. gays on college campuses than he did in the 1,273 discharges but in “I do think there are some legitimate military. real-world issues,” says South Pasadena In most cases, there was a tacit 2008 there were 633. resident James McCue, who served in the understanding that certain people were gay But acknowledging Army until 2003. and — aside from a crack that a man wasn’t that gays and lesbians He says overturning “don’t ask, don’t going to bring a female date to an event — tell” wouldn’t faze most of the people they mostly didn’t talk about who was gay and are quietly serving is he knew personally in the military, but different from allowing who wasn’t. he isn’t so sure about some pockets “There was never an outright question of people to serve fully of the military, where members come someone’s sexuality,” McCue says. out of the closet. from conservative backgrounds or feel Superiors mostly didn’t pry — because uncomfortable serving with openly gay they didn’t want to get bogged down in all the people. paperwork a “don’t ask, don’t tell” discharge requires. Jessica Cooper, a student at PCC who served in the Army’s “Most of the first sergeants didn’t want to do anything,” McCue Chemical Corps until 2005, says she would also worry about how says. “Their hands were tied, and it was just going to be a lot of gay men, in particular, would fare if “don’t ask, don’t tell” were phone calls and paperwork and extra stuff.” overturned. But it wasn’t consistent across the board, Cooper-Harris says. Cooper is bisexual, but she says the lesbians she knew weren’t She knew some who didn’t care what soldiers did during after harassed as much as gay men. One man she served with had a hours, as long as they were good soldiers. But she never knew hard time when he transferred from one unit to another. She says who would care and who wouldn’t — which is why she always he ended up under psychological evaluation because of all the played it safe. R
Specializing in Breast & Ultrasound Services
622 West Duarte Road, Suite 104, Arcadia, CA 91007 Services Offered:
• Digital Screening & Diagnostic Mammography • Ultrasound-Guided Breast Biopsy
• Breast Ultrasound • OB/GYN Ultrasound
Breast MRI will continue to be offered at our Imaging Center, located at 612 West Duarte Road, Suite 101, Arcadia, CA 91007
For More Information: (626) 821-8146 | www.ArcadiaRadiology.com APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 51
Music from the
Interior Castle The Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles touched a lot of hearts when they performed in a sold-out, two-day concert in Duarte recently. When the last beautiful note had faded, Mother Regina Marie stood in front of the crowd and explained what had called them to share their music and their voices: “We wanted to share who we are. Because if you know who we are, it’s easy to understand what we do.” by Pia Abelgas Orense
52 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
T
To enter Sister Timothy Marie’s world, you have to look past a glass door etched with a simple drawing of a castle with yellow towers and blue turrets. An inscription above the drawing identifies it as the “Interior Castle,” a lighthearted nod to the title of a book written by Saint Teresa of Avila. In the book, the saint describes the soul as a castle carved out of a diamond. This castle has several rooms, each one getting brighter as it nears the center. The rooms represent the soul’s path to complete oneness with God. When Sister Timothy Marie describes what it is like to live life inside Saint Teresa’s castle, she will tell you it was like she was given diamonds. Sister Timothy Marie is a member of the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles, a
Photo BY james carbone
community that follows the teachings of Saint Teresa of Avila and is modeled after a life of prayer, meditation and apostolic works. It was established by nuns, led by Mother Maria Luisa Josefa, who fled Mexico in the 1920s during a time of religious persecution. The community’s Motherhouse is in a quiet, tree-lined neighborhood on the border of Alhambra and San Marino. Behind vine-covered walls and a wrought-iron gate is a tranquil garden surrounded by mismatched buildings that make up the compound. (A few blocks to the west is the Carmelite Monastery, home to a group of cloistered nuns; it is a separate entity but follows the same tenets of the Carmelite order). Inside the walls of their convent, the Most Sacred Heart Sisters are women of deep faith who start their mornings with a song, fill their days with meditation and apostolic work, and end their nights in prayer. Outside, the Sisters are teachers, nurses and caregivers. They have been steadily increasing their outreach efforts, including publishing a magazine (written, photographed and designed by their own members) and, most recently, performing as a choral group for the first time in public. “We’re teachers, we’re nurses, but we’re more than that,” says Mother Regina Marie, the community’s superior general. “In order to share what we fully do, we need to share who we are.” Life inside the convent is simple, but it is in no way an idle one. The day starts at 5 a.m. and ends at 10 p.m.; most of the hours
between are dedicated to assigned apostolates (teaching at parish schools, caring for the elderly and the sick, or facilitating retreats and prayer groups). Each morning, their wake-up call is a song and the sound of a bell, both delivered by one of the nuns. They say their morning prayers, attend Mass, go to work, come together mid-day for prayer and lunch, then go back to their duties. After dinner there is time to unwind — they go for a walk or chat — before it’s time for evening prayers and lights-out. It is a schedule that is repeated every day with few deviations, and yet the Sisters are not shackled by it. If anything, the consistency provides a balance in the many aspects of their lives — between the spiritual and the apostolic, and between the community and the individual. “It’s not about restriction. It’s about structure and balance,” says 28-year-old Richelle Chuatuan, a candidate for the religious life who has spent a year living in the Carmelite Sister’s Santa Teresita campus in Duarte. Candidates slowly transition to life inside a convent. Their sleeping quarters and schedules are similar to the nuns’ but they wear regular clothes, drive their own cars, keep their cell phones and pay their own bills. Their time spent as candidates helps them ease into a life without, as Chuatuan puts it, iPods and Facebook. “I’ve been using this time to figure out what I need to take out my life, and it’s very freeing,” she says. Freedom is a word that almost all of them — from the APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 53
The calling to a religious life comes in different ways, at different times, to women of different lifestyles. “I could be a princess,” Sister Timothy Marie whispers, her eyes glinting with mischief. “But nobody will know because once you enter the convent, you live a common life.” Sister Timothy Marie, 64, also could have been an actress. As a teen growing up in the Long Beach area, she took theater and speech classes in high school and once dreamed of performing at the Pasadena Playhouse. The calling struck her out of nowhere, she says. “Me? Oh my,” was her stunned response. For Mother Regina, it was an ambush. She was an eighthgrader from Glendora with a “miserable attitude,” who was 54 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
attending a retreat for the wrong reasons (she wanted it to be a big slumber party with her friends) when she had what she calls an “experience of God.” “It is very hard to describe in words ... I just knew without a doubt that I was known, held and loved,” she says. She also knew that such a profound kind of love demanded a response, but it took her a while to accept that. “Oh, I negotiated and bargained out of it for six years.” During those six years, she struggled with typical teenager’s angst, grieved her mother’s death and worried about her father’s care. But there was purpose to her days. For her, the calling was undeniable and irrevocable. For Sister Marie Estelle, 28, it was a slow process that began with an unsettled heart. Faith had always been an important part of her life even as a young child. She was the oldest of three girls living in a town in South Dakota so small it had no stop lights, who taught her youngest sister the piano and played music at Mass through high school. But the idea of joining a convent did not enter her thoughts until college. By then, she was looking for an inner peace that her daily life could not give her. “Someone had mentioned the idea and the thought grew in my heart. It was a radical way of life and even though I wasn’t sure I was ready for it, I inquired about communities,” she says. When she flew to California and met the Carmelite Sisters in Alhambra, she knew she had found her home. Responding to the call takes courage. Just as with any relationship, it demands a commitment and a sacrifice. “It’s scary to make a commitment. You always want to have a way out. But that’s the wrong mindset,” says Sister Cora, 30. “I knew I had to give up certain things, but I realized it wasn’t that hard.” She entered the convent thinking she would never again play the drums, an instrument she had been playing since she was a young girl. But this Carmelite community is one that believes in nurturing talents they believe are their gifts from God; it encourages its members to use their voices and musical instruments to touch hearts and reach souls. “When I’m playing
Photos BY ERIC REED
‘
candidates to the ones who have made their vows — use to describe what their calling has brought them. It is It is very hard this freedom from attachments, both to describe material and emotional, and from the in words ... demands of society that give them a I just knew certain lightness of being. “Our vows (of poverty, chastity without a and obedience) keep us from getting doubt that I entangled by burdens,” says Mother was known, Regina Marie, superior general. “We are not entangled by the need to held and possess, to dominate, by the need for loved. power.” Mother Sister Grace Helena, the Regina Marie community’s vocations director, says the freedom comes from knowing exactly who, where and what you are meant to be. “It’s a true freedom, knowing who I am, faults and all,” she says. Mother Regina Marie is quick to emphasize, however, that the lightness of being doesn’t spare them from pain. “We don’t always feel that lightness. We experience the same bodily pains, the same frustrations with work and people. The economy affects us, too,” she says. “We live in the same world you do.”
Considering Downsizing? If you are considering moving to assisted living or a smaller home and the task seems overwhelming, I can help you get from the planning stage through the actual move with a lot less stress. My Silver Service Program is a “onestop shopping” systematic approach which helps you with every step along the way… Call today for a free consultation and your free systematic workbook to help you prepare in advance.
To move the memories of a lifetime... You’ll need my years of experience.
Seniors’ Specialist
Mikki Porretta Director of Dilbeck’s Senior Services Division
626.462.2416 SM
REAL ESTATE
drums, it’s a way of praising God,” she says. The most difficult part, she says, was moving so far away from her family in Vermont. She misses her parents and two younger brothers but, apart from that, there is nothing in the outside world that she regrets leaving behind. “I’m very happy,” she says. “I never thought that what the Lord had for me was going to be this good.” Sister Cora, who will profess her vows in July, is one of the community’s seven novitiates and nine candidates who are younger than 35. Most of them graduated from college, had careers and started discerning a religious life in their mid-20s. Sister Cora worked as a nurse before she entered the convent two years ago. Candidate Jessica Kuratomi, 26, worked as a marine biologist in Costa Mesa after she graduated from UCLA. But she gave up the competitive world of science when she realized her career was not fulfilling her. She wanted to find passion, and she found that in the life of a nun. “Peace — I definitely have it now that I’m not running around,” she says. “It took a shifting of views of what happiness is. Society tells us it’s about owning that SUV, having 2.5 children, getting that promotion. In some sense, those will bring you happiness. But not the true happiness you get from becoming who you are meant to be.” Sister Marie Estelle credits the late Pope John Paul II for reigniting a curiosity among the youth. “He left a legacy of love and challenge for the youth of today. He has inspired countless
young men and women and he will continue to inspire. There may not be the numbers 40, 50 years ago, but in the number now there is a great fire and zeal,” she says. The Sisters say the number of people being called into a religious life has not decreased, but the distractions that keep them from hearing the call has multiplied. “God is calling many people,” Sister Cora says, “but I don’t know how many are attuned.” Sister Grace Helena says there is never silence in the lives of young people today. “The chaos of the world closes out the calling,” she says. The Carmelite Sisters try to provide that silence, offering prayer groups and day retreats for youth and their families. At the same time, their efforts offer these young people a glimpse of life with a calling. “To teenagers, our lives is a mystery,” Sister Grace Helena says. “We’re trying to unveil that mystery.” InsIde sIster tImothy marIe’s offIce, the one behind the drawing of a castle, a computer hums. Sister Timothy Marie is scrolling through hundreds of digital photos taken from several events the Most Sacred Heart nuns have either sponsored or joined as participants. She is having a hard time deciding which ones best depict their lives as Carmelite nuns — the ones of them praying in the chapel, or working with children and the elderly, or just laughing together. This is her family and she is proud to show them off. “God breaks into the ordinariness of every day. I would make the same decision again,” she says. R
-2,1 285 7($0
8QLWHG 6WDWHV 6HFUHW 6HUYLFH The United States Secret Service is now offering employment opportunities for Special Agents, Uniformed Division Officers and Administrative, Professional and Technical positions.
For application information please contact us at 213-533-4450 or email lax.recruitment@usss.dhs.gov
www.secretservice.gov/join Equal Opportunity Employer • TTY: 202-406-5390
56 | ROSE | aPrIL 2010
NextGen story
[No. 271] A woman in crisis. An emotional eater who quenched stress with food, Jennifer Roberts carried 256 pounds on her five-foot, threeinch frame. Her blood pressure was sky-high, and she had type 2 diabetes. The reality was harsh: “This is a roadmap for what my life will look like,” she realized. Determined to change her future, Jennifer turned to Methodist Hospital’s bariatric surgery program for help. Since then, she’s lost 120 pounds—and gained a whole new life. “This is the single best decision I could have made in my entire life, for me and for my family,” she says. Now nearly two years later, she is really excited to cheer about…
Read the rest of her story at www.methodisthospital.org. To attend a free bariatric seminar, call
888-8NEXTGEN. [ 8 8 8 - 8 6 3 - 9 8 4 3 ]
Methodist Hospital has been recognized for its excellence in bariatric surgery by both professional organizations and insurers. Most insurance accepted.
XX | ROSE | MARCH 2010
Whenever Pasadena embarks on one of its bruising historic preservation versus development battles, one thing is certain: Sue Mossman will be in the front ranks. Armed with a calm, measured manner — and the facts at her fingertips — the executive director of Pasadena Heritage isn’t afraid of a fight. Sue Mossman
Executive Director, Pasadena Heritage
Worthy opponent by JANETTE WILLIAMS
PHOTO BY SARAH REINGEWIRTZ
A
At City Council and commission meetings, at private sit-downs and public hearings, Sue Mossman is what longtime volunteer and former board member Mic Hansen calls “the face and voice of Pasadena Heritage ... infinitely knowledgeable about preservation and institutional history.” To Claire Bogaard, a Pasadena Heritage founder and Mossman’s predecessor, she is a “good negotiator” whose diplomacy has been honed over the years, but who can hang tough. “She works hard to come up with solutions,” Bogaard says. “But, when necessary, she’ll put her heels in and say ‘No, this is as far as we go.’” R. Scott Jenkins, for decades the go-to attorney for every developer in town, has described Mossman and Pasadena Heritage as “worthy opponents.” There’s been plenty of time to work on her dueling skills. As Mossman, 62, somewhat ruefully points out, she’s been involved with the 33-year-old preservation group for half her lifetime. She signed on at the fledgling nonprofit in the late 1970s, inspired to volunteer after a Craftsman tour led by Pasadena’s Bob Winter, doyen of architectural historians in the Southland. Not long afterward she became its second hire. “I answered phones, sent out renewals, set up the filing system,” she says, recalling that the accounting was done on yellow legal pads. “We were a rag-tag group. We’ve gone through stages — scrappy, grassroots, driven by passion and outrage for the first 10 years. Then we went through a middle phase, being more and more professional and building educational programs. “Now we’re an organization with more to it than just yelling at City Council meetings — although we still do plenty of that,” she jokes. “Pasadena Heritage is a grown-up, more mature organization, still vital and still passion-driven. We
don’t have to fight to be taken seriously.” Mossman says she never thought she’d “end up” as a preservationist. “Maybe a conservationist,” she says, recalling her early years “hiking, bear-spotting and fish-gathering” in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The fish-gathering part came from her father’s job as an icthyologist — he was a freshwater fish expert — at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Indirectly, his work may have set her own course. “Most of the time we just lived regular old Midwestern lives,” Mossman says. “But when I was 9, we went to France for six months. My father was writing a book with a colleague at Musée de la Mer de Biarritz. It was a wonderful experience, and I did learn to speak French.” The only thing, it was French with a Basque accent — “not that classy,” she says. “Later, in Paris, someone said to my mother, ‘I see your children speak French, but with that dreadful accent.’” Mossman went back to Ann Arbor and that regular Midwestern life (although with two Ph.D parents — her mother was one of the first speech therapists) until 1965, her senior year in high school. “Then we went to Thailand. My father was working with the State Department setting up a Department of Fisheries,” she says. “It was traumatic as a teenager — I’d never heard of Thailand. I remember the plane landing and all you could see were rice paddies, and I thought, ‘Oh my god, it’s the end of the world.’” She went to the American school with “military kids and missionary kids” who were veterans at moving around. “It was actually a wonderful time,” she says. Leaving Thailand, and its “gracious, kind, joyful people,”
APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 59
Mossmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family completed a round-the-world tour and stayed home for a while. Then, in her sophomore year studying English at Kent State University, Mossmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job with the United Nations took him to Rome; she transferred to Loyola Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It probably wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until that year I lived in Italy that I became attached to buildings,â&#x20AC;? Mossman says. She learned to drive in Rome, in a tiny Fiat her father bought to shorten her two-hour college commute. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad expected you could do anything,â&#x20AC;? she says, laughing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite toss us off the dock to learn to swim, but he just expected us to do ... he gave us all the sense, just go do it, the worst thing that can happen is you fail.â&#x20AC;? In Rome, Mossman marvelled at structures still standing after hundreds, even thousands of years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was the first time I ever paid attention to architecture,â&#x20AC;? she says, crediting a Loyola professor for sending students out just to look around them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Such primitive techniques, but engineering, construction and design made them such amazing edifices.â&#x20AC;? But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until she and her former husband, Tom, moved to Pasadena as â&#x20AC;&#x153;starving studentsâ&#x20AC;? while he pursued graduate studies in the 1970s that Mossmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in preservation blossomed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would drive around looking at buildings for entertainment,â&#x20AC;? she recalls, laughing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We learned a lot.â&#x20AC;? Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken on some tough customers in recent years, facing off with Federated Department Stores over the Bullocks conversion to Macyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Johnson & Johnson over the Stuart Pharmaceutical
+ #FWFSMZ )JMMT 4BMPO JT PòFSJOH BO FYDMVTJWF 0'' ZPVS IBJS DVU BOE DPMPS
ThePasadena Pasadena The ChamberofofCommerce Commerce Chamber congratulates TheRose Roseand and congratulates The our members and their nominees our members and their nominees for for
ď&#x20AC; ď&#x20AC;&#x201A;ď&#x20AC;&#x192;ď&#x20AC;&#x201E;ď&#x20AC;&#x2026;ď&#x20AC;&#x2020;ď&#x20AC;&#x201A;ď&#x20AC;&#x2021;ď&#x20AC;&#x2020;ď&#x20AC;&#x2C6;ď&#x20AC;&#x2030;ď&#x20AC;&#x160;ď&#x20AC;&#x2020;ď&#x20AC;&#x2039;ď&#x20AC;&#x160;ď&#x20AC;&#x201E;ď&#x20AC;&#x152;ď&#x20AC;&#x2020; ď&#x20AC; ď&#x20AC;&#x201A;ď&#x20AC;&#x192;ď&#x20AC;&#x201E;ď&#x20AC;&#x2026;ď&#x20AC;&#x2020;ď&#x20AC;&#x201A;ď&#x20AC;&#x2021;ď&#x20AC;&#x2020;ď&#x20AC;&#x2C6;ď&#x20AC;&#x2030;ď&#x20AC;&#x160;ď&#x20AC;&#x2020;ď&#x20AC;&#x2039;ď&#x20AC;&#x160;ď&#x20AC;&#x201E;ď&#x20AC;&#x152;ď&#x20AC;&#x2020; ď&#x20AC; ď&#x20AC;
Building restoration, and the NFL over expansion plans for the Rose Bowl. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These were on my watch,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And because the opposition â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what they were â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was daunting ... getting a good solution seemed like a long shot. These things mean a lot, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much on the line.â&#x20AC;? The hardest loss, she says, was the failure to preserve the Raymond Theatre as a performing arts venue. After 33 years, with 1,430 member-households, an annual budget of $500,000 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; although down from $700,000 two years ago â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and a place at the city table, Pasadena Heritage still fills a need, Mossman says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you done your job?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I say, No. 1, in a built-out city like Pasadena the future will be full of choices, what to keep versus what to let go for new development. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always work to do. And No. 2, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re closely aligned with the growing concern of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;greennessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and in many ways thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing greener than a building that already exists.â&#x20AC;? The mother of two sons, Noah, 34, and Hunter, 27 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;my proudest achievementâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mossman still lives in her â&#x20AC;&#x153;crumbling Craftsmanâ&#x20AC;? Madison Heights house of 32 years. And if she sounds a little surprised at the direction her life has taken, her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;just do itâ&#x20AC;? technique seems to work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Naively, I thought if you care enough about something that has value, you can make a persuasive argument,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right, and there a good reason, why wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it all go our way?â&#x20AC;? R
CityofofPasadena: Pasadena: City Nadine Washington Nadine Washington ColdwellBanker: Banker: Coldwell Jane Caughey Jane Caughey HuntingtonMemorial MemorialHospital: Hospital: Huntington KimberlyShriner, Shriner,Dr. Dr.Vyshali VyshaliRao Rao Kimberly KaiserPermanente: Permanente: Kaiser Dr.Dancy DancyGibbs Gibbs Dr. NATHA: NATHA: CelestineWalker Walker Celestine PasadenaSymphony Symphonyand andPops: Pops: Pasadena AimeeKreston, Kreston,Rachael RachaelWorby Worby Aimee PasadenaUnified UnifiedSchool SchoolDistrict: District: Pasadena Harriet Hammond, Sheryl Orange, Stacey Williams Harriet Hammond, Sheryl Orange, Stacey Williams Theatre@@Boston BostonCourt: Court: Theatre Jessica Kubzansky Jessica Kubzansky www.pasadena-chamber.org www.pasadena-chamber.org
60 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
& (SFFO 4USFFU 1BTBEFOB $" Some restrictions apply. Valid for new clients only on first visit in 2010.
Jacque Robinson Councilwoman
First string by FRANK GIRARDOT
PHOTO BY walt mancini
W
WHile a student at Muir High School, Jacque Robinson was presented with a choice: shoot hoops or play the cello. She chose basketball, but continued playing music as well. It was the instrument that first took her beyond the confines of Pasadena, when as a member of the city’s Youth Orchestra, Robinson played at Carnegie Hall in New York City. As a member of the Pasadena City Council, Robinson says it is the experience of her youth that serves her best. “I was in everything,” Robinson recalls. “I was a flag girl, I played cello, I was in the orchestra, I played softball and basketball and participated in band. All those types of experiences benefits me on the council.” Robinson, 31, is a product of Pasadena. She lives with her parents in the same house on Howard Street where she grew up. She attended Cleveland Elementary School, Wilson Middle School and Muir. She had hoped to be a sports agent and briefly attended law school but, while working for the California Teachers Association as a law clerk, Robinson realized she had another passion — community activism. “I told myself, ‘I don’t need to be in the spotlight. I don’t need that,’” she says. One thing led to another and soon Robinson found herself running for office. Ultimately she won her seat by just five votes. “Lo and behold, I end up the one that becomes an elected,” she recalls. While the district she represents encompasses some of Pasadena’s poorest neighborhoods, it also includes some of the city’s most notable landmarks, including the Rose Bowl and Tournament House. And, shortly after Robinson took office, it was the epicenter of a wave of violence that swept Pasadena in 2007. “There were 10 homicides that year. It became the issue when I was elected,” she says. In response, she established the Vision 20/20, a community initiative focused on keeping high-risk Pasadena and Altadena youths out of gangs. The plan has had some success, including recognition in March by the Pasadena City Council for the Flintridge Foundation’s implementation of the plan. Those who work with Robinson are impressed with her commitment to Pasadena. “She’s one of the council members that’s a little more
proactive and reaches out to the community,” says Randy Jurado Ertll, executive director of the Latino advocacy organization El Centro de Acción Social. Ertll says Robinson’s ability to balance her duties as a city councilwoman and the demands of her job as a labor organizer prove she’s a leader. “Like other council members she’s juggling the needs of the community and a full-time job,” Ertll says. “The needs and demands are so great, but she give us dynamic leadership. She’s community-oriented and an advocate for the needs of her constituents.” Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard echoes Ertll’s sentiments. “Jacque is doing well,” Bogaard says. “She has performed effectively — keeping in mind her relative youth.” Bogaard also sees Robinson as a role model for the youth of Pasadena’s Northwest community. “So far as I know she has had strong family and friend support,” Bogaard says. “The thought that she is a role model for the youth that grow up in the Northwest is an effective one.” Because Pasadena City Council members are elected to represent districts in the city, Robinson says she’s learned that she has to be a coalition builder to be effective at City Hall. And, although some see her as shy and reserved, sort of in the background like a cellist, Robinson notes that’s her personality, and it works. “I follow the notion that you do by doing, not by talking,” she says. “So that’s what I try to do.” R APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 61
Robin McCarthy Executive Director Women at Work
Beyond the glass ceiling by Ryan carter
PHOTO BY walt mancini
W
When Robin McCarthy became executive director of Women at Work, she knew she faced a big job. The nonprofit job resource center, which began 31 years ago with a goal of making sure women had the resources to find meaningful work, was struggling. Its longtime trio of co-founders and directors had retired. The director who came on board after them didn’t work out. And it needed new headquarters. If that — along with the challenges of fundraising — weren’t enough, the economy was on the verge of falling apart. McCarthy had recently led a musical theater through bankruptcy and had experience in marketing and communications for the YMCA and the Red Cross. This time, she found herself tasked with leading a longtime community resource at a crossroads. She looked at her options: “You could have gone in and shut it down, merged it into another organization, or you reinvent it,” she says. McCarthy was all about the last option. Now going into her fourth year, it seems to be working out. Under her leadership, the organization has a new facility, expanded field offices, and a renewed emphasis on community partnerships, new technology. It’s not hard to figure out what’s driving McCarthy and her staff. Just bring up unemployment. “I’ve got clients who still have kids at home, who can’t find work,” she says, responding to a recent attempt in Congress to hold up unemployment extension benefits. “They’re not in this
62 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
boat because they chose to be. This is about thousands of people struggling day to day.” McCarthy, along with five full-time staff, four part-timers and 30 volunteers, is doing the day-to-day business of meeting that kind of demand. With a $500,000 budget, an economy that’s not exactly ripe for fundraising and nearly 4,000 clients last year, she’s got her hands full. “She’s put a lot of zip and cheerfulness into the place, and she’s very competent,” says Marge Leighton, a co-founder of Women at Work who is now a board member. “I feel we were fortunate in finding Robin, who was able to step right in and get us going again.” Getting going meant reaching out to other local organizations to move the nonprofit’s mission forward. McCarthy points to working with the Flintridge Operating Foundation to start a teen job fair, now in its third year. Women at Work also has set up field offices at the La Pintoresca branch of the Pasadena Library and at the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce. The center is serving about 400 people a month. Computer classes are full. Employer forums are jam-packed. “I never expected we’d be in such demand, and that we would see so many people coming through our doors,” McCarthy says. It doesn’t mean they will all find jobs, “but we can can certainly guarantee them a helping hand,” she says. R
$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ $ $ $ $ Gold Dollar Rolls Wrist & Pocket $ ALL TYPES ALL YEARS Watches We buy Coins and Sets $ All time periods, All kinds, All types IMPORTANT! You should not clean your coins! $ You may hurt their value! $ Paper Money Silver Dollar $ $ Regular Watches...................................... $10,000 Chronograph Watches............................. $15,000 $ Repeating Watches.................................. $60,000 Musical Watches...................................... $35,000 Complete Sets $ Chiming Watches..................................... $100,000 Silver Coins Moon Phaze Watches............................... $60,000 NEW HIGHER PRICES Stop Watches........................................... $10,000 $ Silver 10¢ ..50¢ .....75¢ to $500 Unusual Function..................................... $35,000 Silver 25¢ ..$1.25 ..$1.80 to $1,000 Unusual Dial............................................. $7,000 Silver 50¢ ..$2.00 ..$3.75 to $5,000 $ Unusual Shape......................................... $10,000 Silver $1 ..$6.00..$10.00 to $10,000 World Time Watches................................ $35,000 $ Jump Hour Watches................................. $2,000 Doctor’s Watches..................................... $1,500 Sterling & Silver Gold, Silver & Platinum $ Podewatches........................................... $50,000 All time periods, All kinds, All Types ALL FORMS NEEDED Ladies Watches........................................ $10,000 A. Large................................................... $25,000 $ We’re now buying selected pieces of fine jewelry Audemars Piquet..................................... $30,000 Bail.......................................................... $3,500 for a future jewelry museum! $ Breitling................................................... $1,500 Cartier...................................................... $50,000 Fine Jewelry $ ................................................ $1,200 All time periods, All kinds, All Types Diamonds Columbus. Carums.................................................... $3,000 We will pay up to the following for rare or collectible jewelry! $ Dashiere.................................................. $14,000 Instant Cash for Pins..................................................................$5,000 Dudley...................................................... $11,000 Silver Jewelry..................................................$500 1/4 Carat. . .......Up to. . ..... $275 Brooches..........................................................$15,000 Gold Filled Jewelry (1920 & older)..................$200 E. Howard & Co........................................ $11,500 $ 1/2 Carat.........Up to....... $1,200 Puant L............................................................$5,000 Pendants..........................................................$7,500 Elgin......................................................... $600 Necklaces........................................................$25,000 Geometric Design............................................$7,500 1 Carat............Up to....... $4,000 Frodshorn................................................ $12,000 Cocktail Rings..................................................$15,000 Rings................................................................$15,000 $ 2 Carat............Up to. . ..... $15,000 Art Noveau.......................................................$12,500 Chain Bracelets...............................................$5,000 Galiot....................................................... $1,000 Earrings...........................................................$10,000 Crossover Rings...............................................$10,000 3 Carat............Up to....... $30,000 Gryen....................................................... $1,000 Bracelets.........................................................$12,500 Lavatories........................................................$7,500 $ Garnet Jewelry................................................$500 Guberlin................................................... $40,000 Cameos............................................................$500 Bracelita Herns. . ..............................................$300 Victorian..........................................................$10,000 Hamilton.................................................. $200 Art Deco...........................................................$12,500 Filigreso Rings.................................................$15,000 $ Illinois...................................................... $1,200 Floral Design....................................................$10,000 Enameled.........................................................$2,500 International............................................ $1,200 Cuff Links.........................................................$750 Jules Jurgenson...................................... $15,000 $ LeCouritre................................................ $5,000 Longing.................................................... $12,000 $ Movado.................................................... $2,000 Omega..................................................... $2,000 $ Large Estate Collection! Patek Phillippe......................................... $70,000 Rolex........................................................ $20,000 $ Saint Thomas........................................... $1,200 Specialists! Immediate Payment! Tiffany & Co............................................. $70,000 Ulysse Nordin........................................... $25,000 $ House & Bank Calls Available Vocheron & Constantin............................ $25,000 All Others................................................. $25,000 $ $ $ $ $ $ 8 E. Holly St. “Old Town” Pasadena $ Call Paul for an appointment at $ $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
GOLD & SILVER at RECORD HIGHS
We’re Buying!
Rare Watches, Worth a Fortune in Cash! Pay up to the following:
Pay up to for the following rare dollar used new 1794 to 1833........Up to........... $2,000.......$50,000 1834 to 1839........Up to........... $1,000.......$5,000 1840 to 1873........Up to........... $500..........$5,000 Trade Dollar a.......Up to........... $100..........$2,500 1878 to 1904........Up to........... $1,500.......$12,500 1921 to 1935........Up to........... $50............$5,000
All prices are paid based on rarity and condition
UNITED STATES Flying Eagle-Indian Cent . .................................................................Up to..................... $7,500 Lincoln Coins.....................................................................................Up to..................... $5,000 Buffalo Nickels..................................................................................Up to..................... $12,500 Barber Dimes.....................................................................................Up to..................... $10,000 Mercury Dimes..................................................................................Up to..................... $10,000 Standing Liberty 25¢.........................................................................Up to..................... $12,500 Walking Liberty 50¢...........................................................................Up to..................... $12,500 Morgan Dollars .................................................................................Up to..................... $50,000 Peace Dollars . ..................................................................................Up to..................... $10,000 50 pc. Commemorative Silver............................................................Up to..................... $25,000
We also purchase partial sets.
Private, Confidential & Secure • Over 30 years in Business!
COIN CONNECTION
(626) 793-8686
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
sAlly fAlkow
sociAl mediA strAtegist
Corporate web by STACEY WANG
�x�erience
Lin Vlacich
Your Local Real Estate Expert Providing Comprehensive Real Estate Services to Home Buyers and Sellers
w. 626-396-3975 c. 626-688-6464 vlacichs@aol.com vlacichs.com 459 E. Colorado Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91101 64 | ROSE | APril 2010
LOCAL NEWS Subscribe to Pasadena’s No. 1 newspaper to get the latest news, plus information about local shops, restaurants, nightlife and other things to see and do. No one offers more local news and information about your community than we do. Subscribe today: 1-800-922-0922
PHOTO BY SARAH REINGEWIRTZ
A
As A sociAl mediA strAtegist and a mom, Sally Falkow will tell you it’s true: everyone and their mother does use Facebook. In fact, she is part of that statistic. She is one of Facebook’s more than 400 million active users; she posts numerous tweets on Twitter daily; she has her own blog, proactivereport. com; and she even has “friended” her children on these social networking sites. But Falkow, who is president of Expansion+ in Pasadena, doesn’t just use social media. She is its champion. With more than 30 years in public relations, Falkow has been a trendsetter for the trade — following social media usage even before the term existed. Now that it is a necessity, businesses and PR firms have been looking to Falkow for help in tackling the social media monster. In 2009, Falkow trained more than 300 company executives in social media, which was why she was named “PR Trainer of the Year” at the 2009 Public Relations People Awards. Through Expansion+, Falkow helps businesses and PR firms get in tune with consumers through Internet marketing and public relations. But mainly, she helps them
transition from relying on the traditional media of print and broadcast to online social media. “The main thing is that the Internet — not so much that it’s changed businesses, but it’s changed how people find their news and information, and how people communicate with one another. And that forces businesses to change the way they do business,” Falkow says. It may seem like a no-brainer for the everyday user, but social media is harder for businesses to master. That’s why she established the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley chapters of Social Media Club, a nonprofit that meets monthly to educate businesses about social media use at no cost. “(Businesses have) had to really learn because for a hundred years, they’ve had a completely different way of doing things,” Falkow says. In an age when old marketing tactics and “corporate-speak” can no longer charm consumers, Falkow teaches businesses to adopt the voice of individuals within a company, instead of being one corporate identity. A company should be willing to have its everyday workers become the spokespeople when using social media because people respond well to it, the strategist says. An enticing attribute of social networking is that everyone can belong to a community — whether it’s one of friends, hobbyists or aficionados. For companies, that community will include its workers and consumers, who are passionate about its products or services. Each blog and status update should be from its employees, who are
only discussing things that are of importance and interest to the consumer, Falkow says. “For me, my community is mainly people in PR. The ones who follow me follow because I have a long history in PR. I really understand them. I understand their struggle. I have gone through it. I’ve learned it, but I can speak to them in a language that’s real to them,” Falkow says. Her connection is personable and relatable — exactly what she teaches businesses and PR firms to have when dealing with their community. “It’s been a real learning curve to have to come from that persona to just being people,” Falkow says. “Companies have had to allow their employees to represent the company.” Regardless of individual or company representation, the rise of social networking sites have created an expectancy for its users to be genuine and truthful, she says. It has also created a job market within public relations and marketing in which its representatives must convey that down-toearth allure, as well as keep up-to-date with the next hottest thing in social networking. Because even in the instance of Facebook, the most popular social networking site in the world to date, its future is unknown. “I think something else will always come along. Facebook seems to be sustaining pretty well, but we’ll have to see if it lasts forever,” Falkow says. “Who knows? Twenty years from now you’ll say, ‘Facebook’ and people will say, ‘Face-what?’” R
San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity
Kentucky Derby Party
Saturday, May 1, 2010, Noon to 4:00 p.m. Club Court of Santa Anita Race Track West Huntington Drive, Arcadia Events Reception No Host Bar Buffet Lunch Welcome by Habitat Families Silent Auction Live Auction Pianist Jazz Band Handicapper Jockey Ambassadors Live viewing of Kentucky Derby Race For more information, sponsorship opportunities and reservations contact 626.387.6899 ext 18 or KentuckyDerby@sgvhabitat.org
APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 65
SEEN
Midas Touch
Hillsides Foster Care, Feb. 27 The annual black-tie dance and auction at the California Club in Los Angeles raised funds for the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charity. Right: Ben and Judy Reiling, and Cortney and George Saavedra. Bottom right: Joseph Costa, Ida and John Hitchcock, and Jay Bechtol. Below: Glenn Keller, left, Henri Ford, and Donna Ford. Bottom left: Sue Hale, Richard Hale, and Carolyn and John Naber.
Love Embraces Life Elizabeth House, March 20
Photos by James Carbone and Sarah reingewirtz
Elizabeth House, the only shelter for homeless pregnant women and their children in the San Gabriel Valley, got a boost from its supporters during its seventh annual gala benefit at University Club in Pasadena. Right: Rob Knauss, and Betsy and Hugh Hewitt. Bottom right: Rosalie Halverson, Eric Smith and Maritza Smith. Below: Debbie Unruh, Anthony Stanley and Mary Sue Scheidler.
66 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
OldTownMonroviaCA.com
Myrtle Ave. exit from the 210 freeway. Parking is always free.
INSIDER
By LARRY WILSON
Our town’s women wonders
I
I have always mistrusted people — mostly men, naturally — who mutter lines like: “Women rule the world, anyway — what are they complaining about?” It’s nothing more than a newfangled version of 1950s chortling about “asking the little woman” if it was OK to buy a new fishing boat since “the better half controls the purse strings.” This, while barely leaving her enough in the household allowance to pay for groceries. But times change, sometimes even for the better. I remember when I first realized how many of the professionals in my life were women. The brilliant and wonderful Patty Burnett was our managing editor, so it must have been in the late 1980s. My boss. My physician. Our lawyer. Our investment adviser. Our accountant. When this husband of that time added in his wife, his mother and a daughter-to-be — well, no wonder it sometimes did seem to finally be a woman’s world. One quick glance, though, at the Congress, the White House, the Legislature, our city halls and Fortune 500 board rooms shows that some of that progress has been rather slower than a society might have hoped. Hey, I heard the other day that even Iraq has a mandate that 25 percent of its top legislative body be women. Not us — not that a quota would be a good idea. But I did a quick mental sweep of Pasadena institutions, east to west, the other day, and when I counted the Women of Distinction who instantly came to mind, it was an impressive cast: Robin McCarthy at Women at Work on far east Colorado empowers for employment all the livelong day. So do so many of her board members, including Ann Hight, Angie O’Brien, Marge Leighton and Marsha Rood. At Young & Healthy in the old Methodist church on Holliston, Mary Donnelly and her allwomen team believe it is the right of every child to have access to quality health care. Plus, they do something about it.
68 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
Up the street at Villa Esperanza, Kelly White and her mostly women staff are leaders in teaching children with developmental disabilities and aiding vulnerable, at-risk adults and seniors from their growing campus. PCC’s acting President Lisa Sugimoto should get the gig full-time. Counselor Bianca Richards and art professor Kay Yee kick collegiate butt. At KPCC, whose radio voices I still mentally picture as emanating from the campus even though they’ve migrated a long shout away down to South Raymond, Patt Morrison is the most trusted, the smartest and the best-informed print-and-audio byline in Southern California. Sandra Tsing Loh is rocking the labcoat world with “The Loh Down on Science.” And now long-time NPRer Madeleine Brand, who loves X and hates okra, is joining the Southern California Public Radio women’s mixtape. Down Hill Avenue at another prestigious little college, Caltech would not rule the world without Denise Nelson Nash, Carol Carmichael, Melany Hunt and Jacqueline Barton. Over to Hudson and the PUSD Ed Center, board members Renatta Cooper and Elizabeth Pomeroy and principals Sheryl Orange at Muir and Debra DeBose at Willard are strong schoolyard women. The Armory Center for the Arts on North Raymond would dry up and blow away in a painterly manner if it weren’t for the likes of Sally Bickerton, Sinead Finnerty-Pyne, Elisa Laris, Slade Bellum and so many more. City Hall would mete out ineffectual government indeed without Margaret Thomas, Ann Erdman, Jacque Robinson, Julie Gutierrez, Rochelle Branch and Michelle Bagneris. Up Garfield at the Police Department, though it lost Cmdr. Marilyn Diaz to chief of Sierra Madre, Lisa Rosales recently moved up to acting commander. Where Garfield hits Walnut, Jan Sanders runs the Public Library with impeccable class; it’s one of only five California libraries — and the only one in its budget class — to get the Library Journal ranking of five stars. On the Lida hill and down at South Campus too, Archetype Press’s Gloria Kondrup and sustainability guru Heidrun Mumper-Drumm keep Art Center humming. Art rules because of the Museum of History’s Jeannette O’Malley, the Norton Simon’s Sara Campbell and the Pasadena Museum of California Art’s Jenkins Shannon and Emma Jacobson-Sive. Pasadena Rotary Club in its 90th year is presided over by President Cathy Simms. Former Rotary Prexy Christle Balvin knows everything about Pasadena. Our own Patt Diroll knows that, too, and not only where all the society bodies are buried but what their ex-spouses think about the tackiness of the gravesites. The entire nonprofit world — a larger planet each year in Pasadena — is overseen by the Pasadena Community Foundation’s Jennifer DeVoll. Jane Haderlein rules the development roost at growing Huntington Hospital. The increasingly complex interactions in the arts are majordomo-ed by the Pasadena Arts Council’s Terry LeMoncheck. The Western Justice Center Foundation metes out engagement, education and peace-building through Angela Oh. Then at the Flintridge Foundation, John Muir High and everywhere in the Northwest, there’s Jaylene Moseley — one of the most generous and influential Pasadenans of our time. There are many other women wonders in this town. Next year, in this space. Larry Wilson is public editor of the Pasadena Star-News and the San Gabriel Valley Newspapers.
Jewels
of Pasadena
Women of Distinction
DINNER & GALA april 29, 2010 â&#x20AC;˘ pasadena hilton
T
They own businesses. They’re educators. They volunteer in the community. They’re the finalists for Rose Magazine’s Women of Distinction, and we’re proud to present them to you in this edition. We received nominations in nine categories – from arts and culture to science and technology – and we’ll announce the “winners” on April 29. I put that in quotation marks because all of these women are winners – as is the community they serve. They bring sophistication and courage, heart and leadership to a world that needs all of that. For the Rose Magazine staff, this was an exciting project, months in the making. They sought to honor the best of the best, and solicited nominations from throughout the community. The response was overwhelming, and spoke to the value we all place on those willing to go the extra length to help others and improve our quality of life. The women featured in these pages are being recognized for their philanthropy, their volunteerism and their innovation. We’ll honor a young woman of the year, a mother of the year and an entrepreneur of the year. It’s the first in an annual endeavor we’re proud to sponsor. I thank those who took the time to submit nominations, and the nominees themselves for making our world better. See you on the 29th!
Steve Lambert Publisher
The winners will be announced at the Jewels of Pasadena Women of Distinction Gala on April 29 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Hilton Pasadena. The event, to be hosted by Pasadena’s Ann Erdman, will honor all the finalists. Tickets are $50. You may purchase the tickets over the phone by calling (626) 962-8811, ext. 4466, or at the Pasadena Star-News office at 911 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena.
70 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
Nonprofit of the Year
Junior League of Pasadena
Members of the Junior League of Pasadena during their annual BodyWise conference, a one-day event for middle school girls and their caregivers, at Westridge School in Pasadena.
Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz
N
by anissa v. rivera
Never mind the image of the debutante or society matron doing good in pearls. Members of the Junior League of Pasadena are too busy working to debunk the stereotype, or maybe it’s the work they continue to do that rises above that notion. Fact is, the Junior League of Pasadena has spent the past 84 years promoting volunteerism among women of any race, ethnicity and age group. It has 750 members, with about 130 active, who donate their time to the group’s core missions: develop the potential of women and nurture children and families. “The Junior League is full of incredibly talented women, real women from all different backgrounds facing all the demands and challenges of life — and yet, they make time for (Junior League),” says Katrina Onderdonk, president. “Our members understand the importance of giving back to the community, year-round.” And no, league membership no longer requires a social pedigree, just a willingness to work. “Our members are diverse with over 70 percent working,” Onderdonk says. “Our members balance all the various demands of women in our generation — families, jobs, education, and other volunteer commitments — so,
we have to be efficient. We maximize the time of our volunteers and make the time meaningful through friendships, trainings, and a sense of accomplishment.” Nicole Weaver-Goller, 37, of Altadena, is the league’s president-elect. “I was looking to balance my work and family lives with community involvement,” she says. “Like so many of us I grew up with parents who set an example of community participation, giving back through our schools and community organizations. The Junior League just struck me as a group of like-minded individuals who were interested in making the community we live in a better place for all of us.” Since 1926, the Junior League of Pasadena has been instrumental in enriching the city’s cultural life. The group was instrumental in founding the Junior Museum in what is now the Norton Simon Museum, produced a series of children’s concerts with the Pasadena Area Youth Music Council and inspired the Pipers, a group of league members and other volunteers who sing in hospitals, senior centers and schools. There wouldn’t be a Kidspace Museum without the Junior League, which sparked the idea in 1979 when mem-
APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 71
84 years, today we reach out to women of all races, religions and national bers created an interactive exhibit for children at Caltech, using neon origins who demonstrate an interest in and commitment to volunteerlights and robotics. ism. We strive to reflect the women of our community. We used to be And league members, residents from all over the San Gabriel Valley, an organization of full-time volunteers. Today, we are an organization of are mainstay volunteers with the Pasadena Historical Society and the part-time volunteers.” Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens. (In fact, they started the These volunteers were out in force at BodyWise, a one-day conferdocent program there.) ence on healthy lifestyles for middle school girls and their caregivers, held Scott Ward, executive director of the Armory Center for the Arts in at Westridge High in March. This is part of their Pasadena, says the community arts center owes a “Girls Rock!” initiative to help middle school lot to the league. girls. In January, its “Done in a Day” project was “As just one example of important community a community expo and 10K highlighting health involvement, the Junior League was instrumental in The league’s general members meet and volunteer opportunities in the city. the beginnings of what is now the Armory,” he says. about six times a year. League events and training committees organize these events The league will have other Done in a Day “These efforts were more than 50 years ago and at different local venues, such as schools, plans that help multiple organizations and have to this day arts education thrives at the Armory libraries, hospitals and other nonprofits an immediate impact in the community. because of their vision and hard work.” with associations to the league such as the Kids in the Kitchen, a one-day workshop on Melissa Johnson, a psychologist and founder of Pasadena Senior Center or Kidspace Museum. healthy eating and nutrition, is coming up and the Institute for Girls’ Development in Pasadena, For more information, visit www. its iconic cookbook, this time titled “California says the league is vital to the institute’s work in jrleaguepasadena.org, e-mail jlpi@earthlink. Mosaic,” is already a multiple award-winner. empowering young women. net or call 626-796-0244. Worldwide, there are 292 Junior Leagues in “We love our partnerships with the Junior four countries, with more than 160,000 memLeague and so appreciate all they do here in Pasabers working toward the same vision of building dena,” Johnson said. better communities, making a league of their own, Onderdonk says. Onderdonk, whose mother was a member of the Pasadena chapter, “We’re women around the world, volunteering our time as catalysts says the league’s work today presents their world, circa 2010. for lasting community change,” she says. “(What I love most about the “Our history surrounds us, but the volunteer world is changing and league) is leadership development, friendships and making a connection it’s our priority to keep the JLP strong and to support the community in with the ever-changing needs of our community.” R the years to come,” she says. “While we have had our same mission for
DOING GOOD:
Saturday, June 19th, 2010 10:00am-4:00pm Pasadena Convention Center 300 Green Street Pasadena, Ca 91101
Become an Exhibitor: Reserve Your Booth Space Early! With women making 80% of the family’s purchasing decisions for virtually everything, the Pasadena Star-News Women’s Expo is one of the best places to connect with your customers and advertise your enterprise. Don’t miss this opportunity to exhibit your products and services to thousands of ready-to-buy consumers, all gathered at one exciting event!
For more information, call 626-578-6300 ext 4466
72 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
ďŹ nalists: WOMAN OF THE YEAR
Ljiljana Grozdanic
Nadine Washington
Tahra Goraya
Ljiljana Grozdanic has devoted herself to the enrichment of those around her. She spends countless hours fundraising for arts preservation, historical architecture and humanity. She has raised funds for organizations such as Pasadena Playhouse and Habitat for Humanity. She also founded the San Gabriel Valley Preservation Coalition and Historical Preservation Committee. Grozdanic was instrumental in the passing of the Mills Act and creating the Arroyo as a national historic region. As a key member of PasadenaFoothills Association of REALTORS, she wrote a handbook on preserving historic homes, and formed a fund for Realtors struggling ďŹ nancially due to illness.
Nadine Washington has a long history of volunteerism. She was the ďŹ rst chair of the YWCA Pasadena Racial Justice Committee, initiated a Racial Justice Breakfast and guided the commission as a proactive entity on combatting human trafďŹ cking and slavery. Washington helped the city host a series during Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Month on topics such as menopause, health and sexually transmitted diseases. She is an advocate for women who are victims of sexual harassment and domestic violence, and empowers them through personal and business coaching. She is a board member of Child Care Information Service, American Cancer Society Los Angeles region and Council of Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clubs.
Tahra Goraya approaches service with love, generosity and compassion. She faces challenges with a positive force â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whether it is reducing substance abuse or promoting civil rights for the young and elderly. She was the national director of Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington D.C. and was elected as the ďŹ rst female president of the Southern California chapter. She has a passion for helping others, which was evident when she guided a mother of two from a life of poverty to become a successful entrepreneur. Goraya most values life and education, and believes that all should be treated equally and with respect. She currently serves as district director for Senator Carol Liu.
PASADENA (626) 796-3300 41 E. WALNUT ST. (East of Fair Oaks)
MONDAY - FRIDAY 8am-6pm VIDEO & PRO DEPTS. 9am-6pm
SATURDAY 9am-6pm SUNDAY 11am-5pm
APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 73
finalists: TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Sheryl Orange
Stacey Williams
Harriet Hammond
Recently named Pasadena Unified School District’s Principal of the Year, Sheryl Orange was recognized for her outstanding leadership and dedication to efforts at John Muir High School. JMHS was under state monitoring and in jeopardy of shutting down, but through Orange’s leadership, the school has made a turnaround. API test scores have improved, attendance is up and student participation has increased.
Fourth-grade teacher Stacey Williams was chosen as one of Pasadena Unified School District’s 2009 “Teachers Making a Difference” for being an inspirational educator in and out of the classroom. Williams challenges her students to take ownership, accountability and pride in their education. She spends countless hours coordinating field trips and extracurricular activities with Caltech, Young Scholars of America, The Armory of the Arts, Math Field Day and more.
A teacher’s teacher, math department chair Harriet Hammond of Pasadena High School has helped shape the district’s mathematics curriculum by establishing her own standards and holding her students and colleagues to it. She is a strong leader in the mathematics department and is able to communicate effectively with all parents. Hammond helped PHS earn a six-year accreditation when she took part in the WASC Accreditation Process in 2008-09. She tutors her students early mornings and pushes them to reach their potential. She attends all football and basketball games and has coached the math field teams for three years to achieve first and second place district-wide.
Every human being is unique. Yet potential is universal. At Pacific Oaks College, we believe that every individual has a unique identity, fundamental worth, and profound promise. And for more than 60 years, we have been dedicated to training many of our country’s most passionate human development professionals, equipping them with the knowledge and skills they need to help people from diverse backgrounds, learning styles, and strengths uncover and realize their highest potential. • Offering bachelor’s, master’s, and teacher certification programs in education, human development, and marital & family therapy. • Recognized for Distinguished Achievement in Undergraduate Education by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. • Accredited since 1959 by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). We are a proud sponsor of women who are changing their lives and the lives of others through education. www.pacificoaks.edu 74 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
45 W Eureka St. • Pasadena, CA 91103 • 800.338.1330
finalists: ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Jessica Kubzansky
Rachael Worby
Aimee Kreston
As co-artistic director, Jessica Kubzanzsky has led The Theatre @ Boston Court to nationwide recognition for producing innovative and thrilling live theatre. Kubzanzsky breaks the mold in an art form often driven by ego with a giving nature and attention to the emotions of the artists she works with. Her true collaborative spirit, career advisement and open-door policy have made her one of the most respected and talented theatre directors. She has won several awards, including 2004 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle’s Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre.
Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “inspiring and accessible,” Rachael Worby is that rare conductor, who is a skilled communicator with a wide-ranging repertoire and a versatile command of all musical genres. She is credited with the remarkable growth of organizations under her leadership, which includes her role as the music director of the new Pasadena POPS. She has guest conducted internationally, along with guest engagements with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and others. She received a presidential appointment to the National Council of the Arts in 1994, which she served for four years.
Aimee Kreston, concertmaster for the Pasadena Symphony and POPS since 2000, is a dynamic and essential presence in the musical community. She has generously led and guided her fellow musicians to greater levels of excellence with her talent and commitment as a teacher. Apart from her obvious technical skill, she has taught music to children in Third World countries and is a prime mover for Project Harmony, a program designed to bring quality and lowcost musical training to disadvantaged children in the Los Angeles area. Kreston has performed throughout the United States and Europe, and also on live radio broadcasts and film soundtracks.
“The Oldest Comedy Club in the World” L.A.’s #1 Latino Comedy Show Hot new acts every week Celebrity drop-ins 2 for 1 admission
RUDY MORENO’S LATINO COMEDY SHOWCASE www.icehousecomedy.com
Laugh Lineup:
April 17 HBO & UH1 BOBBY COLLINS May 2 LAST COMIC STANDING ALONZO BODDEN May 14 & 15 NBC’s “CHUCK” MARK CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE Join Us on your Birthday for FREE!
2 FOR 1
* Not valid for special events
The Night the Comics Love to Play! Special Admission Price $5.00 Only 8:00 p.m. Show Only * Not valid for Special Events
COME OUT A BIT LATER... SAVE $ AND SEE THE HOTTEST CROWDS AND COMICS “CUTTING LOOSE” * VALID 10 : 30 SHOW ONLY s ./4 6!,)$ &/2 30%#)!, %6%.43
FULL BAR – NEW FOOD MENU – CONVENIENT PARKING 24 N. Mentor Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91106
626.577.1894
APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 75
finalists: VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR
Pixie Boyden
Celestine McFearn Walker
Jackie Knowles
Pixie Boyden has promoted positive outcomes amongst peers and the community. Currently a mentor to two local girls, Boyden also raises money annually to donate Thanksgiving dinners to Union Station Mission and helps teens with tutoring assistance. She works with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority to get the word out about the census’ importance, helps organize a voter education workshop and helps with the Young Africa American Women’s conference at Pasadena City College. Boyden has hosted clothing drives for under-served teens and volunteered for a pajama donation drive for Pasadena Unified School District kids.
For 16 years, Celestine McFearn Walker has stayed and worked as an advocate for the most pressing concerns of her neighbors. She is the managing director, and formerly the board president, for grassroots organization Neighbors Acting Together Helping All, which creates educated and activist community members seeking to improve the lives of the neighborhood. Walker has founded and operated numerous programs for children, including tutoring, martial arts, gardening, entrepreneurial efforts and leadership opportunities. She works with neighbors, local government agencies and other nonprofits to rid the community of drug activity and substance abuse.
Jackie Knowles has energetically pursued social change through volunteering. She helped establish The Woman’s Room, a refuge for at-risk or homeless women, and leads 25 volunteers to operate it. She supports public schools through major projects, such as a mock election for thousands of K-12 students in Pasadena area schools. Knowles, a League of Women Voters of the Pasadena Area board member, also founded The Culinary Historians of Southern California, which provides free programs at the downtown Los Angeles Library. She has led a Camp Fire Girls troop, participated in a drive to build the Sierra Madre recreation center and served on the Women at Work board.
Got Real Estate Questions? Contact your local Realtor ®
PA S A D E N A - F O O T H I L L S
ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS PROUDLY SERVING OUR MEMBERS AND COMMUNITIES SINCE 1907 1070 East Green Street, Suite 100 Pasadena, California 91106 6 2 6 . 7 9 5 . 2 4 5 5 • w w w . p f a r. o r g
76 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
®
finalists: PHILANTHROPIST OF THE YEAR
Cynthia Rosedale Director of events at the Pasadena Senior Center, Cynthia Rosedale works tirelessly on behalf of the seniors in the community. She spearheaded the 50th anniversary of the center. Among her many other responsibilities, she heads the statewide undertaking of the California Senior Olympics.
Nancy Neal Davis
Jane Caughey
Nancy Neal Davis’ passion for projects and organizations that further the positive image and reputation of the city is what motivates her to donate her time and talents. She mentors young women aspiring to the philanthropic field — as well as raises funds for Five Acres, the Imagination Workshop, Homeboy Industries and Pasadena Girl Scouts. Her care about education was a reason she served with educators and community leaders to develop engaging after school programs at the Pacific Asia Museum. She is also a member of the Tournament of Roses Foundation.
With more than 41 years of experience in real estate, Jane Caughey has an extensive background in the Pasadena area and is a friend to many in the community. She is a Coleman Chamber Music Association board member, and member of Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and Pasadena Symphony Association. She is also affiliated with Caltech, Friends of the Caltech Libraries, Pasadena Historical Society and Norton Simon Museum.
DEGREES OF CHANGE • Doctor of Psychology in Organization Consulting
DOCTOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
Organizational Consulting Phillips Graduate Institute excels in post-graduate education. The Master and Doctoral programs provide students the education and training necessary to be successful. Our courses offer a challenging intellectual learning environment and exposure to practical experience. ARS 2 ⁄ YE
DOCTOR OF OF PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY DOCTOR
OrganizationalConsulting Consulting Organizational 1
EARN
.D. IN days A PSY Satur 2
n 660 held oMaster s The PhillipsGraduate Graduate Instituteexcels excels inpost-graduate post-graduateeducation. education. 86-5and Phillips ClasseThe 818/3 and ! y Phillips Graduate Institute Institute excels in in post-graduate education. Master a d o necessary to Doctoral programs provide students the education and training Call T The Master and Doctoral programs students thetraining Doctor of Psychology in Organizational Consultingprovide Doctoral programs provide students the education and necessary toS be successful. Our courses offer a challenging intellectual learning 1 YEAR Master of Artsand in Psychology: Marriage and Family Therapy education training necessary be successful. be successful. Our courses offer atochallenging intellectual learning IN 2 ⁄2 aySs environment andaexposure to practical experience. SY.D. Master of Arts inoffer Psychology: Marriage and Family Therapy/Art Therapy P A Our courses challenging intellectual a2tu⁄ YrEdAR ys0 RN environment n .D.SIN o Y Master of Arts in and Schoolexposure Counseling to practical experience. EA S d d P l r sRhNeA d o8n/3S8at6u-56a660 learning environment and exposure Master of Arts in School Psychology ClasEseA assaey s h! e8l 1 8/386-56 1 Col d to practical experience. T l l a C Call Today! 8 Doctor of Psychology in Organizational Consulting
DEGREES OF CHANGE
1
• Master of Arts in Psychology: Marriage and Family Therapy • Master of Arts in Psychology: Marriage and Family Therapy /Art Therapy • Master of Arts in School Counseling • Master of Arts in School Psychology
2
DEGREESOF OFCHANGE CHANGE DEGREES
5445 BALBOA BLVD. • ENCINO, CA 91316 • 818/386-5660 • WWW.PGI.EDU Doctor of of Psychology in Organizational Consulting Master Arts in Psychology: Marriage and Family Therapy Master of Arts in Psychology: Marriage and Family Therapy Master of Arts in Psychology: Marriage and Family Therapy/Art Therapy Master ofof Arts in in Psychology: Marriage and Family Therapy/Art Therapy Master Arts School Counseling Master ofof Arts in in School Counseling Master Arts School Psychology Master of Arts in School Psychology 5445 BALBOA BLVD. • ENCINO, CA 91316 • 818/386-5660 • WWW.PGI.EDU 5445 BALBOA BLVD. • ENCINO, CA 91316 • 818/386-5660 • WWW.PGI.EDU
5445 Balboa Boulevard Encino, CA 91316
818/386-5660 www.pgi.edu APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 77
finalists: ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR
Diana Olson
Christine Lenches-Hinkel
Arlene M. Apodaca
Image and etiquette consultant Diana Olson has helped others discover, appreciate and highlight their special inner qualities. Olson is the philanthropic chair for the local chapter of Association of Image Consultants International and is working with a professor of John Hopkins University on a national civility project. She has served as a judge in the Miss Pasadena Teen pageant, contributed services to the Walter Hoving Home in Pasadena and was etiquette consultant to actresses Emma Roberts and Lisa Rinna.
Christine Lenches-Hinkel, president of Wasteless Living Inc., can be considered the queen of trash for developing a comprehensive, educational and integrative compost waste management program for the community. Lenches-Hinkel has been helping people help the planet by teaching them how to divert waste from landfills. An environmental planner for more than seven years, Lenches-Hinkel provides consulting services to various local firms.
Co-owner of Partners in Diversity Inc., Arlene Apodaca has incredible intuition and insight in matching personalities to certain positions and offices. Formerly CEO of the Purcell Group and Superior Temporary Services, Apodaca has helped with personnel placement and implemented labor laws at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has done presentations for classes at Whittier Christian School, teaching them interview preparations. She also volunteers with American Honda for the Los Angeles Marathon and participates in Walk for Hope.
where learning and play are one. kidspace
children’s museum Supports Women of Distinction
Kidspace Children’s Museum features world-class exhibits and 2.2 acres of outdoor learning environments designed to encourage visitors to discover the excitement of learning while engaging in the creativity of play. Kidspace encourages a child’s growth and development through explorations of the environment, investigations in science and artistic forms of expression that captivate the inquisitive minds of children ages 1-10.
480 N. Arroyo Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91103 626-449-9144
www.kidspacemuseum.org 78 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
For upcoming special programming visit www.kidspacemuseum.org Contact Kidspace if you are interested in hosting your next special event or would like to schedule a school field trip.
Hours Tuesday - Friday 9:30AM - 5PM Saturday & Sunday 10:00AM - 5PM
Admission: $10 per person Members are free
finalists: MOTHER OF THE YEAR
Jo von Tiehl
Rita Gail Turner
Selfless in every sense, Jo von Tiehl has a genuine care for others. Whether helping the less fortunate or colleagues at Coldwell Banker in Pasadena, von Tiehl is the first to say “yes.” She has been a life-long volunteer — serving on boards, organizing benefits and leading art tours — including services on the board of the Coldwell Banker Foundation. As Coldwell’s associate manager, she is seen as an asset to her office with a good moral compass, an amazing ability of management and camaraderie. She authored a short narrative, “The ABC’s of Parenting,” and taught innovative classes and led workshops and seminars on parenting.
Rita Gail Turner takes on the role of mother to many youth in the Pasadena area. She believes in introducing people to opportunities generally not offered to them — even if it means working late night to help someone or buying interview clothes for young folks. Her extraordinary dedication to her community is evident through her good works, such as helping a homeless woman at her doorstep and offering free notary service to seniors. She spends hours helping students with applications, writing recommendations and e-mailing job, volunteer and scholarship opportunities. She also serves as an adviser to the Pasadena NAACP Youth Council.
Bernice E. Miller From dusk to dawn, Bernice Miller never stops doing things for others. She is heavily involved in church — which includes driving handicap people to and from church, setting up for service and serving as usher. Twice a month, she hosts tea parties for disabled individuals at the Monte Vista Grove Homes, donating cookies and other goods.
Stonefire Grill is the Leader in Southern California for family DINING, TAKE OUT AND CATERING
SEVEN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCATIONS Fountain Valley
18727 Brookhurst Street 714-968-8300
PASADENA 473 N. Rosemead Blvd. 626.921.1255
Irvine
3966 Barranca Parkway 949-777-1177
West Hills
6405 Fallbrook Avenue 818-887-4145
Chatsworth
s 4AKE /UT
9229 Winnetka Avenue 818-534-3364
Valencia
“As a family of 11, our dinner table was filled each day with large plates of simply prepared food, carefully and lovingly planned with both taste and a budget in mind. The kitchen table became our gathering place where plates and stories circled amongst us and the warmth of good food and shared conversation filled our home. At Stonefire, we use simple, fresh ingredients daily to prepare exceptionally delicious meals at reasonable prices just like families across America. Stonefire is an extension of our own family and a tribute to our mother for the meals, and especially the memories. Spend less time today in the kitchen and cherish the time spent at your table and let the FIRE spread from OUR kitchen to your heart…
23300 Cinema Drive 661-799-8282
Thousand Oaks
3635 Thousand Oaks Blvd. 805-413-0300
OUR ENTIRE MENU IS AVAILABLE FOR TAKE-OUT CALL AHEAD & WE’LL HAVE IT READY!
Mary and Maureen Harrigan”
SIX SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCATIONS Fountain Valley Irvine West Hills
18727 Brookhurst Street 714-968-8300
Chatsworth
9229 Winnetka Avenue 714-968-8300
3966 Barranca Parkway 949-777-1177
6405 Fallbrook Avenue 818-887-4145
Valencia
Coming Soon Thousand Oaks
23300 Cinema Drive 661-799-8282
3635 Thousand Oaks Blvd.
OUR ENTIRE MENU IS AVAILABLE FOR TAKE-OUT CALL AHEAD & WE’LL HAVE IT READY!
APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 79
finalists: HEALTH PROVIDER OF THE YEAR
Dr. Nancy Gibbs
Dr. Vyshali Rao
Dr. Kimberly Shriner
As the regional physician lead for continuing care and geriatrics, Dr. Nancy Gibbs has been instrumental in driving programs and initiatives that support the elderly in the community. She has implemented programs such as healthy bones, fall prevention, reducing poly-pharmacy, nutrition and more. She is the president of the Los Angeles chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization working against nuclear warfare and proliferation, global warming and toxic degradation of the environment.
Dr. Vyshali Rao is the only female board-certified interventional cardiologist in the San Gabriel Valley and was the first female chair of the cardiology department at Huntington Memorial Hospital. For the past several years, she has worked tirelessly to increase community awareness of heart disease. Rao’s work includes fundraising for the American Heart Association’s Los Angeles chapter, lecturing about heart risk prevention and heading a program to lower heart disease risk in eight females called “Better U.” She is the spokesperson for AHA’s “Go Red for Women” campaign and a member in the Circle of Red group.
Dr. Kimberly Shriner has served as a true role model in the medical world as the founder of the renowned Phil Simon Clinic at Huntington Memorial Hospital. She has been involved at the hospital as the leader in infectious and tropical disease medicine. Her care and intelligence has made her integral to the Tanzania Project, a local community effort to battle the worldwide pandemic of AIDS.
The Fast and the Flawless
Closing on time, with little or no red tape, saves you money, time and worry. That’s why W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital Corp. has put together a team of the best processors, underwriters, closers and funders in the business. They’re fast, they’re accurate, and their goal is to make sure you get your loan when you need it. In fact, we have some of the fastest turn times in the mortgage lending industry, measuring the time in hours, not days. Our entire team is charged with the task of ensuring you have the best customer experience every step of the way. Our Operations team is just as committed to providing you with excellent service as the Loan Officer who helped you select your financing and file your paperwork. Together, they do the work so you don’t have to worry. WJB also employs state-of-the-art technology to ensure speed and accuracy when processing your loan. We will keep you apprised of the progress of your application throughout the process and we’re here to answer any questions you have, at any time.
If you’re ready to discuss refinancing a current loan or purchasing a new home, call W.J. Bradley today. We’re building a secure future: yours. Nelson Menendez
Tom O’ Donoghue
Michael Sohl
Holly Cornet
Area Sales Manager 626-689-4240 NMLS# 203040
Sales Manager 626-689-4118 NMLS# 202163
Judy Anderson
Joanne Arana
Jorge Trujillo
W.J. Bradley Pasadena Branch
Loan Officer 323-810-2688 NMLS# 202704
Loan Officer 626-755-0239 NMLS# 213388
1055 E. Colorado Blvd. #120A, Pasadena, CA 91106 License # 813G696
Loan Officer 626-689-4267 NMLS# 201923
W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital Corp.
Loan Officer 626-689-4347 NMLS# 205111
Loan Officer 818-424-4379 NMLS# 201733
WJB120809121
Equal Housing Lender. © 2010 W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital Corp., 201 Columbine Street Suite 300, Denver, CO 80206. Phone #303-825-5670. Trade/service marks are the property of W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital Corp. This is not a commitment to lend. Restrictions apply. All rights reserved. Some products may not be available in all states. Licensed by the Department of Corporations under the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act RML# 4131002.
80 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
finalists: ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Kim Smith
Taylor Gomez
Erika James
As a freshman, basketball player Kim Smith helped the 2009 Pasadena City College team win the first-ever state team championship in PCC women’s sports history. She has developed into one of the state’s top-scoring guards in her sophomore season. At PCC, Smith is the top scorer and is about to become the fourth player in the school’s history to score more than 1,000 points in her career. She was tournament MVP for both of PCC’s hosted tourneys, the Hilton Garden Inn Classic and Rose City Classic.
Taylor Gomez is a two-sport athlete in girls varsity basketball and volleyball at John Muir High School. She was named 2009-10 co-MVP of the Pacific League for girls basketball. Academically, she has a 3.72 GPA.
Erika James was awarded “Athlete of the Week” in October 2009 by the Pasadena Star-News. She led Marshall Fundamental High School’s volleyball team to its first playoff berth and was voted 2009 Delphic League MVP for her sportsmanship and athletic ability. James is also the captain of the varsity softball team and was voted First Team AllLeague (Alpha League) last year. James is a 3.5 GPA student and member of the principal’s honor roll. She participates in a broad range of community service organizations on- and off-campus.
APRIL 2010 | ROSE | 81
ďŹ nalists: YOUNG WOMAN OF THE YEAR
Ellie Benuska
Heather Adams
Caireesa Lynn Barry
On the brink of her teenage years, a 12-year-old Ellie Benuska began struggling with severe depression that would continue for ďŹ ve years. After utter desolation and suffering, Benuska moved to Utah to a treatment facility that helped her make changes through intensive therapy. Gritting her teeth through the self-doubt, upon her return home she ultimately reclaimed her life to blossom into a conďŹ dent and vibrant individual. She has become a sweet, gentle and brilliant young woman her family admires. Overcoming her struggles, Benuska has an appreciation she shares with others by donating to her church and through her artwork.
Heather Adams has always made efforts to volunteer, despite working two jobs and maintaining a 4.0 GPA while taking several AP classes. She is ranked sixth of a class of 509. She is a member of National Honor Society and California Scholarship Federation. Adams takes an active role in improving the community as president of Rotary Club, and student adviser and community ambassador to the City of Pasadena Ambassador Youth Program. She has raised funds for leukemia patients and children in Africa, and ran in the Pasadena Marathon. She also sings soprano for Pasadena High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Concert Choir.
Although Caireesa Lynn Barry grew up with mild dyslexia, it has not stopped her from doing extraordinary things. Barry founded Rotary Interact Chapter, in which she spearheaded all volunteer projects. She created the idea of â&#x20AC;&#x153;one mile squared,â&#x20AC;? which focused all volunteering within one mile of her school. Her signature project was bringing fresh water to Africa by partnering with Los Angeles nonproďŹ t â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drop In the Bucket.â&#x20AC;? She organized a St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day drive, in which people purchased green items to donate money for clean water in Africa. She volunteered 111 hours at Huntington Memorial Hospital. Today, she volunteers with Portraits of Hope, a nonproďŹ t that helps sick children.
City of Pasadena Northwest Programs Division Proudly Sponsors The Young Woman of the Year Award
!
" "
82 | ROSE | APRIL 2010
An evening with
Dionne Warwick under the stars
Sunday, June 13 8pm
Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts Memorial Park, Pasadena
Purchase tickets at levittpavilionpasadena.org
American Regional Cuisine "One of America's Top Tables"-- Gourmet Gourmet Magazine Magazine "Best Reservations Special (626) Occasion 795-1001 Dining" 510 - Pasadena South Arroyo Weekly, 2008 Pa Reservations (626) 795-1001 510 South Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena
Serving Exclusively U.S.D.A. Prime Aged Steaks "Best Steakhouse" - Pasadena Weekly, 2008 Reservations (626) 577-7463 536 South Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena
Finest Steaks, Ribs and Fresh Seafood "Best Business Lunch"MerrilSndler, - PasadenaPasadena Weekly, 2008 S "America the scrum Reservations (626) 792-9999 110 South Lake Avenue, Pasadena
Formerly Crocodile CafĂŠ
California Bistro "Best California Cuisine" - Pasadena Weekly, 2008 Lunch and Dinner (626) 449-9900 140 South Lake Avenue, Pasadena
BISTRO CHEVAL BLANC IS A CASUAL FRENCH BISTRO REMINISCENT OF FRANCE'S NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANTS
Dinner Reservations (626) 577-4141 41 South De Lacey Avenue, Pasadena
S m i t h
B r o t h e r s
R e s t a u r a n t s