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UCSB Impacts Reach Beyond Campus Limits Blue Horizons Create Films on Environmental Issues The Odyssey Project Turns Troubled Teens into Thespians ! Viva el Arte! Educates as it Entertains Families

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UP FRONT Contents COASTLINES STAFF George Thurlow ’73, Publisher Andrea Huebner ’91, Editor Natalie Wong ’79, Art Director

UC SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Richard L. Breaux ’67, San Mateo President Wendy Purcell ’84, Manhatten Beach Vice-President Kim Schizas, ’77, Santa Barbara Secretary-Treasurer Ron Rubenstein ’66, Moraga Regent/Past President Arcelia Arce ’98, Los Angeles Jan Campbell ’74, Santa Barbara David C. Forman ’66, Chula Vista Mark French ’73, Santa Barbara Preston Hensley ’67, M.A.’69, North Stonington, Connecticut John Keever ’67, Camarillo Alfred F. Kenrick ’80, Palo Alto Francesco Mancia ’80, Cool Steve Mendell ’63, San Diego Alexandra (Sasha) Meshkov ’79, M.A.’83, Palm Desert Justin Morgan ’07, Reno, Nevada Jennifer Pharaoh ’82, Washington, D.C. Lisa Przekop ’85, M.A.’89, Goleta Niki Sandoval Ph.D. ’07, Lompoc Rich St.Clair ’66, Santa Barbara Markell Steele ’93, Long Beach Catherine Tonne ’81, Livermore Linda Ulrich ’83, McLean, Virginia Wenonah Valentine ’77, Pasadena Marie Williams ’89, Ashburn, Virginia Travis Wilson ’02, Santa Barbara Ex Officio Harrison Weber President, Associated Students Beverly Colgate Executive Director, The UCSB Foundation Diana T. Dyste Anzures Graduate Student Association Hua Lee, M.A.’78, Ph.D.’80 Faculty Representative Dan Burnham UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees

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FEATURES

connecting with the community 6 Blue Horizons Films Splash Across the Screen

Theater Program Turns Outreach into Odyssey for All

Viva el Arte Takes Cultural Experience to Families

Recent Events Turn the Spotlight on Domestic Workers

3 Letters to the editor 14 Around Storke Tower – And the Emmy Award

DEPARTMENTS

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16 RESEARCH ROUNDUP – When Snails Fly 18 SPORTS ROUNDUP – Gaucho Serves as Flag Bearer at World University Games

20 Milestones: ’40s to the Present 28 Thanking UCSB Alumni Association Scholarship Fund Donors

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Doctoral Student Looks at Effects of Rating System on Charitable Giving Aaron Belkin, Director of UC’s Palm Center, Talks With Democracy Now About the Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Alumni Authors: From history to memoirs

COVER: Blue Horizons students film on location in the Santa Barbara Channel during

Summer 2011. Credit: Photo by Michael Hanrahan

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UP FRONT Letters to the Editor

Alumnus Finds Coastlines Ad at Odds With UCSB’s Environmental Record

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on the beach. I have been around long enough to recognize Oil’s subtle approach. It’s only a matter of time before “tar on the beach” will become part of the “drill, baby, drill” mantra. Venoco is neither providing a public service or valuable information; rather, this is another salvo of a well-designed and coordinated disinformation campaign to support additional drilling. It is disturbing to recognize this paid ad in my alumnus magazine for what it is — propaganda! I seriously doubt yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s students think it preferable to have more oil drilling derricks with their noxious noise, and air and environmental pollution, just so we won’t have tar balls onshore. I suggest Coastlines provide a more sophisticated review of the ads it incorporates in the magazine. At the very least, call it an ad and disavow any endorsement, implied or otherwise, by the Alumni Association. Charlie Eckberg ’70

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FEATURE Connecting with the Community—Blue Horizons

Blue Horizons:

Student Filmmakers Turn Their Cameras on the Ocean

By Deirdre O’Shea, Communications Director for the UC Santa Barbara Colleg

here was a buzz in UC Santa Barbara’s Pollock Theater on a recent August night as the capacity crowd of professors, friends, parents, and even a few grandparents rushed to find the last available seats before the house lights went down. Since it opened in fall 2010, the Pollock has hosted a Hollywood premiere, saluted a television legend, and welcomed media industry denizens to conferences and classes, but tonight was different: the Pollock, and the Carsey-Wolf Center, were honoring their own. The five short films on the program had been made by 12 UC Santa Barbara students under the auspices of Blue Horizons, a summer program that teaches students the basics of digital media production as they make films that call attention to problems facing Southern California’s oceans. “Nine weeks ago, some of these students had never even picked up a camera, and now they are presenting their own documentary films,” said Richard Hutton, executive director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, which sponsors Blue Horizons as part of its Environmental Media Initiative. “It’s not easy to make a film, especially when you are learning how to do it at the same time, and they’ve done an incredible job.” The five films, which varied in length from seven to 13 minutes, were serious, informative, topical, and often humorous. They examined a range of subjects, including the intersection of marine protected areas and commercial fishing rights; an activist’s fight to remove the obsolete Matilija Dam and restore the Ventura River watershed; the negative effects of an invasive species – Homo sapiens – on the Santa Barbara coastal ecosystem; threats to the famous Trestles surfing beach at San Onofre State Beach in San Diego County; and the damaging effects of Floatopia on the beaches of Isla Vista. Blue Horizons was started five years ago by the Carsey-Wolf Center and faculty from the Film and Media Studies Department and UC Santa Barbara’s world-renowned Marine Science Institute. The students combine a science-based message about the ocean with the creative and technical skills they need to tell their stories. Steve Gaines, a marine biologist who is dean of UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management (and who

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appeared in two of this year’s films), helped start Blue Horizons when he was director of the Marine Science Institute. His interest in the program arose from the need to communicate to a broader public how the oceans are under threat. “Most people know the ocean simply from what they see on the surface and have no idea whether an area is teeming with life or is a dead zone,” he says. Gaines was inspired to be a marine scientist by watching Jacques Cousteau on television. “To raise public awareness, we need to harness the media efficiently, and for science to have an impact, we need to communicate our ideas and research. Blue Horizons gives students the tools they need to reach different audiences,” he says. This year’s cohort of 12 students came from a healthy cross-section of majors and backgrounds, says Richard Hutton, with about half from film and media studies and others from global studies, the sciences, etc. The students have little or no knowledge of how to make films, so they start by examining the basic concepts of film making: what story to tell, who the audience is, the core ideas and story arc, the characters, and the conflict. “They go from 0 to 60 in nine weeks,” Hutton says. “They meet the basic goal of making a film, but also come to understand the role of media in today’s society, deconstruct the information they receive and learn how to communicate their ideas, using one of the

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most powerful tools for conveying information that exists today.” During the first six weeks of the course, the students develop their film proposals, learn the basics of film production, and take a seminar on issues in marine conservation, taught this year by Ben Halpern, a marine biologist and researcher at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Through case studies, they examine the biological, socio-economic, and political aspects of marine conservation. The students generally work in production teams, although this year one filmmaker was so passionate about his subject that he decided at the last minute to go it alone. The students are encouraged to choose partners with strengths complementary to their own because of the sheer volume of work they must do to complete their films. Each group has to develop a two- to four-minute pitch, followed by a draft and then a final treatment, which serves as a guide for filming and editing the documentary. To help refine their treatments, the class studies the history of environmental media and learns how to find drama in environmental issues, find an audience, balance story and information, research the issue, and, finally, translate the story to film. The last three weeks are devoted to actual film production, based around a class taught by Michael Hanrahan, a filmmaker and producer who also was one of the founders of Blue Horizons. The students must cast the right people to tell their story effectively, select locations, film interviews, choose lighting, record sound, edit footage, and add music. They use high-definition cameras and state-of the-art editing systems donated by Sony, and have access to stock videography, including hundreds of hours of HD footage from the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and aerial shots of Santa Barbara. It is during the last three weeks that things start to get crazy, as the groups rush to complete their films, “going through hell, even sleeping on the floor of the editing bays for days at a time,” as Hanrahan told the audience at the screening. “This is one of the most challenging projects these students will face in their

careers,” he added. Chris Bowerman did not sleep for three days before the screening in the rush to finish. Tyler Robinson, another student, said, “This is one of the most entertaining yet hardest things I have ever done.” After each film was screened to enthusiastic applause, the tired but happy novice producers took the stage to answer questions about their films and their Blue Horizons experience. The producers of Drawing the Lines, Luis Duran, Tyler Robinson, and Andrew Ngai, examined how marine protected areas and commercial fisherman can co-exist, looking at areas off the coast of Santa Barbara and Isla Vista and interviewing local fishermen who work out of the Santa Barbara Harbor. The filmmakers said they chose the subject because it is controversial in Isla Vista, whose coastal zone has become a “no take” protected area as of January 2012. Duran said that his favorite part of the process was meeting the fishermen, one of whom said that he had come to understand the need for the protected areas, and that “it was a miracle that a scientist and a fisherman could go out on a boat and not kill each other.” In Release Me, Amanda Wasserman, Darryl Mimick, and Skye Featherstone documented the fight of activist Paul Jenkins to have the Matilija Dam removed so the Ventura River and watershed can be restored to their natural state, saving its population of steelhead trout, whose numbers on the river have declined dramatically www.ucsbalum.com

FEATURE Connecting with the Community—Blue Horizons

It is during the last three weeks that things start to get crazy, as the groups rush to complete their films, “going through hell…”

since the dam was built. They learned about the subject from an American Express commercial that featured Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, talking about the dam, and went on to meet activists who are fighting to remove the dam and restore the ecosystem. In The Santa Barbarian, Jacob Ferguson and Caitie Gonzalez chose to produce a “mockumentary” that took a humorous look at the impact of an invasive species, Homo sapiens, on the area’s coastal ecosystem. The filmmakers said they wanted to focus on the creative aspect of writing and so chose the unusual format, complete with a British-accented narration that set the tone for the film. They began the film with a funny animated segment (by Ferguson) about futile efforts to eradicate another famous invasive species, the rabbits which decimated Australia in the 20th century. Chris Bowerman was the sole producer of Trestles and the Toll Road, about San Onofre State Beach. Asked about his last-minute decision to make his own film, Bowerman said “I bit off more than I could chew, shot 8

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tons of footage but did not have enough time to edit and finish the film.” He vowed to finish it, once he had gotten some sleep, because the story needs to be told. The final film of the evening, Dry Tide by Pedro Chairez, Patrick Saldana, and David Atsbaha, seemed to resonate the most with the audience. The film looks at issues surrounding Floatopia, a beach party in 2009 attended by 12,000 people who left large amounts of debris on the beaches and in the water. Subsequently, Santa Barbara County closed the beaches on the weekends when Floatopia was scheduled, angering many students and Isla Vista residents. None of the producers had attended Floatopia, and they struggled to find footage of the event, but once they did they were able to edit it together with interviews of students who had been there and county officials. The film’s message was that students should be able to organize a responsible Floatopia in future years, but it would require a lot of work and advance planning. A number of audience questions addressed the technical aspects of filmmaking, including how to choose and add music and secure the rights to use it (ambient music and Jack Johnson set different moods, for example), find a narrator (Ferguson and Gonzalez found the narrator for The Santa Barbarian through a web-based service, Voice123.com), or divide the workload. The filmmakers’ consensus was that they would do whatever was needed to get the job done. Blue Horizons is an annual summer program presented by the Carsey-Wolf Center and the Department of Film and Media Studies. More information about the program is available from the Center’s website, http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/.

See Blue Horizons videos online at http://www. carseywolf.ucsb.edu/emi/events/2011-bluehorizons-student-film-premiere. Want to know more about Blue Horizons and Beyond? Check out www. ucsbalum.com/Coastlines/BlueHorizons

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FEATURE Connecting with the Communitiy—The Outreach Project

Outreach Project Takes Faculty and Students on Odyssey of Their Own By Anna Davison

The Odyssey, “seemed like the perfect story” to serve as a starting point for the actors to delve into their own individual mythology. —Michael Morgan, senior lecturer in UC Santa Barbara's Department of Theater and Dance

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The Odyssey Project was the brainchild of Michael Morgan, senior lecturer in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Theater and Dance. Morgan was awarded a doctorate in Theater Studies from UC Santa Barbara in 2006 and has performed on stage around the country as well as directing and teaching. The performance was the product of a new theater class dedicated to exploring personal, social and cultural transformation. It brought together UC Santa Barbara students and teens from Los Prietos Boys Camp, a local rehabilitation program for young offenders — most of them gang members and petty criminals — in an undertaking that Morgan describes as “both humbling and exhilarating.” In bringing their troubled personal journeys to the stage the boys referenced the pain of absent parents, dead homies and escalating drug addiction. Later they offered heartfelt tributes to loved ones, including family and friends in the audience at the intimate Center Stage Theater in downtown Santa Barbara — Morgan chose the venue because he “wanted it to be in the community, not behind ivory tower walls.” The Odyssey, he says, “seemed like the perfect story” to serve as a starting point for the actors to delve into their own individual mythology. For Morgan too, the production was something of a personal journey — “my Ithaca, my homecoming,” he says. “I feel like I've connected after all these years teaching." "I was probably channeling my mother," he adds. “She was big on education and on making sure that education was about reaching out and not just something that was self-feeding. …This is about giving people a voice. I want to liberate non-actors' voices, to let them speak. They have a story to tell.” The Los Prietos boys initially struggled to find their voices, Morgan says, and to be comfortable revealing their vulnerability. "Some of us had trouble with that," says one of the Los Prietos actors. "We had to become outgoing. We had to open up to everybody." Soon, though, the Los Prietos boys became less guarded and began to work more closely with the UC Santa Barbara students to explore the epics in their own lives. "It was like a chain reaction," Morgan says. “One of them said, 'Oh, I'll try that,' then another did.” "You started learning about different people. It was a great experience," says one of the Los Prietos actors. “This was the most important class I’ve ever taken in my life," added a UC Santa Barbara student. "I'm learning about myself and I'm learning about other people." The Odyssey Project was a one-off performance, but Morgan hopes to launch similar projects in the future. “This was a maiden voyage,” he says. “I’d like to do this with other people.” Editor’s Note: The Los Prietos Boys Camp teens are not named to protect the identities of the minors.

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FEATURE Connecting with the Community—Viva el Arte

Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! Connects With Culture

¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! brings free music and dance

representing important traditions to neighborhood venues, schools and community organizations throughout Santa Barbara County, allowing children and families to see cultural performances. A consortium of the Marjorie Luke Theatre, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Isla Vista School and UCSB Arts & Lectures envisioned in 2005, Viva reached 4,000 in its first year; in the most recent season, more than 17,000 children and adults enjoyed a Viva connection. Each Viva weekend is different with a schedule tailored to the artists’ gifts and local interests. A typical weekend includes eight daytime assemblies and workshops as well as three free family performances at Isla Vista School, the Theater Royal in Guadalupe, and the Marjorie Luke Theatre, followed by receptions where the artists sign autographs and talk with the audience. There are several key elements to Viva’s program. First, bilingual coordinators with special connections in each community serve as the faces of the program and work with volunteers to host the events. Second, the artists represent traditions of immense value in exploring and sharing cultural identity. And finally, with performances in neighborhood venues, Viva makes high-quality cultural events uniquely accessible. The 2011-12 lineup will include Valente Pastor, Oct. 21-23; Los Soneros del Tesechoacán, Jan. 20-22, 2012; Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, March 23-25, 2012; and the Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company, April 20-22, 2012. Performances will begin at 7 p.m. Fridays at Isla Vista School, 6875 El Colegio Road in Goleta (805-893-4979); at 7:30 p.m. Saturdays in the auditorium at Guadalupe City Hall, 918 Obispo St. in Guadalupe (805-343-2939); and at 7 p.m. Sundays in the Marjorie Luke Theatre at Santa Barbara Junior High School, 721 E. Cota St. in Santa Barbara (805-884-4087, ext. 7). Guests will be invited to talk to the artists and take photos at receptions after each concert. Doors will open a half-hour before the shows start. ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! is funded by the James Irvine Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the Santa Barbara Foundation, the Incredible Children’s Art Network, the UCSB Office of Education Partnerships, the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, the Marjorie Luke Theatre’s Dreier Family Rent Subsidy Fund and several business sponsors. — Cathy Oliverson is the manager of performing arts and educational outreach for UCSB Arts & Lectures. www.ucsbalum.com

FEATURE The Help

Maids Step Out Of The Shadows PLEASE MAKE UP ROOM

Recent cases in the news and a new film shed light on a powerless profession By MAGGIE GALEHOUSE

A behind-the-scenes job that’s supposed to bring order and cleanliness to a busy world has spilled into the spotlight. Welcome to the season of the help. In recent months, news stories about domestic workers have been offering startling glimpses of what — occasionally — goes on behind closed doors.

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In her lastest book, Intimate Labors -- Culture, Technologies, and the Politics of Care, Eileen Boris, the Hull Professor and Chair of Feminist Studies, takes a close look at care work, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life, and shines a light on the juncture where money and intimacy meet. In May, Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledged he had fathered a child with his former housekeeper, Mildred Baena, more than a decade ago. The admission has apparently cost him his marriage to Maria Shriver. Also in May, hotel maid and West African immigrant Nafissatou Diallo brought charges against former International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, claiming he sexually assaulted her as she was cleaning his luxury suite at a hotel in New York. In July, in the midst of Britain's phone-hacking scandal, a bag containing a computer and phone was found in a trash bin near the London home of former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks. Who put it there? A spokesman for Brooks' husband said: "The suggestion is that a cleaner thought it was rubbish and put it in the bin." And this summer, The Help opened in movie theaters across the country. Based on Kathryn Stockett's best-selling book, the movie lays bare the indignities endured by black maids working in white households in 1960s Mississippi. In part, the struggle of domestic workers then and now stems from the false notion that cleaning, cooking, even caring for children and the elderly isn't really work, says Eileen Boris, who chairs the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara, where she directs the Center for Research on Women and Social Justice. An interdisciplinary historian, she specializes in women’s labors in the home and other workplaces and on gender, race, work, and the welfare.. By design, it's "an invisible job in an intimate space — a home or a hotel room — where the outside world doesn't look in," Boris explains. Typically, domestic workers are "vulnerable women with little power." Interaction is often part of the job description, particularly for housekeepers who work when their employers are home or take care of children. And constant contact in the home can foster a feeling of intimacy on both sides. "It's not the same as making a widget," Boris notes. As many as 100 million people worldwide work in domestic services, according to the International Labour Organization. In the U.S., an estimated 2.5 million people work in and around the home, as housekeepers, nannies, grounds keepers, cooks and more. Most are women, and most are immigrants. In a recent survey of more than 500 domestic workers by Domestic Workers United, 99 percent were foreign-

born, 76 percent were non-U.S. citizens, and 93 percent were female. Perhaps the biggest challenge for these workers is setting their own boundaries — for payment, the work they're willing to do and the hours they're willing to do it. Over the past few decades, some companies have professionalized domestic work, offering employees benefits such as health insurance and workers' comp. Safety is always a concern for domestic workers. And since most are women, the threat of a sexual advance is palpable. There's a long history of men in houses with domestics thinking that the women are fair game — just think of slavery, Boris says. On top of that, there's the titillating stereotype of the sexy chambermaid to dispel. The Strauss-Kahn case is about sexual assault, Boris maintains, but the Schwarzenegger story is more convoluted. In that case, Baena was an employee, and the sex was consensual. But what is "consensual" for an employee? Boris asks. Along with the summer's salacious headlines, though, some promising news did emerge. A Domestic Workers Bill of Rights was approved in California, which means California could become the second state to pass a law protecting these workers. Last summer, New York was the first, when the state Senate passed a law giving housekeepers, nannies and others basic rights against employer abuses. And in June, the International Labour Organization adopted a set of international standards designed to improve the conditions of domestic workers. Daily and weekly rest hours, entitlement to minimum wage and the opportunity to choose where to live are among them. "It's taken until 2011 for the global community to recognize that domestic workers deserve respect and decent working conditions," Boris notes. "Domestic workers themselves are saying, 'Invisible no more.' "

Eileen Boris, Chair, Feminist Studies Department, UC Santa Barbara

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University Partnership School Achieves High Growth in Test Scores The Harding University Partnership School (HUPS) – the partner school of the UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz Graduate School of Education – achieved the second highest growth in 2011 API scores in Santa Barbara County. HUPS’ API score improved 57 points – in the Santa Barbara Unified School District’s history, only one other school has ever improved so impressively in one year (in 2009, Santa Barbara Charter made 66-point growth on the API). The Academic Performance Index (API) is the cornerstone of California’s Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 and measures the academic performance and growth of schools on a variety of academic metrics. Schools are expected to show a 5-point growth from year-to-year.

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Materials Professor Shuji Nakamura to Receive Emmy Award The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has named Shuji Nakamura, professor of materials and of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara, among the winners of the 63rd annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. The award will be presented during the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. The awards honor outstanding achievement in technical or engineering development, and recognize individuals, companies, and scientific or technical organizations for developments in engineering technology that have significantly impacted broadcast television. Nakamura is being recognized for his pioneering development of large-venue, large-screen direct view color displays.

UC Regents to Investigate Long-Term Funding Strategies

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The University of California Board of Regents, in a far-ranging discussion about how to best create the long-term financial stability that the university needs to preserve quality, agreed to explore a variety of options for raising new revenue and elevating public awareness about the importance of higher education. The university’s top budget officers proposed a framework in which UC would seek state funding guarantees through 2015-16 for its core educational costs. Student tuition also would be set at pre-determined levels, and would increase up to 16 percent a year if state support fell short of the agreed upon levels. Regents, while agreeing with the concept of a multiyear funding plan, asked UC administrators to come back with a variety of options that could help minimize the prospect of additional student tuition increases.

Laura Romo Appointed Director of the Chicano Studies Institute

Laura Romo, associate professor of education at UC Santa Barbara, is the new director of the campus’s Chicano Studies Institute. She replaces Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, who held the position for the past six years. Romo received her Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA, and joined the UC Santa Barbara faculty in 2003. A leading researcher in the areas of adolescent development, parentadolescent communication, and informal health education, she has been working with community agencies in Santa Barbara, including Girls, Inc., and La Casa de la Raza, to develop and implement family-based sex education programs for low-income, mostly immigrant, Mexican-origin mothers and daughters.

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UCSB Welcomes the Class of 2015 More than 4,000 entering students attended New Student Convocation on Sept. 19 as Chancellor Henry T. Yang and administrators and faculty, in academic regalia welcomed them to UC Santa Barbara. Executive Dean of Letters and Science David Marshall

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offered opening remarks. Associate Professor of Asian American Studies John S.W. Park delivered the keynote address. A concert on the 61-bell carillon of Storke Tower preceded the ceremony.

UC generates $46.3B in economic activity for state The University of California is a key economic catalyst for the state, generating $46.3 billion in annual economic activity for California and contributing $32.8 billion toward California’s gross state product through direct spending and multiplier effects, according to an independent economic impact report. Put another way, every $1 the California taxpayer invests in UC provides the foundational support that, supplemented by revenues from other sources, results in nearly $14 in overall economic output. The study by Economic & Planning Systems Inc. further shows that UC supports 1 in 46 jobs in California, uses state funding to leverage significant additional non-state revenue that benefits Californians and makes economic contributions to all regions of California through the economic ripple effects of its activities. Go to http://www. universityofcalifornia.edu/news/ to find out more and download the report.

Thanks to an $80,655 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), UC Santa Barbara’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) will complete the curation, documentation, cataloging, and database processing of its 24,875 herpetological, ornithological, and mammalian specimens. The two-year Vertebrate Collections Management Project will allow the Cheadle Center to hire a curatorial assistant, create a new museum internship program, and curate its collections of reptiles, birds, and mammals according to national standards. When completed, UC Santa Barbara faculty, students, environmental consultants, the general public, and the global scientific community will have access to CCBER’s collections and associated data. The project also will provide educational opportunities for students interested in biological fieldwork and museum careers. Heather Fox, assistant curator of CCBER’s vertebrate collections, displays one of the many snakes in the museum’s herpetological collection. Credit: George Foulsham, Office of Public Affairs

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• Every $1 the California taxpayer invests in UC results in $9.80 in gross state product and $13.80 in overall economic output. The state provides a foundation of $3.35 billion in funding for UC activities; that investment, supplemented by additional revenue leveraged from other sources, produces the $32.8 billion in gross state product and $46.3 billion in overall economic activity in the state.

• UC operations and outside spending by the university’s faculty, staff, students and retirees supports 1 out of every 46 jobs in California — approximately 430,000 total. • With more than 190,000 employees, UC itself is the third-largest employer in California, behind only the state and federal governments. UC directly employs substantially more people in California than top private-sector employers (such as Kaiser Permanente, Wal-Mart, Pacific Gas & Electric or Wells Fargo).

• UC brings in about $8.5 billion in annual funding from outside the state, including $7 billion from the federal government. This leveraging of California-based funds with out-of-state money is critical to UC’s educational, research and public service missions.

• Every $1 from California sources (governmental and private) is supplemented with roughly $2.27 in out-of-state funds, much of it from the federal government. • UC-related economic activity touches every corner of California, making important contributions even in regions that don’t have a UC campus.

• UC Health — UC’s five academic medical centers and 16 health professional schools — plays a major role in the university’s economic contribution to California, generating about 117,000 jobs in the state, $12.5 billion in contribution to gross state product and $16.7 billion in economic activity. www.ucsbalum.com

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Nanosensors Made from DNA May Light Path to New Cancer Tests and Drugs Sensors made from custom DNA molecules could be used to personalize cancer treatments and monitor the quality of stem cells, according to an international team of researchers led by scientists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. The new nanosensors can quickly detect a broad class of proteins called transcription factors, which serve as the master control switches of life. The research is described in an article published in Journal of the American Chemical Society. When scientists take stem cells and turn them into specialized cells, they do so by changing the levels of a few transcription factors, explained Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, a postdoctoral researcher in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, who led the study. This process is called cell reprogramming. Left: A structure-switching nanosensor made from DNA (blue and purple) detects a specific transcription factor (green). Using these nanosensors, a team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara has demonstrated the detection of transcription factors directly in cellular extracts. The researchers believe that their strategies will allow biologists to monitor the activity of thousands of transcription factors, leading to a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying cell division and development. Credit: Peter Allen. Inset: Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, left, and Andrew Bonham Credit: George Foulsham, Office of Public Affairs,

Hitchhiking Snails Fly From Ocean to Ocean A UC Santa Barbara scientist and his colleagues report that snails successfully crossed Central America, long considered an impenetrable barrier to marine organisms, twice in the past million years — both times probably by flying across Mexico, stuck to the legs or riding on the bellies of shorebirds, and introducing new genes that contributed to the marine biodiversity on each coast. The discovery of the hitchhiking snails, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society: B, has broad implications. The idea of land snails hitching rides on birds goes

back to Charles Darwin, who speculated that migratory birds could transport snails to distant places. In fact, birds are thought to have carried land snails 5,500 miles from Europe to Tristan de Cunha Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and back. But this is the first report of a marine snail "flying" from one ocean to another, according to co-author Ryan Hechinger, a research biologist with the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara. Horn snails. Credit: Kevin Lafferty

UCSB Scientists, Telescopes Help Discover ‘Once in a Generation’ Supernova A supernova discovered in August is closer to Earth — approximately 21 million light years away — than any other of its kind in a generation. Astronomers believe they caught the supernova within hours of its explosion — a rare feat for events of this type. The discovery of a supernova so early in its life, and so close to Earth has energized the astronomical community. Scientists around the world are scrambling to observe it with as many telescopes as possible, including the Hubble Space Telescope, and telescopes from the UC Santa Barbaraaffiliated Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT). Image taken Wednesday night, August 24, at LCOGT's Faulkes Telescope North of PTF11kly in M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. The supernova brightened considerably over the one day it was observable. There was nothing at the position of the arrow earlier in the week. Credit: BJ Fulton, LCOGT Inset: D. Andrew Howell Credit: Katrina Marcinowski

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Researchers Analyze the Evolving Human Relationship with Fire Fire, both friend and foe, is a controversial force in the world. The team of 18 researchers, organized by UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), analyzed the history and possible future of our ever-changing relationship with fire in an article published in the Journal of Biogeography. The article is titled, "The Human Dimension of Fire Regimes on Earth." "The value of this study is that it presents a critical assessment of the diversity of human uses of fire, from tamed landscape fire, to agricultural fire, to industrial fire," said Jennifer K. Balch, postdoctoral associate at NCEAS and second author on the paper. All these phases still occur today. The researchers explain that this remarkable diversity of human uses of fire, albeit imperfectly controlled, has powered all cultures. However, the problem is that the excessive combustion of fossil fuels is driving climate change. The result of massive dependence on this one use of fire may ultimately overwhelm human capacities to control landscape fire, given more extreme fire weather and more production of fuels, according to the researchers. View of Canada’s 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire from McCulloch Road, with Harvest Golf Club in the foreground. Credit: Wenda Pickles/ Library and Archives Canada

How Fat and Obesity Cause Diabetes High levels of fat shut down a key enzyme that promotes glucose sensing in pancreatic beta cells — revealing a pathway implicated in the Type 2 diabetes epidemic. Exactly how diet and obesity trigger diabetes has long been the subject of intense scientific research. A new study led by Jamey D. Marth, director of the Center for Nanomedicine, a collaboration between the UC Santa Barbara and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), has revealed a pathway that links high-fat diets to a sequence of molecular events responsible for the onset and severity of diabetes. These findings were published online August 14 in the Journal Nature Medicine. In studies spanning mice and humans, Marth's team discovered a pathway to disease that is activated in pancreatic beta cells, and then leads to metabolic defects in other organs and tissues, including the liver, muscle and adipose (fat). Together, this adds up to diabetes.

UCSB Physicists Create Quantum Version of a Classical Computer A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. Their results are published in September’s issue of Science Express online. UC Santa Barbara physicists have demonstrated a quantum integrated circuit that implements the quantum von Neumann architecture. In this architecture, a long-lived quantum random access memory can be programmed using a quantum central processing unit, all constructed on a single chip, providing the key components for a quantum version of a classical computer. The UC Santa Barbara hardware is based on superconducting quantum circuits, and must be cooled to very low temperatures to display quantum behavior. The architecture represents a new paradigm in quantum information processing, and shows that quantum large-scale-integration is within reach. Left: Matteo Mariantoni. Credit: George Foulsham, Office of Public Affairs Right: The quantum von Neumann machine: Two qubits are coupled to a quantum bus, realizing a quCPU. Each qubit is accompanied by a quantum memory as well as a zeroing register. The quantum memories together with the zeroing register realize the quRAM. Credit: Peter Allen, UCSB

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UCSB Wins Tournament After Knocking Off San Jose State

Gauchos Make Olympic Trial Cuts

Behind double-doubles from Leah Sully and Kara Sherrard, the UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team won the Santa Clara Tournament on Sept. 10 by defeating San Jose State 22-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-18. The win capped off a three-match sweep of the weekend's foes for a tournament victory and the Gauchos are now riding a four-match winning streak. UC Santa Barbara improves to 5-4 on the season. UC Santa Barbara continued its stellar defensive play, tallying 9.0 total team blocks and had 71 digs against the Spartans (2-6). The Gauchos held San Jose State to just a .165 hitting percentage.

It was a successful summer in the pool for UC Santa Barbara swimming as nine Gauchos qualified for the 2012 Olympic Trials. While competing at Senior Nationals at Stanford University, Garrett Thompson (50 freestyle), Ryan Hanni (50 and 100 free), Kevin Kuhn (50 and 100 free), Andrea Ward (100 butterfly) and Katie Tomkinson (100 free) became the latest group of UC Santa Barbara swimmers to make cuts for the trials, which will be held in Omaha, Nebraska next June. Incoming freshman, Bob Hwang, also made his cut in the 200 butterfly. Tim Freeman, Sophia Yamauchi and Chris Peterson each qualified in June at the Santa Clara Grand Prix. Peterson made his 100 free cut, adding a second event to his trials’ program, which will also include the 50 free. In alumni news, former UC Santa Barbara swimmer Katy Freeman ’09 finished fifth in the 200 breaststroke at Senior Nationals with a time of 2:27.87, which was almost two seconds faster than her prelims time.

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Gauchos vs. Cal Poly to Air on FOX Soccer Nov. 4 The Gauchos’ Nov. 4 game against Blue-Green rival, Cal Poly, will be televised live from Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. This marks the third time in the last four years that the rivalry with Cal Poly will be played out in front of a national audience. The Gauchos have shown the propensity to shine while on camera, collecting a 7-2-3 record in TV games and they own a 5-2 record in FOX Soccer contests. Of UCSB’s seven televised wins, six have been shutouts.

Coach Gregory Wins No. 850 as Gauchos Sweep North Dakota UC Santa Barbara women’s volleyball coach Kathy Gregory added to her already legendary status on Sept. 9 as she coached the Gauchos to a sweep of North Dakota and her 850th career win. The Queen, as she’s affectionately known, becomes just the 10th coach in NCAA history to achieve the milestone and Gregory holds the third-most victories of any active coach. She ranks sixth in Division I history in wins.

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Pontius Added to U.S. Roster U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann added Chris Pontius ’08 to the roster for the match against Costa Rica on Sept. 2 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. Pontius made his second appearance in a U.S. national team camp after participating in the January camp in 2010.

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Wigo Captures Win No. 100, as Gauchos Set New Scoring Record

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Head men’s water polo coach Wolf Wigo captured his 100th win at UC Santa Barbara on Sept. 11 as the Gauchos posted a pair of wins at the Inland Empire Classic, which was hosted by Redlands. UC Santa Barbara toppled host Redlands, 20-6, before grabbing Wigo’s 100th win and concurrently setting a school record for goals in a game with a 32-6 victory over Chapman. Wigo now holds a 100-85 record as the Gaucho men’s water polo coach. UC Santa Barbara capped off the weekend with a huge offensive onslaught against Chapman. In Wigo’s 100th win, 15 different Gauchos scored as UC Santa Barbara posted 32 goals, which breaks the previous school record of 30 goals in a game. That record was set in a 30-8 win over St. Mary’s in 1967.

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Gauchos Dominate Nevada in 1-0 Victory at Harder Erin Ortega’s goal in the 78th minute broke a scoreless tie as UC Santa Barbara blanked the University of Nevada at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium on Sept. 18, 1-0. The Gauchos (4-5-1) dominated the Wolf Pack (1-8-0) but until Ortega’s tally they had nothing to show for it. Overall, UCSB had 28 shots, 10 of which were on goal, while Nevada had just one. Ortega’s second goal of the season came after freshman Kelly McGrath’s header off of an Erica Shelton corner kick was blocked by Wolf Pack goalkeeper Jenna Riddle. Ortega collected the ball and pushed a shot into the left side of the goal. While it was Ortega who scored the Gauchos goal, it was junior Katy Roby who had her way with the opponent’s defense on Sunday. Roby had nine of her team’s 28 shots, five on goal. Ortega had five shots while Erica Shelton and Indiana Mead had four apiece. Dyanne Anderson

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Orlando Johnson Selected U.S. Flag Bearer at 2011 World University Games UC Santa Barbara rising senior Orlando Johnson was selected to represent the United States of America as the USA’s flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2011 World University Games. “It’s unbelievable,” said Johnson. “I was proud to make the USA Basketball team and to play for my country, and now to carry the flag and lead the U.S. delegation feels very special. I feel very honored.” Team USA finished in fifth place at the World University Games in Shenzhen, China. Team USA finished 7-1 in the tournament and suffered its only loss 76-74 to Lithuania in the quarterfinals that eliminated its chances to medal. Johnson became the first Gaucho since Brian Shaw ’88 in 1986 to play for the US men’s basketball team.

UC Santa Barbara volleyball All-American Jeff Menzel has played a key part in each of Team USA’s first two wins at the World University Games in Shenzhen, China. After pacing the U.S. squad with 15 kills and a .407 hitting percentage in a 3-0 tournament-opening win over Mexico, Menzel was at it again in a 25-18, 25-9, 25-20 domination of Turkey. For the second straight match, Menzel led Team USA with nine kills and a hitting percentage of .533. He also had one block and a service ace and his 11 total points were second on the team. Menzel had eight points on five kills, one block and a pair of service aces as the U.S. Team bounced back with a comfortable 25-21, 25-13, 25-20 victory over the United Arab Emirates in Shenzhen, China. www.ucsbalum.com

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Alumni Association. King graduated from UC Santa Barbara’s business, leadership and management program.

Citicorp, and has accumulated more than 30 years of experience in financial services. Sherwood resides in Redwood City, Calif.

Angela F. Wallace, ’72, has been

Kathryn McKee, ’59, has been elected board chair of the American Red Cross, Santa Barbara County Chapter. McKee, is president of Human Resources Consortia, a consultancy specializing in providing solutions to Human Resources issues. McKee is a member of the board of trustees of the UCSB Foundation; a director on the boards of iRisk Solutions Inc., the Fire Services Training Institute, and Old Spanish Days. She serves on the city of Santa Barbara’s Civil Service Commission, and is a member of the Human Resources Committee for the board of the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics. She was foreperson of the 2010-2011 County of Santa Barbara Civil Grand Jury.

1960s Norm Wood, ’64, past president of the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association, represented Chancellor Henry T. Yang at the inauguration of Teresa A. Sullivan as the eighth president of the University of Virginia on April 15, 2011. Wood is a program manager employed with TASC, providing technical assistance to the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, D.C.

1970s Jean King, ’70, was named executive director of the Shasta Women’s Refuge in Redding, Calif. King has spent more than 25 years working in the nonprofit arena, including 11 years as associate director of the UC Santa Barbara

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named president of the National Association of Professional Organizers. She has owned Wallace Associates, located in Marin, Calif., since 1986. Wallace is also author, speaker, and workshop instructor for entrepreneurs and new professional organizers. Wallace has served on NAPO’s board of directors since 2006, as well as two terms as president of NAPO’s San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. Wallace served four years on the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

Carol Rozansky, ’74, has been named chair of the Education Department at Columbia College Chicago School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Prior, she was professor of education at University of Nebraska, Omaha. Rozansky’s areas of expertise include PreK-12 literacy education, learning theory, urban education and critical pedagogy. She is a founding member and long-term officer of Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed. She has worked extensively as a volunteer with a community group whose purpose is to improve the academic achievement and opportunities of African-American students.

Lindy Sherwood, ’75, was named managing director and president of Kaspick & Company, an investment management firm of TIAA-CREF that specializes in planned gift assets and mid-size endowments. Sherwood is joining Kaspick from Northern Trust, where she managed a private client wealth management region for Northern California. Prior to that, Sherwood held leadership roles at U.S. Trust, Charles Schwab and

Judy Watkins Sanregret, ’77, was named director of education at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Sanregret received her teaching credential from San Jose State University and taught elementary school in Northern California for 25 years before returning to Santa Barbara several years ago. Sanregret’s husband of 31 years, Sam Sanregret, ’77, is president of Capital Lumber Company. He is a member of the UC Santa Barbara Intermural Hall of Fame. Curtis J. Edwards, ’79, earned his medical degree in 1985 from the University of Washington, School of Medicine, and completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Oklahoma in 1990. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a past president of the Thurston-Mason Medical Society and the former chief of surgery of Mason General Hospital. He is a volunteer with the American Red Cross, Thurston Public Health and various free clinics. His practice in general and vascular surgery in Olympia, Wash., continued until 2000. Edwards switched specialties that year to aviation medicine after a disabling neck injury. He owns Olympia Aerospace Medical, and works as a senior/HIMS FAA aerospace medical examiner. Lynn Rodriguez, ’79, has been elected board president of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation for the next two years. Rodriguez has been an SBEF board member for nearly five years and is a former trustee for the Santa Barbara Unified School District (2002-2006). Rodriguez is married and lives in Santa Barbara. She has two daughters, one who recently graduated

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from UC Santa Cruz and another who will be a junior at San Marcos High School. She is an independent water resources management consultant and is co-owner of Rodriguez Consulting Inc.

1980s George C. Buckbee, M.S. ’86, was elevated to ISA Fellow at the ISA Honors and Awards Gala in October in recognition of contributions to the field of advanced control and optimization. Buckbee is a renowned expert in the field of advanced control and loop turning concepts. He is the author of a large body of work on the application of advanced control and loop tuning in many industries, and is responsible for many innovations in performance monitoring software. Janda Lannigan-Piekarz, ’89, was awarded the 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. Lannigan-Piekarz has been an educator for 21 years and has spent the last 10 years teaching fifth and sixth grades at Glenn Duncan Elementary in Reno, Nev. She has also taught in Washington and

Mission City Brawlin' Betties is Santa Barbara's first allfemale, full contact roller derby league, comprised of strong and independent women. These ladies are skilled and ready to unleash their fury on eight wheels. Every Brawlin' Bettie is an athlete, a pin-up girl, a rocker and a brute rolled into one amazing derby girl. More than half of all Mission City Brawlin' Betties are graduates of UC Santa Barbara, with a few finishing their degrees, and a couple hold jobs on campus. The Betties next bout will be 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, at Earl Warren Showgrounds in Santa Barbara. For more information on the team, go to www.brawlinbetties.com. For more on Gauchos on the team, go to www.ucsbalum.com/Coastlines.

From left: DopaMean Jean (Jean Stultz, ’92), Queefer Madness (Meighan Weitzman, ’06), UC Santa Barbara’s Ole, Semper Fatale (Christina Dotson, ’09), and Ann Peyrat (Lo-Blo SugGrrr, Chancellor’s office ’02-’04). Photo by Pam Patolo (aka: Draggin’ Duo)

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Eco-investing with a Difference Britton Smith When Britton Smith MESM ’99 joined Santa Barbara Asset Management as a portfolio manager in 2001, his focus was the small but growing segment of the industry known as “socially responsible investing” (SRI). SRI fund managers look to invest in companies that allow their clients to, in the credo of green capitalism, do well while doing good. However, the problem with most SRI funds, Smith says, is that they are established exclusively through “negative screens,” by excluding, say, extractive industries. Limiting the “investable universe” diminishes fund diversity, often causing SRI returns to lag behind those of traditional funds. Smith set out to find a better way. He came to Bren in fall 1997 as a member of the school’s second master’s class. “The assumption often is that if you go to an environmental school, you must be a weird, Birkenstock-wearing person,” he says. “But I’m not a tree-hugger; I’m a scientist, and I liked that Bren offered a new, modern, quantitative take on the environmental curriculum.” He graduated with a specialization in biogeochemistry, then spent a couple of years with the environmental consulting firm Larry Walker Associates. He entered the financial industry in 2000 and has been with Santa Barbara Asset Management since 2001. Now, as a portfolio manager, he says, “There are few people who have the scientific credentials to have credibility in my area of focus. I do, thanks largely to Bren.” Smith’s understanding of environmental science and economic incentives informed his idea for a new kind of SRI fund based on positive, rather than negative, screening. His idea was to rate companies based on a series of positive criteria in two main areas: the environment and climate change — and to include the best companies in the fund. To create the EcoLogic fund, he developed an algorithm that gave weighted values to each of more than 40 variables, such as whether a company has a carbon emissions target and whether executive compensation is based in part on attaining environmental compliance goals. Smith then broke down the investable universe into 22 industry groups and compared each company only to others in its peer group to identify his investable universe. Since 2007, its first full year of performance, the EcoLogic fund has outperformed the S&P 500. Nor is it tied exclusively to traditional “green” industries. The greater effect of SRI, Smith explains, is that if ethical behavior generates good returns, other companies will mimic that behavior, and if enough returns are generated by enough companies acting ethically so that it gains widespread attention, everyone will eventually adopt it.

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Alabama. In 2008, Lannigan-Piekarz was awarded the Northern Nevada Math Council Outstanding Educator of the Year award. She is a national board certified middle childhood generalist and is certified in elementary and middle grades education and English as a second language education.

John Matsui, Ph.D. ’89, received a 2011 Champion of Health Professions Diversity award from The California Wellness Foundation. The award includes $25,000 as an acknowledgment of his commitment to increasing California’s health care workforce and its diversity. He co-

founded and serves as director of the Biology Scholars Program at UC Berkeley. BSP is a national model for supporting low-income and firstgeneration students in science and health careers. Matsui is also the assistant dean for biological sciences at UC Berkeley. Previously, Matsui worked in administration at the Student Learning Center at UC Berkeley, and served as a faculty member and administrator at Santa Barbara City College. In addition, Matsui was awarded the Leon A. Henkin Citation for Distinguished Service at UC Berkeley, which recognizes faculty members for exceptional commitment to the educational development of underrepresented students.

1990s Ernest Morrell, ’93, has been elected vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English. He is the director of Teachers College’s Institute for Urban Minority Education. Previously, Morrell was a faculty member at the Urban Schooling

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Division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. He has also taught high school English and coached basketball, track and field, and cross country in Oakland, Calif.

Dennis Gervin, M.A. ’95, Ph.D. ’95, was appointed president of Columbia College. He has served as Columbia’s vice president of Student Learning since 2005. Gervin also previously held other administrative positions at Columbia College as the interim dean of Student Services and interim dean of Instruction: Arts and Sciences. Scott Collins, ’96, and Kathleen Bohlman were married in a small ceremony in Pacific Grove, Calif., on July 9, 2011. Scott and Kathy reside in Victorville, Calif., with their two dogs. Jeremy Dillard, ’96, was appointed to a three-year term on the AICPA Council, which governs the CPA profession, to represent the certified public accountants in the state of California. Dillard is a partner

with Rivera, Jamjian & Dillard, LLP, in downtown Los Angeles, which provides accounting and tax services to small and medium-sized businesses.

Ryan Pingree, MESM ’99, was promoted to manager of TEC’s San Diego office. He is responsible for operations in the San Diego area and continues to manage complex National Environmental Policy Act and water-resource projects throughout the southwestern U.S.

Claire Eustace, MESM ’99, and her husband, Amit Shoham, have a daughter, Ilana, born Sept. 13, 2009. Amit and Claire married in June 2008 and honeymooned in northern India. Claire has performed energy policy work in the Division of Ratepayer Advocates at the California Public Utilities Commission since 2008.

2000s Jill Richardson, MESM ’00, has accepted a position as recycling coordinator with Waste Management in Castroville, Calif. She moved to Pacific Grove in late March. Ryan Harding, MESM ’03, and his

Victor "Vic" Cox, '64, has become a certified member of the Channel Islands Naturalist Corps, a team of trained interpreters of the marine and island environments co-sponsored by the Channel Islands National Park and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. He is one of 25 new naturalists in the class of 2011, which was selected from more than 200 applicants. All unpaid volunteers, CINC members assist with commercial whale watch trips out of Ventura and Santa Barbara, and guide hiking tours on some of the northern Channel Islands.

wife, Wendy, celebrated the birth of their first daughter, Margaux Elice, on Nov. 22, 2010. Ryan also accepted the position of general manager of Northern California Operations for his employer, American Integrated Services, in the San Francisco Bay area.

Tim Olsen, MESM ’05, returned to the consulting firm Environmental Resources Management in Irvine, Calif., where he is a project scientist specializing in air quality and sustainability. He and his wife, Nicole, have a new house in Anaheim Hills and were expecting their first child in April. Entering his second year of being off duty from the Marine Corps, James Uwins, MESM ’05, is pursuing a career at ManTech International. He says his group “does some really interesting work at the Department of Defense level on range sustainability, as well as environmental impact statements.” Former Santa Barbara City Councilman Das

Williams, MESM ’05, was elected to the California State Assembly representing the 35th Assembly District and has since been appointed to several standing committees and boards. On Jan. 22, 2011, he married Jonnie Reinhold, project director of the Youth Methamphetamine Suicide Prevention grant at the American Indian Health & Services in Santa Barbara.

Stacey Kilarski, MESM ’06, spent November as part of an international team of scientists www.ucsbalum.com

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performing benthic community composition surveys throughout Apra Harbor, Guam. The team identified and quantified communities of algae, invertebrates, and corals that lie within the footprint of a proposed pier for nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

Climate Action Reserve to accept a position as a climate change analyst at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where his supervisor is alumna Jill Gravender, MESM ’99, director of climate change services for SAIC’s western region.

Yolanda Crous, MESM ’07, was featured in a photo essay with audio commentary on the bestfriends. org website. The group performs compassionate work with abused dogs in New York City’s animal shelter. See the images at bit.ly/eySXGv.

Kristian Beadle, MESM ’09, has

Robin (Saklani) Kent, MESM ’07, has been promoted to senior scientist at HDR|DTA, the consulting and engineering firm where she has worked for more than three years. She is located in Sacramento.

Renee Lafrenz, MESM ’07, was married to Andrew Moore in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2010. Cheryl Lee, MESM ’07, served as one of the bridesmaids. Renee is currently working at the Alliance to Save Energy, where she manages the Green Campus Program.

Hannah Muller, MESM ’07, and Tim Masterjohn married on July 3, 2010, then honeymooned on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. They live in Washington, D.C., where Hannah leads the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar America Communities program and Tim is general manager and partner of Floriana Restaurant.

Melissa Gomez, MESM ’08, coopened a restaurant in Old Town Goleta called Goodland Kitchen. The grab-and-go restaurant serves only produce grown in Santa Barbara County. Tim Kidman, MESM ’08, left the

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recently been traveling in southern Mexico, where he continues to write about climate adaptation and resilience in Mexico. A blog about his work can be seen on the Miller-McCune website and also at www.voyageofkiri.com.

Vared Doctori Blass, Ph.D. ’09, accepted a position at Tel Aviv University’s Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, were she is focusing on the intersection of business and the environment. She also received a four-year grant from the European Union to continue her e-waste and cell phone end-of-life research and is working on issues of resource productivity and sustainable industrial growth with the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection.

Milli Chennell, MESM ’09, is heading to Fiji in May for the Peace Corps. Beyond knowing that she will be working on environmental-resource management, she is not sure whether her assignment might be focused on coastal, terrestrial or riparian issues.

Lauren (Hess) Saez, MESM ’09, a fishery biologist at the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southwest Regional Office, supported the 2011 Group Project that studied ways to avoid collisions between ships and whales in the Santa Barbara Channel. Recently, Lauren and her husband, Jeb, bought a home in Thousand Oaks, Calif. They were expecting their first child, a boy, on June 18, 2011.

Scott Webb, MESM ’09, reports that the Cofan Group Project received the Best Poster Presentation of the Conference award at the U.S. EPA’s 19th annual Emissions Inventory Conference, held in September. The other group members were Heather Abbey, Carolyn Ching, Tyson Eckerle, and Emily Welborn.

2010s Hylton Edingfield, MESM ’10, was hired last September as a GIS database manager for Geosyntec Consultants. He’s still living in Santa Barbara and playing with Brengrass.

Dana Murray, MESM ’10, is working as a staff marine scientist with the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization Heal the Bay. She is responsible for marine- and coastal-resources-related technical and policy projects for Heal the Bay. Murray and her husband, Bryan, were expecting their first child on July 4, 2011.

Jamie Persico, MESM ’10, has joined Technicon Engineering Services Inc. as a staff geologist in the environmental department. As Green Communities Coordinator for Westwood, Mass., Justin Whittet, MESM ’10, is helping the town conduct an energy inventory and develop energy-reduction plans, with the goal of becoming a state-certified “Green Community.” Since summer 2010, he also conducted research for the San Francisco State University Department of Economics; his focus was the economic impacts of sea-level rise.

IN MEMORIAM Evelyn M. Goodin, ’46, was born in Fullerton, Calif., on Aug. 17, 1922. She attended Fullerton schools through junior college. She was editor-in-chief

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Bill Alhouse, ’49, died Feb. 24, 2011. He was 85. A Brooklyn native, born June, 10 1925, Alhouse spent 16 years coaching at Stanford. After high school, Alhouse enlisted in the Navy during World War II. From 1946 to 1950, he played in the minor leagues with the Washington Senators, Brooklyn Dodgers and Minnesota Twins as a middle infielder He moved to Palo Alto in 1951, joining the real estate business first, and then the Indian coaching staff at Stanford. The American Baseball Coaches Association honored Alhouse in 2000 with a special Hall of Fame award. He was named Realtor of the Year in 1963 and received the Lifetime of Achievement award in 2001. He retired from that business in 1990. Survivors include wife Barbara, daughters Ginger and Jane, and four grandchildren.

Margaret Lee Feliz Sherlock ’64, died Oct. 11, 2010, in Manhattan Beach, Calif. She was born Jan. 5, 1931, in Santa Barbara to Richard Anthony Feliz and Alda Lee Goodrich. She was an award-winning artist in the South Bay for more than 30 years. She spent three years as a stewardess for United Airlines based in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, and was a member of Clipped Wings. After being grounded by marriage, Sherlock became a

travel agent in Washington, D.C., and Manhattan Beach. She was an active member of both Los Californianos and Los Descendientes, and the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation. Survivors include husband Warren Curtis Sherlock; children Brian Richard, Scott Martin and Mary Lee (Howard); and eight grandchildren.

William Gordon Morez, ’65, died June 13, 2011. Morez was born on Oct. 16, 1923, in Chicago, Ill., where he graduated from Lane Tech Public High School. He passed tests to become an Air Corps Reserve Cadet, and in 1943, at age 18, he joined the service, eventually attaining the rank of lieutenant. After discharge, he attended the University of Illinois until his first son was born. After his second son was born, he moved to Glendale and became a police officer, and then joined

the California Highway Patrol. He was stationed in Barstow, Lompoc, Malibu, and eventually Santa Barbara, where he attended UC Santa Barbara to become a teacher. He taught art at San Marcos High School for 28 years. In 1989, he met Margaret, and they married in 1993.

Dennis Herbert Green ’64, M.A. ’66, died March 4, 2011. He was 70 years old and lived in Alameda, Calif. Born in Eugene, Ore., Green was the only son of Herbert and LeReine Green. Growing up in the Great Northwest, the family relocated frequently, as Green’s father was a sawyer. They eventually settled in Eureka, Calif. After graduating from UC Santa Barbara, Green taught there for 10 years. Moving to the Bay Area, Green worked at Children’s Hospital Oakland as its public relations director, and was creative director for Lazzari & Green Associates. Green was president

Athletics Reveals 2011-12 Hall of Fame Inductees, Legends of the 'Dome, Honorary Letterwinners The UCSB Hall of Fame will add the women’s tennis doubles team of Amelia White ’97 and Kelly Spencer ’96, men’s volleyball star Mike Gorman ’83, standout wide receiver Amahl Thomas ’92, former women’s basketball coach Mark French ’73 and former baseball coach Al Ferrer. Also, in 2012, UCSB Athletics is initiating a biennial award to accompany the Hall of Fame inductions, the Distinguished Gaucho Award. The initial award, which honors a former Gaucho athlete who has achieved great success in his/her post-UCSB career, will go to former tennis player Wayne Bryan ’69.

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of First the Blade, 1942 edition of The California Intercollegiate Anthology of Student Verse. She won first prize for her poem “The Loot” in the 1941 edition. Goodin then enrolled at Santa Barbara College in Elementary Education. While there, Goodin wrote a column for the then alumni paper titled El Vistadorcito. She spent 33 years as a teacher in California public schools. Goodin was a member of the International Society of Poets, California Retired Teachers and The Whitney Lunch Bunch. Her husband, Robert Delmer Goodin, preceded her in death. Survivors include son Michael Warren Goodin, a lawyer, his wife Karen, and three grandchildren.

The Legends of the ‘Dome program was introduced in 2009 to honor the athletes and coaches who made UCSB’s Thunderdome legendary. There have been eight banners unfurled in the first two classes of Legends with three more set to be introduced in 2011-12. The first banner, featuring the late Judy Bellomo, a two-time women’s volleyball All-American, will be unveiled prior to the Gauchos’ Oct. 15 match against UC Riverside. The UCSB letterwinners program, known as The Gaucho Order, is made up of all former Gaucho athletes plus a select group of honorary letterwinners. The 2012 honorees are Assistant Athletics Director for Student Services Larry James ’75 and Athletics Trainer Bob Annable ’79, both of whom have been

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of the Alameda Chamber of Commerce for 18 months, and he served on the board of directors for the Boys & Girls Club. Survivors include wife Diane Lazzari; sons Mitch, Max, and Barrett; and his sister Bonita Finley.

in Enid, Okla. Skip was a resident of Chatsworth since 1973. Survivors include parents Hugh V. Clary Jr. and Sue H. Clary; and sisters Susan Marquez ,and her husband Hudson Marquez, and Kimberly Meeks, and her husband Howard Meeks.

Virginia (Ginny) Hendrickson, ’67, died Aug. 21, 2011. Born in 1945 in St. Paul, Minn., Hendrickson moved to Manhattan Beach, Calif., as a young child. After graduating from UC Santa Barbara, she moved north to pursue her teaching credential at San Jose State University. At San Francisco State University, she earned her master’s degree in Education with an emphasis in teaching children with learning disabilities. In 1975, she married Robert (Bob) Hendrickson. She spent 39 years teaching in the public school system. Survivors include daughters Carolyn and Elizabeth, son-in-law Daniel, and grandsons Joshua and Zachary.

Hugh “Skip” V. Clary III, ’73, died on Aug. 5, 2011. He was born May 2, 1951,

Rita Susan Hale, ’77, died Aug. 19, 2011. She was born on Sept. 7, 1946, in Flint, Mich., to Vincent and Selma Callaghan. Hale attended Central Michigan University for two years, transferred to Michigan State University before marrying and moving to Ventura County in 1967. Later, she finished her education and received her teaching credential from UC Santa Barbara. Hale went on to teach first grade at Cornerstone Christian School for 20 years. In 1986, Hale, after being single for more than 10 years, married Danny. Survivors include husband Danny; sons, Ryan White and Aaron Hale; daughter, Elizabeth Falconer (husband Isaac); and grandsons, Devan White and Benjamin

Falconer.

Michael Gordon Burgos, ’82, died Aug. 13, 2011, in San Luis Obispo. He was 53. Burgos was born in July 1958 in San Jose, Calif., to Bill and Marion Burgos. He grew up in Ojai, Calif., having graduated from Villanova Preparatory School, where he excelled at tennis and basketball. Burgos graduated from UC Santa Barbara and Azusa Pacific, having earned his master’s degrees in Counseling Psychology and Education, and became a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Clinical Supervisor. Burgos and his wife, Patricia, became motivational speakers and co-authors of the award-winning The Book of Comforts: Simple, Powerful Ways to Comfort Your Spirit, Body & Soul. Survivors include wife Patricia; father Bill and Susan Burgos; and sisters Karen O’Neill (Bob) and Susie Sermak (Cas).

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UCSB Alumni Association Scholarship Fund The UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association would like to thank those who donated to the Alumni Association Scholarship Fund during the 2010-2011 academic year. UC Santa Barbara cannot be a great university without great students. The UCSB Alumni Association Scholarship Fund provides financial support to students with good academic standing who qualify for financial aid. With its less-restrictive requirements, the Alumni Association Scholarship Fund (AASF) provides a form of financial aid with greater flexibility to serve the varied and ever-changing needs of our students. Each year, more than 2,500 entering students at UC Santa Barbara qualify for financial aid, but receive no scholarship assistance. More than $500,000 in gifts and “The Alumni Association Scholarship helped to fund my education. pledges has already been raised for It has allowed me to take on fewer loans and to worry a little less the AASF, including donations during about money in today’s economy.” the 2010-2011 school year from the — Keri Rushing, 2009-10 UCSB Alumni Association Scholarship Recipient donors, listed below, to help this and future generations of Gauchos. In addition, the 2011 Senior Class Gift was earmarked for the AASF for the establishment of the Associated Students’ Food Pantry initiative. 2011 Senior Class Gift donors are also listed below. To give online, go to www.ucsbalum.com and click on the Give Online button. For more information, contact George Thurlow, Alumni Association Executive Director, at (805) 893-4799.

Alumni Scholarship Fund Donors for the 2010-2011 Academic Year* Ms. Teri Abbott Stephanie Albert ’96 Jodi Anderson Field and Christopher Field ’94 Anonymous Katya Armistead and Timothy Prichard ’88, ’13/’87 Frank Bailey ’61 Cheryl and Jim Barber ’67/’66 Sarah Barnes ’01 Patricia and Roy Baughman ’63 Paul Birmingham ’64 Kathy and Danvers Boardman ’72/’71 Miles Bottrill ’85 Richard and Kathryn Breaux ’67/’68 Marc Bretter ’01 Gwen Brown and Cameron Byrd ’71 Whitney and Alec Bruice ’92/’91 Ann Cady Cooper ’62 Jan and Randy Campbell ’74 Christine Castanon ’08 Joyce and Jon Champeny ’59/’59 Kevin Chang ’99 Jeffrey and Vivian Chapman ’90 Nancy and Stillman Chase ’57 Beverly and John Colgate /’69 Robert Connolly ’06 Carlos Corona ’12 Linda and Richard Crum ’62/’62 Kristi Cruzat ’71 Samuel De Castro-Abeger, ’11 Ramon De La Guardia and Maria Niederberger-De La Guardia ’68

Larry and Phyllis DeSpain ’63 Diane Dodds ’68 Lee and Sue Drocco ’92 Alan Ebenstein ’82 Geir Eide ’97/’98 Sue Evans ’44 Renee Fairbanks Cami Ferris-Wong and Derrick Wong ’94/’94 Maureen and James Fischer ’83 Raymond and Nancy Fisher ’61, ’60 Lloyd Garrison ’41 Victor Garza ’05 Carlos and Pauline Garzon ’82 Sherman and Ellen Gee ’75/’79 John and Faith Geoghegan ’59/’59 Marilyn Gevirtz H ’96 Roberta Gilman and Robert Wilson ’84, ’91 Alan Goldhammer ’70 Lois and Frank Goodall ’48/’51 Vanessa and Craig Goulden ’80 Royce Grubic ’91 Matt Guetschoff Richard and Mimi Gunner ’62 Susan and James Haden /’69 Cindy and Robert Hamm ’89/’90 Mike Hartunian ’48 Jackie Henretig Preston Hensley ’67, ’69 Henry and Margaret Hill ’62 Arlene and Dong Hoang ’94 Rachel Howes ’03

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Pamela and Russell Lombardo Kat and Larry Jay Martin ’69 Larry Martinez and Catherine Boggs ’76, ’78, ’84/’98 Alreza Marty ’01 Sandra Mateus ’96 Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Mendell ’63 Alexandra Meshkov ’79, ’83 William Meyers ’11 Kent M. Vining and Julie Ann Mock ’70/’75 Jeanette Morgan ’89 John Morris ’58 Charles Mosesian ’63 Michael Mullin and Naneki Elliot ’60 William Munger and Andra Nieburgs-Munger ’75 Jeannie Nakano and James Simpson ’71 Sergio and Fe Navarrez Janine and Marshall Nelson /’66 Christopher Nichols and Veronica Truchly ’95 Theresa and Robert Norris /’74 Blanca Nuila and Daniel Chae ’92 Evert and Joan Nygren James Ohanlon ’61 Janet Oppio ’82 Leticia Ortiz ’98 Mae Pagdanganan ’11 Mark Perbix and Anneliese Weston ’75

Nancy and Lawrence Perillo ’82/’82 Nobert Puff ’71 Wendy V.C. Purcell and Kenneth L. Wilton ’84 Catherine Reed ’68 Elizabeth Reidy Michael and Julie Reshatoff ’89/91 Elise Riley ’91 Marco Robles Carla Roddy ’69 Mary Rose and Frank Artusio ’78 Mickey and Phillip Rowe ’60/’60 Erica and Ron Rubenstein /’66 Paula Rudolph and Mark French ’81/’73 Mr. Arthur N. Rupe H ’08 Peggy and Jon Russell ’61 Ralph Russell ’93 Russell Russo-Levasseur ’11 Mary-Jane and Bard Salcido ’62/’59 David Sand Kathryn Saxton ’96 Lisa Scimens and John Moss Erin Serrano Heather Shane ’94 Karen Shorr ’85 Audrey Smith ’92 Lawrence and Christine Smith ’58

Richard and Patricia St. Clair ’66 Chester Stagnaro ’82 Claylain and William Starr ’48/’48 Markell Steele ’93 Frank and Kay Stevens ’59/’62 Morgan Stocks ’13 John and Pamela Stoney ’61/62 Andrew Sugar ’11 Brian and Geri Sullivan ’78 Melissa Sutton Jody and Paul Sweet /’69 Reyna Talanian ’94 Susan Terry ’64 Catherine L. Tonne and David W. Ohst ’81 Ms. Faye M. Ullom UCSB Alumni Association Wenonah Valentine ’77 Jacqueline Velasquez ’95 Sandra and Vincent Velasquez ’06 Kathy and John Venneman / ’76 John and Mary-Ellen Vian ’78 Raymond and Rosemary Ward ’59, ’63 Marie Weiden ’53 Lawrence Westbury ’66 Elsie Whitaker ’47 Travis Wilson ’02

2011 Senior Class Gift Donors through September 6, 2011 Jacob Abriel Samuel Adelson Rustin Afshordi Jeffrey Agostinho Abrham Alem Jessica Alfaro Zachary Allan Joshua Allen Andrea Almanza Erica Amescua Anonymous Alexandria Arno Karen Avenio David Avon Ryan Bahneman Lauren Bailey Francesca Baker Nicholas Baldocchi John Barbieri Devin Barry Ryan Barry Nicolas Batara Katherine Beeson Stephen Belcher Maria Beltran James Benson Elise Bercovitz Shaelyn Berg Alexander Berger Lauren Bergloff Sandra Berumen Adriano Biasini Boone Bishop Hannah Blustein Christina Bowser Donald Braden ’68 Scott Braga Katherine Brandt Christie Braun Kristen Claire Briones Madeline Brown Pauline Cadena Lauren Caldera Fernando Camacho Eric Canales Mary Canders Anthony Cardoza Anne Carter Bryana Casas Mario Castaneda Yadira Cerrato

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Wesley Kaplan Joseph Kazazian Thomas Keating Simone Kenney Joan Kershaw Sean Kersten Al Khan Nicole Kim Christopher Kim Joseph Kim Jason Klima Matthew Kloster Paul Konopelski Sarah Kwon Kevin Labadie Christopher Lapidus Brady Laplante Joel Leal Kelley Lebeau Kelvin Lee Kevin Lee Daniel Lee Edward Lee Brendan Lee Zi Jian Lei James Li Kathleen Lieberknecht Chi-Wei Lin Evan Lipkin Kelvin Liu Aaron Lober Ilse Longerich Marissa Lopez Lizette Lopez Christopher Lowder Ashley Luna Daisy Maldonado Joshua Maldonado Eric Manela Michael Mazzei Logan McCoy Hunter McCrea Ryan McGuan Catherine McMurry Michael Metz William Meyers Matthew Minae Melinda Mohamed Marlon Molinare Casey Moore Deysi Moreira

Susanne Morris Kelly Morrison Austen Mount Edward Michael Muna Estevan Munguia Kelsey Murphy Christine Na Alyssa Newman Jenny Nguyen Quinn Nguyen Nghi Nguyen Lisa Nicholson Omid Niroumand Zadeh Brad Nishina Andreas Nitsche Jinnine Nitschke Renzleen Michelle Nolasco Robert Norton Janet O'Neill Megan Ochenduszko Ashley Oertel Stephanie Oleson Jaret Ornelas Martha Oropeza Aaron-Vince Ortega Mcval Osborne William Oseguera Ryan Pakbaz Gina Paradiso Adam Passwater Jennifer Passwater Tanvi Patel Sarah Payne Nicholas Pedersen Matthew Petty Danielle Phan Kyle Psilopoulos Edwin Quintanilla Marika Raff Jamie Ramirez Joel Ramirez Jose Ramirez Tyson Randall Jason Rechtman Nicole Richards Matthew Ritz Jahaira Rodriguez Maricruz Rodriguez

Bruce Rosenberg ’63 Zacile Rosette Julian Rubel Vincent Rubianes Russell Russo-Levasseur Michael Sallstrom David Sanders Baldeep Sangha Adgar Sarian Zachary Scane Joseph Schiro Matthew Schmitt Silke Schroeder Melodie Schulman Jose Serrano Michael Shahandeh Anasheh Shamirian Michael Shepherd Namgyal Sherpa Emily Sherwood Deborah Shibuya Kevin Shields Jason Sigelakis Hoeun Sim Eric Singer Steve Sixt John Smisko Breanna Smith Todd Smith Paul Solis Laura Sosa-Erickson Kevin Soule Thomas Souza Amber Spring Alison Stanley Ryan Stevens Melanie Strate Laura Streit Scott Strutner Anton Sudradjat Daniel Sumulong David Taylor Veronica Taylor Torian Thomasco Jacqueline Tolson Madison Treece Jennifer Truong Jeffrey Turkal Sean Turner Elizabeth Tyler

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Harvey Schechter ’47 and his wife Hope have been strong advocates of UC Santa Barbara for many years. Harvey attended the Riviera campus and has been closely involved with the campus, including serving as a board member of the Alumni Association and also as a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation.

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As Harvey tells it, “There was no tuition in those days, and the registration fee was only $17 per semester. In short, the people of California gave me a free fouryear college education!” Harvey and Hope sought to create a lasting legacy to show their appreciation for the education he received. Through discussions with the Development Office, Harvey and Hope decided upon one of the most common forms of planned giving – a bequest in their wills. Their generosity will provide UC Santa Barbara with a gift totaling 80% of their estate upon their deaths. Upon receipt of their gift, the money will be used to help needy students enjoy and benefit from a UC Santa Barbara education that they might not otherwise have been able to afford.

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