UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association | Fall 2008
From Industry to Architecture:
The Container Project Turns Shipping Containers Into Livable Spaces 8 Animated Angst: New Hertzfeldt Film Hits Screens 14
Make It Count:
Voting Machines Don’t Make the Grade 23
To the Point:
New AD Mark Massari’s Season Opener 27
Some people ease into retirement. Others jump right in.
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Industry Meets Art in the Innovative Container Project Based on Campus By Jane Hulse
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Filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt ’98 Launches His New Film at Isla Vista Theater By Elizabeth Werhane ’00
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To the Point—New Athletic Director Mark Massari Lets Us in on His Game Plan
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Olympics Roundup: Gauchos Bring Home Medals
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Editor’s Column: Our Place in UCSB’s Sustainability Blitz Around Storke Tower: News & Notes From the Campus Research Roundup: UCSB Security Group Hacks Voting Machines Sports Roundup: Men’s Soccer Players Share Their Secrets with AYSO Teams Alumni Authors: Delving into the Conflicts of Peoples, Nations and Children Milestones: ’50s to the Present
COVER: Using ingenuity and recycled materials, UCSB art students transformed a shipping container into a livable structure. Cover photo by UCSB Professor of Art Kim Yasuda
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George Thurlow ’73, Publisher Andrea Huebner ’91, Editor Natalie Wong ’79, Art Director Emily Einolander, Editorial Intern JoJo Wahlstrom, Editorial Intern Thomas Johnson, Editorial Consultant
UC SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Robert Jupille ’89, Los Angeles President Ron Rubenstein ’66, Moraga Vice-President Alexandra Sasha Meshkov ’79, M.A.’89, Palm Desert Secretary-Treasurer Jodi L. Anderson ’94, Goleta Arcelia Arce ’98, Los Angeles Keith C. Bishop III ’69, Sacramento Richard L. Breaux ’67, San Mateo Philip J. Bugay ’81, Santa Barbara Jeffrey Flory ’91, Huntington Beach David C. Forman ’66, Chula Vista Preston Hensley ’67, M.A.’69, North Stonington, Connecticut Thomas J. Jevens ’87, San Jose John Keever ’67, Camarillo Alfred F. Kenrick ’80, Palo Alto Jack Krouskop ’71, San Mateo Steve Mendell ’63, San Diego Jennifer Pharaoh ’82, Washington, D.C. Lisa Przekop ’85, M.A.’89, Goleta Wendy Purcell ’84, Manhattan Beach Kim Shizas, ’77, Santa Barbara Markell Steele ’93, Long Beach Catherine Tonne ’81, Livermore Linda Ulrich ’83, Vienna, Virginia Michael Williams ’86, Santa Barbara Ex Officio J.P.Primeau President, Associated Students Gary Greinke Executive Director, The UCSB Foundation Amber M. Gonzalez Graduate Student Association Hua Lee, Ph.D. Faculty Representative Fredric E. Steck ’67 UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees John Wiemann, Ph.D. Vice Chancellor, Institutional Advancement
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Note from the Editor By Andrea Huebner
Cycles of Life Another academic year has begun on campus, and a blitz of green initiatives has placed the focus on UC Santa Barbara’s Campus Sustainability Plan. This fall, the university has adopted the motto: “Leave no footprint behind.” Incoming freshmen and transfer students were introduced to that motto during the keynote address at New Student Convocation in September (page 18). Explorer and environmentalist Celine Cousteau, granddaughter of Jacques Cousteau, served up a lesson about staying mindful of your impact on every environment—whether a small island in the Pacific or a beautiful college campus on the Pacific Coast. In our corner of paradise, Ron Cortez, associate vice chancellor for administrative services, will shepherd UCSB’s sustainability movement and pull together the diverse efforts on campus. A PowerPoint presentation on monitors around campus will feature UCSB’s accomplishments and goals. Dining hall displays will explain the different sustainability programs on campus—and how students can get involved. In fact, Coastlines spotlights one such group, UCSB’s LabRATS, which received a national award for its volunteer efforts in this area (page 21). This issue of Coastlines also highlights how alumni are involved in the sustainability discourse at UCSB. Jorgen Staal ’88, who developed a successful business out of repurposing shipping containers, donated several of them to The Container Project, which Alumnus Jorgen Staal ’88 rearranges his donated shipping containers for UCIRA’s The Container Project, which brings industry into art. transforms the metal boxes into useable work and living spaces (page 8). In bringing concepts of repurposing, recycling and reuse into the creative process, UCSB Art Professor Kim Yasuda is asking her art students “to engage their projects within a larger social dimensions.” Other alumni bring a message of sustainability to campus as well. At his Harder Stadium concert in August, Jack Johnson ’98 gathered environmentally minded organizations into an area called the Village Green. Along with the four national organizations usually at his shows, concertgoers were able to learn about 15 regional nonprofits, including these UCSB groups that promote green initiatives Deirdre O’Shea, Communications Director for the College of Letters and Science
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on campus: Emerging Green Builders, Ecological Coalition, Environmental Affairs Board, The Green Initiative Fund and Coastal Fund. The Ecological Coalition (http://sustainability. ucsb.edu/students/) serves as a network of more than 30 student organizations. Beyond covering stories about sustainability efforts, Coastlines and the Alumni Association also play an active role in campus initiatives, from simple paper recycling to energy conservation to sustainable building operations for Mosher Alumni House. We’re also looking at the impact printing Coastlines has on the environment. To lessen the magazine’s footprint, for example, Coastlines is printed with soy-based ink on chlorine-free, 10 percent post-consumer-waste recycled paper. In addition, we use Forest Stewardship Council-certified paper, which means it comes from renewable and well-managed resources. Even our printing company employs sustainable practices, including digital proofs (rather than paper) and a waste-recycling program.
The last step in the Coastlines’ greening process is in your hands. Once you and your family have thoroughly read and enjoyed the magazine, please push the effort forward by recycling Coastlines. Now, it’s up to you.
Andrea Huebner ’91 Coastlines Editor UC Santa Barbara
We welcome feedback on Coastlines as well as any comments from alumni. Letters can be sent through the mail to Coastlines, Mosher Alumni House, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-1120 or e-mail to andrea.huebner@ia.ucsb.edu.
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Cruising Thailand and the Malay Peninsula February 18-28, 2009 Pre- and Post-Trip Extensions
Peru with Journey to Machu Picchu February 12-19, 2009
Nicaraguan Adventure March 1-8, 2009 Explore Nicaragua’s v o l c a n o e s, l a k e s , beaches and colonial cities on our visit. Climb Cerro Negro Volcano and, if you dare, slide down its ashy lava slopes on a Sandboard. Visit the colonial city of León, which boasts the largest cathedral in Central America. Take in Nicaragua’s many stunning vistas with a trip to the Catarina lookout and the Mombacho Volcano Natural Reserve. Visit the village of San Juan del Oriente and enjoy the colonial town of Granada. Kayak or take a boat through Lake Nicaragua’s isletas and finish your journey with relaxing days on the beach in San Juan del Sur. Limited to 30 passengers.
Discover the treasures of Thailand and the Malay Peninsula, while sailing the Andaman Sea aboard the S.Y. Star Clipper four-star tall ship. Stroll through the bustling markets of Bangkok and encounter a unique world of pristine beaches, tropical jungles and grand temples. Call at Singapore and the ports of the Malay Peninsula, where centuries of trading have created an enticing mélange of cultures, religions and cuisines.
From the once-lost city of Machu Picchu to ancient Cuzco to cosmopolitan and historic Lima, modern Peru displays as much diversity as the ancient and modern cultures that shaped this extraordinary country. Stand at altars where ritual sacrifices were performed and stroll through colorful, highland markets where descendants of the Inca offer their traditional arts and crafts. See how colonial influences blended with indigenous cultures. Peel back the layers of great, age-old civilizations to discover Peru’s cultural treasures.
From $2,995 cruise only, per person based on double occupancy. Roundtrip international air additional and can be booked by tour operator.
$2,495 land only, per person based on double occupancy. Roundtrip international air additional and can be booked by tour operator.
Israel March 7-16, 2009
Journey Through Vietnam March 14-29, 2009
Moroccan Discovery April 18-May 1, 2009
This tiny nation, smaller in area than Lake Michigan, is replete with historic and spiritual milestones—vestiges of the Roman Empire, pathways of Crusaders and monuments to freedom. Explore the winding lanes of Jerusalem. Des c e n d into the spectacular Jordan Rift Valley and marvel at the Dead Sea, the d e e p est hypersaline lake in the world. Walk along the storied shores of the Sea of Galilee. Learn about the struggle for settlement near the contested Golan Heights and admire the architectural beauty of Haifa and Tel Aviv.
Post-Trip Extension to Angkor Wat March 29-April 2, 2009
Morocco invites us to encounter its ancient ruins and sacred mosques, endless desert, storied mountains, imposing kasbahs and spirited souks. Visit six UNESCO World Heritage Sites, enjoy dinner with a Fez family, tea with a Berber family, and a sunset excursion to towering s a n d dunes. As we travel from the imperial cities of R a b a t , Fez, and Marrakech to the High Atlas and vast Sahara, we open our eyes, and hearts, to a truly foreign land, an ageold culture, and genuinely hospitable people. Limited to 24 passengers.
$2,295 land only, per person based on double occupancy. Roundtrip international air additional and can be booked by tour operator.
Experience the natural beauty and enduring traditions of Vietnam. Tour the capital Hanoi and magical Ha Long Bay. Visit the ancient imperial capital Hue. In Da Nang, tour the acclaimed Cham Museum and travel to the countryside with its endless rice paddies. Explore the Mekong Delta. In Saigon, see the Reunification Palace, the History Museum, and the underground Cu Chi Tunnels. Limited to 24 travelers. $3,545, per person based on double occupancy; land and international air inclusive from LAX. $2,845 land only, per person based on double occupancy.
$3,645 land only, per person based on double occupancy. Roundtrip international air additional and can be booked by tour operator.
$4,995 land and air from LAX per person based on double occupancy. Rates available from other gateways and land-only.
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& Italy or other destinations,call the UCSB Alumni Association at (805) 893-4611 or email gaucho.getaways@ia.ucsb.edu.
Pearls of Dalmatia: The Croatian Coast to Venice April 23-May 7, 2009
Alaska and the Inside Passage
Start your journey in Croatia’s gracious capital, Zagreb, with visits to historic Old Town and St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Spend time in Plitvice Lakes National Park, famed for its turquoisecolored lakes, and dramatic karst formations. Continue to Dubrovnik. Visit the charming island of Hvar before heading along the coast to Split. Tour the ruins of 3rdcentury Diocletian’s Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While in Opatija, explore the scenic Istrian Peninsula. Conclude in Venice. Limited to 24 travelers.
After arrival in Canada’s cosmopolitan city of Vancouver, explore southeast Alaska in a way the early pioneers could not even imagine—from the elegant environs of the Seven Seas Mariner. Cruise to the Yukon Gold Rush town of Skagway and Sitka, where onion-domed churches recall its q u a i n t R u s s i a n heritage. Other ports include Ketchikan, Tracy Arm, Juneau, and Seward. Marvel at the electric-blue expanse of Hubbard Glacier. The legendary beauty of Alaska awaits your discovery on a fantastic journey along America’s “Last Frontier.”
Approx. $4,795 per person based land and air from LAX on double occupancy. Approx. $3,995 per person based on double occupancy; land only.
July 1-8, 2009
From $4,695 cruise and air from most major gateways, per person based on double occupancy. Rates available for cruise only and non-included gateways.
Senior Class Trip June 27-July 22, 2009
Serengeti & Zanzibar Explorer July 15-25, 2009
Participate in “Essential Europe,” our 10th annual graduation tour for UCSB graduating seniors and friends. This trip provides the opportunity to visit Europe’s “must-see” destinations before you settle into graduate school or a new job. It is also a great balance of planned activities and independent exploration, allowing you to visit the sites most important to you. This exclusive UCSB departure is 26 days and traverses England, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Liechtenstein, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Vatican City, Italy and Greece.
Post-Trip Extension Climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro March 29-April 2, 2009
$3,895 per person based on double occupancy. International group air additional and can be booked through tour operator.
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The “Serengeti and Zanzibar Explorer” offers the best of Tanzania’s s a f a r i excursions combined with several days of exploration of the white sand beaches of the exotic spice island of Zanzibar. Visit Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, the Olduvai Gorge and the largest unbroken caldera in the world at the Ngorongoro Crater. En route, visit a local Masai village. In Zanzibar, participate in options such as visits to the spice plantations. This trip is limited to 24 passengers. Tanzania from $4,995 per person based on double occupancy. Kilimanjaro post-trip extension from $4,300 depending on number of participants. International air additional and can be booked through tour operator.
Norway, Land of the Midnight Sun July 7-15, 2009 Immerse yourself in the majestic, rugged beauty of Norway with exploration based from Bergen. Learn about Bergen and its crucial and successful role as a Hanseatic port city in the Middle Ages. Discover the architecture of Norway’s wooden stave churches; visit a superb example. Admire fjords and the charming villages and cities nestled among them, such as Flam. Cruise on the Hardangerfjord. See Norway’s largest waterfall, Voringfossen. Along the way, meet the people of Norway, who invite you to experience the best of their country. $2,795 per person land only, based on double occupancy. Roundtrip international air additional and can be booked through tour operator.
Town & Country Life Kyoto & The Noto Peninsula September 5-13, 2009 Immerse yourself in the splendor of Japan, a mysterious and beautiful land where the ancient traditions and customs of the East permeate one of the world’s most modern societies. Experience life in rural Japan on the shores of the Noto Peninsula, an enchanting world of ancient pagodas, terraced rice fields and centuries-old fishing villages visited by western travelers. Learn about the ancient art of Kabuki, become enchanted by the seductive grace of a geisha, and savor the sake of Ishikawa during a private tour of a brewery. Engage with Japanese from all walks of life, including artists, monks, geishas, farmers and fishermen. Approximately $2,995 land only, per person based on double occupancy. Roundtrip international air additional and can be booked through tour operator. 7
Thinking inside the box By Jane Hulse Photography by Kim Yasuda, Nelson Parrish, Koji Tanaka
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To Staal and Yasuda, it was an opportunity: Why not turn them into cheap, attractive, eco-friendly housing, workspaces or art studios? Staal, a 1988 UCSB liberal arts graduate, was already in the business of buying, selling and renting storage containers, primarily for storage. The ready-made metal boxes were stronger, more durable than lumber. But could people get past the idea of living in a metal box? The answer may be in a demonstration project the pair and others are planning to locate on campus by June 2009. The university has given the conditional go-ahead for a temporary installation on West Campus near Cameron Hall to see if container housing can be affordable, attractive and livable. The site will showcase an architecturally designed 400-square-foot house made from two shipping containers and a funkier, art-driven version that Yasuda’s art students cobbled together. “The shipping container embodies so much of our consumer ways,” Yasuda reflected in a recent interview. The boxes arrive from overseas loaded with big-screen TVs, video games, appliances, gadgets and gizmos. “But we’re at a moment where luxury aesthetics are not appropriate for the time we’re in.” The green movement has made us think twice about excess. Even if the container-turned-house is a wash in terms of cost, the idea is still worth pursuing, Staal points out: “We’re not cutting down trees.” The buzz over shipping containers here at UCSB and elsewhere led to a conference on campus in November 2007 that covered their introduction 50 years ago to their globalizing effect on the economy to their reuse now. (Reuse isn’t limited to living space. A third container donated by Staal has been repurposed into a mobile arts lab.) It was in 2005 that Yasuda’s and Staal’s paths first crossed. His company, J. Staal Storage Solutions, was riding the wave of the shipping container glut. He was thinking beyond simply a storage function for the containers—as were a growing number of architects and others searching for affordable and emergency housing. He donated a couple of containers to Yasuda who also co-directs the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, an innovative group that looks to bold, boundary-busting art projects across the UC system. In a one-of-a-kind class, Yasuda and her colleagues Dr. Dick Hebdige and artist Robert Wechsler Above right: During the summer of 2006, Billy Hood M.F.A. ’07, right, served as the key foreman on the Open Container II project. Hood and Koji Tanaka ’07, left, adjusted a doorframe installed in one of the shipping containers.
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challenged their art students to transform two containers into one habitable space using their own sweat and recycled materials. The instructors brought in contractors and other trades people to advise the students. For some students, it required an attitude adjustment. Ten years ago being an artist meant “making things for a gallery,” Yasuda said. She was asking something different: “Artists need to engage their projects within a larger social dimension.”With no prior experience, the students reconfigured and welded the two 20-by-8-foot containers together, cut out an array of windows and skylighting, hung a glass door, added insulation and painted the outside baby blue with decorative scrollwork. The result was an artsy 320square-foot living space that was unmistakably still a shipping container. “All my students said ‘I’d live here in a second,’ ” Yasuda said. But would anyone else? To find out, late last year the institute, Staal and university officials sponsored a competition for architects: Design an attractive, eco-friendly home out of two shipping containers that would pass muster with zoning and building codes, and be producible for under $20,000. (Staal is donating the used 20-foot shipping containers, which he sells for about $1,700, plus delivery.) Santa Barbara architects AB Design Studios beat out other competitors to win the contest. It is their design–two containers connected by a sort of bridge–that will be built and moved to the demonstration site on West Campus. The design features the kitchen and living area in one container with a bedroom and bathroom in the other. But the key feature is that more containers can be added in sort of a Legos fashion. AB Design Studios architect Clay Aurell sees it this way: “A professor lives in one, and he gets married. He adds on another piece. You keep adding pieces.” Solar panels on the roof power electricity, heat and hot water. The units would be insulated, ventilated and painted light colors to reflect the sunlight. To cut costs, they’d be built off-site and shipped to a location ready to be put together. Even prettied up, the design still looks like a shipping container on the outside. “There is that stigma,” acknowledges Aurell who worked with colleagues Josh Blumer and Schuyler Bartholomay on the design. But to some, it’s a pleasing, interesting aesthetic. As for the inside, “you probably wouldn’t realize.” To Aurell’s eye, there are other pluses besides the cost and reuse of the container: “It simplifies life, pares it down to what you really need to live. You don’t need a family room, living room, dining room.” Staal, who was on the jury that picked AB Studios’ design, said the goal of the competition was to see if a shipping container design could be “cost effective, habitable and legal.” All the answers aren’t in yet, but one of his hopes is that municipalities will buy into the idea. One other unknown is the availability of shipping containers. The glut was worse five years ago, a good thing for Staal’s company which has five storage yards from Santa Barbara to San Diego holding about 200 containers. “The trade deficit has closed a little,” Staal said during a September interview. “More containers are leaving, but there will still always be a surplus.” 12
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How two UC Santa Barbara alumni met their retirement goals while simultaneously giving back to their alma mater: ➢ We wanted to fund our retirement while at the same time diversifying our investment portfolio. ➢ We wanted to ensure that we had sufficient income for the remainder of our lives. ➢ We wanted a plan with significant tax benefits to allow us to utilize greatly appreciated stock. ➢ We wanted a plan that ultimately benefited UC Santa Barbara and our other charitable interests.
Kent Vining BA ’70 and Julie Ann Mock MA ’75 met these goals by creating a specific plan that: • Took advantage of available tax benefits while diversifying their investment portfolio in retirement. • Provided a platform for a long-term retirement income stream. • Made a generous provision for planned gifts that will ultimately benefit the campus as well as other charitable interests. How was all this accomplished? Kent and Julie, over the years, had amassed a number of highly appreciated shares of stock from his employer. Kent and Julie each decided to fund individual charitable remainder unitrusts with that stock to provide income for their lifetimes. As trustees of their trusts, Kent and Julie were free to diversify their portfolios in order to ensure their retirement nest egg. Additionally, they set up life insurance policies to replace the value of their unitrusts for their heirs. Upon each of their deaths, their trusts will provide a generous gift to those charitable interests closest to them, including the Alumni Association, the Mosher Alumni House and Intercollegiate Athletics. “Julie and I were able share our success with the University and our other charitable interests during our lifetime, insure that our retirement years were well-funded, and allow for our estate to be kept whole for our heirs. Why wouldn’t anyone want to do that?”
If you have some similar ideas and are interested in a gift plan to meet your financial planning and charitable giving objectives, please call:Victoria Wing, Director of Major Gift Planning at (805) 893-5556, toll-free (800) 641-1204 or email victoria.wing@ia.ucsb.edu.
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Filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt ’98 launches “I Am So Proud of You” at Isla Vista Theater By Elizabeth Werhane ’00
When the lights went up in Isla Vista Theater after the world premiere of Don Hertzfeldt’s “I Am So Proud of You,” the first question for the alumni filmmaker was simply, “What the hell is wrong with you?” It might be a bold question to pose to an Academy Awardnominated animator, but Hertzfeldt ’98 showed no surprise. After all, he kicked off his film career while still a student at UC Santa Barbara with a film called “Billy’s Balloon,” which opens with a red balloon beating a small child. In a scene from “Rejected,” the film that got the Academy’s attention, a character rips out a chunk of someone else’s stomach and wears it as a hat. 14
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It is just the way I draw,” he said. “That kind of minimalism is really underrated. … You need to leave room in the frame for the audience to dream.”
“It seems like you’re working through some personal demons,” an audience member said during the question-and-answer session following the film. Hertzfeldt didn’t confess to any demons, but he acknowledged that his films “kind of skirt that funny/sad line.” His latest film does, too. “I Am So Proud of You” is the second film in a planned trilogy starring Bill, an average Joe with a bit of a mental disorder and a heightened awareness about life in the face of his inevitable death. The narration is steady, applying no greater urgency to dialogue about dying than to a discussion of paper towels. “The subject matter can be a little shocking at times,” said Joe Palladino, academic adviser for the Film and Media Studies Department. “If they were books, they’d probably be in the ‘death and dying’ section,” said Hertzfeldt, who was ranked among the Top 25 Filmmakers to Watch by Filmmaker Magazine. The film’s predecessor, “Everything Will Be OK,” was released in 2006, and won the Jury Award for short filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. Hertzfeldt doesn’t know when
he’ll complete the trilogy. He said he’s not quite ready to start work on the next chapter. First-year student Sierra Hennings, still smiling from having her photo taken with Hertzfeldt, said his films are both “old school” and “fresh.” His technique is old school. Instead of using computers, he films his hand-drawn animations with 16mm and 35mm cameras, including one from the 1940s. “The visuals I get out of it I couldn’t get out of a computer,” said Hertzfeldt, who has received more than 100 awards for his films. Before the premiere, the audience got a glimpse of his process. The big screen displayed slides of his sketches and notes. The pages showed scenes, as well as counts, lighting and animation annotations in the margins. There were sketches of Bill–a stick man vacuuming, a stick man sitting on a doctor’s examining table ... But Hertzfeldt wasn’t using stick-men drawings to save time. The characters in the finished films are stick figures. Is it a style? “It is just the way I draw,” he said. “That kind of minimalism is really underrated. … You need to leave room in the frame for the audience to dream.”
Don Hertzfeldt ’98 brought “I Am So Proud of You,” the second animated film in a planned trilogy, to Isla Vista for its first public screening.
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Film Screenings Nov. 8 — Giraf Animation Festival, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Nov. 11 — Midtown Art Cinema, Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 13 — The Civic Theatre, Allentown, Penn.
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Don’s Journal Don Hertzfeldt keeps a journal on the Web site for his company, Bitter Films, at www.bitterfilms.com. One journal entry describes Hertzfeldt’s take on audience reactions to “I Am So Proud of You:” “A handful of people have now seen the final movie and the universal response so far has been to point at the screen and horribly yell ‘skreeeeeee!’ ”
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Hertzfeldt, a Santa Barbara resident, also leaves room for students to dream when he teaches film classes at UC Santa Barbara. He has taken, taught and been the subject of film classes all before the age of 30. He also founded “The Animation Show,” an annual touring festival of animated shorts, with “Beavis and Butt-head” creator Mike Judge in 2003. “The [do-it-yourself] animators can look at him as a role model,” Palladino said. “He’s accomplished a lot and it’s all been on his own terms. … It makes us very proud.” During the post-screening Q&A, students asked questions about making films, making money and making the decision to attend UC Santa Barbara. When the conversation about protagonists and black holes died down, his advice to aspiring filmmakers was less complicated. “Do the work,” he said, adding that the most successful filmmakers he has seen were not all geniuses–they just worked harder than others. Audience members crowded around Hertzfeldt when he stepped down from the stage, continuing an informal Q&A for another 40 minutes. The scene–college students with their textbooks on a Friday night in Isla Vista–was almost as surreal as images in Hertzfeldt’s films. But the course readers weren’t used for studying; they were canvases for autographs.
Don Hertzfeldt’s journal entry for the world premiere of “I Am So Proud of You” in Isla Vista: october 2, 1 down 15 to go. the santa barbara screening was packed and sweaty. i forgot to bring my camera so it will have to live on in our memories. i’m still mildly surprised the new movie is even finished and up there. thank you for not sweating on me and for driving great distances and for being the first audience to see it with me and for banging on windows and for filling the crummy seats on the sides when there was nothing left. … from the back of the theater everyone looked like a sea of blue glowing portable devices
Nov. 15 — The Dryden, Rochester, N.Y. Nov. 19 — IFC Center, New York City Nov. 22 — Starz Denver Film Festival, Denver, Colo. Nov. 30 — Silent Movie Theatre, Los Angeles Coastlines
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Convocation 2008 About 4,500 students from the class of 2012 and transfer students from the class of 2010 attended this year’s New Student Convocation on the Faculty Club Lawn in September. Explorer and environmentalist Céline Cousteau gave the keynote address, inspiring new UCSB students to be environmentally responsible, echoing the sustainability theme of the Week of Welcome and UCSB’s goal of reducing its carbon footprint. The Alumni Association gave away T-shirts to the incoming classes.
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Galen Stucky received a Department of Defense award for developing QuikClot Combat Gauze, which promotes the instant clotting and sealing of a wound.
Chemistry Professor Receives Top Military Award for Life-Saving Gauze
Stacey Janik
UC Santa Barbara Chemistry Professor Galen Stucky has been honored for his role in the development of a blood-clotting gauze that is helping save soldiers who suffer life-threatening injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. He received the Department of Defense’s Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty Care Award in August. “In retrospect, this project has meant more to me than any other that I’ve worked on for the past 40 years. The most important aspect of this work is the thought that it is providing life support that is needed on an immediateresponse basis to both military and civilian personnel,” Stucky said. In 2004, Stucky and his colleagues were asked by the Office of Naval Research to work with Z-Medica to improve its zeolite-based substance, QuikClot hemostatic agent, which promotes instant clotting and sealing of the wound until the injured can be taken to medical facilities. QuikClot, though effective in stanching blood flow, had the potential to cause seconddegree burns around the wound. Stucky and his UCSB research team developed a “cooler formulation” of the product, eliminating the possibility of heat generation that existed in the first-generation formula. Z-Medica also markets a civilian version, QuikClot 1st Response, which is becoming standard equipment with emergency providers nationwide, and QuikClot Sport and QuikClot Sport Silver, which are becoming popular with outdoor adventurers. –UCSB Public Affairs Fall 2008
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around storke tower Faculty Awards
Faculty Publications
Tommy Dickey, UCSB oceanographer — Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval Operations Chair in Oceanographic Sciences
Brian Fagan, professor emeritus of Anthropology — “The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations” (Bloomsbury Press, 2008)
Joseph Polchinski, professor of Physics, permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB — 2008 Dirac Medal
Gaston Espinosa and Mario T. Garcia, professor of History—“Mexican American Religions: Spirituality, Activism, and Culture” (Duke University Press, 2008)
Melvyn Semmel, professor in Gervitz Graduate School of Education — Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2008-09 Elizabeth Witherell, editor-in-chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau — Thoreau Society Medal
Michael S. Gazzaniga, professor of Psychology and director of the UCSB SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind — “Human:The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique” (Ecco, 2008) Patricia Cline Cohen, a professor of History at UCSB— “The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York” (The University of Chicago Press, 2008)
Organic Chemist and Spouse Endow a Professorship in Materials
GIVING
UC Santa Barbara has received a $1 million gift from UCSB organic chemist Fred Wudl and his wife, Linda, to endow a professorship in materials science in the College of Engineering. The Wudl Chair will support the teaching and research of an Fred and Linda Wudl outstanding materials scholar with interdisciplinary research interests that would merit a joint appointment in the life or physical sciences.
Private Giving to UCSB Reaches $81.4 million in 2007-08 Alumni and friends of UC Santa Barbara contributed a record $81.4 million in philanthropic gifts and pledges to The Campaign for UC Santa Barbara during 2007-08. In terms of private giving, the fiscal year that ended June 30 was the
campus’s most successful ever, exceeding the fundraising achievement of the previous year by more than $10.5 million. With this extraordinary show of support, the campus has surpassed the $500 million milestone in The Campaign for UC Santa Barbara. UCSB received a total of 19,139 individual gifts last year.
UCSB Physicist and Spouse Establish Endowed Chair in Experimental Physics UC Santa Barbara has received a $500,000 gift from UCSB Physics Professor Guenter Ahlers and his wife, June, to establish an endowed chair in experimental physics, his area of academic expertise. The Ahlers Chair will support the teaching and research of an outstanding scholar specializing in the subfield of soft condensed matter or biological physics. –UCSB Public Affairs
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around storke tower ON THE CALENDAR UCSB Men’s Soccer vs. UC Irvine 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1 at Harder Stadium, UCSB. $7 adults, $5 seniors, $3 children 13 and under. (805) 893-8272. Middle East Ensemble 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 at the MultiCultural Center Theater, LabRATS, from left, Katie Maynard, Allen Doyle, and Jeff Kirby examine a hood and vent in a Biology II lab at UCSB.
UCSB. The musical group performs for its 20th anniversary signature event. $15. (805) 893-2064.
LabRATS Win National Award
Linda Ronstadt: “Canciones de mi Padre”
UCSB’s Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS) received the Organization Award at the first-ever Go Beyond Awards in San Jose, Calif. The awards honor individuals, organizations, projects, and laboratory manufacturers that “go beyond” the status quo to minimize the environmental impacts of laboratory and other hightechnology facilities and laboratory equipment.
1317 State St., Santa Barbara.
8 p.m. Nov. 10 at Arlington Theatre, The pop/rock force joins with Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano for a night of traditional mariachi. $33-$58. (805) 893-3535. Jeffrey Toobin 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13 at UCSB’s Campbell Hall.
Allen Doyle, manager of the soil ecology lab at UCSB, and other volunteers focus on the following sustainability programs: • Free chemicals. • Mercury based thermometer exchanges. • Bulb-free lighting. • Fume hood management. • Laboratory assessments.
CNN legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin discusses the U.S. Supreme Court and his latest book, “The Nine.” $15. (805) 893-3535. Film “Trouble the Water” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20 at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. This award-winning documentary follows residents of New Orleans’ Ninth Ward before, during, and after Hurricane
UCSB Establishes Graduate Program in Feminist Studies
Katrina. $6. (805) 893-3535.
The University of California has approved a proposal by UC Santa Barbara to establish a graduate program in feminist studies that offers Master of Arts and doctoral degrees.The women’s studies program now has become the Department of Feminist Studies. UCSB’s Feminist Studies department is one of only two within the UC system Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and and one of only 15 or so at public uni- chair of Feminist Studies versities across the country. The Feminist Studies graduate program has three areas of emphasis, including race and nation, genders and sexualities, and productive and reproductive labors. The program’s first graduate students are expected to enroll for fall quarter 2009. –UCSB Public Affairs
$8 seniors, $6 children 13 and under. (805) 893-8272.
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Women’s Basketball vs. Gonzaga 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7 at UCSB’s Thunderdome. $12 adults,
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Holiday Show 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16 at Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St., Santa Barbara. $33-$53. (805) 893-3535. Blue Note Records tour 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21 at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Music performance features Bill Charlap, Peter Bernstein, Ravi Coltrane, Lewis Nash, Nicholas Payton, Peter Washington and Steve Wilson. A world tour to celebrate the premier jazz label’s 70th anniversary. $40. (805) 893-3535. Note: UCSB charges $3 for night and weekend parking.
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Remember the term “hanging chad”? Not long after the election of 2000 managed to turn those words into a household phrase, voters in California and across America began to notice the emergence of touchscreen voting machines at their local polling stations, spurred by federal election reform funding. But on Election Day, the vast majority of voters across California will have performed their democratic duty the old-fashioned way: By filling out bubbles with a pen, instead of by touching the name of their UCSB’s Security Group found introducing preferred candidate on a computer screen. malicious code to the Sequoia touch-screen This owes largely to the work of a team of computer machine through a USB drive could result in scientists at UC Santa Barbara who demonstrated fraudulent ballots. that machines built by Sequoia, one of California’s primary vendors of electronic voting machines, were vulnerable to voter fraud. The group filmed a 16-minute video of their experiment, which in September was posted onto YouTube, and has since been viewed by tens of thousands of people. (It can now be found at www.wikio.com/video/428819.) Led by Richard Kemmerer and Giovanni Vigna, the UCSB team was part of an elite crew across the UC system recruited by California’s Secretary of State Debra Bowen. Kemmerer, UCSB’s Computer Science Leadership chairman and professor, said most surprising to him was how easy it was to hack into the system. “Prior to doing this, I had never imagined how insecure they are,” he said. All told, more than three-dozen computer science experts from the University of California and other institutions were part of the team, which was overseen by experts at UC Berkeley and UC Davis. Also shown to be insecure were voting machines made by the other major vendors in California: Premier, ES&S and Hart InterCivic. Richard Kemmerer, Computer Science As a result of their work, Bowen ended the use of Leadership Chair and Professor, and the voting machines in California, with an exception: Giovanni Vigna, associate professor in the Every polling place in the state is allowed to keep department of Computer Science, were part of the UC crew tapped to investigate touchone touch-screen computer on the premises for the screen machines in California. benefit of disabled citizens. Vigna said he believes the stakes in voting machines are high enough to warrant the same degree of scrutiny experienced by programs for, say, air traffic controllers. “We are going to vote for the president of the United States, and there are a lot of people who are going to be voting on machines that, in my opinion, are completely substandard, or definitely insecure,” he said.
BY THE NUMBERS
UCSB’s External Research Funding Shatters Record
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the total research funding UCSB received from federal and state agencies, corporations and foundations in fiscal year 2008.
$18 million
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$10 million The largest foundation grant awarded in fiscal year 2008. Michael Gazzaniga of the Psychology Department received it from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to establish a new $10 million national program on the law and neuroscience.
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research roundup Nanoscale Process Will Help Computers Run Faster and More Efficiently
Study Links Warming of Indian Ocean to Decreased Rainfall in Eastern Africa
Task Force Finds Single Abortion Not a Threat to Mental Health
A STUDY LED by a team of geographers from UCSB, suggests that warming of the Indian Ocean––a direct result of climate change––is to blame for a steep decline in rainfall over the eastern seaboard of Africa, which has serious implications for the region’s food security. The interdisciplinary study revealed that over the past 20 years, rainfall in that part of Africa has declined by as much as 15 percent per year. It also indicates that if the decline continues at its current rate, the population of undernourished individuals in the region could increase by more than 50 percent by 2030. Researcher Chris Funk of the UCSB Geography Department’s Climate Hazards Group is the lead author of this study. His findings are published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN a contentious question. Are women who have had an abortion prone to depression? A task force headed by Dr. Brenda Major, a UCSB psychologist, analyzed hundreds of studies and found the answer to be no. Women who have a single abortion do not have a higher risk of mental health problems such as depression than women who go through childbirth, the American Psychological Association reported. The report, which can be downloaded at www.apa.org/releases/abortion-report.pdf, counters arguments suggesting women who had mental health problems before becoming pregnant and women who worried about stigma or secrecy or those who had low self-esteem were more likely to develop mental health problems after an abortion.
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National Science Foundation and other funders. The university has already applied for patents on the new methods developed here, and it will retain ownership. Craig Hawker, a materials professor and director of the Materials Research Laboratory at UCSB who led the multidisciplinary team, explained that for the future we need more powerful microprocessors that use less energy. “If you can shrink all these things down, you get both,” he said. “You get power and energy efficiency in one package.”
Collision of Galaxy Clusters Captured by UCSB Astronomer
A collision of clusters as viewed from the Hubble Telescope and Chandra Observatory.
NASA
From left, Chuanbing Tang, Glenn Fredrickson, Craig Hawker and Edward Kramer
SCIENTISTS AT UC SANTA BARBARA have designed a new nanotechnology that will ultimately help make computers smaller, faster, and more efficient. UCSB scientists have created a way to make square, nanoscale, chemical patterns––from the bottom up––that may be used in the manufacture of integrated circuit chips as early as 2011. It is called block co-polymer lithography. Five leading manufacturers, including Intel and IBM, helped fund the research at UCSB, along with the
A POWERFUL COLLISION of galaxy clusters has been captured with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope. Like its famous cousin, the so-called Bullet Cluster, this clash of clusters provides striking evidence for dark matter and insight into its properties. The team, which made the discovery, is led by Marusa Bradac, a postdoctoral researcher and Hubble fellow in UCSB’s Department of Physics, and includes Tommaso Treu, assistant professor of physics at UCSB.
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Study Reveals an Oily Diet for Subsurface Life
David Valentine
that make up the oil seeping from the sea THOUSANDS OF FEET below the bottom of floor. “It takes a special organism to live the sea, off the shores of Santa Barbara, singlehalf a mile deep in celled organisms are the Earth and eat busy feasting on oil for a living,” said oil. Until now, Valentine, an asnobody knew sociate professor how many oily of earth science at compounds were UCSB. “There’s this being devoured incredibly complex by the microscopic diet for organisms creatures, but new down there eating research led by the oil. It’s like a David Valentine of buffet.” UC Santa Barbara And, the reand Chris Reddy searchers found, of Woods Hole Oil seeps from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. there may be one Oceanographic other byproduct being produced by all of Institution in Massachusetts has shed new this munching on oil-natural gas. “They’re light on just how extensive their diet can eating the oil, and probably making natural be. gas out of it,” Valentine said. “It’s actually In a report published in the Oct. 1 edia whole consortium of organisms—some tion of the journal Environmental Science that are eating the oil and producing inter& Technology, Valentine, Reddy, lead aumediate products, and then those intermethor George Wardlaw of UCSB, and three diate products are converted by another other co-authors detail how the microbes group to natural gas.” are dining on thousands of compounds
Researchers Show Fear of Predators Affects Health of Prey Populations RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY A GROUP of scientists associated with UCSB’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) indicates that the defensive strategies organisms employ to avoid being eaten by predators affect the health of their populations as much as or more significantly than does consumption itself. The researchers’ findings are published in a series of three articles in the September issue of Ecology, the journal of the Ecological Society of America. “These articles make the point that behavior matters, that it affects entire populations and ecosystems,” said Evan Preisser, an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island and a co-author of two of the articles. He and Daniel Bolnick, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, co-chaired the NCEAS group that examined the topic, and both are guest editors of the issue of Ecology in which the articles appear.
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Daryl Sykes,©New Zealand Rock Lobster Industry Council
A STUDY PUBLISHED in the Sept. 19 issue of Science shows that an innovative yet contentious fisheries management strategy called “catch shares” can reverse fisheries collapse. UC Santa Barbara scientists Christopher Costello and Steven Gaines are two of the co-authors of this study. Catch shares are common in New Zealand, Australia, Iceland, and increasingly the United States and Canada. They guarantee each shareholder a fixed portion of a fishery’s total allowable catch, which is set each year by scientists. Much like stock shares in a corporation, these shares can be bought and sold. Each share becomes more valuable when the fish population—and thus the total allowable catch—increases. –UCSB Public Affairs
Valerie Craig, Marine Photobank
New Study Offers Solution to Global Fisheries Collapse
Left: Emptying a trap of Alaskan king crab. The transition of this fishery to catch shares in 2005 consolidated the fleet and reduced the race to fish, but created contention over share allocations. Right: A New Zealand-based fisherman shows off two large rock lobsters. This fishery has been managed under catch shares since 1990.
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Alexandria Cooper
Mark Massari, Athletics Director
Mark Massari took the post of UCSB athletics director in September, succeeding Gary Cunningham. Massari comes to the UCSB campus from Oregon State University.
We quizzed Mark Massari, UCSB’s new athletics director, on his move to Santa Barbara from Oregon State University and his game plan for the Athletics Department. Q:
What about UCSB stood out for you when you were making the decision to come to this
university?
A:
Both my wife, Kim, and I are from California (Bay Area) so we’ve both been to Santa Barbara
before. But I kept telling her every time I returned from an interview how special it was. The campus, university, community, location—everything is just so special. I kept saying that word—special— every time we discussed the opportunity. Plus whether you are a coach, player or administrator, you want to go somewhere where winning is expected. And UCSB wins.
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sports Q: What are the top two to three goals you have for improvement and expansion of the Athletics Department?
A:
Athletics at the Division I level is a flat-out arms race. You’re either
going forward or going backwards. There is no standing still. So to go forward and build this thing to last we need to develop an annual giving program for the entire athletics department. Our coaches have done an amazing job in reaching out to the community to invest in their programs. That’s so encouraging. That will continue. But we will have a broad-based fundraising strategy. We are one program and everyone benefits if all sports have the funds to truly attack national championships. Scholarship funding does that. Second is a capital projects plan. My experience is people will invest in tangible things. Kids and facilities are it.
Q: What strategies from Oregon State would you import to the UCSB Athletics program?
A: Find a marketing angle. Find your position in the marketplace and build a plan of attack. At Oregon State, we created four
Chancellor Henry Yang gives Massari a Gaucho welcome and a UCSB T-shirt to make it official.
“hallmark values” to describe the program—tough, grit, passion and
A: Easy. By aggressively publicizing our events with the Alumni
determination. We sold that. We recruited those types of kids. We
Association and vice versa—much like the current students and
forcibly marketed this concept internally and externally. We made
Gauchos Locos. We need everyone’s noise—students, alumni and
ourselves—our staff and student-athletes—believe no one in the Pac-
fans. We need that “tough place to play” reputation. We have
10 could say those words. It was straight propaganda. If you think
really low prices for tickets plus we will have some new mini-plan
about it, anyone can say their program has those values. But we
and youth ticket plans soon to really entice folks to attend—and
were the first in the Pac-10 to put it to ads, marketing material, media
attend often. These coaches and players deserve great support.
guides, etc. We wanted kids to play there who identified with those
Our alumni and fans also like winning. And we win a lot usually.
values. We wanted our fans to believe in them—to identify with them.
Q: In your experience, what part have alumni played in supporting university athletics?
A:Well, it’s their school. Really. Our greatest commodity is the students
Q: We heard your daughter doesn’t like the beach, what’s up with that?
A: Man, that really threw me. She’s this beautiful, blonde 5-yearold girl who loves dresses and flip-flops. But she didn’t want any part of the beach when we came to town for my press conference.
and alumni. We need to always achieve a sense of investment by
We have beaches in Oregon, of course. She’s been on the sand
the current students in their athletic programs—emotionally as well as
there and loved it, so I’m not sure what was up that day. But check
financially. This will keep them connected as young alumni, then as
back with me in a year or two from now. She’ll be humming Jack
they move into the family stage and beyond of their lives.
Johnson songs, playing in the sand, and soaking in the rays.
Q: A large number of UCSB alumni live in Santa Barbara County.
Check out www.ucsbalum.com/Coastlines for more questions and
How do you plan to appeal to them and encourage them to come
answers with UCSB Athletics Director Mark Massari.
to events?
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olympic roundup 2008 Gaucho Olympic Medals
Getting Schooled on Gaucho Mettle Sports talk show host and alum Jim Rome defines UCSB spirit “Enormous ups to Gaucho
and Irvine resident Jason Lezak for perhaps delivering the signature moment of the entire games in Beijing. “Sure, Michael Phelps is a beast and is still on track for his 8 gold medals, but he’s not where he is without Lezak’s monster anchor leg in the 4 x 100 relay. Lezak ran down France’s Alain Bernard, who was the world record holder in the 100 free—the same Bernard who foolishly bumped his gums before the race saying the French would smash the Americans. If by smash, you mean get punked by and humiliated internationally by them, then I agree, you smashed the U.S.! “Who do you think you are, talking that kind of junk to the U.S.?! More importantly, running that smack about a Gaucho! Remember these four letters, Bernard, U-C-S-B! Lezak is a Gaucho! Of course he ripped your heart out and shamed your entire nation! That’s what Gauchos do! They show up when it matters most. And, deliver life-altering performances. We’re Gauchos. That’s how we get down! And we don’t just let anyone in our pool. “Doesn’t the French team do any scouting? Because if you did, you would have known we had a Gaucho in the final leg and you would have never run your mouth so recklessly and dangerously. From one Gaucho to another, Jason, unbelievable effort! The ultimate example of a guy manning up, running down a world record holder, from a body length back and closing the show with a gold! “Now you all know what we’ve always known, when you need something and you need something done right, send in a Gaucho. Jason, when you get back, dinner on me at Javier’s in Crystal Cove!” — Jim Rome on “Jim Rome Is Burning” on Aug. 12, 2008 Fall 2008
UC Santa Barbara was well represented at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. Of the six Gaucho athletes there this August, three returned home with a total of three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Jason Lezak ’99 anchored the U.S. men’s swimming relay team to win two gold medals with world record times and won an individual bronze medal for the men’s 100m freestyle. Todd Rogers ’96 and partner Phil Dalhausser completed a sweep of men’s beach volleyball, defeating the Brazilians in the final set to win the gold medal. Heather Bown ’97 and the U.S. women’s volleyball team took home the silver medal. Other 2008 Olympic Gauchos include Brian Alexander ’05, who served as an alternate for the U.S. water polo team, which won silver. UCSB sophomore Michael Boxall went to the Olympics with the soccer team of his native New Zealand. Mark Warkentin ’84, assistant swim coach, took to the ocean and swam the Olympics’ 10K Open Water Race, which was held for the first time in 2008. He finished eighth. Coach Bob Alejo accompanied Rogers and Dalhausser to Beijing as a beach volleyball coach. A total of 102 Olympians with University of California ties took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, representing six campuses and 25 countries, winning 43 medals.
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sports roundup BASEBALL
Winter Baseball Camp Slated for November at Uyesaka Stadium
MEN’S SOCCER
Team Hands Down Soccer Skills to Local Kids in Free Clinics The UC Santa Barbara men’s soccer team has just completed its latest annual free soccer clinics in the community, helping numerous AYSO teams in the Santa Barbara area. Hosting more than 100 clinics in the month of September, the Gaucho men’s soccer team, currently ranked as high as 15th in the nation, spent time with area children, ages 5 to 13, teaching them the fundamentals of the game. The entire men’s soccer squad spent more than 150 hours working with the children, teaching various soccer skills based on the children’s abilities in an effort to reach out to the community, and encourage them to continue playing the game and create a bond with the Gauchos. WOMEN’S SOCCER
Simon’s Goals Gives No. 23 UCSB 2-1 Big West-Opening Win at UC Riverside The 23rd-ranked UC Santa Barbara women’s soccer team opened Big West Conference play with a 2-1 win at UC Riverside on Oct. 3. The game-winner came at the 50:24 as sophomore midfielder Jacqui Simon scored from about five yards inside the top of the box after a pass from sophomore forward Kylie McDonald. In the win, the Gauchos (8-4-0 overall, 1-0-0 in the Big West) outshot UCR (5-6-1 overall, 0-1-0 in the Big West) by a 14-15 margin, but the shot on goal difference was far more decisive at 17-8.
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The UC Santa Barbara baseball team will be holding its Fourth Annual Winter Baseball Camp on Nov. 22 and 23 at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. The camp is designed for the high school player who is looking to play at the next level. The camp will include team stretching, batting practice, fielding evaluations, throwing programs for both pitchers and position players, and games. The cost is $300 per camper for all campers in grades 1012. Instruction will be provided on both days by the Gaucho coaching staff. For more information on the camp, contact Coach Tom Myers at (805) 893-2021 or thomas.myers@athletics.ucsb.edu. WOMEN’S SWIMMING
Katy Freeman Makes Roster of 2009 World University Games Swimmer Katy Freeman has been named to the 2009 World University Games roster, USA Swimming announced. Freeman, who is entering her senior year at UCSB, will compete in the swimming competition that will take place July 11-15 in Belgrade, Serbia. The 26 swimmers on the 2009 World University Games team roster were selected based upon their performance at the 2008 USA Swimming U.S. Open Championships. Freeman, who is a 2008-09 team captain, took third-place in the 200-meter breaststroke. She will swim three distances at the World University Games: the 50, 100 and 200 breast events.
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Gauchos Have Third-Place Finish in Season-Opener in Monterey Junior Matt Grush shot a 2-under par 211 to finish in a tie for third, leading UC Santa Barbara to a third-place team finish at the Saint Mary’s Invitational held at the Poppy Hills Golf Course in Monterey, Calif. The tournament was the season-opener for the Gauchos. After opening the tournament with a first round score of 294, the Gauchos got better each round. In the final 18, Santa Barbara shot 279 to move three schools and into thirdplace. The University of San Francisco won the tournament with an 855, five shots better than Wisconsin and six better than UCSB. CROSS COUNTRY
Gaucho Women Capture First and Men Take Second at Lagoon Open The UC Santa Barbara women captured first place at the 2008 season-opening UCSB Lagoon Open on the UCSB campus on Aug. 30. Senior Danielle Domenichelli led the way, finishing the 5-kilometer race in 17:51. On the men’s side, Cal Poly took first with Daniel Gonia leading the way with his top time of 24:23 in the men’s 8-kilometer race.The UCSB women defeated Cal Poly, 26-38 and cross-town foe Westmont, 26-72. The Mustang men locked up first place defeating the Gauchos, 19-42 and Westmont, 19-78. The three-race event began with a community 5K that was won by alumni Ryan Martin with a time of 16:30. Other alumni included Bethany Nickless ’08 in sixth place, Pete Dolan ’82 in eighth, Damian Capozzola ’93 in 10th, Rollie Cavaletto ’65 in 14th and Chris Dean ’93 in 15th. MEN’S WATER POLO
No. 9 UCSB Outlasts No. 8 UC Irvine to Capture First MPSF Win of 2008 Sophomore Milos Golic scored seven goals to lead No. 9 UC Santa Barbara past eighth-ranked UC Irvine, 14-12, in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation game at Anteater Pool Oct. 5. Daniel Natalizio added three goals as the
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Gauchos improved to 8-4 overall and 1-1 in the MPSF. The Gauchos’ largest lead was 13-9 on an extra-man goal by Jesse Tootell with 1:47 remaining in the third quarter. Michael Robinson had 14 saves in goal for UCSB. WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Gauchos Sweep Past UC Davis UC Santa Barbara bounced back from its home-opening loss to Pacific with a three-set sweep over Big West foe UC Davis on Oct. 4 at the Thunderdome. The Gauchos defeated the Aggies 25-16, 26-24, 25-11 to earn their first home win of the 2008 season. With the win, UCSB improves to 7-8 on the season and 3-1 in the Big West, marking its best conference start since the 2005 season. DONATION CAMPAIGN
Men’s Soccer Collecting Goods for Africa Outreach Drive The UCSB men’s soccer team is beginning a donation drive to collect new or used sporting goods for children in Africa. For the Gauchos’ remaining home games, there will be collection bins set up inside the main entrance at Harder Stadium where fans can donate any type of athletic equipment, clothes and shoes. The remaining men’s soccer home games are Saturday, Nov. 1 vs. UC Irvine and Wednesday, Nov. 5 vs. Cal Poly. From there, the men’s soccer team will ship the equipment, clothes and shoes to Africa to help those less fortunate than ourselves. For more information, call (805) 893-6044. For tickets to any of these UCSB games, please call (805) 893-UCSB or log on to www.UCSBGauchos.com. — UCSB Gauchos.com
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alumni authors Napoleon Bonaparte Alan Schom, ‘59 Harper Perennial While most books about Napoleon Bonaparte seem to cover bits and pieces of the Frenchman’s life, Schom has written an all-encompassing work documenting Napoleon’s entire life. Schom writes of his military and political endeavors, as well as the parts that make him more human to the reader: his character, family, life outside of his conquests, and his values. Loved by the French, hated by other European countries with a history of enduring his ruthlessness, Napoleon’s successes and failures have shaped the history and lives of many.
Tigers and Songbirds J. Cruickshank Muir, ‘95 Muir Studio Words of pain, suffering, loss, remembrance, and honesty flood the pages of J. Cruickshank Muir’s collection of poetry. His book is a response to the combat and the realities of war and his time serving as a Marine during the Vietnam War. Cruickshank Muir’s work is open and painfully honest, shedding light on the dark corners in his soul that as a veteran he could not previously share with those close to him.
Bordertown The Odyssey of an American Place Text by Benjamin Heber Johnson, photographs by Jeffrey Gusky Yale University Press This collection of photographs and accounts of the history of the Mexican frontier and stories of the settlers along the Rio Grande and Texas and Mexico border depicts the rich and shared history between the United States and Mexico. Gusky’s photographs and Johnson’s descriptions of the Spanish influence on both American and Mexican pioneers encapsulate the constant struggle and feeling of confusion about being Mexican or being American in a town so divided by race and war.
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The Chumash World at European Contact Power, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers Lynn H. Gamble, ‘84 University of California Press Gamble’s extensive research of Southern California’s Chumash tribe and the encounters with the Spanish explorers and missionaries during 1769 gives insight to a society rich in culture, organization and economy, warfare and politics. Drawing from archeology, ethnography, ecology and historical documents of the area known as the Santa Barbara Channel Region, Gamble describes the Spanish in awe at the abundance of food, the size and construction of the dwellings and villages, the use of currency, form of government and rankings, and so on in the Chumash village. The picture Gamble paints of this part of U.S. history creates a better appreciation of this culture.
You Did That on Purpose Understanding and Changing Children’s Aggression Cynthia Hudley, ‘68 Yale University Press As children, it is not uncommon to squabble over hair clips, who gets the bigger piece, and who should have the pink ball or the red ball. Cynthia Hudley delves deeper to investigate the degrees of aggressiveness that children exhibit and the effect it may have on youth violence. Hudley looks at the level of aggressiveness towards peers, the long-term effects that the aggressive behavior will have on the child, and offers suggestions and tools for both parents and educators to understand and reduce peer-directed aggression. Hudley’s book is both reader-friendly and informative, gathering information from research literature and findings, and everyday tools to be used at school or at home.
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milestones 1950s Garvan, ’55, and Mariana Kuskey, ’58, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 23, 2008. Both were among the first students to attend the Goleta campus of UCSB in 1954. Mariana worked as a schoolteacher while Garvan worked as a dentist. The couple has four children and 24 grandchildren.
1960s On Aug. 16, 2008, Herbert Simpkins, ’60, and Diane Marie Albrecht, ’75, celebrated their 50th anniversary with friends and family, including their two sons and daughter. They were married Aug. 16, 1958, at the First Methodist Church in Santa Barbara, Calif. Roger Wells, ’61, has been elected for a twoyear term to the board of trustees of the Institute for American Research, the
Joseph Acaba, ’90, will blast off for the International Space Station on Space Shuttle Discovery in February. The mission
and graduation coordinator, among other duties. Escoffery also served as a science teacher in Malacca, Malaysia, in the Peace Corps from 1965-68. Ellen Gay Conroy, ’66, has been appointed judge in the Ventura Superior Court in Ventura, Calif. She served as a commissioner with the Ventura Superior Court since March 2006. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Charles W. Campbell. Don Galine, ’68, finished first place in the U.S. Masters National Swimming Championships in Oregon in August 2008 in the 50-meter backstroke and the 100-meter backstroke. Bob Kovitz, ’68, has been appointed as the Community Engagement Programs manager for the Tucson SymBob Kovitz ’68 phony Orchestra. Kovitz also made his acting debut in the independent feature film “Jackrabbit Sky,” which was shot in Tucson and New York.
will deliver solar array and truss materials to the station. Acaba was chosen as an astronaut by NASA in 2004. He plans to use his limited personal storage on the space shuttle to take UCSB memorabilia into space.
Goleta, Calif., nonprofit organization that operates the South Coast Railroad Museum. Wells worked for Raytheon as a materials manager for 22 years, until his retirement in 2007. Charles Escoffery, ’65, has retired from the Los Angeles Unified School District after teaching for 42½ years. Most of his work was at Orville Wright Middle Magnet School, his alma mater, where he was science department chairman
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1970s Henry Brown, ’71, is completing his first leading role in a dramatic feature film,“The Everyday Blackman” in Oakland, Calif. He will be playing the role of Moses, an Oakland neighborhood grocer trying to maintain a successful business. Karen A. Talentino, ’72, former dean of faculty and professor of biology at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., joined St. Michael’s College as vice president for academic affairs. Steve Jacobsen, ’74, has joined Hospice of Santa Barbara as the executive director. Jacobsen will be replacing Gail Rink, who has retired after eight years at the helm of Hospice of Santa Barbara. Jacobsen was formerly senior pastor at the Goleta Presbyterian Church for 16 years, and has served as a visiting scholar in the UCSB Religious Studies department.
1980s Yvonne Bodle-Farris, Ph.D. ’85, was recently named A Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast. Lisa Mayeda-Nichols, ’86, has been promoted to senior director of corporate and foundation advancement for KOCE-TV, a PBS Lisa Mayeda-Nichols ’86 station in Huntington Beach, Calif. In her new position, she will continue her successful efforts toward securing corporate sponsorships, foundation grants, and major gifts. Dr. Lois Phillips, Ph.D. ’86, is a founding board member of the Association for Women in Communications Santa Barbara Chapter, which received the Outstanding Chapter of the Year award from the national organization in September. She was elected president of the founding board for 2007-09. Dr. Phillips coordinated the PreSchool Parent & Caregiver Conference at Santa Barbara City College in June for the Orfalea Fund and the First Five Commission on Children and Families involving Lois Phillips ’86 a consortium of institutional and agency partners in partnership with KEYT Programming. She moderated a panel discussion on “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” for the American Association of University Women in October. Dr. Phillips will be facilitating a Negotiation Skills Learning Group Session at the Linkage conference in November. Christopher Thompson, ’89, has been appointed the legislative director of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) congressional staff. Prior to that, he served as the senator’s principal appropriations staffer for four years.
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milestones hold hazardous waste collection, and at Lake Oak Meadows in Temecula, internal multimedia environmental Calif. Jennifer is currently the first Elizabeth Estrella, ’90, has taken a post audits. Daoud Naouri of Tangiers, assistant manager at Nordstrom in La as the interim dean of developmental Morocco, and Tanya Zilinskas, ’01, of Jolla, Calif. Ryan owns Titan Comeducation at Hartnell College in SaliSanta Barbara were married Aug. 29, modities in San Diego. Jill Richardson, nas, Calif., where she has worked as a 2008, at the Santa Barbara Historical MESM ’00, is now the campus sustaincounselor since 2000. Louise Jennings, Museum. She owns and runs Maability coordinator and TGIF (The Ph.D. ’96, has accepted a new position neater Threads, an online women’s Green Initiative Fund) Grants manas associate professor at Colorado State ager for UCSB. TGIF is University, beginning January 2009. funded by a quarterly She is currently at the University of Zach Gill, ’97, the frontman for Isla lock-in fee that UCSB South Carolina. Dr. J. Dwight Hines, Vista band Animal Liberation Organization, students overwhelmingly Ph.D. ’99, was named to the faculty released his debut solo album, “Zach Gill’s passed back in 2006, of Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Stuff,” in August. Jack Johnson’s, ’97, label, thanks in part to several Penn. He is an assistant professor of Brushfire Records, released the album, which Bren students who were Global Cultural Studies in the Decontains hits such as “Family” and “Don’t integral in its developpartment of Humanities and Human Touch My Stuff.” Gill continues to tour with ment and promotion Sciences. Previously, ALO and Johnson. ALO is composed of Dave during the 2005-06 acahe was a lecturer Brogan, ’96, Gill, Dan Lebowitz, ’98, and demic year. TGIF grants in anthropology at Steve Adams, ’99. are awarded to a variety UCSB. He has been of projects across campus a visiting professor that enhance and further of Anthropology at UCSB’s sustainability Georgia State Uniclothing boutique based in San Franplan. Doug Ganey, MESM ’01, was versity and Stephen cisco. Daoud is the senior sales direcpromoted to Principal Environmental F. Austin State Unitor at the VoIP start-up company Talk Scientist at the Louis Berger Group, Stephen J. McCormack versity in Texas. IMI MA ’90, PhD ‘94 Free, also based in San Francisco. ZilInc. He continues to teach part time Intelligent Medical inskas wore a custom-made one-shouland was recently asked to develop and Implants AG (“IMI”) (www.intmedder ivory dress by Rami Kashou, former teach the Earth and Space Science implants.com) announced that it has Project Runway contestant and current training course in a program for grade appointed Dr. Stephen J. McCormack, Maneater Threads’ designer. Mark school and junior high school teachers M.A. ’90, Ph.D. ’94, as CEO. He was Kram, Ph.D. ’02, president of Santa under the Massachusetts Math and previously chairman of the board of Barbara-based Groundswell TechnoloScience Partnership. He taught the directors and will remain as a board gies, Inc., recently licensed two key initial Earth science course at Bridgemember. inventions to industry partners for site water State College last year. characterization related to hazardous Christopher J. Gibson, MESM ’01, waste remediation design and monitorwas promoted from environmental 2000s ing strategies. The High-Resolution specialist to environmental specialist Ryan Francis Davies, ’00, and Jennifer Piezocone will enable practitioners to II at Norcal Waste Systems, Inc., in San Day Billinger, ’01, were married in an develop the most detailed groundwaFrancisco. In that capacity, he serves outdoor wedding on Sept. 27, 2008, ter and contaminant transport models as the main technical resource and to date. The Direct-Push Monitoring provides corWell Specification System will allow porate overfor rapid monitoring well design and sight for the Masen Yaffee, ’91, is a co-founder of Green installation. Both products are licensed c o m p a n y ’s Sherpa, which offers an online personal finance to AMS, an Idaho-based company that hazardous management tool. The company (www.greensherpa. manufactures groundwater and soil materials and com) is based in Santa Barbara, Calif., and launched sampling equipment. Joe Shohtoku, waste prothe product in September. Yaffee is also the founder MESM ’02, and his wife, Claudia grams, enviof NDIC, Inc., a Web application development Anticona, MESM ’01, relocated to ronmental company. Singapore in conjunction with Joe’s training pronew role managing the environmental grams,house-
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milestones insurance operations for the Far East, South East Asia, and China for Bren Corporate Partner American International Group’s international arm, AIU. Shohtoku’s new title is vice president – Environmental Impairment Liability. Following three years in the UK as a postdoctoral researcher, Rajendra (Raj) Bose, Ph.D. ’04, has recently accepted the position of Digital Initiatives Manager in the new Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University in New York. He will serve as a liaison between university researchers, including environmental science and geoscience groups at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and within the Earth Institute at Columbia—and the Digital Pro-
Rachael Ross Steidl and Jamie Steidl, ’95, have established Eventful Moms (sbparent.com), which connects moms with each other and the Santa Barbara, Calif., community. They also own SBParent.com and ParentClick, which serve as online resources for parents.
grams and Technology Services division of the Columbia University Libraries. Adina Abeles, MESM ’04, and Carissa Klein, MESM ’06, presented at the European Symposium on Marine Protected Areas, held in Murcia, Spain, in October 2007. Abelas presented a talk titled “The Politicization of Scientific Information in MPA Processes: Lessons learned from a controversial public policy process in California.”
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Mark Emerson, Ph.D. ’04, was named an assistant professor of History. He previously taught at the University of New Mexico, Pima Community College in Tucson, Ariz., University of Arizona, UCSB, Georgia College, American Intercontinental University (online), Cuyamaca College, Mesa College, Southwestern College, Rio Grande College, and Chadron (Neb.) State College. Kevin Patrick Herlihy, ’04, married Lauren Elizabeth Koch on April 27, 2008, in Chapel Hill, N.C. The bride is a graduate of Villanova University and of the University of North Carolina School of Nursing.The groom is pursuing his doctorate in chemistry at the University of North Carolina.The couple resides in Chapel Hill, N.C. Katie Wohletz, ’04, and Robbie Bianchi were wed Aug. 31, 2008. The bride is a Relations Manager at Tri-Counties Bank and the groom is recreation programmer at Beale Air Force Base. The couple lives in Chico, Calif. Emily Debolt, ’05, joined the staff at Nordhoff High School in Ojai (Calif.) Unified School District as a psychologist, working with special education students. Jeff Dunbar, MESM ’05, has returned from extended travels in New Zealand and accepted a job as a green building consultant with CTG Energetics in Irvine, Calif. CTG provides green building advice and energy efficiency analysis to developers and contractors, while bridging the gap between cutting- edge concepts and real-world problems. Heather Evans, Ph.D. ’05, has been named to a fellowship with the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( A A A S ) . Heather Evans ’05 Evans has just begun her fellowship at the Na-
tional Science Foundation in the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office. Her policy interests are biomedicine, basic research, science education, funding, energy policy, energy technology, and disease prevention and treatment. Joe Kastner, MESM ’05, and David Felix, MESM ’06, put the energy-related studies they pursued at the Bren School to work in developing the Nellis Solar Photovoltaic facility at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nev. With a rated capacity of more than 14 megawatts, the facility is the largest photovoltaic plant in the Western Hemisphere. Kastner is vice president and Felix is senior channel manager at MMA Renewable Ventures, a Bren School Corporate Partner. Jeff Phillips, MESM ’05, recently completed his two-year post-graduation Presidential Management Fellowship and received his graduation certificate from Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne in Washington, D.C., at the end of January. In March 2007, Phillips was offered a position as the Environmental Contaminants and Spill Response Coordinator in the Honolulu office of Fish and Wildlife. He left his previous position at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Ventura Field Office and moved to Oahu with his best friend and fiancée, Mandy McCoy, “to continue the adventure.” Elizabeth Truesdell, Ph.D. ’05, has started in a new position as assistant professor at Dominican University (of California) in Marin County. She’ll be working with student teachers and advising students in the Curriculum and Instruction master’s program and starting a doctoral degree in Education Leadership. Nadia Gardner, MESM ’06, left her job at the Lower Nehalem Community Trust to work at the Columbia Land Trust (CLT) in Oregon and Washington. As the Land Trust’s Coast & Estuary Conservation Lead, Gardner is developing a conservation strategy for the region, acquiring new conservation properties, and completing stew-
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Mike North is co-hosting the new Discovery Channel show “Prototype This!” In the show, North and his three co-hosts conceive, design, test and build a variety of robots, gadgets and other machines. North has a Ph.D. in material sciences from UCSB. The show is filmed on Treasure Island near San Francisco. The “Prototype This!” brainiacs Zoz Brooks, Terry Sandin, Joe Grand and North, stand in a giant water slide they built based on the concept of a perpetual water slide. (Photo credit: Discovery Channel)
M.A. ’07, accepted a position as associate director of Rhetoric for the Freshman Rhetoric and Academic Writing Program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Randy Pogorzelski, Ph.D. ’07, is a visiting lecturer in Classics at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., where he teaches “Virgil” and “Female and Male in Ancient Greece.” Vanessa Slater, ’07, and Juvenal Garcia wed on Sept. 13, 2008, at First United Methodist Church in Santa Barbara, Calif. Juvenal proposed to Vanessa on her graduation night from UCSB on June 16, 2007. Kat Trajano, ’07, and Stephanie Mansolf, ’07, two former UCSB art students, were contracted to install vinyl cut-out wall murals in each of the 16 rooms of the Presidio Motel in Santa Barbara, Calif. The design is a whimsical update of mid-century kitsch and
established the two as emerging local artists. Jatila van der Veen, Ph.D. ’07, accepted a position as assistant professor of Science Education at Purdue University, Calumet Campus. She has a joint appointment, 50 percent in the School of Engineering, Math, and Science, and 50 percent in the School of Education. Devon Claire Flannery, ’08, landed an internship at the Santa Barbara Independent newspaper. She is a former editor of the UCSB Daily Nexus. Let us know the latest in your life! Send milestones to andrea.huebner@ ia.ucsb.edu or mail to: Milestones, Mosher Alumni House, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93106-1120. Remember to include your graduation year, name (and maiden name, if appropriate) and contact information.
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milestones IN MEMORIAM Virgil Rawlins Bryan, ’50, died Feb. 21, 2008. He was 85. Bryan joined the Air Force in 1943, and traveled the Burma Trail working on airplane radios, becoming a sergeant in the 8th Airdrome Squadron. He was married to Jean Delores Schwindt of Santa Paula for 30 years. Before retiring, Bryan spent 10 years serving as the administrative assistant to two Ventura County supervisors. Bryan also served as the president of the Oxnard Dance Club for five years. Survivors include his children Marilyn, Beverly, Sheila and Clay, and significant other Leota Coker. Elmer L. “Chally” Chalberg died May 2, 2008. Chalberg served as the first Alumni Counselor to the University of California — Santa Barbara College Alumni Association from 1954 to 1960. He was instrumental in recruiting the first board of directors, who set up the constitution and bylaws, and began some Association programs, which persist to this day. Katharine Vaughan Chapple, ’74, and Gordon Douglas Chapple, ’71, of Walnut Creek, Calif., died in an accident on Sept. 10, 2008. They were married for 37 years and both graduated from UCSB with degrees in botany and biology. Gordon was an executive in the fine foods industry and Kathy became an educator. Survivors include daughter, Katie, and son-in-law Tom Schrupp, and son, Chris, and his fiancée Elizabeth Fries. Leslie O. Fox Jr., ’95, died in a car accident in Show Low, Ariz., on July 25, 2008. He lived in Paso Robles, Calif., from 1996-2005 and then moved to Show Low. He was an U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. He worked as a cement contractor, electrician, bartender, graphic artist and ceramic artist. Survivors include his son, Joshua Fox; daughter, Rachelle Fox, both of Paso Robles; 38
and mother of his children, Terrell Fox of Paso Robles. Wilbur “Bill” Thorpe Hardison, ’52, died Aug. 7, 2008. He was 80. He was one of the first employees at Bourns, Inc., in Riverside, Calif., and designed and patented a potentiometer still being manufactured in 16 countries. He had lived in Ventura County, Calif., since 1976. His musical interest was highlighted by playing the trumpet in the Bourns Dance Band “The Trim Tones.” Survivors include wife Mary Ann; son Bob and Paula Hardison of Phoenix, Ariz.; daughter Karen and Mike Mallory of Yreka, Calif.; daughter Linda Hardison of Wrightwood, Calif.; and five grandchildren. Robert O. Hodge, ’50, died Aug. 19, 2008, after a brief battle with cancer. He was 83. Hodge served in the Pacific Theater during World War II, returning to his family farm in Ventura, Calif., after the war. He worked as a principal in Hueneme School District in Ventura County, Calif., for 30 years. As an active member of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Hueneme for more than 50 years, Hodge served in many leadership roles. Survivors include his daughter, Cheryl Hodge of Oxnard. Elizabeth “Betty” Allen Kindred, ’69, died Aug. 11, 2008. She was 90. She attended Santa Barbara State College where she received her teaching credential, and taught elementary school for 36 years before retiring in 1979. She and late husband Dr. Robert B. Kindred moved to Julian, Calif., where she was active in the Julian Women’s Club, volunteered at the Julian Library bookstore, and was an avid bridge player. Survivors include daughter, Dianne, with sonin-law Mark, and two grandsons. Leslie Dewey Freirich La Voie, ’82, died Aug. 28, 2008, after battling uterine cancer. She was 47. She married Ian Freirich, M.D., in 1988,
and gave birth to their son, Gordon Freirich. After Ian’s death in 1997, Leslie earned a master’s degree and teaching certificate. She taught elementary school in Santa Maria before illness curtailed her career. In December 2007, she married Dave La Voie. Survivors include husband, Dave; son, Gordon; and stepdaughter, Britney LaVoie. Richard P. Longaker, ’73, died April 22, 2008, after a battle with lung cancer. He was 58. Since 1994, Longaker served as owner and attorney of Longaker & Associates in Los Angeles. Survivors include his son, Andrew, and daughter, Hannah. Colleen E. Malcolm, ’64, died July 29, 2008. Malcolm lived in Manhattan and was personal assistant to news anchor Barbara Walters and the Heinz family before moving to Seattle to work as a commodities trader. She is preceded in death by her husband, Roy A. Woofter, and her brother. Roger Dale Pankratz, ’76, died Aug. 30, 2008. He was 55. Pankratz chose the Central Coast as the ideal place to raise a family and was devoted to actively serving his community. He had a 20-year banking career with Mid-State Bank and managed offices throughout Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Pankratz‘s most recent affiliation was with SLO Green Build as acting executive director. Survivors include his life partner, Albert Salinas of Shell Beach; daughter, Megan Pankratz of Nagahama, Japan; stepson, Brian (Michele) Banks; and a granddaughter. Maria Concita Soto, ’86, died Sept. 2, 2008, of heart problems. She was 47. She was a Ventura County resident for 41 years. She worked for the UCSB and UCLA in their undergraduate departments. Concita is survived by her children, parents, brothers and sisters. Coastlines
Online Library CDL Access for Alumni Association Members
In coordination with UCSB’s Davidson Library, we are pleased to announce a new Library benefit for Alumni Association members. UC’s California Digital Library is offering access to the ProQuest Research Library. ProQuest is an electronic data service featuring thousands of online journals and magazines covering a wide array of subjects.
What is included? ProQuest Research Library is a searchable collection of more than 2,000 full-text online journals and magazines. Most provide coverage beginning 1992 (or 1995 at the latest) with access to full-text or text and graphics of covered articles. In order to ensure that the ProQuest Research Library is offered as an exclusive benefit to Alumni Association members, every person who uses the database must obtain an access code.
Are there limits or conditions? Our contract stipulates that the purpose of access to the service is only for personal use and that users will not unduly exploit the resource by using it for commercial purposes or systematically downloading portions of the file. Therefore we will be requiring all users indicate agreement to these terms before an access code can be provided.
How do I get an access code? Previous to obtaining your access code, each member of the Alumni Association must download the personal use agreement and email the form to our Membership Coordinator at sharis.boghossian@ia.ucsb. edu. The agreement is available here: http://www.ucsbalum.com/membership/ library.html Your response email will act as an acknowledgement of your agreement. Included in this email will be your ProQuest access code, the Web address of the service, and other access information. That is all you will need.
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