UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association | Fall 2015
First and Fearless Meet the Next Wave of First Generation Gauchos
Taylor Kabeary, ’15
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A Milestone in Diversity | From the Fields to the Stars | Gaucho Glass Works
UC SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Travis Wilson ’02, Santa Barbara President Justin Morgan ’07, Irvine Vice-President Teresa Carranza ’09, Los Angeles Secretary-Treasurer Cuca Acosta ’02, Santa Barbara Shanna Bright ’93, San Diego Jorge Cabrera ’02, Chicago, IL Ron Chiarello ’83, Lafayette Carl Clapp ’81, Honolulu, HI Eugene Covington, ’96, Kirkland,WA Mark French ’73, Santa Barbara Ralph Garcia ’83, San Mateo Francesco Mancia ’80, Cool Mary Moslander ’88, San Francisco Kristen Nesbit ’02, Los Angeles Gary Rhodes ’83, Hermosa Beach Joel Raznick ’81, Los Angeles Niki Sandoval Ph.D. ’07, Lompoc Michele Schneider ’91, Los Altos Rich St. Clair ’66, Santa Barbara Wenonah Valentine ’77, Los Angeles Sue Wilcox ’70, Ph.D. ’74, Santa Barbara Marie Williams ’89, Ashburn, VA Marisa Yeager ’95, Riverside Ex Officio James Villarreal ‘16 President, Associated Students Beverly Colgate Executive Director, The UCSB Foundation Aaron Jones ‘02, M.A. ‘14 President, Graduate Student Association Hua Lee, M.A. ’78, Ph.D. ’80 Faculty Representative Ed Birch, H’95 UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees COASTLINES STAFF George Thurlow ’73, Publisher Natalie Wong ’79, Art Director Marge Pamintuan Perko, Editor Renee Lowe, ’15, Production Assistant ALUMNI STAFF Lesli Brodbeck ’85, Business Manager, Family Vacation Center Sheri Fruhwirth, Director, Family Vacation Center Hattie Husbands, Programs Coordinator Hazra Abdool Kamal, Chief Financial Officer John Lofthus ’00, Associate Director Mary MacRae ’94, Office Manager Marge Pamintuan Perko, Editor David Silva ’10, Director of Business Development George Thurlow ’73, Executive Director Rocio Torres ’05, Programs Director Shane Greene, Webmaster Natalie Wong ’79, Senior Artist
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GENERATION CONNECTION Empowering the next generation has become the mission of many UC Santa Barbara first generation alumni and staff.
10 COVER–FIRST AND FEARLESS First in their family to attend college, recent graduates and current students are building new legacies on campus and beyond.
16 A MILESTONE IN DIVERSITY UC Santa Barbara recognized as a pipeline for Latino success.
17 FROM THE FIELDS TO THE STARS NASA astronaut José Hernández, MS ’86, lives the California dream.
THE DEPARTMENTS ON THE COVER First generation student Taylor Kabeary graduated with a degree in linguistics from UC Santa Barbara this June 2015. Photo: Matt Perko
5 AROUND STORKE TOWER 7 RESEARCH 18 ISLA VISTA ROUNDUP 20 ARTS WOMAN IN BATTLE DRESS JESSICA ERNST POWELL, ’06, Ph.D. Translating Antonio Benítez Rojo’s last novel became a decade-long passion project.
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GAUCHO GLASS WORKS SEAN GILDEA, ’89 Building a business, piece by piece, with hard work and a little “California mojo.”
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COASTLINES Magazine | Fall 2015 Vol. 46 No. 1
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Up Front
— Letters to the Editor
Alumni in Media No Charissa Thompson for UCSB in Media? Idiots! She is trending up more than any! OMG! You also left out Travis Rodgers? Jim Rome producer and Yahoo Sports. And you left out another sports guy, Carey Chow? A rising star on ESPN! Do your research next time. Acknowledge the mistakes NEXT ISSUE PLEASE! Such an embarrassing effort guys, seriously. LARRY YELLS ’90 ************************************ I graduated UCSB in 2001 and work in the media. Currently I am on hiatus taking care of my two young daughters. Back in the day, I wrote a couple articles for the Daily Nexus and worked at KCSB. Would be neat to be on the list so just throwing myself out there, in case you would like to include me. • News Producer, Entertainment Tonight (Los Angeles, CA) • News Producer, E! News (Los Angeles, CA) AOL Home Page, Programming Content Manager (Dulles,VA) • CBS (WUSA*9) News, Entertainment Managing Producer (Washington DC) Please let me know if you have any questions. STEPHANIE (NISSAN) NICHOLS ’01 ************************************ There are a ton of people not on your list that should be. For example, Roger Hedgecock, KCSB alum (did “Oldies” rock show), former
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Mayor of San Diego and radio talk show host on KFMB in San Diego. Or even more current people, Michelle Rey Morgante, KCSB/Nexus alum, current Chief of Bureau at the Associated Press. Here’s a list as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCSBFM#Notable_personalities Note that some of these people are not alums, e.g., Sean Hannity worked at the station but wasn’t a student. Regards, CORY KRELL ’92 ************************************
The Rise of the Reza Aslan Religious Study Enterprise Thank you for another outstanding and interesting issue of Coastlines. The summer of 2015 issue was exceptionally inspirational. UCSB has supplied the world with its share of distinguished citizens, some public and some not. Media sensation Reza Aslan is an interesting story. He stated that our policies in the Middle East have created “enemies where there were none.” However, our policies, culture, and lifestyle have also created many friends. How does one explain why so many Muslims have moved to the U.S. and other Western cultures? Is it perhaps easier for a Muslim to live in a Christian-based democracy that offers the pursuit of freedom,
liberty, and happiness as opposed to a fundamentally Muslim country? These are questions I am not qualified to answer. Let’s hope that Mr. Aslan and other scholars will continue their pursuit of truth, justice, and fairness to all. Go Gauchos. G.E. GADBURY, ’75 ************************************ The Reza Aslan article by George Thurlow in the last Coastlines was a great disappointment in two ways. First, the tone was of a juvenile adulation that Aslan “survived” a Fox News interview in which he was “slammed” in a “10-minute verbal slugfest.” Is that a great triumph? Also, the article did not mention that in the Fox interview Mr. Aslan misrepresented his academic background, which the interviewer missed challenging. Aslan said the following: “I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament... I am an expert with a PhD in the history of religions... I am a Professor of religions, including the New Testament - that’s what I do for a living... I want to emphasize one more time, I am a historian, I am a PhD in the history of religions...” That sounds impressive but isn’t true. Mr. Aslan’s Ph.D. from UCSB is in sociology -- specifically the sociology of jihad. None of his degrees are in history or the history of religions. He took a few New Testament classes, but has no degree in it and is not a professor of religions. He is a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside. At the time of his Fox interview, Aslan never taught a class in the New Testament, and probably hasn’t since, as he has no credentials to do so. ROGER VIGNOCCHI ’76
Around Storke Tower — Campus Community Newsbits
Editorial contributions from the staff of the Office of Public Affairs.
Paseo (interior) top Inside, the Paseo houses the Reference Desk and Services Desk, where users can check out Course Reserves, Interlibrary Loans, laptops, and other circulating materials. A secondfloor bridge connects the newly named Mountain Side (north) and Ocean Side (south) of the Library.
A LOOK INSIDE A Preview of the Reinvented UCSB Library From the UCSB Library Staff. Photo credit: Jonathan Rissmeyer
Perhaps you were on campus when we broke ground on the current UCSB Library Addition and Renovation Project in 2013. Or maybe you remember previous Library expansion projects, like the four-story wing addition completed in 1978, or the unveiling of the eight-story tower in 1967. Whatever your graduation year, expect big improvements when the UCSB Library opens its doors to reveal 150,000 square feet of reinvented space in January 2016. Keep an eye on your inbox for updates on the grand opening – you are all invited. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek inside the hard-hat zone:
Summit Café, left: The sit-down Summit Café, located on the 1st Floor of the 24-hour Learning Commons and run by UCEN Dining Services, will sell hot and cold foods -- and of course, coffee. “Summit” is appropriate because 1) It’s on the mountain side of the Library; 2) It will be in the Learning Commons, where people gather; and 3) Knowledge reaches its summit in the Library. Paseo (exterior), right: The Paseo, the new grand entrance to the UCSB Library, has doors on both the east and west (pictured here) sides, providing a thoroughfare through the heart of campus.
For more information: www.library.ucsb.edu/building. To sign up for Crossroads, the Library’s free monthly e-newsletter, visit www.library.ucsb.edu/general-news/subscribe.
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RANKINGS ROUND UP EIGHT IS GREAT UCSB is No. 8 on U.S. News & World Report’s Top 30 Public Universities List for 2016 UC Santa Barbara climbed to its highest ever placement on U.S. News & World Report’s annual higher education rankings, making the number 8 spot on the magazine’s “Top 30 Public Universities” list for 2016. Within the University of California system, only UC Berkley and UCLA placed higher than UCSB on the list this year. Other UC campuses mentioned in the Top 30 were UC Irvine, UC San Diego and UC Davis. UCSB also moved up three places to number 37 in the magazine’s “Best National Universities” ranking of both public and private universities. Among colleges and universities that offer students the best education value, UCSB placed sixth. The UCSB College of Engineering ranked number 18 in the “Best Programs at Engineering Schools Whose Highest Degree is a Doctorate” category. The magazine’s 2016 “America’s Best Colleges” issue, with a complete list of all the rankings, is now available at USNews.com.
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Around Storke Tower — Campus Community Newsbits
Editorial contributions from the staff of the Office of Public Affairs.
New wall murals have been installed in the North Hall breezeway to memorialize the 1968 takeover of the building by members of the Black Student Union. At the time, North Hall contained the campus’ main computer. The BSU demanded that UC Santa Barbara create a Black Studies Department and increase enrollment of African American students. The mural was a result of the existing BSU demanding the renaming of North Hall and the establishment of four endowed chairs for African American professors. Photo: Terry Wimmer.
UC System recognized for innovation and diversity The University of California System received the 13th spot on the Reuters list of the top 100 most innovative universities in the world. The media firm’s list noted the UC system’s achievements in research, tech transfer and start-up generation. UC system campuses and programs also received awards for commitment to diversity. The 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award went to UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, UC San Francisco and UC Santa Cruz, recognizing their commitment to diversity and inclusion. The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics also named UC Riverside, the UC Undocumented Student Legal Services Center at UC Davis and a UC Santa Cruz teacher-training project as Bright Spots in Hispanic education. SOURCE: University of California Newsroom
UC Santa Barbara Police Department leads the nation in campus safety The UCSB Police Department took first place on the National Campus Safety Summit’s “Top 25 University Departments” for 2016. The UCSB police force also received special recognition for the 2016 National Department of the Year Award. The National Campus Safety Summit is the premiere national conference on university safety attended by government agencies and campus law enforcement from Division 1 universities and liberal arts colleges. SOURCE: The National Campus Safety Summit
Celebrated mathematician Yitang Zhang joins UCSB faculty Award-winning mathematician Yitang Zhang joined the UC Santa Barbara mathematics faculty this fall. In 2013, Zhang submitted a proof to the Annals of Mathematics establishing the first finite bound on gaps between twin prime numbers. His major breakthrough earned him the 2013 Ostrowski Yitang Zhang. Photo: MacArthur Foundation. Prize and the 2014 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory. Zhang was also elected to the Academica Sinica Fellowship and received tenure at the University of New Hampshire last year. SOURCE: The Daily Nexus
Banner year for fundraising at UCSB UC Santa Barbara had a landmark fundraising season this fiscal year with $134 million raised in private donations. This year’s donation surge was topped by the largest single gift in the campus’ history from prominent philanthropist and businessman Charlie Munger, who gave $65.4 million. Over the past four fiscal years, UCSB now averages $95 million in private support annually from the private sector.
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Research SOURCE: The Current PHOTOS: Sonia Fernandez
New parasite species named after UCSB professor Prominent UC Santa Barbara parasite ecologist Armand Kuris already has a ribbon worm—Carcinonemertes kurisi—wriggling around with his name on it. This summer, a newly discovered fish bladder parasite took the name Chloromyxum kurisi in honor of the leading parasite expert. UCSB doctoral candidate Alejandra Jaramillo and ecologist Kevin Lafferty discovered the myxozoan at the Carpinteria Salt Marsh. The tiny water creature takes over the fish’s kidney, occupying more than 80 percent of the vital organ and releasing its spores in the host animal’s urine. The new species description will be published in the Journal of Parasitology. John Bowers and postdoctoral researcher Tin Komljenovic with a wafer of integrated photonic circuitry to be manufactured by AIM.
UCSB named West Coast hub for National Photonics Manufacturing Institute A $110 million federal program to develop next-generation chip technology selected the American Institute for Manufacturing of Photonics (AIM Photonics) to lead research, manufacturing and job development in this sector. UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency will head West Coast operations of the public-private partnership, in collaboration with AIM Photonics lead institution, State University of New York. IEE director John Bowers, a pioneer in the use of light to transmit large quantities of data at record speeds, will lead the UCSB team. Photonic integrated circuits are more energyefficient, and could result in higherperformance telecommunications and computer technology. The nationwide collaboration also includes MIT, Stanford University, the University of Arizona, Cal Tech, Columbia University, the University of Virginia, UC Davis, UC Berkely and UC San Diego.
MIT Tech Review’s `35 Innovators Under 35’ honors UCSB professor Michelle O’Malley The MIT Technology Review named UCSB chemical engineering professor Michelle O’Malley as one of the “35 Innovators Under 35” Michelle O’Malley to watch in 2015. The annual list recognizes young inventors, entrepreneurs, visionaries, pioneers and humanitarians from around the world. Previous honorees include Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Apple chief designer Jonathan Ive, and Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg. O’Malley’s laboratory at UC Santa Barbara is the only facility in the nation able to study the behavior of anaerobic microbes. Her research resulted in new ways to isolate the single-celled oxygen-phobic organisms, revealing the microbes as possible agents for better biofuels and advanced pharmaceuticals.
Researchers discover gene variant that could delay Alzheimer’s disease Neuroscientists at UC Santa Barbara may have discovered a mechanism that could delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease by as much as 10 years. The gene variant is found in Kenneth S. Kosik the part of the genome that controls inflammation and prevents the protein eotaxin from increasing with age. The study published in Molecular Psychiatry was co-authored by Matthew Lalli, who earned his doctorate at UC Santa Barbara, and professor Kenneth S. Kosik, co-director of UCSB’s Neuroscience Research Institute.
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Alumni and staff foster first generation support at UCSB Cuca Acosta, `02, remembered spotting her mother’s face amidst the hundreds in the audience at her UC Santa Barbara graduation. “Her tears were streaming down her cheeks,” she said. “I felt like we both were grabbing the chancellor’s hand as I received my diploma.”
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Her mother, a housekeeper who grew up in Mexico, sometimes worked seven days a week to help pay for her daughter’s education at UCSB. “You will have a better life than I did,” her mother told her. Over a decade later, Acosta is now the associate director at UCSB’s Admissions Office and a member of the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association board of directors. She co-chairs the UCSB Dream Scholars Resource Team, working with undocumented students. “We alumni can change the conversation,” she said. “To me, they’re not just students – they’re my kids. They’re
going to change the world.” Like Acosta, a large number of first generation students – about 35 percent ot the total population– come from underrepresented communities, with many raised in low-income households. UC Santa Barbara has proven to be a great environment for these students to thrive, ranking third this fall in the second annual New York Times Upshot College Access Index measuring economic diversity across 179 colleges. Empowering the next generation has become
the focus of many first generation alumni. “We need to talk about their resilience as opposed to their deficits,” said Wenonah Valentine, `77, who raised a family while earning her undergraduate degree. She now serves on alumni-led advocacy and multicultural diversity committees and is executive director of i.D.R.E.A.M. for Racial Health Equity. “We can ask how we can build a relationship.” Nicolasa Sandoval, `07 Ph.D., was the first Chumash to earn a doctorate from UC Santa Barbara. She is the Education Director for the Santa Ynez Band of
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Chumash Indians and also serves as the governor’s appointee to the State Board of Education. “Every alum is an extension of the University into several communities that are important to sustaining UCSB now and advancing it in transformative ways in the future.” Guiding first generation students at the beginning of their college careers is crucial. With 95 percent of freshman living at student housing, UCSB’s Housing and Residential Services fosters inresidence mentoring and programming through affinity-based Living
Learning Communities. A new Living Learning Community for first generation students kicked off this fall. Assistant residential director Shantel Dickerson, a first generation Gaucho, helped spearhead the First Generation Affinity Group advising staff at the residences. “We want to provide a space for students to connect and relate immediately to one another,” she said. The final piece, for the long term, is building a sense of pride among students who traditionally come from a background of hard work and little praise. “They need to realize that they deserve to be here,” said CAPS associate director Brian Olowude, also the first in his family to attend college. “They belong here.” —M.P.
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Meet the Next Generation
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The next wave of first generation Gauchos is a dynamic group of young men and women, from a myriad of backgrounds and experiences. First in their families to attend a four-year college, these students now make up 40 percent of the current UCSB population. These students and recent graduates are building new legacies, on campus and beyond. Here are their stories.
THE ARCHAEOLOGIST BRIAN HOLGUIN, ’13 Anthropology Brian Holguin, ’13, spent this summer at an archeological site on Santa Cruz Island, digging through five feet of sand and earth with a trowel for two weeks. “The days were hot, and seemed to last forever,” he said. “But it is part of what I do and why I chose this career.” Holguin graduated with a degree in anthropology from UCSB, and is now pursuing graduate studies at UCLA. As member of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, Holguin chose his major to learn more about where he came from. “My goal after completing my Ph.D. is to become a professor where I can continue my research and work with my native community, to better protect and understand our cultural heritage.” Holguin had to create his own college road map during his undergraduate years as a first generation student. “The biggest challenge I faced was negotiating stresses associated with college and learning what was `normal’ and what was not,” he said. One of his on-campus mentors was Nicolasa Sandoval, head of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Education Department. “She wasn’t a professor in my department, but I could drop in and talk about what I wanted to do in academia,” he said. Sandoval was the first Chumash to graduate with a doctorate from UCSB. “She showed that perseverance conquers everything.”
THE FAMILY ROLE MODEL TAYLOR KABEARY, ’15 Linguistics Taylor Kabeary, ’15, graduated with a degree in linguistics from UCSB this summer, the first in her family to attend a university straight out of high school. Two years ago, she watched her mother get her diploma. “I remember going through finals and my mom was having a tough time getting her own paper done. She looked at a picture of me and my sister, and said, `I’m going to do it for them.’ Well, that got me – I had to do it too.” Her aunt, a mother of six, is the next family member to tackle the college experience. A high school cheerleader, Kabeary always felt confident – until her first year at UCSB. “I came in really shy,” she said. “The student resources job brought me back out of my shell.” During her third year at UCSB, she went for a year abroad in Dublin. “I was really challenged, being the only person of color in a classroom,” she said. “I learned to be assertive.” Now working at the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, she hopes to go on to graduate school in Europe and become a translator at the United Nations.
“My parents grew up in difficult households. They had to be independent and strong. They wanted to do something with their lives. My parents are so supportive of me. They never had any lack of faith.” —Taylor Kabeary ’15
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THE BUDDIES FROM BARSTOW BRANDON LANGFORD Junior, Ethnomusicology
JOSHUA HUDSON Junior, Global Studies and Sociology
Brandon Langford and Joshua Hudson met in the woodwinds section of their junior high school band in Barstow, California. They became best friends, and “just happened” to end up together at UC Santa Barbara. Both are first generation students from working class families that encouraged their sons to further their education. Langford stayed with music. He was featured on UCSB’s Amplified, playing with the UCSB Afro-Brazilian Ensemble. An ethnomusicology major, he hopes to return to Barstow to teach music after graduate school. “I hope to give students what my teachers gave me: belief in myself,” he said. Hudson, who became an active student leader through the A.S. Student Initiated Recruitment and Retention Committee, decided to major in global studies and sociology. Heading into their third year this fall, Langford and Hudson are now both resident assistants at the new First Generation Living Learning Community at Santa Catalina. “In this new floor, I want the students to know that despite their first generation identity, they should not feel different from their fellow peers,” said Hudson, a McNair Scholar studying public policy and its implications on underrepresented communities. “They have the same opportunities as everyone else.”
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THE RESIDENT MENTOR JEFFREY JUAREZ-PALMA, ’15 Biopsychology
THE RESEARCHER SHANNI TAL Senior, Psychology
Jeffrey Juarez-Palma, ’15, dove right into work during his first two years at UCSB. “My community was my job,” he said. In his sophomore year, he worked as an intern for the campus orientation tours. “I found a great need to do a Spanish-speaking tour to allow parents to ask their questions,” he said. He made the pitch and led the new bilingual tours. Juarez-Palma grew up the youngest of three brothers in Hacienda Heights, 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. “My mother had a lot of pride in me, but was worried she couldn’t be a resource because she didn’t go to college,” he said. “I was the first to leave the nest. For first generation students, you’re worried about your family, about leaving them behind when you go to college.” He lived in student housing, where he now works after graduation. As an assistant residence director at Santa Cruz, he mentors other young students through special programs like the culturally based Learning Living Communities. “We foster camaraderie between older students and the new ones coming in,” he said. “You think you are alone. It only looks that way. Support is here. I’m here.”
Shanni Tal started out as a preveterinary medicine student at community college. Then, a year into her studies, she discovered her allergic reaction to animals was a serious impediment to working with them. She decided to apply to UCSB, a school close to her childhood home in the San Fernando Valley. After taking her first psychology courses and being able to do research as an undergraduate student, Tal found a new calling. “Through UCSB’s focus on positive psychology, I feel like I’m working toward something meaningful,” she said. She supports her living expenses by working three part-time jobs, with her parents pitching in for tuition. Her parents, born and raised in Israel, never went farther than a high school diploma. “My father always believed I would be successful, no matter what career I pursued,” she said. “Personally, I have struggled with balancing work, education and personal care time.” Tal is passionate about combining research and applied practices in her field and hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
THE CIVICS ADVOCATE LETICIA CEBALLOS Junior, History Leticia Ceballos, a UCSB junior majoring in American history, doesn’t like being underestimated. “I went to a pretty bad high school in Sacramento,” she said. “Nobody asked us if we wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer.” Ceballos grew up in a big family in Sacramento, four sisters and a brother raised by a single mother. “She was a migrant farmer, a maid, she worked at the shipping yards,” she said. “She did everything she could for us - until she couldn’t.” This year, her mother was diagnosed with cancer. During the 2008 election, Ceballos met a friend’s father who tuned her into immigration issues. “This man, who wasn’t a citizen, understood the value of being involved in the political system - and he didn’t even have the opportunity to vote,” she said. “I would love to be able to help people like him.” Her freshman year wasn’t easy. “I met people who went to Disneyland every weekend and I couldn’t buy textbooks,” she said. “It blew my mind.” After finding her way to friends and mentors at the Guardian Scholars program, Ceballos now interns at the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association. She also hopes to give her younger sister a leg up on college know-how. “I will tell her everything,” she said.
THE CAMPUS GURUS MYLES PARRINO, ’14 Sociology and Psychology
JASMINE JACKSON Sophomore, Biochemistry
At the Visitor Center, Myles Parrino,’14, and sophomore Jasmine Jackson are at the frontlines of the new student experience. Parrino organizes school and community tours on campus as a visit coordinator and admissions counselor. Jackson works there as a part-time intern. “Navigating college and the admissions process was like trying to complete a maze blindfolded,” said Parrino. “Now it feels like my identity as a first generation student has come full circle.” Jackson decided to apply to UCSB because one of her favorite high school teachers was an alumna. She remembered working on her college applications alone, unable to turn to her parents, who were confused about the process. Once she got in, she went out of her way to meet professors and fellow students. “All it takes is getting out of your dorm room or apartment,” she said. “The biggest challenge is balance.” Now in her second year at UCSB, she’s majoring biochemistry while working two jobs on campus. She wants to go to medical school after graduation. Growing up the son of a truck driver and a homemaker in Ventura, Parrino also felt the pressure to succeed. “I remember so clearly my parents telling me over and over that I could be so much more.” Obsessive about his grades, he pushed himself through a rigorous school schedule and graduated with a double major in sociology and psychology. He regrets not being able to take a moment to savor his undergraduate years. “It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity – don’t lose sight of that in the wake of every single test score,” he said. “Ask questions, be curious, take risks, have fun.”
“In my high school, nobody assumed we would go far. They really capped our potential. That was frustrating for me. I have a lot of ideas of what I’d like to be.” —Leticia Ceballos
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ALMA MATTERS First Gauchos in the Family They’re not the first generation to attend college, but these students are breaking with tradition by choosing to be the first Gauchos in the family.
SUN SHIN, Senior Language, Culture and Society Sun Shin’s parents both attended colleges in South Korea before moving to the United States. She grew up in San Jose, where her family runs three sushi restaurants. Though she was not the first child to go to college, Shin went through her own struggles as the first Gaucho in the family. “UCSB was completely different from my older sister’s college experience,” she said. “The first few months here, I felt like I didn’t belong. I even experienced some racism.” She found her niche on campus through joining her sorority and interning at the Office of Public Affairs. “I’m proud to be a Gaucho because of how accomplished our university is and the strong sense of community in every student, faculty and staff member here,” she said. “In times of need, the entire campus comes together.”
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CARTER MARTIN, Senior Political Science
GERALD SUMILANG, Senior Psychology
Carter Martin grew up in Park City, a small ski town in Utah. His older brother attended college in New York and his twin sister stayed close to home at the University of Utah. Martin chose UCSB for its environment and academic reputation – but it was not easy living so far away from home, in one of the most expensive cities in the United States. “I originally came in with three friends, but I’m the only one left,” he said. “It has not been easy to live on my own and go to school while working.” Now in his senior year, Martin looks forward to graduation - and perhaps law school or a career in financial planning. “I’m proud to be at a school with a very high reputation that offers more opportunities for students to pursue their careers.”
Gerald Sumilang is the first in his family to attend a college in the United States. Originally from the Philippines, Sumilang came to Los Angeles with his family when he was six years old. Both his parents work in the medical field. Prevailing over what his family wanted for him was not easy. “It took a good amount of convincing my parents to let me attend a college of my choosing,” he said. An honors student in high school, he still wasn’t prepared for the workload of the faster-paced UCSB quarter system “The biggest challenge was developing better study habits,” he said. On track to graduating next year, Sumilang is still proud of his choice to be a Gaucho. “I have never seen more camaraderie between school alumni,” he said. “Gauchos somehow find each other in the real world.”
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A Milestone In Diver sity UCSB Designated Hispanic Serving Institution By George Thurlow ’74
“Gaining HSI status confirms that we have made important headway against biases and stereotypes that made a university education an unreachable dream for many in the past.”
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In 1968, UC Santa Barbara saw the first spark of what would explode into almost three years of campus protests, arrests, tumult and destruction. A group of African American students occupied North Hall to protest what they felt were hostile conditions on the UC Santa Barbara campus toward minority students, as well as the inability of the campus to enroll underrepresented minorities. In an unprecedented statement that filled a full page in the local daily newspaper, then Chancellor Vernon Cheadle acknowledged that UCSB had not done well at attracting minority students. The Chancellor noted that out of more than 13,000 full time students, only 234 were part of the minority student aid program EOP. Forty-eight years later, UCSB reached a critical milestone when the U.S. Department of Education designated the campus a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), meaning at least 25 percent of the total student population of more than 20,000 were Hispanic. It marked the first time an Association of American Universities (AAU—the 62 top research universities in the country) had received the HSI designation. “I am extremely proud that UC Santa Barbara has been recognized,” said Chancellor Henry Yang. “This milestone achievement reflects our vision and decades of collaborative effort and commitment to enhance excellence and diversity at UC Santa Barbara and to provide the best possible educational opportunities for all of our students.” From a campus that was almost all Anglo in the 70s to one that this fall will have a firstyear class of more than 35 percent underrepresented minority UCSB has come a long way. It has at times been a painful journey and today there continues to be campus debate about the low enrollment of African American students, a problem plaguing not just the UC system but major public universities across the country. (UCSB’s African American enrollment increased slightly this fall but is only a little over 4 percent of total enrollment.) “The success at enrolling more Latino students is a testament to the `pipeline’ of California schools preparing Latinos to succeed in California universities,” said Carl Gutierrez-Jones, UCSB’s Dean of Undergraduate Education. “Gaining HSI status confirms that we have made important headway against biases and stereotypes that made a university education an unreachable dream for many in the past.” Often overlooked has been the efforts of admissions outreach, which according to Admissions Director Lisa Przekop, now sends UCSB admissions officers to more than 600 schools and college fairs, and has contact with more than 80,000 students and parents. One advantage of gaining HSI status is that it makes UC Santa Barbara eligible for competitive grants from the U.S. Office of Education. More than $100 million is made available to the 300 HSI two and four-year institutions in the U.S., with more than half of those in California and Texas. The money is intended to provide support for Hispanic students as well as faculty initiatives and lab funding.
From The Fields to The Stars Di stingui shed Alumnus José Hernández As a child, José Hernández commuted between the tiny town of La Piedad in Mexico and the fields of California. He worked with his parents picking crops, moving with the harvest from town to town. He did not learn English until he was 12. His story is the California dream, the University of California mission. After obtaining an undergraduate degree from the University of Pacific, Hernández enrolled in UC Santa Barbara’s graduate school of electrical and computer engineering. He earned his MS in 1986. From the time he started at UCSB he knew he wanted to be an astronaut -- and knew that
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Hernández repeatedly applied for the NASA astronaut program -- and was repeatedly denied. He never gave up and was eventually chosen in 2008 as a crew member of the STS-128 Space Shuttle mission. The launch was on Aug. 28, 2009 and the space flight lasted for 14 days. Hernández made history when he posted the first-ever Spanish Tweet from space. On Oct. 24 Hernández will be honored by the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association as one of its 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award
Barbara Foundation to provide scholarships for undocumented undergraduate and graduate students at UC Santa Barbara. The University of California is committed to fostering a safe and supportive environment for students of diverse backgrounds, including our dream scholars. The Dream Luncheon, a benefit
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I.V. Roundup Update The continuing series in Coastlines providing updates on community progress towards solving Isla Vista problems.
Community Service District Approved by State Legislature Both the state Senate and Assembly approved and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown legislation that would create a Community Services District in Isla Vista funded by a utility users tax. Brown has until Oct. 11 to sign or veto the law -- or allow it to go into effect without a signature. With last minute amendments the CSD would include the rectangular box of Isla Vista bounded by UC Santa Barbara, El Colegio, Camino Majorca and the Pacific Ocean. UCSB housing along El Colegio would not be included nor would University owned property inside of Isla Vista proper be included in the district. The University announced in early September that it would agree to provide the new CSD with $200,000 a year for seven years for “mutually agreed upon” projects in Isla Vista. To protect the Isla Vista’s Park and Recreation District’s autonomy and power, the new CSD is barred from providing any type of recreational activity in Isla Vista. It also may not purchase or maintain parks. The IVPRD board and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), representing IVPRD employees, backed this effort. A financial feasibility study on the CSD is expected to be released in early October and will spell out possible revenue sources and expenses the new district can consider. If Brown signs the enabling legislation carried by Assembly Member Das Williams -- a UCSB alumnus who grew up in Isla Vista -- the residents of Isla Vista would vote in November 2016 to form the district, to assess a utility users’ tax between 5-8 percent and to elect five members to the CSD board. The legislation also calls on two other members of the board to be appointed by the UCSB Chancellor and the Third District Supervisor.
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Bluff erosion damage on a Del Playa property in Isla Vista. Photo Credit: Susan K. Yamashiro Milner
Del Playa Is Falling Recent bluff erosion at 6625 Del Playa in Isla Vista prompted the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors to call for a report from county engineers on possible long-term problems that might occur with an El Nino event this winter. County staff told the Board that a 3-foot deep, 45-foot tall piece of the cliff broke off under the apartment at 6625 Del Playa, exposing the back patio area. The owner of the property asked for an emergency permit that would allow him to demolish the rear 30 feet of the apartment so that it remained legally 15 feet from the bluff. County staff reported that they routinely inspect the Del Playa bluffs after storms and expect to closely monitor the bluffs this winter. The cliff is 35-40 feet high and sluffs off up to a foot a year. During the last El Nino event in 1998 large portions of the cliff fell into the ocean.
Tropicana Gardens Grows UCSB Housing UC Santa Barbara announced in early September that the UC system had purchased the Tropicana Gardens housing complex on Colegio Road for more than $150 million. The purchase will add more than 1000 beds to the housing inventory controlled by the campus. It will be operated by the Housing and Residential Services office. The actual takeover of the Tropicana complex will not be official until July 1, 2016. Currently the complex houses UCSB students, mainly athletes, Santa Barbara City College students, and various camp attendees during the summer months. The purchase caused some community controversy from critics who said the campus was taking property off the tax rolls and potentially off the special assessment of the Isla Vista Park and Recreation District. The campus has countered that as part of the Long Range Development Plan it must reimburse the county for property purchased in Isla Vista proper.
The Tropicana Gardens complex on Colegio Road
Two IV Property Sales Reap Profitable Gains Two property sales in the last few weeks have netted profitable gains for owners. Chuck Eckert, president of the Isla Vista Property Owners Association, sold one of his many Isla Vista properties at 6565 Sabado Tarde for $5.79 million to Xenon Investment Corp. The property was purchased in 1999 for $1.5 million, according to Redfin.The property has 19 units, including 13 one-bedroom units and six two-bedroom units. A rental unit at 6781 Sueno Road in Isla Vista sold at the same time for $1 million. It was purchased in 2007 for $979,000 after being bought in 1999 for $385,000. According to real estate listings, it has nine tenants living in a fivebedroom house and a studio apartment. According to local media reports, Craig Geyer, who sits on the Local Agency Formation Commission, sold one of his Isla Vista properties this summer at 6555 Pardall Road. The sale price of the business location was $750,000, according to the Santa Barbara Independent.
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Sheriff Appoints New Community Service officer For the first time in its history, the community of Isla Vista has its own community resource deputy. Sheriff Bill Brown appointed senior deputy James McKarrell after a competitive process that included participation by UCSB students in the final selection. The position was made possible by the Board of Supervisors after an intense lobbying effort by Supervisor Doreen Farr and UCSB students. McKarrell, who recently served as a court bailiff, is an eight-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department. He and his family live in Oxnard.
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Arts Woman in Battle Dress
Jessica Powell ’06 Translates Antonio Benítez Rojo Two hundred years ago, a cross-dressing Swiss doctor was tried and sentenced to four years in a women’s hospital in Havana, Cuba. After watching her husband die in battle, Henriette Faber dressed up as a man to attend medical school in Paris. She served as a surgeon on the field of battle during Napoleon Bonaparte’s disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, was captured by British troops at the Battle of Vitoria and emigrated to practice medicine in Cuba. She married a woman – who later filed for an annulment and exposed Faber’s real identity to the authorities.
ADVICE FOR FUTURE TRANSLATORS “Get into some sort of program where you would get the exposure beyond the theoretical side. And do it – work on translations often. See if it appeals to you.” To learn more about the emphasis in translation studies offered at UCSB’s Spanish and Portuguese department, go here. <http://www.spanport.ucsb. edu/graduate/description/ translation>
Faber’s real-life story is the stuff of fiction – a cross-dressing caper of Shakespearean proportions, a plot stirred thick with betrayal and loss, replete with the evergreen themes of gender and identity. Faber’s audacity and determination captured Jessica Powell’s imagination when she first encountered the story writing her doctoral dissertation at UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. “Why was it that three male Cuban writers wrote about this marginal European woman who ended up dressing up as a man?” she said. “She crosses the centuries – we are still grappling with how women are not included in all aspects of society and the professional world.” A voracious reader, Powell sought works about Faber before falling in love with Antonio Benítez Rojo’s novel Mujer en traje de batalla (Woman in Battle Dress), published in Spanish in 2001. “It was a page turner,” she said of the author’s fictional take on the historical figure’s life. Powell did her research: the novel was the only Benítez Rojo oeuvre without a published English translation. But getting the permission to translate the novel—and the funds to be able to devote the time to the project—was filled with challenges. “The translator needs to pound the pavement to get the rights and to find a publisher,” said Powell. “You have to wear a lot of different hats.” A huge obstacle was Benítez Rojo’s death; he passed away in 2005, a year before Powell finished her doctorate. Then life—academia, raising her children and the pull of other translation projects— took over.
Lost in Translation After graduate school, Powell taught courses on contemporary Cuban writers at UCSB’s College of Creative Studies, and went on to work as an editorial assistant to professor Suzanne Jill Levine, a leading translator of Latin American literature. Together, they worked on a five-book translation of the works of Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges, published by Penguin Classics in 2010. “She is spectacular,” said Powell of her teacher and mentor. “When I was in grad school, I was doing purely analytical type of work. Then I attended a seminar with Professor Levine, and she opened my eyes to translation, this new art form. I fell in love instantly. I knew that this is what I wanted to do.” Translation is both livelihood and creative outlet for Powell. “I have always loved being able to immerse myself in a language and culture different from my own,” she said. “My love of translation is, in part, an extension of that passion and respect for cultural knowledge and exchange. There is so much nuance and complexity involved in translating a book. It requires extremely close reading of the text. I delve into the historical, linguistic and cultural context of the work, all at once.” Through collaborations and on solo projects, Powell has published translations of a wide variety of Latin American authors like César Vallejo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo, Edgardo Rivera Martínez, María Moreno, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Liliana Heer, Alan Pauls, Anna Lidia Vega Serova,
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and a play “Persistence Until Death” by Lope de Vega. “I feel grateful to bring authors from the region to people in America,” she said. “Translation is crucial and critical to our world now, the more globalized we become.”
Passion Project Ever-present on her radar, however, was Benitez Rojo’s epic and the unforgettable life of Henriette Faber. After years of research, Powell contacted the author’s widow. It took her a year to work out the rights. Hilda Benítez Rojo, in the end, was more than happy to be able to
share her late husband’s final work with the English-speaking world. Financial support was the next step. Powell applied for a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. She received the grant in 2011 – and then spent the next two years working long days and late nights to bring Faber to life in the English language. Translating a novel is very much like writing an entirely new book. “I feel like I’ve been living with this project for so long,” she said. “You have to really want to spend years reading a book and knowing it so well. It has to feed you in a spiritual way. It’s that’s contemplative, and it’s work you do alone. It was pretty great when I had little kids. I could set down the translation to be with my children, and then there it was, waiting for me, when I was ready to work again.” After finishing the book, Powell spent
several years searching for the right publisher. She settled on City Lights, a small publishing house based in San Francisco. “I am thrilled where the book ended up,” she said. The book is set to launch at City Lights Bookstore this month, with both Hilda Benítez Rojo and professor Levine in attendance. Powell is also working with her mentor to find a publisher for their translation of a novella by Silvina Ocampo. So what is life after Henriette Faber? “Writing is a natural direction for a translator, but I haven’t taken the plunge yet,” said Powell. “A good translator is analogous to being a good writer. The best translation is often not the most literal. It’s the one that captures the mood or register. This is not necessarily easy to teach. It comes from experience.” —M.P.
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Roberta Edwards Lenkeit, ’64, MA ’66 High Heels and Bound Feet: And Other Essays on Everyday Anthropology This engaging collection features 22 essays about how anthropology informs and energizes daily life. Lenkeit brings attention to the discipline’s holistic nature, with insights into every day power struggles, subcultures, and how we make decisions.
Hugh Wilson ’79 Caledonian Skies As the world veers toward war, Ian Mackay, a former Royal Flying Corps ace, investigates the appearance of a strange plane above his native Scotland. With a cyanide pill tucked into his pocket, Mackay infiltrates Nazi Germany on a perilous mission. This historical thriller spans two decades of Mackay’s life, chronicling lost love and heroism during the chaotic days before World War II.
Joye Emmens ’80 She’s Gone Seeking to create a better world, a rebellious daughter runs away from wealth and privilege to join her activist boyfriend on the road. Jolie lies about her age and identity as she dives into the colorful world of sixties counterculture. Emmens’ first novel is a crosscountry, coming-of-age journey through hippy communes, the birth of the environmental movement, and violent civil rights protests.
Turn-of-the-century Los Angeles comes to life in Kincheloe’s awardwinning debut mystery. Anna Blanc escapes her domineering father to take a job as a police matron at the Los Angeles Police Department. After discovering a string of brothel murders, Blanc risks losing everything in pursuit of the killer. A former research scientist, Kincheloe attended UCSB from 1984 to 1989, and is a winner of the Colorado Gold contest for emerging writers.
Stephanie Abrams Hosford ’92 Bald, Fat & Crazy: How I Beat Cancer While Pregnant with One Daughter and Adopting Another Stephanie Hosford fights for her life, her children and her sanity for nine months in her memoir about what happens when cancer, pregnancy and adoption coincide. Hosford, a triathlete and occupational therapist, takes on life-changing transitions with heart and humor. Hosford is a spokeswoman for City of Hope and is the author of Shedding My Skin, a short story in the anthology 73 Women on Life’s Transitions. www.ucsbalum.com
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Sean Gildea and the Genesis of Oceanside Glasstile At 24 years old, Sean Gildea, ’89, hung up his three-piece suit and put on flipflops to work in a tiny house on Cleveland Street in Oceanside, California. In 1992, three artists started a business making handmade tiles from recycled bottle glass. Boyce Lundstrom, Jon Stokesbary and Don Pettey had the creative energy but they still needed a business guy. Lundstrom, who owned a stained-glass factory in Oregon, reached out to his nephew, Gildea, an accountant at Deloitte & Touche with a degree in business economics from UCSB. He accepted his uncle’s offer. “There we were - three artists and me, the bean counter,” said Gildea. “I was the young one who had a lot of energy, working with guys twenty, thirty years older. At our first meeting, we talked about their vacation in El Salvador for an hour. They were of a completely different lifestyle.” Everyone at Oceanside Glasstile pitched in – from making the glass for the day, to packing and shipping the product. “We were lean and we were pioneering in a new industry,” said Gildea. “Glass tile really wasn’t a factor then. The industry was all about ceramic tile, porcelain and stone. We had to make it work. If we ever wanted to get paid, we had to go do something about it.”
Business-Driven Gildea’s entrepreneurial spirit existed way before he declared his major at UCSB. “As a kid, I was always interested in stocks and how I could make money,” he said. “At junior high, I would buy packs of gum to sell at school. Business was a natural focus.” In high school, he worked bussing tables at a mom-and-pop Italian restaurant. During his first summer back from college, he moved up to waiting tables. “I always had to have a job,” he said. “You learn so many lessons on how to be a good team player, with the benefit of getting paid as well.” After his mother urged him to find a job in his field, Gildea went on to do office temp work. “When you are starting out, you don’t necessarily get that `great job,’” he said. “That doesn’t exist without putting in the time and the effort.” Gildea applied the same time and effort at UCSB. “I was an above average student,” he said. “I had a goal: I wanted to do well in class so I was more ready and prepared for life.” Gildea wanted to attend a UC school, but veered from the family alma mater (both his parents are Bruins) after a weekend visit with a friend whose sister attended UCSB. “To me, UCSB was a blend of a really good school and a great social environment,” he said, recalling his first impressions of the campus and the Isla Vista scene. An iridescent backyard oasis in Arizona, created with An avid sports fan, Gildea enjoyed Oceanside Glasstile's specialized submersible materials.
Sean Gildea, ’89, Oceanside Glasstile president
playing intramural sports and following the UCSB basketball team. He remembered going to UC Santa Barbara games against UNLV at the Campus Events Center. “At one point, UNLV was number one and UCSB was in the top 20 – that was fun for me,” he said. “There’s always a special spot in my heart to see them do well.”
Paying It Forward Twenty-four years after he first joined as official “bean counter,” Gildea is president of Oceanside Glasstile, running operations with business partner John Marckx, ’91, a fellow Gaucho. The company leads the industry in providing sustainable, handcrafted glass tiles as a material for LEED-registered projects. “We take our product very seriously, but we do it in a fun way,” said Gildea. “ Gildea still hits the court – but this time with members of his OGT team at their new Carlsbad headquarters. Sports are part of OGT’s “California mojo” emphasis on wellness, philanthropy and collaboration. The company also pays for volunteer work. This fall, the whole company participated at the third annual Pedal the Cause bike ride for local cancer research. Last year, the OGT team raised over $30,000 in donations at the event. Off the clock, he’s into a different handson project. Every Memorial Day weekend, he travels to Mexico with his church group to build houses for families in Mexico. “This is all done from scratch with hand tools -- nothing electric,” said Gildea. He hopes to coordinate an OGT building team in the near future. “It’s cool to be able to help and connect with people without judgment.” www.ucsbalum.com
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Steve Boggs, ’69, is retired and in his fourth year of RVing. This year, Boggs and his wife Diane are on the Oregon Trail. They plan to follow the path of the Mississippi River in 2016.
Attorney Charles Newman, ’70, became a director of the Montecito Water District on July 7. He also serves on the board’s finance committee. Newman is a partner at Dentons US LLP.
David Vandervoet, ’67, announced construction of one of the biggest produce warehouses in the Nogales, Arizona. Vandervoet & Associates owns the facility.
After three decades in science education, Deborah Dunn, ’70, looks forward to traveling the world and spending time with family during her retirement. After graduating from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in zoology, Dunn earned her master’s degree in biological sciences from Cal Poly SLO and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of California.
Rocio Torres, ’05, is the new associate director of Development, Regional Giving, focusing on the southern California region, at UC Santa Barbara. After she graduated from UCSB with degrees in dramatic art and Spanish, Torres worked as a production assistant for a West Hollywood advertising and marketing firm before joining the staff at the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association in 2007. Before accepting her new position at Development, Torres served as the UCSB Alumni Association director of programs.
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Bakersfield Senator Jean Fuller, Ph.D. ’89, is the first woman to serve as California’s State Senate Republican leader. She took command of the senate minority on September 2, succeeding Bob Huff from San Dimas. Fuller, who earned her master’s degree in public affairs from California State University Los Angeles, received her doctorate from UC Santa Barbara in 1989. She joined the Legislature in 2006, and will serve through 2018. With over three decades working in public education, Fuller received numerous awards as both an educator and administrator. She was named the Association of School Administrators’ California Superintendent of the Year while at Keppel Union School District. Since her election to the California State Legislature, Fuller has received the Legislative Leadership Award from the California Water Agencies, TURN’s Syvila Siegel Consumer Championship Award, the California Business Properties Association’s Legislator of the Year, and “A” ratings from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the National Rifle Association.
Roy Savoian, ’71, Ph.D. ’79, retired this summer as emeritus professor of economics at Central Washington University. He graduated with a B.A. and Ph.D. in economics from UC Santa Barbara. Savoian became the dean of the CWU’s College of Business in 1998, and was the founding director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Pamela Vander Heide, ’72, and Julie McGeevers recently joined the Friendship Center’s board of directors. Vander Heide taught at Dos Pueblos High School and supervised student teachers at UC Santa Barbara. She also served on the Board of Domestic Violence and is currently on the Women’s Board for CAMA and the Board of Center Stage Theater. McGeevers manages the Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara Memory Care Community, and is also on the board of the San Marcos High School Kids Helping Kids Foundation. She and her husband developed and operate the Heritage House Assisted Living Community. Judi Zuckert, ’74, retired after 35 years working with the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management. After graduating with a degree in environmental studies, she worked in the Sierras, North Cascades, Owyhee Canyonlands, and in Washington, D.C. Steven M. Hilton, ’74, announced his retirement as president and CEO of the Conrad L. Hilton Foundation before the end of 2015. As head of one of the largest 26
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philanthropic organizations in the country, Hilton coordinated humanitarian efforts throughout the world and extended support for the work of the Catholic Sisters. He will continue to serve as chairman of the board of directors, and will play an active role in the selection of the next chief executive. Michael Hart, ’74, is managing director of Camden Capital. Hart joins Camden Capital from Westmont Asset Management, where he also served as managing director. Paul S. Viviano, ’75, is the new president and chief executive officer of the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). He will also serve as a member of the hospital’s Board of Trustees. Before joining CHLA, Viviano was the chief executive officer for the University of California, San Diego Health System and was the associate vice chancellor at UC San Diego Health Sciences. Jarrell C. Jackman, ’77, announced his retirement from the position of executive director of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP). Jackman held the position for 28 years, and has been with the Trust since 1981. He will remain on staff as a research historian until June 2016. Mark Mattingly, ’78, is a new board member of Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care. He currently manages brokerage operations at Pacifica
Commercial Realty, and previously served as president of TOLD Real Estate Corporation and was associate vice president at Coldwell Banker. He is a founding member of The Dream Foundation Board.
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The first Carpinteria Sea Glass Festival featured the recycled glassworks of Santa Barbara artist Alan Clark, ’81. His embellished wire pieces incorporate sea glass gathered from local seaside favorites like Goleta’s Ellwood Beach. Clark is the owner of Whimsy Antiques in Carpinteria. Wendy Kolls, ’85, received a Meritorious Honor Award from the U.S. State Department for expanding the reach of American documentary films and filmmakers throughout the Russian Federation. Kolls is a foreign service officer currently serving as deputy cultural attaché at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. US congressional representative Jared Huffman, ’86, sponsored the amendment to ban Confederate flags from federal parklands like historic national cemeteries. The House voted in favor of the proposal on July 8, 2015. Ilana Ormond, ’88, is the director of development at Planned Giving at UC Santa Barbara. Ormond graduated with a degree in film studies and began her development career at the American Film Institute. Jennifer Carey, ’89, is the new general manager for TurnKey Vacation Rentals Orange County.
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Brian Jewett, ’90, will be entering the political science doctorate program at Claremont Graduate University this fall. Deidre Shuman Lind, ’93, is the new president of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles. Since June, the fund has raised over $15 million in support of partnerships between the public and private sectors in Los Angeles.
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.
“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?”
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.
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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.
If you have similar ideas and are interested in a gift plan to meet your financial planning and charitable giving objectives, please call: Chris Pizzinat, Deputy Director, Office of Development at (805) 893-5126, toll-free (800) 641-1204 or email plannedgiving@ia.ucsb.edu. For more gift ideas and examples, please visit www.plannedgiving.ucsb.edu
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Lynne West, MA ’01, received a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching for this school year. She graduated with a master’s degree in classics from UC Santa Barbara. West will doing research and attending classes in the Netherlands in 2016.
Salty Girl Seafood, founded by Norah Eddy, ’14, and Laura Johnson, ’14, received the Spirit of Small Business award in the woman-owned business category from Santa Barbara’s Pacific Coast Business Times. The company was among nine firms recognized for excellence in business and positive contributions to the economy and community. The seafood company develops sustainable, traceable readyto-cook products that incentivize responsible fishing practices.
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Former Gaucho basketball star Alan
Williams, ’15, signed a contract to play for the Qingdao Double Star Eagles based in Qingdao, China. Williams competed for the Houston Rockets at the 2015 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. He came out as the league’s top rebounder at 11.5 per game and its third leading scorer at 20.5 points per game. Williams leaves for China this October.
Aditi Risbud, ’05, accepted the position of science communication officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Before joining the foundation, Risbud was the director of the Communications, Leadership, Ethics and Research (CLEAR) program and assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Utah. Krystal Gallagher Rosse, ’06, serves as an assistant United States attorney for the Las Vegas office of the district of Nevada. Composer and new media artist Christopher Jette, ’06, is this year’s Grant Wood Fellow and visiting assistant professor of music at the University of Iowa. Justin Aspegen, ’07, signed on as the new pitching coach at Appalachian State, an NCAA Division 1 school in North Carolina. For eight years, Aspegen was the pitching coach for the Santa Barbara City College baseball team, mentoring four WSC Pitchers of the Year, six All-Southern California WSC pitchers, and two AllAmerican honors. Miguel Zarate, ’09, was promoted to academic dean at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Elisa Robyn, ’09, is the executive director of the Napa Valley Education Foundation. The organization fosters community engagement and supports the initiatives of the Napa Valley Unified School District.
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Danielle Denetra, ’10, married Jose Aranda, ’06, in South Lake Tahoe on March 14. The couple met in Isla Vista in 2006. D.C. United midfielder Luis Silva, ’11, will be heading to Real Salt Lake in exchange for D.C. United’s Alvario Saborio. This is not his first time at the club – in 2013, Silva was traded to D.C. United midway through the 2013 season. He scored a total of 76 goals across all competitions that year. Brewing entrepreneur Casey Harris, ’11, opened the doors of the new Topa Topa Brewing Co. on Thompson Boulevard in Ventura this summer. The brewery offers six beers on tap, including IPAs like the Chief Peak IPA and the hoppy Weekender Session. Lance Lewis, ’12, graduated from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business with a master’s degree in business administration on May 15. In recognition of his academic excellence in a business school program, Lewis was recently admitted as a lifetime member of Beta Gamma Sigma. He is the chief operating officer of the California Medical Association. Michael McIntosh, ’13, is part of the new team from the Burrows and Tucker Wealth Management Group from Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, recently hired by UBS Financial in Santa Barbara. UCSB Guardian Scholar TaiSonya Tidwell graduated with a master’s degree in broadcast and digital journalism from Syracuse University this year. Tidwell interned at CNY Central and worked as a
multimedia journalist for NCC News Online. She recently accepted a position as a reporter in North Carolina. Chef, author and food activist Alice Waters, H ’13, received the International SPA Association’s 2015 Alex Szekely Humanitarian Award. Waters, the owner of Chez Panisse, attended UC Santa Barbara during her freshman year before transferring to UC Berkeley.
IN MEMORIAM Jane (Goslin) Kiehlbauch, ’38, died July 9 in Santa Barbara. She attended Long Beach Polytechnic and the Santa Barbara Teachers College (now UC Santa Barbara). After graduation, she taught kindergarten in Ontario, California, and went on to join the Punahou School faculty in Honolulu, Hawaii. Jeane Elizabeth (Ruoff) Ferrario, ’38, died on June 27 in Santa Barbara. She graduated with a degree in home economics, and went on to help run her husband Angelo Ferrario’s chiropractic business. She was a member of the Holy Cross Church, the Italian American Boot Club and the Manana Dance Club. Adele (Tatum) Ball, ’48, died on August 30 in Santa Barbara. She graduated with a degree in psychology from UC Santa Barbara and was an alumna of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. After graduation, she moved to Hawaii to work in the travel industry. She married fellow UCSB alumnus Fred Ball, who died in 2005. Garvan F. Kuksey, ’55, died September 25 in Santa Barbara. He received his undergraduate degree from UCSB, and went on to dental studies at the University of Southern California. He was president of his fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon and the InterFraternity Council, and was a member of the Blue Key Honor Society. For 53 years, Kuksey saw patients at his private dental practice at 1515 State Street in Santa Barbara. Ventura native May (Teagarden Barnes) Allison died on July 1 in Santa Barbara. She attended Santa Barbara State College (UC Santa Barbara) and was an avid tennis player and Santa Barbara Yacht Club crew member
Astrophysicist Stanton J. Peale died on May 14 in Santa Barbara. In 1968, he joined the faculty at the UC Santa Barbara department of physics. He retired as professor emeritus in 1994. In 1979, Peale predicted widespread volcanism from tidal interactions on the surface of Jupiter’s satellite Io – a theory confirmed by data from Voyager 1. He also published a procedure to measure the size and state of Mercury’s core, and a study of tidal evolution in satellites like the Moon. Peale received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize, the James Craig Watson Medal for Contributions to Astronomy, the Brouwer Award and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1988, the asteroid Peale 3612 was named in honor of his pioneering work in the study of the dynamics of planetary interiors. Peale continued to mentor post doctorate fellows after retirement. A tireless researcher, he submitted his last paper for publication three days before his death.
during the 1960s. Allison loved animals and worked many hours as a volunteer for the Guide Dogs for the Blind. Gary Leigh Parks, ’60, died on July 21 in Kapolei, Hawaii. After he graduated with a degree in music from UCSB, he received his M.S. in school administration from USC in 1971. Parks served in the US Army, 4th Armored Division Band, and went on to work as a teacher and elementary school principal at the Los Angeles Unified School District until he retired in 1993. Environmentalist Robert Bruce Whitney, ’64, died on July 15 in Willits, California. He was a founding member of the Santa Barbara Environmental Defense Center, and was behind the establishment of the Golden State Land Conservancy, a land trust based in Willits holding conservation easements over 35,000 acres in California. He also helped implement sustainable forest practices with the California Department of Forestry in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. Businessman and photographer Tom Keyani, Ph.D. ’72, died on September 19 in Santa Barbara. Born in Iran, Keyani studied electrical engineering at UC Berkeley and went on to earn his doctorate at UC Santa Barbara. In the 1960s, he documented many dramatic moments during the UC Berkeley protests as head photographer of Cal’s Blue and Gold yearbook. Lorelle Browning ’73, MA ’80, Ph.D.’86, died on April 26 in Oregon. Since 1989, Browning taught literature and peace studies at Pacific University. A tireless advocate for peace and justice in war-torn Vietnam, she received two U.S. Scholar Fulbright grants to the Southeast Asian country. “Lorelle was proud
to be a UCSB alumni,” wrote her longtime partner Marvin Simmons. Browning adopted two foster families in Vietnam in hopes of providing their children higher education in the United States. Army veteran and engineer Donald Richard Aubrey, ’74, MA ’76, died on July 9 in Santa Barbara. After he retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1970, Aubrey earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering at UC Santa Barbara. After graduation, he worked at ABLE Engineering, Raytheon and Delco, before founding Aubrey Consulting Inc., the precursor to the Woods Hole Group, an oceanographic research firm. A leading parishioner of the St. Raphael Catholic Church, Aubrey helped found the St. Vincent de Paul Council and served as Santa Barbara District president. Michael W. Emmick, ’74, died on June 27 in Los Angeles. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, with a B.A. in political science and philosophy from UC Santa Barbara. In 1978, he graduated from UCLA Law School and worked at the firm Tuttle & Taylor before he accepted the position of assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles in 1982. Emmick made headlines as a key member of Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation into President Clinton’s relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Robert W. Killen, ’76, died on June 4 in Santa Barbara. After he graduated with a degree in environmental science, Killen became director of operations at the Mariposa Property Management Company. He founded Killogan & Company and also worked for the Santa Barbara Housing Authority, Sierra Property Management and Summit Funding. www.ucsbalum.com
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David Thomas Johnson, ’78, died on July 5 in Issaquah, Washington. After graduating with a degree in chemical engineering, he worked at the Union Oil Refinery, Monsanto Chemical Co. and Ebasco/Enserch. In 1996, he started his own wastewater and air emissions consulting business. Margaret Mary (Duque) Marble, ’82, died on July 5 in Santa Barbara. Before she graduated with a degree in psychology from UC Santa Barbara, Marble led a variety of community organizations in Pasadena as president of the Junior League, the Town Club, and served as a Dame of the Royal Institute. In 2013, she published Seeing the Elephant: The Adventures of the Ithaca and California Mining Company 1849-1852, based on her great-grandfather James Stringer Fleming. Marble was an active supporter of the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Music Academy of the West, as well as the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and the Los Angeles Children’s Hospital. Patricia Elaine Harris, ’89, died on August 7 in Santa Barbara. Harris graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science from UC Santa Barbara. She founded Kindred Publishing, featuring educational workbooks and videos for prison inmates and recovering addicts. She also worked in marketing for Villa Alamar, an assisted-living home for Alzheimer’s patients. Peter Smereka, Ph.D. ’89, died on September 15 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received his doctorate in chemical engineering from UC Santa Barbara. One of the leading applied and computational mathematicians at the University of Michigan, Smereka received the 1996 NSF Career Award and the 1997 Excellence in Education Award. Robert Conwell Shapiro, ’97, died on September 22 in Los Angeles. After graduating from UCSB, Shapiro studied at the Cordon Bleu in Pasadena, California. He worked at Contemporary Catering, Mozza/ Chi Spacca and Superba Food and Bread. His trademark “garlic knots” still remain on the Mozza menu today.
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Scott Dinsmore, ’04, died on September 12 while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. A Bay Area native, Dinsmore graduated with a degree in business economics from UC Santa Barbara and was the founder of Live Your Legend, a company encouraging people to find jobs that fuelled their passion in life. In 2012, Dinsmore’s TedX Talk at Golden Gate Park received over 2.5 million views. Robert S. Jacobs, professor of pharmacology emeritus, died on August 26 in Santa Barbara. He graduated from Northwestern University, and earned his doctorate in pharmacology from Loyola University’s Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Jacobs founded the country’s first undergraduate pharmacology program at UC Santa Barbara in 1974. His research focused on the pharmacology of marine natural products. He retired in 2010. UC Santa Barbara student and Isla Vista resident Reed Dolleschel Gorder died on August 20. He was 21 years old. His parents Robin and Dave Gorder have set up a GiveForward memorial fund in his honor. Musician, composer and jazz bass player Gary Woods, died on August 24 in in Santa Barbara. Woods graduated from Cal Arts
and later received a teaching credential from UC Santa Barbara. He worked with renowned recording artists Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Gladys Knight. After moving back to his hometown, Woods served on the Board of Directors for the Santa Barbara Association of REALTORS. He was a founding member, former board director, and officer of the Society of Composers and Lyricist. For 30 years, his column Music & Technology was a regular feature in the Society’s publication The Score. He also wrote a weekly tech column for CASA Magazine, was a regular on KZSB’s tech radio program, and was the an official announcer for the annual Fiesta Parade. Author and noted linguist Andre Clovis Gaston Malecot died on September 3 in Santa Barbara. Before he joined the UCSB faculty in 1969, Malecot taught French and linguistics at Haverford College, Villanova University and University of Southern California at Riverside. He founded the Summer Institute of French Language and Culture at UC Santa Barbara, and has published over 70 scientific papers on linguistics throughout his career.
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