“I just thank my father, mother, and my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.“ -David McCullough, Author and Historian
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DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS COMMUNICATION ENGLISH HISTORY LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE LINGUISTICS PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM & CENTER FEATURES THE ASIA CENTER THE ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES EDUCATION CENTER IN CENTENNIAL VALLEY, MONTANA
“It seems a paradox that as our world appears to shrink…we as humans are further apart from each other than ever due to a lack of knowledge and understanding of other cultures.” -Jamie Adams, History Student
12 HUMANITIES: THE ROAD TO EVERYWHERE 14 LOST ANGELS By John Schulian
18 WHY BOOKS ARE PRECIOUS By Tony Weller
22 THE LADDER PROGRAM
Making the Transition from the Classroom to Hollywood
26 WHERE HAS YOUR HUMANITIES DEGREE TAKEN YOU? Alumni Updates
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JAMES EGAN, 2011 CONVOCATION ADDRESS HAL CANNON DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS JOHANNA KEMPE, DISTINGIUSHED ALUMNA
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ithin the College of Humanities, students have daily opportunities to experience astonishing and transformative moments. We challenge them to “think outside of the box� and to evaluate their perspectives of the world. Such critical questioning and evaluation helps our students develop a conscience in a complex world, the fundamental ingredient for a successful world citizen, one who contributes to the long-term improvement of our planet and its inhabitants rather than to their decline. This is at the core of why a Humanities education remains critical to an effective university education. In the following pages, you can read about the relevant and important work being done around the world by College of Humanities students, alumni and friends. I thank you for your interest and help in this important work.
Robert D. Newman Dean, College of Humanities The University of Utah
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COLLEGE AT A GLANCE DEPARTMENTS Communication
English
History
Languages & Literature
Linguistics
Philosophy
CENTERS
American West Center
The Asia Center
Center for American Indian Languages Middle East Center
Tanner Humanities Center
University Writing Program & Center
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES Applied Ethics
Brazilian Studies
British Studies
Cognitive Studies
Documentary Studies
Environmental Humanities
International Studies
Latin American Studies
Peace & Conflict Studies
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he College of Humanities is the second largest college on campus and is at the core of the University of Utah’s mission and the experience of higher education. The Humanities offer a continuing reminder of and approach to a conscience in a complex world. Faculty produce scholarship and offer instruction directly addressing communication skills, critical thinking, cultural awareness and diversity, close readings of print and visual media, and how to embrace other perspectives, thereby laying the groundwork for compassionate and informed approaches to life and living. Professors study and teach essential skills and tools for thinking and communicating that apply readily to everyday practical situations, emphasizing a commitment to community and awareness of our integral function in a multifaceted global culture. Through research and pedagogy that illustrate healthy questioning and shifting frontiers and attempts at inclusion and connection, we offer approaches that are fundamentally democratic. We thereby help to produce better-informed, thoughtful world citizens with a foundation for nuance and flexibility.
All undergraduates enroll in Humanities courses at some point in their academic pursuits. Each year, about 2500 of these students choose to focus their studies on Humanities, selecting from the College’s 30 majors and 36 minors. The College confers one-fifth of the University’s diplomas annually. Graduate students number about 400 and have matriculated into one of 17 Master’s and 13 Ph.D. programs. The College’s 182 tenured and tenure-track faculty have published 72 books and more than 300 articles in the past three years, possess international distinction as scholars, are the most frequent winners of University teaching and research awards, and are the most diverse in terms of ethnicity and gender.
Religious Studies
Rhetoric & Writing
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COMMUNICATION HAPPENINGS
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2011 Town and Gown Forum Features Coralie Alder This annual gathering featured a thought-provoking lecture, “Being Strategic in the New Media Age,” and a reception honoring Coralie Alder and the late Parry D. Sorensen. 24th Annual B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture Professor D. Soyini Madison, a renowned performance studies scholar and theorist, presented the 24th annual B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture, titled “Performance, Human Rights, and the Dignity of Labor.” Madison is Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, with appointments in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Anthropology. 2011 Department of Communication Awards Banquet
The 56th annual awards banquet made history for the Department of Communication on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at the Little America Hotel. In addition to awarding a record-breaking number of scholarships to outstanding students, prestigious alumni serving in the Beehive State were honored for their distinguished accomplishments. Among the award recipients were Duane Cardall, Former Director of Editorials, KSL Radio and TV; Jana L. Kettering, Principal Advisor, Communications and Media Relations, Rio Tinto/ Kennecott Utah Copper; and Jani Iwamoto, District 4 Representative, Salt Lake City Council.
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The 2011 Service to Journalism Award went to John Saltas, Founder and President, Salt Lake City Weekly.
The Distinguished Service Award, a special acknowledgment for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to Utah and the Intermountain West, was presented to Ted L. Wilson, Former Mayor, Salt Lake City. Communication Welcomes New Faculty Members
Jakob Jensen (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2007) Design and evaluation of strategic health communication
Robin E. Jensen (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2007) Historical and contemporary discourses about health and science, focusing specifically on questions dealing with sexeducation policy, gender equality, and rhetorical history.
Michael K. Middleton (Ph.D., University of Utah, 2011) Specializes in argumentation and debate. Middleton has spent the last three years as the Director of Forensics for the University of Utah.
“College is not solely about finding a job immediately after graduation. It’s about finding your place in the world and doing what you love… No one should take away the opportunity to a degree to my somewhere.” -Lauren Cousin, Mass Communication/Journalist Student
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT AT http://www.communication.utah.edu
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ENGLISH
Alf Seegert, a former student of the department and now one of our lecturers, has created a “literary board game” titled The Road to Canterbury. The game was recently featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Guardian UK. These news items can be found at kingfisher.utah.edu
Professor Kathryn Stockton was invited to teach a sixweek seminar at the highly regarded School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University in the summer of 2011. Neal Carroll, a graduate student in the department, attended the School of Criticism and Theory program on fellowship as the University of Utah’s sponsored participant. This prestigious six-week program is held every year at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Vincent Pecora and Mark Matheson led the summer 2011 London Program, based at Regents College in the heart of London, and subsidized by the Hinckley Endowment for British Studies. Twenty-four students spent five weeks focused on the Bloomsbury Group and England between the Wars, 1910-1939. The program included tours of London, Cambridge, and Oxford, and ended on the banks of the leaden, swirling River Ouse where Virginia Woolf’s body was recovered in 1941.
auspices of the National Science Foundation. The novelist Michael Ondaatje read from his work on March 29th at the Downtown Public Library in a wonderful event sponsored by the College of Humanities and the English Department. Ondaatje also spoke with students and faculty at the University of Utah.
“When it comes to degrees, the label does not matter as much as the skills you learn while studying the subject. Having the ability to critically read, communicate, and call historical moments to mind - those are what will make you marketable, and ultimately employable, as a [Humanities] major.” -Rachel Osterman, Ballet and English Major
Professor Paisley Rekdal was awarded a prestigious travel grant from the Amy Lowell Foundation, which will enable her to travel abroad and work on new poetry. In November/December, Professor Katharine Coles traveled to Antarctica to write poetry under the
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT http://www.english.utah.edu
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HISTORY HAPPENINGS
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Congratulations to our faculty members who recently published books: The Spirit of Vatican II: A History of Catholic Reform in America by Professor Colleen McDannell (Basic Books, 2011). The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery by Professor Eric Hinderaker (Harvard University Press, 2010).
Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture by Professor Nadja Durbach (University of California Press, 2010). Heaven’s Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity by Professor Isabel Moreira (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Hell and Its Afterlife: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives also by Isabel Moreira, edited with Margaret Toscano (Ashgate, 2010). Controlling the Past, Owning the Future: The Political Uses of Archaeology in the Middle East, Bradley Parker, edited with Ran Boytner and Lynn Swartz Dodd (University of Arizona Press, 2010).
Professor W. Lindsay Adams has been re-elected for a second term (2011 to 2014) as President of the Association of Ancient Historians. This is the largest scholarly association representing the field in North America, consisting of around 800 members from History, Classics, Classical Archaeology and Art History in the United States and Canada, as well
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as some 50 overseas members primarily from the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The annual national meeting of the association was hosted by the University of Utah in 2010. We congratulate History faculty who received teaching awards this past year:
Professor Elizabeth Clement received a University Teaching Award. Professor Paul Reeve received a Faculty Fellowship, an Early Career Teaching Award, and the Ramona Cannon Teaching Award.
The 2009-10 O. Meredith Wilson Lecture in History was given by Kenneth Pomeranz, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine and the prize-winning author of The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Professor Pomeranz’s lecture was titled “Chinese Development and World History: Putting the ‘East Asian Model’ in Perspective.” Welcome
The History Department also welcomes new faculty member Hugh Cagle (Ph.D. Rutgers University) who works on disease, medicine and the social life of science in Portuguese India and the Atlantic, 14501650, and who will contribute to the department’s offerings in colonial history.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT AT http://www.history.utah.edu
HAPPENINGS
DEPARTMENT OF
LANGUAGES & LITERATURE
In the past year, the Languages & Literature department continued to grow. Noteworthy additions include the approval of a new minor in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and the launch of a new Classics study abroad program in Greece. Events of Interest from 2010-2011 September Plumed Identities: Tupinamba Intercultural - Dr. Amy Buono, professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University, spoke about the Tupinamba interculture in early modern Brazil and Europe. October Italian Extravaganza - annual event to celebrate Italian culture.
Remedios Varo & Plastic Surgery - Lecture by Ruben Gallo, award winning writer and scholar who authored Mexican Modernity: the Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution. November The Poetics of Decision: Yeats, Benjamin and Schmitt. University of Southern California Professor of English, David Lloyd discussed the founding of the postcolonial state in Ireland in the context of political violence and its relation to Yeats’s poetic practice.
December Anti-Anti Utopia: Digital Zapatismo and the New Imaginary - Ricardo Dominguez, Associate Professor
of visual arts at UCSD, and co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater, a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technology on 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. March What our Medical Past Can Tell us About our Genomic Future - Holly Tucker, Associate Professor of French, Italian, and Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University spoke about her book, Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution. Noteworthy Student and Faculty Awards Therese De Raedt, Assistant Professor French: ASUU Student Choice Teaching Award Isabel Dulfano, Associate Professor Spanish: - Council of Dee Fellows Award; Utah Foreign Language Association Vitality Award
Jane Hacking, Associate Professor Russian: University Interdisciplinary Research Grant; Elected President of the Executive Committee for the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages(ADFL) at the MLA Dori Huang, WLMA Graduate: Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships; Hired as a Chinese teacher for the Canyons School District
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LANGUAGES & LITERATURE DEPARTMENT AT http://www.languages.utah.edu
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LINGUISTICS HAPPENINGS
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Graduate Student Todd McKay received the highly prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award. Todd plans to spend a year in Bangladesh teaching English and researching “ways of making communicative approaches to ELT more sustainable in resource-impoverished, developing countries.” Fulbright Scholars are rigorously reviewed, starting here at the alluniversity level, where our committee forwards only the most promising applications to the national and international agencies that make final choices under the supervision of the presidentially appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign Service Scholarship Board of the US Department of State. The award comes with full funding for his year long plan. Graduate Student Zuzana Tomas was the 2011 recipient of The Multilingual Matters Graduate Student Award given by the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Graduate Student Kris Hiller was awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship from the Asia Center. Undergraduate Student Robert Capps received an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program to work with community partners on a collaborative project advancing our field while simultaneously benefitting refugees from around the world who live in Salt Lake City.
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Faculty Awards Professor MaryAnn Christison was selected as a recipient of the Associated Students of the University of Utah’s Student Choice Teaching Award. ASUU’s award honors what we in the Department have long known: that Prof. Christison is a model teacher, her concern for her students is manifest, and praise for her contribution to their success is well-deserved.. Professor Johanna Watzinger-Tharp was named the recipient of the 2010 ACTFL-NYSAFLT Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education. In recognition of her expertise, achievements, and dedication to the language profession, a ceremony conferring this well-deserved award on Professor Watzinger-Tharp was held at the 2010 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Convention in Boston on November 19, 2010.
“…employers desire people with strong writing abilities, problem solving skills and technological literacy. Each of these valuable characteristics can be attained through a degree in the Humanities…” -Greg Eastwood, Linguistics Student
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT AT http://www.linguistics.utah.edu
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PHILOSOPHY
The Philosophy Department hosted several impressive and important events this past year. This includes the ISHPSSB Conference (International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology), which brought more than 450 professionals from 27 countries to the University of Utah Campus. Learn more about this fascinating society at kingfisher.utah.edu Congratulations to Professor Leslie Francis, who was recently elected as a fellow of the Hastings Center, and to Professor Chrisoula Andreou who was accepted as a Tanner Humanities Center Fellow in Fall 2010.
Elijah Millgram Praktische Induktion. Paderborn: Mentis Verlag, 2010. New Faculty Welcome to our new colleague, Professor Jonah Schupbach from the University of Pittsburgh
Where Are They Now?
Faculty Publications of Note: Professor Chrisoula Andreou The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination, co-edited by Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White, Oxford University Press, 2010 (Reviewed by the New Yorker’s James Surowiecki.)
Monika Piotrowska – PhD awarded summer 2011. Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Ian Smith – PhD awarded 2007 Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT AT http://www.philosophy.utah.edu
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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHTS THE ASIA CENTER
The College of Humanities encompasses 18 unique centers and programs, includng the two mentioned here. Learn about all our programs at www.hum.utah.edu. Founded in 2007, The Asia Center boasts an impressive core faculty of 77 highly skilled academic professionals who represent disciplines ranging from the Humanities, the Medical School and Health Sciences to Law, Business, Social Work, Social, Behavioral Science, and Engineering. For 2011-2012, we have added three new faculty members, each strategically connected to a major Asia Center initiative: Akiko Kamimura, Sociology – Focus on Japanese Health Policy in Comparative Perspective Christine Everaert, Languages & Literature – South Asian Languages, Literature and Culture Debernier Torrey, Languages & Literature Korean Language, Literature & Culture
The Asia Center has also added a new Associate Graduate Director, Kim Korinek. Kim has already made a tremendous difference in the Institute, and will be the point person for the Mekong Regional Initiative, a major research thrust anticipated in the next two years. The Confucius Institute, sponsored by the Asia Center, has also hired a new K-12 Outreach Coordinator, Eric Chipman, to manage programs that support Chinese teaching across the state.
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National Recognition The Asia Center is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a prestigious Department of Education Title VI grant and designation as a National Resource Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. The Center received this grant in collaboration with the Asian Studies program at Brigham Young University, together forming the Intermountain Consortium for Asian and Pacific Studies (IMCAPS). The grant is providing generous funding for four years to support student scholarships and a wide range of activities related to Asia on both campuses. Student Growth In addition to eight students in the newly approved graduate program, the Asia Center now recognizes more than 80 students majoring in Asian Studies. The Asia Center has also awarded 46 Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) scholarships to students from across campus. The Center’s fellowships and activities also serve the 80 Chinese majors and minors, 67 Japanese majors and minors and over 100 students who are enrolled in the Asian Studies track within the International Studies Program. For more information about the Asia Center, visit www.hum.utah.edu/asian
Within the framework of this partnership, the College is responsible for programming and courses, and ICEC manages and maintains the facilities, which include beautifully restored historic buildings from a ghost town that once was a stop on the stagecoach route into West Yellowstone. Through this restoration, the EHEC now has access to meeting rooms, conference space, outdoor performance areas, art studio, dining and comfortable overnight accommodations. “Not many classrooms include access to a place like the (valley’s) Red Rock Lake National Wildlife Refuge, which alone supports over 260 species of birds,” said Melody Taft, ICEC Board President. “This new Center melds perfectly our intent to preserve the wild life of this valley as well as to make its wonders available and accessible to others through a first-class learning environment.” The Montana Natural Heritage Program has rated the Centennial Valley as one of the most significant natural landscapes in Montana, a tribute to its intact ecological systems, expansive wetlands, and diverse native fauna.
“This new Center melds perfectly our intent to preserve the wild life of this valley as well as to make its wonders available and accessible to others through a first-class learning environment.” Melody Taft, ICEC Board President
Visitors’ explorations in Centennial Valley can take them from lakes and wetlands, through the spacious upland grasslands, and into the rugged Centennial Mountains that rise 9,000 feet above the Valley floor. According to author Terry Tempest Williams, the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities, the Centennial Valley is “a place of inspiration and restoration. It is home to the Trumpeter Swan, brought back from the brink of extinction, and the headwaters of the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. The valley’s expansive views create expansive minds – a perspective that benefits any student, including those I teach here in the Ecology of Residency graduate program.”
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he College of Humanities is delighted to announce the opening of the Environmental Humanities Education Center (EHEC) at Centennial Valley, Montana. This unique center represents a partnership of the College and the nonprofit conservation group, International Center for Earth Concerns (ICEC).
For more information on the Environmental Humanities Education Center, visit www.ehec.utah.edu
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“A multi-dimensional world requires more than a one-dimensional education. The enhancement of core values does not come by extricating the core.” -Robert Newman, Dean, College of Humanities
Humanities: The Road To Everywhere Last year, one of Utah’s legislators referred to liberal arts degrees as “degrees to nowhere,” arguing instead for more students in science, technology, engineering and math. His characterization of Humanities or liberal arts degrees sparked a broad conversation on campus and in the local media. Educators from across the state joined in to endorse the value of the Humanities as fundamental to creating good societies and citizens.
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n an effort to engage our students and provide a forum for their own voices and insights, the College of Humanities recently sponsored an essay competition titled, “Are the Humanities Still Relevant?” University of Utah students were invited to submit brief essays on the subject. The student who wrote the winning essay would receive a scholarship. College alumni and friends were also invited to participate. The response was overwhelming – and enlightening. We received many positive responses and notes of support. One such friend – Martin Frey – offered to fund the scholarship. Students from across campus participated – including applications from Biomedical Engineering, English, Dance, Communication, Nursing, Biology, and others. Each essay demonstrated surprising insight and comprehension about the role of education.
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Greg Eastwood, a Linguistics student, wrote that “liberal arts and humanities programs not only provide graduates with the skills they need to excel at many jobs; they also provide an important social context that is at the core of scientific inquiry and create the basis for a well-functioning democracy.” Another student, Tiffany Law, wrote: “The modern university system was created not as a technical school, but rather as a training ground for young people to learn how to be so they can then go out in to the world and do.” She continued in her essay to discuss the idea of education as training for employment: “The standard of our education used to be the kind of people it made us. Now it is the kind of employees it makes us. This may make the world safe for trade, but not safe for us.”
Scientific inquiry remains critical, noted many of the students who participated, but such inquiry must be enriched and expanded by an understanding of the Humanities. “To see ourselves as we are,” wrote Joshua Homer, a Political Science major at the University, “we need the reflection of the mirror upon itself, not just the explanation of how light reflects off the mirror.” Elena Nazarenko, a Mathematics and Economics major, suggested that perhaps our society has simply become so reliant on the Humanities that ‘we simply fail
to notice their importance in our personal and professional lives.”
Jacob Andra, who’s essay was selected as the winner of the competition, wrote that the Humanities “examine the core issues that shape our zeitgeist.” He goes on to argue the importance of such examination: “Cultural conscience can easily run amok, taking science with it as a blundering servant as it runs its destructive course.” He concludes his essay by noting that engaging in humanistic inquiry opens the door for a society in which he’d like to live, one that is “increasingly conscientious and less shortsighted.” In a recent editorial piece published in the Salt Lake Tribune, Robert Newman, Dean of the College of Humanities, argued that “a multi-dimensional world requires more than a one-dimensional education. The enhancement of core values does not come by extricating the core.” He noted that the next great discoveries in our world will come “not just from those with prodigious technical skills, but from those whose imaginations have been stimulated and whose ability to make connections outside the box have been fostered. Toss in some ethical sensibilities,” he concluded, “and we have the ingredients for a positive future, a veritable road to everywhere.”
Are the Humanities Still Relevant? Winning Essay by Jacob Andra Biomedical Engineering
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here are those who would argue that the science. It provides the conscience behind the and that such optimism serves to insulate us from humanities have lost their relevance, that ethical boundaries that we subject science to. our duty of social activism. In today’s entertainment, they are the “fluff ” in modern academia. politics, and discourse, the voices of both Voltaire “Useful” majors in the hard sciences should be The humanities examine the core issues that and Pope still echo, though largely subliminally. promoted, according to this view, while allowing shape our zeitgeist. They explore how we’ve the humanities to wither. As a biomedical arrived at where we are, and where we might So deeply do these and hundreds of other engineering major, I disagree. be going. The importance of such examination inherited viewpoints run that they mainly go cannot be overstated. Cultural conscience can unnoticed and unquestioned. Understanding Science, that revered torch of human progress, easily run amok, taking science with it as a the historical pathways that formed them, and suffers from tunnel vision. Once directed down blundering servant as it runs its destructive the men and women who advocated them, allows a path, it excels at surmounting and ferreting course. Some recent historical examples of this us to see them for what they are, perspectives, out any number of obstacles, mysteries, and are the Nazi purges, and our own state-sponsored rather than reality itself. delightful discoveries from the physical world. social hygiene programs. Societal mores, like It is equally capable of wreaking havoc. Who family dynamics, can only improve from coming As we become students of the cosmologies and or what, then, gives science its directions? It into the light of open discourse and examination. dichotomies that shape our current intellectual turns out that the answer to that questions is universe, we become more and more empowered to surprisingly unscientific. For example, I was only vaguely aware of the rise above the conflicts and be active participants conflict that exists today between a fatalistic in questioning and shaping our zeitgeist, rather The German term zeitgeist, loosely translated world-view and a perspective of “cosmic than being blindly driven by it. Whether we are as “spirit of the times,” refers to the general optimism”, until my Intellectual Traditions course neuroscientists or English lit majors, we can be moral, sociocultural, and ethical atmosphere with Dr. Ann Engar. Once I learned about the enabled to search inside ourselves and examine of a society during a given era. This is no vague history and significance of these perspectives, why we think and act the way we do. We can ask theory; undoubtedly we live in a different however, my eyes were opened to the degree to whether these cultural messages serve us, and cultural landscape than our great-grandparents which both outlooks influence my own psyche, whether they serve the world. Hopefully, as more did. While the zeitgeist of a society is difficult and the collective Western psyche as well. In the and more people engage in this sort of inquiry, a to define precisely, it colors and shapes almost worlds of Alexander Pope, “Whatever is, is right”, critical mass of society will become increasingly everything. Our cultural zeitgeist determines a perspective adopted by Leibnitz and others. conscientious and less shortsighted. That’s the our collective priorities. It directs the course of Voltaire objected that all is not well in the world, sort of world I want to live in.”
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LOST ANGELS By John Schulian
Last October, the College of Humanities traveled to the heart of Los Angeles for its second alumni salon in a series of such gatherings across the country. A small group of Humanities alumni and friends, including our featured speaker, John Schulian (Journalism ‘67) gathered at the historic California Club. The following is taken from his lecture that evening, where the awardwinning writer and columnist reminisced about the beautiful and corrupt L.A. that he came to know through the newspapers he delivered as a boy and waxed romantic about the films that defined the genre. Mr. Schulian also recalled the writers and actors who brought these stories to life, both on and sometimes off the silver screen.
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sk me about film noir and I’ll tell you I’m a sucker for the shadows where gunmen lurk and the bluesy mood that drifts in on clouds of cigarette smoke. The snappy patter grabs me, too, especially when Shelley Winters, as a con man’s tootsie in “Larceny,” tells a potential boy toy, “You kiss like you’re paying off an election bet.” But more than that, I can’t get enough of film noir’s scheming dames and the men they play for saps, the way Yvonne De Carlo does Burt Lancaster in “Criss Cross.” She lures him into an armored car heist that goes sideways, and even when they know they’re going to die for it, he’s making cow eyes at her. “I never wanted the money,” he says. “I just wanted you.” It’s an L.A. story, same as “Larceny,” and nothing stirs this native son’s sense of civic pride like sex, treachery, desperation and murder. There are contenders stretched from New York to Phenix City, Alabama, but the nation’s film noir capital is L.A. Naturally, the chamber of commerce won’t campaign to make the title official. Too many bluenoses who sniff at black-and-white movies, not enough old paperboys who delivered Hearst’s Herald Express when its headlines screamed about bloody pachuco gang wars and the most powerful mobster in town, Mickey Cohen. I soaked it up daily before I jumped on my bike to deliver seventy-seven copies of that rag. I was ten and I even knew the name of Mickey Cohen’s girlfriend: Liz Renay. After rambling around the country, I found my way back to L.A. twenty-five years ago, far too late for the premiere of “Chinatown,” with the land grab and leering evil that make it the ultimate noir and one of the great movies of any kind. But I was in plenty of time for “L.A. Confidential.” I even choked down a martini in the Formosa Café, where the blindly ambitious young cop mistakes Lana Turner for a hooker dolled up to look like her. It was a movie to wrap your arms around, I thought, a brilliant reminder of the twisted charms
of a genre whose heyday was 1945 to 1955. And still a friend accused me of being soft in the head. “L.A. Confidential,” he said, couldn’t be a righteous noir for one very obvious reason: its happy ending. He had plenty of ammo to back him up, the majorstudio productions directed by heavyweights like Billy Wilder, Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick as well as the grindhouse gems polished by B-movie wizards like Edward Dmytryk, Joseph Lewis and Edward G. Ulmer. To tell the truth, though, my friend didn’t need to haul out any more evidence than Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard,” which doesn’t even have a happy beginning. There’s William Holden facedown in the swimming pool of a house that screams money, a dead screenwriter who sold out to the wrong buyer. What could be more L.A. than that?
“Film noir conjures up the city as a luscious piece of fruit that has fallen from the tree and lies rotting in the sunshine.”
Film noir conjures up the city as a luscious piece of fruit that has fallen from the tree and lies rotting in the sunshine. Dreamers roll into town endlessly, carloads of them, busloads, and when their dreams go bust, as most do, they bend the rules for the sake of survival. Or they get bowled over by paranoia. Or they turn to crime. And in noir’s gimlet eye, crime is where it gets interesting. It doesn’t have to be a big, splashy case that grabs the nation by the throat. There’s plenty of inspiration
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without dredging up O.J. Simpson or Charles Manson, Phil Spector or the Hillside Strangler. Think of the insurance fraud that propels “Double Indemnity” and the daughter who turns monstrous with evil in “Mildred Pierce.” And yet it is L.A.’s most sensational post-World War II murder that still greases the wheels of film noir all these years later. The victim was an aspiring twenty-two-year-old actress named Elizabeth Short. In 1947 her body was found cut in half and left in a most unladylike position on a weedstrewn vacant lot. Her friends had nicknamed her the Black Dahlia because of her hair and favorite clothes color. It was a name made for headlines, and it lived on in the minds of writers and filmmakers while her killer ran free, never to be caught. When James Ellroy learned about the Dahlia, the penny in his imagination dropped. His mother had been murdered, too, in 1958, when he was nine. Absent a killer to convict, it was Ellroy who did hard time, as a burglar, drunk, druggie, street creature, and county hospital psychotic. His salvation was writing about crime with an inimitable be-bop fervor that earned him the nickname Mad Dog. Among the novels that have poured out of him are, predictably, “The Black Dahlia” and “L.A. Confidential,” which had the edgy ending the movie didn’t. Ellroy has written two memoirs as well. His mother’s shadow is on every page.
There are other great contemporary L.A. crime writers, of course – Michael Connelly, Walter Moseley, Robert Crais – but to find the greatest, the one in whose footsteps they all follow, you have to go back to Raymond Chandler. He was a tweedy, boozy ex-oil company executive, who longed to be a poet and a serious novelist. But in the Thirties, after one failure too many, he turned to writing for pulp magazines like Black Mask and Dime Detective. Chandler gave his private-eye heroes a succession of names until, with a bow to Christopher Marlowe, he settled on Philip Marlowe.
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Here was a battered knight who prowled an L.A. both beautiful and corrupt and yet he resisted meanness, just as he did fear and compromise. More than half a century later, the words with which Chandler brought Marlowe to life still thrill readers by combining the sardonic, the cynical and the lyrical. Consider Marlowe’s appraisal of a mob legbreaker in “The Big Sleep”: “He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.” And then there is a blonde who catches Marlowe’s eye in “Farewell, My Lovely”: “A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
Hollywood jumped on Marlowe like a wolf on a lamb chop, casting a surreal parade of actors in the role – song-and-dance man Dick Powell, star-crossed Robert Montgomery, wiggy Elliott Gould, and the aging, jowly noir icon Robert Mitchum. The best Marlowe, however, was the first one, Humphrey Bogart. He had already worked the hard-boiled side of the street, as Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett’s legendary San Francisco peeper, in “The Maltese Falcon.” But “The Big Sleep” was going to be bigger, directed by Howard Hawks, a master of every genre, and crackling with the chemistry between Bogart and his smoky-voiced off-screen soul mate, Lauren Bacall. When she tells him she doesn’t like his manners and he says, “I don’t like them myself,” the sale is final. Bogie scaled the heights of L.A. noir again in “In a Lonely Place,” playing an angry, alcoholic screenwriter who blacks out and wakes up a murder suspect. But it wasn’t just big names like him, Lancaster and, much later, “Chinatown’s” Jack Nicholson prowling the city. There were quirky, second-tier guys like Sterling Hayden in “The Killing,” Charles McGraw in “The Narrow Margin,” Ralph Meeker in “Kiss Me Deadly.” And there was a batch of actresses born to play tough cookies --
Ida Lupino, Gloria Grahame, Marie Windsor, Beverly Garland. They could cut a man’s heart out with a look, provided the man they were looking at had one.
With noir actors, you never knew for sure. It was part of their magic. On occasion, it was also part of their madness. L.A. is a town of pretenders, after all, but a pot bust in 1947 meant that Robert Mitchum’s jail sentence was as real as it could be. When he got out, Mitchum, who starred in the classic noir “Out of the Past,” headed for Mexico to shoot a forgettable crime movie called “The Big Steal.” He celebrated his return to the acting life by getting drunk and beating the whey out of his co-star.
“Consider Marlowe’s appraisal of a mob legbreaker in ’The Big Sleep’: ‘He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.’”
A little extreme, I admit, and yet Mitchum was a Boy Scout compared to Tom Neal, who got his dose of fame by starring in the classic cheapo noir, “Detour,” as a piano-playing hitchhiker whose trip to L.A. is littered with dead men. Neal landed on a real-life police blotter when he fought an elegant actor named Franchot Tone for a bimbo’s affections, busted up his face, and left him with a concussion. Neal was just getting started. Years later, when his acting career was in ruins and he was working as a landscaper, he killed his estranged wife by putting a bullet from a .45 in her head. Whether you’re in L.A. or on the dark side of the moon, it doesn’t get any more noir than that.
About John John Schulian, who has had two careers as a writer, one in newspapers, the other in Hollywood, was born in Los Angeles in 1945 and reared there and in Salt Lake City. Before establishing himself as a nationally-syndicated sports columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, he was a copy editor at the Salt Lake Tribune, a cityside reporter and pop music columnist at the Baltimore Evening Sun, and a sports writer at the Washington Post. He moved to Chicago in 1977 as a sports columnist at that city’s Daily News. When the paper folded 13 months later, he shifted to the Sun-Times, where he won a National Headliner Award in 1979, was regularly in included in E.P. Dutton’s annual “Best Sports Stories” anthology, and published a highly-regarded collection of his boxing writing, “Writers’ Fighters and Other Sweet Scientists.” Rupert Murdoch purchased the Sun-Times in 1984 and Schulian left less than six months later after a dust-up with one of Murdoch’s editors. He landed at the Philadelphia Daily News long enough to win the 1985 Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism, and then took off for Hollywood at the invitation of Steven Bochco, creator of “Hill Street Blues.” Schulian broke into TV with an “L.A. Law” script and moved on to work on the writing staffs of “Miami Vice,” “The ‘Slap’ Maxwell Story,” and “Wiseguy.” He was a writer-producer on “Midnight Caller,” “Reasonable Doubts,” and “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” before he struck gold as a co-creator of “Xena: Warrior Princess,” which became, for a while, the world’s foremost syndicated TV series.
Schulian later wrote and produced such series as “JAG,” “Outer Limits,” and “Tremors” while keeping his hand in the printed word. A collection of his baseball writing, “Twilight of the Long-ball Gods,” was published in 2005, and he has written for Sports Illustrated, GQ, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Oxford American, Inside Sports, Sport, Playboy, and msnbc.com. His journalism has been anthologized in “The Best American Sports Writing,” “Reading the Fights,” “Sports Illustrated’s 50 Years of Great Writing,” and “Sports Illustrated’s Great Football Writing.” He has also had short stories published in the Prague Revue and on thuglit.com. Schulian is the editor of “The John Lardner Reader,” which will be published in Fall 2010, and the co-editor, with George Kimball, of “At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing,” due from Library of America in Spring 2011, and “The Fighter Still Remains: A Celebration of Boxing in Poetry and Song from Ali to Zevon,” which was published in June 2010.
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why books are
precious
Tony Weller
Owner of Sam Weller’s Bookstore in Salt Lake City
Originally presented March, 2011 at the Humanities Happy Hour, held at Squatters Brewpub in Salt Lake City, UT
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am a third generation bookseller. With Catherine, my wife, I run the bookstore my father’s father started early in the depression. I started working for my parents in it when I was 10 years old, in 1972. I suppose the vastness of knowledge and experience was overwhelming to me once but it became ordinary to me early. Everywhere I turned there were books packed with ideas, pictures and information. The bookshelf by the toilet in our house contained more books than most people read in a lifetime.
In books are preserved the dreams, the knowledge and the beliefs of people going back almost as far as the written word. Books are the vessels in which we entrap the ephemeral stuff of stories, learning and vision. They are vehicles by which ideas, intimacies, and insights of persons from distant times and places are delivered to us! Since words and languages are the building blocks of thought, the book is in fact the truest record of the refined thoughts of another being. I never had a chance to meet Emma Goldman or Mahatma Gandhi, or John Cage but through their writings I feel intimate
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with them. By the magic of books, I borrow their thoughts and spirits for use in modifying my own.
My parents were depression-era, World War II people. They moved the bookstore to Main Street in 1961, the year before I was born, so I crawled the floors of the bookstore. It was as familiar to me as our home and the staff of the bookstore, felt to me like family. The booksellers who worked for my parents were a diverse group of smart, independent, creative, erudite people. They were opinionated and unusual: a menagerie of Mormons, war veterans, hippies, gays, artists, intellectuals, misfits and misanthropes. I thought they were great. They were a major part of my early experience and for many years, I didn’t realize that they were not ordinary people. Clare, a former marine, taught me to fish and tie flies. All day he smoked and drank coffee. He told me dirty jokes and embarrassed me fast once by asking if I had been wearing them when I explained to him that my girlfriend had sat on my glasses and broken them.
Brossard, amiable hippie, tree man, fixed my bike and compelled me to delve deeply into the meanings of words like “of” or “between.”
John Schow, youthful, renaissance man, secret Mormon drinker, smoker, and writer giggled when I put gift bows on my dad’s butt and shared my lunatic animal joy when, as a child, I bit John’s. Jose exposed me to Dadaism and battered me roundly with dada blows, kicks and blocks.
Jim Connelly, head-strong counter culture loner, quickened my passion for music and exposed me to more than I would have ever heard from the radio or most of my peers. Kip, affable frisky wit was a productive, seat-ofhis-pants doofus weirdo, forgiven by all because he was charming, hardworking, on time and a fast learner. Kip first exposed me to Zen and NeuroLinguistic programming. He also first showed me The Dice Man, the significance of which you don’t yet know.
When I was a child, publishers sent me review copies of forthcoming children’s books. My mother read to me at night. I felt at home at the bookstore, close to the booksellers, and accepted the environment as ordinary. Diversity was ordinary. Beliefs were various, challengable and changeable. My mom knew, or could find, the answer to anything. And my dad knew everyone and could kick anyone’s butt.
“In books are preserved the dreams, the knowledge and the beliefs of people going back almost as far as the written word.”
By fifth grade, I knew I could find just about any information I needed in my parents’ bookstore. I enjoyed a certain respect from my peers for, if not being smart, knowing lots of words and having unusual facts. At this age, I hauled around Guiness’s Book of World Records and instigated a school lending library of mass market paperback Mad Magazine books, until the teacher put an end to it. As an infant boomer, I missed the Summer of Love and Woodstock but was very enchanted and influenced by the atmosphere and culture of the sixties. Like any proto-adolescent boy, my curiosity about sex was growing. I figured it was something I should investigate alone. My mom had given me a kid’s book about babies but I smuggled more advanced books out of the bookstore and read them covertly. And that wasn’t all. At eleven I decided I was done with children’s books. I read The Joy of Sex, The Exorcist and an excellent and accurate book entitled Recreational Drugs. At twelve, I read The Sensuous Man. By the time I entered junior high school, I knew diverse and detailed things about dangerous social activities. That
experience is my first and most personal reason for being an opponent of censorship. Learning what I learned then, years before I would need it, helped me to navigate the challenging years of my teens without any real disasters, a certain achievement, I believe since by my mid-teens I assumed, without prejudice, that I was generally going to lead or go alone. I was a rebel, and intellectual rock job, and when punk rock arrived I embraced it as the movement of my time. Punks partied hard and sloppy and I saw some crashes. I believe my reading helped me to know how far out on the wild limb I could bounce.
Who knows why, as a child, I found math to be easy? I remember admiring the elegant certainty of math. So perfect. Right was right. One could check one’s own work. For whatever reason, I was a mathematical and analytical child. When I was very young, I couldn’t decide which colors to use when coloring, so I would dump my crayons into a shoe box, place it behind myself and reach back to grab a random crayon after deciding what I was about to color. Decisions like choosing shirts to wear troubled me daily. When I was nine or ten, I realized that dice could help me with such decisions. By the time I was 12, I carried dice in my pocket and used them throughout each day, at any time when choices weren’t obvious. Back then, I was still embarrassed by my dice and kept my habit private. Despite my sizeable confidence, I felt like I was somehow defective. Maybe I had been sick the day the lesson on decision making was taught. But every morning when I dressed myself, I felt a thrill as I threw the dice and found out which clothes I would wear. Once rolling dice, the impulse to apply them to other situation followed along with the natural and good desire to diversify and increase my options. Gradually I realized that persons around me didn’t seem to have
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particularly profound judgement and I quit hiding my dice.
I still carry and use dice for decision making. They are as necessary to my daily security as my wallet, my glasses and my pants. When invited to speak here this evening, I sent a list of ideas to Beth and Heidi. They sent suggestions that required further refinement. I desired more chaos for I pushed parameters, threw the dice and I had a loose outline for a talk that was intended to acknowledge the crazy huge amount of information and number of books in the world. how human spirits are herein trapped and preserved, the experience of growing up in that world, my infatuation with chance, the dice thing as revolutionary navigational tool and horizon stretcher, and as excuse for the gaping holes in my knowledge. Also to laud a few books that changed me, I hope for the better, and to assert my deep faith in the importance of books, and reading and education, and my understanding of why and how books will evolve and endure. It’s supposed to be entertaining and fit into 20 minutes. I wonder if I will succeed!
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I am awash in books. I meet the people who write, publish, read, sell, and collect them. Faster than I can read them, I add titles to the list of books I intend to read. I used to struggle to know exactly where to draw the line between what I wanted and what was good for me. Now I use dice. With food it might be as simple as odd or even, fries or salad. For my reading, I acquire and list the books I want to read, and the books I know would be useful or beneficial to read. Without bias, the dice assign me edification or fun! Right now I have roughly 2400 books on my dice list and the excitement of factoring that number down to one book, a book that has the potential to actually change me, is sublime. I wonder how I would be different if I had read different books, and how I would have read different books, if a few six-sided, round-cornered, standard pipped dice had rolled differently. When I turned 21, my mom asked me what had happened to me. It was a direct ingenuous question. We got along marvelously. She said “You’re not much like me or your father or really anyone we know.” The only answer I could give her was the reading of books. For, if we build ourselves from the range of possibilities, of which we are aware, readers by their entries into the carefully refined thoughts, nearly the consciousnesses, of other beings, design themselves from the widest range of options.
When I am asked to name my favorite books I immediately hit a conundrum regarding what is meant. I find myself sorting my list into “most loved” and “most influential.” In the simplest and probably most ordinary sense, the books I love are almost uniformly literary. Many have had impact and elusive, hard-to-measure effects on me, I am sure. Those I love are usually books that transport me thoroughly and believably to other realities and seduce and mystify me with correct flowing beautiful prose.
Reading is transformative. The more one reads, the more peculiar one becomes. The more opportunities one has to reconsider, revise, redirect and rebel. Reading refines the sensibilities that enable us to embrace our special individuality even as we are creating it. Here is a list of books that have had enduring effect on whatever I am.
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler Dada: Art and Anti-Art by Hans Richter Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki The Book by Alan Watts Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe Silence by John Cage Living My Life by Emma Goldman Understanding Media by Marshal McLuhan Deep Ecology by Bill Devall and George Sessions Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming Life Against Death by Norman O. Brown
“Reading is transformative. The more one reads, the more peculiar one becomes.“ Not only have books and reading shaped the course of me, they have shaped the course of history and human culture. For almost two millenia books have been the divise that enabled us to store and transmit our wisdom and our stories. The freedoms and conveniences we enjoy today would not have become possible were it not for the preservation, transportation and building upon of knowledge enabled by books, an affect that took and exponential leap forward in the fifteenth century with the invention of the western printing press and another in the nineteenth century with parallel advances in printing and
papermaking. Each knowledge expanding advance precipitated social, religious and political progress accompanied by the inevitable unrest that occurs when powers are challenged. Though positive changes come frustratingly slow, the hopes, vision and dissatisfaction kindled by written and printed words created the wills and spirits that have improved the human lot. The physical traits of the traditional books have changed very little for the last eighteen hundred years. Materials used for writing and surface have made periodic changes but the basic structure is as it has been. The book is a nearly perfect invention. How many other things do we use that exist in almost the same form used during Roman times spoons, knives, hammers, the wheel? Recent technological advances will have more impact on our culture than anything since electricity. Within the last 20 years, information technologies have duplicated some of the roles traditionally fulfilled by books. The transition of roles is ongoing and has sent repercussions throughout more sectors than just those subsisting of ink and paper.
In some cases, electronic versions are advantageous over traditional books, particularly for dated materials, databases that need to be quickly and variously searched, and for rapid transmissions. But electronic devises depend on complex systems of relationships, all of which must be functioning to provide full access. There are also equipment to maintain and batteries to replace and charge. I never need technical assistance or find myself unable to get words from my books.
While publishing and book businesses have been adversely affected by new competing technologies, they have been more significantly and tragically harmed by large corporations and a general decline in reading as former readers amuse, distract, numb and stupefy themselves with non-reading activities. Since the mid-1990s, roughly two thirds of the independendtly owned members of the American Booksellers Association closed their doors. Used and rare book shops are either closing or becoming internet only dealers. At Sam Weller’s though we only have a fraction of the traffic we enjoyed a generation ago, we receive more “wows” than I recall back then. I guess, like an endangered
species, there just aren’t that many giant full service, new, used and rare, bookstores left.
As the camera did not render painting obsolete, neither will the computer destroy the book. A new balance will be established. If developments in the 19th century painting tell anything, it is that the role of books in our world will never be the same. In the future, books will hold positions of icons of spirit and humanity, treated with reverence and fetishized. Since the mid-1990s, book design and production has shown refinement and exploration that anticipate the future posture. Because the object of the book has been largely subordinated to the purposeful content within, bookmakers until the 1900s have conceived of books in fairly predictable ways. While book sales, and, alas, book reading decline, right before our eyes the bodies and souls of books are finally getting together. Future citizens may not own as many books as we do, and most certainly will use them differently, but I believe the books they do own, will be more artful, more beautiful, more precious; still magic vessels for knowledge, stories and dreams; still perfect little shrines to the human spirit.
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The Ladder Program:
Making the Transition from the Classroom to Hollywood
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illiam Faulkner, the great American writer, once noted that Hollywood is a place “where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.” Despite the well-known “meat grinder” environment of Hollywood, for many university students the bright lights and bold headlines of Hollywood continue to have a strong pull for career potential. Heidi Banks and her husband, Steven Gary Banks (Communication ‘89), have a first-hand understanding of just how hard it is to break into – and survive – in the entertainment industry. It’s the reason they created The Ladder Program - a unique Los-Angeles based internship program specifically designed to assist aspiring entertainment professionals succeed. “If you have this dream,” Heidi states, “this internship can provide you with the tools necessary to survive.”
Heidi is expertly positioned to head up The Ladder Program because of her 15 years in the trenches of the entertainment industry. During that time, she earned membership in the three professional actors’ unions: Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Affiliated Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), and Actor’s Equity
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Association (AEA). Heidi has appeared Off Broadway in New York, on National Tours, in films and more recently in such television shows as “The Closer”, “Charmed”, “Boston Legal”, “Strong Medicine” and “Boston Public”. These experiences, and many more, have provided her with a unique expertise and an impressively broad network of contacts – which are vital to succeeding in Hollywood. Heidi’s husband, Steven Gary Banks, sits on the board of advisors for the program, and is an alumnus of the College of Humanities at the University of Utah, where he obtained an undergraduate degree in Communication in 1989. Steven’s Hollywood career began when he landed a job at Morgan Creek Productions. He has since gone on to have a very successful screenwriting career and has sold 11 feature
screenplays to major film studios such as Disney, Miramax, New Line, Sony/Columbia Pictures, Paramount, Revolution Studios and Warner Brothers. In 2004, the first of these features, “Are We There Yet?” starring Ice Cube and Nia Long, opened #1 at the box office and ultimately grossed over $85 million in its domestic release. But Steven’s work is not limited to the Silver Screen alone. He has written five different pilots for the Fox and ABC networks. Prior to his writing career, Steven worked as an independent producer developing and selling films to the various studios. He also worked in commercial production, traveling around the country to produce over 50 regional and national award-winning spots. The Program
The Ladder Program, in partnership with the College of Humanities Department of Communication, draws students from the Film & Media Art Division of the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and the Business School. “The entertainment industry is not just for aspiring writers, actors or directors,” states Heidi Banks. “There are literally hundreds of career paths in the entertainment world for marketing majors, accounting majors, PR majors, philosophy majors, English majors and others, along with the ‘usual suspects’ of acting, film and creative writing majors.”
Sam Loveridge, Ladder Program Intern 2009
Heidi created the program specifically to address what she sees as a gap between theories learned in the classroom and practical experience in the current industry environment. “College faculty have great theoretical insight for students,” she states, ”but too often they are many years removed from an industry that changes almost daily.”
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Film Premier Screening, Fall 2008 Orientation Weekend
Heidi has launched the program in an aggressive and robust way, and it now includes individualized coursework, mentoring, and powerful internship opportunities with major entertainment corporations. These internships are truly the core of the experience, according to Heidi, and the element that best positions interns for future success in their careers. “Too many students interested in this field are spending a lot of money in the wrong internships. Our job is to help them find the right internship to maximize their experience.” Previous interns have worked at companies like CBS, Focus Features, Scott Free (director/ producers Ridley & Tony Scott’s production company), New Line Cinema, and Warner Bros.
The fast-paced, approach of the Ladder Program was the main attraction for Sam Loveridge, a film student who participated in the program in 2009. Sam was first exposed to the field and to the Banks’ during a University of Utah seminar they taught titled, “The Hollywood Storytellers.” The seminar, noted Sam, was about the various levels of storytelling in Hollywood, and how editors, writers and directors all influence the story. Sam was originally looking to just minor in film, since he had an entirely different plan for his life. But once he started taking film classes, he found the field “more interesting, and more satisfying” than anything else he was studying. “I changed my major to film,” Sam says, “but quickly realized I needed more practical exposure to the field.” He found the Ladder Program to be a good fit for him because it was comprised of “real world experience, not just regular classroom stuff.”
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Matt Schley, another student who participated in the program in 2007, agrees. “Since I was a little kid,” stated Matt, “I’ve wanted to make movies. But I didn’t have a clue what that actually entailed. While the U has a really cool film program, it is geographically so removed that it doesn’t really provide the bridge I needed to get into Hollywood.” Matt credits the internship he completed as having a very powerful influence in shaping his future career as a screenwriter. “The first day I got there, I was handed a script by one of the head TV editor’s assistant who told me he ‘forgot to read it’, and he asked me to quickly read through it and see what I thought. I read it in an hour, wrote up a synopsis and included my impressions and recommendations.” A couple of days later, Matt remembers that the editor
pulled him aside and noted that because of Matt’s impressions (he didn’t like the script much), they were going to pass on the project. “I was struck by the power of my position, even as a lowly intern. I realized this whole industry is subjective; whether or not a group approves a film can be based on something as simple as an intern reading the script and liking it.” Perhaps as important as the professional internship opportunities facilitated by the Ladder Program are the critical “survival skills” students gain through working directly with Heidi - skills that can make the difference in successfully transitioning from a college environment to the professional entertainment world in Los Angeles. Almost before they even get started in the program, interns participate
in workshops on such practical matters as how to get around town and where to park, where to eat, where to meet the “right” people, and how to find an apartment.
Matt recalls being surprised to find out that some of this “practical” education was the hardest part of the program. “I didn’t expect such a pure amount of driving through L.A. I was always running errands, delivering a script to someone. But I really learned my way around the city – a critical survival skill if you want to work in Hollywood!” Despite all the driving and errand-running, Matt believes the Ladder Program was the most practical and useful thing he did throughout his college career, “at least in terms of helping me with my future professional aspirations.”
Now, several years after completing the program and his undergraduate degree, Matt is heading back to L.A. to launch a career in film. “I think a lot of people get their film degree, pack up and head out to Hollywood and then are sort of like, ‘now what?’ But thanks to Heidi Banks and the Ladder Program, I now know who to talk to once I hit town. I still know people out there, and have good relationships with people I worked for.”
“Since I was a little kid,” stated Matt, “I’ve wanted to make movies. But I didn’t have a clue what that actually entailed.” Matt completed his internship with a production company called, “50 Cannon Company,” a small company headed by Mike Newell (director of films such as Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mona Lisa Smile, and Four Weddings and a Funeral. Matt says that while he didn’t have day-to-day interface with Newell, he does still have connections with those he worked with directly in the company, and can easily pick up a telephone and make a call when he gets to town.
Heidi Banks (center) with Interns at a Fall taping of “Two and Half Men,” 2007
Sam agrees that the connections made in Hollywood, through his internship with the Ladder Program, are invaluable. “If I don’t know who to call in Hollywood,” he states, “I
sure know who to call, who will know who to call.” Sam remembers being introduced to a woman who worked as a film “second AD” (artistic director). “She told us about her job, and we asked if we could come see her in action some time on the filming lot. She offered to not only let us see it, but to actually have us work on a shoot as production assistants so we could experience it.“ After Sam’s work as a production assistant was completed, he was also invited to come back for a few days as a background actor in the movie “just to see the other side of things. This alone made the whole internship worth it for me.”
Both Sam and Matt agree that in addition to the industry-specific experience gained in the program, much of what they learned actually translates into any career they may chose. “If tomorrow you told me there was no more film industry,” states Matt, “I believe that many of the basic professional skills [Heidi] taught me would still apply. For example, she was just adamant about our being on time for meetings. Now it drives me nuts when others show up late for things because she’s pounded this into my brain.” If William Faulkner is right, and Hollywood will indeed leave you with a knife in the back as you try to head up the ladder to success, Heidi Banks and the experience offered by The Ladder Program may be the best protective armor our students can put on before they even start climbing. To learn more about The Ladder Program, visit their website at: www.theladderprogram.com
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WhereHasYourHumanitiesDegreeTakenYou? Alumni Updates
Cliff Miller Linguistics ‘77
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liff Miller has always been on a mission to be first, to get things done fast. At 16, with $1000 saved up from being a paperboy and a part-time prep-cook, Cliff set out for Skopje, Macedonia. As the youngest student at the Faculty of Philology, he studied the Macedonian language, linguistics and Old Church Slavonic, earning highest marks in his first year examinations.
Cliff continued his studies at the University of Utah after returning to the US in 1975, graduating at 19 as a member of the first group of students through the newly established program for a BA degree in Linguistics in 1977. He remained another year to complete his MA in Linguistics.
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When asked why he chose Linguistics, Cliff notes that he was “mathematically inclined,” and that linguistics seemed to come naturally to him. By the time he applied to the University, he was already fluent in Japanese and Macedonian, and found these to be great tools for linguistic analysis. Cliff also admits that part of his decision to choose linguistics was that it presented a quick track to graduation for him. “For some reason,” he notes, “I was in a hurry back then.”
When Cliff was only 21 years old, he began teaching at Saga National Medical School in Japan as Foreign lecturer of English. A few years later he went to Hangzhou, China to teach at Zhejiang University, one of the key science universities in China. There he received an Outstanding Teacher Award, the first ever given to a foreign teacher. Many of his students have continued on to complete doctoral studies in well-known universities around the world. After teaching in China, Cliff stayed on to study Mandarin at Xiamen University. There he met his future wife, Iris, and together they returned to the United States in 1986. Back in the US, through his work in the multilingual software group at Xerox, Cliff was exposed to computers. “I’d always had an interest in computers,” he notes, “so I decided to apply to graduate school in computer science.” Cliff received scholarship offers
Where Has Your Humanities Degree Taken You? Alumni Updates
from several universities, but chose to return to the University of Utah to be near family.
Cliff believes his time at the University was critical in shaping his future. “I found that my education was largely in my own hands,” he stated. “For better or worse, I didn’t have any career goals when I was going to the U.” This opened up a wide range of educational possibilities and opportunities for Cliff. “I was never bored, ever.” As a graduate student, Cliff was awarded several scholarships, including a University of Utah Research Fellowship (for two consecutive years, which is highly unusual), an American Electronics Association Research Fellowship to Japan (one of 12 awarded nation-wide), and a highly competitive three-year National Science Foundation Scholarship.
“‘Living abroad makes world events more personal,” he notes. “Whenever a war breaks out and you see the carnage on TV, you think, ‘What if that were my family? What if those were my friends?’” Cliff ’s interests are wide and when asked about the most unusual experience he had as a University of Utah student, he notes this would have to include teaching in China. “I got a call from [Professor] Dave Iannucci asking if I’d go to China the day before I had planned to go to South America…” He now considers his time teaching and guiding students in China among his more valuable life experiences, coming in second in importance only to raising his
family. “Living abroad makes world events more personal,” he notes. “Whenever a war breaks out and you see the carnage on TV, you think, ‘What if that were my family? What if those were my friends?’ When there is economic friction, trade wars, or political turmoil between countries, you don’t tend to think of it in terms of “them vs us” but more of a problem that just needs to get solved. Patriotism moves people forward, sometimes to the exclusion of others, but it is a heck of a lot better than nationalism, which pushes everyone backwards; internationalism moves everyone forward together – not a bad ideal.”
In 1992, while still a student at the University, Cliff and Iris took out a $28,000 second mortgage and together started a software company, Pacific HiTech, in the basement of their home. By 1993, Pacific HiTech had a staff of 15, mainly University of Utah students and alumni. Power consumption began to set off electrical breakers in the house and the neighbors began to resent the 10-ton delivery trucks in the driveway, so Cliff and Iris decided to move to proper office space. Cliff and Iris grew the business profitably. By 1999 they had more than 100 employees, at which time they received venture capital funding and changed the name of the company to TurboLinux. About this same time that Cliff wrote a book in Japanese on the Linux industry, which was to become a best seller in Japan and other parts of Asia. Under Cliff ’s leadership as President and CEO, TurboLinux grew to include ten offices worldwide. During this time he raised roughly $96 million in three rounds of financing from some of the biggest names in the business: Dell, Intel, Seagate, NEC, Fujitsu, Compaq, IBM, Oracle, Hitachi, Toshiba and others.
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“As he reflects on his time as a University of Utah student, Cliff realizes that in addition to the education gained in the classroom he also gained invaluable knowledge and wisdom as a student.” In the summer of 2000, with a new management team in place at TurboLinux, Cliff and Iris started another company, Mountain View Data, focused on creating networked storage software. Mountain View Data had offices in San Francisco, Tokyo and Beijing.
Just two years ago, in 2009, Cliff accepted an executive position at Splashtop (formerly known as DeviceVM), maker of Splashtop Remote Desktop, which allows you to access and use Windows or Mac applications and content remotely via your iPad, iPhone, Android device or even another computer. Cliff is currently president, Asia Pacific and chief marketing officer for Splashtop. “Joining Splashtop was an easy decision,” said Cliff. “I’ve known the Splashtop leadership team for several years - they have a clear vision, blazingly fast technology, and worldwide market momentum. In June of 2011, we had the top-ranking iPad app, ahead of games like Angry Birds and Tetris, even beating out Apple’s own apps like Pages and GarageBand. I’m afraid we’re making Angry Birds a bit angry….” Cliff is now a familiar figure in the computer industry in Asia, appearing in national newspapers, on the front covers of business and industry magazines, and on television, and on National Public Radio. As he reflects on his time as a University of Utah student, Cliff realizes that in addition to the education
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gained in the classroom he also gained invaluable knowledge and wisdom as a student. However, there are a few things he wishes he had done differently. “ I wish I had learned more math, physics and biology, and had spent more time improving my writing skills.” But perhaps his greatest wish is that he had not been in such a hurry to complete his education, and had taken the time to explore and enjoy his time at the University. “I averaged 20 credit hours per quarter, and once had over 30 credit hours in a quarter…” Cliff has spent the past 20 years in the engineering business – which may seem incongruous for someone with a Humanities degree. However, for Cliff, the two fields are synergistic. “What we do [in engineering] is not simply use mathematical formulas to come up with cool gadgets that help our profit-and-loss record.” Cliff notes that, at its core, “engineering is the art of making things that help people have better lives. In this pursuit, a knowledge and understanding of human history, literature and cultural heritage – humanities – helps us smooth the sharp edges, bridge the gap between purely scientific engineering and engineering for people’s sake.”
Where Has Your Humanities Degree Taken You? Alumni Updates
Mark Woodland is Vice President for Strategic Marketing and Communications at Chapman University, one of California’s oldest private universities. Prior to his tenure at Chapman University, he worked as the Associate Vice President of Marketing and Communications at the University of Utah for ten years. His involvement in marketing spans nearly thirty years, and includes work in higher education, health care and banking. Mark earned a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations from Brigham Young University in 1979. He then took a master’s degree in Mass Communication from the University of Utah in 1989, and later completed academic coursework toward a doctoral degree in Organizational Communication.
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everal years ago a good friend and wise boss encouraged me to return to school for a master’s degree. Actually, “encouraged” might be too gentle of a word. Cajoled, persuaded, nagged, pushed, inveigled—Karyn Haeckel never missed a chance to point out the value of earning a graduate degree. Fortunately, I listened to her advice. Returning to the U wasn’t easy. My wife and I were both working full time. We had two young children. I’d been away from academia for a number
of years. But I found remarkable support and, more importantly, a renewed passion for learning. With gentle but persistent nudging from Bob Avery and Tim Larson, I eventually earned that master’s degree in mass communication.
I confess I didn’t immediately realize how valuable my education in the humanities would be. That understanding came later, when it became the foundation for a career that eventually took me to almost every state in the U.S., and opened doors to some great senior executive roles. It wasn’t so much the “what” I learned (although I’m still relatively conversant in the history of public broadcasting!), but the “how.” My experience in the College of Humanities taught me how to think, to question, to explore, to propose, to organize, to speak, to negotiate, to engage, to listen, to empathize, to support, to collaborate. In short, it provided me with the tools I needed to succeed. Perhaps I would have done just as well without an education in the humanities. Perhaps. But you’ll never convince me of it.
Mark Woodland
Masters in Communication ‘89
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Farah is a recent graduate from the College of Humanities with a degree in Mass Communication and Middle East Studies (emphasis on Arabic). She recently accepted a position with TOPY America, an international mining supply company.
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’m graduating in December and I already have an amazing job lined up with TOPY America. They manufacture the equipment for Kennecott here in Utah, and have loyal customers from Japan to Chile. I will be one of only four employees, and will be doing sales/marketing/customer service duties. I am by far the youngest employee, and am excited to teach my new colleagues about important social media strategies, like Skype, Twitter and Facebook.
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Farah Orfaly Prochaska Mass Communication ‘11
“My degree in humanities and my frequent travels to the Middle East have taught me that every culture is different, and to succeed in a worldwide business you need to understand how different cultures think.” 30
a $2 million deal with your company. My degree in Humanities and my frequent travels to the Middle East have taught me that every culture is different, and to succeed in a worldwide business you need to understand how different cultures think. Knowing Arabic has put me ahead of the curve my entire life, and I’ve learned that being fluent in another language makes a person 100 times more desirable to an employer- and it shows that you are dedicated and hardworking.
I never pictured myself working at a mining company, but with a Humanities education you can work anywhere where people are involved! I’m excited! I’m actually going on my first business trip next week to the headquarters in Chicago to train and meet everyone! It IS possible to get a $40,000/ year salary straight out of college - with a Humanities degree. You just have to expand your horizons and apply somewhere you normally wouldn’t.
Where Has Your Humanities Degree Taken You? Alumni Updates
Joel Momberger is the Executive Director of the Gyeonggi-UT Innovation Program, an innovation commercialization program funded by a Korean government agency and delivered through the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Joel graduated cum laude as a Linguistics major in 1982 and graduated from the University of Utah Law School in 1985, where he was a member of the Law Review and the Order of the Coif. He had held numerous roles in law, business and the public sector, including tenures as Senior Legal Counsel, Asia for Oracle Corporation and Managing Director of Informatica Asia/Pacific in Singapore.
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y career has transected multiple dimensions in terms of geography, subject matter and market sector; higher ed, private sector, public sector, high tech, old industry, large enterprises, startups, East, West and around the world. Along the way I have had many opportunities to teach, to write and to see the world. The common thread through all of these peregrinations has been a wealth of opportunities for growth directly tied to a fundamental curiosity about the whys, hows and wherefores of the human condition. Looking back across the last 3 decades, the more interesting opportunities that have come my way have been in the interstices; in the seams between the defined disciplines of law, business, higher education, technology and trans-national interests. In the technology world, this experience is known as “convergence,” i.e. the combination of historically disparate disciplines made possible by new technology. In the modern world of
Moore’s Law, the ever-accelerating pace of innovation and increasingly complex questions about the state of the planet and our place on it, the ability to think critically and to make good decisions across disciplines is more important than ever.
Despite cries of despair about the state of our schools, the lack of immediate “surface” applicability in the workplace for students of the humanities and our oft-decried woeful statistics regarding hard science education, the Humanities continues to provide the best Petri dish for developing the ability to apply critical thinking skills across disciplines, grasping differing perspectives and synthesizing new solutions. This process is at the core of how we humans solve complex problems. Although its impact may defy quantifiable metrics, I have no doubt that I am a better decision-maker, a better informed citizen, a more thoughtful professional and a more interesting person because of my Humanities background.
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“I have a life made possible by my Humanities professors who cared enough about me to challenge my thinking, to broaden my understanding. . .” Bill has had his own Insurance and Investment Planning business in New York City for the past 17 years. He is also the Chief Inspiration Officer for an Internet Start Up Company expected to launch in October 2011.
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orld War II left my mother a widow with a small child - me. When I was just two years old, however, she met and married Oakley Gordon, a young psychology graduate student/instructor at the University of Utah. He spent his entire career at the U, either teaching or in administration as a Dean. Like many of his colleagues at the University, Dad loved his work and loved to challenge his students to think more broadly. With his encouragement, I enrolled at the U as an undeclared student in what was then the College of Letters and Science. Perhaps more importantly, it exposed me to extremely motivated instructors/ professors - people like Dr. Carol Hurd, Dr. JD Williams, Neal Maxwell, Dr. Phil Sturgis and Dr. Al Cave. Like my Dad, these teachers shared a love for what they were doing and a strong desire to challenge their students’ existing mores, values and beliefs by making them defend their views. Their passion whetted my appetite to experience more of life and see the world beyond the borders of the State of Utah. I ultimately chose to pursue a degree in History/Political Science with the hope of volunteering for the Peace Corps, then returning to school for a graduate degree and possibly a career in teaching. Unfortunately I failed the physical needed to qualify for the Peace Corp. I wasn’t yet ready to pursue a graduate degree, and really wanted to see more of the world and expand my horizons. Therefore, I accepted a position as a Sales Trainee with the food giant Ralston Purina in their
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emerging Consumer Products Division selling to Grocery stores throughout the US. In 20 years with Ralston Purina, we moved six times, living in Los Angeles, Dallas, Cleveland, St Louis, Boston, and Seattle. At the age of 29, I was appointed to be the New England Region Sales Manager, making me the youngest Regional Manager the Company had ever had.
Each move/promotion brought growth and an expansion of horizons, helping to satisfy an insatiable curiosity first instilled by my Humanities professors at the University of Utah. Studying under them, taking their Blue Book exams and being involved in student government exposed me to conflict resolution and gave me the ability to defend my position logically with others - skills I found extremely relevant in the business environment as I was asked to manage and motivate people. Gaining product knowledge needed to sell items in my career came from my employer. But the more crucial skills for my success came from my Humanities education. There I learned to organize my thoughts, to logically think through problems, to more clearly evaluate the consequences of various options presented, and to effectively defend my position.
Learning to render a decision and effectively defend my position were also critical skills gained while a student at the University. I’m convinced that these skills allowed me to retire early so I can pursue the things which enrich my life and matter most to me: time with my family, skiing, and travelling the world. I have a life made possible by my Humanities professors who cared enough about me to challenge my thinking, to broaden my understanding and to push me to create a life that is more than I imagined possible.
Where Has Your Humanities Degree Taken You? Alumni Updates
Bill has had his own Insurance and Investment Planning business in New York City for the past 17 years. He is also the Chief Inspiration Officer for an Internet start up company expected to launch in October 2011.
A William Bowden
Mass Communication ‘84
teacher of mine once said, “It’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” Well, I can assure you, deciding to go to the U and study in the College of Humanities has definitely help to shape my destiny!
Like many young people, I changed my mind about ‘what I wanted to be when I grow up’ like I was changing my socks! What DID remain consistent through all of that uncertainty was my course work and studies in the Humanities. So while I was trying to figure out what I wanted to ‘be’...The College of Humanities was preparing and shaping me for what I was to ‘become.’ My studies in the Humanities gave me a very broad, diversified education. Today, as an advisor and a Coach I use my education on a daily basis. I meet with folks across a very wide spectrum, from the homeless in NYC to powerful Wall St. Investment Bankers. I am easily able to relate across that spectrum partly because of my education and studies in the humanities. I now run a successful Insurance and Investment Planning business back in my home state of New York. I am a certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming and a co-founder of an Internet start up company. I volunteer my time and resources to various causes both here in NY and around the country...including the College of Humanities. Pretty broad and diversified....much like my studies. My life has been enriched by my experiences at the U and in particular my studies at the College of Humanities.
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“I still to this day, after 29 years with the company, regularly call on the writing and communication skills I learned as a Mass Communication major.“
J. Kevin Bischoff
Mass Communication ’76
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Kevin Bischoff is the Director of Business and Community Relations with Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah. In his current role, Kevin is responsible for ensuring that major Utah companies fully understand the value of Regence and consider Regence next time they shop for health insurance. This proactive business development effort has resulted in more than 30,000 new members joining Regence in the last four years. Kevin has been with the company for 29 years and for more than 20 of those years was the communication executive for the company responsible of all advertising, corporate sponsorships, media relations, public relations and federal lobbying.
n August of 1976 I graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Mass Communication. There are two very important aspects to my choosing a Humanities degree which I have always been very happy I pursued. First of all, I loved my classes. Studying Mass Communication was actually entertaining as we learned about
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major social trends in communication such as The Beatles and new directions in advertising. I really didn’t suffer through dreadfully boring classes like I assume someone in accounting would.
Secondly, my degree from Utah ultimately landed me my ideal job, doing all the communication work for BlueCross BlueShield, one of Utah’s largest companies. I still to this day, after 29 years with the company, regularly call on the writing and communication skills I learned as a Mass Communication major.
While studying Mass Communication I also took a lot of history classes, which really enhanced my understanding of the world and of communication, the most important skill we have as humans. If I had to do my college all over again I don’t think I would change a thing.
Where Has Your Humanities Degree Taken You? Alumni Updates
“I will always be grateful to the College of Humanities and my professors for fostering an interdisciplinary approach and a love of learning!” Nadine Wimmer
BA ‘89 Mass Comm and a MS ‘92 in Comm Nadine Wimmer anchors the evening newscasts for KSL-TV. She also reports on education issues and leads Deseret Media Companies’ “Read Today” literacy initiative. One of the things I enjoyed the most about earning my humanities degrees is the same quality I’ve appreciated during my career—the skills and principles are practical and translate into different fields. I graduated with a master’s project that helped prepare me for a beginning reporter’s position. My committee chair Robert Avery helped me customize a project that would tangibly promote my move into a career. The wide range of classes in politics and economics laid a foundation for topics on which I would be reporting. And over the years, I’ve gained an appreciation for the universality of skills like critical thinking and communication. I will always be grateful to the College of Humanities and my professors for fostering an interdisciplinary approach and a love of learning!
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CONVOCATION 2010
The following remarks are by James Egan, B.A. in English and Political Science, 2011 Convocation Speaker, delivered at the Huntsman Center on May 6, 2011
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uring the summer of my junior year, I had the opportunity to visit the convent of the famed Mother Teresa in Kolkata, India. Because I’d already visited the place once before, I didn’t feel rushed to see everything and was, therefore, able to pay greater attention to details I’d missed the first time around. Of the many new discoveries I made during that visit, one stuck out above the rest. It came as I read a short quote from Teresa: “Thoughtfulness involves putting someone else’s wishes ahead of my own,” she’d said. The words failed to awe me; they were not remarkably new or profound. I think we’ve all heard countless similar platitudes, and, indeed, sometimes their redundancy is tiresome. What struck me instead was how this familiar idea appeared to me in an unfamiliar way. I had never truly recognized the significance of the way we use the word thoughtful to describe a person motivated by concern for others. In our vernacular, a thoughtful person need not be full of ideas about Kant or Virginia Woolf, Saussure or Herodotus. We speak of thoughtfulness in the way the Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin spoke of love, that is, we speak of it as a willingness to concentrate attention on the other. Being thoughtful is not just loving to think—it is thinking to love. The thoughtful person patiently spends mental energy on the oftenobscure needs and struggles, joys and sorrows, of fellow human beings.
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I recognize, of course, that you didn’t come to hear a sermon. None of this is meant to demean the significance of intellectual reflection. After all, this gathering is meant to be a celebration of scholarship. We all love to think, and for good reasons. The joy of reading literature, writing
philosophy, or thinking about history or language is valuable in itself. We don’t have to become saints through our studies for our scholarship to be valuable. Nevertheless, my experience in this college during the last four years has taught me that our work in the humanities is at its best when thoughtfulness is in abundance in both senses of the word. This lesson has been most powerfully demonstrated by the fantastic experiences I’ve had with incredible professors.
“Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself,” writes novelist Ian McEwan, “is at the core of our humanity.” As I spent a year struggling to find the right topic for my honors thesis, my advisor, Scott Black, listened patiently as I clumsily articulated my embryonic interests so that he could guide me to a project that would be meaningful for me. Vincent Pecora spent hours of office time meticulously answering clusters of questions, taking great care to tailor his answers to suit my understanding. Mark Matheson provided me with indispensable advising. I often felt that he cared as much as I did that I took classes that best fit my interests and abilities. I could go on and on. Working with exceptionally bright professors has been tremendously valuable to me. I have learned a great deal about history, literature, and philosophy. But I have also learned much about the kind of thinking that focuses on people, not just books.
“The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.” -J. Irwin Miller, Industrialist In convocations like this one across the country, I’m sure much is being said about lifelong learning, about continuing to be reflective, curious human beings. I certainly wish to echo this outlook. But my primary hope for us today is that we remember thoughtfulness in both of its senses. Our continuous studies can awaken us to the ever-present and often unseen worlds of our fellow human beings— not those of man or woman in the abstract, but the worlds of our families and friends, of the overlooked and unspoken-for, the unconsidered and unhappy. Whether we move on to other classrooms or pursue careers outside the academy, let us be truly thoughtful. We can consider both famous books and unfamiliar strangers; the grand questions of philosophy and the prosaic needs of our neighbors; the intricacies of language and the details of the lives of our friends.
“Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself,” writes novelist Ian McEwan, “is at the core of our humanity.” In our studies here, we have all felt the thrill of this core feature of our humanity. Much has been accomplished, but there is still much we can do. Perhaps you have sensed this, as I have, while passing that old inscription outside the Christensen Center. The words, as many of you know, come from Tennyson’s “Ulysses.” “Come my friends,” he tells his nervous shipmates, “it is not too late to seek a better world.” In the same spirit, but with much less eloquence, I say, “Let us be thoughtful and attend to the unnoticed. So much still remains to be seen.”
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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS 2010-2011 Hal Cannon
B.A. LINGUISTICS, 1978
The College of Humanities recognized Hal Cannon as a Distinguished Alumnus for 2010-2011. Hal was honored during the College Convocation ceremony May 2011. The following are his remarks given at a luncheon in his honor:
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hat a delight to be here. I had two music rehearsals last night: first I got together with my good friends Tom Carter and Leonard Coulson, who are what’s left of the Deseret String Band/Bunkhouse Orchestra people in Salt Lake City. We try to rehearse on Wednesday nights and pick tunes. Following that, I rehearsed with my friends of Red Rock Rondo who play a very different kind of music. So I had a full night of music.
Anyhow, while playing music with Tom and Leonard we often chit-chat about our lives. Leonard is the kind of friend that looks you in the face and says things directly. If you don’t know and love him sometimes he can seem rude. Tom had mentioned something about me getting a distinguished alumni award which Leonard responded to by looking me straight in the face, asking “Distinguished for what?” At that point Tom reminded me of a story I told him many years ago that I’d totally forgotten about. When I graduated from the University of Utah in 1970, all the graduates got together at the stadium so there was a sea of indistinguishable caps and gowns all sitting on folding chairs on the field with family and friends in the stands. We were called to the stage in long lines. It seemed to take forever. When my name was finally called I remember walking across the stage and just
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then the President of the University, at the time, of stories to tell of the importance and history of President Gardner, who was sitting next to his type and the men that set type that kept us in rapt wife whispered to her loud enough that I could attention. hear, “Now there’s a big one!” So this was the extent of my distinguished University career What keeps coming back to me over these many after four years of study: “There’s a big one.” years since graduating were those stories about the human condition. Most of those were in Humanities My work is all about a love for undistinguished classes that I took. Rather than just the hard facts people. I’m a folklorist - that what’s we do. We we learned about the struggle and apprehension are interested in the expressive lives of ordinary that great writers had when they examined life people. Regular folks interest me far more through philosophy, history and literature. We than super stars. At any rate, even back when I found we were not alone in the struggle. We learned graduated college I was sensitive to the nuances life lessons that still resonate these many years of the acclaimed and the average. later. All those lessons kept coming back to me, and all of the exact things that I learned fell away as the When I graduated from college, thinking back on it, world turned. For those stories, that reading, those my major concerns were: am I going to be able to classes and professors, I’ll always be grateful. find a career that I can really enjoy and can make a living at? And is it possible to find love in my life? I Thank you to the College of Humanities today and was full of apprehension, as I think a lot of college to my dear family and friends.” graduates are. Donning a black gown with a sea of others at graduation does not help relieve this existential apprehension about the future.
I had taken a lot of course work in various things, I had learned details about how to live in the world, but frankly a lot of those details have become extinct since. Details die quickly in a rapidly changing world. One of my favorite classes in journalism was Typography. There is nothing about typography and hot lead that is at all pertinent in the computer age, however my professor, Don Gale, had all sorts
Hal playing with the other members of the award winning musical group Red Rock Rondo during the Distinguished Alumni Luncheon, May 6, 2011
About Hal Cannon... The founding Director of the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada, and its famous child, the Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Hal has published a dozen books and recordings on the folk arts of the West including his bestselling anthology, Cowboy Poetry, A Gathering. More recently Cannon along with producer Taki Telonidis have produced over fifty features for public radio stations nationwide. Currently their series, What’s In A Song, airs on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday on 500 stations across the country. They also produce short audio documentaries for the show including the award winning “First Flight, First Hand” about the Wright Brothers. Past productions include the Folk Economy Series for Marketplace. With his wife, author Teresa Jordan, he created the series The Open Road: Exploring America’s Favorite Places which was featured on Savvy Traveler. Voices of the West was a six-part series of one-hour specials on holiday folk traditions produced by Cannon and Mary Beth Kirchner. Their episode “A Cowboy Christmas” won a bronze medal at the New York International Radio Festival.
Cannon and Telonidis also produce television documentaries. Why the Cowboy Sings aired on PBS nationally in winter of 2003. It has garnered a Rocky Mountain Emmy and a Special Jury Award at the Houston Film Festival. A 16-minute highdefinition version is part of the permanent exhibit at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada. They are currently working on an hour music special, Red Rock Rondo, A Zion Canyon Song Cycle
Cannon has been awarded three Wrangler Awards from the Cowboy Hall of Fame; received the 1998 Will Rogers Lifetime Achievement Award; was given the Utah Governor’s Award in the Arts in 1999 and the Governor’s Award in the Humanities in 2002. He was presented the distinguished alumni award from the University of Utah Communications Department in 1999 and the Benjamin Botkin Award from the American Folklore Society. He was the founding Folk Arts Coordinator for the Utah Arts Council from 1976 through 1985, where
he was best known for being curator of the Grand Beehive Exhibit and the Utah Folk Art Exhibit.
As a musician, Hal and his band, the Deseret String Band (a.k.a. The Bunkhouse Orchestra), made a specialty of researching and performing 19th-century music from the West. Together since 1972, the band released several recordings, several which are still in print. They toured extensively in Europe and the United States, having been the official band for the America/3 yacht team that won the America’s Cup. They also performed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Hal left the group in 2002 and is now playing with Red Rock Rondo and various ensembles as well as working on a recording of his own songs. Hal and Teresa live in a Craftsman home near the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Hal’s daughter, Anneliese lives in Mexico where she teaches at the American School.
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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS 2010-2011
Johanna Kempe
The College of Humanities posthumously recognized Johanna Kempe as a Distinguished Alumna for 2010-2011. This outstanding woman was honored during the College of Humanities Convocation ceremony May 2011. The following remarks were given by her son, Fred Kempe, at a luncheon in her honor.
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ean Newman, thank you very, very much. When we spoke to each other initially about this honor for my mother, you’ll recall I did break down crying. I will try not to do that today!
23 years ago I made one of my occasional visits home and I set aside a day to spend with my mother. Now I know my sisters will call me on that because I never set aside a full day to do anything in my life, and surely I was trying to get in a lot of other things as well, but I did spend a lot of that day with my mother. She asked me to take her to Marriott Library and spend some time there. I thought it was an unusual request but I hadn’t seen her for a few months so thought, sure why not. However, I was interested in why she wanted to go to the library. She explained that she had begun work on her doctoral dissertation.
At the time, Mom had some problems with her legs, she had swollen feet and she had some problems with her back - and these were the days when you actually had to walk around stacks of books in the library, and you had to look through card catalogs. Some of you might remember those days, you know it was post-dinosaur, pre-today. So my job that day was to help her with some of this work. While I spent that day with my mother, the reporter in me kicked in and we talked a bit
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about her acceptance into the doctoral program. It’s not every woman in her late 60s who aspires to achieve a doctorate, a quest that, as Mother explained, had won her both allies and opponents in the German department.
“She liked personal stories, and she felt the pain of people that she talked about.” There were also opponents in her own family. Working women were more the exception than the rule in her generation. And I can’t say that the entire family – we have a large family suddenly thought, “this was great! She’s worked her whole life and now she’s going for her graduate degree.” For most of them this idea was something extraterrestrial. She noted that women tend to talk to each other more, and in letters she shared the details for her quest to achieve doctorate with my three sisters. My sisters later let me read these letters. At times they were filled with despair,
and times with great hope and euphoria. Often her mood was driven by the approval or disapproval of a professor.
My mother had fought many battles in her life, and this quest to achieve a doctorate degree was one of her last. Apparently she won because there we were on that day, buried in the stacks of the Marriott Library, gathering information for her dissertation. In my efforts to help her I sought the best titles and the most descriptive histories. Her subject was the influence of William Shakespeare on the German philosopher Johann Gottfied von Herder.
“She told me that love was like water to a flower and that all people were flowers and all people needed a lot of water or they would wilt.”
It struck me as a somewhat arcane topic, but she spoke about it with her usual mixture of intellectual passion and personal modesty. I was a German scholar, and didn’t even know who Herder was at the time. She explained to me that he was one of the greatest 18th-century thinkers, associated with the periods of Sturm and Drang and the Enlightenment. He lived in Weimar, a small city that at the time had been collecting more great thinkers per square kilometer than anyplace on earth.
After a fruitful morning in the library, we went to Ruth’s for lunch – one of her favorite places. And we kept talking. She liked personal stories, and she felt the pain of people that she talked about. She was very interested in Herman’s personal background. He had grown up poor in Prussia, as had she, and he had educated himself from the only two printed materials in his home - his father’s Bible and a songbook. Herder became a student of the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant at the University of Königsberg. My mother reminded me of how she, as a child in Berlin between WWI and WWII, would spend her summer vacations visiting her aunt in Königsberg, a place that had been a crucible for creativity at that time. It was a nice lunch discussion with my 68 year-old mother. For whatever reason that day she also decided to talk to me about love. I think she was worried I might not be treating women appropriately. She told me that love was like water to a flower and that all people were flowers and all people needed a lot of water or they would wilt. Believe me - I can’t make this stuff up. She was not one who was frequently prone to trying to give me advice, I think she had figured by that time I was a hopeless case. But I remember to this day that advice. I don’t give nearly enough water in my life, but I certainly remember that advice and feel guilty whenever I fail to adhere to it.
Mother died not long after that. There was not enough time to complete her dissertation, not enough time for me to pour water. There was not enough time to complete her life.
Mother loved music. Sunday was filled with music at our home. She particularly loved the music of Schumann. Perhaps it was the music, perhaps it was because we were related to Rudolph Schumann. More than Schumann, she also loved Schubert’s unfinished symphony. I remember listening to it over and over again, hoping that someday he would finish it…
At my mother’s memorial service, there was a lot of talk about her many students. She didn’t just do all the things we’re talking about - she went beyond that. If there was a kid who was an underdog, a child who came from a broken family, a child who didn’t speak English well enough, or had learning disabilities, she did what a lot of teachers don’t do: she took extra time- the weekends, evenings. And then after she retired, when she was privately working on her dissertation, she was also tutoring children. She did this to help make ends meet, but also because she just couldn’t stop teaching.
She once sent a letter to her daughter Jeanie, about her post-retirement teaching:
“I tutored three times today. I had a 16 year-old boy born in Mexico. You begin to appreciate people. 16 years old, he reads on a 2nd or 3rd grade level, and doesn’t know what a subway is. But you should have seen him read about micrometers. Somehow he knows tools and was motivated to read two pages for his shop class. That kid makes me happy. Then Amy, age 15, grabbed the Readers Digest on tornadoes. She has a very limited background in vocabulary. We are compiling a dictionary. Then came my reluctant David, who thinks
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he doesn’t need help. He jumbles his words. I helped him unlock large words. That is now taken care of.“ Mother was a woman who suffered much, who was recognized little, but had a soul and intellect that was irrepressible. She worried about the pain in her children’s lives. For one of my birthdays, when I was going through a difficult period and had made some mistakes, she sent me a letter of reassurance. The letter was totally devoted to the difficult life of Goethe. She then quoted Goethe in his own words - “Wenn Sie anstreben, werden Sie irren” - If you strive to achieve, you will err.
“Mother was a woman who suffered much, who was recognized little, but had a soul and intellect that was irrepressible.” Like Schubert, my mother had an unfinished symphony. It had undulating themes of struggle. It had soft, long strains of poetry, astronomy, botany, and education. It had cymbal crashes, moments so dramatic and disruptive that normal mortals would not have survived. Yet the University of Utah College of Humanities has allowed us to provide some concluding notes, 23 years after Johanna’s death. She would be grateful. She would want to thank all those who believed in her, and forgive all those who didn’t.
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She would want to thank the students, their parents, her professors, her family.
I do confess, I really only truly understood my mother’s magic once she was gone. I had one and only one prenuptial agreement with my remarkable wife, Pam, and that is that we would name our daughter for my mother if we should have a daughter. We did have a daughter and she is now three-and-a-half years old. Her second name is for Pam’s mother, who is also an extraordinary woman. So my daughter is called Johanna Natalie Meyer Kempe.
Some symphonies never end. I’ll tell my daughter that we named her for Johanna because we hoped she would love nature, that she would love culture, that she would savor education, that she wouldn’t be afraid of pain, and she wouldn’t be afraid to cry, and she would know that it’s all part of the texture of life. I will tell her that we hoped she would love her family, she would protect the underdog as much as my mother did.
I do hope that this Distinguished Alumna Award for Mother will inspire women of all ages. I hope that it will inspire people to know that life is not over until it ends. The broad messages of my mother’s life are clear and I am so glad that you within the College of Humanities recognize them. Thank you for giving this [award] to a woman who gave us so much.”
Johanna’s Daughter, Jeanette, accepting the 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award on behalf of her mother May 2011
“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.” -Albert Einstein
At age 69, Johanna Schumann Kempe, a College of Humanities Alumna, would have been grateful for the memorial scholarship that her family has named for her. Struggling against heavy odds to complete her graduate studies. In the University of Utah’s German department, she lacked both the funds and the encouragement the scholarship now offers women like her. She passed away in 1988 before finishing her dissertation, but the Johanna and Fritz Kempe Scholarship Fund since then has supported other women who are pursuing advanced degrees after their retirement.
About Johanna Kempe...
She was born in Berlin on January 30, 1919, less than two months after Germany’s agreement to an armistice ended World War I. Her childhood was spent in a country of hyperinflation and mass unemployment. She immigrated with her family to America, the land of their dreams, arriving on October 30, 1930, in the heart of the Great Depression. As a new immigrant to America, Johanna’s father lectured his daughter that education was the only way out of their poverty. When she came home bragging to her father about a high grade on any paper, he would respond, “But were you the best?” It didn’t take her long to become so. During her first year in America, she earned her elementary school’s “Gold Award” in English while at the same time helping her parents learn the language. At
Mark Hopkins Junior High School in Brooklyn, New York, she continued to thrive in a hardscrabble neighborhood of new immigrants to America. “Times were bad,” Johanna would later recall to her daughter Jean. “The bathtub was in our kitchen and we lived on the $3/week Mom earned cleaning homes.” Johanna enrolled in New York’s Hunter College (an all female school at the time), where she participated in a number of clubs so that she could better understand the many cultures at the school and hear their competing ideas. To make ends meet, she earned scholarships, cleaned homes and worked at Woolworth’s. She graduated in 1941, the month that Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and just weeks before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
The majority of Johanna’s life, however was spent in Utah, as a mother, wife and educator of hundreds of elementary school students in the Utah State school system. For Johanna, teaching in the classroom was never enough. She also individually tutored any of her schoolchildren with particular problems – ranging from new immigrants with insufficient language skills to those suffering from a broken home. For all, she prescribed creative writing to expand their ability to write, think and express themselves. She wrote a large number of children’s books and plays, and was a member of the Utah League of Writers, the Utah State Poetry Society and the National Education Association.
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