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The Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, established in
recognition of a gift from Trustee Robert Day ’65 P’12, captures
the ambition and leadership that is at the core of the CMC
experience, building on the College’s original charge to develop
business leaders grounded in the liberal arts tradition.
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Video features on campus construction from the North Mall to the Hub.
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President’s
Message
This fall, the College celebrates the fifth anniversary of the creation
of the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, established in
recognition of a gift from Trustee Robert Day ’65 P’12, founder of Trust
Company of the West and former chair of the Board of Trustees, whose
vision and investment capture the ambition and leadership that is at the
core of the CMC experience.
The Robert Day School of Economics
and Finance was established in 2007 with
the largest gift ever given to a liberal arts
college. It is where leadership in economics,
finance, and accounting converge, building
on the College’s intellectual foundation by
emphasizing coursework that blends theory
and practice.
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Former Governor and Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. to address Res
Publica Society; Kravis Center wins L.A. Business Council Architectural
Award; CMS finishes 14th in Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup; and
the 2013 edition of the Princeton Review’s The Best 377 Colleges ranks
Claremont McKenna College No. 1 in a brand new category: “Their
Students Love These Colleges.”
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New Parent Network Board President Nancy Falk P’14; CMCAA
welcomes Life Trustee Richard Butler as an honorary member.
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The Office of Alumni and Parent Relations extends a special welcome
to the landmark reunion classes of ’53, ’58, ’63, ’68, ’73, ’78, ’83, ’88, ’93,
’98, and ’03 for Alumni Weekend, May 3-5, 2013. Alumni Weekend pays
tribute to the unique CMC experience with all of the unbridled fun of
college. All alumni are invited to campus to share in the experience.
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Memoriam
Nick B. Williams Jr. ’59 P’85, editor and foreign correspondent at the
Los Angeles Times; Francisco E. Alvarez ’76, senior deputy district attorney
in the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office; and V. Michael
Mavaddat ’83, a senior fellow at the Mack Center for Technological
Innovation at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
ON THE COVER: Illustration by Kevin Bostwick
BACK COVER: The Claremont McKenna College and Pomona College Alumni
Associations team up for a week-long exploration of the remarkable and unique
Galápagos Islands, Aug. 3-12, 2013.
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CMC, Volume 34, Number 4, Fall 2012
Published by Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA 91711-6400.
Editor and Director of Creative Services
Katherine Griffiths
Phyllis Colman P’03
Attorney at Law
Nicholas Owchar ’90
Deputy Book Editor
Los Angeles Times
Denise Trotter Eliot ’82
Independent Consultant
Eliot College Consulting
Nancy Falk P’14
President
Claremont McKenna College
Parent Network
Ananda Ganguly
Associate Professor of Economics
Robert Day School
Carol Hartman ’86
President
Claremont McKenna College
Alumni Association
Lori Kozlowski ’00
Writer
Forbes
Marshall Sale ’62 (chair)
First Vice President-Investments
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Darrell Smith ’74 P’00
Vice President of Community
Development & Marketing
The Africa Channel
Ryder Todd Smith ’96
Communications Committee Chair
Claremont McKenna College
Alumni Association
Sarah Tung ’09
Copywriter, LivingSocial
Editing and Publications Coordinator
World Perspectives
Advancement staff
Vice President for Development &
External Relations
Assistant Director of Social Media and
Multimedia Web Content
Ernie Iseminger
Benjamin Alden
Vice President for Alumni & Parent
Relations
Graphic Designer
John Faranda ’79
Associate Vice President for
Public Affairs and Communications
Max Benavidez
Director of Interactive Design &
New Media Production
Anthony Fisher
Associate Director of Media and
Public Affairs
Rebekah Roose
Public Affairs Assistant
Eva Valenzuela
Student Assistants
Javed Jasani ’13
Karima Merchant ’13
Assistant Director of Alumni and
Parent Relations
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Alissa Stedman
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Campus Construction
Our campus has been anything but quiet over the past few months.
Construction projects and improvements—all designed to enhance
the academic and social experiences at CMC—have been in full
swing since late spring. From a new fountain in Flamson Plaza
to a dramatic modernization of The Hub, these North Mall
improvements are an inviting welcome to the fall semester.
RDS Anniversary Celebration
The Robert Day School was established in 2007 in recognition of an
unprecedented personal gift to Claremont McKenna from Robert
A. Day ’65 P’12, founder of Trust Company of the West and former
Chair of CMC’s Board of Trustees. The $200 million personal
gift to create the Robert Day Scholars Program was the largest
recorded gift to a liberal arts institution, the largest gift in the field
of finance and economics, and among the top 20 largest gifts ever
given to a college or university. Over the past five years we have seen
RDS grow to more than 32 full-time faculty members in residence
providing course offerings in all aspects of accounting, economics,
and finance.
Claremont Blvd.
Javed Jasani ’13 and Karima Merchant ’13 star in this detective story
about a man desperate for work, and the woman who hires him.
“The students are missing,” the femme fatale exclaims. No need to
worry: C.C. Malone, P.I., is on the case.
Rose Institute Educates on California
Ballot Propositions
This November, 11 statewide propositions will be on the ballot in
CMC’s home state of California. Voters will be making decisions
regarding tax increases, the state budget process, political spending
by unions and corporations, and other important topics. The Rose
Institute of State and Local Government guides voters through the
issues with informative videos detailing the meaning and impact
of several of this year’s propositions. Join Andrew Nam ’15 and his
team for these informative and balanced perspectives on the state’s
hot button issues.
http://www.cmc.edu/news/cmcmagazine/.
C l a r e m o n t Mc K e n n a C o l l e g e
When Generosity is Transformative
The Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, established in recognition of a gift from
Trustee Robert Day ’65 P’12, captures the ambition and leadership that is at the core of the
CMC experience.
This fall, we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the creation
of the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at CMC,
which was established in 2007 in recognition of a gift from alumnus
Robert Day ’65, P’12, founder of Trust Company of the West and
former chair of CMC’s Board of Trustees.
I remember so vividly the excitement on campus when Mr. Day
committed $200 million to establish a bold new program aimed at
developing the next generations of leaders for a changing world. It
was at the time the largest gift in the history of national liberal arts
colleges and one of the top 20 private philanthropic investments in
the history of higher education.
We hear the word transformative all too often; however,
the generosity and vision from Robert Day have been truly
transformative for the College.
He captured the essential need for a new way to prepare business
leaders when he talked about his investment in CMC in 2007.
“The global landscape is changing at unprecedented speed, with a
complexity and breadth that requires professional fluency, judgment,
and leadership skills beyond the educational expectations of just a
decade ago,” Mr. Day said. “I know from talking with CEOs every
day and sitting on boards of $40 billion-plus companies that there is
an enormous opportunity for young people who possess leadership
skills, financial acumen, and the kind of judgment and perspective
that only an undergraduate liberal arts education can provide.”
Robert Day knows the evolving needs of business and higher
education perhaps better than any person I have ever met. After
graduating from the College, Mr. Day started his career with the
investment banking firm White, Weld and Company in New York.
In 1971 he founded Trust Company of the West with just $2 million
in client assets under management. As chairman of The TCW
Group, Inc., he led a company with more than $150 billion in assets
under management. He is also chairman, president and CEO of the
W.M. Keck Foundation, one of the nation’s largest philanthropic
organizations, with assets of more than $1 billion.
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In five short years, the endeavor that Mr. Day
started at CMC has had a significant impact at the College and in
the world of higher education. Students of the Robert Day School
are immersed in training that combines the best elements of an
undergraduate liberal arts education with a focused curricular
program in finance, accounting, and organizational leadership.
In addition to its undergraduate programs, the School also offers
a master’s program in finance. The School is also home to the
prestigious Robert Day Scholars Program, which sponsors generous
fellowships for both undergraduate and graduate students who
pursue coursework combining economics, accounting, finance, and
leadership studies. The Scholars also benefit from a rich Leadership
Development Program that includes leadership workshops,
opportunities to practice theory, and visits with distinguished
speakers.
The undergraduate Robert Day Scholars, representing students
from all five Claremont Colleges, have done exceptionally well in
finding jobs. From San Francisco to London, these scholars have
started their careers as analysts, auditors, traders, and associates.
The firms they have joined represent a virtual Who’s Who of the
best in the worlds of finance, economics, and technology: Morgan
Stanley, Citi, Google, Bill Gates Investments, Prudential, Deutsche
Bank—the list goes on. Demonstrating the worldwide demand for
students with the technical fluency to contribute to today’s financial
services industry, students in the Robert Day School Master’s
Program in Finance have likewise accepted prestigious positions
around the globe.
We talk about the global footprint of CMC, and the Robert
Day School is clearly contributing to the growing impact of the
College throughout the world. Robert Day would have it no other
way. Indeed, his vision and investment capture the ambition and
leadership that is at the core of the CMC experience, and we are so
grateful for his ongoing involvement in the life of the College.
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CMC Tops New Princeton Review Category
The 2013 edition of the Princeton Review’s The Best 377 Colleges ranks Claremont McKenna College No. 1
in a brand new category: “Their Students Love These Colleges.” The ranking represents responses from more
than 122,000 surveyed students.
“The number-one ranking seems to confirm what our students tell us about Claremont McKenna College:
they really love it here,” says Vice President for Student Affairs, Admission, and Financial Aid Jefferson Huang.
“If Claremont McKenna College has become the number-one college that students love, we naturally thank the
faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and other supporters of the College who have given so much of themselves.”
Asked what he most values about his education at Claremont McKenna College, student Ethan Gilbert ’13
says, “I love being here because no matter where I go, I run into other CMCers who love being here and are
always looking to make sure everyone is included and having a good time. The community and closeness that
exists in perpetuity amongst CMCers is probably the greatest thing that this school does.”
CMC landed on a total of nine lists, six in the area of Academics/Administration and three in the area of
Quality of Life, including the following:
5 Best Quality of Life
5 Professors Get High Marks
6 Happiest Students
Photos by Ian Bradshaw
1 Their Students Love These Colleges
3 Best Career Services
3 Best-Run Colleges
4 Most Accessible Professors
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Huntsman to Address
Res Publica Society
Former Governor and Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. will speak at Res
Publica Society events including a luncheon in Costa Mesa and a
reception and dinner at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Nov. 1.
Huntsman served as governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009 and as
U.S Ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011. After beginning his
career as a White House staff assistant for Ronald Reagan, he
was appointed deputy assistant secretary of commerce and U.S.
Ambassador to Singapore by George H.W. Bush. He also has served as
deputy U.S. trade representative, chairman of the Western Governors
Association, and CEO of the Huntsman Corporation and chairman of
the Huntsman Cancer Foundation.
William Vasta
Gastón Espinosa, the Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies, was
invited to a recent White House briefing for scholars of religion, “Advancing
the Common Good at Home and Abroad.”
Espinosa joined religion scholars from around the country at the May
gathering, hosted by President Barack Obama’s Office of Faith-Based and
Neighborhood Partnerships. The briefing served to update officials on key
domestic and international topics important to the faith community, as well as
the goals and progress of Obama’s faith-based initiative.
At the briefing, Espinosa met with U.S. Ambassador to Malta Douglas Kmiec
and Joshua DuBois, special assistant to the president and executive director
of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives and Neighborhood
Partnerships.
“Ambassador Kmiec was heavily responsible for helping Obama win over
many moderate and pro-life Catholic swing voters as part of Obama’s New
Democratic Pluralism platform,” Espinosa says. “We discussed some of the
assets and liabilities the president faced in 2008 and 2012, and why there seemed
to be a shift in his approach to and relationship with the faith community
and some of the potential fallout in the wake of recent controversies over
contraceptives and gay marriage in 2012.”
Espinosa’s newest edited book, Religion, Race, and Barack Obama’s New
Democratic Pluralism, was published by Routledge Press in August.
Comprising thoughtful analysis by leading experts on religion and politics in
the United States, the book details how—and why––10 of the largest segments
of the American electorate (Catholics, Evangelicals, Mainline Protestants, Jews,
Muslims, Women, Seculars, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos)
voted in the 2008 presidential election, drawing on the latest data, interviews,
and sources.
“Gastón Epinosa and his coauthors have written a remarkably insightful
book on key determinants of the vote in the 2008 presidential elections,” says
Professor Denis Lacorne, of the Center for International Studies and Research
(CERI) at Sciences Po University, Paris, France. “In examining the complex
relationship between religion, race, ethnicity, gender and cultural values, the
authors challenge numerous conventional clichés about the role of religion in
American politics and demonstrate how Barack Obama was able to close the
electoral ‘God gap’ that used to favor the Republican party. Can this success
be replicated in 2012? The eleven chapters of this well researched book give
conflicting responses to this key question and make the book a must read for
political analysts.”
Building on the book and the White House briefing, Espinosa also addressed
the religious ramifications of the 2008 election during his three-week CMC
summer session course, American Religious History, a seminar that introduced
students to key movements, debates, and controversies from the Founding
Fathers to Obama’s use of religion in the 2008 election.
“The course was structured as a discussion-seminar, based on a close reading
of primary and secondary source texts,” Espinosa says. “We also watched
documentary film clips, brought in Catholic, Jewish, and African American
Pentecostal guest speakers, and offered field trips to a Muslim mosque, a
Protestant church, and one of the largest Buddhist Temples in the United
States.
“The class was very interactive, lively, and an engaging learning experience,”
he says.
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Espinosa Attends White House
Briefing for Scholars of Religion
Kravis Center Wins L.A. Business
Council Architectural Award
The Los Angeles Business Council, an advocacy and educational
organization dedicated to serving local businesses, recognized the
Kravis Center in the Private Education category at their 42nd annual
Architectural Awards. The facility’s transparency, both as a way to
use Southern California’s natural daylight to greatest advantage and
to visually integrate indoor and outdoor activities, was cited as a
critical design component.
—Alissa Stedman
fall 2012
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Global Navigation
Expanding on an already worldclass experience in Claremont, offcampus study programs extend the
range of students’ focus with the
unforgettable sights and sounds of
foreign cultures and faraway places.
Here’s a look at the students who
spun the globe and packed their bags
during the 2012 calendar year.
Argentina
Spring 2012
SIT Argentina: Regional Integration,
Development and Social Change
Manassinee Moottatarn
Fall 2012
CIEE Buenos Aires, Argentina: Liberal
Arts
Simone Berkovitz
Carly Goodkin
IES Buenos Aires, Argentina: Latin
American Societies and Cultures
Lynsey Chediak
Victoria Nichols
Australia
Spring 2012
Arcadia: James Cook University
Cortland Henderson
Arcadia: University of Melbourne
Erica Karp
Fall 2012
Arcadia: University of Sydney
Lyndsay Bergus
Butler: University of Sydney
Joshua Rosenberg
Austria
Fall 2012
IES Vienna, Austria
Adele Eslinger
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Brazil
Spring 2012
SIT Brazil: Public Health,
Race and Human Rights
R. Scott Martin
Erikan Obotetukudo
China
Spring 2012
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Katrina Lau
Fall 2012
CET Beijing: Chinese Studies Program
Kalika Tullock
CIEE Shanghai: Business, Language
and Culture
June Kim
CIEE Shanghai: China in a Global
Context
Michele Kee
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tim Burke
Max Zipperman
Middlebury Beijing, China
Derek Ko
Ecuador
Fall 2012
IES Quito, Ecuador
Tamar Kaplan
England
Spring 2012
Chile
Arcadia: King’s College,
Spring 2012
University of London
Matthew Wissa
SIT Chile: Cultural Identity, Social
Arcadia: School of Oriental and African
Justice and Development
Studies, University of London
Jack Oliphant
Zephanii Smith
Fall 2012
Arcadia: Oxford University–Mansfield
IES Santiago, Chile
College
Michaela Ecklund
Paul Rosiak
Lucas Meyer
(Academic Year 2011-2012)
Haley Patoski
Butler:
Oxford University–Mansfield
SIT Chile: Public Health, Medicine and
College
Empowerment
Anna Joseph
Czech Republic
Hannah Bewsey
(Academic Year 2011-2012)
SIT Chile: Social, Economic and Political Spring 2012
Butler: Oxford University–
CET Prague: Film Production
Transformation
St. Anne’s College
Denmark
Carolyn Lenderts
Sydney Miller
Kelsey Weber
SIT Chile: Comparative Education and
(Academic Year 2011-2012)
Social Change
Fall 2012
London School of Economics and
Catherine Rex
DIS Copenhagen: Psychology and Child
Political Science
Veronica Salas
Development
Robert Daily
SIT Chile: Cultural Identity, Social
Annika Jessen
(Academic Year 2011-2012)
Justice and Development
DIS Copenhagen: Sustainability in
Jacob Roth
Allison Ipsen
Europe
(Academic Year 2011-2012)
Ben Baker
Stephanie Oehler
Fall 2012
London School of Economics and
Political Science
Tara Jotwani
(Academic Year 2012-2013)
France
Spring 2012
IES Nantes, France
Jasaswi Nayudu
Middlebury Bordeaux
Natasha Kawasaki
Middlebury Paris
S. Macie Leach
Syracuse Strasbourg
Greyson Blue
Fall 2012
AUCP Aix-en-Provence
McKenzie Javorka
Nicole Lotte
IES Paris, France
Alex Lane
Syracuse Strasbourg
Christina Brandt
Kathryn Yao
Germany
Spring 2012
IES Berlin, Germany
Melanie Bello
Alice Mirlesse
Greece
Spring 2012
Arcadia: Athens, Greece
Joshua Thomasson
Fall 2012
Arcadia: Athens, Greece
Helen Liu
Hungary
Fall 2012
CIEE Budapest, Hungary: Central
European Studies
Julian Buckner
Michael Mavredakis
India
Spring 2012
IES Delhi, India
Annie Jalota
Fall 2012
Alliance: Pune, India
Hannah Goldberg-Morse
Faith Hanna
Ireland
Spring 2012
Arcadia: University of Limerick
Esmerelda Trejo
Israel
Spring 2012
Tel Aviv University: Lowy School
Ilan Bielas
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Italy
Spring 2012
IES Rome, Italy
Jonathan Star
Fall 2012
IES Milan, Italy
Monica Cason
Catherine Tung
Anthea Weixel
IES Rome, Italy
Alyssa Filippelli
Aliza Kellerman
IES Siena, Italy
Tawney Hughes
Japan
Spring 2012
CIEE Tokyo, Japan: Arts and
Sciences
John Shaughnessy
Pomona: Associated Kyoto
Program
Megan Levonian
(Academic Year 2011-2012)
Adam Merry
(Academic Year 2011-2012)
Fall 2012
Pomona: International Christian
University – Tokyo
Kelly Chen
fall 2012
Jordan
Fall 2012
CIEE Amman, Jordan: Diplomacy
and Policy
Sirah Hosni
CIEE Amman, Jordan: Language
and Culture
Lauren Thomas
SIT Jordan: Modernization and
Social Change
Laura Bloom
Kelsey Cherland
Madagascar
Fall 2012
SIT Madagascar: Biodiversity
and Natural Resource
Management
Nora Studholme
Morocco
Spring 2012
SIT Morocco: Multiculturalism
and Human Rights
Sara Birkenthal
Fall 2012
IES Rabat, Morocco
Lauren Callahan
Nepal
Spring 2012
Pitzer in Nepal
Dan Maxwell
Peru
Spring 2012
SIT Peru: Indigenous Peoples
and Globalization
Adele Eslinger
Rwanda
Fall 2012
SIT Rwanda: Post-Genocide
Mary Rachel Waterman
Scotland
Fall 2012
Butler: University of Edinburgh
Nicole Appleton
Candace Filippelli
Adam Griffith
Ellen Smith
Eric Van Wart
South Africa
Spring 2012
CIEE Cape Town, South Africa:
Arts and Sciences
Evan Nigh
Fall 2012
SIT South Africa:
Multiculturalism and Human
Rights
Caitlin Highland
South Korea
Spring 2012
CIEE Yonsei- Seoul, Korea: Arts
and Sciences
Parth Padgaonkar
Summer 2012:
CMC-Yonsei Summer Program
Madeleine Bannon
Elan Bernstein
Pieter Cornel
Felipe Fagundes
Mackenzie Humes
Min Jun Kim
Christian Mkpado
Kimberly Scamman
Zephanii Smith
Matthew Taylor
Fall 2012
CIEE Yonsei – Seoul, Korea:
Arts and Sciences
Minger Bropleh
Rachel Cone
Ju Young Lee
Mary Mildenberg
Christopher Pei
Spain
Spring 2012
IES Granada, Spain
Sean Duncan
IES Salamanca, Spain
Jenna Kanegawa
U.S.A.
Washington Program
Spring 2012
Matthew Cannistraro
Juliet Carnoy (Scripps)
Kevin Chafe (Pomona)
U.S.A.
Justine Desmond (Scripps)
Silicon Valley Program
Faith Hanna
Fall 2012
Taylor Jones
Madeleine Bannon
Ju Young Lee
Alexander Bentley
Kristie Shu
William Brown
Sonia Singh
W. Evan Casey
Brian Sutter
Elizabeth Duckworth
Nina Walker
Michael Franklin
Aubrey Zimmerling
Roxanne Fries
Fall 2012
Dustin Godevais (Pomona) Morgan Beltz
Aananditaa Kakkar
Eli Coon
Joseph Newbry
Mackenzie Dallas
Sophia Patrico
Abigayle Dolmseth
James Reinke (Pomona)
Jessica Garcia
Shitong Shou
Ian Gulliver
Ankit Sud
Laila Heid
Carter Wilkinson
Nicholas Herzeca
Eric Yee
James Houghteling Tanzania
Shiwei Zhang (Pomona)
Rebecca Howland
Spring 2012
Yifan Zhu (Pomona)
(Pomona)
SIT Tanzania – Zanzibar: Coastal
Gavin Landgraf
Ecology and Natural Resource
Grace Mahan
Management
William Mitchell
Roy Yu
Katherine Rodihan
Steven Sander (Pomona)
Samuel Stone
Adrian Vallens
Andrew Willis
IES Madrid, Spain
Brian Baier
Sabrina Canela
Kelly Halamek
Greg Mann
Sweet Briar Seville
Tyler Lamon
J. Henrie McCann
Fall 2012
CIEE Alicante, Spain
Josh Cohen
CIEE Madrid, Spain
Nick Hobbs
Kendyl Klein
IES Granada, Spain
Hillary Lundberg
IES Salamanca, Spain
Karen Chen
Alex Rivera
Sweet Briar Seville Restoration
and Peacebuilding
Melanie Bello
Marco Martellini
Claire Peterson
Trinidad and Tobago
Spring 2012
University of the West Indies –
St. Agustine
Anastasia Clarke
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Annual Giving Staff Leverages
Social Media
Who were your best professors at CMC?
How about your favorite meals at Collins Hall?
The Internet thrives on our impulse to share opinions. Spend a few
minutes surfing and quickly you’ll discover how countless sites offer
scads of lists on everything from the best movies and restaurants to
the most attractive actors and actresses. The goal? In most cases, it’s to
generate traffic (and advertising dollars, of course).
But for CMC’s Office of Annual Giving, a forthcoming new
online feature asking alumni to rank aspects of their college years
has something else at stake that’s far more important: ongoing
conversation and a greater sense of school ties.
That’s where the online lists of favorites come in: They’re a perfect
vehicle for encouraging participation, says Harason Horowitz, a
coordinator in the College’s development office.
“Who doesn’t love a list?” she asks. “CMCers are really great
at expressing themselves, and we wanted to tap into this in an
entertaining, interactive way.”
Students and alumni currently have a virtual home for their
testimonies and commentaries at the popular new site “I AM CMC”
(www.iamcmc.com). This fall, they will be able to continue to another
landing page where student and alumni opinions will be collected on
topics ranging from CMC’s greatest athletes to noisiest residence halls.
Horowitz says the launch of this new feature will be announced via
email and other social platforms later this academic year. When the
site goes live, questions like those above will be used to start multithread conversations, connecting grads from every decade.
Such intergenerational dialogue would be too unwieldy for a big
state school with 30,000 undergraduates and an enormous alumni base.
But not for CMC.
“Here’s another example of why CMC’s intimate learning
environment is such a great strength,” Horowitz says. “An online
feature like this is a natural fit for us.”
—Nick Owchar ’90
Third Edition of
Myths, Legends,
and Tall Tales
Underway
What happens when you don’t have a
lead story for tomorrow’s edition of the
college paper? You invent one. At least,
that’s what the editor did back when Bob Prater
’53 was on staff—by sneaking into the dining hall and stealing the
silverware! The next morning, students had to eat breakfast with their
fingers. And, voilà: instant breaking news.
Prater shares that funny story in volume two of Myths, Legends, and Tall
Tales (MLTT), a collection of alumni stories and reminiscences mailed in
July to select members of the alumni community.
As preparations begin for volume three, there’s plenty of room
reserved for you to share your own memories. In fact, the organizers of
MLTT need your help. And your voice.
“We need alumni to tell us how CMC enriched their lives,” says Ethan
Gilbert ’13, the senior and student-intern overseeing the third edition.
Started by the Office of Annual Giving to build ties between alumni
and their alma mater, MLTT is a student-run project that’s enjoyed rave
reviews since its first appearance in mid-2011. Its popularity—and the
demand for more editions and more stories—doesn’t surprise Gilbert, a
21-year-old international relations major from Colorado.
For him, the publication’s appeal boils down to the unique glimpse of
CMC captured in the first two installments. Turn the pages and you’ll
find a rich, unexpected slice of the College’s history.
“It really is inspiring,” says Gilbert. “You realize you belong to a
school with great traditions that represent its history well.”
In the first two editions, for instance, readers learned of the rise of
“the Greenies” in Green Hall during the 1960s, the high bar every econ
major encounters early in his or her academic career, the helpfulness
of professors, the forging of important friendships, and the pranks and
misadventures typical of undergrad life.
Some alumni submitted fully complete stories, while others provided
simple memories amounting to only a few paragraphs. Every story,
Gilbert points out, is welcome.
To spark memories, Gilbert has started reaching out to various alumni
to solicit funny or heart-warming memories of topics ranging from
dinner at Collins Hall to a typical Friday night on campus.
But you don’t need to wait for his email to participate. Please share
your own experiences by emailing either mythsandlegends@cmc.
edu or egilbert13@students.claremontmckenna.edu. The deadline for
submissions is early September.
—Nick Owchar ’90
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C l a r e m o n t Mc K e n n a C o l l e g e
Sanchez Readies Athenas for
Continued SCIAC Success
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As an All-ACC and Academic All-American student-athlete at the
University of North Carolina, Keri Sanchez played with Mia Hamm,
Kristine Lilly, and Tisha Venturini on some of the greatest teams in UNC
history, undefeated and untied for her first three seasons. During her career
at UNC the team won 97 of 99 games and four NCAA Championships, in
two of which Sanchez scored the game-winning goal.
This summer, Sanchez, now CMS’s head women’s soccer coach, reunited
with her fellow Tar Heels to support their work with the Team First Soccer
Academy, running soccer camps from Texas to Ohio.
“Coaching with those guys was a great opportunity to be around
great soccer minds and get more information on how to make the game
better,” she says. “I learned a few
new drills that I plan to use in
practices, and have some new ways
to explain situations that will help
us improve as a team and be even
more competitive in the fall.”
The Athenas’ competition
this season will include a
new challenge—Chapman
University—plus match-ups with
across-the-street rivals PomonaPitzer; California Lutheran,
undefeated in conference play last
year; and Redlands, to whom CMS
Sanchez, second from left, with her University of
has lost two consecutive games.
North Carolina roommates and soccer teammates
“When you play everybody
Tisha Venturini, Mia Hamm, and Angela Kelly in
Chapel Hill in 1993.
twice,” says Sanchez, “you create a
little rivalry with almost each one
of them.”
Sanchez is prepared to engage the Athenas’ SCIAC competition armed
with a solid squad of both experienced players and enthusiastic first-year
students, building on great chemistry and an extraordinary work ethic
cultivated by the leadership of team captains Annie Belanger (SCR), Jen
Najjar ’13, and Madi Shove (SCR).
“The team should be a great mix of youth and experience,” she says.
“Team chemistry is critical to success, and it’s fun to see how such a diverse
group of people can all get along.
“What I love about this team,” she continues, “is their work ethic, both
on and off the field. They want to be good at everything they do and they
are willing to put in the work. They like to be challenged and they like to
compete.”
The Athenas’ ideals apply both to the soccer pitch and the classroom,
and Sanchez, drawing on her personal experience as a highly successful
student-athlete, strives to help her players find balance between athletics
and academics.
“Keri has even made an effort to change the time of a Pomona-Pitzer
game this fall so I can take my LSAT on the same day,” says Najjar. “Her
emphasis on preparation, determination, and work ethic is beneficial in the
classroom as well as on the soccer field.”
—Karima Merchant ’13
fall 2012
CMS 2011-2012 SCIAC and
SCIAC Tournament Champions
Ten of CMS’s 21 NCAA intercollegiate teams finished the 2011-2012 season at
the top of the SCIAC pack, securing the All-Sports Combined, All-Sports Men,
and All-Sports Women Trophies for Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Congratulations to:
S tags
Basketball
Swimming and Diving
Soccer
Tennis
A thenas
Cross Country
Golf
Swimming and Diving
Softball
Tennis
Track & Field
CMS Finishes 14th in Learfield
Sports Directors’ Cup
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps finished 14th in the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup
Division III Final Standings for 2011-12. The Directors’ Cup, in its 17th year, is
a competition operated by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of
Athletics that awards points based on a team’s cumulative finish at the NCAA
Championships. CMS was the highest finishing team from both the SCIAC and
the West Coast.
Contributing to the Stags’ and Athenas’ 610.5 points were the following team
performances at the NCAA Championships:
3% 4%
nwomen’s cross country (4th) 80 points
nmen’s golf (4th) 80 points
nmen’s tennis (t5th) 73 points
nwomen’s tennis (t5th) 73 points
nwomen’s swimming (9th) 69 points
nwomen’s golf (14th) 48 points
nmen’s soccer (t17th) 50 points
nsoftball (t25th) 50 points
nmen’s swimming (27th) 46.5 points
nmen’s cross country (29th) 16 points
8%
13%
8%
13%
8%
12%
8%
11%
12%
nmen’s basketball (t33rd) 25 points
According to Mike Sutton ’76, director of athletics, the 14th-place ranking is
a reflection of CMS student-athletes’ aspiration to perform to their highest
abilities against a national peer group. “While our program takes great pride in
our conference successes as marked by the SCIAC All-Sports Trophies,” Sutton
says, “the Directors’ Cup recognizes the successes of our teams and studentathletes at the next level.”
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Sweeney Focuses on a Sturdy Foundation
S
ome visiting players are greeted ceremoniously with leis
upon their arrival. Some with a halfhearted “good luck.”
Kyle Sweeney’s welcome to Claremont’s Zinda Field
featured a metal plate surgically inserted in his left hand.
The stabilizing device was made necessary by a collision
that broke the then-Occidental sophomore’s hand as he attempted
to reroute a CMS receiver at the 40-yard line. What Sweeney didn’t
know at the time was that the ensuing plate possessed a sort of poetic
magnetism, one that would lure him back to the scene of the crime
after 14 years with programs as far east as Massachusetts Bay. He would
return not simply to assume control of the program that broke his left
hand, but to do so a first down away from the Stag whose shoulder pad
provided the damaging blow: Josh Walter ’01, associate director of
leadership giving.
All that’s behind Sweeney now, save for the plate and the occasional
run-in with Walter at Collins Dining Hall. Now head football coach,
he’s focused on building a sturdy foundation at a place that he says
represents his first job where the opportunity to lead and a desirable
school climate intersect.
This year, Sweeney’s second on campus, the Stags (4-5 in 2011)
expect 38 underclassmen and 13 upperclassmen in uniform for the
team’s Sept. 8 season-opener against Lewis & Clark. As Sweeney
moved from Occidental to Illinois Wesleyan to his alma mater to
New England’s Endicott College to MacMurray (Ill.) College to the
University of Chicago, he was busy accumulating experiences that
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carry meaning today as he digs in with less than 10 seniors on the CMS
roster.
In addition to meeting his wife, Ann, while at tiny MacMurray
(which reports an enrollment smaller than Claremont’s Condit
Elementary), he helped the Jacksonville, Ill., college through a nearoverhaul. The program rallied in Sweeney’s second year, improving by
29.5 points per game in points scored and defense combined.
At Endicott, too, the Sacramento native was part of the college’s firstever varsity season in 2003, a year that saw the Gulls compete with an
entirely freshman roster.
“It was a neat experience. You’re struggling, you’re making freshman
mistakes,” Sweeney says of that first season, in which Endicott finished
4-5. “But by the time you get to the next year and the next year, those
guys are three-year starters and four-year starters, and all of a sudden
you have a huge advantage.”
Whether the current glut of underclassmen will emerge as a SCIAC
force in two and three years remains to be seen. As for now, Sweeney
and his staff are charged with implementing a new offense based on
the spread attack made famous by the likes of Oregon, Texas Tech,
and Hawaii. The Stags will spread the field out and flash a variety
of formations, from five-receiver sets to two-back, two-tight end
formations. This element of confusion is something Sweeney says he
will leverage in the Stags’ favor.
“Our kids are really, really smart,” Sweeney says, noting that the
team receives a 50-page scouting report every Tuesday complete with a
C l a r e m o n t Mc K e n n a C o l l e g e
new combination of schemes for both sides of the ball.
Sweeney said he and his staff borrowed concepts from a host
of offenses around the country, but that the resulting composite
will most closely resemble Boise State. Fans can only hope that on
Nov. 10 when CMS plays at Pomona-Pitzer that the Stags flash
shades of head coach Chris Peterson’s bunch, which boasts only
three losses over the past four seasons.
Though he has undoubtedly made his mark as a defenseminded coach, Sweeney’s defense has a very clear thesis: “Playing
defense is one thing, but I’d rather have the ball back.”
His teams at the University of Chicago, MacMurray and
Endicott all had one thing in common: generating havoc behind
the line of scrimmage. In his final year in Chicago’s Hyde Park
neighborhood, Sweeney’s Maroon defense finished second in the
nation in sacks and third in tackles for a loss.
“For us,” Sweeney says, “being able to hit the quarterback
repeatedly is very important because that changes the way
he approaches the game and the playcalling of the offensive
coordinator.”
Leading the charge on the defensive front are linemen Eric
Janicki ’13 and Alex Chang ’15 (1.5 sacks in 2011) as well as
linebacker Max Winsberg ’15 (61 tackles). That front unit will
need to replace the 134 tackles lost due to the graduation of
senior linebackers Ben Salzman ’12 and Matthew Laredo ’12. The
2011 sack leader, Eddie Mills ’12, also has graduated.
The team’s offensive line will see a near-complete makeover
from its productive 2011 unit, as Sweeney projects three to four
underclassmen to start with 225-pound Garrison Adomian ’13
serving as the elder statesman.
At quarterback, last year’s starter Peter Kimmey ’13 figures to
lead the Stags in their first season in the spread offense, though
Sean McKaveney ’15 could push the senior for playing time.
McKaveney represents a rare Division III talent, having received
a two-star rating on scout.com and fielded interest from a number
of Division I schools during his high school recruitment.
In the program’s annual “plane game”, CMS will make the
1,800-mile trip to Memphis, Tenn., for a game against Rhodes
College of the Southern Athletic Association. The Stags then
begin their SCIAC schedule with a game at home against La
Verne on Sept. 29. CMS’ tallest order figures to come on Oct.
13 when the Stags greet last year’s conference champion Cal
Lutheran, who ran through the SCIAC last season with a 6-0
conference record.
Nov. 3 marks a historic day for the CMS program as it
welcomes Chapman to Zinda Field for the first time since the
Panthers became a full-fledged member of the SCIAC. That
game has been a highly competitive series since the Class of 2013
hit campus, with a point margin averaging 6.3 per game for the
past three years.
CMS concludes its 2012 schedule with the Battle for the Peace
Pipe against rival Pomona-Pitzer. Last season the Sagehens’
fourth-quarter comeback attempt fell short and the Stags walked
away with a 24-14 win in front of 2,567 fans against the struggling
Sagehens (0-9, 0-6 SCIAC).
Kristin Dowling Appointed Head Coach for
CMS Women’s Basketball
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Director of Athletics Mike Sutton announces the appointment
of Kristen Dowling as the new head coach for CMS women’s basketball.
As an undergraduate at the University of Redlands, Dowling led the Bulldogs to their
second-ever Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title and a Women’s
Basketball Coaches Association Class Act Achievement Award. She earned a bachelor’s
degree in Spanish, with a minor in physical education, from Redlands and a master’s
degree in educational technology from Pepperdine; she also is a graduate of Nike’s “So
You Want to Be a Coach” program and the NCAA Women’s Coaches Academy.
Dowling returns to the SCIAC after two seasons as assistant women’s basketball
coach at Pepperdine University. She previously was an assistant coach and recruiting
coordinator at California State University, Bakersfield.
“Kristen’s experience in the SCIAC as an undergrad, coupled with her drive and initiative
to learn from outstanding coaches and programs, caught our attention immediately,”
says Sutton. “Additionally, her commitment to the student-athlete model, as evidenced
by her own success in academics and athletics, is a critical component of our own CMS
program. She comes from a highly competitive recruiting environment and understands
the importance of finding talented athletes who are also good overall ‘fits’ with an
institution.”
Gretchen Magers Appointed Head Coach for
CMS Women’s Tennis
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Director of Athletics Mike Sutton announces the appointment
of Gretchen Magers as the new head coach for CMS women’s tennis.
Magers has been the head women’s tennis coach for San Diego City College since
2008. She previously was head women’s tennis coach at Our Lady of Peace High School,
assistant women’s tennis coach at San Diego State University, and tennis professional
at Peninsula Tennis Club, La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, Lomas Santa Fe Country Club,
and Fairbanks Ranch Country Club.
A top 20 singles and doubles player on the WTA tour, Magers was a quarterfinalist at
the U.S. Open, French Open, and Wimbledon. She represented the United States in the
1984 Olympics, the World University Games, the Pan American Games, and the Senior
ITF World Championships. As an undergraduate at Trinity University, she was a four-time
All-American, NCAA doubles champion, and two-time NCAA runner-up in singles and
doubles.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in physical education, with a minor in biology, from Trinity
University and a master’s degree in sports administration from California University of
Pennsylvania.
“Gretchen brings a phenomenal background of competitive experiences in tennis,” says
Sutton, “coupled with her enthusiasm, energy, and excitement for the opportunity to work
with a team of student-athletes who have the potential to excel in collegiate tennis.”
—Gordon Voit
fall 2012
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Stags Soccer Aims for Fourth Consecutive
NCAA Tournament Appearance
The numbers stand by themselves for CMS soccer coach Dan Calichman’s senior class: 40 wins and three NCAA tournament appearances, not to
mention three conference final wins over the University of Redlands to get there. Having breathed new life into the Stag soccer program, the group
now looks to get over the second-round hump in their fourth shot at the national title.
Here, Gordon Voit explores the lives behind the numbers, names, and faces in a conversation with midi Rodrigo Bravo; forwards David Taylor,
Harrison Doyle, and Jared Bernstein; and defenders Zach Robin and Zach Doran, all class of 2013.
CMC:
Let’s talk about that moment when you guys first came
together.
Robin: I first met David Taylor well before school. We both visited
in the fall to watch a game and stay overnight. I thought
right away that this team, with the pride of this school, was a
program on the rise.
Doyle:
Before pre-season started freshman year, I’d seen the CMC
Class of ’13 wall on Facebook. Jared mentioned that he was
on the soccer team, so I reached out and introduced myself.
Then we came into pre-season and met everyone else. Zach
Doran we met a week late.
Doran:
I got recruited through track, so Coach Goldhammer was
my avenue to CMC. I arrived at CMC a track guy but also a
soccer guy.
CMC:
Zach, can we get an updated mile time?
Doran:
We run the 1500 in college. Most recently I ran a 3:55, so
that’s a 4:13 mile.
had a lot more confidence, even though physically we were
the underdog. We won that one. Last year, once again, we
were the underdog, not because we lacked the talent but
because four or five of our starters were injured. We ended
up pulling it out again.
CMC:
Let’s talk about Coach Calichman.
Doran: He’s a really passionate guy. He really wants to win. His
expertise playing at the highest level is fundamental for
formations and technical advice. He’s an all-around great
coach.
Doyle: I had a very serious recruitment effort from an Ivy League
school, in addition to two Division III schools: CMC and
Trinity University in Texas. After meeting Coach Calichman
and some of the guys, it was a pretty easy decision to come to
Claremont.
CMC:
What will it take for the team to get to the next level?
Doyle:
Two components will be luck and keeping everyone healthy.
CMC:
Was your decision to play defense about speed?
Taylor:
Doran:
You want a fast person at center back. Guys like David,
Harrison, and Jared are actually quicker in the first 10 meters
so it’s nice having them up top.
I think we need to work on staying interested and
competitive. As long we remain focused, we will have a very
successful season.
Bravo:
We’ve got a lot of really good younger guys. That depth will
enable us to be close to full strength throughout the season,
especially in the later half, when people tend to get injuries.
CMC:
How do you make the freshmen feel like they are a part
of the unit?
Bravo:
Harrison and Jared both have been really inclusive, starting
an email thread to get recruits familiar with some of the
personalities on the team. They’ve taken initiative and I
think they’ve done a really good job.
CMC:
Looking at next year’s schedule, what’s one game that
you are looking forward to?
Robin:
Zach is very versatile. He plays on the outside, too, and he
can cover a ton of ground because he just doesn’t get tired.
CMC:
This group of six Stag seniors has earned three NCAA
tournament appearances the hard way, traveling to the
University of Redlands all three times and winning the
SCIAC title on Redlands’ home turf. What was that like?
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Each time was different. The first time we went in as the
fourth seed. I was expecting to lose, but I also knew that
there was a chance for a great Cinderella story of the
fourth seed overcoming great adversity and winning the
tournament—which in fact happened. The second time we
C l a r e m o n t Mc K e n n a C o l l e g e
Courtesy Harrison Doyle ’13
Robin:
CMC:
Trinity University always has been a team we’ve wanted to
play. I’m personally looking forward to Cal Baptist, to play in
that game and beat them. We’ve never won the conference
straight up in the regular season. That’s one of our biggest
goals.
CMC:
Who is most likely to crack down if somebody gets out
of line?
Bravo: We all feel comfortable and confident that if one of us steps
out of line, it will be a collective effort to realign and focus
on what we truly want: to get past that second round and
make a real run at the NCAA title. An important time that
we really came together as a team and rallied was during our
semi-final game against Whittier in the SCIAC tournament.
That was the game that really solidified, in my mind, that we
had a great team and were going to go far in the tournament.
We came out of that game with an incredible performance.
CMC:
Any final thoughts?
Doyle:
It’s been an amazing three years playing with these guys.
They’re not just my teammates; every single one of these
guys is my best friend.
Let’s talk about Redlands. Are you looking for revenge
after that 3-0 loss in the playoffs?
Bernstein: Absolutely. Those are the games we play soccer for, because
we like the pressure. I’m sure that we’ll all be pumped up and
ready to show them that we’re looking for a fourth title.
CMC:
Chapman was added as an official member of the SCIAC
here very recently. Is that something that you’re worried
about?
Bernstein: I’m worried most about the number of games that we’re
going to have to play. Some weeks we will have three games
rather than two. It’s a heavy schedule in a short period of
time. While I’m confident that we can overcome every single
team in this league, I’m concerned about keeping our team
healthy. I do look forward to how Chapman coming into
our conference may increase respect for the West Coast in
the NCAA rankings. By beating teams like Chapman and
Redlands, both of whom made the tournament last year, we
can make our way up.
CMC:
—Gordon Voit
For additional colorful anecdotes, including stories about Bravo’s recently
granted American citizenship, Taylor’s summer work on a sustainable farm in
Massachusetts, and Bernstein’s competing in the Pan-American Maccabi games
in Brazil—plus the team’s showing in the Mr. Stag contest—listen to the full
interview at http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/news/cmcmagazine/.
When the going gets tough, who keeps everybody loose
and energized?
Bernstein: It will be a collective effort.
fall 2012
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B y N i c h o l a s O w c h a r ’90
The Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, established in
recognition of a gift from Trustee Robert Day ’65 P’12, captures the
ambition and leadership that is at the core of the CMC experience,
building on the College’s original charge to develop business leaders
grounded in the liberal arts tradition.
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C l a r e m o n t Mc K e n n a C o l l e g e
W
hat is one of the better decisions in Maria Löhner’s
career? Moving to Boston earlier this year to join a
private equity firm.
She relishes how the city’s beauty mingles with history
right outside her door on Beacon Hill’s cobbled streets.
Something, however, remains uncertain for Löhner—icy
Boston winters.
“I haven’t experienced one yet,” says the 25-year-old
Washington, D.C., native with a laugh. “Talk to me in six
months and I’ll let you know!”
What drew her to that venerable New England city
was a seed planted long ago at CMC when Lohner was an
undergraduate Robert Day Scholar.
On two separate occasions, Löhner experienced a
fantastic opportunity: She met private equity barons and
Trustees Henry R. Kravis ’67 and George R. Roberts ’66
P’93, both visiting CMC under the auspices of the Robert
Day School of Finance and Economics. When she recalls
it today, she describes how the level of access afforded to
her by the Day Scholars program had a lasting effect on her
career.
Her experiences inspired Löhner to venture into Kravis
and Roberts’ own world of private equity, which she
achieved this summer after taking an Associate position
with private equity firm HarbourVest Partners.
“We had exposure to high caliber business figures so
much earlier than anyone gets at other schools,” she
explains, describing the small group discussions the speakers
would have with RDS Scholars before delivering remarks at
the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum. “It elevates the kinds
of experiences you’re having, and the kinds of aspirations
you have for your future.”
That level of engagement, and enthusiasm, are direct
results of Robert Day ’65 P’12’s record-breaking gift to
CMC in 2006—$200 million to found the Robert Day
Scholars program for undergraduates at the five colleges
and the master’s of finance program. The gift has paved the
way for an unparalleled level of advanced finance training
at CMC during a time of constant flux and upheaval in the
financial world.
Day viewed such tumultuous change and expressed
concern for today’s grads: Would traditional economic
training be enough to help them in their careers?
The grandson of Superior Oil founder William M. Keck
envisioned providing a solution with his gift—the largest
personal gift to a liberal arts college and among the top 20
gifts to a college or university. Premiere undergraduateand graduate-level degree programs are the hallmark of the
Robert Day School of Economics and Finance. Anything
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less, Day felt, and students wouldn’t be prepared for the
evolving business world he observed at the helm of the
Trust Company of the West.
“The global landscape is changing at unprecedented
speed,” he said in an interview after the gift’s
announcement.
To attain a top management post in this often
unpredictable financial climate, students needed broader
“leadership skills, financial acumen, and the kind of
judgment and perspective that only an undergraduate
liberal arts education can provide,” Day explained during
that same interview.
According to President Pamela Gann, the purpose of
the Robert Day Scholars program was to be sure that
undergraduates had literacy in accounting, finance, and
leadership psychology—and were responsible leaders.
“[Day] saw these areas as important for any type of leader,
not only business leaders, but lawyers, judges, presidents of
colleges, etc.,” she says.
Separately, she continues, Day believed that some of the
best students did not need an MBA degree, but rather only
extra training in finance, to be ready for the work place.
Thus, the program would enable students to be successful
without stopping mid-career to earn an MBA.
Today, at the five-year benchmark of the Day School,
a curriculum devoted to providing accelerated and
comprehensive, big-picture training is firmly locked into
place. Already the program is paying dividends with superb
internship and job placement records for Day Scholars—the
program’s placement rates are among the best in the nation.
And other schools are paying attention: Many, including
Stanford, Emory, and Brandeis universities, have joined
RDS with accelerated training programs of their own at the
undergraduate and graduate levels in various disciplines.
The Day Scholars program, for Löhner, “is really
incredible, and I’m absolutely still benefiting from it today,”
she says. “When I left CMC, I felt totally prepared for what
was ahead of me.”
A time of need
The years 2008-2009 were a tough time to be an
economics major.
With the implosion of world financial markets,
traditional career paths and firms—Lehman Brothers,
for instance—literally disappeared overnight. During a
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period of 17 months, the Dow Jones average fell more than
50 percent, much like what happened during the Great
Depression.
How do you remain optimistic about a major in
economics and finance during a time of meltdown?
The Day gift couldn’t have been better-timed. It helped
CMC to answer that question affirmatively, by supplying
the school with resources, and advantages, at a time when
other schools were cutting back on the services they could
provide.
Brock Blomberg remembers.
“Many institutions were becoming very conservative in
how they handled their programs. They had to, there was
just so much they could do,” says Blomberg, the Robin
and Peter Barker Professor of Philosophy, Politics and
Economics, a George R. Roberts Fellow, and dean of the
Robert Day School of Economics and Finance. “Robert was
interested in helping students. That was his bottom line. It
was remarkable.”
Not only remarkable: Crucial.
According to a 2009 Labor Department survey to
determine what majors do best in the job market, business
majors performed in the middle of the field, well below
students training for professions in health, engineering and
education.
The study doesn’t explain why some disciplines have
a better track record than business these days—but it’s
impossible not to see the shadow of the Wall Street
meltdown falling on the middling performance of business
majors in that study.
Blomberg urges caution when considering such data.
“That doesn’t mean business jobs are going away,” he
points out. “You’re always going to need people who do
financial intermediation.”
Today, however, he says economics and finance majors
can expect heightened competition from students from
other countries in a flattening U.S. job market. But while
the domestic marketplace is getting squeezed, Blomberg
says emerging economic markets elsewhere in the world (in
China, for instance, and India) are increasingly in need of
help from financial experts with a global understanding—a
description that applies to members of the Day School
faculty and, in fact, to their students, too.
“Robert recognized that if you can create more of an
advantage to give clients—in our cases, the students—a leg
up, then they’ll be far better off later,” Blomberg says.
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Expanding opportunities
Jewels.
That’s what a car salesman friend of mine calls those
attractive features, the sparkling trophies, that turn
potential customers into buyers.
The Robert Day School has its share of such jewels,
providing the setting for aspiring leaders to focus their
undergraduate and graduate studies on economics,
accounting, and finance in a liberal arts setting. For those
accepted into both the undergraduate Robert Day Scholars
program and the Master’s in Finance program, there are
plenty of incentives and exciting offerings, including:
• generous merit scholarships,
• networking receptions and trips around the world,
• excellent career counseling services that has resulted in
outstanding placement rates for those seeking internships
(100 percent) and fulltime jobs (96 percent), and
• distinguished faculty members specializing in everything
from portfolio management to entrepreneurship and
global finance.
Since 2007, when the Day School first opened its doors,
CMCers have represented the lion’s share of participants,
though students from all five undergraduate Claremont
Colleges are involved. The admission process also includes
an application, an assessment of leadership skills, and a
panel interview at the TCW corporate offices in downtown
Los Angeles.
Enrolled students encounter training that blends CMC’s
liberal arts background with a program emphasizing
finance, accounting and organizational leadership.
At the undergraduate level, the Robert Day School offers
a broad array of coursework in economics, finance, and
accounting. The curriculum embodies the academic rigor
and practical understanding of economics that has made
CMC a leader in liberal arts education. Newest course
offerings include:
• Advanced Microeconomics
• The Chinese Economy
• Derivatives
• The Economics of Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination
• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Environmental Economics
• Fixed Income
• Global Finance
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Such new offerings enable the Day School to tap into
the rich expertise of its faculty members. It also provides
students with greater exposure and understanding of
economic dynamics at various societal levels, not to
mention affording a stunning bird’s-eye view of the global
economy.
“We are very proud that Robert Day Scholars represent
a variety of majors,” says Michelle Chamberlain, RDS
director of external relations. “Leaders in all settings must
understand the financial impact of their decisions.”
Undergraduate Day Scholars may choose to enter the
workforce upon completing their undergraduate degree or
continue on with a two-semester Master of Arts Degree.
When the New York Times featured a panel debate earlier
this year on the question, “What is a Master’s Degree
Worth?,” the pros and cons of completing a master’s degree
invariably fell on the impact that graduate degrees have on
individual salaries. For Day, however, an even more crucial
factor than salary is time: a traditional MBA program takes
young business professionals out of their careers on average
for two years, which can be a very long time away from the
quickly-shifting financial world.
With the undergraduate and master’s alternatives
provided by the RDS, however, students have been able to
move more immediately into the business world without
losing precious time.
In fact, the Day School has added another option—an
accelerated program known as “4+0” (which enables a
student to complete an undergraduate and graduate finance
degree in four years). But, Blomberg cautions, don’t take
such intensive offerings as a sign that the RDS is pursuing a
myopic educational course. The overall goal, he says, is still
to provide a well-rounded liberal arts education for students.
“A program like the new 4+0 isn’t necessarily for
everybody. It’s for a small group that wants to study finance
intensively. That’s their passion,” he explains. “For us, the
point is to give students what they want, including those
who attend CMC for that kind of specific experience.”
The “ripple effect”
Reaping the benefits of the Day gift isn’t exclusive
to those enrolled in either undergraduate or graduate
program. There’s a third group, in fact, that has been
helped by RDS—the general community of economics
majors, like 21-year-old Avantika Saisekar ’13.
“I was very pleased when I learned that all students
fall 2012
were allowed to attend lectures and enroll in various
RDS-sponsored competitions,” says Saisekar, whose major
includes a finance sequence.
With the Board of Trustees’ renaming of the economics
department as the Robert Day School of Economics and
Finance, roughly 40 percent of the College’s student body
(those, like Saisekar, who are pursuing some form of an
economics degree) now fall under its mantle.
This means that many useful activities, including
workshops on the nuts and bolts of the job hunt—“they’ve
given me interview techniques and helped me think of
career paths suited to my skills,” Saisekar says—and lecture
series and other networking events are open to many
students.
Other signs of how the RDS has been integrated into
student life are much subtler, like the support it lends to the
Women and Leadership Alliance, a five-college effort to
promote and discuss issues specifically confronting women
in leadership roles. Saisekar has attended many alliance
events and says they’ve been important to her own personal
vision of the future.
“It goes to show how the school is truly invested in
making all its students succeed,” she adds, “and enabling us
to have a brighter future.”
That’s also why you’ll find faculty members from across
the College’s disciplines engaged with the RDS curriculum.
For Audrey Bilger, professor of literature and director of
the Center for Writing and Public Discourse, that means
giving economics majors a humanities-informed perspective
that will improve their managerial abilities.
“In my work with RDS, I stress the importance of
storytelling in all forms of communication. Whether
they’re writing a business plan, an article for Forbes, or an
email to a prospective employer, they need to tell a good
story that will make their audience want to be a part of it,”
she explains. “The very best students understand that in
order to stand out and be truly successful, they need to be
effective communicators, and those students clearly benefit
from being part of a liberal arts college community.”
Nothing else perhaps best illustrates this blending of
economics and liberal arts training than the Robert Day
School’s case competition, in which student teams analyze
the ethical practices of today’s companies and present their
findings to a panel of judges.
For 20-year-old economics and government major Shree
Pandya, that particular RDS-sponsored offering has had a
decisive effect on her life.
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RDS M.A. Enrollment
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40
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30
20
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2010
2011
2012
2013
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Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Cornell University
Davidson College
Duke University
Fudan University
Hamilton College
Harvard University
Loyola Marymount University
Shanghai University of Finance and
Economics
2014
Pandya belonged to a winning team that analyzed athletic
equipment company Nike’s campaign to show its commitment to
human rights. The case her team presented to the judges “wasn’t
a numbers-only approach,” says Pandya. “We didn’t just rattle off
statistics. For us, it was a human story. It was about people. I’ve
never had that experience before in a class.”
Her perspective on finance was so changed by this experience
that it led her to the Presidio Group, located at the northern tip
of the San Francisco peninsula, where she worked in a rewarding
internship in wealth management over the summer.
“It was eye-opening for me. I became a lot less wary of finance
and more eager to explore the field,” explains the Texas native. “I
don’t think I’d be able to say that if I didn’t have that experience. I’m
beginning to see how everything ties together. I thought businesscentric fields were just for a small minority who do certain skills
well. Now I’m realizing that it all ties into a much bigger story.”
Bilger, who has served as a case competition judge along with
other humanities-focused members of the College’s faculty such as
Alex Rajczi, the Deborah and Kenneth Novack Associate Professor
of Ethics and Leadership and a George Roberts Fellow, finds that
the competition is emblematic of the CMC liberal arts ideal.
“I have been impressed by how that event specifically focuses
on the need for business leaders to respond ethically to breaches
of ethical conduct in the business world,” she says. It challenges
students to consider the bigger picture, which she says forces them
to demonstrate “a nuanced view of the ethics at stake and to be
effective writers and strong communicators.”
Other recent RDS-sponsored programs providing such a blend of
business theory with a rounded, global understanding of leadership
include the Claremont Colleges Silicon Valley Program, modeled
on CMC’s Washington Program, which links classroom lectures
with an internship at a tech firm, and the CMC-Yonsei Summer
Program, during which students spend five weeks in Seoul, Korea,
encountering firsthand the financial environment of the Pacific Rim
in a country long regarded as one of the region’s economic tigers.
“All of the co-curricular activities that we’re able to offer today
spring from that incredible gift,” notes Chamberlain. “When the
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Singapore Management University
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Notre Dame
University of Southern California
Vanderbilt University
Whitman College
Yonsei University
bottom fell out of the economy, we were not only able to fill the
gap, but also able to create some amazing opportunities that can’t be
found anywhere else.”
From the beginning
In 1946, Claremont Men’s College was new. The institution had
no reputation, no national profile. Zero.
And why should it? The school was operating out of Army
barracks-style buildings on 50 acres of land that were mostly
undeveloped.
The College itself might have been too young to register on the
radar of higher education, but that wasn’t true of its faculty. The
College’s founding president, George C.S. Benson, and his successors,
followed a simple formula: Hire the best, and the profile will rise.
It was inevitable that CMC would define its identity as a leader in
the realms of politics and economics, explains historian Kevin Starr
in his history of the college, Commerce and Civilization: Claremont
McKenna College: The First Fifty Years, 1946-1996. The College’s first
students were veterans intent on rebuilding society after World War
II—young men eager “for careers in business and government with
a matrix of liberal arts and social sciences.”
At Convocation in 1947, James Blaisdell, president emeritus
of the consortium that would become the Claremont Colleges,
set forth a challenge for CMC: Give students training in business
leadership, rooted in the liberal arts tradition.
Blomberg sees a line of continuity connecting the philosophy of
the Robert Day School with that early vision of CMC’s identity,
citing the example of Benson, who dreamt of providing advanced
training in management and leadership even as he scrambled to
assemble a faculty for the fledgling liberal arts college in the late
1940s.
“If you look back at Benson and the other founders, you find
they had the desire to do what we’re accomplishing with the RDS
today,” he says. “Some misunderstand that and think what we’re
doing is a new thing, but it isn’t. It’s all been part of a process, a long
evolution. It might fall under a new umbrella now, but it’s the same
original vision.”
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C o n t ent s
18 Alumni Notes
A message from CMCAA President Carol Hartman
’86; new Parent Network Board President Nancy
Falk P’14; CMCAA welcomes Life Trustee Richard
Butler as an honorary member.
20 Class Notes
The Office of Alumni and Parent Relations extends
a special welcome to the landmark reunion
classes of ’53, ’58, ’63, ’68, ’73, ’78, ’83, ’88,
’93, ’98, and ’03 for Alumni Weekend, May 3-5,
2013.
47 In Memoriam
Parents Orientation fosters new connections for alumni parents including
Stephanie (Giss) Chakmak ’87 and Paul Chakmak ’86, pictured here with
first-year student Kathryn Chakmak ’16.
WILLIAM VASTA
Nick B. Williams Jr. ’59 P’85, editor and foreign
correspondent at the Los Angeles Times;
Francisco E. Alvarez ’76, senior deputy district
attorney in the Stanislaus County District
Attorney’s Office; and V. Michael Mavaddat ’83, a
senior fellow at the Mack Center for Technological
Innovation at the Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania.
Family Ties
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Alumninotes
CMCAA President’s Message
william vasta
I am just back from a few trips to campus to kick off the year. Seeing classmates moving their children into rooms in my old dorms,
Boswell and Fawcett, was pretty amazing. I have to say there was some sweet irony that these classmates who moved their
daughter into a Boswell dorm room resided in Green in the 80’s and also named their cat Boswell Sucks. I guess the next pet might
be Green Stinks.
Where does the time go?
The question of time passing looms large at CMC. There are a few milestones we will see this year. We are celebrating the fifth
anniversary of one of the generous legacies of Robert Day ’65 P’12. President Gann will be retiring and we will welcome the yet unidentified
fifth president of the college as our leader in 2013. The leadership each of these important members of our community has brought to us has
transformed CMC.
Your CMC Alumni Association continues to be focused on the following objectives for the 2012–2013 year. We are primarily interested in
increasing YOUR satisfaction and involvement! There are so many wonderful opportunities to be engaged as a volunteer or participant (as
leaders we don’t expect CMCers to be observers). As a participant, it’s easy — there are more than 200 alumni events every year all over the
world. Make the effort to come, you will meet neighbors, see old friends, and make new ones. Volunteers for CMC can become engaged in
several ways:
• Alumni Weekend — if it’s your reunion year (ending 3s and 8s) there is a lot of planning to make this the best reunion you have ever had.
But it would be even better if you joined the planning committee! Everyone is welcome. The past two events have been fantastic. From the
Alumni Lounge with 5C-inspired drinks, to the gourmet food trucks, classes with favorite professors, and a Pirate Party, there is something
for everyone. We also are organizing teams to assist for the next several reunions to give us a few years in advance planning. So if your
grad year ends in 4, 5, 9, or 0, we need you, too.
• Careers and Mentoring — get engaged with current students in a more meaningful way by helping secure internships or providing advice.
The can be done in an ad hoc way or through formal programs.
• Chapters — get involved with your local alumni. Baseball games, faculty lectures, art galleries, museums, and the five-college worldwide
happy hour are among the many opportunities.
• Admission Interviewer — admission events in your area may need volunteers to meet and greet high school seniors.
• CMS Boosters — we are developing organized programs to get CMS athletic events to you. Local alumni are gathering when our teams
travel or streaming the games at parties… there are lots of options.
• Travel — join fellow alumni in exotic locales ranging from the Galapagos Islands to Hong Kong to Vienna, Austria.
We are at an exciting moment in CMC’s history. The final stages of a long campaign that intended to bring huge improvements to the campus
infrastructure and academic programs, the promise of a new athletic center, record interest in the College (as evidenced by the swelling of
applications), a search for our next president, and the continued expansion of programs to serve students and alumni better make this an
important juncture. I encourage you to get more engaged! CMC wants and needs your participation!
Best Wishes,
Carol (Oliver) Hartman ’86
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3056137&trk=tab_pro
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Photo Courtesy John Faranda ’79
Nancy Falk P’14
Named President
of Parent
Network Board
Nancy Falk, parent of Nathan Falk
’14 and past co-vice president of
the Parents Fund, has been named
president of the Claremont McKenna
College Parent Network.
“CMC is a special place,” she says,
“and I’m pleased to contribute in a
small way to an organization that’s
dedicated to helping students and their
families make the most of their CMC
experience, and to focus on keeping it
flourishing.”
Life Trustee Richard Butler was presented with an Honorary Life Membership in the Alumni
Association by CMCAA President Carol (Oliver) Hartman ’86 at the 2012 Summer Athenaeum
Retreat at the Sonoma Mission Inn.
william vasta
Hartman writes, “This summer we hosted another Summer Athenaeum Retreat in Sonoma.
It was a great success—at least according to the surveys! Our own alumni, parents, and
professors as speakers were a fantastic combination during three days of great camaraderie,
food, and wine. Many thanks to Trustee Barbara Boswell for her support to bring much loved
professors and the dynamic Living on One duo, Chris Temple ’12 and Zach Ingracsi ’12.
Jack Stark ’57 GP’11 gave a wonderful talk about the history of CMC. Someone (Jil!) needs
to get him to write a memoir! We continue to refine the event and expect to move it to winter
2014 in Southern California. It has also been suggested that a five-college offering would be
especially interesting for people.”
Parents
Orientation
Welcomes a
New Generation
of CMCers
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3
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william vasta
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Alumni and their children—
including Miles Wilson II ’76 and
Miles Wilson III ’16 –1; Ditman
Johnson ’79, Adrienne Johnson ’16,
and Carrie George ’80 (Leah ’14
not pictured) –2; Eileen O’Donnell
Goodwin ’81, Michelle Goodwin ’16,
and Kevin Goodwin ’79 –3; and Ed
Eger III ’83 and Katharine
Eger ’16 –4 —enjoyed a special
legacy reception at the Marian
Miner Cook Athenaeum.
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RDS ’12
It hasn’t been long since the RDS
Master’s Class of 2012 said farewell
to CMC, yet the past few months
have been quite eventful for us. A
big congratulations to Alex Campau,
who married Jackie Dickinson. The
two are now living in the Bay Area,
with Alex working at Harris Williams
in San Francisco. Shuting Zhang
has moved to Los Angeles where
she’s working at Compass Lexecon.
It’s only been a few weeks for her
and she’s “still settling in” but she’s
looking forward to “diving deeper”
into her job. Eyad Alnaslah has
spent a long, relaxing summer with
his family in Southern California and
has enjoyed observing Ramadan—“a
nice time of the year.” Eyad is looking
forward to starting his new job in
October at Rothstein Kass in Beverly
Hills. A few more of our classmates
have decided to stay in Southern
California, too. John DeBiase
works in Claremont at Gould Asset
Management while Greg Passani
works alongside Dave Xu ’11 at
Intrepid Investment Bankers in Los
Angeles. David Segall is off to a great
start in Orange County. He’s been
working for two months, which he
can’t believe as “time has just flown
by.” David is finding work “fun and
interesting” while weekends are “filled
with parties, hiking/bicycling, and
sleeping.” Since he works across the
street from Alex Kerhulas, the two
of them have been grabbing lunch
almost every week.
Several of us have spent the
summer traveling throughout the
world. Jasmine Xu spent a peaceful
vacation with her boyfriend in
Bali, Indonesia, in June. Jasmine
spent July visiting family in China
and looks forward to returning to
Southern California to work alongside
Madeline Chiavini at Macquarie
Group. Madeline has also enjoyed
some time abroad this summer.
She traveled with some of her best
friends through Italy, France, Spain,
and the Netherlands. Her favorite
part of the trip was visiting a small
town in Italy where her family is
from. Now she’s back stateside and
sending her sister off to Notre Dame
(Madeline’s undergraduate alma
mater) before diving into the world
of investment banking. Craig Dabney
backpacked through Europe from
late May through the end of July and
visited Spain, France, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Germany, the Czech
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Republic, Austria, and Italy. It was
easily the greatest trip of his life and
now he’s excited to begin his new job
as an analyst in a finance rotational
development program at Intuit in
Mountain View. Changhoon Sung
took Spanish classes throughout the
whole master’s program to build a
new skill and prepare himself for his
awesome summer in Costa Rica. He
spent five weeks living with a “Tico”
family in a small city called Heredia,
just north of the capital. Changhoon
spent most of his time making friends,
exploring the countryside, improving
his Spanish, and surfing. Changhoon
looks forward to starting his new
accounting job in downtown Los
Angeles soon.
Craig Dabney M’12
cjddabney@gmail.com
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In Memoriam
BRADWAY
BRANDON
Harry Tancredi ’49, of Santa Ana, died July 2, of a stroke. Prior to enrolling at CMC, he served as an aerial navigator and
operations officer in the U.S. Air Force in Europe for three years during World War II, and attended Iowa State College
and Woodbury College. Fellow Pacesetter Bob Emett ’50 writes, “Harry was a resident of Newport Beach, a member of
the Santa Ana Country Club, served in Europe for three years as an officer in the Air Force, and was referred to as ‘a real
hustler’ while at Claremont. I used to play golf with him both at Claremont and Newport Beach.” A long-time real estate
developer and builder of nearly 22,500 homes and apartments in the Western United States, Tancredi was the oldest active
general contractor in the state of California when he inactivated his license last year. He first obtained his license in 1954.
Tancredi is survived by his wife, Susan; five children; and one grandchild.
C. Kent Bradway ’52,
of Prescott, Ariz., died July 3. After graduating from CMC, he served as a Second Lieutenant in
Korea, and when the war ended in 1954, he was honorably discharged as a First Lieutenant. Bradway then studied at the
University of Oklahoma until moving to Phoenix and beginning a career in banking and mortgage loans in 1955. He was
an active member of the Mesa Host Lions Club and the Prescott Noon Lions Club, which recognized him with a lifetime
membership and the Lion of the Year Award this June. He was also a member and usher at the Prescott United Methodist
Church, and enjoyed golf, bowling, community service, and spending time with his family. Bradway is survived by his two
children and seven grandchildren.
SLOAN
TANCREDI
TUTHILL
WILLIAMS
Thomas H. Tuthill ’58,
of Portland, Ore., died June 5 after a short battle with lung cancer. After graduating from CMC,
he was deployed by the U.S. Army to Korea, and honorably discharged in 1960. Tuthill then began a long and productive
career in food sales with The Campbell Soup Company. In 1972, he and a business associate purchased a food brokerage
company and re-named it Halvorson Tuthill Sales, Inc. He shared in its success until retiring in 1997. Tuthill enjoyed
steelhead and fly fishing, golfing, boating, and sitting on the dock of his cabin at Lake Merwin and on the porch of his
cabin at East Rosebud Lake. He loved Dodge cars with big-block engines. He and his wife of 53 years, Jocelyn, traveled to
Australia, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, Hawaii, Mexico, the Panama Canal, and New England. Tom is survived by his wife,
Jocelyn; daughters, Joanne and Sherri; and grandchildren, Nate and Lauren.
Nick B. Williams Jr. ’59 P’85 GP’14, of Lake Kiowa, Texas, died Aug. 8 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. At
CMC, Williams chaired the student court; edited the Ayer; and participated in intramural football, volleyball, and track.
A distinguished editor and foreign correspondent at the Los Angeles Times, he joined the newspaper—then edited by his
father, Nick B. Williams Sr.—in 1966 following graduation from CMC and work at the San Diego Union-Tribune and
the Chicago Sun-Times. After starting out on the metro copy desk, Williams was an editor on the national and foreign
desks in the 1970s and 1980s and a foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia and the Middle East in the 1980s and 1990s.
He then rejoined the foreign desk to edit the weekly World Report section and served as deputy editor of the editorial
pages before retiring in 2002. Williams served the College as a Class Liaison and a member of the CMC Editorial Board.
Williams is survived by his wife, Gerri; daughters, Maggie Sykes ’85 and Nan; and two grandsons, one of whom is Justin
Sykes ’14.
Geoffrey W. Sloan ’66,
of Santa Fe, N.M., died Dec. 4, 2010, of lymphoma. He served in the Peace Corps in Colombia
and on the staff of DNA People’s Legal Services, and was an attorney for the New Mexico Health, Environment, and
Energy & Minerals Departments. Upon retiring, Sloan enjoyed a life of volunteering and walking, spending much of
his time reading with Spanish-speaking students at the Salazar Partnership. A founding board member of the Santa Fe
Children’s Museum Earthworks Project, he was a passionate advocate for peace, human rights, equality, and respect for
people and the planet. Sloan is survived by his wife, Karen; daughter, Olivia; son, David; and extended family and friends.
Former Tortugateer John S. Brandon ’67 P’07, of Seattle, died March 3, unexpectedly. While at CMC, Brandon played
intramural basketball and football. His daughter, Lindsay Brandon ’07, writes, “The true definition of a scholar and
a gentleman…John was an amazing father, husband, brother, and friend. Following graduation from CMC, John got
drafted and spent time in the Air Force before getting his master’s degree at the University of Washington. After years
spent consulting with Bank of America and Arthur Young, he decided to move back to Seattle to establish John Brandon
& Associates. He led negotiations to secure an agreement between Sound Transit and the University of Washington in
order to bring long overdue mass transit to the city. John loved traveling to Sayulita, Mexico, to visit his brother; doing the
crossword puzzle; playing poker; and kicking back with a cold one. He will be greatly missed.”
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In Memoriam
Francisco E. Alvarez ’76,
ALVAREZ
FRY
of Modesto, died May 15 of complications following a heart attack. Alvarez, who earned his
J.D. from Boston College, served as a senior deputy district attorney in the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office,
covering assignments including child abuse, domestic violence, gangs, vehicle theft, and juvenile issues. On a recent trip to
Washington, D.C., he was admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court. A true civil servant, Alvarez promoted
civil rights, social justice, and racial equality while serving veterans, the Latino community, children, and those who
could not help themselves. He served as a director of the Girl Scouts; an instructor for the National District Attorneys’
Association’s National Advocacy Center and for the American Prosecutors Research Institute; and a member of the Turlock
Unified School District Criminal Justice Advisory Committee, the Greenlining Institute, the Mexican-American War
Memorial Committee, the Volkswagen Car Club, and the Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. He was appointed twice by
the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors to the Mental Health Board. Alvarez also served in the California Air National
Guard, and was commander of the American GI Forum and past commander of American Legion Post. He is survived by his
wife, Sandra; and daughter, Tanya.
Mark S. Porter ’79,
MAVADDAT
PORTER
of Tucson, Ariz., died May 11. Porter graduated from CMC with a bachelor’s degree in political science.
He then served in the United States Army for five years. While stationed in Hawaii at Carlisle Barracks, he obtained a
master’s degree in systems analysis from the University of Southern California’s Hawaii campus. After being honorably
discharged from the Army at the rank of Captain, Porter worked for the Bendix Corporation. He left Bendix to attend Johns
Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitez School of Advanced International Studies, where he obtained his second master’s degree.
At the time of his passing, Porter worked for the Political Risk Services Group, a political risk forecasting resource, in East
Syracuse, N.Y.
V. Michael Mavaddat ’83,
of Ridgefield, Conn., died April 3. Mavaddat was executive vice president, innovation and
development with management consulting firm Decision Strategies International, Inc. (DSI), and a senior fellow at the
Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He was managing director
and head of consulting services prior to assuming firm-wide responsibility for innovation and renewal at DSI. His clients
included Abbott Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cornell University, DuPont, Eli Lilly, Microsoft Corporation,
Merrill Lynch, Pfizer, Siemens, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He spoke at industry conferences and lectured at
Wharton, Columbia, Duke, and Cornell. Prior to his career in management consulting, Mavaddat developed a broad base
of experience in business strategy and management with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in pharmaceuticals and Western
Digital Corporation and GEC-Plessey Company (UK) in electronics. He was CEO of Intelligent Pixels, Inc., a venturebacked optical communications component company, where he successfully led the development of a novel liquid crystalbased optical switch. Mavaddat received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, his B.A. in management
engineering/economics from Claremont McKenna College, and his MBA from Cornell University. He was a devout and
active member of the Baha’i Faith and a youth soccer coach for his children’s house and travel teams. He is survived by his
wife, Bita; and children, Michael and Emily.
George Fry ’86,
of Reno, Nev., died April 16. After attending CMC for three years, he transferred to the University of
Nevada, Reno, and earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in business administration.
After taking a break from higher education to serve as a member of the U.S. Army’s Black Horse Armored Cavalry Regiment,
and he commanded a Bradley Troop Carrier. He was stationed along the border between East and West Germany. He
graduated formally from CMC with a B.A. in management-engineering in February 1992. Fry was an electrical engineer
affiliated with Lifetouch Portrait Studios. He enjoyed water skiing and house boating. Fry is survived by Tina Kinsey and
three children.
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