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Pepperdine’s
Culture and Heritage
At the beginning of the fall term, two themes presented themselves like old friends reminding us that they
still mattered in our lives. They are the themes of our Pepperdine culture and heritage. That we are mindful
of and faithful to such timeless themes offers a promise that the place George Pepperdine envisioned sixtyfive years ago continues to be relevant, that it continues to be as Mr. Pepperdine imagined it ought to be.
At the heart of a truly unique Pepperdine experience, the University affirms the significance—the “infinite
worth”—of each student. It is easy to consider students en masse, as a group of thousands sitting in our
classrooms, living in our dorms, and moving through their four years anonymously. It is easy, but it would
be totally out of character for Pepperdine.
This past fall after speaking to parents who had come to launch their sons and daughters on a new
and exciting adventure called “higher education,” I noticed a woman standing quietly next to a tall, male
freshman student. After he had moved away and joined in a separate conversation, I approached the woman,
whose loving gaze remained fixed on the young man standing several feet away. Nodding toward him,
I asked, “Is he your first?”
She looked at me and replied softly, “No, he’s my only.”
That moment stayed with me for some time. At Pepperdine, as faculty and staff, we do well to remember
to respect and celebrate every student as an “only.” Eric Hoffer, philosopher and former Presidential Medal of
Freedom honoree, was right when he observed, “It is the individual only who is timeless.”
In remaining true to our mission, our ability to learn and to pass along the special nature of the Pepperdine
community is of utmost importance. Then and now, our identity is rooted in a heritage of faith that is as
constant, reliable, and dependable as we make it.
Pepperdine is more visible today than ever before, and along with that comes much responsibility. Those
who share even a modest claim to the University are invited to express the kindness, the courtesy, and the
individual attention that advances Pepperdine in the direction of its founder’s vision.
What a privilege it is to be here at such a time as this.
Andrew K. Benton
Homecoming 2003
Planet Pepperdine
February 7-9, 2003
www.pepperdine.edu/alumni/seaver
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CAMPUS BUZZ
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FACULTY IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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VISIONARY
Pepperdine People and
Events Making Headlines
Scholarship, Grants, Publications,
and a Fish Called Grunion
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FACULTY AUTHORS
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FEATURE
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ALUMNI ON THE MOVE
Attorneys Greg Johnson and Jody
Moore Fight to End Elder Abuse
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GSEP professor Sue Talley Uses
Technology to Improve Teaching
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ATHLETICS
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TRANSITIONS
COVER FEATURE
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PHOTO SPREAD
CLASS NOTES
Catching Up with Fellow Alumni
Alumna Hollie Packman Responds
to a Calling to Help the Homeless
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Dragon Boat Racing: Alumnus
Scott Wu Feeds on Competition
“Rugrats” Writer, CIA Exec, Senate
Fellow Make Pepperdine Proud
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INNOVATOR
Pepperdine Professors Publish
Impressive List of Titles
Water Polo Coach Terry Schroeder
Inducted into Swimming Hall of Fame
Remembering and Welcoming
Pepperdine Faculty, Staff, and Friends
New Center for Communication
and Business is a Model Facility
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CENTER FOR FAITH AND LEARNING HOSTS MAJOR CONFERENCE
Pepperdine’s Center for Faith and Learning presented the Lilly Fellows Program National Conference,
“Sharing Stories of Vocation: How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind, Enhance Our Scholarship,
and Invigorate Our Classroom Teaching,” October 3–5 on the Malibu campus. Faculty from University of
Illinois, Harvard Law School, Baylor University, Georgetown University, Pepperdine, and others participated.
Parker J. Palmer delivered the keynote address, “What It Means to Teach from a Christian Perspective.”
Palmer is a writer, teacher, and activist working independently on issues in education, community, leadership,
spirituality, and social change. Recognized as one of thirty influential senior leaders in higher education, his
publications include more than one hundred essays and six books, including his most recent, “Let Your Life
Speak,” which discusses the power of faith and vocation.
Jean Bethke Elshtain, a political philosopher and professor of social and political ethics at the University
of Chicago, spoke about the connections between political and ethical convictions in
life and society. Elshtain has received numerous endowed lectureships, fellowships, and honorary degrees
Parker J. Palmer
while serving on diverse boards and professional societies.
Richard J. Mouw closed the conference with a discussion on enhancing the quality of scholarship and
invigorating classroom teaching. Mouw has served as the president of Fuller Theological Seminary, the largest multidenominational seminary in the world, since
1993. He has served on numerous editorial boards and councils such as the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy.
Following each lecture, breakout sessions were held by specific disciplines and led by faculty members from the participating institutions.
The Center for Faith and Learning seeks to enhance the connections between classroom teaching, scholarship, and Christian faith and practice. The Lilly
Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts holds annual, national meetings each October, attended by two representatives from each of roughly sixty member
institutions. Valparaiso University, where the program is based, hosts these national meetings every third year, while the meeting rotates to campuses of
member institutions the other two years. ❖
PEPPERDINE DEBATE TEAM ACHIEVES
FIRST NUMBER ONE NATIONAL RANKING
The University’s debate team recently exploded into the 2002
debate season with two successful tournaments and is currently ranked
number one in the nation. Following first place finishes at the Fresno
State and Santa Rosa, California, tournaments, the Pepperdine Debate
Team stands at the top of the Cross-Examination Debate Association’s
national rankings. It is the first time in University history that the team
has been ranked number one.
Given that Pepperdine is much smaller than many of its
competitors, the first two tournament finishes have been described as
“David vs. Goliath”–type victories. At Fresno State, the Pepperdine team
of Ravi Mehta and David Raimer placed third in the junior varsity
division. In the varsity division, the team of Andrew Hoag and Catherine
Quizon placed fifth, and the team of Brynn Olsen and Dusty Farned
ended preliminary rounds undefeated, placing third overall in varsity. In
the novice division, the team of Kim Hyson and Cara Lynn were
undefeated throughout the entire tournament and earned first place honors.
At the Santa Rosa Invitational, the team of Hoag and Quizon defeated Chico State University in the final round of the varsity division, placing first
overall. In the novice division, Hyson and Lynn placed first in their division for the second consecutive tournament. Achieving individual honors, Hoag
was fourth in the varsity division. In novice, Hyson was fourth and Lynn was third.
“Our success is due to the hard work of the team members, dedication of assistant coaches Kylie Robertson and Kristen Reid, and support of the
faculty,” said professor Greg Achten, visiting lecturer and coach of the team.
On October 19–20, the debate team hosted the 5th Annual Ray Buchanan Invitational Debates, which was named to honor professor Buchanan
for his contributions to the debate program. The event attracted more than one hundred teams from across the nation, making it one of the top ten
debate tournaments of the year. ❖
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MBA STUDENTS GIVE TIME AND TALENT TO ASSIST LOCAL NONPROFITS
Recognizing that business leadership also means community leadership, MBA students at Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business and
Management have volunteered to provide valuable semester-long consulting services to local charities and nonprofit organizations through the
annual Service Leadership Project. The project, which was established in 1986, places MBA student teams, under the guidance of faculty advisors,
in positions to negotiate roles in both business and the community.
Molly Rockey, director of volunteer services for the ALS Association, Greater Los Angeles chapter, described the challenges of such
organizations. “As a small nonprofit that provides services to people with ALS—known as Lou Gehrig’s disease—and their families and caretakers,
we have always used our resources and manpower for our patient services,” she said. “We struggle with staff shortages,
old donated furniture and equipment, and not enough hours in the day to meet our many demands.”
For the sixteenth year in a row,
students enrolled in the full-time MBA
program at the Graziadio School have
SCIENCE FACULTY FOURSOME SECURES NATIONAL GRANT
devoted time and energy to consult, in
five- and six-person teams, for
The prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Pepperdine a grant of $111,635 for
organizations such as ALS.
the work of natural science professors Thomas Vandergon, Donna Nofziger Plank, Jay Brewster, and
“This is one of the most important
Susan Helm on their project, “MRI/RUI-Acquisition of a Real-Time Quantitative PCR Instrument for
services we provide to our community,”
Undergraduate Research and Teaching.”
said James Goodrich, associate dean of
“This grant is important for Pepperdine because it is an affirmation that our undergraduate
the full-time MBA program.
research program is highly regarded at the national level,” Vandergon said. “The wonderful thing
“The students consult and make
about Pepperdine is that all of our students get hands-on experience on modern pieces of
recommendations on vital areas that
equipment, which students at large institutions would never have access to. As a result, we feel that
include fund-raising, grants, Web site
our students are better prepared for graduate work and are more marketable in industry positions.”
content, publicity and promotion,
The proposal makes possible the acquisition of a QPCR instrument, which allows a multistep
participation, and special events
analysis to be completed faster than before. Professor Jay Brewster said, “The QPCR offers a diverse
management—all real-world issues
array of exciting capabilities for faculty research and for the training of undergraduates in their
facing nonprofits.” ❖
chosen specialty.”
The instrument amplifies DNA or RNA (genetic material) in tubes, using fluorescent dyes, which
makes it possible to accurately quantify the original amount of DNA or RNA present in samples. This
kind of analysis was virtually impossible to do only a few years ago and is still impossible without this
specialized equipment.
On a global scale, QPCR techniques can aid
in the study of disease-causing bacteria in food
by enabling a quick and reliable determination of
the level of contamination by dangerous
WOOD AND GIMBEL RECEIVE FULBRIGHT AWARDS
bacteria. Other applications include analyses of
how and when genes are used by cells in a
Seaver College graduate Michael Wood and School of Law alumnus Jordon Gimbel were
developing embryo.
the fifth and sixth Pepperdine University students to receive prestigious Fulbright
In the past fiscal year, the NSF MRI panel
scholarships, and the first two to be awarded in the same year.
received 719 requests for funding, totaling more
Wood, who majored in economics and international studies, took his final class abroad
than $300 million. The total budget is
in Russia this summer, before traveling to Cote d’Ivoire, Africa’s Ivory Coast. Gimbel is using
approximately $75 million, so the competition was
his Fulbright scholarship to study intellectual property laws and regulations in Sweden.
intense. Out of the 141 proposals that were
Wood, who minored in math and French, credits several Pepperdine faculty,
reviewed for this program, only forty-six were
administrators, and friends for encouraging him to apply to the Fulbright program. He
granted guaranteed funding, including
described the application process as extremely competitive and said it was
Pepperdine. ❖
Dr. Robert Lloyd who suggested he focus on the subject of microfinance.
“I was interested in it because I majored in economic and international studies, and it
involves both,” Wood said. “I wouldn’t be going if it weren’t for Dr. Lloyd.”
Gimbel is focusing on Swedish and European Union (EU) regulations and laws covering
intellectual property, jurisdiction of judgments, and telecommunications.
“Sweden is, without a doubt, one of the most technologically savvy countries in the
world,” Gimbel said. “It has the highest number of information technology–related employees
in the EU, and in both 2000 and 2001, Sweden was declared the world’s leading information
technology nation by the U.S.–based research firm IDC.” ❖
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SITE FOR HEROES GARDEN DEDICATED DURING DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
Pepperdine’s 2002 Founder’s Day Convocation on September 11 touched lives in deeply personal and lasting ways. Coinciding with the oneyear anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Founder’s Day featured a moving address by Ted Leenerts, a Presbyterian minister and police
chaplain who ministered to grieving families and rescue personnel at Ground Zero. Leenerts received his master’s degree in psychology from
Pepperdine’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology.
Pepperdine’s “Day of Remembrance” began with a sunrise service at Stauffer Chapel. The service included scripture readings, hymns, and
personal reflections of 9/11. Acclaimed opera singer and alumna Jessica Rivera sang “America the Beautiful” and “The Lord’s Prayer” at the
sunrise service, which was led by Ken Durham, minister of the University Church of Christ, which co-sponsored the early morning program.
Following the 10 a.m. convocation at Firestone Fieldhouse, drummers and bagpipers led Pepperdine’s robed faculty and hundreds of guests
in a silent procession to Alumni Park. There, participants joined in a formal dedication of the Heroes Garden, which will be situated on a
promontory overlooking the ocean on the new Drescher Campus. The Heroes Garden will be a lasting tribute to those who lost their lives on
September 11, 2001, including Thomas
E. Burnett, Jr., a Graziadio School of
Business and Management alumnus.
PEPPERDINE AGAIN RANKS AMONG TOP 50 UNIVERSITIES
Burnett was a passenger on United Flight
Recognized as one of America’s leading universities, Pepperdine is ranked number forty-seven in
93 and is credited for leading the effort
the
U.S.
News & World Report 2003 edition of “America’s Best Colleges.” It is the third consecutive
to fight off the hijackers.
year that Pepperdine’s ranking has appeared in the top fifty. The category, “National
Following brief remarks by President
Universities—Doctoral,” includes 249 institutions “offering a full range of undergraduate majors, plus
Andrew K. Benton, Linda Livingstone,
master’s and Ph.D. degrees, and emphasizing faculty research.” The rankings are based on several
dean of the Graziadio School, read a
key measures of quality, including academic reputation, graduation and retention rates, faculty
heartfelt letter from Deena Burnett,
resources, and student selectivity.
Tom’s wife, who thanked the Pepperdine
Pepperdine Provost Darryl Tippens said, “The faculty of Pepperdine work very hard at
community for its outpouring of support.
scholarship,
while giving passionate attention to the individual needs of our students. To be included
The University Men’s Choir, under
in
the
first
tier
again among the nation’s finest universities is indeed an honor.”
the direction of Milton Pullen, closed
Pepperdine also appeared in several other categories. Under the “Best Value” category, which is
the dedication ceremony with a stirring
based on institutional aid, Pepperdine was placed number thirty-seven out of the 249 nationally
a cappella performance of “God Bless
ranked schools. Pepperdine is considered to be among the most selective schools nationally, ranking
America.” ❖
thirty-sixth in the “Lowest Acceptance Rates” category. Pepperdine’s Seaver College placed fourteenth
in the nation for the number of students who study abroad during their undergraduate college
careers. And finally, the University was ranked ninth in the percentage of classes with enrollments of
less than twenty students. ❖
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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES
LATINO HOUSING STUDY
A landmark report dealing with both the long- and shortterm implications of the Latino housing environment in
Southern California was published by Pepperdine’s School of
Public Policy (SPP), the La Jolla Institute, and Cultural Access
Group, Inc. Titled “Rewarding Ambition: Latinos, Housing, and
the Future of California,” the report was released at a
conference in Santa Ana, California.
Program participants included Gary E. Acosta, CEO and
vice chairman of the National Association of Hispanic Real
Estate Professionals; Steve Olson, CEO of The Olson Company;
Erika Ozuna, research fellow at the Davenport Institute of SPP;
Steve PonTell, CEO of De Oro Group and president of the La
Jolla Institute; and John P. Reekstin,
executive director of Santa Ana Community
Development Agency.
“The growing housing shortage is
not only a Latino issue,” said Joel Kotkin, coauthor of the study and a senior fellow at the
Davenport Institute. “It impacts all
Californians—our economy, our societal
stability, and the future health of our
democracy.”
The report noted that as Southern
California’s population expands, it is
increasingly unable to meet the housing
needs of much of its new population. This
housing shortfall is particularly profound
among Latinos, who will soon constitute
a plurality of the region’s households. ❖
AND NOW WE’RE ‘HOT’
Pepperdine is among the nation’s “hottest schools,” according to
the 2003 Kaplan/Newsweek “How to Get Into College” guide.
According to the guide, applications are up, community service is hot,
studying science and technology is popular, “and this year’s hottest
schools offer outstanding value.”
Pepperdine was selected for its “strong academic programs, great
campus life, and its prime location,” as well as its offerings of
community involvement and service-learning projects.
The University shares its “Hottest School” title with Boston College,
George Washington University, University of Maryland, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and University of Washington at Seattle,
among others. ❖
ARTSREACH PROGRAM
ENRICHES LOS ANGELES
AREA SCHOOLCHILDREN
Each year, Pepperdine’s acclaimed ARTSreach
Program, supported by the University’s Center for
the Arts Guild, inspires the lives of more than ten
thousand schoolchildren from Ventura to inner-city
Los Angeles. These arts experiences—free to
participants—enrich the lives of these children
with world-class performances at Smothers
The Vanaver Caravan group
Theatre and art museum tours at the Frederick R.
Weisman Museum of Art, both on Pepperdine’s Malibu campus.
Earlier this year, The Vanaver Caravan group staged several performances of Pastures of Plenty, the group’s newest program
inspired by Woody Guthrie. Based in New York State, The Vanaver Caravan was founded by Livia and Bill Vanaver. The company’s
dancers and musicians present concerts with live music directly related to social studies and language arts curriculum. Students from
more than seventeen public and private schools from Malibu, Los Angeles, and Ventura County participated. ❖
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FACULTY IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Mercedes Fisher
Named Fulbright
Scholar, Receives
International Grant
Trio of School of Law Professors
Publishes Breakthrough Book
on Trial Advocacy
A new book written by three Pepperdine School of Law
professors explores both the theoretical and practical
dimensions of trial advocacy. Professors Tim Perrin, Harry
Caldwell, and Carol Chase penned The Art & Science of Trial
Advocacy, published in 2002 by Anderson Publishing
Company, to teach law students and practicing attorneys
how to excel at trial.
The book examines the trial process, suggesting techniques
and strategies for each stage, from pretrial to closing
arguments. To demonstrate each technique, the authors
include illustrative transcripts explaining how they would
use the technique in a case. The book also includes a
discussion of the basic principles of effective communication
and persuasion, giving examples of how to develop case
presentations that impact judges and juries. The authors
note, “Just as every aspiring Picasso must be adept at using
the tools of his trade and understanding the properties of
paint and the changeability of color, so must trial advocates
appreciate the tools at their disposal, the ‘properties’ of
persuasion, and the unpredictability of jurors.”
Perrin is a former civil litigator who practiced in state and
federal courts in Texas. Caldwell is a former deputy district
attorney who currently serves as appellate defense counsel
for California death-row inmates. Chase is a former federal
prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and has also
worked in civil litigation. Professors Perrin and Caldwell
serve as the faculty advisors for the law school’s successful
interschool trial teams. ❖
Mercedes Fisher, an associate
professor of educational technology
at the Graduate School of Education
and Psychology (GSEP), has been
named a Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar and received
a Fulbright grant for international research.
Fulbright Senior Specialists are entitled to study abroad
and collaborate with professional counterparts on curriculum
and faculty development, institutional planning, and other
activities. Grantees can present lectures, conduct seminars
or workshops at overseas academic institutions, consult
with administrators and instructors on various issues, and
participate in teacher-training and other programs.
Fisher teaches face-to-face and Web-based courses to
graduate students at Pepperdine. She will remain on a roster
of Fulbright Senior Specialists for five years, during which
institutions located in foreign countries can request her
services.
Shortly after being notified about her Fulbright award,
Fisher accepted a letter of invitation from Australia’s
University of Sydney, College of Humanities and Social
Sciences, to teach and conduct research in the school’s
information technology program. After fulfilling her current
faculty obligations at Pepperdine, she expects to relocate
to Australia before the end of the year.
“I am deeply honored to have been chosen a Fulbright
Senior Specialist by the Fulbright committee and look
forward to my first teaching assignment in Sydney,” Fisher
said. “Today, especially in light of the events of September
11, it is more important than ever for Americans to develop
a better understanding of and appreciation for the history,
culture, and lifestyles of our neighbors around the world. By
living abroad, studying foreign cultures, and exchanging
ideas and information with people in those countries, we can
help foster better communication and goodwill among
peoples of all nationalities and religious beliefs.” ❖
School of Law Professors Harry Caldwell, Tim Perrin, and Carol Chase
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FACULTY IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Pepperdine Biology Professor
a Grunion’s Best Friend
Casey Releases
Book on StoneCampbell
Movement
By Jacyln Tully
Leading more than two hundred “grunion greeters,”
Pepperdine biology professor Karen Martin documented the
spawning of grunion along the sixteen miles of beaches in
San Diego, California, this spring. After fears arose that this
unique species was being destroyed by the increase of
urbanization along the coast, the team found that a healthy
population of grunion still exists on the shoreline.
Grunion are silver fish that are five to six inches in length.
Indigenous to the coast between Southern California and
northwestern Mexico, they are one of the only fish in the
world that comes to shore to spawn. Although much study
has been conducted about the egg-laying process, Martin
admits that the adult life of a grunion is still a mystery.
Project Pacific, a nonprofit ocean education organization,
recruits volunteers and provides a Web site and a telephone
hotline for grunion greeters, who were trained at workshops
sponsored by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of
University of California, San Diego, between March and midJuly. The greeters were then assigned to ten beaches where
they observed the spawning grunion at night. Participants
estimated the number of fish and entered the data on the
Web site. Each morning after a “grunion run,” Martin,
along with her team of four, carefully located and counted
the eggs in the sand. As expected, findings supported that
the process of beach grooming too close to the shoreline
decreases the number of eggs that hatch.
Martin believes that the grunion population frequently
fluctuates, and she has presented her research to the San
Diego City Council and elsewhere to ensure that the city’s
beach grooming efforts do not harm the grunion. ❖
Michael W. Casey, the Carl
P. Miller chair of communication
at Pepperdine, has released a
new book, The Stone-Campbell
Movement: An International
Religious Tradition. The book,
published in 2002 by the University of Tennessee Press and
co-edited with Douglas A. Foster, associate professor of
church history at Abilene Christian University, brings
together twenty-six essays reprinted from leading history
and religion journals. This is the first book of its kind on
the Stone-Campbell history and the first major review of
Stone-Campbell historiography since the 1980s.
The Stone-Campbell Movement is a religious reform
tradition that has flourished for more than a quarter of a
century. The movement developed on the American frontier
in the early nineteenth century. Named for its two principal
founders, Barton W. Stone and Alexander Campbell, its
purpose was twofold: to restore the church to the practice
and teaching of the New Testament and to find a basis for
reuniting all Christians. Today, there are three major
branches of the Stone-Campbell tradition: the Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ), Churches of Christ, and
Christian Churches/Churches of Christ.
The collection of essays in the book considers such topics
as the movement’s origins, its influence on the U.S. presidency,
its presence in Britain, and its multicultural aspects.
Of the twenty-six essays, two were written by Richard
Hughes, professor of religion at Pepperdine University, and
one by Casey. The introduction, written by Casey and Foster,
reveals the connection between this scholarship and larger
issues of American history, religion, and culture.
Casey was recently named visiting fellow at the Institute
for Faith and Learning at Baylor University and also received
the Religious Communication Association Award for Best
Article in Religious Communication. ❖
Karen Martin studies the silver fish on a late-night “grunion run.”
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VISIONARY
Changeof
Heart
A
By Kathryn Boswell
Most people would call this particular work depressing. Elder abuse attorneys Greg
Johnson and Jody Moore investigate and prosecute civil patient abuse cases involving
nursing homes and care facilities. And while the work is grisly, both lawyers say it is
extremely rewarding.
Both Johnson and Moore are former civil defense attorneys
who turned their careers around 180 degrees to sue the same
entities they once defended. “There’s a tremendous need for
it,” Johnson explained. “[Elderly patients] need advocates.”
Government statistics tell a grim story about the elder
abuse issue. In February, a Congressional report asserted
that one in four nursing homes nationwide has patient care
violations. And while most of the problems are related to
staffing issues, some of the stories involving abuse are
nightmarish.
Moore’s decision to become a victim’s attorney came
out of her own family’s ordeal with an elder care facility.
A week after her grandmother was placed in the facility
following a stroke, a family member noticed an open and
bleeding bedsore that the facility’s staff had apparently
ignored and allowed to fester. Seven days later, Moore’s
grandmother passed away enveloped in excruciating and
unnecessary pain.
“When my grandmother got sick, I had a change of heart,”
said Moore, a 1994 Seaver College graduate. “I realized that
many of the stories that I heard as a defense attorney were
most likely true. I had always thought that perhaps family
members exaggerated their stories because they were so
close to the circumstances and so emotional about it.”
Johnson’s empathy for the issue derives from personal
experience as well. The 1995 School of Law alumnus has
a three-year old daughter, Margaret, who was born with a
brain tumor and later diagnosed with severe neurological
disorders. “I tell every single one of my clients about
Margaret,” said Johnson. “People are so overwhelmed by the
system, I want them to know that I understand. Like them,
I have been at the hospital for days at a time and have been
through some of what they are going through.”
Perhaps what makes Moore and Johnson such effective
prosecutors is their focused attention on the defenseless
and their compassion for families coping with such harsh
realities. “I have a keen interest in protecting people who
are vulnerable,” Johnson said.
Moore and Johnson value the time they spend talking
with and getting to know their clients. “To me, this is such
rewarding work,” Moore said. “I spend a lot of time with all
my cases, even those that I don’t take.”
Their work as victim’s attorneys involves a great deal
of investigation—searching through documents, trying to
determine if any have been falsified, and questioning people
on why certain actions weren’t taken when a patient
obviously was in need of care.
“In Ventura County, there is only a handful of attorneys
who do this type of work and do it well,” Johnson said.
Moore added: “The level of devotion and time and effort this
work requires makes it so you can’t do it half-heartedly.”
In 2001, Johnson and Moore undertook an investigation
into the death of Jesse Espinoza, a patient at a local elder
care facility. Espinoza had been locked in a room without
air-conditioning and only a slight opening in the window.
The facility was so understaffed that no one noticed when
Espinoza stopped drinking water. After suffering dehydration
for up to ten days, he died.
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In a precedent-setting case, Johnson and Moore
convinced a jury to award $700,000 to the man’s family,
marking the first time a Ventura County jury has ever
awarded damages for elder abuse. The case settled for a
confidential amount before returning to the jury for the
punitive phase of damages. The settlement turned the
media spotlight on to what is becoming a growing national
concern—the safety and treatment of individuals in elder
care facilities. “This was a story that needed to be told,”
said Johnson, “publicly on the record.”
Added Moore, “Heightened public awareness is what is
needed.” But it isn’t just awareness that Johnson and Moore
are after—they are looking to use their cases to make policy
changes in elder care facilities or to put the chronic offenders
out of business permanently, and they have already seen
changes as a result of their work.
In one of their cases, a nursing home employee was
wheeling a five-gallon container of boiling water on a cart
through the Alzheimer’s ward. When the cart hit one of the
wheelchairs and spilled, a patient was scalded and covered
with third-degree burns. As a direct result of the suit that
followed, the nursing home changed the rules for how hot
liquids are transported.
In another case, patients were being rationed diapers.
Each patient received a certain number of diapers for the
day, regardless of their specific needs. One of the women
developed such severe diaper rash that her family followed
up on the matter, and, subsequently, the allocation of diapers
became linked to need.
“Before the California legislature’s passing of the Elder
Abuse and Dependent Adult Care Protection Act, relatives
of an elder abuse victim couldn’t sue for pain and suffering
after the patient had died,” Johnson explained. “The pain
and suffering died with the patient.” But after the legislature
realized how widespread the abuse had become, they found
a way to hit offenders with more than the previous $50,000
penalty fee, which was the maximum citation any watchdog
agency could hand down for a death caused by negligence.
“I battle in front of juries to make them see that just
because this was an old person does not mean that they
deserve less than another human being,” Johnson said.
“A person is worthy of dignity just as much on the way
into life as on the way out. If this was an infant, they would
be climbing over the jury railing to get at these people.”
Johnson and Moore clearly value the role that elder care
facilities play in society. “There is such a need for these
facilities,” Moore said. “And I hope someday that quality
care puts our practice out of business,” added Johnson.
But until the phone stops ringing with new stories and
new cases, Johnson and
Moore plan to
continue their
crusade against
elder abuse. ❖
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I N N O V AT O R
Harnessing
Power
Technology
of
the
To Create Better Teachers
By Carin Chapin
Around the nation Pepperdine University is widely regarded as an excellent model for
using technology in teacher-credentialing programs, thanks largely to Graduate School
of Education and Psychology professor Sue Talley. Sensing the power of technology in
the classroom more than two decades ago, she has since devoted her considerable
talents to making Pepperdine’s approach to teacher education the standard to which
other programs are compared.
Talley’s focus has been on training and credentialing future
teachers, or “pre-service teachers.” She wrote and submitted a
compelling grant proposal to the Department of Education
three years ago and was subsequently awarded a Pre-service
Educators and Technology Preparation (PT3) catalyst grant.
With the Department of Education contributing $1.8 million,
and matching funds from Pepperdine, Apple Computer,
Classroom Connect, the Los Angeles County Office of
Education, Lennox School District, and the George Lucas
Educational Foundation, the amount of the grant totals
$4 million, making it one of the largest grants Pepperdine
has ever received.
Talley first recognized the benefits of technology in the
classroom as a high school English teacher in Minnesota.
Seeking a larger base from which to work, she left teaching
to join TIES, a local education agency, as a kind of computer
ambassador. With room to roam, she served no less than
sixty school districts statewide, providing teachers with
lessons incorporating the use of computers by students. She
was instrumental in obtaining a major contract with Apple
Computer, and the Apple II became the standardized
computer for Minnesota’s entire school system.
Not long after she brokered this deal, Apple convinced
Talley to join the fledgling company full time in its technology
education department, where she instructed teachers how to
incorporate computers in their lessons. During her tenure
with Apple, she was introduced to Pepperdine’s Graduate
School of Education and Psychology (GSEP) and was
impressed with the school’s faculty and administration.
Talley left Apple in 1991 to join a nonprofit foundation in
Silicon Valley whose mission was to obtain venture capital
for educational software development in the classroom
setting. Her path again crossed with GSEP administrators
at a Computer Using Educators (CUE) conference, and the
respect was mutual. Talley decided to make the move back
to teaching and joined the faculty at GSEP, where she later
helped establish the school’s educational technology doctoral
program with then professor of education Terry Cannings.
In her current role as project director for the PT3
program, Talley has produced some of her most rewarding
work to date. One of the main components of the program is
the development and implementation of online video case
studies. In all teacher-credentialing programs, pre-service
teachers are required to observe classrooms, where classroom
management and teaching techniques are modeled. However,
Talley said, “a common complaint of professors teaching the
credentialing courses is that it is extremely hard for the preservice teachers to have a common learning experience.”
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Another component of the PT3 program is the
Because each pre-service teacher observes a different
development of electronic portfolios. In the pilot program,
classroom, there is little room for discussion of the
GSEP students are creating electronic portfolios designed
techniques observed.
to demonstrate how well they have mastered credentialing
Taking that complaint to heart, Talley conceptualized and
standards set by the state, as well as to provide potential
began producing video case studies, where a classroom is
employers with professional résumés from GSEP students.
videotaped and the footage is made available via the Internet,
Based on the modeling of electronic portfolios in the pilot
creating an instantly accessible video for pre-service teachers.
program, professors help credential candidates videotape
In addition to the classroom footage, a discussion forum and
their teaching practice, edit a digital video, and create a
commentary by experts are available online.
CD-ROM “calling card” to pass along to their potential
Anthony Williams, a recent GSEP graduate and current
employers.
first grade teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District,
According to Talley, the
found the online case studies
electronic portfolios are a
invaluable. “The discussion
tremendous resource to use
forum was extremely
with potential employers.
beneficial,” he said. “The
“The principals love them,”
news groups and online
she said. “They can pop in
postings allow you to hear
the CD-ROM and watch
and read various opinions
streaming video of the
at once. It also allows you
applicant in an actual
to make connections to
teaching environment. It
people that you may not
takes out the guess work
have otherwise been able
and cuts right to the punch.”
to connect with.”
Zanine Szatan, a former
GSEP professor Cara
GSEP student, was among
Garcia, who is the course
GSEP Professor Sue Talley, right, works with her PT3 team.
the first to create such an
mentor for the language
electronic portfolio. Using
acquisition courses in the
iMovie and QuickTime, she
teacher-credentialing
edited a package that she
program, said, “The PT3
believes landed her a
program has built a
teaching job right after
community between
graduation.
professors and students that
Talley said the greatest
simply couldn’t exist without
reward for her has been
the technology. Our video
witnessing other GSEP
case studies let us study
professors incorporate
entire units of ‘real life’
technology into their
instruction. This is a sea
classes in unique ways.
change beyond showing brief
“The PT3 project is
commercial video clips of
a success because of the
‘another perfect classroom.’ ”
GSEP faculty and their
The PT3 program has not
collaborative thinking,” she explained. “In fact, it is only
only infused students with technology, but it also has
with this sort of teamwork that innovations in the use of
brought professors into a new realm of state-of-the-art
technology are successful in education.”
teaching techniques.
As the grant concludes its three-year pilot program,
“Those [GSEP] professors who bleed on the cutting edge
Department of Education officials will evaluate Pepperdine’s
of technology in order to practice what they preach are the
role in launching a nationwide program that targets all
catalysts,” Garcia said. “As course mentor of the language
schools of education. Talley believes that we are only
arts methods team, I have seen the development of these
beginning to tap into the power of technology in the
folks, moving from the very modest use of computers for
classroom, and she is driven and committed to keeping
e-mail to using streaming video and making iMovies. What
GSEP among those who lead the way. ❖
a ‘PT3 E-ride!’ ”
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C O V E R F E AT U R E
Helping the
Homeless
find a place to belong
By Amy Hunter
A trailer sits in the parking lot of the Malibu, California, courthouse. Around it each
morning, men and women gather and wait for a chance to work. Supported by the city’s
efforts to give homeless and struggling individuals a chance to get back on their feet,
these “day laborers” eye an approaching Saab with anticipation. A young couple emerges
from the car. Daniel Packman, an independent design contractor, is seeking someone to
help with a building project at their home nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains. His
wife, Hollie, carries flats of pastries donated by Starbucks to those eager to work. She
smiles, calling some by name and welcoming others. Daniel makes an offer for work to a
man named Frank. The three return to the car and head home to start on the project.
As each day passed, Hollie and Daniel heard more of
Frank’s story. Their eyes and hearts were opened to a world
where people, either through choice or circumstance, went
from having everything to having nothing. Every night, the
Packmans returned the twenty-eight-year-old man to his
“home” under the bridge in Malibu before retiring to their
own comfortable beds. The stark contrast of Frank’s
existence to their own seemed surreal and unnerving.
As a pre-med student attending college on scholarship
and living modestly with his father, Frank had dreams of
being a doctor. Frank’s mother died when he was only
eighteen months old, so his father meant the world to him.
A sudden heart attack not only took his father’s life, but also
left Frank without family and, eventually, without a home.
He lived in his car until it was mistakenly towed away, and
eventually he was forced to quit school. Frank, hopeless and
alone, soon found himself living on the streets, addicted to
drugs and alcohol.
“When you take away family and a couple of paychecks,
[homelessness] could happen to anyone,” Hollie said.
After earning a master’s in communication from Pepperdine’s
Seaver College in 1997, Hollie spent four years as a
communication consultant in a large firm, quickly working
her way to the top. She regularly guided CEOs and
presidents of large companies in their communication and
planning processes.
Hollie and Daniel Packman
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“We never intended to start a homeless outreach,” Hollie
“Standing on Stone,” a line from a poem composed by a local
said. “We got to know Frank, and then we got to know
homeless man about his own healing process.
Winston, and then we got to know Kevin, and then Keith,
Currently, between forty and sixty people meet to share a
and Sonia. And all of the sudden, we knew all these people.”
meal and participate in a spiritual and intellectual discussion
In the fall of 2000, the Packmans gathered for the first time
every Tuesday. The time offers the lost and broken something
with twelve Malibu homeless people outside Diedrich’s coffee
of indescribable value—a place to belong.
shop. “We didn’t buy anyone coffee or hand out Bibles,” Hollie
“I first started coming to just get something to eat,”
said. “We just had the best time and became friends.”
said a former homeless man named Rich. “For the first six
As those relationships grew, the rigor of Hollie’s job began
months, I came drunk and wasted and couldn’t care less
to weigh heavily on her. She left the firm to establish her
about anything else going on. But as Hollie and Daniel
own business, Studio 8 Consulting. As an executive coach
started befriending me, I wanted to get better, I wanted to
and corporate trainer, her
live again. I was dead, and
time became divided
they breathed life and hope
between meeting with CEOs
into me.”
“We never intended to start a homeless outreach.
and befriending men and
Now Rich is a partner in
We got to know Frank, and then we got to
women living on the streets.
a window-washing business,
know Winston, and then we got to know Kevin,
“My friends understood
has a home, is sober, and
and
then
Keith,
and
Sonia.
And
all
of
the
sudden,
because they know my
continues to support those
heart,” she said. “My family
who are struggling.
we knew all these people.”
—Hollie Packman
was a little concerned about
Hollie said the goal is to
my safety meeting with the
help people transition back
homeless, and my clients
to normal lifestyles. “We see
thought I was nuts.”
it as a continuum where willingness and hope are fostered
As winter approached, the number of people huddling
through meeting physical needs, then building community,
outside Diedrich’s grew, forcing the friends to move up the
accountability, advocacy, and finally mentoring.”
road to the Malibu Vineyard Church. The group soon
When people are ready to make a change, there are still
evolved into S.O.S. Ministries, which provides emergency
many things that need mending, which can be as simple
services, advocacy, mentoring, and a sense of community
as fixing teeth that have been destroyed by drug use or as
for homeless individuals living in Malibu. S.O.S. stands for
complex as mending severed relationships. S.O.S. leaders
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A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Jere E. Yates Chairman Suite
honored the former business division chair and his wife,
Wireless
Wonder
Don Ohlmeyer, a former NBC president, addresses the audience
of the Center for Communication and Business dedication.
New Center for Communication and Business
Sets Standards for Technological Innovation By Jaclyn Tully
With the recent opening of the new Center for
Communication and Business, Pepperdine now hosts one
of Southern California’s most technologically advanced
educational facilities. The Center, which is the new
academic home to the two largest undergraduate divisions
of Seaver College, was completed just before the opening of
the fall semester and contains more than sixty ocean view
offices and sixteen hi-tech classrooms. Other major tenants
include the Department of Public Safety, The Graphic
student newspaper, the TV26 production studio, and the
KWVS radio station.
Pepperdine alumni, students, faculty/staff, and friends
celebrated the opening of the Center on October 12. The
dedication included honoree presentations by President
Andrew K. Benton, and special remarks by business division
chair Keith Whitney and communication division chair Milt
Shatzer. Don Ohlmeyer, former president of NBC West Coast
Television and creator of “Monday Night Football,” presented
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Nearly all of Pepperdine’s undergraduate students will use the
new facility at some point in their college careers.
Communication division chair Milt Shatzer, left, and business division chair
Keith Whitney believe the Center’s technology will greatly benefit students.
the keynote address, in which he commended Pepperdine’s use
of cutting-edge media technology in education.
Each classroom in the center features Internet access via
wire and wireless connectivity, a ceiling-mounted projector, a
computer, a DVD player, and a VCR. Roof-mounted satellite
dishes provide interactive signals for state-of-the-art
reception and transmission, including videoconferencing. In
addition, each floor features an ELMO document camera,
one of the latest developments in projection devices.
Pepperdine’s programs in communication and business
reach nearly all of the University’s undergraduate students.
In the communication division, students study advertising,
creative writing, intercultural communication, journalism,
organizational communication, public relations, speech
communication, telecommunication/broadcast news writing,
and radio and television production.
The business division offers programs in accounting,
business administration, and international business. ❖
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Helping the Homeless continued from page 10
Hollie and Daniel have endured hours of tears and
will often go to the DMV, a hospital, or a courtroom and
frustration to stand by these individuals. But from all the
wait with individuals as a form of advocacy.
disappointment, there comes exceedingly great hope. “They’re
“I was down at the DMV all day,” said John, one of the
phenomenal people, and when the drugs and alcohol go
individuals in transition. “I was with Sophia trying to get
away and you start to see them, it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh … there
her a California driver’s license, but we couldn’t do it. They
he is, there he is!’ It is almost like watching a birth.”
needed a birth certificate and she lost hers.” Winston, now
Today, more of Hollie’s time is invested in S.O.S. than in
sober for ten years, chimed in, “Talk to Hollie. She can get
her business, but she says that the bills get paid somehow.
you a new birth certificate in two days. Normally it takes six
Initially, she and Daniel supported the $5,000 a month
months, but she’s amazing.”
budget, but today the organization, which is working toward
The willingness to spend time with individuals in need
nonprofit status, enjoys the support of people from various
seems to be the most powerful message that team members
churches in the area.
Hollie, Daniel, Jeremy Jenny, Jaime Janner, and the recovered
“We don’t always know where the money is going to come
homeless volunteers can send. As hope and security
from,” Hollie said, “But it is always there.”
increase, individuals are prepared to reunite with family
Celebrities and community members also provide food on
or agree to start long-term treatment programs to get back
a regular basis for the ministry. Various Pepperdine groups,
on their feet.
from upper administrative teams to the Hawaii club, give time
“We feel like we have an opportunity to be the ‘good
and money to serve and prepare meals. Starbucks, Ralphs,
enough’ parent to adults who have never had family,” Hollie
and other local businesses donate food and vouchers.
said. “When there is a crisis or a birthday, we’re there, and
Last year, students from
it’s not an insincere thing. It’s
Pepperdine, in association
genuine because we know
“Helping the poor in Malibu is a totally manageable
with National Hunger and
and love these people.”
thing. I can know a hundred people by name and
Homelessness week,
She noted that at least
truly love them. We here, as a community, have
worked to gather small
one member of the
things like pens, paper,
leadership team is available
a huge opportunity to impact lives and not just
socks, and snacks to be
every day of the week for
provide emergency services.”
given to the homeless in
individuals to talk to or
—Hollie Packman
the area. And this year,
meet with. And on Tuesday
Mike Sprague, coordinator
nights, “we always introduce
of the Pepperdine student volunteer involvement with S.O.S.,
new faces and ask everyone how their week was.”
planned a sock drive, among other activities, to help rally
Introductions are followed by a Bible study, but it’s not
support in an even greater way.
“preachy.” The conversational style allows individuals to
Many of the people whose lives have been changed
connect with and challenge one another.
through S.O.S. also feel led to give back to others when they
“I strongly believe that we’re seeing them beginning to
can. “You’ve got to repay things once in awhile,” said Ralph,
change because there is a constant meeting place,” she said.
who is working full time now and looking for a new place
“Helping the poor in Malibu is a totally manageable thing.
to live. His best friend, Winston, who just received a
I can know a hundred people by name and truly love them.
copyright for an invention, added, “Not everyone on the
We here, as a community, have a huge opportunity to impact
road is out to get something. A lot of them, like Ralph here,
lives and not just provide emergency services.”
give to other people.”
Hollie pointed out that the number one prayer request
While S.O.S. continues to help individuals on their way
from group members is for work. Nearly seventy percent
to reaching success, they hope to one day establish a small
of the Malibu homeless work or attempt to get work every
residential life skills school. Hollie and Daniel believe that
week. She added that only five percent of the homeless
individuals often need a safe place to move forward with a
population in Malibu is mentally ill, whereas in surrounding
lot of one-on-one mentoring and consistent support. “We
areas that number is much higher.
accomplish our mission by investing heavily in each person’s
Dr. Gary Gonsalves does regular health screenings for the
overall wellness,” Hollie said. ❖
homeless and gives them simple advice to stay healthy. He is
available at all times for S.O.S. and is amazed by its success.
“I’ve worked with the poor, battered women and children,
To find out more about the organization and volunteer or
and the homeless before, but I’ve never seen things happen like
donation opportunities, visit the S.O.S. Ministries Web site at
they do here,” he said. “Prayers are answered in this place.”
www.sosmalibu.com, or call (818) 880-6372.
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Faculty Authors
The Pepperdine University faculty has recently published an impressive number of books. In order to get our readers up to speed,
we thought we should go back a few years to highlight some of the publications:
Bleuel, William
Professor
Graziadio School of Business and Management,
with Joseph D. Patton
After the Sale
Solomon PR, fourth edition, 2000
Caldwell, Dan
Professor of Political Science
Seaver College
World Politics and You
Prentice Hall College Division, 1999
Carroll, Lee Ann
Professor of English
Seaver College
Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students
Develop as Writers
Southern Illinois University Press, 2002
Clegg, Cyndia Susan
Distinguished Professor of English
Seaver College
Horror Plum’d: An International Stephen King
Bibliography and Guide
Overlook Connection (in press)
Hauntings, The Official Peter Straub Bibliography
Overlook Connection, 2002
Storyteller, The Official Guide to the Works of Orson
Scott Card
Overlook Connection, 2002
Press Censorship in Jacobean England
Cambridge University Press, 2001
Contino, Paul J.
Professor of Humanities/Teacher Education
Seaver College
with Susan Felch and Gary Saul Morson
Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith
Northwestern University Press, 2001
Cozolino, Louis
Professor
Graduate School
of Education and
Psychology
The Neuroscience
of Psychotherapy
W.W. Norton &
Company, first edition,
2002
Dominguez, Marcela
Visiting Lecturer of Spanish
Seaver College
with Lucia Caycedo Garner and Debbie Rusch
¡Claro que sí! Student and Instructor’s Annotated
Edition
Houghton Mifflin, fourth edition, 2000
Fuentes: Conversación y gramática Student and
Instructor’s Annotated Edition
Houghton Mifflin, second edition, 2000
Fetzer, Joel
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Seaver College
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United
States, France, and Germany
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Fulmer, Robert M.
Editor/Visiting Professor of Business
Graziadio School of Business and Management
with J. Bernard Keys
Executive Development and Organizational Learning
for Global Business
Haworth Press, 1998
with Marshall Goldsmith
The Leadership Investment:
How the World’s Best Organizations
Gain Strategic Advantage Through Leadership
Development
AMACOM, first edition, 2000
Long, Loretta
Professor of Humanities/Teacher Education
Seaver College
The Life of Selina Campbell: A Fellow Soldier in the
Cause of Restoration
University of Alabama Press, 2001
Gose, Michael D.
Professor of Humanities
Seaver College
Creating the Winning Game Plan:
A Secondary Teacher’s Play Book
Corwin Press, 1999
Martin, Daniel
Associate Dean, Library and Information
Services/Professor of Law
School of Law
Henke’s California Law Guide
Michie Butterworth, third edition, 2002
Gough, Russell W.
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics
Seaver College
Character Is Destiny: The Value
of Personal Ethics in Everyday Life
Prima Publishing, 1998
Miller-Perrin, Cindy
Professor of Psychology
Seaver College,
with Robin D. Perrin
Professor of Sociology
Seaver College
Child Maltreatment: An Introduction
Sage Publications, 1999
Herschensohn, Bruce
Editor/Senior Fellow
School of Public Policy
Across the Taiwan Strait: Democracy: The Bridge
Between Mainland China and Taiwan
Lexington Books, 2002
Jenkins, Simon
Professor of Natural Science
Seaver College
Sports Science Handbook
Sunningdale Publications, 2001
Johnston, Jon
Professor of Sociology
Seaver College
Courage: Persevering in the Face of Fear
Beacon Hill Press, 2000
Kats, Lee
Assistant Dean of Research/Professor of
Biology/Frank R. Seaver Chair in Natural Science
Seaver College
Laboratory Studies in Animal Diversity
McGraw-Hill, 2002
Laboratory Studies in Zoology
McGraw-Hill, 2000
Kotkin, Joel
Senior Fellow,
Davenport
Institute for
Public Policy
The New Geography:
How the Digital
Revolution is Reshaping
the American Landscape
Random House, 2001
Lloyd, Gordon
John M. Olin Professor of Public Policy
School of Public Policy
with William B. Allen
Essential Antifederalist
Rowman & Littlefield, 2002
The Essential Bill of Rights: Original Arguments and
Fundamental Documents
University Press of America, 1998
Maddox, Randy
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Seaver College
Mathematical Thinking and Writing:
A Transition to Abstract Mathematics
Academic Press, 2002
Monsma, Stephen V.
Professor and Chair, Social Science Division
Seaver College
Church-State Relations in Crisis:
Debating Neutrality
Rowman & Littlefield, 2002
When Sacred and Secular Mix
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2000
Palacio, June Payne
Chair of Nutritional Science/Assistant
Dean for Teaching
Seaver College
with Monica Theis
Introduction to Foodservice
Prentice Hall, 2001
with Deborah D. Canter
The Profession of Dietetics:
A Team Approach
Prentice Hall, 2000
Rivas, Darlene
Associate
Professor
of History
Seaver College
Missionary
Capitalist:
Nelson Rockefeller
in Venezuela
The University of North
Carolina Press, 2002
Sexton, Robert
Professor of Economics
Seaver College
Exploring Economics
South-Western College Publishing, 2001
Exploring Macroeconomics
South-Western College Publishing, 2001
Exploring Microeconomics
South-Western College Publishing, 2001
Exploring Macroeconomics:
Pathways to Problem Solving
International Thomson Publishing, 1999
Exploring Economics:
Pathways to Problem Solving
Harcourt, 1998
Thompson, Don
Associate Dean/Professor of Mathematics
Seaver College,
with Darrel Colson
Professor of Great Books
Seaver College,
and J. Scott Lee
Universality and History:
Foundations of Core
University Press of America, 2002
Treverton, Gregory F.
John M. Olin
Visiting Professor
School of Public Policy
Reshaping National
Intelligence for an
Age of Information
Cambridge University Press,
2001
Vicere, Albert A.
Robert M. Fulmer Visiting Professor of Business
Graziadio School
Leadership by Design
Harvard Business School, 1998
Warford, J. Stanley
Professor of Computer Science
Seaver College
Computer Systems
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc., 2002
Wilburn, James R.
Editor/Dean
School of Public Policy
Faith and Public Policy
Lexington Books, 2002
Also contributing:
James Q. Wilson
Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy
School of Public Policy
Stephen Monsma
Professor and Chair, Social Sciences Division
Seaver College
Charles Van Eaton
Professor of Public Policy
School of Public Policy
Wilson, James Q.
Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy
School of Public Policy
The Marriage Problem:
How Our Culture Has Weakened Families
Harper Collins, 2002
Worley, Christopher
Associate Professor, MSOD Program
Graziadio School
with Thomas G. Cummings
Essentials of Organization Development
and Change
Southwestern Pub, first edition, 2000
Organization Development
and Change with InfoTrac, 7e
Southwestern Pub, seventh edition, 2001
Editor’s Note: Please see the Faculty in the Spotlight
section this issue to read about books published by
Seaver College communication professor Michael
Casey and School of Law professors Tim Perrin,
Harry Caldwell, and Carol Chase. Also, President
Andrew K. Benton wrote an essay for College Faith:
150 Christian Leaders Share Faith Stories from Their
Student Days. The book can be purchased in the
Malibu campus bookstore.
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F E AT U R E
Dragon Boat
Racing
Alumnus
paddles to the
beat of a drum
By Wileen Wong
Pepperdine University School of Law alumnus Scott Wu graduated in 1997 and practices
business litigation in his own firm out of Century City and South Pasadena, California.
Courtroom battles do not sufficiently feed his voracious competitive appetite, so he’s
found a new challenge in an unlikely place. He paddles on one of Southern California’s
premiere dragon boat teams, the Los Angeles Racing Dragons.
Wu, who was raised in Walnut, California, discovered the
sport of dragon boat racing in the summer of 2000. When
first approached by a friend to check out the sport at a
practice in Long Beach, Wu had no idea what it entailed.
“I told my friend I wouldn’t enjoy ‘remote control boat
racing’ because that’s the first thing that came to my mind,”
Wu said. But finally, his friend convinced him to give it
a try. “I came out on a Saturday and was sore until the
following Thursday, so I figured it was probably a pretty
good workout.” And he’s been paddling ever since.
Dragon boat racing is actually an ancient mix of art,
legend, and athletics that originated in China and spread to
the rest of Asia more than two thousand years ago. Today,
the sport is second to soccer in popularity around the world,
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the Pony League at age eight and winning the “All-Star” honor
according to the Pasadena Star-News, with dragon boat
several years in a row. His father was always very supportive,
tournaments taking place all over Europe and North
waking up early with Wu to get him to practice on time as
America, as well as Asia.
well as spending hours in the field with him to help him
The dragon boat itself is about forty feet in length and
strengthen his skills. Wu says it was his dad who taught him
can weigh between 500 and 1,800 pounds. They can be
to never give up, especially during times of frustration. In
made of teak wood or fiberglass and are ornately decorated
high school, he played on the sophomore basketball, junior
with a dragonhead and tail. Each boat can carry twenty-two
varsity baseball, and varsity volleyball teams.
members—twenty paddlers in ten rows of two with a steers
Because of his athletic background, Wu took to dragon
person standing in the back and a coxswain who calls out
boat racing quickly, and he agrees when paddlers say that
commands and beats a drum in the front. The beats of the
the appealing aspect of the sport
drum serve to keep the strokes
is that it doesn’t require great
of the paddlers in sync. The
“I think that dragon boating is great in that
strokes can range from sixty to
strength, but rather a keen focus
it
sort
of
quenches
the
competition
thirst
on technique and timing. It
130 per minute, depending on
takes a whole team working in
the team, and allow the boat to
some people have, but at the same time,
travel up to twenty miles per
unison to help propel a boat to
you build a new network of friends.”
glide through the water, but it’s
hour. Races are either 250, 500,
—Scott Wu
a sport anyone can compete in
or 1,000 meters long on a
with practice. Currently, there
straight course.
are teams in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle that are made up
Wu said that he practiced sporadically until the local Long
of breast cancer survivors. In Northern California, there are
Beach tournament in 2001. After the race, he became
teams made up of youths under the age of eighteen as well
addicted to the sport. “I think that dragon boating is great in
as teams of seniors or masters over the age of sixty-five.
that it sort of quenches the competition thirst some people
There is even a team of paddlers who are blind.
have, but at the same time you build a new network of
Wu thinks he will participate in dragon boat races for
friends,” Wu said. “I grew up playing team sports—baseball,
a long time to come. “I’ve seen teams like the San Diego
basketball, volleyball, what have you—and you go to
dragon boat team, where everyone’s a lot older, and I see the
competitions and all the teams would mostly be local. But
masters teams out there and realize that this is something
you head off to a [dragon boat] tournament like Long Beach
you could do maybe until your 60s or 70s. So I plan to be
or Vancouver, and you are competing with teams from China
around for a while.”
and Canada.”
Race organizers say there are now forty million dragon
Wu is a sports fanatic and trained in various disciplines
boat paddlers worldwide. Last August, the World Dragon
from a very young age. He started with baseball, playing in
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ALUMNI ON THE MOVE
Weiss: Living His Dream
in Hollywood
By Wileen Wong
David N. Weiss graduated from Seaver College
in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in business
administration “to satisfy the conventional
wisdom vendors of the day and my father, who
said, ‘Get a solid education in a marketable field,
then pursue your dreams.’ ” And that is exactly
what Weiss did.
After Pepperdine, he continued his education,
earning a graduate degree from the University of
David Weiss, left, with his son and Paula Garcés and Jesse Bradford, the stars of
Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television.
“Clockstoppers,” a film Weiss co-wrote with J. David Stem
Today, Weiss is living his dream. He and his
writing partner, J. David Stem, are currently one of the most sought-after family film and animation writing teams
in Hollywood.
In two decades, Weiss has achieved several major successes. Clockstoppers, a film he co-wrote with Stem, was
released in March. In 2001, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, another film written by the pair, was nominated for an Oscar
in the Best Animated Feature category. Unfortunately, the film lost to Shrek, but there are no hard feelings—
the “Daves,” as Weiss and his partner are often called, just finished Shrek II.
Weiss’ career began as a writer for television. He worked on Disney’s “Carol Burnett & Company” and wrote two
original screenplays, All Dogs Go to Heaven and Rock-A-Doodle. His career skyrocketed on Nickelodeon’s awardwinning “Rugrats” animation series, where Weiss won a Cable Ace award and was nominated for an Emmy award.
In 1997, he became head writer of “Rugrats.” Soon after came The Rugrats Movie and its sequel, Rugrats in Paris. “I
love the family thing,” Weiss said. “Though movies like Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan portray great values, you
can’t share it with your family, your children. When The Rugrats Movie came out, my daughter got to ride in a limo
and attended the premiere—it was her first film. And the sequel was my son’s first film.”
After being wooed by Disney, the “Daves” are now working on a live-action Tinkerbell movie and teaming up with
Kelsey Grammer’s company, Gramnet, to write a pilot for a new half-hour comedy series. They plan to stay in the
family genre but would like to move toward producing and shepherding projects with new up-and-coming writers. ❖
State Senate Awards Fellowship to Seaver Alumna
Seaver College graduate Kristin Fortin was selected as one of only eighteen college
students from across the state to receive a California State Senate Fellowship. Fortin
graduated in April and holds a double major in speech communication and political science.
She was interviewed by all three California Fellowships—the State Assembly, State Senate,
and State Judicial.
Fortin said she looks forward to spending a year working in the senate as a fellow.
“It will help me make a firm decision about where I want to go to law school,” she said.
The California Senate Fellows program was established in 1973 to provide people of diverse age, experience, and
background with insight into the legislative process. Fellows are assigned to the personal or committee offices of a
senator and work as part of the professional staff team in the State Capital. Responsibilities include helping develop
legislative proposals, researching and analyzing bills, responding to constituent inquiries, and writing press releases
and speeches. ❖
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ALUMNI ON THE MOVE
Miscik Assumes New Role in the CIA
Jami A. Miscik was appointed a deputy director within the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) in May. Among the agency’s highest ranking females,
she has oversight responsibility for all of the CIA’s intelligence analysts, the
production of all-source analysis, and determining what materials should be
included in President George W. Bush’s daily intelligence briefing.
Miscik, a double major in economics and political science at Pepperdine,
received her bachelor’s degree with honors in 1980, and she joined the CIA in
1983. In her first assignment, she served as an economic analyst working on
international debt issues in third-world countries. She subsequently led
Directorate of Intelligence analytic programs on political instability, economic competitiveness, and civil technologies.
From 1995 to 1996, she served on rotation to the National Security Council as the director for intelligence programs,
where she had oversight responsibility for covert action programs and special reconnaissance missions. From 1996 to
1997, Miscik was the executive assistant to George Tenet, director of Central Intelligence. In January 1998, she
became the deputy director of the DCI’s Nonproliferation Center, and in January 1999, director of the Office of
Transnational Issues. She was named associate deputy director for intelligence in August 2000.
Miscik, who was the Distinguished Alumna of the Year at Pepperdine in 2001, was born in Chicago and grew up
in Redondo Beach, California. Following Pepperdine, she received a master’s degree in international studies from the
University of Denver. She has twice been the recipient of the Intelligence Commendation Medal. ❖
Your Reunion Committee
1978
John E. Green, Larry Marscheck,
Dan Rodriguez, Jasmin Niklas Runnels,
Tyler Runnels, Andrea Swanson,
Lucy Winn.
1983
Fannie Brown, Denise Crangle,
Jann Davidson, Grant Freeman,
Kelly Hartwyk, Randi Kisiel,
Cindy Miller-Perrin, Paul Reim,
Tim Smith.
1988
Roxana Pierce, Kurt Verbaarschott,
Traci Verbaarschott.
Seaver College
Class Reunions
February 8, 2003
at Homecoming!
1993
Julie Barkley, Matt Craddock,
Deanna Fenno, Adam Housley,
Mariah Huarte, Jennifer Littlehales,
Tyra Murrieta, Amy Olson,
Dana Schamblin, Eric Stoen,
Angele Thionville.
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1998
Tracy Anderson, Mala Bajpai,
Emily (Bost) Jessup, Amber Ellingson,
Toni Estaville, Lisa Hentschel,
Britton Jasper, Christa Skates Johnson,
Jason Johnson, Jeneen Metz,
Victoria Molner, Shevaun Neupert,
John Norlander, Lisa Paglia, Melissa
Polachek, Brandon Rosenthal,
Dave & Marni Sugden,
Chris & Mollie Walz, Arie Weedman.
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banks of the Mi Lo River, Qu Yuan picked up a large boulder
and jumped into the water, committing suicide.
Local fishermen witnessed what had happened and
jumped into their boats in a desperate attempt to rescue
him, but to no avail. Fearing the fish in the river would
devour his body, they beat drums and splashed with their
paddles in hopes of scaring the fish. Dragon boat racing now
commemorates Qu Yuan’s sacrifice by reenacting the rescue
effort, celebrated in China on the fifth day of the fifth moon
of the Chinese lunar calendar.
Many Chinese Americans involved in dragon boat racing,
like Wu, say that the sport has definitely brought them closer
to their roots. Beyond that, dragon boating teaches the
importance of teamwork, which results in strong friendships.
“The sport celebrates diversity. Since becoming involved,
I’ve met a variety of people that I would not have met
otherwise,” Wu explained. “And I think the competition is
why the non-Asian cultures get involved, because it’s great.
There are many team sports out there where you can rely on
one or two players, but this is the ultimate sport in that you
rely on every single person on the boat.” ❖
Boat Racing Championships were
held in the United States for the first
time. More than twenty-five hundred
paddlers from twenty nations around
the world, including China, Taiwan,
Canada, United States, Germany,
Switzerland, England, and Australia,
participated. About one hundred
thousand spectators lined the banks of
the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Scott Wu
the birthplace of dragon boat racing in the U.S., to watch the
best dragon boat athletes in the world compete.
Wu’s team, the Los Angeles Racing Dragons or L.A.R.D.,
began in 1998 with a mere twenty members. Today, the team
has more than sixty members. In Northern California, there
are already more than fifteen established dragon boat teams
and at least two annual tournaments in San Francisco and
Oakland, California.
“The sport celebrates diversity. Since becoming
involved, I’ve met a variety of people that I would not
have met otherwise.”
Wileen Wong is also a member of the Los Angeles Racing Dragons.
For more information about the team, visit www.teamlard.com.
—Scott Wu
Dragon boat season is at its height during the summer
months, and every year L.A.R.D. attends tournaments up and
down the West Coast. This year, the team opened its season
by participating in the largest North American tournament in
Vancouver, Canada, for the third year in a row.
Vancouver is Wu’s favorite tournament so far. “Over 140
teams compete in Vancouver every year, and when you arrive
at the Vancouver airport, they actually ask if you’re here for
the dragon boat races. There, so many people know about it
and want to try it. You walk down the street with a paddle,
and people immediately know why you’re in town.”
The sport’s popularity has introduced more people to
Chinese culture. The heritage and religious beliefs of dragon
boat racing actually date back to 400 B.C. and honor the
memory of Qu Yuan, one of China’s greatest statesmen who
was a patriot and a poet from the Chu Dynasty. Qu Yuan
was an adviser to the emperor and greatly respected by the
people, championing political reform and truth as essential
to a healthy nation.
According to legend, the emperor, whose rule was under
a cloud of corruption, was threatened by Qu Yuan’s teachings.
Eventually, he banished Qu Yuan from his kingdom. In exile,
Qu Yuan wrote poetry expressing his concern for his country.
When his former kingdom fell to warring neighboring states,
he was devastated. It was said that while walking along the
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CLASS NOTES
GEORGE PEPPERDINE COLLEGE
1942
SEAVER COLLEGE
1973
Mary Hilton Appleberry was honored May 14 at the Phi
Delta Kappa meeting as Educator of the Year—just four
days before her eighty-first birthday.
Patti (English) Weber
celebrates three
generations of
Pepperdine graduates in
her family. She is
pictured, left to right,
with her mother, Faye
(Johnson) English (B
’42, GPC), and her children, Lynette Weber (B ’00, SEAV),
and Ryan Weber (B ’02, SEAV).
Laura Lita (Cooper) Klassen and her husband, Cecil,
celebrated their fifty-seventh wedding anniversary in June.
They both turned eighty-four in October.
1950
E. Wesley Veatch (M’56, GPC) has been retired since 1999.
He worked for more than fifty years as a Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ) minister. He lives on Whidbey Island,
(near Seattle) with his wife, Joyce, who is a substitute
teacher. E. Wesley travels and works with AIDS patients.
Berney Wiesel married Rosalie Steiman on January 30, and
they took a honey-moon cruise
to Alaska. Berney, who retired
from
the Westminster, California,
School District in 1993, is a
licensed driving instructor.
1951
Delia Altenberg has been very active in the First United
Methodist Church of Mount Dora in Florida.
John P. “Jack” Crossley, Jr begins his twelfth year this fall
as director of University of Southern California’s School of
Religion. He and Tom Gillespie (B ’51, GPC), president of
Princeton Seminary, recently spent an evening at the
Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, California, reminiscing about
the class of ’51.
1956
Henry Burton, now a retired superintendent, is enjoying life
after his career and stays involved through substitute
teaching and singing with the Sierra College Community
Chorus.
1957
Kenneth Hawes finished building a house on a remote bay
on the Sea of Cortez. He is the owner of Hawes Real Estate,
a property management business.
1961
Patricia (McConnell) White is working as an educational
specialist with a charter school and teaching academics to
eight home-schooled students. She and her husband, Larry,
reside in Grass Valley, California, in a home that her
husband built, and the two are enjoying being grandparents
of seven.
1981
Lynn Superstein moved to Canada. She is self-employed as
a psychologist in Vancouver, B.C.
1982
Larry I. Schultz was promoted to a corporate vice president
position at Parker Hannifin in September 2001 and was
recently married to his wife, Angelina. His daughter, Haley,
began her freshman year at University of California, Davis,
in September 2001.
1983
1974
Katherine Riordan (M ’74, Special Programs) retired in
1992 from a twenty-year U.S. Navy officer career. She is
now working full time at Five Acres—the Boys and Girls
Society of Los Angeles.
1977
Kandel Eaton graduated from Florida Coastal School of Law
on May 19, 2001. She recently had two poems published in
the Letters from the Soul anthology of the International
Library of Poetry, entitled “Kitty Cat’s Nap” and “Broken
Limits.” Kandel resides in Atlantic Beach, Florida, with her
daughter, Katrina Camille.
1978
Trevor Dobbs is a full-time professor in the marriage and
family therapy department at Pacific Oaks College in
Pasadena, California. He and his wife, Constance, reside in
Altadena, California.
Steve Hewgley completed his master’s degree in
educational technology at Pepperdine’s Graduate School of
Education and Psychology (GSEP) this year. He is currently
assistant provost at Pepperdine and lives in Woodland Hills,
California.
1979
Terry Davison (M ’79, Special Programs) completed two
weeks of active duty training with the United States Marine
Corp. He recently was promoted to the position of corporate
compliance officer.
Paul M. Kim (MA ’75, SEAV; MS, ’79 SEAV) was promoted
to police commander and assigned to the West Los Angeles
Bureau.
1980
Lonnie Stith (M ’80, Special Programs) was awarded his
juris doctorate degree from George Washington University
School of Law in Washington, D.C. He is
a professor of political science at National Defense
University in Bowie, Maryland.
1981
Stephanie Fabritius, a Southwestern biology professor,
was named an ACE Fellow for the academic year 2002.
The program is designed to prepare promising faculty
administrators for responsible positions in college and
university administration.
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Teresa (Bernardo) Delatorre is currently pastoring a
church, New Heart Christian Fellowship, with her husband
in West Los Angeles.
Nanette (Bidstrup) Cronk has been living for twelve years in
Lake Tahoe, California, where she works for Bank of
America. She has been married for eight years.
1984
Denise (Alfonso) Grasso, with her five children and
husband, moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, several months ago
after living most of her life in Florida.
Jillian Hamlet-Hutson proudly announces the arrival of her
twins, Rijker Hamlet and Skijler John, who were born June
7, 2001.
Laurent Malek is the managing director of Walt Disney
Television International. He has implemented a variety of
new children’s contests and has teamed up with Italy’s
leading television platform, making Disney Channel Italia
very successful.
Cherise McVicar has been promoted to senior vice
president of national promotions for the Buena Vista
Marketing Group. She has worked on campaigns for
Monsters, Inc., Pearl Harbor, A Bug’s Life, and more.
1985
Stephanie Riggs recently won
the National Gracie Allen
Award, Edward R. Murrow
Award, and Associated Press
Award for best news series on
a best-selling children’s book
she wrote about dwarfism. The
book is titled Never Sell
Yourself Short. Stephanie is a news anchor for CBS News
Channel 4 in Denver.
1987
Guy W. Steele has been published in several works since
2000, including books in travel/leisure, culinary arts, and
children/young adults. He is currently drafting his first
screenplay as well as an adaptation for Warner Bros. He
brought his two children, Ashley and Alexa, to visit
Pepperdine for spring break, and they loved it.
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1987
1992
Tania Howard is teaching prenatal and pediatric chiropractic
postgraduate courses, in addition to practicing part time
and raising two girls. She and her husband, Frank, reside in
Maryland with their children.
Heather (Shoenfeld) Brown was married in August 2001
and moved into a new home in Edgewood, Washington. She
works for Nordstrom as a project manager of financial
systems.
1988
Rodney B. Look and his wife, Adair, accepted residencies at
the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Ben B. Yaspelkis III has been granted tenure and promoted
to associate professor in the department of kinesiology at
California State University, Northridge. He was the recipient
of the 2002 CSUN Sigma Xi George Lefevre Award for
Distinguished Research. Dr. Yaspelkis is the director of the
Exercise Biochemistry Laboratory. His lab group has been
investigating the prevention of skeletal muscle insulinresistance.
Kathy Escobar recently released her book, Come with Me:
An Invitation to Break Through the Wall Between You
and God. Her husband, Jose, and five children are proud
of her hard work.
Angela (Sabatino) Thompson gave birth to a baby girl,
Reagan, in April. She and her husband, Chris, live in San
Ramon, California, where Chris is working on his MBA at
University of California, Berkeley.
Ron Neal is in the process of writing his first historical
fiction novel and is designing a Web site for HR &
Associates. His wife, Anna, is a first grade teacher.
Chris Munson and Jennifer
Hilborn were married in
Moraga, California, on July
21. Jessica (Ordonez)
Steenblock (B ’97, SEAV)
and Stuart Higgins (B ’81,
SEAV) were in attendance.
Chris and Jennifer live in
Seattle.
1989
Christopher Garcia and his wife, Deanne, just celebrated
their two-year wedding anniversary. Christopher recently
started his family practice residency in Fresno, California,
where they just moved.
Stacey L. (Trowbridge) Nelson moved to Sherman
Oaks, California, from Connecticut. Stacey is a full-time
mom with a baby boy, Charles, born in October 2001.
The Nelsons also have a three-year-old daughter,
Sophie. Stacey’s husband works for Walt Disney
Company.
1990
John Hutto, vice president of leasing and marketing for Mile
High Properties, was married on September 22, 2001, in
Vail, Colorado.
Marie Barlow is making her way in the Big Apple. She
moved to New York and has started her own production
company, Maranda Creates, International, and she performs
full time.
Sandra (Carwan) Dunville has just resigned from Warner
Bros. to be an at-home mom in La Verne, California. She is
a consultant for AOL Time Warner for the Time to Read
program.
Nenutzka Villamar married Thomas R. F. Jones in April in
Baltimore. Nenutzka’s Pepperdine roommate, Veronica
(Tippons) Cramer (B ’90, SEAV), attended the wedding. The
couple honeymooned in St. Martin.
Joseph L. Walz’s son, Tommy, successfully received a heart
transplant at four months of age and is doing very well.
John and his wife, Beth, and their sons live in Salt Lake
City.
1991
April Bolin is a stay-at-home mom in Centennial, Colorado.
Her family of five is in the process of adopting a baby girl
from China.
1993
Noelle Porter is currently a tennis instructor at Pepperdine
University. She is also involved in raising money for
scholarships and financial aid.
J.P. Murrieta and his wife Tyra (Haye) Murrieta
(B ’93, SEAV) are proud to announce the birth of
their second son, Jackson. The Murrieta family lives
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where J.P. is a sports
anchor with the NBC affiliate.
humanities teacher at Medea Creek Middle School in Oak
Park, California, where they reside.
Heather Wooldridge went on a six-month independent
mountain bike tour in Southeast Asia with her fiancé, Brad.
Now she is back to work in Aspen, Colorado, as a general
manager for the Aspen Tile & Bath Gallery, but a trip to
South America is in the plans.
1995
Monica S. (Davis) Bjork is passionately continuing
in her practice as a physician assistant at Pediatric
Neurosurgery Associates in Atlanta.
Jennifer M. Campbell was promoted to licensing manager
for Motorsports and transferred to North Carolina. She
works on licensing and marketing more than twenty
NASCAR teams for Hot Wheels Racing.
Erik C. Davis and his wife, Pamela, were married last year
in Australia. He works for Embee Inc. as the director of
purchasing.
Erik Gauger was recently engaged to Jane Kim
(B ’95, SEAV). His Web site, www.notesfromtheroad.com, has
recently been featured in USA Today, ABC News, and
Yahoo! Internet Life magazine.
Marisa Mueller is starting her third year of residency in
radiology at the University of Arizona Medical Center.
Staci Sabbagh published a 4-level adult ESL textbook
series. She is currently a professor of ESL at Santa Ana
College in California.
Michelle Sullivan recently relocated from Los Angeles to
Arlington, Virginia, accepting a job as a senior
programming manager for America Online.
1996
1994
Tracy Mercer was recently promoted to senior vice
president of development at Valhalla’s Motion Pictures. She
has been in charge of several productions for PBS and
Paramount Pictures and is currently working on Ang Lee’s
Hulk for Universal Pictures.
Bryce Barnes, proprietor with Cleft Painting Co., is currently
engaged in a new marketing campaign working toward
company expansion. He and his wife, Kristina (Beart)
Barnes (B ’96, SEAV), are in the middle of renovating their
second home in Seattle.
Leigh Oldach recently relocated from Los Angeles to
Boston, where she was raised. She is enjoying being close
to her family as well as planning her wedding with her
fiancé, Tim Needham.
Jason K. Evans and Shannon K. (Williams) Evans
(B ’96, SEAV) welcomed their new daughter, Joanna
Katherine, on August 8. They live in Washington, where
Jason is a systems engineer at Microsoft. Shannon has
decided to stay at home with Katherine. Pictures are
available at www.jandsevans.com/jands.
Stacey (Litz) Tan recently tied the knot with Jonah Tan in
Burbank, California. Her bridesmaid and fellow Pepperdine
colleague was Jennifer (Seto) Salazar (B ’93, SEAV).
Stacey works as an English and social studies teacher for
the sixth grade.
Carin Chapin White and her
husband, Steve White, are
proud to announce the birth of
their son, Ashton Tyler, born
May 15. Carin
is the assistant director
of public relations at
Pepperdine, and Steve is a
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Susan M. (Bezanson) Herz completed her multiple subject
teaching credential at Sonoma State University in May. A
week after that, she gave birth to a baby boy named Tyler.
Coreen (Smith) Rodgers has been named administrator of
the University of Miami School of Medicine’s Department of
Ophthalmology. She will oversee day-to-day operation of the
department, including all personnel and financial issues.
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Carey Seeley married Lou Dzierzak on October 19. She is
currently a first-grade teacher at Centennial Elementary
School in Richfield, Minnesota.
Meighan (Dugan) Zimmerman and her husband, John,
celebrated the birth of their first child, Natasha, in May.
Meighan is enjoying life as a stay-at-home mom living in
Oxnard, California.
1997
Clinton Clawdus, growth minister at the Olympia Capital
Church of Christ in Washington, shares that, “The church is
growing, the gospel is being sown in our community, and
souls are being won for Christ.”
Breeze Cooper (M ’99, GSEP) is engaged to be married the
summer of 2003 to a University of San Diego graduate. She
is a sixth grade teacher at Harbor View School in Newport,
California.
Ashlie S. Corbin received a master’s from Gonzaga
in 2000 and was working successfully as a real estate agent
in Spokane, Washington. She has decided to pursue her
true calling, education, and has entered
the Ph.D. program at Washington State.
Lauren A. David graduated from California Western School
of Law, San Diego, in December 2001.
Dyan Brooke Eberle taught sixth grade for three years and
worked on a cruise line that traveled from California to
Holland.
Perry Pound was engaged to
Victoria Normington
(B ’96, SEAV) over Valentine’s
weekend in Laguna Beach,
California. The couple met
while serving on the
Pepperdine Ambassador’s
Council,
and they plan to wed in
December in Los Angeles.
Sandra Tapia is engaged and will be married in 2003. She
works as an account manager in Seattle.
Brandi (Banks) Turner and Wes Turner were recently
married in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, and reside in San
Diego. She is a one-stop marketing specialist at San Diego
Workforce Partnership.
Emily Asche Jarvis was awarded her Ph.D. in physical
chemistry from UCLA on June 15. She accepted the
position of Congressional Fellow for the American Chemical
Society in Washington, D.C. Her husband, Jason Jarvis, (B
’95, SEAV) is a lawyer.
1998
Shannon Casey Celia recently
authored a children’s book,
titled ABCs of the Sea.
Shannon, who is also a painter,
lives in Thousand Oaks,
California.
1999
Joshua Harrold and
Nathan Smithson
(B ’01, SEAV), traveled
across the United States
for the “Yoo-hoo Stinkin’
Summer Tour,” a
nationwide concert tour
this summer.
Bazi Kanani just received a promotion to weekday anchor
of the 5 p.m. newscast on NBC Channel 2
in Buffalo, New York.
Neeti Khaitan recently made the move from California to
Dallas, Texas, where she is the director
of business development at e-Telequest, Inc.
Donald M. Mirra has caught the traveling bug. Since
graduation, he has climbed his way through Burma,
Singapore, Cambodia, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina.
Vinnie Oliveri received his master’s degree from Claremont
Graduate University in May.
Leslie (Troesh) Reynolds is a registered nurse at Scripps
Memorial Hospital and will graduate from
San Diego State University this year.
Nathan Riedel recently assumed the position of vice
president of political affairs for the Independent Insurance
Agents of America (IIAA). He directs daily operations, while
overseeing InsurPac, the nation’s largest property-casualty
political action committee.
Nathan lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Marisa McCarthy, a former member of the Pepperdine cross
country team, is preparing for a San Diego marathon and
living in Aspen, Colorado, where she works as a
weathercaster/on-air host for Channel 16.
Adrienne (Hogan) McNamara is happily married to
her husband, Kevin. She began work toward a
master’s degree in exercise physiology at Oregon
State University this fall.
Katherine F. Osabe is living in Chicago and working as an
assistant manager of sales and marketing for Hearthware
Home Products, Inc.
Dustin Raddatz married
Anastasia Zelentsova on April
20. The couple resides in Aliso
Viejo, California. Dustin works
for Apple Computer Inc.
2000
Julie (Broad) Osterman and
Joel Osterman (B ‘00, SEAV)
were married July 13. Their
wedding party included
Stephanie Ackerman (B ’00,
SEAV), Jane (Smithwick)
Hutchens (B ’00, SEAV), Tony
Suzer (B ’99, SEAV), and Rob
Hoyt (B ’98, SEAV), and they
honeymooned in Fiji. Julie is
editor/writer for Pepperdine’s Office of Public Relations &
News, and Joel works in marketing for Asiana Airlines in Los
Angeles, where the couple resides.
Jonathan A. Rogers is living in Curitiba, Brazil, and is the
Brazilian representative for the Rocky Mountain Institute
Company.
2002
Beverly Haro is working at an insurance company, L.A. City
Employees Association, and living in Agoura, California.
Lindsay Jenson is working as a research associate at
Platinum Equity Holdings in Plymouth, Minnesota.
Celia (Haight) Richard was married in May to Justin
Richard and moved to Pittsburgh. She works as a sales
representative for American Income Life.
Vanessa Kingsborough is getting married next fall. She
works for Safeway as a public affairs specialist and lives in
Danville, California.
Marissa Salomon was married
to Michael Mullens (B ’98,
SEAV) on October 19 in
Houston, Texas. The following
alumni were in attendance:
Keri (DeBarardinis) Arnold (B
’98, SEAV), Christa Avalos (B
’99, SEAV), Jaimee Rojas (B
’01, SEAV), Ryan Arnold (B
’98, SEAV), and Todd Whiting
(B ’97, SEAV). Marissa serves as a financial advisor, and
Michael is completing his third year at University of Texas
Medical School at Houston.
Patricea Dean teaches part time at Powell Valley
Community Education—an adult extension school in
Wyoming. She is also organizing a new corporation with a
home improvement product.
2001
1976
Matt Hansen currently works for a Malibu real estate firm
that he discovered through a statistics class his sophomore
year at Pepperdine.
John M. Gullixson was appointed executive officer and
legal counsel for Plumas Local Agency Formation
Commission. He also is a three-term council member and
mayor for the City of Yorba Linda, California. He maintains
law offices in there and in Lake Davis.
25
Lora Walsh joined Jesuit Volunteers International to
educate future teachers and leaders in the Jawalakhel
section of Kathmandu, Nepal.
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1971
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1977
William C. Kennedy is an attorney at law for the
firm Kennedy & Associates, which is expanding
and recently opened a new office building near
the Riverside, California, courthouse.
1979
Steven A. Jones is currently a managing partner with
Madden, Jones, Cole & Johnson. He and his wife, Janet,
have raised two children, and they reside in Long Beach,
California.
Tina Neinstedt Sweet decided in June 2001 to transition
from the practice of law to seminary. She has two more
years of school in Georgia before she receives her master’s
in Divinity.
1982
Scott A. Mager was featured in the Mann Report
for being a leader in building services technology.
He is the chairman and CEO of Perfect Building
Maintenance Corp. and the president of Shortpath.
1987
Mark K. Vincent was assigned to the Utah Olympic
Command Center to assist with the planning and
implementation of security for the 2002 Winter Olympic
Games. He was elected as tenth circuit vice president for
the Federal Bar Association.
1991
Anthony Ekonomides recently established his own law firm
in St. Petersburg, Florida. His practice is aimed at business,
corporate, and contract work, with a small concentration in
criminal defense work.
1992
Anthony Salerno and his wife, Colleen, had their second
child, Brendan, on May 20 in Santa Monica, California.
Brendan’s brother, Matthew, is almost three years old.
Anthony practices criminal defense and has given
commentary on KLAC 570 AM’s Michael Jackson and
Leslie Marshall radio talk shows, CNN, Fox 11 News, Court
TV, and “Celebrity Justice.”
Mona (Shah) Sheth and her husband, Paresh, celebrated
the birth of their second daughter, Kevli,
in January. They live in Houston.
1993
Charles Kilgore is the legal ambassador to Cuba and will
be delegated in December. He is currently an attorney for
Defender of the Constitution and lives
in Stevenson Ranch, California.
David Kritzer and his wife, Laura, are proud to announce
the birth of their first child, Jacob Michael, born November
13, 2001. Pictures are available online at www.kritzers.com.
Joseph Lewis works for the United Space Alliance in
Houston. He is preparing to retire in early 2003.
1975
1994
Anita (Raeker) Turner and her husband, Danny, announce
the birth of their first child, Daniel Robert “Robby,” born
July 19. Anita is a corporate real estate advisor at Jones
Lang LaSalle Inc. in Atlanta.
1995
Ian B. Kohlhaas was married in October 2001. He and his
wife welcomed their first child, Lance, April 1.
1981
Elizabeth J. Burke was admitted to the Idaho State Bar
Association on April 25. She is making plans to retire, but
will remain involved in environment and public interest law
from her “Sky Ranch” in Sun Valley, Idaho, when her
children are in college. She is currently director/attorney for
The Outdoor Channel, Inc.
1974
1996
Kelly Anders was recently named one of the “Forty Under
40” by the Denver Business Journal. She is a government
affairs research analyst for Xcel Energy.
1997
Eric Hagen (B ’92, SEAV) is engaged to Amber Ephraim. He
is an attorney at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Los
Angeles. Amber is an attorney at the law firm of Bryan Cave
LLP in Santa Monica, California.
Madeline Heller is transitioning to a full-time mediation
and arbitration practice in Santa Monica, California. She
also ran a marathon in Hawaii in December 2001.
Lawson Scott Bartell was married to Jennifer Bartell, and
they were expecting their first baby in November. They
reside in Los Gatos, California.
Colonel Harry Lee is a consultant for Savi Technology in
Virginia Beach, Virginia.
1976
Jack McDuff is a senior licensed insurance agent and hosts
seminars on estate planning and living trusts. He resides in
Woodland Hills, California.
1979
Kenneth Foster and his wife, Wendy, celebrated their
fortieth wedding anniversary in April. Kenneth works as an
auditor for a public utility district in Washington.
Foster Mobley joined the USC University Hospital as an
associate administrator in the department of human
resources in February.
Susan Applegarth Murphy co-authored a book, titled In the
Company of Women: Turning Workplace Conflicts into
Powerful Alliances, with Dr. Pat Heim. The book has been
highlighted in Time magazine, San Francisco Chronicle,
Boston Globe, and the BBC Channel, and was named
Harvard Business School’s book of the month.
1982
Ronald C. Miracle works for the Church of Scientology
American Saint Hill Organization in Los Angeles.
1983
1998
E.T. Ellison completed his first
novel, The Luck of Madonna
13. He is also co-authoring
two forthcoming books,
Recipe Rangers in the West
and Roseberry Hill. Ellison
lives near Tehachapi,
Californiaaand is the father of
four children.
Mark Robertson (MBA ’94, Graziadio School) was hired as
an associate attorney for the international law firm of
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in Austin, Texas.
2000
Blair Durham is practicing at his father’s firm in Nashville,
Tennessee. They just shot commercials to introduce the
firm to their area.
Joshua White is self-employed in Santa Monica, California,
with an interest in real estate investment and development. He
also works in entertainment, pertaining to the representation
of young, up-and-coming talent.
Thomas Lucas is a co-founder of Alliance Medical
Products, a pharmaceutical manufacturer that was spun off
from Bausch & Lomb. He resides in Rancho Santa
Margarita, California, with his wife, Nicki.
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
Joao Miguel Santos works for Boeing Commercial
Airplanes as director of international sales for Africa and
Asia, and was recently promoted to commander in the U.S.
Navy. He lives in Washington with his wife, Debra, and his
daughter, Desiree.
2001
Leah Pease recently moved to Caracas, Venezuela, to work
in the U.S. Embassy for two years as a secretary for the
vice consul.
GRAZIADIO SCHOOL OF
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
1973
Eddie London started a nonprofit organization to address
the problems of alcohol, drugs, and HIV. He and his wife
live in Atascadero, California.
26
Diana Faust Walters recently went on an animal safari in
Tanzania. She works as a career counselor for Potential
Unlimited and lives in Long Beach, California, with her
husband, Russell.
1984
Hillair C. Bell and her husband, Michael, went on a longterm sailing adventure to Grenada, Spain, in July.
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Tony Paradiso has released a
book on corporate politics and
ethics, titled The
Management Mind Field:
Avoiding the Pitfalls of
Corporate Politics. The book
discusses the marketing
process and how to achieve
long-term success. Tony is the CEO of Paramar Consulting
in Amherst, New Hampshire.
1986
Johnny Tai is working for Edward Jones in Redondo
Beach, California, as an investment representative.
Previously, he was a project engineer on the space
shuttle program.
Charlie DeMedio was promoted to manager of customer
programs for Gulfstream Aerospace. He also has served as
a mentor for Long Beach (California) Poly High School for
the past two years.
1993
Samuel Cargill is the managing director for sales on the
West Coast for AON Risk Services. He and his wife were
expecting Samuel Cargill, Jr. in September.
Eric Schmidt is working for the Walt Disney Co. as a senior
finance manager. He and his wife, Marigold, announce the
birth of their second child, Ethan, born July 24. They live in
Anaheim Hills, California.
1994
1999
Jim Balla (B ’84, Graziadio
School) was appointed the
new president and CEO of
Portals, an agency dedicated
to enabling people with mental
illnesses, in October 2001. He
joined Portals in Los Angeles
in 1998.
Paul R. Bibeau, a veteran marketing executive from Texas
Instruments, was recently named corporate vice president
of marketing at Microsemi Corp. in Irvine, California.
Microsemi is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer
of analog, mixed signal, and discrete semiconductors.
Lisa Crane recently joined Warren & Morris, Ltd. as the
firm’s vice president and managing director in
Los Angeles. She also is managing partner of Media
Venture Advisors, where she provides strategic consulting
services to leading Internet and entertainment companies.
Nora L. (Beyer) Hughes (MSOD ’90, Graziadio School)
accepted a position with Intel in Malaysia as senior OD
consultant. She is enjoying traveling throughout Asia.
1987
Aimee (Robertson) Miller is expanding her business,
Designed to Move, which is based in Los Angeles
and has an office in London, to more than six cities
nationwide. She uses her love for antiques to decorate new
and old homes that are for sale, which helps expedite a
home’s sale on the real estate market.
1990
Jack R. Goetz, dean and president of Concord Law School,
a division of Kaplan, Inc., was recently awarded the
Distinguished Recognition Award from the Distance
Education and Training Council.
1991
Robert F. Logan was named vice president of ETF,
a global venture capital firm in New York. Previously, Robert
served as vice president of Internet and software at J.H.
Whitney & Co.
Edward Pardi has finished ten years of service at SBC
Communications as a global account manager. He
and his wife, Kathleen, enjoy camping and boating with
their three children. They reside in San Diego.
1992
Keith Schulner (MDR ’92,
SOL) recently participated in
Pepperdine Straus Institute’s
Masters Forum. He is an
attorney at ASK Financial, in
Tarzana, California. He also
works as an arbitrator and
mediator for Ventura and Los
Angeles courts.
Jordan Rosen works as a senior claims representative for
Safeco Insurance Company. He is applying to law schools
for fall 2003. Jordan and his wife, Wendy, and their two
children live in Saugus, California.
Eileen Wright has been promoted to vice president
of marketing at Internap in Seattle.
1995
James A. Heath was appointed assistant professor
of decision sciences in the School of Management
at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He
was previously a full-time lecturer at California State
University, Long Beach.
Robert “Bob” Leveque was named Iowa’s 2002
Distinguished Printer of the Year by Printing Industries of
the Midlands, Inc. He is currently vice president of
manufacturing and division director in Des Moines, Iowa,
for R.R. Donnelley & Sons.
Lynn McKelvey is working as an investment representative
for Edward Jones. She and her family reside in West Linn,
Oregon.
James H. Prenton, has joined Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in
San Francisco. He represents a number of Japanese-owned
entities in the areas of venture capital, intellectual property,
and real estate transactions.
Phil Reed was recently appointed vice president of sales
and trade marketing for Stomp Inc., a leader in the
development of innovative software and computer
accessories.
1998
Kacey Fallert was promoted to vice president of operations
for Con-Way Western Express in June.
Christine Y. Park is a planning manager at Printrak,
a Motorola company. She recently received her CPA
certification and resides in Walnut, California, with her
husband, William.
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Robert Posadas works for GlaxoSmithKline as a senior
sales representative in San Marcos, California.
Christine “Tina” Riedell joined Gensler in 1999 as director
of operations for the San Francisco division.
2000
Paul Chen and his wife, Linda, are proud to announce the
birth of their first baby, Marcus Daniel, born in June. They
reside in Huntington Beach, California.
Raphaela E. Dohm was appointed to oversee an
$80 billion Euro worldwide foreign exchange project for
Henkel, KGaA of Duesselfdorf, Germany, a Fortune 500
company.
Rajan Kaul was promoted by Accent Optical Technologies
to vice president and general manager, Silicon Business
Group. He relocated from San Jose, California, to Accent’s
York, England, office.
Callie Moore started her MBA coursework at Pepperdine in fall
2002. She is a project coordinator at Boeing Satellite
Systems in El Segundo, California.
Jeffrey D. Pinneo has been elected president and CEO of
Horizon Air, and he serves on the airline’s board of
directors.
James Purcell is now the vice president and general
manager for Nord Cleaning Service in Bloomington, Illinois.
The newest addition to his family, Michael James, arrived in
April 2001.
Matthew J. Savage currently works with the Crestline
Funding Corporation. He and his wife,
Susan, reside in Simi Valley, California.
Lauri Taylor was married in August. She works as
a marketing manager for Roth Staffing and lives in Irvine,
California.
Colleen (Preston) Nettekoven and her husband, Jay,
announce the birth of their first son, Aidan Joseph, on
December 4, 2001. She is a senior marketing manager for
Ingram Micro. The family resides in Aliso Viejo, California.
2001
Marcoantonio Anzo Andrade II has taken on a new position
as vice president of corporate accounts at Latino Health
Care, Inc. in Long Beach, California.
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GRAZIADIO SCHOOL OF
Y. (Gibson) Kristoffersen and her husband have
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT Denice
just purchased a resort in Allenpark, Colorado.
2001
Brett Bonecutter left the business world to enter full-time
ministry at Valley Presbyterian Church. He just moved back
to Valencia, California, from Texas.
Jeb M. Burton opened his own financial planning practice
called The McGuire Group. He lives with his wife and two
children in Newport Beach, California.
LuLu Liang received the designation of Original Lifetime
Certified Purchasing Manager from the Institute for Supply
Management in April. She works as a material manager for
Small World Toys in Torrance, California.
Marie J. Padveen is currently devoting her full energy to
her private practice in psychotherapy in Los Angeles.
1991
Jillian Ferguson is currently completing her PsyD. She and
her son, Adam, are writing and recording many original
songs. Jillian is also very active in twelve-step programs,
consulting, and speaking engagements.
Wanny Y. Hersey is principal of Bel Aire School in Tiburin,
California. The school was one of twelve schools nationwide
to receive the National Blue Ribbon in the area of
technology in 2002.
Natalia (Velez) Posada, has recently been promoted to the
position of operations manager at Kirkpatrick Enterprises,
Inc., a consulting company in Granada Hills, California.
Patricia Cahill traveled to Ireland and Scotland this year to
do some genealogy research. She lives in Hemet, California.
2002
1992
Sara (Renyer) Dakarmen works in marketing for
Los Angeles Porche Dismantler. She married Todd
Dakarmen in April and enjoyed a trip to Asia with
Pepperdine this spring.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF
EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY
1976
Barbara J. Anable, now retired, is happily married
to her husband, Tom, and has moved to Hot Springs,
Arizona. She formerly worked as a flight attendant
and employee assistance representative for flight
attendants.
Brian Arnold has been commander of the Air Force Space
and Missile System Center for one year. He and his wife,
Tina, live in San Pedro, California.
1983
Donna Jeanne Luna opened her own business in testing
and evaluation services. She resides in Santa Rosa,
California.
1987
Lori Mitchell is CEO of Glastar, a manufacturing company
in Chatsworth, California. She was previously a county
administrator.
Thelma Yoshii celebrated her retirement from the
Los Angeles Unified School District with more than 200
friends, family and colleagues on October 12.
She resides in Cerritos, California, with her husband,
Wallace.
1988
Tamara L. Anderson recently moved into a new home and
gave birth to her daughter, Morgan. She works at Biola
University as the director of clinical training, earning tenure
in 2000. Tamara and her husband, Kirk, and their two
children live in La Habra, California.
Angela Malcolm-Gilmartin just formed a new law firm,
Gilmartin & Noland, A.P.C., in Westlake Village, California.
The firm specializes in disability, personal injury, and elder
law.
than ten years at the Los Angeles Times. She lives in
Manhattan Beach, California, with her husband and two
daughters.
1995
Julie Young Massie was appointed as the deputy
commissioner of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
Services in the Oklahoma Dept. of Mental Health &
Substance Abuse Services. She lives in Oklahoma City.
Renee E. Solomon just finished her doctorate in clinical
psychology. She is a psycotherapist in Beverly Hills,
California, and is pregnant with her first child.
Michael A. Thorn has been promoted to vice president, series
development and programming for USA Network in Los
Angeles. Michael joined USA in 2000 as director of original
series development and programming.
1996
Jennifer (Fullerton) Carpenter was married in February.
She and her husband, Robert, bought a new house in
Aurora, Colorado, and moved in May. She has been working
as a service coordinator for Access Behavioral Care since
December 2001.
Corrado Militi is working as a clinician/recruiter trainer for
foster care at Hathaway Children and Family Services, while
maintaining clientele at his private therapy practice in Santa
Monica, California.
Lori E. Gottlieb published her first book, a memoir of
growing up in Los Angeles, where she currently resides. The
book was featured as an L.A. Times bestseller and is being
adapted for television by ABC. Lori’s next book, about a
dysfunctional high-profile start-up company, will be released
in August.
Jessica Nagler married Todd Lowenstein on July 20. She
finished her first book, a nonfiction narrative about a yearlong journey through Central America. Jessica recently
moved into a new office in Westwood, California, and
specializes in spiritual counseling.
Priscilla A. Traylor teaches third grade at Franklin
Elementary School in Santa Monica, California. She recently
gave birth to her son, Ethan.
1997
Rick Nathanson, varsity head coach and English teacher at
Calabasas High School, led the baseball team to six Frontier
League titles with 169 career wins. He currently resides in
Calabasas, California.
1993
Cheryl D. Lampe has worked at Pepperdine as the director
of teacher education for GSEP for five years.
In September, she started working half time to devote her
attention to her husband and their new home in San
Clemente, California.
Kris Kyle-Murphy became a licensed MFT in June 2000 and
is now a clinical supervisor program manager for the
Mental Health Association of Orange County. She resides in
Huntington Beach, California.
Nancy Dorff graduated with a doctorate in psychology in
June from the California School of Professional Psychology
(CSPP). She lives in Sherman Oaks, California.
Carlos Encinas completed his Ph.D. requirements in
organizational psychology in June 2001. He works as an
educational consultant for Concentra Managed Care
Services in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Alisa J. Huntington started a private therapy practice in
Mission Viejo, California, this year.
David J. Singer began a small private practice internship as
a psychotherapist for Nungee Warner Morrison in
Westchester, California.
1998
1994
Kristen (Holm) Morris is a third grade teacher at Jane
Addams Elementary School in Lawndale, California. She
lives in Westchester, California, with her husband, Mark.
Beth Sestanovich has been named publisher of LA Weekly
and OC Weekly. Previously, she spent more
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Judy Merrill-Cable had three thousand clinical internship
hours accepted by the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS)
and plans to take a licensing exam this summer. She works
as a clinical social worker for Tenet Hospitals Inc. in
Anaheim, California.
Lisa Dunn (B ’96, SEAV) is a licensed marriage and family
therapist and is the director of a juvenile diversion program in
Orange County, California. She and her husband, Brian,
were expecting their first child in December.
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Jennifer G. Goldberg works as an account executive for
The Jewish Journal in Los Angeles. She and her husband,
David, have a new son, Benjamin, who turned one in March.
Jay Jackson is enrolled in a doctoral program in
organizational leadership at Pepperdine, while working in
the Los Angeles Unified School District as a specialist of
psychological services.
Otieno J. Okatch just opened up a day treatment program
in Downey, Callifornia, called Per Ankh Life Skills, Inc. He
and his wife, Claudia, and their three children live in La
Habra.
Jamie Switzer has been appointed assistant professor in
the department of journalism and technical communication
at Colorado State University.
Anne (Moreshead) Mauzerall recently became a licensed
professional counselor in Boise, Idaho. She married Brad
Mauzerall (M ’97, SOL) in May.
Phoebe Villanueva-Ignacio
and her husband, Joel,
announce the birth of their
son, Jon-Cesar Moses, born
April 17. Phoebe is a thirdgrade teacher, and Joel is a
mechanical engineer. The
family resides in West
Covina, California.
Steve Olmos and his wife, Charissa, celebrated their one-year
wedding anniversary this year and bought their first home in
Downey, California. Steve works as an administrator for the
Torrance Unified School District.
Shannon M. Penaflor is working as a career counselor for
the Microskills Technical Education Center in San Diego,
where she and her two-year-old daughter, Kaylee Marie,
reside.
Paula Harway-Walker and her husband, Matt, became the
proud parents of Kaila Skye Walker on April 24. Matt is in
the MBA program at Pepperdine, and Paula teaches at an
elementary school.
Ann (Gardner) Burke and Justin Burke were married on
March 23. She is a kindergarten teacher at James K. Polk
Elementary in Alexandria, Virginia, where the couple
resides.
1999
Diane C. Larson-Blackstone was named dean of Foothill
High School in the Tustin (California) Unified School
District. She and her husband, Martin, welcomed their new
baby, Rebecca, in late April.
Valerie S. Kipper is a graduate student at San Diego State
University and is pursuing a master’s degree in social work.
Andy Stenhouse, currently the dean of Vanguard’s School
for Professional Studies in Costa Mesa, California, will head
up the new organizational leadership graduate program in
spring 2003.
Michele Oya Tremayne (PsyD ’97, GSEP) married Ken
Tremayne (M ’92, GSEP; PsyD ’97, GSEP) in August 2001
and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where she finished her predoctoral internship in psychology. She works as a clinical
psychologist at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women
and Children.
2000
Elana Cassara-Lindsay recently bought a new home and is
spending her time fixing it up. She is a third-grade teacher
in Long Beach, California.
Jane Demian graduated with a master’s degree in Oriental
medicine and took the state board in July.
She is looking for a doctoral program that combines
Eastern and Western theories in psychology from
a holistic perspective. She lives in Los Angeles.
2001
Corene V. Tague works as a marriage and family therapist
intern for the Family and Youth Outreach Program and is
currently working toward licensure as
an MFT. She and her husband, Cory, reside in Garden
Grove, California, with their one-year-old, Cole.
Zena Vevaina is a counselor for Human Options in Newport
Beach, California, and is looking to apply to a psychology
doctorate program.
Kimberlynn Kleasen is the director of change management
for Pharmaceutical Sourcing Group Americas, a Johnson &
Johnson Co. She recently wrote an article for Journal of
Facilities Management about communications strategies.
Kimberlynn is also an adjunct faculty member at
Wilmington College in Delaware and lives in Belle Mead,
New Jersey, with her husband, Glenn.
UNIVERSITY FRIENDS
Linda Graef Salter received the Harry Buttimer
Distinguished Administrator
Award from the Association for
California Community College
Administrators,
the highest recognition
conferred by this statewide
organization of her peers.
Salter, who is Pepperdine’s
district chancellor, was an administrator of the University
from 1976–1980.
IN MEMORIAM
Byron A. Brawley (MBA ‘75, Graziadio School) died in
April, losing a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. A
realtor in San Jose, California, he was sixty-five years old.
Mary M. (McRae) Carpenter (B ’43, GPC) passed away on
November 22, 2001.
Constance E. Culp (B ’94, GSBM) passed away
March 23 after a long and courageous battle with
cancer. She and her husband, Todd Headrick, lived in
Southern California, Boston, and Seattle. Culp
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worked for Xerox, TeamWorX, Lotus, and Infoteria.
Her generous and loving spirit will be missed.
Justice Mildred L. Lillie died in October at age eightyseven. She had a long association with Pepperdine, where
she served as a member of the School of Law Board of
Visitors and was a Law Associate. She became a Pepperdine
Associate in 1980.
After a prolonged illness, Jose Haro Martinez (B ’87, SEAV)
passed away on October 5, 2001. He was forty years old.
Charlotte "Peaches" Guerrero passed away peacefully on
February 23 in Hawaii. She was a member of the
Pepperdine University Heritage Society and the George
Pepperdine Society Chancellor’s Circle. Guerrero is survived
by her niece and nephew.
Philip Jerome Himes (B ’44, GPC) passed away on
February 18. A man of strong faith, Himes worshipped at
the Springfield Church of Christ, where he served
as an elder, teacher, and song leader. At the end of World
War II, Himes worked as an operations research analyst in
the Navy and later worked on anti-submarine warfare. Himes
is survived by his wife, five siblings, five children, four
grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and many friends.
Former Pepperdine men’s volleyball coach Kirk Kilgour
passed away on July 10, after battling pneumonia
and a series of illnesses, at the age of 54. He was the head
volleyball coach at Pepperdine from 1979–1981.
Kilgour was a three-time All-American volleyball player at
UCLA and an Olympian. He became a quadriplegic after a
1970s training accident but continued to work as a coach,
sports broadcaster, actor, writer, and disability consultant.
Guiselle Cristina Rojas (M ’94, GSEP) was killed on June
13. She was thirty-nine years old.
Harry A. Rose (B ’39, GPC) died this year. At Pepperdine,
he worked for The Graphic and was
a member of the International Relations club.
Joel Pliant “J. P.” Sanders, former Pepperdine dean,
chairman of the religion department, and professor, died
October 30 in Reno, Nevada. Sanders received his doctorate
from the University of Southern California. He taught part
time at David Lipscomb College while serving as the fulltime minister for the Hillsboro Church of Christ in Nashville,
Tennessee. He will be remembered as an outstanding
university administrator and a wonderful Christian leader.
He is survived by his wife, Gloria, and their three children.
Janice (Lessly) Wenzlaff (B ’62, GPC) passed away on
March 9. She was the chairperson for the worship
committee for GPCelebration. She was also a member and
president of Associated Women for Pepperdine in Palm
Springs, California. ❖
Editor’s Note: Other passings are noted in Transitions on
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AT H L E T I C S
Terry Schroeder:
Olympic
Champion,
Cherished Coach,
Hall of Fame Inductee
By Amy Hunter
Pepperdine’s men’s water polo coach Terry Schroeder was inducted into the
International Swimming Hall of Fame on May 11 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Schroeder
was the third American water polo player to ever receive the award, and extended
family and friends were there to celebrate in this accomplishment with him.
The swimming organization, dominated by European
athletes, inducted Schroeder along with five swimmers and
one diver, honoring each with a short video presentation and
words of thanks.
A swimmer in his youth,
Schroeder pursued water polo
because of his love of working
with a team. He graduated from
Pepperdine magna cum laude in
sports medicine in 1981, while
simultaneously becoming a member
of the Olympic water polo team.
Although the boycott in 1980
prevented the team from competing
that year, Schroeder, the Olympic
team captain in 1984, 1988, and
1992, led the team to a silver medal
in 1984 and 1988.
Upon completing his Olympic
career, Schroeder, who comes from
a family of fifty-nine chiropractors,
returned to the practice he had
established with his wife, Lori.
Since 1986, he has also been the
head coach of Pepperdine’s water
polo team, guiding the University to
the NCAA Championships in 1997.
“I am just really happy to be here and proud to be a part
of Pepperdine—it just fits,” Schroeder said. “It’s something
I loved enough as a student to come back and work here.”
Schroeder’s admiration and gratitude for the people he’s
worked with through the years extends to his coworkers,
teammates, and players. “I think coaching is really all about
relationships,” he said. Speaking highly of those players who
have gained worldwide recognition, Schroeder also recalled
challenges in his own career. Forming relationships with his
Olympic teammates helped him to
grow in all areas of life, including
the development of his dependence
on God and the ability to maintain
a life of balance.
His passion and love for the
sport and his players is what keeps
Schroeder engaged and excited. “I
realize how much it gives me, too,
and how much I really love it,” he
said. “I enjoy being around the guys
just sharing with them, hopefully
teaching them a lot about water
polo and, more importantly,
something about life. I know that
they teach me things about life, too,
which is a big part of why I am still
doing it.”
Schroeder watched his team
win the Mountain Pacific Sports
Federation championship in
November and is excited to see
how the team grows in the future.
“Pepperdine has always been my home away from home,”
Schroeder said. “It’s a special place, and the special people
here have made me feel comfortable and welcome.”
And it seems that Schroeder, in the midst of all his
success, has done for others the very same. ❖
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AT H L E T I C S
AWARD-WINNING ATHLETES AND COACHES
MEN’S BASKETBALL
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Cedric Suitt: WCC “Defender of the Year”
Terrance Johnson: WCC “Freshman of the Year”
Paul Westphal: National Basketball Coaches
Association District 15 “Coach of the Year”
Brad Keenan: MPSF & national “Player of the Year”
Beau Daniels: All-American
Sean Rooney: MPSF & national
“Freshman of the Year”
Marv Dunphy: MPSF “Coach of the Year”
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Mark Trakh: WCC “Coach of the Year”
Kate Wilkins: second team All-American and first
team All-Pacific Region; WCC “Player of
the Year”
Nina Matthies: WCC “Coach of the Year”
MEN’S GOLF
Michael Beard: WCC “Player of the Year”
Brian O’Flaherty: WCC “Freshman of the Year”
Jason Allred: All-American, Byron Nelson Award
John Geiberger: WCC & Golf Coaches Association
of America Pacific Region “Coach of the Year”
Sean Rooney
WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING
Michelle Barker: PCSC “Diver of the Year”
Nick Rodionoff: PCSC “Coach of the Year”
WOMEN’S GOLF
Katherine Hull: first team All-American; set NCAA
single-round record with a 64, ranked No. 1 in women’s golf
Lindsay Wright: second-team All-American; WCC
“Player of the Year”
Crystal Fanning: WCC “Freshman of the Year”
Laurie Gibbs: WCC “Coach of the Year”
MEN’S TENNIS
Al Garland: Winner of Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s 2002
Rafael Osuna Award; WCC “Player of the Year”
Peter Smith: Intercollegiate Tennis
Association’s West Region
“Coach of the Year”; WCC
“Coach of the Year”
WATER POLO
Greg Lonzo: All-American
Jesse Smith: All-American
Michael Soltis: All-American ❖
ATHLETICS MOVES
Adam Steinberg, former head coach for men’s tennis at the University of
Alabama, has become the new head coach for the Pepperdine men’s tennis
team.
Former U.S. Olympian and Pepperdine All-American setter Chip McCaw
has returned to Malibu as an assistant men’s volleyball coach.
Jack Kocur and Alex Rodriguez, both members of Pepperdine’s NCAA
championship team in 1997, have been named assistant water polo
coaches.
Roger Gunn, the 2001 Southern California PGA “Teacher of the Year,” has
been named an assistant coach for the women’s golf team.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Charlotte Vernaz: WCC
“Player of the Year”
Veronica Koksova: WCC
“Freshman of the Year”
Al Barba has been promoted to sports information director. Barba was
associate sports information director from 1999–2002.
Charlotte Vernaz
Sam Lagana has been hired as the senior advancement officer for
Athletics. He was formerly the executive director of the John R. Wooden
Award.
Eric Foote, who previously served as assistant athletics director for
marketing and promotions at Southeast Missouri State University, joined
Pepperdine in a similar position in September. ❖
PEP ATHLETICS FINISHES AMONG
TOP 75 SCHOOLS IN 2001–02
Pepperdine Athletics finished No. 43 in the final 2001–02 Sears Director’s Cup standings, marking the fifth consecutive year the program finished
among the nation’s Top 75 schools. Pepperdine’s ranking is the highest for any NCAA 1-AAA institution and marks the sixth consecutive year that the
University has been the highest-ranked school in the West Coast Conference.
During the 2001–02 school year, a single-season school record nine Pepperdine teams advanced to the NCAA Championships in the sports
of men’s and women’s basketball, golf, tennis, volleyball, and women’s soccer. The Waves won or shared conference titles in seven sports.
Seven Pepperdine teams earned national Top 20 rankings in their sport’s respective final national polls, including four teams in the Top 10: men’s
tennis, men’s volleyball, women’s volleyball, and water polo. ❖
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TRANSITIONS
O’NEAL APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF
OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
PASSINGS
Jack R. Blackwell, a 1946 graduate of George Pepperdine College,
passed away in February. He was a member of the George Pepperdine
Society (GPS) Chancellor’s Circle and a Life Member and Founding
400 member of the Pepperdine Associates. He and his late wife,
Jean, were instrumental in establishing the Olaf H. Tegner Endowed
Scholarship.
Concluding twenty-six years of dedicated service to Pepperdine University,
vice chancellor Mike E. O’Neal was appointed president of Oklahoma
Christian University. He was inaugurated in early October.
GRAZIADIO SCHOOL NAMES
LIVINGSTONE NEW DEAN
Henry A. Braun, husband of Pepperdine Regent Virginia B. Braun,
passed away in March. The Brauns have been longtime friends and
supporters of Pepperdine and members of the George Pepperdine
Golden Wave Society. Recent gifts from the Braun Family include major
commitments for the Braun Center for Public Policy on the Drescher
Graduate Campus and for the Keck Science Center.
Linda Livingstone, formerly associate dean
for graduate programs at the Hankamer School
of Business at Baylor University, was appointed
the new dean of the Graziadio School of Business
and Management at Pepperdine. She assumed her
new responsibilities on June 1.
George A. Evans, Life member of the Pepperdine University Board
of Regents, died in May. He was a Founding 400 member and Life
Member of the Pepperdine Associates, and a member of the George
Pepperdine Crystal Wave Society and the Heritage Society. Evans became
a member of Pepperdine’s Board of Trustees in 1965 and achieved Life
Member status in 1988, by which time it was renamed the Board of
Regents.
NEW GSEP DEANS, MARKETING DIRECTOR
Robert A. de Mayo was appointed the new associate dean for the
psychology division of Pepperdine’s Graduate School of Education and
Psychology (GSEP), where he also serves as associate professor of
psychology. He has served at Pepperdine since 1989 and was previously
director of clinical training for GSEP.
Longtime Pepperdine friend and supporter Gerald J. Garner passed
away in April, as a result of injuries from an automobile accident. Garner
was a member of the GPS Chancellor’s Circle and a supporter of many
activities of the University. Garner was chairman of the board and CEO
of Coast Plaza Doctor’s Hospital in Norwalk, California, and vice
chairman of White Medical Center Foundation.
Robert Paull is GSEP’s new associate dean of the education division. Paull
has been with Pepperdine since 1991 and has served as program director
for the Teacher Education, Educational Leadership Academy,
and the educational leadership, administration, and policy programs.
Wendy Lytel has become the new director of marketing at GSEP. She was
previously the vice president at Manning Selvage & Lee Marketing
and Communication in Los Angeles.
Pepperdine lost a longtime friend and generous benefactor with the
passing of George L. Graziadio in June. He was the co-founder of
Imperial Bank, which has merged with Comerica, the nation’s largest
business bank. The Pepperdine School of Business was named in
Graziadio’s honor in 1996 with an endowment to the School by George
and Reva Graziadio. The Executive Center on Pepperdine’s Drescher
Graduate Campus will also bear the Graziadio name.
PARKENING JOINS SEAVER
One of the world’s most acclaimed classical
guitarists, Christopher Parkening, has become a
distinguished faculty member at Pepperdine.
Parkening, who began teaching in fall 2002,
said his decision was greatly influenced by the
University’s commitment to the Christian faith.
Charles Licata, longtime friend and loyal supporter of Pepperdine,
passed away at his home in April after a long illness. Licata and his wife,
Rosemary, are Crystal Wave members of the George Pepperdine Society
and members of the Heritage Society. They are benefactors of the
School of Public Policy and established the Charles and Rosemary
Licata Lecture Series at that school.
OSBORN LEAVES MUSIC PROGRAM
The Pepperdine community was saddened by the passing of George
Pepperdine II on Sunday, December 1, at age sixty-six. The namesake
son of the founder of Pepperdine University, George graduated from
Pepperdine College in 1958 and received his master’s degree in higher
education from the University of Southern California. He was a math
teacher, a systems engineer, president of GP Financial Inc., and served
on the Board of Visitors for Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business
and Management. He is survived by his loving wife, Loris, four children,
eight grandchildren, a brother, and a sister.
Thomas Osborn, Seaver College professor of music and music
director/conductor of the Pepperdine Community Symphony since 1980,
conducted his final performance April 11. Osborn opened the concert with
Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major.
FACULTY RETIREMENTS
The following Pepperdine professors have retired as of the fall 2002
semester: Birthney Ardoin, Seaver College, 17 years; Raymond W.
Buchanan, Seaver College, 16 years; Douglas Cloud, Seaver College,
16 years; David N. Elkins, GSEP, 20 years (current adjunct); R. Wayne
Estes, School of Law (SOL), 28 years; Robert P. Gelhart, GSEP, 27 years;
Herbert Luft, Seaver College, 35 years; Thomas F. Penderghast, Graziadio
School, 30 years; Richard C. Rierdan, Graziadio School, 32 years; Stephen
E. Sale, Seaver College, 32 years; Sheldon Clark Snow, associate
professor, Graziadio School, 34 years; W. Harold Bigham, SOL, 16 years;
and Edward Sanford, Graziadio School, 29 years. ❖
Gerald Sheppard, a steadfast and ardent Pepperdine friend, died in May.
He and his wife, Maggie, supported the University with their time and
talents, as well as their financial resources. Sheppard had served as an
active member of the Pepperdine Board since 1978, and also served as
a member of the Board of Visitors for the School of Law, the School of
Public Policy, and the Graziadio School. He was a member of the GPS
Chancellor’s Circle and a Founding 400 member and Life Member of the
Pepperdine Associates. ❖
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FROM THE PRESIDENT
Your passport awaits you!
Faithful to
Pepperdine’s
Culture and Heritage
At the beginning of the fall term, two themes presented themselves like old friends reminding us that they
still mattered in our lives. They are the themes of our Pepperdine culture and heritage. That we are mindful
of and faithful to such timeless themes offers a promise that the place George Pepperdine envisioned sixtyfive years ago continues to be relevant, that it continues to be as Mr. Pepperdine imagined it ought to be.
At the heart of a truly unique Pepperdine experience, the University affirms the significance—the “infinite
worth”—of each student. It is easy to consider students en masse, as a group of thousands sitting in our
classrooms, living in our dorms, and moving through their four years anonymously. It is easy, but it would
be totally out of character for Pepperdine.
This past fall after speaking to parents who had come to launch their sons and daughters on a new
and exciting adventure called “higher education,” I noticed a woman standing quietly next to a tall, male
freshman student. After he had moved away and joined in a separate conversation, I approached the woman,
whose loving gaze remained fixed on the young man standing several feet away. Nodding toward him,
I asked, “Is he your first?”
She looked at me and replied softly, “No, he’s my only.”
That moment stayed with me for some time. At Pepperdine, as faculty and staff, we do well to remember
to respect and celebrate every student as an “only.” Eric Hoffer, philosopher and former Presidential Medal of
Freedom honoree, was right when he observed, “It is the individual only who is timeless.”
In remaining true to our mission, our ability to learn and to pass along the special nature of the Pepperdine
community is of utmost importance. Then and now, our identity is rooted in a heritage of faith that is as
constant, reliable, and dependable as we make it.
Pepperdine is more visible today than ever before, and along with that comes much responsibility. Those
who share even a modest claim to the University are invited to express the kindness, the courtesy, and the
individual attention that advances Pepperdine in the direction of its founder’s vision.
What a privilege it is to be here at such a time as this.
Andrew K. Benton
Homecoming 2003
Planet Pepperdine
February 7-9, 2003
www.pepperdine.edu/alumni/seaver
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participation of every member
in order to win. In the same way,
Pepperdine’s race to excellence needs
every one of its alumni. It doesn’t matter
how much you give—we just need you on
the team. Your gift, of any size, translates into
scholarship assistance, new research opportunities,
and an increase in the value of your degree.
Every gift of $10, $20, or $50 will help us win the race.
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