Professional and Personal ............... 3

Art Smith: Historian ofSinister Intrigues ............................. 3

Health Briefs – Reducing RiskFactors in Seniors ........................... 4

Thirty-seven Days Beforethe Mast ........................................... 5

In Memoriam .................................. 7

Emeriti Association NominationCommittee Report ......................... 12

Volume XXVI, Number 3 Spring 2005

Publication of The Emeriti Association California State University, Los Angeles

The EmeritimesINSIDE THIS ISSUE:

See STATE OF UNIVERSITY ADDRESS, Page 6

President James M. Rosser presented hisannual State of the University address onTuesday, March 29, to the academic senateand guests, who filled lecture hall 2 to capac-ity. He detailed the opposing pressures an-ticipated from reduced funding and increasedenrollment demands, both leading to higherstudent costs projected well into the future.He stressed that in planning, the Cal StateL.A. administration would try to support ev-ery student academically, and would not in-crease enrollment at the expense of quality.

The overall CSU plan agreed to by thechancellor and the governor, referred to asthe Compact for Higher Education, projects aone percent annual funding increase throughthe 2006-07 academic year and a four percentannual increase from 2007-08 through 2010-12, with a possible added one percent increasefor the later years of that interval. This provi-sion is coupled with projected enrollment in-creases of 2.5 percent per year through 2010.That would translate to a CSU growth rate of8,000 FTES or 10,000 students per year.

President Details FinancialCrunch in State of theUniversity Address

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger an-nounced on April 7 that he was stopping thecollection of signatures for his initiative to dras-tically change the retirement plan for state em-ployees, in direct response to the objectionsvoiced by police, firefighters, and family mem-bers of those who had died in the course of theirpublic safety duties. Their assertion was that

the proposal as presently written would deprivelater employees of death and disability benefits,which were vital to their well-being.

The governor’s response on that issue was,“Over the last few weeks, I’ve spoken withAssemblyman Keith Richman, the author of ourpension reform proposal in the legislature. Keithand I have decided to work together with theleaders in local government and public safetyto craft new language that makes it absolutelyclear that the families of every cop, firefighterand public safety professional lost in the line ofduty are protected in our pension reform plan.”

The governor said that he will negotiate withthe legislature this year, but if he is dissatisfiedwith those negotiations, he will resume his cam-paign to place his initiative on the June 2006ballot. Nearly all state employees would be se-verely affected by the proposed overhaul of thefiscal basis for their retirement provisions. Therestoration of language for death and disabilitybenefits for public safety workers is a smalldetail in the entire plan.

Governor’s Plan for Major Restructuring ofState Employees’ Retirement Plan on Hold

See GOVERNOR AND PERS, Page 2

JOHN KIRCHNER TO SPEAK ON VOLCANIC ISLANDSAT SPRING LUNCHEON SET FOR FRIDAY, MAY13

The Emeriti Association’s spring luncheonand annual meeting are scheduled for Friday,May 13 in the Golden Eagle Ballroom. JohnKirchner, professor of geography and urbananalysis, will speak on a decidedly non-ur-ban subject, “Islandscapes Born of Fire: TheGalapagos and Canarias.” For the annualmeeting, the agenda includes the slate ofnominees for officers to serve during 2005-06 and a proposed constitutional amendmenton at-large membership for the executivecommittee.

John joined the Cal State L.A. faculty in1979. His interests in research and writinghave been devoted primarily to tropical agri-culture and to transportation in developingcountries. He has focused particularly onLatin America, an emphasis that grew out ofhis graduate study at the University of Chi-cago. He promises at least as many images aswords.

Reservations may be made by contactingClem Padick as shown in the box on this page.

FRIDAY, MAY 13, 200511:30 A.M. TO 2:30 P.M.

GOLDEN EAGLE BALLROOMCOST: $20 PER PERSON

Send check, made payable to the EmeritiAssociation, to Clem Padick, 1849 NorthAltadena Drive, Altadena, CA 91001, nolater than Monday, May 9. For more infor-mation, call Clem at 626-798-9702.

Spr ingLUNCHEON AND ANNUAL MEETING

As usual, the arrival time is set for 11:30 a.m.to allow for social reunions. Table servicewill begin at noon, with the talk and a shortbusiness session to follow.

In a March communication, CFA alerted faculty of Trustee Bill Hauck’s attempt toeliminate the FERP program entirely as part of the bargaining process for the nextcontract. Hauck is a member of the Trustees’ Committee on Collective Bargaining, andacted by introducing an amendment of the previous agreement on FERP by a motion toreduce it from two years to none. The arguments in favor of this action are as speciousas those on the governor’s proposal to change the retirement plan from defined benefitto defined contribution (see article on this page).

More recent information is available on the CFA website, www.calfac.org. TheMarch 17 bulletin detailed the arguments set forth by Hauck and the counter-argu-ments by CFA President John Travis. All emeriti, not just those on FERP, should stayinformed on this issue.

Trustee Proposes Dropping FERP in Bargaining Session

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Governor and PERS(Continued from Page 1)The Emeritimes

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President’s Message

This will not be theusual column because mymind and activities havebeen so concerned withrescuing my son Peterfrom a Puerto Rico hos-pital after he was injuredin Iraq, getting him to theUnited States, and even-tually home where manyof my efforts are devoted to healing him. Ihope that the new president and the editorwill grant me some time in a few months towrite a more satisfying hail and farewell aspresident of the Emeriti Association. Ofcourse, I will remain actively involved, buthopefully a great deal more low key as imme-diate past president.

On March 2, George Diehr, professor ofmanagement systems at CSU San Marcos, thefaculty member of the California EmployeesRetirement Board (PERB), visited Cal StateL.A. and spoke in detail about the governor’splan. About 60 faculty and staff members,including several emeriti clustered in the frontrow, attended the meeting at the Roybal In-stitute. He emphasized the good health andsafety of the retirement system that is the larg-est in the United States and second or thirdlargest in the world, and the unfairness of thecurrent assault on it by the governor and hissupporters.

Through statistics and political cartoons,Diehr demonstrated that the governor’s claimthat defined benefit (DB) pensions are bank-rupting public agencies is a scare tactic. Heshowed instead that the governor’s definedcontribution plan (DC), so reminiscent of cur-rent claims to “improve” Social Security,would save the taxpayers nothing in the shortrun and very little in the long run, even if theeconomy booms. To achieve this small con-ceivable savings, state employees’ expensesfor their retirement plan could increase fromsix percent to 21 percent in the “conserva-tive” example that he discussed. Advocatesof reform build frightening scenarios by fo-cusing excessively on current post-boomyears.

Despite decades of success that have madePERS a model for other systems and won thehighest praise from financial rating agencies,Tom Campbell, the Governor’s financial ad-visor, declared, “The fundamental goal is thatemployees, not taxpayers, bear market risk.”The trained and excellent PERS investmentteam would be replaced by “do-it-yourself”investors. PERS administrative costs are .18percent, while DC plans average one percent.

Cutting the current state share of the re-tirement plan could add six percent to em-ployee payments. Diehr argued that if thegovernor achieves a budget that freezes healthbenefits, state employees could pay an addi-tional $1,000 annually to protect their healthcare. Another blow in the proposed budgetwould be the deletion of death and disabilitybenefits for all employees and their families(despite the concession now offered in thecase of public safety workers).

Apparently conceding that CalPERS hasenabled the state to maintain low state sala-ries, Campbell even admitted to PERB thatsalaries of state employees would most likelyincrease if PERS is crippled. For anyone indoubt as to why Schwarzenegger might suc-ceed in collecting a huge financial war chest

from Wall Street, he seemed in one quotationto argue that California would initiate a na-tional “avalanche” if he could gain control ofretirement plans—a control far more extremethan that once attempted and overruled byGovernor Pete Wilson.

The State Teachers Retirement System(STRS) is even more vulnerable to the cur-rent assault on retirement plans than PERS.Even the University of California is underattack in pending legislation to require DCretirement plans for all state employees.

At press time for The Emeritimes, CSUfaculty organizations were considering reso-lutions voicing strong support for retentionof the DB plan. The ERFA State Council hada resolution scheduled for April 16, and theCSU Academic Senate has one before it forits meeting of May 5-6. Our campus’ Senateunanimously approved a comparable resolu-tion at its meeting of April 12. Lillian Taiz,campus president (and statewide vice presi-dent) of the California Faculty Association(CFA), called for faculty and staff volunteersto participate in CFA efforts to defeat thegovernor’s proposed initiative and related leg-islation. Those efforts were being coordinatedby Scott Adams, at Scottad@majornet.comor 425-648-3488. Although one group of em-ployees made a more visible case directly tothe governor, as reported in the daily press,continued vigilance in every sector will beneeded if the governor resumes his campaignin 2006, as avowed.

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Charles Borman (Art) was invited by theFine Arts Club of Pasadena to exhibit his workat the Hall of the Associates in the Athenaeumat Caltech on April 8. The Montrose-VerdugoCity Chamber of Commerce named him Vol-unteer of the Year 2004, honoring him for hisdedication and outstanding communityservice. The awards dinner was held on Janu-ary 13 at the La Cañada-Flintridge CountryClub. He also received the City of GlendaleMayor’s Commendation and commendationsfrom Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy, Assem-blyman Dario Frommer, Congressman DavidDreier, State Senator Bob Margett, State Sena-tor Jack Scott, and Los Angeles County Super-visor Michael Antonovich.

Professional and PersonalThis year marks Chuck’s 10th year as owner

of Village Square Gallery in Montrose. A num-ber of local artists show their creative work,including emeriti colleagues. Joe Soldate hadan exhibit there of his work in mixed media,which ran from January 13 to February 12. Thatwas followed by Walter Askin’s paintings, onexhibit from February 17 to March 19. Withother artists intervening, Chuck will mount ashow of his own works in mixed media, whichwill be on display from September 29 to Octo-ber 29. The gallery is located at 2418 HonoluluAvenue, suite C.

Brian Capon (Biology) was pleased to havehis book, Botany for Gardeners, recently pub-lished in a new Revised Edition by Timber Press,Portland, Oregon and Cambridge, U.K., and byBriza Press in South Africa. A bestseller sincefirst published in 1990, the book has now beentranslated into Italian and Dutch editions, withmore foreign language versions forthcoming.

Most recent travels have included a fasci-nating journey through Thailand; sailing aroundthe British Isles; hiking in Glacier National Park,Montana; a brief stay in Mexico; and a month inChile, Argentina, and Brazil, including Torresdel Paine National Park, Iguazu Falls, BuenosAires, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and a thrill-ing sail around Cape Horn.

Donald O. Dewey (History) wrote essayson “The Supreme Court” and “Supreme CourtJustices” for the Encyclopedia of the New Ameri-can Nation (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,2005). This three-volume set is edited by PaulFinkelman. In April, Don gave a talk entitled“Stolen Elections: When the Presidential Elec-

tion System Fails” at the Willamette UniversityInstitute for Continued Learning at Salem, Or-egon. He was introduced by emeritus colleagueMarion Dearman (Sociology). The same lec-ture was presented to the Cal State L.A. OsherLife-Long Learning Institute the week beforethe November 2004 election. He and KenWagner (Political Science) were planning for anew chapter of their joint publication, Contro-versial Presidential Elections (2001), but thevoters let them down.

Stuart Fischoff has moved to Illinois, wherehis media psychology program will be affili-ated with Southern Illinois University. He hasbeen quoted frequently in many of the majorU.S. newspapers, but during his transition hereceived significant attention in Newsweek. Thiswas the concluding paragraph of its March 7article on “The True Believers” of Michael Jack-son: “We’ve heard it. Deluded. Pathetic. Get alife. You may have said it too, if not as authori-tatively or sympathetically as Stuart Fischoff,professor emeritus of media psychology at CalState L.A. ‘These fans have what’s called aparasocial relationship,’ says Fischoff. ‘Theythink they know Michael, even if Michaeldoesn’t know them. They have a bond they’renot willing to give up very readily. It wouldtake a Sherman tank to blow it out. That Shermantank may be that kid on the stand.’ But for now,they have something to believe it. That is a life.How’s yours?”

Janet Fisher-Hoult (Education) and herhusband, Charles Hoult, took an “astro-cruise”to observe a southern hemisphere solar eclipse

See PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL, Page 4

Emeritus professor Arthur L. Smith contin-ues in retirement to be one of the most impor-tant American historians of post-war Germany.Since his retirement in 1992, he has publishedthree new books plus second editions of twoearlier books. Two of the new books were pub-lished first in English, soon followed by Ger-man editions.

Die “vermisste Million” zum Schicksaldeutscher Kriegsgefangener nach dem ZweitenWeltkrieg (Munich: Oldenbourg, 1992) studiesthe fate of the so-called “Missing Million” ofGerman soldiers never accounted for afterWorld War II. This refutation of the allegationsof a well-known Canadian journalist that theGermans had been allowed to starve while inAmerican captivity led to Art’s interviews onnational and international television.

The War for the German Mind, Re-Educat-ing Hitler’s Soldiers (Providence and Oxford:Berghahn Books, 1996) is a history of Ameri-can, British, and Soviet efforts to convert a se-lect number of German prisoners of war todemocracy by the British and Americans and tocommunism by the Russians. The German edi-tion, Kampf um Deutschlands Zukunft, waspublished in 1967 in Bonn by Bouvier.

Kidnap City, Cold War Berlin (Westport andLondon: Greenwood Press, 2002) demonstratesthat the vast majority of people kidnapped bycommunists in West Berlin were employed byU.S. intelligence agencies. It is based on docu-ments in recently opened East German archives.The German edition, Stadt des Menschraubs,Berlin 1945-1961 was published in 2004 inKoblenz by the German Federal Archives.

The two revised editions entailed factualupdating and new introductions. Hitler’s Gold,The Story of Nazi Loot (Oxford: Berg, 1992)relates the history of what happened to the na-tional gold supplies of Europe during Nazi oc-cupation. Die Hexe von Buchenwald (Cologne:Boehlau, 1994) is a biography of Ilsa Koch andher post-war trial by Allied forces. The Ger-mans sentenced her to life imprisonment fol-lowing her release by the United States, but shecommitted suicide in prison. In the German title,the alliterative “Bitch of Buchenwald” becomesa “witch.”

Art is now working with Hans-AdolfJacobsen, former Distinguished Visiting Pro-fessor at Cal State L.A., on a study of pre-warNazi diplomacy.

Art Smith: Historian of Sinister IntriguesBy Donald O. Dewey

Emeriti are reminded that Universitypolicy requires the maintenance of yourpersonnel files in college offices untilfull retirement. At that time, the facultymember and the dean review the file andforward what is appropriate to the Uni-versity Library for storage in Special Col-lections. Thus, you are urged to maintainintermittent contact with the dean’s of-fice to determine when it is appropriatefor decisions to be made on your file. Youare also urged to keep your file current sothat there will be a record of your aca-demic and professional achievements.

Emeriti on the Record

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DAVID F. MCNUTT(Director, Public Affairs and

Publications, and InstructionalMedia, 1969-2005)

RAJ S. RAMCHANDANI(Electrical Engineering, 1976 -2005)

We congratulate them and hope towelcome them into the membership ofthe Emeriti Association.

Omitted from the last issue was thefollowing new emeritus, who has becomea Life Member of the Association:

THEODORE J. CROVELLO(Dean, Graduate Studies and Research,

and Biology, 1987-2004)

New Emeriti NamedThe following recently retired faculty

members have been awarded emeritusstatus:

All of us, as we progress in life, pick up addi-tional health baggage, referred to in health circlesas “risk factors.” By virtue of our age, gender,race, genetics, environmental exposures, andlifestyle, the risks of acquiring an acute or chronicillness or injury are increasingly more likely.Because of excellent longitudinal studies andother biomedical research that have been con-ducted on both men and women, we know therelative risks of acquiring common health prob-lems. Some of these risk factors are obviouslynot amenable to change, such as age, gender,race, genetics, and some environmental expo-sures (e.g., smog and automobile pollution).However, other risk factors are modifiable—mostnotably lifestyle and some environmental fac-tors. The two most modifiable risk factors aresmoking and being overweight or obese. Riskfactors are very individualized. Thus, each of usshould recognize what our own particular riskfactors are for acquiring conditions such as dia-betes, cardiovascular problems, osteoporosis,arthritis, and cancer.

Being “pre-sick” is one way of looking atrisk factors today. Many persons are being toldby health care providers that they have “pre-diseases.” For instance, it is quite common forolder women and some men to be told theyhave osteopenia. This means that they show a

Health Briefs

Reducing Risk Factors in SeniorsBy Marilyn Friedman

modest degree of bone loss and are at risk fordeveloping osteoporosis in the future unlessthey take corrective action—such as taking abone-building drug in hopes of preventing ordelaying osteoporosis.

Another “pre-disease” is pre-diabetes, mean-ing that these individuals have elevated bloodsugar levels. The good news is that pre-diabetesis not yet the full-fledged illness, but the chancesare high that if nothing is done, those personswill have diabetes within 10 years. Again, ifthey know they are pre-diabetic, there is a lotthey can do to reverse the process.

Another example of a pre-disease is pre-hypertension. This is borderline-high bloodpressure (that is in addition to the 65 plus mil-lion who actually have hypertension in theUnited States). And with the new standard treat-ment guidelines in 2001, about half of all adultsare now considered to have high or borderline-high cholesterol. In spite of the uncertainty asto what to do and when to start more medicallyaggressive drug treatment, it is still worthwhileto detect early warning signs and take appropri-ate precautions.

Sometimes these warning signs—pre-dis-eases or risk factors—are blessings in disguise.Increasing exercise, eating more fruits and veg-etables, reducing weight and stress levels, tak-ing vitamin/mineral supplements, and whateverother particular changes you make in yourlifestyle is good advice for staying healthy.Rather than feeling “pre-sick” when we get thebad news about increased risks, we need to feelempowered to do what we need to do to preventgetting the real thing!

occ, totiuring on April 8, toting their own tele-scope along with necessary aids for solarviewing. They flew to Tahiti on April 3, thenboarded a ship scheduled to follow the eclipsetrajectory. The ship then stopped at Pitcairn andEaster Islands before landing in Peru. The Houltswent on to Macchu Picchu and returned homeon April 23.

Robert D. Kully (Communication Stud-ies) is a co-author with Linda C. Lederman(Rutgers University) and Joshua B. Lederman(Emmanuel College, Boston) of an article, “Be-lieving is Seeing: The Co-Construction of Ev-eryday Myths in the Media About CollegeDrinking,” that appeared in the September2004 issue of American Behavioral Scientist,Vol. 48, Number 1.

Paul Rowan (Sociology) suffered a mildstroke during the Christmas season. He said hewas confused by a fantasy world where heseemed to be returning from interesting inter-national trips, but then was embarrassed to find

he didn’t recognize his wife. By early Febru-ary, he was much recovered and respondingenergetically and enthusiastically to telephonecalls. He recognized the name of his ex-dean,Don Dewey, immediately, and they then remi-nisced about adventures shared when he wasassociate dean. With the help of an assistant, hewas already able to move about in his neighbor-hood.

Frieda Stahl (Physics) presented a papertitled “Sarah Frances Whiting: Foremother ofAmerican Women Physicists” on March 22, atthe national meeting of the American PhysicalSociety held during that week at the Los Ange-les Convention Center, in a session devoted tohistory of physics. Whiting (1846-1927) wasthe first faculty member in both physics andastronomy at Wellesley College when it wasfounded. She organized the first instructionallaboratories for women students, second onlyto MIT in the U.S.

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“Sometimes these

warning signs—pre-

diseases or risk factors—

are blessings in disguise.”

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For something different, Bob and I decidedto take a cruise on a modern version of a clippership. The Star Flyer, one of the three ships inthe fleet, was sailing from its summer home inthe eastern Mediterranean to its winter home inSoutheast Asia and we signed up to make thevoyage on it. (The other two ships spend sum-mer in the western Mediterranean and winter inthe Caribbean.) The sea voyage was a total of37 days from Athens, across the Mediterranean,through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, acrossthe Indian Ocean (both the Arabian Sea armand the Bay of Bengal arm) and the AndamanSea to Phuket, Thailand. The itinerary calledfor ten stops: the islands of Mykonos and Rhodesin Greece; Alexandria, Sharm-el-Sheih, andSafaga, in Egypt; Salalah in Oman; Goa andCochin in India; Colombo in Sri Lanka; and theAndaman Islands in Thailand.

We flew to Athens on the first of Octoberand spent about a week sightseeing in southernGreece before boarding the ship. My ninth gradeworld history teacher had spent an inordinateamount of time (in my opinion as a ninth grader)talking about Greek civilization, including fas-cinating stories about the Oracle of Delphi.Unfortunately, I hadn’t thought much aboutGreece since then, so our sightseeing in Greecewas very conventional. Since we were going tobe sailing for so many days, we opted out of aharbor cruise or a cruise that touted that wecould stop at three Greek Islands in one day.Instead, we saw the sights of Athens, includingthe Acropolis, and took an overnight trip toDelphi and a day trip to Peloponnesus.

We had heard that Athens was a smoggy,dirty city. We were there about two months af-ter the Olympics and were pleasantly surprisedto find it clear and reasonably clean while wewere there. However, it was worse than anyplace we have been in the last 20 years (includ-ing China and Japan) as far as the amount ofsecond-hand tobacco smoke. As one of ourguidebooks put it, Greeks smoke continually:before meals, after meals, and between bites.The recently required nonsmoking sections ofrestaurants were minuscule compared to thesmoking section and always in the least desir-able part of the restaurant.

However, Greece was only a footnote to themain event of an ocean voyage. Other than sci-entific cruises, Bob had never been on a cruiseand the only “cruises” I had been on were tripsacross the Pacific and back on a U.S. Navy troop-ship as a dependent.

For those of you who have been on cruises,a few comparisons are in order. Our ship was

360 feet long, compared to the QE2 at 963 feet.On the other hand, the Santa Maria, the largestof Columbus’ ships, was less than 60 feet long.Our ship had space for 170 passengers, but wehad only 120-150 passengers depending on theleg of the voyage. By far, the largest group ofpassengers was English-speaking, mostly fromthe U.S. and Australia. The rest of the passen-gers were German speakers. In addition to our-selves, there were two other academics on board,a faculty member in social work from BarryCollege in Florida and a retired financial aidofficer from UCSB.

Our travel agent assured us that she hadgotten us a cabin that was low and amidships,for minimum motion in rough seas. I had in-sisted on a cabin on the port side of the ship (Iwanted to go POSH [port over, starboardhome]). I learned that with air conditioning, itdoesn’t really matter which side of the ship yourcabin is on and, although it was nice to be ableto see out the porthole, the portholes are perma-nently sealed (and under water about half thetime).

Our stateroom was about the size of a Euro-pean hotel room, but very efficiently furnished.We had a double bed and there was room underthe bed for our suitcases and life vests. We hadtwo drawers, a full-length closet (about nineinches of clothes rod) and a half closet (anothernine inches of rod space), and about nine shelvesin the closets. In addition to the bed, the roomheld a built-in soft chair and a built-in shelf thatfunctioned as a desk. We had an attached bath-room, which consisted of toilet, sink, andshower. Our first lesson in sailing was that, whenthe wind is blowing steadily, a sailing ship takeson a list that lasts as long as the wind does.When the ship was leaning to starboard at night,I would slide over onto Bob, pushing him out ofbed. When the ship was leaning to port, theshower in our bathroom wouldn’t drain.

The senior officers were German and Rus-

sian. The other employees that we interactedmost with were the members of the sports teamand the pursers, who were from Sweden, Co-lombia, and one of the newly independent Yu-goslavian countries. The crew were mostlyIndian; the dining stewards and room stewardswere mostly Indonesian or Filipino.

The dress code as advertised fit our lifestyle.We got to wear shorts all day including to break-fast and lunch, although we were all asked towear slacks rather than shorts to dinner. Whenwe got on board, we learned that men were askedto wear long-sleeve shirts to dinner and a tieand jacket to the captain’s dinners. Bob hadn’tbrought any ties or jackets or many long-sleevedshirts. However, neither had about half of themen, so we could always find people to sit withwho were as underdressed for any event as wewere.

Breakfast and lunch were buffet style. Thebreakfasts included eggs cooked to order. Lunchwas my favorite meal. It usually included a roastof some kind, as well as all sorts of salads (par-ticularly right after we left a port), about 12kinds of hot food, and four kinds of desserts.

Dinner was served from 1930 to 2200. Therewas open seating and the menu contained aboutsix courses. Regardless of whether we orderedtwo courses or six, it took 90 minutes to eatdinner. If we came in right at 7:30, we would begiven a menu. About 20 minutes later, the stew-ard would come and take the order. About 20minutes after that, the first course would ap-pear. If some people at the table ordered fourcourses and we had ordered three, the stewardsarranged their service so that everyone at thetable was ready for dessert at the same time. Ifwe had already started eating and someone elsejoined our table, the stewards rushed their or-ders and slowed down ours even further. Aftera while, Bob and I got tired of the long dinnersand ended up getting dinner rolls from our stew-ard and having rolls and fruit for dinner in ourcabin most of the time.

At the beginning of the trip, days of sailingand ports of call were reasonably equally dis-persed, as they were again in India and Sri Lanka.However, there were long stretches at sea—nine days between Egypt and Oman, seven daysbetween Oman and India, and five days betweenSri Lanka and Thailand. Contrary currents andwinds in the southern part of the Red Sea slowedus down so much that the captain changed courseand sailed across the Indian Ocean without stop-ping at Oman, which put us at sea for 16 con-secutive days. Lettuce disappeared from themenu very quickly and about one-third of the

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Pacific Dispatch

Thirty-seven Days Before the MastBy Margaret J. Hartman

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fresh fruits and vegetables that the cook boughtin Safaga were rotten when he bought them. Wecertainly didn’t starve, but by the time wereached Goa, oranges were the only fresh fruitavailable.

We got caught in a few rainsqualls and hadto modify our course slightly a couple of timesto avoid tropical depressions in the IndianOcean, but the weather was quite pleasant. Inthe Mediterranean (early October), it was coldenough to seek out the sunny side of the ship. Inthe Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, we split,with Bob taking the sunny side and me seekingthe shade. In the Andaman Sea, it was too hotfor either of us unless there was a good breezeblowing.

Bob and I realized that we preferred a higherproportion of days at port; the highlights of thetrip for us were the side trip to the pyramidsand sphinx of Giza, the side trip to the Valleyof the Kings, and the railroad trip from Co-lombo to the ancient Ceylon capital at Kandy.Many of the passengers were there for the sail-ing, though, and didn’t even go ashore whenwe were in port.

I had expected to see a considerable numberand variety of sea birds, and was surprised athow very little marine bird life there was in thatpart of the Indian Ocean in the autumn. Even inmost of the harbors, there were very few birds(Goa and Cochin were exceptions). However,we did have some interesting bird experiences.I was bitten by a pelican in Mykonos. In Egypt,a short-eared owl and two wagtails joined theship. The owl jumped ship while we were stillin the Red Sea, but the wagtails went all the wayto Goa with us. In Sri Lanka, a cattle egret flewon board and we expected it to stay with us untilThailand, but unfortunately, it died on boardafter several days.

One of the advertised activities that appealedto us was that passengers could help with therunning of the ship if and when they wanted to.This turned out not to be quite as exciting asadvertised. The major activities associated withrunning the ship were raising and lowering sails,which was all done by machine, and chippingpaint. I have done enough of the latter in ourhouse in Pasadena so that I had no interest inparticipating in that activity. Once we got intothe Andaman Sea, the ocean was very calm andthey did let us go up into the lower crow’s nest,about 70 feet above the water. The picture of usis taken from there.

We landed in Phuket right on schedule andwere home 40 days before the tsunami struckPhuket. The Star Flyer was in the Straits ofMalacca at the time and escaped with no dam-age, although they have modified the wintersailing schedule to avoid the worst-hit areas.

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The projection for student fees is an in-crease of 10 percent per year for undergradu-ates, and even higher increase rates forgraduate students and other postbaccalaureatestudents such as teaching credential candi-dates. The anticipated set-aside for studentfinancial aid is between 20 percent and 33percent of the revenue realized from thesefees. The president expressed the hope thatfee revenues would not be used to offset adecrease in state funds, but there is no suchprovision in the Compact. There is only theexpressed intent, newly articulated, that thestate will maintain the funding now set.

The financial burden for students, whichmay serve to depress enrollment and delaydegree completion, has led them to borrowtoo much and to graduate with a high level ofpersonal debt. Yet in spite of increases al-ready imposed, the president maintained,“CSU remains the lowest-cost public univer-sity in the country.”

The May Revise is seen as critical. Thebudget is subject to the state’s economic con-dition overall, and the prospects for highereducation are dimmed by the fact that K-12education is severely under-funded. Actualnegotiations on the budget will occur afterthe May Revise, and final allocations will bedetermined so late that students may be un-able to plan their fall programs in advance.There is then the possibility that those regis-tered for fall may be back-billed after the startof classes. Such back-billing has already oc-curred in recent years.

For overall support at CSU institutions,presidents are now expected to raise 10 to15percent of their allocations through privatedonations. That typically involves alumnicontributions and outreach campaigns to at-tract them. However, the president noted, “Wegraduate teachers, nurses, social workers–tough careers for alumni contributions.”

With regard to faculty, the president statedhis intent to adhere to the Cal State L.A. stra-tegic plan for 2002-07, notably the decisionto hire tenure-track faculty in step with thegrowth in FTES. The goal is to bring the fac-ulty up to 75 percent tenured or on tenuretrack. But, he said, “It is getting harder,damned harder, to retain faculty,” because ofhousing costs in this area. At the present av-erage starting salary of about $58,000, a fac-ulty member cannot qualify for a mortgageon a house with a median price of $430,000.

On the matter of physical plant, the presi-dent stated that increases in the cost of mate-rials are expected to consume much of theallocations for the new buildings previouslyapproved, for which construction is already

beginning. As an example, he said that equip-ping the new science building by the timeconstruction is completed will be very diffi-cult. On the other hand, the updated program incriminalistics is expected to draw new enroll-ments, adding to the base. The building thatwill house that program, with a state-of-the-artlaboratory facility, will free up space in KingHall. In the meantime, the campus’ deferredmaintenance backlog has grown to $85 mil-lion, for which the budget currently suppliesless than $82,000. The risk pool is unfunded,making insurance costs a severe liability andthe possibility of accidents intimidating.

Cal State L.A. continues to be penalizedby rigid state formulas. Ours is the only cam-pus in the system officially declared under-populated for its defined capacity, yet itsuffers from a lack of adequately equippedspace. The example the president cited wasthe MFA program in art, for which the degreewas approved with zero funding for the fa-cilities needed to serve its instructional ac-tivities. There are similarly serious problemswith other specialized programs.

Yet another source of financial overload isthe burden of remedial education. The presi-dent identified reading as the primary stumblingblock, in which the University is given one yearto overcome years of shortfall in students’ read-ing proficiency. He stated that many studentsgraduate from high school reading below ninth-grade level. Clearly, admitting these technicallyeligible students adds enrollment, and enroll-ment is the only basis for funding CSU institu-tions. The president called attention to the factthat this system gets no added money for newcampuses, and he contrasted Monterey Bay andChannel Islands with UC Merced to illustratethat point.

After reviewing the constraints facing CalState L.A., the president added the commentthat our campus is so short of land that wehave to tear down in order to build. Both ac-creditation standards and safety issues maybecome involved in that process. He tries tokeep a prudent reserve, which can be spent onwell-supported projects. For enrollment man-agement, the goal for 2005-06 is an increaseof approximately 120 FTES, recognizing thepriority for enrolling students who have com-pleted a community college program designedfor transfer. The student-faculty ratio overallhas been set at 22:1, and will not be exceeded.

The president’s closing words included theinformation that a geological fault has beenfound under the campus, which probably isless threatening to us than the San Andreasfault is to CSU San Bernardino.

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CONSTANCE AMSDENProfessor of Education, 1961-1984

Constance (Connie) Amsden, emeritusprofessor of education, died at the age of 90on November 2, in Palm Springs. She was aresident of Palm Desert for the last 15 years.

Connie specialized in teaching reading inelementary schools. She gained much recog-nition for her approach, in which she com-

bined phonics and linguistics in order to de-velop comprehension as well as mechanicalfacility. Her work influenced the teaching ofreading in many Southern California schooldistricts, particularly in Santa Monica and inthe bilingual classes in Los Angeles.

Born in Boston on August 19, 1914,Connie grew up in New England, and taughtthere in both public and private schools. Shecame to Cal State L.A. in 1961, and taughtthe various courses in the teaching of readingoffered by what then was the School of Edu-cation. She resumed her own education con-currently, earning a Ph.D. in 1968 atClaremont Graduate School.

According to colleagues with whom shemaintained strong friendships, Connie en-joyed her retirement as much as she did hercareer. She is remembered for her great witand zest for life.

WALTER SCOTT BEAVERProfessor of Theatre Arts, 1956-1984

Walter Scott Beaver, professor of theatrearts at Cal State L.A. from 1956 to 1984, diedpeacefully on January 7 at the Montecito,California home where he had lived with hiswife Elizabeth since their retirement. He was80 years old.

In Memoriam

He had suffered from Parkinson’s diseasesince 1996 and, during his final two years,lost his ability to walk or stand, and finallyhis speaking, swallowing, and breathingmuscles were impaired.

In 1971,Walter’s neck was severely injuredwhen he slipped, fell, and hit his neck on achair arm. He was a quadriplegic until surgeryand physical therapy enabled him to return tothe classroom. Many colleagues and studentsremained unaware of the cause of the stiff neckthat may have limited his action scenes, butcertainly did not keep him off stage.

Already a successful professional actor be-fore he joined the faculty, Walt was instru-mental in the physical planning of the campus

theater. The restroom building near the maintheater was commonly known as Beaver Halland is still called that by oldtimers aware howupset he was by initial plans, which wouldhave had the public bathrooms in the mainbuilding, where flushing toilets could com-pete with the performance. His devotion tothe department also included the Universityas a whole. He was involved in the project forthe planting of the alumni grove near the JohnF. Kennedy Memorial Library.

Shiz Herrera, then a student but now a fac-ulty member, says that Walt’s philosophy ofteaching by example was never more evidentthan when he played the bartender in a sum-mer musical, The Big Rich. He was always ontime, remembered his lines, remembered hisblocking, and was always in good humor evenduring the long technical rehearsals. He neverasked nor expected star status. He was justanother member of the company.

He directed more than 50 plays, most ofthem at Cal State L.A. A memorable directo-

rial success was Hamlet in 1959, starring Rob-ert Vaughn (later The Man from U.N.C.L.E.).Walt had selected his lead a year in advanceto be sure that the student would be available,when Vaughn walked in from Los AngelesCity College, asked to audition, and won thepart. Walt also directed a musical Hamlet,which he wrote as Black Shadow, BlackPrince. He wrote and staged several othermusicals, most memorably the uproariousHelp Stamp Out Puritans. His emeritus col-league Pete Goodman speculates that it wouldhave succeeded in England if given the op-portunity. Walt wrote the book, lyrics, andmusic for this and his other musicals, Shadowof a Prince, Tout les Deceptions de Paris, A

Little on the Side!, and One Like Me. Otherplays that he directed here include The CaineMutiny Courtmartial, Macbeth, King Lear,Oedipus, East Lynn, Damn Yankees, Ah Wil-derness, The Bells are Ringing, The Skin ofOur Teeth, Side by Side by Sondheim, Dylan,and Plaza Suite.

He yearned to be a pilot in World War II,but was forced by inadequate vision to be-come a glider pilot instead. Then, getting losthigh over Texas grounded him back to theregular army. Even there he played uniqueroles. In New Mexico, he was secretary-as-sistant to the trial judge advocate and in Italyhe operated a plant to generate oxygen for theuse of pilots, training 300 others in the art.Any conceivable doubts about his future wereresolved when he was given opportunities onstage to entertain troops as a singer.

When he was mustered out of the army in1945, he had the “good fortune” of falling

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Walter Beaver at age 26 in Green Grow the Lilacs (left) and in his lte 70s (right).

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flat on the ice at Columbus, Ohio. He lookedup, saw a travel agency, and promptly boughta one-way fare to Santa Barbara because anarmy buddy had described its beauty. Hegraduated in 1949 in theatre arts and Englishliterature at Santa Barbara State College (be-fore it was UCSB). He played many lead rolesthere as an undergraduate and later at UCLA,where he received an M.A. in 1951, and USC,where he received a Ph.D. in 1966. Whilestill an undergraduate, he participated withEleanor Roosevelt in a panel on the UnitedNations in Washington, D.C.

Walter remained professionally active offcampus as well. Even as an undergraduate,he appeared frequently on radio. He playedLincoln in Abe Lincoln in Illinois at the Pasa-dena Playhouse and again in NormanCorwin’s The Rivalry at Theatre 40 and TheHuntington Library. He was especially proudof Corwin’s description of him as “the great-est Lincoln since Lincoln.” Walt also playedJulius Caesar and King Lear at the GlobeTheatre and had leading roles at Actors Co-Op, Burbage Theatre, and Celtic Arts The-atre.

Among Walt’s 10 big screen movies wereSeven Brides for Seven Brothers, in which hesang “The Loveliest Night of the Year” asbrother Lem. Others include The Solid GoldCadillac, Bad Day at Black Rock, SomebodyUp There Likes Me, Strange Lady in Town,The Violent Men, Backlash, and Jump IntoHell. He appeared in several movies that re-ceived Academy Awards for acting honors,though like Jack Benny and Bob Hope, hejoked every spring about not winning thatyear. He was often seen on television in Mur-der She Wrote, General Hospital, Dallas,Divorce Court, Superior Court, Seinfeld, Cli-max, The Eddie Cantor Show, I Led ThreeLives, Dear Phoebe, and San Francisco Beat.He performed in several made-for-TV mov-ies, including leads on two Hallmark Hall ofFame productions and a PBS special on Ham-let. Walt was featured in several radio pro-ductions by Norman Corwin. He also playeda leading role in a staged version of Corwin’sfamous radio show, On a Night of Triumph,which was produced by his wife ElizabethO’Reilly Beaver at Theatre 40.

He was a guest lecturer at the OttoFalckoner School in Munich, the MaxReinhardt Seminar in Vienna, and the StateSchool for Dramatic Art in Stockholm.

The obituary written by Elizabeth Beaverfor the Santa Barbara News-Press lists firsthis membership in the Emeriti Association,followed by the Academy of Television Artsand Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild, theAmerican Federation of Television and Ra-dio Artists, Actors Equity, and the Drama-tists’ Guild. In addition to his widow, he issurvived by a daughter, Diana Fourney, whowas also with him when he died.

NORMAN D. BERKEProfessor of Education, 1966-1992

Norman D. Berke, emeritus professor ofeducation, died on February 2 in Los Angeles.He was 78 years of age and had suffered fromheart failure.

Norman joined the Cal State L.A. facultyin 1966 and retired in 1992. He directed thereading program in the former Department ofSecondary Education and taught courses inthat program, including diagnostic and reme-dial procedures for clinicians. He received aB.A. in 1949 from the University of Buffalo,an M.A. in 1951 from Columbia University,and an Ed.D. in 1966 from the State Univer-sity of New York at Buffalo.

Norman is survived by a close and devotedfamily: his wife Phyllis; their daughter andson-in-law, Beth and Seth Weisbord; sonSteven; five grandchildren; sister; sister-in-law; and many nieces and nephews.

GERHARD BRANDProfessor of English, 1960-1992

Gerhard (Harry) Brand died on December23 in Seattle, where he and his wife had livedsince his retirement in 1992. The English De-partment faculty held a memorial programfor him on February 4.

Gerhard was born in Vienna, Austria, butat the age of 12 he fled the Nazi-occupied citywith his mother and older sister. The familyreached the U.S. and settled in Hartford, Con-necticut, where he attended public school andcompleted his undergraduate education atTrinity College in 1949.

In the early 1950s, the Brands moved toLos Angeles, and Gerhard pursued his gradu-ate studies in English at UCLA. His first full-time teaching position was at Cornell

University, where he taught from 1957 to1960. That year he joined the English De-partment at Cal State L.A. Originally trainedas an Americanist, Gerhard was as well adevoted student of continental and world lit-erature, and in a short time these became hisprimary fields of instruction. For over 30years, and with exemplary success, he taughta wide variety of courses in world fiction and

drama, from the ancients through the 20th

century.Gerhard also wrote a large number of short

incisive critical essays, many for the SalemPress, but it was the classroom that was hisreal love, and it was there that his intelligenceand his passionate devotion to literature weremost fully displayed. For several decades,Gerhard, along with his colleagues, EdwardAbood and Irwin Swerdlow, made the studyof comparative literature a significant and dy-namic part of the Department’s achievementand reputation. Even with his retirement andmove to Seattle, teaching was to remainGerhard’s central calling. Until shortly be-fore his death, he continued teaching in vari-ous extension programs in the Seattle area,with characteristic success.

Throughout his career at Cal State L.A.,Gerhard was also an outspoken and deeplycommitted champion of faculty rights. He wasa major figure in the movement to establishthe campus faculty union, and he was everready to resist aggressively any perceived in-fringements on the principle of faculty au-tonomy or assaults on the humanistic valueshe treasured. He also showed his dedicationto these precepts during his terms on the Aca-demic Senate.

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Gerhard is survived by his wife Ann, andby Rachel and Madeleine Brand, daughtersof his first marriage.

HARRY DIAMONDProfessor of Criminal Justice, 1960-1979

The Emeriti Association has received in-direct word of the recent death of Harry Dia-mond, emeritus professor of criminal justice.Harry served on the faculty from 1960 to 1979.His area of expertise was in administration ofcriminal justice systems. He received a B.A.in 1936 from Brooklyn College and an M.A.in 1937 from New York University. He thenwent on to a career with the New York PoliceDepartment. In 1957, he received an MPAdegree from the City College of New York,which furthered his interest in administration.Following his appointment to the Cal StateL.A. faculty, he continued his graduate studyand received a Ph.D. degree in 1967 fromUSC.

EDWARD OWINGS GUERRANTProfessor of History, 1954-1980

Edward Owings Guerrant died of naturalcauses at his Altadena home on March 24. Hewas 94 years old. He came to Los AngelesState College in 1954 as a temporary replace-ment in Latin American history for LouisDeArmond, but was given a tenure-track ap-pointment the next year. Although he retiredin 1980, he continued to teach occasionalclasses up to 1991.

He was first head, then chair of the de-partment from 1957 to 1961 and 1966 to 1969.As chair during a period of rapid growth, hesuccessfully recruited many young facultymembers, including five who eventually re-ceived Outstanding Professor awards: DickBurns, Stan Burstein, Dan Crecelius, DonDewey, and Sam McSeveney. Junior facultyespecially treasured him for his equitablescheduling. Whether junior or senior, facultywere given comparable schedules—an 8 a.m.course for those whose evening class endedat 8 p.m., and a 9 a.m. course for those whoseevening course ended at 10 p.m. Althoughnear retirement, he served as associate chairin 1977-78.

Ed published four books: Roosevelt’sGood Neighbor Policy (1950), Modern Ameri-can Diplomacy (1954), Herbert Hoover and

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Comparisons andContrasts (1964), and Toward a More Per-fect Union—The Constitution in HistoricalPerspective (1967), as well as a number ofjournal articles. In 1988, he published theCivil War diary of his grandfather, also Ed-ward O. Guerrant.

Although he was born in Danville, Vir-ginia, Ed spent most of his life in Altadena.His family moved to Southern Californiawhen he was one year old. His father man-aged a family business, New York HardwareTrading Company, which specialized in sport-ing goods as well as hardware. They movedto Santa Rosa Avenue (Christmas Tree Lane)when he was eight, and he lived there untilgoing to North Carolina to attend DavidsonCollege, where he graduated in 1933 with PhiBeta Kappa honors. The family was still liv-ing in Altadena when Ed died.

Two years after graduation, he married

Helen Daggett, who lived only until 1938.After M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the USCin 1939 and 1942, he was an instructor fortwo years at Caltech where he met Charlotte,his wife for more than 60 years. He was writ-ing an article for the Caltech alumni maga-zine, for which she was associate editor. Hewent to Washington, D.C. for governmentemployment in 1944, and he and Charlottewere married that year in Alexandria, Vir-ginia.

After one year in the Office of Inter-Ameri-can Affairs and another year at the State De-partment, he taught for eight years at DavidsonCollege, where he was promoted to profes-sor. He maintained his California ties byteaching summers at USC and thus was knownto the recruiters staffing the relatively newLos Angeles State College.

During retirement, the Guerrants enjoyedmany visits with relatives in the South andelsewhere. They spent nearly every Augustin Ocean Park, Washington, where five gen-erations of the family regularly vacationedfor more than a century.

Ed is survived by his wife Charlotte, andby daughters Helen and Lucy, son Edward,Jr., and three grandsons. A memorial servicewas held April 9 at La Cañada PresbyterianChurch.

ANTHONY HILLBRUNERProfessor of Speech Communication, 1954-1980

Anthony Hillbruner, whom many of us re-member for his elegance of speech and dress,died of pneumonia on December 15 after ashort illness.

Tony came to Los Angeles State Collegein 1954 after teaching stints at the Universityof Denver and the University of Oregon, andbriefly at Stanford University. Between thenand his retirement 26 years later, he taught animpressive variety of courses, including 28in speech communication, three in American

studies, and one in language arts. He was es-pecially interested and expert in Americanand British public discourse and rhetoricaltheory, and was called upon by the Los Ange-les Times for critiques of U.S. presidentialinaugural addresses. He also had a strong in-terest in such diverse subjects as the intellec-tual history of the U.S., the oral interpretationof literature, and nonverbal communication,all of which he taught at one time or another.

Besides his teaching, Tony had several im-

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portant administrative and academic gover-nance positions at Cal State L.A. He servedas executive secretary of the Institute forAmerican Studies; co-chair of the Departmentof Speech and Drama; coordinator of Ameri-can studies, a post he held for 11 years; andmember of the Letters and Science Assem-bly, the Academic Senate, and many depart-ment, school, and university committees.

Tony was a very active scholar, with ar-ticles in some dozen major journals, manypapers, and lectures presented at professionalmeetings, and collaborations on several booksin his field. He was the sole author of CriticalDimensions: The Art of Public Address (Ran-dom House, 1966) and many critical reviews.In addition, he served as editor of the Ameri-can Public Affairs Newsletter and co-editorof Western Speech and The Quarterly Jour-nal of Speech. His consultancies includedpublishing houses and Los Angeles Countyexecutives. His many talks on speech com-munication to school and university groupsin the U.S. and the U.K. were another publicservice.

He was born in Chicago on February 10,1914. During World War II, he was a tool anddie maker, an occupation considered essen-tial to the war effort. Between 1949 and 1953,married to Laura and with a first child, An-thony J., he attended Northwestern Univer-sity, earning B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees,with a major in rhetoric and public addressand minor in literary interpretation. A yearlater, our Speech Department was able to lurehim from Stanford, as he himself recountedin The Emeritimes edition of Fall 1997 cel-ebrating the University’s 50th anniversary,with the opportunity to develop aninterdiscipinary program in American stud-ies that it was believed would eventually leadto a doctoral program. Tony actually did laterpropose a joint doctoral program with UCLA.Meanwhile, once secure in his position at LosAngeles State College, he and Laura wereinspired to have a second child, Tina Laurie.

Tony’s interest in British public addresstook him to England during the 1970s. Hespent six months as a scholar-in-residence atCambridge University in 1972, one summer,at Oxford in 1977, and six months at Queen’sCollege in 1979. He was the recipient of sev-eral merit awards: Significant Scholar awardsfrom the University of Missouri and the Uni-versity of Southern Illinois, OutstandingCritic citation at the CSU Rhetorical Criti-cism Conference (Hayward, 1981), and aDistinguished Service Award from the West-ern Speech Communication Association. Hereceived institutional grants at Cal State L.A.for research in speech criticism and a cre-

ative leave for research on “The AmericanTradition in Public Address.” His visiting pro-fessorships included Whittier College andPennsylvania State University.

In his book, That’s A Good One!, DonDewey wrote of Tony, “[He was] always myidea of what a Professor should look like . . ..”Anthony Hillbruner was not only a man wholooked like the ideal professor, his broadachievements confirmed his authenticity. BobDouglass, one of his department chairs, re-members him not only for his scholarship,but for his personal qualities as well: “Al-ways a gentleman, Tony was soft-spoken,courteous, warm, quietly dignified, altogetherlikeable, and a valuable colleague with a re-ality orientation in the affairs of the depart-ment.”

He is survived by son Tony and daughter-in-law Alice Hillbruner, daughter and son-in-law Tina Laurie and Paul Barry, and fourgrandchildren.

SIGMUND H. JAFFEProfessor of Chemistry, 1958-1986

Sigmund H. Jaffe, emeritus professor ofchemistry, died January 3 in Camarillo. Hewas 83 years of age.

Following five years in industry as a su-pervisor of experimental physics and chem-istry for the Air Reduction Corporation, Sig

came to what then was Los Angeles StateCollege in 1958. He led the effort to organizethe Department of Chemistry, then part of theDivision of Science and Mathematics, andbecame its first chair. In the years that fol-lowed, he was active in academic governance,serving on most university committees, theformer Faculty Council, and the AcademicSenate. He also did research, both on campus

and as a consultant for Hughes Tool Com-pany and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dur-ing his sabbatical leaves, he did research atQueen Mary College, University College ofLondon, and twice at the Weizmann Institutein Israel. He received the Outstanding Pro-fessor Award in 1974.

He was an excellent lecturer in courses asvaried as physical science, introductory chem-istry for health sciences, general chemistry,quantitative analysis, and physical chemis-try. He published 20 papers in aqueous elec-trochemistry, propellant chemistry, andatmospheric kinetics related to air pollution.In research, he mentored a dozen undergradu-ates, five master’s students, and onepostdoctoral associate. He also served as thedepartment advisor for foreign students andteaching credential candidates.

On campus, Sig always enjoyed discus-sions with faculty outside of chemistry. Hemade a point of eating in the former facultycafeteria and later in the main student cafete-ria in order to interact with both faculty andstudents in other disciplines.

Sig was born on March 1, 1921 in NewHaven, Connecticut. His father was a plumb-ing contractor who died when Sig was 10.During the Depression, his mother supportedher family by working as a seamstress. Siginitially helped by going around town on hisbicycle, offering to fix anything mechanical.He worked at various other jobs, including amovie theater, where he progressed from jani-tor to projectionist. Prior to World War II, heworked as a machinist in 1940-41.

During the war, he volunteered and servedin the Navy from 1941 to 1946. He was achief motor machinist mate in charge of theengine room on Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs).He participated in all the major landings inNorth Africa, Italy, France, and the Pacific.In the D-Day invasion, he was among a hand-ful of survivors when his ship, LST 376, fullyloaded with 400 troops, munitions, tanks, anda crew of 157, was torpedoed in the EnglishChannel. He swam for in the Channel for 12hours, until he and two others were picked upby a British destroyer and taken to NorthernIreland. He returned to Connecticut for abouta month, and then was assigned to LST 959,which served in the Pacific. (Years later, hefound that a total of 37 of the Atlantic crewhad survived, and he participated in their sev-eral reunions.) After the landing on Okinawaand VJ Day, his ship provided transport dutyin the repatriation of Japanese soldiers fromnorthern China.

On return to civilian life, he attended NewHaven State Teachers College in 1946-47. He

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then transferred to Wesleyan University,where professor M. G. Burford, a physicalchemist, sparked his interest in chemistry. Hewas elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and he gradu-ated in 1949 with high honors in chemistry.He subsequently earned his Ph.D. at IowaState University in 1953 under the directionof Frank Spedding. In addition to Phi BetaKappa, he was a member of the AmericanChemical Society, Sigma Xi, and Phi LambdaUpsilon.

Sig became an emeritus professor in 1986.After he moved from Altadena to CamarilloLeisure Village, he continued to teach andlecture to high school and community col-lege students on a volunteer basis. He contin-ued to swim daily and exercise regularly untilshortly before his death. He headed manyactivities at the Village, where, just as at theUniversity, he was known for his quick witand particularly for his consummate puns. Oneof his popular science lectures was entitled“What’s the Matter?” He also wrote articlesfor the newspaper in Leisure Village. He andhis wife Elaine raised funds for the BrandeisLibrary in Massachusetts. They had been ac-tive in the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Cen-ter and became similarly active in TempleNer Ami in Camarillo. He is survived byElaine; two sons, Matthew and Paul; Paul’swife Barbara; and three grandsons.

EDWARD A. MALJANIANProfessor of Health Science, 1963-1991

Edward A. Maljanian, emeritus professorof health science, died in Pasadena on March26. He was 71 years old, and had sufferedfrom Parkinson’s disease for many years.

Ed received his B.A. in 1963 and M.A. in1968 from what then was California State Col-lege, Los Angeles. He was appointed to thefaculty in the former Department of Healthand Safety Studies in 1963, following severalyears as registrar. In addition to his depart-ment and school activities, he served in theAcademic Senate from 1969 to 1976. He alsotaught part-time at East Los Angeles Collegeand Rio Hondo College early in his teachingcareer. For the community, he served as a re-serve officer in the Arcadia Police Department,from 1975 to 1992. He retired in 1991 and wasnamed to emeritus status shortly thereafter.

Ed was born in Los Angeles on July 10,1933 and attended neighborhood schools.During his youth, he became an Eagle Scout.From 1954 to 1956, he served in the U.S. ArmySignal Corps, stationed in Turkey and as-signed to decoding duties. Following his hon-

orable discharge, he worked briefly in salesbefore his employment at Cal State L.A.

Services were held on March 30 at St.Dominic’s Church in Eagle Rock, with a mili-tary Honor Guard participating. In additionto his wife Lilly, Ed is survived by four chil-dren from his first marriage, two stepchil-dren, and 12 grandchildren.

RASHAD ELIAS RAZOUKProfessor of Chemistry, 1968-1978

Rashad Elias Razouk, emeritus professorof chemistry, died January 17 at the age of93. Although he became frail in recent years,he had been in good health until he suffered aheart attack at the end of December.

Rashad was born on August 22, 1911 inDumiat, Egypt. He received a B.Sc. in Chem-istry with first class honors in 1933, an M.Sc.in 1936, and a Ph.D. in 1939, all from CairoUniversity. He was an assistant and associateprofessor of chemistry at Cairo University

from 1939 to 1950. He held the position ofhead of the Chemistry Department at AinShams University in Cairo from 1950 to 1966,and served as vice dean of the faculty of sci-ence from 1954 to 1960. He was a professorof chemistry at the American University inCairo from 1966 to 1968, and was also theacting director of the Division of Surface andColloid Chemistry at the National ResearchCenter in Cairo from 1954 to 1968.

During this period of his career, he wasone of the most distinguished scientists inEgypt. He took sabbatical research leaves atExeter University in England, Paris Univer-sity (Lyon), the Institute of Catalysis in Ber-lin, and the University of Southern California.He came to the United States in 1968 and was

appointed professor of chemistry at Cal StateL.A., where he served from 1968 to 1978. Hetaught general chemistry, quantitative analy-sis, and physical chemistry, and also consultedfor the Jet Propulsion Laboratory andLockheed Aircraft Service Co. He was namedprofessor emeritus on his retirement in 1978.

Rashad published 48 papers, mainly in thefield of the adsorption and surface chemistryand catalysis. He was a member of the Egyp-tian Academy of Sciences, the Institutd’Egypte, and the Board of Editors of theEgyptian Journal of Chemistry. He also was aFellow of the American Institute of Chem-ists, and a member of the American ChemicalSociety and the California Association ofChemistry Teachers. He recently receivedrecognition for his 60-year membership in theRoyal Society of Chemistry.

The decision to come to the United Stateswas difficult, since he already was a distin-guished and successful scientist in Egypt. Atthat time, he and his family could bring onlya few pieces of furniture and a very limitedamount of currency from Egypt. His decisionto move was made in order to afford his chil-dren, Redi and Rami, a better education in theU.S., even though they had to leave their apart-ment and most of their possessions behind.Both of his sons are now successful engineersworking in California.

In the Department of Chemistry and Bio-chemistry, Rashad is remembered as a versa-tile teacher, ranging from the freshman to thesenior level of instruction. He was fluent inboth Arabic and French, so that he was par-ticularly valuable in advising Middle Easttransfer students. He was always very cour-teous both to students and faculty, and will belong remembered by his colleagues as a finehuman being. After he retired, he donatedmoney for an endowed scholarship for a stu-dent in physical chemistry, which the depart-ment named the Razouk Award. In hisretirement, he and his wife always came bytaxi to department functions, usually at Christ-mas, with the exception of this past year.

He was a member of the Cairo RotaryClub, and he served as president of the Ro-tary Club of Heliopolis in 1959 and 1960. Hewas an avid bridge player, both at Cal StateL.A. and in his retirement in Burbank. Hewas active in the Melkite church, both in Egyptand the United States. He received the honorof the Cross of Saint Mark from the EasternOrthodox Holy See of Alexandria in 1967.He was preceded in death by his first wife,Emily, and is survived by his second wife,Henrietta Doche-Razouk, two sons, and twograndchildren.

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EMERITI ASSOCIATION NOMINATION COMMITTEE REPORT

MAY 2005 NOMINATIONS FOR OFFICES AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Placed in Nomination

President .......................................................................... Louis Negrete (2005-2006)

Vice President, Administration ...................................... Harold Goldwhite (2005-2006)

Vice President, Programs ............................................... Clement Padick (2005-2007)

Secretary ......................................................................... William Darrough (2005-2007)

CSULA Academic Senate Representative ..................... Donald Dewey (2005-2006)

Continuing Officers and Executive Committee

Immediate Past President ............................................... Barbara Sinclair (2005-2006)

Membership Secretary .................................................... Karen Johnson (2005-2006)

Treasurer ......................................................................... Robert Miller (2005-2006)

Corresponding Secretary ................................................ Marilyn Friedman

Chair, Fiscal Affairs Committee .................................... Joseph Casanova

Chair, The Emeritimes Editorial Board .......................... Frieda Stahl

Chair, Fellowship Fund .................................................. Janet Fisher-Hoult

Database Coordinator ..................................................... Harold Cohen

Webmaster ...................................................................... Demetrius Margaziotis

Historian/Archivist ......................................................... Leon Schwartz

CSU-ERFA Representatives .......................................... Louis Negrete, Leon Schwartz, Barbara Sinclair

Editorial Board Members ............................................... Donald Dewey, Joan Johnson, Vilma Potter,

Leon Schwartz

Members-at-Large .......................................................... Peter Brier, Donald Burrill, Jackie Hoyt

Honorary Members-at-Large .......................................... Leonard Mathy, Donald Moore, Kenneth Phillips,

Carol Smallenburg

Issue Requiring Action of Membership at the May Meeting

Amendment to Article V, Sect. 1 of the Constitution – Executive Committee: The Executive

Committee of The Association shall consist of the above officers DESIGNATED IN ARTICLE IV,

SECTION 1, PLUS CHAIRS OF STANDING COMMITTEES, APPOINTED OFFICERS, and an

unspecified number of SIX members-at-large nominated by the President and approved by majority

vote of the Executive Committee members present and voting. MEMBERS-AT-LARGE SHALL

SERVE THREE-YEAR TERMS, TAKING OFFICE IN ALTERNATE YEARS. As needed, sSpecial

tasks may be assigned on an ad hoc basis to appropriate members of The Association.