The Oxy Campaign For Good

We believe in the ideals of a democratic society and the power of a liberal arts education to change the world.

What better place than Oxy. What better time than now.

Join us in securing this future.

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THE OXY CAMPAIGN

FROM OUR CO-CHAIRS Each of us has experienced the transformative power of an Occidental education. As alumni, Oxy parents and supporters of the College, we wish to ensure future generations of bright, curious and engaged students access to the same life-changing opportunities we had. It is essential, therefore, for the broader Oxy community to come together and provide not simply the educational opportunity, but also the resources needed to secure this future.

We are proud to lead Occidental’s first comprehensive campaign in nearly a quarter-century. This campaign will enable Oxy to build on its strengths, augment its curriculum, enhance its facilities, add to its faculty and thereby elevate the institution’s reputation to more accurately reflect the current quality of the College. Please join us!

Anne Wilson Cannon ’74 William M. Kahane ’70 Gil Kemp P’04 Co-Chairs, The Oxy Campaign for Good

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THE OXY CAMPAIGN FOR GOOD GOAL: $225 MILLION $100 MILLION FOR ACCESS

$50 MILLION FOR DISTINCTION

Investments in endowed scholarships, internships and research experiences

Investments in endowed professorships, academic programs and co-curricular experiences

$40 MILLION FOR CAMPUS

$35 MILLION FOR TODAY

Investments in modernization and beautification of our campus

Annual support to underwrite the Oxy experience for current students

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GROWING THE ENDOWMENT: AN INVESTMENT FOR GOOD For more than a century, revenue generated from Oxy’s endowment— a permanent source of income for the College—has helped enable a high-touch education for every student. Through thoughtful management and astute investment, the endowment’s returns have outpaced national benchmarks over the last decade. While that success has maintained its purchasing power by increasing it in size to about $434 million, only philanthropy can truly grow the endowment and reduce Oxy’s dependence on tuition revenue.

Currently, Oxy’s endowment generates less than 20 percent of the College’s annual operating budget. By comparison, larger endowments at peer institutions produce anywhere from one-third to half of annual expenses. Endowed scholarships will have an enduring impact on Oxy’s ability to fulfill its mission. Building the endowment is fundamental to the future of the College.

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FOR A BETTER WORLD: JESÚS TREVIÑO ’68

“At Oxy, I learned that no man is an island, that we all belong to a larger universe that encompasses not just the Occidental community, but the Los Angeles community and the American and world experience.”

In his work as a filmmaker, Jesús Treviño ’68 borrows from lessons learned as a young student of color, who at the time questioned whether he could succeed in college due to his race and income status.

The message he received at Occidental was life-changing.

“At Oxy, I learned that no man is an island, that we all belong to a larger universe that encompasses not just the Occidental community, but the Los Angeles community and the American and world experience,” Treviño says.

or to pen your own screenplay. Treviño chose the latter.

Fifty years later, he continues to make transformative art, often told by underrepresented voices. Treviño’s 1978 film, Raices de Sangre (Roots of Blood), was selected as one of the 25 Most Significant Films of Latin American Cinema during the 36th annual Valladolid International Film Festival.

Treviño’s credits also include Seguin, a drama about the siege of the Alamo that he wrote and directed. The 1982 film, “about a community that America knows little about, and that is Latinos,”

“Occidental is an ideal petri dish for nurturing storytelling. I look back and I think I was so lucky to be at Oxy, where I got that nurturing and support that I needed.”

“These are values that got inculcated in me through the process of dialogue and debate, and interacting with students and faculty. Over a period of four years here, you change. That is priceless.”

A philosophy major and religion minor, Treviño attended Occidental on a full scholarship. A liberal arts background, he attests, has made him nimble in the face of adversity.

“When I’m on the set and an actress is an hour late, or this set got blown up and we won’t be able to film there tomorrow, you instantly go into problem-solving mode,” he says. “That’s when my experience at Oxy comes to the fore: we’ve got to break it down and find out what our options are. These are the kinds of skills that you get at Occidental, that you can carry on in no matter what your career is going to be.”

It was in Eagle Rock that Treviño took a course in classic cinema with Marsha Kinder, professor of English and comparative literature. One assignment was to write a term paper about a movie

aired nationally on PBS’s American Playhouse. It remains one of Treviño’s proudest accomplishments.

“Few people know that inside the Alamo were Mexican-Americans fighting for Texas, and I had to tell that story,” he says. “At the time, it was revolutionary.

It was the first time that a lot of these actors got a chance to do something positive, and they weren’t portrayed as gang members.”

As long as there are stories to be told, Treviño will be there to tell them. It is a calling, a responsibility to “create a better world.” Oxy, by nurturing a diverse student body, is helping to do that, he says.

“All of it is sharing with the world a certain vision, human values and aspirational qualities of what you would like the world to be,” notes Treviño.

“Occidental is an ideal petri dish for nurturing storytelling. I look back, and I think I was so lucky to be at Oxy, where I got that nurturing and support that I needed.”

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FOR ACCESS FOR GOOD GOAL: $100 MILLION Investments in endowed scholarships, internships and research experiences

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ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITY Occidental is dedicated to giving promising scholars access to an education that will transform their lives. Drawing on the cultural and intellectual resources of a global city, Occidental provides a springboard for putting theory into practice and ideas into action.

Exposure to a broad range of intellectual, social and cultural viewpoints—the essence of a liberal arts education—elevates students in the classroom and beyond.

Our responsibility is to provide this opportunity to exceptional students regardless of their circumstances. We seek to raise $100 million to endow new student scholarships—our highest campaign priority. Join us in growing Oxy’s financial aid endowment for good.

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73% OF OXY STUDENTS RECEIVE FINANCIAL AID

$44,312 AVERAGE FINANCIAL AID PACKAGE

$820 MILLION ADDITIONAL SUPPORT NEEDED TO FULLY ENDOW OXY’S FINANCIAL AID BUDGET

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FOR ACCESS FLEXIBILITY AND CERTAINTY While the cost to attend Oxy exceeds $70,000 per year, 73 percent of our students receive an average financial aid package of $44,312. Even with that support, the cost of this high-quality experience poses a challenge for most families.

Yet tuition, room and board do not cover the full cost of an Oxy education. The College relies on its endowment, private gifts and grants, including gifts to the Oxy Fund, to help finance everything from student scholarships and paid internships to summer research and other high-impact programs.

Growing the endowment for financial aid will give the College the flexibility to continue providing gifted and diverse students access to an Oxy liberal arts education regardless of their circumstances.

By investing in our future, we can unlock the College’s full potential for generations to follow.

GIVING BACK “I’ve always believed in giving back to where I came from,” says Bonnie Mills ’81 of Austin, Texas.

As a trustee and member of the College’s Access & Opportunity Task Force, “I’ve learned a lot about what the endowment means for the College and its ability to recruit students. I really appreciate Oxy’s commitment to teaching people about what it means to live in a free society and to bring up the next generation with a commitment to equality, diversity and all the things that make this country what it is.”

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“My years at Occidental College sparked my interest in social and political causes and filled me with the idea that my voice could make a difference.”

—PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ’83

OBAMA SCHOLARS PROGRAM The Barack Obama Scholars Program was launched in 2017 to empower the next generation of leaders to actively pursue the public good. The College’s premier scholarship honors the nation’s 44th president by providing a fully funded, comprehensive experience for exceptional students of all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to create lasting and meaningful change.

Obama Scholars benefit from the same educational mission—excellence, equity, community and service—that the president has cited as crucial to his own development during his years at Occidental.

Obama Scholars are selected on the basis of a strong record of academic achievement and a demonstrated commitment to the public good, with an emphasis on first-generation students, veterans and community college transfers.

MEET THE SCHOLARS

Only a few months into their time at Oxy, Obama Scholars Sherin Aboobucker (left) of Peoria, Ariz., and Noa Richard (right) of Miami are already happily steeped in what Occidental offers. “I’ve definitely had a great experience so far,” says Noa. “The academic environment has been challenging, and I enjoy that aspect of it as well as the close relationships that I’ve been able to foster with my professors,” says Sherin. Noa and Sherin had the opportunity to meet David Plouffe, former Obama campaign manager and White House senior adviser to the president, when he visited Oxy for the Obama Scholars Speakers Series.

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FOR HIGHER EDUCATION: LANDE AJOSE ’87

College is a ticket to opportunity, as Lande Ajose ’87 can attest. The daughter of an immigrant mother, she’s now helping to make the dream possible for new generations of students throughout California.

In January, she became Gov. Gavin Newsom’s senior policy adviser for higher education, a role in which she’ll continue to build on her life’s work: helping financially vulnerable students access a college education to escape poverty.

“Here in California, we face the highest child poverty rate in the country, which is shocking given that we have Silicon Valley and Hollywood and we’re the breadbasket for the nation,” says Ajose, who lives in Oakland.

“We’re really focused on making sure that California residents get that first degree and that it’s not predicted by race, gender, ethnicity or ZIP code.”

Besides her role with the governor, Ajose also is chair of the California Student Aid Commission, the agency responsible for administering state financial aid programs and whose mission is to make higher education accessible to all Californians. With $2.5 billion in its coffers, the state runs the country’s largest financial aid program.

that did business with South Africa’s apartheid government.

She grew up in Berkeley and decided to attend Occidental because of its small size and its big-city setting. She sang in the Glee Club and made lifelong friends during her time in Eagle Rock. After graduation, Ajose

with your A game,” she says.

“You had to be able to come up with a really strong, logical, rational argument.”

Living on campus also helped her forge connections “across communities,” a skill she says in essential is an increasingly

“When you think about the last several years of public discourse—or lack thereof—at the national level, there’s no greater argument for places that encourage serious questioning of who we are and why we believe what we believe.” took a job as an admission officer for an East Coast college, but she returned home after realizing her talents were better used working behind the scenes.

“We all know that California is in a cost crisis,” Ajose says.

“No matter where you live, it’s expensive, and that hits students in particular ways.

We need to think about how to manage those costs for students over time.”

Ajose says her time at Occidental played a pivotal role in her personal development.

(She is one of four siblings, three of whom attended Oxy.) Classes honed her criticalthinking skills, and she learned to better articulate ideas verbally and in writing.

Ajose developed some of her social sensibilities at Occidental at a time when colleges nationwide were being urged to divest from companies

“To the extent that you wanted to engage in a critical conversation with the college administration or with your professors, you had to come

polarized America. Occidental, Ajose says, helps students test ideas and understand broader world views.

“When you think about the last several years of public discourse—or lack thereof— at the national level, there’s no greater argument for places that encourage serious questioning of who we are and why we believe what we believe,” she says. “Being in an educational institution that approaches that task with a fundamental commitment to rigor, to evidence, to openmindedness—those are really core American values that are essential for upholding our democracy.”

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THE OXY CAMPAIGN

FOR DISTINCTION FOR GOOD GOAL: $50 MILLION Investments in endowed professorships,academic programs and co-curricular experiences

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“You see the spark in these students, and you know that they have great things ahead of them.”

—JOSEPH SCHULZ, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY

STRENGTHENING ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Occidental’s exceptional scholars and dedicated teachers equip students with the intellectual tools to understand and address an array of our society’s critical challenges.

Infused with Oxy’s liberal arts ethos and our interdisciplinary approach to learning, we prepare our students to become the next generation of innovators, problem-solvers and leaders.

Help us continue to strengthen academic excellence at Oxy. We seek to raise $50 million to endow professorships in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences, and to fuel the continued evolution of academic and co-curricular programs.

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GLOBAL GOOD The Kahane United Nations Program gives Occidental students unparalleled access to high-level internships within a variety of United Nations agencies as well as at country missions to the United Nations.

“We want these students to go be good global citizens,” says Bill Kahane ’70. “You develop values with your family and friends and then continue to shape them when you go away to college.

My hope is that the U.N. program can allow them to go forward and do good, however that might be.”

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FOR DISTINCTION A NEW GENERATION Ask any Oxy graduate, and they will tell you that the powerful relationship between professor and student defined their Oxy experience, regardless of their major. Close to one-third of Oxy’s faculty is expected to retire over the next 10 years. This presents us with an opportunity to invest in a new generation of faculty that will shape the curriculum and the College for decades to come. New endowed professorships will attract top talent and underwrite compelling teaching and advising, one-on-one research partnerships, and lifelong relationships that shape careers.

LASTING IMPACT In establishing an endowed professorship, Barbara Nogy Gibby ’68 and Mike Gibby ’68 wanted to make an impact. “We wanted to get to the core of a liberal arts education,” says Mike, who majored in chemistry and later founded Arion Systems, an engineering service company focused on national defense and intelligence markets. The Michael G. Gibby ’68 & Barbara J. Gibby ’68 Endowed Professorship for Science is one of only five endowed professorships in the sciences, one of which was held by Frank DeHaan, Mike’s Oxy mentor. “We are hoping others will go and do likewise,” Mike says.

ENHANCING ECONOMICS Economics has been Occidental’s most popular major for the last 20 years, anchored by veteran professors such as Woody Studenmund, right, and Robby Moore. “Economics helps students prepare for business careers, but economics at a liberal arts college helps students prepare for careers in law, management, premed, nonprofits and more,” says Studenmund, who came to Oxy in 1970.

As the department pivots toward a new generation of faculty, all indicators point to its continued academic prosperity.

Endowing additional economics professorships will enable Oxy to recruit and retain the next wave of dynamic tenured and tenure-track professors and reaffirm the department’s reputation for distinguished teaching, research and mentorship.

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Permanent support for academic areas, athletic programs and co-curricular activities will enable generations of students to have fulfilling and well-rounded Oxy experiences.

MEDIA ARTS & CULTURE AND MUSIC Occidental sits at the epicenter of the creative community of Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world. Building on the College’s premium location, Oxy plans to expand two of our fastest-growing disciplines, Music and Media Arts & Culture. We intend to hire new faculty, create stateof-the-art learning facilities and collaborative spaces, and introduce innovative new courses and programs.

Furthermore, we will expand our industry partnerships and develop stronger links between current students and our rich network of successful alumni working in the performing arts and related creative fields.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH A hallmark of an Occidental education is the opportunity for students to engage in research with faculty mentors—often at a level typically reserved for graduate students. Best known for its nationally recognized Summer Research Program, our Undergraduate Research Center funds original projects across all disciplines, both on- and off-campus. Fully endowing the URC would make these high-impact, hands-on opportunities available to more students throughout the academic year as well as during the summer.

ENRICHING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Occidental offers students boundless opportunities to enhance their education outside the classroom, from collaborative partnerships in the surrounding community to a competitive Division III athletic program.

Throughout their Oxy journey, the Hameetman Career Center helps students connect classroom learning with careerbuilding opportunities. We also want to build a permanent equity and inclusion fund to support programming for underserved students. Endowing our enrichment programs would have a major impact on Oxy’s commitment to developing citizens fully prepared to pursue the public good.

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FOR COMMUNITY: SARA EL-AMINE ’07

It was when The Audacity of Hope met the audacity of youth. Recent graduate Sara El-Amine ’07 was contemplating her future and leaning toward law school when a friend loaned her Barack Obama ’83’s 2006 book.

The then-Illinois senator’s message immediately inspired the young Muslim-American from Duxbury, Mass., daughter of a Lebanese physician war refugee and an Irish-American mother.

In short order, El-Amine quit her temp job, borrowed a friend’s car, and drove 1,300 miles to Des Moines, Iowa—headquarters of Obama’s first presidential election campaign. Upon arrival, the diplomacy and world affairs major announced that she had studied diplomacy, knew Spanish, and was there to volunteer.

A few months later, El-Amine was hired as a field organizer for the Obama campaign, training people how to caucus. Leading up to the general election in 2008, El-Amine organized in Idaho, Mississippi, Texas, Indiana, Colorado and Virginia.

“I got hooked on organizing,” she says.

El-Amine served as national director of Obama’s reelection campaign, and following his victory in 2012, she was named executive director of Organizing for America, training tens of thousands of organizers across the United States.

“We fought on gun control and immigration reform, and we successfully implemented the first enrollment period for Obamacare,” she says.

“We tracked minimum wage, successfully passed marriage equality, and passed new regulations on climate change at the state level.”

She looks back on her Occidental education fondly, remembering inspirational professors and perspective-shifting opportunities like Oxy’s United Nations program in New York City. She was also a featured speaker at the College’s 2018 graduation ceremony.

“Oxy gave me incredible, diverse, critical-thinker friends; professors whom I am in touch with to this day; a strong, disciplinary framework in diplomacy and world affairs and econ; and polished writing skills. Most importantly, it was

“Oxy gave me incredible, diverse, critical-thinker friends; professors whom I am in touch with to this day; a strong, disciplinary framework in diplomacy and world affairs and econ; and polished writing skills. Most importantly, it was a safe, supported space for me to explore and grapple with my mixed racial identities—just as it was for President Obama.”

After Obama was elected president, El-Amine rose with him. She became the administration’s youngest female senior staffer, taking on the role of deputy director of organizational development for the Democratic National Committee.

Eventually she was named the first national director of training in American presidential politics, developing curriculum for professionals and volunteers alike.

“The curriculum that we built is now used in thousands of progressive organizations across the country,” she says. “And all those organizers took it with them and made it their own—it has trained a whole new generation of organizers.”

a safe, supported space for me to explore and grapple with my mixed racial identities—just as it was for President Obama.

“Organizing has given me the tools to face another person, no matter how different they are from me, and see the beautiful humanity and value in them and the similarities between us,” she adds. “Organizing teaches you that with 80 percent of the public, if you meaningfully engage people, smile and listen with an open heart, there’s really nothing you can’t do and there’s no group of people you can’t unite around some shared mission or some shared set of values.

And from that, a set of actions.”

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FOR CAMPUS FOR GOOD GOAL: $40 MILLION Investments for modernization and beautification of our campus

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“The possibilities latent in the campus for development on the lines of simple beauty and dignity are great and the problem a thrillingly interesting one.”

—BEATRIX FARRAND, 1937

BUILDING ON OXY’S BEAUX ARTS HISTORY Love at first sight is a common reaction stepping onto the Oxy campus— and that affection only grows deeper over time. From Hillside Theater to Thorne Hall, these special places anchor the memories of generations of alumni. The campus is the lifeblood of the Occidental experience.

Oxy’s Beaux Arts charm reflects the vision of Myron Hunt, the Pasadena architect who created the College’s original master plan and designed every building erected on Oxy’s Eagle Rock campus for 30 years. His work was embellished by landscape designer Beatrix Farrand, who reimagined the heart of Hunt’s design in the late 1930s and early ’40s by replacing roads with terraces, planting oak trees and installing benches.

As the Oxy campus continues to thrive, new opportunities to reimagine cherished landmarks for the enjoyment of future generations present themselves. The Campaign will preserve Oxy’s rich architectural heritage, maintaining the Quad, courtyards and other welcoming spaces that have always played a central role in College life. We seek to raise $40 million to maintain and modernize our beloved campus.

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FOR CAMPUS ACADEMICS When the Norris Hall of Chemistry opened in 1960, it was considered state-of-theart. Today, six decades later, its mid-century labs are prime candidates for renovation to meet the needs of our ambitious, hands-on teaching and research program. On the other end of the Academic Quad, innovations in music and media production require new space and new equipment for our popular Music and Media Arts & Culture programs.

Modern education requires more than desks, chairs and a chalkboard. Technology for the classroom and the lab are essential for today’s teachers and students.

THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE At Occidental, we believe that what happens outside the classroom can be as important as what happens inside the classroom. Enhancing the student experience can take a variety of forms.

The College’s newest athletics complex—anchored by the De Mandel Aquatics Center, McKinnon Family Tennis Center and Robinson Family Terrace—will finally enable Oxy’s swimming, diving, water polo and tennis teams to train and compete in NCAA- and SCIAC-regulation facilities on campus for the first time in decades.

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REIMAGINING SPACE Meeting current needs at Oxy has not meant discarding the old for the new. Oxy has a long-standing policy of reimagining and repurposing historic buildings to meet the demands of an

evolving curriculum. Consider the new Anderson Center for Environmental Sciences currently under construction.

When completed in 2020, the Center, which includes a

renovated Moore Laboratory and a renewed portion of the adjacent Bioscience Building, will provide enhanced interdisciplinary teaching, research and exhibition space.

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A MORE SUSTAINABLE OXY The progressive spirit of the Occidental community has laid solid foundations for sustainability, on campus and off. Efforts such as our 1-megawatt hillside solar array, Campus Dining’s ongoing commitment to the Real Food Challenge and the student-run FEAST organic garden not only reduce the College’s environmental footprint but can also help keep Oxy’s costs down.

“The Anderson Center for Environmental Sciences brings our research facilities up to speed to better support the kind of research going on here,” says John McCormack, associate professor of biology and Moore Lab curator. “The new space will be more conducive to collaborative work for both avian and marine biology. It opens up a lot of possible new research directions for us.”

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FOR CRITICAL THINKING: JOE ROHDE ’77 “The intellectual training, the emotional training, even the social training that you get in a place like Oxy predicates you to believe, ‘I have something to say.’”

Joe Rohde ’77 wasted no time deciding on his future when he first stepped onto the Occidental campus as a high school student.

“It was one of those beautiful late spring days, and I thought, ‘Oh, it does look pretty. I’m going to go here,’” he recalls. “I did not have a Plan B.” His college choice should come as little surprise. Rohde, a legendary designer of theme parks and resort hotels for the Walt Disney Company, has long been driven by aesthetics.

As a company “imagineer” for more than three decades, Rohde was the lead designer for Disney’s Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort

headed toward being a gallery artist,” he says. “I had professors who were really nurturing, because what I was doing was a little weird. I was headed toward being a popular arts artist, aiming at built environments.”

Those environments include “anything from a road system, retail, hotels, resorts, theme parks, all of the rides within the theme parks, theaters, and what goes in theaters—this whole realm of built storytelling,” Rohde adds.

“By virtue of my liberal arts training, I have ended up in charge of highcontent projects.”

He doesn’t just create visually striking displays. Disney’s Animal Kingdom is an advocacy-based park about wildlife

“Critical thinking and the ability to investigate and negotiate—that strength comes from Oxy. That’s what allowed me to take on assignments and succeed when a lot of people thought, ‘Well, this is just utterly impossible.’” in Florida. He also was a driving force behind attractions that include Expedition Everest, Guardians of the Galaxy–Mission: Breakout!, and Pandora–The World of Avatar.

His Occidental experience has played no small part in his creative evolution.

A studio art major, Rohde relished the opportunity to take courses in theater and philosophy: “This was my shot to learn.”

His time at the College, in turn, is reflected in Rohde’s creations. “The intellectual training, the emotional training, even the social training that you get in a place like Oxy predicates you to believe, ‘I have something to say,’” he says. “It ended up being very good for me later.”

Rohde received support and encouragement from Robert Hansen, a professor of art renowned for his own use of industrial paint on panels. Rohde calls his mentor “particularly tolerant” of his artistic sensibilities. “I was not an abstract expressionist, and I wasn’t

conservation. In a similar vein, the company’s Aulani resort hotel in Hawaii isn’t just a place to kick up your feet at the end of a busy day.

“It’s hyper-focused on Hawaiian culture and Hawaiian voices,” Rohde says. “You can imagine the amount of research, the amount of crossdisciplinary investigation. Most of the work isn’t necessarily all arts. It’s going to need to be discussed, understood, researched and shared. That’s been my wheelhouse for 30 years. This is absolutely a byproduct of my liberal arts education.”

Rohde recalls that when he first started his imagineer work, he wasn’t the best model builder, nor were his specialties in the areas of illustration of set design.

But he did have one enviable aptitude: “That’s critical thinking and the ability to investigate and negotiate. That strength comes from Oxy. That’s what allowed me to take on assignments and succeed when a lot of people thought, ‘Well, this is just utterly impossible.’”

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FOR TODAY FOR GOOD GOAL: $35 MILLION Annual support to underwrite the Oxy experience for current students

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“To ensure that current Tigers can have the same life-changing experience that I did—or even better—I will continue to give back to Oxy for as long as I can.” —RAYMOND YEN ’82, CO-CHAIR, THE OXY FUND

A strong Oxy Fund makes for a strong Occidental. The Campaign seeks to raise $35 million in unrestricted gifts to underwrite the College’s current operations. Thousands of alumni, parents and friends support the College each year through the Oxy Fund—and you can make an immediate impact with your gift.

THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE As annual support underwrites the daily operations of the College, the Oxy Fund’s impact can be felt in every area from financial aid and academics to student life and athletics. It frees faculty, staff and students to do their best and most innovative work. Think of it as providing the flexibility to seize unexpected opportunities and capitalize on new ideas, all while keeping the lights shining brightly on our beautiful Los Angeles campus.

The Oxy Fund • provides for scholarships, internships, campus upkeep, growing technology needs, faculty resources and academic programming.

• allows faculty and students to innovate through curricular, research and learning experiences.

• supports athletics, helping to maintain fields and facilities and purchase equipment.

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PLANTING SEEDS “My time at Oxy has prepared me to pursue what I want to do,” says Diego Zapata ’19, who could not have attended Oxy without scholarship support.

“Oxy has planted seeds into my soul that will have a lasting impact for the rest of my life.”

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“The next generation of leaders and scholars in our communities, in our country and in the world need to be able to see issues from all sides. This requires an interdisciplinary and factbased approach, but also open and constructive dialogue.

This is what Oxy teaches young people today. Our duty is to support these students and those in the years to come.”

—David H. Anderson ’63 Campaign Steering Committee Member and Trustee

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THE OXY CAMPAIGN FOR GOOD STEERING COMMITTEE Co-chairs Anne Wilson Cannon ’74 William M. Kahane ’70 Gil Kemp P’04 Members David W. Berkus ’62 P’95 GP’16 Eileen A. Brown ’73 and Harold A. Brown ’73 Lucia W. Choi-Dalton ’89 Gloria C. Duffy ’75 Gary L. Kaplan ’71 John B. Power ’58 H’19 GP’12 S. Tod White ’59 Honorary Members David H. Anderson ’63 Dennis A. Collins P’94 Ginny and John Cushman ’55 Tawnie Buchanan Farmer ’64 and John Farmer P’98 Stephen Hinchliffe Jr. ’55 H’16 P’88 GP’18 GP’22 Catherine Young Selleck ’55 H’18

CONTACT INFO 1600 Campus Rd Los Angeles, CA 90041-3314 (323) 341-4OXY (4699) campaign@oxy.edu

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