OXYFARE Alumni Seal Awards to Honor Seven at Reunion Weekend Volume 40, Number 2 oxy.edu/magazine OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
Jonathan Veitch President Wendy F. Sternberg Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College Rhonda L. Brown Vice President for Equity and Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer Charlie Cardillo Vice President for Institutional Advancement Vince Cuseo Vice President of Enrollment and Dean of Admission Rob Flot Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Amos Himmelstein Vice President & Chief Operating Officer Marty Sharkey Associate Vice President for Marketing and Communications Jim Tranquada Director of Communications
Brenda Shockley ’68, Los Angeles deputy mayor for economic opportunity in 2016 and former president of the nonprofit Community Build, will be honored as alumna of the year at Reunion Weekend as part of the 2018 Alumni Seal Awards. Larry Caldwell, the Cecil H. and Louise Gamble Professor in Political Science Emeritus, will receive the faculty emeritus award. Other honorees include Raymond Ewing ’57, retired Foreign Service officer in the U.S. State Department, and Elona Street-Stewart ’73, synod executive of the Presbyterian Church USA (professional achievement); Shawn (Lovell) Hanson ’83, longtime Board of Governors member and Oxy parent and volunteer (service to the College); Martha Hernandez ’03, CEO of madeBOS (service to the community); and Kevin Adler ’07, founder and CEO of Miracle Messages (Erica J. Murray ’01 Young Alumnus Award).
Save the Dates: June 22-24
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Welcome the Class of 1968 into the Fifty Year Club! (And, hey, Class of 1993— it’s your 25th anniversary!) All Tigers are welcome back to Occidental! Join your fellow alumni returning to campus to reconnect with friends, relive your youth (or at least try to), and rediscover the magic of Oxy. Any questions? Please contact the Office of Alumni and Parent Engagement at 323-259-2601 or alumni@oxy.edu. Visit alumni.oxy.edu for more information. We look forward to seeing you in June!
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Access & Opportunity Reception, February 27
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Dick Anderson Editor Samantha B. Bonar ’90, Jasmine Teran Contributing Writers Marc Campos Contributing Photographer Gail (Schulman) Ginell ’79 Class Notes Editor SanSoucie Design Design DLS Group Printing OCCIDENTAL MAGAZINE
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Steve Coll ’80 and Yvette Cabrera ’94 in conversation February 1.
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Steve Coll ’80, dean of Columbia Journalism School and a staff writer at The New Yorker, retraced his path from trade magazines and freelancing to his passion for investigative journalism in a conversation with Yvette Cabrera ’94—a former investigative reporter at ThinkProgress who recently joined the Huffington Post as environmental justice reporter—at an alumni and parent event February 1 at Columbia. “I love reporting. I love talking to strangers. I love knocking on doors. I like going into places that I haven’t been before—as much as or more than writing,” said Coll, who majored in English and history at Oxy. After writing a “very serious-minded screenplay” with a friend of his, he found his first paying job working in public television. “Everything I do is rooted in research and reporting,” he added. “I so love the chase that I save the writing for the very end.” A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, Coll recently published his eighth book, Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Penguin Random House).
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1. Jade Thurnham ’20 and Ann Zwicker Kerr-Adams ’56. 2. Anson J. Credille ’97 scholarship recipient Jose Campuzano ’18 and trustee Octavio Herrera ’97. 3. Cyntica Brown ’18 and Jane Ettinger ’81. 4. Daniel Hermosillo ’20 and Anne (Breck) Peterson ’67. 5. Vince Padua ’74, Natalie Myers ’18, and Judy Lam ’87. 6. SAE Skiers scholarship recipient Spencer Raub ’20 and Miro Macho ’65. 7. Standing, l-r: Glee Club members John Hammer ’21, Florence Matteson ’20, Simon Hershey ’18, and Grace Gowen ’18. Seated: Glee Club director Désirée LaVertu, Donna (Wayne) MacElroy ’60, and Warry MacElroy ’60. 7 Photos by Marc Campos
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