La Jolla Village News, September 20th, 2012

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Jane Goodall brings her legacy to La Jolla After more than 50 years studying chimp behavior, the famous scientist discusses her legendary work in our backyard BY KENDRA HARTMANN | VILLAGE NEWS ore than 50 years ago, a young British woman with no formal scientific training ventured into the jungle in Tanzania (then Tanganyika) to observe some chimpanzees. What she discovered over the next several decades turned the scientific community on its head. Jane Goodall, now a world-renowned primatologist, blurred the lines between human and ape with her research. She discovered that chimps make tools, wage war, are omnivores and sometimes adopt unrelated youngsters. Behaviors and traits that were previously thought to be unique

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to humans were found in the tribes of chimps that Goodall observed during her years at what is today Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. On Sept. 28, Goodall will bring her life’s work to La Jolla for a dinner to benefit the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), a global nonprofit that empowers people to make a difference for all living things. Goodall will discuss the work of JGI, which continues her pioneering research and efforts to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. The institute, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, is widely recognized for establishing innovative community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa, as well as Jane Goodall’s

Roots & Shoots, a global environmental and humanitarian youth program. Goodall, at 78, is still very much active in her work, both as a primatologist and as a conservationist. She travels at least 300 days a year, visiting every corner of the earth to raise awareness about the state of chimpanzees and the current threats to the planet. Though Goodall, who calls Gombe her favorite place on earth, would love to spend more time at the national park, she feels her time is better spent empowering youth to be better environmental stewards, said Mary Humphrey, CEO of JGI. Goodall still manages to return SEE GOODALL, Page 10

La Jolla brings out its literary side Proving that La Jolla offers much more than top-notch dining and venerated research institutions, those looking for a little bookish culture this weekend can wander down to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla for the inaugural La Jolla Literary Festival from Sept. 21-23. Featuring 17 notable speakers with expertise on topics ranging from art to international affairs, the festival encompasses fiction, nonfiction and journalism for a three-day event that promises a little something for everyone trying to get in touch with their scholarly side. Speakers will host panel discussions on a wide range of topics, with presentations geared toward readers as opposed to writers or those working in the publishing industry.

Speakers include CBS’ “This Morning” contributor Lee Woodruff; former CIA operative Antonio J. Mendez; James Bradley, son of one of the men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima and author of “Flags of Our Fathers”; actor, screenwriter and director Kris Arnold; and Adam Lashinsky, senior editor-at-large for Fortune magazine. Mitch Albom, author of “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” and “Tuesdays with Morrie” — the No. 1 bestselling memoir of all time — will provide the keynote speech. Albom’s books have sold more than 28 million copies worldwide. The La Jolla Literary Festival will take place at MCASD, 700 Prospect St. Event passes are

$250, with group rates available. For tickets or more information, call (858) 866-6635. For those who wish to have $50 of the ticket price donated to the La Jolla Historical Society, let the ticket agent know. Biographies of all the scheduled speakers (as well as online ticket purchases) are available on the event’s website, jollalit.com. — Kendra Hartmann

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La Jollan a champion for women’s health rights, trailblazer in medical field BY MARIKO LAMB | VILLAGE NEWS Dr. Doris Howell, founder of the Doris A. Howell Foundation for Women’s Health Research, is more than just an advocate for women’s health. She is a trailblazer in a once little known field that was dominated by men, a vital leader in hospice care and pediatric oncology and hematology, and — above all — the driving force behind critical studies into the field of women’s health Doris Howell, above, at a lab at UCSD and below, in her younger care. Courtesy photos It would seem that years. such a pioneer in the industry would require a tough-as-nails personality. Howell, however, displays an insightful, compassionate, mother-like quality that shatters the preconceived image of a woman who defied gender boundaries. “I actually had a hard time in medical school because all of a sudden I didn’t feel like I was in the right place,” she said. It wasn’t the fact that she was only one of four women in the entire medical school of nearly 200 students that made her feel out of place. It was the coldness by which she was told to treat her patients. “I didn’t like the way the teachers made you isolate yourself from the patient. That was the golden rule — don’t get close to your patient because then you’ll lose your relative ability to make hard diagnoses and tell hard stories,” she recalled. “I’ve never been unkind to anybody in my life, and I’ve always nurtured everybody that I’ve come near, so I didn’t like the idea of not taking care of my patients and sitting with them and talking with them.” Finally, she decided that so long as she graduated, she could pursue her own practice in her own way. And that’s exactly what she did. Howell’s compassion led her to become a trusted physician among her young patients and their parents, a knowledgeable professor and faculty member at several prestigious medical universities, and ultimately led her to help found San Diego Hospice alongside the late benefactress Joan Kroc. SEE HOWELL, Page 8


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