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UC SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Travis Wilson ’02, Santa Barbara President Teresa Carranza ’09, Los Angeles Secretary-Treasurer Cuca Acosta ’02, Santa Barbara Shanna Bright ’93, San Diego Jan Campbell ’74, Santa Barbara Julie Capritto ’81, Santa Barbara Ron Chiarello ’83, Lafayette Cindy Chineduh ’01, Tustin Carl Clapp ’81, Honolulu, HI Eugene Covington, ’96, Kirkland,WA Diane Doodha ‘66, Ross Alex Esparza ’99, Chino Hills Ralph Garcia ’83, San Mateo Francesco Mancia ’80, Cool Mary Moslander ’88, San Francisco Kristen Nesbit ’02, Los Angeles Joel Raznick ’81, Los Angeles Zach Rentz MA ’15, Santa Barbara Gary Rhodes ’83, Hermosa Beach James Rogers Ph.D. ’12, Santa Barbara Niki Sandoval Ph.D. ’07, Lompoc Michele Schneider ’91, Los Altos Sue Wilcox ’70, Ph.D. ’74, Santa Barbara Marie Williams ’89, Ashburn, VA Marisa Yeager ’95, Riverside Ex Officio James Villarreal ’16 President, Associated Students Beverly Colgate Executive Director, The UCSB Foundation Aaron Jones ’02, M.A. ‘14 President, Graduate Student Association Hua Lee, M.A. ’78, Ph.D. ’80 Faculty Representative Ed Birch, H’95 UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees COASTLINES STAFF George Thurlow ’73, Publisher Natalie Wong ’79, Art Director Marge Pamintuan Perko, Editor Renee Lowe, ’15, Web Assistant Olivia Hayden, ’16, Photographer ALUMNI STAFF Lesli Brodbeck ’85, Business Manager, Family Vacation Center Sheri Fruhwirth, Director, Family Vacation Center Shane Greene, Webmaster Hattie Husbands ’05, Programs Coordinator Hazra Abdool Kamal, Chief Financial Officer John Lofthus ’00, Associate Director Mary MacRae ’94, Office Manager Marge Pamintuan Perko, Editor Samantha Putnam, Programs Director David Silva ’10, Director of Business Development George Thurlow ’73, Executive Director Natalie Wong ’79, Senior Artist Susan K. Yamashiro, Community Events
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THE FEATURES 6 COVER THE POWER OF PRONOUNS Definitions of identity and pride from 14 young
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LGBTQ alumni, staff, faculty and students. Cover photo: Matt Perko.
14 HOW BIG OIL WAS MADE INTO FINE WINE Maverick oilman Stan McGinley ’59 is pioneering wine growing in the land of black gold.
22 Celebrating uc santa barbara’s transition class Ken Khachigian ’66 delivered the Class of 1966 Reunion Luncheon keynote address at the Santa Barbara Club.
THE DEPARTMENTS 6 AROUND STORKE TOWER 17 IV ROUNDUP 19 ALUMNI AUTHORS 21 SPORTS 24 MILESTONES
E - C OA S T L I N E S S P E C I A L S U M M E R F E AT U R E S This summer, check your inboxes and click on to www.ucsbalum.com/Coastlines for these upcoming web-only stories from your Coastlines team.
PART OF YOUR WORLD
MENTORING ISLA VISTA YOUTH
The Education Abroad experiece fosters vital 21st-century job skills and perspectives.
St. George Family Youth Center Director Leonor Reyes ’02.
THE ROAD TO RIO
TRACING TANGUEROS
Olympic hopefuls Barbara Nwaba ’12 and Ryan Martin ’12 train with Team USA this summer.
Musician and scholar Kacey Link ’13 co-authors a critically-acclaimed book on Argentine tango.
SCENE AND HEARD AT THE 2016 ALL GAUCHO REUNION Photos, videos and memories from this year’s reunion weekend.
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UCSBGIVEDAY
How 1 Day Defined the Gaucho Spirit April 8, 2016 marked UCSB’s first-ever Give Day, an opportunity for alumni to unite in the digital space and support the university like never before. We witnessed thousands of tweets, posts and campus pop-up events that unified our university for this unprecedented experience.
What was all the buzz about?
$3.7M 1,268 raised from
donors
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30% increase in new donors with alumni comprising 83% of this new contingent
Give Day points towards a movement that is taking place at the university, as alumni are reconnecting like never before and choosing to invest in their alma mater. This single day brought about more success than we could have imagined, and reawakened the pride we feel for our university. To our generous Gaucho community, we extend a heartfelt Thank-you.
Want to know more? Discover 5 things we learned about Gauchos on Give Day at giving.ucsb.edu/giveday
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Around Storke Tower — Updates from Your Campus Community
A Year Like No Other in Politics
Pictured: Dr. John T. Woolley, UCSB professor and American Presidency Project co-founder, with UCSB Trustee David Adishian. Photo: Matt Perko
If you were to guess where the most popular site in online traffic was located on the UC Santa Barbara website, you might think of Athletics. Or maybe Financial Aid? Could it be the Baldwins Sociology of Sex lecture notes pages? Nope. This fall, the American Presidency Project run by a UCSB political scientist and a Citrus College professor will be racking up the highest hit rates of any place on the UCSB web site. Already the site is posting 100,000 visits a day -- and the Clinton-Trump contest has not even entered round one. The site contains a warehouse of Presidential papers, speeches, facts and documents. From a chart showing how many words have been in each of the State of the Union addresses going back to George Washington, to transcripts of more than 2,000 presidential press conferences, the Project is a treasure chest for researchers. But in this election year, it is drawing even larger numbers of public visitors. “In today’s hyper-partisan era,” explained co-founder John Woolley, “people value reliable nonpartisan information. The APP has built a reputation as an authoritative, accurate, politically neutral site that is easy to navigate.” Woolley plans to expand the offerings this election year. He noted that the site is also entering into agreements with other data bases to allow quick linkage to presidential materials. “Our goal is to contribute,” he said, “if only in a modest way, to an informed democratic discourse that is passionate primarily in the belief that facts matter.” The APP was founded by Woolley and Gerhard Peters in 1999. It contains more than 117,000 documents from the U.S. Presidency and was recently cited by a White House speech writer as an important resource because it was “so complete and so current.” Woolley has become something of a media expert on presidential facts, but his most recent citation came from his writing on financial reform. His work was used by The New Yorker in a May 16 article about financial reform. The APP also recently received a major boost with a gift from UCSB Trustee David Adishian. Find out more about the American Presidency Project at www.presidency.ucsb.edu.
Jeffrey Milem Appointed Next Dean of UCSB Gervitz Graduate School of Education Author and educator Jeffrey Milem will assume the deanship of the UCSB Gervitz Graduate School of Education on July 1, 2016. Milem served as the Ernest W. McFarland Distinguished Professor in Leadership for Education Policy and Reform at the University Jeffrey Milem. of Arizona’s College of Education. He was Photo: The Current. also a professor at the Center of the Stufy of Higher Education and served as director of the Arizona Medical Education Research Initiative (AMERI) for the Colleges of Education and Medicine at the University of Arizona. He is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association and a past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
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At Last, A Starbucks at UCEN The campus University Center will soon be home to a Starbucks location after a committee of students, faculty and staff decided it would be more popular than the current UCEN coffee shop Nicoletti’s, which has been on campus for more than 25 years. Sue Hawkins, director of UCEN dining services, told The Daily Nexus that it is expected that Starbucks will generate more revenue for the UCEN, which is totally self-supporting. “We think it’s something that the campus wants, and that’s our goal, to provide services that our campus constituents want and we think that Starbucks is one of those.” The Starbucks opening is set for the fall.
UCSB Media Arts and Technology Doctoral Program Chair Receives Guggenheim Fellowship UCSB MAT Chair George Legrady. Photo: Olivia Harris
Multidisciplinary artist George Legrady, who serves as chair of the UC Santa Barbara Media Arts and Technology (MAT) program and is a professor at the UCSB Art Department, has been named a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow. Legrady is among the 178 recipients of this year’s fellowships awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. A digital computational arts pioneer, Legrady’s work focuses on creating new aesthetic and narrative experiences via photographic-based media, interactive digital media installations and computationally-generated visualizations.
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THE POWER OF PRONOUNS LGBTQ Identity and Pride at UC Santa Barbara
By Marge Pamintuan Perko Words construct our identities. Throughout our lives, words frame our experiences and interactions with other human beings. For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals at UC Santa Barbara, the use of certain pronouns can mean the difference between acknowledging or discounting a person’s identity. For example, Richard Moreno `15 prefers the pronoun “they” in recognition of an identity “beyond the binary.” “Typically, I would say I identify as a queer Latino – or, Latinx,” said Moreno, who works as a coordinator at the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity (RCSGD) at UC Santa Barbara. “Putting an X at the end of the words is relatively new. What it does is that it separates from the gender binary with O and A, especially in the Spanish language, which connotes the masculine or the feminine. But using the X – it connotes the gender-neutral way of saying certain terms.”
PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES AT UCSB
student mental health at UCSB. “LGBTQ students are
Moreno, who works with RCSGD Director Dave Whitman on events and
definitely more likely to develop mental health issues because
outreach initiatives, says students frequently struggle with the impact of
of their identities and the way they navigate the university,”
being openly queer or trans-identified – even on a campus like UC Santa
Moreno said.
Barbara, which has a great reputation for LGBTQ student opportunities. “A lot of students leave UCSB never coming out, especially the older
Recent political and legislative movements on the national scene have affected the sense of well-being and inclusion
generation,” said Whitman, who hopes to encourage more alumni
for LGBTQ groups on campus. In April, a series of graffiti
engagement with the center and the students at UCSB. “For the alums
slogans related to the presidential election – some loaded
coming back, I hope they can see UCSB as a LGBTQ-affirming home for
with slurs against ethnic and gender minorities like LGBTQ
them.”
groups – were written in chalk on the pavement next to the
Currently, UC Santa Barbara receives a Campus Pride Index (www.
murals at North Hall. The incident prompted Vice Chancellor
campusprideindex.org) rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars in the national listing of
for Student Affairs Margaret Klawunn to issue a campus-wide
LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities. UCSB scores well on Gender
message titled “Letter to Students about Civility at UCSB.”
Identity/Expression and LGBTQ Policy Inclusion – both at 4.5 stars – but
“Thoughts and opinions will vary, but we are all Gauchos,
still does not show data for an involved LGBTQ alumni group or LGBTQ
and all Gauchos have the right to physical safety,” said
student scholarships.
Klawunn in her statement to the campus community.
In 2014, the UC Office of the President (UCOP) sent out new
“Students come to us asking why is the university allowing
regulations on the conversion of single-stall campus restrooms into
these events to happen,” said Moreno. “Unfortunately, all we
gender inclusive spaces – a development embraced by departments and
can really do is be there as a resource for them, and advocate
campus groups at UCSB.
for them – and translate their voices and their concerns to the
According to Croft Yjader in UCSB’s Design & Construction Services, work is underway to install new gender neutral signage throughout
administration to make sure that they are doing something about it.”
summer. The project is expected to be completed by early fall. Students, staff and campus visitors can currently locate and track the gender
BUILDING COMMUNITY
inclusive facilities on the ucsb.edu website. (www.ucsb.edu/maps-
The center’s small core team of staff and student volunteers
directions)
do the bulk of the advocacy and programming work serving
In addition, UCOP has added optional questions about gender and
thousands of students, staff and community members.
sexuality to the UC student application, and has offered students the
Creating more visible LGBTQ programming, events and
opportunity to change their first name on campus records and class
positive interactions for the community has been the mission
rosters without documentation. This summer, UCSB students will be
of the Center since it was founded in 1999.
allowed to use their preferred names on their ID Access cards and class rosters. An ongoing challenge for Moreno and staff at the RCSGD is addressing 8
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As RCSGD director, Dave Whitman is using his bacground in higher education, marketing, teaching and diversity to build a solid community for LGBTQ individuals at UC Santa Barbara.
The center fosters connections between staff, alumni and
books, videos, access to computers and calendar updates on LGBTQ events.
local families through events and programs like Safe Zone
The energy at the center is one of family, with both Whitman and Moreno
workshops, the annual Rick Berry Emerging Leadership
greeting students by name and catching up on their concerns – whether
Institute, Pride Week, film screenings and the most recent
they be related to school, housing, social situations or connecting them with
LGBTQ Alumni Reception at this year’s All Gaucho Reunion.
health education. Over 40 students are signed up for mentoring programs
“This is about fostering an intersectional conversation,” said Whitman. “We are not boxing people into one identity. We are considering the experiences and needs of diverse populations in the things we do – in language, in accessibility
that connect them to undergraduate staff and alumni. Most important to the RCSGD staff is the cultivation of a culture of respect and learning among all community members at UC Santa Barbara. “When people ask me how do I identify, and then they want me to explain what queer is to them – well, I don’t even know what my queer identity is
and representation.” Housed on the third floor of the Student Resources Building, the center provides a colorful space filled with
to me,” said Moreno. “But queer is such an open-ended word – and to me, it just means limitless possibility of what it represents to me specifically.”
EXPRESSIONS OF POSSIBLITY, DEFINITIONS OF PRIDE Fourteen young LGBTQ alumni, staff, faculty and students defined identity and pride in their own words.
Richard Moreno `15 Program Coordinator, UCSB Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity I DON’T IDENTIFY WITHIN THE BINARY. So my form
THEY/THEM/THEIR
of expression is very much unique to my own forms of identity and expression. I’M DEFINITELY PROUD TO BE A QUEER LATINX PERSON, existing and resisting in spaces that normally would not want
HE/HIM/HIS
me to exist in – and they would not want my identity to be something valid. And a lot of those places exist today, but being able to identify that way, and being able to surround myself with the community, and help support one another – THAT’s what makes me proud as a person.
DAVID WHITMAN Director of the UCSB Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity MY FAVORITE ASPECT OF MY JOB is that my colleagues and the students are trusting me with advice and insights on inclusion – and that they are excited about being more inclusive. VISIBLE LGBTQ ALUMNI AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS give students hope and purpose – and shows them what they can become. They see their power take form, their potential take form – and that they are going to be supported. www.ucsbalum.com
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SHE/HER/HERS
David Silva `10 Director of Business Development, UCSB Alumni Affairs TO ME, BEING PROUD IS ACTUALLY BEING SEEN BEYOND WHAT THIS ONE IDENTITY IS. I don’t think of things in terms of as a gay man, how do I feel about this – it’s more about the person, and being seen by the rest of the community, by people and strangers, just seeing me as just a person makes me proud of that. Because it’s beyond -- and it transcends. It’s like my personality isn’t a derivative of my sexuality. So I really find that I’m proud most when it doesn’t matter to anyone. It’s just…being a human being.
DR. JENNIFER TYBURZCY Assistant Professor Director of LGBTQ Minor, UCSB Department of Feminist Studies
Ariel Jimenez UCSB Student, Feminist Studies Member of QSU, QCOMM, FUQIT
I FIRST IDENTIFY MYSELF AS A TEACHER AT THE UNIVERSITY. I also identify as
I IDENTIFY MYSELF – AND WOULD LIKE
queer. I identify as bisexual. I am partnered
TO BE IDENTIFIED – AS A GLAMOUROUS
with a woman. And I’m proud to call myself
WOMAN. Some days, if I want, I will be
a new resident of California. IN LIEU OF
wearing a giant butterfly ring. Other days,
PRIDE, I PREFER TO THINK OF DIGNITY,
I’ll be wearing too much makeup to go out
especially taking a note from the pages of
of the house. But HEY – that’s how I like to
Latin American social movements, of being
present myself.
able to stand in an individual and collective
I DEFINE PRIDE AS BEING PROUD
dignidad. I see dignity as a keyword for
OF WHO YOU ARE. Being resilient
queer politics and queer culture in the 21st
towards society and the hegemonic,
century.
heteronormative norms that are set on us, especially in the LGBTQ and trans community. And I just think that pride is something that, in order to be fully happy with yourself, you might need to have a sense of pride to feel happiness and fulfillment.
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SHE/HER/HERS
HE/HIM/HIS
JASON STONE `03 Health Education Specialist UCSB Health & Wellness I DEFINE MYSELF AS A HAPPY PERSON. I’m a gay man when it comes to my sexual and gender identity and that part of me has influenced my personal development in many ways. However, it’s certainly not the whole story of what has shaped me into the person I am today. I live my life in a broader scope than my gender and sexuality. I remember as a child that I didn’t experience having much of a sexual identity at all... and yet I still felt a strong sense of identity during that time... it is that core, intrinsic identity that was there then that defines me the most now. PRIDE IS SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND SELF-LOVE. It is being who you are unfiltered and unapologetically. I love being me- every part of me!
SHE/HER/HERS Sonya Gross MA `15 Health Educator, UCSB Health & Wellness Ryan Rodriguez 1st Year UCSB Student, Pre-Chemistry Theta Nu Kappa and RCSGD Student Volunteer
I’M A HAPPY, QUEER LADY – and a mini horse enthusiast. I THINK PRIDE TO ME IS OWNING WHO YOU ARE AND LOVING YOUR DIFFERENTNESS. At the same time, I
RIGHT NOW, I WOULD SAY
find it crucial to love the uniqueness in other
I’M A GAY STUDENT – just
people – whether that be queer, or non-queer-
trying to feel it out. I FEEL
identified uniqueness. In reference to gay
PRIDE IS BEING ABLE TO
pride specifically, I think pride is about ridding
EXPRESS YOURSELF. Being
ourselves of that shameful poison that I feel so
able to take control of your
many of us have experienced. To me, there is no
identity and show people who
better remedy to shame than unapologetically
you are.
loving your whole self. There’s so much strength and beauty in this resiliency. And to me, that is what pride boils down to -- emphatically loving
HE/HIM/HIS
yourself, your growth, and your journey.
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HE/HIM/HIS
HE/HIM/HIS
SHE/HER/HERS Maribel Barrera 2nd Year UCSB Student, Psychology/ Comparative Literature RCSGD Volunteer, Member of the Literature Club and Kapitang Pilipino I PERSONALLY HATE LABELS BECAUSE I DON’T REALLY BELONG IN ONE BOX, but if I had to use words it would be like this: I’m biracial and bisexual. I’m halfMexican and half-Filipino. I’m nothing more and nothing less. Also, the fact I like girls and guys shouldn’t define me either. I’m much more than my ethnicity and sexuality. I’m a photographer. I’m a writer. I’m an animal lover. I’m a creator. I like to make things come to life, and making memories. I DEFINE PRIDE AS AN ACCEPTANCE, an appreciation of your flaws and of yourself as a whole.
Raudel Covarrubias 2nd Year UCSB Student, Biology oSTEM Co-President I IDENTIFY AS A QUEER, CHICANO, LOWERCLASS, FIRST GENERATION STUDENT. I definitely identify myself as a scientist. I want to get involved in stem cell research. By getting involved in that, I would like to help LGBTQ community members through the sciences. I also want to be in the STEM fields because I am Hispanic – and there’s not that many Hispanic members within the STEM fields. When I went to the oSTEM conference, I could say I was one of the few people brown people there. Most people in the STEM fields are mostly white males or Asian males and by being a participant I’m representing my community. I’M PROUD OF WHO I AM. I just feel that pride is a shout of joy. As individuals, we’ve been invisible throughout all our lives, but when pride comes up, it’s our time to shout. We are no longer invisible, we become visible. We’re no longer going to stay in the shadows where society puts us in a box.
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Dr. Roberto Strongman Associate Professor, UCSB Department of Black Studies I FIND ONE-WORD LABELS A POOR TRANSLATION FOR SELF-DEFINITION. So, I often use humor. At a gay club, a potential suitor once asked me “what” I was – and I flirtatiously replied “What would you like me to be?” A student asked me whether I was black, and I answered “Only in summer!” A customs officer reviewing my passport could not get his head around my English last name and Latin American birth. Smiling, I said: “Life is complicated!” He did not smile back. LABELS ARE PRACTICAL AND POLITICALLY ENABLING, but they often fail to capture the complexity of BEING. I that it this desire for simplicity and easy intelligibility which has caused humans historically to persecute those who, emerging from spiritual seclusion, have simply declared “I AM.”
SHE/HER/HERS
Marjan Riazi ’12 Education and Outreach Coordinator, UCSB Alcohol & Drug Program
HE/HIM/HIS
I HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT IDENTITIES, IT’S ALMOST HARD TO ARTICULATE
HE/HIM/HIS
THEM ALL. I think first – MARJAN – I
Mick Castro ’16 Sociology and East Asian Culture Studies RCSGD Student Staff Member and Graphic Designer WHAT I TELL PEOPLE, IF THEY ASK, IS THAT I AM A QUEER/TRANS*/BIGENDER/ASEXUAL/ PANROMANTIC/BOI/FILIPIN@/STUDENT/ ORGANIZER. For trans* guys, I don’t think we get that much representation or the visibility that I would like to see in mainstram media. It’s actually, in a lot of ways, much easier to be “invisible” or be “stealth” – which can have its advantages and disadvantages. WHAT I WANT IS TO BE HAPPY – in a conceptual way. This can mean existing, being respected and taken for who and what I am by those close to me, and well, taking up space. I love art. I love working with people. My main thing is that I want to help people – helping people or creating space for myself and for others to exist and be there.
am really proud of who I am and who I’ve become, so that’s me. I’m a woman. I’m a
Alexander Hale UCSB Student, Senior, Global Studies
woman of color. As it pertains to this – queer. I’m half Filipino, half Iranian, so multi-ethnic,
MORE RECENTLY, I HAVE BEEN
multi-racial. I’m an environmentalist. I’m
IDENTIFYING MYSELF AS AN ARTIST,
a feminist, that’s for sure. I’m an educator,
just because I’ve been so caught up in
I’m a friend, and I’m a goofball. I’m a Gaucho
school and I’ve really been trying to find my
– I really love being part of the UCSB
outlet. I haven’t done that much art yet but
community and that in itself means so many
ideally that’s what I’d like to do later in life:
different things to me too. PRIDE IS A LOT
express myself in a way that is meaningful
OF THINGS. I think it’s being authentically
and thoughtful. I DEFINE PRIDE AS OPEN,
who I am, knowing that and putting it out to
HONEST AND TRUTHFUL – particularly,
the world -- and not being afraid to do that in
because my experience as an HIV-positive
a time when so many hateful messages and
gay man; so pride to me exists in healthy
close-minded groups are telling marginalized
communication, not only to others but also
communities to be afraid and go back to the
to myself. If you can’t be honest and you
margins. Pride is saying NO, I am not going
can’t be truthful about everything, then how
to do that because I know exactly who I am
can you experience pride?
and I deserve to be here accomplishing every dream I have.
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Business
How Big Oil Was Made For 39 years, McGinley and his wife Peggy ‘59 (they were married their last semester at UCSB)
Stan McGinley ’59 tends passionately to his 500 vines in Texas soil that is known for oil, not grapes. A maverick his whole life, yet as traditional as you will find, McGinley has planted three varieties of red and white wine grapes and is ready to launch West Sandy Creek Winery. It is not surprising that he is pioneering wine growing on rustic and historic land next door to the Sam Houston National Forest, just over an hour’s drive north of Houston. For McGinley is one of the international oil industry’s least known yet incredibly influential pioneers.
lived in Saudi Arabia and were leaders both in Saudi oil and in the tight knit group of Americans who helped the Saudis turn their desert Kingdom into one of the richest enterprises in world history. As General Counsel for Saudi Aramco Oil, the kingdom’s national oil company, McGinley wrote the articles of incorporation that formed the most powerful oil company of all time. In photo after photo of Saudi Aramco gatherings and conferences, he is the sole person in a suit and tie. Every other top official is in Bedouin attire. Sitting at lunch in the Woodlands, Texas, where he lives when he not fussing over his grapes, McGinley is humble and low-key. He seems a little in awe of his years of service in one of the most closed societies and kingdoms in the world. He laughs as he recalls paying $52 in fees for his first semester at UCSB in 1955. Both he and Peggy were involved in student government at UCSB. He was president of the sophomore class, Peggy was class secretary. In his senior year, he was president of Associated Students. The first turn in his amazing journey came when he joined ROTC at UCSB and was commissioned at graduation as a second lieutenant. He was in the transportation corps and was able to wrangle a tour of duty in Italy. He came back to California to attend law school at USC on a scholarship, which he attributes to the excellence of UCSB. Upon graduation, he was assigned to the Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) office and because he had learned Italian on his first tour, was sent to Italy. (He also served for three years as a paratrooper in the 18th Airborne Corps.) During his tour with JAG in Italy, he met an official who was working with the Arabian American Oil Co. who told him the company was looking for legal help. McGinley sent them his resume. He was called to an interview in Beirut. He got the job offer but the company wanted him to work initially in New York. With two small children, “I wasn’t going to work in New York,” he said. Instead, he was given approval to start work in Saudi Arabia in 1971.
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Into Wine By George Thurlow `73
Top: Vineyards nestle among pastures on the McGinley West Sandy Creek Ramch near Houston. Inset: Nabeel Amudi, then the president of Aramco Services Company and now president of the Saudi Ports Authority, his former boss Stan McGinley, Verne Stueber and Peggy McGinley.
At the time the company was American, formed by a
a tightly controlled Kingdom ruled by the House of Saud, which came to
partnership among Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texaco, Standard
power in 1932. King Salman is the current monarch following the death of
Oil of California and Socony-Vacuum Oil. In 1951, the company
his half-brother King Abdullah in 2012.
discovered the largest onshore oil field in the world, followed by
When the McGinleys arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1971, Westerners lived
the discovery of the largest offshore oil field in the world. In 1973,
inside their own compound. Christian religion was only practiced discreetly
with McGinley working in the legal office, Saudi Arabia purchased
inside the enclave. Alcohol was not allowed to be consumed in any public
25 percent of the Aramco oil concession and company. In 1986,
places, nor brought into the country.
McGinley, now General Counsel, assisted in implementing the 100 percent ownership of the company by the Saudi government. “Our first job was to figure out how to create the national oil company,” he said. He met regularly with the highest officials in the Kingdom and “I drafted the company’s charter.” The only
It was in his residence, after a day of providing legal counsel to one of the most influential oil companies in the world, that McGinley learned the art of making wine for his own personal consumption. He admitted their efforts were at times crude, but he had plenty of time to learn. He joked that on one occasion some of the expats drove to Dammam
hitch was that all of the American employees were transferred to
to buy a carload of grapes to crush. While the Saudi border guards were
employment by the Saudi entity and that violated McGinley’s status
amused, they waved the grapes through. “It was way too much work,”
as an Army reserve officer. The Department of Defense eventually
McGinley said. So the home-based winemakers used grape juice and their
gave its approval.
ingenuity.
At his retirement celebration in 2010, the CEO of Saudi Aramco,
When the McGinley’s bought their ranch in the West Sandy Creek area
Khalid Al-Falih, said it was McGinley’s skill at concentrated writing
of southeast Texas, there was only a single residence. Now there are an
that so impressed the Saudis. “Stan has a remarkable ability to
additional six log cabin residences. The McGinley’s brought hybrid wine
take a huge and complex file of information, distill it down to its
stalks (Pierce disease is a problem in Texas) and by 2013, they and their
essentials, and organize the essentials into recommendations and
neighbors were producing 42 tons of grapes. The most popular is the
a strategy,” Al-Falih said. (It should be noted that Al-Falih was just
Black Spanish red grape and the Blanc du Bois white grape, both grown
appointed in May to be the Kingdom’s Oil Minister.)
extensively in Texas. By the end of this year, they will complete their first
At that event, Peggy McGinley was also praised by the company for her work as a school board member and community leader in the ex-pat community. Today Saudi Aramco is valued at somewhere between $1 and
bottling of up to eight different varieties of wine. As for the world oil business, McGinley is concerned about its impact on global warming and the fierce conflicts in the Middle East between Shiites and Sunnis. As for Saudi Arabia, the worry is that more than 80 percent
$10 trillion. Its proven reserves are pegged at 260 billion barrels
of the government’s revenues come from oil. At some point in the distant
of oil. It refines 4 million barrels of oil a day and owns extensive
future, it will be gone.
pipelines as well as oil tanker fleets. It brings in more than a trillion dollars a year in revenues.
Yet the McGinley family vineyards and their winery will probably still be producing fine wine.
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“Illuminating Community, LightWorks Isla Vista” is a light-based public arts festival that took place in downtown Isla Vista. Selected artists from across California exhibited their artworks designed to transform the central parks of Isla Vista into illuminated spaces for art, performance, and evening engagement by the community. The UCSB Department of Art and the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission received funding for this event from the California Arts Council.
Placemaking Study Calls for Extensive Improvements A two-day community conference on creating special “places” in Isla Vista has resulted in a more than 50-page consultant’s report calling for hundreds of improvements throughout Isla Vista. The report focused in on four locations to begin improving the aesthetics of Isla Vista life. They included: Estero Park (bordering Estero and Camino del Sur); Del Playa; the Lower Loop; and the Upper Loop. While there were nine sites that community conferees discussed, the consultants focused on the four that received the most attention from the community. Proposals for those sites included: Lower Loop Estero Park • Create food and art programs • Better signage • Make the Embarcadero pedestrian friendly • A park gateway • Make improvements to Little Acorn • Outdoor classrooms and People’s parks • Stadium seating for the soccer field Del Playa • Creating open and play streets • Fix the parking problem • Improve Capps Park • Create a master plan for parks along DP
Upper Loop • Stage events with temporary closure of Pardall • Appoint a program czar for the area • Create pocket parks along Pardall • Create a pedestrian plaza
The consultants, the Project for Public Spaces, have worked on public space projects all over the world. They were funded by the Santa Barbara Foundation to begin a community planning process that would identify where improvements could be made in Isla Vista. Their report urges community members to break into smaller groups to take charge of specific area improvements and to seek grants and government funding for infrastructure improvements.
UCSB New Owner of Irish Pub and Tattoo Parlor A Santa Barbara businessman turned over a key corner property in downtown Isla Vista in a sale and gift transaction. UCSB now owns the Dublin’s pub and the Precious Slut tattoo parlor at the corner of Pardall and Embarcadero del Norte. University officials have said they plan to study options for the corner. Local technology entrepreneur Jason Yardi, whose father Anant founded Yardi Systems, one of Santa Barbara’s fastest growing privately-held tech companies, had planned to develop the corner into a mixed use project called The Nest. It included more than 36,000 square feet of apartments and commercial space. Local opposition to the size and use of the project led Yardi to withdraw his plans from the county.
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Arts Alumni Authors Kathleen Huber `68 and Jerome Martin Schwartz Four Plays by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Kirk Grossman `72 The Longest Walk
Kevin McDonough `77 A View With a Room
Fifty-something minor league coach Don Ogilvie bargains with Death to save the life of a terminally-ill seven-year old. To fulfill his side of the deal, Ogilvie needs to manage a team of dead Hall of Famers to win against a squad fielded by Death and captained by Ty Cobb. Full of humor and life lessons, this tale of supernatural drama on the diamond is by Ventura attorney and lifelong Dodgers fan Kirk Grossman, who wrote his debut novel under the pseudonym Kirk Marty.
Kevin McDonough moved to Paris with nothing but a passport and a suitcase. In this funny traveler’s memoir, McDonough shares his experiences settling into the Gallic way of life from apartment hunting, language school and making friends – to finding time to fall in love.
Jeffrey Crimmel `69 Brain Bleed
John Renehan `96 The Valley
Matthew S. Rindge `95 Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream
Victoria Namkung `98 The Things We Tell Ourselves
William Ray discovers a new ability after a life threatening incident. As he attempts to cash in on this new gift, Ray finds himself drawn into a series of murder investigations connected to a mysterious entity known as The Company.
Named one of the Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of 2015, The Valley is an intricate mystery set against the backdrop of the Afghanistan war. In his critically-acclaimed first novel, former Army Captain John Renehan weaves a gripping tale about a deskbound admin officer sent to investigate a platoon based in a remote outpost in the mountains of Afghanistan.
Dr. Matthew Rindge critiques three popular films – Fight Club (1999), American Beauty (1999) and About Schmidt (2002) – and their impact on the idea of the American Dream. Rindge, the author of Jesus’ Parable of the Rich Fool: Luke 12:13-34 among Ancient Conversations on Death and Possessions, is an associate professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University.
To pay the bills, Georgina Park covers the red carpet for a celebrity magazine. She meets a dashing Australian TV reporter who turns her life upside down. Now a newspaper columnist and college instructor, Park needs to channel her investigative reporting skills to save her own skin when compromising photos from her past come back to haunt her. An exciting summer read with an unexpected twist from popular radio commentator and journalist Victoria Namkung.
Kathleen Huber and Jerome Martin Schwartz provide a sparking new English translation of four plays by Jean Jacques Rousseau, the Father of the Romantic Movement. Huber and Schwartz bring style, wit and a keen ear for theatrical language to these new translations of Rousseau’s Narcissus, Prisoners of War, The Reckless Wager and Pygmalion.
Thomas E. Hall `82 Aftermath: The Unintended Consequences of Public Policies Noted economist Thomas E. Hall examines four major unintended consequences of major public policies: the federal income tax, cigarette taxes, minimum wage laws and Prohibition. Hall demonstrates how these policies played a significant role in creating many of the challenges faced by Americans today.
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Sports
by George Thurlow, ’73
A Historic Season For Women’s Tennis The UC Santa Barbara women’s tennis team made history when they became the first Gaucho team to win an NCAA tournament game, with a remarkable upset of No. 32 Kansas at UC Berkeley. The Cinderella slippers did not stay on long. In their next game the team fell to the No. 2 Berkeley team. The Gauchos were ranked No. 74 in the nation. Top Gaucho doubles players Palina Dubavets and Stefani Stojic will represent UCSB in the NCAA Individual Doubles Tournament at the University of Tulsa.
Baseball Makes History In NCAA Tournament The UC Santa Barbara baseball team (40-18- 1) became the first team in school history to make the Super Regional playoffs in Louisville, KY. UCSB defeated Xavier twice in two days, including a 14-5 victory that clinched their first ever trip to the Sweet 16 of college baseball. But the drama all began when UCSB’s Austin Bush hit a walk off home run in the bottom of the 14 th inning to beat the University of Washington in the first round of NCAA play. Bush went on to become the MVP of the regional tournament, held at Vanderbilt University. UCSB will play the University of Louisville in a best of three tournament that began June 11. The college World Series begins June 18 in Omaha, NE. “This is definitely a highlight of my coaching career,” fifthyear coach Andrew Checketts said. The three victories in the tournament this year are more than the combined number of victories in the Gauchos last seven appearances in the NCAA tournament.
Wilson Receives National Honors UCSB swimming coach Gregg Wilson received the National Collegiate and Scholastic Swimming Trophy from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. Wilson’s career as a coach spanned 40 years and included 39 league championships in four different conferences. Wilson, who announced this past season as his last at UCSB, guided 72 swimmers to All American status and coached three Olympians, including gold medalists Jason Lezak and Richard Schroeder. On Oct. 8, Wilson will receive the UCSB Alumni Association’s highest award for non-alumni, the Honorary Alumni Award.
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Celebrating UC Santa Barbara’s “Transition Class” at the 10th All Gaucho Reunion The Class of 1966 The 50th Reunion Keynote Remarks By Ken Khachigian `66 Political consultant, writer and attorney Kenneth L. Khachigian `66 served as a longtime aide to President Richard Nixon and chief speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan. He is a veteran of nine presidential campaigns, and most recently served as a senior advisor to the presidential campaigns of Bob Dole, John McCain and Fred Thompson. At this year’s All Gaucho Reunion, Khachigian served as one of the co-chairs of the Class of 1966 Reunion Committee. This is his keynote speech, delivered at the Class of 1966 50th Reunion Luncheon at the Santa Barbara Club on April 30.
It’s impossible to capture four years of the lives
starting the same year we did, and we were their first 4-year
of a thousand people. But at the outset, my most
graduating class. The Board of Regents had given Vern
important impression is how lucky we were to be
the responsibility to capture the overflow from the other
at UCSB those four years. I was heading to Junior
campuses, a very large challenge due to stresses it would
College when a 4-H extension agent for UC told me I
create.
should apply to UCSB because they were “looking for freshmen.” At age 17, I had never visited the campus
much to complain about. If my memory is correct, semester
or even been to Santa Barbara – at best had a 3.4 GPA
fees were something on the order of $90 or so, and maybe
in high school and very modest SAT scores. Next thing
got just over a $100 when we were seniors. It’s hard to even
I knew I was being humiliated under a green beanie at
imagine. Did I say we were lucky?
Frosh Camp and sitting in Jean Heywood’s Subject A,
Classes were tougher and bigger than high school, but
“bonehead” English class. There’s no way I could be
there was still a lot of fun in between. If you lived in the
admitted to UCSB today. That’s what I mean by luck.
dorms, there was something called a “joint.” Not the kind you
When the campus moved from the Riviera, UC
inhale, Henry. The young men of Yucca and Laurel Hall would
planned for 3,500 students. By the time we got here,
combine with the young women from Santa Rosa for a dance.
the Master Plan called for 15,000. So among the many
That was a “joint.” It was important for the fellas to have the
things making our class special was that we were the
right uniform: blue tennies and a madras shirt.
ultimate “transition class.” The seniors graduating in
Then there was the first trip home at Thanksgiving. My dad,
1962 enrolled in 1957 or 1958. And the freshmen
an immigrant, wasn’t too happy. What is this word: “bitchin’?”
class that entered when we were seniors, graduated in
What does that mean? It didn’t sound so good to him. Of
1970 or 1971. We were right in the middle – shaping
course, there are different versions of “bitchin’” where the
the growth and character of the campus.
different many ways to say it had different meanings. Only we
We lived or took classes in the old wooden Marine
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And speaking of the Board of Regents, I don’t think we have
Gauchos know; that’s part of our legacy.
barracks and became very familiar with the sight of
The rules of Frosh Camp dictated that you wore your green
cranes and the sounds of carpentry, bulldozers, and
beanies until the football team scored its first touchdown. Del
concrete trucks as we walked or road bikes to classes.
Playa Stadium was pretty lonely in 1962, so thank goodness
North Hall just opened in our freshman year. Vern
the varsity scored one in that first game – in a pathetic 2-8
and Mary Cheadle were part of our transition by
season. But along came Cactus Jack Curtice a couple of years
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later. I still have this deep memory of our first game in 1965. I
And we sure can’t forget those times crowding around one available
didn’t expect a lot until the marching band came out – bigger
television – first when President Kennedy took us through the Cuban Missile
than ever before – blaring out Herb Alpert’s “Lonely Bull,” with
Crisis in October, 1962 and then again 13 months later after someone came
Zorro riding a magnificent horse nearby. Nearly 8,000 students
running down the hall yelling those horrible words: “President Kennedy
and fans jumped out of their seats cheering, and we knew
has been shot.” There were no partisans that week. A few days later, Steve
change was in the air.
Goodspeed led a solemn memorial on Storke Plaza. The memory lingers.
And the boys didn’t let us down, let by a cocky Sophomore
In this less innocent time, many will look back in criticism at our years. Our
quarterback, and big fellas like Rich Kezirian, Bob Blindbury,
campus was not diverse. We had names which don’t fit the 21st century:
Mel Gregory, Richard Booth and Jim Barber. They gave us that
Honey Bears and Colonel’s Coeds, the King of Diamonds, RHA King, the
wonderful 8-1 season that got us to the Camellia Bowl where we
Playboy Queen and the Best Dressed Girl plus other institutions that would
jumped to a 10-0 lead against the much bigger team from L.A.
be mocked today. But grunion runs, Spring Sing, Galloping Gaucho Revue,
State. Some of you took that train all the way to Sacramento
Pushcarts, Homecoming, Keggers on Refugio Beach, and Roadrunner Review
and watched as the monsoon rains came to steal the victory
played side by side with the Students for Free Political Action, Project Pakistan,
away from us. But, still, what a year that was for us all. The
Camp Conestoga, and Professor Charles Hubbell’s Silent Vigils against the
Camellia Bowl defined so much, and I wish we could get it
Vietnam War. We didn’t pick our times; we worked within them.
back. And for our athletic program, it brought great attention and triggered the beginning of taking UCSB into NCAA Division 1 sports. Just more proof
We entered UCSB when a mandatory
To sum it up: In the four years we were there, fun was in the air, study was in the air, and change was in the air.
of how we were the
physical exam was required in the first week, and everyone had to take a P.E. class. ROTC was on campus, and many of our classmates later served honorably in the military – including in Vietnam. We still had a home economics
transition year.
department. To sum it up: In the four years we were there, fun was in the air,
Back at the campus, life was interesting our first year, wasn’t it? There was the fella who came into the dorms handing out the free “four-packs” of cigarettes – nice little starter kits. Why not?
study was in the air, and change was in the air. We were the transition class. In the process we appreciated
You could smoke in every class room, even crush them out on
dedicated leaders like the Cheadles
the floor. You could also smoke in the dorms. You could smoke
and Goodspeeds and our Deans: Evans,
while preparing your term paper on your typewriter. If you were
Cosgrove, Trainor, Bowers and others
an engineering student, you could smoke while using your slide
who guided student activities. A future
rule. No word processors, computers, or pocket calculators in
UC President, David Gardner, earned
1966.
his spurs at UCSB as an assistant
There was the old Student Union -- the “SU,” with its dime
to Vern Cheadle. In addition there
coffee and nickel refills. They didn’t serve fancy lattes at the SU.
were many insightful and mentoring
As much as I wanted the new UCEN, I loved that old SU. Mostly,
academics who shaped our thinking
I sat with the hippies and independents – and when I felt bold
and skills – like Herb Kay, Bob Kelley,
would go over
Stan Anderson, “Double L.” Willson,
and slum it with
Marvin Mudrick, Larry Adams, Otis Scruggs and the many others I’m sorry I’ve
Ron Rubenstein
overlooked.
and the Sig Eps
And as a metaphor for the transition, in the last two months of our time here,
on the other side.
we dedicated the University Center – an imposing physical reminder of the
It was pretty
class that took UCSB from 4,000 students to 10,000 students. In the process,
neat in the SU…
our fun-loving, ‘60s era guys and gals produced a helluva legacy: among others,
people actually
an Oscar-winning screenwriter; the attorney general of New Mexico; a Board
talked to each
Chairman of the UC Regents; the managing partner of the premier law firm in
other because
Silicon Valley; the Chairman of the Board of a Fortune 80 company; a nationally
they didn’t have
know human resources specialist; an entrepreneur who has founded multiple
IPhones for games,
national companies; a senior aide to the President of the United States, and
or text to people
hundreds of wonderful teachers, academics, professionals, public servants, and
sitting three feet
community leaders who have given back to society – the premier intention of
away from them. That’s also when we wrote letters to home
the University of California system. And not least, we produced a not of moms
instead of emails. Every now and then we made a collect call
and dads and, right here in this room, grandmas and granddads….
from the only pay phone in the dorm.
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Milestones
New Art Gallery at Mosher Alumni House
— Connecting thru the Alumni Association
Class of 1963 raises nearly $50,000 for endowed scholarship By Tanner Warrick `16
Pictured: Artist Yumiko Glover, Lorin Letendre `68 and Karen Letendre . Photo : Olivia Hayden `16.
The UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association celebrated the inaugural installation of the painting Moe Elements of the Floating World IV by UCSB MFA candidate Yumiko Glover at the Lorin and Karen Letendre Alumni Art Gallery Wall at Mosher Alumni House last month. A past president of the UCSB Alumni Association, Lorin Letendre ’68, MA ’70 is the president of the Carmel River Watershed Conservancy and is the principal/ partner at Resultive Boards in San Jose, California. Pictured: Larry DeSpain ’63 and Marie Sue Parsons ’63 with t he inaugural Class of 1963 Scholarship recipient, Carys Morgan ’14.
1960s
This year, tuition at UC Santa Barbara is $13,865 a year, or roughly $4,600 per quarter, and 43 percent of the current freshman class had to take out student loans. But when Larry DeSpain, ’63 was in school, the cost was considerably lower. “As a freshman, I was paying $64 a semester,” said DeSpain, who served as chair of the Class of 1963 Reunion Committee. After graduating in 1963, DeSpain had a successful 44-year career in real estate—an achievement he attributes partly to the people skills he developed at UC Santa Barbara. DeSpain valued his education, and always wanted to give back. He helped plan his class 50-year reunion, but wanted to do more than simply celebrate. In the spring of 2013, shortly before the reunion celebration, the Reunion Committee decided to establish a class scholarship fund with the goal of raising $50,000 over five years. The fund would finance at least 15 years of grants to UC Santa Barbara students. “We wanted to help undergraduate students with financial needs and high academic standing,” said DeSpain. “It was our way of giving back and trying to offset the high cost of getting an education.” When the 1963 Reunion Committee established the endowed scholarship fund, they hoped to set a precedent which future classes might follow. “Previous classes had collected monetary gifts that went directly to the alumni scholarship fund,” said DeSpain. “But we wanted to do something more specific by creating a scholarship fund named for the class of ’63. One of the hopes that we had when we put this together was that other classes would take the baton and do something similar—and maybe even do better.” Currently, the class of 1963 has raised $48,975 toward their $50,000 goal - well before the 5-year deadline of June 2018. DeSpain hopes that members from the class of 1963 and other alumni who may be interested will lend a hand in reaching this $50,000 goal. “I would say to my classmates: if you haven’t made a contribution or want to make an additional contribution, your help would be wonderful.”
Dennis Allen ’64 has joined the board of the Environmental Defense Center.
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Robert D. Lane ’66 was featured by the award-winning opensource, para-academic, inter-disciplinary collaboration Figure/ Ground in an in-depth interview by Laureano Ralón on April 21. Bob Duggan ’66, along with Dr. J. Craig Venter and Dr. Mahkam Zanganeh, backed Oxford University spinoff OxtStem in a record fundraising round to support the development of stem cell drugs to treat age-related diseases. The $24.4 million raised in OxStem’s latest fundraising round is the highest ever amount raised for a British academic spinout. Anthony Geist ’67 is now a member of the Order of Isabella the Catholic as a Caballero de la Gran Cruz de Oficial—an honor conferred on those who have given exceptional service to the benefit of Spain.
Dr. Wayne N. Burton ’69 received the 2016 Centennial Kammer Merit in Authorship Award from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
1970s John Onsum ’70 is the vice chairman of the Joyful Ranch Foundation’s Board of Directors. The 3rd Annual Santa Barbara Basketball Court of Champions honored six Gauchos this year: John Zant ’68, Jo Ann Reck ’72, MA ’75, Cliff Lambert ’73, Erick Burkhardt ’84, Conner Henry ’99 and Kristi Rohr-Taylor ’00, MA ’03.
The Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table inducted two former Gaucho athletes into the SBIT Hall of Fame this year. Gary Pearce ’82 eaned second-team All-American honors as a member of the UCSB Volleyball team in 1980. Baseball pitcher Scott Randall ’94 played for SBCC and UCSB before joining the Colorado Rockies in the 11th round of the 1995 MLB Draft. Phyliss Schmedake ’84 was named the 2015 San Diego Business Journal’s CFO of the Year.
Carole A. Jensen ’73 received a Fullbright Scholarship to Copenhagen, Denmark last year.
The portraits of artist Holli Harmon ’84 are on display at Revelations: Culture and the Human Landscape of the Central Coast at the Elverholj Museum of History and Art in Solvang, California.
After six years of serving on the UC Santa Barbara Board of Directors, Wenonah Valentine ’77 finished her final term this summer, proud of her work as a diversity champion for students and alumni. Leticia Perez ’78 is the co-chair of the 13-member state panel established to direct the expenditure of money saved from releasing state prison inmates convicted of non-serious, non-violent crimes, in accordance with Proposition 47. Perez serves on the Kern County Board of Supervisors.
Renowned photojournalist and multidimensional artist Colin Finlay ’87 launched “Evolving Focus,” seeking to educate and inspire through multidimensional engagement. Christopher Morales ’87 is an account manager and officer at Northern Trust. Mark Altmar ’88 celebrated the 30th anniversary of Mark Aid on April 6. Altmar works with at-risk youth in a YouthBuild program and oversees volunteers at AmericCorps.
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1980s The Riviera Rose and the Margerum M5, wines made by vintner Doug Margerum ’81, made the “Wine of the Week” list on the San Diego Union-Tribune. The M5 made it to the list on National Wine Day. Dr. Stevin Minie ’83 is the president of the California Optometric Association (COA), the largest state association of its kind in the United States.
During the tragic shooting at UCLA, graduate students observed Dr. Christopher Lynch MA ’90, Ph.D. ’92 —a professor at the UCLA mechanical and aerospace engineering department -- rush to block the shooter inside the room at Boelter Hall. Dr. Scott Thomas ’90, Ph.D. ’94 has been named dean of the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont.
2000s Dr. Jeffrey Moniz MA ’02, Ph.D. ’06 is the vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Hawai’i—West O’ahu. program in professional educational practice. Attorney Kristen Nesbit ’02 is one of the “Rising Stars” recognized in the Southern California Super Lawyers 2016 Edition. A member of the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association Board of Directors, Nesbit is a partner at Fisher Phillips in Los Angeles, California. The National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards recognized Gaucho scientists Dr. Stacey Patterson MS ’03, Ph.D. ’09, Dr. Xia Zhou Ph.D. ’13 and Dr. Christo Wilson ’06, MS ’07, Ph.D. ’12. Melissa Mendoza ’04 is on her second year as assistant principal at the Sandra Cisneros Learning Academy in Los Angeles, California. Jake Leraul ’04 worked to promote democratic transition in support of several field missions as an intern at the World Leadership AllianceClub de Madrid. Leraul serves as member of the Board of Directors of the UC Davis School of Law King Hall Legal Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing equal access to the American Legal System for underserved populations. Brandi Rivera ’06 and Tyler Hayden ’09 made it to the annual Editor & Publisher “25 under 35” list recognizing the next generation of newspaper leaders across the nation. Both Hayden and Rivera work at The Santa Barbara Independent. Megan Miller Trabucco ’08 and her husband Jared welcomed their first baby Ansel Westin Trabucco on January 17, 2016. Rory Davis ’08 is the sales and marketing coordinator Giants Enterprises in San Francisco, California.
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Tovala founder and CEO David Rabie ’09 announced his company’s Kickstarter campaign, with backing from Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator.
April to replace right-hander A.J. Achter on the roster. Club H Volleyball Coach Katey Thompson ’15 led the club’s 14’s team to a bronze medal championship in their age group. She is now serving her first season as assistant coach for the Newport Harbor Girl’s program.
Trevor Ditzler ’09 won the 2016 Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching from Teach for America, a national non-profit that places teachers in high-need classrooms across the country. Alexa Greenbaum ’10 is an associate for the Sacramento office of Fisher & Philips LLP, a national labor and employment law firm representing employers. Next Energy Technologies co-founders Corey Hoven Ph.D. ’10 and Daniel Emmett are raising Series B funding with plans to commercialize the Goleta-based startup by 2018. Hoven and Emmett formed the business after winning the UCSB New Venture Competition in 2010. Dr. Michael Johnson MA ’10, Ph.D. ’13 received both the NASA Einstein and Hubble Fellowships. Dr. Stephanie Couch MA ’11, Ph.D. ’12 is the executive director of the Lemelson-MIT Program. A selection committee for the University of California (UC) Board of Regents nominated Paul Monge ’11 to assume the role of UC Student Regent. Monge served as Associated Students President during his senior year at UC Santa Barbara, where he played a role in establishing the A.S. Food Bank. He is now a law student at UC Berkeley. Whitaker Cohn ’13 is a research assistant at the UCLA Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory. Former UCSB baseball pitcher Greg Mahle is the eighth player from the 2014 draft to move up to the majors . A 15th-round selection by the Los Angeles Angels, Mahle joined the team this 26
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IN MEMORIAM 1940s Sybel Louise Morris ’43 died on April 2 in Thousand Oaks, California. For 21 years, Morris taught home economics and consumer education high school classes. Jane Hefflefinger ’45 died in Los Angeles, California. Dale Rhodehamel Rossi ’47 died on March 22 in Santa Ynez, California. For over a decade, Rossi served as the regional coordinator for the California State Department of Education. George Andrew Herold ’48 died on May 12 in Santa Barbara, California. Herold taught English literature at San Marcos High School and Santa Barbara High School. Hewson Gadsby ’48 died on March 15 in Santa Barbara, Californoa. Gadsby taught woodshop classes at Santa Barbara High School. He moved on to work as a school counselor at La Cumbre Junior High and Goleta Valley Junior High until he retired in 1982. Jeannine Dessa Viljoen died on April 21 in Santa Rosa, California. Viljoen wrote columns for the Santa Barbara News-Press, Monterey Peninsula Herald and the Carmel Valley Outlook.
George David Geib ’48 died on March 5 in Stuart, Nebraska. Before he retired in 1988, Geib served as the area vice president of Glendale Federal. Jean Pfotenhauer ’49 died on April 30 in Soquel, California. After graduating from UC Santa Barbara, Pfotenhauer taught in Portland, Oregon. Russell Vogel ’49 died on February 25 in Ojai, California. After earning his master’s degree at USC in 1963, Vogel served as principal of Montavo Elementary School in Ventura County until he retired in 1984. George Edward Hopping ’49 died on March 20 in Santa Maria, California. Hopping taught at La Cumbre Junior High School, Santa Barbara High School and San Marcos High School until he retired in 1976.
1950s Shirlie Casier ’50 died in Santa Barbara, California. At UCSB, she was an active member of the Alpha Theta sorority and served as the vice president of the student body. After graduation, she went on to teach at Berkeley’s Oxford Elementary School and Monte Vista School. Jean Marilyn Hayes Dobson died on April 11 in Contra Costa County, California. After attending UC Santa Barbara and San Jose State, Dobson worked as a teacher in Asia and Europe. She went on to teach at the Saratoga Union School District until she retired. Annette Fauerso Bredall died on March 25 in Solvang, California. After attending UCSB, Bredall moved to Solvang where she worked at The Smart Shop, Iron Art, Dr. France Optometry and at Svendsgaard’s Danish Lodge. Theodore Knudson ’51 died on May 24 in Goleta, California. Knudson earned his industrial arts degree at UC Santa Barbara, then known as the Santa Barbara College of the University of California at the original Riviera campus. He was also an active member
of the Sigma Tau fraternity. After graduating from UCSB, Knudson went on to earn his master’s degree in administration from USC. A dedicated educator, he taught at La Canada, John Muir High School, Cal State Los Angeles, Dos Pueblos High School, San Marcos and La Colina Junior High School. Gerald Frederick Brock ’51 died on March 24 in San Mateo, California. Brock worked 33 years as a classroom teacher and school principal in Millbrae, San Mateo and Foster City schools. Jessie Giffin ’53 died in Santa Paula, California. A dedicated educator, Giffin taught at Meiner Oaks, Piru, Fillmore and Santa Paula until she retired in 2005. William H. Brown ’53 died on January 11 in Sarasota, Florida. After he graduated from UC Santa Barbara, he served as a first lieutenant infantry platoon leader with the 44th Division in the Korean War. He went on to found a scuba diving company in Puerto Rico and supervised the ecological program for the construction of the Palmas del Mar Resort. Mark Gerald McIlvaine ’54 died on May 9 in Torrance, California. He taught P.E. and served as activities advisor and head coach at South Torrance High School before he retired in 1991. Lynn Paul Reitnouer ’55 died on March 10 in Huntington Beach, California. A proud Gaucho and dedicated philanthropist, Reitnouer served as Chair of the UCSB Board of Trustees and president of the Chancellor’s Council. In 2010, the UCSB Alumni Association honored Reitnouer’s commitment to the University with the Graver Service Award. He shares the honor of lending his name to the Winnie and Lynn Reitnouer Intercollegiate Auditorium with his wife Winnie Coyne Reitnouer ’54, in recognition of their generous support and leadership. Mary Stegeman ’56 died on February 21 in Quartz Hill, California. For 15 years, Stegeman worked at the Valley News and Green Sheet as assistant manager of the classified advertising section. Russell James Ruskauff ’58 died on March 27 in Santa Barbara, California. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, and was a beloved Cub Scout den leader and Scout
Master. Former Camarillo City Mayor Stan Daily ’58 died on March 25 in Camarillo, California. Daily was the last surviving member of the original Camarillo City Council elected in 1964 when the city was incorporated. Daily was honored for his dedication to public service with the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award in 1978. Korean War veteran and educator Jack Albert Van Dorn ’59 died on March 13 in San Diego, California. Van Dorn taught for 31 years in the San Diego Unified School District. Kathryn Goodcell Thompson ’59 died on March 26 in Newport Beach, California. A dedicated wife and mother, Thompson was an active member of the Delta Gamma sorority at UC Santa Barbara.
1960s Erline Dessie Goodell ’61, MA ’87 died on March 30 in Santa Barbara, California. She taught religious studies and women’s studies at Santa Barbara City College and is the author of Journey Toward Bold, Gossamer Ribbons, Seeking Substance and Explorations. Cordelia Earle English MA ’62 died on May 14 in Santa Barbara, California. She served in World War II in the Office of Strategic Services in both England and France. After graduating from UCSB, she taught until she moved on to her second career as a massage therapist. Jane Alyce Hilgendorf ’63 died March 26 in Corona del Mar, California. Hildgendorf coached women’s volleyball from 1973 to 1990. Her teams won five conference championships and advanced to the playoffs 15 times. Hildgendorf went on to serve as dean and athletic director of the Orange Coast College Physical Education Department. Susan Barnes Robinson died on February 19 in Los Angeles, California. Robinson attended UC Santa Barbara before transferring to UCLA. She went on to finish her doctorate at the University of Michigan, where she received a Fulbright Scholarship. For 20 years, Robinson taught art history at Loyola Marymount University.
Robert Francis O’Neill ’64 died on March 5 in Woodside, California. Before he enrolled at UC Santa Barbara, O’Neill served in the US Navy as an aerographer’s mate during World War II. For 50 years, he worked at the California Racing Association. He received Woodside’s 2006 Horseman of the Year Award and was honored by the San Mateo County Mounted Patrol in 2009. O’Neill’s equestrian expertise was featured in the 2003 documentary “Seabiscuit: The Story Beings in San Francisco” and the 2011 film “Last Days at Bay Meadows.” Robert Porter ’64 died on March 25 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A dedicated backcountry skier, Porter founded the Chama Ski Service. Diane Shaver Clemens Ph.D. ’66 died on May 18 in Berkeley, California. She served as assistant professor of history at MIT and was a professor of history at UC Berkeley. In 1970, Clemens also wrote Yalta, a non-fiction book exploring the impact of the controversial postwar conference. Truleen Delgado ’66 died on March 18 in Eugene, Oregon. Since 1980, Delgado worked as a teacher in Springfield, Oregon. Actress, ballerina and synchronized swimmer Judy Boss Wong Debs ’68 died on February 9 in Santa Barbara, California. For 37 years, she worked at the Santa Barbara Unified School District at Franklin, Adams and Roosevelt Elementary Schools, and helped create the foundation for the SBUSD bilingual education program. Anne Mitchell Llewellyn ’69 died on February 13 in Naples, Florida. After graduating from UCSB, she worked for Capital Research & Management Company in Los Angeles, and went on to serve as senior vice president of the Investment Company of America.
1970s Lawrence A. Emrich ’70 died on February 17 in Ventura, California. After graduating from UC Santa Barbara, Emrich began his teaching career at Fillmore High School, where he also coached the basketball team. In 1994, he went on to serve as principal of Ventura High School until he retired in 2006.
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N OW TAKING RESERVATIONS Kay Lynn Hartzell ’70 died on February 26 in Washington, D.C. She was one of the first female officers in the U.S. Coast Guard. She also served as a commander at the Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington D.C. until she retired in 1993. Michael Anthony Bartoli died on March 1 in Winnetka, California. Bartoli went on to work in the film industry as a commercial editor. He worked at Red Car, Mad River Post and Film Core before he co-founded Hybrid Edit. Cheryl Terrass Naslund ’72 died on October 13, 2015 in Vestal, New York. Naslund received her MLS from the University of Michigan and worked as a librarian at UE High School.
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Lindee Lee Fairbrother died on February 12 in La Jolla, California. Fairbrother worked in financial planning for over a decade. Robert Edwin Callis ’74, ’86 died in Ventura, California. After earning his first B.A. from UCSB in experimental psychology in 1974, Callis returned to UC Santa Barbara to finish a second undergraduate degree in mathematics in 1986 and a teaching credential in 1987. For 29 years, Callis taught at the Hueneme High School in Oxnard. Author, engineer and educator Dr. Joseph Herbert Immel Jr. ’75, Ph.D. ’80 died on April 2 in Santa Rosa, California. Immel taught at the Technology High School at Sonoma State University, where he founded the Biotechnical Engineering Program. Immel was honored as Educator of the Year by the Rotary Club of Rohnert Park-Cotati in 2015. Ron Chegwidden MA ’74 died on March 1 in Ventura, California. Throughout his career, Chegwidden worked as a civil servant at the Point Mugu Naval Base engineering and computer sections.
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Harrihar Ajodhya Pershadsingh MA ’72 died on February 10 in Bakersfield, California. Pershadsingh served as the director of research at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield.
Ruth L. Hughes MA ’75 died on February 8 in Des Plaines, Illinois. Hughes edited online math tutorials for Simon & Schuster and served as a member of PEO International, Alpha Delta Chi, American Mathematics Society and the Pi Mu Epsilon Fraternity for Mathematicians. Gregory Paul Sanchez ’76 died on March 22 in Santa Barbara. He worked at San Marcos High School where he earned the Distinguished Service Award before he retired in 2011. Linda Chatham died on March 15 in Rock Creek, Montana. After attending UC Santa Barbara, Chatham worked for Cray Computer Corporation in Boulder, Colorado and worked as a travel agent, legal secretary and computer teacher on the Big Island of Hawai’i. After earning her undergraduate degree at Sonoma State University, Chatham served as the Windsor Unified Schools District Librarian.
Hollywood publicist and talent agent George Goldey ’76 died on March 31 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Goldey headed the public relations department at the science/science fiction magazine Omni, before going on to serve as senior executive of the corporate division of Rogers & Cowan in Los Angeles. In 1993, Goldey founded the Beverly Hills-based talent agency The Goldey Co.. Georgia Storm Claessens ’77 died on February 27 in Palos Verdes, California. As a UCSB student, Claessens was a member of the legendary 1972-74 women’s volleyball team that advanced to the semifinals at the AIAW National Championship tournaments through three consecutive occasions. In 2014, Claessens and her teammates were inducted into the UCSB Gaucho Athletic Hall of Fame. She also served as a member of the Storm Industries Board of Directors. Jonathan C. Floyd ’76 died on March 3 in Poulsbo, Washington. He worked in corporate communications for DeAnza Corporation in Los Angeles and produced educational videos through his own company The Knowledge Merchant. Susie Klein ’78 died on May 14 in Burlingame, California. Klein ran her own business as a jazzercise instructor in northern California.
1980s Jean Thomson ’81 died in Santa Barbara, California. She worked at the Air Pollution Control District. Kevin Robert Jones ’83 died on April 29 in Santa Cruz, California. Before his death, Jones was pursuing a career in nursing. Gabrielle M. Kotite died on February 24. After she attended UC Santa Barbara, Kotite enlisted in the U.S. Navy. John Howell Jackson died on January 31 in Sacramento, California. After attending UCSB, Jackson went on to earn a degree in journalism from California State University. For 14 years, he worked at Continental Airlines in Houston, Texas. Deirdre Marie (Wild) Kauer died on March 30 in San Rafael, California. After attending UC
Santa Barbara, Kauer worked as a teacher and librarian in the Mill Valley School District for 30 years. Capt. Deborah Price Trader-Miller ’84 died on April 25 in Chesapeake, Virginia. During her 28 years of naval service, Trader-Miller was a career Navy Reserve Intelligence officer who served during Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Alice Steier Moran ’85 died on May 24 in Bellevue, Washington. During her time at UCSB, Moran was a dedicated member of the Chi Omega sorority. Joan Marie Malette ’86 died on April 8 in Santa Barbara, California. After graduating from UCSB, Malette went on to earn her master’s degree in library science at UC Berkeley. She and her late husband Harry founded HLM Air Services in Independence, Oregon.
1990s Robert J. Cooper ’98 died on April 25 in Santa Barbara, California. A scion of the Philadelphia cordials and liqueurs house Charles Jacquin et Cie, Cooper started his own spirits company and introduced the popular elderflower liqueur St-Germain in 2007. In 2012, he sold St-Germain to Bacardi Ltd. And went on to release vintage bar ingredients like Crème Yvette and Hochstadter’s Slow & Low. In 2013, he launched Lock Stock & Barrel, a 13-year old straight rye whiskey. Connie Jean Vinson MA ’99 died on February 26 in Sacramento, California. Vinson spent 30 years working for the State of California through various departments like the California Department of Education, the the California Department of Finance, the California Water Resources Control Board and the Office of the Attorney General. For ten years, she taught social sciences and language arts to middle and high school students at the Oxnard Union High School District and the Pajaro Unified School District.
2000s Jessica Marie Hildreth ’05 died on March 21 in Marin County, California. She worked as an office manager at Lifeforce Family
Chiropractic, a sales associate at Peloton Cycle and was an advisor at Yoga Works. Lisa Mendelson ’11 died on March 17 in Santa Barbara, California. After graduating from UC Santa Barbara, Mendelson went on to earn a teaching certificate from Northridge University. She taught elementary school in Los Angeles until she moved to Santa Barbara. A dedicated volunteer at the physical rehabilitation unit at Cottage Hospital, Mendelson was named Volunteer of the Year in 2012. Eric Paul Seidman ’12 died in Santa Barbara, California. He worked as a technical support manager at Invoca and as a mechanical engineer at Griplock Systems. Kevin Anthony Mesplou ’12 died on March 14 in Lomita, California. Mesplou worked as an engineering project manager for IES Engineering in Bakersfield, California.
IN REMEMBRANCE UC Santa Barbara Students, Faculty, Staff and Community Friends
Cedric Robinson, a longtime professor and author in the UCSB Black Studies Department, died on June 4 in Santa Barbara. Robinson served as the chair of the Black Studies Department and director of the Center for Black Studies during his more than three decades at UCSB. His most recent books were Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition and Anthropology of Marxism. He received his bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and his doctorate from Stanford University. Author and researcher Dr. Mattison Mines, professor emeritus and former chair of the UCSB department of anthropology, died on February 25 in Portland, Oregon. Mines also served as a research professor and director of the UC Study Center in the Netherlands. Physicist, Nobel laureate and humanitarian Walter Kohn died on April 19 in Santa Barbara, California. A UCSB faculty member since 1979, Kohn won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with fellow theoretical chemist
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Sir John Pople for their contributions to the understanding of electronic properties of materials. His work helped develop many insights into the development of supercomputers and electronic materials, as well as providing a deeper understanding of atomic and molecular structure. Kohn was the first of six Nobel laureates at UC Santa Barbara and was the founding director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Alen Nazari died on April 8 in Goleta, California. A psychology major, Nazari was a third-year student with senior level standing at UC Santa Barbara. Jonah Matthew Lantaya died on March 31 in Goleta, California. A junior-level student, Lantaya was attending his first year at UC Santa Barbara as a chemical engineering major. Before enrolling at UCSB in the fall of 2015, Lantaya served for 10 years as a medical laboratory technician in the U.S. Army and as a sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserves. William Statts Thomas Jr. died on March 27 in Santa Barbara, California. Since 2000, Thomas worked as President and Chief Executive Officer of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, and served as a Trustee of the UCSB Foundation. Sofia Marie Menzel died on March 6 in Arizona. Menzel worked for 22 years at UC Santa Barbara, where she worked her way up to head dietician in food service. She was instrumental in setting up programming for diet meals at the University and worked to coordinate banquet galas honoring dignitaries like Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Navy veteran and renowned mathematics scholar Marvin David Marcus died on February 20 in Santa Barbara, California. In 1962, he joined the UCSB Department of Mathematics and went on to hold joint appointments in Mathematics and the Department of Computer Science. From 1978 to 1986, Marcus served as Vice Chancellor and Dean of Research and Academic Development. In 1979, he founded
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the UCSB Microcomputer Laboratory where he served as director until his retirement in 1991. Former Deputy District Attorney and Court Commissioner Harry Johnson Loberg died on March 3 in Santa Barbara, California. After graduating from Cornell in 1967, Loberg worked at UC Santa Barbara as a personnel analyst before moving on to attend law school at UCLA. Community leader and accomplished pianist Nadia Kelada died on February 10 in Montecito, California. Kelada served as President of the UC Santa Barbara General Affiliates Board, the University’s largest community support group. Nellie G. Casselman died on February 22 in Santa Barbara, California. She worked at UC Santa Barbara in the Reprographics Department until she retired in 1991.
Carson “Kit” Kittle died on April 13 in Santa Barbara, California. He served as the manager of the transportation department at UC Santa Barbara until 1981. Hayden Charles Werner died on May 20 in Santa Barbara, California. A pre-biology major, Werner was a second year honors student with a junior level standing at UC Santa Barbara. He was a member of the UCSB Ski Team and was named 2015 Instructor of the Year in the Orange County Lifeguard Program.
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Betty Ann Hogan Brown died on March 8 in Santa Barbara, California. She worked as a work-study coordinator at UC Santa Barbara. Marshall Ackerman died on February 7 in Goleta, California. He served as the vice chairman of the UCSB Communications Department Advisory Board. Before moving to Santa Barbara, he served as the vice chairman of Rodale Press, the publisher of Prevention, Organic Gardening and Theatre Crafts magazines and president of the American Institute of Wine & Food. Ronald Onrejka died on April 7 in Carpinteria, California. For 12 years, Onrejka was the conductor of the Santa Barbara Symphony. From 1967 to 1979, he also served as a faculty member at the UCSB Music Department, where he led the conducting program and directed the University Symphony. Onrejka was honored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music.
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