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USC researchers challenge conventional wisdom.
UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION
F O R A L U M N I A N D F R I E N D S O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A
F AMIL Y
Trojan
Winter 2011
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[ DEPARTMENTS ]
04 Mailbag
07 Trojan Beat
Thinking globally, lab work, shelf life and more
12 Support Report
USC celebrates historic campaign launch.
37
Family Ties
Connecting Trojans worldwide
42 Class Notes
USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE tfm.usc.edu 1
[ FEATURES ]
Troy Camp Love
By Matthew Kredell
The 62-year-old USC
summer camp is still going
strong, bringing adventure
and growth to inner-city kids.
We Are Addicts
By Suzanne Wu
USC researchers construct
a nuanced framework of
addiction that challenges
conventional wisdom.
Gained in Translation
By Liz Segal
At USC’s Language
Academy, international
students learn English,
American style.
Freedom of Movement
By Amy E. Hamaker
USC surgeons help hip
replacement patient Chuck
Lerette return to a pain-free
and active lifestyle.
[ COLUMNS ]
02 Editor’s Note
USC’s new graphic identity signals continued
evolution and ascent.
03 President’s Page
The Trojan Family asks a simple but important
question: How can we help others?
52 Last Word
Name the mystery languages and you may
soon be telling friends how zorioneko you feel.
inside
16 20 26 32
On the cover: Jeffrey Hamilton/Getty Images
2 USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE winter 2011
EDITOR
Lauren Clark
SENIOR EDITOR
Diane Krieger
MANAGING EDITOR
Mary Modina
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Shirley S. Shin
ART DIRECTOR
Sheharazad P . Fleming
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION
Russell Ono
Stacey T orii
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Mike Cullity, Amy E. Hamaker,
Timothy O. Knight, Matthew Kredell,
Ross M. Levine, Robert Perkins,
Starshine Roshell, Liz Segal,
Suzanne Wu
ADVERTISING MANAGER
Mary Modina | modina@usc.edu
CIRCULATION MANAGER
Vickie Kebler
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USC Trojan Family Magazine (ISSN 8750-
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March, June, September and December,
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editor’ s note
The quarterly magazine of the
University of Southern California
New Era, New Identity
EXPLORE USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE
ONLINE AT tfm.usc.edu ››
USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE’S NEW LOOK is another reminder of USC’s continuing evolution.
Last summer, the magazine was redesigned to complement the new online edition,
tfm.usc.edu, reaching Trojans worldwide. This time, a new cover and updated typefaces
showcase USC’s new graphic identity, which refl ects the university’s continued ascent
among the world’s top academic research institutions.
Following the launch of the groundbreaking $6 billion Campaign for the University of
Southern California in September, USC strengthened its graphic identity to mirror the out-
standing caliber of its students, faculty, academic units and programs – clear evidence of
which you’ll fi nd in this issue.
The graphic identity, as you can see in the logo at the lower right of this page, conveys
both tradition and progress. It emphasizes the university shield, taken from USC’s historic
seal that was introduced in 1908. And the bold classicism of its typefaces befi ts an institution
whose 131-year history in Los Angeles parallels a rise to global prominence.
The images above show that this is not the fi rst time USC has updated its graphic identity.
The last time it did so was in 1994 – before the Web, video, smartphones and tablets became
as prevalent as print media. USC’s new logo and typefaces look as crisp digitized as they do
on paper. Whichever format you’re using to read about the Trojan Family, our new look will
underscore USC’s passage into an exciting new era.
We wish you a safe and happy holiday season.
LA UREN CLARK
DIR ECT OR OF PUBL IC A T IONS
USC C OMMUNIC A T IONS
1880 1908 2011
As we celebrate another holiday season,
our thoughts invariably turn more gentle. We all become a little
more compassionate, a little more caring, a little more generous.
The warmth of our friends and families – and for each of us, our
Trojan Family – nourishes us, and we begin to ask a simple but
important question: How can we help others?
Each of us has our own answer to this question,
but as members of the USC family, we don’t an-
swer it alone. As T rojans, we are part of a much
larger community that tackles this question every
single day. After all, this is what USC and all great
universities do: We better lives.
Consider our faculty. At the September kickoff
celebration for the Campaign for the University
of Southern California, three members of our
faculty described their innovative, thought-pro-
voking work. The audience
burst into spontaneous ap-
plause as professor Mark
Humayun demonstrated
a retinal prosthesis that
literally helps the blind to
see. Professor Ange-Marie
Hancock prompted us to
consider public policy
matters in a new light,
having brought her intel-
lectually engaged voice
to issues of race, gender,
class and sexuality poli-
tics. And professor Paul
Debevec drew cheers as
he showed how his work with image-based mod-
eling translates to the silver screen, driving fi lms
such as Avatar. Their presentations reminded
everyone in Bovard Auditorium of a simple fact:
USC faculty advance thought and creativity in an
array of important areas, all of which improve the
quality of our lives.
But it’s not just our esteemed faculty. Consider
our staff as well. Earlier this year, LA Weekly in-
cluded Kim Thomas-Barrios in its “Best of L.A.
People” issue. She oversees our Neighborhood
Academic Initiative (NAI), and the piece high-
lighted NAI’s magnifi cent work in our neighboring
communities. Readers could hear Thomas-Bar-
rios’ voice as she challenged and inspired students,
encouraging them in ways that will alter the entire
course of their lives as well as their family’s lives.
Let’s also consider our students. In this issue,
you’ll learn about T roy Camp, USC’s oldest, most
active and most diverse philanthropy organiza-
tion. Entirely student-run, T roy Camp brings 200
children from our surrounding neighborhoods to
a weeklong summer camp. In the year that fol-
lows, student volunteers remain friends with the
children, reaching out with a combination of get-
togethers, fun trips and tutoring.
In that feature, you’ll also learn about alumnus
Otis Healy, one of the project’s founding mem-
bers, who has remained personally invested in its
growth. For Healy, the question How can we help
others? took fi rm root during his time at USC, and
he has continued to ask this question in the inter-
vening six decades. During that entire time, USC
has helped him formulate the answer.
Healy brings me to another vast segment of the
T rojan Family that remains dedicated to bettering
lives: our remarkable alumni. I am always amazed
by the contributions of our alumni and the deeply
meaningful lives they lead. We could fi ll this en-
tire magazine with their accomplishments and
still only touch on a small fraction.
But here, I’d like to mention Lisa Barkett,
president of the USC Alumni Association’s Board
of Governors. She has chosen to focus her philan-
thropy, her volunteerism on her alma mater. She
and her husband Bill are foot soldiers for USC,
supporting USC’s entire mission. This includes
the groundbreaking work of professors Huma-
yun, Hancock and Debevec, the stellar work of
Thomas-Barrios and the NAI, and the heartwarm-
ing mentoring of students at T roy Camp. In an-
swering the question How can we help others? she
summons her entire T rojan Family.
I want to close by saying this is a milestone
holiday season for my family and me. Niki, our
daughters and I have been at USC for 20 years
now. Each year, we look forward to our warm ex-
changes with trustees, faculty, staff and alumni at
our Thanksgiving dinner and holiday parties. All
the while, we ask ourselves, How can we help oth-
ers? and our focus always returns to USC. We want
you to know that we are truly grateful for the sup-
port you give us, your fellow T rojans, and the far-
reaching work of our beloved university. ●
President Nikias takes questions
from students during a tour of
USC neighborhood schools.
PHOTO BY PHILIP CHANNING
president’s page
USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE tfm.usc.edu 3
BY C. L. MAX NIKIAS
Campaign for USC
In your article, “Fas Regna Trojae: The
destined reign of Troy” (Autumn 2011,
p. 12), your chart conveniently omitted the
University of T exas-Austin endowment of
$7.2 billion as of 2008.
Darrell Hanshaw MBA ’72
A UST IN, T X
Editor’s Note: The chart that appeared in the
article only highlighted other private universities
for comparison to USC.
Pats & Pans
Love the online version of the magazine.
My wife, Bobbi, and I met at USC and mar-
ried during our senior year. Three members
of our family also attended USC, and as of
last year, we have a great-grandson – a future
Trojan. With my mother still living, we have
a fi ve-generation Trojan family!
David N. Hepburn Jr. ’64
H UNT ING T ON BEA CH, C A
Have we made no progress since 1950? “His
Stress, Her Stress” (Trojan Beat, Autumn
2011, p. 7) was sadly archaic. The open-
ing repeatedly describes how wives do the
chores and husbands don’t. I like to hope
that heterosexual couples are moving be-
yond this stereotype. Saxbe’s fi nal state-
ment, that it is healthy to divide housework
fairly with your partner, seems to be the true
kernel of the article. Yet the author contin-
ues to dwell on the “war between the sexes”
rather than writing a forward-thinking piece
using Saxbe’s research.
Heather Pennington ’07
L OS ANGE L E S , C A
What a pleasure to see that the USC Alumni
Club of London is active (Family Ties, Au-
tumn 2011, p. 38) and no doubt will be more
so when the Olympic Games go to London
in 2012. When I was in London in 1968 at
the founding of the club, I wondered, would
it still be there decades later? The answer is
clearly a resounding “Yes.”
Louis C. Kleber ’51
L AS VEGAS , NV
The beautiful Autumn 2011 edition spends
many pages praising the new $6 billion dol-
lar fundraising campaign. Meanwhile, the
many past students who gave for years to
the university through tuition moneys are
In his piece on politics and Hollywood (“Little Caesar and the McCarthyist Mob,” Autumn
2011, p. 16), Steven J. Ross states that the “longstanding conventional wisdom that Hol-
lywood has always been a bastion of the political left is wrong on two counts,” those being
that Republicans were the fi rst to establish a “political beachhead in Hollywood,” and the
Hollywood right has had a greater impact on American political life, citing Ronald Reagan.
Sorry, though Hollywood may have been more politically conservative in its earliest stages
or populated by a few notable conservatives over the years, this does not deny the fact that
Hollywood has been an active and effective monopoly of the political left for more than half
a century. As evidence, count the fl ood of dollars from the Hollywood community to left
candidates, the high-profi le Hollywood activism on behalf of left causes and the impact of
content promoting the political left. Weigh these against a barely perceptible trickle to the
right. Or, better yet, try working in Hollywood as a conservative.
Constance Dunn MA ’06
L OS ANGE L E S , C A
mailbag
4 USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE winter 2011
Hollywood Left and Right
WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK.
SUBMIT YOUR LETTER TO THE
EDITOR AT tfm.usc.edu/mailbag
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relegated to name, city and age at death (In
Memoriam, Class Notes, p. 46). They de-
serve more consideration.
William Leavenworth ’51, MA ’67
SAN DIEGO , C A
One of the sections my alumni friends and
I have enjoyed over the years was the obitu-
ary. You eliminated a tradition. Although
the full obituary can be pulled up online, to
many older alumni, it may not be as easy or
accessible. The old obituary form allowed
us to read about the life accomplishments
of alumni. For the sake of this great maga-
zine, the only contact for some to the uni-
versity, don’t forsake tradition: Bring back
the old obituary form.
Donald Young ’57
VIST A, C A
Per“Soni”fi ed
Those three letters criticizing Dr. Varun
Soni (Mailbag, Autumn 2011, p. 4) refl ect
a level of misunderstanding that permeates
Americans’ beliefs today. The fi rst letter ig-
nores our diversity. Although our forefathers
were predominantly Christians, religion in
the U.S. is characterized by a diversity in
religious beliefs. In the second letter, the
changes that Dr. Soni helped those spiritu-
ally wanting to achieve are a deeper under-
standing of spirituality. As to the third let-
ter, I agree that you cannot “study anything
... without dealing with spiritual meaning.”
However, the reader may have taken this
out of context, as the following sentence
suggests the need for spiritual inquiry
within the classroom environment.
Joseph Giuliano MS ’66, PhD ’70
L OS ANGE L E S , C A
It was with interest, but ultimately sadness,
that I read your portrayal of Varun Soni,
USC’s offi cial “spiritual leader” (“The
Un-Chaplain,” Summer 2011, p. 18). Soni
is part of the mysticism-embracing, multi-
cultural gobbledygook that renders religion
and spirituality meaningless. His fusion of
Buddhism and Hinduism represents hun-
dreds of “gods,” and while it may sound
hip to be an Eastern mystic, Soni’s message
of experience over doctrine is the kind of
message that leads students astray.
Greg Halvorson MPT ’95
POR TL AND , OR
Notice Board
I am writing a history biography of the late
Dr. Frank Baxter, USC English professor
and famed TV/fi lm educator of the 1950s
and ’60s. I’m seeking former students who
might agree to interviews, by phone or
writing, on Baxter both in and out of the
classroom. Anecdotal stories and memo-
ries are welcome. Contact enideros@ya-
hoo.com or 4252 Solar Circle, Union City,
Calif., 94587.
Eric Niderost
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My Fellow Trojans and Friends:
As I noted last year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has directed us to publicize the
violations and sanctions included in the NCAA’s June 10, 2010 Report each year during our probation. The
university has been publicly reprimanded, censured and placed on probation from June 10, 2010 through
June 9, 2014.
With regard to football, the NCAA reported violations involving agent and amateurism issues, lack
of institutional control, impermissible inducements, extra benefi ts, coach staff limits and unethical
conduct. The penalties include: a post-season ban for the 2010 and 2011 seasons; a vacation of wins and
the individual records of a former football player from December 2004 through the 2005 season, and the
reconfi guration of the records of the university and the head coach to refl ect those actions; a limit of 15
initial scholarships and 75 total scholarships for 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14; a $5,000 fi ne; disassociation
of a former football player; and prohibition of nonuniversity personnel traveling on team charters, attend-
ing practices and camps, and having access to sidelines and locker rooms.
In men’s basketball, the NCAA violations involved agent and amateurism issues, lack of institutional
control, impermissible inducements and extra benefi ts. The penalties include: a post-season ban for
the 2009-10 season; a vacation of wins and the individual records of a former basketball player from the
2007-08 season, and the reconfi guration of the records of the university and the head coach to refl ect
those actions; a limit of 12 scholarships for 2009-10 and 2010-11; one fewer coach permitted to recruit off
campus in the summer of 2010; a reduction of recruiting days by 20 for the 2010-11 season; the return of
funds received for appearing in the 2008 NCAA men’s basketball tournament and forfeiture of any future
scheduled distributions; disassociation of a former men’s basketball player and a representative of the
university’s fi nancial interests; the release of three recruits from their letters of intent; and prohibition of
nonuniversity personnel traveling on team charters, attending practices and camps, and having access
to sidelines and locker rooms.
With regard to women’s tennis, the NCAA sanctions involved lack of institutional control and extra
benefi ts. The penalties include: a vacation of wins and individual records in which an ineligible women’s
tennis player competed between November 2006 and May 2009, and the reconfi guration of the records
of the university and the head coach to refl ect those actions.
Thank you for your continued support. Rest assured we will be vigilant in complying with all governing
rules and regulations, and competing and winning with integrity.
Fight On
Patrick C. Haden
Athletic Director
6 USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE winter 2011
DO YOU ALWAYS GET POPCORN at the mov-
ies? Or snack on chips and cookies while
watching TV? A new study by USC psy-
chologists helps explain why these bad hab-
its are so hard to break – even when the food
tastes lousy.
In an experiment, researchers gave mov-
iegoers a bucket of popcorn as they entered
a theatre. Some buckets contained freshly
popped kernels; others contained week-old
stale kernels. When the movie ended, re-
searchers measured how much popcorn got
eaten, and by whom.
T urns out moviegoers who don’t usually
buy popcorn at the movies ate far less stale
popcorn than fresh popcorn. The week-old
popcorn just didn’t taste good to them.
But moviegoers who routinely munch on
popcorn weren’t as discriminating. They ate
about the same amount of popcorn whether
it was fresh or stale. In other words, for those
in the habit of eating popcorn at the movies,
taste made no difference.
The data undercuts a common assump-
tion among dieters. “People believe their
eating behavior is largely activated by how
food tastes,” says Wendy Wood, Provost
Professor of Psychology and Business at
the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts
and Sciences. “Nobody likes cold, spongy,
week-old popcorn. But once we’ve formed
an eating habit, we no longer care whether
the food tastes good. We’ll eat exactly the
same amount, whether it’s fresh or stale.”
The study, published in the journal Per-
sonality and Social Psychology Bulletin, has
important implications for understanding
overeating and the conditions that may
cause people to eat even when they aren’t
hungry or don’t like a specifi c food.
“When we’ve repeatedly eaten a par-
ticular food in a particular environment,
our brain comes to associate the food with
that environment and makes us keep eat-
ing as long as those environmental cues are
present,” says lead author David Neal, who
was a USC psychology professor when the
research was conducted and now heads a so-
cial and consumer research fi rm.
Researchers factored in hunger and
whether the participants liked the popcorn
they received. They also gave popcorn to a
control group that watched movie clips in a
meeting room, rather than a theatre.
In the meeting room, it mattered a lot if
the popcorn tasted good. Outside of a the-
atre context, even habitual movie popcorn
eaters ate much less stale popcorn than
fresh, demonstrating how environmental
cues can trigger automatic eating behavior.
“The results show just how powerful our
environment can be in triggering unhealthy
behavior,” Neal says. “Sometimes will-
power and good intentions are not enough,
and we need to trick our brains by control-
ling the environment instead.”
In a related experiment, researchers
tested a simple disruption of automatic eat-
ing habits. Again using stale and fresh pop-
corn, they asked participants about to enter
a fi lm screening to eat popcorn either with
their dominant or nondominant hand.
Using the nondominant hand seemed to
disrupt habitual eating and cause people to
pay attention to what they were eating. As a
result, they ate much less of the stale than
the fresh popcorn. This method worked
even for those with strong eating habits.
“It’s not always feasible for dieters to
avoid or alter the environments in which
they typically overeat,” Wood says. “More
feasible, perhaps, is for dieters to actively
disrupt the established patterns of how
they eat through simple techniques, such as
switching the hand they use to eat.”
SUZANNE WU
trojan beat
USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE tfm.usc.edu 7
ILLUSTRATION BY HADLEY HOOPER
The Mind’s Touch
As you look at an object, your brain not only processes what that object looks like, but also re-
members how it feels to the touch. At USC Dornsife’s Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI), Antonio
and Hanna Damasio led a team of neuroscientists in a study where participants were shown
video clips of hands touching different objects. Researchers used functional magnetic resonance
imaging to scan the part of the subjects’ brain responsible for processing touch sensations. That
data was then fed to a custom-programmed computer , which accurately predicted – based only
on how the “tactile” part of the cerebral cortex reacted – which video clips the participants had
viewed. “Our results show that ‘feeling with the mind’s touch’ activates the same parts of the brain
that would respond to actual touch,” says BCI researcher and lead author Kaspar Meyer . The fi nd-
ings appeared in the September issue of Cerebral Cortex.
ROBERT PERKINS
LAB WORK
Why We Wolf Down Junk
Habit makes bad food too easy to swallow.
“Needless to say, it was quite the shockeroo
of the clubhouse.”)
Soon after, Waters called about produc-
tion insurance for his next project. Egan
obliged, successfully writing a policy
through Lloyd’s of London, having mis-
represented the raunchy Female Trouble as
a children’s fantasy. When Egan’s father
found out, he insisted his son be on the set
every day “to keep an eye on our exposure,”
Egan recalls. “And that’s how I fell in love
with the fi lm business.”
Egan provided insurance for Waters’ next
fi lm, Desperate Living, and spent many hours
on the set. In the evenings, they would go to
see horror fl icks at Baltimore’s run-down old
Hippodrome Theatre. Waters asked Egan
to read the script for Polyester .
By then, Egan had decided he wanted
to be a fi lmmaker, too. When he applied to
UCLA’s MFA program, Waters wrote a let-
ter of recommendation. He even promoted
Egan’s student fi lms. “John brought Paul
Morrissey and all these amazing fi lmmakers
to my fi rst screening,” Egan says.
The two have stayed tight over the years,
even though Egan’s cinematic path couldn’t
have been farther from the extremes of vul-
garity that Waters was exploring.
Right out of graduate school, Egan went
to work in the documentary department
at BBC, writing screenplays about liter-
ary lions, such as Aldous Huxley and D.
H. Lawrence. In recent years, through his
production company Wild At Heart Films,
Egan has concentrated on documentaries
and feature fi lms about everyday heroes.
His producing credits include Kimjongilia,
about the struggles of a North Korean refu-
gee born in a concentration camp; Angels
JAMES EGAN AND JOHN WATERS go way back.
The USC faculty member vividly recalls
that Christmas party at the legendary fi lm-
maker’s Baltimore apartment, circa 1975. In-
stead of decorating a tree, Waters had hung
Christmas lights from the electric chair he’d
used as a prop in Female Trouble. Egan also
remembers when Waters fi rst dreamed up
“Odorama,” his idea for introducing the
smell of pizza, glue, feces and sweaty sneak-
ers into the 1981 comedy Polyester. Theatres
would distribute scratch-and-sniff cards em-
bedded with these odors, Waters had excit-
edly revealed, having fi rst sworn his friend
to secrecy.
“I have seen John from a very personal
perspective that very few people have ac-
cess to,” says Egan, who teaches screenwrit-
ing at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
“He allowed me to see scripts, to be on the
set. I became friends with many of his ac-
tors, and still am today. It was a privilege
for me to be there at John’s most formative
stages in fi lmmaking.”
Who better, then, to compile the offi cial
Waters interview book for the prestigious
Conversations with Filmmakers Series pub-
lished by the University Press of Mississippi?
John Waters: Interviews is the fi rst collec-
tion of Waters Q&As to appear in print,
and an important scholarly contribution to
the understanding of this pioneer in shock
comedy, horror and reality TV. “He has
redefi ned cinema,” Egan asserts. “Wes An-
derson, Jonathan Demme, T odd Solondz –
these are directors who look to John as an
inspiration to their work.”
Released Oct. 14, the book had its offi cial
launch party at a sold-out Visions and Voices
event at USC’s Eileen Norris Theatre. Wa-
ters was on hand for a special screening of
Pink Flamingos, followed by a conversation
with Egan and a book signing. The book’s
East Coast launch came Nov. 17 at a similar
event held at the Museum of Modern Art in
New York.
Waters reminisced and took questions
from the USC audience. He explained the
1972 fi lm’s enigmatic name, which refers to
the ubiquitous lawn ornaments – to him a
symbol of perfect honesty about having
bad taste – of his native Baltimore. Setting
the fi lm in context, Waters noted that it
was made around the time Deep Throat was
pushing the boundaries of what’s vulgar.
Pink Flamingos was Waters’ attempt to push
them even farther. “The fi lm was political
action against the tyranny of good taste,” he
said at the screening.
EGAN FIRST MET the “Pope of Trash” in
1974, when a roommate dragged him to a
birthday party for the cross-dressing starlet
Divine. A self-described “uptight preppie”
recently graduated from Amherst College
and working in the family insurance busi-
ness, Egan was totally unprepared for the
Dreamlanders, Waters’ bizarre troupe of ac-
tors. There in the grungy Fells Point water-
front bar, he beheld the Egg Man from Pink
Flamingos, completely naked and playing
pool. Nearby, a slender dark-haired beauty
caught Egan’s eye, only to turn around and
reveal herself to be a wizened old man. “I
have to say, I got sick,” Egan recalls with a
chuckle. “It was a pretty crazy scene.”
But he stuck around long enough to get
introduced to Waters and to ask actress
Mary Vivian Pearce out on a date. (Egan
ended up taking the blonde bombshell
to his parents’ box at the Preakness, Bal-
timore’s version of the Kentucky Derby.
“She wore a see-through dress,” Egan says.
8 USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE winter 2011
WATERS AND EGAN PHOTOS BY MATTHEW WUNDERLICH
SHELF LIFE
Divine Trash
USC’s James Egan
compiles the fi rst collection
of John Waters interviews.
John Waters: Interviews
Edited by James Egan
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI, $25
Legendary fi lmmaker John Waters, left, with longtime friend James Egan of the USC School of Cinematic
Arts at a sold-out Visions and Voices event launching John Waters: Interviews, which Egan edited.
in the Dust, about a woman who started an
orphanage for South African children in-
fected with HIV; and The Defector, about
the high-ranking Soviet offi cial who, at
the cost of his own life, fi rst exposed Sta-
lin’s crimes. Through his involvement with
the Wounded Marine Careers Founda-
tion, Egan also trains returning veterans at
Camp Pendleton and T wentynine Palms
for careers in the fi lm industry. His next
book project, a history of the treatment
of returning American veterans, dovetails
with this work (See related story at bit.ly/
woundedmarines).
The contrast between the two men isn’t
as stark as it would seem. Appearances
notwithstanding, Waters turns out to be a
profoundly serious person. “He reads vora-
ciously, reads every magazine and several
newspapers a day. His house is literally a
library,” Egan says. “He could be a profes-
sor of American culture: He knows more
about the arts, music, literature than anyone
I have ever met.”
All of which makes Egan’s collection of
interviews that much more interesting. The
volume, described as “meticulously curated”
by LA Weekly, is organized chronologically,
one interview per fi lm. From the article in
the May 1973 issue of Andy Warhol’s infl u-
ential Interview magazine to the 2007 article
in PopMatters.com, the book presents Wa-
ters, across the decades, in his own words. It
concludes with an expansive new interview
by Egan, titled “Where Will John Waters Be
Buried?” (The answer, by the way, is in Bal-
timore, next to Divine.)
Putting it together wasn’t easy. Waters’ ar-
chives at Wesleyan University have yet to be
annotated and organized. Thanks to a grant
through the USC Advancing Schol-
arship in the Humanities and Social
Sciences initiative, Egan traveled
to Connecticut with an archivist in
tow. After combing the Wesleyan
archive, he proceeded to New York,
Baltimore and Provincetown, Mass.,
– Waters’ perennial summer retreat
– in search of every interview ever
given by the fi lmmaker. Among
Egan’s rare fi nds was a 1965 inter-
view from a gossip column in the
Baltimore Evening Sun. The news-
paper clipping was literally stapled
to a card in the antique library cata-
logue of Baltimore’s venerable Enoch Pratt
Library. It was Waters’ fi rst-ever interview.
Repositories such as the Juilliard School’s
library and the Museum of Modern Art also
proved helpful, as did USC’s own Doheny
Memorial Library and the USC-based ONE
National Gay & Lesbian Archives.
Having unearthed each and every inter-
view, Egan’s next challenge was whittling
them down to the two dozen most impor-
tant ones. “My editors were very generous.
Mine is one of the longer books in the Con-
versations with Filmmakers Series. Still,
there’s a page count limit,” Egan sighs.
Fortunately, his exhaustive search is cap-
tured and preserved in the bibliography at
the end of the book. Egan also presented a
complete set of the interview clippings to
Doheny Library’s fi lm school archive as a
resource for future Waters scholars.
Of course, the job isn’t really done. At
age 65, Waters probably has many more in-
terviews ahead of him. For the past decade,
he has been making headlines as an artist.
A retrospective of his work – mostly photo-
graphic assemblage – was organized in 2004
by the New Museum of Contemporary Art
in New York, and he continues to show in
museums and galleries around the world.
As a fi lmmaker, Waters continues to
shock, or at least to try. His latest screenplay,
Fruitcake, currently is in search of funding.
“The world of independent fi nancing is
very, very challenging, and even an icon like
John Waters faces diffi culties in getting his
fi lm made,” Egan says. When and if Fruit-
cake is produced, Waters may well achieve
new heights of bad taste. “It’s his Christmas
movie,” Egan explains, “and I would love to
see John Waters make a Christmas movie.”
Expect something ho-ho-horrible.
DIANE KRIEGER
Trustee
Christopher Cox ’73, for-
mer chairman of the U.S.
Securities and Exchange
Commission, was elected
to the USC Board of
Trustees. He is a partner in
the international law firm
of Bingham McCutchen
LLP, and president of Bingham Consulting
LLC. Previously, Cox served in Congress for 17
years, representing Orange County’s 48th dis-
trict. He also served in the Reagan administra-
tion as a White House counsel. A USC graduate
with majors in political science and English,
Cox earned his MBA and J.D. degrees simulta-
neously from Harvard University.
Trustee
Chengyu Fu MS ’86,
chairman of Asia’s largest
refiner, China Petroleum &
Petrochemical Corporation
(known as Sinopec Group),
was elected to the USC
Board of Trustees. Until
2010, he was president
and CEO of the state-owned China National
Offshore Oil Corporation. In January 2010,
Harvard Business Review included him in the
top 50 of its “Best-Performing CEOs in the
World.” Born in Heilongjiang Province, Fu holds
a bachelor’s degree in geology from China’s
Northeast Petroleum University and a master’s
in petroleum engineering from USC.
Administrator
Thomas E. Jackiewicz
was appointed USC senior
vice president and CEO
for health, effective Jan. 1,
2012. Jackiewicz, former
CEO of UC San Diego
Health System and associ-
ate vice chancellor of the
University of California, San Diego, Health
Sciences, will oversee USC’s private practice
clinical activities, including Keck Hospital of
USC, USC Norris Cancer Hospital and the
faculty physician practice USC Care Medical
Group Inc., collectively known as the Keck
Medical Center of USC. ●
milestones
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Waters introduces his fi lm Pink Flamingos,
starring the infamous Divine.
THINKING GLOBALLY
Science Abroad
Study abroad is increasingly popular – and doable –
with science, technology, engineering and math majors.
WHILE HER PRE-MED PEERS were reading text-
books about global health problems, USC
biological sciences major Katherine Lubina
was encountering them fi rsthand. She spent
last spring in Nicaragua studying the preva-
lence of pesticide poisoning.
“It’s the best decision I’ve made to date,”
Lubina says of her choice to leave the secu-
rity of home to get hands-on experience in
public health.
Lubina is among a growing number of
STEM (science, technology, engineering
and mathematics) majors at USC who are
embracing the challenges – and opportuni-
ties – of study abroad. Traditionally STEM
majors have viewed study abroad as an
unnecessary digression that only delayed
graduation. But increasingly, people like
Lubina and Kotaro Uyeda (pictured right),
a sports science and kinesiology major, are
rejecting that conventional wisdom. “You
feel like you’re more limited than you actu-
ally are,” says Uyeda, who studied anatomy
in Australia last spring.
With the right planning, study abroad
can fi t into even the most rigorous academic
schedule, says Peter Hilton of the Offi ce of
Overseas Studies, based at the USC Dorn-
sife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Hilton’s offi ce has stepped up its recruit-
ing of STEM majors over the past decade.
The effort appears to be working. In the
2002-03 school year, STEM majors had ac-
counted for just 4 percent of students study-
ing abroad. Last year, they made up more
than 17 percent. Most take a semester at a
foreign university; others take shorter trips
led by faculty or by the student-run organi-
zation Engineers Without Borders.
Study abroad was “such an important
part of my coursework,” says Christine Sur
(pictured above), an environmental studies
major who has traveled to Australia, Belize,
Guam and Palau through USC. “It was
a completely different experience than I
could have gotten [on campus].”
Sur’s trips to Guam and Palau were led
by professor Jim Haw, environmental stud-
ies director at USC Dornsife. Every year,
Haw takes students who have completed
a scientifi c research diving course at the
USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental
Studies to the South Pacifi c to do hands-on
environmental science. The experience left
Sur with skills that she now is putting to use
studying the density of sea grass at Big Fish-
erman’s Cove on Catalina Island.
HILTON RECOMMENDS that STEM students
wishing to study abroad start planning no
later than early in their sophomore year. But
his offi ce does not turn away students later
in their undergraduate careers.
Take Uyeda. He didn’t submit an applica-
tion to study abroad until the spring semes-
ter of his senior year. The overseas studies
offi ce and his academic adviser helped him
fi nd classes that would fulfi ll his USC re-
quirements. He still needed an extra semes-
ter to fi nish his coursework, but Uyeda says
he has no regrets.
“I thought I needed to graduate and get a
job quickly,” Uyeda says. Now he’s consid-
ering graduate studies in biomedical engi-
neering. “It’s OK to wait,” he adds.
In the meantime, the Australian Consul-
ate has hired him to promote study abroad
in Australia to students at USC. “It’s not re-
ally a diffi cult sell,” he says.
For more information on study abroad pro-
grams, visit dornsife.usc.edu/overseas-studies
and viterbistudents.usc.edu/ewb
ROBERT PERKINS
DIVE PHOTO BY GERRY SMITH; KOALA PHOTO COURTESY OF KOTARO UYEDA
10 USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE winter 2011
Some heroes choose lab coats over capes.
Our world-class doctors are here, every day, delivering personalized care and treatment.
Providing hope where none existed. Giving our patients peace-of-mind and strength to
carry on. Because what makes us different isn’t the name on the door, but the people
who walk through it. The people we treat, who inspire us every day.
Congratulations to all our USC Super Doctors honorees chosen by physicians across the region.
Keck Hospital of USC
USC Norris Cancer Hospital
KeckMedicalCenterofUSC.org | 1-800-USC-CARE
Fight On.
President C. L. Max Nikias and
fi rst lady Niki C. Nikias, center,
and USC supporters celebrate
amid fi reworks above Widney
Alumni House.
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USC Celebrates Historic Campaign Launch
THE TROJAN FAMILY celebrated the launch of
the Campaign for the University of South-
ern California, the largest campaign in the
history of USC and of American higher edu-
cation, at two events in September.
On Sept. 15, more than 1,000 USC alumni
and friends gathered for “Dinner Under the
Stars,” a concert performance and gala at
Widney Alumni House.
Before the festivities, USC president
C. L. Max Nikias asked the audience to
refl ect on the university’s extraordinary
journey, which began as the dream of Judge
Robert Maclay Widney in what was once a
remote outpost of the American West.
“A global university was humbly born, as
53 students and nine teachers made their
way into this building in early October of
1880,” Nikias said. “Judge Widney could
not have imagined, even in his wildest
dreams, what USC is today – a rising global
powerhouse in the cultivation of the human
mind, body and spirit.”
Standing not far from the iconic statue
of Tommy Trojan, and borrowing its Latin
motto, Fas Regna Trojae – “the destined
reign of Troy” – Nikias exhorted the uni-
versity community to reach higher and far-
ther than may seem possible.
“Ours today are times of uncertainty,
but uncertainty is always the beginning of
adventure,” he said. “With this $6 billion
campaign goal, we are embarking on our
own adventure of a lifetime – one that will
allow our university to maximize its pres-
ence both locally and globally, setting the
standard for community service and global
academic outreach and collaboration.
“This campaign is ultimately an invest-
ment in people – faculty and students of
unmatched ability and ambition,” Nikias
continued. “It will allow USC to move to
Amid a festive atmosphere, the university
kicks off its $6 billion fundraising drive.
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xx endocrinologist Jaime Guevara-Aguirre, above, worked on the
study with USC’s Valter Longo (shown below at left)
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PHOTOS BY STEVE COHN
the vanguard in the sciences and the so-
cial sciences, in the humanities and engi-
neering and medicine and patient care, in
professional practice and athletic and cul-
tural excellence.”
Nikias highlighted USC’s history of im-
plementing ambitious and successful fund-
raising campaigns, beginning in the 1960s
under President Norman H. T opping. At
the time, national media wrote off the uni-
versity’s chances and some predicted that
20 years would pass before USC reached
its goal. Instead, the university raised close
to $1 billion in today’s dollars in only fi ve
years. Subsequent campaigns culminated in
President Steven B. Sample’s historic $3 bil-
lion drive, which cemented USC’s status as
a leading national research university.
The next step for USC, Nikias said, is
to build its endowment. “It must rank in
the top tier of private institutions, if we
want our university to have the resources to
compete for the long term.”
On Sept. 16, USC trustees, faculty, staff,
students and friends gathered at Bovard Au-
ditorium to celebrate the university’s aca-
demic achievements with student perfor-
mances and faculty presentations, as well as
remarks by Nikias, USC provost and senior
vice president for academic affairs Elizabeth
Garrett and USC senior vice president for
University Advancement Al Checcio.
Addressing a full house, Nikias an-
nounced that USC raised a record $1.2 bil-
lion in the past 12 months. He emphasized
that this fi gure was made possible not just
because of the kind of large gifts that make
headlines, but also because of the support
the university receives at all levels. “You
have shown that every gift, no matter how
small and humble, makes a bold statement
about what we value,” Nikias said.
Provost Garrett outlined how the cam-
paign will build the university: by recruiting
and retaining more exceptional researchers,
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows;
by increasing fi nancial aid and reducing stu-
dent debt; by funding pressing academic
priorities in all schools and units; and by
funding capital projects, including new re-
search offi ces and laboratories, buildings
for patient care, and residential housing for
graduate and international students.
“What happens at USC has an impact
that resonates far beyond Los Angeles and
Southern California,” Garrett said.
Checcio concluded by noting that the
campaign is an initiative to accelerate the
academic ascent of the university.
“The campaign will touch each and ev-
ery area of USC, and it will touch each and
every one of us,” he said. “This is just the
beginning.” ●
To learn more about the campaign, go to
campaign.usc.edu
“[USC founder] Judge
Widney could not have
imagined what USC is today –
a rising global powerhouse
in the cultivation of the human
mind, body and spirit. ”
– President Nikias
CAMPAIGN BY THE NUMBERS
AN EVENING TO REMEMBER: 1) Addressing the gala audience, President
C. L. Max Nikias talks about the historical signifi cance of the campaign.
2) World-renowned violinist Midori, holder of the Jascha Heifetz Chair in
Violin at the USC Thornton School of Music, performs with the USC Thornton
Symphony before the gala dinner. 3) Widney Alumni House serves as the
backdrop for the gala dinner festivities. 4) Provost and senior vice president
for academic aff airs Elizabeth Garrett discusses the university’s strategic
vision and academic priorities. 5) The university celebration concludes with
the entrance of the USC Trojan Marching Band and Song Girls.
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Endowment: Faculty / Research
Endowment: Scholarships
Endowment Subtotal
Immediate Support: Academic Priorities
Immediate Support: Capital Projects
Immediate Support Subtotal
Campaign Total
$ 2 billion
$ 1 billion
$ 3 billion
$ 2 billion
$ 1 billion
$ 3 billion
$ 6 billion
“What happens at USC has
an impact that resonates
far beyond Los Angeles
and Southern California. ”
– Provost Elizabeth Garrett
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3 4
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VIEW MORE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMPAIGN GALA AT
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USC is an agile, innovative, and vibrant university—a global destination for
explorers and dreamers, artists and entrepreneurs.
The recently announced Campaign for the University of Southern California
will touch and transform every aspect of the university. There has never been
a better time to make a planned gift to USC.
Gift planning experts in USC’s Office of Planned Giving are ready to
help with:
life along with significant tax benefits,
To learn more, please call
or email:
USC Office of
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A time of great opportunity,
unbounded optimism, and
innite possibility…
for the
University
of Southern
California
FAS R EGN A T R OJAE
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The stunning vistas of the San Bernardino Mountains are part of the
magic of Troy Camp. From left, David Melendez, 10, of Hoover Street
Elementary School; Kyren Johnson, 10, of John W. Mack Elementary
School; and Jenny Rosales, 10, of James A. Foshay Learning Center,
spend a few quiet moments with Troy Camp founder Otis Healy.
[ SPIRIT OF TROY CAMP ]
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On an 80-degree day late in May, Otis
Healy ’50 watches as schoolchildren run
past to play in the sand and swim in the lake
up in the San Bernardino Mountains.
With his white hair and aged skin, Healy
stands out among the kids and college stu-
dents who have taken over Forest Falls’
Lakeview campsite for this year’s install-
ment of USC Troy Camp, which Healy, 84,
started more than six decades ago. As he
watches kids climb a makeshift waterslide
and bounce around on an infl atable water
toy, he is beholding his legacy.
It was 1949 when Healy, then an under-
graduate student at USC, raised $3,500 to
organize Troy Camp with fi ve of his friends.
They aimed to give underprivileged chil-
dren in the neighborhoods surrounding the
university an opportunity to get away from
the troubles of inner-city life and experi-
ence a week of summer-camp activities in
the wilderness.
T oday, Troy Camp continues as the old-
est and largest student-run philanthropic
organization at USC – passed down and car-
ried on by a new group of student volunteers
every year.
Thanks to Troy Camp, more than 10,000
South Los Angeles third-, fourth- and fi fth-
graders have ridden a horse, shot a bow and
arrow, gone swimming in a lake, experi-
enced nature and camaraderie, and received
positive feedback and mentoring from col-
lege students.
“It gives me a great feeling of satisfaction
to see something I started that kept on go-
ing and growing,” says Healy, who checks in
on the camp each year on Visitor’s Day, the
second-to-last day of camp. “It’s also great
that every year it seems to be a little bit bet-
ter than the previous year.”
Healy came up with the idea for Troy
Camp after a friend told him about UCLA’s
UniCamp. “I thought, if UCLA could do
it, then USC can do it too, only we’ll do it
better!” Healy recalls. “And I think we are
doing it better.”
While UniCamp is run by paid staffers,
Troy Camp has always been operated by
student volunteers. There are no paid em-
ployees (unless you count faculty adviser
Heather Larabee, assistant dean of students
and director of campus activities). Running
the entire camp are a pair of co-executive
directors and 12 executive board members,
all USC students. Another 77 volunteers
serve as counselors. A camper-to-counselor
ratio of less than 3-to-1 allows USC students
to provide attention to and form personal
bonds with every child.
Another difference: While UCLA takes
lots of kids – around 1,100 a year – for one of
eight weeklong camp sessions, Troy Camp
treats a smaller number of kids – roughly
170 to 200, depending on funding – to a
year’s worth of activities, starting with the
visit to Forest Falls and culminating with
graduation. “We have activities for the kids
every month for a truly year-round pro-
gram,” Healy says. “The counselors really
get to know the kids.”
And it shows. As graduation nears, the
kids scramble around to get the counselors
to sign their Troy Camp T-shirts. Soon the
colorful shirts are covered front and back
with nicknames, such as “Loafer,” “Pil-
grim,” “Bowfl ex” and “Kung Pao.”
“They are like celebrities to us,” says
Diamond Robinson, a fi fth-grader at 52nd
Street Elementary School. “I want to grow
up to be just like them.”
Troy Camp accepts kids from 19 neigh-
borhood elementary schools. Prospective
campers submit a short essay on why they
want to participate. Their teachers make
recommendations, identifying the students
they think most deserve to go to camp as
a reward.
BY MATTHEW KREDELL | PHOTOS BY MARK BERNDT
For the Love of
Troy Camp
The summer camp
Otis Healy started
62 years ago is still
going strong, bringing
friendship, adventure
and personal growth to
inner-city kids and the
USC student volunteers
who watch over them.
18 USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE winter 2011
for the fi rst time last May and a volunteer the
year before.
“Troy Camp gave me the greatest two
years of my life,” Sandiford says. “I wanted
to give back to others from my community
and to show kids that there is more out there
than our neighborhood.”
There is no shortage of like-minded stu-
dents. About 500 apply each fall for approxi-
mately 80 counselor spots. Each counselor
ends up volunteering about 250 hours a year.
Even though it may be diffi cult to achieve
the grades and test scores needed to attend
USC, involvement in Troy Camp can make a
child and his or her family aware of the many
USC community programs at their disposal.
Former Weemes student Jairo “Tinkles”
School principals value Troy Camp so
much that they let kids miss a week of
classes to attend. Camp is held in late May
so it won’t interfere with USC student vol-
unteers’ summer jobs or travel plans. (It
doesn’t interfere much with the elementary
school curriculum either, because camp
takes place a week or two after the Califor-
nia Standards T ests, when schools typically
take a well-earned breather.)
“Even for young children, school is so
test-driven these days,” laments Lynn
Brown, principal of Lenicia B. Weemes El-
ementary School. “Troy Camp shows chil-
dren that there’s more to life than tests. I
wish all our children could go.”
In its 62 years, Troy Camp has become a
South Los Angeles institution. Polly Bravo,
offi ce tech at Weemes, has seen three gen-
erations of her family go through the pro-
gram. Her younger brother and sister took
part in Troy Camp in the early 1970s, her
daughters went about a decade later, then
her grandson had his turn in 2009.
“Troy Camp is the most beautiful thing
in this neighborhood,” Bravo says. “Kids
look forward to it all year. If you didn’t go
to Troy Camp, it was the end of the world.”
Saroya “Joystick” Sandiford fondly re-
members her time as a camper during her
third and fourth grades at Weemes. When
she entered USC as an undergraduate, be-
coming a Troy Camp volunteer was her top
priority. Now a junior, she was a counselor
Left: Counselors and campers discuss the upcoming evening bonfi re while refl ecting on their experiences
at Troy Camp. Center: Oswaldo Aquine, 10, of Norwood Street Elementary School, left, and Darnay Jointer,
9, of The Accelerated School, watch fellow campers taking a swimming test. Right: Hugo Mercel, 10, of
Dr. Theodore T. Alexander Jr. Science Center School, sits on his cabin bunk, ready for a water fi ght.
Long before college career counselors were
touting community service as a sure path to
employment opportunities, Otis Healy was, to
paraphrase the Nike ads, “just doing it.”
So, on the eve of his 1950 graduation with
a bachelor’s in business, when the founder of
Troy Camp marched over to the career place-
ment center, he was pleasantly surprised to
land an interview with the brokerage house of
Dean Witter.
“I wasn’t old enough to fi t their minimums,”
Healy recalls, “but they hired me anyhow. I think
one of the great reasons was that I had started
Troy Camp. It showed some initiative and put
me just a little bit ahead of the next applicant.”
Healy went on to become senior vice presi-
dent and regional director with the company,
in charge of branch offi ces across the southern
half of the United States.
A shining example of doing good and doing
well.
Born in Los Angeles, the only son of a claims
adjustor who spent 40 years working for Hart-
ford Insurance Co., Healy is perhaps best de-
scribed as steadfast. After that fi rst interview
with Dean Witter, he stayed on for 26 years. It
was only when the fi rm wanted to transfer Healy
to its San Francisco headquarters in 1976 that the
company man parted ways with his employer.
“I said, ‘No, I’m not going to move to San
Francisco. I have family here.’ ” Four children,
to be specifi c – three of them Trojans – whom
he raised with his wife of nearly 50 years, Betty.
(The family has since expanded to 11 grand-
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Hernandez followed his two years at Troy
Camp by joining USC’s Neighborhood Aca-
demic Initiative (NAI) program in middle
school and staying on through high school
graduation. By taking coursework at USC,
dedicating his Saturdays to learning, and
receiving 800 extra hours of instruction in
mathematics and language arts, Hernandez
completed the rigorous NAI program. NAI
graduates who gain admission to USC – as
Hernandez did – are awarded a four-and-a-
half-year, full-tuition scholarship.
“Troy Camp for sure helped me get to
college,” says Hernandez, now a senior who
completed his second year as a counselor
in May. “Whenever I got tired of school,
I thought about all the people who had
pushed me. I didn’t want to let them down.”
Another former camper, José “Dr. J”
Avalos, has never forgotten the impact Troy
Camp had on his life. After graduating
from UC Berkeley and completing medical
school at UCLA, he returned to Troy Camp
as its camp doctor.
For the past three years, he has taken
time off from work as a family physician at
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical
Center to bandage scrapes, treat insect bites
and take care of asthma attacks during the
weeklong excursion.
At the fi rst night’s campfi re in May, Avalos
introduced himself as a former camper who
once was just like them. Before going to
Troy Camp as a fi fth-grader from Norwood
Street Elementary School in 1990, Avalos
had never stepped foot outside South Los
Angeles. College was never talked about in
his Mexican immigrant family. His mother’s
goal was for him to be the fi rst in his family
to graduate from high school.
“The big impact Troy Camp had on my
life was to open my mind to going to col-
lege,” Avalos says. “I always wanted to give
something back in general, but particularly
to the people who helped me. By the end of
the week, you really see in kids’ faces the
huge impact. Troy Camp gives kids the gift
of possibilities.” ●
To learn how to send more kids to Troy Camp, go to
troycamp.org/fundraising
children and three great-grandchildren, with
a fourth one on the way. Betty passed away in
2000, and Healy’s second wife, Barbara, died
in 2010. He recently married for a third time, to
Joanne Akerman ’55, a dental hygiene alumna.)
When Dean Witter didn’t budge on the San
Francisco transfer, Healy accepted a senior vice
presidency with Smith Barney, overseeing that
fi rm’s western region until 1989.
That year, Healy retired and moved the fam-
ily to Laguna Beach, where he has lived ever
since. The distance didn’t stop him from serv-
ing as president of the USC Alumni Association
in 1990-91 and on USC’s Board of Trustees from
1989 to 1995. Before that, he was president of
the USC Commerce Associates, the precursor to
today’s 600-strong USC Marshall Partners net-
work. In 2004, Healy was honored with the Ar-
nold Eddy Volunteer Service Award, presented
by the Skull and Dagger Society for exemplary
volunteer service to the university.
Even now, at age 84, Healy remains active in
USC aff airs. That includes keeping faith with his
fi rst USC commitment – Troy Camp.
Every summer, he makes the trek to Forest
Falls on Visitor’s Day. He usually gives the camp-
ers a short pep talk about appreciating their
counselors, honoring parents and valuing edu-
cation. Every fall, he meets with the incoming
co-directors to share “a few thoughts or ideas.”
Asked to account for his steadfastness with
respect to Troy Camp, Healy explains: “Once you
start something like that and it starts to take off ,
why, you’re drawn to it, and you stay with it.”
If you’re Otis Healy, you do.
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[ UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION ]
WE ARE ADDICTS
Across USC, researchers are probing the
mysteries of addiction, constructing a
nuanced framework that challenges long-held
conventional wisdom.
BY SUZANNE WU
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L
ike many researchers during their
lean early years, Steven Sussman
practically lived in the lab, sleeping
in a chair on the nights he was too tired to
make the 72-mile drive home. During one
bad stretch – a grueling marathon session
preparing a grant application – he was work-
ing 21 hours at a time and didn’t change his
clothes for four days.
“I started to smell bad,” Sussman recalls.
He was a workaholic.
“Addicts aren’t just pathological hedo-
nists,” Sussman explains. “Many are not
particularly pathological or hedonistic.”
Now a professor of preventive medicine
and psychology at the Keck School of Medi-
cine of USC, Sussman earlier this year pub-
lished an ambitious article in Evaluation &
the Health Professions that sought to make
sense of data from 83 studies about addic-
tion. His conclusions were an eye-opening
challenge to the idea that addicts are a rarity,
the lunatic fringe. In a given year, Sussman
found, 47 percent of the U.S. adult popula-
tion will suffer from a severe addiction.
Almost half of us are addicts.
Sussman may even have underestimated.
His study didn’t include coffee or smart-
phone use. It included workaholism, but,
Sussman acknowledges, most addictions
that don’t result in legal consequences or
treatment records are diffi cult to track: If you
are a young scientist in your 20s without a
family to ignore, your problem might not be
recognized, much less diagnosed. Similarly,
addiction among retirees and older adults is
likely underreported, according to the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.
Of course, some addictions are more prob-
lematic than others.
“T o the extent that people are harming
themselves, I have less of a problem with
[drug use],” says health economist Joel
Hay, who studies the costs of legalizing sub-
stances such as marijuana. “But when you
start to harm others, that’s when it affects the
rest of us. Those are social consequences,”
says the founding chair of the USC School
of Pharmacy’s Titus Family Department of
Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Eco-
nomics & Policy.
The repercussions of addiction are well
documented – extending beyond broken
relationships to accidents, lost productivity
and health care costs. Alcoholism alone costs
the United States an estimated $185 billion
per year, according to the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Addiction, then, often is framed by policy-
makers not in terms of patterns of behavior
but in terms of its aftermath – like a deeply
personal form of disaster relief. How much
damage was caused? Is your life in shambles?
But it’s hard to understand storm patterns
by looking at the wreckage. Underlying the
social harm caused by addiction is a more
fundamental question: Why do so many
people become addicts in the fi rst place?
Scientists at USC are working across de-
partments and campuses to identify the un-
derpinnings of addiction – the piece of our
inner workings that goes awry and leads us
to self-destruct.
The more they discover, in conjunction
with researchers across the country, the
more it becomes clear that there’s no sepa-
rate pathology for addiction – it’s bound up
in who we are as humans. “We are all born
with the systems of addiction,” says neu-
roscientist Antoine Bechara, professor of
psychology at the USC Dornsife College of
Letters, Arts and Sciences. “Addiction is a
disease of decision-making and bad choices,
just as there are diseases of memory. Addic-
tion is the failure to learn from mistakes.”
WHAT IS ADDICTION?
The American Psychiatric Association cur-
rently distinguishes between substance
dependence and impulse-control disorders,
such as compulsive gambling, sex or eating.
In the organization’s Diagnostic and Statis-
tical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM),
which serves as a guide for most clinical
therapists and helps determine whether a
treatment is likely to be covered by insur-
ance, physical withdrawal symptoms are
a key item on the addiction checklist. So,
“psychological addictions” don’t count.
Alan Leshner, CEO of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci-
ence and former director of the National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), has long
cautioned that hinging addiction on physical
withdrawal is misguided and outdated, even
within the category of substance depen-
dence. It’s easy to see why. With some sub-
stances, such as alcohol, physical withdrawal
symptoms are intense, even fatal; with
other substances, such as marijuana, crack
cocaine and methamphetamine, the addict
experiences less severe physical withdrawal
symptoms. Yet, these addictions are no less
diffi cult to kick.
What do different kinds of addictions
have in common? Literature has reinforced
the idea that both substance and behavioral
addictions tap into a core brain system: the
mesolimbic pathway governing pleasure and
reward. Unlike obsessive-compulsive be-
haviors, which are governed by anxiety, ad-
diction is governed by nothing less than the
pursuit of happiness.
As early as the 1950s, researchers at Mc-
Gill University showed that lab animals re-
ceiving mild electrical stimulation directly to
this part of the brain after pushing a button
would thereafter push the button compul-
sively, ignoring water and food. Different ad-
dictions work on the brain in different ways,
as biologist and USC executive vice provost
Michael Quick has shown in his research on
how recreational and therapeutic drugs alter
the signaling properties of nerve cells. But
they all appear to intersect at the mesolimbic
ALMOST HALF OF US ARE ADDICTS. IN A GIVEN YEAR,
47
OF THE U.S. adult population
will suff er from a severe addiction.
22 USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE winter 2011
pathway, which regulates behavior through
a chemical called dopamine. Generally, do-
pamine binds with neuron receptors to pro-
duce feelings of pleasure, encouraging us to
repeat certain behaviors again and again.
BIOLOGY AND OPPORTUNITY
“Addiction – the compulsive pursuit of plea-
sure – is, in a sense, evolutionarily adaptive.
It’s not just crazy behavior,” says Adam
Leventhal, director of the Health, Emotion
& Addiction Laboratory at USC. “We are
wired to want to feel good.”
Leventhal, assistant professor of preven-
tive medicine and psychology at the Keck
School, studies why some people become
addicts after trying a substance just once,
while others might have little susceptibility
to certain drugs and use recreationally for
years. In a sense, he studies moral luck.
“If the addictive personality is so harmful,
why would it have been passed on from gen-
eration to generation?” Leventhal wonders.
He points to people with impulsive tenden-
cies, a trait that has a high correlation with
addiction. Such people tend to think and act
quickly, without considering long-term con-
sequences. Impulsive personality types also
tend to be extroverted and brave – the sort
who are not afraid to talk to strangers. They
have a gift for improvisation. They are cre-
ative. All desirable traits, in some settings.
The addictive personality, Leventhal
says, “is an adaptive feature gone wrong in
certain contexts.”
Just how much context matters to addic-
tion has been the focus of Carol Prescott’s
research for more than a decade. A professor
of psychology at USC Dornsife, she seeks
precision in the gray areas, examining how
addiction is the result of both genes and op-
portunity – of nature and nurture.
There is plenty of confl icting data. On
the one hand, Dana Goldman, director of
the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health
Policy and Economics at USC, recently tied
prescription drug addiction to rising Internet
use. Goldman and a colleague at Massachu-
setts General Hospital found that states with
the greatest expansion in high-speed Inter-
net access from 2000 to 2007 also had the
largest increase in hospital admissions for
prescription drug abuse.
On the other hand, James A. Knowles,
professor of research psychiatry and behav-
ioral sciences at the Keck School’s Zilkha
Neurogenetic Institute, found genetic causes
for several psychiatric disorders, including
addiction. Knowles was senior researcher
on a 2007 study linking opiate addiction to
the presence of chromosome 14q, a genetic
predisposition much more prevalent among
certain ethnic groups.
So which is it? Genetics or environment?
“It’s both, and that’s not a cop-out,” says
Prescott, who is perhaps best known for
her work studying substance abuse among
twins. She has shown that in early adoles-
cence, family and social environment is the
most critical indicator of whether a child will
try alcohol, cigarettes or marijuana. But once
the brain has been exposed, there is more of
a role for biology. By adulthood, the identi-
cal twin of a drug addict is much more likely
than other siblings to be an addict as well.
Interestingly, though, the twins often are
not addicted to the same thing. That could
be a case of pursuing the same end by differ-
ent means. “Certainly if the reason for sub-
stance abuse is self-medication, then differ-
ent substances may serve similar purposes.
Xanax can have similar effects to alcohol,”
Prescott says.
There also may be such a thing as “addic-
tive potential” in general – some underlying
function that would put a person at risk for
many addictions.
With the emergence of new research
into addiction, the establishment position
is starting to shift. A long-awaited revised
edition of the DSM is scheduled for release
in 2013. The changes under consideration
for the fi fth edition of the manual include
grouping compulsive gambling with sub-
stance addictions. It’s a nudge toward a more
inclusive idea of addiction and refl ects the
growing consensus that behavioral and sub-
stance addictions share common root causes
in the brain.
“The more we understand about the biol-
ogy of addiction, the more the lines among
chemical, physical and psychological ad-
diction begin to seem arbitrary and break
down,” Leventhal says.
The NIDA already is funding studies of
compulsive gambling that may pave the way
for new insights into addiction. A gambler
provides a model of an addicted brain, but
one not affected by chronic drug intake.
At the same time, there’s a push to unify
addiction research under one umbrella at
the federal government level. Earlier this
year, the National Institutes of Health, the
primary U.S. government agency oversee-
ing biomedical research, reviewed a recom-
mendation that would merge disparate ad-
diction institutes and parts of the National
Institute of Mental Health to create one
national entity for funding research on the
causes of addiction.
“For those of us who study risk factors of
addiction, this makes sense,” Prescott says.
“It’s impossible to study the root causes of,
say, alcoholism and not ask about depres-
sion or about other drugs. They’re too over-
lapping.”
REDEFINING ADDICTION
A few years ago, neuroscientist Bechara,
with Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI)
co-founder Hanna Damasio and colleagues
from the University of Iowa, found that
smokers with lesions on a deep-seated,
prune-sized part of the brain called the in-
sula were able to quit smoking immediately,
“ADDICTION the compulsive
is evolutionarily adaptive. IT’S NOT JUST CRAZY BEHAVIOR.”
USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE tfm.usc.edu 23
completely and easily. “My body forgot the
urge to smoke,” one study participant said.
Nora Volkow, director of the NIDA, which
funded the smoking study, called the fi nd-
ings “mind-boggling.” The New York Times
said they were “likely to alter the course of
addiction research.”
For decades, the insula, which exists in
all mammals, was dismissed as a part of the
brain with little to tell researchers about hu-
man consciousness – a dispatch center for
primordial signals from the body’s nerve
endings, alerting us to full bladders, empty
stomachs and pain.
About a decade ago, a team of researchers
from Newcastle University Medical School
showed that people with insula damage had
trouble understanding the emotional con-
tent of music. Even though their ability to
hear was intact, they did not perceive music
as music, only noise. Similarly, smokers with
insula damage no longer wanted nicotine –
smoking had lost its emotional edge.
The fi ndings from the BCI are exciting.
But think of this breakthrough another way,
and it puts the challenge of kicking addic-
tion in stark perspective: One of the most
promising new directions we have for a cure
is brain damage.
The growing realization that there is no
separate brain pathway for addiction raises
the possibility that we can’t treat harmful
compulsions without affecting other behav-
iors we value. Would it be worth being able
to easily quit smoking if the price were los-
ing the ability to understand music?
“We happened to do the study with smok-
ers, but we believe that the fi ndings extrapo-
late to other addictions,” Bechara says.
Which brings us back to the problem of
trying to cubbyhole addictions in terms of
substance versus psychological dependence,
ranking them by the strength of their with-
drawal symptoms or prioritizing them by the
damage they wreak on society. The more we
know, the more the rules change.
In most psychological studies of typical
human behavior, addicts have long been
screened out for possible aberrant behavior.
Not smokers. Simply as a practical matter,
it would have been diffi cult a few decades
ago to fi nd enough nonsmokers to fi ll a study
sample.
Thinking of addiction in terms of visible
consequences also has played a role in sepa-
rating smokers from other addicts. The im-
mediate harm of having one more drink may
be huge. The immediate harm of having one
more cigarette is harder to quantify.
Over time, the scientifi c community has
reconsidered these defi nitions.
“If you had asked me 40 years ago if
smoking is an addiction,” Bechara says, “I
would have said no. We didn’t know smok-
ing was harmful then. But now we know it
is harmful. Addiction is about persisting in
a behavior despite knowledge of negative
consequences.”
A DISEASE OF THE WILL
In addition to exponentially increasing the
likelihood of certain diseases through pro-
longed substance exposure, addiction has
other long-term consequences. Volkow has
shown that even after cocaine addicts are
clean for a sustained period of time, there
seems to be a permanent decrease in their
dopamine receptors, making it more diffi cult
for former cocaine addicts to feel pleasure.
Last year, professors Daryl Davies and
Ronald Alkana of the USC School of Phar-
macy identifi ed a molecular ion “gate” in the
brain that actually mutates when exposed to
alcohol. Such brain changes have contrib-
uted to the compassionate characterization
of addiction as a disease. Like many other
diseases – skin cancer and hypertension
among them – addiction is associated with
voluntary choices that can, over time, inter-
act with genetics and environmental factors,
“THE MORE WE
UNDERSTAND
about the
,
the more the lines
among chemical,
physical and
psychological
ADDICTION SEEM
ARBITRARY AND
BREAK DOWN.”
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people have control. It puts an upper bound
on what humans are capable of,” says Mon-
terosso, associate professor of psychology at
USC Dornsife. But willpower, he notes, also
is a “brain thing.”
Building off the large body of research
into dopamine and reward systems, Monter-
osso examines which parts of addicts’ brains
(he studies smokers and methamphetamine
users) are active and which are suppressed
when the addicts are trying to resist temp-
tation. His work prompts the question of
whether we will one day be able to bolster
the parts of the brain that help addicts make
better decisions.
“Yes, we are drawn to rewards, but we
are able to control ourselves if there are
consequences for seeking that reward,”
says Bechara, one of the fi rst researchers
to examine the role of the prefrontal cortex
in mediating decision-making. “There are
areas in the brain that are in charge of this
ability to self-control. It’s a new way of look-
ing at addiction.”
Under the right circumstances, a rat will
become addicted to almost any substance
that humans might crave, be it sugar or nico-
tine. But animal models, Monterosso notes,
only capture one side of the motivational
struggle people experience. “Addiction is
not just about seeking reward. It is about be-
ing confl icted,” he says. As humans, we have
the capacity to make the big conceptual ma-
neuver required for trading short-term plea-
sure for long-term goals.
Therein lies perhaps the most human as-
pect of addiction and the chance of weather-
ing the storm of self-destruction. All animals
have the capacity for addiction – humans in-
cluded. But only humans get to participate
in their own redemption narrative. We have
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such as stress, to compromise our health.
Unlike other diseases, though, with ad-
diction the symptoms burden the cure: Bad
choices compromise our very ability to make
choices. If addiction is a disease, it is a dis-
ease of self-destruction – as if people with
skin cancer kept sneaking outside without
sunscreen on cloudless days.
In 2009, Harvard psychologist Gene
Heyman wrote Addiction: A Disorder of
Choice, which challenges the idea that addic-
tion is a disease, since it can be overcome by
sheer will. Going cold turkey, and prevailing,
is possible with addiction, yet inconceivable
with other brain diseases, such as schizo-
phrenia or Alzheimer’s.
It’s precisely the element of will that
makes addiction such a poignant window on
human behavior, says Drew Pinsky, clinical
professor of psychiatry at the Keck School.
Pinsky, more popularly known as Dr. Drew,
started appearing on the syndicated radio
show Loveline while still a medical student
at USC, and now also appears on an epony-
mous talk show and three additional reality
television shows. As the most prominent
public face of addiction medicine, he has
done more than anyone in the last two de-
cades to deprive addiction of its greatest en-
abler: secrecy.
“Addicts are responsible for their own
treatment,” Pinsky says, “but they are not
responsible for the disease. I’ve never met an
addict who was happy with being an addict.”
At USC’s Self-Control Neuroscience Re-
search Lab, John Monterosso studies the
denouement of the addiction narrative: how
we sometimes say no, or, perhaps more ac-
curately, no more. Just as researchers have
isolated the brain’s reward mechanisms that
spiral habit into addiction, Monterosso is ap-
proaching willpower as a matter of biology,
not metaphysical strength.
“When people start talking about addic-
tion as a ‘brain thing,’ they stop acting like
“ADDICTS ARE
for their own
treatment,
but they are
not responsible
FOR THE DISEASE.”
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Daryl Davies is shedding new light on one of
the key molecular culprits of alcoholism.
Davies co-directs the Alcohol and Brain Re-
search Laboratory at USC, the only lab in the
world focused on how alcohol aff ects a little-
known family of brain molecules: purinergic,
or P2X, receptors.
“In our group, almost every researcher has
seen fi rst-hand the devastation caused by ad-
diction,” says the associate professor of clinical
pharmacy at the USC School of Pharmacy. “It’s
how I became interested in alcohol research.
Why can’t we cure alcoholism?”
Beginning a decade ago, Davies –
who still has the same offi ce since
his days as a doctoral student at
USC – made the fi rst in a series of
breakthrough discoveries.
Notably, he and longtime collabo-
rator Ronald Alkana, professor of
pharmacology and pharmaceutical
sciences at USC, found that P2X4,
a subtype of P2X, contains an ion
“gate” that stops working when ex-
posed to ethanol, the type of alcohol
found in alcoholic beverages.
If fl ooded with enough ethanol
over time, the ion gate actually mu-
tates and stops working altogether.
“You know the saying, ‘Once an
alcoholic, always an alcoholic’? It’s
true,” Davies says. When exposed to
enough alcohol, the brain’s molecu-
lar structure can change – permanently.
By happenstance, Davies’ lab then found
another chemical, ivermectin, which works
on the same ion gate as ethanol. Initially,
Davies and his colleagues were using iver-
mectin to isolate P2X4 molecules from other
subtypes, say, P2X3.
An anti-parasitic used worldwide on hu-
mans and animals, ivermectin is commonly
found in the United States as an additive to
fl ea and tick medication applied to the necks
of cats and dogs.
The substance appears to signifi cantly
inhibit the eff ects of alcohol on P2X4 recep-
tors. In a fl urry of research released this year,
a collaborative team of USC researchers
showed that alcohol-dependent mice drink
much less – about 50 percent less – when
taking ivermectin.
Davies doesn’t yet know why ivermectin
limits alcohol intake in mice or why it helps
signal that it’s time to stop drinking. Using it
to treat alcohol abuse in humans would be
a departure from abstinence-based models
of addiction treatment. Of the three main
drugs currently approved for treating alcohol
dependence, all try to make alcohol undrink-
able or undesirable. All, even in conjunction
with therapy, have a success rate of less than
10 percent.
Ivermectin therapy could enable alcoholics
to consume a drink or two, without the com-
pulsion to drink to the point where they start
to lose control, according to Davies.
That ivermectin already is approved for
human use is critical, and not only to help
bring the drug to market relatively quickly
and inexpensively. Its long history of inges-
tion, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa,
means that ivermectin is unlikely addictive
itself, Davies says.
With Nicos A. Petasis, the Harold E. and
Lillian M. Moulton Professor of Chemistry at
the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and
Sciences, and Stan Louie, associate profes-
sor of clinical pharmacy at the USC School of
Pharmacy, Davies and Alkana now are working
on developing an entirely new class of drugs
based on ivermectin’s molecular structure.
“If there was already a drug that was 95
percent eff ective, I might not be studying
ivermectin. I might not even be in the alcohol
fi eld,” he says. “The funding for alcoholism
research hasn’t caught up with the magnitude
of the consequences of not fi nding a cure.”
SUZANNE WU
IVERMECTIN THERAPY could enable alcoholics to consume
a drink or two without losing control.
“In our group,
almost every
researcher has
seen fi rst-hand
the devastation
caused by
addiction.”
A New Treatment for Alcoholism?
26 USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE winter 2011
For the 800 ‘internationals’ who pass through USC’s
Language Academy each year, intensive English
study opens eyes, ears, mouths and minds.
By Liz Segal | Photographs by Roger Snider
P otato salad, fried chicken, coleslaw and Cokes – what better way to entertain scores of
“internationals” on a hot Friday afternoon in July? The students have gathered for opening
day of USC’s Language Academy, an intensive English-immersion program based at the
University Park campus. It is a colorful and eclectic crowd: young Asian women wearing
rhinestone-studded sunglasses; heavy-accented young men in oversized shorts and Vans;
brightly smiling Middle Eastern women in jeans and headscarves. They seem excited, mak-
ing side plans to see Yellowstone and New York City. “This is America!” says one beaming
Saudi woman when asked if she will learn to drive here.
They have come to learn English, American style.
Beginners might land in a level one reading and writing class, where they are drilled on
the basics. A week into the summer program fi nds some of them producing compound sen-
tences at the direction of Language Academy instructor Priscilla Caraveo: “I have to do my
homework, but I don’t have time!” volunteers one playful student to a chorus of laughter
from her classmates.
Advanced students might land in level six (the penultimate level), where expectations are
much higher. A visit to instructor Steve MacIsaac’s class fi nds some international students, a
week into the program, analyzing an article from The Nation .
“We’re stair-stepping them to learn to write an M.A.- or Ph.D.-level paper, to familiar-
ize them with the American style of thinking, writing, research and academic synthesis,”
Gained in
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Though Surachart Ratchajanda
comes from a small town three hours
northeast of Bangkok, Thailand, at
age 26 he already is world-traveled
and head of his own NGO. He speaks
English with some fl uency, but this
summer found him brushing up his
skills at the Language Academy as
a prelude to entering USC’s IPPAM
program in the fall.
It all sounds pretty remarkable,
but what makes it downright amaz-
ing is that Ratchajanda is blind. An
accident at age 15 took his vision,
but gave him a new purpose in life:
to serve the cause of the blind in his
homeland. Through his NGO, Ratcha-
janda has traveled to schools for the
blind across Thailand, including rural
areas. “I like to persuade people that
they can do anything, even if they’re
afraid it’s dangerous,” he says.
Ratchajanda seems quite fear-
less. “People ask, ‘How can you
come alone on a 23-hour plane ride
to the U.S.?’ I say, ‘It’s no diff erent
than in Thailand: here, there are still
big holes in the pavements, traffi c
jams, low-hanging trees. As long as I
know English, I can get by.’ ”
The potholes, traffi c jams and
trees may be the same, but the pro-
fessional opportunities available to
the blind are profoundly diff erent.
“There is a lack of job diversity for
the blind in Thailand,” Ratchajanda
says, his eyes hidden behind stylish
mirrored glasses. “Even college
graduates can barely work as teach-
ers, operators or offi cers in blind
associations. Those who aren’t col-
lege graduates work as masseurs or
selling lottery tickets. They don’t get
much government help right now,
about $20 a month. So I asked
myself, ‘What could the government
do better?’ ”
He hopes to fi gure that out while
studying at USC, and he’s already
brimming with ideas. “In the United
States, the blind use guide dogs,
but in Thailand they are only able to
use canes. I want to observe what
they do here for the blind, study
it and make recommendations
back home.” His English-language
learning will be critical not only in
his master’s studies, but in making
deeper connections with interna-
tional organizations for the blind.
He waxes philosophical about
the accident that forever changed
his life.
“If I hadn’t gone blind, I would
never have gone abroad,” he says.
“I got a lot of experience and
knowledge this way – experience
that sighted people haven’t gotten.
So perhaps by becoming blind, you
see more.”
Surachart Ratchajanda
28 USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE winter 2011
MacIsaac explains. “Many of them have
never written a paper in English, let alone
the other stuff.”
But they soon would. This particular class
is earmarked for a cohort of internationals
who, come fall, would start graduate studies
in communication management through the
USC Annenberg School for Communication
& Journalism.
Each year, USC receives more than 7,000
students from abroad (almost one-sixth of
the student body). For some of these stu-
dents, academic ability may be on target,
but English usage falls short. Enter USC’s
two English as a Second Language (ESL)
programs: the American Language Institute
(ALI) and the Language Academy.
The former, founded in 1959 and run by
the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts
and Sciences, offers ESL courses for aca-
demic credit. It is required for matriculated
USC undergraduate and graduate students
who score below six (on a seven-point scale)
on the ALI-administered International
Student English placement exam. Approxi-
mately 1,000 students take this test every
year, and more than 600 of them end up
receiving instruction at ALI. The program
also offers advanced electives in academic
and spoken English as well as dissertation
writing. Additionally, in collaboration with
USC’s Center for Excellence in T eaching, it
provides a weeklong training session for all
new international teaching assistants.
The Language Academy fi lls a differ-
ent niche. Founded in 1993 in affi liation
with USC’s Rossier School of Education, it
provides academic English and English for
professional advancement, and it prepares
students for the T est of English as a Foreign
Language (TOEFL) and other standard-
ized tests, such as the International English
Language T esting System, the GMAT and
the GRE. Available year-round and open
to anyone, the Language Academy hosts
nearly 800 internationals each year, hailing
from more than 30 countries. Students can
enroll in one of two six-week summer ses-
sions and 14-week fall and spring sessions,
receiving 18 to 21 hours a week of intensive
English instruction, including oral skills
No jacket, no tie, no bowing at the
waist. For a Japanese businessman,
Norio Kaji is disarmingly informal in
his fl ip-fl ops, formfi tting T-shirt and
loosely slung student bag. Having
been a buttoned-down manager not
long ago, Kaji is digging the mellow
SoCal existence.
This isn’t Kaji’s fi rst experience
in America. “I was working for six
months in the accounting depart-
ment of a private cable company in
Colorado,” he explains. Sent by his
Japanese employer as a manage-
ment trainee, he had to abruptly
return when the parent company
sold its interest in his fi rm. By then
Kaji had developed a taste of the
United States, and with the advice of
his Colorado co-workers, he quit his
cable job and applied to USC Mar-
shall’s IBEAR program. Despite his
already top-notch spoken English,
Kaji’s admission was contingent on
a refresher course at the Language
Academy.
He could have chosen a Japanese
MBA program, but opted instead for
a school with a global reputation and
an international student body.
Back in Colorado, he had been
struck by the way his colleagues
communicated. “So many of my
American co-workers with MBAs
not only knew how to do business
and manage people effi ciently, but
they knew how to discuss and argue
eff ectively, something we don’t see
in Japan a lot,” Kaji says. “Sometimes
it’s hard to decide anything in Japan
because it’s all about consensus, so
a company will lose opportunities
while trying to make decisions.”
After graduating from USC Mar-
shall, Kaji hopes to fi nd work in a
multinational communications com-
pany in Japan. Once there, he’ll try to
change the rigid Japanese manage-
ment culture little by little, from the
inside. “I’m not sure if it’s possible,
but I’m looking forward to facing this
challenge,” he says.
Kaji is delighted by the many
cultural diff erences he encounters
here. “L.A. is a much more interna-
tional city than where we lived in
Colorado,” he says. “I thought at fi rst
this is another country, with so much
Spanish!” When he goes to sporting
events, he fi nds the crowd almost as
interesting as the game: “Watching
the people cheering, shouting and
drinking beer. So exciting!” he says.
Even a walk in the park is a cultural
eye-opener. “When my wife and I
go out with our baby in the stroller,
people take so much care for the
baby, asking questions,” he says. In
Japan, strangers keep much more to
themselves. “Here we get to talk to
them. It’s fun.”
Norio Kaji
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classes and language labs.
“I’m always excited to welcome our
Language Academy students,” says educa-
tion dean Karen Symms Gallagher. “USC
Rossier prides itself on its global engage-
ment, and I know what a unique and posi-
tive experience it is for these young people
to immerse themselves in our language and
culture to enhance their academic and career
pathways.”
Beyond the basics of American Eng-
lish usage, students get drilled in business
English, project presentation skills, and the
proper format and style of the American es-
say. Politics, history and culture are woven
into the program, and so are fi eld trips across
the Southland. A Fourth of July outing to the
Hollywood Bowl – to see fi reworks and hear
power-pop band Hall & Oates – was this
summer’s highlight.
Different students come for different
reasons. About a third come just to learn
English, either for personal or career-en-
hancement reasons. T wenty percent will
later transfer to programs at other universi-
ties, colleges or language programs. Almost
a third come through special one-year mas-
ter’s cohort tracks, which run in conjunc-
tion with several university academic units.
In addition to USC Annenberg’s Master of
Communication Management and Master
of Strategic Public Relations programs, there
are tracks for students in the International
Public Policy and Management (IPPAM)
program at USC’s School of Policy, Planning,
and Development, the Summer Law &
English program at the USC Gould School
of Law, and the International Business Edu-
cation and Research (IBEAR) MBA program
at the USC Marshall School of Business.
(Enrollment in the Language Academy is, in
many cases, a prerequisite for admission into
these programs.)
It isn’t easy catering to so many differ-
ent types of students at so many different
English-learning levels coming from such
a variety of lands, cultures and educational
backgrounds. Indeed, cultural differences in
learning styles occupy a fair portion of Lan-
guage Academy director Kate O’Connor’s
time and attention. She points to instructor
Dilyara Kenzhegaliyeva
With her pretty, moon-shaped face
and broad smile, Dilyara Kenzhegali-
yeva is a walking advertisement for
her native Kazakhstan. She speaks
glowingly of her hometown, Kara-
ganda, “a not-so-big town near
the country’s capital, which is why
it’s beautiful and famous.” Well,
relatively famous in Central Asia and
Eastern Europe.
Kenzhegaliyeva is one of 10
Kazakhs attending the Language
Academy this year. Since 1993, the
country has sent hundreds of stu-
dents abroad on Bolashak (“future”)
Presidential Scholarships. Ken-
zhegaliyeva snagged this scholarship
right out of high school – one of only
two women to do so – thanks to her
strong performance in math, physics
and chemistry. She is on track to
study engineering and hopes to be
admitted to the USC Viterbi School
of Engineering after sitting for her
TOEFL and SAT exams.
Though she dresses as fashionably
as any native Southern Californian
on a shopping spree at the Beverly
Center, Kenzhegaliyeva will return to
the Kazakh steppes when her educa-
tion is complete. There, she will don
a greasy hard hat, gloves and apron
to work the oil rigs of her country’s
booming state-owned petroleum
industry. Under the terms of her
scholarship, she will be obliged to do
so for fi ve years. Not many women
do this kind of work in her homeland.
“Usually they marry fi rst, then have
children, then maybe a job,” Ken-
zhegaliyeva says.
Increasingly, Kenzhegaliyeva looks
to American women as her role mod-
els. She says she is impressed by what
she has seen, in terms of their grit and
professional know-how. Such inspira-
tion has come in handy at times.
“Taking grueling exams, coming to a
new country, missing my home – it’s
been a lot,” she admits. “But still, I
can do this!”
When asked what professional
qualities she hopes to bring home
from the United States, she says: “I
want my co-workers to think I’m toler-
ant, honest and trustworthy. I don’t
want them to lie to me, so I can’t lie
to them.”
While she’s here, Kenzhegaliyeva
wants to see many of the sites both
on and off the usual tourist map. She
has already walked the streets of Hol-
lywood – and found them disappoint-
ing. “Everything was so dirty,” she
complains. Still on her to-do list are
New York City and the Grand Canyon.
Her No. 1 destination, though, is
defi nitely off the beaten track: Ken-
zhegaliyeva hopes to tour one of the
many oil refi neries that dot Southern
California’s coastline.
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MacIsaac’s level six USC Annenberg cohort
class, composed almost entirely of Asian
women. Though these students all possess
advanced English skills, drawing them out
isn’t easy.
“In some cultures, there’s a natural reti-
cence to offer opinions,” O’Connor says.
“It can be a real challenge that goes on all
semester: fear of making mistakes, lack
of comprehension, sometimes feeling the
need to defer, due to gender. So we’ve de-
veloped a whole list of strategies.” For ex-
ample, she says, breaking classes down into
smaller groups.
Warming to the subject, O’Connor deliv-
ers a little cross-cultural grammar lesson.
“In Arabic, for example, there is no ‘to be’
verb. In our beginning level class, that’s a
whole new concept. Some students are re-
ally puzzled by that. But when they get it,
the door opens, and there’s that ‘aha’ mo-
ment. It’s very grand, indeed, when that
happens,” she says.
One might wonder, in these wired-up
times when it’s easy to download a digital
book, buy a Rosetta Stone CD or peruse the
BBC Learning English website, is it really
necessary for internationals to come all the
way to Los Angeles to become fl uent? Many
say yes with their feet, despite the Language
Academy’s not-inconsequential fees. The
six-week summer sessions are $2,800, while
14-week semester sessions cost $5,350, not
including housing, meals or transportation.
How do they afford it?
“Some students are government-spon-
sored by companies or ministries of educa-
tion,” O’Connor explains. “Some are well-
to-do. But the majority are self-paying and
come from cultures where entire families
will pool resources to get them over here.”
She recalls one student, a young Saudi
Arabian man, who’d lost both parents in a
car accident and was left to care for a dis-
abled brother. “This guy had tremendous
fortitude,” O’Connor says. “Both he and his
brother were driven to learn the language.”
He persisted for two years at the academy.
In recent years, the demographics have
been changing. Whereas the academy used
to attract mostly undergraduate applicants,
these days it sees far more students prepar-
ing for graduate study in the United States.
“This may be due, in part, to increased
efforts by universities overseas to enhance
English-language and undergraduate pro-
grams in general, in an effort to capture a
greater percentage of their own 18- to 22-
year olds interested in English,” explains
Gilbert Cho, the Language Academy’s im-
migration and admissions adviser.
“At the same time, foreign governments
and NGOs [nongovernmental organiza-
tions] have increasingly invested in scholar-
ships to support workers who seek advanced
training abroad in science, technology, en-
gineering and math fi elds,” Cho says. Upon
graduation, these students will return home
to work in professions that support national
and community development, infrastructure
improvements and education reform. Cho
notes that the Language Academy has seen
this trend particularly among students from
Libya and Saudi Arabia.
The global economic downturn actually
works to their advantage. Exchange rates are
favorable for the majority of internationals,
who come primarily from China, Taiwan,
South Korea and Saudi Arabia. Recently
there has been an uptick in science and
technology students from Kazakhstan. This
summer saw 10 of them at the Language
Academy, all here on government grants.
Banish any associations with Borat. The
Kazakhs are “the new nerds on campus,”
says Language Academy student Dilyara
Kenzhegaliyeva, in wonderfully idiomatic
English. “All we do is study and nod, passing
each other in the library.”
There’s nothing provincial about them.
“At home, we only have organic food,” notes
Kenzhegaliyeva, expressing disapproval of
the junk food and hamburger joints ubiq-
uitous to Los Angeles. Many of her coun-
trymen say they miss their native cuisine,
which normally includes a lot of beef pre-
pared in spices they can’t name in English.
When asked at the opening day picnic in
July how they fi ll the void, several brightly
chirped in unison: “Chipotle!” referring to
the popular burrito franchise.
Homesickness can be intense for inter-
national students. They beat it by spending
quality time with peers in student housing
– for those lucky enough to get the assign-
ments. There aren’t enough spaces to ac-
commodate every Language Academy at-
tendee: Only 40 can live on campus.
The cultural adjustments can be equally
stressful.
O’Connor tells of an excursion to a Lakers
game and a close encounter with the larger-
than-life Jumbotron. During a break in the
game, two Korean students – just classmates
sitting next to each other – were shocked
when the ’tron captured them from on high
during the popular “Kiss Me” diversion.
The crowd spontaneously started to cheer,
egging the two on, demanding some public
display of affection. “They were completely
embarrassed,” O’Connor recalls. “Should
they shake hands? Hug? Kiss?” Finally,
with great hesitation, he gave her a friendly
peck on the cheek, to the approving roar of
the stadium. They immediately sent photos
home to friends and family, their 15 seconds
of fame.
“We see this kind of thing a lot,”
O’Connor says. “Students can be utterly
baffl ed by certain customs, games, expres-
sions. But they learn fast and are often happy
to do so.” O’Connor fi nds it interesting when
Saudi nationals come to the program as a
couple. While the women, most of whom
wear headscarves, don’t exactly let their hair
down, they do start to become more vocal
in a coeducational classroom, which is com-
pletely new for most of them.
This is not to say that the international
students embrace America uncritically.
Many comment on how rampant home-
lessness is in Los Angeles and wonder why
nothing can be done about it. But in the next
breath, they’ll express enthusiasm for Amer-
ican individualism, the American style of
teaching and anti-rote methods of learning. ●
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Director Kate O’Connor and immigration
and admissions adviser Gilbert Cho of
the USC Language Academy
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Mazin Alahmadi
With his gleaming-white smile,
Mazin Alahmadi would make a
fi rst-rate recruiter for USC and the
Language Academy. “They give us
motivation to be excited!” he practi-
cally yells in ringing endorsement.
A popular student, he participated
in every activity available during the
fi rst summer session, even winning
an award for his editing of the acad-
emy’s student newspaper.
Alahmadi comes from Saudi
Arabia, attending USC on a
government-sponsored scholar-
ship through his employer, King
Abdulaziz University, where he is
an instructor in industrial engineer-
ing. Now he’s at USC for a yearlong
English course at the Language
Academy, which he hopes to use
as a springboard for admission to
USC Viterbi’s doctoral program in
industrial engineering.
His classroom experiences in
America already have made quite
an impression. “The teaching style
is especially so diff erent,” he says in
still-evolving English. “At home, as
a teacher, I explain. You just sit and
listen. It’s traditional.”
Attending the Language Academy
has emboldened Alahmadi to
dream of being a change agent.
Upon returning home, he hopes to
move his country’s rigid academic
culture away from rote learning to
a more integrative style, with lots
of back-and-forth between teacher
and student. “Things are changing in
Saudi Arabia,” he says, with a wink
and a nod. “I will change what I can;
other more traditional methods will
change with time. I will start by ask-
ing the director of the university to
make all the courses more interac-
tive. If he says no, I will simply start
in my department.”
Changes in educational style are
only the beginning. Speaking of the
“limitation on technical innovation
in my country,” he tells of a com-
puter scientist who, after fi ve years
wasted in fruitless pursuit of gov-
ernment funding for his research,
was so discouraged that he took
his own life. “We have to take the
lead as pioneers on these things,”
Alahmadi insists.
In his domestic life, Alahmadi has
already begun to plant the seeds of
change. Anticipating that his wife
would join him in America to pursue
advanced training in nutritional
analysis, Alahmadi started prepar-
ing her for the transition back in
July. “I started to give my wife ideas
on the phone about what will hap-
pen,” he says. “I need to prepare
her. I’ve made a lot of friends with
both boys and, yes, girls, too –
which is not usual in Saudi Arabia.
She says she can imagine our lives
as more modern. I know she will
adjust to this,” he says confi dently.
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That’s exactly what happened to Chuck Lerette, 53, of Moorpark, Calif.
He found himself in extreme hip pain and acutely felt the loss of mobility. Osteoarthritis
runs in his family.
Lerette’s son, a doctor, referred him to Daniel A. Oakes, associate professor of clinical orthopaedics at the Keck School of
Medicine of USC and director of the Joint Replacement Program at Keck Hospital of USC. That meeting changed Lerette’s
life for the better.
Between January 2010 and March 2011, Oakes replaced both of Lerette’s hips using a hip resurfacing technique.
The Joint Replacement Program at Keck Hospital is a regional center of excellence for hip- and knee-joint replacement
surgery. Oakes, a nationally recognized joint replacement specialist, along with colleagues Donald Longjohn, assistant professor
of clinical orthopaedics, and Lawrence Menendez, professor of clinical orthopaedics, are dedicated to providing patients with
outstanding, compassionate care.
The program offers minimally invasive hip and knee replacement, hip and knee surgery, and total joint replacement. “Our
surgeons do 300 to 400 hip and knee replacements per year, and we offer a coordinated patient experience from door to dis-
charge – a team of skilled individuals who are committed to getting patients back to an active lifestyle as quickly as possible,”
Oakes says. “Essentially, we want you to get back to being you faster.”
USC surgeons help hip replacement patient
Chuck Lerette return to an active lifestyle.
Movement
Freedom of
BY AMY E. HAMAKER
Imagine leading an active life: participating in sports, hiking, kayaking,
snowboarding and running on trails. Now imagine hip pain becoming
so severe that activities are no longer possible – even standing for a
short time has suddenly become a form of torture.
[ KECK MEDICAL CENTER OF USC ]
PHOTO BY STEVE COHN
USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE tfm.usc.edu 33
Replacement and resurfacing
Among the largest joints in the body, the
hips and knees can become weakened
from repetitive wear, causing pain and loss
of mobility. Arthroplasty – any surgery that
relieves pain and restores mobility through
repairing, reconstructing or realigning a joint
– is often the best choice for people who suf-
fer from hip and knee wear problems.
“The goal [for any arthroplasty] is to
restore patients’ mobility and function,”
Oakes says. “As the population ages, they
put wear on their hips and knees, and it’s
adversely affecting their quality of life. Our
older patients are more active than prior
generations, and they’d like to stay active.
With the right treatment, people can main-
tain their activity level and do what they
like to do without pain, including hiking,
biking and travel.”
The most successful and common of all
orthopaedic surgical procedures is total joint
replacement – specifi cally, total hip replace-
ment. The operation dates back to the early
1920s, although widespread success in out-
comes was not seen until the early 1960s. In
general, hip replacement surgery can help
patients with debilitating pain that is not
alleviated by using other control methods,
such as pain medications, weight loss and
exercise.
During total joint replacement, a pros-
thetic cup (the “socket” portion of the
joint) is secured in place, then a metal head
and stem (the “ball” portion of the joint) are
secured into the femur. The surgeon then
DISCOVERING OPTIONS After losing most of the mobility in his hips, Chuck Lerette turned to USC’s Joint Replacement Program for help. Hip resurfacing
gave Lerette enough freedom of movement to throw out the ceremonial fi rst pitch at a Los Angeles Dodgers game in July.
proper preparation can make a difference in
recovery time. Lerette learned the impor-
tance of physical preparation after his fi rst
hip resurfacing.
“I lost a lot of muscle mass in my legs
during recovery,” Lerette says. “Before I
had the second hip done, I worked out a
lot. I told my [physical fi tness] boot camp
instructor about the operation. I had to stop
doing long-distance workouts, but I did a
lot of squats and other exercises to build leg
muscle.”
His plan worked. Immediately after his
second surgery, Lerette was able to lift his
affected leg. “I was only off of crutches for
three weeks when I asked Dr. Oakes if I
could ride my motorcycle,” Lerette recalls.
“He said ‘yes’ because I’d done one hip
already and knew how to care for myself.”
However, joint resurfacing is not without
its drawbacks. The same risks associated
with total hip replacement also are associ-
ated with hip resurfacing, and the implants,
particularly those made of porous metal,
lack complete long-term data on longevity
and side effects, Oakes says.
“We don’t yet know the 20-year survivor-
ship of these types of implants,” Oakes cau-
tions. “We have some data that survivorship
is comparable to hip replacement, but
this technique requires a metal-on-
metal articulation [using porous metal
prosthetics], and we don’t know the
long-term impact of metal ions in
the bloodstream. Some patients have
developed adverse reactions to metal
debris.”
Minimally invasive options
At Keck Hospital, both hip replace-
ment and hip resurfacing can be
done using minimally invasive tech-
niques. These techniques involve
creating a much smaller incision – 4
inches to 5 inches long, compared to
8 inches to 12 inches long for tradi-
tional joint surgery. Special instru-
ments are used to make the small
incisions, and fl uoroscopy, the use of
X-rays in real time, is used to help
guide surgical instruments. This
approach leads to fewer cut muscles,
places the ball into the socket and makes
sure that the new hip joint will cover a rea-
sonably wide range of motion and be sta-
ble enough to withstand weight and some
stress. Incisions can be made in a posterior
approach, which curves backward toward
the buttocks, or in a lateral approach, which
goes over the front of the body to the bony
prominence on the side of the hip bone.
After a few days of hospital care, patients
receive physical therapy that may last sev-
eral weeks to several months, depending on
the extent of the surgery and the condition
of the joint. There are some risks associ-
ated with total hip replacement, includ-
ing infection, bleeding, dislocation, nerve
injury and blood clots. Patients also need
to follow some precautions and may need
to make lifestyle changes to accommodate
the new prosthetic hip, including avoiding
high-impact exercises such as running and
jumping.
Another option for relieving pain and
restoring mobility is joint resurfacing, a
form of joint replacement. During resurfac-
ing, the ball and socket are not completely
replaced and no extra pins are used. Instead,
the surface of the joint where the bones
meet is replaced with a prosthesis, often
made from a porous metal. These metal
prostheses, usually made of pure titanium,
have “pores” that are set into them to help
stabilize the bone, making them rough and
pitted, the same as natural coral. Bone cells
also can interact with the rough surface of
the metal, helping the bone adhere better
to the metal’s surface and, in effect, extend
the life of the replacement.
Oakes believes that hip resurfacing is a
good alternative for patients like Lerette
who are younger and more active. The
technique features greater stability and less
risk of dislocation than total replacement.
“Joint resurfacing conserves bone,” Oakes
explains. “The data show that males who
are less than 60 years of age who have a
degenerative joint disease or osteoarthritis
are the best candidates. These tend to be
patients who desire a slightly higher level
of activity.”
Patients who have struggled with pain
may be surprised at how quickly the pain is
relieved after surgery. “I had the operation
done and, in a way, it was like having a root
canal,” Lerette says. “The hip pain I’d lived
with was instantly gone.”
Rehabilitation may take less time for
resurfacing than for replacement, and
RESTORING MOBILITY USC orthopaedic
surgeon Daniel Oakes believes that joint
prosthetics, like the artifi cial hip he holds,
can help people stay active as they age. PHOTO BY PHILIP CHANNING / LERETTE PHOTOS BY STEVE COHN
At some point, a patient may need hip revision surgery due to pain or mobility loss in the replaced or
resurfaced joint or a loose or damaged prosthesis. A number of factors determine if and when a
revision will need to be done, including the design and materials of the prosthesis used and the
patient’s activity level.
Hip revision surgery is a much longer and more complicated procedure than hip replacement.
During hip revision surgery, the orthopaedic surgeon removes a previously implanted artifi cial hip joint
and replaces it with a new one. Hip revision surgery also may involve the use of bone grafts. Risks
following this type of surgery are similar to those following hip replacement or resurfacing.
New technology in joint prosthetics may mean that patients can go much longer without needing
revision, says Keck School of Medicine’s Daniel A. Oakes, who specializes in the technique.
“With new cross-linked plastic, implants at 10 years in vivo are showing almost no wear,” Oakes says.
“That’s a marked difference from the early 2000s – the old plastic had a longevity of approximately
10 years. We can optimistically say that today’s implants have a 95 percent chance of functioning well
at 10 years from surgery [and] that 90 percent should still be working well 20 years from surgery. They
may even last beyond that.”
AMY E. HAMAKER
Hip Revision – the “Do-Over”
less pain and faster rehabilitation. “You can
also avoid the side effects of general anes-
thesia,” Oakes adds.
Patients who have minimally invasive
hip arthroplasty are encouraged to become
mobile much earlier than they would be
with standard methods of hip arthroplasty.
Many patients fi nd that they are able to get
out of bed either the same day or the next
day following surgery with the help of a
physical therapist.
Moving forward
Oakes believes that the need for hip
replacement and resurfacing is not likely to
decline anytime soon. “It’s hard to improve
on the surgery. There is ongoing research
to regenerate cartilage and bones, but it’s
a long way to being applicable in a clinical
setting,” he says. “For some patients, these
are truly life-changing operations. Patients
who haven’t walked in three to four years
are now walking. As our patients continue
to demand to be more active, we’ll develop
implants that will allow them to continue
their high activity levels.”
Although Lerette is less than a year out
from his surgery, he has already started
walking and hiking, and will soon partici-
pate in a physical fi tness boot camp. “My
friend wants me to learn tennis, but Dr.
Oakes is making me wait a year after sur-
gery,” he says. “I do power walks, mountain
bike and ride my motorcycle, but I think I’ll
drop snowboarding.”
Would Lerette recommend the surgery
for others? Absolutely, he says. “I really
don’t even notice I had it done,” he adds.
“I’m not at 100 percent yet because of hav-
ing my second hip go out, but I’m almost
completely rehabilitated. It’s like getting
your freedom back.” ●
For more information or to make an
appointment with the orthopaedic surgeons
of the Keck Medical Center of USC, call
(323) 442-5860 or visit keckmedicalcenter
ofusc.org/jointreplacement
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AN ACTIVE LIFE Thanks to hip resurfacing, Lerette has returned to a high level of physical activity. Here, he tosses a baseball with his grandson at
Dodger Stadium before a game on July 25.
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For freshmen about to enter USC, SCend Offs help
ease the transition from high school to college.
SUMMER IS SCend Off time for the Trojan
Family, as USC alumni clubs worldwide host
informal receptions welcoming new stu-
dents to the university. Connecting the stu-
dents and their families and friends to local
alumni and alumni groups, SCend Offs are
usually hosted by alums in their own homes
and often attended by special guests, such as
university faculty or administrators.
This past summer, more than 50 SCend
Offs took place around the world from
Southern California to Mumbai, India. Jenn
Buckner ’81, host of this year’s USC Alumni
Club of San Diego SCend Off, describes the
gatherings as “a great way to experience the
complete Trojan life cycle in one afternoon.
You’re elbow to elbow with kids who have
yet to experience a game day, current stu-
dents and graduates from three months to
over 50 years out. It’s the Trojan Family at
its best!”
Providing an international perspective,
Jen Ladwig ’99, president of the USC
Alumni Club of London, explains that be-
cause many international families are unfa-
miliar with the American university system
and alumni traditions, SCend Offs are an
important way to introduce them to the
Trojan Family and the lifelong USC experi-
ence, as well as to encourage them to join
university activities. “This year, we held our
SCend Off at a popular London cupcake
shop owned by a Trojan!” she adds.
Capturing the point of view of new USC
parents, Gary Stone ’90, president of the
USC Alumni Club of Colorado, quotes a
note he received from
parents John and Eliza-
beth Armine: “What a
great introduction to
the USC family in
Colorado! We success-
fully dropped Katie off
at ’SC last week as she
begins her fi ve-year ar-
chitecture program. As
USC Alumni Club of Northern Nevada
USC Alumni Club of the East Bay
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USC Alumni Club of Mexico
USC Alumni Club of the Nation’s Capital
USC Alumni Club of Mumbai
USC Alumni Club of
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tant to be an active member and leader. Our
time is a valuable gift, and I have met so
many incredible Trojans who share my pas-
sion for USC. I am so proud to be a Trojan
daughter, a Trojan sister, a Trojan Greek, a
Trojan alumna, a Trojan wife and a Trojan
mom. Yep, my dad was right. There’s noth-
ing better than the Trojan Family!”
ALAN BERLIN ’57
USC Marshall School of Business
USC Davis School of Gerontology
“I’m fl attered to receive the President’s
Award. There are so many active USC
alumni who deserve to be chosen. When I
attended USC in the 1950s, my overriding
goal was to graduate and begin my business
career. Little did I realize that some years
later, I would become involved in promot-
ing and assisting our great university. A fel-
low Trojan and close friend introduced me
to the members of the USC Davis School
of Gerontology Board of Councilors. I
joined the board and ultimately served for
25 years, including three as chairman, be-
fore recently retiring. My USC education
has been very good to me, so helping my
alma mater in this way was the right thing
to do.”
KATHLEEN CAMPOS ’83
USC Dornsife College of Letters,
Arts and Sciences
Trojan League of Los Angeles
“During my fi rst week at USC, Dean [of
Women Emerita] Joan Schaefer invited me
to have a cup of tea. Our conversation still
inspires me to this day. ‘You have so many
opportunities to be involved in this campus,’
she said. ‘Many people graduate after four
years and wonder what they missed. USC
is a smorgasbord – you can choose how you
want to make your mark on this university,
but Kathleen, you need to pick up a plate!’
I am still picking up plates as an alumni vol-
unteer, and I have yet to lose my appetite.
Honoring Those Who Give Back
2011 Volunteer Recognition Dinner lauds
dedicated Trojans.
PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE “LIFEBLOOD of the
Trojan Family,” the 2011 Volunteer Recog-
nition Dinner was held on Sept. 16 at T own
& Gown. Co-hosted by USC Alumni Asso-
ciation (USCAA) CEO Scott M. Mory and
USCAA Board of Governors president Lisa
Barkett ’81, the event celebrated alumni
volunteers, organizations and friends who
contribute to the advancement of USC.
Sixty-three volunteers from alumni clubs
and university groups received Widney
Alumni House Awards, which recognize
volunteers for their loyalty, support and
dedication to the university.
Patrick Auerbach EdD ’08, executive di-
rector of USCAA alumni relations, received
the Volunteer Friend of the Year award,
which is given to a USC faculty or staff
member for outstanding support of alumni
volunteers. Three alumni groups were
named Volunteer Organizations of the Year
for their efforts to engage USC alumni and
build a culture of philanthropy among the
Trojan Family: the Herman Ostrow School
of Dentistry of USC’s Century Club, the
USC Alumni Club of Colorado and the
USC Asian Pacifi c Alumni Association.
The President’s Award, the evening’s
fi nal honor, is presented annually to volun-
teers in recognition of exemplary leader-
ship, achievement and overall contributions
to USC. This year, seven Trojans were
honored. Here’s what each had to say about
what the award means:
LINDA BALL ’83
USC Marshall School of Business
Trojan League of Orange County
Alumnae Coordinating Council
“Almost 30 years ago when I was an ’SC
undergrad, I worked as a USC Alumni As-
sociation campus tour guide and shared
our university with prospective students
and visitors from around the world. After
graduation, I joined some women’s support
groups, which started my wonderful jour-
ney as a volunteer and led me to receiving
this award. I have always felt it was impor-
From left, Lisa Barkett ’81, Linda Ball ’83,
Kathleen Campos ’83, Stephanie Farmer MHA
’95, George Stoneman MD ’65, Alan Berlin ’57,
Lisa Malec ’77, Sean Kearns ’97 and Scott Mory PHOTOS BY DAN AVILA
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IN RECOGNITION
Receiving this award has reenergized my
passion for USC and the Trojan League of
Los Angeles. Why do I volunteer? My son
Devon said it best: ‘Because it makes you
feel good!’ ”
STEPHANIE FARMER MHA ’95
USC School of Policy, Planning,
and Development
USC Black Alumni Association (BAA)
USCAA Board of Governors
“I have been a Trojan most of my life (I
grew up going to USC home football games
with my family), and I was thrilled when I
received the opportunity to attend gradu-
ate school [at USC]. After graduating, I
started volunteering with the BAA because
of its mission to provide much-needed
scholarships to African-American students
and valuable networking opportunities for
students and alumni. From 2008 to 2010,
I served as BAA president. Today, I’m the
BAA representative on the USC Alumni
Association Board of Governors. It’s been
an inspirational experience because it’s en-
abled me to network with fellow Trojans
who love USC as much as I do. Receiving
this award motivates me to continue vol-
unteering for USC. I look forward to the
future!”
SEAN KEARNS ’97
USC Annenberg School for
Communication & Journalism
USC Alumni Club of New York
USCAA Board of Governors
“I love USC and the experiences and edu-
cation that I received here. I’ve always
wanted to give back to my alma mater so
that future generations can have the same
or even better experiences. This university
is a special place where I’ve made many life-
long friends, fi rst as a student and now as a
volunteer. Anytime I meet fellow Trojans,
there is an instant bond. I’m not sure that
connection happens so readily for alumni of
other universities. Even though I moved to
New York City 10 years ago, my volunteer
efforts allow me to stay connected to USC.
I never thought I would win such a presti-
other fabulous Trojan students. That is the
essence of the Trojan spirit – Trojans sup-
porting Trojans!”
GEORGE BEATTIE STONEMAN MD ’65
Keck School of Medicine of USC
USCAA Board of Governors
Keck School of Medicine of USC
“It’s a privilege to receive the President’s
Award, and I feel honored to accept it. The
accomplishments are really a team effort
made by many loyal Trojans working for a
great cause. I am inspired to volunteer for
USC and the Keck School of Medicine be-
cause the reward is seeing all the talented,
altruistic medical students who will be the
next generation of true, caring physicians.
Another reward is to give all the proud par-
ents and families of medical students a true
connection to USC and to let them know
they are all members of the Trojan Family.”
TIMOTHY O. KNIGHT
gious award, and my hope is that my best
days of serving USC are still ahead of me.”
LISA MALEC ’77
USC Dornsife College of Letters,
Arts and Sciences
Trojan League Associates of San Diego County
USC Alumni Club of San Diego
“I know it’s a Hollywood cliché, but it is
truly an honor just to be nominated for the
President’s Award. On a personal level, this
award is a wonderful reward for the hours I
spend volunteering on behalf of USC and
sharing my Trojan pride with others. When
I fi rst started volunteering for USC, my
inspiration was my son, Brett. He was ap-
plying to USC and it made me want to re-
connect with the university. I knew that if
he were accepted, Brett would be walking
in my campus footsteps, both literally and
fi guratively. So I got involved and began
contributing to USC, for my son and all the
Pictured here, the 2011 Volunteer Organizations of
the Year award recipients: the USC Asian Pacifi c
Alumni Association; the Ostrow School’s Century
Club (represented by Donna Smith ’74, MS ’82,
bottom left); and the USC Alumni Club of Colorado
(represented by Robert “Bob” Serocki MBA ’90,
Suzzanna Martinez ’99, club president Gary S.
Stone ’90 and Dave Johnson MPA ’95)
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1. Orange County aSCendant
On Aug. 20, the USC Asian Pacifi c Alumni
Association’s (APAA) Orange County Com-
mittee held its inaugural event at William
R. Mason Regional Park in Irvine, Calif.
Approximately 65 Trojans attended the
family-friendly picnic, which helped kick
off the committee’s programs. Pictured here
among the participants are committee chair
Wesley Mizutani ’77 (front right, in cardi-
nal shirt and cap) and APAA president Rod
Nakamoto ’83, MBA ’94 (back row, second
from right).
2. USC Provost in London
Elizabeth Garrett (center), USC provost
and senior vice president for academic af-
fairs, is fl anked by Trojans Matthew F.
Dresch ’01 and Nancy Hillgren ’76 at the
city’s venerable Cavendish Hotel on July 5.
Approximately 60 alumni, friends and
overseas guests in the London area were
in attendance, including USC School of
Policy, Planning, and Development dean
Jack H. Knott and USC Alumni Associa-
tion (USCAA) Board of Governors presi-
dent Lisa Barkett ’81.
3. Trojans on the Hill
U.S. labor secretary Hilda Solis MPA ’81
(left) poses with USC Alumni Club of the
Nation’s Capital president Ellen Badger ’07
(center) and USC University Advancement
vice president for development Courtney
Surls at the Rayburn House Offi ce Build-
ing in D.C. on Sept. 7. The occasion was a
Golden State Roundtable breakfast where
Solis was the guest speaker. These regularly
held events feature a prominent business
leader, policymaker, journalist or academi-
cian from or with ties to California who ad-
dresses issues of interest to the Golden State.
4. Leading the Way
On Sept. 16, the USCAA held the 2011
USC Alumni Leadership Conference. Af-
ter a day of workshops, presentations and
university briefi ngs by USC provost Gar-
rett and senior vice president for University
Advancement Al Checcio, the conference
concluded with a leadership master class
“Building Your Volunteer Career.” USCAA
CEO Scott M. Mory moderated the panel
discussion featuring four alumni leaders
pictured here: (from left) Barbara Cotler
’60, the intercollegiate athletics represen-
tative on the USCAA Board of Governors;
Richard DeBeikes Jr. ’78, USC trustee and
past president of the USCAA Board of Gov-
ernors; Mory; Maria Jones ’87, chair of the
USC Latino Alumni Association Board of
Directors; and Sean Kearns ’97, co-chair of
the USCAA Board of Governors’ Club Af-
fairs Committee. ●
From O.C. to D.C. and beyond
PHOTOS BY JANELLE QUOCK; LISA BARKETT; JENNIFER GRODSKY; DAN AVILA
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lifelong and worldwide
1940s
Jim McGregor ’44 was elected to the Sports
Hall of Fame at Grant High School in
Portland, Ore. He served as a freshman
track coach at USC from 1948 to 1950 and
coached basketball for 45 years mostly over-
seas. He lives in Bellevue, Wash.
1950s
George Ciampa ’52, a U.S. Army World War
II veteran, formed the Torrance, Calif.-
based nonprofi t Let Freedom Ring to stress
the importance of freedom through educa-
tion. His organization has produced several
award-winning documentaries, including
The Lesson is Priceless and Memories of France.
He spent nearly 40 years in advertising at
various newspapers.
Frank Cortez Flores ’55, DDS ’57, MS ’88
of San Dimas, Calif., is a member of the
Supercourse faculty at the University of
Pittsburgh’s World Health Organization
Collaborating Center. The Supercourse
provides Internet-based, distance-learning
materials for medical, nursing, dental and
veterinary students. He is a retired faculty
member of Loma Linda University.
1960s
Carl Francis Forssell MS ’63 of Oro Valley,
Ariz., is the author of The Amazing Adventures
of Big Nick in Alaska, which is in demand in
12 countries, including Japan and India. He
recently released the ebook version.
John W. House ’64, MD ’67 received the Dis-
tinguished Service Award from the American
Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and
Neck Surgery. He has served on the board of
directors for the academy for the last seven
years. He is a clinical professor at the Keck
School of Medicine of USC, a physician at
the House Clinic and president of House
Research Institute. He lives in Los Angeles.
Faith Porter ’64, MA ’66 of Los Angeles is
a featured artist at the Craft and Folk Art
Museum’s current exhibition Golden State
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An Olympic World Record
HARRY R. NELSON ME ’51
doesn’t hold the world record
for hurdles or shot put. Rather,
he holds one for attendance.
Guinness World Records this
year cited Nelson, who lives
in Torrance, Calif., as the only
person to have attended 17
Summer Olympic Games. He
began this lifelong endeavor
as a 10-year-old at the 1932
games in Los Angeles and
plans to continue it by go-
ing to his 18th Olympics in
London next year. His wife,
Delores Henson Nelson ’58,
ME ’78, will accompany him.
Nelson worked at USC from
1954 to 1964 as an adviser in
the Dean of Students offi ce
and then as assistant director
of the Extension Division. He
has crossed paths with numer-
ous USC Olympians over
the decades, including gold
medal-winning hurdler Rex
Cawley ’64, pictured right with
Nelson at the 1964 Tokyo
games.
In 2008, Nelson self-pub-
lished a book about his Olym-
pic experiences, Following
the Flame: A 76-Year Olympic
Journey, which can be obtained
by contacting the author at
(310) 324-7282. ●
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Kathy (Keeler) Seid ‘80 can’t pop into a dry
cleaner’s, step onto a golf course or set foot
in a doctor’s offi ce without sensing untapped
potential.
“There’s just not any place I go that I don’t
see an opportunity,” she says.
Seid is enthusiastic about a new product
that she and her husband, David, created out
of their printing business: the MiniBük. The
pocket-sized books are proving popular as a
tangible and clever way for businesses and
individuals to market themselves. Customers are using the format to create compact how-to
guides, industry primers and product explainers.
“It’s little and cute, but people are intrigued by how much focused information you can get in a
small package,” says Seid, who has printed 200,000 MiniBüks since starting the venture in 2010.
Drawing on skills she learned majoring in marketing at the USC Marshall School of Business,
Seid doesn’t miss a chance to spread the word. She has engaged potential customers in eleva-
tors, on airplanes and at museums.
“When I took our dog to the vet,” she says, “I sold her on the value of doing a MiniBük about
the importance of dental health for pets.”
Hailing from a family of entrepreneurs and Trojans (“I was indoctrinated very early,” she jokes),
Seid entered USC as an accounting major but switched to marketing after a life-changing class
taught by the late Ralph Carson. In 1947, Carson co-founded the Carson/Roberts agency, which
grew into Los Angeles’ largest advertising fi rm until it merged with Ogilvy & Mather in 1971. He
later founded USC’s Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
“I don’t think there was a person in the class who wasn’t inspired by him,” Seid recalls. “His
passion about business, marketing and advertising was infectious, and he made you feel you
could be successful at whatever your passion is.”
She and David launched their printing business in 1985, publishing mainly software manu-
als until a customer made a special request: He wanted to print a very small book. David, the
engineer of the operation, made it happen, and they soon began offering the minibook to other
clients. It took off.
Customers have ordered MiniBüks on topics ranging from social media to event planning to
emergency preparedness. They’ve used the books as table favors at fundraising events and as
ski-trip guides, complete with maps and roommate assignments. The IT company Oracle recently
used MiniBük as part of a nationwide direct-mail campaign, and a trio of authors hired by Face-
book wrote a miniguide on using Facebook for teaching and learning.
And Seid convinced USC alumnus John McKinney ’74 – co-founder of the USC Hiking Club and
author of several books about hiking – that MiniBük was the perfect size for his new trail guides,
starting with Hiking 101: Great Trails and Beach Walks Surprisingly Close to USC.
Entrepreneurship, Seid says, “is not for the timid or shy. You must wear many hats and network
all the time. You need to be a multitasker and have a team of competent people behind you.”
Even 30-some-odd years later, the enthusiasm modeled by Carson still fuels her. “He had fun
with being an entrepreneur,” she says. “And that’s what I’m having.”
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Determined
of Craft. Her work also was included in the
American Museum of Natural History’s
exhibition Pearls. She is a 25-year member
of the USC Associates and the USC Roski
School of Fine Arts’ Board of Councilors.
Dale S. Gribow ’65 has been practicing law
in the greater Palm Springs area for 18 years
and was selected as one of the top four
personal injury lawyers by Palm Springs
Life Magazine. He recently started Imprint
Media Productions with his wife, Patti. He
served as president of the Trojan Club of
the Desert for two years.
Hamid Naficy ’68 released A Social History
of Iranian Cinema, a comprehensive social
history of Iranian fi lm that unfolds across
four volumes. He is a professor of radio-
television-fi lm and the Hamad Bin Khalifa
Al-Thani Professor in Communication at
Northwestern University.
Larry Fowler ’69 released Lincoln’s Diary,
which follows a young woman as she weighs
the price of truth against the cost of keeping
secrets. He lives in Gig Harbor, Wash.
1970s
Richard Boudreau DDS ’71 of Marina del
Rey, Calif., is board certifi ed in oral and
maxillofacial surgery, forensic medicine
and forensic dentistry. He is a practicing
attorney licensed in three jurisdictions. He
has several academic degrees, including an
MBA from Pepperdine University, where
he was a 2011 George Award recipient. He
received his doctorate degree in bioeth-
ics from the University of Oxford’s Christ
Church in August.
Dean T. Reuter ’74 of Redondo Beach, Calif.,
was honored with the 2011 Distinguished
Citizen Award by the Torrance Area Cham-
ber of Commerce. He serves as senior as-
sistant governor for membership for Rotary
District 5280. He also was selected for the
Torrance YMCA’s board of governors.
James E. Smith MS ’75, PhD ’79 was
appointed president of the Rockville,
Md.-based Westat, a research corporation
providing services to agencies of the U.S.
government, businesses and foundations.
alumni profi le ’80
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On his business card, Brandon Stauber MPP
’95 identifi es himself as “Agent White.”
Relax. He’s talking about wine.
In 2007, the 41-year-old oenophile launched
The Wine Spies LLC, with partner Jason Seeber,
who goes by “Agent Red.” The company’s
ecommerce site (thewinespies.com) sells a
different wine each day, offering wine lovers a
“confi dential wine dossier” on each daily pick.
Dossiers include a review, an interview with
the winemaker and background information
on the vineyard. Featured wines, produced in small quantities and usually not found in grocery
stores, are sold at a discount for one day only.
“We came up with the concept of ‘spying out’ family wineries and introducing them to a wider
public,” Stauber says, explaining his company’s cloak-and-dagger conceit.
The website plays the espionage theme to the hilt. Members are called “operatives,” and they
can earn “spy points” by contributing wine reviews, inviting friends to join or buying wine. As they
accumulate points, operatives can be promoted to “fi eld agent” or “station chief,” making them
eligible for special promotions and gifts.
The Tom Clancy-esque trappings of the site refl ect its founders’ belief that wine should be fun,
not intimidating. “The ultimate goal is to make wine accessible, to get it off the pedestal and into
the glass, where you can enjoy it,” Stauber says.
Since going live, the site has attracted nearly 30,000 members, and its 2010 sales were about
$1.5 million, according to Stauber. It moves 15 to 25 cases a day, with most bottles selling be-
tween $20 and $50.
The Wine Spies is the second entrepreneurial venture for Stauber, who credits USC’s Master
of Public Policy program at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development for teaching him
the strategic thinking necessary to succeed in business. “It’s given me a framework for looking
at challenging problems and fi nding effective solutions,” he says.
In 1999 the Los Angeles native, who also holds a B.A. in public administration from San
Diego State University, launched an online event-management fi rm. After selling that company
in 2004, he worked as a business consultant. In 2006, a friend from the Sonoma Valley asked
Stauber to write a business plan for a venture exporting California wines to Europe. Although
that business never got off the ground, the friend – Seeber – partnered with Stauber to create
The Wine Spies.
It remains a small enterprise, with Stauber and Seeber the only full-time employees. An
operations whiz, Stauber works remotely from his Exeter, N.H., home, while creative guru Seeber
oversees marketing from the company’s Santa Rosa, Calif., headquarters.
Sharing an equal passion for wine, the partners personally taste and review each vintage they
sell, Stauber says. If one of them doesn’t like a wine, they won’t sell it.
“We’re actually taking a lot of time with each wine to try to give it its due,” Stauber says. “Every
wine has a story, and winemakers are in the business because they have a particular skill and
passion for a product. If we can reveal what that passion is, then we’ve done a good job.”
MIKE CULLITY
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The Spy Who
Loved Wine
PHOTO BY MARK BOLTON
He has been a corporate offi cer at Westat
since 1988 and a member of its board of
directors since 2006.
Robert Leach ’76 wrote Never Make the Same
Mistake Once, a book about legendary USC
baseball coach Rod Dedeaux. He lives in
Azusa, Calif.
Robert Michael Wilson MPA ’76 of Las Vegas
was interviewed for the “True Grit” episode
of The Real Story, a show on the Smithsonian
Channel that tells the stories behind feature
fi lms and iconic characters. He has been
researching the Old West for 15 years and
has several books and articles to his name.
Janalyn Glymph ’78, MA ’82 was appointed
personnel director of the Los Angeles Uni-
fi ed School District’s Personnel Commis-
sion, where she will head human resources
operations and staff for more than 30,000
classifi ed employees. Previously, she
worked as an examining assistant and a se-
nior personnel analyst with the commission.
Denys “Dennis” Mueller ’78 of Encinitas,
Calif., was selected as 2010 Project Manager
of the Year for Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Soft-
ware Division. He has worked at Hewlett-
Packard for 13 years, starting out as a fi eld
services consultant. Previously, he worked
in the aerospace and information technology
industries.
1980s
Don Muehlbach MS ’81 received consecu-
tive Wayne E. Meyer awards for Teaching
Excellence in Systems Engineering at the
Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,
Calif., where he is a professor of systems
engineering.
Andrew Ratner MBA ’81 was appointed ex-
ecutive vice president and senior managing
director of CB Richard Ellis in Los Angeles.
He spent the past 25 years with Cushman &
Wakefi eld/Cushman Realty Corporation in
various senior management positions, most
recently as executive managing director in
charge of the global consulting group.
Kurt Jose Ayau ’82 wrote The Brick Murder:
A Tragedy and Other Stories, a collection of
alumni profi le ’95
Healthcare Law Section. She is head of
the Transactional/Healthcare Regulatory
Department of Fenton Nelson LLP, a
healthcare law fi rm in West Los Angeles.
Steven Travers ’83 of Marin County, Calif.,
released The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His
Times, a detailed look at the life of the New
York sports icon. He is a former pro baseball
player and author of several published books.
Blake Christian MBT ’85, a Long Beach,
Calif.-based certifi ed public accountant,
received the Public Service Award by the
California Society of CPAs. He is a tax part-
ner at Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP.
He is the 2011-12 president of the Rotary
Club of Long Beach.
Deb (Szijarto) McGuire ’85 released her fi rst
book, Hawaii’s Pets: Photos of Our Animal
’Ohana, with author Tim McGuire. A por-
tion of the profi ts will go to benefi ting the
Hawaiian Humane Society. She is an animal
photographer in Honolulu.
Michael Thorburn MS ’87 was appointed
head of the Department of Engineering at
the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillime-
ter Array, the largest existing astronomical
project that boasts a partnership between
Europe, North America and East Asia in
cooperation with the Republic of Chile. He
lives in Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
John H. Carter MS ’89 received Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity Inc.’s Award of Merit
during the Martin Luther King Jr. memo-
rial dedication in Washington, D.C. As the
initial project manager of the memorial, he
coordinated site and design selection and
raised more than $15 million. He and his
wife, Susan, manage their consulting fi rm,
Carter & Carter LLC.
Brian Cherry MBA ’89 was appointed vice
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funnily tragic stories that won the Tartt First
Fiction Award. He is the co-author of What
the Shadow Told Me, the 2003 winner of the
Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society’s Faulkner/
Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for
the novel. He is an associate professor of
English at Virginia Military Institute.
Roger L. Haley ’83 is city manager of the
city of Lynwood, which won the National
League of Cities’ 2010 All-America City
Award.
Mark R. Henschke PharmD ’83 of Newing-
ton, N.H., was selected as one of “America’s
Top Physicians” and was listed in the 2011
edition of the “Guide to America’s Top
Physicians.” He is a board certifi ed physi-
cian in both internal medicine and medical
management.
Beth Kase JD ’83 was elected chair of the
Los Angeles County Bar Association’s
46 USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE winter 2011
USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE tfm.usc.edu 47
Andrew Apfelberg ’93 received The M&A
Advisor’s 40 Under 40 Award, which rec-
ognizes individuals for their deal-making
success nationally and internationally. He is
a corporate and fi nance attorney at Rutter
Hobbs & Davidoff in Los Angeles.
Michelle (Inouye) Schultz ’93 of Burbank,
Calif., was promoted to vice president and
senior litigation counsel of Warner Bros.
Entertainment Inc. Previously, she was a
partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
David Flaherty MA ’94 received a 2011 Gold
Quill Award of Excellence in the issues
management and crisis communications
category from the International Association
of Business Communicators. He is direc-
tor of internal communications at Molina
Healthcare in Long Beach, Calif.
Courtney Liddy ’94 of San Diego was recog-
nized as “America’s Top 100 Women
Financial Advisers” in Barron’s magazine.
She is senior vice president of investments
and senior fi nancial adviser for Merrill
Lynch Wealth Management. She is involved
in numerous community activities, includ-
ing the U.S. Navy League and the Girl
Scouts of America.
David Chapel EdD ’95 was appointed to the
Orange County Transportation Authority
Citizens Advisory Committee. He lives in
Santa Ana, Calif.
Raymond Egan DMA ’96 premiered his
self-composed piece Mass for St. Luke’s at St.
Luke’s Presbyterian Church in Rolling Hills
Estates, Calif. He directed the performance.
Audra Priluck ’97 of Northridge, Calif., was
named vice president of business develop-
ment at Ipsos OTX MediaCT, a global
market research company. She is a member
of the Academy of Television Arts & Sci-
ences and is part of its Interactive Media
Peer Group’s Executive Committee.
president of rates and regulation of Pacifi c
Gas and Electric Company. Previously, he
served as vice president of regulatory rela-
tions. He lives in Orinda, Calif.
Matthew D. Heller ’89 of Encino, Calif., was
elected chairman of the Parks, Recreation
and Education Commission for the city of
Calabasas. He has served as a commissioner
with the city since 2006.
Alan Sitomer ’89 released Nerd Girls: The
Rise of the Dorkasaurus, a novel about three
middle-school outcasts. In addition to being
an inner-city high school English teacher
and former professor in the Graduate School
of Education at Loyola Marymount Uni-
versity, he is an award-winning author and
California’s 2007 Teacher of the Year.
1990s
Wayne H. Bowen ’90 of Cape Girardeau,
Mo., released Spain and the American Civil
War, a comprehensive look at relations
between Spain and the two antagonists of
the American Civil War. He is professor
and chair of the Department of History at
Southeast Missouri State University.
Scott J. Thompson ’90, MFA ’94 was ap-
pointed director of the Graduate Screen-
writing Program at Boston University. He
has been a full-time screenwriting professor
at the College of Communication since 2005
and has worked as a screenwriter for produc-
tion companies in Los Angeles, Boston,
New York, Montreal and Germany.
Scott Allen MPA/MPL ’92 of Waukesha,
Wash., released Success Guide for Real Estate
Sales Thriving in Tough Times.
Nick Demopoulos ’92 is a guitarist and the
leader of Exegesis, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based
jazz trio that released its second album, The
Harmony of the Anomaly. He also is featured
on Revelation, an album by NEA Jazz Master
and drumming jazz legend Chico Hamilton.
Paul M. Walters MPA ’92 was appointed
interim city manager for the city of Santa
Ana. Previously, he was chief of police and
a member of the city’s Executive Manage-
ment Team since 1988.
USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE tfm.usc.edu 49
Fernando Valley. She is a family law attor-
ney who joined the fi rm in 2003.
James Nussbaumer ’04 of Portland, Ore.,
joined the Foreign Service of the U.S.
Department of State. His fi rst tour is in
Monterrey, Mexico.
Wendy Birhanzel EdD ’07 is principal of
Wildfl ower Elementary, which was named
one of only eight schools in Colorado where
100 percent of its third-grade students
scored profi cient or advanced in reading.
Tom Prieto MBT ’07 wrote “Tax Effi cient
Asset Allocation,” an article in Practical Tax
Strategies. He lives in Valencia, Calif.
Courtney R. Wise MS ’07 was named 2011
Young Professional of the Year by the
Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce.
She is executive director of Take Care
Advisor, a geriatric care management com-
pany in Sarasota, Fla.
Steve Boman MFA ’09 wrote Film School:
The True Story of a Midwestern Family Man
Who Went to the World’s Most Famous Film
School, Fell Flat on His Face, Had a Stroke,
and Sold a Television Series to CBS, a memoir
that chronicles his journey at USC. He splits
his time between Edina, Minn., and La
Cañada Flintridge, Calif.
Dallas Woodburn ’09 won fi rst place in the
Ninth Glass Woman Prize for her short
story “Woman, Running Late, in a Dress.”
She is a master’s student in fi ction writing
at Purdue University in Indiana, where
she teaches undergraduate creative writing
classes and is assistant fi ction editor of liter-
ary journal Sycamore Review.
2010s
Norwegian twins Einy Paulsen ’10, MAcc
’11 and Kine Paulsen ’11 of Los Angeles
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“The wit of Si Ramo is
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we best pay heed.”
Steven B. Sample, President Emeritus,
University of Southern California
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon Ramo was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Carter and the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, the U.S.’s highest civilian award, by President Reagan. One of the nation’s most successful hi-tech
entrepreneurs, his businesses have been acquired by the likes of General Electric, General Motors and Northrop.
Inducted into the Business Hall of Fame, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Smithsonian Institution.
Carlos Canedo Jr. ’98, MS ’99 and his wife,
Erin Canedo ’98, are world travelers who
have taken the USC fl ag to places like Flor-
ence and Siena, Italy; Jungfrau, Switzerland;
La Paz, Bolivia; and Machu Picchu, Peru.
2000s
Anela Freeman ’01 was appointed commu-
nity relations director at Pioneer House Se-
nior Retirement Community in downtown
Sacramento, where she leads advertising
and marketing.
Arwa Jumkawala ’03 was interviewed on
MarthaStewart.com about her custom jew-
elry eboutique, GemKitty. She is a jewelry
designer in Portland, Ore.
Vanessa Soto Nellis JD ’03 was promoted to
shareholder at Lewitt, Hackman, Shapiro,
Marshall & Harlan, a law fi rm in the San
ALUMNI
Carol Whitney Crull
MSW ’37, Bellevue, Wash.; July 7,
at the age of 95
Vincent C. Porter
’48, Bakersfi eld, Calif.; July 26,
at the age of 89
John W. Eder
’49, La Habra, Calif.; April 27,
at the age of 94
Robert Arthur Allison
’51, Newport Beach, Calif.; May 19,
at the age of 81
Richard Dorman
’51, Santa Fe, Calif.; April 3,
at the age of 87
Saul Altshuler
PhD ’52, Santa Barbara, Calif.; Oct. 10,
at the age of 92
Jack Breining Behrendt
MBA ’54, Rancho Palos
Verdes, Calif.; June 6,
at the age of 85
Francis C. Hertzog Jr.
MD ’54, Long Beach, Calif.; Feb. 16,
at the age of 85
Othmar Walter Sailer
MBA ’58, Redmond, Wash.; June 26,
at the age of 90
Cody H. Unger
MS ’60, Brigham City, Utah; July 1,
at the age of 91
Joseph Terrence “Terry” Lanni
’65, Pasadena, Calif.; July 14,
at the age of 68
Norman Perry Thompson
DMA ’75, Newark, Del.; May 1,
at the age of 82
Kevin McDonough
MA ’80, Richmond, Calif.; June 2,
at the age of 63
50 USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE winter 2011
launched Ingri:Dahl, one of the fi rst com-
panies in the world dedicated to designing
fashionable 3-D glasses. They have worked
in sales, marketing and fi nance in Europe
and the United States.
Sam Salty MBA ’11 was promoted to senior
manager in the audit and business advisory
services department at Haskell & White
LLP, an Irvine, Calif.-based accounting,
auditing and tax consulting fi rm. He has
more than 10 years of accounting experi-
ence in both the public and private sectors.
MARRIAGES
Bob Graziano ’80 and Wendy Wachtell MA ’87
Alisande Lisette (Sasha) Bernstein ’96 and
Stuart Williams
J. Scott Goldstein PhD ’97 and Polly Primost
Cathy L. Hue ’00 and Julian Shah-Tayler
Hali (Gewelber) Lieb ’01, MAcc ’04 and
Greg Lieb ’02
Ryan N. Lorenzen ’01 and Stacia Parker
Amy Deng ’02 and Jay Granzow
Gary Baum ’05 and Kieumai Vo ’05
Katherine Borras ’06 and Desmond Reed ’07
Laura Nastase ’06 and Alexander Najemy.
BIRTHS
David L. Haserot ’51, a great-grandson, Jax
Carleton Grovers. He is the step-great-
grandson of Val M. Menendez ’50
Paul Marks JD ’88 and Kerri Speck Marks ’94,
a son, D. Severin Charles. He joins sisters
Maggie and Esme
John Patrick Nelson MFA ’98 and Alison
Star Locke Nelson ’00, a daughter, Bethany
Aurora
Matthew Johnson ’99 and Jennifer (Ely)
Johnson ’00, a son, Zachary Matthew
Angela Monteilh Weedn ’99 and Isaiah
Weedn ’99, JD ’03, a daughter, Parker
Sonnee Rose. She is the granddaughter of
Sonnee Stallman Weedn ’68, MS ’73 and
Robert Weedn ’70
Rosa Martinez-Genzon ’00, JD ’03 and
Leonardo Genzon ’00, a son, Nicolas James.
He is the nephew of Jessie Martinez ’07
Eric Kahnert ’02 and Allison Kahnert, a son,
Kaden Eric
Matt Cobo ’04 and Nicole Cobo, a daughter,
Helena Irene. She is the granddaughter of
Mike ’78 and Jane Cobo ’78, and the niece of
Kim Cobo ’05 and Ryan Steers ’07
Andrew Barton ’05 and Jennifer Barton, a
daughter, Braylin Nicole. She is the grand-
daughter of Carolyn and Rick Barton ’78.
in memoriam
John Randolph “Jack” Hub-
bard, the eighth president of
USC and U.S. ambassador to
India from 1988 to 1989, died
Aug. 21 in Rancho Mirage,
Calif. He was 92.
A native of Belton, Texas,
he enlisted in the U.S. Navy
and served for fi ve years as
a naval aviator during World
War II.
In 1965, Hubbard served
as chief education adviser in
India for the U.S. Agency for
International Development. Two decades
later, Hubbard returned to India, this time
as U.S. ambassador, and was later awarded
for his services with the Alben W. Barkley
Medal for Distinguished Service.
Hubbard came to USC as vice president
and provost in 1969. He served in that
capacity for a year before his unanimous
election to succeed Norman H. Topping
as university president.
During his fi rst year in
offi ce, USC became a mem-
ber of the Association of
American Universities, and
over the course of his decade
of leadership, USC rose from
33rd to 19th in National
Science Foundation rank-
ings for federally sponsored
research.
In 1975, Hubbard
launched the Toward
Century II campaign, a
$265 million fundraising
effort – USC’s most ambitious at the time
– designed to prepare the university for its
second century. The campaign generated
more than $306 million for university
programs and endowment.
Hubbard is survived by his daughters
Lisa, Melisse and Kristie, six grandchil-
dren, his former wife, Lucy Hubbard
Haugh, and his longtime partner, Marcia
Adams. ●
Norman Lewis Corwin, profes-
sor at the USC Annenberg
School for Communication
& Journalism and one of the
country’s greatest radio dra-
matists, died Oct. 18 in Los
Angeles. He was 101.
Corwin was a Bostonian
who, at 17, started on a
course that led him ulti-
mately into almost all forms
of media.
After 10 years as a news-
paperman, Corwin moved
into radio and served as writer-director-
producer for CBS with such memorable
series as 26 by Corwin and Columbia Presents
Corwin. His most famous work was On a
Note of Triumph, a celebration of the Allied
victory in Europe.
He wrote and directed stage plays,
television dramas, motion pictures, three
cantatas and even the libretto of an award-
winning one-act opera that was produced
by the Metropolitan Opera.
Corwin also wrote the Oscar-
nominated screenplay for
Lust for Life.
He was the author of 12
published books and led two
award committees for the
Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences.
In 1979, Corwin joined
USC, where he remained
as writer-in-residence until
his death.
“His insightful, inspir-
ing body of work has been absorbed into
the American consciousness,” said USC
Annenberg dean Ernest J. Wilson III.
“He gave us the benefi t of his knowledge,
wit and keen observations through many
decades, and he was a literary treasure.”
In 1993, Corwin was inducted into the
Radio Hall of Fame.
Corwin, whose wife died in 1995, is sur-
vived by children Diane and Anthony. ●
John Randolph “Jack” Hubbard
Norman Lewis Corwin
USC TROJAN FAMILY MAGAZINE tfm.usc.edu 51
Fred Steiner
PhD ’81, Ajijic, Mexico; June 23,
at the age of 88
Nathan John Nouskajian
’01, Pasadena, Calif.; July 18,
at the age of 32.
FACULTY, STAFF & FRIENDS
Jean Agee
Brea, Calif.; July 8,
at the age of 74
David Beeler
Huntington Beach, Calif.; Aug. 3,
at the age of 42
John Calley
Beverly Hills, Calif.; Sept. 13,
at the age of 81
Tsen-Chung Cheng
San Marino, Calif.; July 12,
at the age of 66
Clifton O. Dummett
Los Angeles; Sept. 7,
at the age of 92
John H. Marburger III
Port Jefferson, N.Y.; July 28,
at the age of 70
Carol Nagy
Julian, Calif.; Aug. 8,
at the age of 72
Thomas A. “Thom” Rhue
MA ’68, Los Angeles; Aug. 20,
at the age of 67
Max Harry Weil
Rancho Mirage, Calif.; July 29,
at the age of 84. ●
READ THE OBITUARIES
OF THESE MEMBERS OF
THE TROJAN FAMILY AT
tfm.usc.edu/memoriam
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7. This Turkic language is spoken by
nearly 11 million people in Western China.
It’s commonly written in an Arabic-derived
alphabet.
8. The name of this artificial language
derives from the pseudonym of the
19th century Russian-, Yiddish- and
Polish-speaking dreamer who invented it.
It means “one who hopes.” Up to 2 million
people, living in 115 countries, speak
it today.
9. “Nu scilun herga hefenricæs uard” is the first
line of the oldest-surviving text of this West
Germanic language. It has since evolved
into the third most common language in the
world, spoken in 104 lands by close to 340
million native speakers. ●
1. Though geographically surrounded by
Romance languages, this region is home
to an ancient tongue – spoken by about a
half million people today – that is unrelated
to any other known language. Linguists
believe it’s the last remaining descendant
of languages spoken in prehistoric Europe.
2. The standard version of this modern
language is influenced by the writings of a
Renaissance poet, who consciously set about
constructing a national language, drawing
heavily on his own regional dialect.
3. Spoken by nearly 8 million people, this
Bantu language is conspicuous for its use of
18 distinct consonant clicks, as demonstrated
by the South African singer Miriam Makeba
in the tongue twister “Qongqothwane.”
4. Calling it “Owhyhee,” British explorer
James Cook first wrote of this Polynesian
language in 1778.
5. While the people of this Asian country
speak upward of 150 languages in the
Austronesian family, a third of residents
share a common mother tongue. It makes
sense, then, that this dominant language –
in its standardized form – would become
the basis for the official national language.
6. The large number of words this language
borrowed from Parthian originally led lin-
guists to mistakenly classify it as an Iranian
language. On closer scrutiny, it was found
to be an independent Indo-European lan-
guage. Its distinctive 38-letter alphabet was
devised by a fourth-century saint.
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Last Word c/o USC Trojan Family Magazine, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-7790,
or by email at magazines@usc.edu.
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spoken in the world today. See how many of them you can identify from
these clues.
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