Spring/Summer 2004 CSUSB Magazine

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I N S I D E : University conference Joriz De Guzman
brings Saudi, American is working on his
educators to the table bachelor’s – at 13
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SAN BERNARDINO
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The Road
Volume 12 Issue 2
Spring/Summer 2004
is Never
News for
Alumni and
Straight Friends
of the
University
Marcia Raines is preparing
her nursing students for
a profession vastly changed.
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President’s Observations ___________4
The challenges the campus faces in beating
Mother Nature and the current state budget
Honoring those who risked crisis will not thwart the world of possibilities
Recognized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for leading CSUSB’s
(page 8) open to students with a college degree.
charge in improving community health, nursing department chair Marcia
Raines has established several partnerships with inland region hospitals.
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Professors Richard Fehn and Lanny Fields
take this year’s top teaching honors and
other news.
F e a t u r e s
College News _______________________ 11
The BCLAD program is giving credential
students a chance to learn how to teach
Contributions Feature ______________19 in other cultures.
Jim Watson remembers how one teacher
Contributions ______________________20
helped him learn to read, and now he’s
To propel students into that world of make-
passing on the gift.
believe, a $100,000 theatre scholarship is
Athletics Feature __________________ 21 being established.
Staying dry
Sport is more than agility and raw talent. Pack Tracks ________________________22
(page 20)
It is ability harnessed by a nimble mind.
In season and out, Coyote sports teams
Just ask Traci Statler.
make giving one of their favorite activities.
Student Feature ___________________ 24
Student Scapes ___________________ 26
Joriz has what so many of us want: Youth,
So respected has the university’s Leadership
wisdom and a nice outside jumper.
Academy become, Cal State students have
suggested it be required coursework.
Alumni Feature ____________________ 27
He can sing and do standup comedy, but his Alumni Advantage _________________ 28
favorite audience is made up of his patients. For founding faculty and administrators as
well as returning alumni, the pioneer event
was a romp down memory lane.
Calendar __________________ back cover
Summer Wednesdays music series brings
surf and swing to the Commons Plaza.
Art of Yunnan
(back page)
S P R I N G / S U M M E R 2 0 0 4 CSUSB
PRESIDENT’S OBSERVATIONS
C F
HALLENGES TO THE UTURE
by Albert Karnig
The university, and the But not all of our challenges are physical. The current
county of San Bernardino, budget situation facing California has erected barriers that
recently celebrated the bravery block access to higher education. This confounds all our
and true heroism of the fire efforts, here at the university and in the community, to
fighters, emergency workers, encourage students and their families to work hard and plan
law enforcement personnel and to attend college. We have worked so hard to increase the
others who fought the vicious college-going rate; now we don’t want to raise hopes only to
wildfires in our region last fall. have them dashed by budget reductions. While at the time of
It was an inspiring occasion for this writing the state budget situation is far from settled, I
me, standing on the platform at think I speak for everyone in the CSU system as well as all of
Coussoulis Arena, looking out public higher education in California when I say I hope we
over a sea of hundreds of men can keep the doors open to as many students as possible.
and women in uniform, know- We know that the greatest threat to our community, our
ing that their actions saved state, and our very way of life would be our failure to edu-
thousands of homes and untold cate the coming generations. Higher education is, and always
numbers of lives. will be, the “way up” for most people. It’s a demonstrable
Albert Karnig
And yet as I spoke with fact that over a lifetime bachelor’s degree holders earn an
these heroes, their tone was not self-congratulatory but cau- average of $1 million more than their high-school counter-
tiously wary: Yes, we were fortunate to be able to protect so parts.
many lives and so much property this time around. But there But it’s not simply money. An education opens the mind
are still dangers before us. Tens of thousands of dead trees, to a world of possibilities, to paths that students never
victims of the bark beetle, still stand as tinder in the San thought could be pursued. A university education draws stu-
Bernardinos, America’s densest national forest. And the dents into a world of people who will share values, create
denuded hillsides were ripe for mud, rock and debris slides lifelong friendships and partnerships, and bring new personal
that could pose further danger, they said. satisfactions.
Of course, none of these
great outcomes can occur if stu-
“We know that the greatest threat to our community, our state, and our dents are denied access. Even
very way of life would be our failure to educate the coming generations.” worse—the good outcomes
can’t take place if students
don’t believe in themselves
enough even to consider col-
How prophetic those comments were. Exactly 11 days lege. It truly does take a village—or at least a family—to
later, on Christmas Day, 14 lives were lost in Waterman believe in the student, to create a culture of expectancy for
Canyon and Devore to slides caused by the heavy rains of college all through the student’s life.
that day. These tragedies have spurred even greater efforts to Despite steep budget cuts and mandates—which will
clear debris from storm channels, reinforce mountain roads amount to roughly 13 percent over two years—CSUSB will
and change building codes to prevent future fire and flood try to promote access to as many students as possible.
damage. Nonetheless, with significantly less funding, to maintain qual-
Physical danger is, of course, one of the constants of life ity our enrollment will decline by over 1,000 students next
on our planet; it’s one that modern man has largely forgot- year.
ten in the 20th and 21st centuries, as civilization, urbaniza- As we face the physical threats of nature and the implica-
tion, modern medicine and the industrial revolution have tions of lower budgets, let’s remember the absolutely crucial
removed or minimized many of the threats that plagued our role education plays in all our lives. And let’s work together
forefathers and mothers. The late Bob Hope used to joke to bring its benefits to all who will have it.
that California is the land of four seasons: rain, wind, fire
and earthquake. Living and working at the foot of the Cajon
Pass, where high winds regularly cross over the intersection
of the infamous San Andreas Fault, the Cal State San
Bernardino community is quite keenly aware of the physical
challenges we face.
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ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT —
A King Saud University professor
fields questions from CSUSB
students during a January confer-
ence on relations between his
Saudi homeland and America. Cal
State's academic ties to Saudi
Arabia were initiated by political
science Professor Ralph Salmi and
fully supported by CSUSB
President Albert Karnig, John
Conley, dean of social and behav-
ioral sciences, and Louis
Fernandez, university provost and
vice president.
SAUDI ARABIA and the U.S. :
Deploying the Forces of Understanding
While many Americans have discussion, with a critical eye on close and strong relationship for 11 attack was wrong, and say
focused their attention on Saudi these important international 70 years – and we remain key they have no quarrel with the
Arabia since the Sept. 11, 2001, issues.” allies to one another,” Karnig American public. Yet the Zogby
terrorist attacks, the kingdom’s Cal State welcomed a dele- said. “Conversely, a crisis of survey also showed that only “6
relations with the United States gation of 19 educators and dig- confidence hangs over the percent of Saudis have
go back several decades and far nitaries from King Saud Saudi-American relationship. In a favorable attitude toward U.S.
beyond oil. It seemed fitting, University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the West, there have been alle- policies and actions in Iraq,
then, that a university campus and the Ministry of Higher gations of Saudi government and a scant 1 percent approve
was the site for a conference Education Jan. 21-23. complicity in the events of 9-11, of U.S. policy in Palestine,”
where the goal Conference of at least tacit indifference to Karnig said.
was to open a attendees also how Saudi funds have financed Though talk of terrorism,
dialogue and If any change, included educa- terrorism. And there’s a clear the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,
foster under- tors, administra- American perception that the women’s rights, education
if any true reforms
standing at a tors and students Saudi government, until perhaps reform and religious and cultural
personal level are to take place, from CSUSB and recently, has been unwilling to differences could have sparked
between two other educational identify terror cells in Saudi serious contention, reasoned
countries. she said, they have institutions for a Arabia.” Other issues that play discussion and deeper under-
“I think it’s joint conference, into Americans’ perceptions standing did take place during
to come from within
important to “United States- include women’s rights and the panel presentations on Jan.
recognize that Saudi society not Saudi Arabian extremist views offered in 22, the centerpiece event of the
we held this Relations in Light Saudi schools. Saudi delegations’ visit, as well
conference in from the outside. of the Current He also discussed Saudi per- as during other events. More
an academic International ceptions of America. Karnig ref- than 900 students, faculty, staff
setting,” said Crisis.” erenced a 2003 nationwide sur- and visitors to the university
John Conley, dean of CSUSB’s CSUSB President Albert vey by U.S. polling firm Zogby, participated in the panels and
College of Social and Behavioral Karnig described relations which showed that 90 percent discussions.
Sciences, which organized the between Saudi Arabia and the of Saudis reject terrorist leader Panelists reminded the
conference in collaboration with United States as being at “dan- Osama Bin Laden’s operations audience that Saudi Arabia is
King Saud University. “The rea- gerous crossroads.” and believe his tactics are incon- a relatively young country. The
son is that it provides an oppor- “On the one hand, the U.S. sistent with the values of Islam. kingdom, as it is constituted
tunity for open and reasoned and Saudi Arabia have had a They also agree that the Sept. now, was formed in 1932. It is
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Health for All
Community-University Pastor Kalke said the
Partnerships (CUP) at Cal agreement is “probably unlike
State San Bernardino has any in the nation.” It’s a part-
signed a memorandum of nership “that brings a universi-
agreement with Central City ty and neighborhood together
Lutheran Mission (CCLM) to to establish a pilot project for
expand important services to the delivery of primary-care
the disadvantaged citizens of services to marginalized peo-
San Bernardino. CSUSB ple,” he explained.
President Albert Karnig signed Added Eberst, “The clinic
the memorandum along with will provide many new oppor-
Maria and Heather (center and right) two College of Education BCLAD
the Rev. David J. Kalke, pastor tunities for CSUSB to get stu-
students, welcome a SEP official to their student teaching placement school
and executive director of dents from several different site in Queretaro, Mexico.
CCLM. academic majors engaged in
The goal of the agreement supporting the health needs of Learning …
is to foster additional service the local community.” For six weeks this spring, Cal State San Bernardino is hosting
learning and other university Recently, the New England Qustandi Shomali, a professor in the Arabic department of
efforts to meet the Resource Center for Bethlehem University. He brings with him vast expertise and
needs of the Higher Education knowledge of the Middle East, and comes to the university as
community named Eberst part of the Fulbright Visiting Specialists: Direct Access to the
served by recipient of Muslim World program. CSUSB is the state’s only university to
CCLM. The its 2004 host a visiting Fulbright Scholar through the new program. The
MOA for- Ernest A. university was awarded the grant “because we are developing
malized an Lynton expertise across a range of disciplines in Islamic Studies and also
ongoing Award for because we have a proven track record of reaching out to the
relationship Professional community that we serve,” said William Peterson, co-director
between Service and of the CSUSB International Institute. “The Council for
CUP and Academic International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) fully expects us to see
CCLM, and Outreach. that Dr. Shomali’s expertise is shared with the wider community
will help coordinate The award is given to in the Inland Empire.”
and expand efforts a U.S. educator who
that the two organi- most effectively and Partnerships …
zations have already made in broadly incorporates his or
The Bilingual Crosscultural Language and Academic
the San Bernardino community. her professional service and
Development (BCLAD) program is giving CSUSB students
It will also move their efforts academic outreach into mak-
teaching experience at an international level. It is offered at 10
into a long-term partnership. ing significant contributions to
CSU campuses, including Cal State San Bernardino. Designed to
The initial focus of the improving the overall quality
earn students a multiple subject teaching credential, the year-
memorandum is to support of life and health in the univer-
long program takes students to Mexico as well, and immerses
CUP’s health enhancement sity’s service region.
them in the country’s culture and language. The CSU students
component. Richard Eberst, CCLM is a nonprofit
study as a group at an orientation in San Diego, and in the fall
director of CUP and the CUP organization that provides a
travel to private schools in Queretaro, Mexico, where they
representative to the CCLM wide variety of important
combine teaching methodology coursework with classroom
board of directors, said that services to San Bernardino
observation. The BCLAD credential program is the only out-of-
CUP’s health enhancement community members who are
state teacher preparation program approved by the California
area aims to improve the in need. These services
Commission on Teacher Credentialing. For more details about
health of the local community. include nutrition programs,
the program read the story on page 11.
One of the benefits of the youth services, peer education
memorandum is that it enables and employment training.
Campus Environment …
CCLM to get funds from the CUP is a campus-wide initia-
CSUSB is keeping it modern. Even though it’s been available
California Endowment to help tive developed by CSUSB to
in the university’s Pfau Library for months, wireless network
operate the organization’s H build and advance partnerships
access for CSUSB faculty, students and staff was officially
Street Clinic, located in the that service the counties of
announced in February after testing and the telecommunica-
CCLM complex. The clinic San Bernardino and Riverside.
tions and network services department and library staff had
opened at the end of March.
done adjustments. Users whose laptop computers or PDAs
that carry the popular telecom protocol of 802.11b can now
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The Dukes of Mentors
One student said, “He encour-
ages (us) to not only learn science,
but more importantly … empow-
ers his students to share that
knowledge with the world.”
Another lauded his “oratory skills,
his ability to present material so
students could understand it, and
his knack for making class fun.”
These were the kinds of com-
ments students made when nomi-
nating biology Professor Richard
Fehn, who was named the 2004
Outstanding Professor of the Year
at Cal State San Bernardino.
One of the criteria for
Outstanding Professor is mentor- FRONT AND CENTER—The announcement during his class that he had earned the university’s top faculty honor put Richard Fehn in an
ing students as they conduct awkward position. For a few moments he was the center of attention while trying to get his students to focus more on what he was saying
than on what he had achieved, in a sense, right before their eyes.
research, publish their work, move
into fellowships and find positions
in the field. Fehn has mentored at least 87 students, including four
Grading CSUSB
California Predoctoral Fellows and five Graduate Equity Fellows.
Other criteria for the award include teaching ability, service to the
university beyond the classroom and service to the community.
Fehn is an alumnus of CSUSB, holding both bachelor’s and mas- A remarkable 10-year tion sequence and guidelines,
ter’s degrees in biology at the university. His 1983 Ph.D. in animal renewal of its accreditation – that's quite an accomplish-
physiology is from the University of Arizona. He served as chair of the maximum – has been ment,” said Karnig. Much
the biology department from 1994-97. One of his chief research granted by the Western more rigorous now, the
areas concerns diabetes and its relation to thyroid hormones and Association of Schools and WASC review aids institu-
obesity. Colleges (WASC) to Cal tions in developing and
High praise for teaching, however, hasn’t been limited to Richard State San Bernardino. WASC sustaining effective educa-
Fehn this year. Late last year, Lanny Fields, a CSUSB professor of his- praised the university as an tional programs and assures
tory, was named the university’s 2003 Golden Apple award winner, institution “responding boldly the general public and other
an honor that focuses on outstanding teaching. to the demographic shifts in organizations that an accredit-
In nominating Fields one student wrote, “Dr. Fields is an incredi- its region.” ed institution has met high
ble teacher. He treats students with respect and never talks down to In a letter to CSUSB standards of quality and
them. I have never heard a negative remark about (him).” In the past President Albert Karnig, effectiveness.
three years, student evaluations have ranked Fields with a perfect 4.0 WASC said the CSUSB “I want especially to
score for both his ability to stimulate interest in the subject and Learning Research Institute – applaud Associate Provost
overall quality of instruction. In judging the nomination, committee in consort with the universi- Jerrold Pritchard and each
members found an unsolicited e-mail from a student who took ty's Teaching Resource of his colleagues who toiled
courses from him more than 25 years ago. Center, Assessment Com- so hard – and effectively –
“I never forgot your classes,” the student said. “I am envious of mittee and student assistance over the past several years,”
your passion for your field of study. I just wanted you to know that programs – “is poised to Karnig said. “Jerry’s dedication
you helped make a difference in my life.” Fields came to CSUSB become a rising star on the was invaluable as he and
since 1985. His specialty is East Asian history, and he holds a doctor- campus and possibly beyond.” colleagues worked to prepare
ate from Indiana University, a master’s degree in Asian studies from “Given that we were the a set of reports in support
the University of Hawaii and a bachelor’s in history from DePauw first CSU to wend its way of re-accreditation.”
University. He founded the History Club at CSUSB and also the through the new accredita-
campus chapter of the national history honor society.
Speaking of Good Teaching
California State University system.
The award honors outstanding CSU faculty and administra-
A year later, appreciation of the honor is still fresh for history tors who have distinguished themselves through model contribu-
Professor Robert Blackey. In the flurry of Commencement tions in their disciplines. Said one CSUSB faculty member, “That
activity last spring, the news didn’t appear in CSUSB’s alumni [the award] went to a teaching scholar who continues to stress
magazine. Blackey was named winner of the 2003 Wang Family the importance of teaching as the highest priority, surely sets a
Excellence Award in the social and behavioral sciences by the powerful example to younger faculty.”
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Shortly after the fall fires tore through Devore and Lytle Creek, Cedar
Glen and so many mountain towns, and through northern suburbs in
San Bernardino, Peter Petrucci, a 1982 graduate of CSUSB and son of
retired Cal State chemistry Professor Ralph Petrucci, was reminded of a
day 23 years earlier, and struck by the contrast in the way he received
news of these two incredible events. With a Ph.D. in linguistics from
USC, today Peter teaches in New Zealand.
FIRE from Afar
I can’t really say, “Here we people around the world. On
go again,” because I missed the the Sunday evening news TV
Panorama, too. But as I hear NZ mentioned the Old Fire
more and more about the Old and showed footage of Cal
Fire, I find myself thinking about State San Bernardino being
both fires, comparing the approached by flames. My
moments when I first learned wife and I looked at each
of each. other and said, “That’s Cal
I was studying in France State!” Five minutes later, I
when I heard about the telephoned my father. Hearing
Panorama Fire. Around the phone ring at the other
Thanksgiving, a friend asked me end, I knew the house was
if my family was OK after the OK Relieved at the sound of
fire. I didn’t know what she each other’s voice, my father
meant. I had no phone, no TV. and I chatted for a while. He
When my friend explained, I told me our house had sur-
told her I wasn’t worried. San vived, but it had been touch-
Bernardino often had wild fires and-go for a while. Six houses
in the foothills, but they never up, a residence had burned.
entered the city. About 10 The rest of the people on
days later, I was leaving my Sepulveda were OK, apart
apartment for class to take an from a loss of power. The fol-
exam. On the spur of the lowing day I surfed the Net,
moment, I glanced at the foyer reading articles about the fire,
letterbox and there it was, a viewing photos and video clips
letter from Mom! Walking of the destruction. Although
through the narrow streets, I Del Rosa lies a mile or two
thought that family news would east of my boyhood home,
be a welcome respite from the names are so familiar: La
pre-exam stress. Once opened, Hacienda Drive, Golden
the letter read: “Peter, just a Avenue, Quail Canyon Road.
note to let you know the Places where some of us from
house burned down in the fire. Golden Valley JHS rode our
Don’t worry. We’re OK ….” bikes or played touch football
A lump came to my throat, on a front lawn.
my knees nearly buckled. I’ve been away for a long
Although I didn’t recall getting time now. However, family,
to history class, my classmates friends and the Internet have
said I had stumbled in and kept me abreast of what’s
been excused from the exam. happening in San Bernardino.
For the remainder of my year, For those of you who have
THE HONOR OF RISK — On Dec. 14 almost 200 firefighters, law enforcement person- letters and brief overseas calls lost your home in the most
nel and other heroes from the Grand Prix and Old Waterman Canyon Road fires were helped me piece together a lit- recent fire, please accept my
honored on the CSUSB campus. The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and
tle of what happened in San deepest sympathies. Hopefully
Cal State San Bernardino saluted those who put their lives on the fire line during the
Bernardino on that tragic day there is comfort in the fact
October and November blazes. CSUSB also has created a special scholarship fund for
firefighters and law enforcement personnel involved with the fires. The Firefighters and in November. that, just like in 1980, people
Law Enforcement Personnel Scholarship will be available to eligible firefighters, emer- Twenty-three years later, from San Bernardino will
gency workers and their families. technology brings immediate come together, rebuild and
reports of the latest fire to return to their neighborhoods.
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Eri Yasuhara, dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BIG JOB—From the summer of 2002 through
QUICK TAKES
spring 2003, CSUSB’s Peer Advising in Liberal
T C F
HE HANGING ACE Studies Center served more than 10,000 students
either by phone, pop-in meetings or full-on, one-
Finishing third in its first-ever
hour advising sessions. Leo Connolly coordinates
OF LIBERAL STUDIES the liberal studies program. He receives adminis- state competition, the CSUSB
trative assistance from Marianna Bencomo-Jasso Ethics Bowl team weaved its
and Charmaine Boucher as well as from Elena way through the complex issues
Ramirez, his assistant coordinator. of medical confidentiality, mar-
With 2,500 students, the liberal studies program makes keting practices, racial profiling,
up the largest degree major of any program at Cal State euthanasia, California’s three-
San Bernardino. The program is so large, in fact, that it’s strikes law and reparations for
the only one with its own commencement ceremony. Given slaves. During the December
that the vast majority of these majors pursue the demand- competition the team captured
ing profession of teaching and, particularly now, given that two of three preliminary rounds,
new, more stringent state standards for teachers have been including one against eventual
adopted, it’s astonishing that the program has grown so winner Chico State. Philosophy
large. Professor Chris Naticchia led
Liberal studies and the elementary teacher profession, team members Zahra
says Leo Connolly, who coordinates the program, have a Mohammed, a political science
diminished reputation. Some people still think, he says, “If major; Kimberley Clapp, a psy-
chology major; and Marco Ruiz
you can’t do anything else you can always become an ele-
and Nathan Mellis, both stu-
mentary school teacher, because it has the lowest require-
encourage students to take things dents in philosophy.
ments of any profession, that it is the easiest degree to get. It’s really
in the right order. It makes sense
just the opposite.” The work demands much more of today’s teachers.
that way.”
“The new program just raises the bar a little higher.”
From the second floor of the Pfau Library, Connolly’s office looks
Low test marks for California’s kindergarten-through-12th-grade
south over the campus’ front lawns, which have seen many changes
students have triggered anxious citizen calls for higher standards for
since the campus opened almost 40 years ago. Thirty or 40 years ago,
California’s teachers, new standards that college students coming into
recalls Connolly, the liberal studies landscape also looked very different.
liberal studies programs will now be expected to meet. The main
Students would think nothing of taking that broad degree in liberal
change, Connolly says, has come in the number of elective units
studies without feeling the need to specialize in engineering or English.
offered – from 23 under the previous set of standards to just eight in
Now students think in specifics, says Connolly: “I’m going to become
the new.
an elementary school teacher.’”
“There were so many new requirements that we had to meet” that
There are more liberal studies students at Cal State than at any
the choices in electives needed trimming, he says. For example, the
other inland region university, and CSUSB’s liberal studies program is
new standards include a health science class, a course not contained in
among the largest in the state, adds Connolly. “Our new standards are
the old standards. Also, geometry is now covered in mathematics.
among the best in the country.” They are the same standards imple-
Human development, non-existent in the old standards, has six units in
mented by the University of California system and all private colleges.
the new program, and California history is now required study.
As the elementary school student population continues to grow, high-
The revamped program gives students more structure. “We
quality teachers will need to be the best as well.
At the Barnes
The architect asked him, “What do you want?” Resolute, Ron Barnes sketched out a
design and, in 1972, after the architect made all the necessary, technical adjustments,
Cal State San Bernardino had the University Theatre. Its ceilings were not the 12-
foot-high ceilings typically blessed by CSU system policies. Instead, they stretched up
and up to 30 feet, and on touring the facility later, CSU officials told Barnes he had
“gotten away” with something, something they loved … cautiously. It was this 144-
seat space, intentionally intimate, this stage around which these students, friends,
family and colleagues gathered on Jan. 11 to celebrate the life he brought to theatre
at Cal State. The first play in the new home was Chekov’s “The Seagull,” which
starred students Paul DeMeo and Danny Bilson, and Barnes’ wife, Mary. One of the
original faculty members when the campus opened in 1965, Ron Barnes was founding
chair for the theatre department. Over his 33-year career at the college, he “had no
children, just a gazillion students,” he says. And now he had the Ronald E. Barnes
Theatre, a child born of his vision, and whose voice he hears in the echoes of past
productions and the anticipation of ones to come. Actors and actresses who take their
bows from here are heirs of that vision, too. Some will receive funds from the
$100,000 endowed scholarship being established in Barnes’ name. “In the ‘real world,’
people are not real,” he says. “In theatre, you know what the pain is and you don’t
avoid it. The theatre is the only real world, because we know we’re pretending.”
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The premier international
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ness has granted reaccredita-
tion to CSUSB’s College of
Business and Public Bruce Varner, A graduate of the University of
Administration. The
attorney and long- California, Santa Barbara and
Association to Advance
time member of University of California Hastings
Collegiate Schools of
the CSUSB College of the Law, Varner began his
Business International is con-
University legal career as an associate with the
sidered one of higher educa-
Advisory Board law firm of Kendall and Anderson in
tion's most rigorous accredit-
and past board Los Angeles. He moved to San
ing bodies, stressing academ-
chairman was hon- Bernardino in 1964 to become an
ic excellence and commit-
ored in mid-April associate with the firm of Lonergan
ment to improvement.
as the College of and Jordan and became a partner
Business and in 1967. For the next 30 years, he
n
Public practiced law with the firm that
The CSUSB Inland Empire Administration’s became Gresham, Varner, Savage,
Women’s Business Center, 2004 Arrowhead Nolan and Tilden. In 1997 Varner
a program of the Inland Distinguished and partner Steve Saleson branched
Empire Center for Executive Officer. out to establish the law firm of
Entrepreneurship (IECE) Varner, a partner with the law firm Varner, Varner, Saleson & Brandt, LLP.
in partnership with the U.S. Saleson & Brandt, LLP, whose offices are in Among his firm’s many clients is Stater Bros.
Small Business Admin- Riverside and Upland, has been an ardent sup- Markets. Varner was instrumental in helping to
istration, has begun offering porter of the university. “Bruce has been a long- negotiate the recent agreement with the Inland
workshops to provide busi- time friend of the university and a major support- Valley Development Agency that will allow Stater
ness counseling, training er of a variety of programs at Cal State San Bros. to acquire and develop approximately 160
and mentoring designed Bernardino,” said CSUSB President Albert acres at and around the San Bernardino
for and targeted to women Karnig. “He’s been totally committed to the mis- International Airport (the former Norton Air
business owners. The center
sion of the university and our role in providing Force Base) for a new distribution center and
has been holding workshops
higher education and other significant benefits to general offices.
on contracting with the gov-
the community. We’re deeply appreciative of his Varner’s community activities are numerous.
ernment. The workshops are
friendship and generous support for Coyote He has served two terms as president of the
designed to help small busi-
Athletics and the university as a whole. He’s been National Orange Show board of directors, and he
nesses get contracts with the
an important part of the Cal State family for is currently chairman of the nonprofit board of
U.S. Department of Trans-
many years and we are delighted to honor him directors of the San Bernardino County District
portation, DOT related
with the Arrowhead CEO Award.” Attorney’s Advisory Council. He is president of
entities, and other govern-
The annual award recognizes honorees’ the Silver Eagle Club, a group that supports
ment agencies.
leadership, civic service and commitment to edu- March Air Reserve Base, and he supports the
cation. A luncheon banquet was held in his Friends of the Arrowhead, a non-profit corpora-
honor at the university’s Santos Manuel Student tion that raises funds for the refurbishment and
Union Events Center. Besides serving on the continued maintenance of the Arrowhead land-
CSUSB Advisory Board, Varner also was one of mark in the San Bernardino Mountains.
the financial founders of the Coyote athletic pro- A special counsel to the mayor of San
gram, helping to fund the development of Bernardino, Varner also is past president and
the university’s athletic facilities, includ- board member of the San Bernardino Boys and
ing Coussoulis Arena. Girls Club, past president and board member of
Varner and his the San Bernardino Jaycees and has many other
wife, Nancy, community affiliations. He was named the Inland
established Empire Entrepreneur of the Year in 1996.
one of the Proceeds from the Arrowhead Award luncheon
original athletic will benefit the Bruce Varner Endowment
scholarships at CSUSB Scholarship for deserving students who attend
in honor of his parents, CSUSB’s business college.
Ann and Doyle Varner.
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