Banana Slug Spring Fair 2002 on April 20-21
 
Banana Slug Spring Fair 2001 brought
more than 1,600 alumni to campus for reunions and other events. (left)
Former Stevenson '91 roommates (l-r) Wendy Blatt, Jennnifer (Chorne) Wallace
(with baby Linsey), and Joanne Salustri-Cherep reconnected at the All-Alumni
Reunion Luncheon. (right) The Latino Alumni Network sponsored a performance
by the student dance group Los Mejicas, featuring live music by Mariachi
Mujer 2000 and its musical director and violinist Laura Sobrino (Porter
'77).
Photo left: Dan Coyro; Photo right:
Greg Pio
Banana Slug Spring
Fair is UCSC's open-house weekend for alumni and prospective students.
Reunions, performances, panel discussions, and tours bring alumni together
and showcase UCSC as it is today. BSSF 2002 will take place the weekend
of April 20-21. Highlights are listed below. For more information, contact
the Alumni Association at (800) 933-SLUG or check the web site at alumni.ucsc.edu.
Events for all alumni:
• All-Alumni
Reunion Luncheon. Find old friends at this keystone event, which
attracts more than 300 alumni each year. Classes of '72, '77, '82, '87,
'92, and '97 will get special recognition. Alumni are seated together
by class year.
• Provost's
Reception. Every college will hold a late-afternoon reception
for alumni, faculty, and staff.
• Thirty-Year
Reunion of the Class of '72. Reconnect and reminisce during this
all-day gathering at Cowell College. Join emeriti faculty John Dizikes,
Richard Randolph, and others for a conversation about the campus's past,
present, and future, followed by a reunion dinner with a keynote talk
by campus architect Frank Zwart (Cowell '71).
• Lifelong
Learning. Alumni can rekindle their academic interests and reconnect
with beloved faculty by attending classes on Friday, April 19. Longtime
faculty from several departments, as well as those relatively new to
the campus, will welcome alumni visitors to lectures and discussions.
• Retirement
Reception. On Saturday, alumni and friends will honor politics
professor J. Peter Euben, who retired from UCSC in December. A distinguished
political theoretician, Euben started teaching at UCSC in 1967. He won
the Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1998.
• Black
Escargot, UCSC's nework for African American alumni, will hold
a Friday-evening reception and dinner at Cowell College. The dinner will
raise money for the Black Escargot Fund, which already provides financial
support to students and alumni. Special honors will be extended to alumni
who graduated in '72, '77, '82, '87, '92, and '97.
• The
Page and Eloise Smith Scholastic Society will hold a Saturday-afternoon
reception for alumni, students, and faculty at Cowell's Fireside Lounge.
The society offers scholarships and mentors to support the educational
goals of current and prospective students who are foster youth, wards
of the court, and orphans.
• The
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center will hold a
Saturday-afternoon reception and discussion, giving special recognition
to members of the GLBT alumni affinity group.
Alumni Association seeks new UC Regent
Beginning on July 1, 2003, a UCSC graduate
will be able to shape the future of the University of California by
becoming a voting member of the UC Regents. The new Regent will represent
alumni from throughout the UC system.
"Votes taken at the Regents' table affect everyone in the state,"
says Irene Miura, a UC Berkeley graduate who just concluded a term as
an alumni Regent. During her term, the Regents took action on such issues
as affirmative action, the oversight of nuclear weapons laboratories,
and the UCSF/ Stanford hospital merger and dissolution. Regents, she
says, "always kept the end goal in mind: What's in the best interest
of the university?"
Paul Hall (Merrill '72) served as a UC Regent from July 1991 through
June 1993. "The Regents have two primary functions," he points out. "They
serve as public officers to oversee and advance the best public university
in the world. They also serve on the board of directors of a huge business
enterprise: If it were a private corporation, UC would be among the top
50 in the Fortune 500. Their job is oversight, not micro-management."
The University of California Regents shown here
in November 2000. First row (l-r): Tracy Davis, Joanne Kozberg, UC President
Richard Atkinson, Governor Gray Davis, Chairperson Sue Johnson, Lieutenant
Governor Cruz Bustamante, Irene Miura. Second row: Faculty representatives
Chand Viswanathan and UCSC professor Michael Cowan, John Davies, Bob Morrison,
David Lee, Velma Montoya, and Justin Fong. Third row: Meredith Khachigian,
Odessa Johnson, Peter Preuss, Jeff Seymour, Judith Hopkinson, Mark Kohn,
Sherry Lansing.
Photo credit: William Short
During the UCSC alumni Regent's first year of service, from July 2003
to June 2004, he or she will attend all meetings and participate in policy
discussions as a Regent-designate (without voting rights). The second
year of service is as a voting Regent. Regents receive no stipend, but
travel and some out-of-pocket expenses are covered.
This is the third time the UCSC Alumni Association will select an alumni
Regent. Los Angeles Superior Court judge Allan J. Goodman (Stevenson '67)
served as a UC Regent in 1979-81, and in 1991-93, the role was filled
by Hall, an attorney with Nixon Peabody in San Francisco.
Application materials for the alumni Regent position are on the Alumni
Association's web site, alumni.ucsc.edu.
Candidates must submit an application packet by April 15, 2002. Finalists
will be interviewed by the UCSC Regent Screening Committee and the UCSC
Alumni Association Council.
For more information, contact the Alumni Association at (800) 933-SLUG.
Alumni Association launches new web site
Did you ever wish you could track down a long-lost college friend or roommate?
Network with other alumni to find a better job? Get a UCSC alumni "affinity"
email address?
Now you can do all that and more. The UCSC Alumni Association has launched
its new Online Community - with many more features than BananaSlugs.com
- to make it simple and convenient for graduates to stay in touch
with each other and their alma mater.
The launch of Online Community is the perfect time to join the Alumni
Association. With a click of the mouse, you can join online, support UCSC,
and receive time and money-saving benefits, including an "affinity" email
address, yourname@ucscalumni.com offered exclusively to association members.
All members will be highlighted in the online directory.
The Online Community offers a wealth of networking options. Its directory
will allow alumni and the campus community to easily search for and keep
in touch with former classmates and faculty and update information about
themselves. Other features include the ability to post resumes, advertise
and search for jobs, network with professionals in similar fields, mentor
current students and recent graduates, and register for upcoming alumni
events, all online.
Stay connected, keep informed, and get involved faster and easier than
ever before with the Online Community. Register today at alumni.ucsc.edu.
For more information, contact Lisa Bono, Alumni Association marketing
director, at (831) 459-2530 or via e-mail at lbono@cats.ucsc.edu.
Special Online Membership Offer: Be among the first 500 people
to join the Alumni Association online and receive a one-of-a-kind alumni
Slug mouse pad.
Alumni Association Scholarship Fund announces
awards
Generous donors to the Alumni Association Scholarship Fund made possible
$2,500 scholarships for 16 financially needy students this year. They
are (top row, l-r) [name removed per recipient request], Teresa Virgen, Roberta Eden Fineday,
Robbin Stull, Stacy Williams, and Sam Ridino; (bottom row) Amber Leahey,
Melissa Cardoza, Mohamud Warsame, Paula Susan McKenzie, Diana Shermoen,
David Garcia, and Jennifer Weisberg. Not shown are Munish Manrao, Maria
Page, and Brittney Yonan. To make a donation, contact Jennifer Wood, director
of annual and special gifts, at (800) 933-SLUG. Photo credit: UCSC Photo Services
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