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TH· NDERBIRD THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT SUMMER 1989 A NEW PRESIDENT BEGINS A NEW ERA Introducing The Herberger Years Editor's Note: Dr. Roy A. Herberger, Jr., incoming preSident ofThunderbird, delivered the commencement address during graduation ceremonies in May. Some excerpts from his address follow. (I-r) Professors Christa Britt, jim Mills, and Beverly Springer listen as Dr. William Voris introduces Dr. Herberger to the audience. • In preparing for this speech, 1 decided to go back 18 years to look at the speech that President Voris gave to the graduating class of 1971. It was a speech that focused on the challenges that he faced as preSident of an institution that was struggling with resources, yet was doggedly committed to the persistent goal of training young people such as yourself - training in the practice of global management. He spoke of the grave circumstances of' 71; the world being tom apart by the Viet Nam conflict; a world beset with mistrust among nations; and the danger of a cold war breaking out between the Soviet Union and the U.S.; a war that had all the potential of being a nuclear one. With all of the problems of these global conflicts, he also saw hope in the challenge of educating young people who could function in this brave new world of conflicts. Then and now he referred to Thunderbirds as "citizens of the world." He noted that he saw a subtle change, however, in the attitude of people in other parts of the world toward the United States, as we struggled with this Viet Nam conflict. • Bill, as I stand here, I am relieved that your last class as president will face a less turbulent, less violent set of circumstances than did your first. And yet, in many ways, this class will face a playing field that will undoubtedly resemble a battlefield of global proportions. The class of '89 will be moving into a vastly different, more complicated warfare where intelligence, foresight, research, and technology, innovation, organization skills will replace terms like firepower, close order drills, and body counts as battlefield terminology. In this class, whether you are a Frenchman, a Swede, a Japanese, or an American, you're facing a world where the military might of one country over another will have much less to do with who will prevail in global economic terms. • Now, before I get too many arched eyebrows out there in the audience, let me say that I recognize that we are not a world totally at peace with one another. The conflicts of Central America, the senseless carnage in Lebanon, and the internal fights for freedom in the socialist State of Georgia, and Armenia in the Soviet bloc remind us of the frailty of the human experience. Sadly, as we sit here today, still other acts of violence color the birth of democracy in both China and Panama. In fact, there are 28 hostile conflicts being waged throughout the world today. But, the point I wish to raise with our graduates is that the global necessity for the type of training you received will only increase. This economic warfare takes on new dimensions. • Let me give you a couple of quick examples of strategic questions you need to think about. Let's look at Europe first. Will the unification of the European Economic Community of 1992 meet expansive new market opportunities for Western nations, as has been predicted? Or, will it mean that EEC nations will look to Eastern bloc nations because they are best poised to take advantage of the recapitalization of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Did he say recapitalization of the Soviet Union? Yes, there's every likelihood that we will see the Soviet Union as a member of the International Monetary Fund with an exchange of local currency. And, just as you see Pepsi Cola on the streets of Moscow, so will you see aggressive European competitors helping to redevelop this negative nation and its satellites as they join the modern-day capital societies. The lion and the sheep will lie down together. • What I am describing are global economic conflicts that have the capacity to change the wealth and the health of nations. These strategic questions are not unfamiliar to this class of 1989. They are intended to stimulate your thoughts, to cause you to look back at your education here at Thunderbird. You have an advantage over your competition - over the 60,000 MBAs who will graduate in this country alone this week and next. Why? You have an advantage because you've been living a type of alliance during your stay with us. You've experienced the reality of global competition like no other graduate anywhere in the world. I pray that you will remind yourselves that, as citizens of the world, you have obligations to mankind that go beyond economic conflict, monetary rewards and profit. You must be seen as models of high moral character; you must be seen as caring about problems that go beyond your native country's borders; you must assume your rightful place and responsibility in the future of our globe. • It remains for each of us to watch, as you, our class of 1989, exercise your skills in developing the new alliances that will shape the future of our globe. Less as a Frenchman, less as a Brit, less as Koreans or Americans, but rather, as President Voris said in 1971, as citizens of the world. Lastly, I want to say something to the faculty, to the staff, and the students who have made my first few days on this campus absolutely wonderful. I love being here. I love being a part of what you are. I'm anxious to wear the mantle of preSident of this school- to be your president, to extend the vision of seven presidents before me. This school must be the very best at what it does. As graduates of the school, you will be called upon to help us; to help me as we chart an aggressive program that will keep your School at the top of global management education. CONTENTS 2 DR. ROY A. HERBERGER,JR . A PROFILE OF THUNDERBIRD'S NEW PRESIDENT 6 CAMPUS NEWS 14 TRUSTEE PROFILE: GEORGEGETZ 15 VIEWPOINT: DR. JOHN FRANKENSTEIN ON BEIJING 18 ALUMNI NETWORK 24 UPDATES Thunderbird Magazine Summer 1989 Quarterly magazine of the Alumni Relations Office of the American Graduate School of International Management, Thunderbird Campus, Glendale, AZ. 85306 (602)978-7135 TELEX 187123 FAX (602) 439-5432 American Graduate School of International Management Assistant Vice President for Communication and Editor: Nelda S, Crowell Director of Publications and Managing Editor: Carol A. Naftzger Contributing Writers: Amy Cutter Patricia Gieseke Danny Maddux Communication Secretary: Joann Toole Design: Pat Kenny Graphic Design Director of Alumni Relations and Publisher: Bobbie M. Boyd Alumni Relations Staff: Catherine Snelling Executive Secretaryl Office Manager Donna Cleland Data Base Administrator Pearl L, Anderson Data Entry Clerk janet M. Mueller Secretary jane Kidney Receptionist Ruth E. Thompson Administrative Assistant Brenda Woolf Records Assistant Thunderbird Alumni Association 1988-89 Board of Directors and Officers Chairman of the Board Stephen F. Hall '69 President jack E. Donnelly '60 Vice Presidents john C. Cook 79 Robert G. Lees 77 Peggy A. Peckham 74 Thomas A. Peterson 77 Treasurer Larry K. Mellinger '68 Secretary Bobbie M. Boyd Ex Officio Members Roy A. Herberger. jr. William C. Turner Board Members Carlos Berdegue '89 George T DeBakey 73 Eric A. Denniston '80 john A. Florida '62 William H. Holtsnider '59 Gary L. Pacific 72 Douglas R. Quelland 72 Charles M, Stockholm '56 Mariya Toohey Fogarasi 78 jeri R. Towner Denniston 78 Daniel D, Witcher 'SO Clarence H. Yahn, jr. '62 Honorary Board Members joseph M, Klein '47 Berger Erickson '86 Herberger tackles challenges After a p~rticularly u~engaging course m comparative anatomy, University of Texas at Austin undergraduate Roy Herberger scrubbed the idea of a medical career and switched his major to marketing. Today, after two and one-half successful decades in business management education, the new preSident of Thunderbird still displays a doctor's bedside composure and a surgeon's appreciation for symmetry. "Roy is as honest and as fair-minded an individual as I've ever met," says Dan Cook, a partner in the Dallas office of Goldman Sachs. "Here's a man of enormous talent, good judgment, and no conflicts. He works hard, but doesn't antagonize anyone. He's a good fund raiser who doesn't strong-arm people. He's a leader who is never obstreperous. " The balance of the 46-year-old Roy A. Herberger, Jr. is echoed by colleagues across the nation: focused, but not myopic; forceful, but never turbulent; decisive, but not militant. And what emerges from these education and business associates is the feeling that with Roy Herberger at the helm, an institution cultivates a sense of direction, pursues a clear strategy, and develops motivated employees. "When visitors left his office, they felt as if they were the most important people he had met that day," agrees Dee Powell, Herberger's former secretary at SMU's Cox School of Business. "He gave each person - faculty member, staff, student, or parent - his undivided attention." The affable nature and keen intellect surfaced in the 1960s at First National Bank in Midland, Texas, where Herberger, a Fort Worth native, says he was apprenticed to a "taskmaster, a devotee of hard work," who brought out the collegian'S latent business talent. For four summers, Herberger immersed himself in the intricacies of banking and oil. 'Those were the go-go years in West Texas," he remembers, "marked by a few colorful names such as Billy Sol Estes." Even after shifting to a businessoriented major, Herberger never intended to pursue a career in education. But while simultaneously waiting tables, managing a dorm, and grading papers to earn extra money, he stepped in to teach a business course after a faculty member took ill. He has remained in education ever since. After completing his bachelor's and master's degrees at Texas, he followed another faculty member to the University of Colorado. At Boulder, Herberger taught, earned his doctorate, and worked on economic development projects with that university's Business Research Division. But it was at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Southern California that he kindled, by accident, his current passion for international business. In 1973, while serving as associate dean for academic affairs, he replaced an ailing faculty member on an overseas trip in which as many as 18 business students toured the major industrial centers of Europe. Herberger was to select the entourage. "I wanted students who knew the languages," he says, "and I wanted a mix of graduate and undergraduate students, men and women, and Americans and internationals. I ended up with sixteen students, half of whom were from the US. "But for three weeks prior to our departure, I was concerned. The US. students dominated the class discussions and case studies, while the internationals were conspicuously quiet. But as the plane literally rolled down the runway, I saw that, for the first time, the US. students were unsure of themselves. In fact, they looked lost. That was when I realized that if we in education are going to help our students, then we need more emphasis on international issues." "I've always been impressed with THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 2 wi th balance and poise SUMMER 1989 3 Roy's interest in learning how corporations approach the challenges of operating overseas," says Ray Johnson , chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Caltex Petroleum Corporation. "Roy understands that the future of America is inter-connected with the world economy As a result, he listens and observes. Those are good signs for a man who is training our future business leaders." Herberger spent 13 years training leaders at USC, until he noted that the years were repeating thenselves and that it might be time to "run the show myself." He sought a private school which had the potential to foster an entrepreneurial spirit. He found his challenge in his Texas roots. His seven-year tenure at SMU was stellar. He raised over $22 million for new or renovated facilities, endowed chairs, and scholarships. He recruited two-thirds of the present faculty He developed goals that people willingly accepted. "Roy was what I call 'a man for all Dr. Roy Herberger and his wife, Pam, attended a reception hosted by AT&T in New York City. The event gave the Herbergers the opportunity to meet with New York alumni as well as Trustees and World Business Advisory Council members. seasons,'" adds Dan Cook. "I believe that each organization requires a leader with certain skills at particular times. Roy was the perfect leader for SMU. He developed a strong rapport with the business community and handled so well all the inherent intra-collegiate rivalries, pressures, and struggles for funds that naturally arise ." The business community's faith in Herberger never flinched , even in the midst of SMU's athletic scandal. During the aftermath of those problems, Herberger declined the first invitation to interview at Thunderbird, preferring to stay in Dallas to help the incoming preSident refurbish the university's image. But when Thunderbird reapproached months later, Herberger accepted. "I was ready to do something different ," he explains. "My dilemma at the time was either to invest in an entrepreneurial venture or to take one more shot at making a difference in business management education." Herberger chose the second option, THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE but before trying to make a difference, he wanted to observe the differences in the personalities of the two campuses. Some proved Significant. The full-time student body was no longer 175, but 1,000. Award-winning club soccer and rugby replaced probationary football. The Arizona campus crackled with debate and concern over international issues such as the bloodshed in China, news which may not have affected the SMU campus as deeply "I think the most notable difference between the schools was logically in the international realm," he says. "When I walked into SMU in 1982, I asked for a printout of all the international students in the business school. I was handed a three-by-five card. When I asked the same question at Thunderbird, I discovered that nearly thirty percent of the students are international and they come from 51 countries. "Within a very short time after my arrival, I observed that Thunderbird students were creating their own globalness, studying foreign languages, and including cultural studies in an already business-rich curriculum." While the curriculum is rich, Herberger feels that the School in general, is undercapitalized. He pledges to make that a top priority for his administration. He also plans to give Thunderbird a vision that will carry the School for an additional 42 years. 'Thunderbird is acknowledged as a number one school in international management education," he says. "We need to assert that and make the campus more visible - to the point where people will understand the importance of Thunderbird as a resource to the business and public sector communities." With Herberger at the helm, the prognosis is for another 42 years of academic excellence - in the community and around the world. By Mine Fluent THE NEW PRESIDENT SPEAKS OUT ... Following are excerpts Jrom remarks by Dr. Roy A. Herberger, Jr. at a welcoming reception held Jar him on the Thunderbird Campus at the start oj his presidency. On Globalization If I were to look for a theme for our administration, as we look forward , it would be the globalizing of an international school. When I say "globalization," I mean that Thunderbird must take the lead among academic institutions worldwide. For me, that means we must be able to move between continents - administratively, financially, and otherwise. It means the possibility of mergers, acquisitions, or perhaps moving onto different shores. I make the distinction between a holding strategy, a competitive strategy, and one which is extremely aggressive. I want us to see ourselves as being in an extremely aggressive mode. I want us to move forward at a clip that means the next 18 months may be the most important 18 months in this School's history. On Curriculum We can no longer be an institution that simply looks at large corporate entities exclusively. We must have a curriculum that allows for diverse opportunities, that allows us to focus on something even broader than the concept of "entrepreneurship." On the academic front, I am vitally concerned about the follow-up and participation of our student body in our SOOO-level courses. Ladies and gentlemen, one of the reasons I came to this School was because of those SOOO-level courses. That's the difference between an MBA program and Thunderbird. On School Standards From this day forward, it's going to be tougher to get in here, and it's going to be harder to get out. On Competition You only have to read a few of the new mission statements of the many graduate schools of business throughout this country to learn that there are going to be a whole lot of competitors on the block. In my mind that creates the perfect opportunity for an institution to leap forward because we do have that history. It also means that an institution will have to take risks that it may not have taken in the past. On Strategy We cannot do what we need to do alone. If we're going to go forward and take advantage of the opportunities, we're going to have to take on new partners here and there. We need to treat ourselves as a race horse among academic institutions, as our competition begins to discover that the world is turning global. We can set a pattern and a pace that other institutions will admire because we were born with flexibility. We answer to no one other than ourselves and our own board. That's a material advantage the larger academic institutions will not be able to enjoy. SUMMER 1989 5 On Scholarships I don't ever want to lose an outstanding new student because of finances. Our history and our future are right on the backs of the outstanding graduates of this institution. We must be able to compete, heads up, with any institution so that finances are not a problem in order to come to this School. That means substantial fund-raising activity and scholarship provision. On Executive Training Our faculty has the capacity to teach at the executive level, and guess what? The market has really arrived for that. So I see the Thunderbird Management Center as being a vehicle for us in moving forward into the executive training area. On Public Attention We must get the Thunderbird name out from under a rock. That means fOCUSing on the quality of some of the faculty that are able to do front-line research, focusing on the unique strengths of our alumni base, and involving that alumni base in studies that will bring attention to us as we go forward . On Thunderbird Superiority When you're here, I want you to work hard, and I also want you to be very good alumni. I want you to understand how important your performance is not only in the classroom, but out there in your first, second and third years of your jobs, because that's where our reputation lies. I'll promise you that I will labor along with this very excellent faculty and administration to deliver a product to you that is unparalleled, unequaled. I pledge to you, when you walk out of here, you will not be embarrassed by your ability to compete on any front, in any condition, anywhere in the country or the world. CAM PUS NEW S CONCERN OVER CHINA REACHES CAMPUS The Thunderbird community observed a moment of silence for the ruassacre in Beijing as events in the People's Republic of China this spring touched faculty and students. A small contingent of students from Thunderbird, led by Dean of Students Stephen Beaver and joined by Professor John Frankenstein, were in Beijing during the confrontation until the American Embassy suggested that all Americans should leave. The group left safely, and the students continued their studies in Hong Kong and laiwan. The student China Club organized a ceremony onJune 7 to show support for the student protesters and express sadness over the deaths that occurred. Students from the People's Republic of China felt it was important to discuss the events publicly in order to increase understanding about the events throughout the campus, explained Beth Bao, president of the China Club. A short memorial service was quickly planned, and the flag of the People's Republic of China was flown at halfstaff at the campus entrance. About 200 people attended the service at the Thunderbird Activity Center, which received widespread media coverage from Phoenix television and radio stations, and Phoenix-area newspapers. As a sign of mourning, black arm bands were given to those in attendance. One surprise during the ceremony was the announcement that the Associated Students Legislative Council had set up an emergency fund to allow Chinese students to make telephone calls home to check on the status of their families. The audience responded with an additional $200 in donations. After the observation of silence, a panel discussion ensued. One of the most emotional moments of the meeting occurred when a professor from Beijing studying at Thunderbird renounced his membership from the Communist Party. Some of the 10 Chines'e Thunderbird students took advantage of the opportunity to explain their viewpoint on the student uprising in Tiananmen Square. In turn, they received THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 6 Beth Boo. president of the China Club. talks with students before the service begins. (photos courtesy of Robert Jackson. Glendale Star) an outpouring of support from their Thunderbird colleagues. "The Thunderbird students once again proved that they have added awareness of the world around them," Bao wrote afterward in the campus newspaper. "Not only can we crunch numbers and produce reports, but we can take the time to show that our concern goes beyond our school and our countries to people all over the world. Wednesday made me proud to be a part of the Thunderbird community. " The developments in China continued to be watched closely on campus during June. The China Club sponsored another gathering on July 1, this time a rally as part of Democracy Day next to the state capitol in Phoenix. The rally was connected to similar events being held around the country to show support for the democracy movement and protest the Beijing massacre. Adding to the edge of tension on campus during the unfolding violence in China was the concern over the safety of Beaver, Frankenstein, and student Tbirds who were staying in Beijing at the time. The three students, Kimberly Medaris of Russell Springs, KY.; John Collins of Waco, Texas; and Darryl Eaton of Irvine, CA., were studying language and trade relations in China. The group had hoped to remain in Beijing, but rapid'developments there had produced concern at Thunderbird and a flurry of media inquiries as to their whereabouts. Beaver said afterward that when the possibility of a full-scale civil war in China arose, it was time for the group to leave. The students were studying at a school on the northeast side of Beijing about lO miles from Tiananmen Square, where most of the violence occurred. They witnessed the massive student demonstrations a few days before the Chinese Army moved in, and then were surrounded by the sights and sounds of the violent crackdown throughout Beijing. The Tbird contingent was able to fly out to Hong Kong. "China is a strange and wonderful place," Beaver said afterward. He recalled how tanks and gunfire were present while just blocks away people were queuing up to do their shopping. By Danny Maddux Joann Chang passes out black arm bands to students entering the Thunderbird Activity Center for a memorial service. 0 EUROPE 1992: THE CHALLENGE Despite fears of potential protectionism in the European market, the United States supports the 1992 Initiative, according to Alan P Larson, deputy assistant secretary for the US. State Department for Economic and Business Affairs. In a recent speech on campus, Larson explained the US. perspective of the European Community's plan to remove all trade barriers in 1992. ''A stronger European economy is something that will be good for us economically. We'd be a better economic parmer," said Larson. "There is security in foreign policy dimension to this as well. In principle, a stronger Europe will be one that's more capable of playing a stronger security rolehelping share and shoulder a larger share of the common defense burden." Larson spoke broadly of the implications that the competitive global economic system created by the 1992 Initiative would have on the US., and what the country must do to be a successful part of that system. Larson said that the US. has already done a number of things to increase economic effiCiency, but he thinks the country must do more. Although the US. has changed its tax structure to increase incentives to work, said Larson, tax rates may need to be lowered. Also, savings and investment must be stimulated, and excessive consumption in the US. must be discouraged. "We've deregulated the oil industry, partially deregulated telecommunications, deregulated trucking and aviation, but we may need to go beyond that," Larson said. ''These are just a few of the domestic policy steps that we need to take." Larson stressed four challenges for the US. that a stronger, more dynamic European economy would bring about. One is the risk of protectionism, particularly in the automobile industry and the telecommunication sector. The second challenging issue is "national treatment," whereby American investors will be treated no less favorably than domestic investors. The third issue is the maintenance of bilateral and multilateral commit- SUMMER 1989 7 Alan P. Larson ments. Larson said that treaties already established between the US. and individual European nations should remain in effect. The last issue is the development of the common set of European standards. Larson said these standards are often protectionist, deSigned either directly or inadvertently to restrict competition from abroad. These standards should be designed with the full consultation of foreign industry, including American industry. It is necessary to cite these areas of concern because "we look at this European market almost like a tax bill in the United States," Larson said. ''They all look wonderful; the statements of purpose are fine, but you never know what you're going to get until three in the morning in a smoke-filled room when you start reading the fine print. "I think that's the way we feel about the EC single market," he continued, "the principles are fine , we support what they're trying to do, but we need to see the fine print." 0 CAM PUS NEW S A U.S. PERSPECTIVE ON LATIN AMERICA United States Ambassador to Argentina Frank Ortiz lectured recently to Thunderbird students and faculty on "U.S. Policy Toward latin America: Perspectives on the Bush Administration. " Ortiz, a career foreign service officer who has held numerous positions in the State Department, expressed the Bush administration's wish to restore bipartisanship to U.S. foreign policy in latin America. One of the most notable achievements in the first 100 days of the Bush administration, Ortiz said, is an "interim agreement" restoring a bipartisanship to the execution of U.S. foreign policy "that has been sadly lacking for some time. 1 can't tell you how difficult it is to be an American ambassador abroad and have the capital of the United States speaking with so many voices," Ortiz said. "It tends to confuse our friends and enemies. They don't really know who speaks for the American people." Ortiz strongly emphasized that the key policy goal of the United States in Central America is democracy. Quoting Winston Churchill, Ortiz said that democracy is the worst form of government that he can think of, until he considers the alternatives. "People all over the world are realizing that democracy works," Ortiz said. ')\nother pragmatic element, and I've said this many times and have never really been challenged to my satisfaction, in all human history there's never been a case of two democratic nations going to war with each other. So, if you perceive your national policy to be based on looking out for national interests and avoiding conflict, one way to achieve it, if history is any guide, is to see that democracy is the predominant system in the world." Ortiz said that while democracy is growing in latin America, economies are not. This, he said, is due to a bevy Df traditional government economic restrictions that sometimes date back to colonial times. According to Ortiz, these "atrocious and stupid" rulings are killing the economy of this area. '~t this time, when so many latin Americans for the first time are living in political freedom," Ortiz said, "they have yet to live under a regime of economic freedom. They cannot make free economic judgments, and without free economic judgments an economy doesn't work too well." After citing many specific economic problems in Argentina, Ortiz said that a lack of understanding of what economic freedom means is a large part of the problem. Another issue that Ortiz addressed is the rapidly escalating drug problem in latin America, "a so-called war that we are not winning. The money that moves in the drug trade is enormous," Ortiz said. "In this country it's in the billions and billions of dollars. Whole nations like Bolivia, Colombia, Peru , Jamaica, Panama, these countries' central governments have almost lost control." To win the drug war, Ortiz said, would take a very dedicated and ambitious program on all sides. "We have to have people here who won't say that their civil rights are being violated because they are being forced to take drug tests to keep their jobs," Ortiz said. "We have people in the White House who are suing the president now because he wants to make everybody in the White House prove that they don't use drugs." 0 THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 8 (I-r) U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Frank Ortiz with Professor Joaquim Duarte, International Studies Department. TENURE AND PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED Professor Maria Pinheiro has been appointed to a three-year term as chair of the Modern languages Department. Professors Robert Tancer, International Studies Department; Francisco CarradaBravo, Hassan Hosseini, and Paul Johnson, all from the World Business Department, were granted tenure. Dr. William Voris also announced the following promotions in the spring: Nelda Crowell to assistant vice president for communications; Evelyn Theobald to assistant vice president for personnel; Randy Schilling to assistant vice preSident for development; Brad Leech to manager of research and development services; and Carol Naftzger to director of publications. 0 TIPS FOR SUCCESS IN DOING IT YOUR WAY Two hundred students, professors, and members of the community, attended the third annual Entrepreneurship Conference, sponsored by the Thunderbird Entrepreneurs Club. The conference was designed to meet three specific needs in the community: to create an interest in the field of entrepreneurship among the students and local communities; to facilitate a closer dialogue among successful entrepreneurs and those aspiring to succeed in business; and to foster a better understanding of the entrepreneurial process. After brief introductions by President Voris and ASLC President Franck Kiser, the program began with three speakers who covered the basics of the entrepreneurial project start-up. Professor Bert Valencia, associate professor of marketing and recognized expert in the field of marketing to Hispanics, spoke on "Going International at Home." The second speaker of the morning was David C. Lincoln, chairman and director of Lincoln Laser Company, a manufacturer of lasers in Phoenix, and member of the board of trustees of the School. Lincoln gave a brief history of his company and then spoke about methods of securing international venture capital financing. The final morning speaker was Lawrence Hamilton, owner and CEO of Hamilton Properties, Inc. a real estate investment firm in Denver, and the father of current Tbird student, Jane Hamilton. Hamilton, who spoke on, "Street Smarts," offered the following tips for success in any entrepreneurial venture: 1. Like what you do. 2. Work hard, work smart. 3. Use other people's money. 4. lake risks for what you believe in. S. Face up to adverSity. 6. Be able to deal with success. 7. Pay your dues. The second half of the conference concentrated on aspects of going international and marketing new concepts overseas. Norris Bernstein, partner in BernsteinlEDC, a division of Edgar, Dunn &: Conover Inc. , and father of Tbird alumnus Perri Bernstein '76, told the audience how, in the early '70s, he helped build a small regional family salad dreSSing business into a national leader in the field before its eventual sale. "Marketing by Desire or How to Open a Chocolate Chip Cookie Store in Germany," was his topic. Bernstein gave the history of a cookie store that he and two friends started in Germany because, "we wanted an excuse to travel to Germany and drink wine." The business, after some ups and downs, turned into a giant success, and Bernstein and his partners were faced with several takeover bids for control of the company from several large international firms. Bernstein was followed by Roger Walton, preSident of International Solutions, Inc., a Scottsdale consulting firm that helps businesses grow internationally and improve their overseas results. Walton lectured on "International Press Marketing - An International Ad Venture." There was ample time for questions and answers from the audience. Questions ranged from a student who asked Lincoln about becoming an entrepreneur and the relevance of a technical background to a small business owner who asked Hamilton how he could "use other people's money" without giving up equity in his company. The conference concluded with a few words from Dr. PaulJohnson, founder and former president of First Central Bank and professor of entrepreneurship on the Thunderbird campus. 0 A spontaneous standing ovation from faculty and staff recognized the achievements of Dr. William Voris during a reception held in May. During the event he was presented with a bronze and turquoise medal/ion of the School seal. Mavis Voris was also recognized for her efforts on behalf of Thunderbird and was presented with an arrangement of flowers. SUMMER 1989 9 CAM PUS NEW S BRINGING FOREIGN NEWS DOWN TO EARTH The Modern languages Department at Thunderbird took a giant leap into space-age communications with the donation of a satellite dish earlier this year. The satellite opens up the ability to receive worldwide foreign language television programs for timely integration into the department's language curriculum. ''The fact that the students are going to be watching television in a foreign language-it's a great experience," says Maria Pinheiro, chair of the Department of Modern languages. Through the donation by Echosphere Corp., which sells dishes to domestic and international customers, a state-of-the-art dish and receiver was erected atop a classroom, and school officials took quick steps to unearth its potential. The department now possesses the capability to pick up news and other programming from Europe, Asia, and latin America through a consortium based at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Called Satellite Communications for Learning, or SCOLA, the service provides live programming and replays of many foreign language programs that could easily augment language classes, Pinheiro points out. "It will do a lot for our department," she says. "We are in the process of integrating the programs into the curriculum. " SCOLA can transmit, for example, news from Paris television promptly to the Thunderbird campus, and French students soon will have the opportunity to see the latest news from the Elysee Palace in their classes. It should also prove a boon to language clubs on campus. The satellite dish can also pick up direct programming from North America and Pinheiro says eventually she foresees the use of a backlog of programming in the library which instructors could draw on to give assignments outside of class. The programs will be an excellent tool for improving comprehension. She credits Associate French Professor Andre Klein as being the moving force in obtaining a dish for the School. She says Klein became very interested in the potential audio-visual benefits of a dish following a SCOLA conference he attended last year. Using the foreign language programming will be similar to introdUCing other audio-visual material. Advancedlevel classes will be exposed to programs of interest. Those programs also include broadcasts from the Soviet Union, which will be available when Thunderbird begins offering Russian next spring, Pinheiro says. She adds that .the use of foreign language programming originating from other countries is an added incentive for students to learn the language. It's only natural that members of the TV generation "would be very interested" in a broadcast method of instruction, she observes. The satellite dish and receiver are valued at about $5,000, said Echosphere representative Edward Goitia '87. The programming subscription to SCOLA costs the School about $1,200 a year. THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 10 The Echosphere satellite dish receives transmissions from the roof of the Classroom BUilding. The lO-foot dish and receiver are described as "state of the art" by Goitia. "The system is ready to take on any programming needs the School might have," he says. Echosphere has a strong Thunderbird connection with 19 Tbirds employed there. The company is owned by Candy McAdam Ergen '81; Charles Ergen is president; R. Scott Zimmer '81, president international; and Steve Schaver '81, executive director. They were all instrumental in obtaining the dish for the School. A committee will be working on implementing the uses of the dish, and although Pinheiro says it will take some time, she expresses hope that the department will be fully prepared by 1990 to supplement language classes with sateilite feeds. SCOLA provides eight hours of foreign news programming. After the broadcasts are received by SCOLA, it converts the programs to the American signal system and passes them to affiliates. SCOLA offers programs from Spain, China, japan, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Iran and Turkey Three live news broadcasts are currently available to the School from SCOlA, including those from Mexico, the Soviet Union and Italy Although the donated dish system is currently limited to one classroom at the School, the languages department chair foresees that eventually the system feed could be tied into the library or elsewhere. 0 WINTERIM FELLOWS PRAISE PROGRAM, ATMOSPHERE As part of its successful Winterim program every january, Thunderbird offers a select group of college educators from throughout the United States and abroad the chance to reacquaint themselves with international business through a Winterim Presidential Fellowship. Three Thunderbird alumni who have served as Winterim Fellows praised the program for the chance to interact with corporate leaders while enjoying the atmosphere. Winterim runs for three weeks during semester break in january, during which a specialized group of courses is offered. Most of the courses feature top executives as guest lecturers. "I think it's wonderful," says Nancy Napier '75. She is an associate professor of management at Boise State University in Idaho who was invited to the 1989 Winterim session. "I think the chance for Thunderbird to show itself off a little bit to professors from around the world is a real benefit for the School. Everybody thoroughly enjoyed getting away from the day-to-day routines and spending some time there." As an alumna, Napier said one of the most enjoyable aspects of Winterim was seeing the changes that had taken place on campus. She had not returned since a stopover in early 1980s. Sheldon Gilbert '62, professor of public communication at Syracuse University, characterized the program as a "very worthwhile experience." \ Nancy Napier '75 attends an orientation meeting with other Fellows during Winterim 1989. She would like to see former Fellows maintain contoct, perhaps through a newsletter. (center) Tony Aile '80 visits with Dr. Dennis Guthery (right) and other students during break. SUMMER 1989 II Gilbert says that he accepted the invitation as a Winterim Fellow simply because he wanted to go, and he delayed a scheduled trip to India for a month to attend. "I felt honored that I was asked to come back," Gilbert says. Tony Alle '80 is another Tbird who was selected as a Winterim Fellow in 1987. He is a professor of business administration and international marketing at Illinois Central College in East Peoria. Alle had been a longtime business professor there before obtaining a degree from Thunderbird. "I felt the Fellowship program was an outstanding idea ," Aile says. He enjoyed "experiencing the effort that has been put forth by the School to enhance international business concepts." Winterim courses normally meet in the morning, leaving the afternoons free . A Winterim Fellowship includes the tuition fee and on-campus housing, if desired. Each course is worth three semester hours of credit. Both Napier and Alle felt when they had the chance to attend Winterim that it would be a good opportunity to polish their skills. "Since I've been in Boise, I've been teaching in international business and we're developing an international business minor, so I thought it would be a good chance to rev up a little bit, get Continued on page 12 CAM PUS NEW S Winterim, continued back up to speed, and touch base with the library and some of the professors at Thunderbird," Napier says. Aile saye he came away with an improved understanding of the "urgency" most educational institutions are feeling to integrate international business into their programs. "Thunderbird always knew the value of international study," he says. "Now everybody's playing catch up." Napier said she found the luncheon meetings among the most helpful. "One of the benefits was attending lunches for each of the speakers and I think all of us took advantage of that." Gilbert observes that he also was able to benefit from the get-togethers over meals away from the classroom. "There was more discussion, more interaction," he says. Napier, who was one of 17 Fellows in the 1989 class, would like to see previous Fellows develop a network to maintain contact, perhaps through a newsletter. "I think getting a sense of what THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 12 other people are doing in their teaching and research was valuable for all of us," Napier says. "From Thunderbird's standpoint, we've got ambassadors all over the world. It was wonderful to see how well it worked." 0 (right) Sheldon Gilbert '62 participated in the International Consumer Marketing Seminar as a Winterim Fellow. Over 40 alumni returned to Thunderbird this spring (or the 10-year reunion o( Bizarre Bazaar and a tribute to Louise Gifford. Highlights included a dinner and a slide show o( past Bizarre Bazaars. Pictured (I-r): May Cheong '87, Financial Aid Officer Louise Gifford, Chuck Foley '83, and Steve Pinto '84. The spring Bizarre Bazaar raised over $3,300 (or the Emergency Student Loan Fund which is used to provide short-term loans to students in need. PUB STILL OFFERS INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR Tucked away around the corner of the Thunderbird Activity Center is a haven for the dry and thirsty, a memorable oasis for students since it first opened its doors in 1971. The Pub, as it is simply called, has earned its role on campus and in the hearts of students as a place to relax and buy an inexpensive beer from a selection of more than 65 brands worldwide. The establishment turns another corner of sorts this summer with the appointment of its 30th manager. Susan Levin, of Chicago, is the first woman to hold the position. A popular gathering place for students, faculty and staff seeking to unwind, the Pub is the only tavern on a college campus in the state of Arizona. Proceeds from the Pub go into a scholarship endowment fund which has steadily increased. The last donation this spring of $15,000 raised the endowment to $68,500. The Pub has grown from humble beginnings to what some students might describe as a humble present. It is completely student-run, with an average of eight Tbirds tending bar during a semester. With outdoor seating, Tv, a game room, billiards, and other amenities, it offers all the atmosphere of a neighborhood tavern without students ever having to leave campus. It's not unusual to hear a half-dozen languages spoken on a busy night. For Levin, her stint as manager reprises her undergraduate days when she paid for her senior year by tending bar. She says she became interested in working at the Pub shortly after arriving on campus for the first time. "I applied to Thunderbird in February last year and when I left St. Louis," she recalls, "it was negative 3. I got here and it was 78 degrees and I said, 'I'm coming here.' I loved it." She reports that the Pub currently SUMMER 1989 13 Susan Levin is the Pub's 30th manager since the doors opened on campus in 1971. carries about 65 brands of imported beer alone, befitting the international flavor of the campus. Thursday nights may be the most popular, because those are declared "Pub Nights" when prices are cheaper, and every business student knows that lower prices increase volume. Levin estimates that upwards of 1,200 beers are sold those nights. The international palate at Thunderbird means that the Pub tops the Phoenix area in the volume of imported beer sold. "We top the list of any grocery store, any bar, any regular establishment," Levin said of import volume. Levin is becoming used to the transition between bartending and managing. A student manager earns minimum wage and 20 percent of sales commissions. After a morning of working on the books, and going to classes, Levin will open the Pub at 3 p.m. Her true ambition is not Continued on page 32 TRUSTEE PROFILE George Getz: A Special Friend Retires Rancher, industrialist, financier, philanthropist, collector, and world traveler, George Getz talks about the vast span of his interests largely in terms of the friends he has made and the family ties he cherishes. It was through his good friend , advertising scion Ray Rubicam, that Getz became a member of the Thunderbird Board of Trustees, a position he held for IS years until his retirement from the board this year. And it was his close friendship with President Emeritus Bill Voris that led Getz to fund the William Voris Hall of Modern Languages on the Thunderbird Campus. 'They wanted me to do something major at the School, which I agreed to do through our foundation," said Getz. "I said, 'I'll put up the money for it, but I will not have it named for me. Bill (Voris) and I have become very, very close friends, and I'd like his name on a building out there.'" Getz became a Thunderbird trustee during the first year of Voris's presidency. "He and 1 have always figured we were there together, and we've gone out together. I made a pact a couple of years ago that I'd stay as long as he did, so the time has come." Nevertheless, Getz leaves the board with great confidence in the future of Thunderbird under Roy Herberger, Jr., recently named Thunderbird's eighth president. "Roy Herberger is an ideal person to follow Bill Voris. I think you're going to see the same kind of continued improvement under Roy that Bill has put in. I think they could have looked the world over and they couldn't have found a better person than Roy." After several decades of intense community involvement, the SI-yearold Getz is gradually cutting back. This year's Fiesta Bowl Parade will be the first ever that will not include George Getz driving one of his favorite antique fire engines. "It weighs IS,OOO pounds," he explains, "is 42 feet long, and has no power steering." It is doubtful, however, that Getz's interest in collecting and restoring old fire engines will diminish. His collection now includes 13S wheeled vehicles, most of which are displayed at his Hall of Flame Museum in Phoenix. The collection begain in 1955 when Getz, passing an old fire engine in a used car lot in Chicago, commented to his wife, "It would be kind of fun to have one of those to take the kids for rides." The following Christmas, a 1924 American La France pumper was in the driveway with a ribbon. "Everyone's collecting coins or stamps, but there's nobody preserving this old historical equipment," he says. The gleaming red and brass vehicles have since become one of Getz's passions, and they reflect his meticulous attention to detail and his unquenchable thirst for hiStory. "I will not permit restoration on any equipment untilI've made a thorough investigation of that piece. Sometimes it takes me five or six years. When I renovate, I want it back in the original condition - color, striping, equipment - everything." Replacement parts are thus handcrafted in Getz's workship at the museum by his personal craftsman. Getz's collection includes vehicles dating back to the early ISth century, as well as pieces from Austria, Japan, France, and England. More than 20,000 visitors tour the museum each year. Another area that has occupied a major part of Getz's life is ranching, the activity that once brought him to Arizona. Until recently, the family's holdings included a 40,000-acre ranch near Kingman, Arizona, owned since 1946 and sold last year. He still owns a large ranch in Hawaii. Recalling his Arizona ranching days, he describes it as "rough and rugged. I never went out of the house without a gun." The ranch was mainly a cattle ranch, and one suspects that George Getz, in spite of his Chicago and Florida upbringing and prep school education, is a cowboy at heart. "I loved that life," he says. That love is reflected in Getz's lifetime membership in the Cowboy Hall of Fame and his impressive collection of Western art. His private gallery includes pieces by scores of the great names in Western art. Nearly all of them are Getz's good friends including OlafWeighorst, whose Christmas cards and a sketch on a place mat are part of what Getz calls his "Weighorst THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 14 George Getz is shown with one of the 138 antique fire engines he has collected and restored over the years. Wall." A tour of the gallery includes Getz's personal anecdotes about many of the artists, as well as their paintings and bronzes, that tell as much about the astute collector himself as about the art. In addition to the gallery, the Getz complex, which looks like just another unobtrusive Scottsdale office building, holds still more personal treasures. A huge mounted Cape buffalo head dominates Getz's office and an entire room is lined with other big game trophies - all reminders of a visit to Africa. Still another room, known as the "Mouse House," holds more than 3,000 mouse reproductions that comprise the tastefully arranged collection of Getz's late wife, whose petite stature, led to her childhood nickname, "Mouse." The collection includes several original celluloids of early Mickey Mouse cartoons from the late Walt Disney, another good friend of Getz. The importance of family to George Getz is readily apparent. His business acquisitions have often been geared to Continued on page 32 VIEWPOINT Perspective On Beijing Editor's Note: Dr. John Frankenstein of the Department of International Studies is Thunderbird's expert on China. He shared his views on China on two separate occasions recently, commenting on the student movement in Beijing prior to a trip made to China and again upon his return. May 23, 1989: The Student Movement Gains Momentum Q. Based on your knowledge of China, past and present, what is your opinion of the stud~nt protests against the government in Beijing? A. There are two ways to look at the events in Beijing: the superficial events-driven, headline-driven way, and a longer and deeper perspective on the situation. It's clear from the headline perspective that we have a truly spectacular event going on in Beijing. It's unprecedented in Chinese history and it's certainly unprecedented in the whole history of the Communist movement - that an established Communist regime has had its capital taken over by nonCommunists. We should recognize that the students and the workers are trying to make the institutions work better and live up to their ideals. There is also the symbolic dimension. This particular student movement occurred on the 70th anniversary of the May 4th movement, which was the first nationwide expression of Chinese nationalism in the modem period. It led to a real cultural revolution and it was, in a sense, the introduction of modem thought to China. There are many differences, as well, but the current student movement made explicit and skillful use of that movement, which claimed then, as now, to be a patriotic movement, a movement to save China from its humiliation. In 1919, it was humilia-tion at the hands of the foreigners. Today, it seems to be humiliation at the hands of corrupt officials. Q. In what way is the Communist government and particularly Deng Xiaoping, responsible for the recent events? A. To look back on what we know about Chinese politics and what we know about Communist politics, we can sketch out certain general principles. One of them is that the primary issue in Chinese politics has always been control. There's a deep-seated fear in Chinese political culture toward what the Chinese call "laun" or chaos. One always acts to maintain control and order domestically, regardless of what the outside world may think about it. It's one of the constant principles. Li Peng is acting according to this old model. Everything that I know about Chinese politics suggests that at some point there has to be a re-establishment of control. We in the West do not know what it's like to live in a system where you have the full technology of coercion at your fingertips. State interests in Chinese history until now have taken precedence over private interests. The political culture is organized in that way. We've seen instances in the past, not only in China but elsewhere, where you have governments whose legitimacy is questioned by masses of people, but for simple lack of alternative institutions they persist in a kind of gray and unhappy way. I think Eastern Europe is a good example and one reason why it has coercive elements - a large police force, a large secret police - is that you keep people in line that way, and that's what counts, not whether you are supported, but whether people obey. Thking a broader perspective, we have to recognize that in a paradoxical way, all of these events are really the SUMMER 1989 15 results of the successes of the reform program that was implemented in early 1979 by Deng Xiaoping to establish a system in China where the excesses of the past could not be repeated. He tried to professionalize the government bureaucracy and the party, and get rid of the old guerilla soldiers who were running things. He said that we made a mistake; we took class struggle as the key task and actually it should be economic development. He tried to bring in experts to depoliticize China, to separate the party from the government. The party's role would be reduced to psychological work - building morale and more political kinds of things. Last summer I had a dramatic confirmation of this at a conference of the First U.S./China Joint Session on Industry Trade and Economic Development. At one point the governors and vice governors of the provinces, and the mayors and vice mayors of many of the coastal cities, were all up on stage together at a reception in their honor. I looked at this group of people and it suddenly dawned on me that there were no old soldiers up there. They were all' professors and engineers and technocrats, and that this, in a sense, was the fruit of Deng's reforms. If you put emphasis on economic development, then obviously you have to have a certain kind of social relaxation. People, particularly younger people who don't remember the cultural revolution, got exposure to outside ideas and began to question things. They saw their standards of living going up. The students and other parts of the citizenry felt confident enough to go out and say, "Wait a minute you guys, you're not doing what you said you were going to." That is an element of paradoxical indication that the reforms were successful. When you start to reform a system, there are lots of unintended consequences and it is these unintended consequences that are also a catalyst for the students. One of the things they're concerned about is the economy. China had a long period of what economists call Continued "repressed demand" and all of a sudden there are more goods available, resulting in inflation. This has seriously eroded the earning power of people on fixed salaries, which most people in China are on, especially in the urban areas. With 30 to 40 percent inflation in the cities and salaries of 120-150 yuan a month, which at the official rate of exchange is around $50, over time, purchasing power is going to seriously erode. Q. In addition to financial concerns, what social and political concerns do the Chinese have? A. There's concern about corruption - officials taking advantage of their positions to benefit personally. People are concerned that the sons and daughters of the high officials are the ones who get the good jobs, the ones who go abroad, the ones with all the privileges in society These concerns have been building over time. The big problem for China is that there are no alternative institutions that they can turn to, and there are no rules codified or otherwise to determine succession. How do you replace somebody? How does somebody get power? What we see in Beijing today is a lot of pressure that has been building up in the society for a long time. Fundamentally, this is an expression of the societal relaxation, and it's also an expression of the problems of legitimacy that the party has been facing since the Cultural Revolution. Nobody really believes that these guys are out to promote the country, but rather that they're out to promote their own interests. There's been a very slow and gradual erosion and the Chinese seem to have reached a kind of dilemma; what do we do now? Q. How will the democracy movement affect foreign trade? A. China has become a part of the world capitalist trading system in the past 10 years. Their major trading partners are Japan, the United States, Europe, and Hong Kong. That's about 80-85 percent of their trade. They're interested in this for a lot of reasons - they get technology, they get hard currency. The real problem is not these demonstrations, but attempts to regulate the economy that were implemented in the fall of 1988 to control inflation and speculation, and to restore confidence in the currency. There was a run on the banks and the regime implemented a lot of austerity measures. They cut back on credit. They cut back on foreign exchange allocations. This has impacted foreign investments in China. Joint ventures, many of which were required to source locally, are suddenly finding that their suppliers can't get credit any more, so they can't supply them with the intermediate goods. They're also finding, of course, that if you're selling into the China market, sud-denly people's foreign exchange allo-cation has been cut or people don't have credit. Obviously, for trading companies and for other kinds of activities this has also impacted them, because any kind of economic slow-down which they're trying to impose on the economy is going to affect foreign trade. The Chinese economy has been growing so fast that they've got to get it under control- from supersonic speed to 300 miles an hour, not slowing things to a snail's pace. July II, 1989 After the Massacre Q. Describe what you saw in Beijing during the first week inJune. A. Thinking back on the scenes in Beijing, I was there from June 1st through the 7th. What we saw was a city - I don't want to use the word in "turmoil" because that's the official Chinese line- but certainly it was a city that was very close to the edge of falling apart in many respects. Once in Beijing, I realized that the reporting, even in Hong Kong, was not really conveying the sense of urgency, the sense of crisis that existed in the city, and also the sense of excitement. People felt that they were on the verge of something - that there was going to be some kind of change. People were quite interested and enthusiastic about what was going on. Later, toward the end, they THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 16 were getting discouraged. I saw people who were on the square up to the last day. They told me they were getting tired and that they were worried; primarily about the worker demonstrations that were being mounted against them, demonstrations organized by the government. They felt that there might be some clash there. Q. Did you expect the government's brutal repression of the student-led movement? A. No one that I talked to even remotely considered the kind of action that actually occurred on that night and the morning of June 4th. But, it's fair to say that there was a great sense of anticipation and feeling that something new was about to emerge. Q. Were you concerned for your safety while you were in the city? Why did you leave? A. In terms of the actual setting, I don't think any of the Thunderbird group that was there, myself included, were in any particular physical danger. I think we were of concern and some residual interest to the embassy as they were responsible for Americans and we were four or five less Americans they'd have to worry about if we all left. Prudence dictated that we leave, simply to get out of a situation where nothing good was going to happen. In a situation such as this, the first thing that disappears is any kind of meaningful information. You do not know what's happening and in its place, are rumors. You don't know what to expect. No news is reliable. There were a lot of rumors going around. There was a certain sense of urgency. None of us were down, fortunately, around or near Tiananmen Square at the time of the assault. We did see blocked intersections; they were everywhere in Beijing. We could see soldiers; we couldn't avoid them. We heard shots; we couldn't avoid those. But Beijing was not Beirut. There was a lot of debris on the streets, blockages. Clearly, there was a lot of disorder, but at the same time, the buildings were not falling down and we weren't being gunned by artillery fire. Dr. John Frankenstein Q. What is your opinion of the government's actions? A. In Chinese political culture there is a pressure to maintain control, to push regardless of what the outcome is, regardless of the impact on foreign opinion, foreign opportunities or even foreign dangers. This is what we saw. When we got to China, we suddenly realized that the regime was being very serious, very careful of how it treated these people. Up until mid-May, the occupation was regarded as demonstrations, the demonstrators were regarded as patriotic people, but around midMay, the atmosphere shifted, about the time that Premier Li Peng was on television. They redefined the nature of the activities on the square from being patriotic to being counterrevolutionary. And once that happened, it became inevitable that some kind of action would be taken against them. A force that operates from Chinese political culture is that the concept of a loyal opposition simply doesn't exist. Once the enemy is defined, then whatever steps taken against the enemy are considered legitimate because he's the opposition, he's disloyal. The Chinese concept still exists, the mandate of heaven, except now they call it the mandate of history, an elite group who rules by virtue of their special understanding of history. Once they define the counterrevolutionaries, then it is legitimate to move against them. Certainly no one that I talked to in Beijing anticipated the kind of force that would be deployed against them. But, in retrospect, we can understand it. We don't excuse it. We don't apologize for it. They responded in force, which is the only way these people really know how to deal with these things. Using the army for riot control has never been a good idea unless you really wanted to convey a message, and it's clear they wanted to convey a message. We've seen this in follow-through with the arrests and purges. It appears, on the basis of the scant information that I have, that what we have is a situation where the regime has been keeping a list of good guys and bad guys over time. The people who are being reported arrested go far beyond the kinds of people who were actually involved in the square. It's very sad because for ten years there was a progressive loosening up of things. People were told the purges were of the past. When the regime was put under pressure, however, they reverted back to the 1950s style of rhetoric and 1950s style action. This is not a Cultural Revolution and it's not a Cultural Revolution chaos. The student movement was spontaneous. Q. By spontaneous, do you mean there were no warning signs that a movement like this might occur? A. I think there were a lot of warning signs. People were talking about a rectification of the economy Rectification is a particularly loaded word in the Chinese context. It means more than just setting things right. It also means setting thinking right. It's a great tragedy because in one fell swoop the regime threw away ten years of very hard work. They had established international credibility In terms of what it did domestically, it's impossible to say SUMMER 1989 17 There is no real ideological justification for what they did except ideology of power. What are these people to think except that once again their leaders have shrugged? Q. How will China's economy be affected? A. These events are not going to help the economic situation. I know from talking to bankers in Hong Kong that in long term commercial credit, no one is conSidering China at this point. All the multilateral organizations that provide soft loans to China are holding them up. Tourism is zero. Exports are down. Thlking to people as of the end of June there really wasn't much business going on. In fact, one international banker in Hong Kong said he suspected that China would not be able to make its debt payments this fall. That's serious for a country that over time has prided itself on meeting its international obligations. Q. How will the Americans respond? A. In terms of new business or foreign business, I was impressed by the feeling of Americans in Beijing that they wanted to go back and continue. They did this out of two motivations: there was business going on in China and probably some business yet to be done. But also because over time these people have established working relationships. They have employees. They have certain loyalties there, and I think that's important to maintain. But, I don't think anybody's thinking about doing anything new soon and certainly it has scared away a lot of people who otherwise would have been interested. There are other elements. We don't know yet how this is going to play out in Congress-what sort of trade restrictions or trade sanctions are going to be imposed. There are already some very Significant ones imposed because they target the very things China needs and wants: high tech, communications, and things that have a potential dual use, military and civilian, which they need desperately for their civilian side. The future is not bright and China has never been for the faint of heart. 0 THUNDERBIRD NETWORK Introducing the TAA The Thunderbird Alumni Association is making it easier for new graduates to participate in alumni activity with an orientation session on campus for students ready to graduate. The first Thunderbird Student-Alumni Network Orientation was held in April. The alumni association plans to conduct the sessions each semester, says alumni president Jack Donnelly '60. The goal is to inform students how they can remain in contact with the School and other graduates, to urge them to take advantage of networking with other Tbirds, Donnelly says. He points out, as an example, that if a new graduate moving into a community can contact other alumni, he or she can receive assistance in becoming settled. The first orientation presented a panel of Donnelly, Franck Kiser, president of the Associated Students Legislative Council and co-chairman of the Student Relations Committee; Hein Schoustra '83, Student Relations Committee co-chairman; Tom Peterson '77, alumni association board of directors; and Kim Kotchka, president of the Student Development Committee. ARIZONA Phoenix and Tucson Tbirds have been treated to some outstanding guest speakers this summer. Patrick Manion, assistant to Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard, spoke at an informal roundtable on city issues and policy. Dan Danilewicz, vice preSident of Johnson &: Higgins, with 20 years experience in the international insurance arena, addressed worldwide terrorism. CALIFORNIA Gold Coast Gold Coast Tbirds have established a permanent site for First Tuesdays. The group meets at 5:30 p.m. , Sergio's Cantina located at 3835 Thousand Oaks Blvd., in Westlake Village. Greater Los Angeles Errol van Stralen '83 organized a Latin night for L.A. Tbirds. A Cuban dinner and a show at Samba e Saudade featuring a lO-piece Brazilian band rounded out the evening. Manhattan Beach Last Tuesdays have a new locationTequila Willie's in Manhattan Village Mall, Rosecrans and Sepulveda Blvds., at 5:30 p.m. Orange County Birraporetti's is the new meeting place for First Thursday gatherings. The Italian restaurant with an Irish bar is located at 2078 South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa. Along with a new location, Orange County Tbirds have inaugurated international speakers dinners; Sherri Baldwin was the featured speaker in May. She is the founder of the Baldwin Sai Bai Company and splits her time between managing her company and teaching at the World Trade Center Institute of the Coastline Community College. Her company has three agents in the People's Republic of China and one in Japan. Margriet Hotzy '81 and her ·husband, Horst '75, also attended. Margriet is director of the World Trade Institute and she discussed the curriculum and the need for qualified part-time instructors. Marilyn Loewy, director of export administration for McDonnell Douglas offered inSights into the trade policies emerging from the new administration at July'S meeting. Tbirds from Orange County, Greater L.A., and San Diego chapters visited the Temecula Valley, southern California's famous wine-producing area. Sally Ingram '86 coordinated the tour of three wineries and a mid-day picnic. .. james Post '83 married Betsy Palmer '81 in Corona del Mar, California, with fellow T'birds joining in the celebration. Front row (I-r): Alain Hartmann '8 I, Nancy Varona '81, Betsy and jim, Carol Hughett '84, Connie Saunders '82, and john Lombardo '83. Back row: Tom Buchanan '82, Raul Balsys '83, Mike O'Neill '84, Stu Roth '83, Scot Chamber/in '83, Bruce Knoblock '83, Scott Clark '83, Tim Smyth '83, and Becky Buchanan '80. THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 18 Scott Goldstein '84 was recently married to Elyce Small. T'birds attending the Chicago wedding included: (top row I-r) jeff james '84, Elyce and Scott, Kathy Dohse '84, Bob Clark '84, Stuart Anderson '85, and (bottom row I-r) jim Atten '84, Laura Atten, Gaby Neiman '84, Kathy McKee '84 and Leslie Corcoran. T T Linda Pascucci '85 and Conrad Terry '81 participated in an international business forum as part of career conversations at Wheaton College in Illinois. The conference was designed to bring students and professionals together to discuss job market and career planning information. Terry is the T'bird alumnus representative to Wheaton College and has developed strong relations with the career development center on the campus. • Honolulu T'birds hosted guests from A/ESEC at a recent First Tuesday. Front row (I-r): Dennis Oshiro 72, Eric Locke 77, Craig Mueller '68, john Campbell '67, and jane Lael '82. Back row: guests Craig Oda, Charles Perl, Rod Okumura with T'birds jeff Sangster '84, Hal McArthur '65, and Howard Patterson '69 with Lilia Molina Ruiz. Patterson and Ruiz were visiting from Puerto Rico. San Diego San Diego alums sampled a tas te of Argentina at the area's hottest new ethnic restaurant, The Tango Grill. They dined on empanadas, parillada, and chicken basted in chimichurri sauce. San Francisco Billed as "perestroika of the palate, glasnost of the gullet," a Russian roving dinner was held at the Russian Renaissance, owned by a Russian national who moved his restaurant from Shanghai to San Francisco 30 years ago and has decorated the interior with 13th-century Russian icons and frescos. In May, area T'birds had an opportunity to attend two conferences in San Francisco to hear the latest developments on Pacific Rim trade and investment, and trade issues and opportunities with the Soviet Union. Featured entertainment in the Bay Area during the summer included a performance of "The Thming of the Shrew" at UC Berkeley'S Shakespeare Festival in July and the first annual T'bird camping trip to Angel Island in the heart of San Francisco Bay. The Tiburon Ferry transported alums to the island where they awoke to a spectacular view of the Golden Gate Bridge the next morning. Kathy Greenfield '79 has successfully relocated Third Tuesdays in the mid-Peninsula to Charlie Brown's in Sunnyvale, 1116 North Mathilda Avenue, by the intersection of 237 and lOl, beginning at 5:30 p.m. COLORADO Holding forth on bush bashing, rugby, good grog and good business with equal parts pure "strine" and the Queen's English, Denver-area T'birds listened to Christopher Blundell, president of Denver-based Australian Outback Collections, Inc., at the First Tuesday gathering in May. The Rocky Mountain T'birds continue to meet at Soapy Smith's Eagle Bar, 1217 14th Street, Denver, starting at 6:00 p.m. SUMMER 1989 19 A Water Toy Festival on the shores of Green Mountain Reservoir kept Colorado T'birds busy testing the Australian hydrodynamic sailboards and other aquatic play toys in August. GEORGIA The Atlanta T'birds celebrated Independence Day on July 8, 1989 at a lakeside barbecue. Sonya and Dieter Baier '86 hosted the event at their home. First Tuesdays are held at East Village Grille, 248 Buckhead Ave., Atlanta, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ILLINOIS Chicagoland In celebration of Bastille Day, alums in the Chicago area spent an evening of jazz featuring The Dukes of Dixieland and Dr. John at Ravinia. Everyone brought picnic baskets for the outdoor event. The response to the Global Job Bank has generated over 50 subscriptions during the first six weeks, including both individual and corporate. MICHIGAN Michigan alums continue to meet at Casa Lupita, 2085 W Big Beaver, rroy, on first Tuesdays, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Jean Ann Larson '85 is looking for volunteers to assist her with First Tuesdays. MINNESOTA Minnesota T'birds got together in July for a T'bird alumni picnic on the southwest side of Lake Calhoun. This activity was a substitute for their July First Tuesday meeting. First Tuesdays are still held at JAX in Golden Valley, just off Highway 55, at 5:30 p.m. NEW ENGLAND The Alumni Club of New England meets at Cricket's at Faneuil Hall Marketplace on first Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. The group held an entrepreneurs' "blue sky" meeting recently to exchange ideas, discuss, critique, advise, or offer contacts. THUNDERBIRD NETWORK NEW YORK The New York chapter held its fourth career networking reception in June. The evening gave recent graduates and other Tbird alums the opportunity to learn about various industries and career opportunities. Speakers included: Fay Kilgore '86, corporate public relations; Susan Holden '84, consumer public relations; Cathy Coates '87, banking (training and corporate); Brett Little '83, foreign exchange and capital markets; Jill Stockwell '86, career changing; and Dick Hessert '48, recruiters. The chapter also held a summer solstice tennis party at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. The event was organized by Anne Allison '78 and was billed as the warmup event for the U.S. Open. OHIO The Greater Cincinnati Tbird chapter held their second-ever First Tuesday at the Pavilion in Mt. Adams. The group discussed the chapter's objectives, organization, and upcoming activities. The event was coordinated by Lisa Hayes '83, Lily Shaikhzadeh '85, and Joe O'Neill '80. OREGON Oregon/Southwest Washington Tbirds get together at Alessandro's Restaurant, 301 S.W Morrison, Portland, at 5:30 p.m. on first Tuesdays. Bill '83 and Nikki '83 Klutho are in charge of arrangements. TEXAS Dallas/Fort Worth Thunderbirds met at the outside International Food Bazaar for a picnic during Dallas's annual Salute-to-the-World Week in the Dallas Arts District. The bazaar featured food specialties, beverages and entertainment from around the world. Houston Alums in the Houston area still meet on first Tuesdays at Cody's, 3400 Montrose, 5:00 p.m. Led by Patricia Gras '85 and Ricarda McFalls '84 the group is conSidering international speaker events and business mixers with other organizations. The Thunderbird Riverfest took place in June with Tbirds, aspirants, relatives, and friends from Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin converging on the Rockin' R River Rides to tube down the Guadalupe River and enjoy a picnic along its banks. Captain of the Tbird flotilla , Mike Burrichter '87, was in charge of the festivities. San Antonio The Fountain Plaza Hotel, 37 N.E. Loop 410 at McCullough in San Antonio continues as the First Tuesday meeting place for San Antonio alums with Ben Miedema '77 and Dorothy Tenczar Faria '84 organizing the monthly gatherings. In June, Charles Mannel, vice president for external affairs, gave the group insights into the latest activities on campus. UTAH Utah Tbirds hosted a family picnic on July 8, 1989 at the Spruces campground in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Activities included frisbee and bocce ball, and a picnic. Ruggers To Reunite Plans are under way for the annual rugby reunion, March 2-4,1990, on the Thunderbird campus. Events will include Pub Night, a golf tournament, disco, a barbecue, and, of course, rugby. The event is being organized by Robin Stephens '87 who will also coordinate the European contingent. Gary Crist '80 will organize the Asian group and "Mr. Wonderful" Suarez, the United States. • Over 200 alumni, guests, and friends of Thunderbird enjoyed a reception in New York hosted by AT&T During the event, Dr. William Voris was presented with a stained-glass replica of the Schaol seal. Nona Niner '81 made the presentation on behalf of the New York alumni chapter. • Debarah Kielty '81 and Elise Keller '82 enjoy a sunny morning toast in Rome. Deborah recently relocated to Rome with Procter & Gamble and Elise, who works for Lotus Development in New York City. was visiting. THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 20 Richard Boya, Thunderbird's director of planned giving, joined First Tuesday festivities in Bostan, giving 25 members of the New England alumni group the latest news from Thunderbird. T ~ (I-r) Daniel Witcher '50, Ruth and Steve Engel '74 enjoy a dinner honoring the Thunderbird Alumni Association recognition committee in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Witcher is chairman o( the committee and Engel is a committee member. .. Neil '87 and Kim McNeil Kester '84 hosted an alumni event in Cairo, Egypt (or Kathryn Vegso, director o( career services. Twenty alumni plus spouses and guests met with Vegso at the Kester home. .. Michael j. Brown '88 and Darlene Drapkin '84 report that a large group o( T'birds in Madrid got tagether recently (or a party at the home o( Barbara Bibas Montero '81. They unanimously decided to reinstate First Thursdays in Madrid at EI Kairo Bar, General Arrando 24. Can tact person isJim Dodson '74. SUMMER 1989 21 WASHINGTON Washington area T'birds will hear speeches during First Tuesdays by designated alums with five or more years professional experience who will share ideas for a 20- to 30- minute segment to be known as 7 T'bird Tips. J. Daniel Bariault '75 kicked off this series in May. He is an attorney with a firm specializing in corporate law and business planning and is president of One World Trade Development Corp., a company broadly diversified in the area of international trade and development. Steve Hatch '74 once again organized a Thunderbird exhibit booth staffed by volunteer alumni at the Washington ExportImport '89 Exposition and Conference. It is the Northwest's foremost exposition and conference on international trade. Barbara Olson, Thunderbird's director of internship education, was on hand for the day, and Whitney Kim '87 did an outstanding job as event coordinator. T'bird volunteers included Russell Bennett '86, Laida Adduru Bowman '81, Brent Lawrence '83, Mike O'Neill '84, Matt Deem '87, Robert Carlson '78, Fletcher Catron '86, Bob Hawkinson '83, and Karin Gallagher '88. WASHINGTON D.C. T'birds in Washington D.C. joined members of the Washington Management and Business Association for an Australian wine tasting at the Australian Embassy to offer a toast to the summer season. The group met again for an outdoor adventure on the Potomac River, an afternoon rafting trip with lunch by the river. May's First Tuesday included a meeting of Washington D.C. area alums to finalize a plan of action for the chapter. WISCONSIN Erik Burros '88 and Bill Reade '88 have continued the Milwaukee chapter gatherings. A summertime activity for the Wisconsin and Chicago chapters was a family picnic at Petrifying Springs Park with a potluck, softball, golf, volleyball, croquet, and just plain relaxing. ARGENTINA Patricio Seidel '74 and Robert Garrison '61 are contacts for a Thunderbird lunch on first Tuesdays at Club Americano, Viamonte 1133, 8th Floor, in Buenos Aires. The get-together begins at 12:30 p.m. and will continue through December. BELGIUM In 1980, alums in Belgium numbered less than a dozen. Today the group numbers over 50. Because John Cook '79, an active partiCipant in alumni activities, has moved to Germany, Koenraad Wilms '86 will serve as Cook's successor until discussions and possibly elections are held with other interested alumni in Belgium. Wilms is the marketing coordinator for 3M Belgium n.v.; Cook has accepted a position with Security Pacific Merchant Bank in Germany. HONDURAS Alumni in Honduras recently held their second First Tuesday with seven of the 10 to 15 alums in the area turning out. First Tuesdays are held at the Hotel Honduras Maya in Tegucigalpa beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the piano bar. Contacts are Theresa Frisk '86 and Len Brockman '75 who can be reached through the Peace Corps office, 321753. , SOMETHING OLDt SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED ... Something Old - This is the 15th year of the Thunderbird Balloon Race, so in terms of balloon races, it can be considered old. Something New - This year the Balloon Race has a new site, the Glendale Airport. Also, a new concept replaces the Silent Auction which has been the highlight over the years. Something Borrowed - The committee borrowed the idea of a lottery with a cash prize. With alumni help they can sell raffle tickets for a briefcase full of money - $1,000 to be exact. If each Tbird will send just $5, the donations will fill the briefcase and many more Please send a donation made payable to the FOT Mavis Voris Endowment Scholarship Fund and mail to: Hot Air Affair, c/o Balloon Race Office, 15249 N. 59th Ave., Glendale, AZ 85306. MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW Plans for the 1990 Asia Pacific reunion are under way. The event will be held in Hong Kong from June 8-10, 1990. Sharon de Alwis '87 and her reunion committee have booked a block of rooms at the Furama Intercontinental Hotel. Stay tuned for more details in the fall issue of Thunderbird magazine. ~ Dr. Issa Peters and Kathryn Vegso visit with T'birds in Amman,Jordan. (seated I-r) Mutaz Sankari '83, Vegso, Nazzal AI-Armouti 79, Mohamad Anwar Mefleh Haamdan 79. (Standing I-r) Mohammad Ensour '80, Peters, Mansour Abu-Rahmeh '86, and Halim Abu-Rahmeh '84. ... T'birds and guests gather for the "Dusseldorfer T'bird Stammtisch" at the Schiffehen restaurant. The group meets every two or three months on a Friday. (I-r) Andy Fogarasi (MariyD's brother-in-law), Lori Schlichter, William Schlichter 75, Barry Sandin, Claudia Scheibler '86, Philip Blaisdell 70, and Mariya Toohey Fogarasi 78. Getting Married? Thunderbird magazine looks forward to hearing from our alumni worldwide. However, due to the increased number of alumni chapter photos we receive, it will no longer. be possible to publish wedding photos in the Network section of the magazine. As always, we will continue to publish wedding news and individual photos in the Updates section. THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 22 La Louisiane, Paris, was the recent site for a T'bird dinner for alums in France. Philippe Deymes '75, president of the European French chapter sent the photos. • (f-r) Susan Duval '77, jacques Tapiero '82, Henny Deymes, Phifippe Deymes '75, Anita Ayash,jos Tapiero, Martine Agopian '86, Marie Gabrielle Plunier '86. Seated by the window: johannes C. Combee '72. • (f-r) Rauni Laukkanen '82, Kim Altemus Guptill '82, Rick Guptill, Francois Lanneau '85, Dominique Themines '85, Pierre Edelman '85, Martine Ferino '82, and Isobelle deKierdaniel. <II Yasuhiro and Charfotte Kennedy Takahashi '76 hosted a party for Tokyo T'birds and in spite of the rain, the group numbered 40. Peter Carmichael '86 is the new president of the Tokyo chapter. Peter Rebrin, Helvio Ribeiro, Michael Dulaney and Gene Fiamma, all from the class of '86, gathered in Sao Paulo to celebrate the end of Fiamma's 14- month trip around the worfd. ~ MAXIMIZING THE M.I.M. She was mysterious and mesmerizing. She was also a cold negotiator. Somehow, I had to break the ice, to develop a human relationship, to convince this beautiful Turkish engineer that business is more than numbers and facts. It is the human element that makes it work. But her icy exteri.or fended off every opening I offered. I felt the opportunity slipping. The potential business would wither on the frosty vine. She picked up my business card in her beautifully manicured hand. She scrutinized it. Then she asked THE question I had been waiting for. .. "What is an M.l.M., anyhow?" Six months later she was a student at Thunderbird, and in the warmth of the Pub, she learned to defrost her ice cold concept of business negotiations. The circumstances have been altered, because the true stories lack some of the "mesmerizing" qualities of this Turkish engineer, but I have seen the scenario played many times. Sometimes I am mistaken for a Member of the Institute of Mining, or a Metalurgicaiingineer (sic) of some kind, but always the question opens a door. The access of this opened door can lead to a new Thunderbird, through your introduction to the School, or mutual acquaintances of the person asking, or just an interesting conversation about the education and experiences SUMMER 1989 23 of a Thunderbird. The bottom line is that anyone who learns more about Thunderbird by asking THE question adds to the international exposure of the American Graduate School of International Management. If you do a credible job after the question is asked, it may even add to the prestige. Anything which reflects favorably on Thunderbird, and which spreads the knowledge of the School, will ultimately reflect on you, the alumnus. What is good for Thunderbird is good for us Do me a favor lake out you business card. Do you carry the M.l.M., or the B.l.M. or the B.ET after your name? If you are involved in international business, it is not pretentious. I have met German businessmen/engineers who need two business cards for all their letters. Using the letters shows your pride in the School. It also shows good business sense. I cannot count how many times the ice has been broken by THE question. I also cannot count how many potential students, and parents (in very high positions) of potential students have asked me for the address of the School, or to have a catalog sent their way. Also, if you write articles of any kind, include your letters in the byline. It is a cheap investment in the future of Thunderbird, and your own as well. ByVincentS.Daniels,M.l.M'74 ALUMNI UPDATES 1947-1949 Andrew Nisbet '47 is president of Port of Port Angeles. He lives with his wife, Haroldine, in Sequim, WA. William O. Neumann '48 has retired from his position as travel consultant for Mclachlan Travel. He lives in Somerville, NJ. James S. Thomas '48 has retired from ITT Communications Services. He lives in Greenwich, CT Samuel X. Bloom '49 is the owner of Essex Associates, manufacturers' representatives for collectible gift items. He lives in Rochester, NY Don Groves '49 recently published his fourth book entitled The Oceans. He lives in \MIshington, D.C. 1950-1955 William R. Peck '50 has recently retired as employment interviewer with the State of New York Department of Labor. He has a one-year-old granddaughter, Molly Peck. He lives in Allegany, NY Victor D. Eichmann '51 was married in April 1988. He is sales manager of A-I Lithoplate, Inc. in Broadview, Il. Richard S. Hubbell '52 is retired and lives in Santa Fe, NM. Jack R. Hams '53 is the owner of Hamlet Metal Fabricating. He plans to retire and travel for a year. He lives with his wife, Patricia, in Seaside, OR. Robert H. Morehouse '53 has been appointed a visiting associate at Harvard's John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. He is also senior adviser for Asia to the Skandinaviska Enskilda Bank Group in Stockholm. William F. QuinnJr. '54 is retired from Integrated Resources Inc. and lives in Red Bank, NJ. Henry W. Ferris Jr. '55 has retired and lives in Madison, CT Steven M. Lewine '55 has been promoted to vice president/Caribbean and Central America for Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. He lives with his wife and son , Christopher, in Briarwood, New York. Richard E. Punnett '55 has recently retired from his position as manager, import/export with Spencer Kellogg. He lives in Lockport, NY 1956-1960 Robert G. Connelly' 56 is vice preSident of Fercon International Corp., an import/export company. He lives with his wife, Annedorle, in Nashville, TN. Charles A. Swarts '56 is the owner/manager of DP Professionals, a recruiting firm . He lives with his wife, Janice, in Mercer Island, WA. William B. Bottorf '57 is the owner/manager of American AdvertiSing, an advertiSing and direct mail firm. He lives in EI Paso, TX. Barry A. Byrne '57 is the self-employed managing director of Springport International Ltd. , a hospital medical equipment company. He and his wife, Hiroko, live in Hong Kong. Philip D. Hoffman '58 is a senior vice president of Aaron D. Cushman and Associates, a public relations firm in Chicago. He was recently awarded a Silver Anvil from the Public Relations Society of America for excellence in the internal communications category. Jerome R. Mahoney '58 is self-employed at COM Publications. He and his wife, Claire, live in Woodstock, VI Barton L. Hartzell' 59 has retired from Boeing Co. after 28 112 years. He and his wife, Liz, live in Bellevue, WA. Robert Castillo '60 is the new director of the year-old trade department of the Economic Development and Tourism Department for the State of New Mexico. Jose A. Sanchez '64 Olav A. Leite '65 1961 John C. Cooper is director of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in Coconut Grove, Florida. He lives with his wife, Patricia, in Coral Gables. Linton D. Kingsbury has retired and is living in Vail, Colorado, where he enjoys skiing and does occasional consulting. 1962 Alan Blank is building a reptile zoo in Charanda, Australia and lives in Cairns, Australia. Jose M. Roggiano is finance director of Sotyl S.A. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1963 Beaumont A. Lower is a commercial counselor for the Embassy of the United States of America in Singapore. Duncan L. Thomas is preSident of Tri-International, Inc., international marketing consultants. He lives in Toledo, OH. Hugh J. Tierney is an associate with Frasse &: Associates, a financial serviceslinsurance firm. He lives with his wife, Virginia, in Belvedere, CA. 1964 REUNION NOVEMBER 11-12,1989 Charles P. Ancona is president of Boar's Head Enterprises. He lives in Charlottesville, VA. Garry S. Moore is managing director of West Africa Milk Co. (NIG), Ltd. in Lagos, Nigeria. He was recently transferred after spending four years in Bangkok and one year in Pakistan. Jose A. Sanchez is the marketing manager for Latin America and the Far East, NCH Corporation in Irving, Texas. He lives in Dallas. Jan A. Wells is in public relations with Cannon Wines Ltd. He lives in Redwood City, CA. 1965 Robert L. Davis is general manager of Maine Tool &: Supply Co. He lives in Cumberland Center, ME. Olav A. Leite started up a company called Sintech in 1988. It is an international trading company speCializing in aircraft parts, fOCUSing mainly on the European market. He lives in Simsbury, CT Kamal C. Solanki owns a small convenience store and service station, and lives in Concord, NC. 1966 Paul V. FergusonJr. is president of PV Ferguson &: Associates, an international consulting firm. He lives in Santa Barbara, CA. Peter Fowler is vice president and manager of the international private banking department at Barclays Bank, president THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 24 Peter X. Hahn '66 William C. Demmin '68 of the Florida International Bankers Association and a member of the International Banking and Trade Study Commission. He lives with his wife, Susan, and three children in Miami, FL. Peter X. Hahn is the corporate sales representative of One Stop Travel in Rochester, NY R. Taylor Hoskins is vice president of Thomas Rutherfoord, Inc., a firm which functions as agents, brokers and consultants for domestic and international insurance. He lives in Falls Church, VA. 1967 Gary B. Hawk is vice preSident of Norwest Bank Minnesota N.A. He lives with his wife, Sandy, in Minneapolis, MN. John C. Ickis is the academic director of Instituto Centroamericano de Administracion de Empresas (lNCAE) and he lives in Costa Rica. He spent a year as a visiting scholar and associate in research at Harvard Business School. Igor Mamantov is preSident of Dallas International Marketing, Inc. He lives in Richardson, TX. Richard A. Schiendler is president of Schiendler Insurance Services Inc., a life insurance company in San Francisco. He lives in Sausalito, CA. 1968 David R. Ansell is managing director and CEO of Ecobank Transnational Inc. , a regional bank based in West Africa. He lives in Lome, Togo. Huston H. Bunce is manager of HUB International Inc. , an international marketing company. He lives in Portland, OR. William C. Demmin is senior vice president and chief financial officer of Monarch Bank. He and his wife, Dorothy, live in Laguna Niguel, CA. Nick Emery is retired and lives in Clovis, CA. Bert V. Hollansky is an account executive with Hilliard-Lyons Inc. He lives in Columbus, IN. Adam T. Moss is president of Moss Distributing Company in Des Moines, Iowa. William R. Robinson is a vice president of Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. He lives in Allendale, NJ. 1969 REUNION NOVEMBER 11-12, 1989 Bernard F. Blackburn is the owner/manager of Equide, a manufacturer of veterinary products in Brazil. He lives with his wife, Maria, in Pindamonhangaba, Brazil. James R. Coil is vice president, sales and marketing, for Beaver Coaches, Inc. He lives with his wife, \MInda, in Bend, OR. Michael H. Finnell is managing director of investment banking for UBS Securities Inc. He lives in Greenwich, CT Laurence O. Harriman is the director, import-export facilitation, for the International Trade Facilitation Counci l in ew York, NY He presides over comminees comprised of volunteer executives from organiza tions interested in international trade. William B. Jasper is owner of Trove/host of Montgomery, which publishes and distributes a magazine to hotels guiding travelers to local places to eat and visit. He lives in Selma, AL. Loog Kleinbussink is employed by Firestone Export Sales Corporation He lives in Weybridge, Surrey, England. Tor H. Mjoen is employed by Norgolf AS, importers of golf equipment, in Oslo, Norway. Bob Reece is the president of a new executive search firm, Reece & Associates, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He lives with his wife, Lyn, in Lewisville. C. Patrick Sharpe is the vice president/treasurer of the New York branch of the State Bank of South Australia. He lives in Darien, CT. 1970 W. Don Burrows is vice preSident and treasurer of Paramount Petroleum Corp. He lives in Anchorage, AK. Richard W. Decker, Jr. was recently named president and CEO of Westamerica Bank in San Rafael, California, the state's 15th largest bank with 36 offices in eight counties. An article on Decker appeared recently in the San Francisco Chronicle. Michael P. Escoto is the director of Shimmen Food Industries, a canned/frozen fruit processing and export firm in the Philippines. He lives in Quezon City. George D. May III is the preSident of Duffy's Dairy, a yogurt manufacturer, in Willow Street, PA. John E. Mein is the executive vice president of the American Chamber of Commerce of Brazil. He lives in Sao Paulo. Charles A. Segalas is a self-employed real estate developer in Orinda, California. He and his wife, Christine, recently had a son, Alexander Charles. 1971 Robert J. Austin is the deputy executive attache at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela. William W. Brown, J r. is director, marketing and sales, advanced materials division of Kennametal Inc. He lives in Greensburg, PA. Anthony B. DaSilva is sponsored-trip sales manager of Deltona Corporation'S newest community, Sunny Hills, near Panama City, Florida. He lives in Ocala , FL. Gary Langstaff is the executive vice preSident for marketing of the Burger King Corporation in Miami , FL. Charles Malone is the senior director, corporate sales, for Flying Tigers International. He recently spoke to T'bird students at an open forum in the career services center. Robert J. Richter is manager, specialty food division and product development , of Ace Food Service-ISF Tucson Division. He lives in Tucson, AZ. 1972 George G. Adam is controller of Allied Propane Service. He lives in San Rafael, CA. Craig Adams is the owner/partner of Omni Pacific, Ltd., in Portland, OR. Thomas Dugan is the director of marketing for Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation in Camarillo, CA. James W. Echle recently relocated to Hong Kong after 3 112 years in Sydney, Australia. He is the ASEAN sales manager for Pitman-Moore and hopes old friends passing through Hong Kong will be in touch. Phillip J. Gibson is president of GFR, a restaurant business. He lives in Singapore. Okey B. Johnson III is the chairman and CEO of White Star Steel, Inc. He lives in Houston, TX. Steven R. Kroos is the managing director, northeast Asia region ALUMNI PROFILES World Travelers Credit T'bird For a Good Start Howard Hoops '51 and his wife, Billie '51, describe their lives, which have carried them through more than 100 countries in respective careers with the American Red Cross and teaching as wonderful. "We give all the credit to AIFT," Howard says, referring to the School's original name, the American Institute for Foreign Trade. The Hoops are currently involved in a successful real estate business in the San Francisco area, which began after Howard retired from the American Red Cross. It was Billie who first alerted Howard to the School. As husband and wife, they both attended , graduating in 1951. Howard recalls telling his wife that Thunderbird changed his life from one of anticipation into participation. 'Td always wanted to go overseas and do these things and never quite knew how to go about it. AIFT gave me the nudge to push me on over to the participation side." After Thunderbird , and a brief period with Goodyear, Howard joined the Red Cross. Serving first as a counsel for military personnel, he drew assignments in San Diego, Las Vegas, and Korea. Billie, meanwhile continued teaching, and worked at the American School in Japan while Howard was in Korea. They were reunited when he was reassigned to Thiwan and she became principal of a school there. After a stint in Thiwan , they left on a French freighter for a trip around the SUMMER 1989 25 Howard and Billie Hoops '51 world, touring Europe for three months in 1959. Reporting back to the Red Cross, Howard worked in California and was eventually assigned as assistant director of disaster services in San Francisco. Billie obtained a second master's degree in special education to teach the mentally handicapped at a new school. An honor they are both proud of was her nomination for the Kennedy humanitarian award that eventually was given to Mother Teresa. Billie attended the awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. and the follOWing year on a trip to India, they were able to visit Mother Teresa's work in Calcutta. Howard became assistant director of the Red Cross youth programs at western area headquarters, a position which led him twice to work on projects in Mexico with the Mexican Red Cross. One year he brought along 25 students to teach mother and baby-care classes, first aid , and water safety. Another year he took 60 students to teach Mexican students to become instructors in these areas. "We call it 'Project Mexico,'" Howard says. "When we left, they calculated we had trained more than 10,000 Mexicans and had left behind a great number of instructors to carry on the program. The Mexican Red Cross said we had done more for the relationship between Mexico and the United States than any group had done for years." The couple's travels have led them to some historic situations. Th~y were in Moscow on the day in 1969 when the first moon landing occurred. "You would have thought we were the ones that landed there," Howard says. "(Soviet citizens) came up and congratlated us, shook our hands, put their arms around us, and we felt great about it." They also happened to be in Beijing the day the People's Republic of China and the U. S. recognized each other. 'They were all smiles and we were all smiles," says Howard. "We've had a really interesting life." ALUMNI PROFILES Following Trade From Cairo to China The Japan-U.S. semiconductor agreement of 1986 was a major accomplishment of the Commerce Department during the Reagan years. It was also a highlight of George DeBakey's term as deputy assistant secretary for science and electronics, from 1985-87. The agreement, "received a lot of notoriety, both good and bad ," he says. He was also involved with telecommunications, trade activities, super computers and software. "It was an interesting time because I had responsibility for over 50 percent of all u.s. manufactured exports, and I led a couple of trade missions to China ." DeBakey has pursued a career in international trade management since his graduation from Thunderbird in 1973. "My intent was always to be in the international trade area and so far that's worked out in most of the jobs I've had, both domestically and overseas." Before join-ing the Commerce Department, DeBakey worked for Rockwell International in a variety of positions relating to international trade management. Six of his nine years with the company were spent overseas, in London and Cairo. While in Egypt, he founded the American Chamber of Commerce, which has since become a viable and strong voice for American trade interests there. Cairo also proved to be the site of a family reunion of sorts, when his cousin, Michael DeBakey, a worldrenowned heart surgeon based in Houston, flew to Cairo to operate on the Shah of Iran in 1982. After completing his term of office at the Commerce Department in 1987, DeBakey served as executive director of ADAPSO, George DeBakey '73 the computer software and services industry association . Since last year, he has been a consultant on hightech trade issues to both U.S. and foreign companies that want to develop business opportunities abroad. "Most of my involvement has been in business development, marketing and trade issues." Over the years, DeBakey has been active on behalf of Thunderbird. He has been an alumni educational counselor and was one of the original founders of the Dallas chapter of the Thunderbird Alumni Association. He was also a commencement speaker in 1984 and received the Thunderbird Who's Who award in 1987. Recently, the alumni association elected him to its board of directors. He is looking forward to participating on the board and providing input on recruiting and executive development programs by high-tech firms . "I've a lways had a warm spot for the School, and now with international becoming more and more important, the School's role is critical. We need more people with international expertise, so the School's mission is vitally important." consumer products, for Tupperware. He lives in Thipei, Thiwan. Howard T. Mott is vice president of Toyo Trust &: Banking Co., Ltd . in New York, NY He lives wi th his wife, Sarah, in Greenwich, CT Erich S. Reichenbach is preSident of Reichenbach International in Westlake Village, CA. Donald R. Sellers is with Eastman Kodak Co. and lives in Franklin Lakes, NJ. S. Stephen Sollitt is a dentist in EI Segundo, California. He lives in Van Nuys. William B. Starkey recently joined Mooney Aircraft Corporation as general manager, San Antonio division, in San Antonio, TX. Gunter H. Kohlke is the owner of Aircraft Components AG, a general aviation support company. He lives with his wife, Margrit, in Wt-Tiengen, West Germany: Amir Malak is managing partner of Mahdi Bagh Shop, a textile retailing company, and chief executive of Mahdi Bagh Computers in Sadar Nagpur, India. R.K. Miller is an attorney-at- law with the Law Offices of Nancy Harrelson Hausman. R.K. lives in Eagle Pass, TX. Thomas A. Monroe is the director of marketing for SimcolRamic Corporation in Medford, Oregon. Michael]. O'Shea is president of Meco Language Services in Tokyo, Japan. W. Neil Sabin is national director of marketing and sales, Caribbean and Latin America, for Hilton International. He and his family live in Caracas, Venezuela. 1973 Abdulrahman M. AI-Kadi is the director general of Dhahran Expo. He lives in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Winnie Luna Aquino is president of Astrotrade, Inc., a manufacturing and trade company. He lives in the Philippines. David L Davis is an account executive for R.J. Jarman &: Company. He lives in Mercer Island, WA. Dennis L Ferguson is self-employed and working on multicultural arts projects. He is giving seminars on funding for the arts in Central and Latin America with USIA. He lives in New York, NY 1974 Cindy Cotton Brady is a computer sales manager for Entre Computer Centers, Inc. She lives in Grand Haven, Ml. E. Eugene Hunner is the owner of Hunner Associates, a general building contractor. He lives with his wife, Christine, in Portola Valley, CA. Andries W. Mellema has been appOinted president of Canadian Kenworth , a THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 26 leading manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks. He lives in Mississaugua, Ontario. Michael G. Parr is vice preSident, export lumber, with Westwood Timber Corp. He lives in Portland, OR. Jim E. Soffer is the owner of Megatronics Inc., a wholesale/retail electronics firm, in Berlin, New Jersey: He lives in Cherry Hill, NJ. David P. Wold is the owner of David Wold International, a consulting firm . He lives in Tiburon, CA. 1975 ]. Daniel Bariault is an attorney with Le Gros, Buchanan, Paul &: Whitehead, PS., a law firm specializ ing in corporate law and business planning in Seattle, WA. Frederic C. Benson is director, international sales, for Engineered Controls International, Inc. He lives in Greensboro, NC. Jeffery L Best is the owner of The Best Company, an advertising agency in Rockford, Illinois. He and his wife, Deborah , recently had a daughter, Shelby Blythe. Candice o. Cook is store manager for Gibbes Art Museum Gift Store in Charleston, sc. John Corral is the area manager, South America, for Baxter Export Corp. in Miami , FL. Peter L Halkus has recently relocated to Seoul, Korea, as managing director of American Standard Korea, Inc. R. Bruce Hill is president of West Coast Insurance Marketing Corporation in Woodlands Hills, CA. Jeffrey A. Seip works in the real estate department of Westinghouse International. He lives in Pittsburg, PA. Douglas H. Short III is a vice president and general manager of Chemical Bank in Seoul, Korea. Emmett Steed was recently appOinted vice president, operations controller, for Red Lion Hotels &: Inns in Vancouver, WA. Ronald A. Thomson is a regional sales manager for Med-Science. He and his wife, Susan, live in San Clemente, CA. Jonathan J . Woolf is a regional parts manager, South America, for MasseyFerguson Inc. He lives in Pompano Beach, FL. 1976 Satjiv S. Chahit is director of marketing, Apple Pacific, for Apple Computers in Cupertino, California. He lives in Palo Alto, CA. Marsha Dow MacColi is a homemaker and had twin sons, Eric and Spencer, in February 1988. They live in San Francisco, CA. Patrick B. Frodel is a sales and marketing manager for Dakine Hawaii. He lives in Hood River, OR. L Robert Hood is the executive vice president of James Martin Reports, Inc. , a worldwide information services company, publishing a high tech library of computer technology and telecommunications subjects. He lives with his wife, Carol, in West Somerville, MA. Cathleen M. Hudnall is a vice president of Citicorp N.A., health-care lending division. She lives in Miami, FL. Jim Kusler was elected North Dakota Secretary of State in the November 1988 North Dakota general election. He lives in Bismarck. His sister, Johnell Kusler '78, lives in St. Louis Park, MN. Michael D. Maguire is a direct sales representative for Bemis Company. He lives in White Bear Lake, MN. Steven E. Maim is president of Jacob Delafon, a plumbing products company. He lives with his wife, Joan, in Paris, France. James V. Miller is grants administrator of the Yuma County Health Department and a reserve deputy sheriff for Yuma County. He was just promoted to sergeant in the reserve. Kimberly Shaw-Alvarez has been nominated for Who's Who in Industry and Finance and the 2000 Most Notable Women in the United States for 1989. She has her own tax consulting and accounting practice and lives in Sunland Park, NM. Steven R. Kroos 72 W Neil Sabin 73 1977 Gary C. Baylis is a management development administrator for Northeast Utilities. He has a son, Brandon, and they live in West Hartford, C1 Elizabeth Beck is vice president, audit division , of Citibank N.A. in New York. J . Richard Caudle is president of Caudle Associates, a marketing and management consulting firm. He lives in Denver, CO. Thomas F. Heslin is retired and lives in Seattle, WA. Frank R. Jent is employed by Citicorp Privat Bank in Zurich, Switzerland. Dale G. Kramer has recently been named regional director for BF Goodrich, western region. He and his wife, Kathy, have relocated to Huntington Beach, California, after living five years in Venezuela. Robert Lees is president of Pacific InterTrade Corp. in Westlake Village, California, and Maarten Fleurke '79 is his partner in this trading company. They were recently featured in the March 1989 issue of California Business. Robert L. Levine is a senior associate with Retail Properties Group of Northside Realty. He lives in Atlanta, GA. Keith Olson is a consultant with Entre Computer Consultants. He lives in Arlington Heights, IL. Gail S. Ray was the subject of an article, "Going it Alone," in the March/April, 1989 issue of D&B Reports. She lives in Key Biscayne, FL. William]. Richoux is assistant vice president of Mercantile Bank N.A. He and his wife recently had their third child, Sarah Elizabeth. They live in Chesterfield, MD. Sanford Roth is the vice president of H&S Tool and Mold Corporation. He has a new son, Michael, and they live in Farmingdale, NY Albert]. Snyder is an accounting manager with Blue Cross of California. He lives in Van Nuys, CA.]. Wright Witcher is a group manager for Upjohn SpA ltalia. He lives with his wife, Leslie, and their daughter, Sarah, in Milano. 1978 Alexis F. Aning is managing director of Tudorealm Ltd., an international trade and investment firm . He lives in London , England . Paul K. Arbo is president of Advanced Insurance Planners, Inc. in Annandale, VA. Alan N. Cooper is a trader for Ranque Internationale Luxembourg. He lives in Luxembourg. Ibrahim Fahoum is managing director of Arab Australia Limited. He was recently transferred from their office in Singapore and lives with his wife, Hala, and son, Munzer, in Sydney, Australia. Mariya Toohey Fogarasi was recently married to John Fogarasi in Dearborn, Michigan . Trudy Frank Podobas is the controller of Geldermann, Inc. Her husband Derek Podobas '78 is the international marketing manager for Tellabs, Inc. They have a son, Alexander Michael, and live in Glen Ellyn , IL. Tom Goudie is a fleet manager for CR. England & Sons, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Dennis Ferguson 73 Emmett Steed 75 Utah. Edward A. Greene is the group director, procurement, with Burger King. He has two sons and they live in West Berlin, NJ. Emilio Lamar is managing director of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets. He lives in New York, NY Frances McCutchon lives with her husband , Loren Leong, in Santa Barbara, California. They recently had a child, Rebecca Anne Leong. Theodore]. Rectenwald Jr. is a contractor for USAlD. He is currently performing a six-month contract in Maputo, Mozambique. Mark L. Rudolph is director, sales and marketing, of CNN International in London, England . Sterling Shimaji is director of finance for Trammell Crow Company. He lives in Long Beach, CA. Joseph H. Vogel is a professor a[ [he University of Southern Mississippi in the department of economics and international business. He visited the Thunderbird campus recently to speak to the entrepreneurship class. Elizabeth Wolcott Duran lives with her husband, Ramon, in Boulder, CO. They had their third child, William Timo[hy, in May. 1979 Ali Mahammed Bahaj is in international finance with Caterpillar Inc. He lives in Dunlap, IL. W. Philip Boyle Jr. is a socioeconomic analyst with USAlD. He works in the women-in-development office of the Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination and lives in Vkshington, D.C John C. Cook is a director in the continental European group of Security Pacific Merchant Bank, focusing on mergers, acquisitions, leveraged transactions, and real estate finance. He lives in Frankfurt, West Germany. Robyn Cornwell is a technical writer for Avraham Y Goldratt Institute, a software manufacturer, in New Haven. She lives in Madison, C1 Andrew E. Farley is a regional director of Bravo Cable Network. He lives in Chicago, IL. Carl Erick Fuglesang is an import/export agent for companies in the automobile, tire, chemical and home decorating industries. He lives with his wife, Solvi, in Baeroms Verk, Norway. Gary Glaser recently moved from Sao Paulo, Brazil to Philadelphia to start up his own trading company, Glaser Trade International. Charlene N. Hancock is general manager of Cheuvront & Associates, a property management company. She lives in Phoenix, AZ. David Kastner and his wife, Debbie, have recently adopted a daughter, Sarah, their second child. They live in Torrance, CA. Tanna Lehning Cullen recently had a daughter, Rachel Emily. She is a homemaker and lives with her husband , Michael, and son, Timothy, in Biloxi , MS. Ann Parry is senior vice president of HCI Corpora tion. She and her husband, Arvind Rangaswamy, live in Philadelphia, PA. Robert Roussel was recently transferred to Dusseldorf, SUMMER 1989 27 Jim Kusler 76 Satjiv Chahil 76 West Germany, as special risks manager for Chubb Insurance Co. Terje B. Stange is a sales manager with IBM Corporation in Kolbotn, Norway. He lives with his wife, Bente, in Oslo. Leslie Tang Schilling was appOinted to the adViSOry council on small business and agriculture of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She is also the owner of LTDD Inc., a director of The Pacific Bank, and the chairman of the Asian Business League of San Francisco. Richard Vkycott is director of business development and planning with International Multifoods Corporation. He lives in Minneapolis, MN. Kathy Webster Norderhaug and her husband Syver '79 recently had a daughter, Kristina. Kathy is the manager of international administration for Maxus Energy and Syver is a financial consultant. They live in Dallas, TX. 1980 Jennifer Armstrong Hallett and her husband Jeff Hallett '80 live in Paris, France. Jeff is a foreign service officer assigned to the U.S. Mission to the OECD. Jennifer is working for Thomson-CSF, a telecommunications subSidiary. Jaime G. Ayash is a group brand manager for CPC International. He lives with his wife, Anita, in Versailles, France. William D. Barton is the financial director of Lincoln Electric in Grand Quevilly, France. He lives with his wife, Ericka, in Roven. Christophe S. Bellinger has accepted a position as guarantee officer in the newly formed Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the newest member of the World Bank Group. He lives in Vkshington, D.C W. John Bowen is sales manager, Kodak New Zealand Ltd . He and his wife, Mary, live in Auckland and are trying to start an alumni group there. Paul D. Briamonte is a vice president and lending officer for multinationals with Lloyds Bank Pic. He lives in New York, NY Steven G. Calderwood was recently promoted to international marketing manager at Ross Systems in Palo Alto, California. Through joint ventures he has established offices in Brussels, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Melbourne. John M. Combo recently became the European legal counsel for Intel Corporation. He lives in Paris, France. Dede Desrochers Mclane is vice president, capital markets group, of the Texas Commerce Bank in Houston. She was recently married to Bradford Mclane in ew Canaan, C1 William H. Fehr was promoted to chairman of the board and CEO of Berks Products Corporation, a diversified manufacturer and distributor of construction materials and marketer of petroleum products, in Reading, PA. Laurel Haniman Finch will be starting Stanford Law School in Fall 1989. She and her husband, Sheldon Finch '80, live in Palo Alto, CA. Steve L. Hawkins is an editor, copywriter in the marketing department of Great Western Financial Corp. He ALUMNI UPDATES Bernd Metzger '82 Michael K/esh '82 lives with his wife Jean and their two children, Brooke and Kirk, in Calabasas Hills, CA. John P. McKay is a market development manager with Data & Management Counsel, Inc. He lives in Tulsa, OK. Ann E. McKinney is an export finance manager for IlLinois Export Development Authority. She lives in Chicago. Ronnie V Moreira is manager, credit, with the Bank of Montreal. He and his wife, Sonia, live in Toronto, Canada. Eric W. Port is the owner of the Balboa Cafe in Tempe, Arizona and is planning to build a brewery at the cafe. He lives in Phoenix, AZ. Carol J . Rauschenberger is a marketing consultant and lives in New York, NY James Traner was recently married to Donna Angeline. They are traveling the world for three months and plan to settle in Atlanta, GA. Michael J. Trombley is a mortgage broker with Allied Funding in New York Ci ty Judith Wertheimer Kenley and James R. Kenley '80 recently had their second son, Paul David. They live in Noblesville, IN. 1981 William L Boatwright is a chemical sales representative for Design Economics. He lives in Newport Beach, CA. Claude Chaouloff is the travel advertising manager for Metropolitan Home Magazine in New York,NY Frederick L Christianson is a service manager for Chrysler Corp. He lives in Glashuetten, West Germany Jerilyn Cohen is legal counsel for A.B.M. I. She lives in North Hollywood , CA. Ted H. Extein is employed with Electronic Data Systems in New York, NY Jayne Fallon Larson is an associate with Fiedler Real Estate in Camarillo, CA. Chrysanthe Georges is the marketing manager of Visa International in San Francisco, CA. Margriet Hotzy is director of the World Trade Center Institute and has recently designed an Associate Degree program in international business for the Institute's joint venture partner, Coastline Community College in Newport Beach, California. She was quoted in an article in the Orange Coast Daily Pilot. Howard Hultgren a leasing speCialist for Colliers Macaulay Nicolls International, and his wife, Leigh, had their first child, Hope Madison Hultgren, in January. They live in Issaquah, WA. Ichiro Ikeda is a technical specialist with Du Pont Japan. He and his wife, Fumiko, live in Tokyo, Japan. Sanjiv Kapur is an investment officer, capital market department, with the World Bank. He lives in Washington , D.C. John L Lange is vice president of National Westminster Bank. He lives in Waldwick, NJ. Ronald]. Malak is the controller of Progressive Corporation in Mayfield Village, OH. E. Joseph McDonnell is a financial consultant with Merrill Lynch. He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Janet Messner is the director of market development for Central America wi th AT&T International. Richard Koladsick Linda Van Sickle '83 She lives in San Jose, Costa Rica. Hitoshi Okado is assistant manager of Morgan Trust Bank Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan. Henrik B. Pettersen is a partner of Norse Holding AS in Oslo, Norway Franka Monzelo Sese is managing director of Brikin and is also president of the African Boxing Confederation for the central part of the continent. He lives in Kinshasa, Zaire. Howard Taub works for Emery Worldwide and was recently married to Leslie Eastern. They live in Issaquah, WA. Conrad M. Terry is a marketing analyst for United Airlines Inc. He lives in Oak Park, IL. Nancy A. Vorona is general manager, Hong Kong, of International Rectifier Corp. She lives in Central Hong Kong. 1982 Ilhan Akbil is president of Akbil & Associates, Inc., an international market consulting firm . He lives with his wife, Jane Panzarella '82, in Concord, MA. Douglas Ayers is a sales representative for Chinese Ocean Shipping Company He lives in Long Valley, NJ. Julie J . Burgess is an associate advertising manager for Proctor & Gamble Co. She lives in Condado, Puerto Rico. Cecilia Chavarin is a Ph .D. candidate and instructor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. Ye-Jin Choe is country manager, Korea, for Polaroid Far East Ltd. He lives with his wife, Ji-Sook, in Seoul, Korea. Karen L Coffin is a sales representative for United Airlines, Inc. She lives in Monsey, NY Peter A. Doherty is director of intelligence systems for Impact Resources, Inc. in Columbus, OH. Julia Fekepe is treasurer of Vortex Company, a manufacturer of oil and gas, in Houston, TX. James Foley is a product manager with Rainbird International, a manufacturer of irrigation systems in Los Angeles, CA. Kimberley Altemus Guptill is a self-employed consultant on cross-cultural communications. She lives with her husband, R
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