Featured Speakers

PATRICE BARBER, R.D., is the Nutritionist with Trojan Hospitality at the University of Southern California where she promotes health and wellness through nutrition awareness.  With 22 years of practice in dietetics, Ms. Barber has worked in acute through long term care, with infants through senior citizens and with people in all stages of health and illness.  Among her areas of experience are menu planning, recipe development, healthy cooking, nutrition for weight management, athletic performance, food allergy management, therapeutic diets, disease prevention and vegetarianism.  She is active in the National Association of College and University Food Service and has recently begun contributing to Food Service Director Magazine.  In her spare time, Patrice's activities include quilting and tai chi.

DONNA BENTON received her graduate training in psychology at USC and was a postdoctoral Fellow at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center.  She is a Research Assistant Professor of Gerontology at USC's Andrus Gerontology Center and operates a private clinical practice.  Before joining the Andrus faculty, she was a Research Associate and Project Administrator at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA and Director of the Center for Aging Resources in The Psychological Center in Pasadena.  At the Andrus Center, she works with the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center as well as with the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

PETER A. BERTON received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and a Research Psychoanalyst diploma from the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute.  He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Southern California, where for thirty years he was Coordinator of the Asia/Pacific Regional Studies Program.  He is Editor Emeritus of Studies in Comparative Communism.  He also taught at Stanford and at U.C.L.A., and in Japan, England, and Germany, and held research positions at Harvard, Columbia, and Tokyo universities, and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto.  He served as a consultant to the Library of Congress, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Council of Learned Societies.  In 1991–92 he served on the U.S., Japan, Russia Trilateral Task Force to facilitate the resolution of the Russo-Japanese territorial dispute.  He is the author, co-author, or editor of over two hundred publications on Asian and Soviet/Russian affairs in six languages published in eight countries.  His publications include: International Negotiation: Actors, Structure/Process, Values (with Hiroshi Kimura and I. William Zartman, 1999); "The Japanese-Russian Territorial Dilemma"; "The Russian Impact on Japan"; "The Fateful Choice: Japan's Advance into Southeast Asia, 1939-1941"; "The Russo-Japanese Boundary"; and "The Secret Russo-Japanese Alliance of 1916."  Most recent publications: "Japan on the Psychologist's Couch" and "Japan and the Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region."

ROBERT P. BILLER earned his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.  He taught for a decade at the University of California, Berkeley, and then returned to USC as a faculty member and as Dean of the School of Public Administration.  He has also served as Interim Dean of the School of Fine Arts, the new School of Policy, Planning and Development, as well as two tours as Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid.  Dr. Biller has served in a variety of adminstrative posts at USC including as Executive Vice Provost, Vice President for External Affairs, and Vice President for Undergraduate Affairs.  He has worked and continues to work with the initiation and development of the Skirball Cultural Center along with the USC Emeriti Center.  With his wife Yvonne, he continues to reside in La Cañada, California.

JAMES E. BIRREN received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and began his research career at the Naval Medical Research Center.  In 1947 he joined the U.S. Public Health Service in Baltimore and did research on aging at the Gerontology unit.  In 1950 he joined the National Institute of Mental Health and created the first section on aging.  He became the Director for the Program on Aging for the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development in 1964.  Dr. Birren moved to the University of Southern California in 1965 where he remained until 1989.  He was the founding director of the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center.  In 1989 he moved to UCLA where he remained as the associate Director of the UCLA Center on Aging until he retired in 2003.  Dr. Birren's early research had an experimental base, and he studied cognitive change and aging.  Since developing the course, Guided Autobiography, more than thirty years ago, he has devoted much of his time and energy in the area of autobiographical studies.  In 2004 he was honored by the National Council on Aging and received the Ollie Randall Award.  The American Society on Aging (ASA) inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2004.  In addition to more than 250 publications in academic journals and books, Dr. Birren is Series Editor for the internationally recognized handbooks on aging (e.g., The Handbook on the Psychology of Aging).  He has written two books specifically on Guided Autobiography: Guiding Autobiography Groups for Older Adults, with D. Deutchman (1991), and Telling the Stories of Life Through Guided Autobiography, with K. Cochran (2001).  Dr. Birren continues to teach the Guided Autobiography method.  He is currently Senior Distinguished Research Faculty at California Sate University Fullerton.  He is currently working with the ASA and the MindAlert program to bring Guided Autobiography to locations as diverse as Kelowna, British Columbia, and Atlanta, Georgia.

PETER BOBBS received his B.A., cum laude, from USC's Roski School of Fine Arts in 2008.  He is currently pursuing his California Teaching Credential, at California State University Los Angeles Charter School of Education.  He has worked at the Film Roman Animation Studio in Burbank, as a Studio Assistant to USC faculty member Karen Koblitz, and as a Lab Tech for the Roski School of Fine Arts Sculpture Studio.  While a student at USC, he received the Roski School of Fine Arts Award for Excellence, served as President for the Students of Fine Arts Association, and has had his work featured in several Group and Juried Art exhibitions among other accomplishments.

KENNETH A. BREISCH, Ph.D., is Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California.  He has a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Michigan and has previously taught at the Universities of Texas and Delaware and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).  Dr. Breisch currently serves on the Santa Monica Public Library Board.  He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Vernacular Architecture Forum.  He is the author of numerous articles on the history of American architecture and design, as well as the book, Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America, which was published by MIT Press in 1997.  He is also co-editor with Alison K. Hoagland of Constructing Image, Identity, and Place: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture IX, which was published in 2003.  Dr. Breisch is currently completing a book commissioned by the Library of Congress entitled The Library in America: Images from the Library of Congress.

ROBERTA DIAZ BRINTON is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Southern California.  She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and is a founding member of the University's Neuroscience Program.  Professor Diaz Brinton also serves as the Director of the USC Science, Technology, and Research (STAR) Program, which offers inner-city high-school students the opportunity to be a part of a USC research team.  She is the primary investigator on a four-school, $8 million NIH grant to elucidate the effect of hormone therapy on Alzheimer's disease among women.  She received her Ph.D. in psychobiology and neuropharmacology from the University of Arizona as an NIH Predoctoral Fellow.  She was then awarded an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship in neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University.  She was named as one of the "Best Minds to Watch" in 2004 by U.S. News & World Report.  She also won the 2006 Science Educator Award from the Society for Neuroscience and the 2005 Woman of the Year from the California State Senate.  Additionally, Professor Diaz Brinton serves on the scientific advisory boards of the Institute for the Study of Aging, the Diabetes Insipidus Foundation, and Wyeth Women's Health and Musculoskeletal Biology.

JOY GARRISON CAUFFMAN received her B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University.  She has been honored and privileged to serve three Presidents of the United States: Consultant to President John F. Kennedy's Council on Physical Fitness; consultant to President Dwight Eisenhower's Council on Youth Fitness; and a member of President Richard Nixon's Committee on Health Education.  Dr. Cauffman has been at USC since 1966.  She was the first woman to receive a professorship on the tenure track in the Department of Family Medicine.  She was the first woman President of the Medical Faculty Assembly.  Currently, she is Professor Emerita in the Department of Family Medicine at the USC Keck School of Medicine.  She has traveled extensively around the world making medical presentations and conducting medical research in such countries as Africa, Australia, Canada, China, England, Japan, New Zealand, and Russia.  Dr. Cauffman is a member of the Ohio Woman's Hall of Fame and Founder of the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations.

DON CORDELL was an electronic techician for USC Medical School, Department of Psychiatry in the Psychiatric Center, L.A. County Hospital from 1966 to 1982.  He videotaped interviews with patients and doctors for teaching purposes as well as interviews with patients for training and analysis of patient care needs.  He started doing a genealogy of his ancestors in 1971 and has identified over 600 of his ancestors dating back to 290 AD.  He describes genealogy as a good hobby for retirees to document and share family history for the children of the future, who will someday want to know more of where they came from, who their ancestors were, and the history of how their acestors lived, where they came from, and when.  He used this technique while employeed in the Psychiatric Hospital to aid elderly patients that didn't care if they lived anymore.  This gave the patients something important to do, making them anxious to get out of the hospital so they could go to the L.A. Central Library to find more data.  He currently is the librarian at the Research Center of the Antelope Valley Genealogical Society and conducts free classes on the second and fourth Saturday mornings of each month to teach other people how to trace your family ancestries.

JOHN P. CROSSLEY, JR., earned his A.B. degree in Psychology at Pepperdine University, B.D. at Princeton Theological Seminary, and his Th.D. in Theology and Ethics at San Francisco Theological Seminary.  His responsibilities in the USC School of Religion have been those of Associate Professor, Coordinator of Graduate Studies, and, from 1985-2003, Director of the School.  He was Professor of Religion at Hastings College, Nebraska, before coming to USC and, prior to that, a U.S Navy Chaplain and Assistant Minister of the Brentwood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles.  Dr. Crossley has received numerous awards, among them the Firestone Professorship in Religion at USC, the Dart Award for Teaching and Research Excellence, Mortar Board and Raubenheimer Awards, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in Religion, Who's Who in Community Service, and Notable Americans.  His teaching areas are 19th and 20th Century Theology and Ethics, the History of Western Religions, Ethical, and Political Thought.

GERALD C. DAVISON is Dean of the USC Davis School of Gerontology and Executive Director of the Andrus Gerontology Center.  He is the holder of the William and Sylvia Kugel Dean's Chair in Gerontology and Professor of Gerontology and Psychology.  His textbook, Abnormal Psychology, is in its tenth edition and has been used at hundreds of universities here and abroad.  In 1993 he won the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 2003 was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.  His research focuses on experimental and philosophical analyses of psychopathology, assessment, and therapeutic change.  Davison holds a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard; Fulbright Scholar, University of Freiburg, West Germany; and a Ph.D. from Stanford.

RICHARD H. DEKMEJIAN earned his doctorate at Columbia University and now holds the rank of Professor in USC's Department of Political Science and the International Business Education and Research Program (IBEAR) of the School of Business.  He teaches courses in International Politics, Political Leadership, Terrorism, Ethnic Politics, and Political Risk Assessment.  He is the former Chair of USC's Department of Political Science.  Dr. Dekmejian has been a consultant to the U.S. State Department, Agency for International Development, United Nations, United States Information Agency, and the Department of Defense.  He is listed in Who's Who in America and is a member of Phi Sigma Alpha, Phi Alpha Theta, and the Skull and Dagger Society.  Author of four books and many articles on International Affairs, Middle East Politics, International Business, Terrorism, and American Foreign Policy, he is a frequent world affairs commentator for TV, radio and newspapers.  A veteran of the U.S. Army, he served at the NATO headquarters in France.

ARTHUR J. DONOVAN is a native of New Hampshire and attended Harvard College, Tufts University School of Medicine, and received his Graduate Education in Surgery at Yale University.  After a brief period on the faculty at Tufts University, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in the Department of Surgery in 1961.  He served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of South Alabama from 1973 to 1978 when he returned to USC as Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery.  He is currently Emeritus Professor of Surgery at USC.  Among his professional activities, Dr. Donovan has served as Chair of the American Board of Surgery, on the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons, and as President of the Western Surgical Association.

DAVID DYSON was born in Bucyres, Ohio, and raised in San Diego.  He attended Florida A&M and the Los Angeles Conservatory and has worked as a musician for several decades.  In the army during the Korean Conflict, he toured Germany.  He has worked with the following: Harold Land, Sr., Earl Grant, Gerald Wilson, Diana Ross, Hazel Scott, Fredric Hubbard, Chico Hamilton, Hoyt Axton, the Hilltop Singers, the Ink Spots, Joe Henderson, and Shorty Rogers.  As an actor/musician, Dyson has appeared in "I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka," "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," "Lady Sings the Blues," and "Cindy" the African American Cinderella.

JAMES G. ELLIS is Dean of the USC Marshall School of Business where he is responsible for the education of some 5,700 students, both graduate and undergraduate.  In addition, he has a full-time appointment as Professor of Marketing in the Department of Marketing, where he has been since 1997.  Prior to being appointed Dean, he was the Vice Provost, Globalization, for the University, responsible for building the USC name worldwide.  He also served as the Vice Dean, External Relations, at the Marshall School of Business, as well as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs.  He continues to teach the Freshman Leadership Colloquium class.  In 2004, he was given the "Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award" from the USC Parents' Association.  Ellis worked in the corporate world from 1970–1997 and sits on numerous corporate and non-profit boards of directors.  He holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a BBA degree from the University of New Mexico.

WILLIAM ROBERT FAITH is an Associate Professor Emeritus of USC's School of Journalism (Annenberg School for Communication).  He was awarded a B.A. degree by Wesleyan University, an M.A. by Quebec's McGill University, and a Ph.D. by USC.  His doctoral studies at Columbia University were interrupted by public communication assignments for the Bell System (1953–1957) and for NBC-TV's Today Show (1957–1959).  While with NBC he became the Media/Public Relations Director for Bob Hope Enterprises in Los Angeles, later organizing Hope's worldwide USO tours.  He joined USC to teach mass communication research and public relations and to chair the undergraduate and graduate degree and research programs in public relations.  He also has directed the school's International Communication Studies Program (London, Paris, Prague, and Geneva) since 1976.  In 1997 he became Director of USC's Emeriti College.  Dr. Faith's Bob Hope: A Life in Comedy, the most admired biography of the famed humorist, was newly edited in 2004.

HERBERT E. FARMER, Professor Emeritus, is the former Associate Dean of Business Affairs and an alumnus of USC's School of Cinema-Televsion.  He received his B.A. in Cinema and Physics in 1942 and his M.A. in Cinema in 1955 from the University of Southern California.  Professor Farmer began his career in teaching and working with film technology over 60 years ago, and he still comes to work five days a week.  He is in the process of archiving USC's valuable collection of historic old movie equipment and films.  He is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and was awarded the Eastman Kodak Gold Medal Award in 1976.  He has published numerous articles.

IRENE FERTIK served as the photographer for the USC Chronicle for 15 years.  She is a former awardwinning staff photographer for the Burlington Free Press, the largest daily newspaper in Vermont.  She has done freelance work for the Los Angeles Times and the Wave Newspapers.  Her photos have appeared in the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pasadena Star-News, and Geo Magazine as well as in two books.  She has taught at Otis-Parsons, the University of Vermont, and the International Center of Photography in New York City and is widely exhibited in the Los Angeles area.  Her photo project on the absorption of Ethiopian Jews in Israel has been shown in Geneva, Switzerland, at the United Nations, and at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.  She has a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh.

CALEB E. FINCH is Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences, Director of the Division of Biogerontology in USC's Andrus Gerontology Center, Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and Adjunct Professor of Neurology and Physiology in the Keck School of Medicine of USC.  He holds the ARCO/William F. Kieschnick Chair in the Neurology of Aging.  His published books include Longevity, Senescence and the Genome, and he is a co-author of Aging: A Natural History, and Change, Development and Aging.  He is co-editor of Genetics in the Evolution of Aging and the Encyclopedia of Aging.  He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.  Among awards he has received are the Brookdale Award, the Allied-Signal Prize, and the Sandoz Prize.  His expertise lies within the biological causes of aging, the effects of estrogen on the aging process in the brain, Alzheimer's disease, neuroendocrinology, and neurochemistry.  He received his undergraduate degree in biophysics from Yale University and continued his work in cell biology and received his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University.

HOWARD GILLMAN is Dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and Professor of Political Science and History.  He is a nationally recognized scholar, long-time faculty member, and innovative leader in university and community affairs.  Gillman has received numerous scholarly awards and been recognized repeatedly by USC for his teaching, service, and mentorship.  An expert on political and judicial affairs, he is frequently quoted by national media.  A native of Los Angeles, Gillman has been active in civic affairs.  He has evaluated curriculum at local schools, trained public school teachers, served on the board of Temple Isaiah in West Los Angeles, and coached youth sports teams.  Gillman holds the Anna H. Bing Dean's Chair in the USC College.  He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in political science from UCLA.

RONALD GOTTESMAN earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from Indiana University in 1964.  He came to USC in 1975 as founding Director of the Center for the Humanities, a center devoted to building bridges among humanities disciplines, between them and the sciences and professional schools, and between academia and its larger communities.  Gottesman has published books on many subjects, including Orsen Wells, Upton Sinclair, W. D. Howells, robots, textual editing, film acting, and King Kong.  He has been awarded NEH, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Fellowships and received the Raubenheimer Award from the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.  In the unreal world, he has served as an advisor to many civic organizations and as a consultant to Walt Disney and other entertainment companies.

WALTER S. GRAF is a native of New York.  He received his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and his M.D. from the U.C. Medical School at San Francisco.  He did his Internship and a Research Fellowship at L.A. County/USC Hospital.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Medicine and the American College of Cardiology as well as a Clinical Professor Emeritus of Medicine at USC's Keck School of Medicine.  He is Past President and Chair of the Los Angeles Society of Internal Medicine, L.A. County Heart Association, L.A. County Paramedic Committee, L.A. County Emergency Services of the State of California Emergency Medical Services Authority, Cedars Sinai Hospital Emeritus Medical Staff, and USC Retired Faculty Association.  He is Past Chief of Staff of L.A. County/USC Hospital and Daniel Freeman Hospital as well as founder and Medical Director of what is now named the Walter Graf Paramedic School.  He founded and directed the Daniel Freeman Hospital Department of Education and has received 25 local, state, and national awards for initiating the Paramedic Program.  His many publications in reviewed journals deal with electro-cardiography and vector-cardiography.

JAVIERE GRAJEDA No biosketch available.

DAGMAR V. HALAMKA received her J.D. from the Loyola School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, 1973 and her Certificate in Law from Cambridge Law School, Cambridge, England.  She was a Clinical Professor of Business Law at USC's Graduate School of Business, Department of Finance and Business Economics, where she taught from 1974 to 2001.  She was of counsel to Smith and Hilbig from 1997 to 1999, of counsel to Carlsmith Ball Wichman Case & Ichiki from 1987 to 1997, and was a senior partner with Halamka & Halamka from 1973 to 1987.  She is the author of several publications including Joy of Law (Second Edition) and was the co-editor of the California State Bar Business Law Journal.  Her awards include the Golden Apple Teaching Award and the Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award.

ROBERT S. HARRIS is former Dean of the School of Architecture, as well as a former Director of USC Graduate Studies in Architecture.  He has taught at the University of Oregon (where he was Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts), the University of Texas at Austin, and Carnegie Mellon University.  He is a Fellow of the AIA, and he has practiced in Texas, Oregon, and California.  He has served as the President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and as Director of the National Architectural Accrediting Board.  One of the first five educators in the U.S. named Distinguished Professor by the ACSA, Professor Harris has won awards for design and research for work in Oregon and California, has Chaired the Los Angeles Mayor's Design Advisory Panel, and the Downtown Strategic Plan Advisory Committee.  He was the founder and past president of the Urban Design Advisory Coalition and a former president of the Los Angeles Conservancy.

SHAWN A. HERZ holds a Masters of Science in Gerontology from the University of Southern California and is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist.  Since March 1995, Ms. Herz has been the Family Services Director for the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center, which is a department in the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California.  A regular guest lecturer for USC's School of Social Work and the School of Gerontology, Ms. Herz is often called upon by the news media for her expertise and over twenty years of experience as a gerontologist.

THOMAS A. HOLLIHAN has served as Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the USC Annenberg School of Communication.  He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska.  Under his direction until 1990, the Trojan Debate Squad won over 1,200 awards and qualified yearly for the National Debate Tournament.  A member of the USC group that proposed the Annenberg Center for Study of Communication, his efforts resulted in the $120 million gift from Ambassador Annenberg.  He has published two books, Arguments and Arguing:The Products and Processes of Human Decision Making and Uncivil Wars: Political Communication in the Media Age.  He has published articles in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Argumentation and Advocacy, Communication Quarterly, and the Southern Speech Communication Journal.  He has been featured on television and radio during political campaigns, once on CNN as an analyst for the presidential debates.  He is a former President of the American Forensic Association.

KRISZTINA "Z" HOLLY is Vice Provost for Innovation at the University of Southern California and Executive Director for the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation where she spearheads the development of programs and approaches to help faculty and students make maximum impact with their ideas.  USC Stevens, a universitywide institute in the Office of the Provost, harnesses the creative thinking and innovative work at the University of Southern California's college, 17 professional schools, and research programs to build a multidisciplinary approach to innovation.  Holly brings to USC her experience as an engineer and serial entrepreneur.  Before USC, she was founding Executive Director of MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, where she oversaw the distribution of $5 million in grants, engaged more than 250 faculty and students, and spawned nine startup companies that successfully raised $40 million in capital.  An avid surfer, mountain biker, and backcountry skier, Holly earned master's and bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT.

MARK S. HUMAYUN, M.D., Ph.D., received his B.S. from Georgetown University in 1984, his M.D. from Duke University in 1989, and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1994.  He completed his ophthalmology residency at Duke Eye Center and fellowships in both vitreoretinal and retinovascular surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.  He stayed on as faculty at Johns Hopkins where he rose to the rank of Associate Professor before moving to USC in 2001.  Dr. Humayun's research projects focus on the treatment of the most debilitating and challenging eye diseases through advanced engineering.  Leading a team of more than 30 faculty and 200 students from 15 different institutes, Dr. Humayun is focused on developing therapies for (1) retinal degenerations such as retinitis pigmentosa, (2) macular degenerations such as age-related macular degeneration, (3) retinovascular diseases such as vein occlusions, (4) diabetic retinopathy as well as (5) glaucoma.  He has been voted as one of the Best Doctors in America and has received numerous research awards.  He is the Director of the National Science Foundation BioMimetic MicroElectronic Systems Engineering Research Center as well as the Director of the Department of Energy Artificial Retina Project.

JOHN A. IRVINE earned his M.D. at USC, then completed his residency at Harvard.  He is a Professor of Ophthalmology in USC's School of Medicine, a member of the Doheny Eye Medical Group, and an investigator in the National Institute of Health.  His research emphases are corneal transplant immuno-biology, testing new therapies for amoebic keratitis, and investigating new microscopy and tools for study of the cornea.  Dr. Irvine contributes to a lecture series in cornea and external diseases offered in coordination with the American Academy of Ophthalmology and works with third- and fourth-year medical students in an annual basic science series on diseases of the eye.  He has served the Los Angeles Eye Society as Program Chairman and Treasurer and the Research Study Club of L.A. as a member of its Executive Board.

SAUL H. JACOBS, writer, director, producer, and performer, has had a life-long interest in the musical theater and films and is delighted to be sharing that fascination with others by writing and delivering the commentary, with history and trivial tidbits, on the Golden Age of Broadway and Hollywood.  He has been producing this informative and entertaining series of programs for seniors throughout Southern California since 2007.  He tried lyric writing, popular, country, even rock, in collaboration with a variety of young composers.  Alas, no publishing deal or record was forthcoming, so he went back to just listening to music, studying about it, and loving it.  In a career of writing and directing documentary, educational, and informational films and videos, he worked with Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Kirk Douglas, Eddie Albert, and James Earl Jones.  His clients included ABC-TV, United Airlines, Litton Industries, and various leading educational institutions (including USC and UCLA) and government agencies.  He was on the original design team for the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in West Los Angeles.  He also has extensive experience in instructional and curriculum design.  Jacobs also wrote comedy material for George Goebel, singer J.P. Morgan, and Tex Ritter (yes, the cowboy star), and wrote and performed special material at annual meetings for national organizations.  In his younger years he also wrote, directed, and starred in a comedy show on KUSC-FM for several years.  He lectured for several years at UCLA Extension and California State University, Northridge.  When he's not writing, producing, and performing, Jacobs does volunteer work at the Milken Jewish Community Center in West Hills and the Braille Institute in Los Angeles, where he reads and records books for the blind, conducts a current-events discussion group, and tutors blind students one-on-one.  He commutes to the Braille Institute and just about everywhere else In Los Angeles whenever possible by bus and subway.  (He and his wife are big fans of and advocates for public transportation.)

BRUCE JUELL has been a U.S. Navy jet pilot, mangement consultant, turnaround specialist, investment banker, corporate CEO, and venture capitalist.  After receiving his Bachelor of Engineering and MBA degrees from the University of Southern California, he joined the Los Angeles office of McKinsey and Company.  He founded Builders Resources Corporation, and, as a key part of the Penn Central Railroad turnaround team, he served as CEO of Great Southwest Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Six Flags, Inc.  He has served on the Boards of Directors of Del Webb Corporation, IDM Corporation, Great Southwest Corporation, First City Properties, Arvida Corporation, AMCAP Mutual Fund, Olson Farms, Inc., Kratos Corporation, Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, and R.A. Rowan and Co.  He has been active in a number of business and community groups, including the Young Presidents' Organization, the Chief Executives' Organization, the California Club, the USC Entrepreneurial Program Advisory Board, and the Advancement Board of the Emeriti Center at the University of Southern California.  He and his wife Jean live in Palos Verdes Estates, California.

ELAINE BELL KAPLAN is an Associate Professor of Sociology at USC, an expert in matters of the African-American family, race and ethnic relations, the problems of adolescence among the poor of this country.  She is the author of Not Our Kind of Girl: Unraveling the Myths of Black Teenage Motherhood (University of California Press, 1997).  Her previous research and writing examined the issues and dilemmas facing parents who are raising adolescent children.  Currently, she is focusing on low-income first generation college students by exploring the ways in which their experiences in college are similar to or different from middle-income traditional students and if and how race and gender may influence those college experiences.

KAREN A. LANSKY is a graduate of the USC's Museum Studies/Master's Degree Program in Art History and a lecturer in Art History and Literature at the USC Emeriti College.  She has degrees in English and Dramatic Literature from the Universitiy of California-Berkeley and studied painting and writing at the Cummington School of the Arts in Massachusetts.  Over the years, her by-line has worked in short films, print, and radio: notably, Architectural Digest, the Los Angeles Times, and as a writer/reporter for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."  Professor Lansky is a member of the Writers Guild and PEN.

BOB LIPSON is a professional pianist, accompanist, and educator.  He has a strong passsion to teach people to get the joy out of playing without tedious practicing.  He is currently pianist for "Those Great American Composers."

VASISHT K. MALHOTRA received his B.A. in Political Science from Punjab University, his M.A. in International Relations from the University of Delhi, an M.A. in Cinema, and a Ph.D. in Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education from USC.  He is a Retired Adjunct Professor in USC's School of International Relations where he taught from 1975 to 1998.  Since 1975 he has served the School of International Relations, primarily as Director of its Center for Intercultural Studies.  He was an Adjunct Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills, from 1974 to 1994.  He has also had a joint appointment with the Department of History, and from 1972 until 1992 he was Project Director for a series of summer seminars in Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Soviet Union, all sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

MICHELLE MAN No biosketch available.

CHARMAINE MANCIL, a native of Chicago, has roots in gospel music but was drawn to the classics, jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll as well.  She moved to Los Angeles, enrolled at USC to become a teacher, but ended up in the School of Drama instead.  She has since received a "Drama-Logue" award for her performance in "Avenue X" at the Odyssey Theatre, created the role of "Lettle Bang Taylor" for "The Peggy Judy Show," and played "The Prince" in "Romeo and Juliet" at Company of Angels.  She is a founding member of KOKO-JO and the Swinging Lunch Band, and she has appeared in such films as "Junior" and "Summer Heat."

DAVID MARS holds three degrees in political science, all from Rutgers University.  Following an eight-year teaching stint at the University of Connecticut, he served as Research Director of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Study Commission, joining USC's faculty of Public Administration in 1961.  He retired in 1992.  At various times during his USC tenure, he served as Director of the School of Public Administration, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the Center for Public Affairs, and Acting Dean of both the School and the Center.  He was also Director of the Intergovernmental Management Program.  He has published extensively, mostly in the fields of local government.

THOM DAVID MASON, Professor, Jazz Studies, is the Founder of the Jazz Studies Department at the Thornton School, USC.  He received his B.S. in Music Education from the University of Wisconsin, an M.M. in Music Theory and Composition from DePaul University, and a Doctorate in Composition from Northwestern University.  He has appeared as guest reeds soloist throughout the United States, Canada, Central America, Germany, Israel, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.  Dr. Mason is Chairman of the Jazz Arts Foundation and a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Jazz Society.  In 1996, he received the Jazz Educator of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Jazz Society.  He has written two books, The Art of Hearing and Ear Training for Improvisers, served as Woodwind Editor for the Jazz Educators Journal, and is author of several articles in the field of jazz education.  Dr. Mason has recorded several albums under his own name and performed on numerous jazz and pop music albums as a sideman.

ROBERT MURRIN No biosketch available.

GERALD NADLER is IBM Chair Emeritus in Engineering Management and Emeritus Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.  He was also Director of the Center on the Management of Engineering Research and Innovation in Technology (MERIT).  Prior to joining USC, he was Department Chair of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin and at Washington University in St. Louis.  Previous holder of five invited visiting professorships, four abroad, his industrial experience includes Vice President of General Operations for Artcraft Manufacturing Company, board member of Intertherm, Inc., and President of The Center for Breakthrough Thinking, Inc., which serves clients from many countries.  A member the USC Credit Union Board of Directors, the L.A. County Quality and Productivity Commission, and the National Academy of Engineering, he is a Past President of the Institute of Industrial Engineering and has received many honors and awards for his research.  He has written over 200 articles and 15 books, the latest of which are Breakthrough Thinking: The Seven Principles of Creative Problem Solving and Creative Solution Finding: The Triumph of Full-Spectrum Creativity over Conventional Thinking (both with Shozo Hibino), and Smart Questions: Learn to Ask the Right Questions for Powerful Results (with William Chandon).

GUNNAR NIELSSON is a Danish emigrant who is a retired Assistant Professor of International Relations at USC.  His formal education consists of a B.A. and Ph.D. from U.C.L.A., an M.A. from the Universitiy of California, Berkeley.  His teaching emphases are European international politics, international organizations, the modern European state system, and European Union.  During the 1970s he served as director of his school's programs in Britain and West Germany.  Professor Nielsson is co-editor of the Study and Teaching of International Relations, and his articles and conference presentations on Western European integration include topics dealing with European security policy, the role of nationalism in world politics, and Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese membership in the European Community.  He has had extensive experience as featured speaker at conferences and seminars dealing with the European Union.  In 1990 he published articles on the Europe 1992 Reform Program in the Brigham Young Law Review and the Whittier Law Review.

GIULIO M. ONGARO was born in Venice, Italy, and he has been a resident of the U.S since 1975, becoming a citizen in 1984.  He is an Associate Professor of Music History and Literature at USC's Thornton School of Music, where he also serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs.  Following an early education in Venice, including studies in economics at the Universita degli Studi di Venezia, and after his mandatory service in the Italian Army, he completed a B.M in flute performance at the University of Iowa.  He has also received a M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He has been granted numerous fellowships and grants, including a Martha B. Rockefeller Fellowship, and a NEH stipend.  Before joining USC he taught at the University of North Carolina and at the University of Delaware.  His teaching responsibilities at USC run the gamut from general education courses in music to advanced doctoral seminars.  Professor Ongaro has published and lectured widely on Renaissance and early Baroque music, and his articles have appeared in leading European and American journals.  He is the author of several articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the standard reference work in music.  His book, Music of the Renaissance, was published by Greenwood Press in late 2003.  He currently serves as President of the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society.  In his spare time he is an avid motorcyclist and soccer referee.

MICHAEL D. OROSZ has over 25 years experience in commercial software development, applied research and development, project management, and academic research.  His main research interests include intelligence collection and analysis, operational risk management, integrated modeling environments, distributed system of systems environments, decision-support systems, and human-computer interfaces.  Dr. Orosz is a principal investigator at both the DHS National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) and the DHS National Center for Food Protection Defense (NCFPD) and presently serves as science leader and member of the executive committee for the DHS National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (FAZD).  In addition, Dr. Orosz has or is presently working on projects funded by DARPA, IARPA, ONR, NASA, and a number of agencies in the Intelligence Community.  Prior to joining USC, Dr. Orosz worked in the aerospace and entertainment industries.

JACQUELINE PAVLICH trained with the San Francisco Ballet School, in Los Angeles with Eugene Loring, in England at the Rambert School, in Paris with Raymond Franchetti and Tatiana Grantzeva, and in Cannes, France, with Rosella Hightower.  Professor Pavlich danced professionally with the Rosella Hightower Company, Cannes, and as a Principal Dancer with Teatro Italiano del Balletto, in Rome, Italy.  In California she danced as a Soloist with Pacific Ballet of San Francisco and the San Francisco Opera before being invited to join the Oakland Ballet Company as a Principal Artist.  She performed both in traditional and modern choreography.  Professor Pavlich is an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), London.  After receiving her teaching credentials from the RAD and assembling her past training from the Russian, Cecchetti, and French schools, she began her career as a master ballet teacher, choreographer, and ballet mistress.  She is a frequent guest teacher for professional and pre-professional ballet companies.  Her work as a choreographer began in Oxford, UK, where she staged and choreographed theatre and musical theatre productions for the University Colleges and various city artistic associations.  She worked in Paris as a ballet mistress/teacher for a modern dance company and in California as a ballet mistress for a pre-professional ballet company.  For ten years she was Director of her own school, School of Ballet Arts, Los Angeles.  Ms. Pavlich has been an Adjunct Professor with the USC School of Theatre since 2001.  During her tenure at USC she has taught all levels of Ballet as well as Character Dance.  Currently she is Faculty Adviser to the newly formed dance group "USC Chamber Ballet Company." She is also the Faculty Adviser for "Dance Included," a volunteer organization offering dance classes to public school children taught by dance students from USC.

ROBERT PENNY, M.D., is a USC Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Retired Research Professor of Medicine Keck School of Medicine of USC.  He received a B.S. from the University of Cincinnati and a M.D. from The Ohio State University.  Doctor Penny did an internship and residency in pediatrics respectively at the Children's Hospitals in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, a fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology at the John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, and was member of the Molecular Biology Laboratories of Helen H. Henry & Tony Norman, University of California, Riverside.  At the USC Health Science Campus (USC-HSC), he was Director of Pediatric Endocrine and Diabetic Clinics, Director of Pediatric Endocrine Research Laboratory, and Director of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology.  Doctor Penny established and was Director of the Core Molecular Biology Laboratory of the Clinical Research Center (CRC) USC-HSC.  He was a member of the CRC Advisory Committee, member of The American Board of Pediatric Committee on Programs for Renewal of Certification in Pediatrics, member of the Boards of The AJDC Journal and The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, and question writer for Pediatric Endocrine Board Examinations.

NORMA PISAR performed summer stints as a student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.  At sixteen, she earned the role of "Euridice" in Jean Anouilh's Point of Departure at the Brighton Theater Festival in England.  Graduating with a Diplome de Lettres from the Sorbonne and having attended three years at the Paris Conservatory of Music in France, she spent the next ten years performing in opera and in the theatre, both leads and supporting roles.  Back in the U.S., Ms. Pisar worked as script writer and editor for several independent producers.  She returned to theatre as resident producer and board member of the Cast Theatre where she co-produced, with John Defusco and Ted Schmitt, Rounds.  This play won the NAACP Image Award for best equity waiver production of that year.  Ms. Pisar also obtained her MFA in Cinema from USC where she was an instructor for several years.  For some 25 years, she was also affiliated with the USC School of Theatre in a company created there, "Festival Theatre USC USA," under the aegis of Professor John Blankenship.  Here as resident director/actor she has performed with the company in the Los Angeles City Arts Festival at Barnsdall Park, at USC, but primarily on the Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland and elsewhere in Europe. The Hopscotch Game is Ms. Pisar's first full-length play which she hopes to have performed next year in Europe with the company now independent from USC.  As Pisar has moonlighted as a journalist in France, worked, and raised two daughters of her own there, she has been provided with a background, knowledge, and an appreciation of other cultures, grist for this play and more stories yet to come.  She feels privileged to be working with her gifted colleagues: her lead, Hillary Schwartz; Elliott Woodruff, actor/director in his own right; and Simon Russell, actor/writer.

MICHAEL B. PRESTON has been a Professor at USC since 1986.  Formerly a professor at the University of Illinois-Urbana, he spent one year as a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago.  His research interests are American Politics, Urban and Black Politics, and Racial and Ethnic Politics in California and nationally.  He has published numerous articles and six books, including The Politics of Bureaucratic Reform: The Case of the California State Employment Service, The New Black Politics, and Racial and Ethnic Politics in California.  Professor Preston was Chair of the Department of Political Science at USC, as well as Director of the Center for Multiethnic and Translational Studies.  He has been President of the Western Political Science Association and Vice-President of the American Political Science Association.

ALISON DUNDES RENTELN is Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at the University of Southern California where she teaches Law and Public Policy with an emphasis on international law and human rights.  A graduate of Harvard (History and Literature), she has a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from Boalt Hall at Berkeley and a J.D. from the USC Law School.  For the past few years she served as Director of the Jesse Unruh Institute of Politics and as Vice-Chair of Political Science.  In 2005 she received the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching.  Her publications include three books.  The most recent, The Cultural Defense, received the 2006 USC Phi Kappa Phi Award for Creativity in Research.  Professor Renteln worked with the United Nations on the new treaty to guarantee the rights of persons with disabilities.  The American Bar Association sent her to teach comparative legal ethics in Bangkok and Manila.  She has taught seminars on the rights of ethnic minorities for judges, lawyers, court interpreters, and police officers.  She also served on several California civil rights commissions.  She is a member of the American Society of International Law, the International Law Association (American Branch), the American Society of Comparative Law, and the Law and Society Association.

BEVERLY RHUE served as Administrative Coordinator of the Physiology and Biophysics Department of the University of Southern California Health Science Campus for twenty-seven years, working closely with the department's PhDs and MDs. She joined the Staff Retirement Association in 1990.  Prior to coming to USC, she spent eight years working for city schools.  Besides helping the SRA in many capacities and putting together her family history, she still enjoys cooking, sewing, and gardening.

STANLEY ROSEN is Professor of Political Science and Director of the East Asian Studies Center at the USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.  He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Professor Rosen is a specialist on Politics in the People's Republic of China, Asian and Comparative Politics, Politics and Social Change, and Chinese Film.  He was honored with the Political Science Department Award for Outstanding Classroom Teaching and Dedication to Students, 1998–1999.  He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including State and Society in 21st Century China (2004).  He is the editor of the journal Chinese Education and Society.  He lived in Hong Kong for many years and regularly returns there to carry out research and teach at Hong Kong's universities.

ROBERT R. SCALES is retired Dean and Professor at the University of Southern California School of Theatre.  He is a Fellow of the United States Institute of Theatre Technology and has held positions in consulting and/or technical production and lighting design at professional theatre organizations including: Theatre Projects Consultants; McCallum Theatre; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Missouri Repertory Theatre; Stratford Festival Theatre of Canada; and Guthrie Theatre.  He has taught at several institutions including Yale, University of Minnesota, University of Washington, Hardin-Simmons University, Banff School of the Arts, and University of Missouri at Kansas City.  He is on the Board of Directors of Theatre LA, 24th Street Theatre, and Starlight Theatre of San Diego.

DAN SCHNUR is the Director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California where he works to motivate students to become active in the world of politics and to encourage public officials to participate in the daily life of USC.  Schnur is one of California's leading political and media strategists, whose record includes work on four presidential and three gubernatorial campaigns.  He served as the National Director of Communications for the 2000 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain and spent five years as Chief Media Spokesman for California Governor Pete Wilson.  Schnur is a graduate of the American University in Washington, D.C.

MARJE SCHUETZE-COBURN earned her B.A. in German History at U.C. Berkeley, her M.L.S. at UCLA, and her M.A. in History at UCLA.  She has been Librarian at the Goethe Institute of Los Angeles, as well as USC Feuchtwanger Librarian and Curator.  Her publications include a review of Leonard and Dale Pitt's Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County, and a review of Franz Hessel's Nur Was Uns Anschaut, Sehen wir: Ausstellungsbuch, a library resource book in German entitled Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken, and pieces for Reference Reviews Europe.  At present she is a translator and abstractor for Reference Reviews Europe, writes book reviews for Leidenschaft und Bildung: Zur Geschichte der Frauenarbeit in Bibliotheken.  She was co-editor for The Silent Shadow: The Third Reich and the Generation After - An Anthology of Ten Authors, a guest editor for No. 26 of Coranto: Journal of the Friends of the USC Libraries, and editor for magazines and newspapers at the Goethe-Institute Libraries in the United States and Canada.

MICHAEL H. SHAPIRO specializes in bioethics and in constitutional law, and in particular, medical and legal ethical issues surrounding research and experimentation; reproductive, genetic, and behavior control; and death and dying.  He teaches Constitutional Law, Bioethics and Healthcare Regulation.  A prolific author on medical ethics and legal questions in the advent of new technologies, Professor Shapiro has written (with others) Cases, Materials, and Problems on Bioethics and Law, Second Edition (Thompson West, 2003), "Human Enhancement Uses of Biotechnology, Policy, Technological Enhancement and Human Equality" in Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology (Wiley, 2000), and "The Identity of Identity: Moral and Legal Aspects of Technological Self-Transformation" (Journal of Social Philosophy and Policy, 2005).  Professor Shapiro earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Associate Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.  He practiced with Swerdlow, Glikbarg, and Shimer; was a Staff Attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance; and was a Staff Attorney, Assistant Director of Litigation, and Acting Director of Litigation at the Western Center on Law and Poverty.  Professor Shapiro lectured at USC Law in 1966 and joined the USC Law faculty again in 1970.  He also has taught at the Yale Law School and at the UCLA School of Law.  Professor Shapiro sat on the Institutional Review Board for Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, reviewed proposals to Study the Human Genome Project for the U.S. Department of Energy, and is a member of the Pacific Council for Health Policy and Ethics.

ROBERT T. SINGER received his B.A. from Antioch College and his graduate degree in Japanese art history from Princeton University.  He spent fourteen years in Japan as a research fellow at Kyoto University before becoming Curator of Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1988.  He is in charge of the twelve rotating exhibitions that take place each year in the painting, woodblock print, and netsuke galleries in the museum's Pavilion for Japanese Art, of which he is the founding curator.  The Japanese Pavilion is the only building outside of Japan that is solely devoted to Japanese art.  At present, Singer is Curator and Head of the Department of Japanese Art at LACMA.  Singer has lectured extensively in both Japanese and English, and has published numerous articles and co-authored books in both languages.  He has written on such subjects as Japanese painting, calligraphy, textiles, ceramics, gardens, cloisonné, architecture, tea ceremony objects, netsuke, and photography.  A few of his exhibitions at LACMA include Treasured Miniatures (1994), Hirado Porcelain of Japan from the Kurtzman Collection (1997), Van Gogh and the Japanese Print (1998), The Max Palevsky Collection of Japanese Woodblock Prints (2001), and Munakata Shik?: Japanese Master of the Modern Print (2002).  In 2004, Singer hosted at LACMA the exhibition Kamisaka Sekka, the first exhibition to display the work of the last great Rimpa artist.  He organized and curated Edo: Art in Japan, 1615-1868 (1998-99) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.  He is the co-author of Kosode in Edo-Period Japan and the catalogues for Hirado Porcelain, Edo, and Munakata Shik, among numerous other publications in English and Japanese.

RICHARD SMITH is a Full Professor and former Chair of the Studio/Jazz Guitar Department at the renowned Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.  His former students are working with artists from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to Oliver Stone, Mark Anthony, Snoop Dog, Blink 182, Beck, the Back Street Boys, Josh Grobin, Michael Buble, Clay Aiken, Christina Aguilara, and Modonna as well as composing for television, film, and stage.  His 10 solo recordings have established him as a veteran of the contemporary jazz world with critical success on every one of his releases.  His albums have garnished praise such as Best Contemporary Jazz Guitar Album (Tune Up Magazine), a nomination for Record of the Year (Ad Lib Magazine, Tokyo), and Best New Artist (Radio and Records Magazine).  His recent solo album for the GRP/A440 Music Group entitled "SOuLIDIFIED" spent 17 weeks in the top 10 for radio airplay of American contemporary jazz radio (Radio and Records Magazine) and 3 weeks at Number 1 for satellite and cable airplay (Music Choice).  His latest recording, "L.A. CHILLHARMONIC" features Brian Bromberg, Vinnie Colaiuta, Jeff Lorber, Alex Acuna, Eric Marienthal Greg Adams, and members of the Tower of Power horn section.  The touring ensemble won a nomination for Best International Group of the Year from the Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards.  For further information please refer to Professor Smith's website at: www.richardsmithguitar.com.

ROBERT A. STALLINGS, Professor Emeritus of Policy, Planning, and Development, joined the USC faculty in 1975 as a member of what was then the School of Public Administration.  Holder of a Ph.D. in sociology from Ohio State University, Mr. Stallings enjoyed the courtesy of a joint appointment with the USC Department of Sociology.  He served as president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Disasters from 2002 to 2006 and was the editor of the International Journal of Mass Emrgencies and Disasters from 1997 to 2002.  After joining the board of the Retired Faculty Association, he has taken a hand in helping to maintain the Websites of the USC Emeriti Center, the Emeriti College, and the Staff Retirement Association as well as the RFA.  Most recently, Mr. Stallings has played a lead role in organizing the USC retiree computer Help Squad, a group of retirees and pre-retirees available to try to assist USC retirees in solving computer- and internet-related problems.

CHERYL SVENSSON has been involved in the field of aging since the 1970s when she applied to the very first Master's in Gerontology propgram at USC.  After completing her Master's, she moved to Sweden and entered a doctoral program in psychology with an emphasis on research on aging.  For the past ten years, Cheryl has worked closely with James E. Birren in developing and spreading the word about Guided Autobiography (GAB) by means of classes, lectures, and instructor training courses.  She has been a firm believer in the power of the GAB process and its potential to change lives.  Cheryl continues to work with Jim Birren and the Guided Autobiography work group to develop and expand the Autobiographical Studies Program.

GERARD J. "GERRY" TELLIS, Ph.D., University of Michigan, is Professor of Marketing, Neely Chair of American Enterprise, and Director of the Center for Global Innovation at the USC Marshall School of Business.  He has been Visiting Chair of Marketing, Strategy, and Innovation at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, UK, and Distinguished Visitor, Erasmus University, Rotterdam.  Tellis specializes in the areas of innovation, global strategy, market entry, new product growth, advertising, promotion, and pricing.  He has published over 100 articles and 4 books, which have won 15 awards, including five of the most prestigious awards in the field of marketing: the Frank M. Bass, William F. Odell, Harold D. Maynard (twice), AMA-Berry, and AMA Mahajan Award for lifetime contributions to Marketing Strategy.  He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Marketing Research and has been on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, and Marketing Science for several years.

WILLIAM E. THOMSON grew up playing classical French horn and jazz trumpet.  Eschewing the life of a travelling jazz musician, he studied composition at the University of North Texas (B.M. and M.M.) and Music Theory and Philosophy at Indiana University (Ph.D.).  He has taught at Sul Ross State College, Indiana University (where he chaired the Music Theory Department), Case Western Reserve University (where he held the Kulas Chair in Music Theory), the University of Arizona, SUNY Buffalo (where he held the Ziegle Chair in Music Theory), and USC, where he was Dean of Music.  Now Professor Emeritus of Music, he was honored as a distinguished teacher at both Case Western Reserve and the University of Arizona.  Author of 13 books, his articles have appeared in Music Perception, Journal of Music Theory, The Encyclopædia Britannica, Notes, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, the Symposium of the College Music Society, The Music Educators Journal, and the recent Oxford University Press Biographies of Americans.  In 1992 his book Schoenberg's Error received Choice magazine’s Academic Book of the Year award.  Listed in the International Who's Who of Music, he was a key participant in the Ford Foundation's Contemporary Music Project, and he has chaired the ETS Advanced Placement in Music Test Committee.

ROBERT E. TRANQUADA, M.D., is former Dean of the USC School of Medicine.  He also has served as the Norman Topping/National Medical Enterprises Professor of Medicine and Public Policy and as Director of the Health Administration Program in the School of Public Administration.  He is now Professor Emeritus.  A graduate of Pomona College and Stanford Medical School, he was a resident in Internal Medicine at UCLA Medical Center and had Fellowships in Endocrinology and Diabetes at UCLA and USC.  He was Medical Director of the LAC/USC Medical Center, Associate Dean of the UCLA School of Medicine, and Chancellor and Dean of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.  Dr. Tranquada is as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Pomona College, and as a board member of the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation and Chair of the Board of Overseers of the Clairmont University Consortium, the Good Hope Medical Foundation, and the L.A. CareHealth Plan of Los Angeles County.  He established and directed the Watts Health Foundation, served as a member of the Christopher Commission, and chaired the Los Angeles County Task Force on Health Care Access.  He has written over 50 articles and book chapters.

INDIRA HALE TUCKER is co-founder and current president of the African American Heritage Society of Long Beach.  She was also the co-editor of The Heritage of African Americans in Long Beach: Over 100 Years, published in 2007 in collaboration with co-editor Aaron L. Day.  A resident of Long Beach since 1977, she is passionately interested in history of all kinds and is most proud of helping to develop Burnett Library's African American Resource Center.  She initiated and continues to underwrite the following book collections: Tucker and Hale Collection of Black Women's History (Burnett Library, Long Beach, CA); Helene Hale Collection: International Women of Courage (Hilo Library, Hilo, HI); Marcus Tucker Collection: Black Men of Courage (Santa Monica Main Library, Santa Monica, CA).

JEROME B. WALKER is a former Associate Provost at the University of Southern California who developed and administered reviews of academic schools and departments.  He served as an Accreditation Liaison Officer to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges from 1986 to May 2008 and prepared three reports at ten-year intervals to assure USC's reaccredidation.  He is the current Director of the USC Emeriti Center College.  During his tenure at USC, he served in various positions including: Executive Director of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement from 1981 to 2001; Assistant Provost from 1981 to 1986; Director of USC's Centennial Celebration, 1980-1981; and Special Assistant to the President for Development from 1977 to 1980.  Dr. Walker holds a B.A. in Political Science and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University.

LORA WALKER is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Los Angeles City College where she teaches English as a Second Language.  She received her B.A. in History and Education from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and her M.A. in Teaching ESL from USC's Rossier School of Education.

RUBERTA WEAVER began her professional life on the storytelling staff of the New York Public Library and has used her talents liberally as she and her husband John served various universities across the Midwest.  She was honored by inclusion in the fourth edition of World's Who's Who of Women.  John Weaver was President successively of the University of Missouri and the University of Wisconsin and in retirement came to USC as Distinguished Professor of Geography.  He taught for 10 more years while Ms. Weaver plunged headlong into the volunteer scene at USC.  She has been president of the Faculty Women's Club and of Town and Gown and at present works with the USC Emeriti College and the University Hospital Guild.

JOHN E. WILLS, Jr., Professor Emeritus, History, earned a B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Illinois (Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, cum laude), an M.A. in East Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages at Harvard.  He taught at Stanford prior to joining USC as a Professor of History.  He has been Acting Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures as well as Director of the East Asian Studies Center and the USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center.  His books include: Pepper, Guns, and Parleys: The Dutch East India Company and China, 1662-1681; From Ming to Ch’ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China; Embassies and Illusions: Dutch and Portuguese Envoys to K’ang-his, 1666-1687; Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History; 1688: A Global History.  He has published some forty articles including two chapters for the Cambridge History of China, about forty reviews, and has done research in the Netherlands, Taiwan, China, and Japan.  His main interests are: the Ming-Qing transition in 17th century China; pre-modern Chinese foreign relations; China's coastal regions and their overseas connections; the maritime interconnections of Europeans and Asians in early modern times; world history; and philosophy of history.  He participated in USC's General Education Program and in the development of the East Asian Studies Center in the University.

LEONARD R. WINES is a retired USC Associate Vice President of University Affairs.  Since his retirement in 1986, he has been particulary active in the computing world, focusing primarily on Macintosh based products and services as well as the Internet.  A product manager with Data Desk International, he managed three group purchases for Apple Computers with the Los Angeles Unified School District, was a member of the Conference Faculty attending the annual Macworld Exposition and Conferences in San Francisco, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Macintosh Group.  In addition to serving two terms as President and many more as Senior Vice President of the LA Macintosh Group, Mr. Wines has also chaired the USC Macintosh User Group since 1985.

MILTON WOLPIN was a faculty member and Chief Psychologist of Adult Outpatient Services at the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute, then Senior Psychologist at Camarillo State Hospital.  He served as an Associate Professor in Psychology at USC before assuming emeritus status in l990.  He earned his B.A. in Psychology at Brooklyn College, M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh, and his NPI at the University of Nebraska Medical School.  His research focus has been assertiveness and imagery, his teaching areas psychotherapy, abnormal psychology, assertiveness training, imagery, and social problems.  Dr. Wolpin has published over 20 research papers and co-edited two books on imagery.  In recent years he has lectured on environmental issues based on his work as a volunteer for EarthSave, an organization concerned with the effects of diet on health and the environment.

EDWARD T. WONG, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Pathology, USC Keck School of Medicine, was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnessota.  He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1960 and has devoted his career to academic medicine, first at the University of Minnesota and then at the University of Southern California for 23 years.  At USC, he has served as Vice-Chair of the Department of Pathology and Associate Director of Laboratories and Pathology at LAC-USC Medical Center.  In the latter part of his career, he served as Director of Graduate Medical Education with resposibility for 51 residency and fellowship programs and Interim Chief Medical Officer at LAC-USC Medical Center with responsibility for the medical practice of over 1500 attending staff physicians and over 800 resident physicians.  When Dr. Wong retired in 2002, he set out to search his family history in earnest.  He learned how his father came to America in a nasty time of our nation's history, when the Chinese were excluded from immigrating to America.  (The Chinese Exlclusion Act of 1882 was the law of the land until it was repealed in 1943.)  The Immigration Service in that time period carefully and painstakingly documented their handling of Chinese immigrants, and the files of their interviews have been stored in the National Archives and are accessible to the public.  A search for information about Chinese history and immigration found that the Chinese Historical Society of Americia and the Chinese Cultural Center conducted a workshop on tracing roots back to China.  From attending one of their workshops, he learned that NARA in San Bruno contained the files for Chinese who came through the Port of San Francisco.  A simple contact with NARA by email disclosed that they had the files for his father when he returned from China in 1911 and for his mother and oldest brother when they came to America in 1921.  It was moving and thrilling to read their interviews in the files.  This resulted in a small book that he distributed to his family to share the story with them.

ELLIOTT WOODRUFF is happy to be onstage acting again after a brief hiatus of 30 years.  During that time, he was a Production Stage Manager on and off Broadway with, among other shows, "Da," "A Life," "Shadowlands," "Arsenic and Old Lace," "Steel Magnolias," "The Circle," "Doubles," and "Breaking Legs."  He was the Assistant Director for the James Earl Jones/Christopher Plummer production of "Othello" and the general manager of The American Dancemachine with which he toured the United States, Europe, and Japan.  For Festival Theatre USC at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he has directed "Johnny Guitar," "Olympus on my Mind," "Dames At Sea," "National Anthem," "Raised in Captivity," and "Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Ethel Waters."

CENGIZ YALTKAYA was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1947.  He had piano lessons from about the age of five, entering the Istanbul Conservatory of Music at about that time.  When Mr. Yaltkaya was 13, he moved with his parents to Geneva, Switzerland, where he attended the International School of Geneva between 1960 and 1967.  During the latter part of his high school years in Geneva, he became interested in jazz, meanwhile playing with local rock and pop bands.  Upon graduation from high school in 1967, Mr. Yaltkaya moved to New York City and graduated from the School of Economics at New York University.  Between 1971 and 1975, he studied arranging and composition at the Berklee College of Music.  In 1976, he joined the staff of the Atlantic Recording Corporation as an arranger and producer where he worked until the end of 1986.  Between 1986 and 1995 he freelanced as a film composer during which time he entered and became a member of BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.  In 1995 he permanently moved to Los Angeles, returning to his original love of jazz performance.  He is the recipient of the DRAMA LOGUE award for "The Drunk" as Best Musical Director-1996 for the Chandler Studios.  Mr. Yaltkaya is currently very active as a freelance jazz pianist and composer in Los Angeles where he frequently does live performances.