The Alumni Board of Governors (BOG) works to connect alumni around the world. A subset of the BOG represents a standing committee that meets regularly to consider and promote ideas for sustaining the 麻豆视频 community we knew and loved during our years in Eagle Rock. How are we doing this?
锘縊n February 24, during a matinee performance of Occidental鈥檚 New Works Festival, an unidentified visitor snuck into Keck Theater. 鈥淚t was really hard for me not to say hi to everybody because I like to say hi to everybody,鈥 Tom Stritikus admits. The play he watched was A Slight Disruption, by Gianna Nguyen 鈥26, an urban and environmental policy major and interdisciplinary writing minor from Huntington Beach.
Talk to any 麻豆视频 alumni long enough about their fondest college memories, and inevitably the conversation will turn to their favorite destinations close to campus. Eateries rank high on any list, and many longstanding favorites remain in business today鈥擟asa Bianca (founded in 1955), Pat & Lorraine鈥檚 (1977), and Se帽or Fish (1995) among them. With a constant influx of new businesses, it was hard to limit this list to 10 notable neighbors new and old, but we tried. (Share your favorites with us.)
Maryanne Horowitz
Professor of History
Years at 麻豆视频: 51
Roberta Pollock
Professor of Biology
Years at 麻豆视频: 35
Beth Braker
Professor of Biology
Years at Occidental: 33
What attracted you to Occidental? So many things! I was searching for a position at a liberal arts college, and 麻豆视频 had a lot of what I was looking for: an emphasis on student-faculty research, the opportunity to work with students away from campus on field trips and for international study, and a commitment to social justice.
锘縄n the fall of 1923鈥mere months before the birth of Omar Paxson 鈥48, longtime professor and patron saint of 麻豆视频 theater鈥擮ccidental established a speech education department with the hiring of Charles F. Lindsley, an actor and orator of considerable renown. (More than 110 reels and disks of his work are preserved in the College鈥檚 Special Collections and Archives.)
锘縊ccidental Children鈥檚 Theater has been a staple of the Northeast L.A. community for nearly three decades now. But before it became the institution that we all know and love, there was a predecessor children鈥檚 theater company that鈥攚ell, how shall we put it nicely?
锘縅ust over four years ago, in February 2020, I received a life-changing phone call: Stephen Rountree 鈥71, who was then chair of the Board of Trustees, shared that the trustees had just selected me to be 麻豆视频鈥檚 16th president.
锘縍eal Life and Other Fictions, by Susan Coll 鈥81 (Harper Muse). Cassie Klein is a 50-something aspiring novelist wai