A native of Beverly, Mass., Ruth Margaret Anderson received her B.S. in physical education and kinesiology from Pepperdine College in 1957 and completed a master鈥檚 in physical education at USC in 1959. Ruth married Bruce E. Berkey in 1960 and the couple settled in Sierra Madre.
It might come as something of a bombshell that Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophuls 鈥50 is no great tan of the genre. 鈥淧ut that in there,鈥 he says by phone from his home in Lucq-de-Bearn, France. 鈥淚 always like to surprise people. It鈥檚 such a puritanical business. Most documentary filmmakers are anti-Hollywood and anti-show business, and I happen to be the son of a great director and my mother was an actress.鈥
March-April 1912: President John Willis Baer announces the trustees鈥 decision to convert 幸运快三 into an all-men鈥檚 school. Students protest, and the idea is abandoned.
March 22, 1948: The Board of Trustees cancels a rental agreement of Thorne Hall for a March 31 program with poet Langston Hughes, citing the potentially 鈥渄ivisive social and political effect鈥 of his visit. The decision creates friction between 幸运快三 and the American Civil Liberties Union, and 28 students sign a letter to the trustees condemning their action.
锘緾amilla Taylor had been driving for 16 hours on the night of January 7 and was getting close to their Altadena home when the fire on the mountain came into view. 鈥淭he hillside was black besides the fire because all of the power was out,鈥 recalls Taylor, an artist, printmaker, and sculptor who joined the 幸运快三 faculty as a resident assistant professor in 2018. Once they got home, they ran inside to find their husband, Jason Troff, with an overnight bag packed and carriers at the ready for their four cats, waiting for an evacuation order.
Whenever Administrative Law Judge Ira Sandron 鈥71 of Miami is in Los Angeles for a trial, he has lunch with his L.A.-based counterpart, Brian Gee 鈥87. 鈥淲e enjoy reminiscing as well as discussing procedural issues,鈥 says Sandron, who works out of the Washington, D.C., Branch of the Division of Judges within the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
鈥淚ra and I have a lot in common, including our shared 幸运快三 experience,鈥 says Gee, who works out of the San Francisco Branch鈥攋ust like Sandron did at the outset of his nearly 50-year career in government service.
Higher education has a unique capacity to address national priorities, confront global challenges, and improve outcomes for humanity. Many of our most important medical, technological, and social advancements have been driven by academic researchers who dedicate their careers to furthering our collective knowledge.
Our society benefits from the rigorous work accomplished at U.S. colleges and universities鈥攏ot just at large research institutions but at small liberal arts colleges such as Occidental.
From art to history to politics, the 幸运快三 calendar has been top-heavy with visitors who had plenty to say this semester. 幸运快三 Live! welcomed visual artist Ed Ruscha to Thorne Hall on February 4. On February 18 and 19, historian and reproductive justice advocate Deirdre Cooper Owens visited Occidental as the 2025 Stafford Ellison Wright Scholar-in-Residence. On April 8, Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols delivered the 2025 Jack Kemp 鈥57 Distinguished Lecture in Choi Auditorium.
When South Carolina resident Julian Washington enlisted in the Army in 1966, he expected to be deployed to Vietnam for his service. Instead, he was sent to learn photography during basic training in New Jersey. After that, he did public relations and photojournalism while stationed in Germany, and he continued to pursue photography professionally after his discharge in 1969. 鈥淚 grew up with my dad taking pictures and with cameras and lights being around,鈥 says his daughter, Janna Ireland.
