Fielding Alumni Network
FANmail Newsletter
June 2007
What does Fielding’s strategic plan “University as One Community” mean for the Alumni Relations program? Visit our Web site at www.fielding.edu/alumni to view the Board-approved implementation strategy and some of the projects we are planning. This is a fluid process, and our future interactions and discussions with you will contribute to the successful achievement of the expected outcomes.
Please forgive the confusion that arose when you tried to use the Fielding Alumni Network survey link on the mailed postcard. Instead of linking the URL we gave you, the vendor issued a new hyperlink. The error has been fixed; we still want your input!
Please go to www.surveymonkey.com/fielding_alumni, or scroll over the image above, and complete the survey now. Results will be shared with you in future issues of FANmail and via the FELIX Alumni Forum.
A quick reminder: Alumni of all schools are welcome at the special events offered at any school national session. We are a community of scholar-practitioners and pride ourselves on our inclusiveness.
Have a wonderful summer!
Dilys Jones
Director of Alumni Relations
Stacey L. Salant (PSY 03)
Fielding Alumni Council Member
Stacey Salant truly fits the mold of a Fielding graduate. After an extensive career as program director and disc jockey at radio stations along the East Coast, she decided to pursue her desired vocation and become a clinical psychologist. At the time her daughter was just two years old, and Fielding was “a perfect fit on many levels.” She describes her Fielding experience as collegial and supportive, and is dismayed at the disconnection from Fielding she perceives in her peers and colleagues.
Consequently, in 2006 Stacey accepted an invitation to serve on the Alumni Council because she saw it as an opportunity to make a change. Since then she has been exploring ways to re-engage alumni, and shares postdoctoral opportunities on FELIX forums. She hopes that a regional referral system, built and sustained by a network of psychology alumni, will evolve from this effort. Stacey says her experience on the Alumni Council has enabled her to appreciate the unique perspectives each program brings to shared objectives and common goals.
Stacey makes her home in New Haven, CT with her husband of 15 years, Pete, and their 12 year-old daughter, Caroline.
Linda Ford (HOD 92) hosted Jan Elliott (HOD 97) on June 21, 2007 in a teleseminar titled "Conversations that get results: Using dialogue in organizations."
Congratulations to Leslie Rainaldi (PSY 04) who has been admitted to the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies as an advanced psychoanalytic candidate. She used her comprehensive exam to demonstrate her education, and the admissions committee decided she only needs two independent courses in order to complete her analytic training. She currently serves as Secretary of the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society.
Sarah MacDougall (ELC 05) co-authored PeerSpirit Circling: Creating Change in the Spirit of Cooperation, Chapter 25 of the Change Handbook. She co-facilitated a workshop at the 2nd annual conference of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners in July 2006.
Linda F. Crafts (HOD 06) together with Jeremy J. Shapiro, will present a workshop titled “Ways of Bodily Knowing and the Democratization of Technology” at the Society for Social Studies of Science conference October 11-13, 2007 in Montreal, Canada.
Lydia Forsythe (HOD 07) will attend the 18th International Nursing Research Congress Focusing on Evidence-Based Practice in Vienna, Austria, July 11-14, 2007. She will present her dissertation research at the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
Comprehensive Events Calendar Keeps HOD Alumni Connected
The School of HOD has created a single, easy to use Student Events Calendar. The calendar lists information on cluster meetings, regional intensives, online seminars, and other HOD sessions and events. It is accessible to all HOD faculty, students, and alumni, and includes event topics, facilitators, and contact information. The calendar is located in the HOD workspace on FELIX (login required).
Remembering Will McWhinney
July 2, 1929 - April 3, 2007
Beloved HOD faculty emeritus, Will McWhinney, passed away after a long struggle with a deteriorating condition brought on by an unprovoked attack while traveling abroad. More than 50 people gathered at La Casa De Maria in Santa Barbara on Sunday May 6, 2007 to remember Will. During a celebration orchestrated by HOD faculty emeritus Don Bushnell, HOD faculty Charlie Seashore, and Jim Webber (HOD 03), people were encouraged to reflect and reminisce about the life of this designer, consultant, and educator.
Will is survived by his wife Veronica "Bonnie" Flynn McWhinney, his daughter Susan, and sons, Peter and William (Will), his brother Rodney, and sisters Madeline, Cope, Anne and Susan. A memorial plaque was placed at the base of a sturdy, Live Oak in the grounds at La Casa.
Pictured at left: Bonnie McWhinney
holds photo of Will.
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Seminars and Research Opportunities
August 17, 2007 – January 15, 2008: Dialogue, Deliberation, and Public Engagement
A graduate-level certificate program that focuses on recent innovations in dialogue, deliberation, and public engagement, is being offered in partnership with the University of Sydney, Australia. The course is designed and delivered in collaboration with the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, the Kettering Foundation, and the Public Dialogue Consortium. For more info and to check out testimonials contact Nathan Lewin at NLewing@fielding.edu or go to http://www.fielding.edu/hod/ce/dialog/index.html.
September 24, 2007: How to Write a Book Proposal that Sells
Offered by the Lifelong Learning program, John Hoover (HOD 97) will again present this popular nine-week workshop. There is a waiting list so if you are interested, register immediately at http://www.fielding.edu/hod/ce/howtosell/index.htm. There will be a conference call preview for registrants at 10:00am PST on Saturday, September 10, 2007.
NOTE: All book proposals developed in this course will be read by a major New York literary agency.
October 15-19, 2007: Highlander Research and Education Center, New Market, TN will be the site of the annual participatory action learning session, presented by the Schools of Human & Organization Development (HOD) and Educational Leadership & Change (ELC). Faculty facilitators are Barbara Mink (HOD), Malcolm Bonner (ELC) and Judy Witt (ELC). Contact Sandy Burlem at 805-898-2929 for Registration and Barbara Mink at 512-873-9600 with questions about the program.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has issued a call for funding applications.
The foundation focuses on the pressing health care issues facing our country, and works with diverse groups and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful change. The application deadline is October 12, 2007 and the online application system will be accessible from July 13, 2007 at www.healthandsocietyscholars.org. For more information visit www.rwjf.org
Kathy Tiner (HOD 94)
Director, Master of Arts, Collaborative Educational Leadership (MA-CEL)
Kathy Tiner’s relationship with Fielding started on a whim, when she accompanied a fellow educator to an orientation session back in 1989. She applied to HOD, but he did not; and thus the final chapter of her 27-year career as a Special Education teacher began. Upon graduation from the Human & Organization Development program in 1994, Kathy accepted the post of transition specialist in Colorado, and was integral to the successful mainstreaming of children with special needs in local schools.
Her subsequent work and research in community-based outreach and support ventures were noted by the Fielding faculty, and Kathy was invited to become one of the first faculty members of the nascent Educational Leadership & Change (ELC) doctoral program. In keeping with ELC’s goal to develop a Master of Arts component, the school searched for a candidate to become director of the Collaborative Educational Leadership program. In 2001, Kathy accepted this challenging position because she embraced the vision of transforming educators into action researchers and educational leaders. Since then, more than 140 graduates have learned how to apply research data to their decision making process, as they develop curricula and best practices for their schools.
SAGE Journals Now Available Online
Library Services is pleased to announce that Fielding now provides access to over 400 full text SAGE journals (some dating back to 1999) via their Premier Service. For more information log into FELIX and view the entry in Library Services, or click on this link http://www.fielding.edu/library/
Invitation to Present at HOD/PSY Winter Session 2008
Follow this link to download the application materials needed to present a workshop proposal for consideration. Please submit your completed form to alumnirelations@fielding.edu by August 4, 2007.
Ted Takamura (HOD 97)
Alumni Representative to Board of Trustees
In the early 1990s, while a student at Fielding, Ted noticed the lack of visibility of the alumni community and their absence at program-related events. During 1997, his graduation year, Fielding’s advancement and development efforts were taking shape. Ted realized that the best way he could highlight alumni as an important constituent group within the university, was to join the fledgling Alumni Council. “The diploma on my office wall has value, it matters to my future and my professional standing; I’m sure that this is true of every alumnus/alumna,” he says. “We are so much larger now; we have evolved into a sophisticated organization with complex issues and have become more structured as a result.” He believes that as Fielding’s stature as a graduate university grows, so awareness, recognition, and appreciation of alumni and their skills will increase.
As Ted puts it, he likes “to fix things,” and this is evidenced by his career at Eastern Oregon University as Business Advisor/faculty to undergraduates making career transitions, and adjunct faculty for the DeVry University MBA program. He is the Alumni Representative on Fielding’s Board of Trustees, and will complete his second term on the Alumni Council in 2008. Ted and his wife and college sweetheart, Raynette, live in Gresham, OR.
Update from the 30th Anniversary Campaign
Message from Dan Distelhorst (HOD 95), Alumni Division Campaign Chair
My deepest thanks go to our Fielding alumni, who have outperformed expectations with their generous donations to the 30th Anniversary Campaign. Alumni gifts now total $328,700; more than double the original alumni campaign target of $155,000. This outstanding response has helped boost the overall campaign total to $6.5 million, over twice the original campaign goal.
Alumni contributions to the annual fund, student scholarships, the Fielding endowment, and special initiatives have changed the face of Fielding and ushered in a new culture of giving that will have a lasting impact on our university. Final gifts can be made to the campaign until June 30, and we hope you will continue to support Fielding in the future.
If you will be in the vicinity of any of these events, we invite you to join the Fielding Community Gathering. Please contact alumnirealtions@fielding.edu if you plan to attend or need more information.
June
24 - 27: Exhibit Booth at Society for Human Resource Management, Las Vegas, NVJuly
4: Independence Day
15 - 21: Kansas City, MO hosts HOD/PSY Summer Sessions
21: Alumni Dinner, Pierpont’s at Union Station
23 - 28: ELC National Session, Tucson, AZ
August
3: FAN SURVEY closes
4: Alumni present at 2007 Academy of Management Conference,
Philadelphia, PA.
7: Deadline for WS08 proposals from HOD/PSY alumniSeptember
26 - 28: OMD Session and Graduation, Santa Barbara, CAOctober
21 - 24: Exhibit booth at ODNET, Baltimore, MD
21 - 25: Exhibit booth at Digital Hollywood, Santa Monica, CA
How to Reach Fielding's Office of Alumni Relations
OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS
alumnirelations@fielding.eduDILYS J. JONES, DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS
djjones@fielding.edu
805.898.2915
ANNE KRATZ,
CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
akratz@fielding.edu
805.898.2926
FELIX ACCOUNTS
helpdesk@fielding.edu
805.898.4040