Cal State Fullerton - Titan Yearbook (Fullerton, CA)

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Table of Contents dedication 4 presidential letters 6 buildings 8 campus life 13 organizations 18 events 56 arts 74 athletics 88 graduates 104 commencement 159 staff page 161 grad ads 162 business ads 168 Perspectives-

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Perspectiv . . .according to Webster ' s Second New Riverside Dictionary- 1 . A drawing or painting technique in which objects represented seem to have distance and depth. 2. A mental view of the relationship of aspects of a subject to each other and to a whole. 3. An idea of the relative importance of things. Here is our perspective, our drawing or painting, showing the dis- tance we have traveled, the depth of our lives, how college is important to each of us individually and to all of us collectively, and finally how rela- tively important this time in life is to our successes, our friendships, our happiness, and quite simply, who we are. t-Perspectives

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Perspectives on A part of Cal State FuUerton died this fall. This part was Dr. Miles McCarthy. A founding father, McCarthy was with the university since its beginnings as an orange grove next to two-lane State Col- lege Boulevard. His name is famil- iar to many as the name on the building on the south side of the quad. He contributed not just his name but his whole life to this university, teaching biology for over 35 years and serving in administrative positions all the way up to president of the univer- sity. Since McCarthy ' s last few years were spent teaching part time, fewer students had the chance to know him. Those who did know him agree that it is important to share with others who he was so those who didn ' t know McCarthy can carry some part of who he was. There were many parts to Miles McCarthy: the part that loved to teach, the part that loved to garden and sail, and the part that always put himself aside to help other people. His first and last parts are the ones he is most remembered for around here. The final sum- mer of his life he spent teaching, which is how he would have wanted it. He literally lived and died in the classroom. Most of all he lived for the classroom. His teaching career began at the University of Penn- sylvania, his home state. McCarthy earned his PhD. in zoology in 1943 and started teach- ing there immediately after. While doing research there he met his assistant Martha who later became his wife. In 1946 the young couple moved to California and McCarthy took up teaching at Pomona College, where he re- mained for ten years. In 1959, he and William Langsdorf saw their dream of a liberal arts university spring forth from the orange groves of Fullerton when Orange County State College held its first classes. So began the long-term affair between what we now know as California State University at Fullerton and Dr. Miles McCarthy. Needless to say, he taught. He also did other things, like act as chair of the Health Professions Committee, in charge of helping students advance to medical school. Dr. Don Shields, who was recruited by McCarthy to teach chemistry and who was president of the university when the Health professions Committee was formed, recalled that when he first asked McCarthy to chair the committee he thought that Shields was inventing a job for him. Even if that had been the case. McCarthy did the job and gave it everything he had. He and his committee made sure that their letters of recommendation were more than just wordy repeats of transcripts. He spent time getting to know students so that he could give them recommendations as humans, not just as numbers off a roll sheet. His recommendations were more than just well thought out words. They had the force of a man well respected in his field. He and Martha did significant research on several health issues, including burns and burn treat- ment. Just as importantly, medi- cal schools knew his name before his letters arrived . An. example of the lengths he went to was the summer of 1976 when he packed his family into a Volkswagen van and toured the country visiting 41 medical schools finding out the latest on admissions policies. He attended conferences, met people, shook hands, and relied on his ability to be himself to earn the respect of others. It soon got to the point where a letter of recommendation from McCarthy and the Health Professons Committee read like a Monopoly card: Get Into Medical School Free. This success started in the 1970s and continued throughout the 1980s, when 85% of students recommended by McCarthy ' s committee for medical school were accepted every year except one. This rate was over 90% four times and it was perfect twice. McCarthy liked to explain it his own way. We ' ve had pretty good luck, he once said. This success was an extention of his doing what was most important in the world to him: advancing his students. Former McCarthy student and now Professor of Medicine and Public Policy at USC Dr. Robert E. Tranquada remembers McCarthy with great warmth and was invited several times by him to speak to his students. He had then and always has had a very deep and real interest in his students. He ' s an unusual man who sees his role as teacher as greater than imparting knowledge, but also being a real associate and counselor to his students, Tranquada said in a story about his former professor. His favorite place to reach students was in the classroom. Judy Mandel, associate vice- president for University Advance- ment and a friend of the McCarth family, said. I know during his lifetime he turned down a lot of presidencies because he wanted ti teach. He belonged in the class- room. Some of my earliest inemories of this campus and j some of the reason that made it ' so attractive were connected to seeing Miles on his way to teach, recalled Dr. Jane Hippolyto of the English department. It was obvious that was what he was doing because he was wearing his white lab coat and he was gener- ally pushing a cart that was laden with materials for class and he was very joyous. She met Dr. McCarthy when she came to CSUF I