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PAST GENERAL MEETINGS 2003-2004


	FWCFWC ANNUAL SPRING LUNCHEON HONORING PAST PRESIDENTS Tuesday, May 18, 2004 ~ No host reception 11:30 am ~ Luncheon 12 noon UCLA FACULTY CENTER: Sequoia Room SPEAKER: DR. ANTHONY SEEGER UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology TOPIC: MUSIC IN STRUGGLE AND PROTEST Dr. Anthony Seeger is an anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, and musician. He received his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. As a member of a musical family, he learned to play the banjo at the age of ten years. His grandfather, Charles Seeger, wrote rounds about the rich, published music reviews in the Daily Worker, and in his 70's taught ethnomusicology at UCLA. His uncle, the celebrated Pete Seeger, taught millions to sing protest songs. Accompanying himself on his banjo, Professor Seeger performed some music vocally and demonstrated other samples of the music by playing CDs, with members singing along on familiar songs many had learned during their college days. It was enlightening to learn how music has played such an important part of political and social struggles in the United States and around the world for centuries. We learned that in Brazil the Amazon Indians use music for ceremonial purposes and abstain from music when there is social or political strife!

	FWC GENERAL MEETING Tuesday, April 20, 2004 ~ 7:30 pm UCLA FACULTY CENTER: California Room SPEAKER: DR. MARION TRUE Curator of Antiquities & Associate Director for Villa Planning, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Topic: RENOVATING THE GETTY VILLA, A LOS ANGELES CULTURAL ICON Dr. True gave an illustrated talk on the progress of the plans for The J. Paul Getty Villa, which will house all of the Getty antiquities when its renovation is complete. The Getty Villa closed in the summer of 1997 just prior to the opening of the new Getty Center. Since that time the Getty Villa has been undergoing renovation and is now nearing completion. It will take a year to install the collections and reopening is scheduled for 2005. The most dramatic improvement perhaps will be to the main building where skylights have been added and windows around the inner peristyle garden and atrium have been reopened to admit natural light to the galleries. Machado & Silvetti Associates, Inc. of Boston are the architects and they have made sure the decor remains Classical in inspiration, with coffered ceilings, colorful plaster walls, patterned mosaic and terrazzo floors, and wood and bronze details. When the antiquities are installed, the collections will be arranged thematically. There will also be galleries for temporary visiting exhibitions. Among the many other amenities awaiting us when the Getty Villa reopens will be improved accessibility, increased parking, a garden tea room and garden pathways, more bathrooms for women than for men, a library, a bookstore, conservation laboratories and space for art study and conferences. There will be an auditorium underneath. One will enter looking down on the site before descending to the buildings. A new 15-row 450-seat amphitheater will be used during the day by school and other groups to prepare for their visit to the exhibits. However, theater groups will be brought in from all over the world to produce one production of ancient drama per year for five weeks during the months of September and October. For additional information and updates on the progress of the Getty, please visit the Getty Villa website at www.getty.edu/museum/villa.html. Dr. True has worked with the Antiquities Department at The J. Paul Getty Museum since 1982, serving as both Assistant and Associate Curator for that department. In 1986, she became Curator of Antiquities and has been Assistant Director for Villa Planning from 1995 to the present. Dr. True indicated that the Getty has continued to buy art during the renovation including ancient glass from Germany and sculptures.

	FWC GENERAL MEETING Tuesday, March 16, 2003 ~ 1:30 pm UCLA FACULTY CENTER: California Room SPEAKER: LAURA CHICK, MSW Los Angeles City Controller Topic: *WHAT STANDS IN THE WAY OF LOS ANGELES AND GREATNESS?* Laura Chick is the first woman in our city’s history to be elected to citywide office. With her extensive background in local government including serving for eight years as Third District City Councilmember, Laura Chick is well-qualified to take on the responsibilities of City Controller where she serves as our taxpayer and consumer advocate in Los Angeles city government. She has become an outspoken challenger of business as usual and is currently calling for the three proprietary agencies overseen by the City of Los Angeles—the Department of Airports, the Port Authority, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power--to account for the ways their contracts are awarded. Through her efforts Los Angeles may eventually have a more equitable and transparent procurement system. To learn more about the responsibilities and role of the City Controller and to keep updated on Laura Chick’s mission, visit her website at http://www.lacity.org/ctr. If you have any questions or comment, she may be contacted by e-mail at controllerchick@ctr.lacity.org.

	FWC SCHOLARSHIP DINNER MEETING Tuesday, February 3, 2004 ~ 6:30 pm UCLA FACULTY CENTER: California Room SPEAKER: MICHAEL S. DUKAKIS Former Governor of Massachusetts Topic: HIGH SPEED RAIL: THE CRITICAL LINK The 2003-2004 UCLA Faculty Women's Club Scholarship recipients were welcomed by FWC members during a reception at the UCLA Faculty Center in the Hacienda Room and formally recognized during the dinner in the California Room. Then Former Governor of Massachusetts Michael S. Dukakis, a U.S. presidential candidate in 1988 and currently a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, a Visiting Professor at the UCLA School of Public Policy, and a member of the Board of Amtrak serving as Vice-Chairman of the Amtrak Reform Board, spoke on the importance of high speed rail in the future of transportation. He could not stress enough the need for our federal government to increase its budget for mass transportation from two percent to seven percent in order to provide matching funds to states for MTA projects creating high speed rail services to connect major US cities. Our freeways (and our nerves) can no longer accommodate the ever increasing demands of commuter traffic. High speed rail can provide a more pleasurable mode of transportation for commuters and occasional users alike.

	FWC SECOND GENERAL MEETING Tuesday, November 18, 2003 ~ 7:30 pm UCLA FACULTY CENTER: California Room Hostesses: Book Section B SPEAKER: JORGE A. LAZAREFF, M.D. Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Topic: *A SINGULAR CHALLENGE TO ACADEMIA: REINVIGORATING HUMANITY IN* *MEDICINE* Dr. Lazareff was recruited to UCLA in 1993, where he coordinated the creation of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Program which has successfully treated more than 200 children. Since 1997 he has been Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at UCLA and has expanded his research interests into innovative diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to treat young patients with developmental diseases of the central nervous system. He is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of cerebral palso and of Arnold-Chiari malformation. Dr. Lazareff devotes much of his time to assisting children from developing countries who suffer from treatable neurological disorders. He was the Chief Neurosurgeon who led a team of more than 40 doctors and nurses to separate the heads of the conjoined twin girls from Guatemala in 2002 and he gave an update on their progress during his presentation. Dr. Lazareff believes that the work doesn’t stop once the surgery is complete, but continues with educating people on how living conditions and nutrition can affect neurological diseases.

	FWC FIRST GENERAL MEETING Tuesday, October 21, 2003 1:30 pm UCLA FACULTY CENTER: Sequoia Room Hostesses: French Section *SPEAKER: Linda Rosenstock, M.D., M.P.H.* Dean of UCLA School of Public Health Topic: *PUBLIC HEALTH AND BIOTERRORISM PREPAREDNESS:* *OPPORTUNITIES AND VULNERABILITIES* Dr. Rosenstock is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine in the UCLA School of Medicine. Before coming to UCLA, Dr. Rosenstock served as Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) from 1994 through 2000. She has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization, taught in many developing countries and conducted health studies in Latin America, to name only a few of her distinguished professional and educational involvements. At the meeting Dr. Rosenstock advised us that *Raymond Goodman, M.D., M.P.H., a distinguished member of the UCLA School of Public Health, is Director of the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) of Los Angeles* and is coordinating the training of volunteers for possible disaster relief in our local communities. Health professionals (e.g. M.D., R.N., P.A., etc.), current or retired, are encouraged to contact Dr. Goodman through the L.A. County Department of Health at rgoodman@dhs.co.la.ca.us for information on volunteering.