Alumni News
International Council Honor
Carl R. Terzian (B.A., ’57), public relations consultant and past
president of the Los Angeles Fire Commission, was honored as the
International Citizen of the Year by the International Visitors Council
of Los Angeles. The award recognizes him as an emerging international
leader. Terzian graduated magna cum laude from USC College and was a
student body president. He was a State Department Goodwill Ambassador
for President Eisenhower and a former dean and professor of government
at Woodbury University. Terzian has been recognized for civic,
philanthropic and professional leadership by the U.S. Congress and the
Queen of England.
Street Smart Ethics
Clinton W. McLemore (Ph.D., ’71) saw his fifth and sixth books
published in 2003. “Street-Smart Ethics: Succeeding in Business without
Losing Your Soul” came out in February (Westminster John Knox) and
“Toxic Relationships and How to Change Them: Health and Holiness in
Everyday Life” (Wiley/Jossey-Bass) appeared in August. A clinical
psychologist, McLemore is president of Relational Dynamics, Inc., a
management-consulting firm located in Orange County. He taught
full-time for six years at Mount St. Mary's College and nine years
full-time at Fuller Theological Seminary. He also taught one summer at
USC.
Published Poet
Emmy Perez (B.A. ’93) published her first collection of poetry,
“Solstice” with Swan Scythe Press in 2003. After graduating from
Columbia University’s master of fine arts program, she received poetry
fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Fine Arts
Work Center in Provincetown. Her work has appeared in “Prairie
Schooner,” “North American Review,” “New York Quarterly” and other
publications.
Teacher of the Year
Alan Lawrence Sitomer (Ph.D. ’89) was named 2003 Teacher of the Year by
the California Literacy program. He is a Lynwood High School English
teacher, who also writes for the Walt Disney Company.
Aerial Photographs
Judson Peter Brohmer, Jr. (B.A. ’87) became a world-renowned aerial
photographer after leaving USC. Before his death in an F-16 crash in
2001, he shot a number of Aviation Week cover photos, and his work had
been published in Newsweek, Time and U.S. News. His videos have aired
on the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, CNN, and PBS’s NOVA. A
new book celebrating his work, “Breaking Free” has just been published
and is available at www.thinairpublishing.com
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