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ALUMNI E-NEWSLETTER
October 2011
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Alumni News Pepperdine Schools News
Alumni Alert: What's New Graduate School of Education and Psychology
Athletics Graziadio School of Business and Management
Benefit of the Month Seaver and George Pepperdine Colleges
Career Connections School of Law
Waves Lifelong Learning Series School of Public Policy
Waves of Service
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Yard House
Thursday, November 10, 2011
5:30 - 8 p.m.
Join alumni, parents, and friends for a night of networking at the Yard House in the Town Square on the Strip.
Reconnect with friends or establish new business contacts while you enjoy conversations and appetizers.
Registration is required.
Cost: $5 per person
Location:
Yard House
6593 Las Vegas Boulevard
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Map and Directions
There is no charge for parking.
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ALUMNI FLASH: WHAT'S NEW
NEWS
Preorder Your Copy of A Portrait of Pepperdine
In honor of its 75th anniversary, Pepperdine is working with Third Millennium Publishing to release A Portrait of Pepperdine, a beautiful new book offering a photographic glimpse at the University from a unique perspective. New images captured by award-winning photographer Julian Andrews depict the rich and varied experiences of the Pepperdine community, while recently unearthed photos, and archival artifacts tell the story of a dynamic history from humble beginnings in 1937 to the present day. Save 20% on the cover price and be listed as a Sponsor in the book!
Celebrate Pepperdine's 75th Anniversary with a Celebration Pack
Celebrate your way. Gather with classmates, friends, and colleagues for a tailgate, dinner party, service projects, reunion, or your own unique event. You provide the people and the place; let Pepperdine send you a party box with decorations, favors, giveaways, activities, and a 75th Anniversary Celebration DVD. Register your party today!
EVENTS
October 14 � 16, 2011
Malibu Campus
A yearlong party is about to begin! Waves Weekend is only 11 days away. Join your fellow Waves for a weekend of fun as we kick-off Pepperdine�s 75th Anniversary Celebration. Some highlights of Waves Weekend include:
Beyond the Big Screen: Leadership & Social Change � Rob Moore (SC �84) Vice Chairman of Paramount Pictures will be interviewed on the characteristics of leadership. Director and Pepperdine Communication professor Tom Shadyac will lead a panel of alumni making a difference in their industries. Click here to find out more about our alumni panelists. (Space is limited)
�Blue & Orange Madness
�Pepperdine Sweethearts Brunch
�Waves Weekend Festival � family fun, food trucks, giveaways, 75th Anniversary tent, the
�annual Spirit Cup Lip Sync competition and performances by Lady Danville and Andy Grammer.
�Waves Weekend Concert � featuring Grammy Award winning artist Colbie Caillat
�5th Quarter at the world famous Malibu Inn
Register for all of these events and more.
The deadline to register online is October 12, 2011 at 5p.m. Several events are already sold out so don�t delay, register today. The party can�t happen without you!
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BENEFIT OF THE MONTH
Parking Spot
Get 20 percent off parking at both LAX locations and 10 percent at all other locations nationwide with The Parking Spot. Get your Pepperdine Spot Club Card today.
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ATHLETICS
NEWS
Men's Basketball Season Tickets Are Available
Secure the best seats in the Fieldhouse by purchasing men's basketball season tickets for the 2011-2012 season. Pepperdine men's basketball season tickets are now on sale and remain a tremendous value as the majority of seats in Firestone Fieldhouse cost less than $200 for the entire 2011-2012 home schedule. Contact the Athletics Box Office at (866) WAVE -TIX or click here for more information and a season ticket request form.
Follow Pepperdine Athletics Online
For all the latest in Pepperdine Athletics, be sure to follow us online at www.pepperdinesports.com, on Facebook, Twitter @pepperdinewaves or sign-up for our weekly e-newsletter, Wave Points by clicking here.
October Sports Calendar
For a complete list of all Pepperdine Athletics events, visit the website.
EVENTS
Blue & Orange Madness
Friday, October 14, 2011; 8:15 p.m.
Firestone Fieldhouse, Malibu Campus
This is your first chance to be introduced ot the 2011-12 men's and women's basketball teams. Start the Waves Weekend festivities off by cheering for the Waves! See you in the Firestone Fieldhouse!
Women's Basketball vs. Westmont
Tuesday, October 25, 2011; 7 p.m.
Firestone Fieldhouse, Malibu Campus
Cheer on the women's basketball team to victory.
Men's Basketball vs. Occidental
Saturday, November 5, 2011; 7 p.m.
Firestone Fieldhouse, Malibu Campus
Show your Pepperdine pride by wearing your finest blue and orange while you root on your fellow Waves.
Patrick Rooney Memorial Golf Tournament - Benefitting Pepperdine Baseball
Monday, November 7, 2011
The 2011 Patrick Rooney Memorial Golf Tournament will take place on Monday, November 7, 2011, at the Moorpark Country Club in Moorpark, California. Cost is $195 per entrant, and all proceeds go towards the Pepperdine baseball program. For a printable brochure, click here or register by phone or e-mail, contact Steve Rodriguez at (310) 506-4371 or steve.rodriguez@pepperdine.edu.
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CAREER CONNECTIONS
NEWS
Job Openings at Pepperdine
Check out the Pepperdine Human Resources website to explore career possibilities with your alma mater. Recent job openings include:
�Admissions Counselor, Seaver College Admission, Malibu Campus
�Director, Alumni Relations, GSBM Alumni and Career Services, West Los Angeles Graduate Campus
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WAVES LIFELONG LEARNING SERIES
Monthly Opportunities to Expand Your Education Through
Online Lectures and Forums
Small Business Advice Series "Non-monetary Rewards for High Performers"
This podcast is presented by Southern California Minority Business Development Council (SCMBDC), is the largest nonprofit minority business advocacy organization in the region, represneting the interests of more than 600,000 Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs), serving 1,500 SCMBDC - Certified MBEs and 300 corporate members throughout a 13-county service area. In this podcast, learn how to reward commendable employees with nonmonetary incentives when you don't have the budget. This podcast gives insightful and practical advice of how to apply this knowledge in business, your everyday work, and your personal life. Listen to the podcast today!
Expand your education through iTunesU, a benefit provided by Pepperdine University. Lectures are available on a variety of topics. Download a podcast today.
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WAVES OF SERVICE
NEWS
Submit Your Service Video for the Waves of Service Video Contest
Waves of Service celebrates Pepperdine's 75th Anniversary with a video contest giving away monthly cash prizes. Create videos to highlight your community service work or work at nonprofit organizations. Upload it to YouTube for your chance to win! Watch the submissions and subscribe to our YouTube Channel. Read about contest details here.
Waves of Service Welcomes New Leaders
Jeff Farley ('99) of Golfers Against Cancer is a leader working to fund cancer research for organizaitons like the Hyundai Cancer Institute at the Children's Hospital of Orange County. Find out more about Golfers Against Cancer.
Katherine Peoples (BS '01), Founder and CEO of HPP Cares, works to strengthen communities by equipping homeowners and potential homeowners with educational tools needed and necessary to acquire and sustain home ownership. Learn more about her amazing work.
Ashley Murphy (MBA '10), business development manager/elearning content solutions at American Heart Association, works to gain support for the Heart Healthy Elementary School Garden Program and the LA Heart Walk.
EVENTS
Waves of Service at Waves Weekend
October 15, 2011
Malibu Campus
Waves of Service Village: Meet your local Waves of Service Leaders before the Colbie Caillat concert. Find out more about their nonprofit organizations and how you can get involved in internships and volunteer opportunities.
The 2nd Annual George Pepperdine and Seaver College Waves of Service Award will be presented at the Waves Weekend Concert to alumnus David Brinkman (MBA '02) who will be recognized for his outstanding work as CEO of Desert AIDS Project in the Coahcella Valley in California. More...
Walk to End Epilepsy
October 16, 2011
Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA
Join fellow Wave Jennifer Errande (MBA '10) and the Epilepsy Foundation of LA in walking to end this disease. To learn more and register, visit the website.
Become a Waves of Service Fan
Become a fan! Post an invitation to serve or your favorite story of alumni service through a career or volunteerism. Find a Waves of Service leader to volunteer with, find volunteers for your service projects, and record your service hours on Pepperdine Alumni Network (PAN) Online through the Serve with Waves tab.
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Secretary's Remarks: Honoring Participants of African Women's Entrepreneurship ProgramMonday, October 3, 2011 2:51 PMFrom: "U.S. Department of State" [usstatebpa@subscriptions.fcg.gov]View contact detailsTo: tojulei@yahoo.comSecretary's Remarks: Honoring Participants of African Women's Entrepreneurship Program
Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:26:40 -0500
Honoring Participants of African Women's Entrepreneurship Program
Remarks
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of StateBenjamin Franklin Room
Washington, DC
October 3, 2011
Thank you. I�m proud to have another beautiful daughter. (Applause.) Thank you so very much. And I told Sylvia I am very proud to have another daughter known as AWEP. (Laughter.) And I am thrilled to see all of you here. It is for me a great honor to host you. I am especially delighted that Sylvia could introduce me. She has really embodied the spirit of AWEP and gone so far in reaching out to others to help them.
I want to thank and welcome all our private and public sector partners, the members of the African diplomatic corps who are here, and especially the 40 very special women who are participating in our second AWEP International Visitor Leadership Program. And as they say in southern Africa, all protocol observed.
You are here because this Administration is committed to creating opportunities for you, because we understand something that the rest of the world is only beginning to understand. And that is that women hold the key to economic growth in Africa � (applause) � just as they hold the key to economic growth around the world. I feel very personally connected to this because I have seen what it can mean in the lives of women and families and communities.
Last year, I met with the first AWEP class during their two-week program here when they met with American policy makers and business leaders, the very same program that you are participating in now. And then I was very pleased to be able to follow their stories. I remember one woman from Liberia with her own seed money set up a business incubator that now works with more than 300 Liberian women successfully enlisting the government�s support to help her fellow countrywomen start their own businesses.
Another woman from Senegal brought agribusiness leaders to Washington, where they learned about how to create public-private partnerships and identified funding sources here in the United States from the Department of Commerce. And another, a woman from Tanzania, built a network of 1,000 business women and set up a trade deal to have her own textile designs and fabrics hanging from the racks of one of our largest department stores, Macy�s, around the United States.
Now, there are many stories like that. These are just three of the success stories that we know of. But I especially was delighted when I did attend the African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum in Zambia, and I saw what Sylvia had done. Not only did she recruit women from every province and sector in Zambia to form the very first AWEP chapter in Africa; she raised private funds for a three-day business conference and hosted it herself. You know that old saying, �If you want something done, ask a busy woman to do it.�
And so when I walked into the conference hall, I had the chance to see some of the work that members of the AWEP chapter were doing. I saw display tables that had handicrafts and minerals and agricultural items on every surface. From the tables to the walls, you could see the bright yellow kitenge that was hanging everywhere that women had made and had the AWEP logo on it. And they were wearing it as well and gave me one to wear. And they sang, which I loved, because I can�t sing but I love to hear other people who are singing.
And the room, this large room, was filled with their voices, and it was a very happy occasion to celebrate what these women were doing for themselves and for their families, but also for their communities, and indeed, their country. The AWEP women were very prominent at the AGOA Forum, and suddenly, you had senior officials from all over Africa � all of whom were men, by the way � talking about the role that women entrepreneurs could play. And the Government of Zambia committed to create a business incubator for women entrepreneurs. And I�m delighted that that was followed up with in other chapters, as Sylvia just told us.
And so today, I am here to really not only thank you, but to encourage you � to encourage you to keep making the contacts, building the networks, making the changes that will really revolutionize what women are doing around the world. And I know that there are many here who are very determined and very committed but still face obstacles. So I wanted also to tell you, do not despair. You have many friends and supporters back here in the United States. And we will try to help you break down the barriers and the hurdles that you encounter. You heard Sylvia say that there needed to be support for women to travel those great long distances across Africa, to meet with one another, to share ideas, to start businesses. And we will do our best to help you make the difference in your own lives.
And we also will keep telling leaders around the world, as I did at a conference just a few weeks ago about Asia, that the rise of women in economies over the past 10 years has increased globally the GDP to the equivalent of China�s. Now what that means is if women are empowered to work, to build businesses, to have access to credit, to have an ownership interest in the land that they farm and the crops that they harvest, to be given a chance to compete, as Sylvia said, we know that women will make a huge contribution. So we have to break down the barriers that still exist. We have to change the laws that still hold women back. We have to not only encourage you, but encourage the governments and businesses of Africa to recognize a good thing, which is your empowerment and entrepreneurial skills.
There are still some people I encounter who say, �Well, women don�t contribute much to the economy,� because of course, they don�t count the backbreaking work that women do every single day. And I�m always a little disappointed and quite surprised when I hear that, and I say to these male economists and government leaders, �Look out the window of your car, of your house, of your office. Who is doing a lot of the work in Africa? And who is doing work that is not fairly compensated? And what can you do to unleash that potential so that your GDP grows, your economy gets bigger, you will benefit from this kind of investment?�
So we have faith in you, and we have faith in Africa, but we think Africa will grow more sustainably if women are full partners in that growth. So we intend to do everything we can to work with you. This is something I care deeply about, personally, and certainly on behalf of President Obama and our Administration and the State Department and all of our government agencies, we are committed to. So you have to be engaged in helping us know how best to help you, because, at the end of the day, we want you to succeed and we know your success will breed many more successes, and there will be young men and women who will have a better future because of what you do � because of the jobs you create, the businesses you start, the growth you inspire, and the results that will benefit the entire world.
So thank you, and let me keep hearing your stories and your songs. And let me again welcome you and wish you the very best, this year and for all the years to come. Thank you. (Applause.)
PRN: 2011/1660

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