The QC, Vol. 93, No. 15 • February 8, 2007

              The Voice of Whittier,College Since 1914
Thursday, February 8 . 2007
Issue 15-Volume 93
REBECCA DEITCH / QC PHOTO EDITOR
This Broadoaks student is one of the 300 enrolled at the school who are seen playing everyday around the Whittier College campus. Broadoaks celebrates 100 years of teaching
children during a four-day conference starting on Thursday, Feb. 15 to Sunday, Feb. 18.
New VP of Advancement
to begin position March 12
Esther Chan
QC News Asst. Editor
Although the new Vice President of Advancement Elizabeth
Power Robison will begin her
position on Monday, March 12, she
explains that she is
focused on increasing the contribution to the Whittier
Fund.  The former
Vice President of
Advancement Bedford Mcintosh left
Whittier to assume
a vice presidency at
Loyola Marymount
University, his last
day was Monday
Jan. 1.
Mcintosh left the institution after securing more than $5,000,000
of the renovation for the Campus
Center and successfully completed
Foundation Center for Library and
Information Resources and Information Resources. Mcintosh was
unavailable for comment.
According to Vice President
for Academic Affairs and Dean
of Faculty Susan Gotsch, Robison
was her top choice out of all the
/faf|/? of these institutions has its own culture and
spim but one thing is consistent, a commitment
to the value of a liberal arts education. Whittier's
small student body size, its dedicated faculty who
believe in the potential of each student, and its
loyal alumni help define the College."
has good ideas and quickly gets to
the heart of the matter."
Robison said, "I am privileged
to have the opportunity to join
President Herzberger as a member of the senior administration
with the responsibility to lead the
College's advancement program.
Dr.  Herzberger
Elizbeth Power Robison
Vice President of Advancement
the fundraising for the Rose Hills •
candidates. "I think she will be
wonderful for the College," she
said. "She is already thinking ahead
and working closely with several
members of the Senior Staff. She
has set an ambitious agenda for
the College and
I look forward
to working with
all of my colleagues to help
her advance the
institution."
According
to Robison, her
immediate goal
is to increase the
number of alumni who contribute
to the Whittier Fund each year
and encourage alumni engagement
see ADVANCEMNET, page 4
QC@WHITTIER.EDU
Broadoaks to
celebrate 100
year anniversary
Justin Velasco
QC News Editor
In 1906, Miss Ada Brooks, a
public school teacher in Pasadena,
took in an abandoned child about
to be orphaned. Within three years
Brooks and her sister, Miss Imelda
Brooks, took in five other children
otherwise homeless and decided
to build a home for their new
"family" on La Loma Road near
a seven-branched live oak.
but they all said yes, so we needed
to do something a bit bigger,"
Wagner said.
Wagner makes note that the
events that would interest the
general public would be the personal childhood recollections of
Katz who survived World War II
living in London, and Mass about
being a Japanese-American child
incarcerated in the American
concentration camps.
The Broadoaks Children's
School of Whittier College works
as an academic program that
serves about one fourth of Whittier College students.  Students
We start with what children can do as the launching pad and then you find their passion. Our job is
to find ways to capitalize on what they are already
interested in."
Judith Wagner
Professor of Child Development and Education
and Director of The Broadoaks Children's
School of Whittier College
This was the birth of the
Broadoaks Elementary School that
has in the past 100 years grown to
about 300 students and was moved
to the Whittier College campus
in 1944. From Thursday, Feb. 15
to Sunday Feb. 18, Broadoaks
will be celebrating their 100th
anniversary with a four-day conference consisting of presentations, fireside chats and thematic
group discussions about equity
and social justice for children.
Prestigious scholars in childhood
development such as Amy Mass,
Rebecca Bigler, Patrice Engle,
Sandra Graham, Lilian Katz, Jean
Phinney and Claude Steele will
be giving speeches and personal
accounts.
According to Professor of
Child Deveopment and Education
and Director of The Broadoaks
Children's School of Whittier
College Dr. Judith Wagner, the
four-day event is not just a celebration but also an academic
experience for the College. When
planning the event, Wagner didn't
expect it to turn into a conference.
"I emailed six of the [speakers]
thinking one of them would come,
from a wide variety of majors
spend their time with the children at Broadoaks studying their
development, learning processes
and psychology. Last year over
367 students from 32 classes
clocked over 8,200 hours working at Broadoaks. "We exist on
campus as a learning laboratory,"
Wagner said.
The elementary school also
has a faculty student research
team that will be presenting their
work "Age and Ethnicity as Factors in Children's Identification
of Strangers, Dangerous Strangers
and Stay-safe Strategies" during a
poster presentation in the Shannon
Center lobby on Friday, Feb. 16
at 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
As an elementary school,
Wagner says Broadoaks practices
a "take them as they come" policy
to acquiring students. Over 70
percent of the student body comes
from ethnic minority families, and
some have learning disabilities.
Wagner explains that Broadoaks
uses a strength development based
approach to learning. "We start
see BROADOAKS, page 4
CRIBS
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ROMANCE MOVIES
Check out our picks for romantic
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Terminator.
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