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’57 Hal Durian was a UCR charter
student, one of the first 125
students who enrolled in February
1954. After he graduated, Hal
taught history and government for
41 years at Chaffey High School in
Ontario. From 2005 to 2012 he
worked for The Press-Enterprise,
writing weekly columns on history.
Recently, he wrote “True Stories of
Riverside and the Inland Empire,”
a book that highlights the
remarkable stories of Inland
Southern California’s forebearers.
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’64 Gloria Macias is a
newly elected member
of the San Bernardino
Community College
District Board of
Trustees. Prior to that,
she was president of Crafton Hills
College from July 2000 until her
retirement on July 2, 2012. She
was also the vice president of
instruction at Crafton Hills College
for six years and dean of humanities
at San Bernardino Valley
College for three years. Gloria has
more than 20 years of teaching
experience.
’64 Stephen Fry retired as UCLA’s
music librarian with emeritus
status in 2002 after a 30-year
career at UC. While retired, he
wrote a book on the English
country dances published in The
Gentleman’s Magazine (London)
from 1737 to 1757, complete
with music and dance instructions.
He was also a contributor for “The
Grove Dictionary of American
Music” (second edition), for which
he wrote the article “Musical
TAKE FIVE
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Wayne
Scott
B.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE AND
RELIGIOUS STUDIES ‘81
Wayne is the founder
and president of
LifeHouse Theater, a
nonprofit community
theater in Redlands that
puts on original plays
and musicals for more
than 30,000 guests
each year.
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Philately,” which includes a
complete list of music-related
postage stamps issued by the U.S.
Postal Service from 1898 to the
present. He is married to fellow
alumna, Frances Fry ’63 (’69 M.A.).
’66 Michael Kraft is the co-editor
and contributing author of “The
Oxford Handbook of U.S.
Environmental Policy,” released in
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What’s your favorite memory of UCR?
I was very fortunate to have classes with Ron Loveridge,
who later became the mayor of Riverside. His leadership
in the class and his caring attitude meant a lot to me.
Even [though] everyone knew he was brilliant, he remained
extremely down to earth and relatable. He would even go
out of his way to write detailed comments on papers that
we submitted and I really appreciated that individualized
relationship.
Can you name a defining moment in your life?
While working at the state Capitol one summer near UC
Davis, I watched a revival of the movie “Mary Poppins.” I
saw this unique mixture of acting, music and animation,
all combined to tell a story with a potent message, and I
thought, “I want to do something along those lines.” While I
was grateful for my job at the Capitol, there was something
missing. I realized that I needed to release the creative
side dwelling within me. I want to use the arts to influence
people positively. While good government is extremely
important, I feel that the real battle in life is influencing the
hearts and minds of men and women.
What’s the best part about your job?
Maybe it’s the teacher in me, but my greatest joy is seeing
young people discover their hidden talents, something
valuable that they didn’t know they could do, and then
taking that newly attained skill and parlaying it into making
their dreams come true.
What are some of the awards that LifeHouse Theater has won?
We’re a part of the Inland Theatre League and we’ve
received countless wonderful awards from them in almost
all areas of theater, especially in writing and music
composition, but also in costuming, scenic design and
acting. We’ve been really blessed with tremendous
talent here.
What are you most proud of?
I am blessed to be working with people that I’ve seen
transform because of [LifeHouse Theater]. These people,
who were about to – frankly – take their lives and were
going down a path that they may have not have returned
from, discovered that they are valuable and that there is
something they can do. They have been able to make a
complete turnaround and that’s what I’m most proud of, that
I could be used in a small way to help someone else.
Watch an interview with Wayne Scott — and other notable alumni — at MAGAZINE.UCR.EDU
October 2012. The book is a
collection of state-of-the-art
reviews of key topics in U.S.
environmental policy and politics
by more than 40 of the nation’s
leading scholars in the field. It is
intended to summarize scholarship
over the past four decades
and set research goals for new
work in the field.
70s
’72 Juan Ulloa, a Superior Court
judge in Imperial County, is the
recipient of the 2012 Aranda
Access to Justice Award. The
award, named for the founding chair
of the Judicial Council’s Access and
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