December Slugs and Steins with Richard Mahon (Cowell ’78)
Interactive Reflection on our Collective Memories: 60 Years of UCSC
For this month’s Slugs & Steins, we will close out the year and say goodbye to the first quarter of the 21st century with UCSC alumnus Richard Mahon. Richard will guide us in reflecting on UCSC after 60 years and on our collective time attending the university.
Whether you graduated as part of the pioneer class or only in the past few years, this month’s Slugs and Steins will ask you to look at how your experience studying at UC Santa Cruz helped shape and mold your life. Richard will share his perspectives about the experiences of UCSC students from both his time there as a student and instructor, and as a parent of a UCSC graduate. He will incorporate lessons from an English composition class he is currently teaching at Allan Hancock College, a California community college in Santa Maria, which looks at how family and education are crucial determinants of a person’s life. Richard will invite alumni to share what UCSC has meant to them, and to reflect on what alumni can do to keep the promise of a transformative UC education for young people coming of age in California today. Please be prepared to share your thoughts and experiences if you wish.