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From the General Manager & COO
Dear Members,
As one more rather unpredictable year comes to a
close, it is time to reflect on the past months and
look forward with hope that we will soon be back to
some semblance of normal and the reopening of our
beloved Faculty Club.
As we get closer to our reopening in March, we
are excited about the next evolution of the much
needed and long overdue modernization of our
mid-century structure. As we try to maximize this
opportunity to improve many areas across the club
and tackle unforeseen challenges with our own
funds, donations are key to reaching our goals.
You will be hearing about our fundraising efforts
in our end of year appeal. I eagerly await the
opportunity to greet you again and see everyone
enjoying the Faculty Club. Recommend a member,
and when they sign up, lunch is on us. Please follow
us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
I wish you all a safe and peaceful holiday season
and a very happy new year! See you soon!
—Luciano Sautto
COO & General Manager
UCLA Faculty Club
Message from the President
Looking forward to 2022
T he clock is ticking, seemingly
faster and faster…and we
are less than 30 days from 2022.
Election Committee, chaired by President-Elect Caroline
Streeter, is ready to get started. First order of business
will be solicitation of nominations from YOU. During the
The Board of Governors (BOG) holidays, when you are away from your work and teach-
had hoped to cancel its regular ing, it’s a good time to think of your colleagues in a dif-
monthly meetings in December ferent light. Consider who might be both able and inter-
so that everyone can direct their ested in taking on the Faculty Club leadership and watch
attention to a bit of R&R and for the call for nominations via email and future issues of
celebration with friends and families. the newsletter. You can also take the initiative to contact
Caroline Streeter by email and share any nominations
No such luck, as developments at the Faculty Club seem you have in mind, including self-nomination.
to be gaining momentum. Thanks to some generous
members and friends, the fundraising efforts continue And please do not forget the skeleton staff, who have
to be encouraging, which also means that the BOG been keeping the Club going, assuring the construction
needs to ensure that the funds go toward what the meets our needs and standards, assuring the new com-
donors intended, balanced with the needs of the Club. puter system is working, helping all of us to use the new
If you have not given, please do so by simply going to system, now recalling and hiring staff, as well as train-
facultyclub.ucla.edu and clicking on DONATE. Any ing them with many new systems, and on and on. They
amount will be welcome, as we need to replenish all the have been the unsung worker bees, holding the Club’s
supplies which we typically have taken for granted but operations together, working through COVID-19, the
are essential to the Club’s operation. Please refer to the campus shutdown, construction, and adjusting to a con-
list on page 4 of this issue. stantly changing environment with many uncertainties.
Please join me in thanking them for “hanging in with the
On another front, you may wonder what happened Club” so that we can enjoy it once it reopens. They are:
to the General Membership meeting scheduled for ☞ Luciano Sautto, General Manager and COO
December 10th. Well, with December 10 being the last ☞ Amadeo P Manuel, Fiscal Officer
day of Fall Quarter and with the uptick of COVID-19 ☞ Jill Perry, Fiscal and Operation Associate
variants, we decided it was not a good day for cele- ☞ Elizabeth Gilmour, Marketing Communications and
bration, not even by Zoom. So we have deferred it to Graphic Design
early 2022, when we will hopefully be in a more cele- ☞ Amal Silva, Catering Sales Coordinator
bratory mood. We also hope that we can show you some ☞ Jasmine Dade, Catering Sales Coordinator
pictures of the rooms, which will be not only finished, ☞ Ramon Duarte, Food Services Supervisor
but cleaned, so you can get a taste of what you will be
enjoying starting March 7th. To close out 2021, and on behalf of the Faculty Club, I
wish all of you a joyful holiday season, enjoy but be safe,
Please mark the date for the General Membership and consider PUTTING A BOW ON THE FACULTY CLUB.
Meeting for Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 4:30 pm,
which will hopefully be the last on Zoom. Wishing you a productive and healthy new year,
It seems like only yesterday that the Club held its annu- —Jane Permaul, President
al election for BOG members, but preparations for the UCLA Faculty Center Association,
election will begin next month. The Nominations and DBA UCLA Faculty Club
2 Faculty Club News—December 2021 edition
Thank you for your support!
Thank you for your loyalty as we enter the home Modernization Fund
stretch of our renovation project. We can’t wait to
see you in March 2022 when we reopen. Meanwhile, $1,000–$2,000 range
your year-end gift in support of the Club would be Jane S. Permaul
appreciated this year more than ever.
$100–$500 range
With best wishes for the Holidays from all of us at Albert Edward Benjamin, Jr.
the Faculty Club. Christopher T. Bradford
Eva S. & W. Gilbert Clark
Bruce and Maria Runnegar
General Support Fund
$1,000–$2,000 range
Jane S. Permaul
$100–$500 range
Eva S. & W. Gilbert Clark
Your gift can make a difference!
T he Faculty Club greatly benefits from the generosity of its members, friends, and donors. We are so
thankful for your loyalty and support, which ensure the continued existence of our storied Club, a fixture
on campus for the past 60 years. Were you thinking of making a donation, but were looking for a way to make
a tangible impact on your Club? Our building will be in fine form upon our long-awaited return to operations,
but we will still be in need of upgrading our kitchen, dining, and office equipment. Would you like to help us?
In addition to naming opportunities, or donations to the Modernization or General Support Fund, you can make
an in-kind gift of a specific item, which management will purchase on your behalf for the Club. Should you wish
to make an in-kind gift or wish to propose your donation ideas, please consult this list and contact our Fundraising
Committee at club@fc.ucla.edu, with “Attention: Fundraising Committee” in the subject line.
In gratitude for your continued support, and with best wishes for a wonderful holiday season,
—The Faculty Club Fundraising Committee
Kitchen, dining, and office equipment needs
Items Estimated Cost
Two walk-in refrigerators $50,000
Four ovens $25,000
Walk-in freezer $25,000
Patio heaters (hard-wired) $25,000
Combi oven or new steamer $15,000
Cutlery for Coral Grill (starter fork and knife, dessert/soup spoon, B&B knife, etc.) $10,000–$15,000
Assorted flatware (oyster forks, steak knives, fish knives, etc.) $10,000–$15,000
China for à la carte menu items $10,000–$15,000
Glasses for bar and wine $10,000–$15,000
West patio tables and chairs $10,000
Patio umbrellas $10,000
Uniforms (aprons, vests, suits, etc.) $5,000–$10,000
Under-counter beverage refrigerator for Coral Grill $5,000
Fire pit $5,000
Ten “speed racks” (kitchen racks to hold sheet pans in a vertical stack for transport) $2,500
Metric shelving $2,500
MacBook Pro laptop $1,500
Name tags $1,000
4 Faculty Club News—December 2021 edition
Message from the Past President
Mid-Century Modern Meets Mid-Covid Modern
Dear Members and Friends, At the Faculty Club, we have plenty of outdoor rooms.
Indeed, every public space in the building has an adjacent
When mid-century modern archi- patio and green space. This will serve us well as we con-
tects like Edward Fickett (one of tinue to grapple with the coronavirus.
the designers of the UCLA Faculty
Club), Richard Neutra, and Quincy Even before the campus closure in March 2020, on warm
Jones popularized an indoor-out- days, no matter the season, our members loved to take
door aesthetic, little did they know their food trays out to the main patio and to eat and chat
that several decades later the world there. Fortuitously, our current construction project, by
would face a pandemic during which outdoor dining removing the patio’s trellis pillars and creating all-new
would be one of the few safe ways to socialize. concrete paving, has increased its inviting spaciousness.
The photo below indicates this change, and, if you use
Call it “Mid-Century Modern meets Mid-Covid Modern.” your imagination, you will be able to envision how pret-
ty the space will be with flowering vines twisting them-
“Mid-Covid Modern” is a term that appeared in a recent selves along new guide wires overhead.
New York Times Magazine article about the legacies of
Covid. One takeaway from the article was that restau- So, look forward to March when we reopen and to meet-
rants that have survived the pandemic have done so by ing with your friends and colleagues over a communal
expanding their boundaries — for instance, by moving lunch, beverage, or even for afternoon tea. I look forward
eating areas out onto sidewalks or converting adjacent to seeing you on one of our patios in March!
parking lots into outdoor rooms. Few do this as well as
our Faculty Club. —Julie Kwan
Past President
UCLA Faculty Center Association
New integrally-colored,
acid-washed concrete paving
with a matching concrete
bench, are just a few of the
elements updating the look
of the Garden Patio, situated
between the Main Dining
Room and the Playa Café.
Preparations are underway
to add new landscaping and
attach an overhead wire
trellis, thus providing shade
and greenery to complement
the mid-century modern
esthetic of the Faculty Club.
photo: Victoria Steele
5 Faculty Club News—December 2021 editionMeet the Board
Introducing Kara Cooney
M eet one of the newest Members-at-Large of the
Faculty Club Board of Governors: Kara Cooney,
UCLA Professor and Chair of Near Eastern Languages
and Cultures.
Kara Cooney is a professor of Egyptology at UCLA.
Specializing in social history, gender studies, and econ-
omies in the ancient world, she received her Ph.D. in
Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University. In 2005, she
was co-curator of “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of
the Pharaohs” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Cooney produced a comparative archaeology television
series, titled Out of Egypt, which aired in 2009 on the in Cairo, London, Paris, Turin, Berlin, Brussels, New
Discovery Channel and is available online via YouTube York, Vienna, Florence, and Vatican City.
and Amazon.
Her books Recycling For Death from American University
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Cairo Press and Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging
in Ancient Egypt, Cooney’s first trade book, was released Assumptions, Exploring Approaches from Routledge are
in 2014, and draws on her expert perspective on Egypt’s forthcoming. ❀
ancient history to craft an illuminating biography
of its least well-known female king. Her next trade
book, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
(2018), explores the mechanisms that allowed women
to take the reins of power from time to time, and why it
seemed to happen in ancient Egypt more than in other
civilizations. Her latest book, The Good Kings: Absolute
Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World (2021),
highlights the reigns of five Egyptian pharaohs. Through
the lens of ancient Egypt’s authoritarianism it attempts
to understand why so often throughout history the
many have so often given up power to the few and what
that might mean for our own time, when democracies
around the world are being threatened.
Cooney’s current research in coffin reuse, primarily
focusing on the Bronze Age collapse during Egypt’s 20th
and 21st dynasties, is ongoing. Her research provides
an up-close look at the socioeconomic and political
turmoil that affected even funerary and burial practices
in ancient Egypt. This project has taken her around the
world over the span of 10 years to study and document
nearly 300 coffins in various collections, including those
6 Faculty Club News—December 2021 editionFrom the Faculty Club Kitchen
Seven Ways to Make Holiday Entertaining Easy
W e’re sure you’ve got all your holiday dinners
covered, and holiday favorites—like phyllo
pastry appetizers, casseroles, and shortbread—are
4. Pile up the pies
Pre-cooked or not, pies freeze really well. If you’ve
already baked them, make sure they are fully cooled,
obvious choices for preparing in advance and storing then place in the freezer for an hour before cover-
in the freezer. But what else can you freeze? Here are ing them in a layer of plastic wrap and a layer of alumi-
seven tips to make your holiday entertaining easier num foil. On dinner-party day, heat them slowly in the
so you can enjoy spending time with your family and oven. If you are serving a meat pie, the procedure for
friends! uncooked meat pies is the same, except that you need to
partially defrost them prior to baking. Add an extra 15 or
1. Serve freshly baked cookies 20 minutes to the initial cooking time.
Want to offer your guests
some cookies right out of 5. Save your cheese
the oven without the extra Firm and semi-firm cheeses
work on the same day? Just keep really well in the freez-
mix the dough in advance er. This means you can keep
and cut or press the cook- an eye on sales and stock up
ies into the desired shape. before the holidays. Similarly,
Freeze individually on a bak- if you have some left over
ing sheet and, once frozen, from a dinner party, just pop
store them in a freezer bag. On the day of your get-to- it in the freezer!
gether, put them straight in the oven and bake for a min-
ute or two longer than usual. 6. Stock up on fresh garlic and ginger
Freeze your unpeeled garlic and ginger and they’ll stay
2. Prepare your pie crusts fresh longer. You can even peel and chop them when
Prepare the dough and roll it out into two circles mea- they’re still frozen. That’s a handy time-saver!
suring about 9–10 inches across, then cover them in
plastic wrap before freezing. All you’ll have left to do is 7. Prepare for the unexpected
add the filling, press the pieces together, and bake! Are your guests sudden-
ly going to spend the night?
3. Save your leftover tomato paste No problem—especially if
All too often, extra toma- you have some scrumptious
to paste ends up in the gar- crepes or pancakes stashed
bage. Never again! Freeze in the freezer. Let them cool
it in a small plastic contain- and then stack them. Make
er, ice cube tray or even sure you place a piece of wax
in plastic wrap so that the paper between each one. Just
paste can be sliced into por- reheat and enjoy! ❀
tions to suit your needs.
7 Faculty Club News—December 2021 editionCommunity Announcements
Play Readers
Scheduled Play Readings through February on
Zoom—All performances start at 7 pm:
☞ December: No play reading—Happiest of holidays to
everyone!
☞ Thursday, January 13th
He Who Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev
☞ Thursday, February 10th—Poetry Reading
Contact Marjorie Friedlander, friedlander.marjorie@
gmail.com for Zoom invitation. Contact Rochelle
Caballero, rrcab90272@cs.com to be added to email list
or for reading. ❀
UCLA Emeriti and Retiree Association (ERRC) Events
Session I: Navigating the Path toward Retirement
Topics include understanding your rights and privileges
as an emeritus/a professor, negotiating a Pathways to
Retirement agreement that sets out your plans for up to
two years prior to retirement and three years following,
and coordinating your departmental agreement with
UC retirement benefits and other retirement resources.
A representative from UC/Fidelity Services will
discuss financial planning and management in your
retirement years. The formal program will conclude
at approximately 11:30, at which time Q&A will be
available.
☞ Friday, February 18, 2022, 9:30 am
Thai Music Ensemble Click Here to Register
Students in the Music of Thailand Ensemble perform the
distinctive regional music traditions from central, north Session II: The UC Retirement Process & Benefits
(Lanna), and northeast (Isaan) Thailand on a diverse in Retirement
range of instruments including mallet percussion, Topics will include the UC Retirement Plan (UCRP) ben-
bowed, plucked string instruments, and flutes. Students efit payment options; survivor benefits; continuation of
were introduced to Thai musical notation, basic rhyth- health and welfare benefits into retirement; and time-
mic cycles, singing techniques in the Thai language, and lines for completing the retirement process. Registrants
basic dance movements. will be provided with their unique UCRP Retirement
https://youtu.be/EyqDnbNJ5JQ?t=1765 Profiles, based on their own records of UCRS service
☞ Thursday, January 13, 2022, 9:30 am credit.
Click Here to Register ☞ Friday, February 25, 9:30 am
Click Here to Register
8 Faculty Club News—December 2021 editionCommunity Announcements
UCLA Faculty Women's Club
3rd General Meeting Webinar Our two panelists for the afternoon, Dana Perel Katz
UCLA Health’s Operation Mend—Taking Care of Our and Dr. Jo Sornborger, will further detail the scope of
Wounded Warriors this exceptional program.
1:30 pm, Tuesday, January 18, 2022
☞ You will need to register via this link to attend Dana Perel Katz is director
the webinar: https://giving.ucla.edu/Standard/ of Community Engagement
NetDonate.aspx?SiteNum=3877 and Buddy Programs. She
has been involved with
Join us via Zoom to learn how UCLA Health’s Operation Operation Mend since its
Mend provides free comprehensive surgical, medical, inception and continues to
and psychological health care services for post-9/11 era play an active role in its stra-
service members and veterans injured during combat tegic initiatives and devel-
operations or while training for service. opment. Most impact-
fully, Dana oversees the
When founded in 2007, Operation Mend’s focus was to Buddy Program’s 300+ volunteers who are specifical-
engage UCLA’s world-class experts in plastic and recon- ly matched with wounded warriors and their families to
structive surgery to rebuild the faces of service mem- provide social support while they are in Los Angeles for
bers who had suffered highly complex facial traumas. medical care.
Over the years, the program expanded to provide treat-
ment in a variety of clinical areas, including compre- Jo Sornborger, PsyD, is
hensive psychological health care. Operation Mend pro- executive director of opera-
vides the only intensive program in the nation for mild tions and clinical director of
traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and post-traumatic stress the Operation Mend PTSD
disorder (PTSD) that also includes caregivers alongside and TBI Intensive Treatment
their veterans at 100% participation. Program. She provides fam-
ily-centered psychological
Eighty percent of Operation Mend’s patients are from health care and resilience
outside California, but all care takes place at UCLA— training to the service mem-
except during the COVID pandemic when telehealth was bers and oversees the fam-
utilized when necessary. In the 14 years of its existence, ily care management team of social workers across the
Operation Mend has provided more than 12,000 over- program’s specialty areas. Dr. Sornborger has extensive
night hotel stays, booked over 4,500 flights, performed expertise in the development of trauma-focused curricu-
more than 500 surgeries, and scheduled more than la and provides professional training and consultation to
4,000 medical appointments. national, state, and local agencies on Psychological First
Aid (PFA) and other issues related to pre-disaster pre-
paredness and post-disaster interventions.❀
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