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The issue highlights Mridula Susan Koshy ’92 and her debut short-story collection If It Is Sweet, exploring India’s underclass, immigration, and motherhood. It also reports on enrollment pressures at Oxy, introduces the new tenure-track faculty preview, and profiles alumni initiatives ranging from prosthetics innovation to nonprofit and advertising leadership.","BABY  \nDADDY  \nHe birthed E-Trade’s infant pitchman and shepherded Oprah’s Pontiac giveaway: Inside the mad ad world of Tor Myhren ’94  \nOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE MAGAZINE  \nVOLUME 31 , NUMBER 4 FALL 2009  \nD E P A R T M E N T S  \n2 BOO KS H E L F  \nMridula Susan Koshy ’92 climbs the bestseller list in India with her debut collection of short stories. Also: new books by Margot Mifflin ’82 , Randy Jurado Ertll ’95 , professor Gabrielle Foreman , and more.  \n6  \n4 F RO M T H E QUAD  \nAs record numbers of freshmen descend on the Oxy campus, adjustments abound—and admission officers ponder the reasons behind this phenomenon. Also: professor Linda Lyke traces the College’s evolution in 20 tiles, Roger Boesche pays a visit to oneof his former charges done good, and a first look at Oxy’s newest tenure-track faculty.  \n30  \n3 0 T IG E R W I R E  \nOxy’s legendary mascot gets a new lease on life. Also: class notes for even years, and a tribute to John “Marmaduke” Dawson ’67.  \n5 6 CO NVE RSAT IO N  \nRetired Navy rear admiral Marsha Evans ’68 honed her leadership skills as CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA and the American Red Cross. Can she help rescue women’s golf?  \nCover photo by Dennis Drenner. Page 6 photo by Marc Campos.  \nShelley Marks Weathers ’82 photo (page 24) by Lisa Jack ’81.  \nOswald photo (page 30) by Marc Campos.  \nOxy Wear photo by Kevin Burke.  \n24  \nF E A T U R E S  \n10 T R I S KY BUSI N ESS  \nFor the Oxy Class of ’ 13 and their fellow newcomers , there’s nothing to fear on the path to academic glory.  \n14 TU E NT I SO M ET H I NG  \nFour years after sleeping on a buddy’s couch in Los Angeles, Zaryn Dentzel’05 runs Spain’s most popular social network.  \n1 7 CO NSU M MAT E P RO  \nWith compassion for his patients and a passion for precision , prosthetist Stefan Knauss ’88 restores limbs and the human spirit.  \n2 0 TO R D E FO RC E  \nAs VP and chief creative officer of Grey New York , advertising maverick Tor Myhren ’94 harnesses new media to bring messages to full flower.  \n2 4 W H E N W E W E R E YOU NG  \nPhotographer Lisa Jack ’81—whose long-forgotten images of a teenage Barack Obama ’83 became an overnight sensation last winter—goes back to the basement to document her Oxy generation.  \nB O O K S H E L F  \nSweet Sensation  \nOrganizer-turned-author Mridu la Koshy ’92 examines India’s underclass, immigrants, and motherhood’s highs and lows  \nPhoto courtesy Mridula Susan Koshy ’ 92  \nO  \nN HER FACEBOOK PAGE, Mridula Susan Koshy ’92 lists 13 jobs she’shad. They include swap-meet sales  \nclerk , backstage fashion-show dresser, Kentucky Fried Chicken cashier, community organizer, and library “reading fairy.”  \nBut it’s her last job—that of a writer—that has stuck. Koshy completed If It Is Sweet, her debut collection of short stories, earlier this year. She’s a natural at it. Her book hit the Indian bestseller lists inJune and is now in its second printing. If It Is Sweet has also been shortlisted for India’s Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize.  \nIn dense, poetic prose, the collection’s 17 stories illuminate the lives of the underclass in India, the struggles and joys of motherhood , and the inbetween life of the immigrant. The stories’ empathetic portrayals of maids , construction workers , and garbage collec-  \nKoshy at a recent book-signing for If It Is Sweet (Westland Limited; $20) in India.  \ntreatment for local hotel workers. 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