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OUT OF THE PARK LMU HALL OF FAMER BILLY BEAN ’86 HAD A SIX-YEAR BIG LEAGUE CAREER BUT NOW, AS MLB’S AMBASSADOR FOR INCLUSION, HE’S BECOME A REAL GAME-CHANGER. ONLINE Read more from the editor of LMU Magazine and share your thoughts. Go to magazine.lmu.edu/editors-blog. Letter From L.A. Joseph Wakelee-Lynch

Prayer Time The Muslim house of prayer closest to LMU is the King Fahad Mosque — about 5 miles away, 20 minutes by car. Drive north on Lincoln, turn right on W. Washington until you get to the intersection with Huron Ave. You can’t miss the mosque. With a towering 72-foot-high minaret, it stands out. But the intersection could be found in any U.S. city, large or small: Across the street is a 7-Eleven, a Christian Assembly church and a gun shop. A block away are the NFL Network offices. This fall, Muslim students at LMU re- quested campus space to hold communal prayer each Friday. Their request was wel- comed by the university, and they now meet in the Marymount Institute for Faith, Cul- ture, and the Arts, in University Hall. It’s a great boon to them and several Muslim staff members, who would find it difficult to get to the mosque for prayer and back in time for class or work. During the current electoral season, Mus- lim Americans have been labeled suspicious and untrustworthy by some U.S. political leaders. They are judged as a group by many Americans as well because of the actions of extremists — terrorists, Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State — who claim to share their Islamic faith. “As the national conversation around Islam grows increasingly fraught, coarse and driven by fear and often willful misinformation, the Catholic Church must help to model real dialogue and goodwill,” said Bishop Mitchell Rozanski, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Ecumeni- cal and Interreligous Affairs. To respond, the bishops in February launched a national dialogue with U.S. Muslims, with Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago as its co-chair. Fear, suspicion and willful misinformation were the order of the day during World War II, when Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated to concentration camps under U.S. internment policy. Decades later, it was Japa- nese Americans who reached out to Muslim Americans after the events of 9/11. Today, an annual April pilgrimage to California’s Manzanar National Historic Site is joined by Muslims from Southern California. Although following Lincoln and Wash- ington is a quick path to the King Fahad Women await the call to Mosque, another way to get there is to take prayer at the Women’s Culver Blvd. to Braddock Dr. — passing the Mosque of America in Venice Japanese Community Center — to downtown Los Angeles. Huron Ave. That will take a little more time, but it’s probably worth stopping at the VJCC on your way to the mosque.

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1...... Letter From L.A. Message From the U.N...... The distance separating U.N. Secretary-General the West and Islam may Ban Ki-moon stressed the seem an unbridgeable need to help the world’s chasm, but the nearest vulnerable and excluded mosque to LMU is minutes peoples, and urged stu- away in Culver City. dents to dedicate them- Go meet your friends selves to service to others and neighbors.

4...... Dear LMU De Colores testimonies; voices from the choruses sing the praises of the late LMU maestro Paul Salamunovich; a voting rights advocate from Virginia discusses the right to cast a ballot and legislation that restricts it; why we should care that Mexico’s problems are America’s problems. when he was awarded an 6...... LMU(news) Honorary Doctorate of News — President Clinton Humane Letters. Watch gives the commencement our video of his visit. address; Traditions — find out which LMU team plays for the Doherty Cup; Station Chief ...... Conversation — the traf- Malcom Dicks ’94 captains ficking journey often ends Los Angeles County Fire in California; MyLA — walk Station No. 125, in Calaba- a few blocks and escape sas, California. He got his to the quiet of the Venice start as a paramedic. But Canals; Conversation — 20 years ago, the advice why Hawaii really is afraid of an LMU alumnus, who of snakes in planes. was his captain at the time, convinced him to try for more and become a fire- BACK FEATURE STORIES ONLINE WEB EXCLUSIVES fighter/paramedic. Watch our video and learn why 40...... LMU(sports) Dicks loves his job. Is women’s water polo 16...... Imagined L.A. Home at Last ...... rougher and, yes, dirtier Can the City of Angels be imagined as home to our better selves? Billy Bean, LMU hall of famer who captained the 1986 baseball than men’s water polo? team to the College World Series, came out as gay in 1999. Bean Field Lessons ...... A former player once said 18...... Muslim USA says it was a long, painful and confusing journey. In 2014, Major LMU’s Alternative Breaks yes, because there’s more and Ignacio Compan- Muslims at LMU describe their faith, image and country. League Baseball named him Ambassador for Inclusion, ask- material to grab. Teammates ions programs take Erin Byrne and Eleanor ing him to lead efforts to make baseball a more accepting sport. students into the field Lee explain why. 26...... Fair Game Bean tells his story in our video. for hands-on experience Billy Bean, who led LMU baseball to the 1986 College World and firsthand learning 42...... LMU(alumni) Series, now leads baseball’s efforts toward inclusiveness. The Food Tour ...... everywhere from Jamaica Favorites — food blogger Los Angeles has more nationalities and ethnic groups than and Chile to Oakland Garrett Snyder ’09 picks and Appalachia. Read ...... This Is Indian Country the United Nations, and its food is just as diverse. L.A.’s best street foods; Chat 28 students’ reflections on — Bo Hamby ’16, art history Los Angeles, believe it or not, is a Native American center. Garrett Snyder ’09, food editor for the LA Weekly who also what they’ve discovered major, is asking, “Travel now, ran the food blog for Los Angeles Magazine, gives us a tour of about themselves as or get to work?” 32...... Crossroads some of his favorite street foods. well as the places Lynell George ’84 finds that the artist’s imagination and ability they’ve visited...... My Take 52 to adapt can get you through a career crisis. Commencement With President 42 ...... Amy Orr Morris-Young ’84 wonders whether it’s our When President Bill Clinton gave the 2016 commencement DNA or the community 36...... The Duke address, students heard the advice of one of five people in the surrounding us that Don Klosterman ’52, former Rams’ exec., was an NFL icon; no world who hold or have held the job of president of the United ON THE COVERS shapes us more. one would be happier with pro football’s return to Los Angeles. States of America. Watch our video to learn what he had to say. Photographs by Jon Rou

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Heritage Pilgrimage to Tijuana Dear LMU From Our Readers MAGAZINE

beautiful look of policies have had lmu.edu). I am one Confederacy and for the Civil Rights Act, important only to the EDITOR gratitude I have ever negative conse- of those non-music massive resistance which was the relief extent that citizens Joseph Wakelee-Lynch seen in my life. quences on people majors privileged to school integration suggested by the vote. Unfortunately, ART DIRECTOR This trip was life- living south of our to work with him and its 32-year delay Supreme Court. young people are the Maureen Pacino ’93 Mother Teresa’s Pews changing in one addi- border. during my LMU col- in ratifying the 19th Several of the demographic least Terry Mock ’70 PHOTOGRAPHER A Student Workers assignment — deliver some unneeded chapel tional way for me. As lege experience. His Amendment provid- milestones Profes- likely to turn out to Jon Rou we approached the Redlands, California authority — loving, ing women with sor Shortell men- vote. I hope that the pews to a convent in Tijuana — led to a meeting with Mother Teresa. international border, stern, wise, talented, the right to vote — tions are individual university is using all DIGITAL AND DESIGN I saw the gleaming SALAMUNOVICH experienced, exact- among other things. state acts, such of its resources to SPECIALIST buildings and wealth I had the privilege ing, grateful — is Thus, I would have as vote-by-mail help LMU students Lesley Wheeler of San Diego in a of singing in the something that very assigned much more and automatic understand that VIDEO PRODUCTION DE COLORES new light. I saw the Los Angeles Master few teachers have importance, in its voter registration, the future of our MANAGER I read with delight disparity between Chorale for the shared so fully, so adverse effects, to which are unlikely democracy depends Yoshikazu Ysa about the 30th anni- poverty and wealth [1994] premiere of richly, to bring their the Shelby decision to be adopted by on them and their DESIGN versary of De Colores divided by that fence “O Magnum Myste- subject matter to that effectively ended many states unless cohorts — and Pentagram Design (“Traditions,” Winter and thought, “God rium.” My favorite life. He was amaz- the preclearance required by federal VOTE. Austin, Texas 2015). It had a prede- hates this.” I became memory is of the ing. Thanks for your provisions of the Vot- legislation. His list Therese Bruneau COPY EDITOR cessor. an internationalist on article. ing Rights Act. It was included automatic Martin ’58 Janis Rizzuto In 1966, Dave the spot. Christa Forster ’89 amazing but predict- voter registration Reston, Virginia Plotner ’67 was a pre- Plotner, a success- Houston, Texas able to watch states PHOTO INTERNS Chris Delgado ’16 med student, and he ful ophthalmologist in rush to roll out their Steven Douglas ’16 started “TJ 66 .” He San Diego County, still What a wonderful legislation designed Corey Hambly ’18 placed a bin outside flies a medical team tribute to an amazing to restrict the right to Bo Hamby ’16 of the student union into Mexico every year mentor (“I Learned vote upon issuance Dillen Lao ’18 into which students to provide eye care This From Paul” )! of the decision. Some DIGITAL MEDIA MANAGER placed canned food, to the multitudes of Thank you! of the new laws are Taylor Polk ’10 clothing and toys. impoverished people Anne Dawson now beginning to go When enough material EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, there. So this was Hermosa Beach, through the courts. MARKETING AND was collected to fill a groundwork laid for California Virginia was able to COMMUNICATIONS medium-size truck, De Colores. And LMU postpone the sub- John Kiralla ’98 a couple dozen of continues to instill its first rehearsal. We I am forever thankful mission for Depart- us brought the truck SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, graduates with a all knew that this for the experience ment of Justice UNIVERSITY RELATIONS to an orphanage in profound commit- would be a unique I had to sing with approval of its voter Dennis Slon Tijuana. The nuns who ment to service. and cherished Paul at LMU and St. photo ID legisla- operated the orphan- Brent Poirier ’69 experience from Charles Borromeo tion until the Shelby under “New Motor DRONE’S EYE VIEW PRESIDENT age lacked even a Eliot, Maine the first note. It and for the incredi- decision was issued, Voter Act” (Califor- I want to thank you Timothy Law Snyder, Ph.D. can opener to open felt as if we had ble relationships that making its submis- nia and Oregon), but for the “Drone Tour LMU Magazine is printed by Color- the canned goods been invited into a being in the choir led sion moot. As voter didn’t mention the of the LMU Campus” Graphics, a Cenveo Company, which is accredited by the Forest Stewardship we brought. They sanctuary to experi- to (“I Learned This advocacy coordina- original “Motor Voter (online at magazine. Council as an FSC-certified supplier. FSC accepted half of the ence a moment From Paul” ). Hurray tor for the Virginia Act” — the National lmu.edu). It is very certification indicates that the paper and material and told us of transcendence for Paul … hurray at League of Women Voter Registration impressive, although processes used come from forests man- In December 1991, the late Fernando More- From left, Chad Wachter ’92, Mary Keenan ’92, aged in an environmentally and socially Joe Asher ’94 and Matt Leonard ’92 met Mother to take the rest to the beyond our imagi- last … (and if you Voters, I was check- Act of 1993 that I did miss pictures of responsible manner. no, who was director of Campus Ministry, Teresa when they delivered pews to her nuns in people living in the nations. I will be know the rest of ing with the DOJ daily opened up the voter the Air Force Quon- Send correspondence to Editor, LMU tipped off then-senior Mary Keenan about Tijuana in 1992. Tijuana Dump — “The forever grateful to this, please sing it to — and I was sitting registration pro- set huts. Sentimen- Magazine, Loyola Marymount University, an opportunity she’d remember all her life. 1 LMU Drive, Suite 2800, Los Angeles, CA people who really Morten Lauridsen yourself now quietly at a State Board of cess nationally. In tal, I guess. :-) 90045-2659. Fax: 310.338.3022. Email: Keenan was in charge of the LMU De the pews, the students asked the sisters if need it,” they said. (“Remembering with no children Elections meeting Virginia, this meant Bill Crapo ’54 [email protected]. Online: magazine. It was hard to lmu.edu. Submission of stories, photo- Colores program, which took students to they could help in other ways. “They said Salamunovich,” by present). when the decision that eligible voters Nevada City, graphs, illustrations, letters to the editor or build homes in Tijuana and visit an orphan- no,” Leonard remembers, “but then they believe that any- Morten Lauridsen, Ray Watts ’93 came through all the could register at California other materials with a Loyola Marymount one needed these JOURNEY SOUTH Winter 2015) and Redlands, California smartphones, result- the DMV and other connection are welcome. They will be age run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries asked, ‘How would you like to meet Moth- CORRECTION returned if you include a self-addressed, of Charity. Moreno knew the program and er Teresa?’ ” Keenan hadn’t told the others materials more than Professor Martínez’s Paul himself for the ing in both smiles and public agencies stamped envelope. orphans did — but article (“Journey ineffable gift of their VOTING RIGHTS frowns. Congress has and by mail rather The Winter 2015 the sisters well, and he told Keenan that about her visit, but Leonard noticed that LMU Magazine circulation: 68,000+. the nuns were right. South,” Winter 2015) combined artistry. While I would agree yet to hold hearings than only in person column “Letter pews left over from a Sacred Heart Chapel she had brought her camera with her. Scores of families was shocking, chill- Larry Minton ’77 with Christopher on the legislation at voter registra- From L.A.” incor- LMU Magazine, Volume 6, Number 2, renovation could be put to use in the sisters’ Leonard calls the meeting a humbling lived their lives in ing and informative. Fullerton, California Shortell (“Top Ten: proposed to amend tion offices. This rectly implied that Summer 2016 chapel. Student Workers could supply and experience. that dump. None Americans’ demand Voting Rights,” measure increased all provinces of the LMU Magazine is produced by LMU Marketing and Communications and drive a truck, he promised. “But he told me “Mother Teresa was tiny and very frail,” of us had seen for illicit drugs has I cannot begin to Winter 2015) in his voter registration Society of Jesus published biannually by Loyola Marymount I needed to go, too,” Keenan remembers. Leonard recalls. “I was 21, 6-foot-1, 205 anything like it — financed drug wars enumerate how choice of most of rates significantly allow Jesuit novices University, 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659. Standard mail postage paid at “Fernando knew Mother Teresa was visit- pounds, and in perfect health. I was stand- people living in costing thousands of much Paul Salamu- the milestones in and enabled groups to choose their vow Los Angeles, California. POSTMASTER: Send ing her nuns.” ing over a person who had accomplished so cardboard houses, lives. With so much novich’s mentor- U.S. voting rights like the League of crucifix from those address changes to LMU Magazine, Loyola collecting drinking attention being given ship continues history, I recalled the Women Voters to that belonged to Marymount University, 1 LMU Drive, Suite During Christmas break, Keenan, Joe much with so little. She had given the world 2800, Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659. water in cast-off to events in the to enrich my life old adage that what organize voter regis- deceased Jesuits. Asher ’94, Matt Leonard ’92 and Chad everything she had, including her health. chemical barrels. Middle East, we must almost 30 years one says depends tration drives. A list While the Oregon Loyola Marymount University Wachter ’92 loaded 20 pews into a U-Haul Not many people can say that they have does not discriminate on the basis of race, As I handed a bag be cognizant of what later (“I Learned on where one sits. such as this could be province does so, not color, national origin, gender, physical truck and set off. been blessed by a saint.” of food to a mother is happening south This From Paul,” Well, I sit in Virginia, called “Democracy’s all provinces neces- ability, religious preference or age. The convent was a simple cinder-block On Sept. 4, 2016, Mother Teresa will be who lived there, she of our border, too. by Mary C. Breden, known historically Documents” but sarily do the same.— building, Leonard recalls. After unloading canonized by Pope Francis in Rome. gave me the most American economic online at magazine. as the capital of the will continue to be The Editor

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(news) BIOGRAPHY Voters and candidates make surprising 1977 – Droughts Hurt LMU decisions that only begin to make sense Incumbents in India when we understand that our choices are The ruling Congress party lost often rooted in psychological biases. And power for the first time since India’s beyond the decisions that political actors independence in 1947. My research make, random events often occur and with economists Shawn Cole and Eric THE CHARGE help determine whom we elect. The most Werker at Harvard Business School predictable part of our elections is that showed that across that and many LMU’s graduation President Clinton to Graduates: the unpredictable will happen. other elections, incumbent politi- weekend, held May cians lost many votes when droughts 6–8, began with Com- ANDREW HEALY 1916 – Wilson vs. Hughes or floods occurred. Politicians could 2004 – Bush vs. Kerry mencement Mass, ‘Set the World on Fire’ is professor of In July 1916, New Jersey’s first win some votes back by responding Four election-year hurricanes pre- during which William economics in the recorded shark attacks brought robustly with relief spending, but sented George W. Bush the chance Fulco, S.J., reflected President Bill Clinton urges the Class of Bellarmine College panic to coastal towns. Tourism they could not undo all the electoral to give voters what they like to get on Matthew 25:31-40. 2016 to expand the definition of “us” while of Liberal Arts. dropped precipitously. Political damage caused by Mother Nature. the most: money. Researchers have He challenged the shrinking the definition of “them.” His expertise is in scientists found that despite there found that politicians send more graduates by asking applied economet- being no mechanism for the federal relief money in election years. Huge government to intervene at the time what they’ll do with for the rest of your lives, what hap- rics, economics, amounts of Federal Emergency (and no expectation that it would) Management Agency money flowed all they’ve learned pens to you will in some measure be political economy and experienced. On the attacks cost Woodrow Wilson 10 into Florida — much of it found to determined by what happens to other and political sci- Sunday, Steve Mosko, ence. He has written percentage points in those towns. be fraudulent in later audits — help- chairman of SONY people, by how you react to it, how frequently on non- ing Bush win the pivotal state by 5 they treat you, how you treat them electoral factors 1960 – Nixon vs. Kennedy percentage points in 2004. and what larger forces are at work that have shaped Political scientists have found that in the world.” voting results. inclement weather on Election Day 2008 – Recession Takes Toll Clinton advised graduates that reduces voter turnout. On Nov. 8, on Incumbents since interdependence is a fact of 1960, weather was favorable in 1980 – Carter vs. Reagan With the global economy in reces- most of the country, and research To tame rampant inflation, the sion, incumbents worldwide life, what’s important is how one re- suggests that it helped push John F. struggled in democratic elections. sponds. “Because the world is inter- Federal Reserve increased inter- Pictures Television Kennedy over the top. If weather had est rates in the two years after Paul Researchers have shown that leaders LMU NEWS who addressed the dependent, you can’t take a pass.” been rainier and snowier, Richard at home get blamed whenever vot- The Class of 2016, he said, has op- Volcker took over in 1979. Volcker was Graduate Division Nixon likely would have picked up willing to pay the price of recession ers are upset, even if the voters are commencement, said portunities at hand that generations the 51 additional electoral votes he to bring inflation under control. But less upset than those in most other he borrowed a friend’s of people before them not only did needed to win. few incumbents win re-election in places. Voters appear not to care- suit for his first job not enjoy but could not imagine. times of economic distress, even if fully calculate what is, and isn’t, an interview. Mosko “For most of human history,” he the cause was beyond their control. incumbent leader’s responsibility.

offered three pieces pointed out, “adults had no choice BACHTELL TOM BY ILLUSTRATIONS Jimmy Carter was no exception. of advice to the new about what they did with their wak- LMU NEWS alumni: “Be a dreamer ing hours. … But you can ‘set the 1992 – Clinton vs. Bush and chase those Bill Clinton won the presidency, dreams”; “Don’t let As annual events laced with ritual, awarded a degree of Doctor of Hu- world on fire’ because of the em- university graduation ceremonies mane Letters, honoris causa, by LMU powerment of your education and famously emphasizing the economy anyone tell you what at every turn. But the economy had you can and cannot are reassuringly and perhaps mad- President Timothy Law Snyder, the empowerment of your circum- actually already recovered by Elec- do”; and “You can deningly similar. This year’s 104th Ph.D., described the world in which stances.” tion Day, despite voters’ perceptions be nice in this world commencement exercises, however, the graduates would soon take their Clinton’s reference to St. Ignatius’ of a continuing recession. If voters and succeed.” A week were like none before. place as characterized by interde- words — “Go forth and set the world in 1992 had accurately perceived the later, on May 15, Tony LMU certainly has never hosted pendence. Interdependence, as he on fire” — was an homage to the offi- economy’s strength, we may never Coelho ’64, former both a former U.S. president, Bill described it, has been brought about cial motto of the Class of 2016. A part 1969 – The Mayor and have had a President Clinton. U.S. congressman and Clinton, who gave the commence- by technological change, a globalized of that task, the president suggested, the Miracle Mets 2008 – Obama vs. McCain architect of the Amer- In the summer of 1969, it was widely 1998 – Ventura vs. Coleman Research from economists shows icans With Disabilities ment address, and a candidate for economy, the internet and social me- is to resist defining one’s relation- the presidential nomination of a dia. Change has produced remark- ships solely on the basis of differ- assumed that New York Mayor John vs. Humphrey that governors of oil-producing Act, told Loyola Law Lindsay, leading a beleaguered In Minnesota in 1998, polls indi- major political party, Hillary Clin- able opportunities for empowerment, ences and to broaden one’s sense of states become more popular when School graduates, “I administration, had little chance of cated that former pro wrestler Jesse prices are high, while those of oil- hope you leave LLS ton, former secretary of state and he said, but also shed light on “per- community — expand the definition re-election. Then the Mets stormed Ventura, ranked third by most voters, consuming states do better when believing you can do U.S. senator. The couple came to sistent inequalities, [and] political of “us” and shrink the definition of to a shocking World Series win. The would lose badly to either his Demo- prices are low. In summer 2008, oil anything.” campus to see their nephew, Tyler and social inequality.” “them,” as he described it. baseball-ignorant mayor appeared crat or Republican opponent in a prices spiked, filling Alaska’s coffers Clinton, receive a bachelor’s degree “All interdependence means is “So, do well, do good,” he advised. with the team at every opportunity head-to-head race. But 37 percent of and lifting the governor’s approval as a graduating senior in the College here we are, stuck together,” Clin- “Have a good time doing it. And re- during their run and surprisingly them also had Ventura first, enough to ratings. That popularity at home of Communication and Fine Arts. ton explained. “We can’t get away member: It’s the journey that matters. won a second term. beat the closest challenger by 3 per- helped Sarah Palin get picked as John The 42nd president, who was from each other. … [L]ike it or not, Set the world on fire in the right way.” centage points in the three-way race. McCain’s running mate.

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6 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 7 VIDEO Jump in a canoe and glide down the Venice Canals. Watch a video at magazine.lmu.edu. My L.A. Venice Canals Traditions The Doherty Cup Down a little-known avenue named Dell that runs between Washington and Venice Boulevards, you can actually drive through the Venice Canals. They used to encompass most of Venice Beach, but now just a few precious blocks remain where unearthly architectural masterpieces live alongside quaint, thatched-roof, turn-of-the-century cottages, all viewed by multiple generations of ducks swimming in the seemingly still water that eventually leads to the Pacific Ocean. Whenever the boardwalk gets to be too much, with its modern-day carnies and camera-wielding tourists, I escape to the canals to find the same peace and beauty that people have sought since “Venice of America” opened to the public in 1905. You can still take a small boat around the serene waterways, but I love to walk over the many original bridges that connect one side of the water to the other, taking in the same idyllic views as visitors have for more than 100 years.

—Teresa Buyikian ’96 Rugby’s Rituals There’s a cup on the line every season when LMU and Occidental College face off in rugby — the Doherty Cup. LMU’s team kicked off LMU NEWS its first season in 1958, and the Lions and Tigers have battled out their rough, physical conflict with almost no pads every year for 51 years, half a century. After the final whistle, the cup is awarded. But, as you might expect with rugby, it’s a tradition with a twist. “The cup doesn’t go to the winning team, or the guy who won match or who played the best,” says Ray Thompson ’77, LMU rugby coach and former Lion rugger. “It goes to the player who most plays in LMU NEWS the fashion of Darren Doherty ’02, a competitive young man who passed away shortly after his graduation. The cup-winner’s name goes on the trophy.” The cup was donated by Doherty’s employer, Wedgewood Industries, after the player’s death. Rugby, of course, is about nothing if not tradition. An annual alumni match has been played every year since 1960. Most of the alumni roster is usually made up of recent grads who want to play against their friends and former teammates. But a few graybeards always show up. This year’s game drew several who graduated in 1970, and the eldest among them was Joe Wilson ’67. “He was on the pitch for more than a few minutes,” Thompson recalls. During the season, the team huddles before each match to sing the LMU fight song. In the alumni game, that means two opposing teams sing as one: alumni and current players line up and lock arms to belt it out together. In two years, 2018, the program will mark its 60th anniversary. The 50th anniversary celebration pulled about 300 people, Thompson says, and he expects the next big year probably will do the same. Two squads, and their friends, will likely swell to the size of a chorale. If their vocal performance isn’t overwhelming, their spirit, no doubt, will be.

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8 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 9 From the Dorm of Carson Szarek ’16 The Giveback Jim Hindman ’82

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Senior Carson Szarek has been a rock climber since middle school. He keeps a roomful of Accounting for the Debt climbing equipment ready for trips to Joshua Tree, Malibu or the Sierras. 4 Jim Hindman ’82 wasn’t certain if Professor and business development and chief financial remembered him. Falcon soon invited Hind- 1 AXE Known as Alan H. Falcon would remember him. officer of Allergan, the pharmaceutical giant. man to join the CBA Accounting Advisory an “ice tool,” the axe Hindman had taken Falcon’s two introduc- Hindman was also president of the philan- Board, and Hindman said yes. is used for climbing tion to accounting courses in the College of thropic Allergan Foundation. “It was very touching to be able to reconnect a wall of ice. “You Business Administration more than three “I sent him an email,” Hindman recalled. with a professor who meant so much to me,” plunge the tapered 5 decades ago, when Hindman was an LMU “I said, ‘Professor Falcon, I really appreciate Hindman said. end into the ice to anchor yourself, free- sophomore. that you introduced me to accounting, and That initial correspondence led to further ing the other hand. During the years since, Hindman built an everything you did. It sparked an interest with LMU involvement. Hindman became chair It’s like creating your extraordinary career that culminated with him me and led to a career.’ ” of the Accounting Advisory Board. He visited own ladder. The long serving as executive vice president for finance Falcon replied, assuring Hindman that he campus to speak to students about the profes- handle also serves as sion. He donated to the Accounting Alumni a hiking pole.” Scholarship and to LMU’s Greatest Needs fund. He came to know Falcon’s two sons, 2 SHOES These are who hold LMU accounting degrees. known as “aggressive shoes,” with a down- In 2013, after 34 years on the bluff, Professor Falcon retired. He went out in style, having turned design for 1 traversing boulders been named Accounting Professor of the Year and overhangs. “You in 2012. The university and Hindman wanted LMU NEWS buy these in sizes too to do something to further honor the former small for your feet, faculty member. So, two-and-a-half years to give you the best later, Hindman funded the Alan H. Falcon grip. They’re painful, Endowed Scholarship in Accounting. The but they let you climb better. There’s a lot of first scholarship was awarded at a banquet this suffering in climbing.” spring. Hindman and Falcon sat together and met the student who received the gift. “It was 3 CHALK BAG good to see someone receiving the benefit of LMU NEWS Chalk helps create the scholarship,” Hindman said. 3 friction between your Hindman — who worked in the U.K., New hands and a rock 2 York and California during his celebrated surface, and prevents your hands from career — knows how much he benefited from sweating. “Chalk can Falcon’s teaching. “He just was an excellent be used to indicate professor. He not only explained things very direction for climbers thoroughly, he was logical. He took an interest who follow you, but in the students. He was very available for any that’s a non-pure way help you might need,” Hindman said. “He also of doing it. Climbing is had a way of talking about how accounting all about not leaving was the language of business.” an impact on the wall.” 4 QUICK DRAWS These are used to latch onto pre-estab- lished bolts found on Jim Hindman ’82, right, created the Alan H. a surface. “At Joshua Falcon Endowed Scholarship in Account- Tree, the bolts are 20 ing to honor Alan Falcon, left, his former feet apart. If you miss professor and mentor. Lauren Jyo, a junior the bolt, you could accounting major, center, is this year’s fall 30 feet. That’s scholarship recipient. when it gets exciting.” 5 CAMS These NEWSLINE 2.19.16 2.21.16 2.22.16 2.24.16 spring-loaded devices Philosophy and Religion Guitar Festival Family Fiction Prison Writing are placed in a Emmanuel Falque, professor and Martha Masters, artist-in- Novelist Elizabeth McKenzie, Stephen Hartnett, profes- crack, like an anchor dean of the Institut Catholique de residence and award- author of “The Portable sor of communication at screw. A cam opens Paris, who studies connections winning guitarist who Veblen,” “MacGregor Tells the University of Colorado, up and expands in between theology and has performed in China, the World” and “Stop That Denver, talks about his work a crack. There are philosophy, discusses “The Rel- England, Spain, Poland and Girl,” speaks about her work teaching writing and poetry various sizes, used for evance of Medieval Philosophy: elsewhere, gives a recital in to students in the English classes in prisons and jails in different cracks. God, Body and the Other.” Murphy Recital Hall. Department lounge. states across the country.

10 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 11 Dilemmas Ernesto Colín ’99, ’01, School of Education

Exploring the debate, we ask, service-learning in trades, agricul- Conversation Sean D’Evelyn, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts “Why (not) iPads?” On the one hand, ture, elder care or public works. These educators, professionals and stu- schools were designed to foster a ho- dents all see benefits. Connected de- listic skill set in youth through the a certain level of effective response, How does your work affluence or become and losses were apply to similar vices offer a boggling amount of in- central concept of in ixtli in yollotl aware of the envi- small enough to issues that exist in formation on one device rather than — one’s (outward) actions and one’s ronmental impacts. make it worthwhile. California? in stacks of books, discs or people (internal) heart. The ancient Greeks The net benefits The lessons we learn and places spread across the land. used the concept of paideia to posit How can your were greater than about Hawaii can be These devices have revolutionized educational ideals, and their educa- research help a quarantining or applied to Califor- schooling through updated infor- tion attended to the students’ mind, policy maker with a any other policy we nia. California has specific problem? could come up with. vulnerable ecosys- mation, innumerable applications, body and spirit. Similar philosophies In 2005, the state tems, including the and the digitalization of songs, im- can be found in education systems of Hawaii was trying Why is Hawaii an Ballona Wetlands. ages, videos and documents. Also, in every corner of the world, from to decide whether interesting place for California’s agricul- equity and access grows for youth Henan to Helsinki, Tamil Nadu to to implement a ban your studies? tural sector is much across the globe. The devices pro- Chiapas. on a particular plant Hawaii is interesting larger than Hawaii’s, species because a because, in many so invasive spe- vide instant, democratized expres- In the U.S., John Dewey promoted rust fungus seemed ways, the ecosys- cies are a serious sion and creation, as well as speed, the idea of an experiential educa- to be spreading on tems are so fragile. concern. How do “Dilemmas” is a feature of LMU Magazine in networking and communication. tion. He argued that the only way to the plants. They There are species we prevent invasive which we ask a member of the faculty for Proponents point to electronic de- really know the difference between were worried that with no natural species from coming ethical advice about a complex question. vices as keys to higher education, wool and cotton is to work with the it could wipe out a predators — some to the area and how Send your moral quandary to magazine@ globalized economies, and political materials, experiment on them, not Sean D’Evelyn, assis- the environment examples of invasive large section of for- plants have no do we deal with lmu.edu with the word “dilemma” in the est. We realized that thorns, for example. them when they and social engagement. just read or be told about them. Dew- tant professor of eco- that are also cost- species being trans- subject line. We’ll pick one, put it to a fac- nomics, focuses on ef- effective? At what ported accidentally the primary plant in ulty member and give you an answer in the On the other hand, developmen- ey would be glad that the dominance ficient invasive species point is a quarantine as part of trade or question was actu- next issue. tal psychologists, pediatricians and of electronic devices would be held management and on policy too burden- migrations. I have a ally being used as a others notice problems: episodes of in check. Recently, U.S. schools have environmental public some? What is the paper in which I look filler green for bou- THE QUESTION: My 10-year-old’s distraction, sleeplessness, dinner seen the re-emergence of Montessori goods. He has authored best way to weigh at introduction of quets. Restrictions ILLUSTRATION BY FELIX SOCKWELL school gave all students an iPad table silence, abandoned toys, awk- education, Reggio Emilia approach, or co-authored papers prevention vs. con- non-native species would be an incon- LMU NEWS on methods to prevent venience for florists, for use in instruction and student ward socialization and the like. They Makerspaces, Project-based Learn- trol. Good data and over time across or control invasive the entire world. who would have to work. Now, almost all of my son’s hold deep concerns about youth dis- ing, STEM schools, and schools species and plants, This paper shows re-source some of homework is done on the device. connection, privacy, targeting and focused on ethnic studies, environ- BIOGRAPHY the global pathways of that people, indeed, their materials. We My pediatrician tells me, as do health, to name a few. mentalism, language and culture, invasive species move- are a huge driver of surveyed perhaps ment, and the alloca- species movements. a dozen florists and ERNESTO COLÍN is child development experts, that I Into the bargain, parents must use and the arts. The common denomi- should limit my son’s time spent their own instinct and knowledge nator: students engaged in purpose- tion of publicly funded There is some hope. realized this was a associate professor of research grants. Even though things temporary prob- Specialized Programs on electronic devices. How can I of their child. They must explore ful, real-life activities. The implica- lem. They’d need to

LMU NEWS like Gross National in Urban Education in do that when his education is in- the tensions and decide where they tion: Parents have some choices. How does one apply Product and popula- spend a little time the School of Educa- creasingly dependent on the de- stand: virtual vs. tactile, 21st cen- economics to the tion growth tend to re-sourcing things. tion and chair of the vice the school gave him?” tury skills, data and instructional YOU AND YOUR CHILD’S iPAD issue of dealing with be very strong pre- We tried to gauge There are essentially do? Recognizing the SOE Instructional technology vs. holistic, hands-on, I end with two thoughts. First, part- invasive species? dictors of species how much time zero snakes or other trade-offs between would be lost in that predatory species different policy tools Technology Com- ERNESTO COLÍN: The internet and experiential learning. ner with your child’s school and Economics as a movement, people mittee. Colín is the discipline is primar- work to mitigate the effort, but ultimately that could be harm- is very appropriate connected devices have inevitably shape schooling spaces and cur- ily about what you good analytics can impacts of non- we suggested that ful to humans. So here as well. There author of “Indigenous FROM THE AZTECS TO JOHN DEWEY Education Through changed our world. I see nieces and riculum. Talk with teachers about do when you can’t help people make native introductions a ban was the right the tourism industry are differences, Dance and Ceremony: neighbors, public and parochial On another level, parents can exam- approaches and electronic device have everything. the right policy for when they get to policy. It would be is very aware of the because snakes and schools — not to mention myself ine their opinion about the purpose exposure. Second, strive for balance. You’ve got to make all of us. the easiest and most potential impact of plant fungi are dif- A Mexica Palimpsest.” invasive species, as ferent from insects He earned a Ph.D. in — entangled with the issue of elec- of school to guide decision making. Let your child develop capacities to important trade- offs. So, applying is the agricultural and beetles that anthropology of edu- tronic devices. As is true of most Human communities always embed connect, research, store, create and What is the greatest economic principles cause of non-native industry. Also, there we’re particularly cation from Stanford cyclical things, there is no right an- their values in the design, content share electronically. But whenever to specific environ- plant and animal are clear pathways worried about. University in 2011. swer to the question. Each genera- and conduct of schools. There are there is an opportunity, compel your mental topics, like species invading by which invasive But, at the end of tion of parents confronts the impact countless models past and present. child to experience and tinker with invasive species, is other ecosystems? species can come the day, it’s still a on their children of new technol- For example, people in ancient cen- the real things. Some might claim not so surprising: People have into Hawaii, whether population that if ogy, from television to phones, video tral Mexico built some of the earliest that the iPad opens up a universe, How much effort do assumed that it be on planes or left unchecked can we spend trying to boats. On the other cause great damage games and, now, tablets. So, does public schools in the world. Centu- but that’s only partly true. The rest human activities prevent the arrival of are one of the large hand, you can regu- to ecosystems and one heed the champions of the new ries ago, Aztec school days filled of the universe is in the cooking, city an invasive species? drivers of species late what happens agriculture. We or the heralds of danger? Let’s look with lessons on math, science, arts exploration, outside play, family sto- What are effective movements. There at those points of need to mitigate from different angles. and astronomy were balanced with rytelling and “analog” activities. tools to help protect have been plenty of introduction. those potential risks.

NEWSLINENEWSLINE 3.2.102.24.16 2.26.16 3.1.16 3.7.16 3.7.16 3.9.16 3.14.16 Political Protest Jain and Sikh Traditions Gaming The Critic Hedge Funds Mission Day The Chocolate Story Adam Michnik, a leader of The musical and poetic Tracy Fullerton, a game Pulitzer Prize-winning L.A. Brad Vizi, managing director of Ken Miller, who teach- Marcy Norton, who is a Poland’s Solidarity movement, traditions of Jain stave and designer at USC, joins Times television critic and the investment management es biology at Brown professor of history at and Tom Hayden, former Sikh kirtan, and their LMU’s Tom Klein in a novelist Mary McNamara and consulting firm Legion University, gives a George Washington state Assemblyman and a connections, are studied discussion of how tradi- joins a conversation with Partners Asset Management talk on “To Find God University in Washington, founder of Students for a and demonstrated in a tions in game develop- faculty and students about and formerly at Shamrock in All Things: Toward D.C., discusses “Chocolate Democratic Society, discuss three-day conference with ment shape current TV, journalism, feminism Capital Advisors, speaks about an Evolutionary Archi- and Object-Oriented protest movements. performances and lectures. video games. and representation. hedge funds and investing. tecture of Life.” Histories of Globalization.”

12 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 13 ONLINE Kathleen Kim talks about the legal resources available to trafficking victims at magazine.lmu.edu. Conversation Kathleen Kim, Loyola Law School Diagram Human Trafficking in the U.S.

migrate voluntarily susceptible to being Trafficking, slavery and forced labor by their very Although trafficking victims are too often silenced, from another coun- trafficked. If we take nature are often hidden crimes. Nonetheless, U.S. Catholic nuns and their congregations are raising try. They may be human trafficking and international organizations are working to their voices loudly on victims’ behalf. The Religious fleeing political and prevention seriously, quantify the practice by reporting cases and other of the Sacred Heart of Mary and the Sisters of St. social instability in then we should think means. In 2012, the International Labor organization Joseph of Orange, two of LMU’s sponsoring religious their own country or about how to craft estimated that there may be 20 million trafficking organizations, are among many groups that provide poverty. When they immigration reform victims worldwide. The United States is considered education, offer services to survivors and advocate come here, they proposals that per- a major destination for trafficked people with thou- against trafficking and slavery in the U.S. Congress. may be undocu- mit more opportuni- sands of people being trafficked into the United The infographic below gives a glimpse of trafficking mented, poor and in ties for individuals to States each year. in the United States as seen through cases reported. desperate need of a migrate safely here job, so that makes to work. them vulnerable to CASES BY STATE 2014–2016 (10,917 of 12,240 cases reported in the U.S.) exploitation. They Trafficking is a Does it make a may end up in a global problem. difference that workplace where What is the con- religious organi- the supervisor nection between zations such as becomes increas- trafficking here and the Sisters of St. ingly abusive, even around the world? Joseph of Orange ultimately forcing Trafficking as we and the Religious

or coercing them to know it in the United of the Sacred Heart Kathleen Kim, profes- How do people from the southern

sor of law at Loyola arrive at those border by foot or stay in that work- States is a result of of Mary consider

place. Then that Law School, is an locations?

vehicle, or from the expert on immigration People may fly in. Canadian border, situation rises to the and human traffick- They may have and eventually end level of trafficking or ing who studies and immigration authori- up in Los Angeles. forced labor. writes about immigra- zation to enter — a tion law, workplace tourist visa or a Are trafficked What kinds of LMU NEWS rights, civil rights and temporary worker people who are work are trafficked the 13th Amendment. non-citizens mainly people forced to do? She is a co-author of lured to the United All kinds: sex work, the first casebook on States, where they agricultural work, human trafficking, are forced into service work in hotels “Human Trafficking Law labor, or do they and restaurants, and and Policy,” and was arrive here already sweatshop labor. A appointed to the Los having fallen in large percentage of Angeles Police Com- trafficked people are

LMU NEWS the hands of their mission in 2013. exploiters? also domestic work- global labor migra- fighting trafficking KEY I think it’s both. ers and caregivers. tion dynamics. The an institutional mis- What are the pri- The term traffick- One of the largest United States is the sion priority? mary destinations ing is somewhat cases of human wealthiest country I definitely think of trafficked people misleading because trafficking in the U.S. in the world, [while] so. The Jesuit- who enter the it doesn’t require involved 500 guest extreme poverty Marymount mis- United States? visa. Those visas forced transporta- workers from India exists in foreign sion is one [that It’s difficult to do may or may not have tion by a trafficker. forced to do con- countries. The includes] social 2,000 or more accurate research been facilitated by a Individuals may struction work. reason why individu- justice. This is an incidents reported. TOP AREAS OF ORIGIN (WORLDWIDE) OVERALL NUMBERS FOR 2015 (U.S.) on this subject, smuggler or a traf- als want to come issue of injustice but it is believed ficker. And it’s only here is to create a that our commu- among experts to after that individual better livelihood for nity should seek be concentrated in enters and ends up themselves and their to correct. When 5,544 cases significant ports of in a workplace that families. However, an institution gets entry, such as Los has forced labor there are not enough behind a cause, safe and legal mech- there is much more 1,000 or more Angeles, San Fran- conditions that the incidents reported. million anisms for them to cisco or New York. situation becomes potential for making 11.8SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA 78% were sex trafficking cases From my experience one of traffick- emigrate here. As an impact through of working in Cali- ing. Other people a result, migrants the antitrafficking fornia on trafficking may come into the often have to resort movement than the for 15 years, I can say United States to risky methods of efforts of individu- that Los Angeles is a overland. I’ve had migration, which als [alone]. That 500 or more 16% were forced labor cases primary destination. clients who come up leaves them highly speaks volumes. incidents reported.

3.16.16 million NEWSLINE 3.14.16 3.14.16 3.30.16 11.7ASIA-PACIFIC Catholic Baroque Russia’s Jews Rocket Man Comedy Master 250 or more 84% were women Flannery O’Connor and Maxim Shrayer, professor of Tom Mueller, M.S. ’92, vice Norman Lear, TV writer and incidents reported. Caravaggio are the subject Russian, English and Jewish president of propulsion de- producer, who launched “All of a lecture on Catholic Studies at Boston College, velopment at SpaceX, speaks in the Family,” “The Jeffer- Baroque aesthetics by Mark delivers the 2016 Fischmann with students about his LMU sons” and other groundbreak- Bosco, S.J., professor of lecture on “Waiting for career, his work with SpaceX ing sitcoms, talks to students 29% were children English and theology at America: Stories of Jewish- and his lifelong obsession about his career in the Hol- 50 or more 3.7 million incidents reported. Loyola University Chicago. Russian Emigration.” with rockets. lywood Masters series. AFRICA Sources: International Labor Organization, The Polaris Project, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking

14 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 15 Essay Ode to Los Angeles

Tyee salmon, and Atlanta as a citadel of the Muscogee people, who were famous as seers, and prophesized the coming of comets and earthquakes, and their own demise at the hands of invaders from across the sea. IMAGINED L.A. Similarly it can be riveting to dream them forward — to imagine Seattle merging eventu- BRIAN DOYLE SAYS THAT ally with Vancouver and Victoria, to become of all literary forms the essay is the vast City of the rising Salish Sea; and New Orleans eventually to be a floating city, perched “closest to the human voice at on a tremendous plastic raft in the Gulf of play; the most naked unadorned Mexico, so that it can never again be inun- dated, but instead append itself to Alabama form, with none of the filters and or Texas or the Yucután, depending on wind and weather; and Toronto and Detroit finally often stilted self-indulgent vibe joined as Toroit or Detronto, capital of the Lake of the other forms; the essay is Country, to which millions have emigrated in search of clean water and cool weather. you and your friend having a And Los Angeles? Not long ago, by the pint and telling tales with glee measure of the wild world, it was cool and misty, ferns and fronds, sloths and scallops, and tears.” Doyle has never set an open jungle; then came thousands of years of human beings, who shaped the land and foot in Los Angeles. But his song waters to their own purposes, for good and of this city, an original essay, ill; and the wild world changed, partly by the machines of men and partly by its own mysteri- describes a place we recognize. ous calendar; and now the default imaginative image of the future of the city is apocalyptic, by Brian Doyle despairing, savage, a nightmare in endless Technicolor iterations, with a soundtrack of snarls. But what if the most famous product A child asks me the other day if I have ever of the place is applied to the place itself, and been to Los Angeles, and I answer no and yes, imagination finds new ways to live in what the which is to say that I have not, as yet, set foot Tongva people long ago called Yaa? Could sea in that ancient settlement, but I bet very few water be recruited in ways that balance rising people have read as much about it as I have seas? Could all that collected salt be sculpted — not just Raymond Chandler and James into the most astonishing pillars and towers Ellroy and Nathanael West, but accounts of and statues? Could all that flat sharp light be the years when it was Spanish and Mexican, recruited in ways so remarkable that eventually and the years before that when it was vari- the Santa Ana winds blow away the brooding ously Hokan and Tongva and Gabrielino and curtains of poisonous smoke? Could wit and Fernandeño; we forget, steadily, arrogantly, humor and generosity be ever more valuable dismissively, lazily, that what is today the products, so immensely valuable that drugs city and county was populated three and five and violence go out of business? Could that and ten and twenty thousand years ago, not be? Are you so very sure that it cannot be? How only by men and women and children but by very easy to be cynical and skeptical, to expect uncountable millions of animals, whose expe- the worst of human beings, to assume, with all rience of Los Angeles can only be imagined; too clear evidence, that we will be mean and what would a dire wolf ’s pains and pleasures small and greedy and violent and devious; but have been like, wandering among the trees if ever there was a city in which the residents and bears, the bogs and inlets, the tar pits could appeal aptly to their better angels, to the where a girl and her dog were interred ten irrepressible creative urge, to the gift of wild thousand years ago? imagination that human beings have perhaps Cities exist backward and forward in time, more than any other species, it is, just possibly, of course, and it is refreshing to occasionally perhaps wonderfully, Los Angeles. ponder them as verbs, rather than as sprawl- ing seething nouns; to think of New York Brian Doyle, editor of Portland Magazine at the as a lovely little island on which to haul up University of Portland, is the author of many your canoe and slurp down oysters, before ILLUSTRATION BY JOSH COCHRAN books of essays and fiction, including his recent continuing south to evade the grim winter; to novel “Chicago.” He edited four editions of the contemplate Chicago without a single house annual essay collection titled “The Best Catholic or hotel, when it was a river-mouth famous for Writing,” and his own writing has appeared the wild garlic that grew there in profusion; several times in “The Best American Essays” to imagine Miami as a dense steaming green as well as in the New York Times, U.S. Catholic, thicket, and Portland as a good place to spear America Magazine and elsewhere.

16 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 17 On the Bluff To Be Muslim at LMU MUSLIM

BIOGRAPHY DURING THE CURRENT U.S. ELECTION PROCESS, FEAR OF MUSLIMS HAS BECOME

AMIR HUSSAIN a thread used to tie terrorists and extremists to suspicion of Muslim Americans. was born in Pakistan USA and grew up in Can- Here at LMU, Muslims have been participating in and contributing to the university’s ada. He is professor of theological studies culture for some time. We asked some to describe their faith, lives and experience in the Bellarmine Col- lege of Liberal Arts. in the United States. If we fear what we do not know, let this be an introduction. He is the author or editor of five books, by Amir Hussain including “Oil & Water: Two Faiths: One God.” When I came to LMU in 2005, the university had of San Diego, spoke this past February about the He was the first Muslim to be editor of the relatively few Muslim students. Last year, 125 stu- “new nativism, which the American Catholic com- Journal of the Ameri- dents self-identified as Muslim. Many of them are munity must reject and label for the religious bigotry can Academy of Reli- American, but a growing number are international which it is.” In April, Pope Francis yet again did the gion, and LMU was the students, who come to America because this nation astonishing: He quietly and simply brought three first Catholic university provides the best education in the world. They are, Syrian refugee families to settle in the Vatican. to host the journal. both domestic and foreign, amazing students, and it At LMU, a group of freshmen students have re- is a joy to work with them. Unfortunately, we live in vived the Muslim Students Association. They began an age that John Esposito, the founding director of with a very simple request made to the university: the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at to be able to pray the obligatory Friday afternoon Georgetown University, has called “the normaliza- prayer on campus. That has led to regular Friday Amir Hussain, who teaches tion of Islamophobia.” worship in the chapel of the Marymount Institute in the Department of This hatred — for it is really a hatred of Muslims, for Faith, Culture and the Arts. Theirs is a small Theological Studies, is the not a fear of us — is, sadly, nothing new in this coun- group, sometimes a dozen, sometimes as many as 20 advisor of the LMU Muslim try. Two hundred years ago, it was Catholics who students, taking turns leading each other in prayer. Students Association. were the “other,” with a religion linked to violence They fill me with hope. Yet again, grace abounds in overseas. Bishop Robert W. McElroy, of the Diocese our broken world.

18 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 19 FRESHMAN FRESHMAN

DANIA FADAWI KIENAN TAWELL

Major: Political Major: Political Science Science Birthplace: Los Angeles Birthplace: Family Roots: Syria and Hungary Torrance, California Family Roots: Syria DO YOU EVER FEEL AS IF YOU ARE WHAT IS THE STEREOTYPED AS BEING FOREIGN SIMPLY BIGGEST MISCON- BY BEING A MUSLIM, DESPITE THE FACT CEPTION ABOUT THAT YOU WERE BORN AND RAISED IN THE MUSLIMS THAT YOU UNITED STATES? DEAL WITH? “Because people do not expect me to be a “The biggest miscon- Muslim based on my physical appearance, ception specifically they have been surprised when I do tell them about Muslim women that I am Muslim. If I had visible traits of my is that we wear the faith, like girls who wear the hijab, it would be hijab not because a more difficult scenario. Despite the negativ- of our free will, not ity that I see in the media, I do not want to because we want to, engage in the belief that Islam is incompatible but because we are with America. I believe Islam has a place in forced to wear it. This this country, and I consider myself a patriot contradicts Islam who is proud to be an American Muslim.” because wearing the hijab should be a sincere action in which Muslim women choose to wear the hijab because they want to. People think wearing the hijab may be a struggle. LMU STAFF For me, it’s not. I wear the hijab ALI AKBAR because I choose to, and it’s one of Work:Food Services the best choices I’ve Birthplace: Indonesia ever made in my life because it has made HOW LONG HAVE me a much stronger YOU LIVED IN THE person.” UNITED STATES? “I have lived in the United States since 1995. In my country, I saw on TV and in the news that America is a good country. I came here to try to make a good life, a better life, especially for the next gen- eration, my four chil- dren. I live a simple life: I come to work, go home and spend time with my fam- ily. There are other Indonesians who live in Los Angeles near Wilshire and Nor- mandie, but there are not as many Indone- sians as other people. There is a Koreatown, and a Vietnam town, but here there is no Indonesia town.”

20 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 21 SENIOR ALUMNUS

SARAH YOSEPH ZYAD AL-MARAYATI ’15

Major: Major: Political Mathematics Science Birthplace: Birthplace: Inglewood, Los Angeles California Family Roots: Family Roots: Iraq and Palestine Ethiopia and Yemen DID YOU AS A YOU LIVE WITH MUSLIM FEEL AT YOUR MOTHER; WHY HOME AT LMU? DID SHE COME TO “What resonated THE UNITED STATES? the most for me as a “My mother came Muslim at LMU was here from Yemen. the service organi- She had a good job zation community. in Yemen and came Inclusiveness is the to the United States No. 1 factor when it for a vacation. When comes to my religion. she got here, she There is no more loved the freedom welcoming or more for everyone and the tolerant community work ethic. There is a than the service org relaxed social lifestyle community. I was in in Third World coun- Ignatians and on the tries. She appreciated Ignatians Executive the work ethic. She Board. In terms of is someone who likes Jesuit ideals, what’s to work hard. So she important is find- came here for school ing the social justice and wanted to be a niche in whatever pro- self-made woman, fession or career that which America you choose. Business, offered.” advertising, market- ing, finance — those are careers that most people would dismiss when they think of social justice, but they have a connection to JUNIOR social justice. That’s the greatest impact BADER ALGHUNAIM that LMU has had on me: making sure I find Major: Civil Engineering that social justice part Birthplace: Kuwait in whatever I do. I’m eternally grateful for WHY IS HAVING FRIDAY PRAYER AVAILABLE my experience at LMU.” AT LMU IMPORTANT TO YOU? “The significance of having the prayer group at LMU is that, at the King Fahad Mosque in Culver City, we are part of the Muslim community. Here, we are creating a Muslim community. That’s a big difference. We’re able to unite through religion and by meeting each Friday. When we meet for Friday prayer every week, we get to know the community more and more. We get to see what the others are struggling with and whether we can help them in any way. We get to be there for one another. It also reminds me of home, where I used to go to Friday prayer with my father, with my brothers. It’s a piece of home that I get to be a part of here.”

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UWIMANA BLANCHE NAZMUL ULA

Work: Development Work: Professor, Electrical Engineering, Services Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Birthplace: Engineering Inglewood, California Birthplace: Bangladesh

WHAT DRAWS YOU WILL MUSLIMS GRADUALLY BE ACCEPTED TO ISLAM? IN THE UNITED STATES? “The beauty in prayer. “Yes, definitely. The biggest problem is that Prayer is a very we fear unknowns. It’s true of all humans. intimate relationship Anything we don’t see or understand, we fear. with the Creator. If We fear Muslims because we do not know you can, you lay down enough about them, and not enough people a carpet to make as have Muslim friends. All we see are the bad clean a space as pos- ones, who are doing exactly what Islam pro- sible. The movements hibits. Those people toting AK-47s and wear- — kneeling, bowing, ing masks — that’s not what Muslims are. standing — are the There are groups using Islam, just like the Ku movements of the Klux Klan uses Christianity. Ultimately, good prophet Muhammad, always wins, with some pain, yes. When there salla Allahu ’alayhi are more Muslims, people will realize we are wa-sallam (“may no different than they are. Muslims will be God bless him and accepted, with time.” give him peace”). He was inspired to make these movements, so we want to do everything he did. He taught us how to pray, just as Jesus taught the apostles how to SOPHOMORE pray. Taking the time to step out of the ZAINAH AL ESSA dunya, as we call the world, to reflect, give Majors: Psychology thanks and ask for and Political Science whatever you feel is Birthplace: Kuwait good for you, having that time with the DO YOU FEEL A Creator — that’s the RESPONSIBILITY TO beauty of it.” EXPLAIN ISLAM TO AMERICANS? “In all honesty, I do feel a responsibility to explain Islam and my being a Muslim to Americans. I don’t ever get tired of it. People think that Islam is anti-West and hateful to anything that’s American. I don’t think that’s true at all. I feel it is my duty to right this wrong because people have such negative ideas about such a peaceful religion. ‘Islam’ really translates to peace. It’s hard to constantly have to tell people ‘You have to consider these things,’ but I want to keep doing it as long as I am here. If I can change the perception, hopefully, that’s an impact.”

24 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 25 ONLINE Watch Billy Bean tell his baseball story from LMU’s Page Stadium to MLB’s offices at magazine.lmu.edu. Conversation Billy Bean ’86, MLB Ambassador for Inclusion

FAIRIN JULY 2014, A YEAR AFTER PROHIBITINGGAME BASEBALL PLAYERS FROM harassing and discriminating against other players on the basis of sexual orien- tation, Major League Baseball named Billy Bean ’86 its ambassador for inclusion. Bean’s role is to fight prejudice with talk, meeting with players, coaches, gen- eral managers and owners to share his story of playing big league baseball while protecting a secret. We spoke with Bean about his work with MLB and his career.

BIOGRAPHY HOW DID YOUR ASSIGNMENT AS MAJOR LEAGUE nation against the LGBT community. My job is chal- BASEBALL’S AMBASSADOR FOR INCLUSION COME lenging in many ways, but it’s rewarding because I feel BILLY BEAN, ABOUT? I am here to make a difference in the positive direction. a prolific left-handed I was out of baseball for quite a while. I had evolved tre- hitter who set several mendously off the field, but I didn’t think there was a place LOOKING BACK ON YOUR CAREER, WHAT DID YOU LMU records, led the for someone like me, who was gay and out, in baseball. LEARN OR EXPERIENCE AS A PLAYER THAT HAS BEEN 1986 baseball team The first meeting with MLB wasn’t to offer me a job but THE MOST USEFUL LESSON TO YOU NOW? to the College World Series. He was named more of a consultant position. They thought there would I think everything about my playing career helps me each a second-team All- be a couple of events throughout the year when it would and every day. For one thing, it gives me the guts to walk be important to share my story. We were scheduled to talk into a clubhouse, a pressroom or a meeting of owners, American in his senior JON ROU BY PHOTO season. Bean entered for an hour, and the meeting went for three or four hours. and feel that they will respect me. One of the great lessons the LMU Athletics Hall Three or four days later, they asked if I would consider I’ve learned is that I never gave myself much credit as of Fame in 2000 and working with them. a player. Even if I had been a great player, I may have a was inducted into the chance to have a bigger impact at the job I’m doing now. WCC Hall of Honor in HOW DO YOU APPROACH PEOPLE OR PLAYERS WHO 2012. Drafted in 1986 YOU KNOW MAY DISAGREE STRONGLY WITH YOU? YOUR JERSEY, NO. 44, WAS RETIRED BY LMU IN MARCH by the Detroit Tigers, he tied a major league I talk about the fact that, regardless of differences between 2000. HOW DID YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT THEN? record in April 1987 us, we have shared values about baseball: respect for our It changed my life. I thought because I was gay that my by getting four hits in sport and the responsibility that goes with being a player. own school would not want my name on any wall. It was his first appearance. It’s interesting: Few people understand what it’s like to be a very emotional moment. A few years later, Lane Bove, Bean went on to play the only gay person in a room — especially one with a bunch senior vice president for Student Affairs, invited me to for six seasons with of young male, millionaire athletes — and to talk about your lunch and showed me the LGBT Student Services office the Tigers, the Los private life. But for the first time, players are discussing these on campus, and that was incredible. The generosity in Angeles Dodgers and issues with a former player. For that, I give MLB Commis- allowing kids to be who and what they are enables them to the San Diego Padres. sioner Rob Manfred great credit. He said over and over: It’s live a healthier and better life. Many of us, unfortunately, After his career ended, Bean came different when a peer or a colleague is sharing a message. haven’t been in the time and place to be our best self yet, out as gay in 1999, and that is a gift I would love to give everybody if I could. and he later wrote DOES MLB’S WORK ON THIS ISSUE INVOLVE THE PUBLIC, “Going the Other Way: THROUGH THINGS LIKE PRIDE NIGHT, AS MUCH AS IT YOU WERE ONE OF THE BEST HITTERS IN LMU HISTORY. Lessons From a Life DOES PLAYERS AND TEAM ORGANIZATIONS? DOES THAT COME NATURALLY OR CAN IT BE TAUGHT? In and Out of Major Absolutely. Pride Nights aren’t intended to invite spe- I don’t think you can teach someone how to hit a baseball. League Baseball.” cifically the LGBT community; [rather] the events send a You can teach someone how to hit a baseball better. There is message that they are welcome as well. For example, the a degree of talent that you cannot teach. Whether someone Boston Red Sox hosted a Pride Night on June 3. It’s not cultivates that or throws it away is the question. a [business] decision. They don’t need to do that to add fans: They sell out [almost] every home game. They have DO YOU EVER THINK THAT, BECAUSE OF YOUR Billy Bean has gone from roaming the Page Stadium Pride Night because they realize it’s an important message. OWN EXPERIENCE, YOU HAVE A BETTER IDEA outfield to the MLB Park OF WHAT JACKIE ROBINSON WENT THROUGH? Avenue offices in New York DO YOU THINK THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER IN I think about Jackie Robinson just about every day. His as baseball’s ambassador for TERMS OF SOCIETY IN GENERAL? life experience and his legacy are part of the reason why inclusion. Things are getting better, but you still see instances the expectations of baseball are so high in terms of social where states are creating legislation to legalize discrimi- responsibility.

26 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 27 City Life Native Americans and Los Angeles The Indian Revival Center in Bell Gardens, circa 1962, was once the largest Native American church THIS IS INDIAN in Los Angeles. COUNTRY FOR MOST OF THE PAST CENTURY, A MIGRATION has been taking place within the United States: Native Americans have been moving from tribal and rural lands to America’s cities. But Native Americans have not abandoned reservations for urban life. Instead, they’ve built a network that joins reservations, rural lands, suburban communities and urban centers, with Los Angeles as the “urban Indian capital of the United States.”

by Nicolas G. Rosenthal

Los Angeles is Indian Country. Somewhere around 250,000 people of American Indian descent live in Los Angeles County today. This includes California Indian peoples, like the Gabrielino/Tongva, who are the original inhabitants of the Los Angeles Basin, as well as American Indians from hundreds of tribes with homelands across the United States. In fact, Los Angeles is second only to the Navajo Nation in having the largest Native American population in the country. It’s because of the city’s importance to Native peoples that Los Angeles is known throughout the rest of Indian Country as the “urban Indian capital of the United States.” Just like any capital, this Los Angeles exists in dynamic relation- ship with other places. Indian Country — a term that once was ap- plied to a few parts of the United States with heavy concentrations of Native Americans — now comprises cities, towns, rural areas and Indian reservations, from the tip of northern Maine to the California- Mexico border. This shift has occurred in dramatic fashion over the past 100 years, as many Native peoples have left reservations and adapted to U.S. society. Like other migrants, they’ve maintained con- nections back home even as they’ve established new communities. Today, from the vantage point of Los Angeles, we can see an Indian Country that spreads out before us, its many points linked together by the movements of Native peoples traveling its well-worn paths. The end of the 19th century was a time of crisis for Native Ameri- cans. Hundreds of years of European and American colonialism had resulted in massive losses that extended to Native American lives, lands, societies and cultures. As late as the 1870s, the United States was still in the process of conquering the American West, propelled by Manifest Destiny. A decade later, however, United States Indian policy had shifted to focus on the confinement of American Indians to reservations and the destruction of their cultures. Officials hoped to “Americanize” Native Americans or, in other words, to wipe away any vestiges of Native American life as Native peoples were assimi- lated into American society. Confronted with these processes, Native peoples worked to rebuild their lives and communities, often by joining in the major movements

28 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 29 LOS ANGELES WAS A PARTICULARLY ENTICING DESTINATION. NATIVE PEOPLE TONGVA INFLUENCE The influence of the today are unknown or forgotten by most An- looking Playa Vista where Tongva artifacts Tongva people, the Native American people gelenos: Engvangna, near Torrance; Ahanga, were discovered during the construction of who made their home in much of the Los near Long Beach; Suangna, in present-day the Leavey residence halls. The site was re- LABORED IN L.A. MILLS AND FACTORIES, AS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS Angeles basin, remains present today in Carson; Jajamonga, near Glendale; and Yan- dedicated in 2004 after the remains of sev- place names familiar to most all Angelenos: ga, near downtown Los Angeles. eral hundred Native Americans were found AND HOUSEKEEPERS, SETTLING INTO MULTIETHNIC NEIGHBORHOODS. Azusa, Cahuenga, Cucamonga, Topanga, Other native peoples lived nearby, in- in a burial ground on the Playa Vista property Tujunga and Pacoima. The Tongva, which cluding the Chumash, to the north along below the bluff. These were reburied in an of American culture and society. Urbaniza- with his brothers and sisters, going to public advertising on television and billboards. In- means “people of the earth,” lived in villages the coast, whose presence is evidenced in earthen mound within the Ballona Discov- stretching from the Pacific Ocean to areas names like Mugu, Malibu, Simi and Ojai. ery Park. About 3,000 Tongva archaeologi- tion and industrialization were changing schools and university, while participating in deed, there now is a certain irony in attending now encompassed by western San Bernardi- LMU’ s Tongva Memorial (below), estab- cal sites exist within what is now Los Angeles the way of life for all Americans, as rural a multi-tribal American Indian community a baseball game at Petco Park, the home of the no County. Many village names, however, lished in 2000, is found on the bluff over- and Orange Counties. migrants and immigrants filled the country’s that was laying down roots throughout the San Diego Padres, a team that uses a caricature burgeoning cities. Native Americans were Los Angeles area. Weeknights, his parents of Spanish colonialism as its mascot, and see- part of this, too, as they moved to rapidly were busy volunteering for groups that served ing an advertisement for the casino run by the developing farmlands, towns and urban areas the needs of this community, such as the Los Barona Band of Mission Indians. These are of the United States. Angeles Indian Center, the American Indian the realities of today’s Indian Country. Free Clinic or the American Indian Athletic THE LURE OF LOS ANGELES Association, which sponsored basketball, soft- NATIVE AMERICAN ANGELENOS Los Angeles, an expanding metropolitan ball and bowling leagues. The weekends found The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians region, was a particularly enticing destina- the Tafoyas working in the Indian Village at maintains a reservation with several tribal tion for Native American migrants. From Disneyland or at an Indian powwow, where enterprises in San Bernardino County and reservations throughout Southern California, Dennis remembered a “melting pot of Indian is a major presence in the Inland Empire, Indians traveled to work among the orchards, people” gathering to socialize and teach each serving as one of the area’s largest employ- farms and ranches of the San Fernando Val- other tribal dances. In effect, they were help- ers and philanthropic donors. Several years ley, Inland Empire and Orange County. Na- ing to renew and reinvent their identities as ago, the tribe began producing television tive people labored in L.A. mills and factories, American Indian people in the urban context, commercials, including some that depicted a as construction workers and housekeepers, as if to say, “The city, too, is Indian Country.” Southern California history in which Ameri- settling into multiethnic neighborhoods. Even as they became urban Indians, Na- can Indian people have been a constant pres- Others, such as Richard Davis Thunderbird, tive Americans maintained connections to ence and contributor even while the region a Cheyenne Indian born in 1866, came to the tribal homelands, through summer visits, changed dramatically over the past two-and- city because it was the center of the entertain- intermarriage with members of other tribes a-half centuries. Indeed, Southern California ment industry. Thunderbird traveled with and careers that required travel between has long had tribes like the San Manuel living Wild West shows, appeared in vaudeville, reservations and cities. Jim Looking Glass, alongside other California peoples such as led a troupe of Cheyenne dancers, lectured an Apache-Comanche man from Oklahoma, the Gabrielino/Tongva. on Indian history, wrote a manuscript on exemplified the type of life that American More recently, the San Manuel have been Cheyenne religion, owned a house in Pasa- Indians were living in this new Indian Coun- joined by peoples from hundreds of different dena, and worked as an actor and technical try. Looking Glass served in Vietnam as a tribal communities who have migrated from advisor in Hollywood until his death in 1946, U.S. marine and afterward attended Califor- their homelands, from the recently arrived to when he was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial nia State University, Long Beach. He then those whose families have lived here or moved Park, in Glendale. moved between Oklahoma and Los Angeles, about the country for generations. These During World War II, American Indians working at times for the Apache and Kiowa Native American Angelenos can be found entered the armed forces and took jobs in the tribes, Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity, attending one of the area’s many intertribal defense industry in Los Angeles and other the Los Angeles Urban Indian Development powwows, seeking services at organizations cities that had military installations, airplane Association and the Orange County Indian established to meet their needs like United factories and shipyards. They often stayed after Center. Tribes also began to think creatively American Indian Involvement Inc. and the war. Purcell Rainwater, a Sioux Indian, about how to reach all of their members, Southern California Indian Center, and in recalled his daughter returning home to the since so many had come to spend much of the classrooms of universities, some of which Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota after their lives in cities. Today, the Cherokee Na- offer American Indian Studies programs. serving in the U.S. military: “She went, came tion supports the group Tsa-La-Gi LA, “The They can also be seen shopping in stores, back and stayed for, I don’t know, a week or two. Official Cherokee Nation Satellite Commu- eating in restaurants, driving on freeways, Then she said, ‘Dad, there’s nothing around for nity of Los Angeles,” for the purpose of con- riding city buses, working in office buildings me.’ ” He told her that he knew it was difficult necting to tribal members, and candidates and relaxing at the beach alongside city resi- for her there. So he helped her get ready to for tribal office regularly make campaign dents of every imaginable background. Today, move to Los Angeles. visits to Los Angeles. Los Angeles is Indian Country. Some would Seeing these patterns, the federal govern- Beginning in the 1990s, the advent of gam- say that it has always been so. ment began an urban relocation program ing on American Indian reservations further in 1948 and expanded it under the Indian blurred boundaries between cities and reserva- Nicolas G. Rosenthal is associate professor of Relocation Act of 1956 to provide travel- tions. Some tribe members with college degrees history in the Bellarmine College of Liberal ing expenses, startup funds and vocational and urban employment experiences moved Arts. His expertise is in American Indian his- school tuition for American Indians to move back to reservations to work on everything tory, environmental history, Los Angeles and to cities. More than 30,000 of the 155,000 from running casinos and hotels to establishing California history, the history of the American relocation participants chose Los Angeles, education and social service programs. Gam- West, and 20th century U.S. history. Rosenthal including Dennis Tafoya. ing tribes in California also took advantage is the author of “Reimagining Indian Coun- Tafoya was 5 years old in 1955 when he of their wealth and influence to play a more try: Native American Migration and Identity arrived with his family from Santa Clara active role in the life of cities by contributing in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles.” He now Pueblo in New Mexico so his father, a World billions of dollars to local, state and national is working on a history of American Indian War II veteran, could work in the aerospace political campaigns; sponsoring events and artists and sculptors and their place in U.S. industry. Tafoya grew up in Hermosa Beach annual festivals; donating to universities; and culture and society.

30 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 31 First Person Lynell George ’84

JUMPING TIME WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO IN LIFE AND HOW DO WE FIGURE OUT how to do it? Those are questions that even if answered today will likely be asked again tomorrow, especially when economic plates shift. For the past year, Los Angeles writer Lynell George has been talking with L.A. artists about the fault line between seeing the path of one’s life and staying on it. We asked her to tell us what she has seen and learned.

by Lynell George ’84

BIOGRAPHY Sometimes life really does take you to a new place, and that dealing with uncertainty, so we are always looking for has its analog in art. what’s coming/happening next to grab it. Whenever — Elizabeth Alexander something landed, it was: ‘Let me work with this.’ So in many ways those of us who had always really scrambled, Against my better judgment, late last spring, I found we had a head start.” myself corralled onto a panel — an uncomfortably sol- Massenburg, who grew up in South Los Angeles bear- emn affair that carried the weight of a wake. There was ing witness to the city’s two brutal and transformative

no body lying in repose, only a symbolic one: the world urban unrests, is now best known for narratively complex, HEADS OF STATE BY ILLUSTRATIONS as we had known it. There we sat: three journalists who emotionally charged works of art — paintings, assemblage LYNELL GEORGE for much of our busy careers had reported wide-ranging work — that reflect the city’s socio-political shifts, its is an L.A.-based stories about the lively arts — books, pop culture, fine art, conflict, uprising and renewal. His assemblage pieces in journalist and essayist and music that crossed borders and genres. We’d been particular, the product of happened-upon detritus, rescued who covers the arts, culture and social gathered to sort through shattered infrastructure — not and remade, reframe the stories of marginalized neigh- issues. A former staff just the art world’s. As journalists, we would be turning borhoods. He’s traveled the world, sold pieces to major writer for the Los over the detritus of our own. collectors and been part of international retrospectives. Angeles Times and LA That “better judgment” — my own “plan” — was still in None of this was part of a plan Massenburg could have Weekly and a current flux. I was no expert. Nonetheless, we waded deep into the mapped. Back then, in the ’70s, when he was finding his columnist for KCET’s murk: market crash, vanishing job categories, lost homes, way, he wasn’t calling himself an artist. Perhaps the title “Artbound,” she also fractured partnerships, both professional and personal. seemed a luxury, or maybe it just felt strange to say the is the author of “No Half in jest — but only half — the moderator turned to word out loud, given the texture of life in and around his Crystal Stair: African me and lofted a question: Because I’d been focusing on old neighborhood, its residents still struggling with fail- Americans in the City of Angels.” long-form “process stories” about artists and the long trail ing schools, street violence, pernicious unemployment. of their working lives, he wanted to know if I might have Even still, he remained open, always found pathways anything — “anything at all” — optimistic to offer. Laughter into creative work and had a keen ability to pivot from skidded across the room. Designers, musicians, writers, one learning experience to the next — working in an art students — a sea of scarves, plaid and denim — perched store, designing and embroidering custom clothing and at the edge of their seats. I referenced an interview I had logos, including the game jerseys for the Los Angeles Clip- recently conducted with Los Angeles-based assemblage pers. He found time to teach workshops for hospitalized artist Michael Massenburg, who through the years had children, helping them to work through their emotions, juggled all manner of rent-money side businesses — mak- which were jagged, huge and abstract. ing T-shirts, DJing and, for a time, criss-crossing the vast Stumbling upon a workshop at the Watts Towers Art city driving an airport shuttle. Center, Massenburg found himself wandering back into “I always say that the economic downturn didn’t his own history: “People painting. Listening to jazz. And affect some of us who are artists because, really, this there was the great artist John Outterbridge, working is how we already live,” he’d told me. “We already are with no, counseling, students. Not giving us answers,

32 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 33 PLANNING DOESN’T STAVE OFF THE INEVITABLE DETOURS THAT PRESENT THEMSELVES: THERE ARE MOMENTS WHEN PATTERNS ARE BROKEN FOR US, AND MOMENTS WHEN WE CHOOSE TO BREAK THEM. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE WALK INTO THAT VOID IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARD THE UNKNOWN AND WHERE FAITH AND CHANCE CAN TAKE US. AS A JOURNALIST WHO WRITES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO MAKE ELEGANT, JAW-DROPPING LEAPS, I SEE MANY WHO SEEM TO SHARE A KEY TRAIT: THE ABILITY TO PIVOT, TO “SEE IN THE DARK.”

but asking questions: How did I miss all this? to break them. What happens when we walk survival. Success, then, isn’t about achieving How could all this be happening just minutes into that void, that open question, is the first static goals or checking items off a list. It’s from my house?” step toward the unknown and where faith about mastery, acquiring insight and achiev- Intersecting with the Watts Towers and and chance can take us. ing breakthroughs. Outterbridge, an African American man who As a journalist who writes about people We live in a moment of “vision boards” embodied art’s larger political possibilities who make elegant, jaw-dropping leaps — cre- and Post-it affirmations — “See it. Be it.” and hinted at Massenburg’s own possibility, atives who ultimately conceive beyond-cat- But we forget that just as important as what helped to clarify things. That pull was real. egory art, music and food, or design vibrant we wish for ourselves is gleaning the insight The door Massenburg needed to walk through community landscapes or networks — I see that may seem beyond our imagination. That appeared not when he asked for it, but when many who seem to share a key trait: the ability big life we crave, the one larger than we can he was ready for it. He didn’t know he was to pivot, to “see in the dark.” The darkness conceive, is often the consequence of risk, even looking until he found it: a spirit home. in this case is uncertainty: blind turns and misadventure and recovery. As one subject For some time, I’d been shadowing artists difficult passages that we all must navigate at finally came to understand it: “Don’t look; like Massenburg, people who were expert some point to find our way to the next phase, leap. Trust the dark. Trust what you’ve cul- at reading possibility in a mere gesture and chapter, summit. Why, I wondered, are some tivated inside.” reacting in the moment. I had been catalog- better at the pivot than others? That facility ing what sort of creative benefit bloomed out begins with feeling comfortable in the space JUMPING TIME from a chance encounter — a serendipitous of the unknown. In American roots music — jazz, blues, discovery, an open path or fresh new sense Near the end of Pico Iyer’s slim, astute zydeco, bluegrass — there’s a term called of self. But now, with so much infrastructure meditation titled “The Art of Stillness: Ad- “jumping time,” a moment that inevitably upended, their facility to do so resonated ventures in Going Nowhere,” the essayist reveals itself on the bandstand. The singer even more. As life became increasingly dif- explores the importance of framing calamity: perhaps forgets a verse, or the trumpet player, ficult to parse when the planned-for scenarios “It’s not our experiences that form us, but the distracted, stumbles, barges in too soon, and evaporated — or simply didn’t arrive — so way we respond to them; a hurricane sweeps the band must work together to pivot, re- many were looking for not just comfort but through town reducing everything to rubble store order, move to the next line and not get real tools to find their own “what’s next.” and one man sees it as liberation, a chance jangled. It’s about moving forward: salvaging to start anew, while another, perhaps his not just the moment, but the possibility for CHANCE AND SERENDIPITY brother, is traumatized for life.” the one that follows. We want to map a plan — a life — that’s what Iyer’s words reassured me that what we are I think about Massenburg and his own both our conscience and the culture tells us; a handed is not just a measure of our mettle “salvaging” — the poetry of the pivot — find- life/plan that nudges us toward “success” and — how we move forward — but that the un- ing not just a use for the stumbled upon and ultimately a precisely articulated and fully expected also can limit or enhance our life’s tossed aside, but a new narrative for it: “I realized you. The trouble with this premise is possibility. We choose. remember John Outterbridge saying to me that what we already know too often obstructs I saw, much more clearly, that the stories that art can be anything you want it to be. what we might come to know — if we’re open I’d been assembling weren’t necessarily a Even your life. So when I think about how I to it. That’s the juncture where chance lies catalog of successes. Rather the artists’ arcs I got here — it wasn’t straight-line.” — and where serendipity — and often the traced suggested that the real journey begins That left or right turn, it’s all about jump- greatest possibility can step in. with instances others might categorize as ing time — sliding to the next spot, finding the We think we can outline a foolproof dead-ends, failures, even tragedies: a deporta- treasure in the detritus, saving the moment. strategy, one that keeps us on track, moving tion, a wife’s near-death experience, a diag- You can’t plan for it, just prepare. forward, but things break, sever, snap and nosis of a rare blindness. Instead of accepting Those beautiful dovetails in life that we shatter all of the time. Plans fizzle, promises an impasse, they understood a setback as a watch from afar? They come with hard work are broken, things fall apart. Both life and the threshold, not an end, but a beginning. The and foresight: reacting adroitly, even poeti- language we use to describe our derailments ability to shake free from an outdated dream cally, at that fork in the road of thought, cri- and defeats tell us that. or shed a fixed desire — be it a job, a hunch sis and life shift is often our only control in Planning, however, doesn’t stave off the or place in the world — and cultivate new chaos. That informed pivot — the one that inevitable detours that present themselves: inspirations is not a facility we often honor or takes us from disaster to possibility, the “new There are moments when patterns are bro- celebrate. We should. Recalibrating — or, as place” — can be the life-changing difference ken for us, and moments when we choose one subject calls it, “bounce” — is critical to between simply surviving and thriving.

34 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 35 Heritage Don Klosterman ’52

THEON JANUARY 12, 2016, NATIONAL DUKE FOOTBALL LEAGUE OWNERS approved the return of the Rams to Los Angeles. It was a day that the late Don Klosterman ’52 would have celebrated. After setting national records as Loyola’s quarterback, he carved out an equally illustrious career as an NFL executive. We asked former Los Angeles Times sportswriter Chris Dufresne, who knew and covered the Loyola University legend, to tell the Duke’s story as he saw it unfold.

by Chris Dufresne

THE AUTHOR No one would expect today’s “Snapchat” kids to remember. Kane,” another story about a lonely man in a fortress. The Don Klosterman might as well be a fossil at the La Brea only difference was Cole Porter’s house was in Technicolor. CHRIS DUFRESNE tar pits. The former Loyola quarterback and throwback The USFL’s failure was not remotely Klosterman’s retired from the Los bon vivant roamed a habitat where deals were sealed fault, yet he took defeat personally. This was the Loyola Angeles Times after with firm handshakes and harder bourbon. High-speed quarterback in him, the “Duke of Del Rey,” the competi- 34 years during which technology was a rotary-dial phone delivered to your table tive synapses from 1949 to ’51 still firing. he covered a variety of sports, including at the Polo Lounge. Millennials probably don’t know Like many athletes, Klosterman kept his hurt inside — UNIVERSITY MARYMOUNT LOYOLA WILLIAM H. HANNON LIBRARY OF UNIVERSITY RECORDS, ARCHIVES COURTESY PHOTOS the USFL, NFL, golf, Klosterman’s death in June 2000, at age 70, warranted and he hurt more than most. Pain had been his constant baseball, boxing front-page news in the Los Angeles Times: “A City Loses companion since 1957, when a near-fatal skiing accident and seven Olympic One of Its Best Friends.” led to last rites being administered three times. Games. For 20 years He was eulogized, in Sacred Heart Chapel, by Sen. Ted Klosterman hated disappointing people, no matter he was the paper’s Kennedy, Frank Gifford, Bill Walsh and Al Michaels. their station in life. Even though he required a cane to national college foot- Don who? get around, Klosterman loved kibitzing with Express ball and basketball If only his name rang a church bell. Go ask your grand- employees on his long walk to his back office. columnist. Dufresne dad, or a Rams’ fan from the 1970s, or an LMU grad from Klosterman was sickened to have been associated with has won numer- ous writing awards, 1952, or even me, who came to know Klosterman on the an organization that left mom-and-pop venders holding including California Bel-Air (Country Club) back nine of his career. bounced checks. Sports Writer of I last visited him in 1985, high above La Cienega Bou- “To see creditors not being paid is sinful,” Klosterman the Year in 2011. A levard, in the Hollywood Hills. He lived in Cole Porter’s told me at the time. Los Angeles native, old house and seemed as comfortable there as a cigar in This was not the measure of the Loyola man who Don Klosterman set eight he resides in Chino a humidor. I was a young reporter for the big-city news- befriended his community and was reciprocally beloved, NCAA passing records as Hills, California, with paper, and Klosterman was a broken front-office man, even by sports writers. Klosterman, in fact, served as a quarterback for Loyola his wife and three having just presided over the dumpster-fire collapse of pallbearer at legendary L.A. Times columnist Jim Mur- children. University. He was the na- the Los Angeles Express and the United States Football ray’s 1998 funeral. tion’s leading passer and League. The return of the Rams to Los Angeles, after the an All-American in 1951. Approaching the compound (cue dramatic soundtrack) 20-year kidnapping by St. Louis, offers a chance to reflect reminded me of the opening scene of Xanadu in “Citizen on a pre-ESPN age when the Los Angeles Rams held

36 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 37 A SKIING ACCIDENT IN BANFF, ALBERTA, ON NEW YEAR’S DAY IN 1957 WRECKED Assistant Coach Jerry Neri talks out a play HIS CAREER. TOLD HE WOULD NEVER WALK AGAIN, KLOSTERMAN CHUCKED with Don Klosterman, No. 10, and other A FLOWER VASE AT HIS DOCTOR. HE CRAWLED FROM HIS HOSPITAL BED TO members of the Loyola football team offense. BECOME ONE OF PRO FOOTBALL’S PREMIER TALENT SCOUTS AND EXECUTIVES.

court in the city square. Klosterman’s successful run with the Rams, Klosterman was an integral cog in that hey- however, was irrevocably altered after Rosen- day as Rams’ general manager during the bloom’s drowning death in 1979. A family roaring ’70s — ruling the roost as he hosted squabble put Klosterman in a political pickle daily happy hours. between Rosenbloom’s wife, Georgia Fron- “He knew the mayor, the governor, the tiere, who inherited a 70 percent stake in the studio heads, the movie stars,” sports agent Rams, and her stepson, Steve. Klosterman Leigh Steinberg says. “He had style and was eventually forced out in 1982. panache. His clothes were exquisite, his nails He summed it up to the Times at the time. manicured, his cologne unmistakable.” “I stayed with the Rams because Carroll told Everyone agrees: Hating Klosterman was me I had a lifetime contract,” he said. “Unfor- almost impossible. tunately, it was his lifetime, not mine.” Steinberg and Klosterman had competing Klosterman resurfaced in late 1983 when interests when, in 1984, they hammered out he was hired to build the L.A. Express into the then-preposterous $40 million contract a powerhouse so big it might someday get for Express quarterback Steve Young. absorbed into the NFL. It would be just like Super agents don’t typically get swept away the AFL — or so he thought. by upper management. Express owner J. William Oldenburg, a self- “Yet,” Steinberg says, “he drew you instantly proclaimed billionaire known as “Mr. Dyna- into his web of friendship.” mite,” gave Klosterman a blank check and a Klosterman even invited Steinberg to the mandate. Klosterman spent $12 million on opening ceremonies for the 1984 Los Ange- players, signing 31 of the nation’s top collegiate Klosterman surpassed his collegiate success by les Olympic Games. Steinberg says he was prospects. Two of those stars, Steve Young and achieving even more as a pro football executive with shocked to step into a town car that included the Chargers, Chiefs, Colts and Rams. lineman Gary Zimmerman, became eventual Ethel Kennedy, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden Hall of Fame players in the NFL. and Frank Gifford. the Orange Bowl. Loyola mothballed the pro- The Express made it to the USFL play- “He knew everybody,” Steinberg chuckles gram, though, as Klosterman was leaving it. offs in 1984 before the money well dried over the phone from his Newport Beach offices. Klosterman’s pro career got short-changed up. Oldenburg turned out to be a financial “Anyone he met became his instant best friend. when he had the unfortunate luck of being fraud, forcing the USFL to take over owner- He was a raconteur, par excellence.” drafted by the Cleveland Browns, who ship. The Express never stood a chance, in Klosterman was the tactile type, a people- employed legendary quarterback Otto Graham. part, because the league refused to replace person who would have rejected the “Mon- The Browns then shipped him west to the L.A. injured players. The team lost 11 players to eyball” wonks of today who think algorithms Rams — uh, thanks a lot — to back up two super- season-ending injuries in 1985 and finished are the way to build championship sporting stars: Norm Van Brocklin and Bob Waterfield. 3-15. With no healthy running backs left on franchises. He oversaw the Rams to seven Klosterman sought refuge in the Canadian the roster, Young, the prized quarterback, straight NFC West divisional titles, from 1973 Football League, but a skiing accident, on played running back in the last game. The to 1979, before the franchise slowly slipped New Year’s Day in 1957, wrecked his career. USFL fired Klosterman shortly before the into family-ownership dysfunction. Told he would never walk again, Klosterman team, and the league, folded. He was a hometown hero executive who chucked a flower vase at his doctor. Klosterman extracted every ounce of fun ephemerally drifted — much like the Rams He crawled from his hospital bed to become from life, yet strangely, he actually deserved did when they left for St. Louis — out of our one of pro football’s premier talent scouts and to be luckier. It’s a shame more people don’t collective consciousness. executives. He started in 1960 with the Los know the story of his rise from Le Mars, Iowa, Posterity shortchanged Klosterman, in part Angeles Chargers of the original American as one of 15 children. The family ended up in because his Los Angeles moorings became Football League. Klosterman followed the Compton, of all places, but it was the place a public television episode of Ralph Story’s franchise to San Diego the next season, where where Klosterman would continue to defy “Things That Aren’t Here Anymore.” Loyola his main job was prying top collegiate pros- the odds. dropped football, the Chargers moved to pects from the rival NFL. His partner in early Patrick J. Cahalan, S.J., LMU’s chancellor San Diego, the Rams moved to St. Louis, Charger crimes was a brash young upstart who presided over Klosterman’s funeral in the USFL folded. named Al Davis. 2000, captured his spirit in one sentence. You almost needed a notary and a witness Klosterman later built the Kansas City “I once invited Don to a retreat,” Caha- to prove Klosterman, in 1951, led the nation in Chiefs into an AFL power before being lured lan said. “Don said, ‘I’m not retreating: I’m passing, completing 33 of 63 passes against the to the NFL by Baltimore Colts’ owner Car- advancing.’ ” University of Florida. He was an All-America roll Rosenbloom. He helped Baltimore to Klosterman, no doubt, would have hosted in a bygone era when small western schools a 1971 Super Bowl title and then followed a grand party to celebrate the Rams’ recent like Loyola, Saint Mary’s, and the University Rosenbloom west to L.A. in 1972. return. of San Francisco played major-level football. Jim Murray once wrote that Klosterman And even if he seems more like “The Ghost If you can believe it: Only a 2-point loss to “put more championship teams on the field of Del Rey” these days, well, didn’t he know Santa Clara in 1950 denied Loyola a bid to than Knute Rockne.” all the haunts?

38 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 39 LMU(sports) Below the Surface Women’s Water Polo ERIN BYRNE ’16 POSITION: OFFENSE

ELEANOR LEE ’17 POSITION: DEFENSE

What happens under the water? Eleanor: “Grabbing, pushing, shoving, muscling, checking, kicking, pulling on the arm, getting elbowed in the face.”

Do you take pushes, grabs and kicks per- sonally? Erin:“If it’s part of the general physicality, no. But there are instances when a girl tries to hurt you, and that’s when I LMU take it personally.”

Eleanor: “If you’re not

physical in this game, SPORTS then you’re going to get overpowered by SPORTS someone who is.”

Are there players who are absolutely,

LMU unforgivingly relentless? Erin: “Yes. I played with Maggie Steffens, now on the U.S. national team, at the U-16 level. She gave 100 percent the entire game. She was relentless. That helped inspire me to change my game: to be more serious and play hard from the first whistle to the last whistle.”

Eleanor: “That’s the player you want to be, and the player you look forward to playing with, and the player who you fear playing against. That’s the best player.”

SPORTSLINE 1.25.16 3.4.16 3.23.16 3.25.16 4.11.16 4.25.16 Adom’s Week 1,000 x 3 Rowing Lights No. 1 and Counting Honors for Dirks Slugger Brown Junior Adom Jacko earns In a WCC tournament Junior Briar Murphy and In their 17th match Junior outfielder Catcher Cassidy the WCC Player of the game against Saint Mary’s, Ruth Morris, a graduate stu- against UCSB, ranked Amanda Dirks is named Brown takes WCC Week award by averag- junior Leslie Lopez-Wood dent, are named to the WCC No. 51, men’s tennis WCC Player of the Week Player of the Week ing 24.5 points and 8 joins seniors Sophie Taylor All-Conference preseason takes down the after hitting three hom- honors when he slugs rebounds in two games. and Deanna Johnson in rowing team in a coaches’ Gauchos, 4–3, after ers and driving in 11 as .647, hits four doubles His dunks vs. USD make scoring more than 1,000 poll, with LMU women falling behind 2–0 in the the Lions take a series and drives in five vs. CBSSports.com highlights. career points. picked to finish third. first two matches. from BYU. Pacific and CSUB.

40 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 41 SLIDESHOW View archival photos from Letter From South Bend the historic 1986 baseball season at magazine.lmu.edu. (alumni) DEAR LMU When I began classes at LMU in sad eyes who had already missed a flag foot- gious education. LMU the fall of 1975, I had a simple goal: to graduate ball game because they didn’t have a coach. Somewher e along the line, I also took a with an English degree and to work for the Los I spent the year at St. Augustine. closer look at the religion books my stu- Angeles Times as a sportswriter. Lat er, when the Times didn’t meet me on the dents were using and thought, “I could write The precursor for a change of plans began bluff with an offer on graduation day in 1979, I these.” I put a résumé together and passed in my junior year, when I responded to an ad drew on my previous experience and called the them out to publishers at the crowded an- to teach PE and coach sports at St. Augustine Archdiocesan office for Catholic schools. nual Religious Education Congress in Ana- Catholic School in Culver City, California. I “ Any coaching jobs?” I asked the lady on the heim, California. I was offered two jobs. went to meet with the principal, Sister Sheila phone. “One,” she said. “At St. Monica’s in San- I’v e written and edited catechetical materi- The Road to Omaha Marie. By the time I navigated the chaos of ta Monica.” als ever since, with the past 23 years at Ave screaming kids at lunch recess on the way to My first basketball team at St. Monica Cath- Maria Press, located on the campus of the ing UCLA, UC Santa Barbara in a her office, I gave in to second thoughts and olic Elementary won the sixth-grade Catho- University of Notre Dame. And I have won- rematch, and Hawaii. The team’s of- decided to hightail it back to my green Toyo- lic Youth Organization championship. I was dered, at times, how my life might be different fense exploded, recording run totals ta parked near the car wash on Venice Blvd. hooked. I stayed at St. Monica’s for 14 years. if, way back when, the door near the princi- of 12, 10, 14 and 12 in those games. But the nearest school exit was locked with a I went from coaching to teaching eighth grade pal’s office had been unlocked, and I was able chain. When I attempted to retrace my steps, to being the director of religious education to escape back to LMU. THE MAJORS That stretch advanced the Lions into Sister Shelia Marie had me cornered. She im- for the parish. During those years, I also went the tournament’s next round, known mediately took me to a room full of boys with back to LMU and got a graduate degree in reli- Michael Amodei ’79, M.A. ’86 The stellar 1986 LMU as the College World Series, played team sent several in Omaha. Eight teams would vie for players on to base- the national title: Arizona, Florida ball’s major leagues. State, Indiana State, LMU, Louisi- Outfielder Billy Bean (see Page 26) played ana State University, Maine, Miami for the Detroit Tigers, (Fla.) and Oklahoma State. None had fewer than 41 wins; two teams were making their 13th CWS appear- ance. LMU Coach Dave Snow told one reporter: “Our biggest strength LMU is intangibles. What we got going for us is team spirit and feeling.” In the first wot matches, LMU

would face LSU and Oklahoma State. ALUMNI Now a baseball powerhouse, LSU, Los Angeles Dodgers like the Lions, were playing their first ALUMNI and the San Diego CWS games ever. Oklahoma State, on IRWIN WONG BY PHOTO Padres. Pitcher Jim the other hand, had won 28 games in Bruske wore jerseys previous CWS appearances. Opening of the Dodgers, against LSU, the Lions snatched a 4–3 LMU Padres, Milwaukee win. But they lost a close one, 7–5, Brewers and New to Arizona, the eventual champion. York Yankees. Third baseman Chris Don- Thirty years ago, the LMU baseball winning streak and also won 20 of 21 With a loss to Oklahoma State in the nels took the field team put the program’s best perfor- in the midseason. That run earned next game, the Lions’ run was over. with the Houston mance into the record book, setting them a No. 1 ranking by ESPN. LMU Theirs was a remarkable season, Astros, Dodgers, New a standard ever since. This past April finished the season tied with Pepper- and no team performs at that level York Mets, Arizona 16, the veterans of that club able to dine for first place, which set up a one- without all cylinders firing, so to Diamondbacks and be present were toasted in a pregame game, winner-take-all meeting, “all” speak. But Billy Bean ’86, now Major Boston Red Sox. tailgate and honored on the field by being short for the WCAC automatic League Baseball’s Ambassador for The late Tim Layana fans attending a game with archrival bid to the NCAA tournament. Taking Inclusion, paid special tribute to a was a member of Pepperdine. the field at UCLA’s Jackie Robinson teammate in an April 2016 interview the Cincinnati Reds, including the 1990 The ’86 Lions won 50 games and Stadium, the Lions took all that day, with LMU Magazine: “We rode Tim World Series cham- lost 15, which represented an unprec- with 14–9 victory. Layana’s right arm all the way to the pions, and the San edented improvement — 23 more wins In a double-elimination tourna- College World Series.” Francisco Giants. — compared with the season before, ment, LMU lost its opener to UC and their West Coast Athletic Confer- Santa Barbara, played, again, at the In the 1986 College World Series, LMU beat ence record was an outstanding 19–5. Bruins’ site. But the team then got LSU, 4–3, before losing to baseball powers The team steamed through a 13-game the winning streak it needed, beat- Arizona, 7–5, and Oklahoma State, 11–5.

CALENDAR 7.9.16 8.20.16 8.25.16 Healing Workshop AFO Santa Ana AAAA Soiree Join Professor Emeritus Wilkie Volunteer your time to The African American Alumni Au, who taught Christian spiritu- help Loaves & Fishes in Association hosts a Happy ality at LMU, and his wife, Noreen Santa Ana, California, Hour at Rush Street in Culver Cannon Au, in a workshop that distribute backpacks and City, California, for members explores shame and healing school supplies to families to network and enjoy one through gospel stories. Go to in need. For more, go to another’s company. Go to academics.lmu.edu/extension. alumni.lmu.edu/events. alumni.lmu.edu/events.

42 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 43 SLIDESHOW Send us your wedding photos or those of the newest addition to your Milestones Weddings and Births family at magazine.lmu.edu.

1 Kyra-lin Hom ’11 and Chad 1 2 3 Richman ’11 2 Rosie, Joe ’09 and Prestyn (Lozano) Dowdalls ’09 Love Story Mary Kelly ’84 and Robert Watson ’84, M.A. ’89 3 Julie Jarosz ’99 and Joshua Aviña 4 Matilda Faith, Adrienne (Ty- genhof) ’06 and Andrew Page 5 Kris Kolstad ’03 and Robin Zamora ’03, ’07 6 Jessica Obenberger ’10 and James Schaefer ’10 7 Corben, Amanda (Pinnell) ’07 and Blake Feaser ’07 Against All Odds 8 Joe Nallia III ’12 and Danielle Ladd THE FALL 9 Jalil and Jilaan, Navella Early in their relationship, Mary attended (Hutchings) Richard ’03 a party at the Hut, in the Desmond Hall base- ment. It was a dark basement. Treacherously 7 dark. “There was a depression in the floor. Send us your wedding I fell, and my ankle did a full 360. I couldn’t get photos or those of the new- up. I crawled to a phone and called Bob, and est addition to your fam- he carried me across campus to Tendrich.” ily. We’ll print them here on the Milestones page for THE SCHOLARSHIP your fellow alumni to see. During his sophomore year, Bob, a rugby For wedding shots, please player, learned his father’s cancer diagnosis 4 5 6 send photos of the mar- might force him to leave LMU for lack of rieds, rather than groups

funds. But a Jesuit intervention kept Bob LMU or wedding parties. Please on campus. “Somehow,” Mary recalls, “[the send high-resolution pho- Jesuits] cooked up a scholarship for students tos (300 dpi) and be sure who played rugby and had a parent diag- to identify everybody in ALUMNI the photo with names and, nosed with cancer.” That may have saved when appropriate, class their future marriage, as well as Bob’s degree. ALUMNI years. Email your photos “I don’t know if we would’ve gotten married,” 118 9 to [email protected]. says Mary, “because our relationship wasn’t strong enough at that point.” Later, she and Bob realized the offer wasn’t a scholarship LMU but an act of great generosity.

THE WEDDING Mary (Kelly) Watson ma- Bob and Mary (Kelly) Watson’s courtship Bob and Mary had hoped to get married in jored in business adminis- may have been a classic storybook tale — Sacred Heart Chapel shortly after gradua- tration as an undergradu- ate. She teaches yoga except for unexpected twists and turns along tion. But with the 1984 Summer Olympics and leads laughter yoga the way. turning Los Angeles into a madhouse, they classes and seminars in delayed their wedding until September. Fi- Ventura County, California. THE MOVIE nally Sept. 8, 1984, arrived, a day to remem- Robert Watson studied “Breaking Away” brought them together. Sort ber. It was a warm summer day. In fact, liberal arts as an under- of. Bob and Mary saw the film on campus. very warm: 108 degrees warm, the hottest graduate and earned a master’s degree in educa- They shared the experience but not exactly Sept. 8th on record up till then, and since. tion. He started his career together. Bob, sitting several rows behind They left the un-air-conditioned chapel, 14 15 as a public school social Mary, had seen the hit film already, and he passed through that year’s annual Alumni studies teacher and is now proceeded to loudly discuss upcoming scenes. BBQ and made their way to the off-campus the assistant principal of “I was really annoyed that someone was talk- un-air-conditioned reception, where their Conejo Valley High School ing about the movie’s events before they had wedding cake collapsed in the heat. But the in Thousand Oaks. happened,” Mary remembers. “He likes to do marriage, now 31-years strong, was built on that. It’s really annoying.” a solid foundation. It still stands.

CALENDAR 8.25.16 9.24.16 9.24.16 9.25.16 9.25.16 9.25.16 Global Happy Hour ’66 Golden Lions ’06, ’91, ’66 Reunions Alumni BBQ Admissions 101 3-on-3 Alumni Tourney Alumni around the world Alumni who graduated The 10-, 25- and 50-year Members of the LMU Bring your high school-aged The 31st Annual 3-on-3 will gather to celebrate after 1966 are invited to our class reunions will be classes of 2011, 2001, children or grandchildren to Alumni Basketball Tourna- the new LMU school year. annual luncheon with held on Saturday night 1996, 1986, 1981, 1976 and a workshop hosted by the ment will be held Sunday If you are interested in President Snyder to of Alumni Weekend. For 1971 will celebrate their Undergraduate Admission morning, Sept. 25, before hosting a happy hour in welcome the class of ’66 more details about these reunion at the annual BBQ. office to learn the latest on the 63rd Annual LMU your area, email us at into the Golden Lions. Go events, go to alumni.lmu. For more, go to alumni. the LMU admissions process. Alumni BBQ. Go to alumni. [email protected]. to alumni.lmu.edu/events. edu/reunion. lmu.edu/bbq. Visit alumni.lmu.edu/events. lmu.edu/events.

44 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 45 VIDEO Malcolm Dicks ’94 talks about his path from LMU student to county fire captain. See the Field Work Malcolm Dicks ’94 video at at magazine.lmu.edu. Chat Bo Hamby ’16

FIRE CAPT. BIOGRAPHY MALCOLM DICKS 1 We use wooden 2 The rotary saw 3 The silver can- 4 The long black 5 We’re all Dispatches 1948 to 2015 BO HAMBY ’16 is in charge of Los ladders because is used for forceful ister is an extin- pipe is a suction required to carry ART HISTORY Angeles County Fire wood doesn’t entry. This isn’t guisher that holds hose that’s espe- a flashlight, which MAJOR Station 125, in Cala- conduct electric- the Jaws of Life two and a half cially useful in Cal- we use to see at basas, California. ity. You can’t get saw, but it will cut gallons of water. ifornia. If our water night or within A paramedic as well 1948 and an LMU Regent represent before and after Los Angeles New Wave shocked if a power through doors and The “can man” on sources are down smoke. It also Vincent Migliazzo Emerita, was appointed to school programs in urban International Film Festival as a firefighter, Dicks line comes down. bars on windows to an engine uses in an earthquake, emits a strobe, didn’t wait until after [SciEng] earned a place the Federal Reserve Bank regions. for his “Only Me (Solo Yo).” This one weighs rescue people, and it before we’ve we can put it in a so if you fall or on LMU’s Wall of Fame for of San Francisco’s Eco- graduation to decide 110 lbs. and is it can cut through stretched a water pond or a backyard are injured, it will on a career. “I knew his dedication to young nomic Advisory Council. 1993 2005 designed for one a car door. line to a fire. A pool and suck the signal to the others people. He has earned a Her post became effective Shannon Ryan [CFA] Xochiltl Bravo [LibArts] After four years of hard this was my calling person. good can man can water into a pump that you’re hurt. between my fresh- Purple Heart, Bronze Star Feb. 1, 2016. was named executive vice is the executive director put out a room fire on the engine. and Philippine Liberation president of marketing of Urban Compass, an work and study, I’ve man and sopho- with that. Medal as a combat medic 1987 and communications organization that provides more years, when for performing treacher- Brian Helgeland [CFA] for Fox Television Group tutoring, mentoring and finally earned my degree. I changed my major ous assault landings dur- wrote and directed in November 2015. She enrichment activities for from engineering ing World War II. “Legend,” a film released oversees publicity and underserved youth in I’m eager to get to work, to biology.” After in September 2015 about corporate communica- Watts and South Central his LMU gradua- 1972 1960s London gangsters tions, as well as talent Los Angeles. Prior to her but I’d also like to see tion, Dicks began his Steve Randtke [SciEng] Reggie and Ronnie Kray. relations, for 20th Century work with Urban Compass, service by training was retained by the He wrote “L.A. Confiden- Fox Television and Fox 21 she was manager of com- the world. Should I travel to be a paramedic Kansas Department of tial,” and he wrote and Television studios. munity engagement and for two months at Health and Environment directed “42.” advocacy for Partnership now or get started right Station No. 34 in to develop guidelines for Renata Simril [LibArts] for Los Angeles Schools, Crenshaw with the 4 water reuse, a topic he 1990 was named president and a nonprofit organization away on my career? L.A. City Fire Depart- began working on at the Roxanne Hill [LibArts] CEO of LA84 Foundation in focusing on the lowest- ment. There he met Los Angeles Department is the program administra- January 2016. Located in performing schools in Definitely travel! I spent a year living and work- Fire Capt. Larry Boyle Heights, Watts and ing in New Zealand after I graduated from Croghan ’80. “He South Los Angeles. LMU. My current employers thought it showed LMU really helped me. Kellie Janeski ’15 is captain of the Clip- my maturity and independence, as well as my He took me aside 2006 ability and willingness to work hard. Mollie and said, ‘Look, you Matilda Faith was born Bruhl ’13 (via Facebook) pers Spirit, the cheerleading squad of the to Adrienne (Tygenhof)

need to be a fireman ALUMNI in addition to being 1 Page [LibArts] and her Los Angeles Clippers pro basketball team. husband, Andrew Page, My advice is to land a job that you want. There a paramedic. You’re is always vacation time to travel. If you can’t made for this job.’ ” on Oct. 27, 2015. ALUMNI of Water and Power in tor and assistant to the Los Angeles, LA84 funds find a job initially that leads to something Dicks says what he you want to do and if you can afford to travel likes most about his 1973. executive director at the youth sports in Southern 2010 Center for Juvenile Law California, trains coaches Andrew Kurt was born without too much financial worry, then travel! job is how it changes Tony Bailey ’96 (via Instagram) from day to day. 1978 and Policy at Loyola Law and examines the role of to Nick Schneider

LMU Dena Maloney [LibArts] School in Los Angeles. sports in society. [BusAdm] and Christine “I never know what When I’m done with my Ph.D. next year, the we’re going to go 3 was selected as the first She is also a member of (Reinertson) Schneider into: a brushfire, female president of El the Board of Directors of 2001 [CFA ’11] on Sept. 22, 2015. first thing I want to do is travel. I regret not tak- a high-rise fire, or 2 Camino College in Tor- Global Girl Project, which Jose Garcia [LibArts, ing time to explore the world when I finished I may fly in a helicop- rance, California. She was is based in Los Angeles GradBusAdm ’05] and 2014 at LMU, and I won’t make that mistake again. previously the president and works to mobilize his wife, Edith, welcomed Katherine Lucas Sarah Carratt ’13 (via LinkedIn) ter, deliver a baby, 5 and superintendent of Taft young women around the their daughter, Victoria Lucas [SFTV] won a global or save a grandfather College, in Taft, California. world for social change Celeste, into the world contest by Nix Hydra, Travel while the dollar is strong and until the from a heart attack. through community on Sept. 25, 2015. She a gaming company, by The service portion student loans come knocking — which is in 1980 organizing and social weighed 7 lbs., 4 oz. creating what she calls six months. Vlad Galyuz ’02 (via Instagram) of the fire depart- Christopher Garner entrepreneurship. Hill also “a cooperative, multi- ment’s work is what [BusAdm, GradBusAdm is a certified private fitness 2002 player game that is depen- I like the most.” It depends on the purpose of the travel. Hang- ’84] is the general man- trainer and a volunteer Margaret Grundstein dent upon friendship and ing out on a tropical beach drinking beer would ager of the Long Beach chaplain to incarcerated [GradLibArts] wrote “Naked sharing resources.” Nix be fun, but traveling to other countries — or Water Department in men and women at Men’s in the Woods,” a memoir Hydra hired Katie as one Long Beach, California. Central Jail and Twin Tow- published by Oregon State of their staff members. even other parts of the U.S. — to experience He began his position in ers Correctional Facility University Press, that the culture would be a positive experience September 2015. in Los Angeles, and at the chronicles her journey in the André Robert [SFTV] is a that would benefit you for the rest of your life. Century Regional Deten- 1970s when she dropped filmmaker whose “Zafiro” John Grace ’81 (via LinkedIn) 1983 tion Facility in Lynwood, out of a graduate program was featured at the Shnit Virginia Furmanski California. at Yale University to move International Shortfilm- I was lucky to sign a contract with LAUSD [GradCFA] had an exhibit to a commune in an Oregon festival in Costa Rica in before graduation, so I started my teaching of her prints featured at 1992 forest. October 2015 and again career immediately. Times are much different Fox Fine Jewelry in Ven- Tony Brown [CFA], at the Festival de Cine de now. So I’d say to go with the best opportunity, tura, California, in Novem- executive director of Carlos Hurtado [SFTV], Madrid-PNR in Madrid. whether it’s travel or work. No regrets, you ber 2015. The exhibit was Heart of Los Angeles, was a director and producer, know? Jenin (Vergara) Gin ’03 (via Instagram) titled “The Pressed Image, appointed to the California won the Best Short Docu- 2015 Hand-Pulled Works on Department of Education’s mentary award at the 2014 Mariele Courtois Paper.” Advisory Committee for Los Angeles Film Festival [SciEng] wrote “Stained- CHAT WITH US Chat is an LMU Magazine feature Before and After School for his “Hollygrove: The Glass People,” an article that links current students with alumni by using 1984 Programs in February True Life Story of Monser- for America Magazine social media to get alumni answers to student Rosemary Turner 2016. He is one of two rat.” He also won the Best about the May 2008 LMU questions. Post your suggestions for questions at [BusAdm], president Senate Rules Committee Director and Best Music commencement address LMU’s LinkedIn page: www.lmu.edu/linkedin or of UPS Northern California appointees designated to Video awards at the 2014 by Peg Dolan, R.S.H.M. email us at [email protected].

46 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 47 VIDEO Food blogger Garrett Snyder ’09 talks about some of his favorite L.A. street foods at Favorites Garrett Snyder ’09 magazine.lmu.edu.

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48 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 49 ONLINE To see a complete list of Dispatches for this issue of LMU Magazine, go to Snapshot Favorite L.A. Haunts Current Issue at magazine.lmu.edu. Profile Tara Duncan ’03

When we asked you, our readers, in March In the course of a sin- to share with us your favorite L.A. haunts, I wondered how you could possibly decide. gle day, Tara Duncan My choice seems too difficult to make: The might hear a pitch for a sanctuary of La Placita, Our Lady Queen of new series read a script Angels, at Olvera Street, as the ever-present In Memoriam for a show in produc- prayerful litany fills the air with a wordy tion, and watch the incense; Dodger Stadium, upper deck, on a dailies for yet another balmy springtime evening when the day has James T. Brennan [Sci- William A. Chilton [Sci- Dennis F. Rickard Eng ’47] on March 9, 2015 Eng ’66] on Dec. 5, 2015 [BusAdm ’75] on Dec. 13, program. She might turned halfway toward the night; the Grand 2015 work on a show about Central Market, where the aromas shift every John H. Rolfs [LibArts Richard P. Treloar [Sci- women in prison, drug dealers in ’80s Co- five seconds, faster than a slideshow; the ’48] on March 8, 2016 Eng ’66] on Nov. 16, 2015 Robert G. Gross [SciEng noir-ish tunnels of the 110 North, heading to lombia or eight telepathically linked people Bridget (Carberry) Montgomery ’97 David S. Takeuchi ’81 ’77] on Nov. 10, 2015 living from Berlin to Mumbai. Pasadena; Dockweiler State Beach, when the Martha L. Abert [SciEng Joseph Godges [BusAdm The job might leave some people entirely LAX jets are landing low from west to east; ’50] on Jan. 1, 2016 ’69] on Oct. 28, 2015 John M. Shramm [CFA the labyrinthine cave that is the Museum of ’83] on Dec. 14, 2015 scattered. But the range of subjects and re- Jurassic Technology, where shrouded light and John W. Myres [LibArts Robert Carney [LibArts sponsibilities suits Duncan, who is director close walls make the experience as mysterious ’50] on Jan. 12, 2016 ’69] on Dec. 5, 2014 Jean A. Stage [GradEd of original series at Netflix. “It goes from YA as any of the exhibits; the spectacular plaza of BARBARA PEARSON ’84] on July 15, 2015 [Young Adult] to a dark, edgy drama,” she says Francis L. Shigo, S.V.D. the Getty Center; the majestic Vincent Thomas Eugene Ensch [BusAdm CLEETON ’58 of the company’s roster of streaming shows. [SciEng ’69] on Sept. 29, Maren C. Angelotti Bridge, a swooping work of art amid the L.A.- ’51] on Nov. 13, 2015 “We’re open to everything.” Her career has Long Beach ports; Laurel and Hardy’s Music 2006 [LibArts ’90] on Aug. 19, Box Steps in Silver Lake, which connect L.A.’s Edward J. Komin Barbara Pearson Clee- 2015 been similarly flexible. present and past. They say Los Angeles is [BusAdm ’51] on Dec. 29, ton [BusAdm ’58] on Oct. David C. Surges [BusAdm Duncan came to LMU already enam- a place for dreams, but its reality is just as 2014 11, 2015 ’70] on Jan. 26, 2016 Rev. Donalda Mary Wil- ored with film and television; she’d even wondrous.—The Editor. liams [LibArts ’90] on Nov. written scripts as a preteen in the Inland Dean D. Domonoske [Sci- Leon W. Doty [BusAdm Gilda Jennings [CFA ’73] 4, 2015 Empire. When she was older, she loved Eng ’58] on Jan. 22, 2016 on Feb. 29, 2016 Dinah’s Family Restaurant, Joseph Ross ’80 The Shack Sports Grill, Cynthia Moll ’84, ’06 ’52] on Oct. 18, 2015 both the urban darkness of “Pulp Fiction” Robert A. Berdell [CFA LMU Charles P. Hass [BusAdm ’94] on Nov. 21, 2015 and the teen angst of the TV series “My ’58] on Feb. 27, 2016 So-Called Life.” Film seemed to her the Amy Redmann Hoge more substantial, and appealing, medium. Edward G. Arvizo [BusAdm ’95] on Sept. But through an internship at ABC, she ALUMNI [BusAdm ’59] on Dec. 14, 25, 2012 learned that the energy of television suited 2015 her better. “I really loved the pace of TV,” James E. Jobes [GradEd ALUMNI Brian K. Brandmeyer ’01] on Jan. 6, 2015 she says. “You could go pitch an idea and [BusAdm ’59, Law ’62] on find out right away if you can make it,” she Jan. 1, 2016 Mary A. Torres [CFA ’01] says. Movies, by contrast, seemed to move on Sept. 19, 2015 at a glacial pace.

LMU John F. Debs [SciEng ’59] RICHARD P. Duncan, who was a communications ma- MARY A. TORRES ’01 on Feb. 11, 2016 James E. Jobes [GradEd TRELOAR ’66 jor, started at LMU in 1999 — the same year ’01] on Jan. 6, 2015 The Palisades, Jane Richardson M.A. ’07 “Urban Light,” LACMA, Christina Archambault ’18 Staples Center, Andrea Evans M.A. ’16 George W. Soto [LibArts Michael E. Horgan “The Sopranos” premiered, helping prove ’52] on Dec. 1, 2014 [BusAdm ’59] on Aug. 16, Mark L. Travis [SciEng Father Felix K. Dalimpuo how ambitious and sophisticated television 2015 ’73] on June 6, 2015 [LibArts ’07] on Nov. 4, could be. Her career has expanded alongside John R. Sharp [SciEng 2015 the medium. “I’ve been able to work in televi- John T. Cunneen [SciEng ’53] on Nov. 29, 2015 Leroy A. Jauman [SciEng sion,” she says, “as it’s gotten more cinematic. ’62] on June 30, 2015 ’74] on Sept. 9, 2014 I’ve been lucky enough that as my personal Vivian Collins [LibArts ’54] on Jan. 7, 2016 Craig S. Sullivan [SciEng Jess J. Gonzalez [LibArts interests have changed, so has the business.” ’65] on Sept. 19, 2015 ’75] on Jan. 5, 2016 Duncan, who came to Netflix after stints Patricia Doyle Lucas at AMC, HBO and BET, now works on shows [GradEd ’54] on Dec. 13, William T. Wall III [ScEng John P. Heideman like “Orange Is the New Black,” “Narcos” and ’65] on Jan. 20, 2016 2015 [LibArts ’75] on Jan. 18, “Sense8.” Her timing is, once again, perfect: 2016 In the past few years, Netflix has gone from Thomas S. Pascoe [Sci- Eng ’57] on Feb. 2, 2014 mailing out discs in white-and-red envelopes Walt Disney Concert Hall, Patrick Utz ’20 Manhattan Beach Pier, Nancy Marcello M.B.A. ’02 Jim Morrison Cave, Candace Williams ’15 to creating dozens of new series and stream- ing them to viewers in almost 200 countries. “Our slate has more than doubled,” she says of the company’s original series. “I think I was the sixth person my team. Now there are about 20 executives.” 11.22.16 CALENDAR 10.14.16 The expansion has also seen the tech- ADG Golf Tourney AAAA Fundraiser nology keep changing. “I don’t even use The Alpha Delta Gamma Help support LMU students at the word ‘television’ anymore,” Duncan Annual Golf Tournament is the annual fundraiser that rec- says, since these shows are increasingly open to all alumni. Proceeds ognizes outstanding alumni and not viewed on TVs. “They might be watch- from the event support the friends, and benefits the African ADG Alumni Scholarship. American Alumni Association ing on their phones. It changes the way For more, go to alumni.lmu. Scholarship Fund. Go to alumni. stories are told. It feels like the medium The Butcher’s Daughter cafe, Madison Muller ’19 Echo Park Lake, Keana Flores ’16 James F. Cathey III MA '10 edu/events. lm.edu/events. is still evolving.” — Scott Timberg

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University, I have come to understand tra- fice job, to help care for Mary, and suddenly dition in a new way. The first time I visited had the time to do something that had long the storied university, I realized that the intrigued me. I took advantage of the 30-day cultural mystique surrounding it was quite free trial on Ancestry.com and spent most well grounded. In many ways, Oxford is as of the next month in my pajamas, following arcane as the literature that I study. From the those little green pop-up leaves into the vast ancient buildings to the enigmatic rituals, branches of my family tree. spending time there is like stepping back It was engrossing and addicting, and as a into the high Middle Ages (c.1000–1300). special side bonus, somewhat slimming, as Because of this powerful sense of tradition, I kept forgetting to eat. I have been immersed in a feeling of shared What I found was both fascinating and infu- identity stretching back eight centuries. riating, because, you see, I was totally wrong. Oxford’s tradition appealed to me be- So many things I assumed about myself cause it helped me think more critically and my family were quite simply untrue. about my own time. For me, history is a For example, I have long been a fierce de- mirror of the present, showing the trajectory fender of recent immigrants to our country of modern humanity. The poet W.B. Yeats because I always believed I am one of them. believed all history circles back to repeat My Irish ancestors were driven to emigrate itself in some new way. This is evident all by the Irish Potato Famine, and my Italian around us, as our American society has, in great-grandfather — my bisnonno — stowed fact, started a dangerous course back toward away on a boat out of Genoa because he the Middle Ages. The medieval Church’s would have otherwise starved to death. It censorship and absolute indoctrination, for wasn’t until after he worked his way into example, can be seen creeping into Ameri- a good job that he could travel back to his can politics. In our polemical environment, LMU village in Tuscany, marry my bisnonna and we are becoming less inclined to question finally bring her back via Ellis Island. I iden- the prevailing social narrative. The more we

tified not only as an immigrant, but one that ILLUSTRATION BY SARAH MAZZETTI understand the tradition of history, however,

started out as illegal. the less likely we are to repeat its mistakes ALUMNI I discovered, however, that via my mother’s and the better able to understand ourselves family, I am a Daughter of the Revolution — as human beings.

ALUMNI that is, part of my bloodline stretches back In medieval literature, tradition is also to the original colonists on Plymouth Rock balanced by its opposite, a counter-tradition. — not once, but twice! I was stunned. If it While editing a manuscript called “The Rych hadn’t been for the example of my nonna, I Cheyne,” I found a creative organization LMU could have been a Republican! of the biblical Proverbs. The anonymous The craziest discovery was that I am far author had written the passages out of the from being “half ” Italian. My nonna’s mother Bible’s order, arranging them, instead, so was — are you ready for it? — full Greek! We that each verse contained a word or phrase found a photo of her, and she looks just like from the preceding verse. Linking the Prov- Becoming Nonna ME, in a sepia-toned wedding dress. erbs together in this way, resembling a chain, An alumna’s family trees have roots in many forests. Don’t you hate it when your spouse is correct? the manuscript carried a new level of in- The biggest slice of my genetic pie is, surpris- terpretive meaning. By reshaping biblical ingly, German. Then French. Then Irish. Then tradition, the author was able to bring about When my husband, Dan, and I started dating, corned beef and cabbage. Italian-Greek. I am, quite simply, an American As a medievalist, I am continually faced an entirely new creation. he would often say, “You look Greek to me.” On the Italian side, I have dark brown hair, mutt, a walking, talking melting pot. with a particular question sometimes asked Similarly, in a manuscript of the medieval Now, Dan is a funny guy, so I assumed this dark eyes, and the only way to shut me up — So why do I feel Italian, act Italian, repre- in roundabout ways: Who cares about me- poem “Piers Plowman,” the text had been was his twist on the “It’s Greek to me” line, again, according to Dan — is to make me sit sent as Italian? It occurs to me that we are not dieval literature? This skepticism exempli- revised and annotated by various hands over implying that I was strange or indecipherable, on my hands. And I was raised in the shadow formed so much by our DNA as we are by the fies society’s increasingly prevalent, if un- history, creating unique readings apart from or something. of a formidable nonna (Italian grandmother), people we grow up loving, and who love us. spoken, sentiment that history is outdated the author’s original work. Even annotations I would laugh, “Nope, Irish-Italian Catholic upon whose model I have formed myself as a I adored my nonna, and amazingly enough and useless. Yet, in returning to the dusty in the form of illustrations that referred to girl, right here.” woman, a mother and, now, a grandmother. in our great crowd of cousins, she somehow pages of ancient manuscripts, I find new a particular word or phrase highlighted a He would shake his head, “I know you are Because of my nonna, I am all about food saw and connected with me. wisdom continually emerging. In a litera- certain theme and connected it to the era’s Greek.” and family, about bringing lasagna when I am only one-eighth Italian, so that makes my ture inextricably bound with history and historical context, both subverting and build- Being O’Talian is how I defined myself, someone is sick and cold cuts when someone granddaughter only one-thirty-second so! But if culture, human truths speak to us across ing on the tradition of authorship. for most of my life. has died, and there is no such thing as a light being raised in the culture of love and food and the ages. This dynamic of counter-tradition is es- On the Irish side, I have fond memories snack in my kitchen. Like her, my arms are family have any sway, Mary has an excellent A fundamental element of medieval sential in understanding modern society. of my white-haired great aunts twittering muscled from stirring huge pots of pasta and chance of someday becoming a nonna, too. English literature is the presence of tradi- Just as tradition links us to others in a shared around a Formica kitchen table, saying “Not holding babies. tion, with nearly all texts being woven into past, the subversion of tradition is a check at-tall, not at-tall,” and hollering a blessing When my daughter, Chelsea, gave birth Amy Orr Morris-Young ’84 is a columnist for a historical context. As a student at Oxford on excessive growth of hegemonic ideas or that seemed to last 20 minutes, invoking all to her daughter, Mary, last March, there National Catholic Reporter and a freelance power. By understanding the fluid nature of the angels and saints, each time I sneezed. was no question what Mary would call me: writer. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with I mastered the Irish jig from our St. Euphra- I am her nonna. her husband, writer Dan Morris-Young, and sia pastor, Father Kelly, and I make a mean I retired this past summer from my of- son, Nick.

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