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FALL 2014 Magazine Root and bloom Our house: Peekaboo with three kids in Tepecoyo, El Salvador. Laura Chyu, who lectures in public health, recently visited the village with colleagues for SCU’s Web new Casa de la Solidaridad Silvia Arriola Exclusives Summer Program. Santaclaramagazine.com carries new stories every week. Find video, slideshows, class notes, Features and much, much more, including … Hearing the cry of the poor: 14 The Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador BY RON HANSEN M.A. ’95. Their murder in November 1989 marked a turning point in the country’s civil war. What do they have to say SPORTS MANNY RUBIO / USA TODAY to us now? What makes a champion? Football Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott in conversation with Jerry Smith, head coach of SCU women’s soccer. From the 2014–15 The open window President’s Speaker Series. 25 BY LUCÍA CERNA. A first-person account by the housekeeper in the Jesuit community at the University of Central America. She witnessed the killing of six Jesuits by government soldiers, and telling the truth about that night cost her dearly. 33 LAURA CHYU What do you stand for? 29 BY MARY JO (HULL) IGNOFFO ’78. The historian who has brought Lucía Cerna’s story to the Football returns to DEPARTMENTS page in the new book La Verdad writes how tragedy 36 Santa Clara in El Salvador bound Santa Clara to the battered 2 FROM THE EDITOR country more deeply than ever. BY ANN KILLION. Six decades ago, Tony / USED UNDER CREATIVE JDPASCHAL COMMONS LICENSE Morabito ’31 brought pro football to the Bay 3 LETTERS A man of character Area. Now the San Francisco 49ers have come to 6 MISSION MATTERS What’s in a name? In 2006, Mike Carey ’71 play where that dream began—and where they’ve 36 made the call that he would no longer referee 56 FAREWELL games for Washington’s football team. “If you’re been training for the past 15 years. respectful of all human beings, you have to CLASS NOTES decide what you’re going to do and why you’re going to do it.” Build it and they will come 45 STAGE WRITE 43 BY SAM SCOTT ’96. Raising the first football stadium in California in 50 years—and making it 47 CALIFORNIA TWANG 10 a Silicon Valley icon—was both a marathon and 48 HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE FACT a sprint for Jonathan Harvey ’91 and Devcon 48 Construction. 49 LIVES JOINED 49 BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS Use your head 51 BRONCO NEWS: Surprise. Delight. Educate. 44 BY JACK BOWEN. Examining the ethics of football concussions. 52 OBITUARIES 56 MIKE MOZART / USED UNDER CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE ABOUT OUR COVER: Our colors: Roses bloom in the Who’s responsible for tech Mission Gardens at SCU and where eight martyrs died industry ethics? in El Salvador 25 years ago. Remembrance and hope The field of software engineering is woefully lagging and beauty, yes? Photo by Todd Schorr. on the ethics front. SCU’s Internet ethics program is going to change that. santaclaramagazine.com FALL 2014 “In terms of content, design, From The Editor photography, and—most important of SantaClMagazineara Volume 56 Number 1 Letters all—an ability to convey the texture and meaning of a great institution, your E DITOR Steven Boyd Saum magazine is at the top of its game.” [email protected] By any other name, A SSISTA NT E DITOR Kristen Intlekofer the rose would smell just as sweet, so we’re told. L IT E R A RY E DITOR But let’s ground the flower in earthy specificity, is the correlation between the the obvious Kerouac, Dante, I loved the Summer issue. Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 where the roots of this woody perennial take hold. sorry state of Catholic letters Chesterton, and O’Connor. The Dalai Lama, the C R eaTIV E D IR ec TOR Family Rosaceae, genus Rosa, leafing and blooming and the sorry state of the The other two are complete photographs, the articles— Linda Degastaldi and perfuming here, for instance, in the Mission Church itself, grown ever mysteries: the attractive lady everything was just right. As P HOTOGR ap H E R Gardens, along the paths—or circled by benches, where more fragmented and with the cigarette and the I think of myself as a writer, I Charles Barry mighty trunks climb up and clusters drape a trellis between partisan since Vatican II. The puffy-faced pen holder. (I especially enjoyed the article E DITORI al I NT E RNS great renewal that we just realized that sounds like by Dana Gioia. Leah Gonzalez ’14, Danae Stahlnecker ’15 the Adobe Wall and the Ricard Observatory. “But the blossom, the blossom there—who can it be?” asked a poet and experienced at that time has a species of bird.) If this isn’t MARY JEAN (SELEGUE) D epa RTM E NT C ONTRIBUTORS Faith and culture RIVERA ’66 Jeff Gire, Sam Scott ’96 a Jesuit by the name of Gerard Manley Hopkins. A captivating question persisted only in certain areas a contest, can you tell me? Congratulations on the (the vernacular Mass, Keep up the good work! West Linn, Ore. C la SS N OT E S & O BITU A RI E S to ask, which brings us back to the name, doesn’t it? Not just in terms of Summer 2014 issue. The ecumenical relations) and Marisa Solís the namesake of the antique variety or hybrid tea (my mother’s favorite: lead articles—“A Day with JIM WALKER ’63 santaclaramagazine.com/classnotes languished in others Tucson, Ariz. Loyal companion Double Delight)—but who would you associate with this rose, right here? the Dalai Lama,” “The A SSO C I AT E E DITOR , For instance, a flower and stem right in front of the lovely Mission Santa (strengthening of lay I’m intrigued by your S A NTacla R A M A G A ZIN E . C OM Catholic writer today,” and A couple readers joined Jim involvement, devolution of invitation to visit one of Clay Hamilton Clara de Asís herself, where it’s one of the floral companions to eight simple the interview with Marilynne Walker in wondering which white crosses. Those crosses bear names—of two women and six Jesuits authority to national the dogs who traveled to C O P Y E DITORS Robinson—testify to the writer was which in the pics. churches). In fact, the the Arctic with Bernard John Deever, Patrick Dutcher, Alicia K. Gonzales ’09, killed by a government-ordered military hit squad a quarter-century ago at growing importance of the The two he didn’t ID: with a Marisa Solís universal applause that has Hubbard, S.J. [“Seven the Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador. It is good to remember magazine as a vehicle for cigarette, Muriel Spark (“comic greeted the words and actions writer of genius,” not such high things you might not know Designed by Cuttriss & Hambleton these innocents murdered amid a civil war—and to remember not only for humanistic discourse. In of Pope Francis testifies to marks as a mother), and with about the SCU Alumni the tragedy of their deaths but also, in a way, for an act of martyrdom that terms of content, design, S A NTA C la R A M A G A ZIN E A DVISORY B O A RD how easy it has been to renew a pen, Polish poet Czesław Association,” Summer SCM]. became a turning point (along with the end of the Cold War) that led at last photography, and—most the hope of Vatican II against Miłosz. —Ed. Fr. Hubbard was a delightful Michael Engh, S.J.—President to that civil war’s end. important of all—an ability efforts, even by previous man who maintained James Lyons—Vice President for University Relations It is good to remember here, at Santa Clara, where the work and lives to convey the texture I can’t put my finger on it, popes, to roll it back. an office in the Ricard Rich Giacchetti—Associate Vice President, of women and men were already intertwined with the work and lives—and and meaning of a great but this last issue was one Marketing and Communications Meanwhile, a third of Observatory and was often then deaths—in another country in the isthmus of the Americas. And not institution, your magazine is of the best I’ve ever seen. Michael C. McCarthy, S.J.—Executive Director, American Catholics have left willing to talk to anyone just remember but to realize the way that the relationship bound together at the top of its game. Perhaps it’s a layout change, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education these universities in San Salvador, El Salvador, and Santa Clara, USA.