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Paul Locatelli A day in the life of the president, the priest, the person Page 14

Chemical sisters The three delighted grads are, from left, Parting Shot Hong An Nguyen, Jennifer Le, and Kimuyen Chau.

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The Jesuit university in Silicon Valley

Gerald McKevitt, S.J. , Diane Dreher on what it Callings: a roundtable on 22 on Italian Jesuits and 32 means to let your 36 vocation and community- www.santaclaramagazine.com the Old West life speak based learning

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The transmissions came from the sky. They were Call me rebroadcast from a recording made by a radio FALL 2007 station in Riverhead, N.Y., and carried by NBC across the country. “Listen now,” the announcer said, “for the sound that forevermore separates the old from the new.” contents Ears glued to speakers, panic and fear and wonder and awe like there hadn’t been A day in the life of the president MANAGING EDITOR 14 By Ron Hansen. Set your alarm clock early—then Steven Boyd Saum since Orson Welles’ Martians invaded New Jersey. Then, from somewhere in outer get up and follow Paul Locatelli, S.J., through a day LITERARY EDITOR space: beep…beep…beep… Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 of leading the University and serving as pastor, professor, mayor, and CEO. ART DIRECTOR It was an October night 50 years ago that the sounds were first heard stateside. Linda Degastaldi-Ortiz They came from a polished metal sphere the size of a beach ball, hurtling in orbit PHOTOGRAPHER Santa Clara University, a compre- Built by immigrants around the Earth at 18,000 mph, writing a new chapter in history and adding a Charles Barry hensive Jesuit, Catholic univer- 22 By Gerald McKevitt, S.J. How Italian Jesuits helped sity located 40 miles south of San EDITORIAL INTERN Francisco in California’s Silicon shape the American West, from religious devotions word to the American vocabulary: sputnik. Jessica Chung ’06 Valley, offers its 8,377 students to curriculum to pasta. CONTRIBUTING rigorous undergraduate curricula Along with its beeps and cheerfully winking lights, the satellite transmitted WRITERS in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master’s and law another message: calling U.S. educators to action. More scientists and engineers Deepa Arora You are here Rebecca Black degrees and engineering Ph.D.s. 28 Distinguished nationally by one By Sarah Stanek. SCU students and faculty collabo- Adam Breen were now needed. (Sound familiar?) Yes, American cars had bigger tailfins, but of the highest graduation rates Jessica Chung ’06 rate on a groundbreaking project documenting among all U.S. master’s universities, the Soviets had put the first satellite in orbit. Diane Dreher California’s oldest operating higher- early life at Mission Santa Clara—and the result Emily Elrod ’05 education institution demonstrates is a book that’s the first of its kind for any mission Anne Federwisch My father was one of the young men who heard the call. A boy from small-town faith-inspired values of ethics and in California. Kathy Kale ’86 social justice. For more information, Nebraska, he completed two years at the local college and then headed for school Karyne Levy see www.scu.edu. James Martin, S.J. in Chicagoland, intent on becoming an engineer. Before too long, though, he real- Gerald McKevitt, S.J. Santa Clara Magazine (USPS# 609- Let your life speak 240) is published quarterly, Jed Mettee 32 February, May, August, and By Diane Dreher. Discovering vocation today ized that despite the zeitgeist, his calling was to the classroom. Within a few years Donna Perry November, by the Office of and making time for life’s deeper questions Karen Crocker Snell he found himself teaching high school mathematics and mentoring the student Marketing and Communications, amid a culture of consumerism, careerism, and Sarah Stanek Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, council—which he did with a passion, for 30 years. He would travel to college DESIGNERS CA. Periodical postage paid at Santa constant commotion. Cuttriss & Hambleton Clara, CA, and at additional mailing graduation ceremonies of high-schoolers he’d worked with, taking profound joy in office. Postmaster send address CAMPUS NEWS changes to Santa Clara Magazine, 35 their accomplishments. He called these students My Kids—as if his five offspring Butano Ridge CONTRIBUTORS c/o Donohoe Alumni House, Santa A poem by Rebecca Black. in the house weren’t enough. Deepa Arora Clara University, Santa Clara, CA Karen Crocker Snell 95053-1505. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the phrase, “teaching is a calling.” ADVISORY BOARD Readers—you can also update your Callings Margaret Avritt address information online at www.santaclaramagazine.com. 36 A roundtable of scholars, alumni, and community Sometimes it’s uttered with a sense of warning: that unless you feel compelled to Terry Beers Elizabeth Fernandez ’79 The diverse opinions expressed in E XCLUSIVES leaders looks at how community-based learning is

do it, don’t. Conversely, if you feel the pull, nothing will be as rewarding. Rich Giacchetti Santa Clara Magazine do not On the Web SOCIETY DIEGO SAN HISTORICAL COURTESY transforming lives. And panelists ask hard questions Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 necessarily represent the views of about the very nature of higher education itself. Unlike an eighth-grade social studies kit, whose mechanisms once advised me Kathy Kale ’86 the editor or the official policy of California history like you’ve never heard it Paul Locatelli, S.J. ’60 Santa Clara University. Copyright to pursue a career as a mushroom inspector, this issue of SCM doesn’t contain James Purcell 2007 by Santa Clara University. SCU scholars Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz offer Paul Soukup, S.J. Reproduction in whole or in part fascinating insights into the epic story of the Golden State in any charts or wheels for assessing how to find your calling in life. It does, how- without permission is prohibited. Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815- 2 Letters ever, offer some rich perspectives on how students and alumni from Santa Clara, 1848. The story of Juana Machado, above, is just one of more 4 Mission Matters as well as universities across the country, are grappling (or failing to grapple) than a dozen you’ll find. Now hear the authors read from their new book at www.santaclaramagazine.com. 12 Bronco Sports with the meaning of vocation—whether that’s a calling to the priesthood or the 30 In Print California Highway Patrol, moviemaking or lawyering, motherhood or robotics. Only connect 41 A Letter from the Donohoe Read an exclusive excerpt from Out of Eden: 7 Ways God Alumni House Keep the faith, Restores Blocked Communication, the new book by media Santa Clara Magazine is printed on paper and and communication expert Paul Soukup, S.J.—and download 42 Class Notes and Bronco Profiles at a printing facility certified by the Forest the podcast from our Web site. 48 After Words Stewardship Council (FSC). From forest management to paper production to printing, FSC 49 Calendar certification represents the highest social and Picture this, Angeleno Steven Boyd Saum environmental standards. The paper contains See a gallery of some of the 200 vintage photographs that Managing Editor 30 percent post consumer recovered fiber; cover About our cover stock contains 10 percent. Mae Respicio Koerner ’97 has collected in her new book, President Paul Locatelli, S.J., Filipinos in Los Angeles. Point your favorite browser to the photographed by Charles Barry. SCM Web site. www.santaclaramagazine.com Fall 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 1

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Mission: Sustainable He was offered a career in both alleviate the illness before it increases I applaud your school for address- A teachable moment basketball and baseball while play- I edit Genesis V, the alumni magazine to a point of hospitalization, self- ing such a common but unaccepted As an SCU MBA graduate and a ing at Santa Clara, but with the war at St. Ignatius College Prep in San destruction, or harming others. medical issue. I hope in time your Mexican immigrant, I was appalled breaking out, he ended up serving Francisco. I just got your last issue Again, thank you for your article school will partner with Catholic high and saddened by the SCU students’ in the Army, secret service division, and wanted to tell you what a great on this important issue. schools in the Bay Area and teach behavior and portrayal of Latino and did not pursue either career pro- job you’re doing. I thought the JEANNE C. LABOZETTA ’72, them to be accepting and understand- immigrant people and culture at fessionally. Instead, he entered the theme was phenomenal. I teach M.A. ’76, MBA ’93 ing to students who learn differ- their Mexican-American party in law school, becoming a judge for 35 English here at SI as well, including San Jose ently. Santa Clara’s forthcoming and January this year. It only proved one years, here in San Jose. a class called Nature Nexus, a combi- embracing attitude is the Catholic thing…ignorance, detachment, and He was 6 feet, 7 inches tall and nation of nature poetry and ecology Your magazine was in the gym where way and should be the only way. God insensitivity to the social issues and for that time, the 1930s, he was and spirituality. The [Summer 2007 I am a member and I picked it up— bless your school. people around them. considered a large man—hence his SCM] was just a phenomenal issue: because I was surprised to see your LESLIE CHAHIN On the other hand, I was very nickname. He continued his inter- layout, stories, content—everything. cover article on mental health [in Alamo happy with the discontent that this est in SCU and the Bronco Bench I’m pleased that you’re doing such the Spring issue], especially because event provoked within the rest of the Foundation until his passing. a great job…and that my daughter you are a Catholic university. I am Reading the article “Are people get- SCU and Latin community. Events My son Christopher Addison ’02 will be a freshman there this fall. not affiliated with your school but ting crazier?” [in the Spring 2007 like these are great opportunities to and my niece, Nicole Resz ’03 both am a practicing Catholic with a child issue], I was astonished by the descrip- confront and educate. I want to con- PAUL TOTAH graduated from SCU; and my son Pacifica in a Catholic elementary school and tion of how a disorder makes it into gratulate President Paul Locatelli, David Addison will be coming in as Historic hoops one in Catholic high school. As we The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual S.J., for the way he addressed SCU’s We are very pleased to see the recog- a transfer student this fall. all know, we can never have perfec- of Mental Disorders: “Various com- On Page 8 of the [Summer 2007 SCM] community with this issue. nition given the bamboo I-beams MELODIE NELSON AND FAMILY tion in any school environment. But mittees of psychiatrists along with a issue, in the article on “A century of GUADALUPE INZUNZA MBA ’01 project in “Carry that weight” in the Saratoga one way Catholic schools can address small number of other mental health Bronco basketball,” there is a picture Los Gatos last issue. I’d like to expand on the the depression and anxiety many of professionals discuss and vote on the of the 1911-12 Santa Clara basketball significance of the original, founda- Mental disorders in the their students face is to educate their diagnostic criteria.” Thomas Plante team. My grandfather is the very last For the voiceless, but tional work done by Mark Folgner ’05 new millennium administrators and instructors on writes of the process as if there is one on the right! I was very surprised not for Pelosi in his senior design project. This Thank you for publishing Thomas differences. You might want to state nothing unusual about this, even stat- to see him there; I knew that he Dismayed and disappointed only go work developed the idea of bamboo Plante’s article on mental disorders this as your eighth principle ing “the manual is not really informed attended Santa Clara and that he so far in explaining how I felt when I-beams as a sustainable structural and mental illness [Spring 2007 of prevention. by empirically based science.” played in many, many sports, but I’d I read the phrase “voice of the voice- building material and laid the ground SCM]. Having worked with people Medical research continues to If I feel my mental health needs to never seen that picture. I appreciate you less” describing the new speaker of work for the use of bamboo I-beams with mental illness for over 20 years, prove that all brains are wired dif- be addressed, is the fact that there is publishing this postcard from the past. the House, Nancy Pelosi [Mission I grew to understand the burden ferently and children learn through no empirically based science behind in the Solar Decathlon house. Mark Matters, Spring 2007 SCM]. How AMELIA HOLLAND M.A. ’81 they, their family members, and our different methods. Unfortunately, the label a psychiatrist will undoubt- is now putting his engineering skills, is it that a university that is built on Hollister communities carry. These people Catholic schools in the past and the edly give me supposed to appeal honed at SCU, to work as a project Catholic ethical values can publicly manager for Devcon Construction. have souls and hearts similar to those vast majority now continue to use the to my common sense? It certainly I really enjoyed “A century of Bronco show admiration for a woman who without mental illness. It is sad that one size fits all theory. This lack of doesn’t appeal to mine. MARK ASCHHEIM basketball.” However, I was disap- refuses to be a voice for the most we do not always treat them as such. progressiveness has been detrimental Associate Professor pointed that my dad, Judge “Big Ed” AMY SULLIVAN helpless of the voiceless, the unborn Department of Civil Engineering To Plante’s “Seven Principles of to many students trying to succeed in Nelson, was not mentioned as one of Sunnyvale millions of aborted infants? Surely not Prevention,” I would add two more: a Catholic environment. The thought the Magicians of the Maplewood. He all of the SCU community can fail to creating healthy and loving com- process has been: If you do not learn I wish Thomas G. Plante had written was, before he passed away, inducted see the contradiction between Pelosi’s munities; and advocacy for mental- in the box, then use the public school “Are people getting crazier?” years into the Hall of Fame at Santa Clara. actions and the Christian values that health insurance coverage. system. Imagine how it makes a stu- ago. It is an excellent, thought- cherish life in all its forms. A caring and loving community dent feel to leave their secure envi- provoking and compassionate article. of friends and family can lessen the LINDA MAYER MEEDER ’68 ronment when they already feel as NAME WITHHELD UPON REQUEST impact of a mental illness for the suf- though they are different from others. Los Altos To Our Readers: ferer and family members alike. Full Depression and anxiety are typically We welcome your letters in response to articles. We print a representative selection of letters mental-health insurance coverage, on genetically predisposed, but there are Corrections In the Summer 2007 issue we hit a sour note with the misspelling as space allows. Please limit copy to 200 words and include your hometown and class year (if a par with physical health coverage, always triggers that make this illness of Professor of Music Lynn R. Shurtleff’s last name in the Bronco Profile. Conductor, appropriate) in your letter. Address correspondence to The Editor, Santa Clara Magazine, Santa allows people suffering from mental difficult to overcome. illness to access treatment and composer, and educator Shurtleff spent more than 30 years at Santa Clara and retired Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 95053-1500; fax, 408-554-5464; e-mail, [email protected]. in 2001. Please accept our apologies, maestro. We may edit letters for style, clarity, civility, and length. Questions? Call 408-551-1840.

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The $5 million challenge tual library in Second Life will give the campus community an opportunity to orry I. Lokey loves libraries and education. And explore everything the building has to Lin his latest display of that passion, Lokey, 80, CHARLES BARRY offer. The virtual library will include Bay Area business leader and founder of Business a reference desk staffed by “virtual” Wire Inc., has given the University a $5 million librarians, a teaching classroom, a challenge grant for the new Learning Commons, reading area, a conference room, Accountants’ commencement accoutrements a theater, an art gallery, a bookstore, CHARLES BARRY Technology Center, and Library. Lokey will match all donations to the library, and a café. dollar for dollar, up to $5 million. In addition to About a half dozen faculty members this challenge, Lokey has previously made gifts of from various disciplines plan to incor- vention since 1960. Gardens. Since 2000, Leadership and trust more than $29 million to Santa Clara University porate the Second Life experience into He’s been dubbed the Tallman has served as a U.S. to become one of its largest donors. their courses next fall, including lec- “high priest of political Circuit Judge on the Ninth h, graduation day. The rustle of Lokey’s gift, plus the matching funds from tures in the virtual theater and dance journalism.” CHARLES BARRY Circuit Court of Appeals. robes, the solemnity of proces- other donors, will complete the funding for the choreography in the virtual multipur- A Looking back at how He cautioned the new grads sional marches, the purr of camera $95 million library. “A library is the heart of a pose studio. One political science pro- the country has changed to take their ethical obliga- fessor has plans to create an interna- phones, and the Santa Clara sun shin- learning institution,” says Lokey, “and it’s a privi- Very good friends of the library: in the 56 years since he tions seriously. “Simply put, tional conference where students from ing down on a sea of happy grads clad lege to be able to make a major grant to a very Harrington and Lokey graduated from college, people remember profes- in leis, sunglasses, and mortarboards. fine university.” his class can discuss political issues 77-year-old Broder David Broder sionalism and courtesy,” he And what of speeches on this, the After a series of jobs in newspapers and public relations, Lokey launched with students from other countries, reflected on profound said. “Conversely, they never 156th Santa Clara graduation day? Business Wire in San Francisco in 1961 with $2,000. It quickly grew to become a avatar to avatar. (An avatar is a graphi- differences that had split forget the opposite.” Addressing the thousands assembled news industry powerhouse, now distributing an average of 17,000 corporate and cal image that represents a person, as this country in the 1960s and ’70s, for undergraduate commencement Honoris causa academic press releases a month. When Lokey sold the business in 2006 to on the Internet.) and how, not coincidentally, political at Buck Shaw Stadium on June 16, As part of graduation ceremonies, Berkshire Hathaway, the company controlled by investor Warren Buffett, it was While the focus of the project is leadership by baby boomers today is veteran political journalist David the president and Board of Trustees valued at roughly $600 million. His philosophy of philanthropy is to give it all the new commons and library, the vir- marked by sharp rancor and divisive- tual campus also includes the Mission Broder shared some good advice he conferred honorary degrees upon away—which is nearly $320 million so far. DA SCU ness. So the simple task for today’s once received about commencement Broder and Tallman, and upon Church and the de Saisset Museum. graduates, he said, is to restore trust speeches: “Remember, Broder, it’s not Warmenhoven and his wife and part- Donor recognition Live religious services can be streamed in America. Bricks from about you. Keep it short.” (Stormy ner in philanthropy, Charmaine, for into the virtual church, and Santa “Find a cause that unites your The $5 million challenge grant for the applause, cheers.) their leadership and service. a virtual world Clara students, faculty, and staff can enthusiasm and energy,” Broder said. new library is a wonderful capstone to display their original digital artwork in At The Washington Post since 1966, Honorary degrees were also pre- the Campaign for Santa Clara. The University “Life will be fuller and richer if you SCU Broder was awarded the Pulitzer sented to the Sobrato family, recog- his spring a new building went up the virtual museum. KCS and KL find a way to bind yourself to com- would also like to recognize the following Prize in 1973 for distinguished nizing its long history of generosity donors for their important contributions, at Santa Clara—but you won’t munity and causes that are larger T commentary and has covered every to the University and to giving back along with an apology for inadvertently find it on the actual Mission cam- than yourself.” national political campaign and con- to the community. Honored were omitting their names from the publication pus. You’ll need to go to the Uni- The evening before, Dan Sue and John Sobrato ’60 and their celebrating the Campaign that was versity’s virtual campus in Second Warmenhoven, CEO of Silicon children, John Michael ’83, Lisa, and published earlier this spring. Life. That’s where Michael Ballen, Valley-based Network Appliance, Sheri M.A. ’94. instructional technology resource addressed the graduate commence- Michael R. Barsanti ’84, MBA ’97 Also honored were Lorry I. and Michelle Barsanti specialist, has created a virtual ment at the University’s Leavey CHARLES BARRY Lokey and Joanne Harrington. simulation of the new Learning Center. “Now is the time to define Hugh L. Isola ’54 and Mary Lou Isola Lokey has translated his success in —Parent ’88 Commons, Technology Center, you,” he told the 522 graduates from business into philanthropy support- and Library that is under con- the School of Education, Counseling Kissner Family Trust ing educational institutions, and struction in the “real world.” Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries, George and Mary Ann Leal Foundation Harrington has given tremendously Second Life (www.second the Leavey School of Business, and Philip Rolla ’62 of her time and talent to the life.com) is a 3-D virtual world the School of Engineering. He asked University and volunteer service in Race Street Foods entirely built and owned by its grads to think carefully about what the community. Read more about David J. Riparbelli ’79 and Marisa Riparbelli ’82 residents. Since opening to the public success really means to them. the challenge grant they’ve made to Jim and Jean Riparbelli in 2003, it has grown in popularity and Come on in: The virtual version The SCU School of Law held of the new Learning Commons, support the new Learning Commons today is inhabited by close to 7 million its commencement May 19. Judge Paride and Pia Riparbelli—Parent ’79 Technology Center, and Library E XCLUSIVES and Library on the following page. people from around the globe. is already open for business to On the Web Richard C. Tallman ’75 returned Roger V. Smith MBA ’69 and Judith Smith DA, KCS, and SBS SCU The new library will open its doors Second Life avatars. home to address the law class of —Parent ’85 Click! Relive graduation day in pics. in fall 2008. In the meantime, the vir- Check out the online gallery at ’07 in the ceremony in the Mission Dale J. Vogel and Nancy Bird—Parent ’06 www.santaclaramagazine.com

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possible through the generosity of Tops in IP Rewarding those the Alexanders, the award will bring who right wrongs recognition to lawyers who have used and diversity their legal careers to help alleviate t’s one thing to applaud lawyers injustice and inequity. It’s also hoped atent and trademark vs. piracy and Iwho show courage, self-sacrifice, that recognition of such individuals Ptheft: If you want to understand and a commitment to justice. It’s will improve the image of lawyers the ins and outs of intellectual prop- another thing to back around the world. erty (IP) law and learn how to foster the praise with a Katharine Alexander practiced law innovation and encourage its applica- $1 million endowment for 25 years as a public defender for tion for the commonweal, then one of for a prize recognizing Santa Clara County and taught law the top 10 IP programs in the country those qualities. courses for several years at San José would be a good place to start. Such as This spring, State University. George Alexander Santa Clara. SCU’s School of served as professor of law at SCU for U.S. News & World Report recently COURTESY THE ALEXANDERS COURTESY Law announced the 34 years and as dean of its School of ranked SCU’s law school in the top Better business building Grading, pouring, framing— establishment of the Law for 15 years. 10 both for its IP program and for CHARLES BARRY yes indeed, construction began this May on the new home for the Leavey School of Business. When completed, the new facility will Katharine and George Nominations for the prize are due being one of the 10 most diverse by Nov. 30. More information about schools in the country—particularly be about 86,000 square feet, more than doubling the space available in Kenna Hall, its current Alexander Law Prize, home. “Green” planning, construction, and operation have earned it Leadership in Energy and the award and nomination forms are valuable assets in an increasingly problem is, according to research by to be awarded annu- Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The two-story central core will be home to under- available online at www.scu.edu/law/ SCU’s Meir Statman, they may ally beginning in digitized and globalized economy. graduate and graduate student services, a concierge-styled business center, and a cyber café. Katharine not be as good an investment as March 2008. Made alexanderprize. DA SCU The magazine’s 2008 graduate school and George you’d think. Ample seating for informal meetings, group study, and individual relaxation is found through- rankings were released this spring, out the three floors, including space on a south-facing terrace overlooking the plaza. Alexander Statman is the Glenn Klimek also placing the law school as one of Fundraising for the $48.7 million building has reached the 80 percent mark, with a gener- the top 100 in the nation. Professor of Finance at the Leavey ous lead gift provided by venture capitalist and SCU parent Donald Lucas. The building is slated “We’re gratified by the growing School of Business. His research to open in fall 2008. “Although it’s exciting to see construction begin, we still have millions to For the record national recognition we are receiv- focuses on behavioral finance—how raise,” notes Business School Dean Barry Posner. “Every investor in the building, at whatever ing,” said law school Dean Donald J. investors and managers make level, signals their recognition that the Business School building is crucial to the future vitality of Polden. SCU law grads are no doubt financial decisions and how these business at Santa Clara—and in Silicon Valley.” DP SCU More than 1,250 freshmen will join the Bronco family in fall 2007, gratified as well by another statistic decisions are reflected in financial after another record-breaking year for admissions. This year, 9,459 cited by U.S. News: 95.5 percent markets. He co-authored a study prospective students submitted applications —almost 1,000 more of them are employed within nine published earlier this year that is the than last year’s admission cycle, which yielded Santa Clara’s largest-ever months after graduation. DA SCU first to look at the performance of Prayers and notification—to be implemented freshman class. stocks of the “most admired” compa- emergency prep whether the crisis is a power failure or nies since Fortune began publishing a police action. Now up and running, A little over half of the applications were from California; Washington Respect and its list in 1983. Connect-ED allows for simultaneous and Hawaii were the next largest contingencies. The increase in The study finds that stocks t a noon Mass in the Mission cell phone, text messaging, and e-mail applications was reflected across the country, with a particular boost the market of admired companies had lower AChurch on April 17, in the wake of communications to faculty, staff, and in the northeast. returns, on average, than stocks of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech students. But for it to work, members isten to the fol- Students of Asian-American and Hispanic descent each make up about despised companies. Why? “We university, the Santa Clara community of the campus community have to lowing words, 15 percent of the incoming Class of 2011, and the number of African- L admire a stock or despise it when offered prayers for the victims, their make sure their con- and then say how American students is almost double that of previous years, up from we hear its name, whether Google families, and friends. President Paul tact information is CHARLES BARRY they make you feel: 2 percent or 3 percent to 5.2 percent. “As a percentage jump, that’s or General Motors,” Statman says, Locatelli, S.J., also sent a message of registered with the General Electric. huge,” says Eva Blanco, assistant dean of admission and financial aid. “before we think about its price-to- condolence to the president of Virginia system. SBS SCU Toyota. Starbucks. Tech and to the VT community. earnings ratio or the growth of its CHARLES BARRY But the numbers may not be telling the whole story: Six percent Union Carbide. The dimension of the tragedy was company’s sales.” And because we Sending out an SOS: of students indicated their race as “other,” which typically includes If the first three have these good feelings, we may be shocking. But the killings also sparked In the event of a most multi-ethnic students, and 13 percent did not specify a racial Meir Statman evoked something willing to pay more for a stock than questions on campus about whether campus emergency, background at all. This is a growing trend, Blanco says, with more and says reputation solid and good— Connect-ED can isn’t enough we should. it could have happened here at Santa more prospective students each year choosing not to identify their something in which Clara—and what the campus response send emergency Naturally, the study caught the status messages to ethnicity on their applications. SS SCU you’d invest your portfolio—that’s eye of Fortune, and you can read its would be. In terms of emergency students, faculty, and not a surprise. They were ranked in look at Statman’s research, as well preparedness, one precaution the staff by any method Fortune magazine’s most recent list University was already in the process they choose, includ- as the study itself, online. Visit this ing e-mail and text

CHARLES BARRY of the most admired companies. The story at www.santaclaramagazine. of implementing this spring is the messages to a com and follow the links. SBS SCU Connect-ED system of emergency mobile device.

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Robot search and rescue— An active, active duty with a national award to boot his spring, three members of the University’s information technol- guide Kute through the process of T ince grade school, Casey Kute has ogy department participated in the applying for the Goldwater. Shad her eye on a career in robot- Iron Bronco Triathlon. John Mobley Kute has developed that expertise ics. That vision has come into focus swam 2.4 miles. John Bright biked 112 working in the Robotics Systems for the junior in mechanical engineer- miles. And Thomas Millar ran 26.2 ing, thanks to her education and Laboratory (RSL) at the University. miles…7,500 miles away from home. notes, “When I received a letter it was opportunities at Santa Clara, which “I was very adamant about finding a with $10,000—the bulk of which Millar, a PC specialist at Santa a reminder that someone back there also helped her win a prestigious Barry place that had a really strong robot- was supplied by the Faculty-Student CHARLES BARRY Clara and a chief warrant officer in ics department and one that would remembered me.” Research Assistant Program. M. Goldwater Scholarship this spring. the U.S. Army, was called to active actually let me work in it as an under- Problem-solvers and the prof: from left, Two hundred and forty six partici- Gender studies major Jessica The Goldwater Scholarship was students Patricia McGlynn, Cristina Sanidad, duty in autumn 2006. He is based graduate,” Kute says. The heads of pants completed the Iron Bronco this Coblentz, an SCU Provost Junior established by Congress in 1986 to and Rebecca Jones with Associate P rofessor of out of Kuwait and was on assignment most robotics labs either eyed her year. Of the finishers, 81 individuals Research Fellow, played a key role in provide a continuing source of highly Sociology Laura Nichols ’90. Not pictured: in Afghanistan during this year’s skeptically or flat out refused to allow students Zachary Mariscal and Olga Vasserman. completed the mileage alone, 165 organizing the project. This upcom- qualified scientists, mathematicians, Iron Bronco. her access as an undergraduate. But were on teams of two or three people. ing academic year, as a Hackworth and engineers by awarding scholar- Team IT 2.0.3, as they call them- SCU Associate Professor Christopher McGlynn ’07, current seniors Zachary And one was on active duty, serving Fellow for the Markkula Center, she ships to college students intending to selves, participated in the triathlon last Kitts, the RSL director, told her she Mariscal, Cristina Sanidad, and junior his country. KCS SCU will continue looking at questions pursue careers in those fields. Kute year when Millar was on campus. could begin working in the lab the Olga Vasserman worked under the guid- raised by the intersection of gender was one of 317 winners from a field Despite being in a war zone this year, second quarter of her freshman year ance of Associate Professor of Sociology and religion. of 1,100 applicants. She is one of Millar knew he wanted to participate Religious feminism if she came to Santa Clara, after she’d Laura Nichols ’90 to examine homeless Other students participating in only 54 engineering students among again. So over the course of two weeks settled in to college life. “He was true outreach programs in New York City, the SGI were seniors Angela Bustos, the recipients. in late April and early May, Millar sent ere’s one to ponder: Why is it to his word,” she says. KCS SCU Chicago, San Diego, and Philadelphia. Stephanie Edwards, Kim McGiven, “She has the large vision and she his mileage via e-mail to Mobley. That that so many religions, often The students presented their findings to H James Servino, and Tessa Weston; and has the technical expertise,” says would be mileage criticized for relegating women to the the Santa Clara County Collaborative juniors Theodore Dykzeul, Christina Richard Osberg, director of the running around bottom of their hierarchies, do not Gimme shelter on Housing and Homeless Issues. Leone, and Maggi Van Dorn. Office of Fellowships and director the Kandahar fail to engage women intellectually? The five sociology majors entered Among the more provocative of the Honors Program. He helped Airfield, the Last fall a group of SCU students olving homelessness is not just an the competition as part of the service- questions shared by SGI students at Bagram Airfield, set out to answer that and other academic question. At the same learning portion of Nichols’ course in the May symposium on campus: Why Robohelp: Casey Kute’s creation. S and on a treadmill questions connecting theology and time, outreach programs that are aren’t there Catholic, female priests at

social stratification. THOMAS MILLAR COURTESY at the Salerno personal religious experience. They on the front lines can benefit from Nichols herself is a veteran of com- SCU? Is fundamentalism necessarily a Forward embarked on a project that became rigorous research, though they don’t munity-based learning programs at threat to feminism? Can you separate often have the resources to undertake Operating Base. the Religious Studies Student Gender a Western conception of modernity CHARLES BARRY Santa Clara, where she earned her He surprised his Initiative (SGI). In April, the exami- it. That’s where five SCU under- undergraduate degree. She was also from a religious agenda? teammates with his nation of religious and ethical ques- graduates come in, tackling research recently recognized by the Carnegie Without offering neatly packaged commitment tions led them to an international designed to help right here in Santa Foundation for the Advacement of answers, Coblentz offered an obser- to the competition conference in Syracuse, N.Y., and they Clara County—and, as a result, win- Teaching for her scholarship and work vation about the student experience amid his other brought back ideas—and more ques- ning a national academic award. in community-based learning with a at Santa Clara: “Every time we deny responsibilities tions—in May to a symposium at SCU The Association for Applied and fellowship in the foundation’s Service oppressive demands by submitting overseas. and a session of the Ethics at Noon Clinical Sociology presented the Learning for Political Engagement only to the good, every time we act At the same program, sponsored by the Markkula 2006 Student Problem Solving Program. Nichols is one of only 25 Thomas Millar according to dignity in our colleagues, time, Mobley and Center for Applied Ethics. Exercise on Homeless Outreach to faculty members from public and pri- every time we listen, sincerely, consid- Bright, who served Under the banner “Feminism, the Santa Clara research team for vate universities across California who ering the views of another, that’s when in the Marine Corps and Air Force Sexuality, and the Return of examining best practices in outreach received this honor. we begin to be feminists in this reli- respectively, know the importance Religion,” the conference brought programs throughout the country As part of the fellowship, over the gious community.” JC SCU of being included in life back home together priests, theologians, and and applying what they learned in next two years Nichols will work with when serving overseas. “John and I scholars with philosophy, politics, the classroom to the larger commu- colleagues from a wide variety of disci- really feel for Tom being ‘in country.’” and anthropology. To get there, nity. Rebecca Jones ’07, Patricia plines to create, implement, and reflect Recalling his days of service, Mobley the SCU students had to come up on service learning with the goal of increasing students’ understanding, E XCLUSIVES skills, and motivation for political On the Web participation. EE SCU Find out more about the Goldwater Scholarship and the SCU Robotics Systems Laboratory. Visit 8 Santa Clara Magazine Fall 2007 this article at www.santaclara magazine. Fall 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 9 com and follow the links.

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Solid Core Building a A larger blueprint of coursework new structure furthers developmental learning and The blueprint for Santa Clara’s new curricular coherence. Students begin has also given his time, energy, and integrating undergraduate Core Curriculum their work with foundations courses, support to a wide variety of religious and curriculum looks at education followed by explorations and integra- community organizations, including the ultivate habits of mind not as a series of tions classes. isolated require- Catholic Diocese of San Jose, Boy Cand heart. Engage with Foundations introduce students to Scouts of America, the Healthy the world. Acquire knowl- ments but as a University learning, and many class- Neighborhood Venture Fund Task edge. Educate the whole series of progres- es—such as cultures and ideas and the Force, and many others. While on person. These fundamen- sions that lay the first religion requirement—will relate the board of trustees for the United tal learning goals are at foundations for to themes of the students’ residential Way, Quilici chaired one of its annual the heart of Santa Clara’s learning and let learning communities. fundraising campaigns that raised educational mission, and students explore Honoring service and Ignatian ideals $26 million, an amount that has yet to they’re the foundations of what they can do be matched. the University’s new Core Curriculum. with their ideas, both with the Core The new Core—to be in effect by and within their major. Particularly he annual Alumni Anniversary Italian immigrants not with money but Sean Walsh ’92 Walsh entered the notable to Santa Clara’s new Core Fall 2009—is the result of more than CHARLES BARRY Awards dinner on April 28 with tremendous gratitude and a gift of Jesuit Volunteer Corps shortly after his T 14 months of research in national Curriculum: honored a number of alumni who pears or a bottle of wine. Appointed to graduation from SCU and was placed at developments in best practices in gen- • The Science, Technology, and have given back to the community, Santa Clara County’s Superior Court by Seattle hospice, assisting men afflicted eral education and 200 campus meet- Society requirement teaches stu- the Alumni Association, and the Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1972, he sought with HIV or AIDS. He continued ings and open forums with Santa Clara dents about aspects of science University over the years. to educate both young and experienced his AIDS ministry work in Seattle for faculty, staff, students, and trustees. and technology and explores their lawyers about the benefits of settling another four years, spent the next few Why undertake such a massive impact on society. Ignatian Award cases early. In 1985 he was named to years coordinating adult literacy pro- examination? “We wanted the new The Ignatian Award recognizes alumni the California Supreme Court. He has grams for Americorps, and completed a • Cultures and Ideas seminars move Core to express Santa Clara’s mission who live the SCU ideals of competence, also served Santa Clara, including as the master’s degree in nonprofit administra- away from survey classes to themat- more distinctively, to have a clearer conscience, and compassion and who first elected layperson to the University tion at Seattle University. He now works ic courses, such as tracing the idea set of learning goals, and to offer a have been a credit to the University Board of Trustees in 1963. He served on with foster children at the YMCA- of democracy throughout the globe. Professor of Sociology Charles Powers more coherent education that helps facilitates student discussion in a seminar. through outstanding service to humanity. the board for 43 years, 19 as chair. Seattle, helping young adults transition • Civic Engagement classes encour- President Paul Locatelli, S.J., paid tribute students integrate their learning,” says Joseph Pert MBA ’77 Through out of the foster-care network to living age active, informed participants in to the award recipients for “acting justly, Chad Raphael, associate communica- Explorations courses, usually efforts at both the local and national on their own. public life. loving mercifully, and humbly serving tion professor and chair of the Core taken during the second and third levels, Pert helps feed those who would • Religion, Theology, and Culture those less fortunate than themselves.” Bannan Award Curriculum Revision Committee years, foster the breadth of learning otherwise go hungry. He has served on courses promote a critical reflection The Louis I. Bannan, S.J., award was during its final phase. students need for contemporary life, Kathleen Bruno ’81 For more than executive boards for Second Harvest on religious belief and practice. established in 2000 as a way to pay trib- such as natural science, and the arts. 10 years, Bruno has been a member of Food Bank of Santa Clara and San ute to the heart and soul of one of Santa Integrations classes help students Our Lady’s Ministry, a nonprofit orga- Mateo counties and Food Chain, a Clara’s most dedicated and devoted sup- make connections among other classes nization that works with Catholic Lay national organization dedicated to “res- porters. The Bannan Award recognizes in the Core and their major. These Missionaries to provide spiritual assis- cuing” perishable food for distribution tance to the poor, neglected, and needy. those who have given distinguished ser- are not additional courses, but aspects to the needy. Pert is also a senior nation- CHARLES BARRY vice to the Alumni Association and Santa of classes students already take for She also uses her vacation time from al accounts manager at Basic American her job as the vice president of sales at Clara University. the Core or their major. Students Foods, a company that supplies dehy- also choose a “Pathway” from any Visible Path Corp. to travel around the drated products to the food industry, and Zygmunt Wiedemann ’70 “Santa world with the missionaries to bring Clara is family,” says Wiedemann. First four related courses that fulfill core he has led the company to donate more requirements and may focus on a money, clothes, food, and hope to the than $550,000 to help the people most introduced to SCU in the third grade, poorest of the poor. he was involved as an undergraduate range of themes. affected by Hurricane Katrina. He cur- The new Core will be integrated Edward A. Panelli ’53, J.D. ’55 rently heads a joint corporate and com- with the rowing team, The Santa Clara newspaper, and the Red Hat Band. He into the larger curriculum, with the In a career spanning half a century as munity effort to provide nutritious food goal of providing rigorous education attorney, judge, and now as a modera- for needy youth as part of after-school played the tuba and loved revving up the fans with the Santa Clara fight song. within disciplines and an understand- tor in the judicial system, Panelli has food programs at Boys & Girls Clubs ing of how the pieces fit together—in consistently demonstrated leadership across the nation. In 2000, he took it upon himself to find the original lyrics and hire an orchestra the classroom, the community, and and integrity. As a lawyer he always Adolph M. Quilici ’53 For 61 years, SCU to re-record the fight song, and to work the world at large. EE found time to help the downtrodden Quilici not only had a distinguished with students to restore the Red Hat and was sometimes repaid by poor career in engineering, but Band to its full glory. KK SCU Hands-on learning: Professor of Civil Engineering Sukhmander Sing introduces students to new concepts. 10 Santa Clara Magazine Fall 2007 Fall 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 11

scm_0507153_Fall07_P.indd 10-11 8/7/07 5:07:16 PM E XCLUSIVES Grace under pressure: Kim Daniel was one On the Web of three seniors on the women’s tennis team Check out Bronco schedules and to earn All-WCC honors. Also honored were www.santaclarabroncos.com the latest scores online. Visit Bronco Sports Erika Barnes and Casey Knutson. santaclarabroncos.com

Academic honors Game, set—and a topped the 20-win barrier. Macek and runner-up finish in the second Varsity by the score few for the record book Rasmussen closed their Bronco careers Eight race. The Broncos then held in style; in doubles, the pair had a 17- onto second place following the day’s Santa Clara student-athletes won aca- Bronco men’s tennis reached new 6 mark to finish with 35 doubles wins final race, the I-Eight. demic accolades this year, as 14 Broncos heights in 2007 with a memorable year together for their career, moving them Following the championship, Santa earned WCC All-Academic honors and for the team and a number of individu- into second place in school history. Clara rowers Katie Fahrer and Ashley nine Broncos were named to the ESPN als. Led by Head Coach George On the singles side, Rasmussen Tomberlin were named to the All- The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All- Husack, SCU posted a program- had the best season of his career with WCC team, as voted by the conference District teams. best 20-8 record and earned the No. 2 an 18-11 record. Going against tough coaches. JM Matt Hatzke and Matt Marquess seed for the WCC Championships for competition, Macek put together a from men’s soccer, as well as volleyball’s the first time ever. strong senior season at 13-17. He faced All-WWPA honors Anna Cmaylo and Kim McGiven, were The team spent a program-record six ranked players and played all but in the pool honored by CoSIDA for their academic 14-straight weeks in the national polls, one match at No. 1 singles. JM and athletic excellence in the fall, while reaching as high as No. 59 in the coun- The Santa Clara women’s water polo men’s basketball’s Mitch Henke and try. The 2007 Broncos became the first Shannon rows her way team finished its 2007 season with women’s basketball’s Ashley Graham team in program to the Badger State a fourth-place finish at the Western

MIKE BURNS were honored in the winter. history to win on Water Polo Association (WWPA) In the spring, Kim Daniel of women’s the road against Freshman rower Charlotte Shannon Championships and a No. 16 national tennis, softball’s Sara Overmier, and UC Irvine and was named to U.S. Rowing’s Women’s ranking. SCU, with a 22-14 overall Broncos bring home the Cup GONZALES DAVID baseball’s Carl Bacon all earned spots Cal Poly and the National Team Freshman Camp, join- record and 16-5 mark against WWPA on CoSIDA’s Academic All-District team first team to win ing 21 other college freshman rowers opponents, had its hopes for the con- A two-out, RBI double to right-center In 2006-07, the Broncos got off to in their respective sports. JM against a Pac-10 from around the nation. Shannon is one ference championship and the NCAA off of the bat of Carl Bacon in the bot- a hot start in the fall season, placing all opponent on of only two WCC rowers selected to Championship dashed by a heart- tom of the ninth inning clinched a 6-5 four fall teams in the conference’s top Introducing Bronco 3.0 the road. SCU the camp, which ran from June 18-24 at breaking 5-4 loss to No. 7 Loyola Bronco win over the No. 6 University half. Men’s and women’s soccer swept defeated Arizona the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Marymount in a semifinal contest. of San Diego Toreros on May 13. It also the WCC titles for the first time since It’s no secret that Santa Clara athletes 4-3 on Feb. 10. “Charlotte’s passion for rowing and Following the tournament, the won Santa Clara its second West Coast 2003, volleyball and men’s cross coun- play smart. And now they’ve hit a high SCU won 16 her work ethic have been contagious Broncos saw three of their own honored Conference (WCC) Commissioner’s try each took home third place, while mark when it comes to grades: cumula- of its final 18 amongst the novices,” said Santa Clara on the All-WWPA teams, with goalie Cup title in three years. women’s cross country finished fourth. tive GPAs above 3.0 for student athletes regular season Women’s Crew Coach Carlo Facchino. Kristin Barnes and driver Katie Radvanyi The Cup recog- In the winter, Santa Clara’s men’s from all 19 varsity sports. matches and The camp was established to iden- being named to the first team, the sec- nizes performance basketball team gave the Mission cam- The Broncos have set their sights on had a nine- tify first-year rowers at the collegiate ond time that each player had earned in more than a pus a lift with a second-place finish in 3.0 for the past several years. “It is a great match winning level who have the potential to com- All-WWPA honors; driver Andrea Evans DON JEDLOVEC dozen sports in the WCC regular-season to further pad feeling to see the student-athletes reach Jay Wong streak midsea- pete at the National Team level. JM earned second-team honors. which the WCC SCU’s lead. The women’s basketball team that goal,” says Director of Athletics and son that places Head Coach Keith Wilbur was also sponsors a champi- finished sixth in the conference. Recreation Dan Coonan, who credits in second all time in school history for Rowers match their best recognized as the WWPA Coach of the onship. The winner The extra points came in handy, particular work by athletics staff members consecutive wins. Year for the second year in a row. JM is determined by a as Santa Clara weathered a furious Steve O’Brien and Matt Pinheiro. Individually, the Broncos had a The Santa Clara women’s rowing points system based Pepperdine rally in the spring. The Leading the way in GPA? That dominant year as well with a league team started the WCC on each team’s fin- Waves won four titles, sweeping the would be the women’s golf team, which high six players earning All-WCC rec- Rowing Championships ish in WCC regular golf and tennis championships, to cut tops all other sports with a team cumu- ognition. Seniors and doubles partners on a strong note and car- season standings. the Santa Clara lead down signifi- lative GPA of 3.525. Better news still: ried that momentum to Jan Macek and Bobby Rasmussen made JOHN MEDINA The top finisher cantly. The Broncos got a boost when After crossing the three-point thresh- All-WCC Second Team in doubles and finish in a three-way tie is awarded eight women’s crew finished in a tie for sec- old in winter quarter, student-athletes singles, while freshman Jay Wong also for second place at Lake Make it a double: points with each ond place at the WCC Championships. Carl Bacon topped themeslves in the spring, earned second-team honors in singles. Natoma in Rancho place receiving one Women’s golf and men’s tennis both racking up an overall GPA of 3.095— Junior Blane Shields and sophomore Cordova on April 27. This fewer in descending order. And Santa finished fourth, while men’s golf and the highest ever. JM Brian Brogan were honorable mention matched their highest-ever Clara’s victory came down to the wire. women’s tennis tied for fifth. selections in singles and doubles, and finish, a second-place Bronco teams turned in 10 top-four Santa Clara has never finished lower junior Robert Gallman and Wong effort in 1999. finishes among those 13 sports, including than second in the six-year history of picked up doubles honorable mention SCU started the day a pair of WCC titles. With Bacon’s win- the Commissioner’s Cup, accumulating accolades. with a third-place perfor- ning hit, Santa Clara took a 65.0 to 63.5 four runner-up finishes in addition to Wong led the way in singles vic- mance in the Varsity Four lead over Pepperdine to win the cup. its titles in 2004-05 and 2006-07. JM tories for the Broncos, equaling the race, then solidified their school-record with 30. Shields also hold on second with a From left, rowers Ashley Tomberlin, Kristin Williams, and Katie Fahrer.

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PHOTOS BY CHARLES BARRY. INSET PHOTOS BY SCOTT LEWIS. Pastor, professor, His alarm is set for 5:30 a.m., mayor, and CEO are but he generally wakes without it between 4:30 just some of the and 5. Wearing his jogging clothes, he first exercises his back, then prays in a maple rocking roles Paul Locatelli, chair in his unfancy, 9-foot-by-21-foot room. S.J., plays in leading The president will be presiding at the evening the University. community Mass in the Jesuit residence, so for 30 minutes he meditates on the gospel passage in the lectionary and jots notes on Luke, Chapter 3, Rise and shine: In his room the baptism of Jesus, in which he finds the message of love and care, hope in the Jesuit residence, and faith that he witnessed in his recent baptism of Congressman Leon opposite page, Locatelli begins Panetta’s granddaughter. the day with a morning At 6 a.m., Locatelli makes his first visit to his office in the Walsh prayer. After a run and a Administration Building to scan the 40 e-mails from friends, faculty, staff, and breakfast meeting, he dives international organizations that have piled up overnight. Some require only quick into the morning staff meeting replies; the majority are put on hold until he has more time. And then he is running at the Walsh Administration Building, above. east and south—a four-mile loop that used to include the Southern Pacific railroad tracks until the gate to them was locked. He now favors hammering along the pre- dawn streets of Campbell Avenue or Alviso Street, sometimes collecting trash and tossed soda cans on his way. Quickly spiffing up and dressing in one of his three Lands’ End or Clothing Broker black suits, clerical shirt, and stiff white Roman collar, he makes his first appointment of the morning, a 7:30 breakfast of fruit, rolls, and coffee in Adobe Lodge

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going to assistant professors. And it’s getting harder to recruit Jesuits for those jobs. And now at 10:45 he hurries out to a sea green 2006 Volkswagen Jetta that has Also on the agenda is Locatelli’s jam-packed calendar for the year. The been donated for his use by Bob Lewis Volkswagen. (Locatelli officiated at the Superior General of the Society of Jesus has named him the first Secretary for wedding that joined Steve Lewis, the company’s president and CEO, to Margaret Higher Education. Locatelli drafted his own job description with requests for Fox, daughter of Michael E. Fox Sr. and Mary Ellen Fox; Mike is former chair of Jesuits in the world today: office, budget, and staff. “I’ll be making inquiries about status, vision, and mis- SCU’s Board of Regents, while Mary Ellen was the first woman to serve as presi- Wearing the mantle of sion for all our schools,” he says. “I’m collecting information now for a reference dent of the Board of Fellows.) Heading to San Jose’s Tech Museum of Innovation Secretary of Higher Education library. We want to establish cooperation across international Jesuit institutions— for the 11 a.m. swearing in of California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, for the Society of Jesus means, the only network of its kind in the world.” Because of those duties, he’s resigning Locatelli reviews the invocation he’s written whenever there’s a stop light, hacking for Locatelli, looking at the from six boards and possibly two more, and in this past summer he spent two out words and sentences. “It’s too long.” status, vision, and mission for weeks in Rome in late June. Entering the Tech Museum through the service doors off the Crowne Plaza all Jesuit universities around the world—from Santa The Jesuits of the California Province have also chosen Locatelli as one of Hotel lot, he’s escorted through a hall of perhaps 50 banquet tables and is intro- Clara’s Mission Campus, their representatives at the General Congregation in January 2008 that will elect duced behind the curtained stage to Quentin Kopp, former San Francisco super- above, to a planned Jesuit the man to succeed the retiring Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., as the next Superior visor, state senator, and a retired San Mateo County judge who will perform the university in Africa. General. Even after the election, Locatelli expects important conversations about swearing in. Kopp casually asks if there are protests over the Army ROTC pro- Take the wheel: In his VW “where Jesuits are in the world today,” as he puts it. “What do we have to say gram on campus. The question comes from out of the blue, and Locatelli shrugs Jetta, upper left, Locatelli about the culture of life, our broken world, religious plurality, concern for the it off by saying, “Oh, we argue about it all the time,” and then seeks out his friend heads to the Tech Museum to environment, human rights, religious fundamentalism? And how do we incite and former San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery. But their conversation is cut short by deliver an invocation, upper concern in people so we can develop social action?” an event planner who wants to go over the program. right. Above: In the Mission Watching him walk off with the staffer, McEnery says of Santa Clara’s presi- Gardens Locatelli stops to talk Concern for people was his route to his vocation as a dent for the past 19 years, “Though many of us are in favor of term limits, we’re with seniors Jenna Macho, Jesuit. Locatelli was not devout or even going to church during college, but glad they have not been invoked in his instance.” center, and Chantel Molatore. after earning his degree in accounting at Santa Clara, he was forced to go on Elected insurance commissioner in November 2006, Republican Poizner is off active duty in the Army for six months. Wedged in the Cold War period between to the side backstage, reviewing his speech. Crowding around him are some 20 Korea and Vietnam, his military service was spent stateside and was relatively friends, family, and staff, waiting for the ceremony to commence. A string quartet is peaceful, but still, “I felt there had to be more to life than learning how playing Handel’s “Water Music” as Poizner looks up from a page and notices many to kill people”—and he noticed old slurs and prejudices that had faces he doesn’t recognize. Smiling, he says, “So much for our security concerns.” their roots in both World War II and the Korean War. “There Poizner is Jewish, so Locatelli was surprised and honored when he was invited to was so much dehumanizing of all Asians. And I thought, there’s offer the opening prayer. Singing a hymn after him will be the female cantor from something wrong with this picture.” A general dissatisfaction Congregation Shir Hadash. Locatelli jokes,“Are you going to make me look bad connected with his own post-collegiate self-evaluation inspired with your cantoring?” She laughs. And then he meets Poizner’s high school-aged him to begin going to church on a regular basis. When he was daughter, Rebecca, and he smiles as he asks if she’s decided on a university yet. released from active duty but still in the reserves, he took a job in an The string quartet shifts from “Water Music” to “America the Beautiful,” and accounting firm and went to morning Mass whenever he could, and a yearn- that’s the cue for the guests to file out. Onstage, McEnery, the emcee, introduces ing for a more intimate relationship with Christ and the Catholic Church began Locatelli, who prays the invocation. Although he’s been invited to stay for lunch, to take hold. Within the year he was making inquiries about joining the Society of Locatelli hurries off the stage—he’s expected for a meeting at the Jesuit communi- Jesus. He entered on Sept. 7, 1962, nine days before his 24th birthday. ty’s new residence on Franklin Street.

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At least four times a week his lunches are fundraisers, but this noon he’s instructs, “We need to build a new cross that’s roughly the same size. Maybe pre- meeting with Paul Sheridan, S.J., president of Bellarmine College Preparatory serve a piece of the relic cross and display it under glass.” Recommending first- Swearing in: Locatelli school, and the school’s principal, Mark Pierotti, along with Atom Yee, dean of growth redwood for the job, Locatelli notes, “My family was in the lumber busi- delivers the invocation at the the College of Arts and Sciences. The dining room has eight tables, and Locatelli ness in Boulder Creek. Locatelli Brothers Lumber Company.” inauguration ceremony for selects for his guests the one closest to the sunshine of the courtyard. His lunch is At 2:35 Simone Billings and Jim Briggs walk into the president’s conference Blueprints for the future: California Insurance a cup of minestrone soup and a salad with oil-and-vinegar dressing. In conversa- room to consider the materials for the next meeting with the Board of Trustees, Locatelli and Joe Sugg Commissioner Steve Poizner, tion he notes that he’ll be attending the General Congregation of the Society of looking for holes in the agenda and focusing on opportunities for the trustees to upper left. And he asks if review plans for the proposed Jesus in Rome, where the primary focus will probably be on the Jesuits’ mission in learn about the construction of the new Leavey School of Business building. Poizner’s high school-aged student activities building, the world today and how to implement their goals of sustainability, interreligious And then Locatelli is in his Jetta again, this time with Santa Clara’s General daughter, Rebecca, has chosen upper left. At the DeBartolo Counsel John Ottoboni, former local legal counsel to the San Francisco 49ers. a university yet. dialogue, and doing justice. Locatelli hopes that there won’t be an emphasis on Sports Centre, Locatelli meets conferences because “I find at this stage of my life I don’t get as much from group Locatelli has been invited to the DeBartolo Sports Centre at 4949 Centennial with San Francisco 49ers discussions. I need to read and reflect.” Blvd. for a 3 o’clock meeting whose exact purpose is a mystery to him. top management, upper The Bellarmine administrators are there to propose the innovation of right. Outside the meeting having their finest seniors actually attend some Santa Clara University The 49ers are interested in building a football stadium in room, lower right, he chats classes rather than take advanced placement courses in the high school. Santa Clara, and in a confidential meeting with John York, the team’s co- with 49er Vice President Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences Paul Fitzgerald, S.J., who’s dining owner; Larry MacNeil, vice president and chief financial officer; Lal Heneghan, for Football Operations Lal Heneghan, SCU General at a neighboring table, is called over by Locatelli to help determine the vice president for football operations; and Ed McGovern, a Santa Clara grad Counsel John Ottoboni, and who serves the team as an outside consultant, it becomes clear that the organiza- how the plan could be effectuated. While they strategize, Locatelli writer Ron Hansen. goes to the kitchen to collect chocolate chip cookies on a plate that tion is keenly aware that the University has a congenial working relationship with he hands around to his guests. the City of Santa Clara, having cooperated on the construction of 15 buildings in At 1 p.m. he heads back to Walsh for an hour, during which he the last 10 years. MacNeil narrates a slide show of the architectural plans for the reviews correspondence and e-mail and writes out his one-page homily stadium and aerial maps of Paramount’s Great America park area, and there are for the Jesuits’ 5:30 Mass. estimates of construction costs and mentions of feasibility studies and environ- At 2 p.m. Joe Sugg, assistant vice president for University operations, mental impact reports. But it is Locatelli’s experience in fostering good relations arrives with the architectural plans for a convertible meeting place near the with the city and accommodating its planning department that are the primary Leavey Center that’s to be the student activities building, sometimes unofficially reasons for the meeting, and the executives are interested in his advice. called the Bronco Mews. Locatelli is concerned that the architectural features in Invited to stay for a party that the organization is hosting at 4 p.m., Locatelli the presented drawings aren’t consistent with the Mission style of the campus, but offers his regrets and heads back to Walsh where, naturally, he has another “from the overall massing and site plan angle, it’s fine.” At the next meeting he meeting, this time with the Athletic Advisory Board. The primary topics are has with the undergraduates, he’ll have a conversation about the various uses they supervision of athletics, the role of the board itself, the two-year process of could dream of for the Mews. Sugg grins, and Locatelli says, “Joe loves me certification by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the need for because I come up with these crazy ideas.” an internal auditor to ensure the accuracy of reporting on Sugg mentions the old cross that stood across from the Mission. 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scm_0507153_Fall07_P.indd 18-19 8/7/07 5:08:03 PM The Art of Cooking By Paul L. Locatelli, S.J.

learned to cook from my mother. In Boulder Creek we had some very rainy days, so the kids would be Istuck inside the house with her on Sundays, and I would help her prepare the food—make the pasta, make the sauce, and learn how to put it all together. At first I enjoyed doing it just because it was something to do, but after you learn a little bit about cooking, you discover it’s an art more than a science. Cookbooks are only something to look at to get ideas. After scanning a recipe, RISOTTO ALLA MAMA LOCATELLI you have to become an artist to select and mix all the Ingredients: ingredients together in such a way that the final outcome 1 to 2 quarts meat broth Concluding the meeting just before 5, Locatelli consults a list of missed tele- tastes delicious. 1 cup of dry white wine phone calls and returns those that seem most important until he has to race to the I felt I became artistic sometime around high school. From About 5 tablespoons butter or Jesuit residence for the community liturgy at 5:30. Quickly vesting in a white alb time to time, I would end up cooking for the seven people margarine About 5 tablespoons olive oil Back at Walsh: meeting and green stole, Locatelli presides at a Mass for about 30 of his Jesuit brothers, in my Boulder Creek family: myself, my two brothers, my 2 tablespoons ﬁ nely chopped yellow onion or shallots delivering the homily on Chapter 42 of Isaiah and the Gospel account of the bap- mother and father, and my aunt and uncle. I still didn’t make with Jim Briggs and Simone 4 or 5 cloves garlic Billings, upper left. Sunset tism of Jesus that he prepared in the pre-dawn, 12 hours earlier. Almost 45 years a the pasta, but I helped. The most fun for me was working 2 cups Italian Arborio rice on the Mission, and it’s time Jesuit and 33 years a priest, the Eucharist is still a high point of his day. on ravioli with my mother, and making the sauce. Another 1/3 teaspoon powdered saffron (if available), dissolved in 1 V cups for a working dinner, then Afterwards in the large, handsome living room, there is what the Jesuits call a favorite was pesto, because there are so many variations hot broth or water time to prep for a seminar preprandial—crackers and cheese with bottled water or wine and spirits. The hale that you can be really creative. 6 to 8 fresh mushrooms, chopped (more mushrooms may be used) Salt, if necessary with honors students. and hearty conversations of scholars at ease with each other go on for half an hour I was lucky in that I did not have to give up cooking when Freshly ground pepper to taste or so and then the priests gradually wander into the dining room. I became a Jesuit. A couple of us used to cooperate in feed- W cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese But Locatelli is having dinner out, as he will every night this week. This eve- ing our fellow novices on “villa” days. And these were big Freshly grated Parmesan for topping ning it’s not a fundraiser or a function, but just a working meal at Left Bank feasts. In those days, we had 80 or 90 Jesuit novices in the in Santana Row. There he’s joined by Karrie Grasser and her hus- California Province. Later in our Jesuit formation, such as Directions: band, Phil, as well as Ottoboni and his wife, Nancy. Karrie runs when we got to Berkeley for theology studies, we started Bring broth to a slow, steady simmer. the Event Planning Office and will be organizing meetings of cooking in smaller communities. Cooking then became an 1 the Board of Fellows, so the salads and salmon steaks are act of self-preservation. Now I get to cook only about once In a separate heavy 3-quart pot, add 3 tablespoons butter and all the oil. Over medium-high heat, sauté onion and garlic until accompanied with notes on hospitality and scheduling. every six weeks; either at friends’ homes or at the Jesuit villa 2 onion becomes translucent. Add rice and stir until well-coated. Locatelli returns to the Jesuit residence at 9 p.m. and gets a in Ben Lomond. Sauté rice, onion, and garlic lightly for a minute or so, then add bottle of Crystal Geyser water to take with him to his first- But I’m not really a gourmet. Food for me is nothing 1/2 cup simmering broth; cook, stirring, until liquid is absorbed. As floor room. And though he’ll wake again in less than seven hours, more than bringing people together to share friendship, fun, rice dries out, add another 1/2 cup simmering broth; continue to he stays up a little longer to reread chapters of Thomas Friedman’s conversation, and a glass of good red wine. I primarily cook cook, stirring. Add broth as needed for about 15 minutes, stirring constantly to cook rice evenly and prevent it from hardening and The World Is Flat, which he’ll be discussing with a book group of 15 hon- Italian food because I’m most familiar with it. But there are sticking to bottom of pot. ors students that week. innovations on the recipes I learned, some adjustments. Add half the saffron-broth mixture. When rice begins to dry In fact I don’t know how Italian some of the things I cook 3out, add remainder of saffron. (The later the saffron is added, His night prayer is the Examen, an Ignatian practice of reviewing finally are. the stronger its taste and aroma.) When saffron broth has been how one’s waking hours were spent, correcting oneself if faults are perceived, and The one dish I find the most interesting and challenging absorbed, continue cooking risotto, adding hot broth as needed. reflecting on God’s graceful presence in all one’s activities. Locatelli jokes that, to make is the risotto featured in the recipe here. There’s a (If you run out of broth, add water.) “I usually quietly thank God that I just made it through the day.” balance of flavors as well as cooking time. And again, you Add mushrooms; continue cooking and stirring. Correct heat And then the president who is the highest authority for have a lot of variations on risotto. You can put more empha- 4is very important in making risotto—a slow simmer is ideal. Risotto is ready when the rice is tender and moist but al dente. 1,583 employees, oversees an annual budget of $275 million sis on mushrooms. You can add arugula to it, or different Taste to determine if salt is needed; the beef broth is usually sufﬁ - as well as 76 buildings on a 106-acre campus, and who is things like asparagus or chunks of chicken. But the balance ciently salty. Add a few twists of pepper to taste, and turn off heat. available to a constituency of more than 80,000 alumni and CHARLES BARRY of the right flavors, and the right amount of cooking time, Add the remaining 2 tablespoons butter and the 1/4 cup grated students, finally retires to his twin bed and falls—there can be especially in the last 10 minutes, is really critical. You either Parmesan cheese. Mix thoroughly. no doubt—vigorously asleep. SCU end up with mush or you end up with risotto. Spoon onto a hot platter or into individual bowls; offer more Ron Hansen is Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in the Arts and Mange bene! 5freshly grated Parmesan as topping. Humanities at SCU and the literary editor of Santa Clara Magazine. E XCLUSIVES On the Web Check out more presidential recipes online. Visit this article at www.santaclaramagazine. 20 Santa Clara Magazine Fall 2007 com and followFall 2007the link. Santa Clara Magazine 21

scm_0507153_Fall07_P.indd 20-21 8/7/07 5:08:22 PM It was amid the dusty clutter of an old attic where I found myself first asking questions that it would take me four decades to answer. BUILT BY As a Jesuit novice in the 1960s, I lived in an antiquated Victorian structure perched on a hillside above Los Gatos, Calif. Home to about 140 seminarians, Sacred Heart Novitiate had been erected amid vineyards and olive groves in 1888 by émigré Jesuits from Italy. My curiosity was piqued by those atypical immigrants and by the ginger- IMMIGRANTS bread edifice they left behind. When not occupied with Latin study, meditation, and handball, I explored its ancient structure—from its dark, labyrinthine basement to a lofty turret, below which spread, in springtime, a pink-and-white quilt of blossoming By Gerald McKevitt, S.J. orchards. By the 1960s, that billowy landscape was fast fading. Groves of plum and apricot were quickly giving way to high-rise technology centers as the Santa Clara Valley metamorphosed into Silicon Valley. Within a few years, the novitiate itself would be razed.

It was not the view from the tower that fascinated in 1870, all Jesuits had been expelled. Uprooted this 24-year-old, however, but rather the build- Neapolitans and Sicilians, too, now took up new ing’s fourth-floor attic. A vast chamber crouched lives in the United States. under the roof; it had served as the dormitorium The Italian religious did not confine their or common sleeping room for novices of the 19th ministry to California. In 1869, Neapolitan century. By the 1960s, the iron bedsteads had long expatriates had founded Woodstock College in since disappeared. In their place, the debris of a Maryland, one of the most influential seminaries discarded past littered the plank floor: scrapped in America. Other exiles had emigrated to the Victorian furniture, ornate religious canvases frontier where they shaped Catholic culture in 11 consigned to oblivion by a shifting aesthetic, western states, including Gold Rush California. and steamer trunks inscribed with the names of In the Pacific Northwest, itinerant missionar- long-departed Jesuits. Who, I mused, had slum- ies circulated among Native Americans. Across bered in that odd space? What had prompted the that vast region they planted sturdy missions and immigrant Jesuits’ flight from Italy to California? schools that still serve as functioning churches What sort of life had they transplanted to the Los and historical monuments. Toward the end of Gatos hillside? the century, the immigrants extended their For many years, those queries remained largely educational mission to white settlers by founding unresolved. They resurfaced in 1975 when I Gonzaga and Seattle universities. joined the faculty here at Santa Clara University, In the Southwest, adobe school houses and another institution built by Italian Jesuits. While churches testified to widespread community- I was writing a history of the University, pieces of building by Neapolitan missionaries. For nearly the attic puzzle fell into place. The Californians nine decades their influential Spanish-language were among nearly 400 Italian Jesuits who had newspaper, La Revista Católica, molded regional emigrated to America in the 19th century to public opinion on a host of combustible issues. escape persecution in their homeland. Banished In 1877, the neapolitani established a school for from one kingdom after another during the anti- Latinos in Las Vegas, N.M., which was later clerical upheaval that accompanied Italian national relocated in Denver as Regis College. From unification, expatriates from Piedmont began Montana to Texas, from the Pacific coast to the CHARLES BARRY their exodus to California in 1848. With the fall High Plains of Wyoming, the Italian émigrés left The Sacred Heart statue in the Mission Gardens today. of the Papal States to the armies of united Italy vivid footprints.

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COURTESY SCU ARCHIVES COURTESY bookkeeping and mineralogy than the Latin leverage among Native Americans in the public school system, many Spanish-speaking FAMILIAR FOOD poetry favored in Italian academies. “Oh what a Pacific Northwest, who did not hold them parents found Catholic establishments an appeal- EASED THE AFFLIC- waste of time are Latin and Greek,” a California accountable for repressive United States ing alternative. About one-fourth of the 1,650 TION OF EXILE, Jesuit exclaimed, “for so many students that policies. Thus, their ambiguous national students who enrolled at the College during its ALTHOUGH AN I now see working for a living—as grocer, status, coupled with a facility in mastering first 25 years were of Hispanic origin. To accom- EXCESS OF PASTA butcher, and who knows what else!” Although languages, eased the Italians’ reception by modate these learners, the Italian priests offered AND ITALIAN curricular innovation was difficult to justify native peoples. some bilingual instruction. At the ceremonies DISHES ON THE to European authorities, missionary teachers But that was not the only reason why concluding the first year of Las Vegas College, COLLEGE MENU supplemented their conventional classical cur- the émigrés were equally at home on New Mexico, in 1878, the program was equally DROVE A FRENCH riculum with courses in practical subjects that Indian reservations in Montana, at immi- divided between English and Spanish presenta- PRIEST TO appealed to young men of the West. The results grant mining camps in Colorado, and tions. Mixed student bodies provided opportuni- PROTEST. in the classrooms of urban California. It ties for forging friendships with both Anglo and of their accommodation were melting-pot insti- made a difference that they came from a Latino classmates, and enrollees discovered tutions—Santa Clara, Gonzaga, Regis, and the European culture that valued an ad hoc among the European faculty mentors who them- University of San Francisco—institutions that approach to problems and prized coop- selves wrestled with the challenge of acculturation. were neither fully American nor fully European, eration over confrontation. As 19th-cen- but a casserole blend of both, manifesting open- The magic lantern: A Jesuit offers a lesson in heavenly tury Americans frequently pointed out, Neither the novelty of ness to a new kind of curriculum. bodies to Santa Clara students in this 1887 lithograph. In New Mexico, the brokering of cultures was refugees from Italy were differentiated from their new life nor alienation from shaped by the Jesuits’ national origin from the other immigrants by their resilience. Even when secularized Italy lessened the Jesuits’ amore di very start. There, Neapolitan missionaries intro- choosing employment, observers said, Italians patria. Like all immigrants, they sought to repli- duced the traditions of their homeland, which were “perhaps the most adaptable of all.” If pre- cate the conventions of home in unconventional Thus the queries once posed in the seminary they blended with local Hispanic-American prac- disposed toward flexibility by secular culture, the America. Familiar food eased the affliction of loft evolved in light of my study of the Santa Jesuits were further inclined to harmonize dis- exile, although an excess of pasta and Italian Clara story. Fresh questions arose as I pondered parities by religious training. Their order’s ruling dishes on the College menu drove a French priest what mark these Italian clerics had made on ideology placed a high priority on accommoda- to protest. “Almost everyone is complaining,” the religious and cultural life of the West. Was tion and on operating, as their Constitutions put declared Father Jerome Ricard, “especially the there a distinctive Italian quality to their various it, amid a “great diversity of persons throughout young men and boys who are not accustomed to activities? How were Santa Clara and its sister a variety of regions.” Italian cooking.” schools shaped by their ethnic origin? Thus, Principle and practice sometimes clashed, The Mission Gardens symbolized the Italians’ SCU ARCHIVES COURTESY a new project was born. It has resulted, many “WHETHER NATIVE but the Italian Jesuits’ predisposition to mediate desire to transform the foreign into the familiar. years later, in Brokers of Culture, a book about OR EASTERN, between heterogeneous social groups showed They labored to embellish Santa Clara with orna- Jesuits that is also a book about America. MEXICAN OR itself in their colleges. Although they encoun- mental foliage, all’italiana. Investment in gardens, SOUTH AMERICAN, tered prejudice in America, the Italians’ foreign arbors, walkways, and outdoor sculpture not only ENGLISH, FRENCH The refugees were birth and religion did not deter settlers and enhanced the reputation of the school but con- OR ITALIANS, not only geographically immigrants from enrolling in schools such as tributed to the spiritual and aesthetical uplifting CATHOLIC OR dispersed, but they Santa Clara. Indeed, the clergy’s status as out- of the academic community. The Piedmontese PROTESTANT, ministered to varied and siders proved an asset in recruiting students took advantage of California’s Mediterranean cli- JEW OR GENTILE, dissimilar populations. Rare from among the West’s cosmopolitan popula- mate by introducing a Noah’s ark of domestic and THEY WERE SANTA was the ethnic or national group that was not tion. Immigrants and native born, Catholics foreign foliage into the gardens of Santa Clara. CLARA BOYS.” touched by them. Straddling multiple cultures, and Protestants alike sought admission. In early Enclosed with verandas and criss-crossed by trel- their colleges were a 19th-century version of California and New Mexico, the Jesuits provided lises of grapevines, the College’s large interior globalization. An early graduate of Santa Clara the only schooling to many minority children. courtyard, with its fountain, flowers, caged song marveled at the diversity that had character- By offering familiar religious experiences in birds, and exotic plants of every type, beckoned ized his alma mater of the 1850s. Students “were an unfamiliar environment, the Italians helped visitors from far and wide in a region still lacking of all ages and nationalities and opposite creeds,” assimilation and integration, a vital need of west- floral embellishment. “The whole scene was,” he recalled, yet they forged a congenial commu- ern crossroads culture. To populations sapped by one caller chirped, “marvelously like Italy.” nity out of variety. “Whether native or Eastern, dislocation and loss, their hybridizing colleges Mexican or South American, English, French or smoothed the transition from an old to a new The cosmopolitan West Big diploma on campus: Saturino Ayon, from Mazatl´an, Italians, Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Gentile, society while serving as schools of citizenship in Mexico, beside his Santa Clara diploma in 1866. His chest The trans- they were Santa Clara boys.” the young republic. demanded innovation. is bedecked with medals won for top grades in chemistry, planted schoolmasters discovered that patterns Because the Italian Jesuits were aliens without Santa Clara drew large numbers of Hispanic- Greek, Latin, mental philosophy, and natural philosophy. of education acceptable in Italy had to be recut As that year’s sole graduate, he also delivered the valedic- ties, they were able to move among cultures more Americans to its classrooms in the years after the to fit new world expectations. Students in the tory address. easily than their native-born counterparts. Their

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tices. For a half-cen- of believers. Focusing Italians: “He gave them a Catholic sense and It has taken 40 years tury, the missionaries on Jesus’s love for determination where before they were separate to answer the questions criss-crossed the humankind, devotion and dissonant.” originally posed by the ghosts in the attic. In the Southwestern coun- to the Sacred Heart interval, I learned new lessons about American tryside, scattering urged the faithful What did these clerical history through the study of Italian Jesuits. I the seeds of Italian to make reparation exiles bring to the United States as a also gained a broader understanding of Santa influence through for the indifference consequence of the persecution and abuse they Clara University’s place in our national narrative. their parishes, and hostility of the had experienced in Europe? As fallible men of While composing the final chapter of Brokers schools, and publica- contemporary world their time, many bore an antipathy toward the of Culture, I frequently recalled a passage from tions. However, to religion and the modern democratic state and liberalism, which Oscar Handlin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, COURTESY SCU ARCHIVES, ANDREW P. HILL PHOTO ANDREW P. SCU ARCHIVES, COURTESY they were no more Catholic Church. The had brought them so much grief in their home- The Uprooted, which I had read decades earlier. inclined to eliminate devotion was closely land. The Italians also bucked against aspects of “Once I thought to write a history of the immi- indigenous customs connected to support Americanization that they found objectionable. grants in America,” he wrote. “Then I discovered there than they had of the beleaguered Offended by the absence of religious training that the immigrants were American history.” been in California. Pope Pius IX, who in public schools, they struggled against secular If Handlin was right in arguing that immigra- That temptation achieved near cult state education in the United States as vigor- tion is the paramount theme of national develop- Garden party: Four elderly Jesuits assemble in the Mission ment, forging a synthesis of varied cultures has was tempered by Gardens at the 19th century’s end. From left to right: status among 19th- ously as they had in Italy. On the other hand, the the Mediterranean Thomas P. Leonard, Carlo E. Messea, Giovanni Pinasco, century Catholics. scarring experiences of anticlericalism in Italy also been a constant of Santa Clara’s historic RARE IS THE and Giuseppe Caredda. cultural matrix that With the collapse of prompted in the banished Jesuits a profound evolution. Indeed, rare is the American institu- AMERICAN the foreign cler- temporal authority of appreciation of the religious liberty they had tion that has not been, and continues to be, INSTITUTION gy shared with the native population. the papacy following Italian unification, promot- discovered in America. As a coworker once said shaped by refugees. Of the nearly 36 million THAT HAS NOT A COWORKER By integrating Italian and Mexican traditions, ers emphasized the pope’s moral and spiritual of Santa Clara’s piemontesi, they “cherish freedom people who emigrated to the United States BEEN, AND ONCE SAID OF the Neapolitans legitimized themselves in the authority, linking love of the suffering Christ to more than water.” between 1821 and 1924, many fled religious CONTINUES TO SANTA CLARA’S eyes of Latino Catholics. In turn, the Italians’ loyalty to the Church and its aggrieved leader. As founders of five institutions of higher persecution; and once they arrived, faith pro- BE, SHAPED BY PIEMONTESI, adaptive give-and-take approach helped make Thus devotion to the Sacred Heart, coupled with learning, the Italians participated in what con- vided an identity marker assisting survival and REFUGEES. THEY “CHERISH more acceptable their Romanizing ecclesiasti- the declaration of papal infallibility, contributed temporary churchmen dubbed the “great battle” adaptation. The clergy of many denominations FREEDOM MORE cal reforms. to the remarkable centralization of the Catholic for cultural hegemony of the American frontier. functioned as cultural intermediaries for immi- THAN WATER.” Wherever posted, the Italians aimed at Church in that troubled century. “If Western society is left destitute of seminaries gration congregations. Even today, when dis- reconciling differences among the multicul- The Italians promoted the integration of of a decidedly Protestant character,” warned Yale placement threatens newcomers with a loss of tural congregations that filled the pews of diversified Americans—Italians and Indians, Professor Noah Porter in 1852, “the Jesuits will roots, churches, mosques, and synagogues pre- their large churches. Their pastoral objective Anglos and Latinos—into a transnational occupy the field.” The only remedy to this threat serve ethnic and cultural identity while easing the was to bind American Catholicism more closely Catholic culture that surpassed local boundar- was “to preoccupy the ground with colleges and immigrants’ adjustment to a new life in a new to Rome, to advance a European-style institu- ies. The more centered on Roman customs, the schools” before Jesuit institutions sprouted “in environment. This is also true of contemporary tional church in the United States, and to forge greater the conditions for the possibility of one- the unformed society of the West.” Santa Clara University. What makes this institu- a community in which, as one bishop once put ness in diversity. Consequently, wherever the Jesuits reciprocated the rivalry. Santa Clara’s tion, and other Jesuit universities in the West, it, all races and cultures would find themselves Italians went, the church was more Roman cofounder, Michele Accolti, labored to “counter- unique is not just that they served immigrant pop- “completely at home.” Such were the goals when they left. act the bold influence” of Methodist neighbors at ulations but also that they were founded and of Santa Clara’s founders. They accomplished The 19th-century faithful did not resist this the College of the Pacific. There were no schools forged by refugee exiles. The historic product of this by importing old-world religious practices, quest for conformity, strange as it might seem in California, “except those of the Protestants,” displacement and uprootedness, they remain by enhancing the role of the priest in church to present-day Catholics. In fact, when the Accolti said when soliciting European support committed to creating a community of disparate affairs, and by promoting the centralization of immigrant clergy introduced old-world religious for his own educational project. “If we do not nationalities and ethnicities Catholicism under papal authority. This quest for notions to congregations in the United States, move in the matter, the Protestant ministers are and to eliciting the best ecclesial unity manifested itself especially in the they usually met acceptance. Why were alien there to appropriate all the Catholic youth.” from them. SCU religious devotions that the piemontesi introduced ways readily embraced? One reason was that Gerald McKevitt, S.J., is Ignacio

Offensive as such declarations sound to modern CHARLES BARRY to their multicultural clientele. Prayers to Mary heterogeneous Catholics of the 19th century ears, denominational rivalry was not without Ellacuria, S.J., University Professor of History at SCU. His most recent welcomed the supranational and centralized prac- during the month of May, Corpus Christi proces- social benefit. Competition unleashed a remark- book is Brokers of Culture: Italian sions, allegiance to the papacy, devotion to St. tices of the Italians as a means of transcending able proliferation of church-related colleges that Jesuits in the American West, Joseph, homage to the Sacred Heart—all had a the restrictive confines of ethnicity. What one transformed the United States into what one 1848-1919 (Stanford University universalizing and cohesive aim. historian wrote of a German Jesuit who toiled scholar dubbed “the land of colleges.” Press, 2007). The statue of the Sacred Heart set in the among fractured immigrant populations in the heart of the Mission Gardens still stands as a 19th-century Midwest could also be said of the sentinel to that quest for a unified community

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very year, California fourth-graders prepar- Eing their Mission projects go in search in the University Archives—the work of co-editor Though religion was always a factor, of inspiration and information. Budding anthro- Elizabeth Thompson ’00, an anthropology major Skowronek sees the goal of the California pologists check out picture books and history with a minor in Spanish Studies, who now works missions more as another kind of conversion: YOU for the SCU Career Center coordinating the Let “People are transformed into tax-paying citizens, tomes from the library, buy prefabricated models from the craft store (complete with tiny Your Life Speak program. who live in one place and who are loyal to Franciscans and native Californians), and write “She provided the glue at the beginning,” the crown.” Their diets change, and so do the meticulous reports on one of the 21 missions Skowronek says. For her part, Thompson remem- technologies to cook and prepare the food. along El Camino Real. bers a lot of hours spent sitting in the basement of They adapt the style of their clothes and their ARE As Russ Skowronek learned, it’s a bit more the old Orradre Library, comparing translations houses. All of the skills to support this new difficult for grown-up anthropologists than it is of the informes. lifestyle needed to be taught to the for 9-year-olds. Because her family has lived Clareños. So if one thinks of the Even though the University Archives possess in the Bay Area for several missions as a kind of trade school, a wealth of original documents, artifacts, and generations and owned ranch he says, this site has been a place records that the Jesuits inherited with Santa Clara land, Thompson was particu- for education in a Western sense College, the closest he could find to an official larly interested in the accounts for 230 years. HERE of daily agrarian life in the SCU ARCHIVES COURTESY In November 2006, at the book’s history of Mission Santa Clara de Asís pre-1851 was an unfinished manuscript. 1800s. Her work in anthropol- release, a group of California But Skowronek, associate professor of ogy and the campus archaeol- archaeologists, scholars, and mission anthropology and the University archae- ogy lab also left her with a curators joined in a panel to cele- ologist, was able to address the problem collection of campus trivia. brate what Skowronek and his many in a particularly Santa Clara way: He “We would research things like collaborators had accomplished. Branded: the mark for got the whole campus involved. how many tiles were on the Andrew Galvan, curator of Mission roof of the Mission buildings,” cattle belonging to Mission Dolores in San Francisco, called Situating Mission Santa Clara Santa Clara. (Academy of American Franciscan she recalls. (For the record, the book “a model that every mis- History, $35) covers the pre-college more than 15,000.) “But then sion in Alta California should have.” years of the Santa Clara Mission, and we learned what you could He gave Skowronek a necklace of the final product was made possible extrapolate from that data.” Such as: the number beads from the 1790s, made by one of his ances- thanks to contributions from faculty in of laborers, the raw materials, and skills needed tors who was baptized at Mission Dolores— history, anthropology, Spanish, art, and to create the tiles, and how long such a project which Skowronek wears to this day. sociology, and anthropology students would take to complete, and what that meant “It took me 14 years to find this stuff,” over the past nine years. about Santa Clara’s status among the missions. Skowronek says. “I don’t want anyone to ever, The volume is a compilation of pri- From its founding by Franciscan Father ever, ever have to do that again, myself included. mary documents, such as the annual Tomás de la Peña on Jan. 12, 1777, through four It will be a whole lot easier to write a Mission informes—reports sent from the Mission different mission sites in the Guadalupe River history now.” to Catholic superiors—along with regu- valley, to March of 1851 when Bishop Joseph His straightforward timeline is accessible COURTESY: SCU ARCHIVES COURTESY: lar tallies of the goods and livestock at Alemany turned what remained of the Mission even to fourth-grade students and their teach- the Mission, accounts of visitors, and grounds over to the Jesuits to found their school, ers. Which is a good thing, not only for future Transfer of ownership: personal correspondence, connected by short Santa Clara was always a very successful mis- archaeologists and anthro- This drawing by William Santa Clara students and contextual narratives. It is the first time these sion. The profits of the legendary orchards and pologists. After all, today’s Bartholomew depicts faculty collaborate on a sale of livestock were for the most part all rein- fourth-graders are the class the Mission grounds in documents have been reprinted in their entirety SCU 1851, as they appeared groundbreaking project and collected chronologically. vested into the Mission, which thrived and grew of 2020. when they were turned each year, as demonstrated by the tables and the Sarah Stanek is a writer/editor

documenting early Mission To be put to use, all this material needed to RUSSELL MORRIS JR. over to the Society of accounts in the informes. The mild climate and in the Office of Marketing and Jesus and became Santa life that spans disciplines and be translated, mostly from Spanish—which was rich environment that makes this such a wonder- Communications. The California Clara College. almost a decade of work. And done by faculty in the modern languages depart- native was inspired by Hitchcock’s ful site for a university also made it an excellent it’s now a model for every ment; transcribed from longhand—the task of the Vertigo to devote her fourth-grade first students in the Anthropology 146 class; then place for agriculture and animals. report to Mission San Juan Bautista. mission in California. verified against the original Spanish documents

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scm_0507153_Fall07_P.indd 28-29 8/7/07 5:09:07 PM E XCLUSIVES On the Web Hear some early California testimonios read by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. mission mattersNew books by missionSenkewicz, matters read an excerpt of Paul Soukup, S.J.’s Out of Eden, check out a photo gallery SCU alumni and faculty from Filipinos in Los Angeles, and more! Visit www.santaclaramagazine.com. In Print Better living sans catalysts for real environmental action, Speaking the same Inventing the future he argues, given the huge number of chemicals people who belong to religions and the language fourth-grader built a device to motivating power of a faith’s vision and help his little brother learn to se of pesticides has doubled in the values. Gardner is director of research he best way to A walk. A first-grader had the idea to United States since 1962, when with the Worldwatch Institute, and in learn a language is U T attach IV poles to toy cars for child Rachel Carson Inspiring Progress: Religions’ Contributions to live it. And as part patients in hospitals. These are just published Silent to Sustainable Development (W. W. of the growing foun- two stories you will find in Kids Spring. But Norton, 2006, $14.95), he looks back dation of scholarship Inventing! A Handbook for Young Franciscan friar on advances made in the 20th century on community-based Inventors (John Wiley & Sons Inc., Keith Douglass as too often embodying the values of learning (CBL), 2005, $14.95), which takes the Warner isn’t “progress unbounded by ethics.” Now, a new volume co- expressions “children are our future” wringing his he says, it’s time for those who follow edited by Josef Hellebrandt examines the and “making the world a better hands; he’s the world’s great faith traditions to take critical role that CBL plays in language place” to a whole new level. Author chronicling the seriously the power of their own teach- acquisition, developing international Susan Casey ’66 takes you through evolution of ings and acknowledge their value in the understanding, and global civic participa- the steps of thinking of an idea for agroecology in realization of a better world. tion skills. In other words, the stuff response to agriculture’s environmental for being an educated leader in the 21st an invention, making it, naming it, crisis, and he’s looking at how networks century. Hellebrandt chairs SCU’s and even patenting, trademarking, of growers, scientists, agricultural Only connect Department of Modern Languages and and getting it manufactured and sold for consumer use. She poses O organizations, and public agencies have Literatures. In Learning the Language of CID activities for the reader at the end developed innovative, ecologically- hen so many things—from fear Global Citizenship: Service-Learning in SUA California as you’ve of every chapter, illustrating her based techniques to reduce reliance on Wof rejection to addiction to TiVo Applied Linguistics (Anker Publishing, A DE information with examples of never heard it agrochemicals. Agroecology in Action: to endlessly surfing the Web—prevent 2007, $40), he uses real examples drawn TAW Extending Alternative Agriculture through or distract us from leading lives of from experiences and projects of teachers inventions by other children, and SY RTE he transformation of Mexican Social Networks (The MIT Press, 2007, deeper connection and meaning, how and students at a range of universities provides helpful tips. COU TCalifornia through the Gold Rush $25) is where the ideas come together, can we communicate with the ease that to show how CBL programs, such as Filipino Angelenos and into U.S. statehood is an epic tale. with case studies in California, the Adam and Eve presumably did with tutoring English to native Spanish Of punctuation and But when the history of the Golden God? Achieving a Midwest, and elsewhere. Warner is speakers, can help both tutor and tutee ae Respicio Koerner ’97 has State was first being written, the words trusting intimacy the Pentagon Faith, Ethics, and Vocation Project understand a language, a culture, and collected more than 200 vintage of Mexican women were recorded as an in everyday con- M Director in SCU’s Environmental ultimately, one another. photographs with the help of members afterthought at best. Now some of their versation with each oets don’t make the covers of Studies Institute. and organizations in the Filipino- stories are available for the first time in other and in com- ‘ Entertainment Weekly,” writes P American community to create Filipinos English in Testimonios: Early California municating with Parenting a sensory- Matt Mason ’90, “they make page in Los Angeles (Arcadia Publishing, through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848 The key to sustainable God is the focus of 16, they make obituaries.” The lines deprived child 2007, $19.99). Spanning nearly a cen- (Heyday Books, 2006, $18.95), by wife Out of Eden: 7 Ways are from “The News About Poets,” development? Faith tury, the book resonates with the voices and husband team Rose Marie Beebe, God Restores Blocked which appears in he difficult, frustrating struggle of Filipino Angelenos. Its 2007 publi- who teaches in SCU’s Department of may hold the answer. Communication Mason’s collection Tfor a parent identifying and living cation comes one year after the centen- Modern Languages and Literatures, (Pauline Books and Media, 2006, with a child’s disability is something Things We Don’t ary Gardner ’80 wants to change nial anniversary of Filipino migration and Robert M. Senkewicz, who teaches $9.95), by SCU’s own Paul A. Soukup, Christopher R. Auer ’92, ’95 M.A. Know We Don’t how the world understands to the United States, which began when in SCU’s Department of History. Beebe G S.J. This accessible volume’s chapters knows all too well. He and Susan L. Know (Backwaters progress. “Better 15 migrant workers called sakadas came and Senkewicz previously collabo- begin with Scriptural passages that are Blumberg, Ph.D., cowrote Parenting a Press, 2006, policies and to the Hawaiian Islands to work on rated on the highly influential Lands of then analyzed and related to how we Child with Sensory Processing Disorder: $14). Parsers of greener technolo- the sugar plantations there. Today, Promise and Despair, and they are the communicate (or fail to communicate) A Family Guide to Understanding and Pentagon poetry gies alone will not Southern California is home to the recipients of the 2006 Certificate of today. Each chapter wraps up with Supporting Your Sensory-Sensitive Child will recognize make sustainable largest concentration of Filipinos Meritorious Performance and Promise questions and suggestions to help us (New Harbinger Publications Inc., 2006, the title as one of societies,” he outside the Philippines. from the California Council for the learn what holds us back from really lis- $15.95), and both share their personal former SECDEF writes. So what Promotion of History. This new collec- tening or talking to others and to God, stories of having a child with sensory Donald Rumsfeld’s lines, and procras- can? Religious tion, says former California state histo- followed by a prayer for deepening our processing disorder. The book is geared tinators and proofreaders alike will leaders and com- rian Kevin Starr, is a “pioneering work experience of communication. to help the entire family and includes find empathy for the narrator of “The munities should be of scholarship and critical interpretation activities and questions for reflection Part-Time English Teacher’s Lament.” by two of the finest Hispanicists active designed to help parents develop quali- There’s humor and wit, to be sure, in early California studies.” ties and skills that can improve their lives but along with them, “things that stir / as well as their child’s. and are.”

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scm_0507153_Fall07_P.indd 30-31 8/7/07 5:09:13 PM Stories like these reassure today’s students, Focusing on vocation in the who are dealing with record levels of stress and context of social justice, science, anxiety as they face the monumental challenge of Let your their futures. The class gives them role models diversity in business, or the lib- and vital insights to guide them on their journeys. eral arts, the class meets once a Tiffany Allen, economics and political science ’05, week in late afternoons or early says, “It was reassuring for all of us to hear how confused these speakers once were in their lives evenings, combining Ignatian and to understand that they had to try many dif- discernment with personal ferent professions, make mistakes.” Speakers, too, stories from alumni and find inspiration sharing their stories. Joan Graff, president of the Legal Aid Society–Employment community leaders. Law Center in San Francisco, says “the comments of the students brought tears to my eyes. It was life both surprising and moving to see how they perceived my life and work.” of Santa Clara’s DISCOVER project, this class Speak A SKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS provides students with vital discernment tools they can use not only in college but throughout Discernment means asking the right questions. life. Focusing on vocation in the context of social Drawing on the work of theologian Michael justice, science, diversity in business, or the liberal Himes, S.J., Thompson asks her students to con- Discovering Vocation Today arts, the class meets once a week in late after- sider what brings them joy, using evocative ques- noons or early evenings, combining Ignatian dis- tions that can reveal our gifts and authenticity at cernment with personal stories from alumni and any stage in life: community leaders. • Consider times you felt “most yourself.” On the first day of class Thompson intro- What qualities and characteristics were duces herself, the speakers, and the purpose of brought out in you? Like them, we have all probably asked our- the class. Vocation, she says, is “not job training • When you are so engaged in something that By Diane Dreher selves, “What should I do with my life?” In the or the call to religious life,” but a life of greater time flies by, what are you doing? Ignatian tradition, finding our vocations means joy and fulfillment. • If you were given an hour on prime time discovering our gifts, listening to our hearts for television, what subject would you be divine guidance, and reaching out to live with L EARNING FROM LIFE’ S STORIES compelled to share with the world? VA BLANCO left her media job in Miami after greater joy and meaning. Leaders in many fields have shared their stories in • What activities and hobbies and places were It’s hard to find our vocations in a culture of you drawn to as a child? Sept 11, 2001, returning to California to be closer to class, including international portrait photogra- consumerism, careerism, and constant commo- pher Michael Collopy; Rita Chavez Medina, the • When you consider accomplishments you family and friends. She’s now Santa Clara’s assistant tion, hard to make time for life’s deeper ques- sister of Cesar Chavez; University President Paul especially enjoyed working on, what talents, E tions amid our daily duties and distractions. But Locatelli, S.J.; San Francisco Poet Laureate and abilities, or characteristics do you notice in dean of admissions and financial aid. research has identified the sense of vocation as a Glide Foundation President Janice Mirikitani; as yourself? Are there clues from your childhood TRAVIS WALKER, political science ’00, graduated from very real human need. A 1995 study in Life Roles, well as recent alumni who share their own frus- that reveal these talents? Values, and Careers found it the “most important • Has there been a time when you felt like law school, then began working for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, trations and discoveries on the path to vocation. life value” in North America, Europe, Africa, Ron André, classics and English ’93, tells of his something—a role, a relationship—really while writing award-winning plays and founding a non- Asia, and Australia, while a study in the Journal “odyssey of odd jobs” after graduation, work- didn’t fit? How could you tell? How does a of Research in Personality in 1997 connected the good fit “feel” to you? What traits or charac- profit to build boarding schools in inner cities. ing as a data entry clerk, a bookseller for Barnes sense of vocation with better health. In his 2002 & Noble, and a movie extra; getting a master’s teristics does a good fit bring out in you? SUE RENNER, marketing ’87, built a career in high-tech best seller, Authentic Happiness, psychologist degree in classics, teaching high school, and Martin Seligman equated the sense of vocation working at Microsoft before becoming a State marketing, earned a master’s degree in counseling and with greater joy, meaning, and fulfillment, and Farm insurance agent. John Bianchi ’03, J.D. ’07, It’s hard to find our vocations worked with at-risk youth in San Francisco, founded a jew- he encouraged people to examine their lives to tells how, after majoring in liberal arts and com- discover their own personal gifts or “signature puter science, he spent a year after graduation in a culture of consumerism, elry design business, and is now transitioning into the non- strengths” and use them to contribute to the with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Alaska. This careerism, and constant commo- profit sector. Her biggest challenge, she says, is “letting go greater good. experience deepened his spirituality and sense To help Santa Clara students explore their of community, inspiring him to pursue a life tion, hard to make time for life’s of self-doubt”; her biggest reward, “finding my own path own deeper questions and discern their voca- of service. He attended Santa Clara’s law school deeper questions amid our daily of contribution.” tions, career counselor Elizabeth Thompson ’00 “to empower myself to empower others,” and is has developed an innovative class, “Let Your Life now working in the public defender’s office in duties and distractions. Speak,” its title taken from Parker Palmer’s book Seattle, planning to establish a nonprofit to help on vocation. Developed four years ago as part juvenile offenders.

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The gospel of that summer In the tradition of Ignatian discernment, Thompson helps students recognize moments was to walk and watch of consolation and desolation, developing the What Discernment, for Buckley, “is a grammar of religious for hours the strands inner guidance to sustain them on life’s journey. experience. You learn it one letter, one word at a She asks: Should I be doing? of a spider web time.” He points to Galatians 5:22: The fruit of the disbanding, • What experiences brought out the most spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, energy and enthusiasm in you? What goodness, faith. “Look for signs of the spirit in what qualities were brought out in you? our conversations spinning you’re doing,” he advises, “for love, joy, patience— What did you most enjoy? like gossamer or look for the signs of the evil one.” Discernment • Consider experiences that have been in the air over especially draining. What aspects of the means looking beneath the surface of our experi- situation drew energy from you? Ignatian discernment ence to reflect on the motions of the soul, the Pescadero Creek. and learning to listen movements of consolation and desolation: I thought the origin Thompson’s course was “a wake-up call” for Tiffany Allen, who had planned to go to law • Consolation, Buckley says, is “a movement of of our favorite word school until she realized, through reflection, that In the Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius of Loyola affectivity toward God, whether pleasure or volunteer work or internships at nonprofits made pain.” It can bring deep feelings of love, joy, might begin in the Latin her feel “most alive and happy, a passion toward advises the exercitants to practice a daily insight, inspiration, clarity, authenticity, grati- for sea or bone, the work I was doing like I never felt with os or mare, Examen, a brief examination of conscience in tude, altruism, community, peace, trust, apprecia- anything else.” Having found her vocation in tion, grace, generosity, openness, energy, growth, but in the beginnings “helping, guiding, and inspiring others,” she is which they pray for the grace of understand- creativity, and communion with God. entering Santa Clara’s graduate program in of gossamer counseling psychology this fall. ing and review the day’s events for patterns • Desolation is “a movement of affectivity away were so many goose-summers Grace Lee, art ’05, who worked through from God, whether pleasure or pain,” bringing months of frustration and uncertainty after of consolation and desolation. This awareness anxiety, fear, confusion, frustration, misery, isola- spent sleeping in shade graduation before finding a job designing online tion, egocentrism, despair, hurt, hopelessness, under pine or cypress stationery, says the class showed her “that it is brings them to reject whatever would inhibit hostility, self-pity, restlessness, turmoil, self-hate, back east before the floods possible to follow your dreams and pursue what selfishness, compulsiveness, brooding, depres- the divine goodness in their lives. They come you love.” Class speaker Graff says that the stu- sion, and lack of meaning. before the love dents brought her “a strong surge of inspiration These movements are much deeper than surface of words replaced love, and the knowledge that the world will be a better both to repent those choices from which it has pleasure or pain. We can experience desolation the idea of a you place because of them.” And statistical research been absent and to cooperate liberally with the conducted this year by David Feldman, assistant when we become restless and dissatisfied with superficial pleasures, or feel consolation when swamping professor of counseling psychology, revealed a grace promised to their futures. the idea of me. significant increase in the students’ levels of voca- we’re surprised by moments of grace in the midst tion, life meaning, and hope. of sadness and loss. Whatever the context, consola- Always the rain Perhaps the most important lesson these stu- The heart of the Examen is the practice of discernment, tion shows us that we are on the right path, while and sometimes a letter dents learn is faith in a process much larger than pausing to reflect on our own deepest feelings. Michael desolation tells us that we have wandered off the themselves, a message Thompson shares with in the afternoons, Buckley, S.J., says that “our relationship with God is like Anne path and become lost in the shadows. the orange mutt them in a quote from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters Sullivan’s and Helen Keller’s. We can’t see or hear God. All we to a Young Poet: Once we’ve reflected on the lessons of consolation have is touch, the events in our lives. How do you learn to “Have patience with everything unresolved in and desolation, Buckley says we can simply tunneling under read those? The big issue is really purity of heart.” your heart and try to love the questions them- ask “What should I be doing?” If you listen, the the wire. A spider web selves…. Live the questions Buckley is the Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J., Professor of answer will come. God will communicate to you the entire known galaxy— now. Perhaps then, some day Theology at Santa Clara. He notes that discernment means and lead you, he says, “if you attend to that far in the future, you will taking the time to listen to our hearts, slowing down, paus- conversation.” SCU those summers gradually, without even notic- ing to pay close attention to our deeper feelings. “Closeness which will not —Diane Dreher ing it, live your way into the to God is not a matter of geography,” he says. “It’s a matter come back to me. RUSSELL MORRIS JR. answer.” SCU of affectivity. The language of God, as John of the Cross tells Diane Dreher is professor of English us, is an effect produced in the soul. The question is how to —REBECCA BLACK at Santa Clara and the author of Your Personal Renaissance, a forthcoming read that language.” book on vocation. Rebecca Black’s first book of poems, Cottonlandia, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2005. She is a lecturer in the SCU Department of English.

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or more than two decades, Santa Clara has been at the forefront of work in community- based learning (CBL), with the Arrupe Partnerships for Community-based Learning Fplaying a key role. Given the University’s pioneering work in this area, in March SCU’s Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education hosted a conference on “Callings: Finding Vocation through Community-based Learning.” President Paul Locatelli, S.J., laid out the basic prem- ise underscoring the conference in his remarks: “It’s clear,” he said, “that community-based learning and immersion trips provide powerful experiences for fostering vocation among our students.” But how? Scholars from across the country and members of the community- at-large set out to answer that. At the close of the conference, at a roundtable discussion co-sponsored by Santa Clara Magazine, panelists looked at the challenges facing CBL inside the academy and out—and the essential role it can play when it comes to sustaining higher education and a functioning democracy. Here are edited excerpts.

PARTICIPATING IN THE DISCUSSION:

Luis Calero, S.J., Hilary Barroga ’99, Richard Wood, associate Sharon Daloz Parks, associate professor of director of compliance for professor of sociology director of Leadership for anthropology and a EHC LifeBuilders, which at the University of New the New Commons, an Bannan senior fellow provides shelter, housing, Mexico. In his research, initiative of the Whidbey at the Ignatian Center and supportive services teaching, and writing, he Institute in Clinton, Wash. for Jesuit Education for the homeless in Silicon focuses on the interna- She is the author of Big at SCU. Among his Valley. She also serves tional organizational and Questions, Worthy Dreams: Open the door: In a collabora- many center duties, as a volunteer mediator cultural underpinnings Mentoring Young Adults in tion fostered by SCU’s Arrupe he co-directs an annual with the County of Santa of democratic life, and he Their Search for Meaning, Partnerships, freshman Clara’s Dispute Resolution Lindsay Harke works with faculty/staff immer- is the author of Faith in Purpose, and Faith and a girl participating in the sion to El Salvador. Program and on the steer- Action: Religion, Race, and Leadership Can Be Taught: Latchkey Day Care Program ing committee of Santa Democratic Organizing in A Bold Approach for a

run by Mexican American Clara University’s Arrupe America. Complex World. PHOTOS BY CHARLES BARRY EXCEPT RICHARD WOOD, BY NICK LAYMAN, AND SHARON DALOZ PARKS, BY B. SCOTIA MCKAY SCOTIA B. BY PARKS, DALOZ SHARON AND LAYMAN, NICK BY WOOD, RICHARD EXCEPT BARRY CHARLES BY PHOTOS Community Services. Partnerships.

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scm_0507153_Fall07_P.indd 36-37 8/7/07 5:09:27 PM Patience and focus: As an Arrupe student intern, com- bined sciences major Greg Phipps ’07 works with adults participating in San Jose’s Alzheimer’s Activity Center “How could you have academic excellence without adult day care program. community-based learning?” Community-based learning taught me how to begin using what I was Think about the discerning learning academically in the community. The political context we live in is one in which “The insight and Calero: that is taking place, not only One of my challenges to you—faculty at the very foundations of democracy, culturally and in community-based learning, but also in higher universities and community-based learning institutionally, are being eroded. The core cultural engagement that education. In higher education, perhaps we have a professionals—is to push yourselves to not just commitments about a common good, a shared community-based crisis of leadership or, as Sharon Parks has put it, think about preaching to the choir. Engage destiny in society; the core institutions of elections of authority; the university has become too much the students who haven’t grown up in socially that are clean, not totally dominated by money; learning causes to of a place where there is not enough vision. We conscious households, who haven’t chosen majors of institutional life, family, universities, and happen is something have come to be comfortable with what is famil- or career paths that necessarily address how we churches—are coming to be so dominated by iar; but we have to enter into creative, innovative can make the world a better place as a primary money and power that the future of democracy in that could not ways of educating. focus. The engineers, accountants, and business this country is at risk. Churches and universities happen otherwise.” I have found in my own teaching and commu- people can make a significant impact on shifting are some of the core bulwarks against that type of nity-based learning work that what we do in part- the way the world thinks. We just have to give consumerism in America. It is possible to accept them the opportunity through community-based — LUIS CALERO, S.J. nership with our own communities is regarded the challenge of community-based learning in ways by some in academic circles as kind of soft, not learning to get there. that break down the university and make us some- scientific enough. We have to enter into this con- thing other than what we are truly called to be. versation with universities in a way that indicates Stem the tide of merely higher education. And we’re not very good at One of the bases of democracy that’s eroding that this is about educating the whole person and Wood: consumerist values in higher changing that yet. But part of the responsibility of is the legitimacy of expert knowledge. Expert not just being in isolation. education—that is the fundamental challenge fac- being on the cutting edge in this work is helping knowledge is being manipulated by political and We try to measure the solidarity gained ing universities around the country. the rest of us find ways to write about this, getting corporate elites. Universities are about creating through community-based learning in terms of I am not at a religious university. I am in a big this in front of your colleagues in secular universi- legitimate expert knowledge; we want to preserve what happens to individuals at the present time public university, the University of New Mexico, ties to make it much more widespread. and defend that. Yes, put it at the service of soli- and later on. Who the student will become is not with 28,000 students. Think of that as the place It’s not a coincidence that you are on the cut- darity and the transformation of society—but do always very clear. The question should not really where most American college students go. Here, ting edge. You come from religious traditions not give up scholarly review and tenure. be, “Can we change the world?” but “Can I act in you’re at the forefront of a movement to tie edu- that bring a language that the public universities such a way that would be different from the way cation to the community and to other parts of the don’t have. We don’t talk about the whole person, We are invited to adopt a high- I am acting?” In other words, it’s a question of world. You are an elite in that sense. With that vocation, calling, and we sure don’t talk about soli- Parks: stakes leadership. Often one integrity, not outcomes. comes responsibility. darity. To articulate that language is important, to can lead with only good questions in hand: as I have been doing community-based learning Community-based learning and immersion help create standards that all universities can hold poet David Whyte says, “questions that can make for about 15 years in teaching anthropology. It’s experiences are a way to tie higher education ourselves up to gradually. or unmake a life”—questions that can make or a lot of extra work. But I have come to the con- to a much more constructive, much more fully We are only beginning to learn about the unmake a college, a university, or a world—“ques- clusion that the insight and the engagement that humane value of higher education. Paul Locatelli impact of this kind of teaching on students. We tions that have patiently waited for you, questions community-based learning causes to happen is has said it’s a strategy to build bridges between really don’t know a lot about what difference this that have no right to go away.” something that could not happen otherwise. the educational and the social apostolates of the makes in students’ lives. We need much better We turn to our artists when we are doing Church. That is, how do we make higher educa- research on this and to publish that. adaptive work because we are trying to create I grew up in a very tion deeply tied to the social challenges of our But I would also cite the incredible limita- new realities. Social artists worry the gap between Barroga: community-minded time, in ways that don’t conflict with one another, tions of our tools. If the real impact of this is on our present arrangements and what is needed. family. My mom is a teacher, my dad is a busi- but are deeply creative? the whole person of the student, discrete models We are worrying the gap that is represented ness person, but his business is to bring economic You are way past where most public universities for how we study students are terrible at captur- by the increasing polarization in our culture. development to the Philippines, a much poorer are. Where I teach, this is nowhere on the agenda. ing that. We need good psychological tools that And the gap between liberal and conservative or country than the United States. In my family, not At most universities, it is a perfectly good option are being developed, we need ethnographers like progressive and fundamentalist, however we may “You’re at the to not be socially conscious as you move through having a social consciousness was never an option. Luis Calero studying this, we need to study stu- choose to name them. We are, ironically, wor- forefront of a Coming to Santa Clara and being part of a com- dents not for three months but for five years and rying the gap between scholarship and mission. munity of men and women for others wasn’t so 10 years. All that scientific language will help us We are worrying the gap between service learn- movement to tie much of a paradigm shift for me. tell this story much more effectively. ing and campus ministry. We are worrying the education to the At Santa Clara I participated in the Arrupe We like to think of our role as challenging gap between academic life and the life of love. Partnerships service opportunities—though it students to a new kind of solidarity, to a trans- We are worrying the gap between the reality of community and wasn’t called that then. Listening to conversa- formation in their lives. Some of the agencies we living and a religiously variegated world. We are to other parts of tions about academic excellence, the question in work with are presenting to us a counter-chal- worrying the gap between short-term interven- my mind is not, “How can you have academic lenge to break open our very core institutional tion, as we focus on undergraduate education, the world.” excellence with community-based learning?” but, identities as universities. That’s a hard challenge. We are very attached to our core institutions, like — RICHARD WOOD most people are. I want to embrace that chal- College bound: SCU student and San Jose native lenge, but I also want to sort of circumscribe it. Margo Consul, right, mentors a high school student enrolled in East Palo Alto’s BUILD program.

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mind, this teaching happens when students go into the community and connect questions raised in Association the classroom with questions connected to their community. This is ultimately a question of integrity of the teacher leading the learning process. What I do, I do it not because I know that I will and long-term hopes and consequences that we get recognition for it; I do it because I believe stu- The Year in Review want to serve. We are worrying the gap between dents have the right to get the holistic best educa- what it means to be consumer and what it means tion they can. It really becomes an ethical question to be citizen, between career and calling, between “The academy at for me; I cannot not do it. spirituality and the intellectual life. f you read this page in the summer Did you know…? its best is a com- The academy at its best is a community with a issue of Santa Clara Magazine, you In the past year alone, the SCU Q: An observation I make not as a Catholic I deep dedication to truth. When we talk about initi- may remember that our Association Alumni Association: munity with a deep and teaching in an institution that’s not a LUIGI VIGNOLA ating students into the gritty reality of today’s has been busy over the past year denominational institution: I have been struck • Traveled with 25 alumni and dedication to truth.” world, we are a part of that passion for truth. We developing a strategic plan. The at the role that the Jesuits have played in this friends (including Professor of are working at something integral to scholarship. purpose of this initiative has been to institution. In my own institution, there is not Theatre and Dance Fred Tollini, — SHARON DALOZ PARKS That truth that we find, as we expose ourselves to better understand our strengths and this way to designate somebody whose life S.J., and Professor of Economics the gritty realities, is often made only more com- weaknesses, while also identifying is fully committed to trying to live out a set Mario Belotti) to Italy, home of plex and deepened when we do bring to it disci- opportunities to serve you more com- of values that the institution itself stands for. Santa Clara’s founding Jesuits, for plined, mindful, rigorous scholarship as we encoun- pletely. To achieve these objectives, Talk about what role people like you play in our first (and certainly not last!) ter the questions that have no right to go away. we have hosted focus groups, bench- shaping possibilities of institutions, especially international alumni trip. The best practice of community-based learn- marked best practices with leading in making change both on campus and in the • Became the first Jesuit university ing requires critical reflection on experiences. universities around the country, and community. to send 30+ alumni volunteers Santa Clara alumni and friends enjoy a The university has by heritage been a place of the conducted an online survey of alumni to New Orleans to help with moment in Venice during a two-week attitudes and interests. contemplative life. You can get cognition without CALERO: Jesuits are really guided by Ignatian reconstruction efforts. educational tour of Italy. contemplation; you don’t get intellectual life with- spirituality—the work of the Spiritual Exercises. One finding from the survey that out contemplation. But in a world gone busy, we Ignatian spirituality does not belong to the Jesuits, really stands out is that most of you • Continued to offer our Alumni That’s just a small sampling of the in the colleges and universities have been swept up it belongs to everybody who enters into that kind are not aware of the many services Audit Program, which allows Santa many events and activities we offer in that busyness. It’s the contemplative life that’s of reflection. I’d like to think that our strength on and benefits provided through the Clara graduates the opportunity to each year. As we move forward with going to be recovered in the life of higher educa- this campus and perhaps in other campuses is no Alumni Association. Our objective audit undergraduate courses. our strategic planning efforts, we will tion. That will happen in part because commu- longer the Jesuit presence per se, but the strength is to develop lifelong relationships • Welcomed back almost 2,000 continue to explore new ways for you nity-based learning has required it of us. lies in the fact that we have so many partners in between you and other alumni, as alumni to campus for their five-year to reconnect with SCU and your fel- ministry, faculty, staff, and students who have well as the University. And we do through 55-year reunions. low Broncos. As always, you can find Audience Questions come to see education in the same light. that each year by offering over 200 • Continued to enhance both inCircle out what’s going on in your city or We are very much aware of the fact that events and programs around the on campus by visiting our Web site at Q: Are we refusing to accept a dichotomy (our social networking site) and unless we bring people who are not Jesuits on country. But clearly, we’re not as www.scu.edu/alumni. between academic excellence and com- the Online Directory, both of board, first of all we’ll be short-changed because effective as we could be in letting you If you have ideas for new out- munity-based learning, which is sometimes which can keep you in touch with we are so enriched by our partners in ministry; know all that’s available. ings or would like to suggest ways characterized as soft? And the dichotomy of classmates and are great resources and secondly, it’s a gift that belongs to the whole to engage more of your classmates, scholarship and mission? for jobs, as well as personal and Church and to the whole human family. professional networking. please let us know. You may call the WOOD: At most institutions, one does it out Alumni Office at 408-554-6800, or BARROGA: How, within non-Jesuit universities • Helped SCU alumni in the Los of moral commitment. Most universities judge e-mail us at [email protected]. and public institutions, do we make social con- Angeles area coordinate a mentor-

faculty on the basis of scholarship, teaching, and NINONANCY ’96 We’d love to hear from you! sciousness the social norm? It isn’t an overnight ing program in which 13 current service. I want to protect the standard of scholar- It’s going to be an exciting year and transformation. It’s the message spreading and students shadowed 17 different ship. But one can link scholarship to teaching and I hope to see you back on campus or becoming owned by all people, so that it isn’t entertainment alums in such fields service through community-based learning and at an alumni event in your area soon! this elitist sort of thinking but is just our way as directing, writing, cinematogra- knit them much more closely together. Reward of being. SCU phy, art design, and editing. those teachers who spend the time it takes to do • Engaged faculty in extending the good community-based learning. Go Broncos! intellectual life of the campus CALERO: On the one hand, we feel very com- out to our alumni, drawing on mitted to doing the best teaching we can. In my SCU scholars including Steven Wade, dean’s executive professor of SCU alumni gather after “gutting” their first accounting; Barry Posner, dean of houseon the inaugural Alumni Immersion trip the Leavey School of Business; and to New Orleans in December 2006. On the Web E XCLUSIVES Barbara Murray, associate professor Kathryn Kale ’86 Read papers written for the Callings conference of theatre and dance. Executive Director, Alumni Association online, and find out more about community- based learning at SCU. Visit this article at 40 Santa Clara Magazine Fall 2007 www.santaclaramagazine.com and follow Fall 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 41 the links.

scm_0507153_Fall07_P.indd 40-41 8/7/07 5:09:44 PM class notes U NDERGRADUATE class notes hard work on behalf of such Undergraduate Alumni groups as the United Way, Community Center for the Blind, Fall Homecoming & and it can’t be anything but fun.” Charles Babiarz III retired Bill 50-year reunion and the Mary Graham Children’s 50th Reunion Reunion Weekend 5 7 73Jan. 1 after 36 years with 37 Adams Sept. 7-9, 2007 Thomas R. Mulroy Jr. was sworn Shelter in San Joaquin has made announces the U.S. Postal Service. He and in as a circuit judge in Chicago. a difference in the lives of others. and Gianera Oct. 19-21, 2007 that the Donald Comstock is a retired his wife Patti (Williams) ’76 His father, Thomas R. Mulroy, She is a model of community Class of 1937 civil engineer who enjoys ranch- became grandparents in March. service.” Jane has served as presi- Luncheon • Golf Tournament was senior counsel of Hopkins will hold its ing, traveling, and sports. dent and chief executive officer • Oktoberfest & Sutter and president of the Clyde LeBaron is retired from Friday, Sept. 7 70th reunion Richard B. Clark reports the food brokerage business. of San Joaquin Community Bank • Academic Programs in conjunc- 7th Circuit Bar Association and • Reunion Dinners for the Classes that he plays bocce ball He and wife Ivana (Artukovich) since 1999. • Campus Tours tion with the 58 Chicago Crime Commission. of 1952 and 1957 and slow-pitch softball a couple have three daughters; the Sheri (Brooks) Sciarrino and her Gianera Society luncheon on His son, Thomas R. Mulroy III, • Mass in the Mission times each week. youngest plays on SCU’s Sept. 8. a trial lawyer at Hinshaw & husband, Joe, recently celebrated Saturday, Sept. 8 • Reunion Dinners for the Classes of 1962, 1967, Ron Pacheco and his wife, Culbertson, last year was picked women’s rugby team. their 25th wedding anniversary. • Gianera Society Luncheon for all 1972, and 1977 John Filippi and his wife, Lorraine, celebrated their 50th by Law Bulletin Publishing Co. Sherri works as chief financial classes who graduated more than 3 Elna, live in an indepen- Robert Kenney is in his 8 as “One of 40 Illinois Lawyers officer of Sharino Co. Inc. 50 years ago Join your reunion committee and help rally your dent retirement community wedding anniversary in Hawaii 7540th year of service with with their five children and Under 40 to Watch.” Thomas Jr. the Boy Scouts of America. His • Induction of the Class of 1957 classmates for the reunion! in Los Altos. “It’s a new way of After 19 years as a County of into the Gianera Society living,” John reports. “Everything their spouses, along with 10 has tried 60 jury trials in federal wife, Geri, is the founder and Santa Clara deputy county coun- Contact the Alumni Office toll free at 1-866-554-6800 • Saturday Dinner for the Class of 1957 is done for you.” grandchildren. and state courts and has been owner of Cranberry Hill sel, Leslie Orta J.D. ’82, is now an or e-mail [email protected]. Mercantile in Sunnyvale. Six of an adjunct professor of trial assistant district counsel with Sunday, Sept. 9 Connect with your classmates by joining your reunion class Jean Lacouague reports 45-year reunion their seven sons have volun- 62 practice at Loyola since 1983. He the Santa Clara Valley Water group on inCircle, SCU’s ever-expanding online alumni network he is “still alive and Oct. 19-21, 2007 • Mass in the Mission 46 also has taught law at North- teered two years each in the at www.scu.edu/incircle. mobile—thank the Lord.” District, continuing to practice • Vintage Santa Clara XXIV western and DePaul universities. United States, Mexico, and Japan. Notre Dame High School public works construction and Wine Festival Invitations will be mailed in early September. Kenneth Cribari and his 5of San Jose honored Boitano family members general government law. Leslie 47wife, Kay, are in their 57th 6 30-year 77 reunion For more information, visit www.scu.edu/homecoming. Kathleen O’Shea Muller as Frank MBA ’74, Mark participates as often as possible year of marriage. They have six 69 Oct. 19-21, 2007 an Outstanding Community ’71, and Brian ’03, summitted in SCU community service children, 13 grandchildren, and Tina Del Piero was awarded the Partner. Kathy is executive direc- Mount Whitney on Oct. 3, 2006. activities and most recently three great-grandchildren. designation and credential of tor of Guadalupe River Park and They climbed to 14,497 feet, the traveled to New Orleans with William V. Molkenbuhr Gardens. She is also a member certified fund-raising executive highest point in the continental the alumni immersion trip in San Francisco as the chief oper- Richard Vasquez oversees 29 Eric L. Barrett recently complet- Jr. recently joined the of the Santa Clara Board of by CFRE International, a global 48 United States. December 2006. ating officer of an Asia-focused shopping centers as senior Marine Corps League of retired Fellows and the San Jose Rotary. provider of professional ed an advanced studies course Chuck Fumia MBA ’80, hedge fund and lives in San vice president of Westfield Marines in Lewiston, Idaho. certification of proficiency Frances (Pereira) Boscacci and is now a certified long-term Paul Vlahutin is an instructor 70and his wife, Molly, wel- Mateo with his wife, Izumi, and Corporation. He is married and practice for fund raising 81 is a real estate broker in care consultant. Anthony Sota announces for physics and engineering at comed their first grandchild in Burlingame. She and her hus- son, Hayato. with two children. the birth of his first professionals of nonprofit 49 Inner Hills Community College January 2006. band, Mark, live in San Mateo Victoria (Vossler) works as a 20-year reunion great-granddaughter, Samantha organizations. A lifetime resi- After enjoying a 16-month 88 in Inner Grove Heights, Minn. Elizabeth Heyburn Miller and her with their two children, Robert, business program associate at May 16-18, 2008 Burt, in December 2006. He also dent of Monterey County, Tina 85“self-imposed sabbatical,” husband, Steve, own Milliaire 15, and Giancarlo, 10. Robert Half International. She has three great-grandsons. Joan Schirle was a recipient of a is the grant coordinator for Kate Lepow MBA ’96 has recent- Winery in Murphys, Calif. Reina Miller recently went back Fox Foundation Resident Actor Central Coast VNA and Hospice Michael Isaacs is senior partner lives in Pleasanton with her ly joined Arvato Finance Services Jerome Kelley reports: to work at a civil engineering Fellowship, awarded this year Michael Pacelli was elected to (Visiting Nurse Association). at a San Francisco law firm. He husband J. Neville Shore Jr. ’84. as director of global payments. 50 “I am still alive!!” She will split her time between firm in Cameron Park, Calif., after to four nationally prominent the board of directors of First was named one of the Best Renée Vizzard Worthington Maureen (Doyle) offices in Mountain View and taking five years off to have chil- Harry Wenberg reports that actors with a distinguished National Bank of Northern Lawyers in the Bay Area in 2006 and her husband, Sam, recently 7 McQuerry has published a Dublin, Ireland. dren Nathaniel, 4, and Gillian, 2. he is enjoying retirement body of work. 8 and previously was named one California. new poetry chapbook, Relentless moved to Bethesda, Md., where She raised more than $6,000 for and that his granddaughter, of the best lawyers in America. Andy Sale is a partner with Jim Wiechers and Susan Light, with Finishing Line Press. Sam accepted a job as president the M.S. Walk in Sacramento in Courtney, will be enrolling at 35-year reunion Ernst & Young in Los Angeles, 66 Pollard Wiechers ’67 are 7 2 The collection was the winner Steve Sack and his wife, Lynne, and CEO of Interaction, the honor of her husband, Ken, who SCU in the fall. Oct. 19-21, 2007 where he leads the firm’s media first-time grandparents to Evan of the New Eden Chapbook recently moved to Santa Rosa. largest alliance of U.S.-based has the disease. and entertainment practice Don Seybold made a hole-in- James Kuykendall, born Jan. 12 Competition. Steve took on the role of sales international development and to their daughter, Erica, in Dr. Michael Antonini has been a in the southwestern U.S. Andy Cecile Pendleton and her one on the 105-yard 12th hole California Assemblyman and marketing manager for Taft humanitarian nongovernmental Seattle. member of the planning com- was appointed to the board 89 husband, Kevin Connor, at Jefferson Park Golf Club in 79Greg Aghzarian named Street Winery, a small Russian organizations. mission of the City and County of directors of the Los Angeles announce the birth of a son, Washington State. 40-year reunion Jane Butterfield as the 2007 River Valley winery. Steve’s two Liam Francis Bonaventure 7 of San Francisco since 2002. He 25-year reunion Branch of the Federal Reserve 6 Woman of the Year for the 26th sons remained in Southern 83 Connor, on Sept. 12, 2006. 55-year reunion Oct. 19-21, 2007 is also a member of the county’s Bank of San Francisco, where 5 2 Assembly District on March 5. California, where one is finishing May 16-18, 2008 Sept. 7-9, 2007 Republican Central Committee. he provides information that John Siri was elected president Helen Baumann recently “Jane Butterfield has been a true his senior year at St. Bonaventre reconnected with an old He is in his 35th year of dental leader of the business commu- Catherine Molinelli is vice princi- is used in the establishment of of the Palm Springs Regional Robert C. “Bob” Bush was 68 High School in Ventura, and the friend from SCU shortly before practice in the Marina District. nity in the 26th district,” said pal of academics at Saint Mary’s U.S. monetary policy. Andy and Association of Realtors. elected president of the other is in his second year of 56 he died of cancer. Helen encour- Aghazarian. “Not only has she College High School in Berkeley. his wife, Dina, have two children Antique and Classic Boating Chris (Campi) Taylor and her junior college in San Luis Obispo. Jennifer Teresi lives in Los Gatos ages anyone who is considering been a key factor in making the She lives with her two children, and live in La Verne, Calif. Society at their recent annual husband, Pat, are involved in with her husband, Todd, and it “to go ahead and look up that Community Bank of San Joaquin Paul Rubens has returned Anthony, 14, and Allison, 12, in meeting. Bob and his wife, vineyard property development Scot Asher was appointed their three children, Molly, 8, person you remember. Who a success, she has also given 82to the Bay Area after living San Jose. Arlene, live in Pleasanton and and wine grape growing in Napa 87as the 2007-08 chairman Nick, 5, and Nate, 3. knows what might come of it, tirelessly to our community. Her in Asia for 19 years. He works in Lake Tahoe, Calif. and Lake counties. of the Fiesta Bowl Committee in Phoenix. 42 Santa Clara Magazine Fall 2007 Fall 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 43

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Tina Murray continues Jack Scholes Makiewicz Eric Bowcott and Shalom 90 her work with Silicon 94 was born Jan. 31 to 97 (Gallardo) Bowcott Safety, service, Valley companies to install and Monica Makiewicz and Dana announce the birth of their son, SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY and second configure Agile PLM Software. John Makiewicz ’95. Dana, Liam, on March 18. He joins big derivatives She lives in Los Gatos with her Monica, and Jack live in brother Owen, 3, in the family’s husband, Kirk, and their two San Gabriel, Calif. There’s no such thing as San Diego home. children, Hannah, 5, and Max, 2. President’s a routine day for John Steven McLaughlin works in David Hunter married Rebekah Ybarra ’86. Whether he’s Zachary Zaharek J.D./ the family coffee business and Mitchell on Jan. 13. They both patrolling the highways 91 MBA ’94 is president- is an executive officer with the earned master’s degrees in Speaker Bronco Profile Bronco as a CHP officer or vol- elect of the Association of U.S. Army Reserve. He is married architecture from the University unteering as a tutor at Corporate Counsels’ Southern with two children, Ryan, 3, and of South Florida and are work- California chapter. Paso Robles High School, Charlotte, 2. ing as architects in Tampa, Fla. Series the biology alumnus Mark Emerson and his Shelley (Carriere) Sheridan and Ryan and Katie (Hayes) never knows quite what 92wife, Angie, own the her husband, Andrew, welcomed Woodford ’99 welcomed twins to expect. But one thing My Gym Children’s Fitness their first child, Trevor Herbert remains constant whether Center in Silverdale, Wash., Hailey Elizabeth and Hannah Sheridan, on Aug. 18, 2006. The Engaging people he’s on duty or off—he’s and plan to open their second Louise on April 5. The family there to help. family lives in Darien, Conn. lives in San Jose. and ideas that My Gym Children’s Fitness shape our world As he drives his black- Center in Federal Way, Wash., Sarah Barca threw out 10-year reunion and-white along Highway 1 in September. 95the first pitch (“low and 98 TOM MEINHOLD MEINHOLD TOM in San Luis Obispo County, away”) at the Broncos’ baseball May 16-18, 2008 Patrick Miyaki and his wife, CHP officer and high school tutor John Ybarra ‘86, center, with students he might soak in the game on April 7 against the Edith, announce the birth of Jon Carlson earned a M.D. from Walter Lopez, left, and Aamir Andrade. beauty of a sunset over the Dons at USF. The Dons’ pitching their first child, Marisa Isabella. University of Colorado Medical Pacific or witness the after- staff works out at Sarah’s Funky School this spring. He is mov- math of an accident. Will he be assisting a grandmother with car trouble or confronting a carjacker? Brandon Schmidt and his wife Door Yoga studio, which she has ing to Connecticut to complete “Everything can change in a minute,” he says. Shannon (Perry) announce owned and operated since 2004. a psychiatry/neuroscience That’s why he approaches each day with a controlled fear, prepping himself for whatever may lay the birth of their fourth child, ahead. “Most people don’t go to work with the mentality, ‘I may not come home today,’” he says. Nicholas Pera married Ingrid research residency at Yale. Rebecca Marie, born March 27. Training and experience temper that fear, and the frequent opportunities to help people give him hope. (Bengtsson) Pera at the Santa The baby joins brothers Ryan, Karolyn (Dallosto) Pelka and her October 8, 2007 If he’s involved with an incident at “quitting” time, a day shift can easily stretch into the night, and Clara Mission on Jan. 20. In Carson, and Nolan in the family’s husband, Jim, celebrated the vice versa. But throughout the last school year, he has consistently made time on Wednesdays and attendance were Nicholas’ chil- Leawood, Kan., home. birth of their first child, Joseph Jane Goodall Thursdays from 10 to 11 a.m. to tutor high school seniors as part of the AVID program (Advancement dren from a previous marriage, “Joey” Eugene, on Oct. 17, 2006. Adriana Pera and Nicholas Pera. Reason for Hope Via Individual Determination). During the study sessions, he may be helping the students with physics, 15-year reunion biology, calculus, government, history, or essays. 93 The wedding party included Caroline Eichenberg mar- In the summer of 1960, when Jane May 16-18, 2008 AVID provides academically rigorous coursework and support to prepare students, particularly the Denise Engler, Kari Cullivan, 99 ried Salvatore Manno Goodall first surveyed the mountains and economically disadvantaged, to enroll in colleges and universities—college by design, not by chance. Megan (Keefer) Bielss and her Christine (Balestri) Green ’94, on Nov. 4, 2006 in Brooklyn, N.Y. valleys of the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee This year’s class racked up acceptances to universities from Humboldt to San Diego. husband, Danny, welcomed their and Karin (Bengtsson) Papas ’94. The couple lives in San Diego, Reserve, she had no idea that her research would evolve into where Caroline works for When he’s short on time, Ybarra sometimes shows up in uniform at the high school. It’s easy to second child, Brooke Elizabeth, Nicholas and Ingrid live in a project that has continued into the 21st century—and that it Catholic Answers and Sal is imagine his tough side, which comes out on the streets when needed, when he’s clad in khaki. Yet in in October 2006. Brooke joins San Mateo. would redefine the relationship between humans and animals. conversation, his gentle, caring voice is more Mister Rogers than Clint Eastwood. an insurance agent. brother Jackson, 2, in the family’s For the first in our 2007-08 programs, join us for an evening Straight out of college, he worked for a pharmaceutical company in Irvine, running quality control Brian Eagleson and his with primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, founder of the Jane Georgetown, Texas, home. 96wife, Gina, have a daugh- Andrew C. Fear and his wife, Van lab tests on antibiotics. When the company was sold, he became a chemist at a brewery. Looking to Vo, relocated to Austin, Texas, Goodall Institute and U.N. Messenger of Peace, as she looks at cut his commute time, he took a job closer to home at the Ventura County Sheriff’s crime lab, which Sam Florio J.D. ’02 and his wife ter, Taylor, 1. Brian teaches at in June 2006. Andrew works highlights of more than 45 years of research in Tanzania into led to ride-alongs with CHP officers and, about 12 years ago, an invitation to join the force. Denise welcomed a daughter, Archbishop Mitty High School our closest relative, the chimpanzee, as well as her reasons for and coaches varsity basketball. for NVIDIA. The couple’s daugh- “I probably could have kept at the other jobs and made a career out of them, but there was some- Claire, in August 2006. She hope in these complex times. Book signing follows. His team won the NorCal ter, Elizabeth, was born Dec. 2, thing missing,” he says. He likes working with people, saving lives, making a difference. “I wouldn’t joins her brother Will. Sam championship and played in 2006. give it up for a minute.” has returned to SCU as the This event is co-sponsored by the RagingWire Enterprises Inc. the state finals. About a year ago, he and his wife (who began volunteering at the school before he did) chaperoned University risk manager and Darlene (Mendoza) Flores and of Sacramento. the AVID kids on a trip to Europe. He enjoyed the students, and the AVID director convinced him to get as group risk manager for the Alicia Giovannini married Andre husband, Dale, welcomed their more involved with the program. But Ybarra thinks the seeds of his penchant for community service California Province of the Society Benguerel on Sept. 23, 2006 in second child, Dale Jr., on March Event at 7:30 p.m. in SCU’s Mayer Theatre. Tickets may be were planted during his years at Santa Clara. He was the first in his family to attend college, though his of Jesus Insurance Group. San Francisco. The newlyweds 15. DJ joins his sister Daphne, 1, ordered online or by telephone for individual lectures. Tickets father instilled in him early on the goal of higher education. Ybarra remembers as a 7-year-old proudly celebrated with a 14-day stay in the family’s Las Vegas home. cost $20 each or $60 for the series. Students may attend the After living in Seattle and telling his dad that when he grew up, he wanted to work on the assembly line at General Motors, too. in Bora Bora. The couple lives events for free, and tickets are $15 for faculty. England, Theresa (Wagner) Keahi Palaualelo and Kristine “No,” his father insisted. “You’re going to school so you can do better than me.” in San Francisco, where Alicia Johnson, has settled in (Kane) Palaualelo ’00 announce While at Santa Clara, he soaked up the Jesuits’ ideals of competence, conscience, and compassion, is a realtor. For more information, call 408-554-4400. although he admits with a chuckle, “I didn’t know it at the time.” He hopes that if nothing else, he Memphis, Tenn., with her hus- the birth of their son, Kainalu imparts to the students he tutors the importance of choosing the right path, of making every day band of 10 years, Brett. The cou- Sam Scott is a reporter in Jet Palaualelo, on Jan. 5. Kainalu count. “Believe in your dreams,” he tells them, “because they can become reality as long as you work ple has two boys, Andrew Joseph, Wilmington, N.C. He recently joins big sister, Kamaile, 2, in the toward them.” — Anne Federwisch 6, and Thomas James, 4. won first place for news-feature family home. www.scu.edu/speakerseries writing in the annual North Carolina Press Association awards.

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Jason and Christina Larry Fargher was named Obituaries Robert Keenan, Dec. 9, Robert F. McCullough Sr., John Lowry Brown, Georgiana, sons-in-law Mike Christine Carol O’Keeffe 00(Beck) Drogin welcomed 65 California Distinguished 48 2006. He was retired from 52April 27. He was past pres- 68 March 5. He graduated Andrews ’92 and Bill Yong ’96; 87 M.A., April 12. A native a son, Will Beck Drogin, on Feb. 5. Realtor for 2006 by the California Marcel Eugene the Oak Grove School District, ident of both the Santa Clara from the Union Theological and four grandchildren. of San Francisco, she enjoyed The Drogins live in San Mateo. Association of Realtors in where he was principal of Miner Alumni Association and SCU’s Seminary of Virginia and a long career in social services 30Mailhebuau, May 5, 2007, Catherine M. (Eichinger) October. Larry served on the Elementary School. He is survived Board of Regents. He served worked in the automotive as counselor and supervisor. Colette Meyer and Tony at age 101. 73Slota-Varma, M.D., Feb. 6. Santa Clara City Council, includ- by his daughters, Susan (Keenan) on numerous boards such as industry for many years. Over She worked at South Valley Perachiotti were married Aug. 12, During his A native of St. Paul, Minn., she ing a term as mayor in the Woodward ’80, and Kathy Faria; Dominican Sisters of San Jose the past decade he worked at Counseling in Gilroy, Rebekah’s 2006 in Santa Monica. The wed- working years, earned a bachelor’s degree in 1960s. He founded Realcom his companion, Helen Salberg; and Catholic Social Services of Fortunes Inn, a sober living envi- Children’s Services in Gilroy, and ding party included Chelsa Bocci, the San biology from SCU and an M.D Associates in Santa Clara in 1969. his brother, Verne Keenan; and Marin County. He is survived ronment for men. He is survived Sacramento County Juvenile Jennifer (Crandall) Villareal, Francisco from Loyola Stritch Medical sister, Veronica Scott. by his wife of 53 years, Barbara; by his sons Barry and Shane; Probation Department through Jason DiPiazza, Jon Morales, Greg Lamb MBA is director of native was School in Chicago. Founding employed sons Robert Jr., Brian, and Larry; daughter Amanda; and sister, Catholic Healthcare West. Mike O’Conner, Ben Brichler, client services at DeltaValve, Charles W. Cox, Nov. 29, partner of Shoreview Pediatrics, by the water 2006. daughter, Jeannie; and seven Paula Kennedy,. Grant Robert Johnson, and current SCU student Charlie an equipment manufacturer in 49 she was also the first female department of the City of San grandchildren. March 10. In addition to Meyer. The couple lives in San the petrochemical sector. This Harold Kirk Messick, Feb. 18. Jameson Robert Crowner, March chief of staff at Children’s 92 Francisco. Marcel is survived by his degree from SCU, he held a Francisco. follows a 25-year career in the William H. Scannell, Nov. 2, 2. A native of Ohio, he taught Hospital of Wisconsin. She was his cousins Philip Fialer and Hugh Evans Hayes, Feb. master’s degree from University energy industry with the Electric 2006. He is survived by his agriculture in Motupe, Peru, listed among the “Best Doctors Linus Lau aired his award- Royanne Gwynn. 5014. A native of Stockton, of California, San Diego. He is Power Research Institute. Greg brothers Joseph and James. for the Peace Corps. He moved of America” several times. She is winning short film “Art Thief he was a farmer who followed survived by her husband, Rajiv survived by his mother, Carolyn and his wife, Pam, live in the Salt Melvin Edward Declusin, to Kauai in 1987 to be with his his love of history, antiques, Joseph Anthony Agnello, Brayman; father, Bruce Johnson; Musical!” on local access chan- 3 Dec. 12, 2005. A native of children. He worked for Ship Varma, M.D.; and daughters Lake City area and are proud 8 and books all his life. He is 53Feb. 7. A native of sister Lindsay Habian; and nel 54 in San Jose recently. The Lodi, he is survived by his wife, Store Galleries for 18 years. He is Deborah Slota and Julia Slota. grandparents of two. survived by his wife of 57 years, Jamestown, N.Y., he was in the numerous other relatives. film, starring Autumn Reeser of Alice, of Stockton; sons James survived by his mother, Martha; John M. Oram, Feb. 2. John Elfving MBA is a Maryanne; two daughters; and ROTC program at SCU before “The O.C.” fame, has also played and Dr. Richard Declusin; and daughter, Allison; son Robert; 74He is survived by his Ryan Taylor Brown, March 70real estate broker special- four grandchildren. serving in the U.S. Army. He over the air in New York and San four grandchildren. later joined Bethlehem Steel brother Cameron; sister Libby wife, Rebecca. 04 2007. He is survived by Diego. Linus is an adjunct fac- izing in residential home sales in Frank P. Kelly Jr., Feb. 27. A third- his wife, Julia; father, Stanley; Hillsborough, San Mateo, and George Underwood and retired as a senior vice presi- Zinker; and two grandsons. Richard R. Rosales, Oct. 26, 2006. ulty member of Long Beach City Benz, Jan. 22. A native generation San Franciscan, he dent. He is survived by his son, and sister, Bear. Burlingame. 41 Mark William Dobel, April 13. He He is survived by cousins, College, where he teaches classes of Portland, Ore., he worked served in the U.S. Navy during Steven; daughter Christine; sis- is survived by his wife, Virginia; Diana R. Danna ’68, MBA ’72, in editing and screenwriting. Mark G. Bonino J.D. is a as a field service engineer for World War II. He returned from ter, Polly; and two grandchildren. 7 partner at Hayes, Davis, serving in the Pacific to attend and five daughters. Angelo P. Danna ’70, and Graduate Diana (Ramirez) and 6 Boeing Aircraft on the B-29 Daniel Noel Buckley Jr., Bonino, et al. in Redwood Shores. Santa Clara and was a fullback Leonard P. Danna ’74. 01Roberto Zuniga welcomed Super Fortress and in the family 62April 1. The San Francisco John Erkman, M.A. ’76, Obituaries Lillian Deck, Feb. 6. She their first baby, Alessandra Mick Webber MBA accepted business, Benz Spring Co., for on the Broncos’ 1950 Orange native worked in the marine 69April 2. A native of Los was preceded in death by Elizabeth, on Jan. 2. the position as president of which he was vice president Bowl team. He then had a long insurance industry and was Gatos, his 38-year career in edu- 77 Roger “Jerry” Donnelly MBA, her husband, Joseph, a former SteelMax in Centennial, Colo. until retiring in 1980. Survivors career as a commercial lines a member of the Marine cation began at Sacred Heart 71June 4, 2006. A native of SCU professor of chemistry. 5-year 03 reunion Mick and his wife, Marie, live include his wife, Margaret; insurance executive in San Underwriters Association. School in Hollister and included Oakdale, Calif., he is survived by daughters Mary Sayler, Kathleen classroom and administrative She is survived by her children, May 16-18, 2008 near Denver in Broomfield. Francisco. He is survived by his He is survived by his wife, his wife, Sue; and three children. Jerome B. Deck ’59, Mary “Vicki” Mooers, and Theresa Stevenson; wife of 55 years, Catherine; his Sheila; children, Dan, Noelle, positions in San Luis Obispo, Allene Feldman M.A. is Nanawa ’68, and Peter M. Deck Dennis Wayne Lindow M.E., Jewell Ikeda works for a sons, Fred and George; nine children Karen, Frank III, John, Andrea, and Nicholas; and Cupertino, Oak Grove School editorial project manager ’72; 12 grandchildren, including March 24. A native of Minnea- 05 private glass company in 79 grandchildren; and one great- Jean Marie Buckley and Richard; four grandchildren. District, and Portola Valley. Santa Clara. at Cambridge University Press in He was also a senior lecturer Paul A. Nanawa ’01; and 17 great- polis, after attending the grandchild. and 10 grandchildren. New York City. Her science lev- Timothy C. Andersen, at SCU. He is survived by Jim grandchildren. University of Minnesota he Richard Bersamina volun- John J. Ryken, Dec. 17, 2006. eled reader series McGraw-Hill Charles F. “Chuck” Shiveley, 64March 30. A native of Berthelsen, his partner of 18 earned a master’s degree in 06teers as a case manager 43He is survived by his wife, Robert Paul Cahill, April 6. was awarded second prize at the March 27. He served in the U.S. Portland, Ore., he succeeded years, and Andrew Berthelsen; aeronautical engineering at SCU. at Community House Mental Shirley Ryken; and three children. 7 A native of Santa Paula, New York Book Show. his father and grandfather 8 Health Agency. He recently was Army during World War II, earn- as well as numerous other Calif., he earned a master’s He worked at Lockheed for 30 James P. Jones, March 6. at Portland Iron Works, and accepted into the University of Douglas Tribble devel- ing two Bronze Stars and two family members. degree from the University years, working on many projects He was a U.S. Navy veter- became the president of Power Washington’s MSW program. 4oped a diversity alliance 44 Purple Hearts. He had a long of Portland and was a correc- for the military and communica- 8 an of World War II. He is survived Transmission Products. He is David D. Roybal, Feb. 17. A native program with his firm, Pillsbury career in the carpet industry. He tions counselor for Multnomah tion industries. He is survived by by his children, Bruce, Kim, and survived by his wife, Lindsay; of San Francisco, he was a regis- Winthrop Shaw Pittman. The is survived by his wife, Midge; County Sheriff’s Office, where two sons and two grandchildren. Kelly; and seven grandchildren. and three sons. tered professional engineer and firm will be forming alliances two children; and numerous fellow application engineer he worked for 25 years. Survivors Philip James Englund J.D., Graduate Alumni Richard “Dick” Thomas Jay F. Kanitz, Nov. 8, with minority firms nationwide. other relatives. with Eaton Corporation and include his sons, Sean and 74March 8. The native of O’Keefe, Dec. 17, 2006. He 662006. A native of Palo Patrick; daughter, Megan; and Ricardo Echeverria J.D. 47 Stanley F. Leal, J.D. ’54, April Westinghouse Corporation. A Rockford, Ill., was an attorney. Anthony Da Vigo J.D. was in the first group inducted Alto, he retired as a research numerous other relatives. 93recently obtained jury 21. He was a trial attorney recipient of the Westinghouse Survivors include his wife of 3is a retired California into SCU’s athletic Hall of Fame. 51 analyst from White Sands 6 verdicts of $5.1 million and $7.2 for nearly 50 years and was past Miguel Angel Briceno 44 years, Sandra; daughter Lori deputy attorney general. He During World War II, he served Missile Range in 1994. He Order of Merit as well as the million for his clients. president of the California Trial “Mike” Loza, March 26. Wallis; sons Bradley and Scott; teaches courses sponsored with the Sixth Marine Division was a member of Our Lady of IEEE Third Millennium Medal, he 79 Lawyers Association and Santa A native of Guadalajara, Mexico, and four grandchildren. by the National Alliance on Amy Payne J.D. and in China. He played in the NBA Guadalupe Shrine and Parish in held leadership positions with Clara County Bar Association. He he worked for the L & L Floral Mental Illness. 03her husband, Joseph, with the Washington Capitols Tortugas. Survivors include his local and national professional Robert G. Vonasek J.D., served as a 1st Lt. JAG for the Supply for many years, repre- were married June 24, 2006 and later had a long career as a wife, Gloria R. Nava; and a sister, associations. He is survived by 7 Nov. 30, 2006. He is Armed Forces during the Korean senting the company in Oregon 6 in Cleveland. security chief for several compa- Arnola Kanitz. his parents, Sam and Gloria survived by his wife, Shirley; War. He was an avid golfer and and Washington. Survivors nies, including Matson’s luxury Roybal; his wife of 36 years, and four children. loved to ski, dance, and sing. He is include his parents, Christobal liner services. Survivors include Mary (Cleese) ’70; children survived by adult children, twins and Luz Briceno Loza. his son, Tim. Jennifer ’93, Deborah ’96, Todd and Tracy Leal; son Matt R. Leal, Esq.; and a grandson. Jonathan ’03; daughter-in-law

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scm_0507153_Fall07_P.indd 46-47 8/7/07 5:10:35 PM after words Be Who You Is calendar How do I discover my vocation in life? By James Martin, S.J. September Date Sponsor Event Contact Contact Info hen I was 9 years old and in continually pray to understand what 6 Osher Lifelong Fall Preview Day for alumni Nicole Marciano 408-554-2382 WCCD class, our teacher gave Jesuits call our “governing” desires. Learning Institute lifelong learning classes us a few pictograms, some from the The primary difficulty in all this is 7 Alumni Association Reunion Dinner for Alumni Office 408-554-6800 Class of 1952 and 1957 Coming old Baltimore Catechism, to help us the false belief that to become useful, 8 Alumni Association Gianera Luncheon Maureen Muscat [email protected] understand our faith. To explain sin, BORODINA TATYANA or happy, or holy, we have to become inducting Class of 1957 ’91 MBA ’99 three bottles of milk were shown. someone else. The young mother 8 Alumni Association Saturday Dinner for Anny Tedeschi ’97 [email protected] Attractions One was spotty: that was the soul says sadly, “I’ll never be Mother the Class of 1957 9 Alumni Association Vintage Santa Clara XXIV Alumni Office 408-554-6800 filled with venial sins. One was black: Teresa,” when in fact her vocation 15 San Jose Service Project: Sacred Heart Mary Modeste [email protected] the soul under mortal sin. The last is to be a mother. Or the lawyer, Nativity boys to Roaring Camp Smoker ’81 one was pure white: the soul in the who reads about the Trappist monk 15 Denver Service Project: Volunteers needed Steve Starliper ’83 [email protected] state of grace. To explain the concept Thomas Merton, says, “I’ll never be to paint at Arrupe High School 23 Tri Valley Santa Clara Sunday: Family John Spieth ’06 [email protected] of “vocation,” there was a drawing of like him.” But you’re not meant to Mass and Brunch a married couple, above a legend that be Mother Teresa or Thomas 25 San Jose An Evening with Denise Roy ’77, Mary Modeste [email protected] read, “Good.” Under the drawing of Merton, estimable as they were. author of “Momfulness” Smoker ’81 26 Los Angeles SCU Entertainment Alumni - Blye Pagon-Faust [email protected] the priest and the sister, the legend You’re meant to be yourself. As Post Work Reception at Lola’s ’97 read: “Better.” Merton himself wrote, “For me to 27 Minneapolis Post-Work Reception at Brit’s Pub Chris Knapp ’00 [email protected] The concept of vocation has be a saint means to be myself.” 27 Marin 75th Annual Dinner John Spieth ‘06 [email protected] undergone something of a theologi- Part of that means letting go of 29 San Diego Museum Tour: Dead Sea Scrolls Eric Poon ’02 [email protected] Exhibition with Prof. Kitty Murphy cal face-lift since the Second Vatican James Martin, S.J., is associate editor at the wish to lead someone else’s life, 30 African-American New Student Reception Gina Blancarte ’99 [email protected] Council. And not a moment too America magazine and the author of and remembering that our own voca- soon. The belief that one vocation is Becoming Who You Are and My Life with tions—not somebody else’s—are what October the Saints. better than another has given way to will finally lead us to happiness. You 4 San Jose Fall Post-Work Reception at John Spieth ‘06 [email protected] McCormick and Schmick’s the understanding that everyone, no important way to discover one’s voca- don’t need to use anyone else’s map 5 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch Priscilla Corona [email protected] matter who they are—single, mar- tion. Your desires—not your surface to heaven, because God has already 8 President’s Office President Speaker’s Series: Office of Marketing 408-554-4400 Experience Teachers ried, vowed, ordained—participates needs, but your heartfelt desires— placed within your soul all the direc- Jane Goodall and Communications www.scu.edu/speakerseries in the “universal call to holiness” in were one indication of the way that tions you’ll ever need. When people 9 San Francisco Fall Quarterly Lunch John Spieth ’06 [email protected] Santa Clara University Art Faculty Exhibition their own way. God was drawing you to happiness. visited Mother Teresa in Calcutta, 10 African-American Post-Work Reception Yvette Birner ’99 [email protected] This is eminently sensible. Part of On the most basic level, a man hoping to work with her, she used to 11 Hawaii Pau Hana Reception Bran-Dee Torres ’97 [email protected] Oct. 5-Dec. 8, 2007 12 San Jose Service Project: OLG Nativity Mary Modeste [email protected] God’s plan, after all, is diversity, with and woman come together in desire tell many, “Find your own Calcutta.” girls to SCU Volleyball Game Smoker ’81 Featuring work in a wide variety of everyone building up the commu- to discover their vocations as a Discover your own vocation. And 18 School of Business Leadership Briefing MBA Alumni Office 408-554-4872 or media—including painting, photogra- nity in ways that others cannot do. married couple. Doctors or lawyers remember that every vocation is [email protected] phy, mixed-media photography, digital Where would we be if everyone were or artists find that they desire a par- equally valuable and beautiful in 19 Alumni Association Fall reunions Oktoberfest Alumni Office 408-554-6800 photography, ceramic and mixed-media 19 Alumni Association Friday Night Dinner for Mary Modeste 408-554-4888 sculpture, and printmaking—this exhibi- a priest or a sister? (For one thing, ticular kind of life and so find their God’s eyes. Class of ’62 Smoker ’81 tion will showcase the aesthetic vitality we’d be somewhat challenged in the vocations. Desire works the same The best way to sum this up 20 Alumni Association Fall Reunions Wine Tasting Alumni Office 408-554-6800 procreation department.) Or if every- in the lives of the saints, drawing is to use a favorite expression of Reception and Lunch of Santa Clara University’s dynamic art department. Artists in the exhibition will one were married and there were no each of them to different brands of John Kerdiejus, a holy Jesuit who 20 Alumni Association Class Reunion Dinners for Alumni Office 408-554-6800 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977 include Katherine Aoki, Renee Billingslea, holiness and service in the church. religious orders? To use the Pauline worked for many years at the 21 Alumni Association SCU Football Reunion Paul Neilan ’70 408-554-5388 Susan Felter, Don Fritz, Sam Hernandez, image of the Body of Christ, where St. Thérèse of Lisieux was very retreat house in Gloucester, Mass., 24 Chicano-Latino Post-Work Reception Maria Sandoval ’98 [email protected] Pancho Jimenez, David Pace, Trung Pham, would we be if the eye said that it different, and did very different by the Atlantic Ocean. Today John 25 Central Coast Annual Fall Dinner Joan DeGasparis ’66 805-773-2383 or Ryan Reynolds, Gerald Sullivan, S.J., things, than St. Teresa of Ávila. [email protected] had no use for the hand? is confined to his bed in the Jesuit November and Kelly Detweiler—whose painting But that begs the obvious ques- In this way, God’s desires for the infirmary outside of Boston. He “Faculty Meeting” is pictured above. tion: OK, so I have a unique world are fulfilled, since ultimately was as happy a man as I’ve ever 2 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Luncheon Priscilla Corona [email protected] 6 Santa Cruz Annual Fall Dinner at John Spieth ’06 [email protected] As a companion exhibition, the vocation. What is it? our deepest desires are those that known in his vocation, and he used Shadowbrook Restaurant de Saisset Museum will feature a per- That’s where Ignatian spirituality God has planted within us. So the to say, puckishly, “You have to be 10 East Bay Service Project: Pack food boxes Mary Modeste [email protected] manent collection exhibition curated by at St. Vincent de Paul Smoker ’81 comes in handy. For St. Ignatius of notion of vocation (from the Latin who you is, and not who you ain’t. art history faculty. This exhibition will 15 School of Business Leadership Briefing MBA Alumni Office 408-554-4872 or Loyola, the 16th-century founder of word vocare, meaning “to call”) is Because if you ain’t who you is, [email protected] showcase the strengths of the de Saisset the Society of Jesus, desires were an less about finding one and more then you is who you ain’t. And that 17 Palm Springs Service Project: Hearts Across Maureen H. [email protected] Museum’s permanent collection through about having it revealed to us, as we ain’t good!” the Valley Food Drive Specchierla ’65 the eyes of Santa Clara University’s art 17 Los Angeles Service Project: at Delores Mission Martin Sanchez ‘02 [email protected] history teaching scholars. 30 San Jose Holiday Shopping Spree to the City Alumni Office 408-554-6800 48 Santa Clara Magazine Fall 2007 SCU OMC-7848 75,000 8/2007 New events are added often. 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