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One in a million 6 By Michael E. Engh, S.J. A note of thanks from the president to SCU alumni. For the Leavey Challenge, you came through in record numbers to Charles Barry secure a $1 million challenge grant for the University. The music of geometry This fall, the de Saisset Museum hosts Fletcher Benton: The Artist’s Studio, an intimate look at the Good light artist’s workspace seen from his own eyes. 20 A photo retrospective with Charles Barry. For a quarter century he has told Santa Clara’s stories in photographs. Cool, clear water: Tiles of Here are a few. 20 the Sobrato Fountain. Yes, but is it the right DEPARTMENTS 26 thing to do? 2 FROM THE EDITOR 3 LETTERS
By Sam Scott ’96. From business to Charles Barry government to college campuses, it’s not always a 8 MISSION MATTERS People, place, and some pups question that gets asked. But here’s how the 52 AFTERWORDS: Thank-you notes See more photos—and hear the stories behind 26 Markkula Center for Applied Ethics set out to 11 them—from University photographer Charles change that. Barry’s 25 years capturing Santa Clara in pictures. Potions and poisons 35 class notes 35 The artful baker 32 By Elizabeth Fernandez ’79. Medical sleuth B. Joseph Guglielmo ’73, dean of the 39 BRONCO NEWS: nation’s top school of pharmacy, on the challenges THESE GOLDEN YEARS of treating patients. And a health care system. 42 LIVES JOINED 43 BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS 44 ALUMNI IN THE NEWS
ABOUT OUR COVER 46 IN PRINT: NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI T ESY G o rd n You g St. Clare in profile. Charles Barry’s photographic portrait of a statue 48 OBITUARIES of SCU’s namesake saint. Carved in Oberammergau, Germany, COU R 51 ALUMNI CALENDAR in 1928, she stood on a niche adorning the front of the Mission Son of Flint Church until 1999. Now, with a replica cast in bronze on the Read our review of Teardown, then read an excerpt church, this wooden statue makes her home in the St. Clare Room 52 from Gordon Young’s book about returning to his of the Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, hometown of Flint, Michigan. and Orradre Library.
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E d i t o r Being there electronically distracted.” Steven Boyd Saum [email protected]
A s s i s ta n t E d i t o r Kristen Intlekofer here to begin? With something simple: a meal, the arrival of rolls L i t e r a ry E d i t o r warm from the oven, crust hot deserve our thanks hodgepodge of a transcript faculty—including Ted Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 W and appreciation, as and stated, “I’m assuming Gross, Chris Lievestro, to the touch when the boy takes one from C r eat i v e D i r ec t o r picking crops during your parents are planning Frank Duggan, Jesse Linda Degastaldi-Ortiz basket to plate and breaks it, tastes the yeasty goodness. A supper shared between mother the hot valley summers on paying for you to be Gellrich, Diane Dreher, P h o t o g r ap h e r is hard, backbreaking here for four years—ideally and Carol Rossi—who Charles Barry and father and son, no books or magazines work that many other then leaving with a degree. helped inspire and shape my E d i t o r i al I n t e r n s allowed at the table; here we converse and we Leah Gonzalez ’14, Danae Stahlnecker ’15 savor what’s before us and what’s passed in Foot by foot people refuse to do. For that to happen: One, own path to becoming an CRETA A. HENDRICKS ’79 I’m now your advisor; two, English professor. D epa rt m e n t C ontributors the gift of a day now dimming. This happens I am not sure why you put John Deever, Christine Cole Harden, Alden Mudge, Port Angeles, Wash. you’ll be going to Durham, SCOTT POLLARD ’81 to be a special evening—we’re dining out, fine listening in italics in your Sam Scott ’96 England, next summer; and Newport News, Va. Italian, and, to the delight of the boy, who editor’s column [Spring/ I would like to join the walk in C la s s N o t e s & O b i t u a r i e s can’t eat wheat, everything on the chef’s menu Marisa Solís Summer SCM] or felt this 2014. Is that possible? I am an www.scu.edu/alumupdate is gluten-free, from squid to sorbet. From the aspect of the “Walk Across alumna and a retired teacher. table by the window there’s a view of hummocky meadows and, beyond A s s o c i at e E d i t o r , California” article deserved SHEILA MOSS M.A. ’76 S a n tacla r a m a g a z i n e . c o m that, ancient forest. But it’s the bread that the boy is most gladdened by, Charles Barry special emphasis, but it San Diego, Calif. Clay Hamilton even though he knows and is reminded once more, here by his mother, helped draw my attention to C o p y E d i t o r s not to fill up on it, advice he acknowledges as he dips a piece into olive the fact that not one of the [We’ve passed along the John Deever, Marisa Solís oil. The waiter delivers three rectangular stones bearing slices of prosciutto students shown in the article’s question to David Popalisky, who taught the class. —Ed.] Designed by Cuttriss & Hambleton and parmesan, which is an opportunity the boy’s father takes to ask if the photographs was using boy knows the word grazie. Paired with prego. Gratitude being a good earbuds, talking on a cell Paying tribute to S a n ta C la r a M a g a z i n e A d v i s o ry B o a r d place to begin a new language, or sustain the ones that you inhabit daily. phone, or in some other way Charley Phipps Margaret Avritt—Director of Marketing It’s just a moment in time, though moments add up to lives and electronically distracted. Fr. Charles Phipps [“Keep Terry Beers—Professor of English histories, don’t they? Remembered, revered in their distinct sounds and It was agreeable to see that the door open,” Spring/ three, let me be the first to Fired up Michael Engh, S.J.—President smells and beams of light, they are, one could say (and many have), these students were truly Summer SCM] meant so welcome you as our newest Elizabeth Fernandez ’79—Journalist sanctified. Sometimes a larger arc becomes visible in accumulated listening during their long Having completed a much to me at SCU. I lived English major.” Rich Giacchetti—Associate Vice President, moments: where ideas and ideals, research and roundtables, fellowships walk. And so now they can philosophy B.A., and now across the hall on the second From that day forward, Marketing and Communications and conversations have led in terms of wisdom articulated and applied. To hear my applause for their finishing up doctoral work floor of McLaughlin during the path became clear(er) Ron Hansen M.A. ’95—Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., wit, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, now into its second quarter multifaceted accomplishment. in the same field, I’m all for Professor of Arts and Humanities my sophomore year and he due in large part to Fr. century of work on the campus and in the world at large. DANA A. FREIBURGER discussing “how to prevent a —Assistant Vice President for was my academic advisor, Phipps and many of Kathy Kale ’86 Or let’s take another moment. A sunny afternoon, a photographer on M.S. ’94 bonfire of the humanities.” Yet Alumni Relations even though I wasn’t honors the excellent professors his way back from a shoot, walking a corridor he’s walked many times Madison, Wis. I was disappointed by Michael Paul Soukup, S.J.—Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Professor of material and he was the head mentioned in your article. ’s essay in the Communication before, passing a doorway he’s long wanted to capture in just the right S. Malone light—bright but kind—the texture of the etched glass and the framing I was appalled at the way of the honors program. He My sincere gratitude for Winter SCM. of the world outside: green lawn and trees and the buzz and whirl of life “Walk Across California” inspired my love of reading, the sage advice and tough love Malone’s piece recommended and his teaching style was when it was needed most. about the Mission Campus. And, he sees, this is it. Click. And again. portrayed the city of a merging of the sciences and Update your address and the rest of your contact info: The life of a photographer is filled with such instances, if said catcher of Stockton. The city has a captivating. I cannot thank SCOT ASHER ’87 humanities. A noble cause www.scu.edu/alumupdate Fr. Phipps enough and I Scottsdale, Ariz. [email protected] stories in pictures makes the time and effort to be there, as Chuck Barry wonderful Catholic school and vision, but if the merger Santa Clara Magazine has here at Santa Clara for 25 years and counting. More often than not, to system, two universities wish him a long life and (and hence the humanities’ 500 El Camino Real Fr. Phipps was definitely my Santa Clara, CA 95053 and a junior college, three happy retirement. survival) is contingent on, do that work he’s quietly blending into the background, since the moments favorite teacher—and he large hospitals, an excellent JOSEPH KELLY ’76 first, young humanities The diverse opinions expressed in Santa Clara Magazine do he wants to collar now and bequeath for years to come are here’s what’s presided over my wedding at not necessarily represent the views of the editor or the official symphony and theaters, Santa Clara students identifying their happening. So often in what he’s framed you can feel the rush of wind, hear the Mission. Since he didn’t policy of Santa Clara University. Copyright 2013 by Santa the strummed guitar, and touch the threads that connect that moment to beautiful parks, and a transferrable skills as their Clara University. Reproduction in whole or in part without I was a floundering student perform a lot of weddings, I permission is prohibited. historical museum. There primary source of value, and bigger stories that stretch across time and space. Another good place to start. who came to the end of my think he was more nervous are nice neighborhoods second, science and tech Santa Clara Magazine (USPS #609-240) is published quarterly sophomore year with no than I was. by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Santa Clara Keep the faith, with quality houses and industries’ growing demand University, Santa Clara, CA. Periodical postage paid at Santa clear idea of a major, career community amenities. LISA SAMMON ’83 for those skills, well, I’m Clara, CA, and at additional mailing office. Postmaster: Send direction, or (somehow) an Santa Clara address changes to Santa Clara Magazine, 500 El Camino Real, Further, the farmworkers still concerned. advisor, when Fr. 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2 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 3 “Great stories change us. They provoke. They Letters make us think ...They help us better understand our lives, our work, our age, and each other.”
years ago. Malone’s Move a rock and his pilot made the first I attended several of Fr. As an employee benefits Daniel Nava in the essay falls short of If you want to move a big ever landing on a lake inside Hubbard’s travelogues in the consultant, I encourage my swing of things Write us! offering any tangible rock, you need a lever. a volcano—on Surprise Lake late 1940s in Santa Cruz. employer clients to promote From a Web feature at We welcome your letters evidence that things Even in his first days, Pope in the Aniakchak Caldera. These were very interesting financial wellness benefits santaclaramagazine.com in response to articles. have changed. Francis [“The first Jesuit As the story goes, pilot Frank expeditions that included and encourage 401(k) on Nava’s big season with Companies Dorbandt had become ill SCU students. participation, but it’s a santaclaramagazine.com Pope,” Spring/Summer the Red Sox: [email protected] still look for SCM] is more about actions after drinking the heavily In 1956, Fr. Hubbard struggle. Health care reform Nava is the man! Living the candidates than words. His obvious mineralized lake water. suffered a severe stroke and is going to require larger American dream . . . with technical personal integrity displayed When he and Fr. Hubbard was unable to say Mass for employers to offer automatic He has put in the work backgrounds. They as solidarity with God’s attempted to fly out of the months. That October, I also health insurance enrollment, and deserves it. of the analytic and creative feel that, armed people—all of that speaks spent two weeks in the so why not add automatic JEFF TUCKER ’15 skills I gain from it, but with a strong technical infirmary and nearly died retirement plan enrollment? We may edit letters for style, volumes. I think God has Sunnyvale, Calif. clarity, civility, and length. because I believe the content foundation, new hires can indeed chosen and situated a from pneumonia. In my Both issues are financially and activity of doing so learn storytelling skills. lever in Pope Francis. I will second week, Jesuits began breaking Americans. SC—Style and Class Questions? Call 408-551-1840. has the power to transform GEOFFREY RODGERS not be surprised at all to see bringing me Communion DENA ADAMS DOONEY ’92 personified. individuals into more MBA ’93 the rock begin to move. after Mass. One morning, Portland, Ore. RICK GIORGETTI ’70 open-minded, reflective, Livermore, Calif. GLENN SNOW, O.CARM. Fr. Hubbard came into the San Jose better people. I think many Tucson, Ariz. room just radiant and humanities students feel An SCU English alumna glowing. It was his first day CORRECTIONS and former print journalist, I FOLLOW @santaclaramag this sort of passion for their The article comments on back to saying Mass again began teaching the art of oral What year is it? In “Walk subject. But instead of Pope Francis’ “penchant and he brought Communion. Across California” in the storytelling just a few years LIKE facebook.com/ kindling this subject-specific for stripping down the It was very exciting to meet ago, and I have witnessed the Spring/Summer SCM, one of santaclaramagazine passion, realistic professors layers of Renaissance garb him in person. the chaperones was and career counselors now appeal of this tradition gain Love the mag that often engulfed his RON OHLFS ’60, M.S. ’62 Diana Bustos ’11. We had SCU find themselves having new traction among a variety predecessors.” Would that santaclaramagazine.com/give of audiences, including the Cupertino her class year wrong. Sorry to console humanities more priests (namely Jesuits) caldera, the plane was not about that. SBS students with the value scientific and commercial had a penchant for stripping able to gain sufficient altitude worlds. We are all storytellers, Freedom of gaining wonderfully down the layers of 1970s to simply fly over the rim. not to choose transferable skills. and we don’t have to look modernism and prejudice Dorbandt eventually was An online piece in which Until the storyteller can very far to discover the against tradition that often able to roll his floatplane behavioral finance expert leverage her inherent value benefits of excellent stories. engulf today’s Church. over the rim of the caldera Great stories change us. Meir Statman explains why F eat u r e C ontributors as a legitimate reason to ALESSANDRO D’ANNA ’92 and landed on Ugashik Bay They provoke. They make employees shouldn’t be given Charles Barry has devoted 25 years to capturing Santa Clara continue existing, I’m San Mateo near the cannery. us think. They give us the choice of managing their University’s story in pictures. Some of his favorite images, and the stories afraid Malone’s essay comes Fr. Hubbard spent several own retirement accounts. behind them, appear in the photo essay “Good light.” off more as an illustration context. They provide hope The Glacier Priest hours with Al in his one- Great article with some Touchdown Stuart Bradford illustrated “Yes, but is it the right thing to do?” You of the bonfire’s burn than a and vision, impart valuable The “Bronco News” in the room radio shack, drafting provocative ideas. I may not for Pasco might have seen his work in the New York Times, Fortune, Scientific prospect for avoiding lessons, help us discover new American, and the San Francisco Chronicle. This is his first contribution Winter ’13 SCM shared radiograms detailing his agree with all of Statman’s I was sorry to read of the the blaze. paths, strengthen our resolve accomplishment for SCU, to SCM. to meet our goals. Effective, some adventures of explorer suggestions, but I do agree death of Bronco footballer NOELLE LOPEZ ’09 Bernard Hubbard, S.J. And the Associated Press, Fr. that there is a lack of financial Michael E. Engh, S.J., is a third-generation Californian and the 28th valuable stories not only help Leonard Napolitano ’51. President of Santa Clara University. He wrote “One in a million” as a Oxford, U.K. it summoned memories from Hubbard’s brother, John, and us grow and learn, they help literacy in this nation. I Just to correct the record, special thanks to SCU alumni, who rose to the occasion for the Leavey folks who met him. his sister, Mary. chafe a bit at the notion of Challenge. I read Malone’s story with us better understand our while he may have played in In 1932 my late father-in- Just prior to Fr. Hubbard’s instituting a new government great anticipation, looking for lives, our work, our age, and the 1950 Orange Bowl, it Elizabeth Fernandez ’79 (“Potions and poisons”) profiles medical sleuth law, Al Dutilh, was working death, I was able to arrange bureaucracy, but most people B. Joseph Guglielmo ’73, dean of the school of pharmacy at University evidence that Silicon Valley each other. was John Pasco ’52 who had as radio operator and plant a meeting between him and would benefit from having the major hand in leading the of California, San Francisco. For years Fernandez wrote for the San companies were changing GENEVIEVE SEDLACK accountant at a cannery on my father-in-law. They briefly Francisco Chronicle and is a longtime contributor to SCM. She is now a WALLER ’90 a neutral person whose team to victory. The Broncos the way they recruited since Ugashik Bay. It was the same reviewed their prior meeting senior public information executive at UCSF. Chicago, Ill. compensation is not tied to completed only three passes I broke into high tech 20 summer that Fr. Hubbard some 30 years earlier, and Kristen Intlekofer (“The artful baker”) is assistant editor for SCM. We’re account activity manage their that day; one was a 16-yard thrilled to have her aboard ship. She comes to us from the East Coast, Al left with a photo of Fr. funds. It would be wonderful gain thrown by Pasco, which where she was assistant editor for Johns Hopkins Magazine. Hubbard and his favorite if people would receive led to a short touchdown Sam Scott ’96 (“Yes, but is it the right thing to do?” and “She runs the Santa Clara University is a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university Santa Clara Magazine is printed on Forest Alaskan husky, Katmai. What located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California’s Silicon Valley. Santa Stewardship Council™ (FSC®) certified paper by financial education early in run, again by Pasco. All game”) writes for this magazine frequently, covering everything from Clara offers its more than 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate programs a printing facility certified to FSC standards. a thrill that was! in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master’s degrees in a life, because the time value of those Broncos are larger than sports to Saturn V rockets to Internet security. For the Fall 2012 SCM number of professional fields, law degrees, and engineering and theology From forest management to paper production he contributed the feature “Drago’s gold.” doctorates. Distinguished by one of the highest graduation rates among all to printing, FSC certification represents the DAVE RIGNEY ’63, money is a powerful thing. life in my estimation, and U.S. master’s universities, Santa Clara educates leaders of competence, highest social and environmental standards. MBA ’73 conscience, and compassion grounded in faith-inspired values. Founded The paper contains 30 percent post-consumer JOANNE SCHWARTZ ’82, SCU’s unblemished record in 1851, Santa Clara is California’s oldest operating institution of higher recovered fiber. Mountain View education. For more information, see www.scu.edu. MBA ’85 in bowl games is quite an Sustainability is a top priority as Santa Clara San Jose University strives for carbon neutrality by the accomplishment. end of 2015. Learn more about SCU’s efforts at www.scu.edu/sustainability. WOODY NEDOM ’60 Los Gatos 4 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 5 One in a LEtter From the PResident million Dear Alumni, You have made a tremendous gift to Santa Clara through your participation in the Leavey Challenge, and I thank you. Santa Clara University is better and stronger, not only because we secured a $1 million grant from the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation, but, more important, we did it as a community. You responded to the challenge to increase the number of alumni contributions to 9,000 donors. You blew through that goal, and 9,739 of you stepped up for your alma mater—more than The Leavey Challenge met: 9,000th 25 percent of all undergraduate alumni contributed $9,600,790. donor Anton L.V. Avanceña ’12 You are amazing! Congratulations! and No. 9,739 Sabrina Ayllon ’03. Let me add that gifts of less than $100 from you and other friends of Santa Clara An ER nurse, Ayllon says her work amounted to $963,651 last year. As you can see, every gift makes a mighty reflects values that Santa Clara impact because so many of you joined together to pay it forward in support of instills: “As you learn here, you A personal note of treat the whole person—physically, our terrific students. spiritually, mentally.” thanks to the SCU Two of you warrant special notice. Anton L.V. Avanceña ’12 made the 9,000th gift alumni. You came that put us over the top and qualified us for $1 million from the Leavey Foundation. Anton is pursuing a career in global public health, inspired by his experiences on an through in record SCU immersion trip to Peru. Clearly, his Santa Clara education has transformed his numbers to secure life to give back for the good of many in great need. Sabrina Ayllon ’03 made the a $1 million challenge final donation, No. 9,739. Sabrina, an emergency-room nurse in San Jose, provides grant for the University. hands-on medical care and attends to her patients’ fears. Without scholarship help, she remarked, “students like me would never be able to attend Santa Clara.” Her gift went to the Alumni Family Endowed Scholarship Fund to ensure that students in need continue to have access to a great SCU education. Let’s now continue the pace in our four-year upward climb in alumni participation (an increase of almost 10 percentage points). You should be proud because so much of this increase came from our younger graduates who became first-time donors. The Class of 2013 closed the year exceeding a 50 percent participation rate on their Senior Gift—which bodes well for their gifts in the next years as alumni. A big thank-you to our graduated seniors! And you should be proud that Santa Clara is among only 30 colleges and universities in the country to have increased alumni participation in the last four years. You should also be proud that we beat every other school in the West Coast Conference in alumni participation. Go Broncos! Your personal investment shows your belief in Santa Clara’s potential to impact our students, our communities, and all God’s people. Thank you again, and congratulations on this great achievement ... which I pray you continue. God bless you, each and every Bronco!
Sincerely, and with great pride,
Michael E. Engh, S.J. President, Santa Clara University
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The next phase of the project will convert the campus portion of Alviso Street into a similarly landscaped pedestrian mall. That will create a north-south promenade stretching from beyond O’Connor Hall past the Donohoe Alumni House. Construction takes place in summer 2014.
Park here As in the past, visitors to SCU can enter through the main campus entrance on El Camino Real and park in the main garage to the left, or in an available lot. Plus there’s a new parking garage on the north side of campus, at Franklin and Alviso streets, that adds 383 spaces. It opened Home stretch: Finishing touches going into place in mid-September. on the new, and auto-free, In addition to the new parking Palm Drive. structure, handicap-accessible parking spaces are being added around campus. Web And vehicles will still be able to Exclusives navigate the new pedestrian mall At santaclaramagazine.com/palmdrive see photos, maps, and parking info. for emergencies or ceremonies at the Mission. Patrick Dutcher SCU Missionmatters C harles B arry
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Take a stroll: For much of the Enter here 20th century, as this shot from the 1950s shows, The Alameda was Palm Drive becomes a grand pedestrian promenade. a thoroughfare that splits what today is the heart of campus. Now Palm Drive too is a pedestrian- he stretch of road that once The new pedestrian mall highlights brick-paved, tree-lined pathway has friendly promenade. jogged between Mission Santa the Mission Church as the centerpiece more than aesthetic benefits. As for T Clara de Asís and Sherman of SCU. It also makes the heart of The Alameda, what was once a four- Street near the main entrance of campus more foot-friendly, a process lane highway is now a grassy plaza. campus is gone—the gray pavement that started decades ago. “It will not But years of new building on campus and parked cars traded in for an just look better, it will be safer for meant that Palm Drive, while never elegant brick walkway better fitted students and pedestrians,” says Joe the thoroughfare that The Alameda to the University’s historic church. Sugg, assistant vice president for was, became a stretch of pavement Construction of the new Palm Drive operations at SCU. increasingly shared by walkers promenade was just finishing as and drivers. this magazine went to press, with Look both ways Now, though, for students strolling completion on track for late September, Those who remember dodging cars on between classes, the only vehicles they’ll in time to welcome back faculty and The Alameda before it was rerouted in have to worry about dodging at most students for the fall quarter. 1989 will perhaps best understand that times are bikes and skateboards.
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8 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 9 Missionmatters 2013 Commencement speech Leon Panetta
Commencement when she was interning in Paraguay for a microfinance institution as part of an SCU Global Social Benefit Fellowship. What is difficult and worthwhile of our society, open to all faiths and Graduation day highlights “always seems impossible until it’s Your call beliefs, a broad curriculum that reflects our times, and a commitment to Photos by Charles Barry done,” Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond ’85, told the Former CIA head and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ’60, J.D. ’63 on your creed of building citizens and 340 graduating students from the government by leadership vs. crisis, the best thing you can do, and the leaders of competence and conscience ore than 1,000 grads and compassion. and those cheering them SCU School of Law at a ceremony worst thing you can do. Plus, the virtues of mixers and the Italian Club. on May 25 in the Mission Gardens. And I’m particularly honored to Mon filled Buck Shaw address this Class of 2013. This is a (Read his speech on the following Stadium for the University’s 162nd Now, I should pages, too.) The Jesuit School of critical year, a year that will test not just commencement exercises on June 15. admit that the Theology held commencement whether or not you can be good citizens, Former Secretary of Defense Leon Italian Club that we exercises May 25 at Zaytuna College but whether, in the words of your Panetta ’60, J.D. ’63 returned to established was not in Berkeley. Sister Dianne Bergant, creed, you can be good leaders. In a few deliver the commencement address so much involved in CSA, a widely respected scholar on moments, you will receive your degrees, (read it on the following pages) and the study of Italian the Old Testament, delivered the completing obviously what is a very told grads it was their job to hold culture or history; it commencement address. important chapter in your education. government leaders accountable. He and was more about the Gratitude: An honorary degree presented to Commencement for the graduate And from here, you will take the steps his wife, Sylvia, founders of the Panetta Italian joys of life. I Patricia and Stephen Schott ’60, center, by board programs in business, engineering, and necessary to advance your professional Institute for Public Policy, received chair Robert J. Finocchio Jr. ’73 and President remember when I got education and counseling psychology careers in your chosen field, and a lot honorary doctorates of public service— Michael E. Engh, S.J. elected to Congress, was held June 14 at SCU’s Leavey will depend on your personal initiative presented, fittingly, by graduating senior a congressman by and your willingness to work hard. for revolutionizing Jesuit high school Center, with the commencement Victor Republicano III ’13. This the name of Frank But a lot will depend on factors that education; and Patricia and address by Pamela Eibeck, the first past year, Republicano, a classics Stephen Annunzio from I’m sure you believe at this point in time , for their commitment to woman president of the University major and student in the SCU Schott ’60 Chicago came up to are beyond your ability to influence. Catholic organizations and the Catholic of the Pacific. Lead lives steered by honors program, served as the Panetta me on the floor of What I want to tell you today is you’re community at large. At SCU their value and purpose, she said, no matter Congressional Intern, working the House, and he wrong. Take it from me; you really generosity has helped fund a baseball how the road doubles back on you. on Capitol Hill with members of said, “Panetta … can make a difference. Your career stadium and the new admission and Deborah Lohse SCU California’s congressional delegation. that’s Italian.” depends on opportunity. Opportunity enrollment services building. Honorary degrees were also presented I said, “Yes, it is.” depends on the state of our economy, In her valedictory address, to James Houghton ’81, founding Web I wasn’t going to the health of our society. Our economy anthropology major and basketball am truly honored to be with artistic director of the Signature Exclusives say no to an Italian from Chicago. and our society depend on the state of player spoke of At santaclaramagazine.com you today, first of all, because Theater Company in New York; Ashley Armstrong ’13 He said, “That’s good. We don’t do the nation, and the state of the nation, see videos, photos, and more. I’m proud to be a Bronco. A Robert Mathewson, S.J., STL ’63, how the Jesuit philosophy of educating much on issues, but we eat good.” graduate of both undergrad whether you like the idea or not, largely the whole person hit home with her And that was true. It was true for the and law school, I needed will depend on you. Italian Club. all of the Jesuit grace and I do not say that lightly. This is not We also had something in those days blessing I could get in order to survive just another graduation speech cliché. I called mixers. We would, of course, Degrees conferred: And it’s time to whoop and holler. in Washington—and a hell of a lot of Based on my own life, it happens to be invite all of the Catholic women’s Hail Marys. the truth. Over 50 years ago, I sat where schools to our events. As a matter of I wanted to tell you that Steve you’re at, the son of Italian immigrants, fact, it was at an open house here at Schott ’60, who was in the same class the first in my family, along with my Santa Clara that I met my wife, Sylvia, that I was in here at Santa Clara—we brother, to get a college education. I had who then was going to Dominican. came here at, I think, what could fairly no idea—no idea—that I could impact And I want to thank you for honoring be called a different era. It was an all- on the policy of this country or people’s her. She is my love, my partner, and men’s school. This was still pretty much lives, but I did, and so can you. my friend. We will celebrate 51 years a walled campus. There were no dogs, What dreams may go of marriage in July. Mixers were our but there really were a lot of Jesuits You can make a difference. Why do I version of computer dating. around to make sure that we behaved. say that? Because in this year of 2013, Pizza and beer was the favorite pastime. Where you’re wrong the year of your graduation, America, Paul Locatelli, S.J., ’60, M.Div. ’74, I’m also honored to be here because our democracy, our great democracy, the outstanding former president and I am very proud of the Santa is at a very critical crossroads in the a very good friend and classmate, Clara University of today. You’re a 21st century. We have come through was here. Together, Paul and I helped 21st-century campus of men and a decade of war—over a decade of establish the Italian Club. women reflecting the great diversity war. We have witnessed the terrible
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devastation of a brutal attack on have an America in decline, following in throughout all of that frustration and in our society and harming our national America on 9/11. We have seen a the historic steps of other failed empires, anger and gridlock, America has always defense by hollowing out our forces and remarkable operation go after the person an America in constant crisis, politically risen to the challenge, and I believe it undermining our readiness. And the who was responsible for 9/11, and dysfunctional, unable to govern will again, perhaps not from the top shame of it is that it was all avoidable, we made clear to the world that nobody effectively, to build a strong future, to down, through some sudden conversion but only avoidable if our elected leaders attacks the United States and gets protect our most basic freedoms, our or awakening in the halls of power, but are willing to take the risks necessary to away with it. economy, or our national defense. more likely from the bottom up, from protect the country. We’ve had over 6,000 men and The point is, we have a choice. The the wellspring that leadership has always “Whom shall I send?” women in uniform who’ve made the good news is that we still have time to drawn its strength in this country, the As a young graduating student here at ultimate sacrifice for this country, do what is right. The bad news is that fundamental spirit and common sense Santa Clara, I was inspired to public 50,000 of them wounded. Because only we have seen events move very rapidly and values of the American people, the service by my parents, who urged me 2 percent of the country served in those in this technological age of the 21st belief that braced our forefathers, the to give something back to this country, wars, the rest of the nation was not century, and they can consume us very responsibility to act and, yes, to fight for my two years in the military serving called upon really to sacrifice at all in quickly if we fail to act. what is right. this country in uniform, and by a order to pay for those wars. We incurred By leadership or crisis? Teddy Roosevelt, who understood young president who said, “Ask not huge debts. We suffered through a I often tell our students at the Panetta what it meant to fight, said: “In any what your country can do for you. Ask serious and devastating recession. We Institute that we govern in this country moment of decision, the best thing you what you can do for your country.” saw the fall of the Iron Curtain that either by leadership or by crisis. If can do is the right thing. The next best My generation was inspired, and has left us with a more uncertain and leadership is thing you can do is the wrong thing. it helped change America on civil unstable world that has there and willing The worst thing you can do is nothing.” rights, on women’s rights, on the to confront terrorism, to take the risks I am pleading with you not to environment, on issues of war and rogue regimes, the “Your generation associated with do nothing, but to do something; to peace. And now your generation needs potential of a cyber engage; to get involved; to hold our Let me close by telling you about leadership, we to answer the same call: “Ask not one family that was willing to do just war. We have a has already changed can avoid crisis. elected officials accountable; to make why nothing is getting done. Ask what political system that them understand there is a price that. It was on January 15, 2012, in attitudes in America. But if leadership you can do.” Baghlan Province, Afghanistan. Sgt. is in partisan gridlock is not there, then to be paid for doing nothing; to I realize that there is a rising tide and real questions You’ve made clear demand action, not sound bites; 1st Class Benjamin Wise, who was 34, we will inevitably of distrust and of cynicism, that an Army Ranger on his fourth overseas will go for us?’ And then I said, ‘Here I about whether you govern by crisis. demand consensus, not gridlock; many in your own generation are will be able to achieve that we should respect demand leadership, not crisis. deployment, was struck by enemy fire, am, Lord. Send me.’” In Hebrew, it is, Today, so individualistic that you lack any and he died several days later in an “Hineni, send me.” the American dream, every human being on unfortunately, we Taking leave understanding of what it takes to work the dream that American hospital in Germany. He That is the sound of the trumpet earth and give them a largely govern by Let me give you the best example of together for a common goal. But caring left behind a wife and two young sons, that must summon all of us to action. brought my immigrant crisis after crisis how Washington did nothing recently. for others, working together for others, parents to America, and, as was my practice as secretary of If our men and women in uniform chance to succeed.” after crisis. We can It’s called sequester. Most of you is the essence of what our democracy is defense, I wrote a handwritten note can respond to that call with incredible the dream that we all do that. Politicians probably have no idea what the hell all about. Your generation has already have of a better life for to his parents to console them on this bravery and courage, then surely our can somehow sequester is. Webster defines sequester changed attitudes in America. You’ve our children. hero’s death. political leaders can muster just a survive in office. as “to confiscate, to seize, to draw back, made clear that we should respect every But what made this case different little of that courage to take the risks We, you and I, now have a real The public, particularly young people to take leave.” Congress clearly took human being on earth and give them a choice. We can either have an America was that it was the second time I had necessary to govern. None of this will like yourselves, can dismiss Washington leave of their senses when they designed chance to succeed. written to the Wise family. [The first happen without you. As citizens of our in renaissance or an America in decline. as somehow not relevant to your lives. sequester. They deliberately designed a There is more to be done. There’s We can have an America on the was] as director of the CIA. Ben’s democracy, the trumpet sounds for you. We can govern this way or, more budget mechanism that was so goofy more to be done on immigration brother, Jeremy, was one of the CIA You can make a difference. In the words cusp of what could be a very strong correctly stated, fail to govern. But there and so mindless in the way it slashed reform, on protecting our climate, economic recovery, building on a security officers who died in a suicide of Adlai Stevenson, “You are the rulers is a price to be paid, and that price is federal spending that the threat of it on strengthening the middle class, on bombing that took place at Khost, and the ruled, the lawgivers and the law- tremendous creativity and innovation the loss of trust of the American people occurring was supposed to force them to balancing our budget, on finding the that we see right here in Silicon Valley, Afghanistan, in December 2009. abiding, the beginning and the end.” in our system of governing, and every do the right thing. It was designed to do right balance between our securities These are the families that are You are not just our hope for strengthening an educated and skilled scandal only reinforces that distrust. as much damage as possible in order to and our freedoms, on educating our workforce, giving them the clean energy sacrificing for our country. A few a better future. You are our future During my 50 years of public service, force action, and guess what? They did young, on protecting our nation, on months after the Khost attack, I visited and the key to whether we remain a and the resources necessary to grow I have seen Washington at its best, and nothing, and it took effect. taking the risks necessary to govern. our economy, advancing opportunity, that remote base in Afghanistan, and government of, by, and for all people. I have seen it at its worst. I believe in Leaders who are elected to protect We just celebrated Memorial Day. I on the wall was a large plaque with a Congratulations. Welcome to the improving our quality of life, investing American leadership. I’ve seen America people did nothing. They didn’t even ask all of you to remember the example in a leaner and more agile defense force verse from the Old Testament from flight. God bless you, and God bless face all kinds of crises, from economic take up a bill to prevent sequester from of the risks of our men and women in the prophet Isaiah, chapter 6, verse 8: the United States of America. SCU that still can remain the strongest and recessions to war to natural disasters to happening. And the result is that it is uniform who are willing to put their most powerful in the world, that can “And then I heard the voice of the Lord scandals that have gone to the core of harming our economy through lost jobs lives on the line to fight and, yes, to die saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who sustain America’s leadership and values leadership in Washington. But somehow and pay, harming the most vulnerable in order to protect America. in a very troubled world. Or we could
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arguments, they can listen. They can machines and free lunch and massage IP—that’s a good choice. Some into PI. I never let go of the ideal to try to adapt. They can change. They can even rooms, and I never have to wear a suit. Some are going to go to firms, some Where you’re coming from do what’s right over what’s easy. My surprise. Lucky for you, these skills are But because it’s a big company doesn’t to nonprofits, government. Some of legal education only sharpened this exactly what you spent the last three mean I can’t fight to make sure that this you may not even be sure what’s next. Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond ’85 on sense of fairness and inspired a pursuit years honing: persuasion, argument, the big company sticks to its principles. You’re all on your way down a different Nelson Mandela as a hero. And the meaning of freedom, of justice. And this kind of came in ability to convince those who will listen That its continual march toward path. But you’re coming from the same openness, and things worth fighting for. handy a few years ago, in 2010, when of what’s right. You have the tools now openness and progress and fairness place—a place with a strong history that we at Google decided to move our to make change in the world. You have mirrors the marches I participated in has led you all into what’s going to be a search engine out of China. Google the tools to change a system you don’t 30 years ago. special future. ow, it always already there were getting louder. Now prides itself on using its unique place like. You have the tools to make others Whatever you do, make sure what seems impossible here I was, this guy recruited to play in the world to do what’s right, to use change, too. It’s powerful what you’ve you do doesn’t supersede how you do until it’s done. football, not a bad deep-threat wide our voice for the causes of freedom The truth is, you don’t even know at learned here. Don’t take it for granted. it. Make sure that your beliefs and your Those are not receiver, if I say so myself. But I was a and openness for the world’s people. this point how much you’ve learned, values and the special dignity you gained my words. little bit of a rabble-rouser, too. I saw And the Chinese government, in how much you’ve gained, by spending from the three years you’ve been here Those are the injustice and, maybe even surprising Twenty-three years after his imprisonment charge of an absolutely huge market time on this magnificent campus. But , guide you always. Recognize that there words of Nelson Mandela, who was myself, I didn’t say, “It needs to stop.” amid extreme political pressure around for our business, didn’t believe in in the years to come, I promise that N will be times that your conduct falls imprisoned in 1962 for speaking up I said, “I’m going to help stop it.” the world, and violent protests within any of that. Google’s openness makes you’ll see it. It’s in your DNA now. short of these ideals, times when, faced against apartheid. He, for generations, At campuses around the country, South Africa, President Botha of South us who we are. To bring the flow of We’re Broncos. We buck. We disrupt. with the challenges and complexities remained the loudest, most powerful there were demonstrations aimed at Africa offered to release Mandela if he’d information to everyone on earth, to We challenge the status quo, right? of the world, you’ll make mistakes. voice against the segregationist policies getting universities to divest funds renounce violence. But with no give them the tools to lead happier, That’s the spirit I still carry with me to I certainly have made more than my of the South African government. For from companies doing business in promise to abolish apartheid. After more meaningful lives—that’s why this day. And I will as long as I’m able share. Indeed, far more than my share. decades he led this movement from a South Africa. Santa Clara was one more than two decades in prison, we exist. China was blocking all of it, to keep fighting for it. But never stop trying. It’s not easy, and prison cell. He fought for freedom. He of those schools. And I, along with Mandela considered his offer. And he controlling it, censoring it. Let’s just say And I ask you to do the same, it won’t ever be. It seems impossible, but spoke from the heart. And I admire many others, wanted it to end. Now said no. freedom was not what he that they probably don’t study the First wherever you go, whatever you do. His once again, it always seems impossible him greatly. I knew that this was a school that had was fighting for. Ending apartheid was. Amendment in Con Law over there. Some of you will go into corporate until it’s done. SCU long-held values that tilt His freedom from prison was nothing But after years of trying to negotiate law, some into family law, some into toward equality and would compared to the freedom from with a very stubborn regime, we had to eventually support such a discrimination for millions of his fellow make a call. We had to do what’s right. move. But I also knew that countrymen. And in a statement he So we pulled out of China, and that cost it’s an institution, an over released refusing to be released from us a whole lot of money. But it gave us 130-year-old university, prison, he even talked about freedom the comfort of knowing we did the right and to move that kind to contract—something you learned thing by our principles. That we lived of an institution toward about here. If he wasn’t free to live his up to the values that infuse everything progress, forward, faster life, if he wasn’t a free man, how could we do at the company. That we used than it’s ready to move, is he enter the agreement to get out of our voice to make a strong statement of sometimes hard. I tried, prison to begin with? He knew that he who we are, what we believe, and what though. We organized sit- might have been freed from prison, but we will and will not tolerate. ins. We demonstrated. We once he left, he wouldn’t be free in any So that’s what I ask of you all. Use held a round-the-clock other meaningful sense. your voice. You have something special candlelight vigil right That was in February 1985. Four that only a legal education provides. over here in the Mission months later I walked across pretty You spent three pretty difficult years— Church. And people much a stage just like this one to grab I’m guessing—getting it. You now have thought it was crazy. They my undergraduate diploma, knowing an innate sense of fairness that needs said, “It will never work.” that his fight—in however small a to be expressed. You understand justice But I knew they were way—had become my fight. That he in ways that many others don’t. So wrong. And eventually we indirectly helped shape my experience when you see it under attack, speak up. succeeded. Santa Clara at Santa Clara. And that the work I had Because no matter how loud the beliefs In the early to mid-1980s, people University, to its great credit, divested done on this campus went beyond the roil inside of you, if you don’t speak up, around the world outside South Africa from companies that did business in football field, beyond the lecture hall, no one will hear you. And you don’t heard Mandela’s voice and were starting South Africa. even beyond the library. have to be shouting from the outside, to join the cause—especially on college It taught me an important lesson— Five years later, Mandela was freed, either. You can, of course. But plenty of campuses. I wanted to join, too. I came namely that institutions, no matter how and apartheid was abolished. Justice change can, and often is, sparked from to Santa Clara, to this great campus, as stuck in their ways they may seem, no was served. That seemed impossible the inside. an undergrad in 1981. The fight to end matter how implacable on the surface, when I got here in 1981. But as we Now I work for a big corporation. apartheid was gaining steam. The need with proper persuasion, with strong know, it always seems impossible until Make no mistake, we’ve got pinball for more voices grew, and the voices it’s done.
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She runs the game 1 honorary doctor of humane letters presented to Alfred Hitchcock, who in his commencement address advises students to be grateful to their professors: hen Glamour magazine was playing defense, positions usually “Do not underestimate what they may have given you, named Julie Johnston ’14 overlooked for individual distinction, what lights they may have kindled. These innocent- as the sole athlete on its only made it more impressive. looking men have records—all of them. Academic W records. Among them are several accomplished annual list of the top 10 college women “I relive that day over and over pyromaniacs. They are forever setting hidden fires— last April, the soccer midfielder joined again,” Johnston said shortly after sometimes with delayed fuses.” an illustrious group returning. “The moment the whistle of elite performers blew I just dropped to my knees. I 8 new bowling alleys added to the Benson Center. stretching back 56 years. couldn’t believe that finally a dream 11 hours, 47 minutes for Tom Flores ’66 Among them: inventors, had become reality.” to complete a 50-mile hike, making him the fastest Her on-field heroics earned her Bronco of half a dozen to accomplish the feat in activists, and scientists. under 20 hours. Johnston wondered U.S. Soccer’s Young Female Athlete if she deserved to be of the Year honors. Then in February $20 fine levied against students who are 2013, Johnston earned her first cap absent from Jan. 1–2 room checks and miss their included. But it takes Jan. 3 classes. only a glance at the with the full U.S. Women’s National senior’s résumé to see Team as a substitute against Scotland. 6,500 handbills dropped from two rented aircraft piloted by Bronco students over the St. she has otherworldly In April, just a few days after her 21st Mary’s College campus, in the run-up to the annual talent. SCU Head birthday, she made her first start with basketball game. Coach Jerry Smith put the team, playing all 90 minutes in a Danae Stahlnecker ’15 it in terms even the win over the Netherlands. most casual sports fan Former national team star Brandi Say Hey, Broncos: San Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays at could grasp: “It’s like Chastain ’91, whose 1999 World Cup the plate on May 14. The big leaguers played the Broncos at Buck
watching LeBron play heroics are among Johnston’s earliest The R ed woo d Shaw Stadium before 8,000 fans. Final score: 6-4 Santa Clara. basketball,” he told memories of top soccer, believes the the magazine. “She Arizona native has the potential to runs the game.” perform at the highest level: “Her A star since she skills alone set her apart from the good arrived at SCU, players,” says Chastain, a volunteer Trustees Rachel Manfre ’09 Johnston was the West assistant coach with the Broncos. “But is the recent-student Coast Conference her mental fortitude and vision for the graduate member of Freshman of the Year in game take her to the next level. If she New to the board the board. She studied 2010. She’s a two-time, continues on the way of hard work and communication and first-team All-American. attention to detail, she will be a force to Three new members and one ex officio member were elected to served as student Last year, she repeated be reckoned with.” SCU’s Board of Trustees this spring. government president, as the Broncos’ top The Broncos are counting on that played volleyball, and led retreats goal scorer while during her senior year. Unlike last year, Steve Sordello ’92, Richard “Rich” D. through Campus Ministry. She is a is senior is a leading the team to the the communication major should be MBA ’01 Haughey ’72 second-generation Bronco from Santa vice president and recognized leader in second round of the available from the beginning of the Cruz County and manages a Target chief financial officer environmental services NCAA tournament, season, leading a star-studded team that store with $70 million in annual sales in at LinkedIn, where and engineering at despite missing seven includes goal-scoring machine Morgan San Bruno, Calif. games due to Marlborough ’14, a transfer who was he oversees finance, Golder Associates, VI-I mages via G etty I international duties. Johnston’s teammate on the under-23 business operations, a global consulting, Kirk Syme joins Team USA: In April, Bronco Julie Johnston made her facilities, and corporate development. design, and construction company. He the board as an ex Wearing the colors national team this spring. first start with the U.S. Women’s National Team in Johnston, though, is nothing if not Since he joined LinkedIn in 2007, the was previously an executive at EMCON officio member. He is Last year, Johnston captained the U.S. their 3-1 victory against the Netherlands. wise when it comes to her priorities. company has grown from $32 million Associates, an earth science, engineering, founder, president, and national team to victory in the Under- The star on the field is as intent on to more than $1 billion in revenues. and environmental consulting firm. He CEO of Woodstock 20 World Cup in Japan, leading the her journey as a student as she is on He helped LinkedIn go public, making and wife Mary “Ginny” Haughey ’73 Development, defense with a performance that earned athletics: “I’ll be as proud to graduate it the first major publicly traded have been members of the SCU Board a company that her the Bronze Ball as the tournament’s as I would to win the World Cup,” she social media company. Prior, Sordello of Regents since 2010 and are parents of develops, owns, and manages third-best player. The fact that she commercial properties in the Bay told Glamour. Sam Scott ’96 SCU served as CFO at TiVo and as CFO two SCU alumni: Michael P. Haughey for Ask Jeeves. ’99 and Nicholas V. Haughey ’02. Area, as well as residential and resort properties in Northern California. SCU
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these disparate entries flow so well from Sparks New to these parts? beginning to end, subtly linked one to What makes a writer a California writer? another by geography or subject or from Flint What distinguishes that person from a emotional resonance. This volume, like its writer in, say, New York City or maybe predecessors, speaks to its publishers’ Late in the game, as Gordon Young Oxford, Mississippi? Peter Coyote recounts it in Teardown (University commitment to celebrate and foster the worries these questions in provocative growth of this thing we call California of California Press, 2013), he goes and illuminating ways in his foreword literature, however we choose to define it. to a three-hour service in the Joy to this third annual volume of New Alden Mudge Tabernacle in Flint, Mich., where the California Writing, a joint publication Rev. McCathern preaches to his con- of Heyday and Santa Clara University, Cannes! gregation: “In the midst of this mess, released this spring. Natives and But the 41 contributors to the transplants we are blessed!” Yet a little later, new volume and its shrewd, highly A pair of books Young finds himself in tears. “I was accomplished editors—Gail Wattawa of from Heyday and crying for my city. And I was crying Heyday (prose) and Kirk Glaser, senior SCU closed out the for myself.” lecturer in English at SCU (poetry)— California Legacy ultimately frustrate attempts at this sort books series, which A journalist and senior lecturer in com- of generalization. Instead they present ran for more than munication at SCU, Young subtitled us with a stimulating, a decade, in 2012. FILM his book Memoir of a Vanishing City. imaginative array of Califlora, as its Beginning the second decade of the 21st physical, cultural, subtitle imparts, is a century, the city’s population continued and emotional literary field guide to the Golden State’s to drop, and Flint was tied for first as the geographies, each botanical treasures, from the deserts to Yes we Cannes city with the highest percentage of resi- situated by necessity the croplands to the coasts, through the dents living in poverty. CQ Press named or chance in words of poets and novelists, farmers When Jonathan Fung set out to make a adopted baby girls from China. The it the most dangerous city in America. For Young, it was a troubled hometown that, for California. and foragers—set in context with some short film about human trafficking, a trip film explores dynamics of an interracial many years, he was more than happy to have left behind. Entries range brief scientific descriptions. Terry Beers, to the premier film festival on the planet adoptive family. Of course Young wasn’t alone in leaving. Once upon a time Flint earned the moniker from an excerpt of a professor of English at SCU and wasn’t at the top of his mind. That film, While we’re catching up on recent Vehicle City for its pre-eminent role in the auto industry. Here General Motors was born. Julia Otsuka’s poetic, director of the California Legacy Project, Hark, debuted on the SCU campus in student projects: American Colter, a But 90 percent of those GM jobs left, a plight recounted, among other places, in Michael prize-winning novel, shoulders editing responsibility with spring 2012, and we wrote about it in the 23-minute documentary by Wes Culver Moore’s documentary Roger and Me. set in the 19th century, about Japanese help from a number of SCU student Summer 2012 SCM. A year later found it ’12, Vanessa Delgado ’12, and Chloe However, memoirs by their nature are personal things. In Young’s case, for 15 years girls brought to San Francisco to marry interns and colleagues. The bounty in Cannes, a frenzied gathering of glitterati Fitzmaurice ’12, premiered last fall at he’d called San Francisco home when, in one of those moments of absurd hope in men they had never met; to David Rains includes incense cedar and avocado in and wheeling and dealing that Fung sums the Chicago International Social Change the City by the Bay, he and wife Traci took the plunge and bought a house—all of 700 Wallace’s essay about nature’s renewal the hands of Gary Snyder, quaking aspen up as “crazy.” Film Festival. This spring brought the square feet. And, inexplicably, he found himself drawn back emotionally to his Rust Belt after a devastating fire at Point Reyes limned by SCU’s Claudia MonPere Shot in the Bay Area, Hark dispels the film and its makers to Palm Springs hometown. He began a blog, Flint Expats. And, entertaining dreams of buying a house (he’s also contributed to this magazine); McIsaac, Monterey pine courtesy of notion that the buying and selling of fellow for the American Documentary Film in Flint, he went back. to two sections from Claire Kageyama- Robert Louis Stevenson, and grapes human beings is something that only Festival. The documentary was made as What takes shape in the story he tells is not his tale of how he joined the crowds of Ramakrishnan’s extended poem about, from David Mas Masumoto. happens overseas. It’s also a film that has a senior capstone project and highlights speculators scooping up bargains only to leave the houses empty. Rather, it’s a story left some audiences stunned into silence. the ineffectiveness of the rehabilitation to be very reductive, surviving whole as So Far From Home: of coming to know the people who hold on, who try to rebuild, who rant from the front Fung is a lecturer in communication process when felons are released and a Japanese American in the aftermath Russians in Early porches of abandoned, once-magnificent abodes. Young also explores the idea of the at SCU. Narrative film is something forced to reintegrate into society with little of internment and the hatred aroused California burns planned shrinking city. We aspire to manage growth in cities to keep them livable; this he’s come to from a background in to no preparation. The filmmakers share by World War II. back the fog of time it’s depopulation and blight that are the engines. That’s reason enough for The experimental work and video installations. the story of one man who broke that mold, Contributors include well-known history to reveal one Atlantic Wire to put Teardown on its recommended reading list this summer. The humor, Hark’s journey has taken it to other following the journey of 42-year-old Colter writers like Joan Didion (a New York of the oft-hidden the pathos, and the personal stories of friendship and discovery—for instance, what it festivals this summer, including the White ’12 from his 15 years in high- resident but a writer unalterably shaped parts of Golden State means to belong in a place—are among the rewards inside for readers who open the Windrider Film Forum in Menlo Park in security California prisons to graduating by her California childhood and youth) history. As editor door to this house. SBS June and, in July, the Awareness Film from Santa Clara University with a and former U.S. poet laureate Robert Glenn J. Farris notes Festival in Santa Monica, which screens bachelor’s degree in communication. Hass (who read on campus in May) in his introduction, and awards films focused on global issues. He joined the filmmakers for the Palm and should-be-known writers like Ismet “The Russians are “Remember that Flint There Hark was named Best Narrative Springs festival, where he fielded more Prcic, Natalie Diaz, and Zara Raab. coming! The Russians are coming!” may Short. And Cannes has figured into plans than a few audience questions himself. had perhaps the broadest One surprise of the volume is the have been a Cold War–inspired bit of for a possible feature-length work. Leah Gonzalez ’14 middle class in America wide range of sources and forms the movie hilarity in 1966, but Russian sailors, editors have drawn from—established traders, and scientists arrived long ago Students at the fests and the highest per capita New York–based publishers, of in California—a fact that shaped how In March, San Jose’s Cinequest festival Web course, but also newspaper op-ed the Spanish empire built its own string of screened Fung’s film as well as work by Exclusives income level in the ’60s,” pages, smaller regional presses and defenses here. Fort Ross on the Sonoma one of his former students, Sofia Coyiuto At santaclaramagazine.com read Gordon Young observes. magazines, literary websites, and Coast looms large here, as the tale unfolds ’12, whose short documentary Thicker and watch more about these books experimental blogs. Another surprise: across the 19th century. SBS Than Blood follows three families who and films. The editors have found a way to make
18 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 19 New moon crescent: The Virgen de Guadalupe celebration in the Mission Church.
Stillness and motion The view from St. Joseph’s Hall, caught on the way back from another shoot. Good light For a quarter century Charles Barry has told Santa Clara’s stories in photographs. Here are a few.
ee the people who sustain Santa Clara and are inspired by it: an engineering student hauling an underwater robot to the surface of Lake Tahoe, a dancer guiding her class in the exuberance of motion. See the Mission Gardens in the magic hours when the light is golden. These are certainly moments that Chuck Barry has capturedS with his camera in the past 25 years. His favorite shoots are with students in real situations, catching the personal interaction; there might be dignity or whimsy in the moment. He’s won national and regional awards for his work, which has taken him across the country and farther afield, to places where alumni and faculty and students work and play. He’s brought his mandolin-playing skills to the community celebration that is the annual Virgen de Guadalupe cel- ebration on campus. If he could invite a handful of folks to join him for din- ner, the guests would include his parents, Mark Twain, and Frank Zappa. And he’d be the first to say that it’s the ideas and aspirations of this place that keep it—and photographing it—fascinating and new. Steven Boyd Saum
S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 21 Capitol Ride Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren J.D. ’75 on her way to the House to vote.
West Side Story A publicity shot outside the Mayer Theatre for a 1994 production. The pose for Tony (Paul Katami ’94) and Maria (Jeanne Herring ’95) was inspired by a story Chuck Barry photographed in East L.A. about an alternative high school founded by SCU alumni. For that shoot, a few students spontaneously posed this way.
Strength and grace Class with Kristin Kusanovich ’88, a senior lecturer in theatre and dance.
22 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 PARISH WORK In the Dolores Easter Moon Mission community The Mission Church, in Los Angeles with early morning. Gregory Bonfiglio, S.J. ’82, M.Div. ’93. This photo was taken in the mid- 1990s. Fr. Bonfiglio later served as president of Jesuit High School of Sacramento, which Chuck Barry himself attended.
Play, sing Before the Cathedral of San Cristóbal de las Casas, in Chiapas, Mexico. On an immersion trip with SCU students and faculty in 1995. It’s in listening to what is sung as well as spoken that a Photographer, photographed fuller sense of culture, by student Ryan Selewicz ’13 history, and politics emerges. The ideal pub St. Patrick’s Day at C.B. Hannegan’s— co-owned by Johnny Hannegan ’72, left. One heck of a busy day, and this shot took wrangling and patience. Of Web course it was worth it. Exclusives At santaclaramagazine.com, find many more photos and the stories behind them.
S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 25 By Sam Scott ’96 Yes, but is it the right thing to do? From business to government to college campuses, it’s not always a question that gets asked. But here’s how the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics set out to change that.
When Jon Hoak arrived at Hewlett-Packard they hear but without revealing identities. To in the fall of 2006, it was as the new chief Hoak, the gatherings, which focused on issues ethics officer for a company badly in from executive pay to whistle-blowers, were a need of one. For decades HP had stood rare opportunity to rise from the trenches and as a venerable statesman of Silicon Valley, learn from fellow leaders. esteemed as one of the original startups to A year after he arrived, Hoak, who is go from the garage to greatness, all with its now general counsel for Flextronics, gave moral compass firmly intact. a presentation to the group on what had But the company had recently been roiled happened at HP, a problem he described by news of an internal investigation run amok. succinctly. “Nobody asked, ‘Even if it’s legal, Searching for the source of media leaks, HP is it the right thing to do?’” he said. had hired security teams that impersonated journalists and members of the company’s own That little red light board to access their directors’ phone records. The scandal brought down several high- It was concerns about just such shortsightedness ranking HP officials, its chairwoman included, that led to the founding of the Markkula Center and resulted in state and federal indictments. for Applied Ethics a quarter century ago—27 For those putting the pieces back together, years ago, to be exact, though the center is Hoak high among them, it meant ensuring a belatedly celebrating its 25th anniversary this new way of thinking. year, a fact Executive Director Kirk Hanson New to the Bay Area, Hoak says one of his jokingly attributes to how busy they’ve been. early goals was to connect with ethics experts Certainly they’ve not been idle. Once a for advice and counsel. He discovered what he small office in Orradre Library, the Markkula wanted 20 minutes down the freeway at SCU’s Center is now the largest university-based Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, beginning ethics center in the world, according to a relationship that lasts to this day. Hanson, with a widening reputation for serious He became a regular in the center’s Business analysis of modern quandaries in all manner and Organizational Ethics Partnership, a of topics, though it specializes in six: bioethics, quarterly retreat with industry leaders and business ethics, campus ethics, Internet ethics, academics that begins with an “ethics check- government ethics, and character education. in,” a chance for members to talk about the From its home in the Arts and Sciences issues on their mind, all under Chatham Building, the center has become a far-reaching House rules—that is, attendees may share what beacon. Its website, full of white papers on
26 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 27 ILLUSTRATIONS BY STUART BRADFORD BY STUART ILLUSTRATIONS issues running the gamut from patient care to Internet It was a passing comment, but one that hit Markkula robust addition to school life that has brought ethics to Griselda Renteria ’07, M.A. ’09 concurs. A first- privacy, brings in more than 2 million visitors a year. between the eyes. “My little red light went on,” he says. the fore through speakers, scholarships, and even an Ethics generation college graduate who is now a teacher in Its services are used by schools across the country, local Ethics and philosophy had been lifelong interests; Markkula Bowl team. This summer the center’s recurring Ethics at Cupertino, Renteria grew up around gangs, drugs, and governments across the state, and businesses throughout calls them adjuncts to his interests in engineering and Noon event hosted a panel on Trayvon Martin, justice, and family incarceration, arriving at Santa Clara in 2003 the Bay Area. And its experts speak to reporters around the science. But increasingly, he felt too many people had been race. But some early attempts to make a similar mark off intending to work in law. But as a receptionist at the ethics world on issues from the perceived perils of 3-D printing to raised as ethical agnostics, rarely factoring right and wrong campus sputtered, Markkula says. They once approached a center her freshman year, she came to work with Johnson, the finer points of conflicts of interest. into decisions. bar association offering to review its code of ethics—which who told her he knew a teacher when he saw one. One thing the center doesn’t provide is an official And so the Markkulas began their support for the turned out to be slim reading. The association replied that She resisted at first but soon got drawn into what she endorsement on particular issues, though individual staff center, starting with funding for annual operating costs, the center could do as it pleased, Markkula recalls, but was seeing. By her junior year, Renteria was teaching teens members may give their own opinions. That reflects a later expanding to an endowment and continuing ever since nobody would read its findings, let alone act on them. fresh out of juvenile hall, often dealing with young girls decision reached in the center’s early days under then- in a wide variety of ways. In 1995, the center was renamed who were pregnant, already had babies, or had otherwise President Paul Locatelli, S.J. ’60, M.Div. ’74, says A.C. in their honor, a distinction that Markkula still shakes his Real character been marked by life on the edge. One student, her “Mike” Markkula Jr., whose family has championed the head over. “Who cares what the Markkula Center is?” he toughest, had 14 tattoos, one for each year of her life. But in other ways, the center quickly amassed widespread center since its beginning. says. “It should be the Center for Applied Ethics at Santa At first, the girl refused to participate. But slowly, she grew influence, perhaps no more so than in its character “Both Fr. Locatelli and I were adamant that if the center Clara University, period. But Fr. Locatelli insisted.” captivated by the novels they were reading. She still wouldn’t education program, the brainchild of former principal and took positions it would go nowhere,” says Markkula, whose As Apple’s chairman, and a veteran of other Silicon do the work, but she’d ask questions about why a character teacher Steve Johnson. Today schools in virtually every storied Silicon Valley career includes co-founding Apple Valley giants, Markkula was naturally interested in the did something or whether her actions were right, queries that county in California, as far away as Alaska, and in Inc. “What we really had to do was offer people a way ethical conundrums of big tech. But his desires to promote Renteria would turn around and ask her to answer. increasing parts of the country have turned to its Character- to think through ethical dilemmas and come to their ethics were largely motivated by events anyone reading the “Little by little, she started writing, she started Based Literacy program, which uses literature to teach own decisions.” newspaper might have worried about. In the mid-1980s, he questioning her decisions, she started changing,” says ethics. The program has provided valuable support to Markkula’s support for the center sprang from a moment says as an example, a raft of municipalities closed facilities Renteria, who mentored the girl, now a community college at-risk students and is now being adapted for the national of serendipity. He and his wife, Linda, were attending a like pools and parks out of fear of being sued. Elected student, through her high school graduation. “With at-risk Common Core standards. parent orientation—their daughter Kristi Markkula Bowers leaders felt they were doing their duty by protecting the youth, you have to be able to relate the curriculum to their Tom Kostic, a teacher in Orange County, first started ’90, MBA ’97, now a member of the center’s advisory board public, he says. Insurance companies, whose rates set off life. If you don’t, they couldn’t care less.” using the program a decade ago, after joining a dozen and an SCU trustee, was beginning her freshman year—when the panic, were only trying to provide a service at a teachers from his district who flew to Santa Clara for a Joseph Subbiondo, dean of Arts and Sciences, mentioned reasonable profit. And city administrators thought they week of training. From the beginning, he says, it was clear Behind the curtain the school had considered starting an ethics center. were doing the right thing, too. But nobody was taking the curriculum was like nothing he had used before. Most stock of the larger consequences. The power of programs such as those in business ethics attempts at character education are awkward additions to “All of these people thought they were being ethical, but comes directly from having community partnerships that the school day, like sayings on posters or “quotes of the the net result was not helping the common tie the center into real issues, says Miriam Schulman, day” that do little to engage students. But CBL infused good,” Markkula says. the center’s assistant director. The center takes seriously ethics into the core curriculum, providing the training and the Applied part of its name. It’s not a place for abstract lesson plans to take books like Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men wondering. “The idea is to always be grounded in what is Routine business or Elie Wiesel’s Night or even Harry Potter and ask students actually happening out in the world,” Schulman says. That One of the center’s refrains is that it’s far easier to consider the situations faced by the characters and how is also true in bioethics, where the center has partnerships to be ethical if you build ethics into your their responses exemplified—or fell short of—values like with O’Connor Hospital in San Jose, Seton Medical Center routine. It’s like a muscle—keep it in shape courage or responsibility. in Daly City, St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy, and and it’ll come through when you need it. It was a two-for-one deal, Kostic says. His reluctant Hospice of the Valley that include serving on their ethics Ignore it, and don’t be surprised when it fails. readers suddenly cared about books, getting important committees. That perch keeps the center’s eyes open for real But it’s hard to train something you’ve rarely literary exposure. At the same time they were reflecting on health care dilemmas, like the challenges surrounding ailing been taught to engage or even acknowledge. their own actions and how they measured up to certain patients who lack the facility to make their own decisions So one of the center’s early focuses values in ways they had never done before. but who have no family to take over the role. Instead, was a simple but thorough primer, “The Almost immediately, Kostic says, the teachers he trained sometimes court-appointed deputy public guardians fill Framework for Ethical Decision Making,” with demanded that the district expand the program. the void, an awesome responsibility when it comes to a 10-step process for recognizing, dealing Within a year and a half, 150 teachers from Kostic’s district decisions about end-of-life care, like whether to remove with, and learning from ethical dilemmas that had been trained. Now Kostic himself trains teachers for feeding tubes. remains core to the center’s DNA today. “I the ethics center. Such decisions are anguishing enough for family know personally several CEOs who have the With such a transitory population—many of his students members, says Margaret McLean, director of the center’s framework stuck up in their cubicle or office,” are dealing with homelessness, domestic abuse, and substance bioethics program. But they are an order of magnitude Markkula says. “It’s not difficult to include abuse problems and are gone within a few months—it’s more difficult to make for strangers about whose intentions ethics as part of your decision-making process difficult to quantify the changes with test scores. But for a you have no clue, she says. if it’s something that you do normally.” teacher, the signs of success, like reduced truancy and previously In response, the center offered training for all such Not all of the center’s attempts to serve unseen levels of engagement, are unmistakable, he says. medical guardians in Santa Clara County, and made the as both mirror and light for society have “This is created for the class where I have taught for the training available online for others, to help guide them succeeded. Early on, the center focused on past 14 years,” he says. “It’s head and shoulders above. There is with a fuller understanding of their legal, medical, and campus-based programs, the beginning of a nothing else.” ethical responsibilities.
S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 29 Initially, the administration said that our elected representatives Often students are Until then, Bongiovanni says, she hadn’t realized the were fully briefed about and approved the programs. If that’s true extent of health care access problems close to home. But at 1(which some members of Congress disputed), it raises another asking questions about O’Connor she remembers indigent patients suffering from question: Is there a level of transparency that U.S. citizens need serious problems that could have been nipped in the bud from each branch of the government even if those branches are the ethical implications by preventative or early care—and doctors’ weary asides transparent to one another? In a democracy, can the system of checks and balances function with informed representatives but without of practices that have that the person would have to sell all their possessions to Make an informed public? Would such an environment undermine voters’ repay the debt. ability to choose? become second nature to The center also allowed her to see another perspective the person doing them. on how health care is provided. Through the center, Harms of pervasive surveillance are less intuitive than benefits. Bongiovanni received a $2,150 Hackworth grant to go to The latter, we are told, include better protection against potential a village three hours outside Quito, Ecuador, to study a 2terrorist attacks and more effective responses to ones that do occur. hospital launched by a U.S. doctor who had also started Security is often presented as a common good, while privacy is presented The close relationship with the hospitals, which his own low-cost insurance program, one that provided hay as either a lesser good or an individual (slightly selfish) concern. But includes helping write ethics policies, has also provided sustainable and quality care to the poor in a way that privacy is a common good, too. It’s a necessary prerequisite not just for a rare opportunity for students interested in real-world eluded many in America. democratic governance but also for development of individual character, experience. Each year, around 15 students—many looking As a result, when she started medical school, Internet Ethics Program Manager freedom of thought, and innovation in all its forms. In a society in which to become doctors—take a yearlong internship that allows Irina Raicu J.D. ’09 interrogates the government collects the metadata (and possibly much of the content) Bongiovanni says, she arrived with a more humane of every person’s communications for future analysis, will people still speak, them to shadow doctors, nurses, other health professionals, view of the profession than if her preparations had been the ethics of NSA surveillance. read, research, and act freely? Do we have examples of countries in social workers, and chaplains for five hours a week dominated solely by scientific and physiological concerns. which mass surveillance coexisted with democratic governance? through rotations from the emergency department to the It’s an outlook she maintains. Now in the fourth year Following recent disclosures about U.S. Does mass surveillance inherently create an imbalance of power between oncology unit. of her residency for general surgery, Bongiovanni is a government surveillance programs, much public the state and the individual? It’s the only internship program of its kind in the Robert Wood Johnson clinical scholar at Yale University, debate has centered on the need to balance the country, says McLean, who spent seven years working with where she is researching improving health care access in benefits and harms of intelligence gathering. Some critics have compared the recently revealed programs with hospital administrators to bring the program online. It’s underserved communities. That analysis is hard to do in the absence of the internal surveillance systems that existed in countries like now entering its 13th year. Last spring nearly three times Bongiovanni, who also has a master’s in public policy details, even if we assume that collection and 3East Germany (and still exist in some countries today). Others have bristled at such comparisons. Given the new technologies that we use as many students applied as there were spaces, though it’s from Harvard, is still unsure how she’ll marry her passion analysis of data have helped protect us. As not an experience anyone enters into lightly. Students often every day, and the coming “Internet of Things,” the new surveillance for the operating room with her interest in shaping policy, a society we still need to ask some broader witness the joy of recovery and birth, but also the pain of she says, but as a doctor she feels a responsibility to at least capabilities might mean we have no precedents for the types and questions about the rights affected by these scope of monitoring that we may be facing. Do we need to stop decline and death. try to offer answers to the dilemmas she first witnessed as a secretive programs—as well as about their utility. looking toward the past and instead consider the potential for novel “You cannot be with patients and families in these Markkula intern. Let’s start with these. abuses in the future—and draw new limits that reflect our new reality? times of crisis and not be changed by that,” McLean “There is so much need in our health care system in the says. “I’m still changed by that and I’ve been doing this U.S.,” she says. “People look to doctors for why the system Although some of our government’s actions since 9/11 have been quite a while.” is broken and how it needs to be fixed.” condemned in other countries, in much of the world the United For students, it’s an eye-opening look behind the Ultimately, such large, multifaceted problems are what 4States is still seen as a champion of civil liberties and as a defender curtain, but the learning typically goes both ways, McLean best show the power of the Markkula Center, says bioethics of Internet freedom. But the recent revelations have again altered says. Often students are asking questions about the ethical program director McLean. There are other bioethics centers perceptions of the United States abroad: We have seen evidence that implications of practices that have become second nature that focus intensively on medical matters, she says, but some U.S. companies are losing business because of the surveillance. That to the person doing them. “I can’t remember how many typically their expertise lacks the comparative depth that effect may pass or be outweighed by purported gains in national security. times I heard, ‘Wow, I haven’t thought about this in a long comes from being an applied ethics center. But will people around the world be less likely to collaborate with us, time,’” says Anna Kozas ’09, a graduate of the internship particularly given assurances that much of the surveillance is directed An array of experts and programs provides the at foreigners or those who communicate with foreigners? Might these and now the center’s bioethics program assistant. interdisciplinary perspective into matters like medical surveillance programs change the perception of the United States to the Tasce Simon Bongiovanni ’03 is among the former access or genetic testing, which have business, point where they hamper, more than they help, our national security? interns to later practice medicine. Growing up with governmental, and medical ethical implications. A broader financial uncertainty, Bongiovanni had initially felt pulled understanding also allows evaluation of rapidly changing to study accounting; the field also promised job security Internet ethics in an age when online databases can be The explanation for the collection of vast amounts of information about and good pay. Indeed, she had a position at Ernst & Young breached and data intercepted like never before. The all of us has come as a metaphor: In our networked, chatty culture, we waiting for her after graduation. But during her senior year, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics doesn’t have all the are told, searching for the communications of terrorists or other criminals a trip to El Salvador, where she met an ailing 5-year-old answers, but they do have the personnel to surround an is like looking for a needle in a haystack, so in order to search, the whose family couldn’t afford to take her to a distant doctor, issue from many angles. “I’ve got colleagues here who can government has to collect the haystack first. Details about that call you made an hour ago? They’re stalks in the haystack. The emails and texts helped Bongiovanni realize her desire to be a healer. help me address all those things, and I don’t have to leave And so while her friends enjoyed the tail end of their you answered all morning? The photos you uploaded to Instagram? Hay. the office suite,” McLean says. “It’s the ability to bring Other records, such as geolocation information or bank transactions? SCU education, Bongiovanni bore down on biology multiple lenses to the same problem that I think is unique We’re not sure whether those are part of the haystack. Now that we and chemistry. She also enrolled in the Markkula to the center.” SCU know that the haystack exists, are we content to keep building it? Or is internship program. there a final straw?
30 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 SSaa n n t t a a C Cll a a r r a a M Maa g g a a z z i i n n e e || fallfall 20132013 3131 he mother was alarmed. Her 6-year-old son had broken out in a rash, an “All patients,’’ he says, are entitled Tunexpected and potentially dangerous to the “right dose of the right reaction to cough medicine. medication in the right route at the right time.” He also says, “This is the best time to be a pharmacist.” “Oh no,” she thought. “He must be allergic to ibuprofen.” For decades, even centuries, pharmacists have been The implications could affect her son for life: He might the medication experts, the chemists, and apothecaries be unable to take one of the most common and effective who listened to a patient’s symptoms and mixed a drug medications for reducing fever, inflammation, and pain in specifically for them. In recent years, however, their young children. role outside hospitals has been largely relegated to pill She turned to a medical sleuth. He probed: Was it the dispenser, with limited chances to provide expertise and first time the child had taken ibuprofen? Was it the first insights directly to families. dose she had given from the bottle? Was the medication a At the same time, potions to treat illness have grown combination therapy for cold and cough? Then: Did she enormously in number and complexity, drug costs have thoroughly shake the bottle before each dose? soared, and health insurance has become unaffordable And with that final question, the mystery was solved: to millions. But with the country embarked on a new The reaction was probably not a response to ibuprofen. era of health reform, pharmacists are increasingly being Instead, it was most likely an overdose of either the binder recognized as a critically important component of health or the cold medication that had settled to the bottom of care. And Guglielmo is at the forefront of transforming the bottle. that role to benefit patients and help reduce the cost of “Buy a new bottle, shake it well, and try again when our health care system. you can watch your son carefully,’’ the mother was told. In December 2011, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a Sleuth-in-chief report calling upon health policy leaders to both recognize that role for pharmacists and pay them as health care The sleuth was B. Joseph Guglielmo ’73, and for more providers. The report offers a controversial view in an era than 30 years he’s been a leading clinical pharmacist, when insurance companies are trying to reduce costs— researcher, teacher, and administrator at the nation’s top- not pay for more providers—but is welcomed among ranked school of pharmacy. the health researchers who have shown, time and again, Guglielmo, 61, is a nationally recognized expert on the cost-value of including pharmacists in that role in the use of drugs to control infection. Known as “Joe” integrated systems. to friends and colleagues, Guglielmo is a professor of Greater participation of pharmacists in chronic disease clinical pharmacy at the University of California, San management, particularly among community pharmacists, Francisco, and dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy. He has long been Guglielmo’s vision. also oversees the California Poison Control System. The In 2010, in an program, which fields nearly 900 calls a day, is the largest Archives of Internal Medicine commentary, he called for improved access to medical one in the country devoted to emergency phone advice records, integration into care teams, and revisions in for exposure to poisons. compensation allowing payment for medication therapy In his highly collaborative work environment at management rather than “prescriptions filled per day.” UCSF, Guglielmo is often on the medical floor, making Such changes, he wrote, would expand access to health rounds alongside physicians and other clinical care care and “unleash the full potential of these well-trained providers, scrutinizing patient medication regimens, but clinically underused professionals.” dispensing advice.
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It’s complicated He already knew he liked working in medicine in an In a small office inside UCSF’s Moffitt Hospital, a dozen academic environment. “And once I got into the clinical infectious disease experts gather to discuss challenges setting where I was touching patients and problem- posed by particularly complicated cases. They debate the solving, I blossomed.” treatment of an 18-month-old toddler who had developed During his UCSF tenure, Guglielmo established ClassNotes strep-pneumonia and required dialysis (she fully a program to improve antimicrobial use and decrease recovered), a 58-year-old man with HIV, and a teenager microbial resistance to prescribed drugs. with a baffling foot ailment as well as hearing loss. “We are stewards of appropriate antibiotic use,” In these sessions, Guglielmo collaborates with others he says. on the medical teams to determine More than a dozen years ago, he was first offered the best drug therapies, evaluating the helm of the department of clinical side effects, drug interactions, and pharmacy. He turned it down. possible outcomes. “I had daughters in high school,” he One physician consults him about says. “I wanted to hear them play the a patient who has become resistant saxophone and eat dinner with them. To to antibiotics. Another doctor asks me, it’s a big, complicated department— Guglielmo’s advice about side effects there was no way I would take it on.” under a proposed course of treatment. In 2006, he was persuaded to accept “The dose you’d give him is the post. “I learned what I already knew,” exactly what he should be given,” says he says. Which was: “I had a lot to learn.” Guglielmo, drawing upon an uncanny Last year he took on responsibilities ability to instantly recall a vast array of as interim dean for the entire school of medical data. pharmacy. This spring he was named dean. “Joe is beyond fabulous,” says Potatoes and rice longtime colleague Sharon Youmans, vice chair for education affairs in For a quarter century, Guglielmo has Guglielmo’s department. “He’s the mentored infectious disease specialty chief bottle washer, and the buck stops M ajed residents and fellows. In 2010, he was with him,” she says. honored for his outstanding contributions The mix: One day he’s doing a study with a to faculty mentorship with a lifetime A lot to learn colleague in Zimbabwe, the next he’s balancing achievement award. His research interests the requirements of serving as dean. “Every Born in San Rafael, Calif., Guglielmo day is different,” says Guglielmo. primarily center on the safe, effective, grew up in the nearby community of and appropriate use of antimicrobials, as San Anselmo. His mother, Patricia well as the pharmacoepidemiology and Tobener Guglielmo, died of Hodgkin’s pharmacokinetics of anti-infective agents. lymphoma when he was five. He and his younger brother In lay terms, that involves looking at the role of were raised by their father, Bernard Joseph Guglielmo anti-infective agents over broad human populations, Sr., a small-business contractor. His father later married a and the action of anti-infective agents in the body The artful baker woman with four daughters—Joe, then 14, served as best over a period of time. Connecting with amateur baker turned pie-making man—and they had another child, Michael. For many years, he has been the editor of Applied guru Kate McDermott ’76. At Santa Clara, Guglielmo majored in biology. And he Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs and the Handbook found the Mission Campus “a wonderful place to go to for Applied Therapeutics. spread the wings.” “There’s no doubt I’m an academic clinician,” he ate McDermott is the kind of person who brings a pie to share It was also at SCU that Guglielmo met Margaret says. “Every day is different. One day I’m doing a study when arriving for a 5:30 a.m. flight at the tiny airport near her Inside home in Port Angeles, Washington. “I think we’re all looking for Hedges ’75, a psychology major. “She was a much better with a Zimbabwean colleague to see if the African potato 36 Alumni Awards student than I was—she was close to a 4.0,” he says. “I increases the metabolism of HIV medications.” Another ways to connect,” she says. “And what better way than pie?” K 38 Class Notes wasn’t anywhere near that.” day he’s balancing the requirements of serving as dean. McDermott, who has worked as a professional accompanist and in public “I’m really challenged by it … I don’t have to be the best affairs, says she has enjoyed baking since childhood. Pie making began 39 Bronco News: From the The couple married in 1975. Residents of Novato, Alumni Association they have four daughters and four grandchildren. teacher, but I enjoy teaching. I’m not the best clinician, with a two-and-a-half-year quest to develop the perfect crust. Folks who Unsure of a career path after he graduated from SCU, but I enjoy treating patients. I’m not the best researcher, tasted her pies started asking for lessons, and, six years later, McDermott’s 42 Lives Joined Guglielmo took a year off and traveled, supporting but I enjoy research.’’ Art of the Pie workshops have grown into a thriving second business. 43 Births and Adoptions himself as a waiter before venturing into medical sciences. Imperfection, he says, is fine with him—except when Her recipes, which emphasize getting a “feel” for baking over precise 44 Alumni in the News measurement, have been featured in Saveur and in the Washington Post. it comes to making risotto, his specialty in the kitchen. 46 In Print: New Books by “I wasn’t driven to be a physician or a dentist, but I After she filmed a segment making pie with Ruth Reichl, then editor-in- Alumni was intrigued by the work of pharmacists,” he says. “You never want to overcook the Arborio,” he says. chief of Gourmet, Reichl said to her, “This has been the most liberating In 1978, he graduated from the University of Southern “That’s a sin.” SCU experience. You break every rule and it turns out every time.” 48 Obituaries California with a doctor of pharmacy degree. He joined 48 In Memoriam: McDermott encourages her students to do the same—just get in there and George J. Alexander the UCSF School of Pharmacy in 1979. do it. “There’s no right or wrong. It’s just pie,” she says. And if it doesn’t turn out, “Pour it into the lasagna pan and you’ve got a great crumble.” 51 Alumni Events Calendar Kristen Intlekofer SCU 34 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Fall 2013 35
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while Higgins’ legal work has been championed numerous important—he now serves as a judge campus activities, and Home and away on the Navajo County Superior was a lifelong mentor to Court—it’s the founding of a school many. For Erbst, Fr. Coz From Washington Elementary to the White Mountain Apache that has been the most important was a friend and trusted Reservation—and right here on the Mission Campus—these Broncos contribution he’s made, he says. counselor. He presided have helped transform the lives of thousands. They were recognized Poverty and high unemployment over the marriage of Erbst at the 2013 Alumni Association Awards in April. are both serious problems in Pinetop- and his wife of 18 years, Lakeside. Along with doing pro Deanna, and baptized their bono legal work in the community, two children. Really, he Higgins also sought to break the was part of their family. Maria Arias Evans ’81 University spent a day with teachers cycle of poverty through establishing As Erbst began to grasp Ignatian Award and students, learning how the St. Anthony’s Catholic School. the measure of Fr. Coz’s school works. More collaboration The goal: offer academic excellence importance in his life, he Ninety-five percent of students at is to come. while teaching good habits, shaping also came to understand Washington Elementary School in San Evans says it’s almost like magic—or character, and encouraging students to the weight of Fr. Coz’s Jose qualify for free or reduced-price divine intervention—the way things live a life for others. influence on hundreds of lunch. Three-quarters of them are have come together. She’s thankful for Help from hundreds of folks, other students across more English-language learners. In terms all those, including parent volunteers, including Higgins’ wife, Laura, and than five decades. How to of parents’ income, the school is the who are doing their best to enable 500 fellow Bronco Hal Mack ’67, enabled commemorate that legacy? poorest in the district. But in 2011 children to be happy, hopeful, and the school to open in 2006. For four he wondered. The answer: Washington earned a 10 out of 10 in more educated in the best way. Evans is years, Higgins served as the volunteer He and Deanna, along California’s Similar Schools rankings—a now working to build a middle school principal while maintaining his law with friends in their SCU distinction no other on campus. practice. The school now offers pre-K network, founded Pause school in the district Upper grade levels through eighth-grade classes (the for Coz. managed. How? are not new territory for highest grade level was just added), The grassroots D ominic K F W ong Since 2005, The Awards Evans. After earning her and its mission is to educate each child campaign to create an degree in psychology from endowed scholarship began with an Heart and soul: Alumni Award honorees. Front row: Steve and Deanna Erbst. Washington has been Ignatian Award—recognizes academically, physically, socially, and Back: Jane and Louis Castruccio, Maria Arias Evans, and Robert J. Higgins. headed by Maria alumni who live the ideals SCU, she served with the spiritually. Some 20 percent of the 110 email from Erbst in 2006. Today, of competence, conscience, Jesuit Volunteer Corps Arias Evans, who has and compassion through out- students are members of the White the scholarship is close to reaching in Brooklyn, where she built it into a safe standing service to humanity. Mountain Apache tribe. the $1 million mark while currently first year that Lou’s classmate for the Jesuit Residence in the last taught troubled middle- Paul place giving students Louis I. Bannan, S.J. Award— Higgins now serves as president of helping 10 students afford the cost of Locatelli, S.J. ’60 served as president capital campaign. In honor of Lou’s honors alumni for distin- school students. She a chance to succeed. the school’s board of trustees and as a Santa Clara education. The Erbsts of SCU. Hundreds now gather for father, they established the Castruccio guished service to the Alumni later earned a teaching When Evans first took Association and University. president of a foundation he established also initiated the annual Pause for what has become the annual President’s Athletic Endowed Scholarship Fund, credential and master’s Coz Celebration to honor Fr. Coz the helm, the school Paul L. Locatelli, S.J. to help defray tuition costs. His SCU Christmas Dinner in L.A. and they also participate in the Class degree. It was teaching at a had scored a 4 in Award—honors SCU faculty education helped mold his values and while inspiring others to give back in Lou’s relationship with Santa Clara of 1960 scholarship fund. Most or staff for outstanding continuation high school, recognition of those who have most the Similar Schools service to the Alumni shape who he’s become today, and began when he was just 8 years old. important, the Castruccios give of where students had years ranking—and even Association and University. it took him to work with the Jesuit influenced their lives. Fr. Coz passed His father, their time. Lou has served on the of suspensions, transfers, Constantine Castruccio lower in the statewide Volunteer Corps in Micronesia before away in 2010—but not before he saw , often took the family by train Board of Regents and, since 1986, expulsions, and even 1913 rankings. But Evans law school. He hopes St. Anthony’s is the outpouring of affection through a to San Francisco—sometimes even as a trustee. He is a board member prison time, that formed her decision introduced dozens of engaging student providing a similar footing for children scholarship that will benefit generations to Texas and Oklahoma—to see the of the Jesuit School of Theology and to become a principal. Evans believes activities and, in doing so, took in eastern Arizona. of future Broncos. Broncos play football. In a memory has served on the National Alumni the best way to prevent dropouts and a bite out of discipline problems. book compiled for his 50th reunion, Board and boards for athletics and incarceration is by providing a strong Partnering with the San Jose Rotary Lou wrote that Santa Clara and its law. Lou is also on the board of elementary-school education. That’s Steve ’88 and Deanna Erbst Louis ’60 and Jane Castruccio Club, Catholic Charities, and other Jesuits tracked footprints across his the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey what she’s been doing at Washington. Louis I. Bannan, S.J. Award Paul L. Locatelli, S.J. Award local community groups, Washington soul, and these have deepened over Foundation, which established the is able to offer enrichment activities the years. Jane Castruccio’s connection landmark $1 million Leavey Challenge such as science camp, reading mentors, Robert J. Higgins ’80, J.D. ’92 With the daily responsibilities of raising When not on campus, Lou and Jane to SCU is through her husband of 45 last year. The successful response to an annual fishing trip, a philosophy a family and managing careers, it’s Castruccio are actively involved in the Ignatian Award years, though she says she feels like the challenge, Lou hopes, will serve as club, soccer, ballet, and monthly easy to lose sight of the people and Los Angeles alumni chapter. They were SCU is her alma mater, too. “It’s so “an igniter causing alumni to increase academic competitions. Since 2012, places that shape us. But when Steve instrumental in starting the annual Los much like a family,” she says. their giving participation rate year It was a job opportunity in law that SCU’s Leavey School of Business has Erbst looked back on his years at Angeles Santa Claran of the Year Award The Castruccios have supported after year.” Christine Cole Harden SCU led Bob Higgins and his family to teamed up with the school through the Santa Clara, one person always came Dinner, now in its 35th year. Another many Santa Clara endeavors Pinetop-Lakeside, a small Arizona Neighborhood Prosperity Initiative, to mind: Richard Coz, S.J., who landmark event began in their dining financially, including a lead gift and last year top administrators at the community near the White Mountain taught economics at SCU 1963–95, room with four couples in 1989—the Apache Reservation, in 1992. And directed SCU’s study abroad program,
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Bronco News Undergraduate Lawrence A. Specchierla 1970 Rex Moser retired Russell W. Bates writes, “I writes that he retired in 1999 in December 2012 after 26 owned and operated Russ’ after a 36-year career in years in foreign affairs for the RV Service for 27 years in San From the SCU Alumni Association 1950 John Gallagher has financial management with Department of State and his Diego County, then moved to enjoyed retirement for the past Texaco. He lives in Palm service in South Asia and Latin Kansas in 2010 for a change in 23 years after a 40-year career Springs with his wife of 50 scenery after my wife passed America. He is retiring to Santa Solid gold as a civil engineer with the years, Maureen (Harty) ’65, Barbara and looks forward away with MS. In 2011, I These golden years Washington State Department and is the co-president of the to many years of travel and retired after suffering a massive To mark the golden anniversary of women’s of Transportation. He and Palm Springs Alumni Chapter. cultural experiences. stroke and heart attack. I play A yearlong jubilee to celebrate the first half century of athletics at Santa Clara, I ask you to heed his wife, Evelyn, have been He plays golf, travels, recruits darts for fun and money, as women’s athletics at SCU the same advice we give our graduating married for 57 years and are high school students for SCU, Steve Schrey has transitioned well as support and work with seniors: residing in an assisted-living and coordinates the AARP Tax from his trial lawyer practice in several nonprofit charities.” facility in Tacoma. They raised Aide program. They have three • Keep your contact information current San Francisco to a mediation with the University: Stay up to date five children and have six grown children (two graduated and arbitration practice. He 1974 William Mathews When the students who From humble with Santa Clara classmates, news, and grandchildren. from Santa Clara) and five now resides in Tiburon. Brooks identified a new work in the Alumni Office beginnings grandchildren. species of coral reef fish, of during their time on campus The University now events by updating your personal and professional contact information: 1953 REUNION 1971 Robert G. Cruz the goby (Gobiidae) genus, are ready to graduate, we fields 10 teams with 173 October 10–13, 2013 Jack Walsh writes, “I’ve been J.D. ’83 was hired as legal from the Indonesian seas. always send them off with women competing at scu.edu/addressupdate married to my wife, Patty, for The discovery of the new counsel to the Chamorro Land three pieces of advice: the intercollegiate level • W rite your thank-you notes: Take a 49 years. We have five children species, Eviota pamae, was Leslie R. Webber writes that Trust Commission and the and almost 60 percent moment to visit the 50th Anniversary of he retired in 1995 as a Chicago and 16 grandchildren. Still announced in the April 2013 • Keep your contact Guam Department of Land receiving some athletically Women’s Athletics website to read more ER doctor. His wife of 50 working in my own business edition of International Journal information current with the Management. He also teaches related financial aid. years, Clarine, died in January and enjoying good health. Life of Ichthyology. University. history, meet the athletes, and post your business law for the University Accomplishments over the own stories and notes of gratitude: 2009. But he met his new wife is good.” of Phoenix. Cruz is a retired • Write your thank-you notes. past 50 years include one scu.edu/alumni/celebrate50 on eHarmony and moved in child support referee for the Diana Burgos Brutoco • Honor those who have national championship, with her in Nashville two years 1968 REUNION Superior Court of Guam. He was named Orange County • Honor those who have gone before October 10–13, 2013 gone before you, because anything we 11 NCAA Final Four appearances, ago. In 2006 he published An still serves as part-time referee “Mother of the Year” for the you: Plan on attending one of the benefit of Casa Teresa, an accomplish is possible only because 24 conference championships, 52 American Doctor’s Life, Divinely for the Traffic and Small Claims many matches and events scheduled Orchestrated, which shows Edward Desmond writes organization that helps young of the courage, commitment, and All-Americans, and five Academic All- Bureau, and as an associate throughout the year to cheer on our life at Santa Clara in the ’50s that he is living in San pregnant women in need. As perseverance of those who went first. Americans. justice pro tem for the Guam current Bronco teams and celebrate 50 in great detail; it can be found Lorenzo, Calif., with his wife, the world’s longest-surviving Along the way, Jody Berscheidt ’66 Supreme Court. These words ring especially true this years of women’s athletics. And if you’re in the SCU library and on Grace, and still working as a recipient of an unrelated became the first woman inducted into fall as the University begins a yearlong a former student-athlete, you should have Amazon.com. microbiologist. Mark d’Ercole writes that he’s bone marrow transplant for the Santa Clara Athletic Hall of Fame— celebration of the 50th Anniversary of already received a special invitation to the earned a purple belt in Brazilian leukemia, and subsequently for her prowess in tennis, basketball, a two-time survivor of breast Women’s Athletics. privileges and celebrations awaiting you 1958 REUNION David Murphy is now an Jiu-Jitsu from Master Charles and volleyball. Tennis player Darby October 10–13, 2013 educational consultant, with Gracie. By doing so, he cancer, Brutoco has helped Santa Clara first admitted undergraduate this year. countless others battle illness Teichgraeber Cunning ’77 received the special strengths in the areas became registered in the BJJ women in the fall of 1961. Two years later, As a former women’s soccer player, I and despair for 25 years. first women’s athletic scholarship, in 1959 Don Eaton J.D. ’64 of English learners, Latino Federation in Rio De Janeiro, Marygrace Colby M.A. ’91 was hired know my Santa Clara athletic experience student achievement, strategic Santa Clarans present at the the amount of $500. notes that he brought Gov. Brazil. He is still actively as the first female athletics administrator. was possible only because of those who Jerry Brown ’59 to SCU in planning, and development ceremony included Rinaldo In 1988, Caren Choppelas competing in tournaments and By 1964, Santa Clara had organized blazed the trail before me. At work and October 2012 for a WPO event of school programs that Brutoco ’68, Ric Brutocao Horstmeyer ’84 made history as the first is married with two sons in San competitive women’s teams in basketball, at home, I’m grateful every day for the regarding Brown’s goals for the significantly raise student Francisco. ’66, Dan Barsanti ’71, Shelly volleyball, and tennis. Those first 30 former female student-athlete to work full- Bruneau Barsanti ’72, friendships, toughness, tenderness, and future of California. Brown and achievement. One client is female student-athletes braved hardships time for the athletics department when she Christopher Hartig ’99, Mike leadership lessons forged on the pitch Eaton were debate partners at the California Association of Dave Fitzgerald writes that was named head coach of the women’s Lange ’06, Adam Brutocao and challenges daily without scholarships SCU. The event was catered Latino Superintendents and he retired from USAF in 2000 basketball team. In that role, Horstmeyer and in the locker room. And I hope the ’15, Gina Salcedo Pellizzon or program funding, just because they by Donna Eaton Busse ’90. Administrators. He served 37 and from TASC Inc. in 2010 led her 1991 basketball team to the footprints my teammates and I left on the ’82, Bill Malcolm ’82, J.D. ’85, loved to play. They also had success as years in public schools, the and invested in the Equestrian Women’s National Invitation Tournament fields of Stanton and Bellomy in some Severina Brutocao Malcolm the basketball team went undefeated in 1963 REUNION last 20 as superintendent of Order of the Holy Sepulchre of title. The women’s soccer team won the small way helped those who came after ’82, Louis Brutocao ’91, and their first two years and won the school’s October 10–13, 2013 schools. Jerusalem in 2012 (Northern University’s first outright NCAA national us. Whether you were a student-athlete Christina Brutocao Moreno first women’s athletics trophy. Lieutenancy). or cheered on a fellow Bronco who was, I ’94. Diana and spouse Dr. championship in 2001. And just five years Joe Meagher writes that Fred Rowe writes, “I ended ago, cross-country runner Noelle Lopez invite you to join me this year in honoring up in the Army in 1968. I went Rudolf Brutoco ’74 have four prior to being discharged In May, Mike Friedrich ’08 became the first female Rhodes scholar all those whose courage, commitment, and from the Navy in 1967, to helicopter flight school and grown children, and as a family received a Master of in school history, and only the second SCU perseverance during the last five decades he married Karen (wife of served a year in Vietnam. After they donated the In Celebration Theological Studies degree of Family bronze sculpture to student to be so honored. have made an inclusive, coeducational 46 years) and began his five years, I attended San from the Pacific School of
Jose State as a pre-med bio the University. In all, more than 2,500 women Santa Clara athletic experience possible.
s tic hle At CU S esy teaching/coaching career at Religion, in Berkeley. He is also t have proudly donned a Bronco uniform Menlo College. In 2007, he major and U.C. San Diego for a candidate for ordination as a Rodney D. Smith is retired from a Washington med school, graduating at 35. deacon in the United Methodist 1975 while representing Santa Clara on the senior VP of business and
state high school, where After an emergency medicine Church, a process that may court, field, track, or course. Some
r cou oto financial planning at Sage Ph Go Broncos! he taught history, coached residency, I worked for 21 take four years. have achieved regional, national, and basketball, and served as years for Kaiser-Permanente in North America. international recognition. Some have the Sacramento area. I retired athletic director. Living in Tim Smith, a licensed clinical played professionally in their chosen in 2005 and joined the local Bothell, Wash., he continues to social worker, retired after 28 1978 REUNION sports. But most leave the University with Rotary club. My two sons were October 10–13, 2013 coach while enjoying the three years working as a clinical lifelong experiences, relationships, and Broncos in the classes of ’09 grandchildren who live nearby. supervisor and mental health memories that shape who they are and Kathryn Kale ’86 and ’11.” Jeanine D. Tucker J.D. ’81 is clinician with the Department of what they become. Assistant Vice President Joseph Francis Millett writes, the new court executive officer Behavioral Health in Fresno. for Alumni Relations “Looking forward to October.” 1969 Frank Boitano MBA with the Tuolumne County and his daughter Lauren Superior Court. Tucker had It’s a steal: Anne Von Tiesenhausen ’85 ’74 1973 REUNION worked for the Stanislaus summited Mt. Kilimanjaro on October 10–13, 2013 takes possession of the ball. Jan. 17. County Superior Court since See more: scu.edu/alumni/celebrate50
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1991. She recently served as “America’s Top 1,000 Advisors: Bowl four times and won three Keith Jordan J.D. ’93 writes, named to the SVBJ 2012 2002 Kevin Ireland and the operations manager for State-by-State” list. Advisors Super Bowls with the 49ers. “I work for a company that is “40 Under 40” list, and she is his wife, Laura, have moved eight years, managing a staff of have a minimum of seven a disruptive game-changer for active in youth and women’s to Seattle, where Laura begins about 140 employees. years’ financial services 1987 Greg Calcagno was the betterment of business organizations. a medical residency in family experience. Numerous named head football coach and employees. I look for medicine at Swedish Hospital 1979 Doug Cosbie has quantitative and qualitative at St. Francis High School ways to bring value to a Russell Dahl is an associate and where Kevin has joined been named athletic relations measures (including assets in Mountain View, where he business with a measurable professor of medicinal the media finance team at associate and head football managed, revenue produced, was quarterback and captain ROI. I determine how I can chemistry in the departments Amazon.com. coach at Kamehameha and quality of practice) in 1982. He is currently the improve a company’s ‘PIERS’: of Neuroscience and Schools Kap¯alama. Cosbie determine the rankings. school’s alumni director and Productivity, Image, Expenses, Pharmaceutical Science at Brendan Stamper has been played for the Dallas Cowboys assistant junior varsity football Revenue, Safety, Security, The Chicago Medical School working for the past year as Take a moment to for 10 years under legendary 1983 REUNION coach as well. Stability.” of Rosalind Franklin University, an assistant professor at the congratulate coach Tom Landry. In 1989, October 10–13, 2013 in North Chicago. He is the Pacific University School of Cosbie started coaching, Kim Olson lives with her 1990 Debbie A. Klis, of author of more than 60 peer- Pharmacy. admitted students beginning with a volunteer 1985 Brent Jones was husband, Jim Beit, and their counsel in Ballard Spahr’s reviewed publications and position at Santa Clara. He inducted to the Bay Area three daughters in Bronxville, Bethesda office, was named an inventor on more than 20 2003 REUNION and help answer their to Maryland’s Top 100 Women also coached at Stanford, U.C. Sports Hall of Fame on May N.Y. She is a principal in patents in small molecule October 10–13, 2013 Berkeley, and Menlo University. 23. Jones, who grew up in the advisory practice at Deloitte, list by The Daily Record. She is therapeutics. He also directs questions by joining president and director of Women the Laboratory for Molecular Bay Area, was picked by the working in the intersection M. Ryan Hubbard the New Student Ambassadors for Business Inc. Design and Drug Discovery. 2004 1981 Edythe M. De Marco Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1987 of risk management and D.O. completed his residency and a member of the Women’s has been nationally recognized draft, but he was traded to regulation, primarily serving in internal medicine at Kaiser Calling Program. Business Organization and in Rhode Island by Barron’s the San Francisco 49ers and bank and investment bank 1998 REUNION Permanente in Santa Clara. eWomen’s Networking Inc. Klis magazine in its annual spent his 11-year career in red clients. October 10–13, 2013 He was the recipient of the is also a judge for the Start-Right and gold. He made the Pro was named Stanford University School of Business Plan Competition of Christy Aguirre 1988 REUNION 2012 Outstanding Librarian Medicine Gold Humanism in Montgomery County and an October 10–13, 2013 in Support of Literacy by the Medicine and Teaching Award. instructor and mentor for the California Libraries Association, He will join the Daughters of 2013/14 Susie (Miller) Hornbeek and Maryland Women’s Business and a Community Builder Charity Health Foundation and Sign up today: husband Gary Hornbeek, Center. along with their two kids, by Library Journal’s 2013 work at O’Connor Hospital, www.scu.edu/recruit ages 11 and 8, live in Buenos Movers & Shakers program. where he did a health care President’s Nicholas Murphy, Aires, Argentina. Susie is a 1991 She attributes much of her ethics internship. eldest son of Brendan Murphy senior marketing consultant success to her SCU education: and Nina Murphy, graduated Speaker for technology companies “Community building is a Oscar Silva received his Ph.D. from Thomas Aquinas College and formerly the director of way of life, not just a job.” in microbiology, immunology, in Santa Paula, Calif., in May. integrated marketing at Silver She currently supervises and molecular genetics Series His brother Matthew completed Springs Networks. Sacramento Public Library’s from UCLA. As a Medical his freshman year at the 2010 Jenna Torosian Southgate branch. Scientist Training Program 2008 REUNION SERIES Eight: same school. October 10–13, 2013 Fabino accepted a client- Donna (Miller) Kelly is a global participant, he will be returning management position Shared Values in the World, real estate area manager at Jason M. Caskey is an to the David Geffen School of Dean Paul Dominguez with FindTheBest.com, the Nation, and the Community 1993 REUNION attorney in the IP and IT group Medicine at UCLA to complete was awarded an M.A. in Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto. October 10–13, 2013 an unbiased, data-driven at Kutak Rock LLP, specializing his medical training. philosophy from San Jose comparison site. The startup in technology licensing, State University in 2012. He Gina (Weaver) Miller writes, Michelle Andre Internet company is based in 1996 copyright, trademarks, and Cannon Christian works as a real estate broker Condoleezza Rice “Just celebrated my 18th writes, “After working for the 2007 Santa Barbara, where Fabino commercial transactions. He writes that he founded for Re/Max Active Realty in wedding anniversary to Merola Opera Program at is currently living with her No Higher Honor and wife Kirsten welcomed Renovation Realty, a full- Fremont, selling residential husband Ken Miller. We have San Francisco Opera as the husband. October 10, 2013 their son, Daniel Patrick, in service residential renovation and commercial real estate. two children—Nathaniel, 10, director of membership and December 2011, joining sisters contractor and real estate He is also a volunteer coach This event sold out! and Gillian, 7—and live in El marketing for five years, I 2011 Christian Max is in Grace, 6, and Claire, 4. The brokerage that uses a home’s for the Collegiate Ethics Bowl Dorado Hills, Calif. I am the was recruited as director of China studying Mandarin and family lives in Omaha. own capital for renovations Team and a volunteer teacher director of personnel and marketing for an international working with new American before placing the home on for the Philosophy for Children Jed York operations for Metaverse Mod market research firm called students. He has received high Olga Diaz was named Civic the market. It was named Program, both affiliated with Squad, a leader in professional Decipher. I am in the 12th year marks on his Level 5 (out of 7) A Conversation with Jed York Leader of the Year at U-T one of San Diego Metro San Jose State University. services for social, enterprise, of owning my own business, examinations. He now speaks January 15, 2014 San Diego’s second annual Magazine’s 2012 Most Admired and gaming communities Andre Design & Marketing. five languages. San Diego Latino Champions Companies. Christian was also online.” We also welcomed our baby 2009 Ropers Majeski Kohn Awards ceremony. To qualify, selected as one of San Diego daughter, Nadia Marie, home & Bentley, P.C. has added Tommy Medica is in individuals must be San Diego Daily Transcript’s 2013 Young 2012 Eboo Patel Jim Schell writes, “After from Russia early in 2012. She Rachael E. Brown, J.D. ’12 his third professional season County residents of Latino Influentials. many years in Japan, I am joins big brother Niko, 7.” as an associate in its San with the San Diego Padres. Sacred Ground: descent who have taken an now working for Coldwell Jose office. During her time Last year, Medica hit .330 Pluralism, Prejudice, and active role above and beyond Ross Dakin is honored to at SCU, Brown served as Banker Pacific Properties as Colleen Blake for Single-A Lake Elsinore, the Promise of America 1997 their paid employment and help guide the SCU School assistant director of the Internal a realtor associate. My wife, was named one of Silicon with 19 homers and 87 RBIs April 9, 2014 made a significant impact of Engineering as the newest Moot Court program; helped twin daughters, and I reside in Valley Business Journal’s in 93 games. on the cultural life of their appointee of its Industry revitalize Equality SCU; served Oahu. Life in ‘paradise’ is filled “100 Women of Influence.” community. Advisory Board. Dakin is on the board of the Women with aloha and unparalleled As senior director, Global All events will be held in the Louis B. Mayer currently a staff engineer at and Law group; and worked beauty.” People Operations, Brocade Theatre, beginning at 7:30 p.m. William Green writes Upstart.com. as a law clerk at RMKB. Her Communications Systems 2000 that he is working toward a practice area includes civil 1989 Tracy Garfinkel Inc., she is responsible for master’s degree in landscape litigation, including business Darchini was promoted to the company’s diversity and Kelsey Waples is currently Tickets are required. For more information or to architecture at the University and intellectual property media relations manager for inclusion strategy, including finishing up her last year of order tickets, visit www.scu.edu/speakerseries of Oregon while playing a little matters. Daimler Trucks North America the expansion of Brocade’s school at Pepperdine Law and in Portland, Ore. music on the side. was recently published in the This series is co-sponsored by SCU Center of Performing Arts. Women In Networking initiative across the globe. Blake was Law Review (volume 40, issue 1).
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Lives Joined Births and Adoptions practiced law for 30 years, Cairo, I am the Fresno campus SWAT, narcotics, street crimes, Bernard Zanck 1967 including as a workers’ director of Alliant International and internal affairs. He has M.A. writes, “My son, Bernie compensation defense University. I have a newfound served as commander of Zanck ’96, just graduated attorney. He was on the respect for Silicon Valley, the two major departments: the Nancy (Levandowski) serves as the Naval Alyssa Savage ’10 and from University of Chicago Kelly O’Brien J.D. ’94 proud parents and big Michael Shaire, and big Long Beach Board of Harbor Bay Area, and a dozen years in Patrol Division and the Special Keller ’81 and Steven Academy Athletic Paul Hiu on April 6, in with an MBA. He was also the and R.J. Sebrasky—their sister Gianna live in brother Elliot—baby Commissioners for seven years the ‘wilderness’ of Illinois while Operations and Investigations Keller on April 3. They Association’s associate Tiburon, surrounded by director of recruitment for the third baby boy, Rocco, Santa Clara. Ethan on March 15. before heading to the federal at Knox College!” Division. were the first couple mar- athletic director–develop- 100 friends and family. university’s MBA program, and on May 17. He weighed The family lives in commission in 2011. Claudia (Vasquez) ried at Denny’s Chapel in ment at the U.S. Naval Alyssa and Paul met in during his time as director he 8 pounds, 11 ounces Charlotte, N.C. Torres ’00 and husband Las Vegas. “As passionate Academy. 2008 when she was spent three years in London 1993 Thomas E. Bertelsen Alexander Nestor J.D. was and measured 22.5 Ramiro Torres—their first Ned Matthews ’05, Denny’s fans for more studying abroad in Sydney. recruiting for the program.” Jeff Ferriell J.D. has taken Jr. M.A., a longtime benefactor elected to a partnership at inches long. than 35 years, my hus- Beth Simas ’05, daugh- They live happily in over as director of Capital and board member of the Allen Matkins, a full-service real child, Damian Torres, on Kristin Matthews ’06, ter of Ted ’70 and Rita University Law School’s Jesuit School of Theology, estate and business law firm. Ken and Leanna Aug. 22, 2012. The fam- and their son Connor, band and I couldn’t think Australia, with Paul work- Linda (Fernandez) Simas, and Matthew 1973 Academic Support Program. has helped launch a $230,000 Nestor practices in the labor (Porter) Deaton ily resides happily in San 2—a beautiful girl, of a more fun and exciting ing as a chiropractor and Martinez M.A. writes, “I have Marcinek on Feb. 16, in He teaches contracts, endowed scholarship fund and employment group in the ’95—a son, Samuel Jose and looks forward Sophia Claire, on way to tie the knot than at Alyssa as a graphic recently semiretired in order to Sacramento. In attendance bankruptcy, and commercial in honor of Oakland Bishop San Francisco office, where he Addisu Deaton, on to traveling. April 10. The family the Denny’s Vegas loca- designer. Fellow Broncos travel more.” were more than 20 law. He just published the Emeritus John S. Cummins. represents some of the nation’s Jan. 1. The family resides lives in Santa Clara. tion in the very heart of who attended the wedding Meghan (Hanratty) Broncos from the classes third edition of his co-authored The donations will be invested largest tech and financial in Hayden, Idaho. the restaurant,” said include: Eric Pelfrey Green ’04 and Tyler Evan McLean ’05 of ’70, ’04, and ’05. The 1974 Julie Brooks J.D. law school hornbook, to provide scholarships services companies. Nancy, director of ISU ’09, Jenna Abeyta ’09, Joseph Westfall ’97 Green ’04—their sec- and Kristen (Harada) couple currently resides in was named one of the 100 Understanding Bankruptcy, and for students from Asian Dining for Iowa State Nicholas Duston ’09, “Women of Influence” by and his wife—their third ond child, Nora Elizabeth, McLean ’04—a boy, Houston, Texas. is working on the third edition countries—especially Mongolia, Pallie Zambrano J.D., a University. Rahul Hirani ’10, Silicon Valley Business Journal. child, Dorothy, on on March 20. She joins Cooper, on April 12. The of Understanding Contracts. East Timor, and Nepal—to partner at McManis Faulkner, C. Paige (Wilson) Michael Lee ’10, Ryan As the executive VP, general May 19. She joins big brother Gavin. They family lives in San Jose. Steve O’Brien ’98 and attend JST. has been honored by the O’Donoghue ’07 and Clark ’10, Chris counsel, chief compliance 2-year-old twins Oliver live in Seattle. Julianne (Visbal) Stephen P. Yost MBA is now YWCA of Silicon Valley with a Lisa (Eskey) Colin O’Donoghue on Woodhouse ’10, officer, and corporate secretary and Eloise. Westfall is O’Brien ’04 on July 7, on the board of directors Laura Lee Norris 2013 Tribute to Women and Nate Seltenrich ’04 Rodriguez MBA ’05 Sept. 10, 2011. Brittany Benjamin ’10, at Conceptus Inc., Brooks 1997 an associate professor 2012, in the Mission for both Pacific Mercantile J.D. has been named Industry Award. It recognizes and wife Jocelyn—their and husband Steve— Ryan Amante ’10, oversees legal and compliance of philosophy at the Church. More than 40 fel- Grace Nixon ’09 and Bancorp and Pacific Mercantile founding director of the new the outstanding achievements first child, Leo Philip, on their second son, Coby Giselle Estabrook ’10, issues at the health care University of Houston– low Broncos representing Bobby Peterson on June Bank. During the span of his Entrepreneur’s Law Clinic of female executives who Feb. 11, at the same Gage, on April 20. He Carlo Ammatuna ’10, services company. Downtown. 60 years of alumni were 23, 2012, in Rapid City, Emily Entress ’11, 35-year career in banking, at Santa Clara’s School of have acted as role models hospital where Nate joins Jax, 2. They live in attendance, from S.D. Grace met Bobby Yost held executive positions Law, which will represent for other women and have Imelda (Wong) was born: Kaiser Walnut in Pleasanton. John Kurt Wagner ’12, Bob Vogt J.D. co-produced Frank Lico ’52 and Tom while studying abroad. The Jessica Dickey ’12, at Comerica Bank, Imperial entrepreneurs with some had a substantial impact on Kortens ’98 and Jediah Creek. The family lives McDermott ’52, to Fr. wedding party included BottleRock at Napa Expo in Bank, First Interstate Bank, connection to SCU. Norris their organizations’ growth, Kortens—their first boy, in Oakland in an old Teddy Patty J.D. ’07 Ryan Selewicz ’13, and May, a rock festival that was and Kalila (Spain) Art Liebscher ’69, Rochelle Rock ’07 and Samantha Juda ’13. and Mellon Bank. He also is also an assistant clinical profitability, and innovation. Jackson Robert Kortens, bungalow they have been M.Div. ’84, MST ’86 and Annie Rovzar ’09. Other “the largest event in Napa established Kestrel Advisors, a professor overseeing a group on April 30. fixing up since 2009, Patty J.D. ’07—a history,” reported the Napa beautiful girl, Nailah Bill O’Brien ’70, to Broncos in attendance Reena Aboumrad ’11 credit risk consulting firm. of law students who will work Raphael Horton MBA along with an 8-year-old Valley Register. Headliners 2001 John Gemetti ’00 Sarai, on March 18, Stephan Vernaelde were Christopher and Tony Driver ’11 on in the clinic. writes that he moved to Denver rabbit, Peter. included Kings of Leon, the and Gaby (Tablada) 2012. Nailah joins sister ’05, Lynsey (Yeakel) Foster ’08, Renee June 29, in Santa Cruz. Charles “Chuck” and is looking for a new job. Black Keys, and the Zac Brown 1980 Gemetti ’00—a boy, Stephanie (Flint) Arielle, 3, in San Jose. Kehrli ’04 and Bob Lucas-Foster ’08, The two met during winter Berger MBA is the new Meredith McKenzie Band. Tickets are on sale for a 1998 Carlo, on Jan. 27. The Shaire ’04, husband Kehrli ’04. The couple Sam Baker ’08, quarter ’10 in Professor president and CEO of Extreme J.D. was appointed by Gov. planned 2014 festival. 2002 Andrew Gere MBA resides in Annapolis, Md., Krystal Wu ’09, and William O’Brien’s Networks and has been Jerry Brown ’59 to the has been promoted to VP where Julianne works as a Karen (Mulcahy) Accounting 130 course. elected to the company’s Dental Board of California. of operations at San Jose Patrick Yam MBA civil engineer with Bay Ingalls ’89. The couple 1975 board of directors. Berger McKenzie has been VP and Water Company. He has is part of a team of financial specialize in conservatorship assistant for policy at the Engineering, and Steve lives in New Orleans. has 30 years of experience deputy general counsel at been with the company and sports luminaries— and guardianship matters, California Natural Resources in the technology sector; he’s Juniper Networks since since 1995 and has been including Steve Schott estate planning, trust and Agency. Previously, Burchill Read more (and see photos) at santaclaramagazine.com served in executive roles at 2012. She previously worked instrumental in development ’60—that has raised $6 million probate litigation, elder abuse, was a contract attorney at ParAccel, DVDPlay, Nuance for Symantec Corporation, and implementation of many in an attempt to move the and appeals. Both partners Olson Hagel and Fishburn Communications, Vicinity Cypress Semiconductor, regulatory compliance plans International Swimming Hall of are also court appointed as LLP, an executive fellow at Chloe Lynn Wilson Corporation, AdForce, Radius, Enuvis Inc., Howrey LLP, and and capital improvements. 2013 REUNION Fame from Florida to the city counsel in conservatorships by the California Fair Political writes, “I am serving as a Apple, and Sun Microsystems. Intel. October 10–13, 2013 of Santa Clara. Yam is a Menlo the state of California, Superior Practices Commission, and Jesuit Volunteer with JVC Park–based venture capitalist. 2004 In 2012 James Court of Contra Costa County. an intern at the office of Northwest for one year. I’m Jimmy Roehrig Renu Bhatia MBA, Goalkeeper Larry Jackson has He serves on the Leavey 1988 1999 Hatcher MBA established Assemblywoman Toni Atkins a community liaison/tribal M.S. has joined Matakina VP of sales and business joined the Colorado Rapids, School of Business advisory consulting firm Core Strategies Daisy Huang M.S. writes, in 2011. court spokesperson with the International. He will provide development at Marvell one of Major League Soccer’s board and is a former SCU Co. Ltd. in Bangkok, Thailand, “Greetings from Fairbanks, Northwest Justice Project on scientific depth to sales Semiconductor Inc., was 10 charter clubs. Jackson was faculty member. and resides there. Core Alaska! I have completed Ryan Fletcher M.A. is the new also named the 2012 West the Colville Indian Reservation and product development, named one of Silicon Valley Strategies provides consulting my Ph.D. in mechanical principal of Piedmont Middle in Omak, Wash. I want to particularly with the software Business Journal’s “100 services to clients with Coast Conference Goalkeeper Antonio Reyes J.D. of engineering and applied School. Fletcher’s background thank all of the campus 1977 Volpara, designed to help Women of Influence.” She business in the Middle East of the Year. Visalia has been appointed by physics. Best wishes to the includes four years as a middle ministers who inspired me overcome the limitations of is board director of the San and Asia. Bronco family!” school assistant principal to pursue this incredible Gov. Jerry Brown ’59 to mammography to detect Jose Children’s Discovery Amy Tamayo of Hailey, Idaho, in Palo Alto, two years as a adventure and who supported a judgeship on the Tulare breast cancer. Roehrig, who Museum and an active has been chosen to participate 2005 Kevin Collins J.D., Emiko Burchill summer school principal, and me through my application and County Superior Court. Reyes, co-founded R2 Technology, member of the San Jose 2007 in the Congress-Bundestag after five years of prosecuting J.D. was appointed by Gov. seven years as a math and discernment process!” 60, has been in solo private helped produce the Image- Chamber of Commerce, the Youth Exchange for Young drunk-in-public and DUI jury Jerry Brown ’59 as special science teacher. practice since 1990. He fills Checker computer-aided Anita Borg Institute for Women Professionals. From more trials in San Mateo County, has a vacancy created by the detection system, the first CAD in Technology, and The Indus than 600 applicants, Tamayo been assigned to the General retirement of Judge Gerald F. system approved by the FDA. Entrepreneurs. was selected for a one-year, Sevier J.D. ’71. Felony trial team, where he federally funded fellowship. specializes in small amounts Send us your notes! Xavier Romano M.A. Richard Lucero J.D. of narcotics and is assigned to She will learn German, study graduate President Barack 1992 1978 writes, “After taking on a was appointed the city of the Minor Vendor Unit. Keep your fellow Mobile: m.scu.edu/classnotes at a German university, and Obama designated Mario Online: www.scu.edu/alumupdate complete an internship with consultancy in Saudi Arabia Fremont’s chief of police. Cordero J.D. the new Broncos posted on By snail mail: Class Notes • Santa a German company in her 1964 Richard Wilson MBA during the Arab Spring near the Lucero has spent his entire Konstantine Demiris J.D. and his wife, Celia, celebrated chairman of the Federal Yemen border, and witnessing law enforcement career in what’s happening. Clara Magazine • 500 El Camino Real career field. Maritime Commission. A and Christopher Moore J.D. • Santa Clara, CA 95053 their 50th wedding anniversary one Tahrir Square protest in Fremont, where he has worked ’06 recently formed Demiris & in March. former Long Beach harbor with several units, including commissioner, Cordero has Moore, in Walnut Creek. They
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salary increases to encourage General Yee MVP Big John top faculty members to remain in When earned most valuable player of Arizona schools. She also helped Garrett John Bryant ’09 , the year in the Eurocup Basketball league in the bring about the opening of a Yee ’87 a deputy 2011–12 season, playing for Germany’s Ratiopharm new medical school in Phoenix, commander Ulm. Last season the six-foot-eleven center was increased funding for research, with the named to the All-Eurocup first team. In August and advocated for state schools Military Surface he started practice with a new team, though: to educate more students in the Deployment Bayern Munich, part of the Euroleague, the premier health sciences and tech fields, and Distribution basketball even amid budget shortfalls. KI Command, conference on was promoted the continent. A new archbishop to the rank of His move for Fiji brigadier general to the Audi
Last year, after graduating magna U S A r m y in May, the timing Dome in cum laude from the Jesuit School had special the capital of Theology, Peter Loy Chong, significance for him. Noting that May is Asian- of Bavaria S.J., Ph.D. ’12 returned to Pacific American Heritage Month, Yee said, “As was dubbed his home island of Suva, in Fiji, a descendant of Chinese and Japanese parents, the biggest where he has served as a priest I find it inspiring to see how far we have come, A P transfer since 1992. He planned to begin especially given the challenges my parents lived coup for the team this year. But “Big John” tends teaching at Pacific Regional through.” Yee’s mother and her family were not to do things small. At Santa Clara he was the Seminary, the very institution Japanese-American farmworkers, ordered to an 2009 West Coast Conference Player of the Year where he had completed his internment camp in Arizona during World War II. and was the No. 2 player in the nation in rebounds.
AP priestly studies years before. But His father was told he couldn’t become a school What’s next? “My goals are also the team’s goals,” God had other plans. The day teacher because he was Chinese. “My parents he told a reporter for Münchner Merkur: “Win the Another first: SCU’s first female President of the he arrived, Dec. 19, former Pope would have never imagined an Asian American championship.” SBS valedictorian becomes the University U.C. system Benedict XVI appointed him archbishop of Suva. would reach the rank of general, let alone their of California system’s first female He was ordained archbishop on June 8. More than son,” Yee said during his promotion ceremony at Spirit, flash, and pow Janet Napolitano ’79 made national headlines 15,000 people were present for the ceremony at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. president. Three Santa Clara women were picked in the draft when she announced plans in mid-July to step the Vodafone Arena. At 52, Chong is one of the for the new National Women’s Soccer League earlier down from her post as U.S. secretary of homeland youngest archbishops in the world. Yee studied combined sciences and participated security to helm the University of California system, in ROTC as an undergraduate at Santa Clara, and this year: Bianca Henninger ’11 by FC Kansas becoming U.C.’s 20th president and the first The Fijian magazine Republika predicted that he received his commission in the infantry after City, Jordan Angeli ’09 by woman to hold the position in U.C.’s 145-year Chong would “take the church on a path towards graduation. During his 25-year U.S. Army career, he the Washington Spirit, and history. As a student at SCU, she earned distinction deep thought and reflection, focusing on healing has held a variety of command and staff positions Marian Dalmy ’06 by the as the University’s first female valedictorian. and reconciliation of social, moral, and theological and received the Bronze Star. From 2011–12 he Portland Thorns FC. All three issues. He is also likely to encourage the clergy served in Afghanistan as the deputy commander won West Coast Conference In a press release announcing her appointment, the to write and preach on topics which affect the for the 335th Signal Command. He returned to the top honors while at SCU: University of California noted that Napolitano was people—land, culture, multi-ethnicity and the need Mission Campus in May, when he was recognized Henninger as Goalkeeper of the Year, Angeli as Defensive chosen from among 300 people considered for the for tolerance.” John Deever for his recent promotion during the annual Bronco position—and that she was the search committee’s Battalion Awards Ceremony. KI Player of the Year, and Dalmy unanimous choice. Napolitano acknowledged as Player of the Year. that her route to the post wasn’t a traditional one WJU’s new president in higher education. “I have not spent a career Also joining the NWSL this year in academia,” Napolitano told the U.C. system’s Nestled in the was Katherine Reynolds governing board in July. “But that said, I have spent green hills of ’10, who returned stateside 20 years in public service advocating for it.” West Virginia’s from playing in Germany to northern sign with the Western New Napolitano has also advocated for what she says panhandle near York Flash. As a Bronco, could and should happen more: people (with the banks of the Reynolds was named to the their ideas and energy) moving between work in Ohio River is MAC Hermann Trophy watch government and higher education and industry. Wheeling Jesuit list and was also a member of U.C. regents confirmed Napolitano for the post on University, the the U.S. Under-23 Women’s
Aug. 1, and she was scheduled to begin work as youngest of the National Team. Meleana Shim D enis C oncordel 28 U.S. Jesuit ’13 signed with Portland president in late September. Red to blue: Bianca Henninger now institutions. in April as a discovery player. As a Bronco, the wears FC Kansas City colors. Prior to her homeland security role, during the In July, Jim Honolulu native played with the U-23 national team Wheel i n g Jes uit Un iv ers it y two terms she served as governor of Arizona, Fleming, S.J., and made All-WCC Second-Team. Portland named Napolitano argued for such changes as a fixed M.Div. ’94 became WJU’s 10th president. Shim the Newcomer of the Year. And Portland four-year tuition rate for incoming freshmen and Fleming has served as a senior administrator clinched the first NWSL championship on Aug. 31, since 2010. Previously, he spent a decade as beating the Flash 2–0. SBS SCU Ordained: Peter Loy Chong a faculty member and administration officer is one of the youngest at Boston College. He holds a doctorate in archbishops in the world. education policy from U.C. Berkeley. JD 44 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 45 G etty I mages InClassNotes Print new books by alumn
Thicker than water NONFICTION NOTES STUDENT NOTES Echo location This guy’s Missionary Bishop: #MOVING OUT tweet: Tales woven across nations and a lawyer? Jean-Marie Odin in 140 Bite-Sized Ideas generations by Khaled Hosseini ’88 That’s what Galveston and New to Help You Move to a number Orleans (Texas A&M College (Thinkaha, In one of the most affecting byways Mountains Echoed. That story begins in of the meth University Press, 2013) 2013), an e-book of Khaled Hosseini’s superb third 1952 in a rural Afghan village, where the addicts, traces the history of published by four Santa novel, And the Mountains Echoed impoverished laborer Saboor sets off for petty frontier missionary Clara students just (Riverhead, 2013), Dr. Idris Bashiri Kabul towing his 3-year-old daughter criminals, Jean-Marie Odin and before they graduated returns to Afghanistan with his Pari in a red wagon. They are trailed by prostitutes, his years in Texas, as it in May, offers honest, cousin Timur in 2003, shortly after Abdullah, Saboor’s 10-year-old son, who and porn transitioned from republic to state, and practical advice for high school seniors American-led forces have expelled has cared for and doted upon his sister stars in New Orleans during the Civil War. The about to flee the nest. Authors Gabrielle the Taliban. The cousins have come since their mother died giving birth to her. involved book is the fruit of more than 20 years of Jasinski ’13, Eliza Lamson ’13, Liz to reclaim property abandoned Then, in one of the most shocking scenes with the research and writing by Patrick Foley ’69, Wassmann ’13, and Hannah Miller ’13 when the family went into exile in in the novel, Pari is sold to wealthy, child- gruesome professor emeritus of history at Tarrant give firsthand tips on everything from America years before. less Suleiman and Nila Wahdati in a 2003 County College in Texas. visiting college campuses (“Try out the transaction facilitated by the children’s murder of food in the cafeteria”) to setting up a Idris thinks of Timur as “the clos- Federico Moreno step-uncle, Nabi, the Wahdatis’ cook and Christopher new dorm room (“Don’t bring everything est thing he has to a brother.” But Torroba: A Musical Life chauffeur and an increasingly important Walsh wondered about his relentless, you own”). Beyond the practical, they like so many of the siblings in in Three Acts (Oxford character as the story moves forward. tough-talking brother Dennis. also advise newly moved-in freshmen, this novel, the cousins’ relation- University Press, 2013) But, indeed, Dennis Walsh J.D. ’82, “Give your parents big hugs, regardless ship is torn by rivalry. The doctor The separation of brother and sister is is co-authored by Bill oldest son of a Cleveland cop-turned-Los of who is watching. They’ll appreciate it, is reflective, quiet, serious. His cataclysmic. Pari winds up in France with Krause ’75. Krause Angeles-mobster, is a long-practicing and chances are it will make you cousin is charming, brash, and Nila, an alcoholic, self-absorbed poet, earned a master’s degree criminal defense attorney. And much feel good, too.” self-promoting. Wearying of his after her adoptive father, Suleiman, has from the University of of the tension early in Nobody Walks cousin’s antics while they wait a stroke and is left behind in the care of Southern California and a When Kelly Estes ’12 (Thomas Dunne Books, 2013)—a gritty, out the long legal process of Uncle Nabi. Growing up, Pari has no real doctorate from Washington University, St. was a freshman, she hard-boiled account of his efforts to restoration, Idris begins visit- memory of her brother or her previous Louis. He currently serves on the faculty of became one of the keep the case from going cold and bring ing the local hospital, where he life, only a gnawing lifelong sense of “the Hollins University in Roanoke, Va. youngest-ever Christopher’s killers to justice—derives develops a relationship with a absence of something, or someone, fun- commissioners on the from just how close Walsh came to young girl who has been hor- damental to her own existence.” Abdullah Santa Clara County stepping outside the limits of the law. FICTION NOTES ribly disfigured in an ax attack, disappears almost entirely from the story Human Relations “Nobody walks” was the mantra—or The Peculiars (Amulet collateral damage in a land until we meet him many years later as Commission. Since then threat—that Dennis Walsh repeated Books, 2012), the latest dispute between her father owner of Abe’s Kabob House in the she has begun working endlessly to a dizzying parade of fearful, by Maureen Doyle and her uncle. By the time the South Bay, one of Idris’ favorite eateries. with veterans suffering low-life potential witnesses he hoped McQuerry ’78, takes cousins have completed their Abdullah is assisted by his daughter from post-traumatic stress disorder, with to convince to come forward and readers and heroine business and are preparing to Pari, named after his long-lost sister. efforts that yielded a county task force. testify against the self-styled criminal Lena Mattacascar on return to California, the girl is calling Idris The self-sacrificing younger Pari dreams And during her senior year, she published mastermind who murdered Christopher a journey to Scree, “Uncle,” and the good doctor has prom- of reuniting her father with his sister. a novel, The Cost of Courage (Valor when the two shared an apartment in home to criminals and ised to bring her to the United States for Media, 2012), that draws on her uncles’ Khaled Hosseini has always been Studio City, Calif. Walsh’s other brothers, outcasts. The steampunk “Khaled Hosseini reconstructive surgery. tragic experiences in World War II: One recognized as a gifted storyteller with some with criminal pasts like their 19th century is the backdrop for a mystery was shot down over Germany but survived But Hosseini’s moral imagination and his a seemingly innate ability to wrench father’s, wanted to dispense with legal that’s also a quest for truth, identity, and has always been as a POW; his brother was part of the ability to craft characters with psychologi- emotion from a scene. Here his charac- niceties and exact vengeance on their the meaning of family. Doolittle raid on Tokyo but didn’t live to tell recognized cal complexity don’t give in to the happy ters are by far fuller and his prose more own. Luckily, the police and prosecutors Hieros Gamos (Sacred his own story. Estes’ fictional account, as ending his doctor desires. Idris returns engaging, and he takes the storytelling were just about as dedicated as the Union): A Confession well as her work with veterans of as a gifted storyteller home and is at first repelled by the grasp- to new levels of complexity: through Walsh brothers themselves. (Bernician, 2013), by Afghanistan and Iraq, brought her back to ing materialism of his family, but then is fairy tale, varying points of view, letters, At the time of Christopher’s murder, Lia Cacciari ’77, is campus to speak and work with students in with a seemingly overwhelmed by the demands of his medi- emails, and, in the case of Nila Wahdati, Walsh was estranged from his youngest her fiction debut. Set Don Riccomini’s literature course on the cal practice and family life, and gradually, a vivid, dispiriting literary interview. brother—whom the reader surmises innate ability to in the 12th century, it’s theme “War, Individuals, State.” As guiltily he abandons his communica- Hosseini masterfully brings the threads was an addict and not a particularly a tale of sibling rivalry, Riccomini notes, “The emotional reality of tions with the wounded girl far away in of his narrative together. In the end we nice guy. Still, Walsh makes it clear that wrench emotion inheritance, and revenge. Kelly’s experience with veterans helped the Afghanistan and settles back into his com- understand how these characters and he believes—rightly—that justice is for students understand that the consequences from a scene.” fortable American life. But this is not the their stories connect. We understand and everyone, not just upright citizens. He also of doing the right thing make life morally end of the story. The chapter ends with an empathize with the very difficult choices makes it clear that for the Walsh family meaningful, but can also come at a great unexpected act of grace. many of the characters have made. blood is much thicker than water. AM And we puzzle over the disturbing truth personal and existential cost.” Idris’ story is one of several parallel sto- of the observation one of Hosseini’s Web ries about complicated, loving, competi- characters articulates: “When you have Exclusives tive, guilt-ridden, envious relationships lived as long as I have, you find that cru- Turn on, tune in, read more: At among siblings that cast sunlight and elty and benevolence are but shades of santaclaramagazine.com there’s a shadow over the central story of And the the same color.” Alden Mudge whole channel devoted to books and arts and the latest from Bronco writers.
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Below are obituaries of Santa Clara alumni. At instructor enjoyed the outdoors 60 years, he was born in Coors West & Regal Beverages. Ronald Reagan to the Consoli- Winnie Hook never attended Santa Clara, at least not santaclaramagazine.com/obituaries you’ll find obituaries and his eight children. He Oakland in 1924 and served in He co-founded Evergreen dated Municipal Court of Santa in the traditional sense. But she had been part of the published in their entirety. There, family members may worked at a family grocery store the Navy. He established Diesel Savings and Loan Association. Clara County, where he served University through the Catala Club since the 1930s also submit obituaries for publication online and in print. and founded Donatelli Sons Supply Co., later Hennent Corp. He treasured his family. for over 20 years. and, until her passing on June 18 at the remarkable Construction. Survivors include grandson-in- age of 107, she was the oldest living member of the 1950 Robert “Bob” DeLano law Brady Harter ’07. 1960 Thomas C. Rea- club. She “has done so much learning at the college 1943 Captain William P. 1948 Robert E. Jones, ’50, Jan. 9, 2013. A third-genera- sonover, Feb. 5, 2013. Born in that she says a little bit of Santa Clara’s soil belongs OBITUARIES Crawford, March 20, 2013. He March 12, 2013. Born in 1924, tion San Franciscan, he joined the T. C. Pat Hentschell, March 6, Bartlesville, Okla., in 1925, he to her,” wrote Sam Scott ’96 in this magazine a he was a third-generation Army Air Corps and later entered 2013. Hentschell was 83 years served in the Navy during WWII, was born in 1922 and served as Santa Claran in few years ago. She was also one of three remaining Californian and a medaled Army his family’s business, DeLano old and lived in Seattle. worked as a forecasting survivors of the 1906 earthquake, and San Francisco a merchant seaman, practiced spirit: Winnie Hook 1942 John F. “Lefty” admiralty law, and taught. He veteran. As a structural engineer, Bros. He was a generous man manager executive for Kaiser Chronicle columnist Carl Nolte noted: “She had a clear Julian Mikeö Trescony, March Collins, Jan. 28, 2013. A and wife Dorothy had 13 he collaborated with architect and a gentle soul, and he married Gypsum and Cement, and then memory of life early in the last century, when electricity replaced coal oil 15, 2013. Son of Julius Tresco- resident of Pleasant Hill, he was children. Norton Curtis to erect some Carmen Anne and lived in retired as a real estate broker for lamps, when automobiles replaced the old streetcars.” She and husband notable buildings on the Mission Millbrae with their three children. ny 1909, he was born in 1929 Coldwell Banker. born in San Francisco in 1920 John Wilbur Hook raised two daughters, Sharon and Esther. Esther wed Campus: Swig, Dunne, and and managed Rancho San and was an Army veteran and 1944 Marcel Emile Gres, Santa Clara engineering grad Joseph “Rick” Rechenmacher ’49. More McLaughlin halls; the Graham 1951 Richard “Dick” Lucas and the development of 1961 Charles “Chuck” J. father of four. He worked for Jan. 5, 2013. A longtime than 60 descendants—including a dozen great-great-grandchildren—trace Bank of America for more than complex; Sullivan Engineering; Andrew Schaub Jr., March 17, Lockwood vineyard. He was a Larson Sr., April 9, 2013. He resident of Austin, he was born their lineage to Winnie Hook. Her longtime friends at the Catala Club have 40 years. and Benson Center. His pride 2013. Born in Altadena, Calif., generous host and engaging was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1922 and raised in San taken inspiration from the liveliness and curiosity she brought to this world. and joy was his cattle ranch. in 1929, he served in the Navy conversationalist. in 1931. A Coast Guard veteran, Francisco. The Bronco footballer To wit: Following a lecture at Santa Clara in 1935 about the new Boulder Alvin Hugh Storch, April 15, co-founded Textran Corp. and Survivors include four children, and was CEO at Waste King he and wife Betty raised four Arthur “Art” Ciapponi, Dam (now known as the Hoover Dam), she convinced her husband to 2013. He was born in San Tracor Inc., developing defense including Patrick Jones ’74, Universal and Architectural 1953 children. He worked at Varian, Feb. 7, 2013. A resident of drive through the desert to see it. Recalling her first sight of the giant Francisco in 1920 and lived in and commercial product lines. and grandchildren including Woodworking Co. He and Lawrence Livermore Lab, Cupertino. Greta Newgren Fitzgerald ’02. Lou-Ann Sachs lived in South Fremont, he was born in 1928 in Plasma Kinetics, and EBT. turbines shooting water, she said, “It was awesome.” Pasadena for more than 50 Oakland, served two tours with 1947 Eugene “Gene” Aurelius “Reo” Boykin Miles J.D. ’52 passed away Daniel C. Willis, Feb. 5, 2013. Marvin Donatelli, March 12, 1949 Richard Lee Hen- years, raising five children. the Marine Corps, worked for James Frank Schmiederer He was 92 and lived in Arcadia, nessy, May 7, 2013. A San Pacific Pump Co., and was MBA ’63, May 14, 2013. He on May 27 at the age of 99. He was, as the obituary in 2013. Born in 1926 in Seattle, the Chicago Tribune noted, a hero. A decorated World Calif. the former Army gunnery Mateo resident for more than Gerald William Shipsey J.D., co-owner of Ruxton Pump. worked as a stockbroker then April 29, 2013. A third-genera- moved to Fresno to farm with War II veteran, he attended Stanford University and tion San Luis Obispo native, he Anton “Tony” Janda, Feb. 16, his brother-in-law, Bill Coit ’64, was the first African American to graduate from Santa was born in 1924, served in the 2013. He was approximately 82 MBA ’66. Survived by children Clara Law. During the war he rose to the rank of Army, and was married to years old. His final and cher- and their spouses, including captain in the 92nd Infantry Division and, fighting on Dorothy McDougall for 50 ished thoughts were of Los Krista ’90, and his brother, the Italian front, lost a leg in combat. His decorations Gatos and his companions include the Purple Heart, Silver Star, and Bronze Star. In Memoriam years; they raised three Bob MBA ’65. children. He and college friend through the years. Decorated veteran: He and wife Ethel Rivers were married 50 years and John L. Seitz J.D. ’51 formed 1962 William “Bill” Car- Aurelius Boykin Miles raised a family. He led a successful career in real the law firm Shipsey and Seitz. 1955 Robert “Bob” George, nazzo, Jan. 15, 2013. Born in estate, and he was warm, witty, generous, and George J. Alexander served as a His brother was James E. Jan. 29, 2013. Born in 1932 in 1941 in Pacific Grove, the Navy determined. The Prairie Tennis Club counted him as a celebrated member; professor of law at SCU for 34 years Shipsey ’50. San Jose, he served in the veteran practiced law in Salinas at Hyde Park High School, he was among the first African Americans to and dean of the School of Law from Army, then for more than 40 and later was assistant city play on the team. He was a founding sponsor of the Martin Luther King Memorial, a member of Disabled American Veterans, and a Boy Scout 1970 to 1985. As dean, he oversaw Paul D. Smith, May 4, 2013. years managed projects for attorney for Sacramento. development of resorts and golf troop leader. Whether it was coping with racism or his war injuries, his pivotal changes to the law school: Born in 1923 in San Francisco, He and Judy Reif ’62 had course communities. philosophy, his son said, was, “This, too, shall pass.” The White House tripling enrollment, increasing diversity he was a father of seven, a three children. invited him to the inauguration of President Barack Obama. of the student body, expanding key staff sergeant in WWII, a 1956 Myron Lee Jose, Jan. Willys Irvine Peck J.D., April academic programs. Social justice crash-rescue firefighter, a licensed professional engineer, 30, 2013. Born in 1927 in 16, 2013. A lifelong Saratogan, Shu-Park Chan, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at SCU and and a global vision were square in his and director of the Kentfield Fresno, he served in the Army at he was born in 1923. He wed founder of International Technological University, passed away Feb. 22. For sights. He enabled the launch of a Fire District. the end of WWII, married Billie J. Betty Ruth Wesson and they 30 years, Chan was a cherished member of the University faculty. He law summer abroad program in 1974, Williamson, and had two lived on a grand property with served as interim dean of the School of Engineering in 1989. which has grown to be one of the oldest 1952 John A. Anderson, daughters. He was a civil their two kids. An avid hand- and largest summer abroad programs Feb. 17, 2013. A rare doctor engineer for Monterey County press printer, he was also Diane Hijos di Bari was an outstanding educator and started teaching a among law schools in the nation. who made house calls through- and head of construction and passionate about theater and course on the Exceptional Child in the Liberal Studies Program in 2003. He added intellectual property to the out his career, he practiced on maintenance for San Diego trains. His career in journalism She worked as a school psychologist for Santa Clara Unified School school’s curriculum, sowing the seeds the Monterey Peninsula Unified Port District. spanned 55 years. District, providing special education evaluations. She was born in for the law school’s high tech program. 1960–2002 and served as chief Chowchilla, Calif., in 1951, and she passed away on May 7. He published 13 books, and in 1996 he of staff at Community Hospital. Paul J. Peters Jr., Dec. 3, 1963 Joseph David Cusick Dolores laGuardia, founder and director of the HUB Writing Center since was named to the first endowed chair in C harles B arry He raised six children with wife 2012. Born in 1934 in Dallas, he MBA, March 27, 2013. Born in the law school’s history. Sylvia. He was 82. served in the Army, earned an 1929, he lived in Los Gatos with its inception in 2008, passed away on July 20. A member of the English His commitment to creating better Leadership, friendship, and wisdom: George J. Alexander MBA, and was a CPA with Bell his wife of 61 years, Kathryn Department since 1994, she was active in writing curriculum development, access to legal services led him and John Edward Dustin, April 17, Helicopter. He was married for Vermilya Moore Cusick, and offered workshops for the SCU community and staff, and worked closely his wife, Katharine, to make a generous 2013. Born in 1929 in Fairbanks, 52 years and father of five. their eight children. He had a with the peer writing partners and undergraduates seeking assistance at donation to the then East San Jose Community Law Center, which was renamed the Katharine & Alaska, he grew up in Seattle, long career in aerospace, first at the HUB. She leaves behind her husband, David Palmer, a former senior George Alexander Community Law Center in recognition of their gesture. The center provides pro served in the Army, and worked 1958 Timothy J. Hanifin Lockheed and then as a civilian lecturer in management at the Leavey School of Business, and her two bono legal advice. In 2008, the Alexanders created the annual Katharine & George Alexander Law for GMAC Finance. He enjoyed J.D., Feb. 2, 2013. A resident of manager at the Air Force sons, Dorian and Justin, and their families. Contributions in her memory Prize to recognize lawyers who have used their legal careers to help alleviate injustice and inequity fishing, golf, music, acting Santa Cruz, he was born in Satellite Test Center. may be made to the Dolores laGuardia Writing Prize, care of the SCU in the United States and internationally. classes, and candy bars. 1931 in Stockton and served as Development Office, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053. He passed away on July 29 after a prolonged illness. A memorial service was held Sept. 20 an Army counterintelligence Gerald “Jerry” A. Ritthaler Michael Kelly ’14 brought joy to those who knew him and shared deeply at the Mission Church. His leadership, friendship, and wisdom will be missed. Robert “Bob” Franceschini agent during the Korean War. He MBA ’70, Feb. 22, 2013. Born Sr., Feb. 12, 2013. Born in 1930 was a trial lawyer and was in 1941 in Sacramento, the of his love and support for others. He passed away on May 8 at age 21. in Palo Alto, he was a beverage appointed by California Gov. sports enthusiast had a career in Born in Walnut Creek, he had lived in Modesto and was a junior at Santa distributor and president of Clara. His passing at such a young age is a reminder to us all to appreciate each and every person with whom we spend time, each and every day. May his open and enthusiastic spirit nourish our own care for one another.
48 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 49 ClassNotes For details, reservation instructions, and additional events: sales at General Foods, Gary Gene Ford, April 25, practice as an orthopedic Frederick Louis John Sunshine Biscuits, and Kroger. 2013. A former San Jose surgeon in San Jose for more Leverenz Jr. M.S., Jan. 30, www.scu.edu/alumni/eventcalendar He would say, “How cool is resident, he is survived by than 50 years. Survivors include 2013. Born in 1943 in El that?” It sounded like a question, Vivienne, his wife of 40 years, grandchildren Katie Hogan ’97 Campo, Texas, he worked Events Calendar Questions? Call 408-554-6800 but it was more of a statement and their three kids. He was and Chris Anderson ’01. in system safety and risk about his optimism and zest born in Perry, Iowa, and worked assessment. for life. in the Canadian oil and gas David R. Frank M.S., Nov. 7, 2008. A native of Bellville, Texas, industry. He was an accom- 1981 Anne Jeanette 10 Seattle Mass, Brunch, and University Update 1965 John Davis “Jack” plished tuba player and an he was a resident of Santa Cruz Anderson M.A., Jan. 21, 2013. October with President Michael E. Engh, S.J. Williams, Jan. 12, 2013. Born aspiring poet. and worked at Lockheed Martin. Born in 1933 in Worcester, 4 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch in 1928 in Falls Church, Va., he Mass., she worked as an RN, 10 Young Alumni Reception after 6 p.m. Mass grew up in Washington, D.C. Robert Lee Metcalf MBA, Nancy Diers Gullion, Jan. 17, married William Anderson, and 6 Orange County Solar Decathlon Mass, Brunch, 2013. Born in 1951 in Salinas, The father of two worked for Feb. 7, 2013. Born in 1926 in raised three children. Later she and Tour 14 Santa Cruz Annual Fall Luncheon the City of San Jose, Santa Denver, he served in the she lived there all of her life. She worked in private practice with Clara County, and the Santa Maritime Service and the Army, managed the law office of her Menlo Counseling Associates. 10–13 Alumni Association Grand Reunion Weekend 15 Young Alumni Broncos Go Social— husband of 40 years, Paul ’72, Clara County Water District then worked for 16 years Thanksgiving Cocktail Soiree before establishing his own developing laser technology J.D. ’75, was active at church, Page Humphrey Vernon J.D., 12 Los Angeles AFO Tutoring Project in Downey engineering business. and the prototype video and enjoyed reading, gardening, Feb. 20, 2013. Born in Warsaw, 16 Denver AFO Food Bank of the Rockies tape recorder, and machine and family. N.Y., in 1952, she cherished her 23 Peninsula AFO Second Harvest Food Bank 1966 Bruce John Boldrin manufacturing. The father of large family. A district court 16 Monterey Salinas AFO Dorothy’s Place M.S., March 26, 2013. Born in four taught business and was Loretta Edita Cabacungan judge, she had also worked for 24 Young Alumni Broncos Go Social—First-Time 1938 in Glendale, Calif., he a dean at two colleges. Silvagni, Jan. 15, 2013. Born in the Juvenile Criminal Law Clinic home Buyers Seminar worked for Lockheed, Raymond the Philippines in 1950, she and the Children’s Education December Corporation, Eaton-Kenway, and Paul F. Ward MBA, Feb. 22, married Steven Silvagni ’73 Law Center. 26 Santa Clara Valley AFO Reading with Washington Daifuku America as an engineer, 2013. Born in 1942 in San and held many roles: clinical school Students 5 Young Alumni Broncos Go Social—Dinner and a Movie project manager, and corporate Francisco, the San Jose resident social worker, mother, teacher, 1982 Daniel “Danny” P. accounts manager. He and and outdoorsman had a career business owner, and therapist. Lawless, Feb. 22, 2013. Born 26 Los Angeles AFO Tutoring Project in Downey 6 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch Virginia L. Boldrin had two sons. in high tech. At Verbatim, he She loved singing, was a in Phoenix in 1960, the father of patented the double-sided fourth-degree black belt in two and financial consultant was 30 Reno/Tahoe Annual Reception 7 Los Angeles AFO Tutoring Project in Downey William Richard jujitsu, and was sensei of her a great golfer who loved life, 1967 floppy disc. At age 68, he 7 Phoenix Night at the ZooLights Eadington, Feb. 11, 2013. Born climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. own dojo, Napa Valley Jujitsu. family, and friends. Survivors in 1946, he was a professor of Survivors include children Kerri include brother Tom Lawless November 7 Seattle Young Alumni Brewery/Distillery Tour economics at the University of Antes ’89 and Bryan MBA ’04; 1974 Alfred Kok-Ching ’77, J.D. ’82. 1 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch Nevada, Reno, for 43 years and and son-in-law Todd Antes ’88, Chan M.S., March 20, 2013. A 8 Alumni Association Advent Reflection resident of Sunnyvale, he was Roger A. Parshall internationally recognized as the MBA ’92. 1983 3 East Bay Mass and Brunch with Rob Scholla, S.J. foremost authority on the born in 1938 in Hong Kong and J.D., Feb. 8, 2013. He practiced legalization and regulation of 1969 James Mark Thirlwell came to the United States in law in Humboldt County, 11 New York Annual Christmas Reception 1957. commercial gambling. Survivors MBA, Jan. 15, 2013. Born in originally as a public defender. A Central Coast include his brothers Robert ’65 1940 in Louisville, Ky., he lived native of Detroit, he lived in 12 Sacramento Annual Christmas Reception and George ’72, J.D. ’75. many years in Florida. After Navy 1978 John “Papa” Eastus Arcata, Calif. 7 service he married Catherine M.S., March 7, 2013. A former 40th Annual 12 Santa Clara Valley AFO Holiday Party for Home Safe 1968 Claudia Borello Jean DuVal, worked at Patrick deputy city manager for San 1989 William Bede Fall Dinner Alexander M.A, Feb. 20, 2013. Air Force Base, and worked as a Jose, he was born in San Luis Morrissey, Jan. 30, 2013. Born 14 San Francisco AFO Toys for Tots Born in 1934 in San Jose, she financial analyst for the federal Obispo and raised in Marin in 1967 to Jere Morrissey J.D. Wreaths Across America was an associate professor government. The light of his life County. The Marine Corps veteran ’56, he attended SCU on a 14 Washington, D.C., AFO was a partner with HMH ROTC scholarship. A decorated Fall Happy Hour emeritus of English at South- was the birth of his two children. 7 Denver 14 Boston AFO Greater Boston Food Bank eastern Louisiana University. Engineering and a chief engineer veteran of Desert Storm and an consultant for the city of Brisbane. Tutoring Project in Downey 1971 Steven L. Tuma MBA, Airborne graduate, he was an 9 Los Angeles AFO 28 Spokane SCU vs. Gonzaga Men’s Basketball Donald Howard Austin, March Feb. 24, 2013. Born in 1937 in The father of five was 81. Army captain for eight years. He Game and Reception 31, 2013. Born in 1946, he led a Chicago, he married Margaret J. was a compassionate person career focused on heavy “Peggy” Jess and served in the Karen Elizabeth La Mothe, who loved nature and helping construction. He married Nancy Naval Reserve. He worked at April 23, 2013. Born in Portland others. Survivors include his (Streuter) ’68 and settled in San Lockheed and as an engineer in 1956, she worked in uncle Brian Morrissey ’62. Anselmo, where they raised two with the state of Illinois. investment banking. With Greg children, including Thomas ’78 she had a daughter. She 1990 William J. “Bill” Enos, Austin ’98. 1972 Mary Cobb, March 17, loved classic movies, gardening, Feb. 22, 2013. Born in Redding, New Orleans 2013. Born in 1950 in Santa reading, and making friends and Calif., in 1968, he lived in Kenneth “Ken” Carlin, Monica, she grew up in Van family laugh. Carmichael, Calif., with his wife Immersion Trip March 21, 2013. Born in Nuys, worked 16 years in the and their three daughters. A 1944 in San Francisco, he securities industry, and started 1979 Robert Theodore Bronco MVP in baseball, he was lived in the Puget Sound region her own consulting business as Faubert M.S., May 8, 2013. He a girls’ softball manager and Travel. Serve. Discover. and was a general contractor, a compliance expert. was born in 1946 in El Paso, coach, and served as league business owner, naturopathic Texas. He worked in the defense president for two years. Survivors Volunteer with SCU students and alumni to help families physician, volunteer, scholar, 1973 Arthur William industry for Lockheed and include brother Mark ’83. devastated by Hurricane Katrina return to their neighborhoods. spiritual practitioner, husband, Anderson J.D., Jan. 13, 2013. TASC Corporation. and father. Born in 1927 in Shanghai, 2007 David A. Godinez, Spend March 22–29, 2014, in New Orleans rebuilding homes, China, he served in Korea and M.A. ’10, Feb. 17, 2013. He connecting with fellow Broncos, and learning about the as an Army doctor in Okinawa. was born in 1966 and lived in continuing challenges these families face. Morgan Hill. He returned home to establish a Contact Mary Modeste Smoker ’81 in the Alumni Office for more information at 408-554-6800, or visit scu.edu/alumni/neworleans. S CU OMC 8345 9/2013 89.000 51 50 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | fall 2013 AfterWords
Thank-you notes How do you begin to thank someone who made your education possible? On commencement day, there are plenty of messages for moms and dads and folks who’ve brought new grads up through the world. But of course the whole shebang starts long before then, and it carries on. So, in this space where members of the campus community generally opine on a matter of great import, we thought this time around, with gratitude as our theme, why not let a few students offer some messages of
thanks to all of you who’ve given C harles B arry of time and treasure and care to sustain this place? Here are their words, written on a giant thank-you card this May, as part of a festive day they call Sprinksgiving, which recognizes that, without the culture of philanthropy (to coin a phrase) nurturing this place, we would sorely miss things like scholarships, libraries, athletics, schools of arts and science, business and law, engineering and theology, education and counseling psychology, etc., etc., etc. Not to mention sending students out into the world, to places near and far. SBS SCU
Web Exclusives Video: At santaclaramagazine.com see and hear more of what the students had to say. Charles Barry