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07/16/17 Vigil for justice: An independent judiciary is a hallmark of a democratic system. This summer in Poland, the parliament passed several bills that would have brought judges under control of the Ministry of Justice. Thousands protested—including a vigil before the supreme court, which has been sidelined. Will protests matter? Parliament and the presidency are controlled by the populist- nationalist Law and Justice party, which rose to power on economic frustration in rural areas and anti-immigrant sentiment. Without a supreme court as a brake, notes Professor of Political Science Jane Curry, “There is no rule of law and no constitutional limit on what the majority can do in par- liament.” Public radio and television have been turned into cheerleading, state-controlled media. ¶ Curry is an expert on Polish politics and was the first Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Warsaw. She teaches summers in its Center for East European Studies, drawing students from the former Soviet Union. This year she was presented with the University of Warsaw Medal of Honor for Service and Scholarship. And with student assistant Aurora Zahm ’18, she finished a new edition of her book Central and East European Politics—which notes how fragile democracy can be.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAN A. NICOLAS/PICTURE-ALLIANCE/DPA/AP IMAGE TABLE OF CONTENTS FALL 2017, VOLUME 58 NUMBER 4 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR STEVEN BOYD SAUM

STAFF Editor magazine.scu.edu Steven Boyd Saum Literary Editor DIGITAL EXCLUSIVES Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 Just Because Associate Editor Matt Morgan Timely features, videos, slideshows, Because we are here, at this university, we often think in terms of the intersec- Assistant Editor data shadows, a message of solidar- tion of past and future: imparting knowledge and wisdom and lessons learned, Monique Beeler ity, women leaders in high tech with an ear toward shaping the conversations that we’re having as a society or Contributors law, social entrepreneurship and should be having, with an eye toward the problems that afflict us—especially the Harry Campbell Cameron Davidson a passion for passion fruit, plus a most vulnerable among us—and the dangers looming on the horizon. John Deever Jim Gensheimer prophetic speech from the archives. Because perhaps if history doesn’t repeat itself, it does rhyme, to coin a phrase. Alicia K. Gonzales ’09 Here’s some of the latest. Because when we talk about making the world more just, at the same time Sean McCabe Cody Pickens we aspire to make this world more humane and sustainable, too. David Plunkert Because the students who go forth from this place take with them hope and Edward Rooks Brian Stauffer possibility to found enterprises, shape law and policy, invent machines, educate

Interns children, make art that speaks to both the damage done and what good might be, Devin Collins ’17 and to live a life of faith and heal this broken world. Gabrielle Deutsch ’18 Perla Luna ’19 Because in Little Rock, Arkansas, nine kids had the courage to go to Central Lindsey Mandell ’18 Giannina Ong ’18 High 60 years ago even though thousands more didn’t want them to because of the color of their skin, and why does a story about racial hatred feel startlingly Design Cuttriss & Hambleton timely? Courage matters, and as we went to press, Marty Sammon ’56, MBA Design Consultant ’63, who was also there—and showed courage when it was needed—passed away. Pentagram Austin Because telling people’s stories sometimes takes a close examination of the

ADVISORY BOARD slow-turning wheels of policy and societal shifts, and sometimes it means we President need to honor those lost in sudden conflagration. Michael Engh, S.J. Because a few weeks ago the Moon eclipsed the sun over America coast to Vice President for MATCH WINNER! In women’s coast, and that’s all about millennia of cycles and alignments, isn’t it? And the University Relations James Lyons soccer Tournament of Nations, Julie last time this happened for many of us was in 1979—and if you were alive at that

Associate Vice President Johnston Ertz ’10 scores the game- time, what were your hopes and dreams and fears for the world? And what are for Marketing and winning goal over Brazil in the 89th they now, imagining the next time this phenom darkens the skies over this broad Communications Matthew G. Dewey minute. She’s also a newlywed. swath of our common home, in the year 2045?

Assistant Vice President Because big wheels turn: and that year will mark the 100th anniversary of the for Alumni Relations end of the Second World War when, thanks to the of many and after the Kathy Kale ’86 deaths and suffering of tens of millions, the Nazi scourge was defeated—though DEPARTMENTS FEATURES Elizabeth Fernandez ’79 also atomic weapons were first used on human beings. Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 Dorian Llywelyn, S.J. Because there are some cycles we want to break. Michael S. Malone ’75, 4 LETTERS Because of the poetry of our lives, sing the beauty of each new day, honor the

MBA ’77 18 Time for a Big Shift Paul Soukup, S.J. We work and save for decades. And then what? A behavioral finance expert complexity of the world and speak with a clarity of purpose.

Where and what 6 MISSION MATTERS writes about the tough transition many face. By Meir Statman. Because “Just Because” is a rollicking rockabilly tune written many years ago Santa Clara Magazine Illustrations by Hanna Barczyk by the Shelton Brothers and recorded by many crooners, including Elvis, and (ISSN 0891-5822) ©2017 is published by 7 QUOTATION some years back by Jorma Kaukonen ’64—and coincidentally Jorma and his Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, band of the time Jefferson Airplane played Monterey Pop 50 years ago to kick off Santa Clara, CA 8 COPYRIGHT the Summer of Love, so you see how this all connects? 95053; 408-551-1840. 22 What We Owe It appears four times At the very least: stories that capture the contour of a life. A Pulitzer Prize– Because even if the connections are tenuous or imagined, there’s this: Humor per year: in February, June, September, 10 AT winning reporter on tales of human strife and resilience. By Tatiana Sanchez ’10 and whimsy matter, too, so let’s also do as a good friend of this magazine, writer December. Business THE SHADOW KNOWS Artist Annie Brian Doyle, often implored: Be tender and laugh. and editorial offices: University Marketing and 13 NUMBERS Laurie Erickson explores big data, your Communications, Loyola Hall, 500 El Camino Real, 28 The Most Important Lawsuit digital identity, and what it means to be Santa Clara, CA 95053. Periodical postage paid 14 EXCLAMATION both the watcher and the watched. at Santa Clara, CA, and at additional mailing on the Planet offices. Send address 17 AND It was first filed against the Obama administration and draws on decades of changes to: Santa Clara Magazine, 500 government records. It seeks no monetary damages. But advocates and critics El Camino Real, Santa 44 BRONCO NEWS alike agree that its outcome could be epic. By Deborah Lohse COVER BY BRIAN STAUFFER. PHOTO OF CHILDREN IN LAWSUIT Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053-1500; 408-551-1840. 45 QUOTATION Reproduction in whole or part without permission 36 Courage Central JULIANA V. BY ROBIN LOZNAK is prohibited. Letters, photos, and stories with 47 QUESTION Little Rock, Arkansas, September 1957: Nine African-American kids wanted a Santa Clara hook are to go to school. The 101st Airborne was sent to help. One paratrooper tells encouraged. Reach us: magazine.scu.edu/contact 48 AT the story. By Marty Sammon ’56, MBA ’63 [email protected] @santaclaramag 54 PLUS Opinions expressed in 42 The Lesson for Today the magazine do not necessarily represent 59 FOOTNOTE Education, data, and a Silicon Valley solution to helping teachers better VALEDICTORY FLASHBACK Fifty views of the editor or understand their students. A conversation with Dorian Llywelyn, S.J., years ago, Michael Foley ’67 gave a official University policy. Printed on FSC-certified 64 LAST PAGE and John Matthew Sobrato ’10. Illustration by Lincoln Agnew valedictory address looking out on a paper. ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID PLUNKERT. JULIE JOHNSTON PHOTO BY GETTY IMAGES. DATA SHADOWS PHOTO BY ANNIELAURIE ERICKSON. ERICKSON. ANNIELAURIE BY PHOTO SHADOWS DATA IMAGES. GETTY BY PHOTO JOHNSTON JULIE PLUNKERT. DAVID BY ILLUSTRATION ARCHIVES AND COLLECTIONS SPECIAL SCU COURTESY PHOTO FOLEY MICHAEL world divided. Where’s life taken him?

2 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE conducted above-ground nuclear test- and I pulled a prank on him that I for- We enjoy the magazine so much— ing in the ’50s. got about until he reminded me many thank you! Our daughter, Beth I grew up in the Caribbean and had years later. Townsend ’84, graduated from SCU. Letters been diving since the age of 15. At the About ten years ago, Kevin was giv- William H. and Nancy E. Gilbert time, I was the only upper-division ing a lecture at Stanislaus State. Having Wheatland, student in biology with a declared read his books and seen him on PBS, interest in marine biology. I was “in- I was anxious to reconnect with him. vited” (basically told) by Dr. Flaim After the lecture, I met Kevin and his BEST BIG MAG/MAG O’ THE YEAR that we were going to Enewetok for wife Sheila, and when he recognized We’re jazzed to share some summer- two weeks and that I would be his as- me he told Sheila about the prank: time news: Santa Clara Magazine sistant. I spent two weeks snorkeling that I was the mean guy who peed was awarded a gold medal for best and diving with post-docs who needed on him when he was trying to climb big-circulation university magazine dive buddies, gathering and preserv- a tree with the other boys. What a sad in the country (and Canada), in a ing specimens for the collection, and reunion for me, but soon we talked competition against mags with a cir- generally having a great time as the about our mutual experiences at the culation over 75,000. Judging was first undergraduate at the Mid-Pacific orphanage—which is now a Buddhist done by our peers, with the awards Marine Laboratory. university! Kevin invited me to visit made by the Council for Advancement Mike Sixtus ’73 him in , but regrettably and Support of Education (CASE) in Santee, California I never did. Washington, D.C., in June. Rest in Peace, Kevin—we overcame This is a first for us. Judges lauded with true grit and help from others. the mag for being “a smart, deep pub- A TRUE, GRITTY STARR James C. Hankal ’59 lication with beautiful design, quality Having just returned from a road trip Ceres, California photo selection, and rich printing on where my wife and I revisited the or- uncoated stock.” (Aw, shucks.) Silver phanage where I once lived in Ukiah, THIRTY MILLION THANKS Charles Lampkin MAG ORIGINS AND LEGACIES and bronze medal winners included I choked up reading the article about Recent news of a $30 million gift taught acting as As publications manager at SCU in magazines from UC Berkeley and well as music. Kevin Starr. My younger brother Mi- from the Leavey Foundation prompt- He would tell his the 1980s, I worked on the very first Harvard Business School. chael Hankal ’61 and I spent six years ed Broncos to celebrate. A couple: students in the Santa Clara Magazine. I can’t believe CASE also honored us with a gold at the “home” you mentioned, along arts: “You can’t go how it has grown! Peg Major, the medal for best individual photograph with Kevin and other wards of the ju- Thank you to the Leavey Founda- anywhere without first editor, would be thrilled! for “World Refugee Day” by Kristóf knowledge.” venile court. tion for this incredibly generous and Patricia Fowler Hölvényi (Summer 2016) and a sil- Our mother died young—at age 36. transformational gift for SCU. Bainbridge Island, Washington ver medal for best column or opinion Our father, who only had a sixth-grade Heidi LeBaron Leupp ’84 piece for “The Art of George Tooker” by The Good, the Bad, and the Kid: your Write us: education, couldn’t handle the stress Hillsborough, California Our granddaughter is starting SCU Dana Gioia (Summer 2016). comments on our Summer 2017 mag. scmagazine of raising us and took to the bottle. He this fall. Our son graduated in 1987— More good news: The Catholic Press @scu.edu Read more, discuss: magazine.scu.edu dropped us off when I was 8 years old Fantastic! Thank you, Leavey Foun- Chief Justice Scalia spoke at gradua- Association (CPA) named us Alumni and Mike was 6, and we had very little dation! tion. Things have really changed. Magazine of the Year and noted, “If contact thereafter. In 1951, a single Bryan Neider ’78 Douglas and Barbara Stephen this magazine is a good indication, MARSHALL RISK 48-year-old public accountant from “BIG CAT” KEN SEARS Menlo Park, California Newport Beach, California Santa Clara is a hopping place.” I just finished reading Brian Green’s Modesto named Helen Souders sent The story in the most recent issue We couldn’t agree more. Judges also article about his experiences on Ma- two jackets to the school for the boys of Santa Clara Magazine on Ken Here’s an interesting fact: One of the recognized us with awards for best juro. Here is another SCU experience who needed them most—us. As head Sears ’55 was great. I got to know WRANGLER AND THE JAZZMAN last speeches Scalia gave in his life was photograph in an alumni magazine SUMMER 2017 COVER ILLUSTRATION BY TIM O’BRIEN. MARSHALL ISLANDS PHOTO BY GETTY IMAGES. in the Marshall Islands, this time on of the Catholic Daughters, she decided Kenny casually when he came as a I thoroughly enjoyed the article high- also at SCU—in October 2015. Check for “World Refugee Day” by Kristóf Enewetok in the summer of 1972. to drive up and see the boys who re- freshman, because I used to serve lighting Bill Stevens and his guide out the story in our digital archives at Hölvényi; best profile in an alumni Biology professor Frank Flaim had ceived the jackets. This connection led him when I worked in the “chow dog Wrangler. It’s wonderful to know magazine.scu.edu —Ed. magazine for “An American Story” received a grant, courtesy of a prior Majuro Atoll, to her becoming our legal guardian. line.” He was very shy and polite, SCU is continuing the tradition of by Steven Boyd Saum; best illus- student, to visit Enewetok to estab- March 2016: In Modesto we got in trouble at first, but friendly. I didn’t get to follow jazz instruction. Many readers will tration in any publication for “Dr. lish a reference collection for the Seawater again but she never gave up on us. We later him after graduating in 1952 since remember the remarkable Charlie flooded the capital Jerome” by Anna+Elena=Balbusso; biology department. Enewetok is atoll of the moved to San Jose, where she took a most of us were in the Army and in Lampkin, an accomplished jazz mu- best editorial title and lead-in page one of the two atolls where the U.S. Marshall Islands. job and got us enrolled at Bellarmine Korea. I enjoyed the description of sician, actor, and wonderful lecturer in any publication for “Let There Be College Prep and then at SCU as well. his life after his playing days. He was at Santa Clara. He inspired me to re- Light” by Robert Zimmerman; and We worked numerous jobs to help pay a real credit to Santa Clara athletics. ally listen to music; his influence is First edition: Fall best layout of an article in a national the tuition at both schools. Norm Slaught ’52 with me to this day, each time I put 1981. Contributors general interest publication for “Dr. included Christiaan But back to Kevin and the home: Pasadena, California KEN SEARS PHOTO COURTESY SCU ATHLETICS Duke Ellington on the CD player. Mr. Jerome” by David DeCosse. The CPA Lievestro, Jerome The facility was run by Dominican Lampkin had arranged for our jazz Kroth, Theodore presented multiple honorable men- nuns, but discipline was delegated class to attend an Ellington concert Mackin, S.J., then- tions to the magazine: best feature ar- to lay prefects who enforced the DEAR GEORGE on the campus of , President William ticle in an alumni magazine for “Mis- regimented rules. Older boys became I had the honor of calling George but unfortunately Ellington passed Rewak, S.J., and sion Critical” by Harold Gutmann; “captains” of the dorms and dining area Chiala ’64 a dear friend. He was like away beforehand. What a treasure Mr. Michael S. Malone best multiple photo feature package ’75, MBA ’77 in order to curry favor with the pre- a second father to me. Your article is Lampkin was, and what a wonderful for “Where are they taking us?’’ with fects. There was considerable bullying beautiful, and he would have been so thing that his legacy continues with photos and words by Colleen Sinsky as a result. I eventually became a cap- honored to read it. Mr. Stevens. ’10; and best review in any publica- tain and gave as bad as I got. Kevin was Michele Lynn Averill Robert Murphy ’75 tion for “The Art of George Tooker” by

an easy mark as he was very bookish, Gilroy, California COLLECTIONS SPECIAL AND ARCHIVES SCU COURTESY PHOTO LAMPKIN CHARLES Rolling Hills Estates, California Dana Gioia. —Ed.

4 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 5 MISSION MATTERS COMMENCEMENT Fight for It. The United States will go the way of history’s “failed empires” if we don’t protect the rule of law, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ’60, J.D. ’63 told SCU Law grads in his commencement address on May 19. “Without the rule of law, there would be no democracy. Today, the institutions of our democracy are being

It was blue skies ahead (and above) for the ceremony at seriously tested.” Buck Shaw Field in Stevens Stadium on the morning of June 17. Before Herrera shared his commencement poem, Edited excerpts. There’s the story of the he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, rabbi and the priest who decided they would get to know each other a little presented to him by one of his early mentors, Professor better. One night, they went to a boxing Emeritus Francisco Jiménez ’66. From 2012–14 Her- match and just before the bell rang, one rera served as California’s poet laureate, and he served of the boxers made the sign of the cross. two terms as poet laureate of the United States. The rabbi nudged the priest and said, “What does that mean?” The priest said, Also recognized with an honorary Doctorate of Public “It doesn’t mean a damn thing if you Service were Mike and Mary Ellen Fox, who for half a cen- can’t fight.” tury have made Silicon Valley a better place through their We bless ourselves with the hope that remarkable philanthropy related to educational and chari- everything’s gonna be great in America— but frankly, it doesn’t mean a damn thing table causes: feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, unless we’re willing to fight for it. The caring for the sick, welcoming the stranger—and opening future of our democracy will be deter- doors for students here at Santa Clara and elsewhere. mined by whether or not we are a nation Astronomer Guy Consolmagno, S.J., was also hon- of laws, whether or not we respect the institutions and the traditions that sup- ored for consistently aiming high—literally. As head of port our democracy. the Vatican Observatory, he has sought to broaden and There are dangers out there—on cam- deepen understanding of what lies beyond this planet, puses that seek to restrict the ability of free and to encourage a unifying view of faith and science. speech to take place. We can’t be afraid to Valedictorian Erika Francks ’17 spoke to her class- hear the views of those we disagree with. We cannot stand by while a free press is mates about becoming a “person of value” rather than intimidated because it reports the facts, chasing success. An environmental studies major and and we have to recognize that religions management information systems minor, Francks stud- need to be free to express their beliefs— ied abroad and served as a Global Fellow, studying green and that we should protect the separation of church and state in that process. We energy and sustainability in Denmark, and as a Global have to respect the diversity of this coun- Social Benefit Fellow, working with a solar energy com- try, the fact that we are a nation that has pany in India. “I’ve watched you travel to build sustainable welcomed immigrants and refugees from houses in Nepal and build tiny houses at home,” she said. every corner of the world. We are a nation that builds bridges, not walls. “I’ve seen you spend countless hours at Washington Ele- And most of all, we have to respect mentary School, working to establish programs to ensure the truth—the honesty to state the truth students there can see the path to college … To me, this about both our successes and our failures. doesn’t sound like a generation that can’t commit.” As secretary, I saw the values in the men and women that serve this country in uniform, willing to fight and die for GRADUATE GRADUATES this country. Is it too much to ask our On the evening of June 16, Stevens Stadium was filled with elected leadership to find a little bit of students and families as well: The 870 graduates who earned that courage in order to govern and pro- advanced degrees in business, engineering, education, coun- tect our country? New Day Rising Your duty is to the law, but it is also to seling psychology, and pastoral ministries celebrated their the nation, the duty to fight and never give Artistic growth: When it came time for Juan Felipe Herrera to address commencement during a ceremony at Buck Shaw Field. up fighting until we have an American Kristen Ronhovde the Class of 2017 and their families and friends and well- The Jesuit School of Theology commencement celebra- renaissance, until the dream of my parents ’17 painted a wishers—numbering some 12,000 in all—naturally he tion took place at the Pacific School of Religion Chapel in ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY KRISTEN RONHOVDE ’17 for a better life for all of our children is ful- watercolor of the filled, and until we have a government of, Mission (lower left) offered his observations in verse. This was, after all, the Berkeley on May 20. Fifty-five students were presented by, and for all of the people. And frankly, it in her dorm room poet laureate of the United States: with advanced degrees. The school is one of only two Je- doesn’t mean a damn thing unless you’re her first year at suit centers for the study of theology in the United States. willing to fight for it. SCU. As a senior, she Today is that new day—it is your turn now all yours Delivering the commencement address was Robert W. duplicated the scene Panetta: “We faced in acrylic for her to walk far to lose yourself in the harvest of fields to McElroy, STL ’85, bishop of San Diego. He explored the a civil war, world mortarboard. give seeds of meaning to all to gain knowledge ascendance of the “pastoral theology” of Pope Francis, wars, a recession, a which “rejects a notion of law which can be blind to the depression, natural Sweeping and inclusive, his poem was part call and uniqueness of concrete human situations, human suffer- disasters, but we response—“a music of everyone’s voices,” as he put it. He ing, and human limitation.” have always risen to titled it “Today Is A New Day.” We’re honored to bring you the occasion.”

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6 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 7 MISSION MATTERS POEM MISSION MATTERS POEM

Today Is A New Day. A poem, an invitation, and a call—from the U.S. Poet Laureate Latino poet named U.S. poet laureate, Herrera is also a performance artist and an activist on behalf Juan Felipe Herrera to the Santa Clara Class of 2017. “Let’s give a warm, spiritual, of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. He first visited the Mission Campus when heartfelt applause for las familias, the families of our graduates,” he said. He read he was in middle school in 1961, and he counts as one of his early mentors and good friends Professor the poem with moments of call and response, because it is important that we raise Emeritus Francisco Jiménez ’66, who presented him with an honorary degree on behalf of SCU. The our voices in gratitude and praise and to speak up for those who can’t. The first languages in the last line are Spanish and English and Nahuatl. The meaning is the same.

what will you say, what will you say about climate change and the earth crushing Today what will you say about war upon toward an attractor galaxy among galaxies is a new day war what will you write about unity not just about yourself and all the animals tiny now in the earth spinning or for yourself how many bowls of water will you offer you are that you will ask to learn from everyone every element to those living in fear in fear of deportation you will be filled with meaning of all existences you will carry all treasures you will have all the codes new day! in fear of bullying and bullets in fear of detention in fear of the forced abandonment of their children of everything—and you will notice suffering what can I do you will say you will stop Today we leave an epoch behind what again you will listen again you will reach for will you offer yes a grand moment of leaps wonderings and movement you a bowl of water a loaf of bread and speak with the voice of a mother a son a daughter a father and step into a new time unforeseen now here to the ocean and skies what will you say as long gone, now grown and love yes love will come you grasp the smoke of bombs the smoke of billions the wings and fish and fins flashing in razor nets down below over your face and you will act and you yes Today you are that new time now visible you will stand and you will bring about peace now prepared now filled with eagerness and hope today you are dressed in meaning today you food change water unity meaning a place are surrounded with affirmation—from your parents to exist a garden for all you are that hope that wild born vista of new horizons family teachers friends and neighbors yes a fountain where light enters in freedom

today is that new day—it is your turn now all yours In freedom! We will bring freedom! Today, este día, change comes to you to your doors to this arena to walk far to lose yourself in the harvest of fields to We will bring libertad! It is bigger than you and yet you’re at its center give seeds of meaning to all to gain knowledge A music of voices everyone’s voices for all to intensify your kindness for all to carry you are the blood of this vast new body of change and your heart a satchel of compassion-action for all to ask and to will be the heart of beauty Yes, you are ask how can I strengthen my effort to save others And our heart will be the heart to stop exploitation to end misinformation to Of beauty What is it? You may say—what will it contain? Qué es? bring down the walls with your heart on fire and mind expanding with tenderness your words And our heart will be the heart De qué está hecho? What road must you choose where will it lead? Of community of love of acceptance of inclusion of all peoples You do not know we do not know it has arrived of all beings of all colors de todos colores of all classes of all genders And our heart will be the heart the crystalline rainbows of sexual orientation of all Of sky and earth And our heart will be the heart It comes in the shape of audiences rumbling —yes today marks your journey Of kindness as individuals as innovators sharing and with questions of resistance with dreams of freedom and your life working in solar circles for all will you invite the child will be the life of infinity you will sing hungry thirsty in search of a thing called Peace in search to rise up to the stage with you will you call her to offer something her words at the podium to sing her song to Today of Sisterhood a new moment in her life—in a sudden light is that new day— You are in search of Brotherhood—longing you will notice the elders you will notice the drivers that new day. and conductors and workers in laundries and hotels for humanity all you meet all teachers and those you call enemies Muchas gracias, thank you. Tlazohcamati huel miac.

8 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 9 MISSION MATTERS ATHLETICS MISSION MATTERS ATHLETICS Bronco River Royalty. Since 1839, the Henley Royal Regatta in England has been to rowing what GOOD DAY SUNSHINE the Kentucky Derby is to horse racing. The regatta takes over Henley-on-Thames in late June, attract- ing the best rowing crews in the world. This year, before crowds of thousands and in the shadow of COURT OF HONOR They say that the Queen of England’s royal barge, SCU won two tennis is a gentleman’s sport. Connor Garnett ’19, captain of SCU men’s head-to-head races and made the quarterfinals. tennis, helps make the case for that. An unspoken challenge of the game is the fact that there are not referees on every court. “Calling your lines” then becomes an honor system. Niall Angus, head coach of men’s tennis, acknowledges: “One of the toughest aspects of any sport is to attain the right balance between doing what is required to win without jeopardizing your integrity as an athlete.” To Garnett’s credit, not only did he post a 14–4 singles record during the season, he was also recognized by the Marni Murez ’20 Gold and bronze medals are what drawing athletes of Jewish and Israeli conference for his on-court leadership had never played Marni Murez ’20 is bringing with descent from around the globe, and internationally and overall character. Proof: He did not her to California skies. She joins supervised by the International get any of his calls overruled during before. A pair of medals seems a the women’s golf team as an incom- Olympic Committee. “Being there, I the year. Crediting his father for his good start. poise and integrity, Connor says, “As ing sophomore, after spending her felt so much pride to be an American, a junior, my dad would always come first year of school at Boston Col- a Jewish American,” Murez says. “It and watch. Whenever I made a bad lege. This summer she was invited as was an incredible feeling.” She gar- call when I was younger, he would get part of Team USA to the Maccabiah nered an individual bronze; as part of mad, so I had to make sure as I got Games, an international Jewish and Team USA, she gained a gold. Golf is older that I was really careful with my Israeli sporting event. Founded in typically a solitary sport. But Murez calls, because that was the main thing 1932 and held every four years, the had never played a course internation- he cared about when I was playing.” Maccabiah Games are now the third ally. She relied on teammates to help In June, Garnett travelled to Redondo largest sporting event in the world, her navigate Israel’s only golf course. Beach, California, to receive his 2016–17 WCC Men’s Sportsmanship Award.

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WORDS BY MATT MORGAN. ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY GETTY IMAGES nation, including the quarterfinals game- Better with age: With the waves of the River Thames code—and mobile phones are banned. were budget realities to face. That’s where winner. Later, former foes don the same Dance or sports? A 178 years old, the lapping against the hull of his eight-man The Broncos made the Intercollegiate alumni rowers came in. Their financial university colors. It’s the tale of Broncos Henley Royal shell, Peter Morton ’18 sat at the start- Rowing Association National Champion- support for crew made it feasible. ballet teacher once Regatta is still one ing line and felt the tug of nearly two ships in June and finished 23rd. But SCU In England, the Broncos stayed with told Kelcie Hedge Kelcie Hedge ’19 and Maria Sanchez ’19, of rowing’s finest centuries of rowing history in the current. arrived at the Henley unranked. After a host family who cooked meals and set ’19 to choose. She members of the U.S. and Mexico national events. In 2017, The second-round matchup on June 29 beating Worchester Polytechnic in the first the rowers up with bikes so they could stuck to the pitch. squads, respectively. They first met on a She and Maria 577 crews from 15 against the University of Virginia was one round, the Broncos edged out University explore the town and mingle with the Papua New Guinea pitch, but both grew up nations made the Sanchez ’19 (far of the most important races of his life. of Virginia in what was one of the year’s sport’s top talent. “From an athletic in Idaho. Sanchez blasted in Mexico’s only trip to England. How important? “There are more people toughest races. “They weren’t letting up standpoint I think it’s great for Santa right) joined the watching the Henley Regatta than the and they kept pushing back on us,” Morton Clara to get that exposure internation- Broncos this season. goal, a left-footed hook off a penalty kick. In stoppage time, Hedge broke a 1–1 Olympics,” Morton says. says. Alas, in the next round SCU lost to ally,” Farwell says. “But I think it’s also a tie for the win. “It is really nice having my rival for my country be my teammate,” The Henley doesn’t follow tradition. It powerhouse University of California. But great thing for the University to get their says Sanchez. Both are transfers—Hedge, 20, a communications major from is tradition. The race runs longer than a the Broncos were the only unranked team name across the pond.” University of Washington; Sanchez, 21, a sociology major from Idaho State. typical rowing course because it predates to make it to the quarterfinals. Santa Clara loses a few seniors from any formal rowing organization. Coaches The road to Henley began years ago this year’s team, but Farwell points to this They were drawn to SCU by Coach Jerry Smith’s record of nudging good players and judges eschew modern shells to ride when Marc Vallancey ’85, a former SCU year’s IRA nationals as cause for opti- to greatness—and pro careers. Smith is helping Hedge, a formidable midfielder, behind the action in old wooden boats rower and native of England, put the bug mism. Traditionally, SCU is content send- hone mental strength. Known for slipping the ball between opponents’ feet, with names like Ulysses and Herakles. in the ear of Coach Jay Farwell ’94, J.D. ing one boat to nationals. This year, the Sanchez is looking to refine her technical skills. With Smith’s coaching and To be allowed in the stewards enclosure, ’01. In fall 2016, Farwell began consider- Broncos sent three. “It speaks volumes to spectators must follow a strict dress ing the trip more seriously—but there where our program is today,” Farwell says. a tight-knit roster—including each other—their confidence runs high. Says

WORDS BY MONIQUE BEELER AND GIANNINA ONG ’18. GOLFER ILLUSTRATION BY EDWARD ROOKS. ROOKS. EDWARD BY ILLUSTRATION GOLFER ’18. ONG GIANNINA AND BEELER MONIQUE BY WORDS STOCK. ADOBE BY PHOTO TENNIS IMAGES. GETTY BY PHOTOS SOCCER Hedge: “Now we get to be teammates, and we want to win a championship.”

10 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 11 MISSION MATTERS BUSINESS MISSION MATTERS ENGINEERING Engineering With a Mission has been the motto of the School of Engineering for the past decade. It reflects the vigor and heart that Godfrey Mungal, who finished his tenure this summer, brought as dean. Example: We need more women in STEM fields. SCU boasts the third-highest per- centage in the country of female engineering fac- GLOBAL SMALL BIZ United Nations HQ in New York hosted Leavey School ulty. Great things are to come. First, a look back. of Business Dean Caryn Beck-Dudley in May. The occasion: a summit spot- lighting the key role of small businesses in global development, economic growth, and job creation. Her message: Universities and colleges provide vital, relevant education to the next genera- tion of entrepreneurs, future business owners, and employees—especially by using curricula influenced by both working practitioners and academics. “We can no longer have curriculum and The Online MBA courses only informed by the academic Change is constant in most every on their own schedule, in as few as two disciplines,” said Beck-Dudley, one of industry today: A promising innova- years. They’ll stay in regular contact eight academic leaders invited to speak by the Permanent Mission of Argentina tion moves an organization forward, with classmates and the professors and the International Council for Small or an entire industry gets upended by and Silicon Valley professionals who Business. “Speed, agility, practicality, in a startup. Preparing students for that teach the program. “Students can re- addition to academic content, are the inevitability was front and center when ally ‘disrupt’ their own careers for hallmarks of what we at Santa Clara are the Leavey School of Business created the better,” says Nydia MacGregor, trying to do.” the first fully online version of its na- faculty director for MBA programs. tionally recognized MBA program. Networking for online students is en- Starting January 2018, the online hanced by two three-day, on-campus curriculum will include a unique “Sili- residencies emphasizing leadership con Valley Professional Dashboard” and business in Silicon Valley, as well Blye Faust ’97 (below) teamed component to track student progress as other opportunities to network up with Nicole attaining skills, practices, and mind- with on-campus MBA students. For Rocklin to produce sets characteristic of the epicenter of now, the program is available to U.S. the acclaimed film innovation. Working professionals can students only. Find out more and sign Spotlight, released take the 70-unit program from home, up at onlinemba.scu.edu. in 2015. She also launched a business of a very different OWN IT The producer of the Oscar- sort in 2014: byblye winning film Spotlight, Blye Faust interiors. ’97, and Beverly Hills’ first female chief of police, Sandra Spagnoli, were the keynote speakers at a unique TO MARKET women’s summit on campus Startups and fast-growing companies begin last spring. The inaugural OWN dreaming about IPO riches once they’ve found IT conference was held in WORDS BY DEBORAH LOHSE. MBA ILLUSTRATION BY HARRY CAMPBELL. April and organized by SCU 110,000 an opportunity, launched a unique product, and students affiliated with the Pounds of force can be exerted to determine strength of concrete, 77 attracted early funding. But as many compa- campus Women in Business steel, and bamboo in the Structural and Strength of Material Lab. Kelvin (or the BLYE FAUST PHOTO BY ALAMY. OTHER IMAGES BY ISTOCK nies learn too late, if they can’t commercialize club. Featured topics for equivalent of –321 their product—prove its marketability to future degrees Fahrenheit) future millennial women is the temperature funders, conduct market research, and price leaders: building confidence of liquid nitrogen Growth in enrollment in the School of Engineering% 2006–16 at which cell and and promote the product for optimal return on to ask important questions, authentic leadership, tissue samples are investment—the company is likely to be among 50 stored in bioengi- 24Senior design projects withof a humanitarian 80 focus in 2016–17. They networking, and finding your the 80 percent of startups that fizzle. How to assisted nonprofits and social enterprises from San Jose to Nepal. neering’s Tissue take the sizzle to market? A new product marketing and product management unique voice in business. Engineering Lab. certificate program from the Leavey School of Business aims to boost product “We want to really help young women develop marketing skills for managers who realize they need to move their company and resilience,” says co-chair products to the next level. “Productizing Innovation” is the name of the pro- Isabella Giannini ’18. Next gram. Santa Clara professors and Silicon Valley marketing pros teach. Also on year’s conference is already 7 1st place the agenda: “soft” skills that are sorely needed in the Valley, such as the ability scheduled; mark your $Support for projects million+ and research from collaborators including NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric In California’s first Tiny House Competition. Plus ILLUSTRATION BY SEAN MCCABE. WORDS BY MONIQUE BEELER MONIQUE BY WORDS MCCABE. SEAN BY ILLUSTRATION to lead a team, understand potential customers, and “sell up” to management. calendar for Jan. 28, 2018. Administration, other agencies, and corporate sponsors three houses in the International Solar Decathlon.

12 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 13 MISSION MATTERS LAW MISSION MATTERS CAMPUS Score One for the Troll Patrol. A recent Supreme Court decision could close a Texas-sized legal loop- Keep on Truckin’ hole. SCU Law scholars Brian Love and Colleen Chien offered legal arguments that helped shape the case. The scenario: A Silicon Valley startup is accused of infringing the patents of a New York company. They sue. Where’s the case heard— THE ART OF WALKING Just shy of California or New York? Try Texas. Until now. a year since the Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building opened in 2016, students and visitors returning to campus Silkscreen shipping: It’s a medium that this fall will see another transformation Warhol returned On May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court right out front: Franklin Street, once the to over the decades, issued a unanimous decision and reversed realm of cars and trucks and motorized From Marilyn to a 1990 Federal Circuit ruling allowing things that go, has become an elegant Campbell’s Soup patent holders to essentially pick which- pedestrian mall between Alviso Street cans to airline ever court jurisdiction they believed and The Alameda. Just a few years ago tickets and big rigs. to be most advantageous to their side the roads in front of the Mission Church of the case. The world of innovation is populated by patent assertion entities and Donohoe Alumni House became a (PAEs)—companies that obtain rights to stately brick walkway, as did Palm Drive patents to profit by means of licensing through the heart of campus. Now the or litigation, not making things. They’ve Franklin Street walkway expands that on earned the sobriquet “patent trolls.” the north side, making a more foot- and Their favorite place to litigate: the East- bike- and skateboard-friendly connection. ern District of Texas in the city of Tyler. One key goal: “It creates a stronger arts Now, any company alleging patent district, with Art and Art History diagonally infringement needs to file where the across from the performing arts complex,” alleged infringer is headquartered or incorporated. That’s the outcome in TC notes Don Akerland, director of Planning Heartland v. Kraft Foods. SCU schol- and Projects. Recommended for visitors: You know it when you see it: Andy is also home to 157 Warhol Polaroids ars Brian Love and Colleen Chien were a stroll to the new sculpture garden and Warhol at work, turning an every- and photographs (including Princess among the four leaders of an amicus through the first-floor gallery. day vehicle of commerce into art. Grace and Wayne Gretzky) donated brief signed by 61 law and economics professors arguing for the decision the With swaths of vibrant colors, Truck by the foundation to make them Supreme Court reached. The group de- (1985) is one of our favorite acquisi- available for teaching and education. nounced the “rampant forum shopping” tions in recent years at the de Saisset When the silver-haired godfather of that was happening, and urged the court Museum. It was a gift from the Andy Pop Art died in 1987, he instructed to remedy the “dubious interpretation” that allowed it. Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts, that his entire estate be used to cre- Chien has spent years quantifying the along with screen prints of Grace ate a foundation dedicated to the impact of PAEs on small businesses. She Kelly, Sitting Bull, Hans Christian advancement of the visual arts. We’re also co-authored a study that was cited Andersen, and others. The de Saisset happy to help carry that load. by both sides in the Heartland case. That study quantifies how drastically case distributions would change should the Oliver Wendell Supreme Court change the law. Closing Holmes Jr.’s court the Texas loophole should give relief to FRANKLIN STREET STROLL opinion—“Three 68 percent of small- and medium-sized Not only does the Franklin Street generations of businesses on the receiving end of patent pedestrian mall foster community and imbeciles are lawsuits filed there. collaboration for the SCU campus, it enough”—became HARSH JUDGMENT Love, an intellectual-property expert creates a welcoming space to co-host lyrics in the and co-director of the High Tech Law composition Jarring words, beautiful music. Composer Scot Hanna-Weir, who directs Institute, co-authored a study analyz- activities with the City of Santa Clara. Buck v. Bell. choral activities at SCU, has transformed a shameful Supreme Court deci- ing the reasons PAEs and others flock to It accompanies the city’s Downtown this district. His work was cited by U.S. ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID PLUNKERT. WORDS BY DEBORAH LOHSE Revitalization Project—that, in part, aims sion into thought-provoking art: Buck v. Bell, the 1927 decision that legalized Senator Orrin Hatch, a senior member to create a partnership with the University forced sterilization of the “feeble-minded” living in institutions. Hanna-Weir of the Judiciary Committee, in an op-ed and a robust area adjacent to campus. A composed and scored the piece, which was presented both in concert with the in Wired urging the Supreme Court to bonus: Archaeological work before con- SCU Chamber Singers and with a talkback session with faculty from the law decide as it did. struction uncovered tracks along which This may not be the end of the matter. school and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics last spring. The rationale “The old law was clearly plaintiff-friendly trolleys once ferried riders past College championed by court justices, including Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (backed by and encouraged trolls,” Chien notes. “But Hall, home to the campus theatre known all but one member): Plaintiff Carrie Buck and those like her were more apt now, the rules are going to be seen by as “The Ship” (above). For now, to commit crimes and threaten community safety. “Three generations powerful constituents such as pharma- the pedestrian mall is limited to ceutical companies and universities as one block of Franklin Street. of imbeciles are enough,” Holmes declared. The case was consid- overly friendly to defendants.” But plans would make the ered a victory for eugenics—a once-popular belief that breeding for If these constituents lobby their road pedestrian-only all favored human qualities could improve a population. The rise of lawmakers to make it easier to fight such the way to Lafayette Nazism showed where that thinking could lead. Hanna-Weir cases in their own home districts, more Street. Call it the also wanted to restore humanity to Carrie Buck by repeating changes will be afoot. Franklin Street her name fugue-style throughout the composition. “People Promenade. ANDY WARHOL, TRUCK, 1985. SCREENPRINT ON LENOX MUSEUM BOARD 39.375 X 39.375 IN. DE SAISSET MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTION, SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY. GIFT OF THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOUNDATION WARHOL ANDY THE OF GIFT UNIVERSITY. CLARA SANTA COLLECTION, PERMANENT MUSEUM SAISSET DE IN. 39.375 X 39.375 BOARD MUSEUM LENOX ON SCREENPRINT 1985. TRUCK, WARHOL, ANDY CONGRESS OF LIBRARY COURTESY JR. HOLMES WENDELL OLIVER OF PHOTO ARCHIVES. SCU COURTESY SHIP THE OF PHOTO BARRY. CHARLES BY PHOTOGRAPHED 2013.5.3. ARTS. VISUAL THE FOR don’t know about this, and they should,” he says.

14 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 15 MISSION MATTERS STUDENTS MISSION MATTERS STUDENTS Home & Away. In the desert outside of Arivaca, Arizona, just a few miles from the Mexican bor-

Harvest of Hope: a der, several plastic jugs hung from the branch of business venture in Cape Town, South a tree against the backdrop of a low winter sun. Africa, run by the NGO Abalimi Humanitarian aid workers had put them there, Bezekhaya, which trains and finances filled with water, for migrants making their way farmers through the harsh, inhospitable terrain. But com- STRENGTH IN NUMBERS ing closer we could see that something was wrong. Being part of a rugby team first brought Nicholas Chan ’20 to Cape Town, South Africa. Kicking the ball around with the local children, he also saw teenagers his same age wandering the fringes of the field. Later he was told that those lookers-on were local gang members— and that the kids he played with would likely join them for a sense of family, GET SMART belonging, and protection. But all that would come at a terrible cost. In terms of usability, the internet of simulation software to allow devel- While studying economics at Santa things (IoT) is where the internet was opers to create scenarios and test Clara, Chan proposed a social justice 20 years ago, says Behnam Dezfouli. algorithms in a fraction of the time. project that would take him back to The assistant professor of computer Instead of a year, a test might run a South Africa to foster a more posi- engineering notes that possibilities are couple weeks. “What if multiple de- tive sense of community. He went to evident—medical devices capable of vices want to communicate at the work with Harvest of Hope, an NGO- transmitting information to doctors; same time?” Hurley says. Or if a per- sponsored business venture that seeks industrial facilities controllable with son has a wearable medical device in to build collaboration among smallhold the touch of a screen; dynamic smart a subway that blocks internet cover- farmers. A Jean Donovan Fellowship cities—but there’s no standard pro- age, the simulator can test the density through the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education took him there. Harvest of cess, yet. Devices don’t always speak needed for multi-hop routing to relay Hope collates the produce of 48 micro- the same language or use the best data using nearby cell phones to reach farms, providing those farmers market process, resulting in inefficient battery an internet connection. Once the soft- access and getting their harvests from life, security risks, and—when multi- ware is complete, Dezfouli plans to farm to table in a matter of days. Chan plied by millions—slow and unreliable share it with other institutions. For worked elbow to elbow with field work- communication. Dezfouli wants to the student, Hurley, there’s the thrill of ers to curate boxes of produce for local fast-forward two decades. This sum- finding new solutions. “It’s a new ex- mer he enlisted John-Paul Hurley ’18 perience having the professor not even to help his team of student research- know the answer,” Hurley says. “That’s ers. Part of a Kuehler Undergraduate what keeps me into the research. It’s Research grant, Hurley is developing the most rewarding part.” WORDS BY MATT MORGAN AND GIANNINA ONG ’18. HARVEST OF HOPE PHOTOS BY NICHOLAS Here Come the Decabots All of them had been slashed—by lo- on instruments handmade from debris Mexico may seem clear from New York or Wall, east of In fields, fertilizer helps crops grow. When it arrives as runoff in the ocean Decabots in the lab: CHAN ’20. ILLUSTRATION BY ISTOCK. DECABOT PHOTO BY CHARLES BARRY cal militia groups eager to protect the gathered in the area. Sound, sculpture, Santa Clara, but I remember that when Nogales, Arizona, off California’s central coast, the results are damaging: Nitrogen-rich fertilizer customers and restaurants. The various “homeland” by making survival as hard and photographs summoned the same we were in Nogales, it didn’t. 2015, by Richard Training to hunt vegetables were more appealing (and depletes oxygen in the water, causing fish kills and excessive growth of algae. pollutants, they as possible for people crossing into the uneasiness and anger about the cruelty Art that exposes truth about society’s Misrach. A steel marketable) together. Putting together scan large printouts United States. That was over winter I’d witnessed in the Arizona desert. ills enables us to enter into kinship with barrier divides a That’s where the decabots come in, Erin Guthrie ’18 explains. Through a people helped, too—with finances. One break in 2015, while I was leading a Misrach, famous for his large-format those on the margins. Direct experience once-unified land. Kuehler Undergraduate Research grant, Guthrie is working with a team of for grayscale levels to test adaptive field worker took part in a “hoihoi,” what group of classmates on a trip run by color photographs of deserts and natural with art can touch our hearts, challeng- graduate students led by Scot Tomer M.A. ’21 to develop adaptive navigation navigation economists would call a rotating savings SCU’s Ignatian Center for Jesuit Educa- disasters, presents us with a photographic ing our minds to change. Even against technology for a group of ten small test robots nicknamed decabots (deca = ten). software. and credit association. “Ten people from tion to learn about immigration policy series that looks at migration from dif- the backdrop of injustice there is hope: a township meet every month,” Chan and its effects. ferent perspectives. In one series, The From California to Texas, every day Here’s how the technology works: Equipped with pollutant-detecting sensors, This past summer I had the opportu- Wall, Misrach captures wide-sweeping good-hearted people make an effort to says. “Each member contributes 100 a group of robots are released into an area; they collectively detect differences nity to work as an arts intern at Com- vistas of the American Southwest eerily protect human life and provide drink to in pollution levels and adjust their search pattern. “The end goal for this rand to a common pot. On a rotating monweal magazine. At the Pace Gallery bisected by manmade infrastructure. In the thirsty. could be finding pollution sources,” Guthrie says. The project started basis, each member receives the in New York, I saw Richard Misrach Wall, east of Nogales, Arizona, above, the —Cieran Freeman ’18 lump sum—1,000 rand—for any years ago and builds year-to-year—standing on the shoulders of tiny and Guillermo Galindo’s joint exhibit, border wall conforms to the rolling hills purpose.” One employee was able Border Cantos. The image of the slashed under the pink and blue sunset. Faced Adapted from a piece Freeman wrote giants, as it were. The grant allowed Guthrie to join this summer to buy a car and build a house—by jugs came back to me. The exhibit brings with this aesthetic beauty, the viewer still for Commonweal while serving as an and help build a test bed for the land-based decabots in Guadalupe banding together with neighbors. together Misrach’s exhaustive collection feels discomfort. The steel barrier doesn’t intern there, thanks to a Jean Donovan Hall. Guthrie is also developing her own swarm techniques for of photographs from the U.S.-Mexico separate two distinct things; it arbitrarily Fellowship through the Ignatian Center the robots. And the technology is adaptable to flying drones, land border, as well as recordings of Galindo’s divides a once-unified land. The distinc- for Jesuit Education. They welcome avant-garde musical compositions, played tion between the United States and your support. PIGMENT PRINT. 80 X 106 INCHES. PACE AND PACE/MACGILL GALLERY, NEW YORK NEW GALLERY, PACE/MACGILL AND PACE INCHES. 106 X 80 PRINT. PIGMENT robots, and small boats—all capable of various applications.

16 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 17 Time for a Big Shift

We work and save for decades. And then what? A behavioral finance expert writes about aging, providing for future generations, and the tough transition that many face.

BY MEIR STATMAN ILLUSTRATIONS BY HANNA BARCZYK

An elderly couple moving to an assisted living apart- Pensions promote financial well-being. Those lucky to ment call their son in another state for help in moving their have them typically do not need to save much for retire- belongings. A widow in her 90s finds it difficult to clean ment and do not fear running out of money. But fewer have her home, yet refuses to hire help. These people are not pensions these days, and more have retirement savings in wealthy, but neither are they poor. Each has more than IRA and 401(k) accounts. We bear the task of saving enough enough to pay a moving company or cleaning crew, without during our working years—and spending the right amount risk of running out of money before running out of life. Yet in retirement. These tasks are difficult because spending they resist, insisting that they cannot afford these services. needs and temptations abound during working years, and Why do people behave this way? fear of running out of money haunts us in retirement. I was intrigued by that question, especially given Social Security provides some, if insufficient, income to that at the Leavey School of Business I research and most retired people; mortgage-free houses provide shelter teach behavioral finance—a field that combines finance to those who have them; Medicare and Medicaid pay much and human behavior. I wanted to know what we could of medical expenses. But many justifiably worry about the learn about how people change—or fail to change—at- cost of long-term care—and are adamant about maintain- titudes about saving and spending as they go from work ing their dignity. My father would say, “When parents give to retirement. So I set out to answer them in my latest to children, all smile. When children give to parents, all cry.” book, Finance for Normal People, and in recent pre- One retired parent wrote me about “maintaining a certain sentations to financial advisors and in an article for the amount of that capital to cover the possibility of long-term Wall Street Journal. Responses have been fascinating. “I’ve care expenses. One of the ‘gifts’ I intend to leave my chil- been a dedicated saver and investor for 40 years, always dren is never to be in a position where my wife or I do not practicing self-denial to the point that it’s extremely difficult have the resources to adequately take care of ourselves. If to spend money,” wrote one reader. “I get uptight about small we never need it, great, the kids/grandkids can have it and purchases that are insignificant. The difficulty is changing use it however they want and I won’t be around to cringe.” a mindset that has gripped my thinking for four decades.” To bring readers of this magazine into the conversation, OUR MENTAL TOOLBOX here are some basic points I put forward in the book to an- We tackle saving and spending with the mental tools of swer that first question: Why do people behave this way? framing, mental accounting, and self-control. We frame And here are stories from people who agree—or push back. our money into distinct mental accounts, mainly “capi- tal” and “income,” and set self-control rules of saving and HARD TO GRASP spending. Income includes salaries, pensions, interest, and Let’s start with the feeling of financial well-being, a feeling dividends. Capital includes houses, bonds, stocks, and other that we have as much money as we need. Some with high investments. Self-control tools include automatic trans- financial well-being are wealthy; many more are middle- fers from income such as salary, to capital such as IRA and class people who earn adequate incomes throughout their 401(k) accounts, and automatic reinvestment of interest working years, save enough, and spend judicially in retire- and dividends into mutual fund accounts, and the rule of ment. Low financial well-being afflicts the poor, but it also “spend income but don’t dip into capital.” afflicts spendthrifts who spend more than they earn, and People who are fortunate to earn good incomes during frugal people who slip into stinginess by excessive fear— their working years—and employ these mental tools suc- depriving themselves, their families, and the needy. One cessfully—accumulate substantial savings. But these useful wrote: “Since I retired every withdrawal from savings has mental tools can turn into obstacles in retirement when been painful. So many articles are about the fear of not hav- income diminishes and it is time to dip into capital. One ing enough … This article gave me hope and the thought to extremely wealthy man, a retired insurance company exec- pursue joy with my money, not stew in fear.” utive, wrote: “I’ve struggled with boundary issues between

FALL 2017 19 income and capital. I’ve actually taken on a couple of board below one’s means. To a certain degree, I am that person.” of director assignments so that I feel justified spending for Moreover, excessive self-control can induce a mindset what I consider extravagant.” where spending is what irresponsible people do, reflected in this statement: “I’m saving now because good, admira- SELF-CONTROL HELPS ble, upstanding people sacrifice their current standard of Self-control is not easy to muster. Some fail to muster it at living to save, save, save for the future.” all. Wants for spending it all today overwhelm wants for saving for tomorrow when self-control is weak. National DYING SOONER THAN WE HOPE Football League (NFL) players enjoy very large income Concern about running out of money is regularly exag- spikes that amount to substantial wealth, but wants for gerated in inflated estimates of life expectancy. Social spending today often overwhelm wants for saving for to- Security tables indicate that, on average, only one in 10 of morrow. Bankruptcy filings of many NFL players begin today’s 65-year-old men will live to age 95. Yet one wrote: soon after the end of their careers. “With discoveries in biotech rolling out of labs in droves, we Poverty in particular can undermine self-control, breed- may have reached a technological tipping point as regards ing scarcity and narrowing options. These overload people’s life expectancy. I think today’s 60-somethings will live to cognitive and emotional resources and hamper saving, job be 100 easy, maybe 110—and their children will probably performance, and decision-making. Poverty is regularly make it to 150.” Reality, however, is still some distance away exploited. For credit card companies, the most profitable from the labs. The oldest-in-the-world Italian woman died American consumers are those on the verge of bankruptcy. in April 2017 at age 117, followed by the oldest-in-the-world Some are savers by nature and nurture. The Big Five per- Israeli man who died in August 2017 at age 113. sonality traits psychologists discuss are conscientiousness, Moreover, older people spend less, in large part because neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, and openness. physical limitations make them less able to spend and be- Conscientiousness is the trait most closely associated with cause they are less inclined to spend for personal reasons. self-control. The retired insurance executive wrote: “The Spending at age 84, adjusted for inflation, is 23 percent less points on conscientious saving hit the nail on the head. I than it was at age 62 among college-educated American grew up as one of nine children of Depression-era parents. couples. Spending on movies, theatre, opera, and concerts They always stressed education, achievement, savings, and declines by more than 50 percent between the ages of 60 marital happiness over satisfying urges for material things.” and 80. Spending on hearing aids, nursing homes, and fu- neral expenses increases by more than 50 percent. EXCESSIVE SELF-CONTROL One wrote: “Lots of people lose a spouse and do not Self-control can be excessive. Indeed, excessive self-control travel or vacation much because they are by themselves. is as prevalent as insufficient self-control. Excessive self- They have enough money but just do not go anywhere or control is evident in the tendency to spend less today than do much. They have lost their best friend and have not is ideal, driving tightwads to extremes beyond frugality. found a second life after losing their spouse. So they sort Another wrote about balancing spending on himself, even money to buy his girlfriend an engagement ring, and The prospect of spending money inflicts emotional pain on of mope around and just do not do much. It is really sad. I family, and the needy: “I am deriving pleasure from as- his mother’s demand soured their relationship. The mother tightwads even when it might be in their interest to spend. know a few people in this situation and have tried to help suming the strategy of ‘I am through saving. Now I am had more than enough to forgive the loan without imposing The interplay between emotion and cognition is evident in but there does not seem to be much you can do. We lose not spending.’ Judiciously, to be sure, but nevertheless with any hardship on herself, giving with a warm hand rather functional magnetic resonance imaging of people who see only spouses, but friends … Suddenly we’re left to do things a view to obtaining satisfaction. Thus, my wife and I have than with a cold one. I hope this is what she did that day. a product followed by its price and then are asked to decide alone, or not do them. Balance, while we have the resources made some long-desired renovations to our home, sched- One last story and lesson: “My husband was reared by whether to buy it or not. Seeing the price caused greater ac- to seek balance, is important to a fulfilling retirement.” ule at least two major overseas vacations a year, supplement extremely thrifty parents who survived the Great Depression tivation in the brain’s insula among people who decided not our children’s financial needs at a time when they need and WWII, and through hard work and frugality bordering to buy the product than among people who decided to buy. SPEND HERE NOW it and when I can see the result. I devote more time and on stinginess (all Christmas gifts came from the Salvation (The insula is the region associated with painful sensations We need not feel guilty about spending our hard-earned financial support to charitable work. I continue to spend Army) they accumulated a very comfortable nest egg. They such as social exclusion and disgusting odors.) savings on ourselves. As one wrote: “During my career I was time exercising at a local athletic club, now free thanks to passed on to him their fiscal philosophies and my husband One person wrote: “What if the enjoyment is in the saving, a very conscientious saver and investor. I always maxed out Silver Sneakers. I read more, and indulge in my love of clas- absorbed them like a sponge. My husband handled our the pain in the spending?” Another wrote: “Every so often my 401(k) contribution and put a large percentage of my sical music. All of this gives me significant satisfaction.” finances. Once he died and I took over the finances, I was there are articles of people who have accumulated vast salary and bonus into a deferred compensation program. I amazed at how much money we had. I shall have to work wealth relative to their lifetime income, and when they pass have had a difficult time changing my mindset from a saver BETTER WARM THAN COLD very hard to spend all of it, but I plan to give it my best at an old age and people find out they feel sad for them— to a spender. This article helped me make that mental tran- One reader faulted me for failing to “address preserving effort. In the two and a half years since my husband died, I that they lived frugally and never spent it on anything. I sition. The first thing I did was to go out and get fitted for a capital for the next generation which is a priority for some have been to Africa and made three trips to Europe. I have sometimes think they are missing the point. The enjoy- new set of golf clubs and didn’t feel guilty about it!” of us octogenarians.” But why not give money to the next already booked trips to see lowland gorillas in Rwanda and ment for that person was in the saving and living frugally Some people derive no pleasure from spending on them- generation with a warm hand rather than with a cold one? Uganda, snow monkeys in Japan, penguins in Antarctica, selves. One wrote: “If one has never derived pleasure from Some months ago I was speaking to a large group of and ride a horse across the Mongolian steppes. These trips material things, why would that change in retirement? A financial advisors about the difficulties facing well-off were booked after my doctor told me that based on her cup of coffee and a walk on the beach at dawn and I’m hap- people when transitioning from work to retirement and patients, 80 is the age at which people lose their energy py. The psychic income from being over-saved has value.” from saving to spending. Several advisors walked over to and enthusiasm for traveling. I am attempting to get in as I empathize with this man. I, too, like a cup of coffee and me as I stepped off the stage to ask questions and share many trips as I can before hitting that mile marker. I have a walk on the beach, even if not at dawn. But why not share experiences. One stood aside, waiting until all the others also made many donations to local charities and plan to The mother had more than enough “over-saved” money with family and the needy? One who had left. “I burst out crying when you said ‘It is better to set up a trust fund for a friend’s grandchild who has Down has learned the lesson wrote: “I learned from my mom give with a warm hand than with a cold one.’” Indeed, she syndrome and would otherwise become a ward of the to forgive the loan to her son that the greatest joy in life is giving to your family. She was crying when she spoke to me. It turned out that she state when his hand-to-mouth existence parents die. My without imposing any hardship on would give something to all her six children, their spouses, lent her son some $27,000 for college tuition and now de- husband never reaped any benefits from his saving habits the grandchildren, the great-grandchildren, and all their manded that he pay her back by the agreed schedule. She and only received three months of Social Security before herself, giving with a warm hand spouses on their birthdays, anniversaries, St. Patrick’s Day, reasoned that paying by schedule would benefit her son, dying. May others escape his fate.” Valentine’s Day, and for no reason at all. If you want the teaching him financial responsibility. But the son was now rather than with a cold one. closest thing to eternal life, try this.” financially squeezed, at the beginning of his career, lacking MEIR STATMAN is the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at SCU.

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WHAT WE OWE At the very least: stories that capture the contour of a life. A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter on the Ghost Ship fire and tales of human strife and resilience.

BY TATIANA SANCHEZ ’10 PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM WILSON/REDUX JIM BY PHOTOGRAPHY On a chilly Sunday morning last December, I found my- was the difference between them and me? Only the fact self standing in the heart of Oakland, at the intersection that they chose to attend the party. of East 13th Street and Fruitvale Avenue. It took me a few By about midday Sunday, I was staking out the Alameda moments to soak in the chaos. There, amidst run-down County Sheriff’s Department with a string of other local cell phone stores, fast food chains, panaderías, rumbling reporters. Family members were being summoned to be BART trains, and the usual drone of life in the city’s dy- given the most horrible news possible—that their loved namic Fruitvale District, stood the freshly charred remains ones perished in the fire. This was, perhaps, one of the of the Ghost Ship warehouse. The surrounding block had most grueling tasks of my coverage, though of course it been cordoned off with yellow police tape, and already paled in comparison to the wrenching emotions these there were dozens of reporters and onlookers—and a grow- family members had to grapple with. I paced at the en- ing memorial of flowers and posters dedicated to the young trance to the sheriff’s department, waiting to approach people who lost their lives in the inferno the night before. It any grieving family members in hopes that they would would prove to be one of Oakland’s deadliest fires. stop and talk to media. None wanted to talk. Some Forensic investigators combed through the cluttered emerged with red eyes and tear-stained faces, their foot- debris as coroner officials worked around the clock to re- steps quick and their eyes downcast. cover the victims. There would be 36 in all. In the week that followed, three colleagues and I were On that morning, just a few weeks before Christmas, tasked with writing profiles of each of the victims. Over I joined several colleagues from the East Bay Times and the course of several days, the coroner’s office would re- the Mercury News in reporting on a tragedy that would lease the names of the deceased in small clusters. The later reveal alarming and illegal housing conditions at the minute we received a new batch of names, my colleagues 1 2 warehouse and beyond, made possible by negligent land- and I would split the list and scramble to find whatever lords and a systemic failure across the city of Oakland we could about the people who had died—social media Among those lost: 1. Electronic music to identify and routinely inspect buildings vulnerable to posts, potential family members or friends, employers, artist Micah these tragedies. From then on, the victims of the fire—art- their whereabouts on the day of the fire, and potential Danemayer was ists, college students, bartenders, lovers, and DJs in their connections to other victims, of which there were many. set to perform that 20s and 30s—became my reporting assignment, etching We wanted to have at least a small story for every victim. night. 2. Donna Kellogg themselves into my memory and challenging me in ways I We wanted the public to know them, to see their faces, to was 32 and wanted had never been challenged as a young reporter. appreciate the contours of their lives. As the days went on, to be a healer. we reached more relatives and friends, and those stories 3. Jennifer Mendiola GHOST SHIP got bigger and more meaningful. was earning her More than 100 young people flocked to the Ghost Ship Jennifer Mendiola was described by friends as a fierce, Ph.D. in psychology at UC Merced. warehouse on the night of Dec. 2, 2016, for an electronic adventurous woman. She was earning her Ph.D. in psy- 4. Michela Gregory dance party in the eclectic 1930s-era live-work art collec- chology at UC Merced. On the day of the party, she had and longtime tive. The maze-like structure was packed with antiques moved in with her new boyfriend, electronic music artist boyfriend Alex Vega and vintage art pieces, leaving partygoers on the second Micah Danemayer, who was set to perform that night. Mi- died in each other’s arms. floor trapped and screaming for help when the fire broke cah also died in the fire. 5. Vanessa Plotkin out, unable to find their way down a narrow staircase Twenty-one-year-old Vanessa Plotkin was a junior at was a junior at UC made of wooden pallets and plywood. As the fire engulfed UC Berkeley, where she was majoring in sociology, vol- Berkeley, where she the structure, the curdled screams of victims could be unteered at the campus radio station, and was a student was majoring in sociology. heard from outside, begging for help. All of the victims employee at the information desk of the Berkeley librar- 6. Jennifer Morris died of smoke inhalation, according to the Alameda ies. She died alongside her roommate, friend and fellow was a friend and County Coroner’s Bureau. Berkeley student Jennifer Morris, 21. Vanessa left behind 3 4 roommate of Some neighbors were still waking up to the news by a twin sister, Victoria. Vanessa Plotkin. She was a quiet woman the time I got on scene early Sunday. Three blue, heart- Michela Gregory and her longtime boyfriend Alex Vega with a dazzling voice shaped balloons spelled out “OAK♥LAND,” while dozens had gone to the party to have a good time. She enjoyed the when she sang. of posters, prayer candles, and flowers filled every cor- music. The young couple died in each other’s arms. ner of the block. Survivors returned to the scene to make Since the fire, there has been, understandably, great in- sense of the darkest hours of their lives and to mourn the terest surrounding our coverage. People are often curious friends they had lost. Grief counselors stood by, some with about how my colleagues and I dealt with the emotional therapy dogs, anxious to help those affected. As the mag- toll of reporting on the victims, and how, in particular, I nitude of this tragedy sunk in, the pit in my stomach grew approached loved ones for interviews. There is no simple larger. The victims had hopes and dreams and were sim- answer to that. Reporters will inevitably grow and evolve ply chasing happiness and fun on the day they died. What through the years, will learn to ask the right questions and

I would agonize over their faces, their stories. At times I cried, overcome with emotion over the lives that were lost. These are human stories that deserve 5 6

to be told: of lives, not only of deaths. SHIP GHOST THE OF VICTIMS THE OF PROFILES MEDIA SOCIAL FROM PHOTOGRAPHY

24 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 25 say the right things to a grieving mother or a significant away from signing a coveted contract with Golden Boy other. But beneath the surface it never gets easier. Such was Promotions. It was during that match that Osuna suffered the case for me as I made calls and sent out email blasts and a traumatic brain injury following a series of brutal punch- social media messages looking for loved ones of the victims, es. He went into a coma for several weeks. After waking, hoping for an interview. I would keep it together during he had lost his memory, his mobility, and his ability to those long shifts but would go home and agonize over their read and write. He has never boxed again. Daniel Torres came faces, their stories. At times I cried, overcome with shock Though he eventually regained his ability to walk and to the United States and emotion for the lives that were lost. talk, Osuna never got his memory back. He has no recol- without documents. He used a false These are human stories that deserve to be told: of lives, lection of the fact that he was once a talented boxer. With- birth certificate not only of deaths. In many ways, I realized, I had been out boxing, he remained an impoverished undocumented to enlist in the preparing myself for this since I started my career in the immigrant. His job options were slim. Meanwhile, his Marine Corps and Coachella Valley as a reporter for the Desert Sun. family faced more than $1 million in mounting medi- served in the Iraq War. When he lost cal bills. And so the man who dominated his opponents his wallet, his life AMERICAN DREAMS inside the boxing ring found himself sitting at home on started to unravel. I am from the Bay Area originally—Daly City. At Santa most days, learning basic math and English from chil- He was discharged Clara I earned a degree in English with minors in commu- dren’s workbooks, and watching TV to pass the time. and returned to Tijuana, joining nications and Spanish. Classes and work on the student Osuna’s fate was a tough reality for me to face, especially fellow veterans in a newspaper gave me a taste of what journalism might be, as a young reporter so close to him in age. The accident of place known as “the and that took me to Columbia University for a master’s in birth gave us very different beginnings. But it was like we Bunker.” Five years journalism. And that has led me back home. were on parallel tracks. later, he became a FPO U.S. citizen. Since I started my professional career as a journal- A few months later I traveled to a women’s shelter on ist in 2012, I’ve felt the pull of social justice stories that the Mexican border, in the city of Calexico, population give voice to the struggles of people and communities 38,000. There, my photographer and I interviewed two on the margins of society. That has meant my work has young mothers who had fled Honduras with three young been about telling stories of immigrants and refugees; children during the height of the Central American multicultural communities; tales of poverty; issues facing migrant crisis. In 2014, thousands of undocumented LGBTQ people in California; and coming to grips with immigrants rushed north to the United States to escape gang Torres found a tight-knit support system. Daniel joined most essential element of being a reporter. They need to how race and demographics shape who we are. There are violence, dire economic conditions in their countries, and the Marines in 2007 using a false birth certificate. He was know that I’m not just interested in a money quote or juicy matters of policy to understand and distill for readers. But their own extreme poverty. Yina and Wendy fled the capital outed as an undocumented immigrant after a trip to the details—but in truly telling their story. That’s what gave me on a fundamentally human level, these are stories charged of Tegucigalpa and made their way north to the Rio Grande DMV to replace a lost identification card. The DMV alert- hope and focus during my Ghost Ship coverage and what with emotion and shot through with strife—and, I hope, and into south Texas. “My longing to get to my destination ed Daniel’s superiors, who honorably discharged him. In continues to push me forward as a reporter. speaking of resilience. was so great that I crossed the river on foot,” said Wendy. 2011, Daniel chose to voluntarily return to Tijuana, where Three years ago I met Angel Osuna, an up-and-coming Later in San Diego as an immigration reporter for the he was born. There, he found dozens of veterans who had TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES boxer from Culiacán, Mexico, who had pinned all his Union-Tribune, I found myself in the infamous “Bunker” been deported after serving in the U.S. military, largely for In spring 2017, the East Bay Times was awarded the Pu- hopes—his American Dream—on going pro. He was, to in Tijuana, surrounded by mothers and U.S. military vet- committing small crimes; Torres does not have a criminal litzer Prize in breaking news coverage of the Ghost Ship coin a phrase, a contender. At just 26, Osuna had caught erans who had been deported and had left behind their record. Many of these veterans believed, mistakenly, that fire. This included our victims’ coverage. I’m still trying to the eye of local boxing professionals and was just one bout U.S.-born children. It’s where Iraq War veteran Daniel their service would instantly make them U.S. citizens. Last grasp the fact that I’m a small slice of a Pulitzer-winning year, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, team. In many ways it solidifies the incredible work that Daniel was sworn in as an American citizen, likely becom- my colleagues and I poured into this tragic event, work that ing the first undocumented immigrant to naturalize by continues today. In the months following the fire,East Bay way of his military service. Times reporters—among them Thomas Peele, Matthias Here in the Bay Area where I grew up, my work has Gafni, David DeBolt, and Erin Baldassari—have produced taken on new meaning since January. It is no secret that unmatched investigative reports on the fallout of the fire. immigration and refugees have become a focal point of They uncovered a series of fatal missteps by the Oakland the Trump administration’s policies. Fire Department and city officials in the months and even I watched in awe as hundreds flooded the international years preceding the tragedy. Their work continues to hold terminal at SFO in January to protest the Trump admin- those involved accountable and to uncover the truth be- istration’s first travel ban, which attempted to bar refugees hind this senseless tragedy, one that in many ways could and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries. Attor- have—and should have—been avoided.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY OMAR ORNELAS/THE (PALM SPRINGS) DESERT SUN neys, activists, and families packed the terminal for hours As I write this, legal proceedings are underway against Angel Osuna was 52 seconds away from on end, eventually staging a sit-in calling on airport offi- Derick Almena, the master tenant of the Ghost Ship a win when a series cials to free several Middle Eastern passengers that were warehouse, who illegally rented out the space to dozens of of brutal punches detained that day. It is a scene that will never leave me. artists desperate for housing—despite knowing that the knocked him out of I’ll be frank: Many stories have left me angry, disap- building was uninhabitable and was filled with fire haz- the ring. pointed, or upset at the injustices I have seen. They have ards; and against co-defendant Max Harris. They face 36 even left me broken and on the verge of tears. But it’s the counts of involuntary manslaughter. Almena was expect- resilience and the strength of the people I come across that ed to enter a plea September 27. has propelled me forward, certain that telling their stories Thirty-six young people paid for this horrific tragedy serves a greater good. So, when I’m asked how I do this with their lives. And while the aftermath of the fire carries work—particularly, how I interview people who find them- on, I can hope that by giving voice to them, some small selves in tragic situations—I say one thing: It’s important part of their legacies lives on in the stories we shaped. We for the people whose stories I am telling to see my human- owe them that much. ity. It’s important for them to see that beyond the notebook or the laptop there is also a human being who genuinely TATIANA SANCHEZ covers race and demographics for the Bay

PHOTOGRAPHY BY EDUARDO CONTRERAS FOR SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE VIA ZUMA VIA UNION-TRIBUNE DIEGO SAN FOR CONTRERAS EDUARDO BY PHOTOGRAPHY cares for the people she writes about. That, to me, is the Area News Group. Follow her on Twitter @TatianaYSanchez.

26 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 27 on thePlanet The MostThe Important Lawsuit hold accountablethosewhoknowinglyviolated future It seeks no monetary damages, solutions.Andto just It seeksnomonetary generations’ rightstolife,liberty, andproperty. BY DEBORAH LOHSE

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN LOZNAK Pushed out .25" CROSS OVER Held image

When phil gregory j.d./mba ’80 first walked the Santa billion-dollar subsidies for CO2-causing fossil fuels. • Miko V. of Beaverton, Oregon, is 16 years old. She fears CO2 levels. But instead of halting the rise, the government Clara campus as a student, Elvis Presley had just died. Attorney Phil Gregory first got involved with the cause the disappearance of her extended family’s home in the actively promoted the rise of CO2, the lawsuit charges. The new Apple II computer had just gone on sale. And the of climate litigation starting in 2010. It didn’t go well. Marshall Islands, which are threatened by rising ocean How? By actions like issuing tens of thousands of oil- first of billions of gallons of oil began to flow through the A group led by Our Children’s Trust in Oregon needed levels from climate change. drilling permits on federal and private lands. Juliana Trans Alaska Pipeline—one of many huge projects sup- trial lawyers to help them with a case, Alec L. v. McCar- notes that since 1985, the Department of the Interior ported by the federal government to promote U.S. growth thy, under which they were pursuing a novel approach • Nathaniel B. of Fairbanks, Alaska, is 17 years old and has issued between 1,486 and 6,617 permits annually and energy independence. to environmental litigation. Our Children’s Trust called suffers from asthma and allergies—caused, he says, by to drill on federal lands; and that the Bureau of Land Forty years later, Gregory is the co-lead counsel for a in Gregory and his law partner, Paul “Pete” McCloskey, increasing and chronic wildfires, which also threaten Management approves about 99 percent of all received novel environmental lawsuit. It seeks to hold the gov- who served in Congress (1967–83) representing the Bay the family’s livestock. applications for permits to drill. The BLM disputes the ernment accountable for the cumulative impact on the Area and has had a practice as a successful environmental 99 percent figure, saying that between 2003 and 2015 it environment from decades of unfettered federal support trial attorney. Now in his 80s, McCloskey has also lec- • Jaime B. of Flagstaff, Arizona, is 17 years old and a approved between 77 and 91 percent. for projects like the Alaskan pipeline. His clients, a group tured on political science at Santa Clara’s School of Law. member of the Navajo Nation. She had to move due to In addition, Juliana plaintiffs argue that the U.S. spends of nearly two dozen children now aged 10 to 21, say the In 2011, Gregory and McCloskey served as pro bono coun- water scarcity. billions in taxpayer funds to support fossil fuel production

current planet-threatening level of carbon dioxide (CO2) sel and helped bring the ill-fated Alec L. lawsuit against and exploration. Through 11 fossil fuel production tax was foreseen decades ago by the federal government, and the Obama administration. They argued at the time that Scientists overwhelmingly agree that humans have con- provisions, they argue, the United States incurs billions could and should have been the subject of federal plan- the federal government had failed in its legal duty to tributed to climate change. But in a lawsuit like this, in annual revenue costs; and forgoes about $3.4 billion ning and mitigation. Failure to do so, they say, has violated preserve the environment in “public trust” for future how can you prove that the government is culpable? The annnually in revenue to subsidize fossil fuel consumption the constitutional rights of future generations to “life, lib- generations. The case ended up being dismissed when plaintiffs cite reams of evidence from government-issued and $5.1 billion annually to support fossil fuel explora- erty, and property.” the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals interpreted a Supreme documents: from the Lyndon Johnson administration tion. Including U.S. support for fossil fuels worldwide, the Advocates have called the case possibly “the most im- Court case, PPL Montana v. Montana, as quashing the to the Reagan administration’s White House Council U.S. is the world’s top subsidizer of fossil fuels, to the tune Phil Gregory J.D./ portant lawsuit on the planet” and “the trial of the century,” “federal public trust” legal theory outright. on Environmental Quality and Department of Energy, of $502 billion per year, according to the International MBA ’80 doesn’t with the historical reference to the Scopes Monkey Trial to reports to President George H.W. Bush and beyond. Monetary Fund. want to save just very much in mind. Some charitable skeptics call it “a legal A NEW, “UNENUMERATED” CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT (See timeline on page 33.) The case was filed when the one polar bear at a time. He is co- moonshot.” Other legal experts argue that the case is legal- The same group, Our Children’s Trust, led by the group’s Obama administration was in office, and it was the first Sitting in his office in Burlingame on a summer morn- counsel on Juliana ly overreaching and runs afoul of separation of powers as executive director and chief legal counsel, Julia Olson, is to defend against it. ing, surrounded by shelf after shelf of neatly organized v. United States, defined under the Constitution. They also point out that, now behind Juliana, using a different legal tactic. It fo- The documents that will be submitted as evidence purport white binders of government documents and reports—all a lawsuit that essentially, the suit asks a U.S. court—impossibly and sin- cuses on the constitutional rights of the young plaintiffs. to show that the government both knew of the risk and evidence—Phil Gregory is eager to explain the urgency demands a systemic plan to combat glehandedly—to force the executive branch to take action Specifically, Olson and Gregory assert that there is an considered it within its power to halt the dangerous rise in of the case. climate change. to solve the worldwide problem of climate change, with “unenumerated right” in the Consti- potentially devastating consequences to the U.S. economy. tution to inhabit a livable environ- Either way, most would agree, the stakes are epic. ment. That right has been violated by the federal government, they charge, because various federal entities: one,

knew of the risk of CO2 emission; two, knew they had the power to halt

the dangerous rise in CO2 levels; and “I have no doubt that the right to a three, knowingly failed for decades to protect the Earth from reaching climate system capable of sustaining catastrophic CO2 levels. In an extraordinary decision issued human life is fundamental to a free in November 2016 agreeing with the young Juliana plaintiffs and allow- and ordered society.” ing the case to proceed, U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken wrote: “I have The plaintiffs allege that the defendants—including the no doubt that the right to a climate President of the United States, Department of the Interior, system capable of sustaining human Environmental Protection Agency, and 19 others—have life is fundamental to a free and or-

for decades known about the atmospheric dangers of CO2 dered society.” The 54-page decision emissions. Yet not only did they fail to act to stem emissions, was heralded as emphatic, historic, collectively they have aggressively supported and promoted and groundbreaking—though one fossil fuel exploration and use. “Defendants have failed to National Review headline groused preserve a habitable climate system for present and future that was true only if “‘groundbreak- generations,” the lawsuit asserts, “and instead have created ing’ means ‘insane.’”

dangerous levels of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The Before retracing the legal path affirmative aggregate acts and omissions of Defendants, the case has traveled, here are a few jointly and severally, have violated and continue to violate snapshots of the young plaintiffs be- Plaintiffs’ fundamental constitutional rights to freedom ing represented in the case. Their from deprivation of life, liberty, and property.” fundamental claim: Climate change The case, Juliana v. United States of America, was filed is damaging my life. in a district court in , Oregon, in 2015. It has sur- vived numerous challenges and—pending a ruling on one • Alexander Loznak of Roseburg, more extraordinary writ—has been cleared for trial to be- Oregon, is 20 years old. Record heat gin Feb. 5, 2018. It seeks no monetary damages. Rather, waves have threatened the viability it calls for other remedies from the federal government. of his family’s farm, and increasing Among them: a federal climate recovery plan to vastly wildfires are worsening his asthma

curb atmospheric CO2 emissions, and a halt to multi- and other health conditions.

30 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHY BY CODY PICKENS “I always taught my children when we went camping A CASE ON PAR WITH CIVIL RIGHTS? THE DOCUMENTED TRAIL OF CULPABILITY: that you want to leave the campsite better than when you For his part, Gregory says Juliana’s constitutional argu- found it,” he says. “The problem I see is that what we’re ment is not so novel, if you consider other lawsuits that A Partial Timeline “It is now pretty clearly agreed that the terming ‘progress’ is really not leaving the essential natu- have successfully held the government responsible for C02 content will rise 25% by 2000. This ral resources of our country, or our world, in better shape. perpetrating wrongs, including in the arena of civil rights 1965 could increase the average temperature It’s hard for me to believe that I can have an effect in Af- and school desegregation. “It’s not a new case with new near the Earth’s surface by 7 degrees rica. It’s hard for me to believe I can have a direct effect in law,” he says. “It’s actually grounded in precedent of the The Executive Branch of the U.S. government Fahrenheit. This in turn could raise the Antarctica. But I can have a direct effect on what happens civil rights cases and various other cases where there’s issues the report Restoring the Quality of Our level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New Environment, noting that burning of fossil fuels is in the United States,” he says. been a violation of constitutional rights.” The power of the York. Goodbye Washington.” “the only significant source of C02 added to the And this case could have a profound effect on the laws Juliana case, and another aspect it shares with civil rights ocean-atmosphere-biosphere system” and “could —PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR DANIEL PATRICK of the United States. It is staking out the establishment cases, is that it is “going after the systemic problem,” as be deleterious” to human beings. MOYNIHAN, SEPT. 17, 1969 of a new unenumerated constitutional right—a milestone he puts it. “We are not going to be trying to save one po- moment in law. Consider other unenumerated constitu- lar bear at a time, or shut down one power plant. We are tional rights we now take for granted. It was a case filed in no longer going to play the game of whack-a-mole, where 1978 September 1983 1922 in Oregon that led to the Supreme Court declaring every time you shut the bad guys down one place, their , 1965—the same year An EPA study, Can We Delay a Greenhouse that parents had a right to send their children to private heads pop up two or three places elsewhere.” Congress passes the National Climate a government report warns of Program Act to establish a national Warming?, predicts a steep rise in CO2 levels by consequences of burning fossil fuels: school. The 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court If they win, Gregory and co-counsel Olson are seeking climate program to assist the nation 2100, and notes that the most effective solutions decision ruled that a state didn’t have the right to interfere remedies to the climate change crisis—such as halting new melting ice caps, rising sea levels, are “economically and politically infeasible.” It warming seas—and stresses urgent and world to understand and respond with marital privacy by prohibiting marital use of contra- permits for oil drilling or mandatory reductions in green- urges research for adapting to a warmer climate; need for study, monitoring, and to “natural and man-induced climate ceptives. That case fundamentally established a right to house gas emissions over a given period of time. It will be exploring possible solutions. processes and their implications.” more research on all greenhouse gases; and privacy and subsequently led to key decisions on birth up to the court to set goals—just as they have in civil rights better modeling to predict atmospheric warming. control, abortion, and same-sex marriage. cases, or in alleviating prison overcrowding in California. In fact, Gregory notes, the defendants already had goals laid out for them. They just chose not to follow them. But had the defendants followed the guidance of their own EPA and 1985 1991

other entities over the years, CO2 emissions today would be Projecting the Climatic Effects of Increasing Carbon The Congressional Office of Technology reduced by 35 percent from 1987 levels. Instead, plaintiffs Dioxide is published by the Department of Energy. Assessment issues Changing “It’s actually grounded in alleged, since 1991, the defendants have knowingly allowed It notes: “The citizens of today’s nations have by Degrees, exploring reducing at least an additional 130,466 million metric tons of CO the responsibility for the stewardship of all the greenhouse gas emissions up to 35 2 Earth, including their actions which may affect its percent through regulations, new aid precedent of the civil rights emissions from fossil fuel combustion. climate. Exercising this responsibility requires an policies, market-based solutions, and Gregory rejects the idea that the government doesn’t understanding of atmospheric CO2 and its effect.” working toward international protocols. cases and various other cases have the resources to mobilize to attack the problem. where there’s been a violation of “Let’s say we weren’t talking about climate. Let’s say we were talking about fascism. Let’s say we were talking “The greenhouse problems 1990 1992 constitutional rights.” about communism. This federal government, historically, that are undertaken now mobilized against those issues.” Yet with the threat of cli- will be felt for decades in the After testimony from NASA director The U.S. Senate ratifies the United mate change, he says, “We’ve known for decades that we’re TIMELINE TEXT BY DEBORAH LOHSE AND JOHN DEEVER. REPORT AND EPA LOGO COURTESY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. future, and lack of action James Hansen (now one of the Juliana Nations Framework Convention on plaintiffs), the EPA puts out a report that Climate Change, which has as its What about the right to a climate system capable of sus- facing a massive problem. And from a practical stand- now will similarly bequeath calls for a 50 percent reduction in total minimal objective “stabilization of taining human life? Not everyone thinks this one will stick. point, nothing’s been done by the federal government to climate change to future generations.” U.S. CO2 emissions below 1990 levels greenhouse gas concentrations in “I completely agree with the assertion that the Con- implement effective solutions to the problem. The situa- by 2025, among other changes. the atmosphere at a level that would stitution does not enumerate all fundamental liberties,” tion has gotten dramatically worse.” —JAMES HANSEN prevent dangerous anthropogenic says Tseming Yang, a professor of law at Santa Clara who interference with the climate system.” formerly served as deputy general counsel for the Environ- LEGAL HURDLES

mental Protection Agency. As for Juliana, he says, “I just Few would have predicted that the case would get to this CLIMATE ACTION RALLY PHOTO BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. OTHER PHOTOGRAPHY BY GETTY IMAGES have a difficult time seeing how they win.” point—on the brink of a trial that could force the current Yang cites the most important climate change case to administration to answer for decades of “destabiliz(ing) date, Massachusetts v. EPA, which forced the EPA to ac- the climate system on which present and future gen- knowledge it had authority to regulate carbon emissions. erations of our nation depend for their wellbeing and 2009 2014 That case, filed in 1999, took seven years to prevail. It survival.” So how did we get here? The EPA U.S. President Barack Obama, only resulted in concrete action under the more climate- After the case was filed in 2015, Oregon Magistrate commences the Department of the Interior, friendly Obama administration. Judge Thomas Coffin agreed with the argument made by partial regulation the Bureau of Land Management, “Even if you were to find a right to a livable environment Gregory and his co-counsel, using the “state-created dan- of greenhouse the Department of Defense, and or a good climate, I think the second and equally impor- ger” doctrine: that the federal government’s knowledge of gases under the EPA authorize and oversee the sale 23,657 of 421 million tons of coal from tant—or equally difficult—issue is: What does that mean?” the CO problem and failure to act on it cleared the way Clean Air Act. recorded federal producing oil and gas leases issued 2 Climate Action rally 2009 in Racine, federally leased lands. by DOI through BLM—nearly 5,000 more than in 1985. he says. “When we have rights, that means everybody has for the children to sue for violations of their constitutional Wisconsin—with similar rallies held rights, and we balance rights against each other—including rights. Without establishing such a clear cause-and-effect, in 160 nations around the world. the right to make a living, to build ourselves an abode, to the case would have been dismissed under longstanding do all these other things. If this right was absolute, it would separation-of-powers prohibitions against suing the fed- override everything. Our society would grind to a halt.” eral government. 2009 2016 Nonetheless, Yang sees tremendous value in the Juli- At the outset, the Obama administration argued for EPA Admininstrator Lisa Jackson issues The Obama administration, after its motion to ana suit. “It’s a new legal theory, and having a U.S. court dismissal of the case. And as if it weren’t enough to take endangerment findings under the Clean dismiss Juliana is denied, responds by noting agree that these kids have a right that’s been impaired by on the federal government, the nation’s largest petroleum Air Act—a precursor to regulations— that it has taken steps to reduce carbon pollution, governmental action, versus just an academic or an NGO trade groups—National Association of Manufacturers, noting that projected atmospheric including development of the Clean Power Plan saying it—that gives it a significant level of legitimacy that the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, and concentrations of greenhouse gases, (CPP), “an historic and important step to reduce

nobody else can really lend.” the American Petroleum Institute—inserted themselves especially CO2, threaten the health and carbon pollution that takes real action on climate welfare of Americans. change.” The Supreme Court subsequently stays implementation of the CPP. In 2017, the Trump 32 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE administration seeks to rescind the plan. in the case as “intervenor-defendants.” Essentially, they FAITH AND FAMILY MOTIVES From his first marriage he has three grown sons: John, partner, the famed trial attorney Joe Cotchett, founded a le- felt that a victory by the child plaintiffs would harm their Ask Gregory what motivates him to work an estimated Matthew, and Mark. gal scholarship in Gregory’s name, for second- or third-year business interests. It’s also fair to say that they didn’t 4,000 hours and counting, pro bono, on the Juliana case, His law career, and his affiliation with Santa Clara, law students, especially those pursuing environmental law. trust the Obama administration to defend those interests and he flips around a photo of himself holding his infant began in 1977. After graduating magna cum laude from strongly enough. The intervenor-defendants also filed a granddaughter, Alice. Born to his eldest son John and his Bowdoin College in Maine, he headed back West with a THE SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL OF OUR TIMES? motion to dismiss. wife Sarah—daughter of Gregory’s law school gut feeling that he wanted to be a trial attorney taking on As Gregory prepares for trial, it is not lost on him that In April 2016, Judge Coffin recommended classmate Mike Clark J.D. ’80—Alice’s is the business cases. Small problem: “I didn’t know a balance the term sometimes used for Juliana, “the Trial of the that the court deny both motions to dismiss face Gregory sees when he sacrifices time to sheet from a fitted sheet.” Century,” evokes apt comparisons to the 1925 Scopes the case. His recommendation was part of this David versus Goliath effort. So he set his mind to get both a J.D. and an MBA. He trial—in which legendary trial lawyer Clarence Darrow the case then heard by District Judge Ann Ai- QUANTIFIABLE “When Alice is much older and I’m sitting consulted with two judges, one a Santa Clara grad, one a took on firebrand William Jennings Bryan over the legal- ken, a 1998 Clinton appointee. Gregory and in my rocking chair, and she says, ‘What did Stanford grad. Both urged him to attend Santa Clara, partly ity of teaching evolution in public schools. The Scopes Olson had to convince the judge that numer- you do during the climate wars, Grandpa?’ because he could get both degrees in three years—impor- case provoked extreme emotions. So does Juliana. And ous arguments in the government’s dismissal 65.244 quadrillion I want to say, ‘I was right out there in the tant for a financially pressed student—but also because both cases pit widely accepted science against determined request were invalid, including arguments by BTUs of fossil fuel produced in the U.S. in front lines, taking all my free time,’” he says. “there are better trial lawyers at Santa Clara,” he was told. deniers. In the Juliana lawsuit, reams of documentary the Obama administration that the govern- 2014, up 44 percent from 1965 levels “‘I didn’t get to babysit you, Alice, as much In law school, he served as articles editor of the Santa evidence show that the government was fully aware that ment was doing all it could already; that the as I would’ve liked because I was off taking Clara Law Review, under then-editor Evet Abt J.D. ’79, CO2 emissions were heading to disastrous levels as a re- children didn’t have “standing” to sue the gov- 421 million depositions and trying to get the federal gov- where his first “comment” published was on the topic of the sult of actions they took. ernment; that the case was essentially asking Tons of coal sold, authorized, and ernment to toe the line.’ That’s what I want proper remedies for government-caused constitutional “The case is exactly like the Scopes trial,” Gregory says. the court to act as environmental law-maker; overseen by federal agencies, from to be able to say.” violations—a question at the heart of the Juliana case. “We are going to have the science, and they are going to and that the case was a “political” matter— federal lands in 2014 Gregory also says he is blessed to have the Gregory also went to the national moot court competition have what they call ‘alternative facts.’ not a legal one. The order, favorable to the full support of his legal partners at Cotch- during which he used a dramatic shoplifting reenactment “But in this case, alternative facts are perjury.” plaintiffs on all counts, came down Nov. 10, 25% ett, Pitre & McCarthy. And he is fortified by to try to persuade the jury of the outrageousness of the If the 9th Circuit dispenses with the writ of mandamus 2016. The motions to dismiss were denied. Amount of all fossil fuels extracted in the U.S. his Catholic faith. “Both the pope’s position charges against his mock client. He still loves to show, —which is still outstanding at press time—the case goes Two days prior, on November 8, Donald J. that originated on federal public lands in 2013 on stewardship of the Earth, as well as the rather than tell. “It’s one thing to say a claim is outrageous, to trial the first Monday in February 2018 in Eugene, Trump was elected president. As the indus- Council of Bishops in the United States, gen- but the visual explanation is much more compelling,” he Oregon, before District Judge Ann Aiken. It will be tried try groups understood clearly, a new admin- 107 uinely inspire me, and make me incredibly says. “It allows the explanation to resonate.” on the third floor of the Wayne Lyman Morse United States istration with very different views on climate Coal tracts leased since 1990 by proud to be a practicing Catholic,” he says. Courthouse, a LEED-certified, glass-and-metal edifice Department of Interior (DOI) change would take office in January. Aiken The feeling appears to be mutual. Among Back when gregory was a student at Santa Clara, he overlooking the Willamette River. also asked the various industry groups to the handful of legal briefs filed by outsiders attended Mass regularly with friend Ken Linhares ’77, submit a joint statement in response to the 23,657 in support of the case is one from the J.D. ’80, and he carried rosary beads in his pocket at all climate science claims in the case. Instead, Federal producing oil and gas leases Global Catholic Climate Movement, which times. “I genuinely believe in the power of prayer,” says they asked to be removed as defendants. issued as of 2014 is supported by Catholic leaders including Gregory, who now keeps the beads in his briefcase. The The Trump administration inherited the 47,000 Pope Francis and the Leadership Council rosary “helps me get through the best of times, and the case in January 2017. Not surprisingly, they of Women Religious. In support of the case, most difficult times.” “This case is exactly like the Scopes do not want the case to go to trial. In March DOI-authorized oil and gas leases on they wrote: “As people of faith and as citizens He would later help start what is now the Catholic Pro- public lands as of June 2014 2017, the Department of Justice sought of the United States, we are deeply concerned fessional and Business Club in the San Jose diocese, a trial. We are going to have the science, “certification” from Judge Aiken in order to about the policies, plans, and practices of the place for Catholic professionals to meet, celebrate Mass appeal her decision to the 9th Circuit. That 95,000 federal government, which do far too little to and have breakfast, and hear from speakers on various and they are going to have what was denied in June. Also in June, the court DOI-authorized oil and gas wells achieve the reduction in fossil fuel emissions sides of issues of importance to the Church. as of June 2014 released the fossil fuel industry groups as de- necessary to ensure the health and wellbeing One of his SCU Law classmates was Peter McCloskey they call ‘alternative facts.’ But in this fendants from the case. And a trial date was 36 million of our children and our planet home, now J.D. ’80, who became a prosecutor in Santa Clara County, set for February 2018. and into the future.” worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, then went to case, alternative facts are perjury.” Immediately after the June rulings were Acres of federal land under lease for They also wrote: “This litigation seeks to The Hague as a senior trial attorney at the Internation- potential fossil fuel development issued, the Trump administration filed a establish precisely what Pope Francis has al Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Peter is Gregory estimates that he will spend four to five hours highly unusual “writ of mandamus,” essen- $4.7 billion urged in Laudato Si’,” his encyclical on care son of then-Congressman Pete McCloskey—who spoke a day, seven days a week, preparing for trial. That in- tially an end-run around the district judge, for our common home, published in 2015, “a at their commencement and would later join Gregory at cludes deposing government officials and extracting non- Cost of tax provisions for fossil fuel asking the 9th Circuit to hear their appeal production annually ‘legal framework which can set clear bound- the firm of Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy. In addition to suc- public documents from the defense for evidence. It also for dismissal anyway. That led to the case be- aries’ for greenhouse gas reduction—before cessfully trying more than 100 environmental law cases, includes working on witness reports from experts like ing stayed by the 9th Circuit in late July, and $3.4 billion it is too late.” McCloskey Sr. is the co-author of the Endangered Species Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz; activ- a request for clarification was heard August Act and served as co-chair of the first Earth Day in 1970. ist climate scientist and Columbia University adjunct Cost of fossil fuel consumption subsidy 28. In issuing its stay, the 9th Circuit focused each year BALANCE SHEETS VS. FITTED SHEETS “Pete is an incredible environmental activist,” Gregory professor James Hansen; and Naomi Oreskes, author primarily on one rationale given by the Gregory is a fit and active 63-year-old, with says. “He became my inspiration” for taking on environ- of Merchants of Doubt—a book that includes a chapter government for dismissal: that it faced an $5.1 billion a deep, occasionally gravelly voice and an mental cases, he adds. on the role of petroleum companies in persuading the undue burden of discovery. Cost of annual fossil fuel exploration accent that still hints of time spent in New Gregory has long been an ambassador for Santa Clara government to use taxpayer resources to support CO2- Gregory and his co-counsel at Our Chil- subsidies each year England. He’s quick to smile and answers Law. He recently helped mentor two paralegals—Celine causing fossil fuels. dren’s Trust argued that the discovery many questions by jumping up and saying, Purcell J.D. ’15 and Joe Ferrari J.D./MBA ’16—to at- Even Tseming Yang, the SCU professor who is doubtful

complaint stems from a misinterpretation. “Here, can I show you?” When he’s fired up SOURCE: JULIANA V. UNITED STATES tend Santa Clara Law. They now work for Wilson Sonsini of Juliana’s prospects, says he will be watching with inter- After the election, when longstanding EPA on a topic, he speaks with hands and eyes and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, respectively. He has served est. “This is an idealistic, legal moonshot, maybe,” he says. studies were being removed en masse from the official aloft, as if he’s arguing his case to a jury only he can see. as a judge for moot court competitions, and he has taught “But if it’s affirmed, I think this would be a game-changer, EPA website, plaintiffs reminded the government that, Gregory was born in Boston and raised in Maine and numerous continuing legal education classes—both on cam- even if the Supreme Court ultimately struck it down. It under rules of evidence, such studies—as well as a wide Los Altos. His father was a Raytheon manager who co- pus and during road shows—on the topic of Ponzi schemes. would change the legal dialogue about all of this.” array of other types of evidence—needed to be preserved founded the trade association SEMI. His mother was He developed an expertise in such schemes after he joined for the ongoing litigation. The government, Gregory instrumental in helping start Villa Siena, a home for the classmate Mike Ioannou ’77, J.D. ’80, as a partner at Rop- DEBORAH LOHSE is assistant director of media and internal says, is now claiming that the reminder constituted a de- elderly near St. Francis High School in Mountain View. ers Majeski Kohn Bentley in San Jose, and started defending communications at SCU. She was previously a staff journalist at mand for the full array of evidence. Gregory’s wife, Kathy, is a gynecologist in San Francisco. people who had been financially defrauded. His current law the Mercury News, Wall Street Journal, and Money Magazine.

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Here’s how it happened. I was at Fort Campbell, Ken- September 1957, Little Rock, Arkansas. Nine African-American kids tucky, a second lieutenant and jump master with 327th Battle Group of the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles, wanted to go to school. The 101st Airborne was sent there to help. when we got the order in September ’57 that we were moving out. I thought we were going to Cuba. Castro and One of those paratroopers tells the story. the rebels were on the march. But this soldier Gomez, he says, “Nah, we’re going to Little Rock.” “Why?” I said. “We going to integrate some high school?” It was always BY MARTY SAMMON ’56, MBA ’63 [AS TOLD TO STEVEN BOYD SAUM] some soldier or some NCO who knows everything, ’cause they’re all connected! Little Rock had been in the news for weeks already. When I learned that we weren’t bringing any artillery, even our mortars—we were a mortar battery—I knew we weren’t going into combat. We got on the plane and they read our orders: “Your assignment: Go to Little Rock Cen- tral High School, and enforce the integration.” That’s how they put it—“enforce the integration.” I took it to mean “by whatever means necessary.” My instructions to my guys were: “Nobody touches the kids, and nobody touches you. Minnijean Brown, You act accordingly and we won’t have any problem.” 15 years old, and The Arkansas National Guard was already at Central other members of the Little Rock Nine High by order of the governor, Orval Faubus. But he didn’t on the morning of want the school to integrate, and he kept saying that if Sept. 25, 1957 they were forced to integrate there would be blood in the streets. He was the one stirring up the trouble. But the Supreme Court had said in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 that segregation had to end, and three years later finally a judge ordered Central High to integrate. Now, one of the problems with the National Guard is they’re all local guys, they’re neighbors with the people out there rioting in front of the school trying to keep these kids from going in. So Eisenhower sent us. They fly us and our gear down there the afternoon of September 24 on C-130s and C-123s. It was all over tele- vision—how 1,200 battle-equipped paratroopers were coming to make sure the integration could be carried out without further violence. We convoyed over to the school, jeeps and trucks and gear, and got there very late at night, and we didn’t know what to expect. The school had 2,000 students and is about two blocks long—there on Park Street, stretching between 14th and 16th. We knock on the door, and the custodian answers it, and he’s standing there with a .22 pistol! Since we were a mortar battery, our weapon is a car- bine, which is not that intimidating. So we were inside the school. We went in there and checked everything out. Now you get an M1 rifle with a bayonet, and that’s intimidating—those guys had the perimeter. It was tough. The first thing our guys did was move the people out, and put a perimeter around. Because people would all gather around the school, and as soon as they saw the kids, they’d start to riot. There were nine kids we were there to help. Later I learned that they had started with 25 who were willing to do it, but most of them decided it was too dangerous. Three of them were boys. The oldest was Ernest Green, a senior, and there was Terrence Roberts and Jefferson Thomas. For the girls, there was little Elizabeth Eckford and Thelma Mothershed, there was Melba Pattillo and Minnijean Brown who were good friends, and also Car-

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FALL 2017 37 ONE BIG BLUFF guys assigned to them, to follow them around and make Wednesday, September 25, was the first morning, so some sure they didn’t get hurt. But we would try to stay a few of our guys, about 50, went to pick up the nine kids at the steps back in the hall or stand outside the classroom— house where they had gathered. Some of these kids were and still, what those kids put up with was just awful: the as young as 14. They all climb into an army station wagon names and other kids spitting on them. and our guys move out, jeeps in front and in back. Near the They made it through that first day and we gathered school there are people lining the streets like for a parade, them in the principal’s office and took them out the way only some people are shouting and screaming the most vile we’d come in, with soldiers all around them. Later Melba stuff. The roar—that was scary. Since then I’ve been to big Pattillo joked about that day of school as “Readin’, writin’, fights and a Super Bowl and never heard a sound like that. and riotin’.” It was like an earthquake. At the school we have helicopters We set up camp on the football field: our jeeps and overhead and of course reporters and photographers prac- trucks and tents. And though we had a perimeter around tically hanging from the trees, and people shouting “Two, the school, you had folks trying to break through to get four, six, eight! We ain’t gonna integrate!” the kids. There was one time it seemed like all hell had From day one we wanted to show that we were going to broken loose, and to get the kids through safely there’s take the kids in the front door. About 20 of our guys with one cop saying, “Well, we’re gonna let ’em have this one bayonets fixed went down and made a phalanx around girl. And while they’re lynching her, we’ll get the other the kids. Now remember, we didn’t have any ammuni- ones past.” I says, “Bullshit! We’re not gonna be doing tion. I was carrying a .45 caliber pistol. It was all just one anything like that. You get the hell out, or I’m gonna re- big bluff. But my instructions were: “Don’t even let them port you to your chief. You can be a dogcatcher for the think that you don’t have any ammunition.” Though we rest of your career.” did have snipers on the roof. The second day when we took the kids up the front We marched right up those steps with them and steps there were a few hundred students who tried to through those doors. I was real careful when I went up the block the doors. We got them out of the way. steps. One of the high school football stars was there, and I had the bottom floor of the school. I remember going I knew this guy was gonna try to trip me. We were wearing by the music class, and when the teacher saw me, she’d lead the class in “Dixie”—you know, “I wish I was in the land…” That must’ve been tough, when you’re a black kid in a class and they’re all singing “Dixie.” The girls’ bathroom was near where I was stationed. When Melba Pattillo was in there, the white kids would throw cigarettes at her, and they’d roll toilet paper up and When you’re jumping out of an light it on fire and throw it at her when she’s in there do- airplane, it doesn’t matter what ing her business. So I went in there to make sure nobody was in there, then the bell rang and they saw me coming the race is of the guy behind you. out. So there it was in the newspaper: “A paratrooper was spotted going into the girls’ bathroom.” I told my captain, the football team, but he never made the freshman team, Portal-to-portal got his attention. I said, “You’d better learn to move a You just want to know if he knows “That was me.” He says, “Ah, don’t worry about it—they’re because he wasn’t good enough.” We never saw Jimmy after protection: Sept. 26, little faster, then, shouldn’t you?” that; he pretty much disappeared. 1957. Members of gonna make up all kinds of stories. Just try to stay out of the 101st Airborne The first week, like I said, we set up camp on the foot- how to fire his weapon and if he’s the bathrooms, if you can.” There was another guy, C.E. Blake, he said he was an escort African ball field, and we dressed and undressed there. Of course, I just went in there to make sure it was safe. There was ex-Marine. (There’s always an ex-Marine, right? He prob- American students people were complaining they saw a naked man. So then got your back. nobody in there. But there were signs saying Nigger go ably never was in the service.) He had this house on the to school, carry- we moved to a place called Camp Robinson, out of town, home. So I asked them to take that down. corner by the school, and everybody was a guest in the ing out President and we’d just drive in every morning. Eisenhower’s orders house; they must have had 186 guests that first week. The to enforce a federal One of the kids, Jefferson Thomas, they called the those big black jump boots, and I caught him right above “MOVE A LITTLE FASTER.” National Guard or the cops would come and run ’em off, court ruling to inte- Roadrunner. He was a trackman. But they wouldn’t let the shin—and he went down hard. Years later some of the Now this was September, and it was hot. And really hu- and they’d say, “Nah, I’m a guest over in this house.” Blake grate Central High. him or the other kids compete in anything. And in foot- women who had been there at the time, I met them and mid. On the perimeter there would be a bunch of young decided he was gonna show everybody how to disarm a ball Central High was, like, 36 straight wins. They were they said, “Oh, you’re the one that kicked so-and-so down toughs, and later on they would try to get the kids when paratrooper. Talk about bad luck: Who was the guy he pretty good. Since we were there a few weeks, we’d go to the stairs. Oh, he was gonna get you. But nobody wanted they came through in different spots. We did that on pur- picked? Clifford May—he was in the last bayonet charge the games—and they would ignore us. So, one of our guys to mess with you.” So, that was good. But I wasn’t that pose. We’d get those young toughs running back and forth in modern history, at Pork Chop Hill in Korea. They started to act as a yell leader, and you’ve got 700 of us, we big—about 5-foot-10, weighed just under 180. and they’d just get exhausted. They never figured that one had run out of ammunition and they were right below a could make a lot of noise. So we’re all cheering for Central We didn’t have any animosity; we were just doing a out. I mean, you learn that in plane geometry: The short- Chinese bunker, and they knew up there was plenty of High, and it bugged the hell out of everybody. job. I’d come from California, though I was born in Ohio, est distance between two points is a straight line. I said, ammunition. So with about 20 guys, with bayonets, they Well, it all worked out well, and nobody got hurt—that Steubenville—my dad was a steelworker—but growing up “You guys oughta take a math class.” went in, and they did it—they took out the bunker. was a big thing. We had never been trained for anything I wasn’t used to this stuff. Although in Boston, when my One morning, across the street from school they hanged May told me about it later. “I’m standing there, Lieu- like that. Our guys, I thought, did really a good job. And grandfather was there, he remembered seeing signs that a straw figure and set it on fire. Anything they could do to tenant, you know, and it’s hot, I think, ‘God, I wish—’ All then because of that, they sent ’em other places, like Uni- said Irish need not apply. And I always say: When you’re try to scare those nine kids away. Even so, I think most of of a sudden, I look out, and this guy’s got the guard on versity of Alabama. jumping out of an airplane, it doesn’t matter what the the people in Little Rock were OK—they were fairly sophis- my rifle and he’s pulling on it.” So May does what you’re race is of the guy behind you. You just want to know if he ticated. There were the radicals from outside. There was supposed to: He just flips his rifle around and hits Blake A TOUGH YEAR knows how to fire his weapon and he’s got your back. A lot one guy named Jimmy “the Flash” Karam, from Atlanta; in the head with the butt. And of course Blake, he says, “I I was there in Little Rock about seven weeks. Left early No- of our officers were from the South, but they backed it up. he was a professional strike-breaker. He had all these sto- just got assaulted!” vember. About half of our unit was there longer. We turned They weren’t for it, but they did what they were supposed ries about how he was an All-American football player at Another time we were trying to push back some of it over to the National Guard, and then they did OK. But it’s to do, and that was get the kids in school, whatever it took. Auburn. But then he roughed up a Life magazine pho- them and we’ve got our bayonets forward to keep them kind of tough—you’re guarding your neighbor. So we got the kids inside, and they were all split up to go tographer. So then the newspaper comes out with his real moving, and this guy said, “I’m Southern. I don’t move For the kids, though, that was one hell of a tough year.

to their different classes. Each one of them had one of our story: “Jimmy ‘the Flash’ did go to Auburn, did try out for IMAGES BETTMANN/GETTY BY PHOTOGRAPHY fast.” Well, he got stuck in the arm with a bayonet. That In the halls or the stairwells, other kids would throw

38 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 39 rollers. Traci Lords, the porn ac- I used to do that all the time. Sometimes the kids would figure that out. He was a good rugby player. Our daughters tress, was from Steubenville, too. say, “Where am I from tonight, Lieutenant?” I’d always Sharon ’82 and Lisa ’83 live nearby. Sharon had her first I got a picture—fully clothed— have a guy be a local guy. And if it was in the South, I’d baby a few years ago. Little Emily is 6 now. Emily is fantas- that she autographed. She wrote: always try to make sure he was black. Because we had tic. She’s got a personality that won’t quit. “To Marty: We both made it out.” no segregation on the boxing team. We had a guy, Harry No, I’ve been blessed. I didn’t mind Steubenville. But Campbell, who fought on the Olympic team with Cas- we left Ohio in 1947 because my sius Clay. We had a good team. I took eight guys to the ALL THEY WANTED father lost his job. We moved to interservice, and I had eight in the finals. The kids from Little Rock—I still call them kids, but Fontana, California. Then An- This isn’t boxing, but there was one time I was at Fort they’re all in their 70s now. Only Jefferson Thomas isn’t tioch. Then Bella Vista, in Pitts- Knox for maneuvers. We were coming out of Catholic ser- still alive. He narrated an Academy Award–winning docu- burg. We were the only white vice and this guy salutes me, and I returned the salute. mentary about Little Rock and became an accountant family there. “At ease, son.” One of the guys I knew was with me and he with the Department of Defense. After the governor closed One place that I learned about said, “You know who that was just saluted you?” “No.” And the high schools, the kids found other places to go. Melba courage was in the boxing ring. he says, “That singer from Memphis, Elvis Presley. He got Pattillo was invited out to Santa Rosa, California, and went How good was I as a fighter? Oh, drafted. His career is over.” I said, “Well, maybe not.” to school and became a journalist, and then Melba Pat- I wasn’t any good. I started boxing I got out of the Army in 1959—after two years, seven tillo Beals went on to be a professor of communications at in college and there was one fight months, and 26 days. Went to work at Lockheed and they Dominican University. She used to call me every Septem- they described as being the bloodi- paid for my MBA at Santa Clara. But I didn’t like working ber and say, “Thanks for saving my life,” which I always est in that arena in history. Prob- for somebody else. I always liked the stock market, so I thought was cool. She’s written books about Little Rock, lem was, it was all my blood. Aris- became a stockbroker, started with Sutro. My classmates too. And one thing she said was, “My grandmother always totle said that our universities do a became very successful, and dragged me along with them. said, we got in a tight spot, we’d have a guardian angel.” wonderful job of teaching; the only But I didn’t leave boxing. And she said, “My guardian angel was a young paratroop- thing they don’t offer is a course Though I’ll say this: The human body wasn’t made for er by the name of Marty Sammon.” That was nice of her. on courage. Boxing is a course on football, boxing, or rodeo. I’ve been a judge and referee for courage. That’s why when the oth- decades. Started working in San Quentin in the ’70s, be- er colleges dropped it, the Jesuits fore I got a pro license. I figure I’ve probably judged about kept it. When I was 20, I wanted 10,000 fights by now. I’ve done 76 World Title fights. to be the light heavyweight cham- The most infamous fight I’ve ever done was back in 1992. pion of the world. When I was 22, Mark Gastineau, the football player, fought a guy named “My grandmother always said, I was looking for other avenues. Of Tim “Doc” Anderson, and the fight was fixed. They were course, when I was 23, I found my- gonna have Anderson lose so Gastineau could fight George we got in a tight spot, we’d have self in the Army. Foreman. I got wind of it, and I just told both of ’em, “If you I played football and ran track in don’t fight, you don’t get paid. And if somebody goes down a guardian angel ... My guardian college. I was a defensive end. But without getting hit, you’re not getting paid. You’re gonna Pat Malley moved me to defensive end up getting fined.” Anderson won, they had a rematch in angel was a young paratrooper by things at them or spray ink on them or kick them. After School daze: Marty back. There was no call for 175-pound defensive ends. But Oklahoma, and Anderson said someone poisoned him; he some of the other students picked a fight with Minnijean Sammon ’56, MBA I stuck with boxing in the Army. I had been in ROTC in ended up shooting the promoter. He’s still in prison. the name of Marty Sammon.” Brown—there was an incident with a bowl of chili in the ’63 (background, I’ve judged pro fights in the United States and in the center) and fellow college and went in after graduation in February 1957. Got cafeteria, and later some girls threw a purse at her and she members of the married to my sweetheart Rosemarie on a 15-day leave and Far East—Thailand, Japan, Korea. Been to Montreal and I also keep in touch with Terrence Roberts. He got his called them white trash. She got expelled that winter. But 101st Airborne then I took my wife on a wonderful honeymoon, to Fort London and Dublin, a couple of fights in Moscow and St. Ph.D. in psychology, helped run a hospital in Napa, then she was invited up to a special private school in New York look on while the Campbell, Kentucky. She had never been farther than Lake Petersburg. New Zealand and Australia—when I went was at UCLA, and now he’s a consultant. Gloria Ray went with a full scholarship. African American Tahoe. The first time she goes into the laundry she sees one there, my son, Michael, was playing rugby so I got to see on to become a patent attorney. Ernest Green was part of students they are The rest of the nine made it through the year. And that there to protect try sign that says colored and another one that says white. She him. The last one I did internationally was in Mexico, in the Carter administration and then a managing director May, Ernest Green received his diploma and became the to go about some thinks it’s for the clothes. No, it was for people. Guadalajara, in 2013. I got into a barroom brawl myself a with Lehman Brothers. Thelma Mothershed went and first black student to graduate from Central High. semblance of a There was none of that crap on post, but it was all over. couple of years ago. A guy made some crack about my son. taught in Illinois and then moved back to Little Rock. That wasn’t the end of it. The governor still hadn’t giv- normal day. I used to violate it all. I coached the post boxing team, and I’ve got boxes full of photos from over the years. There’s Elizabeth Eckford, she was only 15 that first year. She came en up on trying to keep the schools from integrating. But we’d go to Donaldson Air Force Base, which is Greenville, a picture of me with Muhammad Ali. I had it autographed back to Little Rock and became a social worker and a pro- the courts told him he had to. So instead, for the fall of South Carolina. Now, on post they couldn’t do any of that, in Vegas. He says, “What’s your name?” and I says, “Mar- bation officer. One day in ’57 after there had been a bomb 1958 he closed all the high schools in Little Rock. But that but I remember this one tournament, we were fighting ty.” And he says, “Where did we get this picture taken?” scare at the school we came back in force, she came up to couldn’t stop those kids. in some high school gym, and the guy running it said, “I and I says, “Las Vegas.” He signed it and he says, “God, I’m me and said, “I’m glad you’re back. They’re afraid of you.” hope you got no white boys fighting niggers.” pretty.” I says, “You sure are.” And he says, “You’re ugly.” I Minnijean Brown-Trickey, not too long ago she was teach- WHY WE FIGHT And I said, “Well, I’m fighting a guy named Prince.” He says, “I know, but I’m not as ugly as Joe Frazier.” And he ing a college class with my son’s sister-in-law, and I spoke It’s always fascinating where people are from and where said, “Well, you can’t do that here—it’s against the law.” I goes, “That’s my line! That’s my line!” there. She said she’s always been embarrassed, because the they go. I was born in 1934 in Ohio: Steubenville, 39 miles said, “Well, you don’t have a show, do you?” “But I already And I’ve got a picture of me and Joe Frazier. He could 101st saved her life, then she married a guy who was draft- downriver from Pittsburgh. It was a wide-open town when sold tickets.” “Well, you shouldn’t have sold tickets to a fight. You never had to go looking for Joe Frazier, you dodging the Vietnam War, and they moved to Canada! I was there: legalized gambling, legalized prostitution. show you couldn’t hold. You’ll learn that way.” PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY LOOK MAGAZINE know what I’m saying? Ten years ago, for the 50th anniversary, we all got to- Our town had only 38,000 people but you’ve probably When I had guys fighting for me, I’d change their name, There have been the movies, playing the ref in Million gether in Little Rock. And this year they are putting up heard of a couple. Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder was from or maybe I’d change where they were from. Like we’re in Dollar Baby with Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank. He’s a statue in front of the school to honor those kids’ strug- there. So was Dean Martin, who wanted to turn pro as a Greenville, so I ask one of my guys who’s black, “Can I from the East Bay, too. And she did all her own stunts. I gle. Go over to the state capitol and there’s a monument fighter, because he was a good boxer. He was singing at have you from Greenville?” was in The Rookie, with Charlie Sheen, too, and Flags of to them as well. Here’s the thing, though. All those kids the Half Moon Club, and they said, “Nah, stick with the So he’d be announced at the ring: From Greenville, Our Fathers. wanted to do is get a good education. They showed so singing.” His name was Dino Crocetti and he used to play South Carolina… Rosemarie has been my sweetheart for more than 60 much courage. They didn’t quit. the Olympic Cigar Store, which was about this big—but And the crowd would start cheering. years. We’re grandparents now. Our son passed away at age then they had the backroom with the wires, the tracks, the … Harold Brown! 39—that’s not supposed to happen. He was schizophrenic, MARTY SAMMON took time to tell us this story in May. He passed roulette wheels, and then upstairs the girls for the high- And they go, “Oh, shit.” and he got a pulmonary embolism and died in 2006. I can’t away in September. He was a man of courage.

40 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 41 The Lesson for Today

Education, data, and a Silicon Valley solution to help teachers better understand students in East San Jose and beyond. A conversation with John Matthew Sobrato ’10.

BY DORIAN LLYWELYN, S.J.

Dorian Llywelyn: You’ve been teaching history for six students. We read stories all the time about how the educa- years at Latino College Prep in East San Jose. So why tional institutions in the United States are crumbling and the foray into software? students are not being prepared properly. We want to be doing our part to work on correcting that and make teach- John M. Sobrato: As a teacher, being able to discern the ers stronger. identities of your students and really know who they are is essential to being an effective educator. That was drilled Llywelyn: It sounds like you’re bringing together into us through Santa Clara’s credentialing program. But interest in the technical stuff and concern for students. nothing is given to you to enable you to do that—unless But who are the people you brought together? you’re very proficient in Excel and have an infinite number of spare hours, which anybody in the education profession Sobrato: Greg Lambrecht ’10, our CEO, also went to Santa is going to tell you is ludicrous. Clara and we got our credentials together. He teaches Eng- Now, as a history teacher, I want to know: Do students lish at Fremont High School. Matt Pham, our chief tech- struggle with questions that involve contextualization? Do nical officer and programmer, went to Bellarmine College they struggle with argumentation and their ability to ar- Prep with us, then UCLA. Our chief financial officer, Ross ticulate what they’re advocating? Or do my students strug- Irmer, completed a certificate of accounting proficiency at gle with quantitative analysis, when they have to interpret Santa Clara. Along with Jesuit philosophy and caring about a map, or analyze a chart or a bar graph? I might give a social justice and the impact that education can have, we pre-assessment to begin the year. I notice, “They’re pretty also share an interest, in the educational sphere, to help- good at argumentation, but wow—the whole class is strug- ing people do their work with evidence. Teachers can make gling with quantitative reasoning.” So I can start designing “The teachers better decisions on behalf of their students. And it can be targeted mini-lessons that improve outcomes for them. who really done collaboratively; everything can be shared. impacted me Llywelyn: How does that lead to founding a company? Llywelyn: Santa Clara has put this software to use as were the ones part of our Thriving Neighbors Initiative at Washing- Sobrato: The software we created, Alloy Learning, is a fully who really ton Elementary in San Jose. What has that experience customizable online assessment tool. A teacher is able to understood been from your side? use this online platform, which is web-based, to give any me. They knew sort of assessment across any subject area. It allows teach- how my brain Sobrato: Being on the advisory board of the Ignatian Cen- ers to input whatever information they want to assess the ter, I was struck during the first meetings that I went to— worked.” students on—which means the assessments are more close- when they would talk about Thriving Neighbors and its ly aligned to the curriculum. Teachers get excited because —JOHN M. successes, and the data behind these successes. I remember they don’t have to do as much grading and can go paper- SOBRATO ’10 looking through the data and thinking, “Sure, this would less, and not waste as much time in class administering. I give you an indication that things might be working. But and the other team members realized the real power of the it’s kind of superficial.” One statistic noted how many hours software is the ability to understand your students better the students were in the program. “Great, but how do you through data. The tough thing for a teacher in the modern know they learned anything in those five thousand hours?” world is, you really have a heterogeneous classroom. There You need hard data around the skills a student was sup- are so many different identities at play: gender, race, so- posed to take away. I was excited that Alloy could fill in cioeconomic status, parent education level, special needs, that gap and allow Thriving Neighbors to take a really in- what students’ language acquisition level is. You have to be teresting after-school program around science, technology, able to drill down and know how to help them best. The engineering, and math and prove to stakeholders that it’s software automatically pulls that information from the working. Because if it’s working, we want to expand it, and school and makes it accessible to any teacher within the we want more people interested in investing in it. Plus, by school site. They can view all those facets of each student partnering with the University, that brings a valuable per- and support them and really help them achieve. spective for us—bringing college professors into the mix. We’re trying to empower educators: making teachers not only more efficient but more intentional. Too often in DORIAN LLYWELYN, S.J., is the executive director of the Ignatian education, without evidence and data, teachers don’t have Center for Jesuit Education, which runs the Thriving Neighbors

ILLUSTRATION BY LINCOLN AGNEW LINCOLN BY ILLUSTRATION to be intentional. That can lead to some bad outcomes for Initiative. Find out more about this cool program at scu.edu/ic.

42 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 43 BRONCO NEWS FLASHBACK Summer of Love. Jefferson Airplane with Paul Kantner ’63 and Jorma Kaukonen ’64 helped lay down the soundtrack. Releasing Surrealistic Pillow in February, they played Monterey Pop in

SCU ALUMNI NEAR AND FAR June—along with The Who, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Grateful Dead, and Jimi Hendrix—drawing tens of thousands. Where were

made out of materials that are going to last forever.” you? We asked. Here’s Bronco Flashback ’67. Retail firms require balancing profits and conscience. And Zwart credits her time at Santa Clara for helping her I lived in San Francisco during the infamous summer wrap her arms around the role of philanthropy and social of ’67! One memory I have is of going down to the justice in society. Now Zwart tries to navigate the currents Haight with Tom Inks ’62 to see what all the fuss was about! We also used to go to the Fillmore and Avalon of business and ethics. “Sustainability is complicated and Ballrooms for the music. I don’t have any pics of this there are so many approaches,” she says. “You need to opt time, but I do have a roach clip with a peace symbol in and choose what makes sense for your consumer and on it! We were in the middle of what would become a supply chain.” famous time and not even aware of it. Her conscientiousness about the mass production of Michele McEvoy ’66 soft goods—products made to be discarded within six months—led Zwart to ditch a lower-end jewelry line to One line I remember from my valedictory remarks: focus on creating work of more lasting value. Fundamen- “I don’t pretend to speak for all my classmates.” We tally, she says, jewelry should be something that endures. were a divided nation in a divided world. Not that we didn’t talk to one another. One friend was training to “Engagement jewelry is the pinnacle of that. It is such a be a helicopter pilot. Presumed destination: Vietnam. special thing; it is something that people will have for a The year 1967 was a year of turmoil, and that was what I lifetime and beyond.” reflected upon in my talk. We faced a world out of kilter. The Civil Rights Movement had triumphed legislatively, STEPPING STONES but it was clear there was lots more to be done. One area that Azlee has staked out is reinventing clients’ Michael Foley ’67 own jewelry. Is it thrilling to see A-list trendsetters draped in Azlee originals? Of course. But Zwart is also happy re- I spent that summer as a member of the 1st Marine Division returning again and again to a place called working the bracelet of a customer’s great-grandmother: Diamond in Quê Son in the southern portion of Quang Nam “We are taking it all apart, using all the diamonds, using Province. We fought battles with the North Vietnamese all the metal to create a whole new piece.” Army there that are only remembered by the survivors Rough Waters Does she worry about this offering cannibalizing her and military historians. Thankfully, some of us sur- business model? No, she says, because the Azlee brand vived and have revisited Quê Son to admire its postwar WORDS BY GIANNINA ONG ’18. AZLEE JEWELRY PHOTO BY BERNARD WOLF. BAYLEE ZWART ’10 PHOTO BY KARLA TICAS Diamonds are forever, as they say. So is the plastic Attuned to nature, shines through: “I never feel like I am selling a piece that beauty and to remember the dead, the wounded, and refuse Baylee Zwart ’10 spots bobbing in the waves she designer Baylee is not ours,” she says. the scarred. The only song I can recall that summer surfs. Based in Los Angeles, she designs fine jewelry with Zwart ’10 turned to Today, running a small and thriving business, she hand- was “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs; hand-pulled wire to a conscience. She has drawn celebrity fans; Zoë Kravitz selects her jewels and shows designs during New York and it’s a nonsense song, has a great beat, and was totally give a recent jewelry appropriate for that time and place. and Rihanna rock her Azlee Jewelry brand. Paris fashion seasons. As for her original inspiration, go line a sense of light Mike McDonell ’66 It was riding a Craigslist-bought surfboard that Zwart and energy. back to the first stone she worked with. While complet- first braved Southern California’s shoreline breaks. “The ing a major in communication and I wish I could say “Wow, what a summer. Spent it in ocean holds such a special place in my heart,” she says. She a minor in retail management at Golden Gate Park, high on pot, music, and love.” The comes by that honestly; she grew up in California and Col- Santa Clara, Zwart also spent time truth is I spent it studying for and taking the LSAT orado. The ocean inspires the jewelry that Zwart creates, abroad in Morocco. There she found and starting law school at SCU. Most of the summer and her company partners with ocean-related causes. a beautiful stone she wanted to put was in a library. I only tried pot once and nothing “We are involved with Surfrider,” she says. “We do a lot in the right hands. After graduating happened! Must not have inhaled like Bill Clinton. of beach cleanups, and awareness.” For the brand’s debut from college, she worked for a non- Had a special lady who later became my wife. Gary Shara ’67, J.D. ’70 line of minimalist earrings and chokers several years ago, profit goods producer in Guatemala Azlee donated 10 pounds of food to Sausalito’s Marine that tapped local artisans. She met a Although I returned to San Francisco after graduation, Mammal Center with each piece sold. metalworker who turned the tables attended SF State (full of guitar players, the smell of But here’s the rub. The average American daily dis- when she asked him to fashion a joy oil, and demonstrations—I unexpectedly found poses 5 pounds of waste—dumped in landfills, beaches, ring from her stone. He suggested myself in the front row of one!) to obtain a teaching and oceans. And the retail industry is part of the problem. Zwart try crafting the metal herself. credential, lived not far from the Haight, the Summer Zwart looks for solutions—schooled in part by a couple From there, she “fell madly in love of Love did not intrigue me. I think the novelty of it years she spent working on the sustainability initiative for with metalworking.” fascinated my parents more than it did me. Instead, philanthropic footwear company Toms Shoes. As she told , I would drive past the SF Conservatory of Music dreaming of attending it! “As consumers become more aware and ask good ques- that time in Guatemala—and boat Marilyn Belluomini ’67 tions, it really does push big companies to rethink what rides to and from work, with the sun they are doing,” Zwart says. “But it is hard when our entire playing on the water—later inspired world is based on fast fashion, disposable items that are all a collection. She named it Light. ’18 MANDELL LINDSEY AND ’18 DEUTSCH GABBY BY CATCHING STORY Read more, share your story: magazine.scu.edu

44 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 45 BRONCO NEWS ARTS BRONCO NEWS ALUMNI How Do You Lead? Major General Garrett S. REBEL REBEL Yee ’87 heads up modernization of the global IT network for the U.S. Army. Now based at the Pen- tagon, he has been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait—traveling extensively in Asia, from

Rebel Prequel: Qatar to Kazakhstan. He was back on campus in Before joining Star Wars Rebels and June as guest of honor at the commissioning cer- bringing characters UNQUAKEABLE In April, Joe Can- like Sabine Wren non ’98 became only the tenth player emony of new officers in the Bronco Battalion. to the screen, inducted into the San Jose Earthquakes Caroline Robinson Hall of Fame. Hailed as one of the top What advice do you give young officers? ’08 worked at goalkeepers in Santa Clara’s program One, be a gracious person. Be thoughtful. You DreamWorks for don’t have to be the person who answers every history, he went on to become a two- seven years. question. It’s OK to listen a bit, to be humble. time Major League Soccer Goalkeeper Your job is to be out there taking charge, but of the Year and MLS All-Star team mem- how do you combine that with humility? The ber—helping lead the Quakes to their last one is just to smile, enjoy life. These young first MLS Cup victory in 2001. A 15-year officers have their whole lives ahead of them. pro soccer veteran, he’s now out of the We have no idea where they’re going, and they box and leading from the sidelines as have no idea where they’re going—but they have head coach of the Earthquakes’ premier an amazing foundation here. Striding into her San Francisco 4, she says. “We have wolves. Wolves development league affiliate, Burlin- Your family history reveals a complicated game Dragons FC. office every day, Caroline Robinson are incredibly complex for animation. relationship with America. ’08 sees a sign featuring the iconic The way they walk, the way they run, I didn’t find out until about three years ago Star Wars opening crawl, A long time it’s all very complicated.” So teams that both of my grandmothers lost their U.S. ago in a galaxy far, far away. “Every need to be assigned—which means citizenship when they got married. I grew up in Fremont. My mom is Japanese, my dad time I pass that sign, I get chills,” she less time and money for other as- Chinese. I grew up knowing that my Chinese says. Two years ago, Robinson joined pects of the episode. Robinson helps grandmother—who I lived with for a period of Star Wars Rebels, an animated tele- the creative team prioritize and keep time during college—lost her U.S. citizenship vision series on Disney XD. Star things in balance. Working creatively when she married my grandfather, who was born in China. My grandmother and my great- Wars Rebels lives in the gap between in an iconic universe like Star Wars grandmother were both born in the United Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. is a big responsibility, but Robinson States—and yet the second generation later, you The Star Wars universe is filled with says the animated series gets a lot of marry someone and you lose your citizenship. epic stories, and as associate pro- creative freedom. What about her fa- In the 1940s they repealed the Asian ducer, Robinson has a mission to vorite character? A tough call, Robin- Exclusion Act of the 1800s. And in the 1950s my grandmother went back to school. Not ensure those stories are told true son says. But she loves Sabine Wren KICK OF COLOR This season, Jordan Angeli ’08 works as the radio high school—she had about a second-grade to the Star Wars vision—while em- (above), a strong female role model. education. But she studied and she took the test color analyst for the Colorado Rapids to become a U.S. citizen once again. That was ploying the Force to meet produc- “When I see our show, first of all I home games alongside play-by-play tion schedule and budget. There, the watch it as a fan,” Robinson says. “I’m very important for her. commentator Conor McGahey. “To be On my mom’s side, something similar: My devil is in the details. Take Season so proud of what we make.” asked as a female to call a men’s MLS grandmother was born in the United States and game speaks to how much the game STAR WARS REBEL IMAGE COPYRIGHT LUCASFILM LTD. EDWIN WALLET IMAGE COURTESY HIVE DESIGN. she married someone from Japan. They were has grown in the U.S.,” she says. While both arranged marriages. She lost her U.S. citi- at SCU, Angeli played on the Under-20 zenship. In the 1940s, during the war, my mom and Under-23 U.S. national teams, go- and her family were all interned at a relocation ing on to play pro soccer for four years. camp in Gila, Arizona: Get rid of all your stuff, get a few boxes, and go to the desert. My aunt was She spent 2016 broadcasting on screen born in the internment camp. My great-uncle Make pocket as host of “Colorado Rapids Live.” served in the 442nd; your family’s interned in a camp, yet family members were serving our THE GUARD OF MANTUA JORDAN ANGELI ’08 AND JOE CANNON ’98 PHOTOS BY GETTY IMAGES country. He earned the Purple Heart. All those change. Italy called, and Jared Brownridge 442nd guys all have multiple combat injuries ’17 answered: The Santa Clara men’s because they just kept going back and back and Shane rogers m.s. ’13 wasn’t a fan of traditional wallets. basketball alumnus signed a contract back. When I got promoted to brigadier general, He liked the functionality that a binder clip offered when to play for Pallacanestro Mantova in the for my mom it was so remarkable: Here she was, in her lifetime, in an internment camp— northern Italian city of Mantua. Brown- it came to holding his cash. How to improve on that? As cre- and then her son is promoted to general officer ative director and co-founder of Hive Design, Rogers got to work ridge, a three-time, first-team All-West in the Army. Coast Conference choice, ended his with his director of engineering, Brian Holm ’00, to develop the career ranked second on SCU’s all-time Funded by Pentagon view: edwin wallet—named after writer and inventor Edwin Baltzley, whose scoring list and fourth in league history, son, Louis, invented the binder clip to help his dad hold manuscripts. The a successful “Santa Clara has Kickstarter with 2,313 points. He also ranks first an amazing roster edwin wallet is simple in its design: a single piece of durable steel—no screws, campaign, the in Santa Clara history in 3-point field of leaders,” says nuts, or bolts—with a clamp to hold up to 10 cards and a binder clip arm that edwin wallet raised goal percentage, second in 3-pointers Garrett Yee. snaps down to keep cash safe. There’s radio-frequency identification (RFID) $37,545. The Classic made (385), and fourth in free-throw More questions blocking built in, keeping credit cards secure from scammers. 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46 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 47 BRONCO NEWS ARTS BRONCO NEWS ALUMNI Firenze and Me. The luminaries that Christina Mifsud ’93 has guided on tours of Florence, Italy, include Tom Brokaw and U.S. senators Chuck Shenzhen, China— Schumer and the late Ted Kennedy. Living in France where SCU held its first send-off for and Italy for nearly 25 years has equipped Mifsud future Broncos this summer. And the with an arsenal of Romance languages. But it is newly launched Hong Kong Alumni BRONCO PRIDE It had been more Chapter hosted teaching the life of Michelangelo to young minds than a decade since Karl Kuehn ’06 an event at the came to cheer at a Santa Clara bas- exclusive Helena that sums up what her bella vita has become. ketball game. On Feb. 23, 2017, when May club in August. SCU faced off against University of the Christina Mifsud is in love with shed- Pacific, he made it back. First up: a pre- ding light on all things Michelangelo, game social with food and drinks. It was including the biography of this man who Pride Night and he was proud. “It was a lived until almost 90. One side to him that most folks miss: He suffered from way for me to be involved in a new and bouts of “melancholy,” arthritic issues, and exciting lens,” Kuehn says. Pride Night a terrible autoimmune disease affecting was one of the first events hosted by his skin. Although his contemporaries the LGBTQ+ alumni group. It all started dubbed him Il Divino (the Divine One), at Grand Reunion with an anonymous “living with such talent is not always a donation of $10,000. Kuehn, who is a blessing,” Mifsud says. teacher, encourages students to be- Mifsud’s most beloved tour, “Michelan- come Broncos. “I have a special place SHENZHEN SKY gelo: His Life and Legacy,” looks at both for SCU in my heart,” Kuehn says. “Any his crowning achievements and the art Zack zhuang ’20 says Silicon Valley didn’t seem real when he lived in China. he created as a teen. “It’s important for way I can get involved and shed light on “It was like only in my imagination,” Zhuang says. “I had no idea what it looked today’s young students to see works this fantastic university, I try to do that.” like.” A year later, Zhuang can confirm Silicon Valley is real, because now it’s Michelangelo completed before he was home. Zhuang participates in hackathons and competitions at Google. He 17,” she says. “They’re considerably more sophisticated than the great David itself.” even works for the Office of Admission, controlling its social media accounts Mifsud first bit into the idea of living in China. Zhuang wanted incoming students from China to have a similar outside of California thanks in part to positive transition. This summer, Zhuang hosted a two-day send-off for future gelato. Eric Apfelstadt, who served as an Broncos in Shenzhen, China. The event, sponsored in part by the Office of associate dean in SCU’s College of Arts and Sciences and later directed the Rome Global Engagement, offered rising first-year students a chance to socialize and Center at Loyola University Chicago, had learn about college life. Zhuang’s best advice? Get involved. “We told them what given a lecture on The Eternal City and kind of clubs you can join and what kind of activities you might be interested was expressing his fondness for shops in,” Zhuang says. The group also indulged in dim sum, played laser tag, and near the Pantheon—including a gelateria. BUILDING BUDS Standing inside completed an Escape the Room exercise. The send-off was another example of In that moment, Mifsud saw art as a way a machine normally 20 feet under an emerging international presence for SCU. The Alumni Association recently to study history and culture. “It was my water, thousands of gallons of water Bryan Donaldson passport to the world,” she says. filling it,Taylor Thorn ’08 gazed at ’09 traveled to the launched chapters in Hong Kong, Guam, and Manila. After studying abroad in Rome and something few see: the inner work- Netherlands to graduating with a degree in art, she ings of the Penitencia Water Treatment study the sensory enrolled in Syracuse University’s Florence team at Heineken, Plant. “It’s tucked in the hills,” Thorn graduate program in Italian Renaissance which is one of the art history. That led to work as a lecturer says. “You rarely think about it, but biggest in the world. and adjunct professor—and a decade of now the 20 people [who visited] there guiding SCU students on the “Dr. Vari probably think about it a little more.” Tour of Florence.” That was in honor of The SCUBBA (Santa Clara University Victor Vari, who taught Italian and other Brewed Innovation Bronco Builders Association) alumni What’s on tap at Lagunitas? Ask into his senior year at SCU, he worked languages for 66 years at Santa Clara. He group is about 10 years old and brings died in 2014 at age 94. together alumni interested in construc- Bryan Donaldson ’09. As brewing a summer job at a biochemistry lab In 2007, after 800 hours of coursework innovation manager, Donaldson helps and met a guy who home-brewed. He and written and oral exams, Mifsud quali- tion. In addition to Penitencia, they recently toured the Family Justice develop what’s next for the Petaluma, did some research and found he could fied for a special license as an authorized WORDS BY ALICIA GONZALES ’09. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GETTY IMAGES tour guide for Florence. Living five miles Center in San Jose and Golden State California–based brewing company— study brewing through a master’s from major museums, she counts herself Brewery. “Anybody who wants to learn everything from improving produc- program at UC Davis. After graduate lucky to never be far from Michelangelo’s about or might get into the business is tion processes to brainstorming with school, he worked at Lagunitas before UNESCO World Heritage works. “For me, welcome,” Thorn says. brewmasters as they develop new rec- becoming a brewer at Sierra Nevada. it is all about how I can experience the grandeur of Renaissance buildings—the ipes for beer. He doesn’t just want to He returned to Lagunitas four years art and the history—in minutes,” she says. make popular beer but something ago to work as a sensory manager, a “It may be a more modest lifestyle, but that fits the company and its cus- new position that teaches people to it is the high quality of that lifestyle that tomers—exploring the latest in taste beer for quality purposes. “They suits me.” David replica al fresco, hops, barley, yeast. He can even let me go free to build this program,” in a Florence piazza. suggest fruits or other natural Donaldson says. “There were a lot Christina Mifsud says products the brewmasters can of challenges, but it was also very re- creator Michelangelo play with. “That is really the warding.” So what beer does Donald- believed it was “best that he never married” fun part of the job,” Donaldson son’s palate prefer? He likes “A Little —popes and patrons says. Getting a palate like Don- Sumpin’ Sumpin’,” but says his favorite demanded so much.

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Jeopardy! winner, he lives with his wife York. ¶ Chicago attorney Steve Smith Preparatory and will be hitting his six- Morales J.D. traveled to Poland last fall diversity in the legal profession. ¶ Kath- and children in Santa Monica, California. J.D. has launched Legal Ally, a law firm year term limit in June 2018. He also to teach American constitutional and erine McLain J.D. is corporate counsel ¶ Vincent Price has become tenth presi- assisting startups, women-owned busi- is chief accounting officer and control- criminal law at a Polish law school. for Stripe in San Francisco. Previously, dent of Duke University after serving as nesses, and LGBT entrepreneurs. He is ler for Salesforce.com in San Francisco, she held legal and compliance roles in University of Pennsylvania provost since also a member of the LGBT chamber of where he recently celebrated 14 years with Meghan Ackley private and public companies. She lives 2009. Previously, he was the Steven H. commerce. the company. ¶ Fred Hamel has pub- 1991 is among the Eng- with her family in Castro Valley. ¶ Alice Chaffee Professor of Communication in lished Choice and Agency in the Writing lish as a Second Language faculty at the Busching Reynolds J.D. is senior advisor the Annenberg School for Communica- Edythe De Marco, a Workshop: Developing Engaged Writers, International Office of the University of to Gov. ’59 on climate, envi- tion and a political science professor. 1981 wealth management Grades 4–6, through Teachers College Texas at Austin. She speaks French, Ger- ronment, and energy. She was deputy sec- Price received his Ph.D. and master’s de- advisor, was named one of America’s top Press, about what happened when he and man, Czech, and English and has taught retary for law enforcement and counsel at grees from Stanford. His scholarly work 100 women financial advisors by Barron’s a fourth-grade teacher created a weekly abroad in the Czech Republic for four the California Environmental Protection focused on public opinion in politics. Wife for 2017. A certified financial planner, she writing workshop that allowed students years. ¶ Laura Callagy is a care manager Agency since 2011. Annette Price ’81 has worked in event has worked at Merrill Lynch in Provi- greater autonomy. Hamel is a professor in at Sage Eldercare Solutions and has been planning at the Annenberg Public Policy dence, Rhode Island, for 35 years. the School of Education at University of involved in the elder care industry for Terry Carroll J.D. Center at Penn. Puget Sound. over 20 years. She and husband Mark live 1994 has been named REUNION YEAR in Foster City with their five children. ¶ copyright counsel for IBM. ¶ Greg De- Greg Pruett and Laura (Thompson) Associate Professor of Mathematics Kar- Pasquale J.D. is senior vice president, Shine on: At Danny Liebertz 1982 SolarCity, Travis his wife, Claudia Belotti Pruett ’83, Donohue has a rolyne Fogel received the 2017 President’s general counsel, and secretary at Copart, joined Yarrow 1986 Walker ’00 says he 2000 had a busy May celebrating their 31st tax practice, Donohue & Associates, and Award for Teaching Excellence at Califor- a publicly traded company providing on- focuses on finding Bay Plastic Surgery as a facial plastic and wedding anniversary and the nuptials of works as a certified clinical hypnotherapist. nia Lutheran University on April 25. The line vehicle auction services. ¶ Dushyant and training top reconstructive surgeon for the Kirkland, their eldest child, Gregory, in Monterey. She and her boyfriend, Jason, live in Grass Thousand Oaks resident teaches upper divi- Sukhija MBA wrote an article for News- talent and helping Washington–based practice. Liebertz and The couple are empty nesters in Stock- Valley, California. ¶ Stephen Gronows- sion electives for math majors, classes for Max that examined then President-elect them take care his wife look forward to becoming in- of their families ton, California, where Greg is involved in ki J.D. and wife, Katy (Mortezai) non-majors, and directs the mathematics Donald Trump’s prominent policy com- financially—while volved in the community and enjoying ev- management of the family’s farming and Gronowski J.D./MBA ’87, are in private single subject program for those planning mitments, noting how they’d be both a saving the world. erything the great Pacific Northwest has food processing businesses in the San practice in Walnut Creek. Stephen spe- to become high school math teachers. ¶ blessing and a curse for businesses. He is to offer! ¶ Travis Walker writes, “I am Joaquin Valley. cializes in transactional real estate. Katy is Mark Silacci MBA says he’s lost count of the author of The Cisco Way: Leadership blessed with an amazing team at work, a certified specialist in family law and has how many times his business, Swenson Lessons Learned from One of the World’s a great support system at home, and the Following a nation- taught law school courses in family law & Silacci, has won the Readers’ Choice Greatest Technology Services Companies. skill set I developed while attending SCU. 1983 wide search, Todd and community property. They live with Award for best florist. The shops earned Because of this, I was promoted to re- Howeth J.D. was appointed chief public their children in Alamo, California. Their the distinction again this year. Founded Chris Rabang gional sales VP of Southern California at defender for Ventura County. With 27 years oldest daughter, Madeline Gronowski in 1945, the business has retail stores in 1995 oversees resort op- SolarCity, a Tesla company.” of experience with the county, Howeth’s of- ’21, is an incoming Bronco. Salinas and Monterey, as well as the web- erations, strategic planning, and owner fice defends minors and adults in felony based OnlineFlowers.com. relations as the new general manager of Garret Murai J.D. and misdemeanor cases. Howeth lives REUNION YEAR the Westin Nanea Ocean Villas in Ha- 2001 has been recognized with his wife, Marty, and has three chil- 1987 Avis Bishop- REUNION YEAR waii. The resort opened in April. as a JD Supra website top author in con- dren: Sarah, Jacob, and India. ¶ Wayne Thompson J.D. is an attorney with De- 1992 Haydée Alfonso struction and insurance through its inau- Repich has received associate design- Cotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin. She has J.D./MBA is general counsel and man- Terentius Banuelos gural Readers’ Choice Awards. build professional certification from the been nominated to the Superior Court in aging attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid, a 1996 writes, “There is no Matt Aubertine PRESIDENT Design-Build Institute of America. He is New Jersey by Gov. Chris Christie. ¶ Dana firm with over 140 attorneys and advocates time frame for pursuing your dreams. I REUNION YEAR 1980 retired from IBM PRICE the director of client services at the New Curtis J.D. was the keynote speaker at the providing free legal assistance to low- have traveled the world, started a family, SHOT CALLER 2002 Kristina Lawson in Austin, Texas, after over 30 years. ¶ “I’m thrilled to be York City office of Dewberry. Repich has 2017 San Francisco Peacemaker Awards income clients. She joined the organiza- and I am working at my career. Never too From SCU to J.D. joined Hanson Bridgett as a partner E. Scott Douglas J.D. ’83 is celebrating part of Duke at a more than 34 years of experience in real for Community Boards of San Francisco. tion in 2008. ¶ After 23 years in Wash- late to keep in touch, just find me on so- SJSU, with stop- in its Walnut Creek and San Francisco of- his 20th year as a full-time legal media- moment in time estate, finance, and development. She is Santa Clara Law’s new director of ington, D.C., and 12 years with AARP, cial media.” overs at UC Santa fices, where she specializes in land use and tor. Since forming Douglas Mediation in when this nation conflict resolution programming. ¶ Peter Greg Macias ’92 is relocating to New York Barbara and environmental law. Previously, she was a 1997, he has resolved over 2,700 disputes and world need Retired Colonel Bart Phung Phu Nghiem M.S. ’14, Ph.D. ’17 City to serve as chief operating officer for REUNION YEAR the U.S. Naval partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. nationally involving Financial Industry universities more 1984 Howard served as a was awarded a Ph.D. in computer science sageusa.org, the nation’s leading advocacy 1997 Jeree Glasser- Academy, Steve ¶ Brian Pokorny is a general partner of SV Regulatory Authority securities actions than ever,” said military history guest lecturer on a Viking and engineering after completing his the- organization for older LGBT Americans. ¶ Hedrick was appointed California’s dep- O’Brien ’98 has Angel, a San Francisco–based seed fund. and commercial litigation matters. He Vincent Price ’79, Ocean Cruises ship sailing the Mediter- sis, “Towards Efficient Resource Provi- Patricia J. Vaughn MBA ’98 has been VP uty treasurer for Retirement Security and become expert at He was previously at Airbnb, where he lives and works in Manhattan Beach, Cal- Duke’s newly ap- ranean. While on board, he befriended sioning in Hadoop.” of finance and planning at Chevron’s Mid- Housing Policy. In this position, Glasser- running athletics joined via an acquisition of DailyBooth/ ifornia. ¶ Karen (Sly) Flynn retired af- pointed president. fellow Broncos Steve Silvestri ’75, MBA stream headquarters since February 2016. Hedrick plays an important role in trans- departments. Batch—a social media startup that Po- ter 31 years with the Sacramento County “We need educat- ’77 and Dick Lambert ’76, MBA ’79. Chantal Eldridge forming and enacting housing policy in As a Bronco, korny led for three years as CEO. Public Defender’s Office, serving as chief ed and thoughtful, “What a small Bronco world!” he writes. 1989 J.D. has been a suc- Lena Sousa Day California. ¶ Autumn Mortenson writes, he lettered in assistant for 14 years. She and husband, inclusive com- ¶ Helen Valine M.A. ’89 is excited to cessful trial attorney and managed her 1993 M.A. published A “I am excited to announce that I earned cross-country and James Goodnow Dan, are proud of their sons, John Flynn munities of people serve on the board for Jesuit Graduate own practice for more than 20 years. Since Journey Through My Soul (Poems from an MFA in dance from UC Irvine in June earned Most In- 2003 co-authored Mo- ’16, a freelance writer, and Jimmy Flynn who are dedicated Admission Professionals, which supports moving to Texas, she has defended felony My Youth) with Outskirts Press. The verse 2016 and am now teaching at several col- spirational Athlete tivating Millennials, which hit No. 1 in

’18, editor in chief of The Santa Clara. ¶ to identifying and admission members of Jesuit colleges and and misdemeanor criminal defendants PHOTOGRAPHY BY DUKE UNIVERSITY in this volume ranges from her teenage leges in Southern California.” honors in 1997. three categories on Amazon, including Patricia Mahan J.D. has been elected to solving our most universities, shares best practices, and and worked extensively with defendants years through adulthood and expresses business management. Goodnow is a the Santa Clara City Council. She was for- challenging promotes professional development. with mental health and intellectual devel- the excitement of early relationships, Steve O’Brien member of the management committee merly mayor of Santa Clara (2002–2010) problems.” opment issues as well as their families. friendship and betrayal, and desperately 1998 has taken over as at Fennemore Craig, one of the oldest and and owns a private practice for tax and es- Joe Allanson writes missing a loved one stationed overseas. deputy director of athletics at San Jose largest law firms in the western United tate planning. Mahan is married to John 1985 he is thrilled to join Heidi Flaherty re- ¶ Nahal Iravani-Sani J.D. received the State University after serving as executive States. He is also a graduate of Harvard Boyles, a retired San Jose police sergeant. the board of trustees at the University of 1990 tired with her hus- 2016 Diversity Award at the Santa Clara director of the Bronco Bench Foundation. Law School and provides legal and po- They have one son, Colin, who attends San Francisco. Allanson continues serv- band to Bodega Bay, California, after 33 County Bar Association Judge’s Night for ¶ Scott Wiley writes, “I am now a private litical analysis for national broadcast and

the Culinary Institute of America in New ing as a trustee at St. Ignatius College rewarding years in Silicon Valley. ¶ Chris IMAGES GETTY BY PHOTOGRAPHY commitment and leadership in promoting client advisor at City National Bank.” print media, including CNN, CNBC, and

52 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 53 BRONCO NEWS LIVES JOINED BRONCO NEWS CLASS NOTES Boy Meets Girl. More specifically, Kevin Leath- am ’13 meets Ashley Mitcheom ’13, during their the Washington Post. ¶ Grace Hu-Morley Lives Joined Births & MBA is director of product management first year of high school. First comes friendship, at Prysm Inc., delivering next-generation Molly Scudder ’07 married Kyle Haynes digital workplace solutions for enhanced with Kevin serving as Ashley’s closest “guy friend” on July 25, 2015, in Sonoma. The wedding Adoptions enterprise collaboration. She writes, “My party included Annie Scudder Gabillet Steve Nash ’96 and wife Lilla Frederick expertise is in bringing first-generation until senior year. The two start dating. Next ’06, Lauren (Martinez) Britts ’07, and welcomed the birth of their 8-pound products to market—I lead teams to cre- comes SCU. The big day: March 25, 2017, they Brooke Simonson ’07. The couple lives son, Luca, on July 19. ate winning strategies for the early stages in Lafayette, Indiana. Molly earned her of the technology adoption lifecycle.” ¶ tie the knot in Mission Santa Clara, with Dorian Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in Emree Syrah Gaylord was born to April Sameer Khedekar J.D. was promoted to 2014 and is an assistant professor of po- Valenzuela Gaylord ’00 and University managing partner of Pearl Law Group in Llywelyn, S.J., presiding. litical science at Purdue University. of San Diego alumnus Timothy Gaylord San Francisco, which handles the immi- on April 27. The couple married on April gration needs of some of the world’s lead- It was the first nuptial Mass at Santa Marcella (Reynolds) Beasley ’08 and 7 at Pajaro Dunes Beach in California. ing companies. ¶ Shannon Pierce J.D. is Clara for Fr. Dorian, who arrived at SCU Travis Patrick Beasley wed on December director in the Reno office of Fennemore in August 2016 to serve as executive director of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit 10, 2016, in Fresno, California. In her Kevin Ireland ’02 and family Craig. She practices employment defense Education. He soon befriended Ashley’s bridal party was fellow alumna Amanda welcomed their first child, Nicholas and commercial litigation and was named mother, Lisa Mitcheom, who serves on Lowrey ’08. William Ireland, on January 5. “Legal Elite” by Nevada Business maga- the advisory board of the Center and as- zine. ¶ San Francisco Business Times has sists the Thriving Neighbors Initiative for San Jose’s Greater Washington area. After seven years of dating, Abram Callie (Reger) Abrahamowicz ’04 and named Aaron Waxman one of its 2017 40 It wasn’t long before Ashley’s mom ’08 and Cristina Ramos ’10 married on husband Andrew welcomed daughter under 40 award winners. Part of the lead- suggested that Fr. Dorian officiate her April 15. The wedding party included Kaibrie Anne on Nov. 17, 2016. She joins TAKE MY ership team for wealth management firm daughter’s wedding. Dinner was arranged fellow Broncos Ryan Romanchuk ’08, big sister Ainslie. The family resides in ADVICE B|O|S, Waxman has helped shape the vi- at local Italian eatery Mio Vicino for the David Stanton ’08, Greg Moore ’08, Bellevue, Washington. To succeed in sion for a company considered a top reg- priest, the couple, and the parents. “We clicked with Fr. Dorian right away,” Michael Laubenthal ’08, Megan Lyons tech, Cape Ana- istered investment advisor and financial Ashley recalls. “He truly cared about our ’08, and Nicole Ramos ’12. Matthew D. Barnette ’06 and wife lytics CEO Ryan advisor by Forbes and Financial Times. story and marriage, and we had such a Mattie T. Robertson welcomed their Kottenstette ’04 Outside of work, he enjoys reading, draw- great time getting to know him. He kept Carly Pedersen ’08 exchanged vows with daughter, Miranda Thea Barnette, to advises: “Focus ing, and pillow fighting with his two chil- us entertained with hilarious anecdotes of some ceremonies he had performed.’” Scott H. Adams in Pebble Beach Sept. 24, the world and the Bronco community on market seg- dren—and walking his dog, Mr. Wilson. During their first year at SCU, Kevin 2016. Carly is a cost control analyst for on May 28. ment and prob- lived in Swig Hall, and Ashley next door Pebble Beach Resorts, and Scott is a PGA lems that need Marie Bordeleau in Dunne. The proximity suited them, as golf professional. Leslie (Maglione) Jensen ’06, J.D. solving; what’s M.A. is principal the couple had just graduated from De La 2004 Salle and Carondelet in Concord—Catho- ’09 and her husband, James, welcomed sexy is not always of Saint Hilary Catholic School in Tibu- lic high schools with campuses across the On April 29, Kelli (McCormick) Taylor their second child, Eleanor (Ellie) Ma- lucrative. And ron and is also entering her second year street from each other. ’09 and Michael Taylor ’09 were married rie, on Dec. 19, 2016. Ellie joins big sis- don’t let your ego as a Creighton University doctoral student After living in Menlo Park for four at The Club at Ruby Hill in Pleasanton. ter Samantha, 3, as the latest San Jose be an impediment studying interdisciplinary leadership. Her years, the newlyweds are now based in Danville, closer to their families, includ- Alumni in the bridal party included Emily Sharks fan in the family. to building an ef- son, Charlie, is enjoying second grade at ing Ashley’s sister, Lauren (Mitcheom) Stewart ’09, Katrina (Bakamus) Stump fective team—be Saint Hilary’s. ¶ Ryan Kottenstette is co- Jenkins ’10, and her husband, Spencer ’09, Hana Francisco ’11, Chad Dupic ’09, Lauren (Feeney) Brown ’07 and Co- self-reflective founder and CEO of Cape Analytics. He Jenkins ’11. Ashley credits the close-knit Brian Belcher ’09, Derek Brown ’09, lin Brown welcomed their son, Henry about where you recently was a featured speaker at the Santa Clara environment for strengthen- Jason Cook ’09, and the bride’s brother, Feeney Brown, on Feb. 16. Henry was excel, and hire key School of Engineering’s Lunch with an ing the sisters’ sense of “togetherness.” “We have lasting SCU friendships with Broncos Michael McCormick III ’13. The wed- delivered by Sara Pauk ’07 in Seattle, players who are Entrepreneur. ¶ Daniel McKinnon J.D. who have graduated before us and after ding was officiated by the bride’s uncle, Washington. complementary.” is a partner at Ropers Majeski. ¶ Angel- us,” she says. Matthew McCormick ’87. Kelli is a psy- ica Nohemi Quinonez was selected for Among the 250 guests at the wedding chologist and an adjunct professor at Santa Christopher Sebastiani ’07 writes, the position of assistant head of school were Kevin’s grandparents, Lorraine and John Leatham ’60, who married Clara’s School of Education and Counsel- “Robyn Sebastiani ’06 and I wel- for mission at Mercy High School in San young and lived on campus while John ing Psychology, and Michael is senior di- comed two new Broncos to our fam- Francisco. She is responsible for the in- attended SCU, attending Mass together rector of market development at Addepar. ily on March 4! Our twin girls, Reagan tegration of the Sisters of Mercy charism in the Mission—which made the couple’s They live in Los Gatos with their dog, Milo. Rose and Harper Hanson, were born and will oversee the school’s mission inte- own Mission ceremony all the more meaningful. WORDS BY ALICIA GONZALES ’09. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN JOLIN healthy at 11:13 p.m. and 11:20 p.m. We gration and vision alignment. During the reception at the Menlo On Oct. 16, 2016, Kendall Paige Fishman can’t wait for what the future holds for Circus Club, they displayed an SCU flag ’11 and Wills Herbert Haller Fallon ’11 these beautiful girls and look forward to Jennifer Cheng at the bar—a trend alumni report pop- married in Pebble Beach, California. The including them in our SCU community.” J.D. is vice presi- ping up at Bronco weddings near and 2005 far. Ashley and Kevin, plus more than 30 two met at orientation in 2007. Kendall dent and general counsel at Adverum Santa Clara friends, made sure to snap a works as an analyst relations manager at Kristina Chiapella Poulter ’09 and Biotechnologies, where she has worked photo with the banner to commemorate Zendesk and Wills is a senior technical Stuart Poulter ’08 of Pacific Grove wel- since 2015. Previously, she served as patent their University years together. revenue accountant at Uber. They live comed their first child, Ella Catherine, counsel at global pharmaceutical company and play in San Francisco. into the world on March 24. Allergan and at biotechnology companies. All in the family: Ashley and Kevin ¶ Christine M. Pham J.D. ’11 was named exchanged vows in Kenneth Murata ’11 and Lindsay Lee Cherie (Motobu) Lambrecht ’09 and a 2017 honoree of the Silicon Valley Busi- the Mission. Kevin’s ’12 were married on March 5 at Kualoa Greg Lambrecht ’10 welcomed their ness Journal’s 40 under 40. Pham works grandparents also Ranch on the island of Oahu. They were first child, Claire, on March 17. Scott for NASA at the Ames Research Center attended Mass here as newlyweds. blessed to have family and friends attend, Motobu ’13 is thrilled to be an uncle for and serves as an attorney-advisor in the of- some of whom were SCU alumni. the first time. fice of the chief counsel.

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Timithie (Gould) as props to symbolize sources of power Marathon with a time of 2:32:10. ¶ Me- first week, it was the No. 1 new release in a 2017 Wonderful Public Service Graduate 2006 Norman is cel- and the challenges of accessing it. ¶ In Au- lissa Wheeler Hoff J.D. is an associate at African poetry on Amazon. Amuchie is fellow. A Sikh-American daughter of im- ebrating her second work anniversary gust, Michael Becerra MBA participated the family law firm of Cordell & Cordell a social justice attorney and a fellow of migrant farmers and a Fresno, California, with the Catholic Community Foundation in SeaPaddle NYC, a 25-mile paddleboard in Foster City. ¶ Manav Jaiswal M.S. ’16 the If/When/How Reproductive Justice native, Bhullar is earning dual master’s of Los Angeles, a new operation headed by race that raises awareness for autism and and computer engineering advisors Nam Fellowship Program at URGE: Unite for degrees in social work and public health executive director and SCU regent emeritus environmental preservation. ¶ Rachel Ling and Yuhong Liu received the Best Reproductive & Gender Equity. ¶ Jas- at UCLA. After completing her master’s Kathleen (Habing) Anderson ’72 and SCU Kowert M.A. wrote A Parent’s Guide to Paper Award for “Design and Implemen- mine L. Cashbaugh Ph.D. earned her and Ph.D., she plans to return home to Trustee Louis Castruccio ’60. Also work- Video Games, which sets out to provide tation of a Greener Home Automation doctorate in mechanical engineering af- work with a public interest agency. ¶ Yong ing to support the Foundation are Louise moms and dads with a reliable resource System” at the Ninth IEEE International FOOD FOR ter completing her thesis, “Cluster Con- Chen Ph.D. was awarded a doctorate in Damberg ’74 and intern Kara Duncan ’17. for information and advice backed up by Conference on Ubi-media Computing. ¶ THOUGHT trol of a Multi-Robot Tracking Network computer engineering after completing ¶ John T. Shepard M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’16 over 100 scientific studies on video games Jack J. McMorrow J.D. is a family law at- “I miss fried and Tracking Geometry Optimization.” his thesis, “Supernode Transformation on was awarded a doctorate in mechanical and ways they affect physical, social, and torney at Harris Ginsberg LLP in Los An- yams and pepper ¶ Andrew Chait has rejoined the Santa Parallel Systems with Distributed Mem- engineering after completing his thesis, “A mental development in children. ¶ Jenni- geles. He was recently elected president of sauce like crazy,” Clara family as assistant director of de- ory—An Analytical Approach.” ¶ Grace Framework for Collaborative Multi-Task, fer Leung J.D. received The Young Alum- the barristers’ section of the Beverly Hills writes Zippo- velopment. Chait spent the previous year Chesmore has been accepted into the Multi-Robot Missions.” ¶ Michael Yang nus Rising Star Award from Santa Clara Bar Association. ¶ Allie Sibole is product rah Ridley ’17, working at Bronco-owned E. & J. Gallo Ph.D. program in physics at the Univer- J.D. is a partner at Orrick, Herrington University School of Law. The award development engineer for DePuy Syn- after returning Winery, where he oversaw sales goals. ¶ sity of Michigan, where she will work in and Sutcliffe, where he works in the firm’s recognizes individuals and organizations thes, part of the medical devices division from Ghana. As Madhumita Datta J.D. published the ar- an astrophysics lab and visit Chile’s Ata- compensation and benefits group. who have demonstrated a longstanding of Johnson & Johnson. Her job satisfies a a Global Fel- ticle “Egg Freezing on Company Dollars: cama Desert to assist in constructing a commitment to encouraging the advance- curiosity that came out of her own ortho- low through the Making the Biological Clock Irrelevant?” new telescope. ¶ Neil Datar was awarded REUNION YEAR ment of minorities in the legal profession East River doctorate in electrical engineering after pedic injury while studying at SCU. Leavey School in the DePaul Journal of Women, Gender the Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., Award. Ross Dakin has or promoting equal access to the adminis- paddle: Michael completing his thesis, Carbon Nanotube of Business, and the Law. ¶ Gus Hardy is a Jesuit vol- Datar served four years in Associated Stu- 2007 Becerra MBA moved to New York City following the com- tration of justice for individuals. ’08 raised money Vias for End-of-Roadmap Technology Christian Mora- she worked with unteer at the largest homeless shelter in dent Government, including senate chair pletion of his appointment as a Presidential for the Surfers’ Nodes. ¶ In 2016, Zach WalkerLieb was 2015 Castrellon J.D. Bright Generation Montana. He says it is a hard job requir- his senior year. He begins law school at Duke Innovation Fellow under the Obama ad- Tae-Woong Koo Environmental named one of 30 under 30 realtors in the works in legislation as a congressional Community Foun- ing a great deal of empathy—a “people University in the fall. ¶ Jan Grandi was ministration. ¶ Ever Leon is a teacher at J.D. ’09 is a part- Alliance in an world by Coldwell Banker International. staffer for the office of U.S. Congresswom- dation in Kumasi, skill” not easy for him to come by because awarded the St. Clare Medal for the Class of 2009 August race that St. Martin of Tours School in San Jose and ner at the Silicon Valley office of Morgan, started beneath the He lives in his hometown of Las Vegas. an Zoe Lofgren J.D. ’75. As a graduate reporting on the he was born with autism. Hardy was SCU 2017. She studied biology and public health, enjoys working in a close-knit community. Lewis and Bockius LLP. Koo’s practice fo- Brooklyn Bridge. student, she spent a spring break in Puerto effects of a giving 2016 valedictorian. ¶ Azadeh Morrison held a health care ethics internship with the He’s done numerous theater productions cuses on protection, prosecution, enforce- REUNION YEAR Rico investigating health and environmen- initiative. J.D. won the annual Jan Jancin Award Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, was an in the Bay Area and trained at ACT in San ment, and monetization of patent rights. 2012 Gracelyn Bateman tal concerns left behind by the U.S. Navy. for top intellectual property law student emergency medical technician, and played Francisco. He recently moved to Moun- ¶ Crystal Riggins J.D. ’09 was named a is back home in Los Angeles working for ¶ Tejaswini Chalasani M.S. co-authored in the country from the American Intel- on the women’s Frisbee team. She is work- tain View with his partner and is enjoying 2017 honoree of the Silicon Valley Busi- advertising technology startup AdTheo- the paper “Exterior Prefabricated Pan- lectual Property Law Education Founda- ing at an allergy, asthma, and pulmonary the city’s diversity. ¶ Hendrik Pretorius ness Journal’s 40 under 40 for her accom- rent. After completing a master’s degree in elized Walls Platform Optimization,” tion. She is in the patent litigation group disease clinic in San Jose and plans to J.D. joined Pearl Law Group to chair its plishments as a business litigator, trial at- sociology at Columbia University in 2013, which has been accepted for publication at Cooley in Palo Alto. ¶ Jane Nazareno attend medical school. ¶ Sophie Meyer high growth practice. Pretorius oversees torney, and as a strong Title IX advocate. she held positions in marketing and me- in Automation in Construction. ¶ Emily has been accepted into the doctor of phar- is pursuing a master’s degree at Oxford immigration solutions for startups, inves- dia in New York City. ¶ Elle Sypek lives in Collins was recently promoted to digital macy program at the University of Wash- University. Upon completion, she will tors, and entrepreneurs. ¶ James Servino Caitlin Robinett Denver, Colorado, where she works with strategist and producer at the NYC-based ington. ¶ Nathaniel Tucker M.S. ’17 was apply for a California State Assembly fel- moved from Washington, D.C., to the U.S. 2010 Jachimowicz J.D. STRIVE Preparatory Schools and helps at- company Hiltzik Strategies. She resides in accepted into the electrical engineering lowship to prepare for a career in edu- Territory of Guam after nearly a decade has been appointed a council member for risk youth and their families. She earned a Hoboken, New Jersey. ¶ During his time Ph.D. program with full support at UC cation reform. ¶ Zipporah Ridley was working for LGBT equality as an associate the City of Morgan Hill. A lifelong resident, master’s degree in social work from Loyola at SCU, Matt Cresci balanced being a stu- Santa Barbara. He will study control theo- awarded the Gracelyn Rillorta Bateman director at the Human Rights Campaign. she is an attorney at Jachimowicz Pointer, HELPING A University Chicago, focusing on mental dent and a race car driver. Less than two Road tested: ry and smart infrastructure. He graduated Student Inclusive Excellence Award for He serves as chief of staff in the Guam Attorneys at Law, Inc., where she focuses HAVEN health and migration studies. years after he graduated, he was awarded Mazda racer Matt as top electrical engineering student. her commitment to advancing the SCU legislature for Senator Régine Biscoe Lee. on criminal law and civil litigation. Outside Before moving a $100,000 Mazda Road to 24 Scholar- Cresci ’15 in the red diversity and inclusion initiative. She was car battles for the Guam is also home to Speaker B.J. Cruz of the office, she enjoys spending time out- to Denver, Elle Genevieve Kromm ship, which allowed him to race in the REUNION YEAR chair of the Student Council on Inclusive lead at the Barber J.D. ’75 and Attorney General Elizabeth doors with her husband, fellow lawyer Josh Sypek ’12 twice 2013 completed Fulbright Global MX-5 Cup. ¶ Katie Franceschini Motorsports Park in 2017 The Maddy Insti- Excellence and a Markkula Center Hack- Barrett-Anderson J.D. ’79. ¶ Brooke Jachimowicz J.D. ’11, and their daughter, volunteered at research and a teaching grant in Austria graduated with an M.A. in occupational Alabama. tute at Fresno State named Nanki Bhullar worth Fellow. Next she heads to Syracuse, M. Simonson ’07 is teaching English at Penelope. ¶ Richard Navarro M.S. ’12 is Aarti Home, a 2015–17. She took classes in musicology, therapy from USC. She is returning to the New York, to work with the Jesuit Volun- the Jesuit high school Saint Peter’s Prep working on Google’s [e]Team, where he Global Fellows ethnomusicology, and music education South Bay to pursue a career in pediatric teer Corps. ¶ Erik Risa was named this in Jersey City, New Jersey. She is engaged focuses on the sustainable operation of the Program partner at the University of Music and Perform- occupational therapy with a strong inter- year’s Nobili Medal recipient. The award to Thomas Juarez, the son and grandson company’s European and Asia-Pacific–U.S. organization in ing Arts in Vienna and was a regional est in pediatric mental health. ¶ Anthony goes to a male graduate judged outstand- of Santa Clara alumni. The couple resides facilities. ¶ Swetha Sirupa MBA has ac- India. A shelter advisor for the Fulbright USTA Program Hascheff is a community and economic ing in academic performance, personal in New York City but consider themselves cepted a position as a marketing strategist for abandoned 2016–17 while teaching English at Aus- development Peace Corps volunteer in character, school activities, and construc- “bi-coastal” as they regularly travel back to specializing in cybersecurity (IoT) and en- children, primarily trian public schools. ¶ Tom Skinner J.D. Paraguay. He was also a Global Fellow tive contribution to the University. He was the West Coast to visit family and friends. terprise cloud at BlackBerry. Throughout girls, Aarti works works as counsel and assistant in the of- to Indonesia in 2013 and recipient of the accepted to the University of Washington her career, Sirupa has focused on helping on a United Na- fice of U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., Award. ¶ School of Medicine. ¶ Did you gradu- On June 3, de Saisset companies put in place early strategies to tions–funded proj- J.D. ’75. ¶ Gabriella Ziccarelli J.D. has Sarah Mirza J.D. is an associate in the ate from SCU in 2017? Share your plans Museum Assistant achieve market establishment and expan- ect attempting to been named Women in Technology’s Ris- patent group at Fenwick and West. While and update your address to keep getting 2008 PHOTOGRAPHY BY NORMAN WANG Director Lauren Baines ’08 premiered sion goals. end infanticide as ing Star for 2017. She was honored at the at the School of Law, she received the an- the mag: magazine.scu.edu/classnotes. Something About Chairs (a seat at the well as abortion organization’s 18th annual Leadership nual Jan Jancin Award for top intellectual ¶ If you’re the parent of a Class of 2017 table/a seat of one’s own) at San Jose’s The- Throughout his ca- of female fetuses. Awards on May 11. property law student in the nation. grad, let us know if you’d like to keep atre on San Pedro Square with her com- 2011 reer, attorney Mah- receiving the magazine. Otherwise, your pany, Lauren Baines Dance/Theatre. The moud Fadli J.D. has gained professional John Belisle J.D. is Nnennaya Amuchie subscription will end. ¶ We always wel- performance—featuring alumnae dancers experience in the legal sector, serving law 2014 a litigation associate 2016 J.D./MBA published come story ideas and photos and letters as Claire Calalo ’07, Julia Canavese ’08, offices throughout California. ¶ Anshul at Hoge Fenton. ¶ On July 23, Ben Dema- her first book, Ako na Uche: A Short Col- well as gifts to help us tell your stories. 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56 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 57 BRONCO NEWS OBITUARIES BRONCO NEWS OBITUARIES Education Is an Act of Faith. That’s what Eric O. in San Francisco and worked in his par- huge loss, but it was heaven’s gain. He had Hanson wrote in the pages of this magazine once. Obituaries ents’ bakery. He left school at 16 to join a deep love for his wife, Sally, and his chil- the Navy and attended SCU at the urging dren. Home was Ventura County, to which He was known to affix to the top of syllabi for his We publish news of the passing of of his Irish Navy chums. He studied civil Bud returned after his studies at SCU Broncos as we learn of it. Find obitu- engineering, converted to Catholicism, and service in the Army in Europe. Bud courses this epigraph: “Everything is connected aries published in their entirety at and he married his sweetheart, Roxanne, went to work with Valley Electric and he magazine.scu.edu/classnotes. Family at Mission Santa Clara. They had four and Sally raised seven children. Bud later in life. The point is to know it and to understand members may also submit obituaries rambunctious children. He was a life bought into Taft Electric Company and it.” He took the words from a postcard sent to him and photos there. member of the American Society of Civil took it from a company with 40 employ- Engineers and, for Sacramento and Santa ees to one with 300 employees. He started by a student who graduated years before. He was Joseph C. Santana Clara counties, his work was water: flood many other business ventures—construc- 1948 J.D. ’50 gradu- control, safe drinking water, waste man- tion, cellular, hunting supply. He believed a teacher, scholar, and soccer fan extraordinare. ated from Bellarmine College Preparatory agement, water reclamation. Projects took in always learning. “You’re either ripe and in 1941. After World War II, Joe spent his him to Yosemite, Diego Garcia, and the rotting or green and growing,” he liked to legal career with the California State Au- Aswan High Dam in Egypt. He was called tell family, friends, and co-workers alike. tomobile Association. He served his com- home peacefully in his sleep on July 8. Bud lost Sally in 2013, as well as two chil- munity as president of the Kiwanis, grand dren before his own death. He is survived knight in the Knights of Columbus, and James Kent by five children, 15 grandchildren, three as an active member of his parish, Sacred 1952 O’Rourke was born great-grandchildren, and a sister. Heart, in Saratoga. Joe passed away peace- in 1930. He enlisted in the Marine Corps fully on March 10 after an unexpected and finished Officers’ School in time to decline in his health. He was 93. serve in the Korean War. In 1958 he wed Claire Gail Garrison in Washington, D.C. Born in Viareggio, Retiring from the Marine Corps in 1978, 1950 Italy, Arthur John he started a construction company in Al- Micheletti immigrated with his parents exandria, Virginia, and became very active to San Francisco, meeting his future wife, in the revitalization of historic Old Town Janice Botting, in the eighth grade at St. Alexandria. Jim passed away March 4. Catherine Grammar School. A 62-year Some of his favorite times were spent bird parishioner of St. Nicholas Church, he was watching in his garden, cheering on his also a veteran of the Army National Guard grandson at baseball games, and listening and a career investment banker. Arthur to his granddaughter play clarinet. passed away on June 1 at 88 years old. Jan- Eugene L. Torre led a full life rooted ice, his wife of 59 years, and brother Mel in his Catholic faith, family, and travels. Micheletti ’53 predeceased him. He is His love affair with SCU began in 1948 as WHATEVER Hailing from the city of Escondido, Cal- survived by children Art A. Micheletti ’75, a freshman and continued until his death YOU DO… ifornia, William “Bill” E. Weseloh ’54 MBA ’78, Elaine Bedell MBA ’85, and on March 30 at age 87. A member of Family lore has it had a soft spot for Dixieland jazz, Chevro- Mark Micheletti ’80, MBA ’87, grandchil- the Gianera Society and a longtime sup- that when Bill lets (he owned 19 in a row), and the trom- dren Kathryn Galli ’11 and Gina Miche- porter of the Bronco Bench Foundation, Weseloh ’54 was bone. He played in the Santa Clara band, letti ’15, and seven great-grandchildren. he is survived by his wife of 62 years, Mary leaving home to and it was playing at a dance that he met Therese; four daughters, Jule Torre ’77, attend SCU, his Jeanne Kernan. They married in 1955 and Paul William Bach- Jeanne Torre ’77, Mary Ursula Hurley parents (on their were members of Saint Raymond Catho- 1951 an J.D. entered the ’79 (Brian Hurley ’79, MBA ’80), and way out the door lic Church in Menlo Park for more than world on May 8, 1926, at the family ranch Katie Blocker ’89 (Chris Blocker ’89); for a weekend 50 years. While serving in the army, he in Watsonville, California. At age 17 he and five grandchildren. getaway) told him played in the 179th Army band. Building a enlisted in the Marine Corps and served that whatever he career for himself in real estate, Bill liked in the Pacific Theater during World War Born in San Fran- did, he was not to to play dominoes and make his guests mai II. He was wounded at the Battle of Iwo 1953 cisco, Daniel Fran- buy a new trom- tais—the cocktail with which his family Eric devoted more than 41 years to Santa up to provide many hours of televised culture where self-promotion, one-ups- Eric Hanson: Jima and awarded a Purple Heart. After a cis Connell served in the U.S. Army and bone. No sooner toasted him on his last night. He was 84 Clara, earning respect and affection from commentary on Pope John Paul II’s three- manship, oversharing, and cynicism are master teacher and colleagues and students as a professor day visit to the Bay Area. so prevalent, Eric Hanson was a steady a scholar, and the three-year romance, he married Karen M. worked as an aerospace engineer for more had they gone when he died May 1. of political science. He was beloved. “He “Eric always encouraged his students to countercultural force,” wrote political Patrick A. Donohoe, Hansen in 1950. He practiced law in Santa than 40 years, retiring from Lockheed than he went out served the University superbly in so many be present to the entire world,” wrote his- scientist Elsa Chen. “Over the years, S.J., Professor of Cruz County until 2008 and served on nu- Martin in 1996. An active amateur radio to buy one—to Raised in Long PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY THE FAMILY OF BILL WESELOH roles,” said President Michael Engh, S.J. torian Robert M. Senkewicz. “He tried to whenever I’ve thought of Eric, the term Political Science merous boards. One of Bill’s great passions operator, he also held a lifelong passion play in the Santa 1955 Beach, California, He was perhaps the single most de- teach them that that world was filled with that comes to mind the most is one in the since 1993 was taking his kids and grandkids to see for trains, which in later years included Clara Band. That’s John “Jack” Cheatham attended St. An- voted faculty fan of SCU women’s soccer. other people who were, in important ways, Taiwanese language: kó-ì. This describes He rarely missed a home game. “Certainly unlike Americans, people who thought a person who is genuine, honest, consid- the San Francisco Giants and cheer on the the “D&D backyard garden railroad.” Dan Bill in the front thony’s High School, where he met his wife, he enoyed watching the team win,” said and acted differently, people who looked at erate, and down-to-earth.” “orange and black.” He also derived great and his wife, Denise, loved traveling and row, second from Raylene. They wed in 1955 and after Jack Coach Jerry Smith. “But like all great the world in significantly divergent ways.” We lost him on July 7, after he had joy from hunting trips with his friends, took many cruises—Alaska being their fa- the left. served two years in the U.S. Army in Wash- educators, he enjoyed what must go into He loved to dress in historical costume struggled for five months with illness. His sons, and grandsons as well as traveling vorite destination. Dan passed away April ington state, the couple moved to Garden preparation and attention to detail.” for some lectures; when teaching the wife, Kathleen Hanson, and his daugh- He taught comparative politics, Chinese importance of the Long March as central ters, Erin Katharine Collins ’97 and the world with Karen. A loving husband, 9 and is survived by his wife, children, Grove, California, where they raised four politics, and religion and politics, winning to China’s identity, he might be spotted Kara Hanson, and three grandchildren father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, and grandchildren. children. Jack worked for more than 35 the University’s Brutocao Award for excel- hustling to class sporting a Mao hat, or mourn his loss, as does his brother, Kirk Bill died peacefully at home June 15. years in aerospace and was very involved in lence in teaching. He published books on with a rolled-up map under one arm. O. Hanson, executive director of SCU’s William Roman ’51 was born to hard- The passing of space shuttle missions. Jack died on June politics and religion in China and Korea Eric never talked about his abundant Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. and globally. And in 1987 he and current achievements. He did express pride—and In lieu of flowers, the family suggests working, immigrant parents—father from 84-year-old 19 and is survived by three children, five 1954 California Gov. Jerry Brown ’59 teamed often—but always pride in others. “In a gifts to the University in his honor.

Italy, mother from Finland—and grew up “Bud” Hartman ’54 on June 15 was a grandchildren, and one great-grandson. BARRY CHARLES BY PHOTOGRAPHY

58 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 59 BRONCO NEWS OBITUARIES BRONCO NEWS OBITUARIES A Renaissance Man. With his ready smile, kind manner, and warm baritone voice, English profes- A native son of the multiple myeloma cancer. He is survived 1958 Santa Clara Valley, by his loving wife, Sue, four sisters, step- sor Christiaan Theodoor Lievestro inspired 25 Jerome “Jerry” Albert Smith J.D. ’65 sons, and several nieces and nephews. entered politics out of law school, with Barbara Lucy Nicoara J.D. earned years of Santa Clara students. He made it a point his most notable legislation relating to her law degree attending night classes preservation of the California coastline, while raising her four children as a single to know every student’s name by the end of the assistance to victims of violent crime, and parent. She practiced family and criminal first week of classes. Using the Socratic method, the California Conservation Corps Act. In law and ran California State Assembly- 1979, he was appointed associate justice to woman Leona Egland’s San Jose office. In he would ask his students challenging questions. the state Courts of Appeal, serving on the 1975, she found a kindred spirit in George bench until his retirement in 1996. Jerry Lewis, who shared her love for civic en- “Learning is hard,” he would say—and they loved it. died at peace in his Saratoga home on gagement. The two were married in 1977, May 7 and is survived by his loving wife, purchasing 40 acres in Paicines, Califor- Jane Decker, family, and friends. nia. Living in the country did nothing to deter Barbara’s community involvement. Patricia Blake Fierro In 2006, San Benito County Chamber of 1967 was born in Santa In retirement, Jerry Giants and especially enjoyed his sons’ Commerce named her Woman of the Year. Clara and worked for the county as an ac- Smith J.D. ’65 athletic events. He also served as unofficial After a full life, Barbara died on June 14 countant before transferring to Valley Medi- pursued his artistic photographer to his extended family, the at her home. talents, honing cal Center, where she ultimately served as skills as a sculptor. Ravizzas. Ogden entered into rest on May While on active duty with the U.S. Navy one of the highest-ranking women in coun- His public artwork 14 and is survived by his wife, Rose, and in Japan, Jack Watkins MBA met Alice, a ty government. In 1987, she was named includes life-size sons Oggie and Aaron. Navy nurse; they wed in 1957. He spent 40 Woman of Achievement in Government sculptures of St. C. Alan Parbury pursued careers in years as a professional engineer and served Ignatius of Loyola and Politics in Santa Clara. When Pat re- the financial and real estate investment in the Navy Reserve, retiring as a captain at Bellarmine Col- tired, she moved to Bigfork, Montana, to be lege Preparatory, markets in addition to sales. Sports were in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps. He close to family. She loved her life there and a bust of architect his passion, with baseball and golf being became a Christian in 1955 while stationed rarely missed one of her grandkids’ games. Julia Morgan at the his favorites. After a hand injury ended in Yokosuka, Japan, and performed mis- Saratoga Foothill On June 13, she passed away at her home. his pitching career, Alan turned to golfing. sionary outreach there for over 30 years. Club, and the bronze She is survived by three children, 10 grand- relief Los Jornaleros He won local championships and became He especially enjoyed spending time with children, and 16 great-grandchildren. honoring Latino a scratch handicap player. He was a North- his daughters and grandchildren. day workers. ern California Golf Association rules of- William Anthony ficial and volunteered on committees for Linda (Irwin) Esco- 1968 “Bill” Satariano the PGA and the Ladies Professional Golf 1972 bar moved around enjoyed a distinguished career helping ag- Association, receiving an appreciation cer- the country as a child, settling in Santa ing people lead healthier lives. A revered tificate from the U.S. Open Championship Rosa with the love of her life, Kenneth professor of public health and endowed for his dedication and volunteerism. Alan Escobar. They enjoyed nearly 45 years of chair of geriatrics at University of Califor- passed away on June 15 at age 69. marriage and raised three children. Linda nia, Berkeley, he directed the top-ranked STAY HEALTHY A wonderful husband, father, and devoted her life to helping people, work- undergraduate public health program in Early on, Bill grandfather, Gerald “Jerry” Henry ing as a counselor. She loved to sing, sew, the country. Bill always considered family Satariano ’68 Quilici was an engineer for the County read, paint, and be in the garden. Nothing his greatest achievement. He and wife Enid showed a devo- of Santa Clara for over 30 years. He and brought her more joy than welcoming 10 shared a love for travel and the arts, and tion for learning. Louanne Bergna, his loving wife of 37 grandchildren into the world. She passed he eagerly shared stories of his children During long study years, were wed at Mission Santa Clara in peacefully in her home on May 18. (including Erin Schwass ’95) and grand- sessions alone 1979. Jerry was active in dog training and Karen Mullings Stabeno M.A. was children, whose activities brought him in his room, his obedience trials, enjoyed playing softball born the day after the Allies declared tremendous joy. On May 28, Bill died sur- aunts pleaded and golf, and was an avid Bay Area sports victory in Europe in 1945. She met her hus- rounded by his family. He was 70 years old. with him to come fan. But he was always happiest with family band, Don, in study hall her junior year in “I love to teach The son of Dutch immigrants, Lievestro and Philadelphia orchestras, recorded and they stayed in touch over the years. join the family and friends, drinking a Manhattan. After high school. Karen taught high school in and I think I did grew up on a farm near Hyde Park, New with Columbia Records and performed at Christiaan Theodoor Lievestro died on PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY SCU ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS An avid gardener because “your successfully battling brain cancer three San Jose but later took a “20-year sab- it well,” Chris York. He spoke Dutch at home, learned President Kennedy’s memorial and at a June 19, 2017, at age 91. Among his many and boatman from head is going to times since 2011, Jerry passed away peace- batical” to raise children, reentering the Lievestro said upon English at school, then became fluent in celebration honoring Martin Luther King published works were studies of the Re- 1969 Detroit, Bruce Foulds Stewart J.D. explode.” Years fully surrounded by his family on June 7. workforce as a professor at DeVry Univer- retirement. And he German and French. He worked his way Jr. for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. naissance scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam, endowed an annual through college at the State University At Santa Clara, Professor Lievestro lifelong friend of Sir Thomas More. Like worked as general counsel for Sacramen- later, reflecting sity in Irving, Texas, in 1995. Karen passed prize for the best of New York, Albany, won a Fulbright taught English and comparative litera- More and Erasmus, Lievestro had a gift to Savings & Loan and served as general on his career in Michael George Emery away in her sleep surrounded by family on writing portfolio scholarship to study at the universities of ture courses as well as interdisciplin- for friendship. A devoted friend to many counsel for several commercial real es- public health, UC was passionate about June 27. Blessed with good health her en- by an English 1971 Leiden and Amsterdam, then attended ary Honors seminars on Time and the colleagues and former students, he of- tate developers until his retirement. He Berkeley noted: radio. An FCC-licensed engineer, in 1972 tire life, she was diagnosed with cancer on major. Donations Oxford, studied Shakespeare at Stratford- Bloomsbury Group. A dedicated teacher, fered his wisdom and advice to me when in his memory are upon-Avon, and received a graduate he would pause in his office for a few mo- I chaired the English department. We was also an active member of the Folsom “His life’s work led he became one of the co-founders of June 13, passing two weeks later. welcome. fellowship to Harvard where he earned a ments of meditation before each class, to were friends for decades. And he carried Rotary Club. Bruce died on June 1 and is to an immeasur- KKUP 91.5 FM community radio, which Ph.D. in comparative literature. “center down,” he would say, so he could on an active correspondence, staying survived by his wife, Kathy, and children. able number of still serves the South Bay. Michael also It was through the He was passionate about history be fully present to his students. Former in touch with friends around the world older people living volunteered with the Los Gatos Disaster Foxy Ladies Powder and much of it touched his life. He at- student Jack Treacy, S.J. ’77 says he was and generations of students including 1973 tended Franklin Roosevelt’s funeral and “superb in his teaching, generous with his Brandon Schmidt ’92, who married A resident of San Jose, healthier, happier, Aid Response Team, where he supported Puff team at SCU that Andrea “Punky” corresponded with Eleanor Roosevelt. time, wise in his counsel, and engaging in Shannon Perry Schmidt ’93 and they 1970 Howard Ogden Lilly and longer lives.” the community during the Loma Prieta Conway made lifelong friends and met the His early career in the performing arts his conversation about a host of topics.” named their first son, Ryan Christiaan, MBA ’73 was a certified public accountant earthquake. He retired from IBM after love of her life, Patrick Conway. They wed included radio, television, and stage He wrote a letter of recommendation to after him. for 47 years at Boitano, Sargent & Lilly. 15 years of service. Michael passed away in the Mission Church in 1974, Punky with appearances. He sang with the Boston support Jack’s entrance into the Jesuits —Diane Dreher He liked watching the San Francisco on June 28 after a courageous battle with flowers in her hair, Pat sporting a powder

60 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE FALL 2017 61 BRONCO NEWS OBITUARIES BRONCO NEWS OBITUARIES Be Tender and Laugh. That is what writer Brian Doyle said when people asked how to help, when blue tux. They moved to Iowa in 2000. Paula Jean Kozlak 40 years. He was a passionate collector of Punky rediscovered the great outdoors, 1986 Evan was kind- sports cards and a devoted horse racing they learned he had been diagnosed with what he competed in half marathons, practiced her hearted, loving, and compassionate. She enthusiast. As a younger man, he enjoyed net game, and drove the ball. As her chil- lived her life following Mother Teresa’s tennis and jogging. Later in life, he de- called “a big honkin’ brain tumor.” He wrote of faith dren have attested, Punky (aka “Grandma motto: “Not all of us can do great things, lighted in taking long walks around his Munky”), especially loved reading to her but we can do small things with great love.” neighborhood, where he was known to and beauty, love and grace, wine and basketball, grandchildren. She passed away suddenly Paula passed away at home with her fam- FRUITFUL keep a pocketful of cat and dog treats for mountains and molehills. He once said that stories but peacefully on June 11 while hiking and ily by her side on June 19. Her strength ENCOUNTER any animal he happened upon. Michael is survived by her husband and children, through her difficult bout with cancer was One of the stories died on the morning of June 19 at age 82. are prayers. He bore the title editor of Portland including Betsy Fryday ’04. courageous and inspiring. Paula is survived Paul Sweeny ’00 For more than three decades, Susan S. by her husband, Tom, beautiful daughters, loved to recount Frisbie taught Santa Clara students writ- Magazine and he called himself a storycatcher. After obtaining a stepchildren, parents, and siblings. was about a ing and literature courses at home and 1974 teaching credential chance meeting abroad. Her dedication as a pre-law advi- in English and history, Edwin J. Rosen- Growing up with with producer and sor earned her the University’s Drahmann Indeed, he caught true stories and crafted blatt ’74 became a business marketing 2000 a love of sports, writer Judd Advising Award. She kept in touch with imagined tales from the world seen and consultant and started his own business. Paul Sweeny walked on to the SCU bas- Apatow at a many long after graduation—even serv- unseen. He wrote The Wet Engine: Explor- He liked food, reading, following current ketball team. After graduation, he worked farmers market ing as godmother to a former student’s ing the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart—of hummingbirds and humans and great blue events. He loved surfing; he was happi- for CBS News in New York. When the Twin in Los Angeles, child. She received a number of collabora- whales. He wrote The Grail, a whole book est riding the waves. Ed passed away on Towers came crashing down, he worked where Paul was tive grants from the National Endowment in pursuit of Oregon pinot noir. There is May 22 at age 64 after a long illness. He ceaselessly to cover breaking news. Paul selling cherries. for the Humanities and the James Irvine a cascade of books—novels and nonfic- is survived by three sons, five siblings, and later tried his hand in the entertainment Equipped with Foundation that aided her in developing tion—and score upon score of essays. In the numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. industry out West. Tragically, his brother charisma and the SCU writing program. But undeniably pages of our magazine, you’ve seen his lyrical meditations on the beauty of celebrating Brian was diagnosed with a brain tumor confidence, Paul her great literary love was Jane Austen. Su- Mass—tradition and community and above Beloved wife, mother, and soon after so was Paul, at age 29. Dur- approached san passed away Feb. 5, 2017. She will be all the holy, and the improvised places in grandmother, daugh- ing Brian’s last months, Paul drove from Apatow about missed by her husband and son, colleagues, which we worship. He once wrote a letter to 1975 ter, and friend, Kathryn Toriko Tsushima Seattle to Spokane every weekend to help his desire to and many others. this editor and titled it: “Thesis: Steve Nash is God.” He loved basketball so deeply that grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, moving to his brother. After his own valiant 10-year work in the film John R. Quinn served as archbishop he once got into an argument with the Dalai “the Mainland” to attend SCU. In 1976, battle with brain cancer, Paul left this industry. Their of San Francisco from 1977 to 1995, ad- Lama about what was the greatest sport in while completing her master’s in special world on July 10 with his family and his conversation led vocating for social justice and leading in the world. The Dalai Lama made the case for education, she met Daniel Keller. They beloved girlfriend by his side. to an interview the liberalization of the . soccer. The encounter was brief, unresolved. The Dalai Lama finished by saying: “We’ll wed Aug. 18, 1978. She worked as a special in Apatow’s limo, A former president of the National Con- continue this discussion … in this life, or the education teacher, market researcher, and followed by a ference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop next one!” And then the Dalai Lama gave a school librarian. She was an avid reader, job videotaping Quinn oversaw the establishment of the big belly laugh. Later, when Brian told his traveler, volunteer, and mahjong player. behind-the- Diocese of San Jose and worked with beloved wife, Mary, that he had met the Da- Faculty, lai Lama, she guessed how it had gone down: She died on June 29 at 62 years old. scenes footage Catholic Charities to address the challeng- You talked about sports, didn’t you? on Superbad es faced by the underserved, reaching out You might have seen his work in Best A Mountain View Staff, and and other films. with early support for those with HIV and American Essays and read about his Push- resident for over 70 AIDS. He was awarded an honorary de- cart Prizes. In his adopted state of Oregon, 1977 years, Pauline Sanchez M.A. ’79 spent the gree from Santa Clara University in 1979 he was justly feted for writing so deeply and well of the place and its people. For the majority of her career in banking and loan Friends and served on the SCU faculty. In retire- magazine Orion, he once wrote a list of Nine processing. Her hobbies included travel, ment he remained an intellectual giant Places to Pee in the Great Outdoors. reading, gardening, knitting, crochet- Michael Oliver O’Flynn was born in in the Church, writing on many subjects, Brian James Patrick Doyle was born in ing, tennis, and golf. Pauline also enjoyed County Louth, Ireland, in 1935 and Golden Gate: including the book The Reform of the Pa- 1956 in New York to a teacher and a journal- Pope John Paul II spending time with family and friends and taught in SCU’s Department of Applied pacy: The Costly Call to Christian Unity. ist. He studied at Notre Dame, worked for and Archbishop Boston College Magazine, then came west, her beloved dogs. She passed away May 13. Mathematics and electrical engineering John R. Quinn in He died at the Jewish Home of San Fran- to Oregon. He died on May 27 at three score Pauline is survived by her children, canine at San Jose State University for more than San Francisco, 1987 cisco on June 22. He was 88. years. Among the ways he made this world companion Toto, and grandchildren. better, he offered sage advice that profoundly reshaped this magazine and inspired many others across the country. Let’s close with a Born in Minnesota, few lines from his novel Mink River, in which PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEROME HART. WORDS BY STEVEN BOYD SAUM 1985 Sue Potter M.A. a character meditates on What Matters: met Vern Potter while working in aero- Hawks huddled disgruntled against hissing space; they wed in 1961. His Army service snow. Wrens in winter thickets. Swallows in Germany during the Cold War was one carving and swimming and slicing fat grin- of their defining experiences, and they ning summer air. Frozen dew outlining every started their family upon returning to the single blade of grass. Salmonberries blackber- States. Sue enjoyed a varied career, from ries thimbleberries raspberries cloudberries snowberries strawberries blueberries goose- clerk typist to realtor to business owner. berries. My children learning to read. The Her organizational and financial acumen sinuous liquid flow of rivers and minks and were instrumental in providing a nurturing cats. Fresh bread with waaaaaaay too much home for her family. She excelled for more butter. My children’s hands when they cup my ancient grizzled face in their hands. Exuber- than 12 years at the Mercury News in clas- ance and ebullience. Tears of sorrow which are sified sales, made many friends and earned the salt sea of the heart. awards. Sue passed away suddenly on May

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SHAKE IT IT SHAKE Live bands rock bands rock Live the party now. in long- And standing tradition, goers picnic of gather in front one for the stage masse: dance en the irresistible to Brothers Isley “Shout.” song The Grad Picnic Picnic The Grad Admission is limited, demand demand is limited, Admission (center) with with ’17 (center) Perez Sherryl-Anne Start grassroots-style, HOT TICKET HOT A MOVEABLE FEAST FEAST MOVEABLE A is high—it’s a carefree way for grads to make make to grads for way a carefree is high—it’s Celebrating together. last SCU memory one here: Andrew. and brother, Bernadette, her mother, has found new venues in its 28-year in its 28-year venues new has found a debut From grew. history as attendance Field Stanton its trail: trace in Alumni Park, (1990–97); Buck Shaw Stadium (1997); Field (1998–2007); and Bellomy Stanton Field (2008–present). It wouldn’t be a It wouldn’t party without bubbly. Broncos in celebrate personalized style: with customized labels, of Guglielmocare Winery. Bonus: The champagne bottles make for party memorable favors for grads. nourish it yearly, and watch its popularity grow grow popularity its watch and it yearly, nourish studentsby 1984 in all-night an as Hatched wildly. for 50 people—newsbash meant of the party spread, into today’s blossomed attendance—it quadrupling family. and for all grads Picnic Grad can’t-miss more than 6,200 by SCU since 1989, Organized some ingredients? are What in 2017. attended Graduation Picnic Recipe. Recipe. Picnic Graduation - The first grad picnics were were picnics grad The first GRADUATION PICNIC GRADUATION Scott Scott students, As In student-run days, the casual gatherings boasted no live band came victuals. Music or catered courtesy of cassette players. But seniors who stayed through the breakfast. morning enjoyed a free HAND-CRAFTED DEEP ROOTS DEEP SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE 64 SANTA PAGE LAST informal barbecues known as “Billy & Copro” Copro” as “Billy & known barbecues informal nick the founders’ to parties, a reference the gatherings memorialized names. Fans the early events, For designing T-shirts. by man the grills. up to dads showed organizers’ Mike Copriviza Copriviza Mike ’85 (right) and Lamson what has become pioneered ’85 (center) tradition, tablecloth white tented, today’s Neilan ’70 Paul under guidance from Alumni for director associate (left), senior masterful Paul’s credits Mike Relations. - seating arrange to planning—down him, “Without making it a hit: ments—for picnic.” be a grad wouldn’t there SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE

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