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USF’s Indian Student Organization (ISO) celebrates Holi, also known as the festival of color, on Welch Field. 2 Inauguration 6 news 34 class notes 48 take five

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12 26  ramona 2.0 Reading, writing, by monica villavicencio and all that jazz A horrible accident left by gary mcdonald Ramona Pierson MA ’03 Celebrated jazz vocalist in a coma for 18 months Margie Baker EdD ’83 and fighting for her life. has traveled the globe Here’s the extraordinary with the Monterey Jazz story of the comeback of Festival. She may be a Silicon Valley CEO. known for her singing, but her passion is education.

16  24  healing hanoi picture perfect by samantha bronson A USF graduate races to the fin- A USF program is helping change ish line in a 65-foot yacht, part the role of nursing in Vietnam, in of an all-female team trying to an effort to improve the country’s win a nine-month race around struggling health care system. the world.

Front cover photo: Matthew Mitchell

Gary McDonald Anne Hoglund Have an idea? Suggestion? Views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the editors executive editor senior designer Letter to the Editor? or those of the university. Candice Novak Mario Sosa Contact us: [email protected] Winter 2015, Vol. 22, No. 1 © 2015 University of San Francisco contributing editor Miranda Bague (415) 422-6078 Designers The papers used for printing this magazine are recyclable and Ed Carpenter Or write: USF Magazine provided by mills that support environmentally appropriate, magazine staff writer/editor Hanna Hegnell ’15 University of San Francisco socially beneficial and economically viable management of the Gino Mascardo ’16 Monica Villavicencio 2130 Fulton Street, LMR 217 world’s forests. These papers contain a mix Jeremy Snyder ’16 David Macmillan Staff Writer/editor San Francisco, CA 94117-1080 of pulp that is derived from well managed Vice President for Barbara Ries forests, post-consumer paper fibers and Communications and Dale Johnston contributing other sources. marketing senior designer photographers Class Notes Send to [email protected]

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University of California President Janet Napolitano congratulates Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J., on his new presidency. USF Magazine WINTER 2015 3 /////////news

“ oday, on All Saints’ Day, we open a new chapter of leadership of this great institution,” said U.S. House Minority Leader TNancy Pelosi, as the University of San Francisco installed its new president, Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J., at a campus ceremony on Nov. 1. A crowd of dignitaries, elected officials, and members of the university community gathered at St. Ignatius Church to welcome and congratulate Fr. Fitzgerald, who officially became president when USF Board of Trustees Chair Thomas E. Malloy ’61 conferred the appointment. Malloy also presented the new president with the university’s original 1859 charter from the California Board of Education. “He is the right president at the right time,” said Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California and a former classmate of Fr. Fitzgerald’s at Santa Clara University. “Among the providers of higher education in California, USF is a shining star,” Napolitano continued. “I know from professional and personal experience this star will shine even brighter under the leadership of Fr. Paul Fitzgerald.” The former secretary of homeland security also applauded USF’s commitment to California’s diverse population and noted that one-third of USF’s students are the first in their families to attend college and that nearly 30 percent are from low-income families. Other speakers at the inauguration included California’s Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, and San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy. Fr. Fitzgerald reflected on the university’s role in one of the country’s most diverse cities, with students, faculty, and staff hailing from more than 70 nations. He said we may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and traditions, but everyone shares the university’s Jesuit mission. “All contribute essentially to a project that engages our students— leading them to broaden their horizons, advance their intellectual abilities, and strengthen their confidence and capacity as creative, ethical, and compassionate leaders of a global tomorrow.” The inauguration ceremony capped four days of events that celebrated the new president and USF’s scholarship and research, and also its mission to educate students to change the world for the better. y

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Gavin Newsom, California Lt. Governor

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multi-billion dollar victory for law alum

A USF law graduate who led the government’s case after law, and he also worked on the government’s behalf the largest oil spill in U.S. history says he believes after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the Cosco “justice has been done.” Busan spill in the San Francisco Bay. He is based in San R. Michael Underhill JD ’82 successfully argued that Francisco but has spent most of the past four years in New British Petroleum Exploration and Production Inc. (B.P.) Orleans, where the B.P. case was being tried. Underhill is liable for “gross negligence” in the deadly disaster oversaw a staff of more than 100 attorneys and paralegals, off the Louisiana coast. A blowout spread across offices in New Orleans of B.P.’s Macondo Well in 2010 and Washington, D.C. destroyed the oil rig Deepwater “The most interesting and reward- Horizon, killing 11 people and ing aspect of large environmental spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico cases is that we can potentially for nearly three months. change behavior, change the way In September, Federal Judge Carl business is done so as to protect the J. Barbier ruled that B.P. was grossly environment, and make sure that negligent and had acted with willful the world we hand off to our kids is misconduct, paving the way for fines a little bit better and maybe even of up to $18 billion. a lot better than the one that was “We’d been working hard on this handed off to us,” Underhill said. case for over four years, so when I “That was my message to others read Judge Barbier’s opinion, it felt the morning the decision came out. like justice had been done,” Under- We should feel good about the win

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Underhill was the government’s Bar b most rewarding thing that we should lead trial counsel and guided a large take away from cases like this and team of lawyers for the U.S. Depart- what should make us proudest is that we may be able to ment of Justice in this first phase of the trial, which play a part in bringing about long-term changes in safety determined liability for the spill. Other attorneys are and the way the offshore oil business is conducted in handling the second and third phases, which will focus our own country, and maybe even the world. on how much oil spilled and the final amount of the “Maybe that sounds like a speech, but it’s really one civil penalty. that comes from the heart. It’s why many of us do what Underhill is a specialist in maritime environmental we do.”

6 WINTER 2015 USF Magazine First Female Dean at School of Management

USF has named Elizabeth B. Davis dean of the USF School of Management (SOM), making her the first woman to lead the school in its 90-year history. Davis is an expert in strategic management, business policy, and organizational dynamics and has more than 25 years experience in higher education. She will lead SOM’s 200 faculty and 54 staff and manage the school’s $26 million budget. She comes to USF from the University of New Haven (UNH) College of Business in Connecticut, where she was dean. Prior to UNH, she was associate professor and chair of the Department of Organizational Sciences and Communication and director of the Women’s Leadership Program at George Washington University. Davis began her career as a researcher at Duke University Medical School and was S later named CEO and COO of the National Disease Research Interchange, a biomedical A RIE A R

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BY THE NUMBERS Student Elected Interim President of SF Board of Supervisors USF’s rank among universities 106 nationwide by U.S. News and World Report (up from 117 in 2013)

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World Report hegneL a nn a 8 h Katy Tang JD ’17 in front of San Francisco City Hall USF’s rank on Collegefactual.com’s list of best colleges to A USF law student is the new president of she grew up. She’ll preside over two board major in health and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors— meetings before members elect a president physical fitness 3 at least temporarily. for a two-year term in mid-January. Board members voted unanimously to In addition to her duties as the District 4 Percent of USF name fellow Supervisor Katy Tang JD ’17 supervisor, Tang takes two to three classes applicants accepted president for a six-week interim term that a semester at USF’s law school and hopes to medical school began Dec. 1. She replaced David Chiu, who to graduate by 2017. 2001–13 vs. 45 started work the same day as a representative percent, the national “Going to law school at USF has really 66 average in the California State Assembly. helped me become more analytical, which is “It’s an incredible honor,” said Tang, who a skill I’ve put to use as I assess legislation represents the city’s Sunset District, where for the city,” Tang said.

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Student Fights to Reduce Prison Overcrowding

Graduate student Luis Aroche MPA ’15 is on the frontlines of the was ordered to begin drug rehab and take classes in anger fight to reduce California’s overcrowded prisons, now at more management and parenting. than 140 percent of capacity. Two years later, he’s earned a GED, received custody of his In just two years, he’s reduced recidivism 19 percent among daughter, and works full time. San Francisco offenders in the volatile 18- to 25-year-old age “Incarcerating him wasn’t necessarily going to stop him from group and kept about 90 offenders out of jail or state prison, smoking or getting a job or schooling,” Gascón said. according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. “I call it smart sentencing,” said Aroche, who is an example of Aroche, 35, is in a unique position—he directs the city’s successful reform. By age 16, he had been arrested for assault and Alternative Sentencing Program (ASP), the only position of its attempted robbery and spent three years in juvenile detention kind in the country. facilities. While there, he learned that his older brother had been He identifies low-level offenders that he believes are the most sentenced to life in prison for a double homicide. Two other likely to be successfully rehabilitated and, through in-depth brothers were incarcerated. interviews and background checks, tries to gauge how ready He decided that a life in prison wasn’t the road he wanted to they are to reform. take and promised a prosecutor he would change. The prosecutor Aroche then works with prosecutors and defense attorneys to then helped him land his first job, cleaning swimming pools. create a probationary sentence that avoids jail time but includes Aroche went on to earn a GED and a degree in counseling psych- at least one mandatory program to help address the root cause ology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. of the problem, such as drug rehabilitation, personal and family “I represent the marginalized side of the Latino community. I counseling, or tutoring. came from the bottom and know how to go up, and the offenders San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón created ASP in I see recognize that,” said Aroche, who counseled troubled 2012 as an alternative to the one-size-fits-all approach to prosecution youth before enrolling at USF. “I’m a true believer in the power and sentencing that he says helped create California’s over- of a second chance.” crowded prisons in the first place. Aroche said he applied to USF after learning about its emphasis One success story is a 19-year-old pot smoker who went on a on ethics, helping others, and community building. “I love every robbery spree with a BB gun in the city’s Mission District in minute of my time at USF. I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing 2012. He faced three to five years in prison, but on Aroche’s without it,” he said. recommendation the young father and high school dropout

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8 WINTER 2015 USF Magazine gino lu Student Fights to Reduce Prison Overcrowding Professor Saves Family From Flooding Home

USF’s Gretchen Coffman waded into two feet of rushing water to rescue a bewildered family from their rapidly flooding home just outside Anaheim. On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, a water main burst in a reservoir behind the family’s home. Waist- high water was building up against the home’s sliding glass door and floor-to- ceiling windows and was beginning to seep inside. “It was a pretty crazy situation,” said Coffman, an assistant professor of environmental science, who was spending the holiday weekend at her sister-in-law’s house next door. She said her experience wading through moving water as a wetland restoration expert and an open-ocean swimmer in the San Francisco Bay came in handy. “When I entered the house, they were just standing there paralyzed with panic,” she recalled. Coffman led the family on a search of the house for their infant and pets, loaded them into the family van, and guided them down the driveway, which had water rushing down it like a waterfall. Coffman went back for the elderly grandmother, who used a walker, and escorted her to the front door of the home, before firefighters arrived. Her heroics were featured on CBS Los Angeles’ 5 o’clock news. “I never had a second thought about it. I’m around water all the time, so I went right in,” Coffman said. “It really made me feel grateful I could help them.”

Number of USF undergraduates, 6,845 fall 2014

Number of master’s degrees awarded last year 1,305

Number of new, full-time 42 faculty, fall 2014

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Welcome New Trustees

The USF Board of Trustees welcomes four new members, including two alumni award winners. The board is the university’s governing body.

• Sean O. Carroll, S.J., executive director of the Kino Border Initiative, a nonprofit that promotes U.S./Mexico border and immigration policies that affirm human dignity.

• Serra Falk Goldman JD ’04, attorney at Falk, Cornell and Associates. She serves on the advisory board at USF’s Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good and is author of a book on estate planning, Leaving a Legacy.

• Evan Kletter ’91, CEO of BAART Programs, which provide drug treatment and rehabil- itation nationwide. He is the winner of USF’s 2014 Alessandri Service Award for New Home for Sacramento Campus volunteerism and chaired the university’s San Francisco Regional Alumni Council. USF’s Sacramento Campus has a new home, located near the heart of the city’s historic business district and a stone’s throw from the state • Lindbergh Porter JD ’81, shareholder at Capitol building. Littler Mendelson P.C. He speaks and writes The campus moved from its previous location at Downtown Plaza, frequently on employment and labor law, because of nearby demolition and construction related to the city’s and is the 2012 Alumnus of the Year at the new sports and entertainment arena. USF School of Law. USF has served Sacramento for more than 40 years and offers classes in business, health, and education at both the graduate and The board also welcomed two new constituent representatives, undergraduate level. who participate in board proceedings as non-voting members: The Sacramento Campus is one of six USF branch campuses, the • Eva Long ’15, undergraduate student representative others are located in downtown San Francisco, San Jose, Pleasanton, • Alexia Thompson MA ’15, graduate student representative Santa Rosa, and Orange County.

MOVIE MAN

Actor Sinqua Walls ’07 is branching out. Known for playing a werewolf named Boyd on MTV’s Teen Wolf and Jamarcus Hall on the critically acclaimed series Friday Night Lights, Walls is jumping from the small screen to the big one. He’s featured in Believe Me, a movie released nationwide in September. Walls’ rapidly growing résumé also includes guest appearances on CSI, Grey’s Anatomy, and Californication.

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USF graduate student Julian Rowand ’17 kneels in front of a mural he helped paint in San Francisco’s Balmy Alley. When Walls Speak

A graduate student in USF’s Human Rights Education program celebrate the identity and culture of the largely Hispanic co-directed a short documentary on the celebrated murals in Mission District. San Francisco’s Mission District and helped paint one himself. The murals continue to give voice to activism and change, Julian Rowand ’17 co-directed These Walls Speak, a half-hour and the alley is a constant work in progress, as older murals are documentary that brings to life the colorful murals in Balmy repaired or replaced by new ones. Alley, the most concentrated collection of murals in the city. Rowand hopes to use the documentary as a teaching tool. Artists started painting them more than 30 years ago to voice You can find out more about Rowand’s documentary film at opposition to U.S. intervention in Central America and to thesewallsspeak.wordpress.com.

USF Magazine WINTER 2015 11 PHOTOS BY JEREMY SNYDER ’16 Ramona 2.0 Eighteen months after a hellish accident, she remained in a coma. Her comeback was impossible— and stunning.

by Monica Villavicencio

Ramona Pierson MA ’03 moved into a senior citizens’ facility in Kremmling, Colo., about 40 years too early. The 24-year-old was bald, blind, and pieced together with titanium and cadaver bones. Her nose was reconstructed with plastic, and her teeth were porcelain. She weighed 68 pounds.

Eighteen months before, the U.S. Marine was in peak health, with a fitness regimen that included regular 13-mile runs. But all of that changed in an instant one evening in the spring of 1984. Pierson was out for a jog near Irvine with her dog when a hit-and-run driver plowed through a red light. As the car sped away, Pierson lay bleeding, mangled to within an inch of her life. Her throat and aorta were sliced open, and her heart and lungs were exposed. Strangers used pens to open airways in her neck and chest. Someone massaged her heart to keep it beating until the paramedics arrived. After a year and a half in a medically induced coma and dozens of surgeries to rebuild her body, doctors gave up on her. They called her a “gomer,” hospital slang for “get out of my emergency room.” She was sent to the only place anyone

USF MAGAZINE WINTER 2015 13 could think to send a patient so badly hurt and with such little nightly ritual of what Pierson calls “cuss- hope of recovering: a nursing home. word scrabble.” “I’m going to just leave it to It was a last resort, but it ended up saving her. your imagination as to what my first words were when Sally finally got my confidence SCRUBS AND A SUITCASE FULL OF MEDICAL RECORDS built,” Pierson chuckled. And there was the blindness. For some- “Everybody lost faith in my ability to recover, so they basically put one newly blind, just learning to cross the a map up on the wall, threw a dart, and it landed at a senior home street is hard enough, but Pierson also suf- here in Colorado,” Pierson said with a laugh, recounting her story fered from post-traumatic stress disorder. years later in a May 2011 TEDx talk at the University of Denver. Every time she approached the curb, she’d Pierson arrived at the nursing home in hospital scrubs, with a have a panic attack. The seniors had a sug- suitcase full of medical records. She’d fallen out of touch with gestion: stick your cane out and if it gets hit, friends while in the hospi- don’t cross. But after Pierson lost three tal, and her family had its canes, the seniors came up with another own struggles: her father ‘In some ways it may have had died of a heart attack strategy. They raised funds to send her to when she was 12, and her the Braille Institute and get her a guide dog. been a gift of sorts because mother battled alcohol- She focused on taking one step at a time. I saw that your life can be ism. Her two brothers After three years in the senior home, Pier- bounced around without son was ready to live on her own again. gone in a second. And what a permanent homes, and waste if you don’t try her sister was in an abu- A GIFT OF SORTS to meet your potential.’ sive marriage. Despite everything she lost, Pierson says But the seniors at the of her accident, “In some ways it may have home became Pierson’s been a gift of sorts because I saw that your new family, and they had a life can be gone in a second. And what a lot to teach her, as she told the TEDx audience. “The one advantage waste if you don’t try to meet your potential.” they had over most of you is wisdom because they had a long life, Blindness didn’t stop her from reclaim- and I needed that wisdom at that moment in my life.” ing her athleticism. She took up rock climb- The seniors gave her their spare furniture and bedding, and a ing, cross-country skiing, and cycling. She makeover. “Out went the scrubs and in came the polyester and flo- even competed in tandem cycling races ral prints,” Pierson recalled. When her hair started to grow back, with a sighted partner and won a world the seniors tried all sorts of hairstyles. championship in Russia. Pierson also went back to school, bring- BACK TO BASICS ing her signature tenacity to the classroom. Learning had always come easy to Pierson. She was able to calculate She started by earning a second bachelor’s complex math equations in her head at a young age and entered UC degree, this one in psychology at Fort Lewis Berkeley at the age of 16. Her standardized test scores were so high College in Colorado. When studying in they caught the attention of the U.S. Marine Corps, who came knock- braille became too tricky at times, she tu- ing with a scholarship. Soon, the undergrad was a soldier writing tored students in exchange for reading algorithms to calculate the position of Russian nuclear silos. textbooks to her aloud. Pierson was physically impressive as well; her colleagues nomi- For the first time in her life, Pierson un- nated her as the fittest person at the Marine Corps Air Station derstood what it was like to be a student El Toro near Irvine, where she was stationed. She dreamed of being with special needs and what it took to suc- a cardiologist. ceed. She realized she could use that But two years after the accident, the prospect of being an inde- knowledge to help students like her learn pendent, fully functioning adult seemed unlikely. She’d have to more effectively. relearn the basics—like speaking. Driven by that goal to help struggling stu- During the day, Sally, the office manager at the senior home, gave dents, Pierson sought to understand how the Pierson lessons on how to coordinate her tongue, throat, teeth, and brain works and how it processes informa- lips to capture air and form words. The exercise was humbling and tion. She earned a doctorate in neuroscience frustrating. “When you’re a kid, you take things for granted. You from Palo Alto University. learn things unconsciously, but I was an adult and it was embarrass- She also worked in Palo Alto at a brain ing,” Pierson said. “So, I acted like a two-year-old and refused to work.” research center, helping soldiers returning When her lessons with Sally weren’t going well, the men at the from the Middle East after the first Gulf home decided to help make speech therapy fun, and so began the War. In her free time, she volunteered in

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“An unexpected place of DENVER OF UNIVERSITY THE OF COURTESY PHOTO healing,” in 2011.

the San Francisco public school system to Mash, was born. help kids coping with brain trauma. An early project matched students with teachers in Indiana, That drew Pierson to enroll at USF’s according to their teaching and learning styles. “By doing that, School of Education, where she earned a mas- we started out with kids who hadn’t advanced in three years in SEE OUR ter’s degree in teaching and embraced the math, and within six weeks we got them caught up with their age INTERVIEW WITH PIERSON peers,” Pierson explained. “So there’s something to personalization, university’s mission. “I was really attuned AND WATCH to social justice, and it’s a core value in my and the silver bullet isn’t so much the technology, but it’s actually HER TEDx TALK work. USF is a thread I carry through every- helping to unhook people from thinking they’re not learners and www.usfca.edu/ thing I do.” helping them to see that they are.” magazine/ After years of using technology to help Several years later, she sold SynapticMash for $10 million to a RamonaPierson others, technology helped her: a robotic sur- UK-based education software company. gery removed a hematoma, restoring her She could’ve retired but instead is working on her second startup, sight in one eye. Declara, in Palo Alto. She and her team have created an online tool that helps users find content and people they may not even realize they’re looking for. “We’re able to find hidden resources, hidden A CALLING AT THE INTERSECTION content, and hidden experts and bring them together,” Pierson said. OF EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY Declara is young, but its clients include educators in Mexico and In 2003, Pierson became the director of edu- Australia and biotech giant Genentech. cation technology for the Seattle public Now in her early ’50s, Pierson believes collaboration is key to schools, where she and her team created tackling some of the world’s most intractable problems. “If you’re an online platform called The Source, going to have a workforce that’s going to solve some of the world’s which allowed students, teachers, and biggest problems like the water crisis and food and war, how are we parents to share and discuss projects, as- going to do that unless we work together and innovate together?” signments, and curricula. The network That’s what the seniors at the Colorado nursing home did, help- was adopted across the 120-school system. ing launch the 68 lbs. “gomer” to become a multi-million dollar tech “What I saw was kids trying to solve entrepreneur with a seemingly endless list of goals. learning problems with each other and help Her latest? Next year, she hopes to complete a half Ironman, each other do different things online,” she a triathlon that includes a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike ride, and said. “I thought, ‘What if we could scale this a 13.1-mile run. up to be a lot larger?’” The safe bet is she’ll triumph. ///// And so Pierson’s first startup, Synaptic-

14 WINTER 2015 USF MAGAZINE USF MAGAZINE WINTER 2015 15 By Samantha Bronson Photos by Matthew Mitchell A usf program is helping redefine the role of nurses in Vietnam, in an effort to improve a health care system that is struggling to meet basic needs. It’s working.

16 Winter 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine Winter 2015 17 16 Winter 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine Winter 2015 17 who directs the program, and co-directors Greg Crow EdD ’90 never imagined that a trip to DeBourgh and Prion lead the trips and teach Vietnam would end up helping to change health care halfway a wide range of topics to hundreds of nursing around the world. professionals, students, and educators. Crow is an adjunct professor in USF’s School of Nursing and The program gave nurses in Than Nhan’s Health Professions. While on vacation in Hanoi in 2005, he decided intensive care unit (ICU) their first stetho- to visit the Bach Mai Nursing School and its associated hospital. scopes and the training necessary to use What he saw shocked him. them. It also gave the hospital its first “I’d never seen conditions like that,” Crow said. “There are 1,500 ultrasound machine, which uses sound beds, but they have an average daily census of 3,000 patients. You waves to create a computerized image of see two, sometimes three, patients to a bed. You see the staff internal organs or a fetus. transport people, sometimes on carts, sometimes on golf carts. You see the nurses struggling to meet the patients’ needs because they don’t have the right information and sometimes they don’t have the HELPING to CHANGE THE WORLD right tools.” VNP also provides an outstanding opportu- The U.S. State Department warns travelers about the health care nity for USF’s graduate students in nursing shortcomings on its website: “Please be aware that medical care in to complete a required clinical project. The Vietnam, even in Ho Chi Minh City, is considerably below U.S. results are extraordinary. standards ... more serious problems will often require medical At Thanh Nhan, then-graduate student evacuation to Bangkok or Singapore. Emergency medical services Amy Ly MSN ’12 discovered that the are generally unresponsive, unreliable, or completely unavailable.” endocrinology department had no formal Crow wanted to help but wasn’t sure how. When the staff of Bach protocol for foot assessment in diabetic Mai asked if he could return the next day and teach a class, he patients. These assessments are critical jumped at the chance. He returned the next year and the one after because diabetics can suffer serious foot that too. For that third visit in 2007, he was accompanied by USF problems, including deep skin and bone nursing Professor Greg DeBourgh and a graduate student in USF’s infections, gangrene, nerve damage, and nursing program. deformities. A small percentage of patients The Vietnam Nurse Project (VNP) was born. even require amputation of a toe or foot.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS The program’s goal is ambitious: estab- lish a new model of nursing in Vietnam, enabling the country to provide better health care. “When nurses can do more, then and only then can the Vietnamese health care system do more,” Crow said. The program has reached more than 6,500 nursing professionals in Hanoi through its partner nursing schools and hospitals, including the Bach Mai Nursing School and Medical Center, the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine, and the large, public Thanh Nhan Hospital. “These are smart, dedicated people,” said Susan Prion, a USF associate pro- fessor of nursing, and the third USF faculty member to join the program. “They want to help people. The problem is that they haven’t been given adequate training to be able to do that.” Every January, VNP sponsors a two- week trip to Hanoi, with up to 15 USF faculty, graduate students, and volunteer nurses from around the country. Crow,

18 Winter 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine Winter 2015 19 Nursing students at the Bach Mai Nursing School and Medical Center, a partner with USF's Vietnam Nurse Project

18 Winter 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine Winter 2015 19 Ly found that if the assessments were performed Today, the assessments are standard care at at all, they weren’t performed properly. Even when Thanh Nhan, and the protocol Ly created will likely patients were screened, no one documented who be adopted by the Hanoi Department of Health, did them on which patients or when. which operates 37 medical facilities in the city. The reason for the problem was simple: “I don’t know if I have the words for it. It’s the nurses had never been trained. Ly returned to amazing,” Ly said. “I can’t believe that a project that USF and created a presentation on how to perform in my mind wasn’t going to be that big of a deal proper foot exams on diabetic patients and then turned out to be a huge deal. I’m thrilled that I trained the nurses at Thanh Nhan via videocon- could have such a big impact.” ferencing. Nurses in Hanoi even used Ly’s information to

20 Winter 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine Winter 2015 21 create self-care pamphlets for patients to reference after going home. To a Westerner, this sounds unremarkable, but it’s a giant step in a health care system that traditionally provides little patient education. Prion discovered another serious problem at Thanh Nhan while living in Hanoi for six months as part of the Fulbright Program. Pressure ulcers, commonly called bedsores, were becoming infected, The program gave nurses in Thanh leading to pneumonia, sepsis, and sometimes death. Prion taught procedures to prevent and care for them, starting Nhan’s intensive care unit their first with one simple step: she had the international treatment standards translated into Vietnamese. stethoscopes and the training Within a month of implementing the procedures, other Hanoi hospitals were referring patients to Thanh Nhan, and the hospital’s necessary to use them. own medical and surgical wards called the ICU for help. When asked how many times he had been consulted previously about bedsores, the ICU’s director said, “Before this, never!” Patients also went home with written instructions on how to care is on an actual patient, often without fully for their bedsores, including a list of supplies they’d need and understanding its purpose. strategies for prevention. That had never happened before. “At our institutions in the U.S., we have staff development departments in medical centers so that when something new comes Struggling to Cope up, a new way to deal with something, there’s The Vietnam War destroyed almost every hospital in the country. ongoing education,” DeBourgh said. “They Four decades later, its health care system is still struggling, for don’t have that resource in Vietnam. There’s many reasons. this huge void.” “In most countries, there’s some kind of licensing or certification In the classroom, students are taught process for nurses. Vietnam doesn’t have that,” said DeBourgh. almost exclusively through lectures, which “You’re a nurse when your school says you’re a nurse. When nurses often consist of an instructor reading aloud Students, nurses, and get to the bedside, they may have heard about or read about a from a textbook. The government provides doctors at the Vietnam particular procedure but never actually have done it.” nursing schools with a recommended curri- Academy of Traditional In fact, hands-on training is almost nonexistent. Students watch culum, but they're allowed to alter it by up Medicine listen to a an instructor execute a procedure once but rarely have an to 40 percent, resulting in a huge variation presentation by USF's opportunity to practice. Most often, the first time they perform it in skills. VNP shared USF’s undergraduate Vietnam Nurse Project.

20 Winter 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine Winter 2015 21 Gregory DeBourgh (left), nursing nursing curriculum with the Bach Mai Nursing School, But a crowd of nearly three-dozen doctors professor and co-director of the and Bach Mai incorporated much of it into its own. and nurses watched in awe. They’d simply Vietnam Nurse Project, and Greg One of the biggest challenges is cultural, including the never seen anything like it before. A nurse Crow, adjunct nursing professor and the Vietnam Nurse Project's rigid and hierarchical structure of Vietnamese health care. making suggestions to a doctor? That doesn’t founder and director Nurses are expected to follow orders without question and happen in Vietnam. Susan Prion, associate profes- don’t speak up. Prion discovered this by accident, in the Later, Dr. Thanh explained the significance sor of nursing and co-director of same ICU that had the problem with bedsores. of the exchange to Prion. She had shattered the Vietnam Nurse Project, with She and Dr. Nguyen Thanh, the ICU’s medical director, perceptions and changed the way nurses— Dr. Nguyen Thanh in the ICU at stood at the bedside of a patient who was rapidly and doctors—think about the role of nurses Hanoi's Thanh Nhan Hospital deteriorating. The two tossed ideas back and forth on ways and their potential. Fostering this change in Nursing students at Hanoi's to help the patient. thinking is one of VNP’s primary goals. Thanh Nhan Hospital “I didn’t really think much of it,” Prion said. “He’s a younger physician. I’m an old, grizzled ICU nurse. It seemed reasonable that we’d be combining our experiences to figure out what do EVIDENCE IT’S WORKING for the patient.” When VNP first started, nurses at Thanh Nhan’s ICU were hitting patients so hard during chest physiotherapy, a procedure used to loosen mucus, that Crow feared they would be hurt. In April, he and Dr. Thanh observed a hands-on training is almost nonexistent. nurse performing it the way she had learned from VNP. “Then a physician comes to the Students watch an instructor execute a bedside and tells the nurse to hit the patient harder,” Crow said. “The nurse turns around procedure once but rarely have an and says to the physician, ‘What evidence do you have that hitting the patient harder opportunity to practice. Most often, is better for the patient outcome?’ “Well, I almost passed out when I heard the first time they perform it is that. I mean, it was in Vietnamese, but I could tell what was going on. And Dr. Thanh on an actual patient. very nicely said to his colleague, the physician, ‘The nurse asked you a question. What evidence do you have that doing it that way is better than the way we’re now carrying it out?’ That conversation changed

22 Winter 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine Winter 2015 23 reduced the number of lung infections and decreased the time necessary in the ICU. The initial nursing-practice council is at Thanh Nhan, but VNP hopes to expand the concept and establish councils at other partner hospitals in Hanoi. From there, it plans to create a community of councils from different hospitals so that they can share information and research. VNP is cautiously optimistic that the idea will spread across the country, along with the transformation in how nurses are viewed—and how they view themselves. Even when VNP participants can’t be in Vietnam physically, they can bridge the 7,300-mile distance between San Francisco and Hanoi through videoconferencing, like Ly did with her training on diabetic foot care.

the relationship between that nurse and that physician, and I got to witness that.” DeBourgh also sees a difference in how nurses and doctors interact. “In the last A crowd of nearly three-dozen doctors and nurses couple of years, we have seen a dramatic change. They’re dialoguing more, they’re watched in awe. They’d simply never seen anything like asking questions, they’re interacting. We see the evidence of the program’s impact in it before. A nurse making suggestions to a doctor? how they’re speaking. They’re asking questions like, ‘How do I know this is the That doesn’t happen in Vietnam. right thing to do? What is the evidence?’ They’re not just using the buzzwords. They really do understand that the way to improve their practice is to do things that Every month, DeBourgh and Crow create are evidence-based rather than just tradition. They’re becoming more a videoconference presentation based on empowered to challenge the status quo and to not be intimidated.” topics suggested by their partners in Hanoi. VNP leaders believe this change is critical for the country’s health They use the 60- to 90-minute presentations care system to improve. They have focused recent efforts on developing to discuss new medical research, share nurse leaders and created Vietnam’s first nursing-practice council. clinical expertise, and discuss best practices. Armed with a transformational idea of their potential and newfound As many as 50 nurses and physicians in confidence, nurses work with Crow and DeBourgh to identify problems Hanoi watch each broadcast. with patient care, suggest solutions based on evidence and research, and Dr. Thanh is always among those watching. evaluate the effectiveness of their solutions once they’re implemented. A key partner of VNP, Dr. Thanh is an “Let me give you one recent and very successful example,” Crow said enthusiastic supporter of the program, now after an October trip to Hanoi. The nurses couldn't find an affordable entering its eighth year. The new skills and anti-bacterial solution to clean the mouths of patients on mechanical knowledge the nurses gain from VNP are ventilators, which requires a breathing tube to be inserted in the throat. important, he explained, but the program’s They discovered that if they bought the supplies in bulk and packaged true strength comes from its ability to them themselves, they could reduce the price to an affordable level for establish a new model of nursing. most patients. “It provides hope and belief to our nurses in “This may not sound like a big deal,” said Crow. “But when a patient is Thanh Nhan and Vietnam about the brilliant mechanically ventilated, they are very susceptible to pneumonia, even future of nursing in Vietnam,” he said. ///// in the best hospital in the U.S.” Pneumonia can require powerful and prolonged antibiotic therapy and increase the time needed in the ICU. The solution was “effective and affordable,” Crow said, and has

22 Winter 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine Winter 2015 23 Picture perfect Corinna Halloran ’07 is racing around the world This photograph of a teammate’s high in a yacht, in a nine-month competition covering seas selfie is one of many she’s taken since nearly 40,000 nautical miles. She’s part of an the race started in October. all-female team trying to win the grueling and It ends in June in Gothenburg, Sweden. sometimes dangerous Volvo Ocean Race, “I get to tell the story of 13 powerful where sailors face mountainous waves, women who are sailing and changing how 50 mph winds, and even icebergs. Five the world sees women—that’s humbling, and participants have died since the race it gets me up in the morning,” Halloran says. started in 1973. At USF, Halloran was a photo editor and Halloran (pictured left) is the team’s photographer for the San Francisco Foghorn, onboard reporter and photographer, and the university’s student newspaper. her job is to chronicle Team SCA (named for its Swedish sponsor) as it pushes to the finish line. Photo by Corinna Halloran ’07, courtesy of Team SCA

24 WINTer 2014 USF Magazine USF Magazine WINTer 2014 25 Reading, Writing, AND JAZZ 16 ’ cardo M a s cardo Lui g i Gino 16, ’ Jeremy Snyder Snyder Jeremy SHE HAS A SONG ALL IN HER HEART, BUT HER SOUL’S IN THE CLASSROOM

JAZZby Gary McDonald Some people call Margie Baker EDD ’83 a jazz singer, some a blues singer. “Other people label me,” says the celebrated jazz vocalist, “but I just consider myself a singer of songs.”

Known for her phrasing and interpretation and for giving a song warmth and personality, Baker has incredible stories to tell from her 41-year career: how jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie became her good friend and mentor, how she was discovered by chance the first time she sang in public, and what it was like growing up in the epicenter of the American jazz scene, just blocks from USF.

But Baker’s relationship with music is complicated. She loves to sing yet has no formal training and can’t read music. She’s traveled the world performing with the Monterey Jazz Festival but hates show business and doesn’t like the sound of her own voice.

“Music was never my priority,” says Baker, who values two things above all else: her faith, which always comes first, and teaching, which is her life’s calling. For Margie Baker, singing is a side note.

Right Place, Right Time When you meet Baker, it’s striking how much younger she looks than her 81 years. For half her life, she’s been singing professionally, but she owes her career to luck and

COUR T E S Y O F MAR G IE B A K ER coincidence. Or, as Baker says, the Lord’s will. She was a 39-year-old administrator with the San Francisco public schools, armed with a doctorate in education from USF, when she went to eat one night at Henri’s Room at the Baker's college portrait, Circa 1950 Top in the San Francisco Hilton (now the Cityscape). A friend of hers, guitarist George Hanapen, was playing. “I was eating my dinner, and all of a sudden I heard him make an announcement that there was a lady in the house who could sing,” Baker remembers. She looked around the dining room to see who he was talking about. “He was talking about me! He saw me, and he knew I could sing a little because we used to have fun at parties. I got really upset with him for doing that.” Reluctantly, she sang I Left My Heart in San Francisco and returned quickly to her table, where her food was growing cold. “That’s when Mr. Hilton heard me sing,” Baker says, referring to hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, who was also eating at Henri’s that night. Hilton sent some hotel executives to her table with a question: “Ma’am, we loved your singing, and Mr. Hilton loved your singing, and Mr. Hilton asks if you would like to work for him?” “Now, that’s the Lord!” Baker says, “Why would I even be going out on a night like that?” Rarely had she sang in public before, except at funerals or with a hymnal in her hand, but suddenly she was crooning at Henri’s five nights a week during the summer, and on Sunday and Monday nights the rest of the year. Sometimes, during big events, the company would fly her to Las Vegas to sing at the Hilton there. Henri Lewin, the restaurant’s namesake and a top Hilton executive, said Baker had a “tremendous talent for making people happy.” He called her voice a gift and said she had many fans including stars like Elvis Presley.

28 Winter 2015 USF Magazine “All said it was a ‘must’ to come to San Francisco and Baker did both, and then devoted 51 years of her sing along with Margie Baker,” he gushed. “She was not life to educating others. She started at Patrick Henry only Margie, she was magic too.” Elementary School on Potrero Hill as a teacher and then spent two decades as an administrator with the San Francisco public schools. The Move West When she grew tired of school Baker was born in East Texas near the Louisiana border administration and the politics, she in 1933. She lived in a house with no running water asked to work with students again or electricity, located in “the sticks.” The area was and was named dean of students at ‘That’s how poverty stricken and also “very, very racially negative Marina Middle School. There, she toward African Americans. You know that, you know thrived and postponed retirement much I loved the history,” she says. until she was 68. “That’s how much Baker explains that her mother didn't want her I loved those kids. Because so many of those kids. raised in that environment. She moved them to them are so needy, they just need San Francisco, to the Fillmore District, soon after the people who want to take them and because so U.S. entered World War II. Baker isn’t sure if they save them,” she says. moved in 1941 or 1942, but she has a clear memory of many of them the apartment they lived in. Meeting Dizzy “We lived in a cold-water flat during the war. A lot are so needy, of people were migrating through San Francisco, and When Baker and her mother first these flats had six or seven rooms, one kitchen, and moved to the Fillmore in the early one bath. So we had to share the kitchen and bath ’40s, they lived in the jazz district. They just need with quite a few of people.” Baker was only 8 or 9 years old, but In the 1940s, a large number of African Americans she remembers. people who migrated to the Bay Area, mostly from the South, to “Oh yes, it was hopping!” she says. work in shipyards and other war industries. Between “I couldn’t go to any of the night clubs want to take 1940 and 1950, the number of African Americans living or anything, but I was [roller] skating in San Francisco increased from just under 5,000 to up and down the streets on the side- them and more than 43,000, according to the U.S. Census. walk on Fillmore Street, and Billie The Bakers didn't live in the cold-water flat for Holiday was playing over there, and save them.’ long, because Margie’s mother landed a solid job that Nat King Cole was playing over there. paid well. “She was one of the ‘Rosie the Riveters,’” I didn’t know too much about them, Baker says proudly. “She was a riveter in Hunters Point and Oakland too, at the Oakland Army Base.” “In those days, the money was flowing because it was war time, and my mother saved enough money to buy h Wiener Lei g h a home at 1515 Golden Gate Avenue. That was where © I was raised. I think that house must have cost $5,000 dollars in those days.” Baker grew up within walking distance of USF, which was only ten blocks away. She enrolled at the university decades later.

Two Things Baker adored her mother, a devout Christian, and church is where Baker was introduced to music. “I love gospel, that was my first music,” Baker says. “I would sing, you know, Amazing Grace. It’s just auto- matic. You don’t have to read music, just know the lyrics. That’s all.” She had plenty of time to practice: both of her grandfathers were ministers, one Baptist and one Methodist. “My folks were salt-of-the-earth, poor, African American religious people,” Baker says. “They told me two things: ‘First thing you got to do is trust in the Lord, and you got to get your education.’”

The Black Hawk Night club, 1961 USF Magazine Winter 2015 29 San Francisco Hilton, circa 1975

‘Music has never been my priority. I wasn’t even thinking about singing until I was 40 years old. Number one, I am interested in saving my soul, that’s the top priority. Secondly,

all the other stuff.’ COUR T E S Y O F MAR G IE B A K ER COUR T E S Y O F MAR G IE B A K ER

Baker introduces her students To Dizzy Gillespie, 1976 “When I was performing in Tokyo, he was there too at the Blue Note,” Baker recalls. And so they performed together across the world. Despite the many times she sang with a living legend, the story Baker tells most eagerly about Gillespie involves an audience of San Francisco school kids in 1976. “We booked him in some of the elementary and middle schools, and he performed for those children. It was just a wonderful occasion. Just wonderful.” Even as Baker's singing career took off, with singing engagements world- wide, she kept her job with the school district and booked performances only if they didn't interfere with her job in education.

Full Circle In the summer of 2014, Baker released her fourth album, Margie Baker Sings With So Many Stars. She enjoys a standing gig at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, where she adds the jazz to its lavish Sunday brunch. The audience hears a lot more than jazz, however. Baker has a long list of favorite songs, in many genres, and sings whatever strikes her mood. She loves If I Can't Have You by Alicia Keys, Caught Up in the Rapture by Anita but I liked the music. And that’s kind of how I got into Baker, The Thrill is Gone by B.B. King, Be My Love by Mario Lanza, and the 1930s music, as a kid in the Fillmore District. Because Fillmore blues tune Since I Fell for You. was a jazz-club haven. “I also love good country,” she continues, “and I sing Patsy Cline’s Crazy all the “There was a little nightclub on Turk and Hyde, it time. From Broadway, one I really love is Somewhere from West Side Story, and was called the Black Hawk. College students could go Nat King Cole’s Unforgettable, I love singing that. Above all, I love my religious on Sunday afternoons. If you were under 21, you had to gospel music, and one of my favorites is Aretha Franklin's Oh Happy Day.” sit behind the chicken wire, because you couldn’t sit One of her all-time favorite vocalists is Barbara Streisand. “Oh, I love that where they sold liquor.” woman,” she says. That’s where Baker met John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, Baker remembers one student in particular from her first job at Patrick Henry one of the giants of American jazz and a multi-talented Elementary, and it brings her story full circle. That student is John Santos, and trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and occasional singer. Baker remembers teaching him “reading, writing, and arithmetic.” “Well, one Sunday afternoon after we studied, we Today, Santos is a five-time Grammy-nominated musician and a recognized ex- decided we were going to go down to the Black Hawk. pert in Afro-Latin music. He's also a featured percussionist on Baker’s new album. And when Mr. Gillespie saw this group of college stu- When asked what makes her successful, Baker replies: “There are two factors dents, he was very impressed with that.” in my success, as far as I’m concerned. Because I am a devout believer in my Baker was 17 and already a sophomore at UC Berkeley, religion and in education.” on scholarship. “Oh that blew his mind,” Baker says. “Music has never been my priority. I wasn’t even thinking about singing until I “From that day on Mr. Gillespie and I were dear friends was 40 years old. Number one, I am interested in saving my soul, that’s the top until the day he died.” priority. Secondly, all the other stuff.”///// But 20 years into their friendship, Gillespie had no idea Baker could sing. She decided to invite him to Henri's to watch her perform, and he showed up with a friend in tow, Jimmy Lyons, who founded the prestigious Baker, 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival. “So, Dizzy came up there to hear me sing for the first time, and Mr. Lyons heard me sing, and the next thing I knew, Mr. Lyons was asking me to travel around the world with the Monterey Jazz Festival.” Baker said yes, and that decision took her talent to 16 ’ the world stage. “I would go to Japan for a month, come home, the next year I might go to Russia, come home. The next year New Zealand and Australia. I traveled every summer with the Monterey Jazz Festi- val for seven years.” cardo M a s cardo Lui g i Gino 16, Gillespie and Baker performed together often. If Baker ’ were in the audience (which she often was), he’d invite her onstage to sing, and not just in New York and L.A. Jeremy Snyder Snyder Jeremy

USF Magazine Winter 2015 31 CO-EDUCATION turns

eelings run high—Co-eds invade USF,” read “ the headline in the San Francisco Foghorn, USF’s F student newspaper, when the university opened its doors to women a half century ago. The announcement was greeted with “boos, cat-calls, and a few isolated cheers,” the paper reported. USF had been primarily a men’s college for more than 100 years when 232 women enrolled as fresh- men in the College of Arts and Sciences in the fall of 1964. Women had enrolled at USF before, in nursing, law, and the evening division at the College of Arts and Sciences, but their presence university-wide was new. Much to the dismay of USF’s male students, their GPAs skewed the grading bell curve. “The fellas called the women the DAR—Damned Average Raisers,” said Charles Dullea, S.J., then university president. 50 Most came from single-sex, Catholic high schools and were at the top of their class. “For most of my classmates, it was jarring,” recalls Joanne Prigmore Keratzides ’68, an accounting major. “It was a big deal that they were in class with boys for the first time.” “I think the university saw having women as more of a responsibility,” says politics major Janet Holland ’68, who remembers a strict dress code of dresses, skirts, and nylons, and an 11 p.m. curfew. By 1980, women had overtaken men in enroll- ment. Today, 63 percent of USF’s undergraduates are female. “There’s no doubt that the decision to fully inte- grate USF and allow women into any and all programs had a tremendous effect,” explains University Historian Alan Ziajka. “They’ve added so much academically, and it’s hard to imagine we would’ve survived as an institution without them.”

TWO ALUMNAE TELL US WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEING IN THE FIRST CO-ED COHORT www.usfca.edu/magazine/50thcoed

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USF’s first fully co-ed class registers for classes in the fall of 1964.

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Flashback to 1983

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Undergraduate (aka BOB CHANG) ’51 in Shanghai. a member of Sons in Retirement. Al FEELING NOSTALGIC? enjoys poker, hiking, dining out, and wine tasting. Al and his wife, Helene, USF YEARBOOKS ARE XIE SHIHAO (aka FRANCIS JOE ARENIVAR was elected for just celebrated their 55th wedding ONLINE! SHIEH) is a retired octogenar- ’55 a fifth term to the school ’48 anniversary in June. Al still gets CHECK THEM OUT ian with two sons in the military: one board of Pittsburg Unified School together with USF classmates CARL www.usfca.edu/library/dc is a retired USAF Colonel and the other District. PIMENTEL, BOB KING, and ED THIEDE. Al is a principal violist with the U.S. also celebrated his 80th birthday in Marine Corps Band string section. AL TWYFORD retired in 2013 June with friends and relatives. Francis recently reconnected with ’56 after 55 years in the fellow USF alumnus CHANG CHING-CHI transport industry. Al keeps busy as

34 WINTER 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine WINTER 2015 35 RICHARD TRAVERS has finally After 41 years of litigation practice, the Green and Gold Room in 1965. ’58 retired and moved to JOHNMICHAEL O’CONNOR retired from the Madison, Ala., to be near family. In active practice of law in June. His term RAYMOND MICHAUD recently addition to joining the Northern Ala. as a member of the 2013-14 Santa Clara ’70 retired after 34 years as Railroad Museum, Richard spends a County Civil Grand Jury also expired in headmaster of the John Thomas Dye great deal of time researching his June. JohnMichael will continue to School, and he has moved to a golf family history: He has now discovered serve as a neutral ADR provider. community called Trilogy at Vistancia that his great-great-grandfather in Phoenix. invented socialism in France, he is a After retiring as president of cousin of Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & ’68 the Coastal Campus at Simon After 40 years, STEPHANIE Mary, and his grandmother was the Bolivar University in Caracas, CHAPRALIS stepped down in daughter of a slave! ’72 Venezuela, ENRIQUE LOPEZ-CONTRERas June 2014 from a rewarding career in won a search for chair of the education and nonprofit management RUSSELL R. MILLER, who lives Department of Modern Languages at to smell the roses. Stephanie and her ’60 in Shanghai, published two California State University, Stanislaus. husband, Dennis McCaffrey, and sister, new books: An American in Shanghai: Before retiring in the fall of 2013, he JANICE CHAPRALIS JD ’80, have now all Reflections on Living in New China and was made professor emeritus. retired, and are newly returned to The SNAPSHOTS: A Brief Stroll Through Asia. Valley of the Moon. Prior to Shanghai, Russell lived in BOWMAN OLDS MA ’74 is the former Singapore for seven years. corporate emergency operations Since retiring from her career as an manager for a Fortune 500 company architectural designer, CYNTHIA COLBY is BILL DE FUNIAK is clerk-trea- and author of the book, How Will the enjoying having time for her sculpture ’62 surer for the town of Long United States Withdrawal from the and glasswork, tutoring reading, and Beach, Ind. His term runs until the end Republic of Korea Affect Japan's National doing activities with her granddaugh- of 2016. Security? ter, Amelie. Her family continues to host many international students, as JIM SANTELLI lives in Virginia. He MARIE JORDAN RINEHART retired in 2012 they have done for more than 30 years, retired from the federal government after working at Orange County and find delight in a wide variety of after 37 years of service. He began his Children and Family Services in cross-cultural experiences. career as a Marine Corps historian and Southern California for over 20 years. ended it as law adviser for the To date, she has five grandchildren. JAMES FORRER retired after 40 years in Department of Labor. In this last post Her sons, Joseph and Michael, reside the public transportation business and Ralph Notor ’72 he served as the disclosure officer for in Southern California. Her daughter moved to Edmonds, Wash. recently joined the the Department of Labor’s enforce- Kimberly lives in Chicago. In 2013, ment agency regulating labor unions. Marie moved to Chicago to enjoy the staff at Pyramid RALPH NOTOR recently joined the staff at He is the author of a number of articles changing seasons, and help with her Pyramid Alternatives, a community Alternatives, a on military history. three grandchildren there. mental health agency in Pacifica, Calif. community mental as a part-time clinical supervisor of DENNIS LUCEY co-chaired the GARY ANDEREGG and his spouse intern therapists. In addition, he health agency in American-Ireland National are traveling in Asia for three ’63 ’69 continues to see clients in his San Pacifica, Calif. as a Gala held on March 13, 2014 in months and enjoying their condo in Francisco private practice as a licensed Washington, D.C. The dinner honored Bangkok. In September, they journeyed marriage and family therapist. part-time clinical Vice President Joseph Biden. This to Kathmandu, Nepal to see Mt. Everest, year’s gala raised over $1 million for and in October they will visit Angkor supervisor of intern MIKE PIERACCI has been promoted peace and reconciliation, arts and Wat in Cambodia, before returning to Clinical Associate Professor of therapists. In addition, culture, education, and community home to Las Vegas in November. Humanities and Social Sciences at development programs in Ireland. he continues to see Washington State University in Founded in 1976, the American-Ireland DENNIS FREEMAN is semi-retired, lives in Tri-Cities, Wash. clients in his San Fund benefits more than 1,500 Novato, and currently serves as Grand nonprofit organizations in Ireland. Knight of the Knights of Columbus Francisco private A practicing Buddhist for over Council 3950 (Our Lady of Loretto). 25 years, WENDY LEWIS MA ’11 practice as a licensed DENNIS ZARO MA ’70, EdD ’92 has ’74 received Dharma Transmission–similar created a curriculum, Inner marriage and family ’65 Bill Kovacich EdD ’80 is retiring from to bishop ordination, including authority Journeys, for incarcerated and education after 45 years of service: He to ordain priests–in the Soto Zen therapist. previously incarcerated individuals spent 37 years as principal (St. Timothy tradition in 2012. She currently serves in currently in recovery programs for in San Mateo; St. Raymond in Menlo the central abbot/abbess department as substance-abuse issues. All seven field Park; and Mater Dolorosa in SSF) to the dean of the Zen Center School. trials have been very successful, Archdiocese of San Francisco, and the yielding six positive letters of last 11 as principal of Our Lady of RENEE LINDEMANN LISTER is still a nurse endorsement. Dennis is currently Perpetual Help School in Daly City. Bill at Kaiser Permanente, where she’s seeking a publisher for his work. will continue to work as a volunteer at worked continuously since 1974. Renee OLPH in both development and as has three children, one an editor in FRANCIS A. DOHERTY ended a producer/director of the school plays. film in New York, a daughter who is on 31-year career as an ’67 faculty in a credentialing program for international captain with Delta in CHARLES M. RIFFLE JD ’72 and DOUG GRANT teachers in Oakland, Calif., and a third 2004. Since then he has been a flight ’68 won the Young Life Masters Pairs at child who is about to enter a nursing instructor and examiner with Boeing the recent Bridge Nationals held in Las program at Duke in North Carolina in Seoul, Korea. He reports that he Vegas. This was the first national starting in Jan. 2015. She is married will retire from airplanes, finally, championship for Doug and Chuck, to John Lister ’73. this December. who began their bridge partnership in

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TIMOTHY F. REILLY has opened professional career, Leon has managed ism and has exhibited and lectured ’75 his own practice specializ- to take on a number of other titles extensively throughout Mexico and ing in the financial analysis of local along the way, including student, Israel, countries of former residence. governments for public unions. private pilot, husband, and father. He Abby has now returned to California is guided in everything by the maxim where she continues to paint, exhibit, JAN SUSAN JACOBSSEN KEATING “Duty, Honor, Country” and His grace. and lecture. ’76 recently retired after 35 years in public education as a teacher, Some people finish graduate KIYOSHI MURAKAMI has been principal, and most recently, as ’81 school only once; others are ’85 appointed as senior adviser to director of pupil personnel services. just different. SARITA M. LEDET MA ’85 the City of Rikuzentakata, Japan, which completed a Master of Divinity Degree was completely washed out by the MICHAEL A. THOMPSON has put in 2013 and is now one-third of the tsunami disaster of 2011. He is advising ’77 his JD/MBA from UCLA Law way through a doctorate. Her research the mayor and city officials on School and the Anderson Graduate emphasis is the role of women in the development, and is serving as the School of Business to good use. He just early church. She plans to complete international liaison with the United completed construction of the the program in 2016. Nations. Kiyoshi is also a visiting Thompson Law Building and is professor for National University, celebrating 29 years of practicing law as BARBARA SMALL joined GCA Law where she focuses on international a highly successful trial lawyer, having Partners LLP as a partner in May 2014 corporations and disaster management. collected millions of dollars on behalf and established the firm’s trusts and of injured victims throughout the estates practice. Barbara’s practice SAMUEL CRUMP MPA ’02 is state. Michael was recently elected to a covers estate planning, decedent’s ’86 married to COLLEEN second term as treasurer of the estate administration (probate), trust MCCARTHY CRUMP ’84. Sam is co-chair National Bar Association and is a administration, conservatorship/ of the USF North Bay Regional Alumni member of its Board of Governors. guardianship matters, and elder law Council. Colleen is an ICU nurse at counseling. Her clients are drawn from Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. JESSIE MACLEOD wrote Canary in all levels of business and socioeco- ’78 the Courtroom, How Pesticide nomic strata in Silicon Valley, from MICHELLE TONECK DADDARIO practiced Poisoning Changed a Woman's Life and innovative CEOs and pioneering legal nursing in Germany for four years Forced Her into Civil Action in 2006. Her leaders, to individual family members after graduation, where she met her JULIAN VALDEZ ’81 book, which is still in publication, and elders intent on preserving their husband. They now reside in New York has worked at continues to validate growing evidence independence. with their four children. After 22 years on the presence and dangers of toxins in working at a local hospital recovery Bradbury Victorian our environment. Jessie still shares her JULIAN VALDEZ has worked at Bradbury room and cardiology unit, Michelle has Wallpapers in Benicia research and knowledge of the subject. Victorian Wallpapers in Benicia for moved to a cardiology practice and 28 years and has three children. He loves the new opportunity. Fitness is for 28 years and has CRAIG NATHANSON is now an lives with his 12-year-old daughter, always fun for her, and she has found a three children. He lives ’79 adjunct faculty member Bailey. He also has two sons, passion for cycling, and teaching here at USF in the School of Anthony, who recently started at the Zumba and cycling at a local gym. with his 12-year-old Management. He has published five Napa Police Academy, and Reilly, who daughter, Bailey. He books including his latest, Joyful Work is studying to be a firefighter. CAROLINE KING is back into the in Midlife: The Five Stages. corporate world. For eight years, she also has two sons, J. VERN CROMARTIE EdD ’91 studied language arts, math, social Anthony, who recently BOB LOCK had the pleasure of ’83 published the following studies, and science with her daughter. three books in 2013: Morgan-Frazier She’s happy now to be independent started at the Napa ’80 golfing at Cog Hill Country Club this summer with fellow alumnus Family Clan: Chronicles of a Black Family and doing something different. Police Academy, and Bill Cartwright ’79. Bill and Bob with a Geechee, Gullah Heritage in Essays, attended the Gentile Golf Outing to Interviews, Research Reports, Documents, After LORRAIN TAYLOR MHR ’88 lost her Reilly, who is studying support the St. Ignatius College Prep and Photographs; Reappraisal of the Black 22-year-old twin sons Albade and to be a firefighter. student assistance fund in Chicago. A Panther Party: Selected Essays for the 21st Obadiah in 2000—the young men were good time was had by all, and the Century; and Intercommunal Street Poems. innocent victims of gun violence—she event raised a record amount to turned her grief into a positive support students in need. ROBERTA CUNNINGHAM is the daughter of endeavor and founded 1000 Mothers to retired Professor Robert Cunningham Prevent Violence. A high-spirited MICHELLE MOLINA SOURS is currently (philosophy) and has been a gospel singer, songwriter and working at Stanford’s outpatient pediatrician at Kaiser in Oakland, recording artist, Lorrain has received surgery center in the pre- and Calif. for over 20 years. She is the numerous awards and honors as a post-operative area. pediatric medical director of the community activist and organizer. well-baby nursery, is involved with Most recently, Lorrain was selected as teaching pediatric residents, and has an honoree for Ebony magazine’s LEON STOWERS started his career in the recently become a certified lactation annual Power 100 list. U.S. Air Force, a role that took him consultant. Roberta is married and is around the world to work on ICBMs mom to a college graduate, a high and satellites, changing hats from LYNDALEE WHIPPLE retired school junior and a 7th grader—all operator to inspector to investigator ’87 from her post as assistant boys. over the years. After leaving the Air director of Stanislaus County Commu- Force, Leon went on to serve as a nity Services Agency after 37 years in special projects business manager at At the age of 16, ABBY RUBINSTEIN MA ’85 public social services. Lyndalee Aerospace Co., and then as a law received a scholarship from the served on the Child Welfare League of enforcement officer. Aside from his Brooklyn Museum of Art. She later America Board of Directors for eight followed the philosophy of Expression- years. She has owned and operated a

36 WINTER 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine WINTER 2015 37 how restaurants actually work—waitress, hostess, dishwasher—but night jobs only. She kept her day job at the ad agency. This is how Ponseca worked for more than a decade. “It was tough. Last call at some of these places was 3:30 a.m.,” Ponseca says. “My bosses at the ad agency never knew. I didn’t want them to feel that I couldn’t handle it.” After years of educating herself about the restaurant business and unsuccessful efforts to woo investors, she decided it was time: she rented space from another restaurant and opened for business. It was a modest beginning—lunch only, one day a week. There were few customers, but even so, things didn't go smoothly. “There were customers who waited two hours for their food. My heart was in my stomach, and I was so embarrassed,” she says. “But then they would come back. It was amazing.”

GINO LUIGI MASCARDO ’16 MASCARDO LUIGI GINO Within a month, there was a waitlist of 3-4 weeks for a reservation, thanks to a small write-up in magazine and word-of- NICOLE PONSECA ’98 Filipino restaurant, and there simply weren't any New York to choose from. mouth recommendations. RISK TAKER PUTS “No one was doing it, and I knew that I could Today, Ponseca's two restaurants offer a FILIPINO FOOD ON and would,” says the Filipina-American. “But I modern take on traditional Filipino dishes: knew from my classes at USF about the profit- Maharlika (which means ‘nobility’ in Tagalog, NYC MAP ability and the risk involved, and I wanted to the official language of the Philippines), and mitigate that risk." Eighty percent of all new Jeepney (named for the WWII military jeeps used New York City restaurateur Nicole Ponseca ’98 is restaurants in New York City fail within the first for public transportation in the Philippines). an unlikely success story in an industry where five years, and Ponseca had no restaurant Ponseca is also thinking about expanding her few businesses survive. She co-owns two popular experience. business, and San Francisco is in the running. “It Filipino restaurants, both of which have been So she set out to learn everything she could would be so good to come back home,” she says. highlighted in The New York Times. about the industry: she backpacked through the Ponseca already had her dream job, working Ponseca explains how she Philippines to learn the cuisine; she tested for a major ad agency in New York City, when she went from dishwasher to recipes at Saturday afternoon tastings in her restaurateur first saw her opportunity: Clients would apartment; and she took job after job to learn www.usfca.edu/magazine/ sometimes ask her to recommend a good filipinofoodie

cattle ranch for the last 18 years. She CAROL MCARTHUR is assistant general ANNE FASHAUER married Van holds a gold card in the Women's manager at East Bay Regional Park Williamson on July 12, 2014. The Professional Rodeo Association. District and executive director of the wedding and reception were held on Lyndalee stopped running barrels in Regional Parks Foundation. the family property in Philo, Calif. The 2007 and now enjoys world travel. couple will reside there as well, and JOHN MURRAY is currently an area are opening up a new wine-tasting After 25 years with IBM in business partner for Alere Home room at Witching Stick Wines. ’88 the Bay Area, SUZI BYRD has Monitoring. He is responsible for three moved to Palm Desert, Calif. near Palm sales territories (Arizona to ART GARCIA and wife, KARI (PARKER), are Springs, where she sells residential Albuquerque, Northern California and proud parents of two USF students. real estate to snowbirds. Northern Nevada, and Southern Their daughter Nicole is a junior California). He and his wife, Stephanie, majoring in business and son Alex is a

FRANCESCO SFORZA CESARINI misses his live in Livermore, Calif. with their freshman. They write, “It is great to keep years at USF, which he considers daughter, Sabrina, and son, Nicholas. the Dons tradition alive. Hello to all the among the best times of his life. The Hangers & Hangerettes! Go Dons!” international atmosphere, the city of ANGELICA C. ARCE is missing San Francisco, the early days of Silicon ’89 her alumni friends from the KATIE MILLER WEBER married William Valley, and the West Coast are all a nursing class of 1989. She sends Weber July 21, 2012. They were married part of the baggage of positive life positive wishes to come their way. at Our Lady of the Snows Catholic experiences he carries with him. Angelica is on Facebook. Church in Reno, Nev. Katie’s two sons

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Clockwise from the top: the spirit squad welcomed alumni home; recent grads found time to network and connect; future Dons got a taste of campus; a big BBQ attracted foodies in droves; and alumni discovered beauty at the Thacher Gallery.

38 WINTERwinter 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine WINTER 2015 39 he Hilltop was full of green and gold spirit as hundreds of graduates returned We asked Dons DURING to campus, traveling from as far away as New York and Atlanta, to celebrate ALUMNI WEEKEND "What'S up?" Find out what USF Alumni Weekend. they said With more than 15 events, the three-day celebration offered something T www.usfca.edu/magazine/ for everyone in USF’s growing network of 100,000 living alumni: a barbecue in the alumniweekend2014 shadow of St. Ignatius Church, art exhibits in Thacher Gallery, a chance to cheer on the men’s soccer team, and reunion gatherings and networking mixers. Whether they were recent graduates or established professionals, alumni Alumni Weekend 2015 reconnected with old friends, made new connections, and met USF’s new president, Alumni Weekend welcomes Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J., who celebrated a special alumni mass. For the first time, USF also offered panel discussions featuring advice and all USF graduates back inspiration from fellow alumni and USF faculty on topics like succeeding in your to campus each fall. For career, women in leadership and philanthropy, and justice and Jesuit values. In her information on Alumni talk, Wendy Okun JD ’94, a senior attorney at Microsoft, encouraged her fellow Dons Weekend 2015 and other to increase their visibility within a company by forwarding emails praising a strong alumni events in your performance to their managers. “Let go of any reluctance you might feel that this is area, please visit bragging,” she said. “It’s not.” www.usfca.edu/alumni

Class of 1964, A Golden Anniversary

The Class of 1964 gathered for its golden Back row from left: Alma Stanford, Leonard Sullivan, David Batcho, Jim Trimble, Carey Johnson, Tom Cahill, Jim Campagna, Neal Cabrinha, Bill Lucke, Art Ruthenbeck, Phillip reunion. “It was a first-class event,” noted Jack Pelletier, Jeffrey Leith, Paul Sullivan, Howard De Nike, Edward Thomas, Thomas Ward, Arnold Schroeder ’64, “May USF continue to grow in Bacigalupi, Jim Sullivan, Jack Schroeder, Patrick Ripple, Jeremy Wooliever. Front row from left: Theresa Guy, Mary Falco, Ming Chin, Cathy Brossier, Carrie Cox, Michael its education and spiritual objectives!” Merrill, Patricia Ross, Gary Compari, Tony Piazza, Philip Bartenetti.

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gave her away and her daughter was the and HasOffers. As CPO, Saira will picture book by the 2014 International maid of honor. She continues to teach continue building TUNE's privacy Latino Book Awards and received first 2nd grade for public schools. Will is a program and security practices, and place for "School Issues" from the 2014 mechanical engineer who works for a work closely with TUNE's network of Purple Dragonfly Book Awards. small company in Reno. clients and partners to define best practices for sharing and securing JOSE JASSO was named the 2013 DOROTHY RAMSDELL works first-party data for marketers. employee of the year for the City of ’90 in the health and wellness Manteca. Jose has worked for the city business with the Shaklee Corporation. KARI ZIMMERMAN joined the since he was 16-years-old, and he ’95 faculty at the University of St. maintained a full-time position while DOUGLAS CLARK serves as Thomas in Saint Paul, Minn. as assistant completing his undergraduate studies ’91 chief executive officer of professor of Latin American history. at USF. He credits his well-rounded Métier, Ltd. education for his career success. After more than 12 years GARY BARRERA is senior ’96 of working as a realtor for In May 2014, KRISTIN NELSON MSOD ’09 ’93 counsel in the San Francisco Coldwell Banker, PATRICIA CASABAL joined the Community Foundation office of the law firm Nicolaides LLP. KRUGER had established her own staging Sonoma County as a philanthropic business, PK Home Staging & Designs. adviser. She continues to travel the globe for KEVIN R. REILLY traveled design inspiration and currently resides to the Philippines in NEGAH ANGHA is currently ’93 in San Francisco with her husband, February, where he visited Manila, ’99 special assistant to the Matthew, and their two children. Palawan, and Boracay. In July, he under secretary for political affairs passed the preliminary oral exam to at the U.S. Department of State in progress to candidacy in doctoral ALMA GALAPON EdD ’02 is Washington, D.C., where she advises studies at Pepperdine University's ’96 teaching 2nd grade for Elk on issues related to U.S. policy in the Graduate School for Education and Grove Unified School District. She lives United Nations and other interna- Psychology. He is researching how in Elk Grove, Calif. with her husband, tional organizations. health-profession educators Robert S. Thompson (retired U.S. Navy approach simulation debriefing in Chief), and their three children. JENNIFER BAYLEY and Gavin Jones relation to the cultural dimensions of welcomed son Sawyer in January 2014. the learning environment. LARISA V. GENIN has been named one of He joins older sister Penelope. 31 emerging college and university LARISA V. GENIN ’96 has DEANNA TRYON has been named chief of leaders for the 2014-15 class of the KOURTNEY HALLUM FERRUA works as been named one of 31 protocol of the Silicon Valley Office of American Council on Education (ACE) an elementary school principal at Protocol, headquartered in Los Altos. Fellows Program, which focuses on Wascher Elementary in Lafayette, Ore. emerging college and Deanna moved to Los Angeles after identifying and preparing the next Wascher is a school-wide Title I school university leaders for graduation, where she worked for the generation of senior leadership for the with over 60 percent of students living British Consulate General and the City nation's colleges and universities. below the poverty line. Kourtney lives the 2014-15 class of the of Los Angeles. She received her in McMinnville, Ore., with her husband American Council on master’s degree from Harvard in 1998. MATT GREENFIELD is continuing his Kevin and their two children, Eva (9) Deanna most recently served as acting recovery from a rare form of brain and Dylan (7). Education (ACE) assistant chief of protocol for the cancer (TNS lymphoma), which affects Fellows Program, County of Los Angeles. less than a dozen people worldwide. JUDE PATCH GUGLIELMINO has worked as After undergoing two brain surgeries, a volunteer liaison in the Santa Rosa which focuses on BINDI HUNTSMAN and Joel numerous rounds of chemotherapy, Hospital for nine years. She and a identifying and ’94 McKay were engaged in experimental procedures, and a collaborator have developed a program Santa Barbara, Calif. after a beautiful stem-cell transplant, he is in remission. that provides much-needed comfort and preparing the next summer of love. They met at Va De Vi Matt has spent the past year support to patients and their families, generation of senior in Walnut Creek for the best first date assimilating back into his job as an and they have recently received a grant of the rest of their lives. They are advertising media executive and enabling them to travel to Florida to leadership for the planning a destination wedding and spending time with his wife, Lynda, and present the program to emergency and look forward to sharing eternal love. daughters Isabella, Mila, and Kylie in hospital staff. nation's colleges and Sherman Oaks, Calif. where they reside. He was honored along with other universities. DEREK S. LEIGHNOR earned his JD in JOHN CUSHING MAT ’04 recently stem-cell transplant survivors in a two-and-a-half years from Southwest- accepted the new position ceremony given by Cedars-Sinai Hospital. ’01 ern Law School, completing the of assistant principal at Beanstalk He is very grateful for all the prayers and program in December 2013. He took International Bilingual School following support from the USF family. and passed the February 2014 bar eight years at the United Nations exam, and is now an estate-planning International School in Hanoi, Vietnam. attorney in the Greater Los Angeles After almost 22 years in San Francisco, MATT LAWRENCE and his family moved Area, focusing on wills, trusts, and LAURA TINETTI was promoted to senior to Seattle. Matt is currently building a incapacity planning. Derek and Simon vice president of SRS Real Estate company focused on delivering M. Flores ’94 met at USF and after 22 Partners. years together, are now married and military grade encryption for real-time living in San Gabriel, Calif. messaging, calling, and email. AMANDA HUFFMAN DZIDA MA ’06 was recently hired as the GLADYS E. BARBIERI has ’02 SAIRA NAYAK has been appointed the assistant director at the USF Center for published a second bilingual first chief privacy officer of TUNE, ’97 Asia Pacific Studies. Amanda is picture book, Pink Fire Trucks, which the company behind the products responsible for managing the center's was awarded "Most Inspirational" MobileAppTracking, MobileDevHQ, public programs and communication

40 WINTER 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine WINTER 2015 41 strategies in addition to grant writing Houston Woman Magazine. Anika is ‘she-rock’ folk music titled, Songs in the and sourcing new funding. managing partner of Hardcastle Key of She, and has been working as an Properties, LLC. Anika serves on English Instructor, 3-D installation Upon graduating from USF, KRISTINA various nonprofit boards and as a artist, freelance photographer, and ORLOVA spent a decade in the mental school volunteer, but is also board metalsmith. health field. She earned her master’s chair and co-founder of two 501c3s: degree in counseling psychology from Learn Grow Lead and Houston ELIZABETH NOEY is pursuing a PhD in the California Institute of Integral Children Give Back. theoretical organic chemistry that she Studies, and became a licensed massage expects to complete in 2014. She was a therapist in 2008. Currently, Kristina MARY DICKOW MPA ’07 is the USA Triathlon Collegiate National has changed her career path and joined ’05 statewide director for the Champion in 2014 as well. a startup called BitFury as the office and California Action Coalition and was human resources manager. recently recognized as an honorary CHERYL MAHONEY published fellow of the American Academy of ’09 her second novel in AISLIN O’CONNOR ’10 is In 2008, CECILIA VALDEZ ran for city Nursing for her work with nurses at October, The Storyteller and Her Sisters, currently a 2015 MBA council in the city of San Pablo and the state and national level. Mary is a young-adult fantasy book inspired was elected. She served as mayor in one of only two honorary fellows by the fairy tale "The Shoes That candidate at Said 2012, the same year she was reelected. inducted this year—non-nurses who Were Danced to Pieces"—but Cheryl’s Business School, Cecilia is in the middle of her second are honored for their significant princesses take much more control term and is thoroughly enjoying contributions to advancing the of the story than in the Brothers University of Oxford, profession of nursing. serving her city of San Pablo and the Grimm version. The book is available where she has been surrounding communities. on Amazon. FRANCIS CICCHINI was named a Forte Fellow JOE WILSON JD ’07 is currently a partner ’06 recently selected to serve as ANIKA STEIG is studying for a master’s for Women's Business at Curiale Wilson LLP, an employment chief of staff of the Army's Solarium degree of public administration at the law firm that provides advice and Seminar to identify and propose London School of Economics. Leadership. For the three counseling to companies throughout solutions to problems within the army, years prior she was in and for graduate education at the Northern California, as well as defense BEVERLEE CVITANOV recently Uniformed Services University of commercial real estate and prosecuting actions in court and graduated from Andrew Health Sciences. Currently, Francis is ’10 before the National Labor Relations Taylor Still University of Health working on medical relief efforts with finance in San Fran- Board. Joe married Jessica Wilson, a St. Sciences with a doctorate in physical the Department of Defense to help Ignatius alumna, in 2012. They have a therapy. After completing graduate cisco. Aislin hopes to fight the ebola outbreak in Africa. 17-month-old son, Marco. school in Mesa, Ariz., she has moved further her career back to Sacramento, Calif. to be closer MARY DEFRANCIS (YOUNG) EZEKIEL CRAGO MA ’09 is to her family. in banking after ’04 married Andrew Young at ’07 starting a doctoral teaching completing the MBA. fellowship at UC Riverside. St. Colman's Church in Cazadero, Calif. AISLIN O’CONNOR is currently a 2015 on September 6, 2014. Mary works as a MBA candidate at Said Business School, labor and delivery nurse at California CHRISTOPHER MARTINEZ DIAZ is currently University of Oxford, where she has Pacific Medical Center in San working for Evanisko Realty and been named a Forte Fellow for Women's Francisco, and is currently a member Investments, Inc. in the Greater Los Business Leadership. For the three years of the USF Alumni Association Board Angeles Area. Additionally, prior she was in commercial real estate of Directors. The entire alumni board Christopher is completing a master's finance in San Francisco. Aislin hopes to and staff congratulate Mary and degree in urban planning at the further her career in banking after Andrew on their recent nuptials! University of Southern California. completing the MBA.

BECKY BUCK DOUVILLE is living in Seattle, After earning a master’s degree in ALEXANDRA LIPPINCOTT recently earned and expecting her second baby in teaching from USF, JEANNINE LAUBNER a master's degree from Georgetown January 2015. She’s a full-time parent MA ’09 decided to fulfill her dream of University and currently works in the and part-time blogger. working abroad: She moved to the finance department at the ESPN980 United Arab Emirates in 2010 to be a radio station in Maryland. LAURA M. FURNISS JD ’08 has joined part of the largest public education reform in the world. There, she started Dubrovsky Law, a boutique family ZHOU LOU, working with professors in as an English teacher and became a law-focused firm with her good friend UC Davis’ Departments of Chemistry Head of Faculty for the Abu Dhabi from USF, GARY VADIM DUBROVSKY ’04. and of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Education Council. Jeannine is Gary and his wife, Jennifer, welcomed has discovered the direct molecular married, and has one child and a their first child, Elon, in November 2013. oxygen formation in CO2 photodisso- rescue dog. ciation. The work was published Oct. 3 After completing her undergraduate in an article in the journal Science, degree, MARY GRACE HALATSIS graduated SUZANNE L. PLACE (LITTLE) was married and has also been featured in C&EN with a master’s degree in education April 30, 2014. News, RSC Chemistry World, Yahoo News, from Holy Names University. She is and the LA Times. a credentialed special education JULIE HENDERSON recently teacher, currently working for Ocean ’08 self-published two books, MAJEL BAKER is currently Grove, a home charter school. Mary Shine On and Sing to Be Sung. Her work ’11 pursuing a PhD in psychology Grace loves working with children and was also published in Words Fly Away, at the University of Minnesota, Twin families on a one-to-one basis. a poetry anthology that continues to Cities, with research emphases on raise funds in the aftermath of the trauma, intervention, and sexual ANIKA JACKSON was recently named the Fukushima disaster. In addition to health. She credits her success in 2014 HER Awards "Maximum Mom" by writing, Julie produced a full album of psychology to the one-on-one

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them to live better, more productive lives. Grider was invited to present his findings at the Global Development Conference in June 2015 in Morocco, and his research won first prize at an international student competition in Prague that was sponsored by one of the world’s top graduate programs in economics at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education—Economics Institute. Of the 261 disabled individuals surveyed in his study in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital city, about half owned wheelchairs. Grider found that those with wheelchairs had a big advantage in getting around the city and finding employment. In fact, wheelchair users were 15 percent more likely to be employed and worked 12.25 hours more per week. The findings point to the potential for large

grider economic gains on a national scale. Research by the World Bank indicates that Ethiopia may be losing as much as 9 to 13 percent in economic growth annually by failing to address the needs of persons with disabilities.

COURTESY OF justin OF COURTESY Justin Grider MS '14 (right) at a wheelchair repair shop in Addis Adaba, Ethiopia. “Anyone would be humbled by the struggle that those who are disabled in the developing justin grider MS ’14 At USF, he tackled those questions as part of world go through,” Grider says. “If there is a World Economists his graduate work in international development cost-effective intervention that can be a catalyst economics. The result was some of the first for those individuals to be better included in herald Alum's econometric research on the impact that society, have a higher probability of employment, wheelchairs can have on the lives of the disabled and earn more income, it should absolutely be Research in the developing world—and international looked into.” When Justin Grider MS ’14 lived and worked in economists took notice. Grider’s research led to his current job with Ethiopia in 2012 as an English teacher, he Grider found that when the disabled were the international nonprofit Village Enterprise, wondered why so many disabled people there given a wheelchair, they switched from begging where he evaluates the effectiveness of small were on the streets begging and what could be on the streets to working, which increased their business loans in Uganda and Kenya. done to help them. incomes by as much as 82 percent and helped

mentorship and support she received Sheriff's Office. The happy couple plan populace. He believes the key to from her professors and research to marry in summer 2015. defeating insurgency is not in military advisers in the USF psychology might, but in capturing the hearts of department. After graduation, JOANNE GROSS the Afghans. continued to work at Kaiser MARA DURKIN has been Permanente, where she was promoted NICOLA CLARE MCLAUGHLIN is currently a ’12 working as a pediatric acute to senior staff assistant. She supports law student at the University of Sydney. care nurse at UCSF Benioff Children's four specialty/surgical departments Hospital since graduating from USF. using the skills she gained at the North GABRIELA KIRKLAND She is also participating in her first Bay campus. She is currently enrolled ’13 graduated summa cum medical mission trip to Nicaragua to at Sonoma State University in the laude and as a valedictorian finalist. assist underprivileged children with Master of Organizational Development This August, she will be attending receiving life-changing orthopedic cohort with a planned graduation date law school at UC Hastings College surgeries. of 2016. of the Law in San Francisco.

REGINA FESSLER has her dream job as DAVID HOLGUIN is currently stationed in FELICIA DOUBEK is excited an RN in the emergency department at Afghanistan as a fire support officer for ’14 to be starting her career Ukiah Valley Medical Center. She met Grim Troop 3/3 Cavalry Regiment. USF at Grant Thornton LLP in Seattle. her fiancé, James Rhine, while working ROTC helped teach him the tactical at Sutter Lakeside Hospital in Lakeport, and technical knowledge to not only CHARLOTTE GREENE lives in the Calif. He recently began working as a combat the enemy, but also reach out northeast kingdom of Vermont, where deputy sheriff at Mendocino County to the hearts and minds of the local she is assistant cheesemaker at Sweet

42 WINTER 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine WINTER 2015 43 Rowen Farmstead, a micro dairy. The Litigation section. He continues to developmental disabilities and dairy milks Vermont heritage breed be an avid cyclist and U.S. Masters serves children of all abilities. Randall Lineback dairy cows and Swimmer and is reclaiming the title bottles whole milk. It also makes fresh of “master road tripper,” a moniker he The California State Bar cheeses, including farmer's cheese, earned during his undergraduate days ’86 Board of Governors recently feta, cheddar curd, and soft-ripened at Wabash College in Indiana. appointed CAROL M. LANGFORD JD to the Camembert-style cheese. Charlotte Discipline Standards Committee, loves selling directly to local AUDRY LYNCH EdD was where she focuses on large corpora- communities at farmers’ markets. ’83 honored at the Hollywood tions. Carol will be assisting in Festival of Books for her book, The drafting the standards governing MONICA OBLEA MORALES was recently Rebel Figure in American Literature and discipline of California lawyers. crowned Miss Philippines USA Film. In her book, she explores the Tourism 2014 in the Miss Philippines connection between movie star DEBORAH VANSKIKE SESSA MA is currently USA Beauty Pageant held in San James Dean and novelist John in her 35th year of teaching high Gabriel, CA on July 27. Steinbeck. Her children’s book, Ruben’s school at Johansen High School. Tales of the Amazon, won an honorable Deborah currently lives in Modesto mention at the Los Angeles Book with her husband, Paul. They have two Festival. Audry is a member of the children in college: Kyle is about to California Writers Club and the graduate as a business major, and graduate National League of American Pen Molly is attending the University of Women. Before committing her life Kent in England for the fall semester. RODGER LIPPA JD retired in to writing, she served as a guidance counselor for 32 years and taught ’64 2012 after 25 years as a LOU A. BORDISSO EdD was English at Mission College for 25 years. judge for the State of California. He ’88 recently featured in an previously served as a defense trial article for the October issue of U.S. lawyer for 22 years. ELINOR SUE COATES MPA Catholic on how his Catholic faith ’84 retired in 2010 as instructor has sustained him as he lives with ALOYSIUS J. LINDEMANN MA emerita at the University of Arkansas, younger-onset Alzheimer's. ’71 recently returned from a and enrolled at the University of New Mexico for a PhD in organizational fly fishing trip in California. PAULA-JO HUSACK MA is pursuing a learning and instructional technolo- marriage family therapy license. She gies. Her dissertation is “Cross-Cultur- In retirement, JORG AADAHL is the co-author of Catch Your Star and al Study of Inter-Organizational Stress MBA has turned into a prolific delivers speeches on life leadership for ‘73 Among Project Sponsors: How editorial writer. You can find his work healthcare worker organizations, Understanding Organizational at www.MyHonestOpinionBlog.com recovery programs, and positive Cultures Helps Engage Support for and his ebook, Dear Editor, at parenting. Her article on physicians' the Project.” She plans to graduate www.smashwords.com. life leadership, “My Patient, MySelf … in the fall of 2015. Who’s First in Your Life Leadership?” CHRISTINE VERTUCCI JD is the was published in San Mateo County G. JEAN LAURIN-LAWRENCE MS was director of the Mindanao Physician Magazine. Paula-Jo was also ’75 ordained a deacon in the International SUE ROKAW JD ’84 is the Peacebuilding Institute in Davao City, recently seen on Bravo’s Miss Advised Ecumenical Catholic Church (IECC) of Philippines. One of their major as the treating therapist. In her spare president for the California and Hawaii in June. Jean is programs is the annual training for time, she volunteers as a tour guide a celebration minister in Riverside 2014-15 year of the Asian peace builders. with San Francisco City Guides and is County, Calif. a performing member of Conspiracy Rotary Club of Fisher- of Venus, a 30-voice contemporary STAN TOSELLO JD recently BRIAN J. PURTILL JD ended his 10-year acapella women's choir. man's Wharf, one of moved from Citibank ’78 relationship with the firm of Spaulding International Personal Banking in seven rotary clubs in McCullough & Tansil LLP and has Miami to Banamex USA in Los Angeles, GONZALO “SAL” TORRES JD is legal opened his own office. Brian is San Francisco. In her an affiliate of Citigroup that focuses on director of commercial transactions devoting his full-time efforts to his banking regulatory related matters. for Equinix, Inc., where he recently role, Sue leads local ongoing mediation and arbitration Stan’s son, Paul, is a senior at the completed work projects in Singapore practice at the Arbitration & Mediation community service University of Washington, and and Brazil. In between projects, he Center in Santa Rosa. Nicholas is in ninth grade in Ft. vacationed throughout China. Sal projects serving the Lauderdale, Fla. continues to be an active member of SUE ROKAW JD is the president for USF’s law school mentorship program, Fisherman's Wharf and the 2014-15 year of the Rotary Club and in November 2014 he conducted CARLOS F. MENDOZA JD has North Beach. of Fisherman's Wharf, one of seven two resume-writing and career-search worked in private practice ’79 rotary clubs in San Francisco. In her workshops for law students. with an emphasis in civil litigation, role, Sue leads local community based in Los Angeles, for 32 years. He service projects serving the actively serves those with little or no ANNe MARIE SCHUBERT JD won Fisherman's Wharf and North Beach access to the civil justice system, a ’89 the June Sacramento District areas of San Francisco. “David and Goliath” process that he Attorney’s race with a 58-percent says makes it worthwhile. victory over two opponents in the first CATHY GOTT MPA is the seriously contested campaign for the founder and owner of county prosecutor’s office in 20 years. MIKE GERMAN JD just retired ’85 Danny's Farm Charitable Foundation, from 32 years of practicing ’81 a nonprofit named for her son. Danny's law, most recently in the Attorney MICHAEL R. HULL JD has been Farm Charitable Foundation is a General's San Diego Licensing ’90 practicing patent prosecution petting farm that employs adults with and patent-related opinion work in

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Chicago for 24 years. For the last nine opening three new fulfillment centers in working on behalf of patients to help years he has been with a firm he Southern California and helping give them a better understanding of helped found called Miller, Matthias & significant expansion efforts in their diagnoses and treatments. Hull. Michael thoroughly enjoys patent Northern California. He is excited to be prosecution and specializes in back living in Northern California, close JEAN-PIERRE MAEDER MBA has accepted chemical and mechanical arts. to family, friends, and valued colleagues. a position as COO for Etheric Networks, Inc. in Redwood City, Calif. BOBBIE RAE BAILEY JD is the KATE INGRAM MA recently won both a He'll be working with his dedicated ’91 managing partner of the Los Nautilus Book Award and an Indie staff and valued partners to provide Angeles office of Leader & Berkon, LLP, Next Generation Book Award for her high-speed wireless Internet services New York, N.Y. first book, Washing the Bones: A Memoir to Bay Area customers. of Love, Loss, and Transformation. She FRED CARR JD returned to the U.S. in writes and maintains a therapy AMY MARSH (CERTIFICATE) started a new 2013 after several years of practice in practice in Southern Oregon, where position as dean of students at the the United Arab Emirates and formed she lives with her family. Institute for Advanced Study of Human Carr & Venner, ADR, Mediation Sexuality (IASHS) in San Francisco. Services. Fred provides mediation NANCY WEDDELL MA is working in her Amy is a clinical sexologist and services to legal counsel in a broad hometown as a nurse and therapist, hypnotist in private practice, who range of subject areas, representing thanks to her training at USF. She is a also serves as an associate professor parties throughout the San Francisco licensed RN and MFT, which has of human sexuality at IASHS. She Bay Area, who are either in litigation provided her with the freedom to recently presented a poster discussion or about to file suit. grow within her career. on sexological and erotic hypnosis at the annual conference of the American MICHAEL FRALEY MA has had several KAREN BENKE MFA recently Association of Sexuality Educators, poems appear in recent print issues of ’94 completed the third and last Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) Plainsongs and The Lyric. His poems also book in her creative writing adventure in Monterey, Calif. She is also pleased appear in the online journals Morphrog series titled UNCAP THAT PEN! to announce the graduation of her and The Road Not Taken. Michael has Adventures in Writing by Hand, Passing eldest son, Jonathan A. Truant, from poems accepted for an upcoming issue Notes & Sending Letters Again. SFSU's film studies department. Her of Blue Unicorn. His work has appeared younger son, Paul, is a high school student mastering pen and ink in numerous other magazines both STEPHEN BLACK MA is currently adjunct drawing and playing the drums. nationally and abroad. professor of theology and religious studies at USF and recently edited and DEANNA HERRERA-THOMAS EdD published a collection of essays in LUKE PERKOCHA MBA joined Kaiser- ’92 is a tenured professor of honor of a former USF professor: To Set Permanente in 2013. He enjoys the psychology at College of the Redwoods. at Liberty: Essays on Early Christianity and collegiality of the other physicians She lives in Humboldt County with her Its Social World in Honor of John H. Elliott and staff and is impressed with the daughter and husband. In 2004, she was released by Sheffield Phoenix positive culture and innovation he MARINA A. LEDIN MBA ’96 was awarded the Stanback-Stroud Press in September 2014. sees at Kaiser, during a time of turmoil Diversity Award for her efforts to in healthcare. He is looking forward to the 20-year anniversary of starting his is a six-time GRAMMY increase equity in educational YANNIS MICHAELIDES MBA Iives in Athens, MBA at USF and remains actively advancement at California community Greece, and operates her own nominated "Classical connected with the school, attending colleges. In 2013 she was awarded the company called Hospitality & Tourism alumni and other events. Record Producer of Multicultural and Diversity Award at Ltd. Her company provides destination the Year." She also College of the Redwoods. She consulting and evaluation for tourism continues to hold her California investments. While she enjoys her life SUSAN RIVIECCIO MA writes that she produced a surround- clinical psychologist license and to in Greece, Yannis misses USF and the would love to catch up with the Class sound high-definition bring the community and service- beautiful city of San Francisco. She of 1997 Master of Arts in Counseling, based values of USF to her work. promises her family that she will Sacramento campus alumni. audio recording for return to San Francisco after 20 years the United States MARY NILAND MA is CEO of Witco, a of living abroad! NICOLAS ROQUEFORT-VILLENEUVE MBA is a not-for-profit organization serving partner at OH OH IT'S MAGIC LLC, as Military Academy at individuals with disabilities in Idaho MARINA A. LEDIN MBA is a well as an executive producer, director, West Point. and Oregon. In 2007, she led a ’96 six-time Grammy nominated and documentary filmmaker. citizen's initiative to form a "Classical Record Producer of the Year." community college, the College of She produced a surround-sound DIANA (SHIPMAN) HAMAR MA Western Idaho. Since the founding high-definition audio recording for the ’99 has been serving as the of the school she has served as an United States Military Academy at counselor for students with elected trustee. Mary is also a board West Point. disabilities at Shasta College since member of Regence Blue Shield of 2000. She has also been serving as an Idaho, and a member of the Boise VANESSA DEEN JOHNSON MPA adjunct professor at Simpson Airport Commission. ’97 started a company called University since 2001. My Health Concierge, which helps STEVE HOPPER MHROD cancer patients in the Bay Area Dr. LEAMOR KAHANOV EdD was named ’93 “boomeranged” back to navigate the health care system, from dean of the College of Health Sciences California after three years with their initial diagnosis throughout at Misericordia University in Amazon in Seattle. As the senior the duration of treatment. The Pennsylvania. Leamor is a certified regional human resources manager patient-centered care is facilitated athletic trainer and most recently for the California region, Steve has through face-to-face interactions served as the assistant dean of supported the growth of Amazon by with oncology nurse practitioners interprofessional education and chair

44 WINTER 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine WINTER 2015 45 of applied medicine and rehabilitation JENNIFER DE LEON MAT is an CAROL LANGLOIS EdD enjoyed a in the College of Nursing, Health and ’04 educator and now an author. successful 2014! Her nonfiction book Human Services at Indiana State As a first-generation Latina college about teen self-esteem called Girl Talk: University, Terre Haute, Ind. She also graduate, she recently published a Boys, Bullies and Body Image was oversaw development of a physical book called Wise Latinas: Writers on published by Anderson Publishing and therapy and sports rehabilitation clinic Higher Education, a collection of later turned into a stage performance at the Indiana State University campus. personal essays addressing the varied co-produced by 3Girls Theatre landscape of the Latina experience in Company of San Francisco. Carol is FRANCIS SCHORTGEN MA has been granted higher education. Featuring acclaimed looking forward to offering mother/ tenure and been promoted to associate writers such as Sandra Cisneros, daughter workshops on the same topic professor of political science & Norma Cantú, and Julia Alvarez, to in the upcoming year. international studies at the University name a few, Wise Latinas shows that of Mount Union, Alliance, Ohio. there is no one Latina college RONDA COSTON EVANS MA experience. For more information visit ’06 moved to Washington three www.jenniferdeleonauthor.com. VICTORIA EMMONS MPA is the years ago. She first served as an intern ’00 author of the column "The MFT therapist at a Christ-centered free Long View", which is featured in Life ISELA GONZALEZ MPA has worked as the clinic. Ronda now works as a therapist on Foothill Road magazine based in coordinator of special projects for the at the local Catholic hospital, Lourdes, Pleasanton, Calif. Her poetry has been San Francisco Department of Public allowing her to fulfill her vocation and published in three anthologies and also Health Population Health Division for calling at the same time. Married for appears along with various essays the past two years. By implementing five years, she and her husband about life on her blog, titled "La Vue de skills and experience gained during sponsor four kids through compassion. rue Sleidan." Victoria is currently the her graduate studies at USF, her work She gives all the honor, glory, and CEO of Hope Hospice in Dublin, Calif. contributes to achieving the health praise to Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. department’s mission of protecting and promoting the health of all San STEPHANIE MANTELLO WARD MBA recently DAVID LUOMA MFA just finished a Franciscans. published her first children's book, master’s of science in nursing Wally the Warm-Weather Penguin. After education and now teaches at Johnson more than 15 years of corporate JOHN HUBER C.S.B. EdD now serves in two County Community College. marketing at Amazon and Fujitsu, roles, as president of Detroit Catholic Stephanie has combined her passion Central High School and as third RAFAEL ROMO MSN just completed his for travel and writing to focus on councilor for the Congregation of St. PhD at UCSF. His dissertation was titled educating children about the wonders Basil (Basilian Fathers). Fr. Huber is the “Decision Making Among Older Adults of the world. liaison between the community's with a Limited Prognosis.” He is now a General Council and the Basilian Veterans Administration Quality houses in France, Colombia, and IKER ACEDO GALEA MBA is Scholars post-doctoral fellow at the Mexico. In addition, he serves as vice an energy and securities San Francisco VA Medical Center. ’02 chair of the Board of Trustees for consultant and adviser, a university Detroit Cristo Rey High School. professor, and the owner of the Yale MICHAEL M. GUENZA MA has School in Venezuela and Video Enforce- ’07 been teaching at Francisco ment, Co. Worldwide. Joy L. Smith MA serves as chaplain at her Middle School in North Beach/ local hospital and as a mental health Chinatown since 2008. He did counselor in private practice. Over the California Governor Jerry Brown archeological field research in Nevada past two years, she has written two appointed CHARLES WILSON JD as a and California for the Forest Service books: The Chaplain Is In: Journey to judge on the Santa Clara County Passport in Time volunteer service Health and Happiness and Why Not Make Superior Court. initiative last summer, and traveled on the Trip Worthwhile? She will publish a a Fulbright-sponsored teacher CHARLES WILSON JD ’02 children's book, The Mountain Goat Who exchange program to Tokyo and Oda, PRAJNA KUMAR MPA recently was Afraid of High Places, this fall. Japan in 2013. was appointed judge ’03 started a new position as operational and scientific leader at on the Santa Clara LAURA DESKIN JD lives in GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical. KATHRYN PARMETER MFA is pleased to Norman, Okla. with her County Superior She is currently completing her PhD ’05 announce that, despite a grueling and husband, two dogs, and newborn in clinical research. Prajna has been tiresome day job that pays the bills Court by California daughter. She has her own law office, working in the pharmaceutical and eats her brain, she was accepted Laura K. Deskin, PLLC, in Oklahoma Governor Jerry industry for 20 years, with the past into a competitive workshop in City, which specializes in criminal- three years devoted to leading the personal essay under the tutelage defense appeals, post-conviction work, Brown. end-to-end clinical study delivery of Pam Houston and Dorothy Allison, and federal trials. of new investigational drugs. taking place in Tomales Bay in October.

MARK ADRIAN GOODMAN JD lives in Reno, Meghna Tare MS is director of EDWARD FARRELL JD has where he opened the Goodman Law sustainability for the University of ’08 joined Friedman Stroffe & Center, which provides a unique Texas at Arlington. In her role, she Gerard, P.C., a leading transactional approach to law practice. His main initiated and spearheaded sustainabil- and litigation law firm based in Irvine, practice areas are debt relief/ ity projects related to development, as associate. Edward’s practice bankruptcy, patent/trademark, and transportation, and waste and carbon involves commercial litigation, with a family law. He and his wife, Robyn, management. She is also a TEDxUTA focus on real estate and construction love to travel, ski, raft, and hike. Mark speaker and was featured in Women in matters. Prior to joining Friedman now has a beautiful daughter, Ashlyn, CSR by Triple Pundit. Stroffe & Gerard, P.C., Ed was a who lights up his life every day. research attorney at the San Francisco Superior Court, where he assisted the

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court’s civil trial bench with law and JEFF HARNOIS MSOD recently accepted LUCY TSENG MA is now working motion matters. Additionally, he the position of vice president at ’14 with a charter school volunteers for the Big Brothers & Big Market Motive, a leading digital network in the South Bay Area of Los Sisters of Orange County. marketing training publisher. Jeff's Angeles and serving as a life and goals include actively leading wellness coach outside of work. LAURA CRONIN FORD JD became a partner organizational change and helping at Kaye Moser Hierbaum LLP in Market Motive realize exponential DAVID NZALIGO JD returned to Tanzania September 2014. Kaye Moser Hierbaum growth over the next 24 months. after graduating from USF and is LLP is a boutique family law and currently the legal counsel and estate-planning firm, founded in 1995 by SONJA VELEZ MFA is working in company secretary for Geita Gold USF Law graduate BARBARA MOSER JD ’90 Myanmar, Burma as the chief financial Mining Limited/AngloGold Ashanti in and Susan E. Kaye. VANESSA HIERBAUM JD officer of the Democratic Voice of Tanzania. Previously, David served as BRENDA BENTLEY MA ’10 ’96 is also a partner, and DERRICK CHASE JD Burma, the only independent Burmese a lecturer at Tumaini University Dar es recently received her ’90 is counsel at the firm. TV news broadcast media group. She Salaam College School of Law. He and also oversees strategy, human resourc- his wife, Hellen, have two children, PhD in psychology JOHN PATRICK McCURLEY JD is a writ and es, and administration. Sonja is Deo and Bryan. currently building a new sales and from Curtin University research attorney for Dependency Legal Group of San Diego. marketing function and adding finance BEN SHUH MBA has been appointed in Perth and has joined staff, if any adventurous Dons want to director of sales and marketing at work to support free media in Yangon. the academic staff at ANNETTE POLIWKA MSEM is an Fairmont San Jose. Ben also serves environmental protection specialist on the board of directors for the

Murdoch University. at the U.S. Environmental Protection ADRIAN TIRTANADI JD Guardsmen, a nonprofit philanthropic Agency in New York City. She leads the ’12 co-founded a legal aid group committed to supporting region's Trash Free Waters Initiative. nonprofit in early 2013 that provides underprivileged youth in the Bay Area. direct civil representation to low-income community members of ALFONSO REY MBA is vice president Bayview/Hunters Point. Since its of sales at Leanplum, a mobile app founding, the organization has optimization company. handled 390 cases on behalf of over What’s Up? 280 clients. The nonprofit currently BRENDA BENTLEY MA recently has five staff members and has Tell your fellow Dons what’s received her PhD in ’10 achieved some great outcomes for the new in your life. Send us news psychology from Curtin University local community. about your career, family, in Perth and has joined the academic travel, and other activities: staff at Murdoch University. JOELLE BRINKLEY MA has [email protected] ’13 marked a few new LAURIE DAVIS MNA is now working as milestones this year, including Mail to: program manager for The MBA-Non- celebrating her son’s fifth year, USF Magazine profit Connection, whose mission is beginning work on the first of two 2130 Fulton Street, LMR 217 to strengthen the nonprofit sector by master's degrees (which she will San Francisco, CA 94117-1080 facilitating placement of MBA students complete within the next 7-10 years) and alumni with innovative nonprofits and learning she is expecting her Please include your name, class in the U.S. second child with her husband. Joyous year, degree, and phone number news all around! (in case we need to contact you). CALI GILBERT MA is the author of the books, It's Simply Serendipity and It's LISA DIANGSON MA recently vacationed Simply Publishing. She now serves other in England, Scotland, and France. Her writers through her company, favorite activities included exploring Serendipity Publishing House. Edinburgh Castle, enjoying the spectacular view of Paris from the SUNNY WONG MA is currently director Eiffel Tower, and seeing the play of data analytics at Moody's Analytics, 12 Angry Men in London. which supports industry leading credit-risk management products. KATHRYN DOOREY MA is now working for He and his wife had their first child the World Wildlife Fund. She aims to earlier this year. bring awareness to environmental issues such as climate change, food ERIC ENSIGN MBA is managing scarcity, and wildlife poaching. ’11 member for Generation Kathryn is thrilled that her nonprofit 2000, LLC and G2010, LLC. Eric was advocacy focus at USF is now being put granted the distinguished honor of to use for a wide-reaching, panda- two non-restricted gaming licenses centric organization! from the Nevada State Gaming Control Board and Commission for RYAN DE TEMPLE MS now works at Yelp the Wendover Nugget Hotel and in San Francisco. Casino, and the Red Garter Hotel and Casino. Currently, there are only 150 MICHAEL WHITE MA is a newly registered non-restricted licenses in the State psychotherapist. He works with the of Nevada. Colorado Coalition for the Homeless as a case manager for homeless veterans.

46 WINTER 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine WINTER 2015 47 inmemoriam John F. Foran ’56, JD ’59 Angelo A. Cortes ’64, MBA ’71 Jerry J. Goldstein JD ’74 Elissa A. Leidy EdD ’83 1930s William H. Fowler JD ’58 Brian J. Coughlan ’64 Michael K. Harder ’74 Aleda Michels ’83 Eugenia Brennan ’39 LMA Donald R. Fretz JD ’51 Rosemary Cozzo ’64 LMA Christopher N. Heard ’74 Setsuko W. Montgomery MBA ’86 Burton S. De Martini ’39 Terrence H. Gleason ’59 Robert M. Damir JD ’65 J. Christopher Holloway ’72, JD ’74 Susan A. Raskulinecz MA ’82 Lois Ladley ’39 LMA Edward E. Gonsalves Jr. ’57 David K. Deasy ’68 Augustine S. Koilparampil MA ’77 John A. Rennes MA ’83 Paul C. Murphy ’36 John F. Hanley Jr. ’50 Agostinho B. Decarvalho ’63 Alliene M. Lawson ’78 Dee C. Reyes ’83 Lillian E. Schwarz-Corriea ’38 LMA Frederick C. Havens ’50 Arthur J. De Mars Jr. ’69 John A. Legnitto ’79 William E. Rhea ’83 James J. Hickey ’51 Angela Denike ’60 LMA Ruby O. Lockett MA ’77 Donald S. Richards MBA ’80 Mary Anne Kolanoski ’55 LMA Jean B. Denomme MA ’60 Janet F. Maggard MA ’77 Arnold W. Riesen MA ’83 1940s Francis Kearney ’53 LMA, MA ’73 Michael J. Doyle ’64, MA ’68 Loretta Magnani-Williams ’74 Laraine M. Roberts EdD ’89 Vojmir S. Kereta ’53 Peter M. Finnegan ’61 Maureen F. Martin ’73 Joanne M. Scanlon ’81 Ellen Berg ’47 LMA Patrick H. King ’59 Joanne Fitzpatrick ’67 LMA Patricia H. Martinez MA ’76 Victor M. Shannon ’85 John H. Byrne ’44 Richard W. Latimer ’56 Charles P. Fox ’65 Shirley M. Martini MA ’78 Bernard L. Shaw ’81 Mollie Chalkley ’47 LMA Agnes L. Lucey ’58 Joan L. Hills MA ’65 William F. McDonagh Jr. ’72 Jean M. Smith MA ’86 Richard J. Collopy ’40 J Kenneth Lynch ’57 Clifford C. Hughes ’63 Kevin C. McDonough ’77, JD ’81 Robert S. Taylor MA ’83 Edwin D. Costello ’46 Frank L. Magnani ’52, JD ’59 Rina Kell ’60 LMA Kathleen T. McIntyre ’71, MA ’81 Anne L. Tewksbury ’88 George D. Craigmile ’47 Carmel Malley ’53 LMA M. Therese Lawrence ’63 Edward W. Morrison ’74 Ellen C. Tinkler MA ’85 Richard T. Dwyer ’44 Joanna Malvino ’59 LMA Carolyn Le Tourneau ’64 LMA Stephanie J. Prem ’74 Kenneth C. Tonge ’80 Ralph J. Flageollet ’48, JD ’50 Laurence F. McCaffrey ’56 Frank Lombardi ’60 Stella M. Rebollar ’70 Larry Unruh MHL ’87 Paul J. Giovannoni ’49 Kevin D. McCready ’58 Martin J. May JD ’60 Robert D. Ritchey ’72 Friedel U. Volz EdD ’80 MaryHelen Hansen ’42 LMA Donald C. McEntee ’56 James M. McGill ’60 Beverly H. Robison MA ’76 Beverly H. Webber ’87 Cebert C. Holmes ’49 Gary E. McIntosh ’59 Robert K. Meisel Jr. ’69 Norman R. Rowett ’78 Joy-Ann Wendler MPA ’89 Angelo J. Leoni ’43 William F. McSweeney ’50 Marteen J. Miller JD ’61 Glen H. Schimelpfenig ’79 Jeanne Williams MHR ’89 Elaine D. Mackie ’47 LMA Jeanne Miller ’52 LMA Cathleen A. Moriarty ’62 LMA Dolores B. Simons ’70 Ruth A. Wright MA ’83 Doris Martini ’44 LMA Marilyn Murphy ’52 LMA Daniel C. Naughton ’69 Noel N. Stanton MA ’78 Warren J. Masson ’49 Creighton F. Norris ’53 Gregory P. O'Keeffe ’69, JD ’72 Helen V. Stewart ’76 Eugene McMahon ’45 John J. O'Brien ’50 George A. Paiva Jr. ’65 Charles F. Sumner III JD ’76 Glenn W. Metcalf Jr. ’49 1990s George W. Pasha III ’56 James L. Parkin ’65 Fran Trout MA ’78 Donald E. Muldoon ’49 James F. Ballard ’92 Gerald R. Pearlman ’51 Dennis M. Paynter ’68 Carol A. Young MA ’78 Timothy J. O'Donovan ‘45 Donna L. Calciana ’90 Agnes Peterson ’53 LMA Corene Pindroh ’69 Richard M. O'Neill ’47 James A. Dybalski ’99 Charles Pivnick ’59, MBA ’69 Richard Puccinelli ’60 Robert D. Rossi ’42 Scott Gustavson ’95 Georgina M. Poole ’58, MA ’64 N. Michael Rucka JD ’65 Eugene Salgo ’49 1980s Phyllis M. Jackson ’91 Terry J. Powell ’59 Robert W. Sickels JD ’69 Robert R. Taheny ’48 Willie Acosta MPA ’89 Steven E. Kastner ’90 Mary P. Rainsford MA ’55 Richard A. Smith ’63 John P. Ward ’48 Russell E. Beck ’80 Elsie C. Marwedel ’92 Robert F. Reilly ’56 John J. Strain ’61, MBA ’80 Alice F. Beeker ’81, MA ’83 Kevin J. Odell JD ’91 Joseph T. Sarto ’52 John J. Trezza JD ’61 Marilyn C. Berding ’89 Gale Orland ’91 Salvatore C. Savasta ’51 Douglas R. Tunnell ’64 Jean M. Bohr MA ’83 Wayne Robinson ’93 1950s Aldo F. Sciamanna ’50, MS ’52 Werner L. Verhaaren ’67 Carole K. Bright MA, EdD ’85 M. Aurelia Sanchez MA ’95 Ralph P. Anderson Jr. ’55 Douglas Scott ’53 Barry M. Wally JD ’60 Richard A. Burns ’83 Johan Skytt ’95 Louise Bagnall ’54 LMA Frances I. Sherman ’59 Robert L. Witt JD ’68 Ellen M. Coile ’86 Carl T. Strickland ’99 Norma Campbell ’55 LMA Edward G. Smith ’51 James H. Woods ’64, JD ’71 June M. Coyne ’83 Alison L. Troupe MHR ’90 Dorothy Casper ’56 Elmer L. Swanson ’54 Margaret C. Crosby MA ’81 Lawrence E. Woodford ’94 Lloyd L. Ching JD ’53 Arthur D. Thatcher Jr. ’58 Teresa M. De Bono MS ’81 Thomas W. Clark ’51 Norman V. Wheeler ’50 1970s Jinil Doh ’88 Angelo R. Contier ’57 Virginia Wheeler ’59 Gloria J. Atchison ’79 Catherine A. Fleischman ’89 Thomas F. Curtin JD ’54 2000s Richard S. Babcock ’70 Anne Fulgoni ’85 John A. Davitt ’54, MA ’58 Theresa A. Towey MBA ’00 Cheryl B. Barton ’70 Steven C. Glenn ’81 Robert L. Dias ’58 Channing Davis MBA ’03 1960s Mary E. Bell ’77 Rober W. Graber ’85 Roy J. Dittamo ’51 Jennifer Fatjo MA ’10 Ronald Andrews ’69 Doris J. Brown MA ’78 Helen M. Hilst MA ’81 James J. Doherty ’50 Michelle Shutzer MNA ’05 Donald J. Baker JD ’60 Charlotte W. Carroll MA ’77 Joanne Hutton ’82 James T. Dorris ’51 Vincent F. De Bellis ’60 Herman E. Dale MBA ’72 Jane T. Kise ’84 Thomas Westbrook ’05 Robert E. Dryden ’51, JD ’54 Corinne Burdullis ’68 LMA Thomas C. Doyle ’76 Mercedes M. Kow EdD ’85 William D. Duffy ’51 Matthew J. Buzzell ’63 Anne K. Draus ’75 Muriel A. Lazar MA ’81 Arthur E. Eissinger JD ’51 Dennis R. Clark MA ’65 Charlotte A. Garner ’72

46 WINTER 2015 USF Magazine USF Magazine WINTER 2015 47 JOE AZU re JOE Glide’s mission is to create a “radically inclusive” community. What does that 3 mean? It means that we include everyone, espe- cially those at the edge of society. The people we work with at Glide, whether they’re patients in our clinic or patrons in our food line, have been turned away by everybody else. That’s why the African take5 American community came to us during the crack-cocaine era. That’s why people came to us when they had HIV/AIDS, because none of the other churches would accept them, and that’s exactly when they most need spiritual comfort and a community.

How do you see the influx of technology companies affecting San Francisco? 4 It’s good and bad. You have greater wealth in the city, you have more jobs for working white-collar and blue-collar professionals, you have more construction going on, but for the very poor “affordable housing” is a ridiculous term. 15 ’ At Glide today, we’re talking about how to bridge the divide between rich and poor, hegnell and we’ll always be a part of that bridge

H anna building. We need the decision makers at the tech companies—not just the volun- teers, although we appreciate them—to say, Five questions with Janice Mirikitani, a San Francisco poet “This is what we can do together.” laureate and co-founding president of Glide Foundation, a charity organization affiliated with Glide Memorial Church. What drew you to USF? Glide and USF share a lot of the same Glide sponsors nearly 90 programs that provide education, 5 values. USF opens its doors to create health care, nutrition, and housing for San Francisco's greater opportunities for students who poorest residents. normally couldn’t afford the tuition. There’s also a true sense of social responsibil- Mirikitani is also a USF diversity scholar visiting professor. ity and service at USF, a sense that students She teaches Poetry and Poverty: Transformation From Dust are responsible not only for themselves but which explores poverty and oppression though poetry, also for the world. I’m convinced there needs to be tighter relationships between local personal narrative, and community engagement. communities and universities, and for universities to teach students about what goes on in real life.

What drives you as a poet and community leader? My vision for my class at USF is that What drives me is the constant presence of injustice. I see people students will develop an enriched view of 1 who are making a billion dollars and CEOs of companies receiving people who are not the same as they are, 40 percent increases in salaries. We can barely afford to give 3 percent and in that process, grow into a better increases at Glide. We’re talking about people who are making barely understanding of themselves. Powerful above minimum wage. That’s not a living wage in San Francisco. That things can happen when you expose drives me crazy! students to people from another spectrum of life. ///// You’re USF’s diversity scholar, and diversity is central to Glide’s mission. What’s valuable about diversity? GET A TASTE OF MIRIKITANI'S POETRY We need it! It is like food for us. Without diversity we don’t have 2 www.usfca.edu/magazine/ the richness that life can offer. Diversity allows us to transform, to poeticjustice be enlightened, and to learn anew what humanity means.

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