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Bending light 14 BY STEVEN BOYD SAUM. They wanted to show that green living is not a compromise. So, for the international Solar Decathlon, the SCU–led Team built a house of light and wonder. And it was dazzling enough to win No. 3 on the planet.

Connect the dots 22 BY SCOTT BROWN ’93. From border security to disaster preparedness, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano ’79 has one immense portfolio. She’s also the point person on immigration. How to put those together? 28 This place we call home 28 BY KRISTINA CHIAPELLA ’09. Generations ago, Native Americans in the Bay Area lost their land—and the land lost them. But that is hardly the end of the story.

Breaking bread 34 BY DONA LEYVA. For Claudia Pruett ’83, MBA ’87, it’s a family affair wrapped in love and tradition—including 50 years of serving lasagna to SCU econ majors by her parents, Rose and Mario Belotti.

22 ABOUT OUR COVER Home on the Mall: Ryan Chun ’10 works on the Refract House as part of the Solar Decathlon. Photo by Charles Barry. C ontents Web Exclusives

At santaclaramagazine.com you’ll find not just expanded articles and interviews, but also slideshows, audio, and video.

President’s Speaker Series If you can’t be on campus, we’ll bring the campus to you. Listen to podcasts from Janet Napolitano ’79, Jon Sobrino, S.J., and New York Times reporter David Sanger, above.

Weaving past and present: Ann-Marie Sayers’ home in Indian Canyon

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2 FROM THE EDITOR 3 LETTERS 4 MISSION MATTERS 49 AFTERWORDS 7 Expanded Class Notes! With pics! Online Class Notes are updated regularly. Share your news (and photos, and links) today. Above: Kevin Baiko ’91 as his CLASS NOTES alter-ego, Dr. Sparkles.

37 CONTENTS 39 BRONCO NEWS: FROM THE SCU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 9 41 SWEET VICTORY: THE BRONCO ORANGE BOWL TROPHY TURNS 60 42 LIVES JOINED 43 BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS 44 IN PRINT: NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI 45 ALUMNI IN THE NEWS Bhangra Empire in the White House 46 OBITUARIES Michelle Puneet Gill ’05 co-founded this 48 ALUMNI CALENDAR Punjabi folk dance group while at SCU. In 37 November they performed at the Obamas’ state dinner for the prime minister of India. Michelle is the first dancer on the left in the front row, and SCU student Omer Mirza MBA ’11 is in the top row, third from left. Read their story online. C ontents santaclaramagazine.com SPRING 2010 From The Editor

SantaClMagazineara Volume 51 Number 4 Home is M ANAGING E DITOR Steven Boyd Saum [email protected] metaphor stuffed to bursting with mean- L ITERARY E DITOR ings: perhaps a simple, airy place of light and Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 warmth, smelling of fresh coffee and frying C REATIVE D IRECTOR A bacon. A house redolent with history and knocking Linda Degastaldi-Ortiz pipes and dirty socks that the boy has left on the floor P HOTOGRAPHER Charles Barry of the bathroom again. Walls and windows and roof

E DITORIAL I NTERN and floor, timber and stucco and drywall, leaves in Molly Gore ’10 the gutter and chicken in the pot. Built with dreams D EPARTMENT C ONTRIBUTORS and prayers and sweat and tears. Made of straw or sticks Mansi Bhatia, Scott Brown, Christine Cole, Dan Coonan, Justin Gerdes, Katie Powers ’09, Sam Scott ’96, Marisa or brick or bark or tule rushes. Where the cat must be let out and then in Solís, Lisa Taggart and then out already. And it is your responsibility to clean up the messes made. C LASS N OTES & OBITUARIES Ah—but there’s the rub! It is a bigger place than an enclosure for eating and Marisa Solís www.scu.edu/alumupdate sleeping and cable TV: beyond the curb, behold the brook and the berm and the village and the valley, the marsh and the mountain and the mighty oak with F EATURE W RITERS Scott Brown ’93 (“Connect the dots”) is a freelance its sprawling limbs. All this your responsibility, to take care. The raw material journalist in the Bay Area. He wrote about Janet for sculptors and poets and composers of national anthems. Napolitano ’79 and ’60, J.D. ’63 for the Spring 2009 SCM. Home might be a house in downtown San Jose, Calif., if you happen to be Kristina Chiapella ’09 (“This place we call home”) is a writer a member of Team California, SCU’s hardy band of solar decathletes. For the living in the Bay Area. This is her first feature for SCM. structure they built—the lovely, mind-bending Refract House—is slated to Dona LeyVa (“Breaking bread”) works in SCU’s Office of Marketing and Communications and previously become a showcase for green living across the street from City Hall. served as the managing editor for the Packard Home might have once been up in Saratoga, with peach and plum trees Foundation. This is her first feature for SCM. in the backyard, a house where your mother taught you to cook ravioli and Luis Calero, S.J. (AfterWords) is an associate professor of anthropology and a Bannan Senior Fellow in the focaccia and polenta cake. Now you have a home of your own in the Central Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education at SCU. Valley and children of your own and a published cookbook, too.

C OPY E DITORS Home might be right here in the Bay Area—as it has been for many Mansi Bhatia, Christine Cole, John Deever, Dona LeyVa, generations of Native Americans—though it’s not the place it was. And, if Marisa Solís, Darienne Hosley Stewart, Lisa Taggart you’re one of the Ohlone people, odds are that you can’t legally call it your Designed by Cuttriss & Hambleton home because, as far as the federal government is concerned, you’re not a

S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE A DVISORY B OARD recognized tribe. Margaret Avritt—Director of Marketing Home might just be the beginning of your responsibilities, followed by Terry Beers—Chair, Department of English land and security, with 225,000 people working for you and the safety of a , S.J.—President nation, control of its borders, and the moral weight of administering immi- Elizabeth Fernandez ’79—Journalist gration policies resting a mighty burden on your shoulders. Rich Giacchetti—Associate Vice President, Marketing and Communications One place where it feels like coming home might be this blessed University: Ron Hansen M.A. ’95—Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., where the heart is—intellectual and spiritual—even, perhaps, the place where Professor of Arts and Humanities you met the love of your life. Kathy Kale ’86—Executive Director, Alumni Association Another place you call home could be in Colombia, a nation that descended James Purcell—Vice President for University Relations into chaos amid drug wars but now seems to be emerging from the worst. Paul Soukup, S.J.—Chair, Department of Communication And home might be, horrifically, a place beset by tragedy once again: when

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The diverse opinions expressed in Santa Clara Magazine do not neces- of thousands died. Near the end of January, word reached us that among them sarily represent the views of the editor or the official policy of Santa Clara University. Copyright 2010 by Santa Clara University. Reproduction in was Ericka Chambers Norman J.D. ’97, who was in Haiti working with the whole or in part without permission is prohibited. United Nations. You’ll find an in memoriam tribute to her on page 47. We will Santa Clara Magazine (USPS #609-240) is published quarterly, February/ share more news from Haiti in the next issue of this magazine. March, May/June, August/September, and November/December, by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. Periodical postage paid at Santa Clara, CA, and at additional mailing Keep the faith, office. Postmaster: Send address changes to Santa Clara Magazine, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053-1505.

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2 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 “Thank you for a candid Letters reminder that we have some catching up to do.”

I want to thank Catherine reminder that we have some experiencing hard times in our Horan-Walker for reminding catching up to do. thoughts and prayers. Thanks me that alumni giving and COLLEEN WALSH again, and Go Broncos! participation is an important POWELL ’98 CATHERINE HORAN- element for the long-term sus- Brighton, Mass. WALKER ’69 SCU needs YOU! tainability of the University. National President of the SCU I am a grateful graduate of The “SCU needs YOU” let- Alumni Association for 2009–10 I just received the Winter Santa Clara, and I have been ter in the Winter 2009 issue 2009 alumni magazine and blessed with a wonderful life was startling in its report of The real picture was impressed and surprised. and a rewarding career. Today the weakness of SCU alumni I was impressed with the I enjoyed reading your article I made a donation to the giving. A very important ques- increased number of Hispanic about the Top Recruiter, Bronco Bench Foundation, in tion, which was not addressed, and Asian students at SCU, Michael B. Sexton (Winter memory of my grandfather, is why. If we don’t know, we 2009 issue). However, the pie but surprised to hear that should find out. Ask alumni alumni are not giving at the Salvatore M. Sanfilippo ’30, chart showing the class of 2013 . He was an avid sup- who do not give why they same level of comparable J.D. ’32 enrollment is misleading. A porter of the University, the don’t. Even ask those who do schools. I certainly valued my quick glance shows a larger founder of the Bronco Bench, whether there are factors that SCU experience, and I ben- portion of the gender demo- and overall a wonderful diminish their enthusiasm. efited from scholarships and graphic of the pie chart labeled human being. BILL EGAN ’58 financial aid. I’m doing my as “males,” implying that more Thank you for reminding Cupertino,Calif. part to keep SCU affordable males were enrolled for the class me that the University played and accessible. I gave my sec- of 2013—when your data lists a significant role in my life Cathy Horan-Walker writes: ond donation to SCU today, females outnumbering males and my career success. Dear members of the Bronco 52.8 to 47.2 percent. and I hope that alumni will family, hear the call to do the same. KIRK M. SANFILIPPO ’81 With all the talk of gender San Diego,Calif. I was really pleased with equality in education, it is RAUL ZAMUDIO ’03 the response to my letter in the important to note that more New York, N.Y. Thank you for spending some Winter issue addressing the females were admitted to SCU time in the Winter magazine decline in alumni giving par- In December I received than males. to educate our alumni com- ticipation at SCU and the need the Winter 2009 issue of G. MILLER munity about the lackluster for ongoing support for current Santa Clara Magazine and Campbell, Calif. giving record of late. As some- Santa Clara students. My sin- read Catherine Horan- one who works in higher cere thanks to those of you who Walker’s “SCU needs YOU” [Indeed, the numbers didn’t match education advancement, it made a gift to the University in letter. About the same time, the picture. The numbers are pains me to know that so few response to my message—and, I received a letter from the correct. The class of 2013 is 52.8 of our otherwise proud alumni in particular, to the many who Santa Clara Fund with the percent female students, 47.2 make annual contributions. sent letters, some of which are 50th Reunion Campaign percent male students.—Ed.] For a school like Santa Clara, printed here. Roll of Donors. I am proud with its emphasis on and This past December we to say that, after 50 years, Write us! delivery of personal attention, had 135 more alumni give to I, along with my two Santa We welcome your letters world class liberal education, Santa Clara than we did in Clara roommates—Jerrold in response to articles. and community service, our December of 2008, which is C. Bocci ’59 and R. T. philanthropic participation great. But we still have a ways santaclaramagazine.com Burke ’59, who endured just doesn’t stack up. Giving to go, as you can see from the [email protected] our co-occupancy in Kenna, fax 408-554-5464 at any level is an expression “Bronco meter” on page 40. So Nobili, and Walsh halls— Santa Clara Magazine of enthusiasm and gratitude I ask those who can to consider were among the supporters. Santa Clara University for what we have gained from a gift between now and June I would hope many more 500 El Camino Real our education, and it is an 30 to help us reach the 20 per- Santa Clara, CA 95053-1500 would also express their investment in the inspiring cent participation goal for this gratitude in the same We may edit letters for style, things happening on campus year. Remember, a gift of any manner. Go Broncos! clarity, civility, and length. today. Thank you for a candid size helps. And let’s remember Questions? Call 408-551-1840. RICHARD CALLAHAN ’59 to keep those alumni who are Orange, Calif.

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Coming home: Jon Sobrino, S.J., in the Mission Church CHARLES BARRY

NEWS Instituted in 1977, the Santa Clara Award was first presented to Bing Crosby. Over the years, recipients have included legendary actress Helen Honoring the legacy of Hayes, Mother Teresa, and the Jesuit martyrs in . the martyrs in El Salvador In his lecture, Sobrino spoke about the lessons that martyrs around the Embracing a new academic year—and the Jesuit School of Theology globe offer—both those who actively choose adversity, knowing its risks, n the evening of Nov. 5, Jon Clara Valley and around the world. and those who became martyrs unwill- Sobrino, S.J., stood before During Fr. Sobrino’s visit last fall, he ingly. In 1989, when the military Oan audience in the Mission participated in a faculty colloquium on death squad came for the Jesuits at Church and said it felt like coming the role of a Jesuit university and deliv- the University of Central America, home. For the Jesuit priest from El ered a lecture as part of the President’s Sobrino was doing social work in Salvador, in a very real sense, it was. Speaker Series. Prior Thailand and thus For it was 20 years ago that Sobrino to the lecture, SCU escaped murder. was offered refuge at Santa Clara—in President Michael “On my way back to the wake of the killings of his fellow Engh, S.J., presented “Universities El Salvador, I was sched- Jesuits, along with their housekeeper Sobrino with the like ours have to uled to change planes in and her daughter, at the University of Santa Clara Award, answer to a world San Francisco,” Sobrino Central America in El Salvador. the University’s of poverty and recalled. When he arrived Fr. Sobrino was back on the Mission highest honor, ignominy, a world at the airport, he was campus as part of the University’s bestowed to those where there’s so met by Steve Privett, S.J., commemoration of the murders in El who have distin- much oppression then-director of SCU’s Institute on Human Salvador. That tragedy continues to guished themselves and repression.” shape profoundly ideas about social jus- in the service of Rights and Social Justice, JON SOBRINO, S.J. tice from Central America to the Santa Jesuit education. and Peggy O’Grady, who

4 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 had led delegations to El Salvador The role of a Jesuit university seen as something extra. “It is of the Matters as part of her job with the Central The Nov. 4 colloquium, moderated essence. If it isn’t there, we are not a American Refugee Organizing Project. by President Engh, focused on Santa university, period,” he said. “They both looked astounded,” Clara’s status as a Jesuit university The colloquium stressed the role of Sobrino said. “Meanwhile out on the in contemporary times. Matthew the university, especially a Jesuit one San Francisco streets, , Ashley, associate professor of sys- like Santa Clara, in cultivating socially loudspeaker in hand, was condemning tematic theology at the University of responsible, conscientious citizens the murders.” Notre Dame, delivered the keynote who can be advocates of peace in an Then-president Locatelli offered address. Along with Fr. Sobrino, increasingly fragmented, consumerist, Sobrino shelter at Santa Clara, where faculty panelists were Kevin Burke, and corrupt world. S.J., executive dean of the Jesuit “The martyrs make us confront School of Theology at Santa Clara ourselves without evasions,” said University; Robert Lassalle-Klein Sobrino. “They also shed light on ’74, chair of pastoral ministries at the biggest issues in our world, and Holy Names University; and Kristin on what we have to do about them.” Heyer, associate professor in SCU’s Mansi Bhatia SCU Department of Religious Studies. Fr. Burke pointed out that SCU is Web “more Jesuit and more Catholic pre- Exclusives cisely in also being more secular and Read Fr. Sobrino’s article from the Winter 2009 more fully inter-religious.” He added SCM, and hear podcasts of his lecture and the that commitment to justice cannot be faculty colloquium at santaclaramagazine.com. CHARLES BARRY

Priest and composer: President Engh introduces Fr. Sobrino to student Sally Lynn Mitchell ’11

he stayed for several weeks. “When I got here, I found that eight crosses had been set in the ground in front of the church,” Sobrino said. “When somebody pulled them out, Paul Locatelli put them back immediately. I’ll never forget that.” Since 1989, the University has commemorated the martyrs’ deaths annually with a special Mass at the Mission Church. In recognition of the significance of the 20th anniversary last November, the commemoration was extended to five days. “Universities like ours have to Plegaria de Liberación CHARLES BARRY answer to a world of poverty and ignominy, a world where there’s so Paying a musical tribute to the martyrs much oppression and repression,” Sobrino told the SCU community. here was new music in the Mission in November—composed by SCU He asserted that a university needs to student Sally Lynn Mitchell ’11 and performed by the Santa Clara Chamber Singers. Fr. Sobrino’s lecture was preceded by a performance make sure that the poor “who can’t of Mitchell’s choral composition Plegaria de Liberación (Prayer of take life for granted—have life” and T Liberation), commissioned especially for the occasion. are defended against oppression. That A music major with an emphasis in composition, Mitchell used vocal forces is the mission that the six assassinated symbolic of the events of November 1989 in El Salvador: Male voices in the Jesuit priests had undertaken in choir allude to the Jesuit martyrs, and the female voices recall the women who El Salvador, he said. tragically lost their lives while faithfully serving the Jesuit household. The use of English in tandem with Spanish in the piece suggests that people from all over Web the world must actively engage with one Exclusives another to promulgate this theology of Listen to the choral composition at equality. MB santaclaramagazine.com.

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SPORTS chart. Wilson, though, quickly established herself as a glutton for training, taking on more and more miles as she ran cross- country in the fall and track in the spring. From also-ran to All-American In high school, soccer took priority. Now Cross-country star Stephanie Wilson ’11 earns a spot running did. The results showed. in the annals of Bronco Athletics. “Her improvement curve was so fast, it started almost becoming hard nce she turned into the race’s “I need to run the next 20 yards, to to track,” Service says. final 500 meters, junior the next line, to this part,” she remembers Indeed, her first season with the OStephanie Wilson tried to telling herself. “It was intense.” cross-country team, Wilson wasn’t good keep her eyes on the giant American And like everything in Wilson’s enough to even participate in the West flag waving over the finish line—the season, it was stunningly effective. She Coast Conference Championship. Two best way to keep a straight course down crossed the finish line of the LaVern years later, she became the first Santa the stretch. But with her body scream- Gibson Championship Cross-Country Clara runner to win it. ing, and some of the country’s fastest Course in 28th place, the fastest run- collegiate runners bearing down, the ner from any school in California. Her flag seemed unbearably distant. Wilson time easily secured her status as a cross- told herself to keep calm, breaking country All-American—the first Bronco down the final moments of the NCAA ever to do so. Cross-Country Championships into “I am still a little bit shocked at tiny pieces. how far I’ve come,” she says. “I just “I am still a little made a decision I was never bit shocked at how going to give up.” far I’ve come. I just Nobody would have pre- made a decision I dicted such success even a JOHN MEDINA was never going to few months prior. Her own family blissfully scheduled give up.” her nephew’s baptism for the STEPHANIE WILSON day before the race, never thinking Wilson would be in Terre Haute, Ind., preparing to become the first Bronco While her physical strengths have runner to run nationals in clearly carried Wilson far, Service says cross-country. her mental focus has been essential. But Wilson’s entire col- Many runners in her situation would legiate cross-country career psych themselves out against such elite has been one surprise on top competition. Wilson seems immune of another. A middling high from it, he says. school runner, Wilson only With one more season to run, returned to the sport after Wilson aims to return to nationals this falling short of her dream of fall—with company, she hopes. The playing college soccer. And program brings back many of its best even then, she tried out for runners, including Robbie Reid ’11. rowing first. The junior finished second at the 2009 Certainly Cross-Country WCC championships, the best ever Coach Tom Service had few finish for a male SCU runner. expectations when Wilson Their accomplishments follow other arrived her sophomore year recent fanfare for the program. In 2008, after transferring from the cross-country captain Noelle Lopez ’09 University of California, was named the second Rhodes Scholar Davis. Of his 18 runners, she in Santa Clara history. The success on ranked 14th on the depth and off the race course will only add to the team’s drawing power, Service says: “I don’t know what better statement we How far she’s come: can make than we have had a Rhodes Stephanie Wilson Scholar one year and an All-American the next.”

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Wilson stars in track as well as cross CAMPUS The new solar installations are country—and she excels in aspects just one of many recent projects the of life that require no running shoes. University is undertaking to address Her 3.87 grade point average recently Raising the roof climate change. For efforts already helped the English major win one of the Solar arrays for Leavey and undertaken as of 2009, SCU was English Department’s two Canterbury Malley, plus an award recognized by the U.S. Environmental Scholarships, which provide grants from the EPA Protection Agency last fall as one that fund extended research projects. of the top universities to reduce its She’s minoring in philosophy—and is ll was not quiet on the Mission carbon footprint. The EPA ranked planning a literary trail guide for the campus over Christmas break. Santa Clara No. 16 on the Top 20 Bay Area, which she hopes to publish A There was the clatter of College & University List of green next year. She has already started a blog construction on a few rooftops, as power purchasers. about the project on the internet home SCU installed solar panels atop Santa Clara committed of Berkeley-based Heyday Books. the Leavey Center and Pat to doubling its green power Malley Fitness and Recreation On top of that, readers of SCM purchase to nearly 23 million might recognize Wilson from a profile Center. The third level of the kilowatt-hours (kWh), which in the Summer 2009 issue, highlighting parking structure also received represents 74 percent of the her volunteer work on behalf of Second a new solar panel sunshade. school’s electricity use. That’s Harvest Food Bank. As a junior, Wilson The panels, which are enough to power 2,529 aver- interned with SCU’s Campus Ministry scheduled to be operational in April, age American homes and is equivalent and organized a fall food drive that are expected to generate 1 megawatt to taking nearly 3,000 cars off the netted 3,500 pounds of food and $700 of power, which will satisfy about 6 road for one year. The purchase will in cash. Together the bounty created percent of SCU’s electrical energy be supplied from Green-e Energy more than 4,000 meals for Bay Area needs throughout the year, according certified renewable energy certificates needy. In recognition of her efforts, to Joe Sugg, assistant vice president sourced from wind farms around the of University Operations. The panels she was made the first recipient of the country. Christine Cole SCU Second Harvest Food Bank Outstanding should also support about 20 percent of summer daytime demand. Youth Award. Sam Scott ’96 SCU

AWARDS The CASE medals Covers: gold (Summer 2009) Thirteen medals and silver (Winter 2008) for SCU pubs Special issue: ll that glitters isn’t gold; there’s gold (Summer 2009) silver and bronze, too, at least Photography: Showing off SCU: A where medals for Santa Clara gold for “Katrina at three” a few of the winners University publications are concerned— by Patrick Semansky and lots to go around in 2009. On the ’06 (Fall 2008) national level, veteran SCU Photographer Illustration: Charles Barry was honored by the gold for Steven Noble’s “Go with all your prestigious University and College heart” (Fall 2008) and bronze for Robert Design Association with a silver medal Neubecker’s map of where SCU alumni In addition, the 2007–2008 Santa Clara for his photograph “The ideal pub,” are serving in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps University President’s Report, “How We which appeared in the Summer 2009 (Spring 2009) Learn,” and Santa Clara Law Magazine Santa Clara Magazine. Editorial design: each earned bronze medals for overall On the regional level, a dozen medals gold for “Go with all your heart” excellence from CASE. were awarded to SCU publications (Fall 2008), silver for “Plucky seven” The 12 awards from CASE’s District by the Council for Advancement and (Winter 2008), and bronze for “Silken VII make SCU one of the most lauded Support of Education (CASE) at a choreographies” (Spring 2009) universities in the region, which includes ceremony in San Francisco in November. Staff writing: more than 100 colleges and universities Our team at SCM brought home 10 bronze for five stories, including from Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, medals in six categories and won all work by Emily Elrod ’05 and and Utah. SCM earned more medals three medals for editorial design. Alicia Gonzales ’09 than any other periodical. SBS SCU

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Faculty awards and fellowships, including a Fulbright Scholar Artist-in-Residence in Macedonia and a National Endowment Top teaching scholars for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship. he University inaugurated the (See page 9 for a profile of Hernández.) academic year by honoring The Louis and Dorina Brutocao Toutstanding achievements Award for Teaching Excellence at the annual Faculty Recognition Professor of Philosophy William Dinner in September. Prior puts a premium on mentoring Recent Achievement in Scholarship students to “live the examined life.” A driving force behind SCU’s He teaches ancient philosophy, ethical Environmental Studies Institute, theory, and history of skepticism. Associate Professor of Environmental The award he received—Santa Clara’s CharleS Barry Studies and Biology Michelle Marvier highest teaching honor—is based on nominations by students and faculty Psychology, biology, philosophy: From left, Sonny Manuel, has published 19 articles in the past Michelle Marvier, and William Prior. five years, including four in the premier members who believe their professor or journal Science. Her research in eco- colleague has made an active difference later became Arrupe Partnerships, logical risk assessment and conservation in students’ lives. the University’s community-based biology has offered valuable contribu- Prior was nominated by many learning curriculum. He reached out to tions to the discourse surrounding issues notable students, including the class of undocumented students by founding of environmental policy. She engages 2009’s valedictorian and the recipients the Hurtado Scholars program, and students by connecting biological data of both the St. Clare Medal and the he was the founding director of the to relevant social policy issues and has Kolvenbach Award. Office of Multicultural Learning. In his research, Manuel studies the offered them opportunities to collaborate Inclusive Excellence Award on many of her own publications. relationship between psychology, This award was established in 2008 faith, and religious life. In spring Sustained Excellence in Scholarship and is given to a faculty or staff 2009, he was named prefect of studies Professor Sam Hernández of the Art member who has demonstrated and provincial assistant for higher and Art History Department has shown dedication to building inclusive education for the California Province his work in more than two dozen solo excellence in the community. This of the . In that capacity, exhibitions across the , year’s recipient is Gerdenio (Sonny) he is also assisting California Provincial France, and , and in hundreds Manuel, S.J., associate professor of John P. McGarry, S.J., with fostering of group exhibitions. Serving the psychology and rector of the Jesuit collaboration between Jesuit work Santa Clara faculty since 1977, he Community at Santa Clara. He in higher education and in other has been the recipient of numerous co-founded the Eastside Project, which communities. Katie Powers ’09 SCU

ScholarS hipS Giannini Quinn and riccio developed a friendship soon after their first encounter a decade ago. their collective italian heritage and their deep valuation of a Jesuit education kept the pair bonded. Spirit of philanthropy then, in 2004, the professor suffered severe injuries, including postconcussion syndrome, when a balcony gave way beneath her. New scholarship created by the well-known Bay area lawyer played an integral part in Giannini SCU English professor Quinn’s legal assistance, medical care, and recovery. So when riccio passed away in November 2008, Giannini When Roseanne Giannini Quinn hired Quinn felt compelled to pay tribute to him in a profound way. lawyer John riccio to represent her following riccio had created a scholarship for Bay area children enrolled

Charles Barry a tangle in a minor car accident, the Scu in italian-language classes—an act of philanthropy that Giannini Roseanne Giannini teacher never imagined that in just 10 Quinn had long admired. So she created the John c. riccio Quinn years’ time she’d have started an academic Scholarship in the same spirit. scholarship in his memory. But in January “it’s very important to me to celebrate and preserve our heri- 2009 Quinn did just that. the first award was made in September. tage,” says Giannini Quinn. “in the Bay area, we’re now moving to the annual John c. riccio Scholarship provides financial aid to third and fourth generations of italian-americans, and we’re losing an incoming freshman with italian-american ancestry, with prefer- knowledge of language and culture.” here at Scu, Giannini Quinn ence given to a student living in the da Vinci residential learning has incorporated her ancestral background into many classes, and community. Giannini Quinn hopes the scholarship will bestow the much of her own academic study is on italian-american literature. values of service and social justice, especially for people who are those interested in donating to the John c. riccio Scholarship vulnerable in the community. the Scu professor will donate $500 should contact cynthia Graebe in the Scu development office at each year to the fund. 408-554-4400, or visit www.scu.edu/give. KP SCU

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Faculty

One thing leads to the next The aesthetic of sculptor Sam Hernández

or a recent series of sculp- can beat on a drum. tures, Professor of Art Sam But you get tones, you FHernández starts with Thonet get different sounds, struts—elegantly curved pieces from the drum—by of wood salvaged from dismantled pulling it, by beating it Austrian café chairs built in the on the end, or how you 1800s—and screws them back together tap it.” to fashion mesmerizing, delicately Catalonian pots and twisted shapes that thrust skyward. Japanese saws Spiked with the knobs that appear Most of the year, like the thorns of blackberry canes, Hernández is based it’s as if the wood has been touched by out of his studio in the spark of life and begun dancing. Aptos. Summer might Though in describing the process of find him in Catalonia, creating this bricolage, Hernández is Spain, where he works a bit more prosaic. “I start composing with artisans known as with the lines. I cut them, then I seg- tinajeros creating large ment them,” he says. “Then I look at ceramic pieces. The the pile of lines and start assembling artists take their name them. One thing leads to the next, from the large vessels leads to the next.” they make—tinajas— A native of Hayward, Calif., which date back to the Hernández has earned international ancient Greeks and acclaim for his work during the past Romans and were once CharleS Barry three-plus decades. He was also recently used to store wine and Artist in studio: Sam Hernández honored by SCU for sustained excel- water. Hernández visits lence in scholarship (see their workshops, learns their tigations, taking trips to museums, opposite page). showing films, or having them work “Take it in through techniques, and then makes “I’m Spanish,” he it his own. “It’s been a great with one another. Drawing on these says, “but I’m a New your eyes and your experiences, students generate their ears, and it becomes cultural exchange,” he says. World guy.” How does “I’m adapting it to my imag- own art. “Take it in through your that play out in his art? an experience eyes and your ears, and it becomes an that you normally ery without losing the form He transforms bits and they have.” experience that you normally wouldn’t pieces of varying cul- wouldn’t have. have,” he says. “You’ve got to find You’ve got to find A mark of Hernández’s tural influences, crossing work is his proficiency your passion.” themes unexpectedly, to your passion.” with a variety of tools from That last truism is also the advice create an aesthetic that Sam HernÁndez around the world. “I apply that Hernández offers when he’s asked riffs on influences from whatever tool I need for about how to survive as an artist. “The Cuba, Mexico, and various parts of whatever job needs to be done,” he people I knew who spent the whole Africa and Latin America, as well as says. After studying Japanese joinery, time figuring out how they were going from Native American tribes. Throw he began employing special Japanese to make it,” he observes, “ended up in some Dada, surrealism, organic tra- saws for their accuracy and finesse. doing something else.” dition, and hot rods, then let intuition “Instead of pulling forward, the saws Folks in New York City can take and stream of consciousness guide the pull back, giving the user more con- a look at some of Hernández’s recent vision. But to say art is only a creature trol and efficiency, and allowing the work, as part of an exhibition currently of whimsy and nuance is to sell short piece to be cut exactly.” running at the National Academy the technical skill that goes into it. In the classroom, Hernández Museum and School of Fine Arts. The Hernández offers the analogy of an exposes his students to cultural inves- show is open through June 8. KP SCU accomplished jazz musician. “Anybody

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Technology

Saving the world one innovation at a time Tech awards honor projects designed to benefit humanity. and a conference at SCU helps Tech laureates put their heads together to tackle shared challenges.

lobal warming threatens us Materials Inc. to honor people who with ever more powerful step up in crisis. This year Santa Clara Gstorms, creeping desertifica- faculty helped winnow down 650 nomi- TESY THE TECH MUSEUM

tion, and the deadly spread of tropical nations from more than 60 countries COUr diseases, former Vice President Al Gore to 15 winners in five categories: envi- told the guests at the annual Tech ronment, economic development, Global humanitarian: Al Gore accepts the award Awards on Nov. 19. But in the big education, equality, and health. from Applied Materials CEO Mike Splinter. picture, he assured, our planet is going “We’re aiming to promote the just to be just fine. “The real risk is for and the common good for all,” SCU Kilowatts program in Nigeria, which human beings,” he deadpanned. President Michael Engh, S.J., told the converts the waste stream from slaugh- The remark drew laughter from the crowd. “The University should be the terhouses into electricity; Ultra Rice crowd of 1,500 gathered at the San critical conscience of society.” PATH, which uses fortified rice flour Jose McEnery Convention The laureates came to bolster the nutritional value of rice Center. In 2007 Gore and from across the globe, in India, Brazil, and Colombia; and the a team of IPCC scientists and their projects embod- Fair Wage Guide, software that helps received the Nobel Peace ied a combination of craft makers around the world deter- Prize in recognition of technical ingenuity and mine fair wages in local context for their environmental advo- dogged pursuit of a better their labors. cacy. At the Tech Awards way. Canadian Howard he was honored with the “The University Weinstein, for example, Change that counts 2009 James C. Morgan should be the was just another busi- The day after the awards, the Tech Global Humanitarian critical conscience nessman when the pain Laureates visited the Mission campus Award. Gore used his of society.” of his young daughter’s to take part in “Change that Counts: acceptance speech to call death started him on a Building Sustainable Social Business,” a the audience to action. MiChael engh, S.j. path that has taken him conference focused on a key challenge Future generations will to Botswana, Brazil, and for many social entrepreneurs: How do either despair that their predecessors Israel and the West Bank. His com- you convey a product’s value to inves- were too busy “Dancing with the Stars” pany, Solar Ear, hires deaf workers to tors accustomed to measuring success to tackle global warming, or they will build solar-powered hearing aids that merely in financial profits? marvel how we found the energy to cost a fraction of others on the market. The laureates were joined by prede- make the difficult changes, he said. In doing so, the company also provides cessors like Matt Flannery, the founder The critical conscience jobs to deaf workers who had been seen of Kiva, a 2007 Tech Awards winner in their communities as unemployable. that has made more than $90 mil- The Tech Awards were founded in In each of the five categories, one lion in micro-loans worldwide, and 2001 through a partnership among laureate received a $50,000 prize. by major lenders to social entrepre- Santa Clara University, San Jose’s Tech Winners included the Cows to neurs, including the Draper Richards Museum of Innovation, and Applied Foundation. SS SCU

Tech Laureates in action: From left, toolkits for sustainable rural development in Mexico from GRUPEDSAC, the Solar Ear, and a meal built on

TESY THE TECH MUSEUM fortified rice from PATH p HOTOS COU r

10 S anta C lara M agazine | Spring 2010 BOOKS New from SCU faculty SOFTWARE RISK, INVESTMENT, AND HELPING THE POOR That global corporations can (and in fact must) be the Citation visualization solution to alleviating poverty around the world is the sensation optimistic and radical thesis of Alleviating Poverty through Profitable Partnerships: Globalization, Markets PaperCube is airborne— and Economic Well-Being (Routledge, 2010). SCU’s offering scholars a whole new Dennis Moberg, the Gerald and Bonita A. Wilkinson way of looking at their work. Professor of Management, teams up with scholars Patricia erusing digital libraries for schol- H. Werhane, Scott P. Kelley, and Laura P. Hartman, to provide compelling, specific cases of how to reconfigure arly articles may not be the first morals and economics—from a stove design partnership P activity you’d liken to flying a in Guatemala to teenage bankers in India to Nike’s micro- helicopter. But then you’ve probably not financing efforts in Vietnam. The emphasis is on “profitable COURTESY THE TECH MUSEUM COURTESY seen PaperCube—the brainchild of Peter partnerships with the poor for mutual gain,” not philanthropy Bergström M.S. ’09. or charity. The moral imperative for alleviating poverty is clear; but Moberg A software developer at Apple, et al. argue that it makes business sense for corporations looking for a sustainable and Bergstrom worked evenings and weekends profitable future. Getting the world’s poor—somewhere between 2 to 4 billion people— out of dire circumstances involves risk, but this rethinking of both business practices on his master’s in computer engineering and assistance is a necessity in our changing world. Lisa Taggart SCU at Santa Clara. The culmination of his efforts was PaperCube, an experimental digital library browser that lets users soar above searches to see the weave of refer- FILM ences, citations, and collaborations that Close to Home connect scholars and their papers. or many folks at Santa Clara, the In a typical scholarly story that Assistant Professor of Communication Mike Whalen ’89 library search, you get a brings to the screen in A Christmas in quick synopsis of a paper’s F FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ COURTESY Tent City is heartbreakingly familiar. The short subject and a list of links to documentary draws on the experiences of its references—basically a backward- Roberto and Francisco Jiménez ’66, whose Christmas in Tent City: Francisco Jiménez, left, with looking snapshot of the authors’ parents led them across the border from older brother Roberto and younger brother José Francisco research, readings, and inspirations. Mexico to California when they were young PaperCube can fly much higher, boys. The family dreamed of a better life and streets paved with gold; when they arrived, they lived in tents in squalid migrant labor camps, and the boys spent their childhood showing not only a paper’s references but picking cotton, strawberries, and grapes. Francisco Jiménez recounts the experiences in those papers’ references and so on, up to The Circuit, a volume of autobiographical short stories first published in 1997. Whalen’s 15 layers deep. It also jumps forward dis- film draws on the book, following the lives of both men, playing how the paper was cited in later and weaves its tale through voice-overs and interviews, generations of works. interspersed with illustrations. “I want people to The difference is like going from the understand what happens to families when they are runway to air, Bergström says. Users can torn apart from each other, forced to live in poverty, and treated as disposable commodities,” Whalen says. see which papers carry the most influ- ence, then swoop down to read them. The first of what Whalen hopes will be a series of films They can also see intellectual cliques, based on Jiménez’s life story, A Christmas in Tent

SHERRY TESLER SHERRY City premiered last year at San Jose’s Cinequest Film mapping how often authors collaborate, Festival and has been honored with the Broadcast Presenting the new edition: From left, cite, or reference each other. Education Association’s Award of Excellence, an Jesús Alejandro Cravioto, minister of The browser’s intuitive circle maps Accolade Award, and other prizes. The final documen- culture, State of Jalisco, Mexico; José also lend themselves to illustrating other tary will combine seven stories and interviews with Antonio Gloria Morales, minister of public other experts about the migrant worker experience. forms of interconnectedness, such as how policy, State of Jalisco, Mexico; and different websites link to one another. Francisco Jiménez Francisco Jiménez is now the Fay Boyle Professor of The open-source program was Modern Languages and Literatures at SCU. In October released for free in November. SS SCU 2009 he was presented with a special honor by Emilio González Márquez, the governor of Mexico’s Jalisco state: a new, one-volume edition of The Circuit and Breaking Through, his first two collections of autobiographical fictions that has been published by the government of Jalisco. The ceremony took place at the Adobe Lodge. “This honor is not about me,” Web Jiménez said. “It is, in a sense, honoring all immigrants who come to the United States to Exclusives seek a better life for their children and their children’s children.” MB SCU Try out PaperCube at santaclaramagazine.com.

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ENGINEERING Singh, this year’s crew used the same ingredients but greatly increased the size of the plans. The 800-square-foot layout used for both buildings features Bricks and mortar a double-arch roof that rises from the Designing buildings that will last for villages in Ghana ground to meet in the middle, like a McDonald’s sign. The students spent long, dusty hours with local laborers and masons, bringing design know-how to meet with the Ghanaians’ construc- tion expertise. The trip was clearly an adventure. Fieger says some people stateside ques- tioned why they didn’t choose senior design projects more geared to the job market. A couple reasons: They

eriC a Fieger wanted to see their design built, and they relished the chance to help others. Twin arches in Gambibigo: At left, Samuel Alekura and Hubert Allah at work. Right: Brie Rust and Laura The onion-storage shed will give Skinner with Rahinatu, Awudu Issah, Richard farmers a cool, dry place to keep crops Ayurinja, Samuel Alekura, and village children. until after harvest, when scarcer supplies eriC a Fieger drive prices up tenfold. The project also n two villages in northern The four seniors—Laura Skinner, uses designs and materials that the villagers Ghana, there’s no mistaking the Brie Rust, Spencer Ambauen, and can replicate at a minimal cost, applying Irecent handiwork of four SCU Erica Fieger—spent a month during their usual selection of hand tools. civil engineering students. Just look Christmas break overseeing construction Indeed there was no doubting the for the arches. of the buildings: one a new library in villagers’ involvement. The project That architectural feature is virtually Gambibigo, the other an onion-storage included a budget to pay a small group unseen in the region’s boxy mud-brick shed in Zebilla. They were following in of workers, but often double that num- buildings. But the students put it at the footsteps of three more students— ber would show up, working for free. the heart of their plans for a pair of Betsy Leaverton ’09, Jessica Long ’09, When the SCU students headed structures to benefit the villages. By and Julianne Padgett ’09—who devel- back to the United States, the library arching the doors, windows, and roofs, oped the recipe for the sturdy, but afford- was 75 percent complete and the they devised buildings able to stand able, bricks for a similar project last year. onion-storage shed about 50 percent strong without costly lumber framing Their shed prompted some Ghanaians to done, with local workers continuing or metallic roofing. Just as important, travel from as far as six hours away to see construction. The students are eager for their designs use clay-and-cement bricks the wonder of an arched roof. updates, looking for ways to send books much better suited to the area’s withering Advised by engineering professors to the library and talking about one monsoons than traditional mud blocks. Mark Aschheim and Sukhmander day returning. SS SCU

A DMINISt RAt I o N Under Purcell’s leadership, the University saw its endowment more than double, its campus transformed by Jim Purcell six major capital projects, alumni engagement strengthened and improved, and its media presence enhanced. Purcell VP for University Relations also led a successful multiyear capital campaign, raising to step down $404 million that far exceeded the $350 million goal. He After 13 years of successfully leading Santa introduced the President’s Speaker Series, drawing world- Clara University’s fundraising and external renowned speakers to campus, including Jane Goodall, relations efforts, Jim Purcell, vice president Michael Eric Dyson, Khaled Hosseini ’88, and in fall 2009, CharleS Barry Charles Barry for University Relations, plans to step down Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano ’79. Jim Purcell from his post later this year. “While it is “He has been a successful leader, administrator, and always hard to leave, I believe this is the proper time for me to spokesperson in advancing the goals of the University in transition into a new position,” said Purcell, 69. He will act as countless ways,” said President Michael Engh, S.J. “My a part-time consultant focusing on external strategic affairs for best wishes and congratulations go out to Jim for the next the University, once a successor has been named. Plans are phase of his professional career.” MB SCU for a new vice president to be in place by mid-2010.

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NEWS

Bad journalism 101 What’s the news? And do you know it when you see it?

e know the news cycle helping people become more never ends. We know that discriminating news consumers. W the Internet has birthed a The site, NewsTrust.net, has a panoply of newsy blogs and opinion- mix of citizens and journalists ated narrative, and that folks consume who rate the quality of news, it all with abandon. But as we gobble based on its faithfulness to some the latest on the incidents and accidents good old-fashioned journalistic that pass for news, one of the casualties standards: facts, fairness, may well be the expectations we need to sourcing, and context. have of journalists. The week-long exercise was Sally Lehrman has taught in SCU’s a real eye-opener for students. communication department since 2008. “Before, I’d read a story that She holds the Knight Ridder/San Jose had many quotes and think it Mercury News Chair for Journalism in was a well-written, well-sourced the Public Interest. “The public needs story,” says Brandon Jones ’10. Doherty ’11. The reason: poor struc- to figure out what is really newsworthy,” “But now I look if all the quotes are ture that made the article difficult to from people expressing the same idea. follow. With such a complex and hotly I question if I am even getting the debated subject, Doherty wrote, “It is other side of the story.” important for journalists to understand that they need to paint an extremely

CHARLES BARRY What’s the score? As students dissected mainstream news clear picture.” reports, opinions from bloggers and col- Lehrman notes that her students umnists, and cable news shows colored went from simply saying, “This is inter- by various hues on the political spec- esting” to asking “Is it trustworthy? trum, the students highlighted stories Why is it touted as a news story when that failed to meet the litmus test of it’s really an opinion piece? How do we credibility. One of the most biased news know this is accurate?” reports that week was “Tricky O’s ‘doc- By posting their comments on tored’ photo” from the New York Post. NewsTrust, the students engaged in The story decried a group of physicians conversations with other reviewers. Facts and context: Journalist Sally Lehrman whom President Obama invited to the “It’s like being in an online public leads the class. White House in a show of their sup- square with an informed citizenry port for health-care reform. The story engaged in a democratic exchange,” she says. She observes that there is quoted two Republican opponents of Lehrman says. She also surmises news, there is information, and there reform but didn’t seek comments from that, by coming at the news with is entertainment—and they are all dif- the doctors or the reported “thousands” a more thoughtful, critical eye, the ferent animals. “We need to be able to in the medical community who oppose students will be better consumers of understand the difference and value it.” reform. “The author makes many the news—and, perhaps, the kind For one week this past October, claims that are not backed up with evi- of journalists-in-training who will students in Lehrman’s introductory dence,” assessed Danielle S. Scharf ’10. carry the profession into the next journalism class learned how to Overall, she gave the story a grade of decade and beyond. MB SCU identify and analyze bad journalism. 1.7 out of 5—or “poor.” The students were required to write “Healthcare has rationing in abun- Web two reviews per week for NewsTrust, Exclusives dance” from the Times a nonprofit group dedicated to Read news ratings by SCU students and got an “average” rating from Morgan others at santaclaramagazine.com.

S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 13 bendingThey wanted to show that green living is light not a compromise. So, for the international Solar Decathlon, Team California built a house of light and wonder. And it was dazzling enough to win No. 3 on the planet.

14 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 BY STEVEN BOYD SAUM WITH REPORTING BY MOLLY GORE ’10 Photos by Charles Barry bending light

On the roof: Team California leader Allison Kopf ’11 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 15 House averages 30 minutes. More than 3,000 pairs of feet tread the reclaimed elm floors. That night, as the dinner parties are in full swing, attached to the banner out in front of the Refract House is the pennant that reads LEADER. The team will earn high marks from its dinner and movie guests as well. The same film is showing in every house—so what does the trick? Sean Irwin ’09, who helped lead the construction team for the house, smiles knowingly when asked that question. “It might have something to do with the fact that we have a THX sound system,” he says. Curiously enough, the movie selected is Christopher Nolan’s 2008 dystopian The Dark Knight, which chronicles the descent of the city of Gotham back into a criminal chaos unleashed by Batman’s new nemesis, the Joker. We built the house we wanted A bit of intentional irony? If the Solar Decathlon is to build: Preet Anand ’10 nothing else, it is a competition powered by audacity of the bending of light itself. A canti- and irrepressible optimism. levered design gives it a lightness and drama, with the house seeming to float in the air—the We are Team California bedroom suspended over earth and the living room jutting he U.S. Department of Energy launched the Solar out over a landscaped pond. Decathlon in 2002, with its National Renewable In addition to being movie night, Sunday is a time Energy Laboratory running the show. Competitors for dinner parties. At the Refract House, the appetizer is design and build solar-powered houses that are both bruschetta, and it’s served and savored on the patio. As attractiveT and energy-efficient. Squaring that particular the dinner party gets under way, folks are strolling by, and circle, while accomplishing the not-so-simple-in-itself task you can catch snatches of comments admiring and wistful. of making a house in the first place, is no mean feat. Teams “They have couches outside! Must be from California.” invest months of planning and hundreds of thousands of The other courses of the meal—coconut curry soup, dollars—hence the support of event and team sponsors— marinated kale salad, enchiladas, and tiramisu—are served and thousands of hours of work by hundreds of hands. in the dining room. The entire menu is raw vegan. Ethical Among the visitors drawn to the National Mall for and health concerns offer one rationale for conscientious the first Solar Decathlon was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed 21st-century diners. But in a competition such as this, eighth-grader from New York State. The sight of the solar wherein you’re tracking every kilowatt-hour generated by village fired her imagination. A few years later she came solar panels and burned up by powering appliances, even to Santa Clara and began studying engineering. When red meat carnivores must concede that this meal belies the 2009 Solar Decathlon began, Allison Kopf ’11 was a shrewd strategy: Raw food means no firing up oven or a sophomore. She donned the hard hat of team leader stove. Save that juice and give it back to the grid to earn and headed up a crew of undergrads, preparing to go points in the Net Metering contest. (Though they did toe-to-toe with teams that boasted doctoral candidates in warm up the soup.) engineering and architecture. But Team California saw It is widely understood that Team California is a things thusly: When life hands you youthful enthusiasm, serious competitor. In 2007, a crew from SCU became you make it shine. You come up with creative ways of the Cinderella Team of the Solar Decathlon, rising from doing things that can’t be done because you don’t know the ranks of not-quite-good-enough-to-make-the-cut they can’t be done. You let it be known that your team (their proposal was scored 21st in a competition that brings a diversity of background and talent and is the only only accepted 20 teams; one team dropped out partway team from the West Coast, with a lifestyle inspired and through) to blow the doors off teams from MIT, Carnegie powered by the sun, with a mission “to design a bold and Mellon, and Georgia Tech. They won third overall. In luxurious home that demonstrates green living does not 2009, Team California’s elegant house is the one that require a compromise in lifestyle.” You do not sacrifice Secretary of Energy Steven Chu uses as the setting for amenities but you design something sleek and modern, his October interview with 60 Minutes. And it’s the one sustainable and enjoyable. Popular Mechanics zeroes in on to highlight some nifty To build that house, the SCU students enlisted engineering innovations: recycled water, solar thermal collaborators from California College of the Arts, a collectors (more on those in a bit), and radiant heating San Francisco- and Oakland-based arts school that boasts and cooling. prestigious programs in architecture, design, and studio On this first Sunday, the wait to get into the Refract arts. The breadth to the team helps make the solar-powered

16 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 Night vision: Allison Kopf, left, and Ross Ruecker ’09 underneath the Refract House

machine for living a vibrant undergrads from SCU, and they get to do this? How could place—down to the space-age she not be jealous? light fixture made from recycled plastic straws, the earth- toned textiles on the bed, even the clothes hanging in Fascinating coolness the closet. Annessa Mattson, an architecture student at ot everyone on Team California is a novice. There CCA who grew up in a small town in Montana, led the is one notable exception: veteran of the 2007 com- architectural team. petition, Associate Professor of Religious Studies During the course of nearly two years on the project, James Reites, S.J., MST ’71, with 15 years’ chair- only three students made it from day one through to the Ning the department under his belt. A New Orleans native, finish; in addition to Kopf, they are Kadee Mardula ’11, he joined the Jesuits in 1960 and, during his studies, earned a mechanical engineering major from Utah who headed up a master’s in sacred theology at Santa Clara. He has taught communications, and Richard Navarro ’10, an electrical at SCU since 1975—long before the undergrads on Team engineering major from Los Angeles County who took the California were a twinkle in anybody’s eye. At first glance, lead on electrical work. But some 25 specialized teams and he seems an unlikely member of the team: He studied more than 300 students and volunteers contributed along theology in Berkeley and Rome, has interests ranging from the way, for a total of 67,000 hours of work, according to theology and feminism to the history of the early Jesuits, one estimate. Not surprisingly, the left-brainers and the and he teaches courses that include Christian Mysticism, right-brainers butted heads more than a few times. By Catholic Themes in Literature, and Theology of Suffering. the time October rolled around, the architects and engi- But Papa Reites, as the students call him, worked in con- neers had learned lessons about thinking through and struction back in the day. For the past building a house: where vision meets execu- tion, and the realities of what materials and Only connect: Tim Sennott ’09 suppliers and people can and cannot do. Kopf found the scope and complexity of the whole undertaking seductive, especially “the integration between all the parts,” she says, “how mechanical engineers, civil engineers, and architects all work and interact with that process, and how it all comes together .... That, and the idea that this project allowed you to not only get involved from a social responsibil- ity aspect, but also to build something and see your project come to life.” You build it, and then it warms your heart when, as you’re guiding folks through the house on the National Mall, a recent engineering alumna from a big research university up the road from Santa Clara comes through and con- fesses a bad case of envy. Here they are, these Team rankings 1. Team Germany 908.297 2. Univ. of Illinois 897.300 decade he’s led groups of SCU students 3. Team California 863.089 tells you how to make something on immersion trips to Tijuana, where they 4. Team Ontario/ cool happen. To watch the faces build houses with Habitat for Humanity. British Columbia 849.816 of the students as they make con- So he has more than his share of hands-on 5. Minnesota 838.544 nections, realize that they just did experience. That, and the boundless energy 6. Team Alberta 769.410 something brilliant ... and they of a 20-year-old. 7. Cornell 764.237 become knowledgeable, learned. All “During construction, he’d be out 8. Rice 750.236 of this is fascinating coolness. You there more hours than a lot of the college- 9. Kentucky 732.152 can’t really describe it, you know. age students, who physically had to give 10. Ohio State 729.932 You have to live it. Work hard in—because they needed sleep and food,” 11. Team Missouri 719.530 through it. Then you know. You Kopf says. 12. Iowa State 714.609 know why something like this is so Reites isn’t a big man. But he’s wiry. 13. Virginia Tech 704.628 great. Why it’s a joy, a delight.” And through months of work and hair- 14. Team Spain 669.565 pulling frustration, he was ever ready with 15. Team Boston 665.596 16. Penn State 625.995 Build it and they a broad grin and a bad joke and a shoul- der to lean on. He understands how the 17. Puerto Rico 617.569 will cheer components of the house work—whether 18. Univ. of Arizona 610.339 n 2007, the house that SCU’s it’s plumbing, electrical, or the controls 19. Univ. of Louisiana 603.882 team built had one Achilles 20. Wisconsin-Milwaukee 542.074 system. If something stops working, Reites heel: architecture, whereby the knows how to fix it. house was judged 18th out of I20. When the architecture scores But there’s another role Reites plays. Senior Preet Anand articulates it so: “In the Middle Ages, are announced on Monday, Oct. 12, 2009, however, it is there were churches that were supposed to have towns a different story. That LEADER sign stays right where it’s built around them. Father Reites is the church that we been: in front of the Refract House, voted No. 1 in archi- built this team around.” tecture. “Beautiful design in every respect,” surmise the Knowing what the Solar Decathlon demands of a judges. “A crystal-clear concept that successfully trans- person, one can’t help but wonder what it is that makes a lates a regional architecture to Washington, D.C. The body do it once—invest the days and weeks and months interior and exterior appears as one.” of a life—and then come back and do it again. Answering The other big contest on Monday is Market Viability. that question, Reites speaks with a jazzman’s rhythm as he The criteria: How livable? How buildable? What’s the riffs on the what and the why behind it all. curb appeal? What kind of value are you offering the “Fascinating coolness,” he says. “To figure out some- solar home buyer? The answer for Team California: a thing difficult, to imagine how to make it work, to watch tie for No. 3, right behind a “Cajun-style” home from it perform ... that’s fascinating coolness. It’s a delight. To the University of Louisiana at Lafayette—whose house be a part of a team, working on something really complex was designed to withstand a hurricane with the force of and hard. To have that flash of insight that Katrina—and a house from Rice University, built with Boundless energy: low-income community development in mind. Papa Reites at work Conceptually and design-wise, nearly all the houses entered in the competition show dramatic evolution from two years ago. Many wear their technology on their sleeve—like Virginia Tech’s Lumenhaus, with sliding metal panels and big blue dots that give it a 1960s-retro-future quality. University of Illinois constructed what is essentially a long white barn, pumped full of heavy-duty insula- tion that would get you through Midwestern winters. With its arching steel beams, University of Arizona’s Seedpod looks ready to endure the climate extremes of some distant outpost in space. Team Germany set out to surprise and provoke; they built an enormous and fierce black cube—as tall a structure as the rules allow—with every centimeter of walls and roof cov- ered in PV panels.

18 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 Kitchen conversation: Jeff Abercrombie ’10, in black, and CCA student What’s your story? pond. Water, despite receiving such Kyle Belcher guide visitors attention in the Refract House, is not a through the house. uesday the 13th is a lovely day. Indian summer, the high priority for the Solar Decathlon. trees just starting to turn from green to gold, tem- “But it’s a high priority for the state of perature in the mid-70s, the sun shining down—and California,” Anand says. some morning news that knocks the socks off the Tuesday afternoon, in the shadow of the Smithsonian CaliforniaT solar decathletes: In the Communication contest, Castle, a schoolboy walks by singing the theme song from they are the winner! The best at telling their story, whether Transformers. “Robots in disguise ... ” on the Web, the printed page, or walking visitors through A monarch butterfly flutters by. the house itself and taking the high-tech razzle-dazzle and At the Refract House, the lines continue to grow. translating it into terms that just plain folks can wrap their Professor Tim Hight, who chairs the Department of arms around. Maybe that’s why CNN asked Preet Anand Mechanical Engineering and serves as faculty advisor for to write for them during the competition. the team, stands at the exit of the house, thanking folks A San Diego native, Anand is studying engineering for visiting. Then he looks up and laughs in disbelief. physics. And while he does not serve as the head of the “They’re going through our barriers!” he says. “They’re communication team, he shows a real knack for explain- desperate to get inside.” ing thoughtfully and passionately what this team is trying to do. “We built the house to be beautiful and to have people want to live there,” Anand says, “because if your Thermal dynamics house produces 175 percent of the energy you need and nce inside, among the cool factors the visitors costs only $150,000, and its walls are so thick that the encounter is radiant tubing that both heats and temperature never changes, but no one ever enters it, you’ve cools the house. There’s an interactive energy-mon- still achieved nothing. Our motto is ‘Green living is not a itoring system that allows team members to track Ohow much energy they’re producing compromise’ because we want people to know green doesn’t mean sacrifice. Green doesn’t mean a lack of quality. You and consuming, and allows control of can have both—enjoyment and sustainability.” every aspect of the house remotely: As a special component of community outreach, the from the shutters to the water heater. team borrowed a page from the 2007 decathletes and A Mac Mini runs the whole shebang, sponsored a Sustainability Decathlon. They involved and the computer in turn can be con- seven local high schools that competed in planning and trolled via an iPhone app the team executing projects focused on economic, social, and developed. (That little number, environmental sustainability in their local communities. developed by Justin Miller ’10, in Anand took a special interest in the water system, turn caught the eye of the producers including the way the gray water flows from the washing of NPR’s All Tech Considered.) machine, sinks, and shower into a planter that filters There’s a beauty to that level of the water through sand and gravel and into the terraced control—and a danger, too, at least in garden, where many good things grow: rows of purple kale the midst of a competition like the and green chard, broccoli and cauliflower, sage and basil Solar Decathlon. When you’re trying and rosemary. Rainwater collects in the lovely landscaped to save every kilowatt-hour possible Team California: How they scored Architecture – 1st place Communications – 1st place – 2nd place while at the same time keeping the house Engineering house generates to give back to Appliances – 2nd place comfortable—and, meanwhile, the weather the grid. Which means the rules Home Entertainment – 2nd place is turning on you—then at two in the of the Solar Decathlon favor a Hot Water – 3rd place morning you can still be tinkering with the massive array. The German house— Market Viability – 3rd place controls. In the case of Team California, essentially a two-story solar plant Lighting Design – 6th place Tim Sennott ’09 and Ross Ruecker ’09 are with living space inside—would Net Metering – 12th place the ones staying up until the wee hours dominate, no question. Comfort Zone – 14th place coaxing the numbers to go their way. Cloudy skies and rain are pre- Sennott leads work on the thermal dicted from Wednesday on. It is clear systems for the house; his research for a senior design the Refract House isn’t going to be a front-runner in Net project on heating, cooling, hot water, and energy Metering. Again, it’s up to Sennott to break the bad news calculations are what drew him onto the team. He just to the team. The question is, will they be able to make up graduated in June, but in the thrilling and exhausting the points elsewhere to stay in the game? months building up to the final leg of the competition, he looked the part of the grizzled, bearded veteran. In Endgame July, it fell to him to break the bad news to the team that n a cold, drizzly Friday morning in the awards they had to start from scratch with their plans for powering tent, they get the answer. Sennott and the rest the cooling system. They had set their sights on a solar of the team have a moment in the sun when the absorption chiller, which uses the power of the sun to heat awards for engineering are announced: Functional? a chemical liquid that, in turn, cools the house. Chillers OCheck. Innovative? Check. Reliable? Check. Clear and elegant are typically used in large-scale commercial buildings, not simplicity when it comes to documentation? Check. The No. for individual residences; they’re efficient, but they’re also 2 award for engineering goes to ... Team California! OF ENERGY U.S. DEPARTMENT COURTESY complicated and typically pretty large. The team found a But the day isn’t over yet. The results of the Net startup company in Germany that could provide a chiller Metering are in. No surprise here: Team Germany takes small enough for the Refract House. The only problem first, Illinois second. With the inclement weather, Team was that the startup—which had been undergoing some California winds up 12th in this contest. reorganizational growing pains—let it be known only And now the envelope, please: For the overall winner weeks before the house was supposed to be complete in the 2009 International Solar Decathlon, Department that they wouldn’t be able to provide the chiller after all. of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman does the Sennott led crash efforts to redesign the cooling system to honors. He speaks of Wilbur and Orville Wright and be electric-powered. Engineering-wise, the redesign had a dreams of flying and a can-do American optimism. Starting fraction of the complexity that the chiller system had. And with third place, he says, “A winning spirit has guided this in reflection, Sennott says, it was much more appropriate team throughout this competition, ranking consistently in to the house; no doubt it helped in the Market Viability the top three of nearly every contest. This team excelled Contest. But it cost a few sleepless nights. in some of the most prestigious subjective contests. This In the 2009 Solar Decathlon, the contest carrying the team’s project broke out of the box and masterfully executed most points is Net Metering: how the melding of interior and exterior space, while offering a many surplus kilowatt-hours the Banner day: Construction team consistently high standard of learning experience to visitors. member Mikell Warms ’10 The team really embodies what this competition is all about ... ” Wait for it ... Yes! Team California! The crowd goes wild. And so does Team California. Awards are presented, many photos taken, TV and radio interviews and hugs given and backs slapped. Second goes to Illinois, first to Germany. Over at the Refract House, they are no lon- ger carefully guarding the energy and heat of the home they built. They are opening up every door that slides and they are turning up the THX sound system and they are dancing on the deck, leaping into the chilly pond—it can’t be

20 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 COURTESY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY U.S. DEPARTMENT COURTESY Blue skies: the Refract House on the National Mall any colder than the Pacific off the San Mateo Coast, right?— Papa Reites led another group of and they are singing along with the stereo, “If you’re going to students to Tijuana to build houses at San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair ...” Thanksgiving. As for the students, some are headed for (or Word gets out quick: There’s a party going on at the have already landed) their first jobs. Others are looking Refract House. You know the one. at grad school. During the home stretch of her undergrad It’s wet and miserable outside, but who cares? They are studies, Allison Kopf is trying to develop a program in young and exuberant and far beyond exhausted—and look sustainable engineering at SCU: connecting engineering, at what they’ve done. This house! Their home! Take off business, and science. Tim Sennott has already started work your boots! Jump in the water! Dance! here in the Bay Area. He says he hopes that future students get the chance to be involved in the Solar Decathlon—for, Epilogue indeed, Santa Clara is taking a breather from the 2011 hey built their house and they took it to the Mall. competition. The deadline for proposals is already past. They took their story to Congress, too, at a break- What about 2013? That remains to be seen. fast meeting hosted by Rep. Mike Honda with “The whole premise of the competition is really kind of him and Zoe Lofgren J.D. ’75, one-time SCU insane when you consider the inexperience of everybody Tlaw student Sam Farr—who has a house off the grid on going into it, and the time demands, and everything else,” California’s Central Coast—and staffers from other repre- Sennott acknowledges. “But really, there’s nothing else that sentatives in the house. Over in the Senate, they snapped compares as far as an educational experience.” a pic with Barbara Boxer and they talked at length with After graduation in June, Preet Anand has an interest Dianne Feinstein. And they are not done yet. in putting his engineering skills to work in mass transit. By the time you read this, the Refract House will likely “Everyone hears me talk about how I love trains,” he says. have found its next home: in downtown San Jose, right “My dream is to eventually make my hometown of San across the street from City Hall, anchoring a showcase Diego a city where I can either bike or take a train or bus to block for green living. Naturally, the mayor of Santa Clara, work and come back without driving a car.” Patricia Mahan J.D. ’80, has expressed an interest in To those who know San Diego, that seems like a tall order. the house as well. As has the U.S. Ambassador to Chile, “It is,” Anand says, not missing a beat. “But I’m a who would like to bring the Refract House to Santiago tall guy.” SCU and open it to tours. There are logistics and bureaucratic Connie Coutain and Heidi Williams contributed to this report. hoops to be worked out all around; more on that story as it develops. Web Exclusives Read, see, and hear much, much more about the Refract House at santaclaramagazine.com.

S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 21 From border security to disaster preparedness to airport screening, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano ’79 has one immense portfolio. She’s also the point person on immigration. How to put those together?

BY SCOTT BROWN ’93 Connect the dots PHOTOS BY JOANNE LEE Here is one of the moments that ing through” the thorniest issues surrounding Janet Napolitano thinks about immigration. Napolitano’s visit to SCU comes on the at night. It is a late afternoon heels of a Department of Homeland Security in October, and the secretary of announcement that it would alter how it houses homeland security is at a student detainees: For some of the 400,000 men, women, and faculty Q&A on the Mission and children in its charge, the department would campus. In a few hours, she’ll deliver begin using converted hotels and nursing homes a keynote speech kicking off the instead of jails and walled detention centers. Some, but not all, immigrants-rights advocates University’s Grand Reunion. The first welcomed the change as a significant step. person at the microphone is Xiaojing At Santa Clara, Napolitano describes compre- Dong, an assistant professor of marketing hensive immigration reform as an airplane lined at the Leavey School of Business. up on a runway, waiting to take off; it is next, “I applied for permanent residency in this after health-care reform and financial regulatory country three years ago,” Dong says. “I have reform make it through Congress. “The hope is been here ten years as a student and worker. I that when we get into the first part of 2010, we’ll have paid taxes here for ten years.” see legislation begin to move,” she says optimisti- Her speech halts and her hands tremble. She cally. “The president wants to get it done.” begins to cry. That Obama wants legislation to move may “I don’t know what’s happening. I have not be enough in 2010, of course—especially a family here,” she says. “If I don’t find out given the shift in the political landscape in about my residency in time, I’ll have to go Washington since Christmas. Comprehensive back to China. I write the immigration offices, immigration reform would be vexing in any I call them. I am a legal immigrant. I’m doing year, notes Pratheepan Gulasekaram, an immi- everything I can, but no one is helping. I don’t gration law expert who teaches at SCU’s School know what is happening.” of Law. “Everyone thinks we need comprehen- Separated from the microphone by 15 sive immigration reform,” he says, “but very few feet and a podium, Napolitano speaks to the people agree on what that means.” larger audience. “This goes to the need for For her Santa Clara audience, Napolitano immigration reform,” Napolitano says. “There illustrates what the immigration landscape has is a backlog. The denial of talent is astounding. looked like for far too long: millions of undoc- This is a country ... ” umented workers who have crossed America’s Napolitano breaks off. Policy discussions borders illegally in search of work and a better don’t have any currency here. She knows that life, with more crossing every day. Too many Dong wants action, not speeches. She steps employers willing to flout the law in order to hire away from the podium. “Do you have your cheap labor. A years-long backlog of paperwork information?” Napolitano asks her. “Do you caused by endless layers of bureaucracy. have something I can bring back with me and “As a result,” Napolitano says, “twelve million look into it?” people here illegally, living in the shadows—a Dong walks toward her, hands Napolitano source of pain and conflict.” the permanent residency papers, and gives One of those 12 million steps to the micro- a tearful handshake. “Thank you, Madame phone next—a sophomore at Santa Clara. Secretary,” she says. “Thank you.” “There are many undocumented students here Later in the evening, Napolitano will say, at SCU, and we are as hard-working as any stu- “Those are the ones I go to bed thinking dent,” she says. She is a Latina of slight build, about. The faces. The pain. That’s what I think but she is confident and she wants action. about—all the time.” “When we graduate, we are unable to get jobs Prior to fielding questions that after- in our fields. This is a tremendous waste of skill noon, Napolitano reminds the audience that and resources.” President Obama had asked her to lead the While no California or federal law bars charge for immigration reform. “It’s going to admission of undocumented students at public require some heavy lifting,” Obama said in or private colleges and universities, the students’ a June meeting with lawmakers. Napolitano, status makes them ineligible for federal finan- he said, would “start systematically work- cial aid. All but nine states, meanwhile, make

S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 23 undocumented students pay out-of-state tuition, workers, industry versus organized labor, cultural and just a handful offer them financial aid. conservatives versus social justice advocates, even Soon another student stands up and expresses different generations of immigrants against one grave concern over escalating violence in her another. Will comprehensive reform prioritize home town of El Paso, Texas. She’s on the verge visas or worker visas? Skilled or unskilled work- of tears. Border violence is a theme Napolitano ers? How to balance the tension between unduly herself brings up later: the horrendous suffering criminalizing the presence of those trying to work that drug cartels have inflicted to feed their families against the risk of blanket on Mexico in recent years— amnesty, which would provide sanctuary to those “Twelve million 6,000 drug-related homicides who have committed violent offenses or pose in 2008—and the spillover of some threat? How to support the thousands of people here illegally, crime into U.S. cities. children who have been separated from their One by one students families as a result of workplace raids? living in the shadows and professors go to the “A comprehensive approach to reform will microphone, bringing need to integrate matters of trade, development, —a source of pain Napolitano their personal labor, border security, detention, and family and conflict.” stories of worry and unification policies,” Heyer says. heartbreak. She greets them with equanimity. What becomes clear to the audience is something Napolitano has long A nation of immigrants and laws known: The immigration issue may seem Homeland Security is a dizzying amalgam of insurmountable, but it comprises millions of 22 previously discrete federal agencies. It is the smaller stories. The challenge is to connect the department paradoxically responsible for both dots in a way that makes sense—to create a preventing immigrants from entering the United picture that accounts for economics, security, States illegally and helping millions of them stay trade policy, criminal justice, and family values. under the law. Prior to coming to Santa Clara in October, Napolitano had spent the previous 10 months negotiating the department’s Byzantine Enforcement and demand structure, attempting to get all the agencies (and Kristin Heyer, an associate professor in Santa their quarter million employees) to collaborate Clara’s religious studies department, focuses on more effectively. Now Napolitano is ready to immigration issues in her scholarship and writing. present a three-pronged approach to immigra- Just months before Napolitano took the helm at tion reform that encompasses all the agencies DHS, Heyer wrote in America magazine that, in under her purview. the past decade, the United States had “tripled its “This approach demands responsibility and border agents, quintupled its budget, and tough- accountability from everyone involved: immi- ened enforcement strategies; but undocumented grants, employers, and government,” Napolitano immigration still has reached record levels.” tells her SCU audience. It will involve a com- Despite intensified enforcement, the slow flow mitment to law enforcement, including lasting of legal documentation for immigrants hasn’t resources at the borders; an improved legal process kept up with labor demand. But that only begins for family and workers, as well as improvement to hint at the complexity of the immigration pre- to worksite enforcement; and a firm-but-fair way dicament, which pits native versus foreign-born to deal with those immigrants who are already here illegally. “We must require them to register and pay all the taxes they owe, and enforce the penalties they will have to pay as part of earning legal status,” she says. “We are a nation of immi- grants and a nation of laws. Both have to be respected.” The legislative road ahead will be trying, Napolitano acknowledges.

Permanent residency limbo: Assistant Professor of Marketing Xiaojing Dong confronts delays. Napolitano offers help.

24 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 If immigration reform contains a path to legal citizenship, many members of Congress will oppose it—on the grounds that it will be a de facto amnesty that rewards lawbreakers. But there are approxi- mately 12 million undocumented immi- grants in the United States. “You can either pretend that you’ve got to somehow deport them all—but nobody who’s a serious thinker believes that can happen—or you can figure out a way by which they come out of the shadows, pay a fine for break- ing the law, learn English, pay their taxes,” Napolitano says. Her home turf: Former “It’s true that too many politicians sections editor for The ditional permanent residency. At Napolitano’s Santa Clara newspaper, get wrapped up in the day-to-day kind of October presentation, University President Napolitano takes a look fighting that substitutes for political discourse Michael Engh, S.J., remarked on the University’s at more recent student in Washington,” Napolitano says. “But I think support for the act. Some back the legislation journalism. the will is there for reform to go through. The on the grounds of social justice; others see it as American people want reform. They expect us strengthening the country’s economic future. to act, and we will.” Again and again, though, these and other It’s also true that midterm elections are proposals that address earned citizenship run looming, and immigration is a messy issue. up against a similar problem, observes David Bipartisan immigration reform has been DeCosse. He directs campus ethics programs attempted repeatedly in Congress, notably the at SCU’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, McCain-Kennedy immigration bill, originally and in conjunction with a visit by Napolitano to introduced in 2005. Officially known as the campus in 2008, he participated in a colloquium Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, it that brought together some leading Catholic would have established provisions for granting citi- thinkers on immigration. One point agreed on: zenship to illegal immigrants already in the United the mechanics of earned citizenship itself is not States. The bill stalled in Congress in 2006; a well understood by the public. Nor are recent revised version emerged the following spring— proposals similar to 1986 legislation—which may the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act still be present in the memory of many. That of 2007, which again provided a rigorous path legislation, DeCosse notes, “extended permanent toward earned citizenship. President Bush tried residency to the undocumented after only 18 to rally support for the revived bill, arguing, months of residency and on the basis of a much “This bill isn’t amnesty. For those who call it less onerous work requirement.” amnesty, they’re just trying to, in my judgment, Even if Washington doesn’t frighten people about the bill.” Frightened or enact comprehensive reform, “We are a nation not, the Senate didn’t pass it. municipalities have shown a By the end of 2009, bipartisan legislation was willingness to take matters into of immigrants in the works again. In separate, Democrat-led leg- their own hands. San Francisco’s islation, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) filed a bill in sanctuary ordinance has drawn and a nation of December that creates a path for legal citizenship. national attention; in essence, it It sets the fee for the process much lower than states that city employees will not laws. Both have previous legislation, which has led some to ques- help enforce federal immigration tion its chances for success from the outset. laws unless required to do so by to be respected.” There is also the DREAM Act—which stands law. New York, Chicago, and for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Washington, D.C., have their Minors—a piece of proposed legislation originally own versions of this legislation. Santa Clara’s introduced to Congress in 2002 that has been Gulasekaram notes that the motive isn’t ideol- denied a floor vote several times. Reintroduced ogy; it’s pragmatism. “Those cities are doing last year, the bill would provide certain undocu- that because, on a day-to-day basis, for people’s mented immigrant students who graduate from interaction, safety, and so on, harsh immigration U.S. high schools the opportunity to earn con- reform is not working.”

S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 25 Background Check: Napolitano’s Network Major shift C.V. Michael Chertoff, who preceded Napolitano in The title of Napolitano’s keynote speech at Santa overseeing Homeland Security, once compared Clara, “Homeland Security in a Networked Age,” Birthplace: New York, N.Y. his position to that of an NBA referee: “You’ll might have seemed a bit antiseptic at first glance. know I’m doing a good job,” he said, “if you But she approached it with the spirit of “We Home City: Phoenix, Ariz. never hear anyone mention my name.” are all in this together.” That applies to disaster Education: Napolitano spent her first year as secretary preparedness and responding to a pandemic. It B.A. in Political Science, largely out of the headlines, save for a time also applies to the ripple effects of drug-related Santa Clara University, 1979 in April, when DHS warned law enforce- violence thousands of miles away. “That’s affect- J.D., University of Virginia Law School, 1983 ment agencies of possibly violent “right-wing ing what’s going into your streets, not just in extremists” concerned with the election of an San Jose, but in Madison, or in Cleveland,” she Experience: African-American president and increasing tells her SCU audience. Most poignant of all, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, federal power. Napolitano’s agency pointed Napolitano says, the metaphors of network and Jan. 2009 to present to returning U.S. military vets as a target for connectivity apply to immigration reform. Governor, State of Arizona, recruitment by extremist groups. Napolitano She speaks of a “major shift” in attitudes 2003–2009 eventually apologized for the language in the toward immigration reform in recent months— Attorney General, State of report, and the issue quickly faded. unlike any she’s seen since she began dealing Arizona, 1999–2003 The Christmas Day underwear bomber put with immigration in 1993, first as a U.S. attor- U.S. Attorney, District of her back in the spotlight. A Nigerian named ney and later as Arizona’s attorney general and Arizona, 1993–1999 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly attempt- governor. She insists that progress is being made. The call: ed to detonate plastic explosives on a flight New technology is being employed, both at the Napolitano is sometimes asked, from Amsterdam to Detroit. Various branches of border and in immigration offices, where a two- “‘How was the offer made to be the Secretary of Homeland the intelligence community were aware that con- year backlog for background checks on green Security? Like did you get a let- cerns had been raised about Abdulmutallab as a card and naturalization applicants is being allevi- ter?’ Nobody gets letters any- potential terrorist, but his name did not make its ated. DHS is taking care of the demand side of more,” she told an audience at way onto the U.S. no-fly list. illegal immigration by auditing the workforces SCU. “Here’s what happened. Despite the failure of agencies to connect of more businesses in one month than had been I was the governor of Arizona. And I came home from playing existing pieces of intelligence on Abdulmutallab, checked in all of 2008. tennis on a Sunday morning Napolitano said on two Sunday-morning news It’s a beginning. Though if the audience mem- shortly after the election, and programs following the incident that “the system bers who came to hear Napolitano at Santa Clara my voicemail was beeping. I hit worked.” She told CNN’s Candy Crowley: “The left for home feeling overwhelmed at the sheer the button, and the voicemail passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate enormity of immigration reform, they could said, ‘Hi, Janet, this is Barack, give me a call, here’s the action. Within literally an hour to 90 minutes of hardly be blamed. number.’ So I wrote down the the incident occurring, all 129 flights in the air had Napolitano might have departed thinking number, and then I hit the erase been notified to take some special measures in light about smaller things: The earnest but undocu- button. And then I realized, I of what had occurred ... We instituted new mea- mented student who’d not be able to find a job. have just erased the President- sures on the ground and at screening areas, both The Texas native whose border community was Elect of the United States of America. I was not sure that here in the United States and in Europe.” being torn apart by drug lords. The professor in was a good move.” A day later, Napolitano appeared uncharac- desperate need of permanent residency—whose teristically flummoxed; she said her words had papers she carried in her hands. been taken out of context and told Today Show As her car exited the campus, Napolitano host Matt Lauer that the comment referred to the rode past nearly 1,000 noisy but peaceful pro- reaction in the 60 to 90 minutes after the suspect testers who stood four deep for blocks. They attempted to blow up the plane. Lauer pressed: carried candles and signs written in English Up until that point, did the system fail miserably? and Spanish reading “Keep Our Families “It did,” Napolitano said. Together,” “Reform Not Raids,” and “Justice “We are As President Obama put it, “our intelligence For Immigrants.” Horns honked, lights flashed. community failed to connect those dots.” That It was a crowd made up of individual faces, all in this was not to lay blame at the doorstep of DHS. each belonging to a person with their own together.” Even so, it was also a stark reminder of the other story—though all connected. SCU items in Napolitano’s broad portfolio: Immigration Justin Gerdes contributed to this report. reform may still be one of the planes lined up on the runway in 2010, but weather, accident, or Web terrorist incident—even a U.S. Senate seat elec- Exclusives tion in Massachusetts—can alter flight plans. Listen to Napolitano’s talk and the Q&A at santaclaramagazine.com.

26 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 A busy day When Janet Napolitano arrived at SCU on Oct. 15, she had already had a busy day: After a morning briefing in Washington, D.C., she flew with President Obama to New Orleans to meet with victims of Hurricane Katrina. Napolitano then flew to the Bay Area on Air Force One, and on the ground she was flanked by Secret Service and a police escort. She hosted a student and faculty Q&A, with one of her former political science professors, Eric Hanson (below, left), in the audience. The conversation was informal and unguarded—her comportment casual, her demeanor unvarnished. She leavened the serious subject matter with bursts of irreverence.

Napolitano confided to SCU students that she was heading to her 30-year reunion, where her classmates would be “stunned to learn that I haven’t aged at all.” In the Adobe Lodge, she was met by familiar faces, many of which she’d not seen for three decades. Leaving her security detail behind, she charged enthusiastically into the room, where she was awash in affection, posing for photos arm in arm with old friends, including Kimarie Reasons Manfre ’79 (right) and Kristen Clause Zissler ’79. Then she was on to the keynote speech at the Mayer Theatre (far right), where another of her former political science professors, Janet Flammang, moderated the Q&A. SB

S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 27 This Place

Generations ago, Native Americans We in the Bay Area lost their land—and the land lost them. But that is hardly the Call end of the story. Home

Before the Europeans’ arrival: A day in the life of an Ohlone village

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hrough the California town of Hollister, and down 15 minutes of rolling back roads, plus another 10 minutes to the end of a dirt trail, lies Indian Canyon. It’s there, on her great-grandfather’s home site, that Ann-Marie Sayers built the cabin where she lives today—after years of battling the federal government for the land, which she claimed through the Indian Allotment Act of 1887. On a bright afternoon in March, Sayers is giving a man who wants to experience the canyon’s sweat lodge a piece of her mind. She makes clear that it’s not open to the merely curious. Eventually, he leaves. She tells me that she’s sorry if she seemed harsh, but she wants people to realize that the sweat lodge is a form of worship. During the next two hours, three visitors stop in on their way to the 4:00 p.m. sweat lodge ceremony, and Sayers answers the phone twice, talking to someone about a medicine man and an upcoming storytelling festival. She bends down to write the names Yellowbird and Red Thunder on her industrial-size calendar. Sayers wears faded jeans, a matching denim jacket, and white sneakers, her silvery hair pulled back in a gleaming bun. On the staircase behind her hang animal skins, feathers, and abalone shells, while on the back wall is the sun-bleached skull of a buffalo strung with necklaces. She is constantly gesturing or playing with a purple cigarette lighter, with hands that always seem to itch for activity and a mind that is equally as restless. Along with her brother and her daughter, Kanyon, Sayers is a member of a group known as the Costanoan Ohlone. And there’s a problem nagging at her. “The majority of people,” Sayers says, eyebrows arched, “think all California Indians are dead.” They’re not. But Sayers—and most Native Americans in the Bay Area who call this place home—share a predicament: As far as the federal government is concerned, they are not members of a recognized tribe. Currently, federal recognition is accorded to 564 Indian tribes across the country. This gives the tribes a government-to-government relationship with the United States, at least in theory. The status entitles them to funding and services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), with access to Indian health care, education grants, and land management. In the Bay Area, only the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria in Sonoma and Marin counties, representing a confederation of the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo peoples, have regained their sovereign status. But a number of local American Indian groups are laboring to reclaim their sovereign status in the eyes of the U.S. government, including at least nine groups of Ohlone. For the past eight years, the 450-member Muwekma Ohlone tribe has been slogging through the courts; and with court rulings going in their favor, they’re close to achieving federal recognition. Chuck Striplen is a member of the local Mutsun Ohlone. Words like entitle and recognition can make tribe members bristle, he says. If one is using language that addresses more honestly what’s at stake, then he speaks of restoring a trust relationship. It’s a term that carries a number of meanings in this context: integrity and commitment, but also custodianship of land. As for that relationship for the Ohlone, it’s been a long road back. ILLUSTRATION BY ANN ELIZABETH THIERMANN, COURTESY OF THE SANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL OF THE SANTA BY ANN ELIZABETH THIERMANN, COURTESY ILLUSTRATION

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A brief history so the Indians here didn’t look Indian enough.” of tribal extinction It wasn’t long before the visiting anthropologists Malcolm Margolin, founder of Heyday Books in declared the tribes of the Bay Area “extinct as Berkeley, is a publisher who has long focused on far as all practical purposes are concerned,” the history and culture of California’s American as anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber described Indians. More than a quarter century ago he wrote the Ohlone in his 1924 Handbook of Indians The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco of California. and Monterey Bay Area. That book was lauded The Bureau of Indian Affairs played a pivotal by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the top role—in particular, an administrator by the name of nonfiction books of the century. With a flowing Lafayette Dorrington. In 1927, he assessed that there white beard and twinkling eyes, Margolin strikes were more than 100 tribes or “bands” of Indians those schooled in California’s who, while possessing no land, didn’t need it. literary history as a latter- “Dorrington’s approach was simply the day Joaquin Miller, the application in the realm of public policy of 19th-century “Poet of the Kroeber’s anthropology,” says historian Senkewicz. Sierras.” (Not coincidentally, “If most Bay Area Indian tribes no longer existed Heyday has reissued some in any practical sense, then there was no reason of Miller’s works.) Heyday for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to concern itself and Santa Clara University about whether or not they had any land.” collaborate on the California The results of that assessment are still being Legacy Project, with SCU acutely felt by the Bay Area Indian population English Department Chair today. Tribes that are not recognized by the Terry Beers directing work federal government are denied access to billions at SCU. The effort has of federal dollars and to special employment yielded more than 40 titles, opportunities, such as within the BIA. It hampers ranging from new editions economic development, since they are not allowed of California literary classics to participate in the state-tribal trust land to landmark anthologies program, which was established to compensate CASSE CROWE / COURTESY ANN-MARIE SAYERS ANN-MARIE COURTESY / CROWE CASSE such as Califauna: A Literary tribes for the land the federal government took Field Guide, edited by Beers from them between 1887 and 1934. That means Indian Canyon and Emily Elrod ’05, and Lands of Promise and not only no casinos, but in California, it also at the turn of the means the tribes do not benefit from the Indian 20th century: Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535–1846, by historians and SCU faculty Rose Marie Beebe Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund, which was Ann-Marie Sayers’ established to help support nongaming tribes. great grandmother and Robert M. Senkewicz. is fourth from left. More than 20 years ago, Margolin also Because excluded tribes are not seen as sovereign launched the quarterly journal News from Native entities with the authority to make and enforce California. When Margolin is asked why he thinks laws, U.S. federal agencies have no obligation to the Bay Area’s American Indian tribes do not have consult with such tribes when making decisions the federal recognition they so desperately desire, that could affect native land, communities, or he offers a history lesson. “In the early part of the historic and cultural preservation. For example, 20th century, tribes were being recognized and the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology given rights,” he explains. “Anthropologists and at the University of California, Berkeley, houses scholars were called in to sort it out.” a much disputed collection: a large number of At one time in California alone, more than American Indian remains, the majority of which are 100 different languages were spoken by scores undoubtedly Costanoan Ohlone. Ann-Marie Sayers of individual tribes of native peoples. The and other Ohlone leaders want to claim these anthropologists who found themselves in the remains and provide them with a long- overdue Bay Area had a rude shock when they saw that burial ceremony; the Amah Mutsun are currently the American Indians living here did not fit their negotiating a so-called disposition agreement with scholarly definition of tribe or territory. It was then the museum, which may lead to the return of some that the anthropologists set about deciding which of remains. “It just can’t be called ‘repatriation,’” those tribes had living cultures and which did not. Chuck Striplen says, “nor can the remains be “Indian-ness was judged on how closely tribes officially ‘culturally affiliated.’” kept to old ways,” Margolin says. “For people In the 27 years that Sayers has been involved in in the Bay Area, land had been settled and the protection of native culture throughout the Bay missionized, and people had been acculturated, Area, she has developed a fairly dour assessment of

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“The majority of people, think all California Indians are dead.” Indian Canyon 2010: Ann-Marie Sayers at home

S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 31 the systems and attitudes that frequently discount urban grandparents. And then you’re going to native rights. tell me you’re Indian? You ain’t going to make me “Bullshit,” she says firmly. And she claims that believe it. Because you can’t even prove it.” she is a woman who never swears. “I cannot think The importance of tribes and traditions cannot, of anything more important than making sure a in Lotches’ mind, be underestimated. “If your belief and a culture is honored,” she asserts. grandmother taught you here, it’s not right,” Lotches states firmly. Every Indian, he says, has a cultural obligation to go back to his or her original An outsider’s reservation and see how things are really done, ultimatum instead of taking the word of urban relatives. In What’s even more important, according to Dally Lotches’ mind, when it comes to culture, it’s an all- Lotches, is remedying the deplorable state of or-nothing mentality: It’s better not to do anything California Indian traditions today. In San Jose’s at all than to go about it the wrong way. Riverside Mobile Home Park, unit No. 65, Lotches is munching on a piece of homemade fry bread and holding a dark blue mug bearing Lay of the land the Klamath Indian Reservation insignia. From the varied perspectives of American Indians, He wears a light gray long-sleeved shirt land is not just a set of geographical boundaries. and a pair of black gloves over hands that “Traditional culture was land-based culture,” says still suffer from the frostbite he got while Malcolm Margolin. “Religion was a land-based fighting in the Korean War. religion. The gods resided in particular rocks and A member of the Modoc tribe, Lotches mountains and creeks. The place of creation was was born on a reservation in southern a place within your own territory. The land had Oregon. He was raised with seemingly such an emotional hold on people. When you take everything that Bay Area tribes like the that away, you rob the culture of a large part of Ohlone must do without: the medical and its soul. Aside from practicalities, there’s a kind of monetary services available to a federally spiritual and moral dimension to land ownership.” recognized tribe, a reservation, and a rich Jarrid Whitney, senior associate dean of pool of local wisdom and culture to draw admissions at SCU, can testify to the importance from. At 81 years old, Lotches can ramble of federal recognition and land ownership. A on for hours. His wife, Lorraine, will member of the Cayuga Nation, part of the often interrupt him and try to redirect his Iroquois Confederacy, Whitney grew up in New thoughts. He’ll pause for a moment, then York State and spent time on his tribe’s reservation continue on with a story, perhaps about in Canada. He has recently returned from a trip how he watched his grandmother make home to his reservation, where he traveled to a canoe out of a log—burn, chip, burn, renew his tribal membership. chip—and how she instructed him in how “I did not grow up on my reservation, but my to smoke-tan deer hides, do beadwork, mom made sure I went back a lot for different Inside Varsi Hall: and make baskets, and how she taught him about customs and celebrations and traditions growing Jarrid Whitney, senior geography and animals during long hikes in the up,” Whitney says. “I would probably have lost a associate dean of Cascade Mountains. lot more of my cultural affiliation if I didn’t have admissions at SCU More than 20,000 American Indians live in that land base or at least a specific place where my and a member of the Santa Clara Valley. But in present-day San Jose, people are from.” the Cayuga Nation Lotches does not see the resources that he grew up Over the years, Whitney has worked at with and treasured: There’s no support in terms of institutions including Dartmouth and Stanford, programs and funding, and no hills for tribes to where one of his main roles was the recruitment call their own. Instead, he sees the cultural decay of of American Indian undergraduates. Coming from Indian traditions. It’s not enough for today’s young a native background, he understood acutely how Indian people to be doing beadwork, he says; they underrepresented American Indians are in higher have to be doing it right. education. Along with his work at Santa Clara, As he’s discoursing on this theme, Lotches Whitney is a board member of College Horizons, raises his voice angrily, his eyes wide. It’s clear a summer program focused on preparing high he’s speaking to an imaginary assembly of local school Native American students for college. Indians. “You talk about your spiritual this, When he moved to California in 1998, spiritual that. What are you lying about? You just Whitney couldn’t help but notice the struggles of say it because it’s been handed down from your local native groups—and what he calls the heroic

32 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 A California Indian welcoming committee: From front, Rico Miranda (Rumsien Ohlone), Frankie Running Fox Gonzales efforts of native leadership to rectify the situation (Pomo), and Chuck Striplen of land ownership and tribal recognition. “It’s INC. & ASSOCIATES, PERRY DAVID (Mutsun Ohlone) certainly very disturbing,” he admits. “It’s got to be frustrating for those people who have worked hard to keep together as a community, yet don’t have the respect from the federal or state governments of their natural rights to their land base.” Whitney’s own tribe, while originally from New York, has been dispersed into Canada and throughout the United States, and the tribe no longer has ownership of any New York state land. Building boats “As you lose your original and historical land Chuck Striplen is at home on the water. On staff for the base, you lose a piece of your culture,” Whitney San Francisco Estuary Institute, he studies and helps preserve the ecology of says. “So much of our dance and our customs and area watersheds. As a Mutsun Ohlone, he also builds: boats woven from tule rushes, just as generations of Ohlone did before. our traditions are attached to where we’re from. But to learn how to make the boats, Striplen and other Ohlone had to It’s hard to participate in those functions and recover the knowledge by looking at specimens in museums. Along with programs if you don’t have legal rights to your being dispossessed of the land—what Striplen calls “the first social justice own traditional lands. As a native person, you issue, if not the most visible”—other threads of identity were taken too. But always want to go home, but when that home is not lost completely. “True, we no longer have title to any of our territory—but it’s still there. We’re no longer there, you lose a piece of yourself.” still here,” Striplen says. “Our culture will always be alive, as long as we are.” KC When asked what it means for Bay Area Indians who want to return to reservations and learn about their culture from the source, she also sees those struggles yield results. Sayers Malcolm Margolin is succinct: “They’re screwed.” has opened the land of Indian Canyon as a Living However, he says, culture can certainly be kept Indian Heritage Area, making it available to all alive in other ways. indigenous people in need of land for ceremony. “Land is important, and land is essential Indian Canyon receives upward of 6,000 visitors to Indian thinking, but they belong to a very a year from around the world, including Aborigines ingenious culture. As crippling as the loss of from Australia, Maori from New Zealand, and land may be, they have found ways around it,” indigenous peoples from South America and Margolin says. “You have a lot of the Ohlone Alaska. Another couple thousand annual visitors are people relearning languages and relearning some of students of Indian history from local colleges and the skills—the basket weaving and boat building universities. And each year Indian Canyon holds are important for carrying forward beliefs—and major ceremonial events for local Native Americans, learning some of the lore. Keeping culture alive including the California Indian Bear Dance and is not just an Indian problem—it’s a problem a storytelling gathering. In terms of Costanoan of every ethnic group. What Indians have been Ohlone, Sayers estimates that about 200 from the robbed of is place, and it’s ironic that they’re living Bay Area come to Indian Canyon on a regular basis. in the place where they are no longer recognized. From the peaceful, leafy canyon in which her But culture is kept alive in peculiar ways. I think cabin sits, Sayers looks out on the wider world and that there’s been a spectacular cultural revival in sees a revitalization taking place: organizations and the Bay Area.” tribes engaged in preserving and bringing to life Chuck Striplen concurs with Margolin on the their languages, stories, songs, and ancestral lands. revival. But, he says, “Our culture will always be Indigenous ceremonies are being revived. Tribes alive, as long as we are and claim it.” And it’s up to continue to push to regain a trust relationship the disparate, living members of the tribe to define it. with the government—with the near-success of the Muwekma Ohlone offering encouragement. Strength in The Indians in California are alive and well, numbers their practices intact, Sayers says. “Their spirit is waking up.” SCU For Ann-Marie Sayers, the situation appears Jeannine Gendar contributed to this report. challenging but not dire. “There are a number of Native Americans who get caught up in the linear Web thinking of our society and the struggle to survive, Exclusives and [with the fact] that it’s difficult to connect with Find out more about Indian Canyon, an upcoming exhibit of Native American work at the de Saisset their culture on a ceremonial basis,” she says. But Museum, and more at santaclaramagazine.com.

S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 33 BRONCO PROFILES Claudia Pruett ’83, MBA ’87 Breaking bread For Claudia Pruett, it’s a family affair wrapped in love and tradition—including 50 years of serving lasagna to SCU econ majors by her parents, Rose and Mario Belotti.

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he focaccia recipe that opens about the lost art of cooking and eating Claudia Pruett’s foray into together. Honestly, I understand that’s the world of cookbooks is hard to do on a regular basis. There are Ta family favorite. The prep demands in society that can slowly take time for this rustic Italian flatbread and control of your life. I have been guilty humble cousin of pizza is five minutes, of giving in to those demands.” and the recipe is simple enough for a That said, Pruett grew up in a child to lend a hand—at least when food-centric Italian household and has it comes to spreading the dough in worked as a chef professionally. Her the pan. After all, the book is called mother, Rose Belotti, held down a Cooking Dinner: Simple Italian Family career as a medical technologist while Recipes Everyone Can Make. As for the raising three children. Pruett and her focaccia recipe—it serves 16. Enough siblings—along with her father, SCU for a big family, plus perhaps a few Professor Emeritus of Economics Mario friends, to break bread. Belotti—helped prepare school lunches “The book is much more than a and dinners. And as the recipe for collection of recipes,” Pruett says. “It’s Chicken Cutlet Milanese in Cooking

Taste of home: Claudia Pruett in the kitchen with parents Mario and Rose Belotti.

34 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 CHARLES BARRY Dinner notes, young Claudia helped her almost 50 years mother by pounding the chicken and of economics soaking it in a mixture of egg, milk, salt, parties. Let’s see, and pepper. how many trays Now Pruett is a mother herself. of lasagna would She and husband Greg ’82 have that be?” two kids in college and one in high Though school. Pruett affectionately refers to Professor Belotti the cookbook as her fourth child. It no longer serves as took two years from start to finish chair, the dinners and was published by Hawaii-based continue. “He just Mega Productions last year. For the doesn’t slow down,” CLAUDIA PRUETT COURTESY project she collaborated with friend Pruett says. Homegirl Café: Rima Barkett gives a lesson in L.A. and cooking partner Rima Barkett, a As for Belotti, he makes sure to give fellow Italian and a former restaurant credit where it is due. “Rose fixes all Green pea therapy owner who often turned to chef Pruett the food for all of them,” he says. Reaching kids who need it for help in the busy kitchen. “We Pruett adds, “He always wanted my always wanted to write a cookbook,” mother to write a cookbook.” Through their A Tavola Together Foundation, Pruett says. “We knew that customers One of the dishes that Rose Belotti a nonprofit organization that promotes wanted the recipes.” healthy cooking and eating to school- is famous for is Chicken Saratoga, age children, partners Claudia Pruett named after the town where the family and Rima Barkett teach students how to Quantity theory of lasagna makes its home. Alas, incorporate life skills as they share basic Decades of Santa you won’t find the recipe cooking instructions. With the program Clara students have in Cooking Dinner. It’s a the foundation launched, Kids Can Cook already savored secret so treasured that it 2, Pruett and Barkett visit classrooms and some of the foods of is written in the family serve community youth associations and Pruett’s childhood. will. But on page 153 children’s homes in the Stockton area. Mario Belotti began “Foster kids are in and out, and you “It’s about sitting there is an adaptation never know what their situation is,” Pruett teaching at Santa and eating together. that goes by the name says. “We spend a few hours with them, Clara in 1959 and Honestly, I understand Chicken Madeira. and they get to cook, and they have so served from 1962 much fun. It’s someone paying attention that’s hard to do on a to 1984 as chair “Start with science.” to them—someone other than a counselor of the economics regular basis, that there Mario Belotti was or a social worker.” department and are demands in society Pruett and Barkett also teach quarterly born into a family of cooking classes at Homegirl Café in Los from 1988 to that slowly take control sharecroppers in the 1996 as director Angeles. The café is an outgrowth of of your life. I have been Italian Province of Homeboy Industries, which is directed of SCU’s Food Bergamo, near Milan. by Greg Boyle, S.J., and offers positive and Agribusiness guilty of giving in to those demands.” Rose hails from Savona, alternatives for gang members and at-risk Institute. For decades close to Genoa. They met youth. Homegirl provides a training now, the family has on the boat taking them ground dedicated to young women and hosted a summertime to the United States. girls in all aspects of the restaurant and service industry. The 86-seat eatery is dinner party in their Saratoga home “My dad had no money,” Pruett for graduating students of economics. open to the public for breakfast, lunch, says. “He even got put in jail for three and dinner, and tends its own organic Merilee McCambridge Amos ’69, days on Ellis Island because he didn’t one of Belotti’s first students—and garden to supply fresh vegetables and realize he had to have money for a herbs for the café. one of very few women econ majors in return ticket home. And so he had For the kick-off cooking session, those days—reminisces about the time to call his sponsor in Texas, and she Pruett taught the girls how to make she and two of her fellow students had to wire him money.” She pauses. Fettuccine Alfredo, chicken cutlets, and enjoyed their first dining experience sauteed peas. “I even got one of them to “Nothing but pennies in his pocket, with the Belottis. “The meal included try peas—which she said she hated—and determination, and a dream.” Rose’s unbelievable cuisine. Everything now she likes them!” Pruett says. On the Today, the family owns an apartment came from the garden, as all the menu for Pruett’s second lesson: risotto, within a villa in the northern lake vegetables and fruit still do, as well scampi, and Caesar salad. DLV region, at Lago Maggiore, to which they as the grapes for Mario’s outstanding retreat every summer. homemade wine.” As she raises her own family, Pruett “Every econ major has eaten my has tried to instill the virtues of good mother’s lasagna,” Pruett says. “That’s food and good wine that she learned

S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 35 CHARLES BARRY Nonno’s polenta cake From Cooking Dinner: Simple Italian Family Recipes Everyone Can Make (Mega Productions, 2009) MICHAEL COLLOPY Prep Time: 20 Minutes • Cook Time: 60 minutes • Serves: 12

Also known as Amor di Polenta, this recipe is named for all grandfathers who appreciate a great dessert and specifically for Claudia’s father, Mario, who is from the town of Bergamo, , where this recipe originated. It is very simple to prepare, and the hint of lemon makes it a refreshing dessert. Serve by itself or with a dollop of whipped cream and fresh berries. 1 cup butter (2 sticks) room temperature 2½ cups powdered sugar, sifted before measuring 3 large eggs Zest of one lemon 1¼ cups cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon sea salt 1/3 cup cornmeal, fine grind Additional powdered sugar Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour a 10 x 4-inch loaf pan. Beat butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer for several minutes until fluffy. Slowly add the sugar. Beat for several minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in lemon zest. Meanwhile, stir together flour, baking powder, salt, and cornmeal in a mixing bowl. Add to creamed butter and sugar. Mix on low speed until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 50 to 60 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Transfer cake to a rack to cool. With a knife, cut around pan sides to loosen it, then turn out. Remove from pan and dust with powdered sugar.

at home—pleasures not only for their Plus, “cooking has a lot to do with The publication of Cooking Dinner own sake, but for the fellowship and science—and teaching. I actually has filled Claudia Pruett’s calendar conversation that go along with them. combined the traits of my parents. with book signings, television talk At Santa Clara, Pruett completed My mother was always feeding people shows, and cooking demonstrations. an undergraduate degree in combined and delivering food and making sure She and Barkett launched the A sciences and biochemistry—with her everyone was taken care of.” Tavola Together Foundation to dis- father’s encouragement. “My dad was seminate their philosophy that the very smart about life planning. He A simple mix kitchen is a wonderful place to teach knew I liked science in high school For the past 20 years, Claudia and life-long skills, give children a sense and he said, ‘So start with science. You Greg Pruett have lived in Stockton, of accomplishment, and allow them can always plan for an MBA later.’” where he is president of Vaquero to develop a sense of responsibility. After graduating, Pruett served in Farms Inc. The company grows But she still made time this past the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Seattle, tomatoes and owns a processing plant October to fly to Italy to run in the where she worked with elderly people, that provides tomato paste and diced Venice Marathon. visiting them regularly and making tomatoes to companies that make With one cookbook under her belt, sure they were getting the help and tomato sauce, salsa, frozen pizza, and she has plans for more—plus a chil- good food they needed. “It was like other tomato-based products. Now dren’s story, “‘Anna Bakes Cupcakes,’ having a hundred grandparents,” she Claudia has her own product available about a girl and her grandmother says. Then for a time she worked for purchase as well: a private-label baking together.” She’s already made in marketing for a bank. “But I’ve focaccia mix, for those who want a numerous television and radio appear- always cooked, and I’ve always given little help with prep. ances—but she’s not against more cooking lessons on the side,” she says. where that’s concerned. SCU

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Touchdown: INSIDE Hall Haynes ’50 loses his helmet but 38 CLASS NOTES reaches the end zone to put the Broncos 39 BRONCO NEWS: up by six. FROM THE SCU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 41 SWEET VICTORY: THE BRONCO ORANGE Orange Bowl upset BOWL TROPHY TURNS 60 42 LIVES JOINED The 1950 Orange Bowl was a mismatch for the ages: 43 BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS a little school from the West Coast up against Bear Bryant’s Kentucky Wildcats for college football’s top trophy. The Broncos 44 IN PRINT: NEW BOOKS still wore leather helmets. They still played a single squad—same BY ALUMNI men on offense and defense. The Wildcats had the power, the 45 ALUMNI IN THE NEWS gear, and the two-team strategy going for them. For Santa Clara, 46 OBITUARIES victory never tasted so sweet. Read the full story on page 41. 47 IN MEMORIAM: ERICKA CHAMBERS NORMAN J.D. ’97 48 ALUMNI EVENTS CALENDAR S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 37 ClassNotes

UNDERGRADUATE leads several English-language 1970 Reunion Leadership and Devotion to conversation groups in Verviers, OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 Baseball” in 2009. The former in eastern Belgium, where he high school, college, and minor 1950 Reunion and his wife, Kate McNally, live. Larry Bogner ’73, league manager and coach OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 1973 MBA ’77 reports that he helped lead Canon/McMillan 1965 Reunion recently retired after more than High School in Pennsylvania 1952 Elio L. Martin and OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 30 years as a civil engineer, the to the 4A State Baseball his wife, Barbara, daughter last 16 at Napa County’s Public Championship last year. of former SCU basketball Robert Barengo has Works Department. 1969 1979 Kathleen King is coach Ray S. Pesco ’33, been elevated from Nevada serving as mayor of the city of have three children. They have Tax Commissioner to the 1974 John Stege joined Saratoga this year. She and her three grandchildren: Lauren position of Chairman of the Global Trust Bank in Mountain husband have lived in Saratoga Urrutia ’09; Jamie, enrolled at Nevada Tax Commission. View as vice president, for 18 years and have five St. Mary’s College; and Ricky, Barengo is an attorney in Business Development, in children. Kathleen is also the enrolled at Loyola Marymount Reno, Nev., and is a former June 2009. He and his wife, executive director of the Santa University. Speaker of the Nevada State Laura, just finished the San Clara Family Health Foundation. Assembly. His record of public Jose Rock and Roll Half Marathon on October 4. He 1955 Reunion service in Nevada includes also is the drummer for The 1980 Reunion OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 serving on the Nevada Tax OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 Commission since 2003, Sparkletones, a ’50s rock ’n’ serving as a member of the roll revival band. The couple 1960 Reunion Kirk M. Sanfilippo Nevada Insurance Commission lives in Aptos, Calif. 1981 OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 has been serving as the chief (1996–2003), serving in the of Harbor Police for the San Nevada Assembly (1972– 1975 Reunion 1961 Daniel C. Flynn OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 Diego Unified Port District 1982), and serving as a is doing volunteer French- since 2003. He and his wife, member of the City of Reno to-English translation and Jody, are thrilled to have Financial Advisory Board Ken Barna was honored English-language training for retired in January 2010 and (1998–1991). nationally by the American medical staff at Medecins Sans Baseball Coaches Association moved to Oregon. Frontières (Doctors Without for “A Quarter Century of Borders) Brussels. He also

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FROM THE SCU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION A bit like coming home Talk about a grand reunion

rom Oct. 15 to 18, the University welcomed back more than 2,000 Broncos, friends, and family to F CHARLES BARRY the Mission campus for a very successful 2009 Homecoming and Grand Reunion Weekend. For four full days, alumni attended class parties, academic programs, a 5K Bronco run, the homecoming picnic, dorm tours, a golf tournament, networking opportunities, and more. As I participated in and witnessed all the joy, celebration, excitement, and enthusiasm this kind of weekend brings, I found myself singing a few lines by New Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi: told me how great it was to be home The American poet Margaret Elizabeth It doesn’t matter where you are, and how wonderful it felt—physically, Sangster once said, “There is nothing half it doesn’t matter where you go emotionally, spiritually—to be back on the so pleasant as coming home again.” With campus. As Laura Townsend ’74 said that in mind, I encourage you—no matter If it’s a million miles away or just at her 35th Reunion Class Party, “There is how near or far you live—to visit SCU some a mile up the road something about Santa Clara that you just time soon. Come back for your reunion, Take it in, take it with you when you go. have to be here to understand.” attend a theater production, a basketball Who says you can’t go home? Many colleges hold special meaning game, Mass, a career fair, visit a current for their alumni—but I do think there is coed, or encourage a prospective Bronco. You can, and you did! The big weekend something unique about Santa Clara. Our The students may look younger, the faculty kicked off with the President’s Speaker institution is host to many wonderful and older, and the buildings different—but Series, featuring Janet meaningful buildings on our once you set foot on the grounds, you will Napolitano ’79, current beautiful campus, including the certainly be inspired as you remember, secretary of the U.S. “It’s an honor to be Mission Church, Swig Hall, the reconnect, and renew your relationship Department of Homeland back at Santa Clara, Benson Center, the Louis B. with a place “you just have to be here to Security. In her opening where I enjoyed my Mayer Theatre, and the new understand.” remarks, Napolitano stated, time as a student, Harrington Learning Commons, Who says you can’t go home? “It’s an honor to be back at where I have visited Sobrato Technology Center, and Santa Clara, where I enjoyed as an alumna and Orradre Library. But it is Santa my time as a student, where I now as a guest Clara University collectively that Go Broncos, have visited as an alumna and speaker. It always is considered home to so now as a guest speaker—all feels a little bit like many who lived and studied in different stages of my coming home.” within her walls. The residence life. It always feels a little bit JANET NAPOLITANO ’79 halls, the classrooms, the like coming home.” While Kathryn Kale ’86 classmates, the teachers, Secretary Napolitano was Executive Director the roses, the wisteria, the memories, here, rumor has it that she veered off her CHARLES BARRY Alumni Association the experiences, the pride, the affection, Secret Service–approved itinerary so she the connection—all serve to make our could visit the Mission Church! University a place where our alumni Over the rest of the Homecoming and feel peaceful, welcome, energized, and Grand Reunion Weekend, countless alumni nourished.

S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 39 1983 Larry Crema and his wife, Jenner, are new business owners/operators of Pump It Up, a children’s party venue, in Morgan Hill. They have two children: Kinsey, 9, and Keaton, 5. They live in Campbell, Calif.

1984 Kevin Dowling is a candidate for Alameda County Supervisor in June 2010. He is a lifelong Alameda County resident and has served on the Hayward City Council for 11 years.

1985 Reunion In the Winter 2009 issue of this magazine, Catherine Horan-Walker ’69 made a simple heart-felt appeal to all Broncos: “SCU OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 needs YOU.” (And a few of you wrote letters in reply; see them, along with her response, on page 3.) You’ve heard the call, and now is the time to saddle up and grab the reins. We’re on our way to our target goal—7,500 alumni donors by June. Are you 1989 Charm (Barber) going to be one? Hartland is a senior manager, Strategic Planning & Operations, Cisco Systems, medical marijuana registration. 1995 Reunion to Tucson, Ariz., during the and just celebrated her 16th Meanwhile, Kevin’s musical OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 summer, she now works as the anniversary with the company. alter ego, Doctor Sparkles, communications coordinator She lives in San Jose with is currently recording his for a nonprofit human rights third album. 2000 Reunion organization called Border husband Andrew and sons OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 Connor and Tyler. Action Network. 1992 Michael R. Johnson ’92, M.A. ’93 has been hired 2003 Daniel J. Pinna TJ Leising, an 1990 Reunion 2009 OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 as the new middle school is the vice president of honors graduate in mechanical principal at Escuela Campo business development at engineering, competed Alegre, an international school BlackStone Discovery, an in 2009’s Summer World Kevin Baiko has 1991 in Caracas, Venezuela. He eDiscovery partner to many University Games in tae kwon just started up the Big Island will be moving to Caracas of the International IP law do in Belgrade. Mobile Clinic, a medical clinic in August 2010 along with firms located in Palo Alto. on wheels primarily serving his wife Christina, daughter He just recently purchased Hawaii’s Big Island uninsured 2010 Reunion Danielle, 9, and son Derek, a new construction home in OCTOBER 7–10, 2010 residents. Services include 6. Mike is currently assistant San Jose. outpatient conventional and principal at Carmichael Middle alternative care and feature School in Richland, Wash. 2004 Mike Brownlee joined the law firm Fisher, Rushmer, Werrenrath, Dickson, GRADUATE Talley and Dunlap in Orlando, Fla., as an associate in October 2009. He will focus his practice 1975 Michael Canning on civil litigation, insurance- MBA has joined Multigig in related matters, professional Scotts Valley, Calif., as chief malpractice defense, and executive officer. Canning was appellate law. president and chief executive officer of SiRF Technology. 2005 Reunion OCTOBER 14–17, 2010 James J. Egan J.D. was recently appointed chief operating officer of Veronica Lowman 2006 Sucampo Pharmaceuticals was recently promoted to the Inc. He joins Sucampo from rank of captain in the U.S. ESBATech AG, a privately held Army. She is currently stationed biotech company in Zurich, at the Presidio in Monterey. Switzerland, where he was chief business officer with 2007 Hilary A. Tone responsibility for corporate graduated from the University and financing strategies of Southern California with a and corporate strategic master’s in public diplomacy planning. Prior to joining in May 2009. After relocating

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hoisted Coach Len “Cas” Casanova Sweet victory ’27 onto their shoulders and into Santa Clara history. The Bronco Orange Bowl trophy turns 60 His brilliance that day was as much about conditioning as anything. The father By Dan Coonan and Sam Scott ’96 of one of his coaches ran greyhounds in Florida and knew that out-of-state dogs raced better in the heat if their training was ou didn’t need to be an expert down $265,000 on them. “It should have scaled back before the race. He shared to pick the favorite in the 1950 been a walkover,” he said. that insight with Cas, who kept practices Orange Bowl. The disparity It wasn’t. It was one of the greatest Y light. By contrast, Kentucky spent several between the Broncos from Santa Clara upsets in college football history: Santa weeks drilling. As the game ground on, the and the Wildcats of Kentucky was literally Clara triumphed 21–13 in a game that difference was obvious. as obvious as the hats on their heads. stunned the 64,000 fans and turned the Casanova’s players loved him. When Broncos into national heroes. The train ride Earl Warren, the governor of California and back, needless to say, was nothing like the later U.S. Supreme Court justice, joined one there. “It was a party from Miami to the 10,000 fans who greeted the returning the Bay Area,” says Len Napolitano ’51, Broncos, team captain Hall Haynes ’50 a quarterback who went on to become broke up the crowd. “Having Governor dean of the University of New Mexico Warren here kind of puts us on the spot. We School of Medicine (and father to Janet were thinking of running Cas for Governor.” Napolitano ’79, the U.S. Secretary of Cas, though, was soon gone to coach Homeland Security). Pittsburgh, a heavy blow as the fledgling Sixty years later, memories of the game San Francisco 49ers were shifting local still resonate. This January, Napolitano was football focus to the pros. After three among the 17 members of the team who unsuccessful seasons, in 1953 Santa Clara gathered at the annual Alumni Pasta Feed dropped top-flight football. And Cas went to honor a feat that remains one of SCU’s on to lead the University of Oregon’s team

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONCILE/COURTESY SCU SAN FRANCISCO CHRONCILE/COURTESY OF ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. DEPT. greatest athletic upsets. for 15 years. Heroes’ welcome: Broncos return. The wall But the trophy Cas helped win—a large, The game didn’t start off going Santa engraved silver bowl full of oranges— remains the first thing you see today The Broncos still sported the leather hel- Clara’s way. Establishing a 7–0 lead, when you near the Leavey Center trophy mets of a quickly fading era. Kentucky had Kentucky appeared ready to deal a death case. It’s a monument to a little team that the shiny plastic headgear of the dawning blow after taking the ball to Santa Clara’s shocked the world. SCU age. It marked a gulf in resources that 3-yard line. But the Wildcats could not reflected in more serious ways. Under the break Santa Clara’s wall as time expired in tutelage of renowned Coach Paul “Bear” the first half. “It was a big moment—you Web Bryant, the Wildcats boasted the manpow- could just feel it was starting to go our Exclusives way,” recalls halfback er for the new “two platoon” football—with Bernie Vogel ’51, SCU Director of Athletics Dan Coonan has specialists for offense and defense. Santa J.D. 56. written more on the 1950 Orange Bowl for Clara’s players sucked wind both ways. The Broncos’ defense again gave Bronco Sports Magazine. You’ll find a link Not to say the Broncos were light- the spark in the third quarter, forcing a to the article at santaclaramagazine.com. weights. They notched a season with seven Kentucky fumble on the wins, two losses, and one tie—nearly top- Wildcats’ 13-yard line. pling No. 2 Oklahoma on the way. But they Santa Clara started a drive weren’t very big men. They weren’t very that ended with quarter- fast. Few expected much from the “Mystery back Johnny Pasco ’52 Team from the Pacific Coast.” ramming in the Broncos’ The Wildcats flew into Miami in early first score. December, giving them three weeks to The sides then traded adjust to the Florida humidity. The Broncos touchdowns, though didn’t leave San Jose until Christmas night, Kentucky missed its when their 17-car Southern Pacific Special extra point, leaving the rolled out of the station with 200 friends, score a nail-biting 14–13. fans, and family. Even with stops for prac- With less than 30 sec- tice, a four-day, 3,300-mile train ride hardly onds left in the game, augured well for the Jan. 2 face-off. Vogel dragged a pair of Wildcats on a 17-yard What are the odds? run for touchdown. The Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder—the most- Broncos made the extra famed oddsmaker of his generation—was point, and that was all so sure of Kentucky that he plunked she wrote. The players

COURTESY SCU DEPT. OF ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. LIVES JOINED ESBATech, Egan was senior English-language teaching, Kristin (Waldram) Maryanne Cafazza Angeles. Shannon Fries vice president, Licensing & Feldman will also bring Russo ’00 and Thomas ’04, Vincent Cafazza ’05 and Lindsey Scott- Corporate Development, at experience tailoring materials Richard Russo on Oct. ’06, Katherine Wieland Florez ’04 were in the Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc., to specific educational markets 17, 2009, at St. Mary’s Cafazza ’06, Alex wedding party, and Dan a Cambridge, Mass.-based to developing curricula for Cathedral in Portland, Taylor ’03, Eric Jordan Winter ’04 was in atten- biotech company. individual school districts Ore. Erin (Fuller) ’03, Aaron Locke ’03, dance, as was Laurie’s across the country. Betker ’00 served as Michael Moeschler mother, Barbara (Hall) 1978 Valerie Stinger a bridesmaid. Other ’03, and Geoff Akers Millar ’74. Laurie is a MBA recently returned from a 1980 Rich Schammel alumni in attendance: ’04. Twenty-nine addi- public finance attorney volunteer assignment in Malawi MBA was named chairman Nick ’00 and Jen tional Broncos were in with Squire, Sanders & through CNFA, an international of the Pasadena Center (Kogen) Albertini ’00, attendance. Charlie is Dempsey LLP, special- development nonprofit in Operating Company. He Bryan ’99 and Erika a manager at Ernst & izing in tax-exempt Washington, D.C. Stinger’s is also a board member (Johnson) Bayless Young, and Katy works financings for educa- field assignment included and director of the Rose ’00, Eric ’00 and Katie in IT at Facebook. tional and health-care providing an overall scope Bowl Operating Company, (Hansen) Canaday ’00, The couple resides in organizations and gov- Dave ’93 and Tracie Mountain View. ernmental entities. and financial model for a small the California Association (Waldram) Gonyea produce business. of Business Brokers, and and ’93, Adam Harrington Corey Morris ’03 Lindsey Cromwell president of Venture Investors Andrew Singer on Aug. ’00, Annemarie ’04, MBA ’09 1979 Allene Feldman Business Group Inc., a merger 29, 2009, in Boston. and (Alvistur) Kelley ’00, Matthew M.A. A 25-year veteran and acquisition advisory Alumni in attendance Joe Menning ’01, Kalkbrenner ’04, of educational publishing, firm. Schammel resides in included Lorena Mora- MSME ’06 on Sept. Brian Murphy ’00, Jill Feldman left Cambridge Pasadena, Calif., with his wife, Blanco ’01, Cohen 12, 2009, in Honolulu, Scherffius ’00, and University Press to begin Duncan ’03, and Hawaii. The bridal Mary, and daughter, Ashley. Kim Stetson ’00. her new venture, InSource, Bertha Sanchez ’03. party included Adriana Nikki Osborne ’02 Also in attendance was (Navarro) Alfaro ’04, which will provide high- 1984 Monica Smyth and Jason Benedict on SCU Professor Leilani Sarah Tarpley ’05, quality, innovative print and J.D. of Stamford, Conn., Nov. 7, 2008, at the Miller. Corey is pursu- Aimee (Grush) David digital services to the major was appointed a member of Church of the Good ing a Ph.D. at Harvard ’03, Mark Kalkbrenner pre-K–grade 12 textbook the Connecticut Council on Shepherd in San Diego, Medical School and his ’04, and Scott Gunther publishers. A specialist in Developmental Disabilities on Calif. Nikki is a senior husband, Andrew, is ’04. Bronco alumni in curriculum development, October 27. The council is manager (SEC Reporting finishing his final year attendance included content instruction, and a governor-appointed body and Financial Planning of residency at Brigham Lindsey’s mom, Angela & Analysis) at Digirad in and Women’s Hospital. (Lum) Thomas ’75, as San Diego. The couple resides in well as Jake David ’04, Cambridge, Mass. Jake Peterson ’04, Kim Kristin Simms ’01 Ehret ’04, Christina New Student Recruitment married William “Billy” Therese DiCola Jimenez ’04, Joy Share your college experience with admitted students! Byrnes on Nov. 7, 2009 ’03 and William Reed (Wasai) Nishida ’04, at the Mission Santa Henderson III on July Khanh Chau ’04, Clara. Alumni in the 25, 2009, in Winter Jeff Cook ’04, and wedding included Claire Park, Colo. The wed- Sonia (Mungal) Remember the idyllic setting ding party included Foley ’01. SCU staff in Cook ’04. Lindsey is of the Mission Gardens? the wedding included Kelly Andreano ’03, the sustainability coordi- Rooting for the Broncos at Julia Claire Landry Jennifer Martin ’03, nator for SCU, and Matt (Campus Ministry). Adrienne (Parke) is a systems engineer Buck Shaw and Leavey? The Wedding guests Ewers ’03, Meghan at Lockheed-Martin. classroom camaraderie or the included Joe Albers (Freeman) Goldman The couple lives in late-night cramming sessions ’02, Karen Dazols ’03, ’03, Katharine Tolan Santa Clara. Jacinda Forster ’01, ’03, and Valerie (Melo) at The Bronco? Share your . The wedding Joanna Zywno ’01, Fantl ’03 Stacy Hartman ’04 favorite memories with 10 to David Pasquini ’99, was photographed by and Sean Greenwood Anita Diaz ’00, and Cooper Carras ’03 on Sept. 19, 2009, at 15 admitted students via Becki (Fowler) Gervin and Alison Beckord Bianchi Winery in Paso phone or e-mail in April. You . The couple hon- ’04. Kristin is a campus ’03 Robles, Calif. In the are the University’s best minister and religious eymooned in Argentina wedding party: Alicia studies teacher at and Uruguay. William, (Wheeler) Kachmarik ambassadors—connect with Archbishop Mitty High a graduate of the ’04, Katie Carlson ’03, these students and tell them University of San Diego, School in San Jose, and and Dina Salicido ’04. why Santa Clara is the right Billy is a campus minis- and Tess are both in Stacy currently works at ter at Bellarmine College the finance industry Google as an associate choice. It’s simple, it’s fast, Preparatory. They live in and reside in South manager in Online Sales, and it can have a lasting San Jose. Pasadena, Calif. and Sean, a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo grad, impact on someone’s life. Charlie Cafazza ’03 Laurie (Millar) is a project engineer at and Katy Kainer on Oct. Altschul ’04 and Critchfield Mechanical. 10, 2009, at Mission Jonathan Altschul on The newlyweds reside in Sign up at www.scu.edu/recruit Santa Clara. 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Michelle (Dupuis) the corporate revenue Wendy (Nice) and COME JOIN US! Babbage ’94 and manager at Quest Beau Barnes ’99— Rome & David Babbage II—a Software in Aliso Viejo. a baby boy, Brayden girl, Kaitlyn Renee, on Gordon, on Sept. 23, Southern Italy June 2, 2009. The fam- Karen (Mion) 2009. The family lives August 28 to ily lives in Saratoga. Pachmayer ’97 in Campbell. September 9, 2010 and husband Chris— Chris Kelleher ’94 their first child, Emma Murphy (Dunn) and wife Katie—their Rose Pachmayer, on Curtis ’99—son, first child, son Aidan Sept. 14, 2008. Jason Curtis this past Michael, on Oct. 25, September. Everyone is 2009. Chris is work- Alison (Lacy) happy and healthy. ing as a communica- Stroot ’97 and hus- tions specialist for the band Steve—a girl, Nicole Fourie Dunbar University of Minnesota, Gwendolyn Aurora, on ’99 and husband as well as doing free- Sept. 9, 2009. She joins Brian—their second lance photography. The big brother Logan, 2, in daughter, Katelyn Claire, Bella Italia, Arriviamo! San Jose. Alison teaches on May 4, 2009. She Italy, Here We Come! family lives in St. Louis Park, Minn. first grade at Allen at weighed 7 pounds, 12.9 Steinbeck K-8 School in ounces, and was 20.5 A unique Bronco travel experience, including a Mass and dinner Tina (Misthos) ’95 San Jose. inches long. She joins in Rome with Chancellor Paul and Mark Gullotta her big sister, Megan, ’95, J.D./MBA ’02— Ryan T. Dunn ’98 2. Nicole and Brian both Locatelli, S.J. ’60, Secretary and wife Julie Briggs for Higher Education for the their second child, work at the San Jose Dunn—a boy, Dylan Society of Jesus. Aristotle Haralambos, on Water Company and Jan. 23, 2009. He joins Patrick Dunn, on reside in San Jose. big brother Andonis, January 13, 2009. Visit us at 4, in the family’s San The Dunns live in San Joanne Pasternack- www.scu.edu/alumnitravel Bruno home. Francisco. Bardin J.D. ’99 and Robert Bardin Craig Mobeck ’95 Adolfo Laguna ’98 MBA ’01—Reid Oliver and wife Justine—their and wife Elvia—a baby Bardin on Nov. 17, second child, Jack boy, Adolfo III, on May 4, 2009. He weighed 9 of people with disabilities, now teaching psychology at Warren, on Oct. 16, 2009. He joins sisters pounds, 5 ounces, and their family members, and the College of Western Idaho. 2009. He joins big sister Isabel, 12, Rebeca, 9, was 21.5 inches long. professionals who work Also started a small business Ella Grace, 2. and Daisy, 4. The family He joins his sister, Kira, lives in Hollister, Calif. together to promote the creating mosaic windows.” 2. Joanne is the com- Alison (Beimfohr) Adolfo is an associate full inclusion of people with munity relations director Stanely ’96 and principal at Silver Creek Kathleen F for the San Francisco disabilities in community life. 2005 husband Shawn—their High School in San Jose, Smyth works as a family Sherman J.D. is a litigation 49ers and Rob is the second child, Trevor Alan and Elvia is a stay-at- corporate partnership resource support coordinator associate with Berliner Cohen Stanley, on June 23, home mom. for Abilis Inc., a Greenwich- in San Jose, specializing in director for FC Gold 2009. He joins big sister Pride of the Women’s based not-for-profit agency. general business litigation and Bubba ’98 and Amy Lauren, 2, in the family’s Professional Soccer white-collar criminal defense. Randazzo ’98—their home in Dallas. league. They live in 1989 Zareh Baghdasarian second child, Sofia Marie Randazzo, in Sunnyvale. M.S. recently became CEO 2006 Tara Rolle M.A. Christopher Donaldson ’97 and February 2009. She was of 15desks, a new startup is assistant principal and Jessie Wightman wife Tressa—son James 6 pounds, 9 ounces, director of admissions at Hall ’00 and husband focused on the education Alexander Donaldson, and 19 inches long. market. He was co-founder Moreau Catholic High School, Pierre—a baby boy, on Sept. 10, 2009. Sofie’s big brother, Jake, Jacques, on Nov. 12, of Monterey Networks, which a college preparatory school The family resides in loves taking care of his was sold to Cisco Systems in in the Holy Cross tradition. 2009. The family lives in Laguna Niguel, Calif. “sissy girl.” Westlake Village, Calif. 1999, and has been an active She is in her third year of Christopher serves as angel investor in Southern service at MCHS. In addition California. to serving as an educational administrator, Rolle is in her 1995 Anne M. Hayes J.D. second year of work on her Send us your notes! just published her first book, doctorate in educational Keep your fellow Broncos posted on what’s happening. Sexless: How Feminism Is leadership, administration, and Failing Women, a critique of policy at Pepperdine University. Online: www.scu.edu/alumupdate modern feminism. She lives in She lives in Campbell, Calif. By snail mail: Class Notes • Santa Clara Magazine • Sacramento, Calif., with her 500 El Camino Real • Santa Clara, CA 95053 husband and four children. 2008 Sara Dabkowski J.D. was recently appointed 1998 Lori Yellen-Lilley to the position of deputy M.A. writes, “After 17 years district attorney for Mendocino of working in child welfare, County. She interned at the both in California and Idaho, San Francisco and Santa Cruz I have recently changed the district attorney’s offices and is direction of my career and am currently assigned to the traffic court in Ukiah. 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and live with these beautiful and fierce Through his carnivores. Paquet has studied wolves words, Bill Hayes for more than 35 years and is an adjunct ’83 has a talent professor at the University of Calgary, for bringing to life and his collaborators on this editing the most unlikely effort are scholars Marco Musiani and of subjects: In Luigi Boitani. The text takes a detailed The Anatomist, look at populations in the U.S., Mexico, he braids together three corporally linked and Europe, with plenty of examples From the Castro Theatre stories to build a tale of science that is to keep nonscientist readers engaged. to the Telephone equally riveting and profound. Published in Lisa Taggart Building, from jazz age hardback in 2008, the book is now out in skyscrapers to opulent paperback (Bellevue Literary Press, 2009). movie palaces, many In The Day the Hayes set out to write a biography of the iconic structures of Dancers Stayed: author of the world’s best-known medical San Francisco’s Art Performing in the textbook, Henry Gray of Gray’s Anatomy, Deco heritage are the Filipino/American first published in 1858. Gray’s work is work of a draftsman Diaspora (Temple linked to that of another Henry: Henry turned prolific architect, University Press, Carter, better known as H.V. Carter, the Timothy Pflueger. 2010), Theodore oft-overlooked artist behind the textbook’s Therese Poletti S. Gonzalves ’90 original illustrations, ones Hayes describes ’81 has compiled a traces a genealogy as “exquisitely wrought.” And Hayes stunning visual chronicle of Pflueger’s of Pilipino Cultural relates his own contemporary journey life and work during the post-earthquake Night—a celebration as he joins UCSF students in first-year reconstructionist boom in Art Deco San of Filipino identity through music, dance, anatomy, facing a cadaver and cutting into Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy and theater that has become a tradition a human body for the first time. Hayes, Pflueger (Princeton Architectural Press, at a number of U.S. campuses in recent the author of two previous books of 2008). Archival photos alongside full decades. Gonzalves, an associate pro- nonfiction—Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s pages of striking new photography by fessor of American Studies at University Memoir and Five Quarts: A Personal and Tom Paiva tell much of the story, while of Hawaii at Manoa, illuminates the way Natural History of Blood—deftly carries Poletti’s lively narrative traces Art Deco cultural memories are created, validated, each narrative thread in a book whose sum designs as unconventional as the man and changed. MG is even greater than its parts. LT who created them. Molly Gore ’10 Sandy Nathan ’68, Finding the positive and In the fraught relationship between M.A. ’80, delivers delivering the negative wolves and people, wolves generally the first book in her are two topics for the have not come out ahead—or at least, Bloodsong Series motivational speaker not recently. But “in most cases we can with Numenon Barbara Khozam ’88 do better; and in all (Vilasa Press, 2008), in two new anthologies. cases we have an a novel about a The Power of the obligation to strive leader Platform: Speakers to do better than our whose gilded life on Purpose (Las predecessors,” writes belies a tortured Vegas Convention one contributor to A interior. Entrepreneur Speakers Bureau and New Era for Wolves Will Duane “made TwoBirds Publishing, 2009) includes a and People (University more money with every breath” but was recipe for embracing a positive perspec- of Calgary Press, haunted by terrifying, mysterious dreams tive on your own life. Executive Etiquette 2009), co-edited by and some kind of evil “stalker.” His search Power: Twenty Top Experts Share Paul C. Paquet ’70. for the source of his troubles leads him, and What to Know to Advance Your Career As the subtitle suggests—Wolf Recovery, a number of his employees, through the (PowerDynamics Publishing, 2009) offers Human Attitudes, and Policy—since American Southwest to the Mogollon Bowl specific, step-by-step guidance for man- the 1970s, wolf populations in the United on a transformative journey where his high- agers on how to reprimand employees States and Europe have in fact been powered corporate world collides with a and how to garner support for workplace increasing. In this collection of academic spiritual, nature-based ethic. LT changes. Khozam earned a chemistry essays, multiple scientists and wolf degree at SCU and was a professional experts examine how best to support beach volleyball player before becoming a speaker and trainer. LT

44 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 ALUMNI IN THE NEWS Michael Neilson ’07 was surprised to find out this fall that he’d been declared one of Cosmopolitan magazine’s “Hottest Bachelors of 2009.” Google’s new Why surprised? He was nominated in secret by a friend. The award-winning sculptor lives in Portland, Ore., where he also runs a fabric arts business and approach to China does fitness videos and modeling. At first, Neilson wasn’t entirely on board with his new, tantalizing status, but he remained good-humored—and came David C. Drummond ’85, the chief legal officer for to realize that the contest wasn’t all frivolous. “It’s actually a pretty good Google, saw his name dominate his company’s search group of guys,” Neilson said of his results in January—and found his name on the front co-winners. “They are all really multital- page of newspapers across the nation. On Jan. 12, ented and mostly nice.” Since making Drummond posted a statement at the official Google the cut, along with 50 other single, blog whose understated title—“A New Approach to sexy men across the country, Neilson China”—did not give away the coming bombshell: Owing has made appearances on The Today to cyberattacks originating in China that targeted Google Show, Entertainment Tonight, and local and more than 30 other businesses, as well as the Gmail television. That exposure has led to at accounts of dozens of human rights activists, Google least one TV-arranged date and dozens would no longer censor search results at google.cn of e-mails from eligible women. But and was considering pulling out of the country. “These

JEFFREY NEILSON the 25-year-old seems to take all the attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered— Cosmo’s Oregon bachelor: resulting attention in stride, saying, “I combined with the attempts over the past year to further Michael Neilson don’t know what all this is doing for me limit free speech on the web—have led us to conclude really. I just keep putting my foot for- that we should review the feasibility of our business ward and I stay optimistic.” Since earning a degree in studio art at SCU, he’s operations in China,” Drummond wrote. been focused on his craft. He writes, “My intention as an artist is to explore Outside China, reactions were swift. The White the geometric curves in life and stretch beyond perceived limitations into a House described the breach as “troubling.” Secretary more beautiful and peaceful world.” You can see his work on campus in the of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed “serious Adobe Lodge. MS concerns” and said “we look to the Chinese govern- ment for an explana- Pat Gelsinger ’83 has joined EMC, a leading developer and provider of tion.” Journalist and information infrastructure technology and solutions, as president and chief China watcher James operating officer for EMC Information Infrastructure Products. Gelsinger, 48, Fallows wrote that “if a is responsible for the company’s product portfolio, including its Information

CHARLES BARRY major U.S. company— Storage, RSA Information Security, Content Management and Archiving, indeed, Google has been and Ionix IT Management divisions. Previously, Gelsinger worked at Intel, ranked the #1 brand in “the ultimate executive proving ground,” he said, where he earned several the world—has con- pivotal leading roles in the corporation’s Digital Enterprise Group, Intel Labs, cluded that, in effect, it Corporate Technology Group, Intel Research, Desktop Products Group, must break diplomatic and other divisions. The award-winner holds six patents in the areas of VLSI relations with China design, computer architecture, and communications. MS because its policies are too repressive and Kimberly Briggs J.D. ’87 and Paul Delucchi J.D. ’95 were both intrusive to make peace appointed by Gov. Schwarzenegger as Superior Court judges in Alameda with, that is a significant County this past September. Briggs, a Democrat, formerly served as an judgment.” Alameda County deputy district attorney and, since 1995, as a U.S. attorney. Inside China, the Since 1996, Delucchi, a Republican, had served as an Alameda County announcement received deputy district attorney. MS scant coverage from Hard decision: David Drummond state or independent Tom Eichenberg ’76, M.S. ’77 made the pages of the on China media. After a day of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! in 2009. What landed him amid the silence, China’s Foreign likes of skydiving Scrabble players, incredible icebergs, and Ministry simply stated that foreign Internet companies crazy creatures? The recovery 33 years later of the wallet he must operate “in accordance with the law” and insisted lost on campus as an undergrad in 1975. Vigilant construction that “China’s Internet is open.” workers renovating the Benson Center found it. Read a profile In addition to holding a degree from SCU, Drummond of Eichenberg in the Fall 2008 SCM. SBS serves on the University’s Board of Trustees. In his Jay Leupp ’85 made the pages of Barron’s magazine in December with Jan. 12 post, Drummond wrote that Google’s decision to some good news: While the U.S. real estate market is a shadow of its former review its operations in China was “incredibly hard” and self, not so in China. Leupp is chief fund manager at Grubb & Ellis Alesco “will have potentially far-reaching consequences”—not Global Advisors. Due to China’s massive stimulus package, tremendous least the prospect of losing the largest Internet audience bank-lending growth, and a hot stock market, real estate is booming. Since in the world, some 350 million strong. 2007, Leupp has rolled out three real estate–related mutual funds, all beating “We were looking at an environment that is more their benchmarks. Despite some governmental worries—reductions of loan difficult than it was when we started. Far from our availability for second and third homes and unaffordable housing prices presence helping to open things up, it seems that for many citizens—Leupp remains optimistic. From his small firm’s base in things are getting tighter for open expression and San Mateo, he explains, “The important thing to know about China is that it freedom,” Drummond told The New York Times. has consistent and increasing demand. In Hong Kong, there are geographical Justin Gerdes land constraints, and on the mainland, local government bodies have strict control over development and control land leases.” Follow a link to the entire article at santaclaramagazine.com. MS S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SPRING 2010 45 OBITUARIES worked in the oil business Survived by his wife of 64 an investigator for the District for the DuPont Company, years, Jean; five children; 10 Attorney’s office. A lifelong BJ Services, and later as grandchildren; and six great- member of the YMCA and 1936 Robert P. Litschi, chairman of the board of Trico grandchildren. Bronco Bench Foundation, he Nov. 15. 2009. After serving in Industries. He was married to enjoyed 53 years of marriage WWII in New Caledonia, Litschi Mary Jo Becka, until her death 1947 Edward Joseph to wife JoAnn. Survived by worked at and retired from in 1956, and then to Patricia “Coach” Fennelly, July 23, three children and seven Keliher Hardware. He took up Ryan Baxter, until her passing 2009. The former star athlete grandchildren. golf at SCU and played up until in 2003. Survived by eight served twice with the Marine two years before his death, at children; 11 grandchildren; and Corps, reaching the rank of James Orrin Trowbridge, age 96. Survived by children numerous nieces and nephews. 1st lieutenant in 1952. He Aug. 14, 2009. A highly Linda Sallinger, Laura Litschi coached football, baseball, regarded pathologist, he Jones ’68, Janet Rizzo, Bob 1944 James W. Dolan Sr., basketball, track and field, practiced first at the City and Litschi, and Jim Litschi ’78; Aug. 13, 2009. He served in golf, and swimming at Riordan County of San Francisco and eight grandchildren; and seven the Navy during World War II. High School, later becoming then taught at UCSF. He was a great grandchildren. Later he worked at his family’s the school’s first lay director. partner in Diagnostic Pathology winery, Concannon Vineyards; Preceded in death by his wife Medical Group in Sacramento. 1940 William Thomas the Lawrence Livermore of 52 years, Nancy. Survived Survived by wife Mary Lou; two Box, Sept. 20, 2009. He Radiation Laboratory; and by two daughters; two daughters; and two grandsons. served in the Marine Corps the Livermore Parks and grandchildren; and two sisters. from 1940 to 1946 and later Recreation Department. After 1954 John J. Stanton fought in Guadalcanal, New raising cattle for many years, John Battista Quaccia, Jr., Oct. 15, 2009. He served Georgia, and Okinawa. He he retired in Bozeman, Mont. Aug. 26, 2009. Assigned to as a lieutenant in the Marine the newly formed 36th U.S. Corps; practiced law with Naval Construction Battalion the National Labor Relations (SeaBees), Quaccia deployed Board; was labor counsel and 2009/10 to Okinawa, where he achieved head of the New York Times the rank of lieutenant. He legal department; served on worked for 29 years with East counsel with Cahill, Gordon President’s Bay Municipal Utility District. and Reindel; and taught law Survived by his wife, Mae; six at the University of the District Speaker children; seven grandchildren; of Columbia. Survived by and three great-grandchildren. his wife of 49 years, Mary- Jane; four children; and three Series 1950 Maitland Paul grandchildren. Stearns, Oct. 19, 2009. In Series Four: 1941, Stearns witnessed the 1958 James Hamilton GLOBALIZATION: BOON OR attack on Pearl Harbor and Kerins, July 1, 2009. He BANE FOR HUMANITY? served in the Navy during served in the Army and was World War II. In 1951, he an accomplished engineer married Jonette Gertrude with design credits for Regina Rabinovich Lynde. A sales executive for custom circuits for watches, April 13, 2010 Tidewater Oil and Phillips calculators, timing devices, Mayer Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Petroleum, he later owned and and automotive ignition and Global Health: Taking Stock of operated Stearns’ Mobil Oil in engine control systems. “Neglected Diseases” downtown Monterey. Survived He was a member of the by companion Charlene Engineering Alumni Board What is the connection between affluence and disease? Are we taking enough responsibility Jackson; four children; and at SCU. Survived by his wife to avert a global health disaster? Join us for eight grandchildren. of 49 years, Marcia; three the Gerald and Sally DeNardo Lecture with children; five grandchildren; Dr. Rabinovich, the director of the Global Health 1952 William “Bill” Haley, and two siblings. Program’s Infectious Diseases Development Aug. 22, 2009. A lifelong team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Marin County resident, he 1961 Thomas Aloysius built a successful real estate Branson, Oct. 31, 2009. appraisal practice. Survived Born in San Mateo, he grew by his “sweetie” of 56 years, up in Burlingame and at SCU All events start at 7:30 p.m. in SCU’s Janice; four children; eight studied English, played rugby, Mayer Theatre. Tickets are free but required. grandchildren; and eight and forged close friendships. For more information about the series or to order tickets, visit www.scu.edu/ great-grandchildren. He earned a J.D. from UC speakerseries or call 408-554-4400. Hastings and an LL.M. degree This series is co-sponsored by SCU’s 1953 William “Bill” Risko, in tax law from New York Center of the Performing Arts. Oct. 14, 2009. Born in 1927, University, where he met his Risko served in the Marines future wife, Erin Kathleen and played with the San Kane. Drafted into the Army, www.scu.edu/speakerseries Francisco 49ers and various he saw service in the Panama semi-pro teams. He later was Canal Zone and returned to

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California to practice law. He 1967 Charles D. Reiton Ericka Chambers Norman J.D. ’97 eventually founded his own J.D., Sept. 28, 2009. A native firm, Branson, Fitzgerald United Nations worker died of North Dakota, Reiton in Haitian earthquake. & Howard. Survived by his spent much of his career loving wife; four children, working for various defense ricka Norman was always quick with a including Colleen Miller ’89, contractors, including Varian, word of encouragement, her older sister Timothy ’91, and Bridget UTC, Eaton Electronics, and EFeliscia Schott says. “She tried to help people,” Schott says. “But she didn’t have a Branson Albert ’95; eight Northrop Grumman. Survived lot of tolerance or compassion for those who grandchildren; and his brother by two natural children; said ‘I can’t.’” Philip ’63. three stepchildren; and 10 Certainly Norman, a United Nations worker grandchildren. Jack Ludwigson J.D. ’64, who died in January in the Haiti earthquake, knew what it was to triumph over obstacles. She grew up Oct. 31, 2009. The native of 1969 B. Timothy Murphy in a family troubled by substance-abuse and mental-health Bellingham, Wash., worked for J.D. ’72, Sept. 24, 2009. He problems. They moved constantly. Bills went unpaid. Often there the King County Prosecutor’s worked at the San Francisco was little food, or even furniture. As a teenager, Norman moved Office and later went into City Attorney’s Office, later in with her best friend and then a teacher’s family. But through private practice in Bellingham. becoming the city attorney it all, Norman shined. She won a full ride to Smith College He enjoyed his family and of Daly City and practicing in Massachusetts. She studied in Japan, taught in New York, friends more than anything and law for the California State was at his happiest amongst and came to Santa Clara, attracted in part by the law school’s Automobile Association with diversity. While a student, she spent long hours working at the them at the cabin on Orcas the law firm MacMorris and Island and fishing the San Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County. Carbone. Survived by devoted It was Norman’s desire to give back that ultimately led her Juans. Survivors include his wife Geraldine (Murphy) ’69; to work for the United Nations—first in Kosovo, where she met wife, Sarah, and children Eric three sons; two grandchildren; her husband, Alvin, a U.N. engineer, then in Haiti. She had been ’90 and Susan Coberly ’92. two siblings; and a host of based in the island country for the past five years as part of the other family members and 1964 Robert Kolbo, July U.N. Stabilization Mission, working as a liaison with community friends. members. She was in the U.N. offices in Port-Au-Prince when 29, 2009. He worked for his the earthquake struck on Jan. 12, collapsing the building. father’s construction business 1972 Frances Marie Though she loved helping people, her greatest joy was her in Los Gatos, eventually taking Martin Clark Miller, Aug. 11, family: her husband, his two children, and their two-and-half- over. Survived by his wife of 46 2009. A Santa Clara native, year-old daughter, Denise, Schott says. All were unharmed in years, Suellen; four daughters; She co-established Fantasy the quake. SS and 10 grandchildren. Fare as a theme/event-planning venture. She taught violin for Howard J. Frank 1965 more than 40 years and was a Prime in 1942. She was a for 30 years. Survived by MBA, Sept. 28, 2009. He fixture in local chamber music teacher and band counselor at his wife of 26 years, Kathi; served in the U.S. Coast Guard circles. She married Douglas Milpitas High School, and after and two children including and earned degrees in physics, J. Clark (d. 1968) and later receiving a second master’s daughter Rachel ’07. systems management, and Donald Britton Miller (d. 2009). from SCU, she continued as business administration. He Survived by five children; a lay minister and pastoral 1985 Stephen Donald enjoyed a 35-year career at two stepchildren; seven counselor in Mountain View. Paietta Jr., Aug. 31, 2009. Lockheed. He was an avid grandchildren; and 10 nieces Prime’s greatest pride was Born in 1963, California native sportsman, built a log cabin in and nephews. her family: three children; four Paietta is survived by mother the Sierras, and loved hunting. grandchildren; and seven Kay; seven siblings; three Survived by wife Cecilia; five 1974 James A. “Jim” great-grandchildren. nieces; and six nephews. children; and nine grandchildren. Roberts, Ph.D. ’79, Sept. 5, 2009. Since the mid-1960s, Edward Durkin 1988 Joseph Edward Frederick James 1979 1966 he worked in the aerospace Helms, Sept. 25, 2009. An Derse, July 31, 2009. A Sgambaty MBA, Aug. 5, industry. In 1990, he became avid skier and hiker in his lifetime Ventura, Calif., resident, 2009. Music and playing the professor and chairman of youth, Helms went to work at, he was a writer and enjoyed clarinet and saxophone were a the Electrical Engineering and later became a principal Bingo and officiating at the big part of his life. He played in Department at the University in, Helms Tractor Company, local high school football and several bands over the years, of Kansas, later serving as a local family farm equipment basketball games. He was a including the Navy Band. He associate vice chancellor for dealership. He subsequently very hard worker who enjoyed worked at Kodak in Rochester, research and public service. became a stockbroker. his position at Von’s. He had N.Y., for 10 years then for 32 Survived by wife Carol Diane Survived by his mother; two a short bout with cancer that years at Lockheed Missiles Helton; two children; four sons; and other relatives. ended at age 43. Survived by and Space. Survived by his grandchildren; one sister; and seven siblings, along with many wife of 55 years, Dorothy; two numerous other relatives. 1981 Monte Gene nieces and nephews. children; three grandchildren; Pasquinelli, Aug. 10, 2009. one sister; and nine nieces 1976 Rita Burke Prime An avid outdoorsman who Jaime Norman-Sheldon, and nephews. M.A. ’91, Aug. 3, 2009. enjoyed fishing, hiking, June 30, 2009. Jaime was a Born in 1915, Prime was a camping, and tennis, he visual effects coordinator for the James T. Godfrey M.A., Aug. lover of Ireland and all things worked as an asset manager film industry and licensed in real 22, 2009. Survived by his wife, Irish. She married Ellis Roy for Borelli Investment Company estate. Survived by husband Beatta Godfrey. Eric; and son Jack Matthew.

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Although the country seems to be awakening from what feels like a bad dream, serious problems remain. In Colombia: One of the some remote areas anti-government guerrilla fighting still goes on, causing local inhabitants to flee for protection Places I Call Home into larger towns or major cities. In a By Luis Calero, S.J. country of nearly 45 million people that is twice the size of France, it is estimated that more than 2 million have been isiting crisis has subsided, internally displaced by conflict; many of my native my yearly visits them remain homeless. The combined V Colombia encounter both efforts of the national government and during the last signs of a land the international community are tack- decades leaves me returning to the ling such problems. At the end of the with mixed emotions. rule of law and day Colombians remain united in their While I experience a legacy of psy- determination never to return to the the joy of seeing fam- chological trauma decades of lawlessness and despair. ily and friends, I also exhibited by vic- This past year I had the opportunity feel bewildered by the tims of years of to teach for a semester at Universidad painful reality of a political turmoil. Javeriana in Cali, a Jesuit university society long afflicted Not a day goes by located in the verdant Cauca Valley by armed conflict without encounter- in southwest Colombia. Lecturing on and lingering social ing the symptoms such topics as conflict resolution in tensions. Legendarily of post-traumatic the “Cultura de Paz” Program, I deep- known for the beauty CharleS Barry stress disorder as ened my conviction that the country of its contrasting Luis Calero well as the forti- is turning a page from violence to highland and lowland tude of the human peace. Students explore complex societal tropical landscapes, spirit capable of issues and express their commitment to Colombia became in the 1980s a central turning death into life. I feel privileged promote the common good even if it stage for drug trafficking and ruthless to be part of a long-term healing process means self-sacrifice. Not unlike SCU, guerrilla wars fueled by an uncontrol- and the triumph of the human spirit Universidad Javeriana offers me a chance lable global appetite for narcotics. over the forces of destruction. to connect to Jesuit teachings and to The traditional and family-oriented Colombia is gradually emerging pursue critical thinking that enables society that I loved as a child suddenly out of this crisis while still combating students to compassionately discover exploded into relentless violence trig- poverty and political turmoil. Civil their personal and communal vocation. gered by drug cartels, vigilante armies, society experiences rebirth as its citi- I find many similarities between the and corrupt governments. Like a thief zens gain long-awaited confidence in two institutions: Students work with in the night, these damaging develop- a system that brings them security and underserved members of the commu- ments shook the foundation of an protection under the law. Roads are nity, they acquire a global outlook in insulated culture where change, any again safe for travel, families venture their education, and there are plenty kind of change, was regarded with into vacation spots, there is an uplifting of opportunities for them to develop suspicion. The last two decades of the sense that the land—no longer held spiritually. These all are hallmarks of 20th century witnessed unthinkable hostage by outlaws—is returning to Jesuit education today. Upon returning national tragedies as drug fortunes rose its people. In the last few years city to Santa Clara, I feel grateful to partic- and fell, prominent political figures were dwellers have been able to visit their ipate in a worldwide Jesuit educational assassinated, and the sacred Supreme fincas or recreational family farms— venture. It insists that the measure of Court Justice building was torched by places at one point largely abandoned effectiveness in Jesuit higher education, guerrillas. It seemed, for a while, that because of pillage and fear of kidnap- either in my native Colombia or in Colombia was bleeding to death. ping. Children have returned to their my adopted United States, is who For a land that prided itself in its playgrounds and local food dishes our students become as they use their democratic institutions, the 1980s and like ajiaco and sancocho are prepared learning to help create a more just and 1990s proved to be a nightmare—some everywhere. Major cities are creating reflective world. people fled, others resigned to live sur- effective mass transit systems to avoid Luis Calero, S.J., is a Bannan Senior rounded by fear, while a few stubbornly urban chaos and pollution, making Fellow at Ignatian Center for Jesuit believed that things would eventually Colombia a showcase for other Latin Education and associate professor of turn around. Today, after much of this American nations. anthropology at SCU.

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PArting Shot Chasing crabs and seastars Silas Strickland ’10 and Meridith Hallowell ’11 practice rapid ecological sampling in the tide pools at Carmel Point. It’s part of their course with Professor of Biology Elizabeth Dahlhoff and preparation for their Spring Break Immersion Program in Baja California, Mexico. CHARLES BARRY