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t may have been knocked by some as resembling a high school gym, but the Spores Center Iserved as a proud home to the dozens of USD teams who played there the past 37 years. Opponents feared the decibel level created by cheering fans for the women's basketball and vol­ leyball teams, and the men's basketball team always found magic on its hardwood floors - the team had a .710 winning percentage there since joining the NCAA Division I level 21 years ago. Fans said their goodbyes in February at the final home basketball games, which were attended by more than 50 former players and coaches. Among chose who played on the center's court were Bernie Bickerstaff '66, former coach of the NBA'.s Seattle Supersonics, Denver Nuggets and Washington Wizards. The teams will move chis fall into the 5, 100-seac Jenny Craig Pavilion, which will be dedicated in October and hose the inaugural Torero Tipoff basketball game Dec. 2, a double-header featur­ ing both the men's and women's teams. Season ticket plans are being finalized, but will be based on a point system with donors and current season ricket holders getting first priority. For infor­ mation, call (619) 260-5916. Supporters interested in helping raise the final $5 million for the $1 7.5 million facility can participate in a campaign chat allows donors to be recognized by placing their names on seat Candida Echeverria '90 led the Toreros backs, bricks and lockers. For in most points scored in a career information on the campaign, until t his year, when her record was call (619) 260-4569. eclipsed by Susie Erpelding. SPRING 2000 vo lum e 15 • no. 3 USD 'MAGAZINE

USD A l umni Magazine features h ttp://alumni.acusd.edu/ usdmagazine Driving Them Crazy ED ITOR by Michael R. Haskins Susan Herold e-mail: [email protected] A little common sense helped law grad Barron Ramos '95 best the CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 7 bureaucratic big boys. Michael R. Haski ns John Tirchen A Missionary's Life DESIGN & PRODUCTION by Susan Herold Warner Design Associates, Inc. Sister Anastasia Lott '79 rook a PHOTOGRAPHERS spiritual journey to Africa, where Pablo Mason 8 frustration competes with joy on an Rodney Nakamoro almost daily basis. Gary Payne '86 ADV I SORY BOARD Renaissance Man Arian E. Collins '87 by john Titchen Laura Hale '92 Thomas Scharf '72 (M .A. '73) Provost Frank Lazarus speaks fluent Prof David Sullivan IO Latin and studies ancient Greek architecture, but the future of departments academics is his true passion. University of San Diego Alcala Almanac PRESIDENT Queen of the Court Women's basketball makes the NCAA Al ice Bourke Hayes by Susan Herold 4 tournament .. . Freshmen retention at record high ... Summer school VICE PRESIDENT FOR Crowned the nation's top amateur tennis UN IV ERS IT Y RELAT ION S 12 player, USD's Zuzana Lesenarova enters and sports camp sign-ups ... Alumni John G. McNamara her final season wi th her eye on a second volunteers wanted ... Shileys named DIRECTOR OF A LUMN I championship and a pro career. But her Presidential Honorees ... Olaf Wieghorst RELATIONS firs t priority is a college degree. exhibit opens ... Student studies more John Trifiletti '78 secure Internet. USD Magazine is pub lis hed quarterly by Journey from Mecca the Uni versity of San Diego for its alumni, by Michael R. Haskins Alumni_Gallery parents and friends. Edito rial offices: USD In a California desert town where Lou Marino '90 hopes to turn his adven­ Magazine, Pub lications Office, University turer lifestyle into a thriving business ... of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, 18 options seem limited, teenagers 23 CA 92 110-2492. Third-class postage paid are finding chat college and careers Thomas Mcfeely '94 is immersed in his at San Diego, CA 92 110. USD phone num­ aren't out of reach. job as a marine mammal trainer. be r (6 19) 260-4600; emergency security (6 19) 260-2222; disaster (6 19) 260-4534 . Calendar Postmaster: Send address changes to USD Tax Strategies for Family Owned Magazine, Publications Office, University of Businesses ... Spring Dance Concert San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 31 92 110-2492. Senior Acting Performances ... "Adult Catholics Alive in the Church Today" ... Schedule of Commencement Ceremonies.

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Women Hoopsters Make it to NCAA Tourney

Alcala Park was swept up in March Madness NCAA women's championship tournament by when the women's basketball team stunned the upsetting No. 1 seed Pepperdine. cop seed in its conference tournament and earned "It was a great ride," says longtime coach a berth in the NCAA championship tournament. Kathy Marpe. ''After the game, I said to the Students on Spring Break, campus employees seniors and the rest of the team, 'Thanks for and USD community members tuned in co the taking me on chis ride.' " Toreros' first-round meeting with vaunted Notre Marpe was especially pleased with the efforts Dame. It was a shore trip - USD lost 87-61 - of seniors Erpelding, back-up guard Andrea but team members say it is something they will Burns, forward Maria Perez-Barris (who had a always remember. season and career high 16 against the Irish) "It's cough co go out on a loss, but it was in and center Jessica Gray. The latter had eight the NCAA tournament, so it's not all chat bad," points and four rebounds, setting a new school says standout guard Susie Erpelding, who led all single season record for rebounds (281). scorers in the game with 19 points. "We had a While the women were preparing for the great season and a lot of fun along the way." big dance, the men's team awaited word from Indeed, the Toreros did have fun on their the National Invitational Tournament. Despite a unlikely journey. In the NCAAs for the first time 20-9 record, coach Brad Holland's Toreros USD's Melissa Glazebrook attempts to steal since 1993, the Toreros (17-13) were named a No. were overlooked, so thoughts turned immedi­ the ball as Susie Erpelding (20) looks on. 15 seed in the Mideast Regional. They drew the No. ately to next season, when Holland, the WCC 2-seeded Irish (27-4) for a game in South Bend. Coach of the Year, will lose just one player co The Toreros turned things on late in the sea­ graduation. as USD's new Jenny Craig Pavilion will host son and won the West Coast Conference champi­ Boch the women's and men's teams will both the men's and women's wee champi­ onship tournament, earning a ticket to the have incentive for strong showings next year, onship tournaments in March.

Freshmen Retention Summer Schoolin'

Hits Record High ore than 100 courses from all divisions of the uni­ Mversity - including classes as diverse as Internee he percentage Marketing co Music in Policies - will be offered chis T of freshmen summer during five sessions. returning to Alcala Courses are offered primarily for enrolled USD Park for a second students and chose from ocher universities who wish co year has reached transfer credit, buc interested adults can audit certain an all-time high courses without receiving a grade. - more than 91 Three-week sessions begin June 5 and Aug. 7, and percent returned six-week sessions begin June 5, June 26 and July 17. during the 1998- For more information or co receive a summer course 99 academic year, bulletin, call (619) 260-4800 or stop by Founders Hall, placing USD Room 108. Registration is ongoing until courses begin. among the top universities in the nation when it comes to freshmen retention. Alma Matters A six-point plan designed co improve retention races - which had hovered around 87 percent the previous three years - was implemented he Office of Alumni Relations is looking for vol­ in 1998, likely resulting in the change. The program included creation T unteers co help plan social and educational events of a Student Resource Center, a "one stop shop" for student service for USD graduates in the San Diego area. If you've got information, and an early warning system for identifying students an idea for an event, call (619) 260-4819 and speak having academic difficulty. with Nicole Matthews.

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Presidential Honorees

he latest recipients of the T Presidential Honors - awarded Summer each January co benefactors whose philanthropy has had a signifi cant Sports Camps impac t at USD - are Donald and Darlene Shiley, who together have irected by varsity coaches, USD spent more than a decade supporting Dsports camps offer a full sched­ the university's theatre arcs and ule of instruction and playing time, sciences programs. emphasizing fundamentals and personal­ T he Shileys have endowed scholar­ ized instruction. Campers can attend as ships in engineering, theatre arcs and many weeks as they like , and choose from the master of fin e arcs programs, pro­ day camps or resident camps, which include vided a gift that led co the naming of room, board and field trips. Shiley Theatre and recencly gave Sports include boy's and girl's basketball; $1 million coward the planned Center competitive and master's swimming; girl's volleyball; boy's and girl's soccer; girl 's water fo r Science and Technology. Darlene, Darlene and Donald Shiley accept who has been active with T he Old this year's Presidential Honor. polo; boy's and girl 's tennis; baseball; softball; Globe Theatre Board, has been a USD triathlon and sports-n-more (combination of trustee since 1990. several team and individual sports). For more information, call (619) 260-4593 or (800) 991-1873, or check out the Web site at http:// camps.acusd .ed u.

USD by the Numbers Campus Eats

Number of students living on campus during the 1999-2000 school year ...... 2,004

Percentage of those students who have a meal plan ...... 99

Average number of meals served each day in main student dining room ...... 1,393 Kinds of beverages available ...... 20 CLARIFICATION Average number of beverage glasses A story in che Winter issue of USD Magazine on che each student uses at a meal ...... 2 planned Science and Technology Center implied chat there were no chemical storage facilities in existing labs. Number of pounds of chicken T he storage faci liti es are located outside the lab buildings nuggets (most popular food item) in a secured area and meet all federal safety standards. served for one meal...... ] 5 0

Number of tortillas used for second- most popular meal, Mexican food night .. .600 SPRING 2 000 S ALCALA. ALMANAC

Donation Leads to New Art Exhibit

A nise OlafWieghorst was a bear of a with some selling in the seven-figure range. ""'man who loved horses, desert vistas, Bue for Grace and George Thackeray, who the quiet dignity of Native Americans and, died in 1996, Wieghorsc was a prime example most of all, the cowboy life. of what a person can accomplish if they are He transferred his passion for all things passionate about their work and life. Which Western into his arc - sketches, paintings is why Grace donated 12 ofWieghorsc's works and bronzes of horse and man and nature. to USD - in hopes of inspiring future anises. While not always praised by arc critics, the "OlafWieghorsc was a self-made anise, he self-caught anise's work is among the most didn't have any instruction along the way," collectible in the United Scates, primarily she says of the Denmark native who spent because he lived the life he depicted - he much of his life in El Cajon, Calif., and clied broke horses, punched cows, rodeoed and in 1988. "I thought it would add to the uni­ camped under deserc skies. versity's arc department to see what a person It was chat self-made spirit chat San Diego could accomplish under those circumstances." resident Grace Thackeray admired in The works, which will be on display through Wieghorsc, a friend to her and her lace hus­ May 26 in Founders Gallery, include character­ band, George, who as a fellow anise trekked istic Wieghorst paintings of realistic horses out to the hills surrounding San Diego in the and their riders, including "Buck.in' For Bucks," lace 1940s with Wieghorst to paint. a 1954 canvas of a rodeo rider that was exhibited "Buckin' For Bucks" "My husband was a man who had equal at the San Diego Museum of Arc. talent, but he spent 40 some years promoting A personal favorite of Grace Thackeray's is (Wieghorst), a friend and someone he gready "Long Walk of che Navajo," which depiccs OLAF WIEGHORST EXHIBIT admired," Grace says. the resecdement of che tribe in an almost Founders Gallery, Founders Hall The Thackeray's San Diego art gallery helped Impressionistic scyle. 12:3 0 p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday-Friday establish Wieghorsc as a prominent Western "He would go out and live among these Through May 26 anise whose works, which once sold for as people and paint chem," she says. "He loved licde as $25 or were exchanged for a bale of the Southwest." hay, are highly sought after by private collectors,

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6 USD MA GAZ I N E DRIVING A USD I.aw grad took on one of THEM the state's biggest bureaucracies - the Department ofMotor Vehicles - CRAZY and, unbelievable as it seems, won.

t all started with a beat-up 1986 Now, the Legislature that imposed the fee emissions systems, and found that most cars Mazda RX-7, a constitutional law stu­ is figuring out how to pay back all those had identical systems or near-identical Ident on a crusade for justice and a mul­ consumers. Gov. Gray Davis set aside $665 systems. In short, the state had unfairly dis­ timillion-dollar tax illegally imposed on an million to repay motorists the fee plus criminated against and taxed a certain group unsuspecting public by a giant government interest, and a bill under consideration in of people, a violation of the constitution. bureaucracy. Sacramento will require the DMV to send After being rebuffed by the federal courts, Sound like the plot elements in a new refund notices to motorists who paid the which can't rule on the constitutionality of John Grisham novel? The California fee , then issue them a check. state tax laws, the attorneys took the case Department of Motor Vehicles wishes it Bur Ramos' first motivation was his own to a scare court. Years of wrangling followed, were that simple. But the six-year legal battle budget - $300 was a hefty chunk for the during which Ramos graduated from law initiated by Barron Ramos, a 1995 School young couple, who had just moved to San school, passed the bar and joined the firm of Law graduate, is no work of fiction. The Diego from Washington. He did some he clerked for as an attorney. But he never reality is that Ramos helped expose how the checking and found that although the DMV let go of the case, helping set up a Web sire state government, in a desperate attempt to claimed cars not originally sold in California (www.smogfee.com) to educate consumers balance the budget, unfairly charged more had different emissions systems, Mazda said about the case and how to obtain a refund. than 1.7 million motorists $300 each, the cars it manufactured were identical. As for his 300 bucks, Ramos has to wait almost a half-billion dollars in all. And they "That's when I thought I had something," along with everyone else for the stare to knew the action was unconstitutional. Ramos says. "And if I did, I knew that this decide what to do. In rhe meantime, he's "The scariest thing is rhar the Legislature would affect a huge number of people." developed a taste for taking on the big boys. and the governor knew what they were Ramos took the issue to his boss, who 'Tm always on the lookout for interesting doing was illegal, because the legislative in turn called upon another firm with cases with big public policy implications," counsel told them so," says the 37-year-old experience in class action cases, which are says Ramos. "Plenty of bad things happen to Ramos. "Bur they needed to raise money for filed on behalf of large groups of consumers. good people, and this is a way to affect the stare coffers, so they went ahead." Experts were called in to analyze auto public policy in a positive way."+ As a law student clerking for a local firm in 1994, Ramos was the first to see that the state's "non-resident smog impact fee," a surcharge imposed on our-of-stare motorists registering their cars in California, couldn't be legal. The fee, used to close massive gaps in the California budget, was imposed under rhe premise that our-of-state vehicles did nor meet California's auto emission standards. If nor for the coincidence of Ramos studying constitutional law at rhe same time his wife registered the couple's old Mazda, the tax could still be on the books. "Everyone paid this fee, including lawyers and judges, and assumed rhar ir had already been put to the test," Ramos says. "Had we paid the fee a year earlier, before I took rhe Con Law course, I wouldn't have thought to challenge it either." Attorney Barron Ramos' license plate takes a cue from a John Grisham novel, "The Rainmaker."

SPRI N G 2000 7 ) )

ister Anastasia Lott lives, works and Eight different languages are spoken, many knows this. The 12 years she has spent in Sprays in a place most Americans will using impossible tongue clicks. Governmental African countries as a Maryknoll sister have never visit. To do so makes little sense. corruption is accepted, a shoulder shrugging taught her the lesson of a missionary's life - There are few roads and fewer buildings. defeat among people who wash away their victories come in a child's smile, a pregnant In some spots, clean water can only be reached frustration and poverty in alcohol. Some woman's acceptance of vitamins, a vi llage by four-wheel drive via a 3-mile sand trail. choose suicide. leader's agreement to let health workers teach. Since there are even fewer working vehicles Those who manage to get ahead are some­ The heroes, she says, are the people them­ than roads, oxen are the preferred means times dragged down by jealous villagers with selves, who eke out a li fe in conditions few of transporting water. gossip, accusations and witchcraft. Foreigners, Americans could imagine. Plumbing is rare. Most use the brush for when they're not handing out food or sup­ "There are a lot of people who just strug­ their milers; the river for bathing. Malaria and plies, are often ignored. gle along day to day, looking for a bit of this tuberculosis are rampant. Rates of AIDS and "Having been in that part of the world," and that to make it through the day," says HIV are the third highest in the world. A says Vernon Lott, Anastasia's father, "I can the 1979 graduate, who spends her days bordering nation's civil war has left scores of honestly say I don't think there is enough organizing and conducting village workshops innocent civilians injured or dead. Those chil­ money in the world to solve all the problems." on health education, women's sewing projects dren who are strong and curious always seem But to approach Namibia, a co untry of and Christian education. "And some real to find forgotten land mines buried in the soil. 1.6 million people bordering South Africa, heroes who generate life and hope for their as a puzzle to be solved is fatalistic, an endless, own families and neighbors." so ul-numbing battle if victory is viewed in Some might think Lott a hero, although terms of American efficiency. Anastasia Lott she likely wouldn't see it that way. Ordered by Maryknoll to leave Rundu, Namibia, for her safety when Angola's civil war seeped into the country last fall, Anastasia has since returned to continue her work. Civilians have been wounded and killed, and a French family, including three children, was murdered in January by rebel bandits. Ir was not the first time danger forced Lott from her work. The sisters had to leave Bura-Tana, Kenya, in 1995 after more than six years working with the Kenyan people. A se ries of robberies was capped by their vehicle being shot up, indicating the mission was being targeted.

ister Lott '79 works a puzzle with children from the St. Charles Lwanga Church in Omulunga, about 250 kilometers south of Rundu , Namibia.

8 USD MAGA Z I N E One nun's spiritual path leads her to A competes with joy on an almost daily b

"Sometimes, yo u ger to rhe point where The communities in Africa leave her both Left: A women's sewing project in Kenya. yo u go to rhe chapel and pray, " says her awed and frustrated. She was amazed by Center: Village children share a laugh with mother, Shirley, who counts among her nine rhe tenacity of a few thousand Kenyans who health care workers. children a U.S. Marine, a highway patrol offi­ were resettled by their government to farm Right: "There are a lot of people who struggle cer and a rock climber. "Bur Anastasia always a semi-arid area. The government-promised along, looking for a bit of this and that, to make has been an independent person, ever since irrigation project never materialized, and rhe it through the day,'' Sister Lott says of the African people. she was born. She's self-reliant and highly people were left to make it on their own. intelligent, so I try nor to worry too much." She counts among rhe heroes the leader of A gifted student at USD, Lorr majored in the nomadic Orma group, who allowed health There also is the constant financial struggle. chemistry, spending rwo summers working care wo rkers to reach women about pre-natal Sisters are supported by sponsors (her parents on covered research projects as an undergrad­ care and vaccinations. "We heard him say, and siblings all have contributed over the uate. Her parents envisioned her becoming years). Lott says the biggest need currently is a physician. She wanted something else. children's and adult books - English is the "Anastasia told me she had a vocation Victories come in a primary language for teaching since Namibia the first day of class," recalls Sister Par gained independence a decade ago. Shaffer, who mentored Lorr in both chem­ child's smile, a pregnant There is little she misses about the United istry and spirituality. "I still see her sirring States, except for family and friends. E-mail there with braces on, saying 'Some day I'm woman's acceptance of is a godsend. Committed to rhe missionary going to be a Maryknoll missionary.' " life, she expects to be in Namibia another Lorr quickly immersed herself in USD vitamins, a village five years. After that, another culture awaits. campus ministry, where she got her first taste "I believe I have good news to share, bur of inspiring others. Thar led to volunteering leader's agreement to let people are nor always ready to appreciate this with the Jesuits, where she spent rwo years good news in the ways that I hope," she as a parish outreach worker for the Catholic health workers teach. admits. "Ir is sometimes hard to keep the Social Services in Utica, N.Y., before working long-range view, the 50- to 100-year vision for four years as a lay missionary in Venezuela. 'We cannot say we do nor know. If we do of transformation in our lives. Ir was there that she decided rhe life of a nor do what is right, it is our own decision.'" "B ur I count it as a great accomplishment missionary nun - which today appeals to Bur the frustrations are many. In some to have valued friendships among people fewer and fewer young American women - places, years of training villagers about com­ with whom I worked - people with whom would be her life. munity health care are abandoned once work­ I shared home, food, ideas, spirit, life. "+ "I came to realize rhar religious life did ers leave. And, she says, Christianity is histori­ nor have to separate some one from the cally associated with education "or getting community, from the poor and struggling," so mething from the European missionaries." Lo rr says via an e-mail interview. "Within "Some of the Christians in places where I For information about Maryknoll or to make a contribution, write to Maryknoll religious community life, as with many have worked have really taken on their faith Sisters, P.O. Box 311, Maryknoll, N.Y., lifestyles, people make certain choices ... and actively do works of mercy - visiting I 0545-03 I I. Sister Lott can be reached and sisters in most apostolic congregations the sick and elderly, helping the needy," Lorr via e-mail at [email protected]. can make choices about their involvement says. "Bur to a great extent, Church belongs wi th rhe community." to Father, nor to the community." SPRING 2000 9 USD's provost speaks fluent Latin and studies ancient Greek architecture, but it is the future ofa cademics that's his true passion.

brushes up against expectations Lazarus rook over the provost's set fo rth by the Church. position in 1996 when Sister Recently, he was called upon Sally Furay retired after serving by a board member co ncerned 24 yea rs in the post. H e studied with a professor's screening classical languages and philos­ a film rhar may have bee n ophy as an undergrad, earning .r r's 11 0 surprise that after a demanding and rewarding on "disres pectful of the C hurch. " a mas ter's degree in Greek and long day shaping the univer­ campus - he works an average Lazarus spoke with rhe profes­ Larin at Cornell , an d a certificate - siry's academic direction, of 10 ro 12 hours a day, meeting so r, watched the film , and asked in che monuments and rypo­ USD Provost Frank Lazarus wi th professors ro discuss cur­ the professor ro discuss how graphy of ancient Rome at rhe goes home and unwinds. riculum, huddling with nearby ir was integrated into rhe cl ass American Academy. In 1968, he Yer he bypasses a soak in the universiry administraro rs ro curriculum. returned ro Cornell fo r a Ph.D . rub or so me mindless telev ision create joint degrees and reaching "Ir was an excellent discuss ion in Larin literature, reaching at for his preferred method of programs, securing federal grants and I learned a great deal ," says Wes t Point·and at Salem College relaxation - radding 2,500- ro ge t low-income high school Lazarus, who went back ro the in North Carolina, where he also year-old Greek architectural students interes ted in attending board and explained the peda­ spent two years as an associate conundrums. Speci fi cally, study­ college, and representing USD gogical value of the film exercise academi c dean. ing the flaws in Doric temples at community functions. portion of rhe class. "T he pe rson His passion for ancient fro m the fi fth and sixth cen­ "Ir's so metimes easy ro draw who made rhe inquiry was com­ ro ngues was nor lost on his wife, turies B.C., (they lack symmetry paral lels between my own per­ pletely satis fi ed char the univer­ Carol, and his three child ren, ar their upper-most corners) and sonal scholarship and my work siry had taken the right positi on who moved 13 rimes as he fur­ developing his theory char the as provost," Lazarus says. "Yo u and appreciated the sensiriviry thered his studies and wound flaws we re put there on purpose. might say I've grown ro like shown ro the ques tion." through rhe academi c ranks. "My ques tion is, were the a challenge." Known on campus for his "I can't carry the rune, bur I architects trying ro create an Responsible fo r steering the srudy of ancient tongues like can sing 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little illusion or did it just happen? " academic future of the univer­ Greek and Larin, Lazarus is Srar' in Larin," says daughter says Lazarus of his own perso nal siry, he also is a li aison between equally well known fo r hi s Julie, a manage ment consultant Rubik's cube. "We know that the board of trustees, rhe pres i­ pro pensiry ro listen ro many wirh PriceWarerhouseCoopers the Greeks we re excellent mathe­ dent's offi ce and the faculry. vo ices while making decisions. in New Yo rk. "I remember how mati cians. Ir wasn't a ques ti on T he high-pro fi le position helps "He does much of his thinki ng he would often bring G reek of sloppy engineering. Bur ro Lazarus achieve his goals, in front of people and is always gods and mythology into lessons prove that, I'm going to have to yet occasionally can land him willing to try ideas our," says about everyday life. He was very go ro G reece and measure a lot between a rock and a hard Professor Par Drinan, dean of the subtle about ir, and ir really more temples." place, particularly at a Catholic college of arts and sciences. "He did help us understand what Q uire a hobby, considering universiry, where ar rimes rends to hear a lot of vo ices, and we were going th ro ugh ro relate Laza rus' job is one of rhe mosr protecting academic freedom char allows fo r more perspective." ro such universal stories. "

10 USD MA G AZ I NE Curtis Cook, business school work and lives his ministry as By john Titchen dean. "His breadth of knowl­ he works." edge and expertise is amazing. One issue chat Lazarus, as Curriculum Vitae He's an anthropologist by avoca­ well as many other university POSITION: Vice President and tion and he's studied the classics, provosts, must cackle is space Provost, 1996 - present yet he's able to lead the profes­ limitations. As rhe demands for AGE: 55 sional schools like education, higher education grow with the law and business so well. He boom of college-age students, ExPERIENCE: Vice president for academic affairs, Marquette stays on top of things." administrators have been forced University, 1988-96; dean Associate Provost Cynthia to discover ways to expand the of rhe College of Arts and Villis worked with Lazarus in availability of a school's resources. Sciences, University of Dayton, getting an $800,000 federal "One of our biggest problems 1980-88; associate academic grant to create an Upward right now," says Lazarus, "is a dean, Salem College, 1979-80; Bound program at USD, which lack of space. So, colleges and assistant professor of classics, brings nearby low-income high universities have to had become Salem College, 1973-78; After reaching the classics, school students into a kind of more creative in overcoming instructor and assistant profes­ Lazarus was named dean of the four-year academic boor camp, the boundaries of space and sor of English, West Point college of arcs and sciences at the with intense tutoring, cultural rime to increase capacity." Military Academy, 1970-73. University of Dayton in Ohio programs and counseling While many believe distance EDUCATION: Ph.D. 1972, from 1980 to 1988, then served designed to get the students learning through the Internet is Cornell, Larin Literature eight years as vice president for prepared for college life. the best answer, Lazarus thinks M.A. 1968, Cornell, academic affairs at Marquette Lazarus will rake rime our of a more promising approach lies Greek and Larin before heading to USD. his schedule to rake the 50 high in strategic learning relation­ B.A., 1966, Canisius College ships and partnerships with PERSONAL: He and Carol, other institutions. Campuses, his wife of 31 years, met as ''It's sometimes easy to draw parallels he says, can ream ro offer joint third-graders in Buffalo, N.Y. degrees or programs and better They have three children: between my own personal scholarship and utilize classrooms, libraries, Cathy, a clerk in a federal my work as provost. You might say I've instructors and materials. Future district court in Milwaukee; teachers, he says, can finish Julie, a management consultant grown to like a challenge. " classes and requirements at for Price WarerhouseCoopers in New York; and Jim, an campuses near their homes at applied bio-medicine student - Frank Lazarus their convenience. at Duke University. "This way," explains Lazarus, He arrived at Alcala Park school students to Los Angeles "we can rake marginal resources LITILE KNOWN FACTS: Uses determined to use his love for a tour of the Gerry Museum. at a number of universities and Latin phrases and refers to and expertise in the classics to "Frank is a man of vision and combine them for a larger num­ Greek mythology in faculty meetings. Won award for his further the academics of a uni­ compassion," says Villis, who ber of students." peanut butter chocolate chip versity preparing to enter the talked the provost into whipping Considering Lazarus' personal cookies at employee picnic. millennium. Among the pro­ up for the program's debut some interest in unraveling ancient grams he helped develop are of his famous peanut butter architects' building plans, map­ QUOTE: "Ir's what a university a master's degree in executive chocolate chip cookies, which ping a blueprint for USD's is all about - seeking our leadership and global leadership won a prize at an employee pic­ academic future is one task the truth with every resource we have available. Because with the School of Business nic. "He really feels this institu­ he savors. we're human and because we're Administration, which allows tion and its people - students, "I enjoy questions," says mortal, we don't know the full non-traditional students like alumni, faculty and staff - Lazarus simply. "Or, more truth yet. One of our tasks - military personnel to pursue deeply and genuinely. He puts important, trying to answer and especially the task of the studies without returning to in the long hours, makes the chem."+ Catholic education - is to a campus full-rime. rough decisions, works with reconcile faith and reason." "He's an erudite and a renais­ ideas and people to consensus, sance man in his thinking," says ask's God's blessing on our

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T rs A VERY UN-SAN DIEGO-LIKE DAY dering baseline game returns and she gets her feet as Zuzana Lesenarova walks onto the USD ten­ moving enough to take the next set. But Bradshaw nis courts - windy, cold, a threatening steel sky. plays to Lesenarova's injury, running her around the It's an appropriate day for Lesenarova's mood. court till the tape no longer works. IShe is coming off a nasty loss in the Rolex National 'Tm sorry, I played so terrible," Lesenarova apolo­ Intercollegiate Indoor Champion ships in Dallas gizes to a friend who came to watch. Bradshaw's where, as the top seed, she was knocked out in the extended family, meanwhile, empties the bleachers, first round of the Grand Slam tournament after hugging and high-fiving the Arizona State University pulling a hamstring. That injury now has her hob­ sophomore. Her father talks about her turning pro. bling around the court flailing at cross-court winners, Giddy, the 19-year-old Bradshaw allows herself a and her frustration is building like the thunderheads huge smile. Unranked, she knows what the victory above. means to her fledgling career - she has just beaten "Nohy, nohy," she yells at herself as she fails to get the woman some consider the best collegiate tennis to a shot hit by opponent Allison Bradshaw, a freck­ player in U.S. history. led-faced San Diego native who not only seems flus­ tered by the fact that she is beating the No. 1-ranked "II Always Ends Up OK" collegiate player, but also because she can't figure our Two days later, the San Diego weather is back in what her Czech Republic-born opponent is yelling proper balance- turquoise sky, rain-scrubbed spring (translated, it's "move your feet"). air. Lesenarova sits by the Sports Center pool and A quick tape of Lesenarova's thigh by assistant points her face to the sun, looking like any other coach Chris Atzet gives her a second wind. Her thun- USD student in sweats and t-shirt and backpack.

BY SUSAN HEROLD

SPRING 20 00 13 Her mood is as bright as the sun, and she Ir is rhar nonchalant arrirude rhar makes a early as her freshman year at USO, when she talks about everything under ir - friends (she college tennis coach want to hug her star play­ began mowing down opponents with her has dozens rather than one best friend), her er and shake her at the same rime. booming forehand and precise ball placement. hometown ("ir's small and dead and people gos­ "Zuzana is an amazing person," says Coach They became deafening when she rook the sip"), relationships ("I seem to have a taste for Sherri Stephens, who has spent more than three court last summer at the U.S. Open, drawing a people who aren't the perfect march for me") - years with her as both coach and friend. "She is wildcard berth due to her national ride. and, oh yes, tennis, although it's nor something a very worldly person. She loves culrure, arr, By joining rhe United Stares Tennis she likes to talk a lot about. Tennis is just one of history. She is a good srudenr. No question she Association pro tour she could have walked has the ralent ro play. The real away with $15,000 from the New York tour­ ------10 ------question is, she is so worldly, and nament, much like 18-year-old San Diego high he only senior on the tennis team, she she likes so many rhings, will she school star Alexandra Stephenson did earlier at jump into tennis with both feet? " Wimbledon. But Lesenarova had something doesn't consider herself a leader, but just Lesenarova may prefer to down­ else in mind. one of the gang. If she finishes a match play tennis in her life, bur the col­ "A television reporter was interviewing her, legiate tennis world makes sure and he asked her what her goal was chis year," early, she checks the team's overall score she can't gloss over i r: She was last says Stephens, who accompanied Lesenarova to and roots on her teammates. year's NCAA National Si ngles rhe Open. "She told him 'ro graduate,' and the Champion, giving USO its first reporter just laughed. And Zuzana told him she Division I championship in any was serious." rhe things she does. Ir does nor, she wants you sport; she holds five Intercollegiate Tennis She is. A college education is the current pri­ to know, define her. Association Grand Slam singles rides, the most ori ry for the 22-year-old, whose life has more "There are rimes I'm frustrated when I'm nor of any arhlere in history; she was the 1999 moving parts than a Swiss Army knife. She car­ playing well," she says in accented bur perfect ITAi Tennis Magazine National Player of the ries a full load of classes for her communica­ English, "because I think I rake things a lot Year; and she was named the 1999 Amateur tions major and business minor, in which she more personally. Ir rakes some rime, you know, Athlete of the Year by the San Diego Hall of has a 3.2 GPA. T here's a part-rime campus job. when I lose and I shouldn't, bur it always ends Champions, the first woman to earn rhe honor An internship at the local NBC affiliate, where up being OK. Ir's tennis, it's nor like I'm having since 1978. she just got done helping cover Tiger Woods in serious problems in my life." The whispers in her ear to rum pro began as the Buick Invitational. Going dancing at Pacific

Sharing Lesenarova's NCAA singles championship win last May is (from left) doubles partner Katarina Valkyova, Coach Sherri Stephens and former assistant coach Jun Hernandez. The money would go away in two weeks, by hat and fears. Her parents didn't want her to the rime you paid a coach and entered tourna­ leave. She was anxious about heading alone to ments, and I would have to start from scratch a new country and a new school. and throw away three years of school. I can start "I didn't know anyone here. I got here at from scratch fou r years later as opposed to three intersession, and rhe guy's crew ream took me years later." in, spoiling me, reaching me all these bad words," she says, laughing. "And the (tennis) Began Playing Al Age 4 ream, they totally accepted me. T hey were try­ It is char same confidence in her athl etic and ing to rake care of me. I wasn't lost, I had some­ mental abilities char got Lesenarova to USD in thing I belonged to. It was such a big difference, the first place. being here and relying on all these new friends. " Her father, Miroslav, a rank mechanic for the Czech Army, pur a wooden cutting board in her "Interesting Character tiny hands at age 4 and had her hit tennis balls to Coach" against the wall. What her dad didn't reach her Like many freshmen away from home the first and older sister, Hana, about tennis, her moth­ rime, Lesenarova rested the waters of her new­ er, Helena, a physical education reacher in their found independence. Particularly in tennis. hometown of Novy Jicin , did. The precocious Stephens struggled with her new scar, who did­ Zuzana would practice her swing and her game n't like her practice or conditioning regimen. several rimes a week outdoors until the October snows came. Then, she switched to skiing­ she was a junior ski champion in the Czech Republic. As she matured and her tennis game improved, Lesenarova and her parents watched several Czech girls move inro the pro ranks. A friend from Lesenarova's hometown tennis club Lesenarova couldn't contain her joy at winning jumped in at age Familiar with the pros and the women's collegiate championship last May 16. in Florida. cons of life on rhe USTA circuit, Miroslav and Helena spoke to their daughter about turning Beach nightspots. And tennis, which requires pro, bur did nor press her. They knew their three hours of practice a day, plus a workout strong-willed child would make up her own and conditioning regimen. mind. Nor the expected schedule of a top college After attending a semester of coll ege in the athlete in today's world, where the lure of a pro Czech Republic, Lesenarova tired of the lack of career can entice a student to concentrate solely academic variety. She got on the Internet to on their game, or drop our and turn pro check our American coll eges. Her sister had worked as an intern at the Los Angeles Times, and Lesenarova uzana is an amazing person," says coach had images of Southern Cali fornia planted firmly in Sherri Stephens. "She is a worldly person. mind. She came across USD She loves culture, art, history. on the Web, liked its academ­ ic programs and its look, and The real question is, she is so worldly, dialed up Stephens. Autograph seekers surround Lesenarova and she likes so many things, will she jump "I asked her how good she at her U.S. Open match last fall. was. And she said, 'Well , I'm into tennis with both feet?" really good,"' Stephens recalls. They burred heads, uncil a point in Lesenarova's ------<0 ------"I asked if she was ranked, and sophomore year when she came close to quir­ she said she was in the top 300 ting. (Woods, for exan1ple, joined the PGA tour after in the world. I said 'OK, chat's pretty good.'" A truce was struck. Lesenarova, who has ren­ his junior year at Stanford). Yer Lesenarova In her application essay, Lesenarova wrote dini ri s in her knees, was all owed to run on knows the odds of making it in the pros do not char she thought the USD campus was beauti­ grass, develop her own conditioning regimen favor the athlete. Rather, she'll roll the dice with ful and the academic program strong. She also and hit with then-assistant coach Jun a college degree. wrote rhe women's tennis team had a "really Hernandez to improve her game. In return, "The U .S. Open was fun. And in a way, it good couch." The misnomer is a running gag Stephens got Lesenarova's promise to commit was good motivation for me ro try and make it with the ream - Stephens often walks onto the to rhe ream and li sten to her coaches. (in the pros)," says Lesenarova, who lost to court only to be mer with "Hi, couch." 'Tm stubborn," admits Lesenarova, who German Sandra Kloesel in the first round. "Bur With a scholarship in hand, Lesenarova left now has a close relationship with Stephens. I definitely decided I was going back to school. her small town in January, bundled in scarf and "My mom and I are especially srubborn. No

SPRf N G 2000 IS matter what people cell us, we do our own thing "c'mon Zuzie." IfLesenarova loses, she'll come and then lacer on we cry co adjust, you know, off the court nearly in tears, celling her coach how you kind of accept things slowly and ic will she let the team down. infiltrate yo u in a way. Ir's hard co accept things, Her team play is demonstrated in her dou­ but once I do, I chink I stick co chem." bles game, where she combines with Kacarina Her stubbornness, Stephens admits, is both Valkyova, who until some early season losses, a bless ing and a curse. was the No. 3-ranked coll egiate player in che nation. Lesenarova, well-muscled and ach­ lecic, helped recruit che coltish, blonde hat her dad didn't teach Slovakian co USD, and che two charter nonsco p in their similar, native congues Zuzana and her older sister about during marches, breaking each ocher up in tennis, her mother, a physical laughter like a European Bob and Ray. And while they're having fun, cheywin. education teacher in their The pair cook their first Grand Slam dou­ hometown of Novy Hein, did. bles tide in October at the Riviera Women's All-American Championships, and are cur­ rencly No. 1 in the nation. "I chink ch at's what makes her good. She The cop cwo seeds on the USD team, the makes up her mind and won't lee down for any­ friends often stare each ocher down on opposite thing," says Stephens. "Bue she can be an inter­ ends of the court. Lesenarova beat Valkyova last esting character co coach. She can tune you out. September in the finals of the T. Rowe Price She can gee frustrated, and can make up her National Clay Court Championships, and they mind she can't play, although over the years she also played each ocher last year when is doing less and less of chat." Lesenarova went on co win the NCM singles The only senior on che tennis ream, she doesn't championship. consider herself a leader, bur j use one of the gang. If she finishes a match early, she checks Tennis Program Lesenarova's parents, Miroslav and Helena, the team's overall score and roots on her team­ Overachieves made the trip from the Czech Republic to New York to watch their youngest daughter mates. They do the same for her, yelling, Developing two of the cop-ranked players in play in the U.S. Open. the nation is testament co USD's reputation as a holisti c environment for the student athlete. "Just trying to get USD known was our And co Stephens' ability as a coach. She's part plight for the longest time," says Stephens. "Bue team mother, part mentor, pare disciplinarian. we have the greatest player in the all-time his­ She huscles for donations when che equipment tory of coll egiate tennis here, and now we can budget runs chin. She even does che team's tell people if she can come her and do it, any­ laundry. one can." "Sherri has done so much for USD. For a school of char size to be ranked consiscencly in Maturing On The Court the top 30 in the nation, and to play big schools In her final season of collegiate tennis, the pres­ and bear chem, is amazing," says former assis­ sure is building on Lesenarova to retain her top tant Hernandez, who now coaches with No. 2- ranking, giving her momentum for the pros. ranked Cal-Berkeley. Her rwo early season losses has dropped her co Women's tennis under Stephens has consis­ No. 3., and a few years earlier, when she was tently overachieved during her 16 years at the easily distracted, the pressure would have helm - finishing in the top 25 eight times - thrown her. le could be coo windy, or the balls bur the tennis powerhouses remain Stanford, were flat. She'd lee superstitions cloud her mind, Florida and Cal-Berkeley. Stephens had the like eating Boston Markee creamed spi nach '~ opportunity co move co a larger program lase before each match, or wearing the same c-shirc summer, but turned it down. She says it sounds throughout a tournament. \.! cliche, but USD's family environment provides "The emotional development just wasn't her support chat big programs don't offer. there in her freshman and sophomore years," Ir's still cough, though, co recruit and keep says Stephens, who has watched dozens of cop student athletes, as well as fight off the female tennis players enter the pros as teens and advances of the USTA circuit, but Stephens' then crumble under che pressure. "Now she's a current marquee players have bolstered USD's whole perso n. Now when she's not playing well Lesenarova, showing her backhand form reputation. The coach is getting more calls from or gees down, she'll fight through it. She learns at the age of 4, learned the game from her father, who had her practice hitting aspiring student athletes. She is stopped now ac from her mistakes." the ball with a wooden cutting board. cournaments by fans and players inquiring There are scill times, though, when a case of about the program. the nerves can be excused. In New York for che

16 USD MAGAZ I NE U.S. Open, Lesenarova stayed at the players' career. Her first step is extending her student hitting and travel. He says it rakes at least three hotel , awestruck to be standing next to Steffi visa, which may require her to get a part-rime years to determine if a player can have a career Graf in the lobby. During warmups, she job. Then she has to find a sponsor to help in the pros. Right now, Lesenarova doesn't want vo lleyed with Aranrxa Sanchez-Vicario on cen­ cover the costs of travel, entering tournamen rs to spend that long to find our. ter court. and a coach, which could reach upward of ''I'll try the pros, maybe for a year, longer ifI "Zuzana gets our onto the court, where her $ 100,000. T he competition is intense, with move up a lot (in rankings). And ifI don't, I'll opponent is hopping from foot to foot, warm­ some 1,500 players vying for tournament spots. probably look at something else," she says. "For ing up. Zuzana sets down her bag, looks up into Bur ultimately, it comes down to commit­ a tennis player I guess I'm old ... I don't want to rhe stands, and starts waving, 'Hi Mom, Hi ment. Current assistant coach Arzer, who now be out there playing until I'm 35.'' Dad,'" says Stephens, who was sirring in the hits with Lesenarova, says she has the talent to Bur first, there is graduation. She wants to go stands. "I turned to the person next to me and home for the summer, hang out in the said, 'We're in trouble.' " 15th century town square, help her Lesenarova double faulted seven rimes. Yer he whispers in her ear to turn pro parents garden. Maybe visit New York she remained in the march, Stephens said, until began as early as her freshman year at again. Maybe learn to surf. she looked up and saw tennis great Ivan Lend.I, "IfI didn't have school, I'd probably a fellow Czech, sirring with her parents, who USD, when she began mowing down be playing until I can't run, bur with made their first trip to the United States to opponents with her booming forehand school I have so many options," she watch her play. adds. "And some people said by still "Ir was sad, because she co uld have won," and precise ball placement. going to school I co uld have lost my Stephens says of Lesenarova's 4-6, 3-6 finish. ------t.C------momentum from last year. Bur I don't "Bur it was a step she needed to rake. She got believe in momentum. As long as I rhar under her belt, and now she's ready to make it on the pro circuit. He's toyed with sray healthy and work hard, I can gain it back. move on." being her coach, bur says he first would have to IfI don't, that's life. Some may say I missed my With graduation ahead, Lesenarova has know she has signed on for rhe full deal - a chance, bur I don't think there's just one allowed herself to begin thinking of a pro grueling schedule of practice, conditioning, chance. In life or tennis." + aea111dl lea, 1111 W11111ents Allllelias

Zuzana Lesenarova isn't the only female ath­ career, and in one of her last games as a replace someone like that right away.'' lete making a mark in the USO record books . Torero, scored 37 points to set a single-game While Toms and her team prepare for a Basketball standout Susie Erpelding and record . Erpelding also helped lead USO to the season without Yanchulova, the Bulgarian volleyball star Petia Yanchulova have domi­ West Coast Conference Tournament star will be trying to make her country's nated the competition in their respective Championship and the NCAA tournament. Olympic beach vol­ sports the past four years , with both poised Hopeful of landing a tryout with a team leyball team . She to enter the increasingly high-profile arena of in the Women 's National Basketball Associa­ and sister Nina professional women's sports . tion , Erpelding also is researching opportuni­ hope to compete "It's kind of exciting to think about it," ties in women's pro leagues abroad . together for their says basketball star "She definitely has a chance to play profes­ native country in Erpelding of a pro sionally," says coach Kathy Marpe, who has the relatively new career. 'Tm kind of watched several of her former players sign sport this year in nervous, but I feel contracts overseas. "Nothing's definite yet, Sydney, Australia. like I'm ready. If I but she 'll play somewhere ." After the Petia Yanchulova get a shot, I'm Volleyball phenom Yanchulova also plans Olympics , the duo plans to compete in a U.S. going to make the on continuing to play after graduation. The beach volleyball tour, where some events most of it. " Bulgaria native owns the career and single feature sizeable winners' checks . After sitting out season records for both kills and digs, lead­ "My goal right now is a gold medal at the Susie Erpelding a redshirt freshman ing USO to the NCAA tournaments in each of Olympics ," says Yanchulova, whose father season in 1996, the 5-foot-9 point guard her four seasons . was a Bulgarian Olympic rower and mother started every game for USO for four years . The 5-foot-11 outside hitter also was a competitive skier. "After that? Well , I just Known for her superior ball-handling skills, named an All-American in her junior and want to keep doing what I love - playing Erpelding was a popular leader both on the senior seasons. volleyball ." court and off. She holds the record for the "We will definitely miss her," coach Jen - John Titchen most points scored in a single season and Toms says. "You cannot just go out and

SPRfN G 2000 17 or all practical Americans. Ir's a migrant town, and much Fpurposes, there is of the work to be found is in the fields, only one way into picking grapes, cabbage and dares. Adults Mecca, Calif. travel r~ Palm Springs or rhe equally upscale You come north Palm Desert, finding work in construction or south on State or maintenance at golf courses and hotels. Highway 111 to the green and white sign Some work for the region's packing compa­ pointing across the Southern Pacific railroad nies. A few teach in the local elementary or tracks, which mark the western boundary of junior high schools, or work in the handful the town. You turn onto 4th Street, maybe of local businesses. wait for one of the frequent lumbering In a town like Mecca, families stick close freight trains to pass, and cross the double together, and youngsters are brought up set of tracks into Mecca, a mile-square niche to do as their hardworking parents have in Southern California's fertile Coachella done. Until they are bused 15 miles away Vall ey, where dates, alfalfa, grapes and other to high school in Coachell a - along with citrus crops are grown, picked, packaged thousands of other students from surround­ and shipped out to supermarkets around ing towns - they don't frequently cross rhe country. the rail road tracks. Most have never made

The crops are fed by rhe Coachell a Canal, the three-hour drive to San Diego or Los which swings close to rhe eastern side of Angeles. In a town with only one way in, ir Mecca, separating it from nearby Joshua Tree can easil y look like there's no way out. National Park. The canal was constructed by But some USD students are changing rhe federal government in rhe 1940s as part that. Each fall, members of the Founders of a larger irrigation plan for the region. It's Club - an organization that keeps alive rhe a rriburary of rhe All-American Canal sys­ spirit of USD founders Mother Rosalie Hill tem, which irrigates more than 630,000 and Bishop Charles Buddy with community acres with water from rhe Colorado River. se rvice and outreach - make a journey to In Mecca, rh e Coachella Canal is pretty Mecca, meet with teens and help chem chink much rhe only evidence that the federal gov­ about college, life and their place in the ernment exists at all. In contrast to the wide, world. Every spring, chose same teens come tree-lined boulevards of tony Palm Springs, to San Diego to tour USD and participate in only 30 minutes to the north, Mecca's roads a two-day retreat that encompasses social are mostly unpaved. There are no fast-food skills, spiritual reflection, future aspirations chains, gas stations or strip malls, only a and, especially, the practical aspects of get­ small market and a sparsely furnished restau­ ting into a university. rant. California's famous car culture van ishes, as people walk rhe dusty streets, and small groups of men cluster under trees, talking or playing cards. Spanish is the language RIGHT: On a cold day in early spring, the of this town, and Engli sh-speaking visitors fields near Mecca are covered, waiting for are greeted with surprise and, occasionally, the growing and harvesting season. susp1c10n. FAR RIGHT: At USO, the process of cultivat­ The mild distrust is not surprising. Mecca ing young minds begins with a tour of Alcala gets few visitors. Many of the town's adult Park, the first college campus most of these inhabitants are first-generation Mexican- teenagers from Mecca have visited. "We get them our in the world so they last May wid1 a double major in Spanish and ca n see what it's like," says Sister Par Shaffer, rh eology, Coyre will mos tly likely reach third a retired chemistry professo r and fa culty grade nex t year at Mecca's elementary school. adviser ro the club. "These are good kids Bue she's not done with her education yet. fro m good families, bur they have a hard "I wa ne ro get a mas ter's degree and a rime seeing beyond hi gh school graduation. Ph.D. in rheology," says Coyre, who was We try ro raise their hopes and show them part of the first group of Mecca youths who more possi bilities." visited the campus. "Eventuall y I'd like ro be a unive rsity professo r ... maybe at US D.'' The off-season between harvests forces many Getting a Chance To Sister Shaffer and rhe USD students of the adults in Mecca to await word of work, If rhe Mecca Yo uth Group Project, as rhe who participate in rhe project, Coyre is d1e and men often gather in the town center to Fo unders C lub effo rt is known, ever needs a ideal example of what a kid from Mecca can pass the time. poster child, they can call on Lupita Coyre. accomplish when give n a chance. Before O f the alm ost 200 teenage rs from Mecca meeting with USD students, Coyre had co n­ Alcal a Park. Coyre fell in love with the who have visi ted US D since the project's sidered co ll ege, but hadn't made it a priority. campus and the community atmosphere. inception almost a decade ago, she's one who Ar bes t, she expected ro attend communi ty Admitted thro ugh the un iversity's Equal has bro ught the program full circle. Now college in San Bernardino. T hings changed Opportuni ty Program, which supports back in Mecca afrer graduating from USD when she met with USD srudencs and saw disadva ntaged students during the

by Michael R. Haskins plenty of student loans to pay off before recent Sunday, she was on the floor among she goes co graduate school. 15 or so boys and girls from Mecca, draw­ Still, she discovered an academic disci­ ing a rainforest scene on a large rectangle pline chat's not common at ocher univer­ of poster paper. The exercise is one in a Mecca is a small community, but the town is growing along with the area's agricultural si ties, and says she never felc like help was full day of activities char provide rime for businesses. Many residents build their own far away. Two professors cook her under creative thoughts about ocher places in houses through a land-grant program, their wing, even traveling with her co the world. others move into one of the town's new Miami, Fla., for a rheology conference. Tweedy organized the first retreat for the apartment complexes. On campus, the students who convinced Mecca youths, establishing many of the tra­ her to come co USD also were around. ditions chat subsequent student leaders have admissions process and helps chem through "One of the students who visited Mecca built upon, and comes back every year. The the first two years on campus, she found and met with me was Suzie Tweedy, and retreat weekend scares and ends with aca­ her calling when she rook a class in Latino she turned out co be my residence assistant demics, as the teenagers cour the campus on theology. freshman year," says Coyre. "She was one a Saturday morning and learn about finan­ Bur her story is no fairy tale. At times, of the first people co make me feel wel­ cial aid, admissions and ocher practical Coyce struggled to fit in on a campus where come, and after talking co her I felt like I aspects of university life before they return it often seemed char other students had the belonged, char I wasn't so different." co Mecca the next day. In between, they things - money, nice cars, fashionable hang out with the USD smdents at the clothes - she didn't possess. Although she No Lectures, Just Talk peaceful Quesrhaven retreat complex, situ­ twice went to Guadalajara, Mexico, for USD's If Lupita Coyce is a child of the Mecca ated in rhe mountains northeast of the city. highly regarded summer program, she also Youth Group Project, then Suzie Tweedy is There they have fun with goofy activities returned to Mecca for two summers to join a proud parent. Tweedy graduated from such as musical chairs or charades, and also her parents in the grape fields, picking fruit USD in 1997 and is now an elementary have rhe chance co get creative with skies co raise money for school. And she's got school teacher in San Diego, but on a about life and small group reflection.

Sister Pat Shaffer (left) spent more than 40 years educating students in round-trip to pick up teenagers like these from Mecca and bring them USD's chemistry labs and classrooms. Now retired, Sister Shaffer keeps to USD, and she's always on the lookout for caring students to recruit the Mecca Youth Group Project going - she still drives a van six hours for the Founders Club.

20 USO MAGA Z I N E chrough rhe experi­ ence. Jammed inco an overcrowded high school wich chousands of scudencs and few counselors, chey gee lose in rhe shuffle and lose sighc of chings like college prep courses, SAT reviews, applica­ cion deadlines and campus visics. Wich­ ouc anyone paying anencion, ic's easy for chem co give up or The middle child in a family with five girls and one boy, Lupita Coyte '97 is the first to attend believe char finances a university, but she's set the example for her presenc an impossible younger siblings like 15-year-old Gabriella, who obscacle. says she too plans a college career. Thar's why Criscina Gonzalez, an assis­ "We don'c leccure chem abouc college or canc in USD's Equal push coo hard co make chem calk abouc whac Opporcunicy Program chey wane co do wich cheir lives, we jusc office, visics wich every have fun and lee chem open up when chey're gro up of Mecca yo urhs ready," says Tweedy. "Afcer chey see che who come co San campus and gee comforcable wich us, chey Diego. Gonzalez grew scare co chink abouc whac lies ahead for chem, up in che cown of whac cheir fucure mighc be. " Thermal, Calif., jusc Thar, in a nucshell, is che plan. Siscer down che road from Mecca. Her family Shaffer heard abouc Mecca chrough a con­ scill belongs co che church in Mecca, and neccion wich a nun from her order, The Gonzalez recurns cwice a monch co accend Sociecy of che Sacred Heare, who served services. Alchough her friend Lupica Coyce che church chere. When asked whac could was in che firsc Mecca Youch Group Projecc, be done co encourage che personal growch Gonzalez was sore of an earlier cesc case for of che children, she was poinced co che che projecc. She was among four scudencs confirmacion classes conducced by local from T hermal who visiced USD in high residenc Escher Gonzalez. While Gonzalez school, and che only one of che fouc co caughc che children abouc religion and come co USD. Afcer graduacing in 1998, spiricualicy in preparacion for cheir confir­ she scayed on co work ac che universicy. She macion - che Cacholic rice of passage inco knows mosc of che families in Mecca, and adulchood - she needed some help co che kids who visic che campus can relace gee chem ch inking beyond cheir classroom co her experiences. and cheir cown. "I see mosc of chem every ocher week in church, so I can kind of keep cabs on Overcoming the Obstacles chem and find ouc how chey're doing," says Esther Gonzalez works as an accounting "My scudencs aren'c exposed co many differ­ Gonzalez. "When I came co USD, I didn'c clerk for a grape grower near Mecca, but on enc cypes of people or poincs of view. For have someone from my own communicy Sundays she's in class with her confirmation mosc, ic's a big deal jusc co graduace from co help me chrough che adjuscmenc. Now students. While the bilingual classes bring students closer to spiritual adulthood, the high school," says Gonzalez. "Ir's noc so chey have me." Mecca Youth Group Project shows them an much a lack of inceresc in college, ic's more a Seeing someone fami liar like Criscina adult education is possible as well. lack of awareness. The more chey calk abouc Gonzalez is comforcing, buc che scudencs in ic and learn whac ic cakes co gee inco a uni­ Escher Gonzalez's confirmacion class also versicy, che more inceresced chey are." enjoy meecing chose who are differenc from Or chey have choughc abouc college, and chemselves. Cynchia Galaviz, a 13-year-old jus c don'c know anyone else who's been who already knows she wanes co be an

SPR I NG 2 000 21 architect, says the older menrnrs from USD USD. I think the Founders Club had a lot helped her find out more about herself and tO do with it. " her peers. She hangs onrn the Road to College Srnries like that keep USD students and booklet she was given, which helps her track alumni coming back to the project year her grades and academic progress rnward after year. Most are recruited early by Sister a college career. Another student in the Shaffer, who seems to have a knack for confirmation class, Teresa Diaz, enjoys talk­ knowing which students will be interesred Shaffer's chemistry students as well , and ing about li fe and her future. Al though she in the club's activities, which have included found that she li ked the idea of being a doesn't yet know what she wants tO be, she's flower deliveries tO senior citizen's homes, friend tO younger students. thinking seriously about coming tO USD. house building in Tijuana, working with "Ir's pretty amazing to see the amount of "It's great if they consider USD, but we youngs ters in Sa n Diego's juvenile hall and souJ-searching that goes on at these retreats," hope mainly tO broaden their horizons and turoring projects. For sophomore Jacky says Yoon. "These students are raised as if let them know they will find support if Yoon, who coordinated this year's retreat, they are going to stay in Mecca, and they they need it," says Jim Meye rs '98, a former and freshman Erika Teutsch, who traveled tO haven't thought about many other options. Founders C lub member who returned for Mecca las t fall, the connection was a natural To see them loving the idea of going tO this year's retreat. "It's not just about encour­ one. Teutsch attended a Sacred Heart high college and believing that it's possible, that aging them tO have goals, but also tO let school in Omaha, Yoon went tO another brings a deeper meaning rn their life ... them know those goals aren't beyond hope." in New York City. Yoon was one of Sister and tO mine." +

AWarm Welcome For information on donations or assistance Only a handful of the teens who for the Mecca Youth Group Project, contact participate in the Mecca Youth Sister Pat Shaffer at (619) 260-4034 or Group Project attend USD, but [email protected]. many do go on rn college. Some attend community colleges such as the College of the Desert, or enter the University of California sys tem at San Diego, Irvine or Redlands. Others go tO San Diego State or UCLA. Not all say that the students they met from USD were the decid­ ing facrnr in their going to coll ege, but tO most the Founders C lub visi t and retreat make a big impression. "USD wasn't a first choice for me until I met the Founders C lub students," says Marianna Lopez, who graduated las t summer and ABOVE: Sister Shaffer recruits student is working rnward a master's in leaders to lead activities for the teenagers from Mecca. counseling at San Diego State. "Visiting the campus wasn't just TOP AND LEFT: The spring trip to USO and li ke taking an ordinary rn ur. T he a local retreat complex begins with tours of students brought me here because the campus and information on admissions, they wanted me here, and they financial aid and campus life. At the same time they're exposed to college life, the visi­ were so warm and welcoming. tors from Mecca learn about the city and I got into all the schools I applied think about their future goals. rn, but so mething made me pick

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•1970• •1974• • 1978• working with the Arkansas, Reunion Celebration CLASS CHAIRS CLASS CHAIR Oregon and Oklahoma reserve October 6-8 Victoria (Westervelt) Nasman Stephen L. Plourd components. Roberto and his CLASS CHAIRS Doug Robert wife, Manuela, have two sons, Rosemary (Masterson) Johnston UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Eric, 11, and Brian, 9. "Having G. Vincent Reardon Jr. UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Todd Handy is an accounting lots of fun, should be my last Russel Neuhart (M.R.E. '83) is manager in Aurora, Colo., where assignment, can't wait co retire. " UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI completing his doctoral studies in he also is a collegiate and high Since leaving che USD faculty in applied psychology and is a social school volleyball official. • 1981• 1990, Nicolas Reveles was work counselor in San Marcos, director of music at Sacred Heare Calif. CLASS CHAIR Church in Coronado and chen •1979• Richard Huver served as pianist/ music director CLASS CHAIR for Mikhail Baryshnikov and che • 197S• Kathy (George) Frisbie UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI White Oak Dance Project, travel­ ffl Reunion Celebration Virginia (Mann) Terndrup put ing around the world. In 1998 he ID October 6-8 CLASS CORRESPONDENT her job on hold for a while co was hired as director of education CLASS CHAIR Dorothy Keccel-Kneski cake care of her three children, and outreach for the San Diego Dennis Blair 20 Sandpiper Court Michael, 11, Haley, 9, and Colin, Opera, with 350 performances a Westhampton, N.Y. 11977-1410 6. Virginia substitute reaches year ac San Diego County and CLASS CORRESPONDENT occasionally for schools in che Baja, Mexico, schools. He also is William Uberci GRADUATE AND LAW Menlo Park, Calif., area .... the hose of "Operacalk" on 15660 Southwest 123rd Avenue SCHOOL ALUMNI Tish (Johnson) Weamer UCSD-TV Miami, FL 33177 Florence Lutz (M.Ed.) is chang­ reporcs she is happily married ing careers after teaching special and has a 2-year-old daughter. education students for 11 years. •1971• •1976• .. . Susan Eden berg Westlake •1983• CLASS CHAIR CLASS CHAIRS Q.D.) recencly joined General Steve Nasman Randy Klotz Electric Co., as associate trade­ CLASS CHAIR Maureen Phalen mark counsel in Fairfield, Conn. Chris Pascale CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lawrence Pickard UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI CLASS CORRESPONDENT 4906 New Cascle Street John Jakubczyk is an accorney •1980• Rick Sanchez Riverside, CA 92509 in Phoenix, Ariz., and writes: Reunion Celebration 1453 West Kesler Lane "Within the lase year I played October 6-8 Chandler, AZ 85224 Frank in "Annie Gee Your Gun;" CLASS CHAIR e-mail: [email protected] • 1971• was elected president of Arizona Carrie (Galvin) Dern CLASS CHAIR Right co Life; stepped down as UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Roy Lechner president of Ville de Marie UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Eileen Doyle is a psychotherapist Academy; saw che first birthday Dan Pritchard lives in London in private practice in New Jersey. of our ninth child, Justin; and where he is self-employed as a Eileen and her husband, Robert • 1973• watched six of our children ace in German treasury futures trader. Tomaiko, have a son, Jesse, 6 .... UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI the play "Beauty and the Beast" Scott McKay and his wife, Roger Leonard has designed in August. Jennifer (Paine) McKay 'BS , buildings in Southern California • 1981• recently moved from Park City, for the past 17 years, including CLASS CHAIR Utah, co Tucson, Ariz. , with their che USD Hughes Administration •1977• Hugh Swift three daughters, Natalie, 8, Building renovation, the law CLASS CHAIR Bridget, 6, and Kendall, 3. Scott school library and che fountain Sam Dove CLASS CORRESPONDENT develops custom homes and plaza in the middle of campus. Lisa Sill Jennifer teaches spinning and He currencly is working on Native CLASS CORRESPONDENT 10720 Ohio Avenue, #12 works in interior design. American casinos in California Michael Aeling Los Angeles, CA 90024 and private residences in La Jolla. 48 Darlene Street GRADUATE AND LAW St. Paul, MN 55119-4908 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI SCHOOL ALUMNI Roberto Vissepo has been in Sandra Solem (M.S.N.) is a the Army for 17 years, recently Ph.D. candidate at the USD arriving in Fort Carson in School of Nursing and is an asso­ Colorado Springs, Colo., where ciate professor at Point Loma he is an assistant inspector general Nazarene University.

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•CLASS OF '90• To the Ends of the Earth

ou Marino can be a tough before he climbs the Andes in and adventurer by nature, Marino "It's a risky lifestyle," says Lguy to catch up with. Ecuador or the Himalayas in has wandered the planet working Marino of the remote area, which If you miss him backpacking Nepal.That is, unless he's hiking as a trekking guide. is susceptible to avalanches. "I've through the Southwestern United the jungles of Indonesia or the If all else fails, you can try lost friends and have had to go States, you might reach him Australian outback. A traveler him at home in the French Alps, looking fo r some who were lost." the mountaineering capital of Marino plans to set his house the world. up as a lodge for small groups of "City life is not for me ," says travelers who wish to ski, climb Marino. "I wouldn't say mine is or hike in the nearby mountains. a simple life , but I definitely try He currently works for a French to keep it as uncluttered and as trekking company, but says his uncomplicated as possible." business will cater to British and Marino has made adventure American visitors by offering a career since graduating from internationally credentialed, USO in 1990, and may soon make English-speaking guides. his fortune from it. The interna­ The son of an American oil tional relations and French major company executive, Marino is completing work on a state­ was born in Tripoli, grew up in required trekker's license and Indonesia and Connecticut and hopes to lead excursions into spent each summer between the the French Alps next winter. ages of 9 and I5 with family in "People from all over the the Normandy area of France. world come here to go climbing His French is so good residents and mountaineering," Marino don't suspect he's an American says of Charmonix, an area of with dual citizenship. Since it is the Alps near Switzerland where easier for him to do business he makes his home. as a Frenchman, Marino isn't It is from his home that Marino always forthright about his hopes to fash ion a lucrative busi­ American roots. ness. Several years ago he saved "I guess I've just always had enough money from his adventur­ a penchant for France," says er jobs to buy a ISO-year-old Marino, who shares his spruced barn. A I0-minute hike from the up barn with Karin Stubenvoll, tiny town ofVallorcine, population his German girlfriend of several 400, the property has no access years. "I've just always preferred road, so Marino flew construction life over here." materials in by helicopter to Lou Marino can be reached Lou Marino '90 (right) at the summit of Dent Blanche, transform it into his comfortable, at [email protected]. a 4,000-meter peak in Switzerland. if modest, home.

• 1984• UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI of Kansas, where her position GRADUATE AND LAW Carol (Howard) Leland SCHOOL ALUMNI CLASS CHAIR allows her to partner with com­ Marie Fredenburg (M.S.N.) T im H uckaby received a master's degree in munity members, practitio ners, geography and regional planning researchers and policymakers co is a psychiatric nurse clinical specialist in Manassas, Va., and CLASS CORRESPONDENT from Cali fo rnia Univers ity of affect social change. In addition is a full-rime student in the nurse Norma Samaniego Pennsylvania. She curren tly co reaching and research, Debora 489 Pescado Place reaches geography as an adjunct is working on a feminise oriented practitioner program at the University of Virginia. Encinitas, CA 92024 professor at Fairmont Scare collaborative writing project. ... e-mail: [email protected] College .... Debora Ortega is Quelene (Yapp) Slattery and a professor in the School of her husband, Tom, have two Social Welfare at the University so ns, Blaize, 3, and Zackery, I.

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• 1985• •1986• UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI with her 2-year-old daughter, E. Gillis Anspacher works for ffl Reunion Celebration CLASS CHAIR Alyson, and a newborn. Susan rz!I October 6-8 James Pierik the University of Guam develop­ and her husband, Delmar CLASS CHAIR ing education and conservation Williams '94 Q.D.) live in Maggie Keller Hawbliczel CLASS CORRESPONDENT programs for islands throughout Temecula, Calif. .. . Michelle Shannon Smith Micronesia .... Karen (Agne) Wilmoth-Milazzo has left CLASS CORRESPONDENT 520 E. 76th Sc. Bergman is a physical therapist teaching co be a stay-at-home Kacie (O'Rourke) Delano No. 12-B for Montgomery Hospital in mother co her children, Tanner, 425 Yale Avenue New York, NY 10021 Norristown, Pa. Karen and 4, and Kate, 18 months. Coalinga, CA 93210 email: shsmich@dlj .com her husband, Keith, have two children, Stefan, 6, and Chelsea, GRADUATE AND LAW UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI 3 .... Augusta (Zoni) Cerny SCHOOL ALUMNI Jill Bradley-Applegate and her Maurice Wahlmeier is an arc works for the Senior Regulatory Michael Kallas (M.A.) led his husband, Russell Applegate, live director for a catalog company in Affairs Association in San Diego. class from Holy Cross Greek in Chandler, Ariz., where Russell Lakewood, Colo. Maurice met She and her husband have an Orthodox School of Theology works for the Chandler Fire his wife, Lori, on an airplane and 18-monch-old daughter, Karina. on an ecumenical visit co Milan, Department . ... Bret Campbell they have two daughters, Bailey ... Laura Checkman is a fifth Italy, visiting churches and and his family recencly moved co Nicole, 4, and Danielle Marie, grade teacher at Los Encinas monasteries. Michael and his Dallas from Puerto Rico, where 18 months. School in Encino, Calif. Laura wife, Katina, live on the Hellenic he worked the past four years for and her husband, Michael College campus in Brook.line, KPMG .... Timothy Dunn is Murdock, live in Topanga, Calif. Mass., where Michael also teach­ the deputy manager for safety for •1987• ... Terry (Schmidt) Kalfayan es in the human development the cicy and county of Denver. ... CLASS CHAIR is an accountant with Sharp department. Victor Galvez is a financial con­ Philip Welp Healthcare in San Diego. Terry and her husband, George sultant in San Diego. He and his •1989• wife have two children, Tatiana CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kalfayan, have a daughter, Tess CLASS CHAIR and Galileo .... Cmdr. Steve Niamh Foley Homan Carmela, 2. "George wanes every­ Tom Gorman Kelly was recencly selected for 1479 Wild Inslane one in Delea Sigma Pi co know promotion co Operational Orange Park, FL 32073-7071 che baby has Terry's hair." ... CLASS CORRESPONDENT Aviation Command for the U.S. Patty LaBar was promoted co Colleen Blackmore Pappas Navy in Stuttgart, Germany, UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI director of management for 6910 Blue Orchid Lane where he lives with his wife and Jorge Adam earned his M.B.A. Professional Community Carlsbad, CA 92009 three children .... C. Douglas and spent six years working for Management in Lake Forest, Kroll is a Ph.D. candidate in Nabisco Venezuela before joining Calif. Pacey and her husband, UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI history at Claremont Graduate Venezuela's leading newspaper in Christopher, have two children, Lauren Azevdo has worked in University and an adjunct profes­ 1998 as head of marketing and Matthew and Megan Rylee . ... medical sales since 1989. She sor. ... Kathy Jo (Coldiron) sales. Jorge and his wife, David LaPuma is an owner of plays tennis and runs, recencly McNamara recencly moved Jacqueline, have two children, Abercrombie Investment Corp. completing the San Diego co Scottsdale, Ariz., with her Andres, 6, and Ana Sofia, 2 . ... He was married in 1996 co wife Marathon 2000 . ... Linn Bekins husband, Daniel, and their three Eric Bennett and his wife, Lori Bech .... Brett Gedryn and his recently completed a Ph.D. in children, Connie, 7, Michael, 5, (Morgan) Bennett have three wife, Melinda, have three chil­ technical communications and and James, 3. children, Easton, 6, Kacie, 4, and dren, Brittany, 8, Sydney, 6, and Matthew, 2. Eric teaches the Jake, 3 .... Gina Rivera-Miya is a professor at San Diego State Kimberly Judd­ GRADUATE AND LAW Spanish immersion program in works pare time as a psychiatrist University.. .. SCHOOL ALUMNI middle school in Portland, Ore., and cares for her son, Brennan, Cook works in a child care facili­ Lucinda Eddy is director of edu­ and runs a painting company 3. ... Jocylan (Nawrot) Torres ty and a fitness center when she cation at the Woodrow Wilson during the summer. is an employment counselor in is not home with her son, Dyllan Birthplace Museum and serves San Luis Obispo, Calif. Jocylan Robert, 18 months, and daughter, on the Virginia Association of and her husband, Randy, have Sarah Elizabeth-Ann, 8. Kimberly Museums committee. • 1988• two sons, Jordan, 7, and Connor and her husband, Glen, live in CLASS CHAIR 5 . ... Brian Thornton was direc­ El Cajon, Calif. Jacki (Cepe) Lake tor of special events for the San Diego Chargers before starting CLASS CORRESPONDENT his own business. Brian and his Joannie (Santoni) McLaughlin wife, Janee, have a 3-year-old son, 11454 Eastridge Place Sammy. .. . Susan (Edwards) San Diego, CA 92131 Williams is a stay-at-home mom

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•1990• • 1991 • • 1992• Jennifer Blandford plans on graduating in May from Notre ffl Reunion Celebration CLASS CHAIR CLASS CHAIRS m October 6-8 Rick Apel Charlie Bush Dame with an M.B.A. and will CLASS CHAIR Greg Weaver pursue a career in marketing .... Estela Lopez CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kimberly Booth is an acco unt Glenn Hickok CLASS CORRESPONDENT supervisor with J. Walter CLASS CORRESPONDENT 5060 La Jolla Blvd., No. 3A Mike Williams Thompson Advertising in San April (Flores) Goodjohn La Jolla, CA 92109 1020 Honeysuckle Drive Francisco. Her clients include 7187 Willet Circle San Marcos, CA 92069 several popular wineries . ... Carlsbad, CA 92009 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI email: MikeWz@Pacbell. Net Tiffni Jellinek is halfway Derrick Johnson moved twice through a one-year residency UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI in 1999 - from Boston to UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI at the Shakespeare Theater in David Carpenter received his Newport, R.I., and then to San Peter Duncan is a rest pilot Washington, D.C., after several master of fine arts degree from Diego. He earned a master's in with Pilarus Business Aircrafr in appearances on the soap operas USC School of Cinema and international relations from Broomfield, Colo., and lives in "One Life to Live" and "As The works as a coordinator for on-air Boston Universiry and taught Boulder. He says he "decided to World Turns." She graduated and online services for MGM navigation classes at Boston pursue my dream of flying after from Rutgers Universiry in May Worldwide Television Group in Universiry and M.I.T. He and USD," reaching in Boulder and 1998 with a master of fine southern California .... Jennifer wife Brenda have a 2-year-old working as a chief flight instruc­ arcs in acting . ... Catherine (Z immer) Howard is develop­ daughter and are expecting tor with the NOAA, for whom (Dufort) Kuiper is a Spanish ing an educational civic curricu­ another chis spring. .. . Carrie he also did atmospheric research teacher at Julian High School lum for the country of Azerbaijan (Bouloukos) Sauntry and flights . .. . Steven Flack is a and lives with husband Jason at Montana State Universiry. husband Jeff recently celebrated marketing manager with in Julian, Calif. She runs a surf Jennifer and her husband, Jeffrey, their second wedding anniversary Hewlett-Packard in Singapore, club at the school and has five have two sons, Cole, 5, and in Australia. She works as a where he lives with wife Kyung­ dogs and two kittens .... Tony Austin, 3 . ... Kelly (England) principal consultant fo r Hee .... Kara Mullen recently Moeder spent four seasons play­ McElwain wri tes the gifted cur­ PricewarerhouseCoopers, a moved from Seattle to Boston to ing in the Anaheim Angels farm riculum for the Broward Counry New York Ciry supply chain be closer to her family. She is the system after graduation. In 1995, School Board and is teaching management consulting group. administrative manager of the he met wife Kathy in Cedar gifted fourth and fifth graders She commutes weekly to the Big Tsai Performance Center at Rapids, Iowa, while playing for in Weston, Fla. Kelly and her Apple from the couple's Raleigh, Boston Universiry, which presents the Angels' single-A cl ub. They husband, Doug, we re married in N.C., home. Carrie began Duke symphonies, theatrical produc­ were married in 1996 and he has August 1998 in Fort Lauderdale, Universiry's Executive M.B.A. tions and operas .... Jocbethem since taken a job with her family's Fla .... William Scheibner Jr. program this spring. Tahapary is director of the business, Laser Tech USN Office is a foreign service officer with Upward Bound program at USD Express. the U.S. Department of State, GRADUATE AND LAW and plans to start working on an serving in Istanbul, Turkey, as SCHOOL ALUMNI Ed.D in leadership studies this GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI vice consul in the American Amy (Etscheid) Leggett (J.D.) fall. He lives with wife Julie and Joanne (Zipay) Hernandez Consulate General. ... Shannon quit worki ng as an attorney in a Yorkshire Terrier named Keiko (M .F.A.) is a director and teacher Taylor recently bought a house August 1997 after the birth of in Tierrasanta. in Anchorage, Alaska, where she her first daughter, Madison. She with the Judith Shakespeare teaches seventh and eighth grade recently began doing contract Company in New York Ciry. at-risk students in a behavioral work for several attorneys while • 1993• Husband Philip Hernandez performs the lead in "Les al ternative program. awaiting the birth of her second CLASS CHAIR child, and plans on working part Houssam Aboukhater Miserables" on Broadway. She time until her children are in reporrs they are busy raising school. CLASS CORRESPONDENT 2-year-old daughter Mariah. Hays (Fraim) Padrnos 9832 Crystallo Court Parker, CO 80134

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Lilia Alvarez is a notary public with Casa de Pueblo Bookkeeping and Tax in San Diego. She and husband Neftali have two chil­ dren, Eric and Moses ....

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• 1994• •CLASS OF '94• CLASS CHAIR Tom Vertetis Immersed in His Job CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lauren (Riaski) Young homas Mcfeely grew up in Virgin ia Beach, "Often we train animals to separate from a 7948 E. Vassar Drive T attended high school in Hawaii, developed an group," he says of a technique to change the animals' Denver, CO 80231 interest in marine science in San Diego, and now instincts to pack together, making it easier and safer has a job where he spends most of the day in salt­ to conduct husbandry studies. "That's a large part UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI water with dolph ins and whales. of the work. We also study their natural behavior Kristin Banner is a second grade In Chicago. and how they live ." reacher at Highline Elementary Mcfeely is a marine mammal trainer with that Mcfeely says he has never felt threatened by an in Denver, where she lives .... midwestern city's renowned John G. Shedd an imal in his three years at the Shedd, but adds that, Sherri Bliss is a recruiter wi th Aquarium. Four days a week, he climbs into the "Anytime you're in the water with a 2,000-pound Candle Corporation, an IT com­ water with beluga whales, dolphins, sea and river whale or a 300-pound dolphin, it can be dangerous." pany in Los Angeles. She reporrs otters, harbor seals and penguins, tu rtles and Though he practically grew up in the Atlantic and that she's "lived all over Southern sharks. He loves his work, but admits he sometimes Pacific oceans as the son of a Navy officer, Mcfeely California and in Las Vegas for a longs for the open sea. wasn 't always interested in working with marine year" since graduating. She's also "I do miss the water and ocean," says the 1994 mammals. in school at UCLA, working on graduate. "But Chicago is a great city and I'm fortu­ "It's funny in a way," he explains. "Every day, I'd a certificate in human resources nate to be working at a place like the Shedd." drive by Sea World on the way to school at USD, management .... Scott Buccola Marine mammal training is a conditioning process but I never thought I'd go into marine biology. It recently moved from San through which animals receive mental stimulation, just sort of happened ." Francisco to Washington, D.C., physical exercise and husbandry care. Mcfeely is Mcfeely spent two years in the ROTC program where he is a regional sales man­ involved primarily with animal husbandry, determin­ before electing to major in biology. After graduation, ager at InterCall. .. . Kristin ing how animals interact, mate, give birth and live. he was at home in Virginia looking fo r jobs when he (Eck) Enriquez fin ished a Ph.D. The animals he works with are part of exhibits saw an ad for a small aquarium. He volunteered at at Tulane Universiry last year and designed to convey the complexity of envi ronmental the Virginia Maritime Science Museum before taking is now a firs t-year student at the habitats and conservation issues, and it is Mcfeely's a job in its educational outreach program. Mcfeely Tulane's medical school. ... job to maintain that environment. spent th ree years discussing Virginia's various marine Justin Fancher quit his job of animal life with junior high and high school students fou r years as an investment before moving to the Shedd. banker and moved to Vienna, "I liked the educational side of things ," says Austria, to play and coach base­ Mcfeely, "but as I spent more and more time with ball. After seven months abroad, the animals, I discovered that it was not only some­ he returned to San Francisco as thing I really loved, but also something I was pretty an analyst for an online invest­ good at." ment firm .... Patricia (Hiraoka) Marabella finished her M.B.A. in 1998. She is married to Christian Marabella '93 . .. . Maria (Climi) Jordan '94 and her husband, Robert, make their home in Mentone, Calif., where she's on a leave of absence from her assistant marketing coordina­ tor's job at Environmental Systems Research. T he couple welcomed their first child, Madeline Rachelle, May 27, 1998 .... John Lambert moved home to Colorado from San Francisco recently. He's opened a Balboa Capital branch in Broomfield, Colo., and says he is "grateful to

28 USD MAGAZINE ALUMNI GALLERY be returning to a life in the UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI GRADUATE ALUMNI history and underwater archaeol­ mountains versus the concrete Morris Chavez is the underwrit­ Robert Prati (M.B.A.) is finish­ ogy at East Carolina University canyons of the big city." He also ing manager and corporate counsel ing work on a Ph.D. in finance in North Carolina .... Brian points out he'll be able to "root for National Guaranty Insurance at Florida State University, where Murphy works in outside sales on my Broncos in person!" ... Co. in Santa Fe. He and wife he teaches courses in investing for Northern California for Christine Lawson received her Margaret (DeRemer) Chavez and financial markets. Callaway Golf Ball Company. doctorate in clinical psychology live in Albuquerque, where he's He recently moved to San in June and is opening a practice opened his own entertainment Francisco from San Diego .... •1997• in Manhattan Beach, Calif., and sports law practice. She's a Kim Sweeney earned a teaching specializing in divorce and custody second grade teacher and also is CLASS CHAIR certificate with Americorps in issues .... Randa O'Connor left working on a master's degree in Greg Johnson San Diego and now teaches San Diego last year for a job as a education . ... Esteban del Rio English to seventh grade students consultant with SE Technologies (M.Ed. '96) is working on his CLASS CORRESPONDENT in a village near Amman, Jordan, in Stamford, Conn. She reports doctorate degree in communi­ Colleen Engel as part of a two-year assignment that she travels " 100 percent of cations at the University of 10062 Paseo Montril #509 with the Peace Corps. the time" helping install her Massachusetts. Esteban will be San Diego, CA 92129 company's software and products. doing research with USD Prof. ... Robert Schliff is a corporate David Sullivan, who is on sabbat­ UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI account manager with Kinko's ical researching political commu­ Kelly McGeehan spent last sum­ CLASS CHAIR Copies, is working on an M.B.A. nication issues . ... Catherine mer as an intern in the legal aid Kristen Jones at UCSD and lives in Cardiff-by­ (Cajski) Pangilinan is a science clinic at Notre Dame's law the-Sea, Calif., 30 miles north of teacher at Sr. Francis School in school, where she is a student . ... UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI San Diego .... Lr. Kevin Schultz Honolulu, Hawaii, where she and Alex Perry is a property manag­ Michael Hubbard was commis­ and his wife, Amy, moved to her husband and two children er in San Diego and plans on sioned as an officer in the Navy Monterrey, Calif., where he's live .... Curtis Treadwell is a attending law school. after finishing Officer Candidate working on a master's in national vice president with Fleetwood School in Pensacola, Fla. , in security affairs at the Naval Retail Corp. in Oklahoma City, GRADUATE ALUMNI November. He's on temporary Postgraduate School. They have where he and wife Jennifer live. Christopher Cooley (J.D.) is assignment in San Diego but will made a number of visits back to He sold his own business to a managing associate with the begin training soon in Virginia San Diego and he says he was Fleetwood, a home-selling Santa Barbara, Calif., office of Beach, Va., as an intelligence "glad to be back in the land of company, and reports he then Gray & Prouty, a workers' com­ officer. .. . Kimberly Hust is an came asada burritos" at Nico's "got married and went on a pensation defense law practice. Air Force protocol officer and Mexican restaurant. South African safari." He lives in Santa Barbara. just started work on a master's in business administration at GRADUATE AND LAW Webster University. SC HOOL ALUMNI •1996• •1998• Stacy Barkin (M.Ed.) is taking CLASS CHAIR CLASS CHAIR GRADUATE AND LAW cl inical and health psychology Bryan Walsh Michael Corrales SCHOOL ALUMNI classes . .. . Lr. Nieva van Leer Lt. Cmdr. Linda Greene (M .S.) (J.D.) works with the Judge CLASS CORRESPONDENT CLASS CORRESPONDENT is stationed at the Naval Hospital Advocate General's Corps in Joy Deutsch Elizabeth Himchak in Oak Harbor, Wash. She joined Washington, D.C., where she 12604 Carmel Country Road, 11334 Capilla Road the Navy in 1989 . ... John Healy reviews proposed Navy legislation, No. 20 San Diego, CA 92127 (J.D.) served as a judicial extern instructions and regulations. San Diego, CA 92130 e-mail: with California's Fourth District, [email protected] Division One Court of Appeal UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI and then was hired by Brobeck, • 1995• Joy Deutsch works as the UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Phleger & Harrison and works in n Reunion Celebration Western U.S. regional sales man­ In August, Nicole Gilbertson San Diego. The firm represents ID October 6-8 ager fo r the Milan, Italy-based moved to Atlanta, where's she technology companies across the CLASS CHAIR Luxottica Corp. She handles the a graduate student in women's country. Jennifer McCann Vertetis managed vision care division, studies . .. . Cameron Hoover EyeMed, of the company.... wo rks fo r a Newport Beach, CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kimberlee Wood joined her Calif. , import/export company Eric Ludwig family's business, Tandem Metal for Hong Kong and Taipei . ... 2240 Eucalyptus Avenue Products, Inc., soon after gradua­ Deborah Marx is working on Escondido, CA 92029 tion and is now a manager with a master's degree in maritime e-mail: cmtc7 l [email protected] the San Diego company. She's thinking about returning to school to study human relations.

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•Marriages• in San Francisco .... Tom of a son, William Ryan, on Aug. GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Please note that USD Magazine Blankenhor '98 was married 14. He joins sister Madeliene Edward Schmidt '7S Q.D.) and does not print engagement March 20, 1999, and is a recon­ Rose, 3 . .. . Lt. William Brown information. While alumni are naissance platoon commander '90 and his wife, Lisa Gurash his wife, Kelley, celebrated the birth of a daughter, Charlotte encouraged to send information with the U.S. Marine Corps at '93, welcomed a son, Jonathan, Marie, on March 26, 1999. about their marriages, due to Camp Pendleton .... Veronica on June 30. William recently space constraints, wedding photo­ Contreras '98 married Ricardo graduated from the Naval Post Charlotte joins sisters Molly and Natalie . ... Laurie Peters '91 graphs will not be printed. Jaimes '96 on Aug. 29, 1998, Graduate School in Monterey, and works for Prudential Calif., with a master's degree in Q.D.) and her husband, Chris UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Securities as a wire operator. ... operations research . ... William Hayen, welcomed their third child, Allison, on July 9. Allison Nancy Jones '84 wed Todd Katie Conway '98 and Lance Hamby '90, a district attorney joined Kevin, 13, and Andrea, 6. Harrington on Aug. 14. Nancy Deutschman '98 wed Aug. 14 for Tulare County, is a captain in Laurie works from home in their has been a litigation attorney for at the Santa Clara Church in the Marine Corps Reserves and is family business .... Lisa 11 years and her husband is an Oxnard, Calif. The couple hpn­ the staff judge advocate for his (Dreisbach) Spiro '93 (M.B.A.) intellectual property attorney eymooned in Hawaii and live in reserve unit in Fresno, Calif. and her husband welcomed their working in advertising and San Diego .... Blaine Maas '98, William and his wife, Jana, cele­ first child, Christopher Nicholas, music. The couple live in who works as an auditor for brated the birth of their second on July 8. Lisa is a senior market­ Northridge, Calif.. .. James KPMG, and Brenda DeMurguia daughter, Abigail Lynn, on Nov. ing manager with Genentech in Abbott '93 married Stefanie '98, who works as an accountant 13 . ... Chris Butler '91 and his San Francisco. Derington '94 in Westlake for Consolidated Graphics, were wife, Kris, were blessed with their Village, Calif., on Sept. 18. They married last year in Founders first child, Katelyn Alyssa, on live in nearby Oak Park. ... Chapel. ... Tamara Schaefer '98 Sept. 10. Two days later they • In Memoriam• Kimberly Montagna '93 mar­ and Tim Murphy '98 were wed celebrated their seventh wedding Shawn Bacile '86 passed away ried Frank Cavallo on July 10. Aug. 7 and live in Glendale, Calif. anniversary in San Diego, where Jan. 27 in his native Texas. He She's a special education teacher Chris works as a transportation was 35. Funeral services were in Glendale, Calif. ... Garrett GRADUATE AND LAW consultant with Budget Group, SCHOOL ALUMNI held Jan. 31 in Dallas, Texas, Tripp '93 and Robyn Waverly Inc.... David Atalig '92 and Q.D.) and with Mike Rossi '86 and Paul '93 were wed July 24 in the St. Siobhan Cullen '9S wife Doris are the proud parents Mike Rogers '92, '9S Q.D.) Biane '86 as pallbearers. Paul James Episcopal Church in La of a baby girl, Eterna Lee, born were married May 22. Both are Garson '86 performed the Sigma Jolla. Several USD graduates Sept. 5. The couple just built a lawyers in San Diego. Chi ritual at the funeral. Shawn attended the ceremony and the dream home on the island of graduated from Jesuit College couple honeymooned by "surfing Saipan . ... Lisa (Demler) Prep School in Dallas before and playing in Costa Rica. " They McCulloch '92 and husband •Births• attending USD, where he gradu­ live in Houston . .. . Aimee Mike celebrated the birth of a UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI ated with a bachelor of science Kisow '94 married Chris Hake son, Ryan Pierce, on May 17 . .. . Carolyn (Emme) Caietti '83, degree and was a charter member on Oct. 3, 1998, and they live Jennifer (Schwietz) Bruno '94 '86 Q.D.) and her husband, of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He in Orange, Calif., where she is and husband Ben welcomed a Robert Caietti '82, '8S Q.D.), lived in California and Las Vegas, a first grade teacher. She's also daughter, Maria Grace, on June were blessed with a son, Andrew Nev., before returning home to working on a master's degree in 28. The couple also have a son, Eldon, on March 27, 1999. Richardson, Texas, last year. He teaching at Cal State-Fullerton. J.P. , and live in Lake Elmo, Carolyn is a partner in a San is survived by his parents, Namie ... Stephanie Curran '94 mar­ Minn . ... Maria (Ramos) Diego law firm . ... Adrienne and Chris Bacile; brothers Nean ried Rett Summerville on Jan. 23, LaBelle '94 and her husband, (Swanke) Robbins '81 and and Mike; and a sister, Beth 1999, and reports she is "memo­ Robert, welcomed their second Freeman Robbins Jr. '84 Spivey. The family requests dona­ rizing Shakespeare at every child, Zidane Leon, on Nov. 4, welcomed a daughter, Monica tions be made to the Bacile opportunity!" She works for 1998. The couple have a 5-year­ Margaret, on Aug. 25 in Scholarship Fund c/o Jesuit, Wells Fargo's debit card market­ old daughter, Luna, and recently Karlsruhe, Germany, where 12345 Inwood Road, Dallas, ing office as a vice president in moved back to La Jolla .... Freeman is a civilian working Texas, 75244. San Francisco .... Bradley Tiffany (Beane) Landes '94 is for the U.S. Army. Adrienne Bowles '96 married Tracy a financial analyst in Indianapolis teaches music and ethics at the Roorda on Oct. 9, a month and lives in nearby Avon, Ind., European School. The couple before he passed the California with husband Brad. The couple have six children. .. . Katie Bar examination. He's a lawyer welcomed a son, Jacob Erik, on (Thull) Hurst '87 and her hus­ May 31. band, John, celebrated the birth

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apri I Spring Dance Concert ''Adult Catholics Alive in the 5 Features new choreography Church Today" Tax Strategies for Family Owned by students and faculty. 17 As lay persons assume responsibilities Businesses 8 p.m., Shiley Theatre. formerly assigned to priests, this forum, 'l1:, Exe~utive breakfast for the Family Repeats 8 p.m., May 6, led by Michael Horan and sponsored Business Forum. 7:30 a.m., and 2 p.m., May 7. by the Institute for Christian Miniseries, Manchester Conference Center. $8 general admission, discusses the ministerial roles of adult (619) 260-4231. $5 students/seniors. Catholics in the Church. 7-9 p.m., (619) 260-2280. Hahn University Center Forum A. Concertos with the USO Symphony $10 preregistered, $15 at the door. "We're Acting Here" 28 Fund-raising concert for the USO (619) 260-4784. Symphony Scholarship. 8 p.m., 9 A showcase of work by advanced Shiley Theatre. Repeats 2 p.m., acting students, focusing on scene April 30. $8 general admission, and monologue work emphasizing $5 students/seniors. (619) 260-2280. psychological real­ "Confusions" ism, select classic styles and absur­ ")!J Presented by the Master of Fine Arts dism. 1 p.m., program and directed by Candace French Parlor, Chapell. 8 p.m., through May 6, Founders Hall. Free. in Sacred Heart Hall. $7 general (619) 260-2280. admission, $5 students/seniors. (619) 231-1941, ext. 2131. Chamber Music Ensembles Commencement Ceremonies 9 Directed by Angela Yeung, includes saturday, may 27 works by Brahms, Glinka and may 10:30 a.m. School of Law Commencement, Sibelius. 7:30 p.m., French Parlor, Torero Stadium. A Survey of Early Piano Trios Founders Hall. Fee.(619) 260-2280. 4 p.m. Baccalaureate Mass, Torero Stadium. 2 Presented by the USO Chamber Senior Thesis Performances Music Ensembles, featuring students 11 Final project performances by seniors of the Sering Literature Class. sunday, may 28 in the cheacre arts program, including Includes works by Bach, Mozart, 9:30 a.m. Undergraduate Commencement, short directing and acting projects. Torero Stadium. Beethoven and Shubert. 7:30 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., Acting Studio, French Parlor, Founders Hall. Camino Hall Room 102, and Shiley 2:30 p.m. Graduate Commencement, $8 general admission, $5 students/ Theatre. Continues May 12. Free. Torero Stadium. seniors. (619) 260-2280. (619) 260-2280. (For hotel accomodations, call International Business Strategy "Gospel Mass" San Diego Hotel Reservations, at Participants in (800) 728-3227.) 3 12 Annual fund-raising concert for this Certificate scholarships, the event features the in International • - i:'4 , \ USO Community Choir Spring , . 4f, ,.. ... June Business course r l'- r - ·,,:.;~ -.... ' Concert, directed by Daniel Ratelle. will develop The Choral Scholars also will perform Second International Conference on 'I •" Ji J' ' \ strategies ~ ' Rossini's "Petite Mess SolenneUe." Character Education designed to 8 p.m., Founders Chapel. Repeats "The Four Pillars of Democracy: resolve real international busine---ss 25 2 p.m., May 14. $8 general admission, Home, School, Church, Community," problems. 6-9 p.m., Manchester $5 students/seniors. is the theme for this year's four-day Executive Conference Center. conference, hosted by the USO Continues May 10, 17 and 24. Best Practices in Event Management Internacional Center for Character For information, call Joshua Rovner 15 Instructed by Joe Goldblatt, founder Education, which helps teachers at (619) 260-5986. of the George Washington University build ethics and citizenship among Event Management Certificate students. The conference features a Program. 5:30-9:30 p.m., Manchester curriculum fair and a day dedicated Executive Conference Center. to reducing school violence. For Continues 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., May 16. information, call (619) 260-5980 or check out the Web site at http:/ /teachvalues.org.

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