USD Magazine Fall 1994 10.1

University of San Diego Digital USD USD Magazine USD News Fall 1994 USD Magazine Fall 1994 10.1 University of San Diego Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/usdmagazine Digital USD Citation University of San Diego, "USD Magazine Fall 1994 10.1" (1994). USD Magazine. 7. https://digital.sandiego.edu/usdmagazine/7 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the USD News at Digital USD. It has been accepted for inclusion in USD Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital USD. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ln }he Company of Friends I u NIVER s IT y • F s AN • IE •• hen I was 12, my mom nearly died from a complication following kidney surgery. Thankfully she came through the crisis, albeit minus one kidney, but her recovery promised to be painful and slow. At best, she was facing six weeks in the hospital and another several weeks recuperating at home. At the same time, with the immediate danger behind her, my dad had to return to a consulting job 1,000 miles away, because that salary was our only means of support. So, while my dad went back east and my mom fought to regain her health ■ in the hospital, we kids - a decidedly motley crew of five ranging from age 7 to 20 - did our best to hold the house together, get to school and not kill each other. To me, these were the old times, not necessarily the good times. That is, until the church ladies stepped in. Every night for L E T T E R six weeks, a different lady appeared like a suburban guardian angel at our front door with a complete dinner, ready to eat, and a watchful eye, ready to spot problems. Some of the ladies would visit for a while; some had to get right back to their families. But they never missed a night. Though I knew some of the women - friends from mom's church groups - I met F R D M many for the first time at our front door, as they offered a night's meal. And l looked forward to that knock on the door each night, not so much for the meal, but because I knew that knock meant our family wasn't in this crisis alone. T H E This is community in action. T he church ladies, my mom included, have a long history of reaching out to each other in good times and in bad, and their families often reap the bene fits, as ours did. While a deep satisfaction develops from connecting with others, it's a feeling that's increasingly rare as our lives speed E D I T D R up and become more demanding. With packed daily schedules, many people have less time and fewer opportunities to make meaningful connections with others. Some, however, arc fight ing this growing isolation by actively creating community ties in their lives. Our cover story, "In the Company of Friends," ■ highlights USD faculty, students and alumni who, like the church ladies, have established strong bonds of support and friendship. Also in this issue, "Free Thinking" explores how two USO professors developed a popular radio call-in program that cele brates meaningful conversation and thoughtful debate in a world that often turns to shock radio and tabloid television. Not only have the program's two deep thinkers attracted an audience of 44,000, but they have done it with a show that welcomes both plain talk and philosophical discourse. Finally, "In a League of Their Own" features three alumni who are attracting audiences of spectators from San Diego to Switzerland, as they pursue careers in professional sports. All three are proving that, with equal parts determination, talent and sweat, the game plan for success is no mystery. Tri s ha J . Ratl e d ge FALL 1994 Volume 1 D, Numb e r 1 D N T E N T s Free Thinking USD MAGAZINE By Jac<fl<~line Gcnavc~e EDITOR He's a soft-hearted cynic. She's a self Tris/ta J. Rutledge described optimist. But when these t\vo CONTRIBUTING EDITORS USO professors strap on their head phones, they are of one mind - to Kutc alien engage their radio listeners in meaning Jucquclinc Gc1wt•£'St' fu l, and sometime irreverent, discus Michuel Huskins sion. And 44,000 listeners tune in weekly for the exchange. ART DIRECTOR Vi.med A~yl11111 PHOTOGRAPHERS Ken j(Lcques In the Campany af Friends Puhlo Muson By T,·isha J. Ratledge Erk T11ckc1· ILLUS T RATION The sense of community that once natu, rally drew people together is becoming Amundu cltu{fcr rare in our fast-paced and inc reasingly Truy Viss fragmented lives. But some people are overcoming growing feelings of isolation by creating their own communities. THE UNIVERSITY OF USO faculty, students and alumni have SAN DIEGO forged new bonds in surprising places, and one alumna has even written the PRESIDENT book on the subject. 11thu1· E. Hughes VICE PRESIDENT FDR UNIVERSITY RELATIONS John G- Mc u111m·u In a League af Their Own DIRECTOR OF By Miclwel R. Haskil'L~ PUBLIC RELATIONS luck f . mm<m Former USD athletes have chosen some unique paths to careers in professional DIRECTOR OF sports. From the playing fields of San ALUMNI RELATIONS Diego to the playing courts of Europe, John Trifiletti '78 these talented big leaguer are answer• ing the call of the games the love. USD Mag~ne is pubHshed quarterly by lhe University of San Diego for its alumni, parent: and friend ·. Editorial offices: SD Mag~ne, Publications Office, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 921 l0-2492. Third-class po tage paid at an Diego, CA 92110. USO phone numb r: (619) 260-4600; emergency security: (6 I 9) 260-2222; disaster: ALCALA ALMANAC 2 KALEIDOSCOPE (6J 9) 260-4534. Postmaster: end address ch;mges to U D ALUMNI GALLERY PARTING SHOT Mag~ne, Publications Office, 599 Alcala' Park, an Diego, CA 92110-2492. U 5 D MAGAZINE l 1 f;llf;lf;l!I L MAN AC at Qumran, and translating and tran scribing the matt:rial for eventual publi cation. Fuller, who likens the process to assembling "a very ancient, very fragile jigsaw puzzle," ays the experience enlivens his teaching. "l can bring my students to the cut ting edge of what we know about the history of the Bible," Fuller says. ln what tbey bope will be the first of century A.O. - but also give a snapshot "Becau e l can talk from experit,nce many "mobile seminars," two USO pro of Jewish faith and practice before and about the~e materials, I can g.ive the stu fessors took their sn1dents on the road during the d e of Christianit . dent a global perspective on the Bible last spring for a firsthand look at one of "Our goal was to give the. tudents an and what it has meant through the cen the 20th century' great arcbeological intensive experience in what the scrolls turies." discoveries. were, what their significance is and what That perspective is exactly what Plo ln AprH, Russell Fuller and Patricia nuances are involved in the interpreta vanich and Fuller had in mind when Plovanicb, both of USD's theological tion of the material," says Fuller. ''Being they initiated the trip. "The crolls and and religious studies department, uccom close enough to touch something like artifacts from that period are causiog us panied a mall group of tudents to San the Dead ea Scrolls trigger a new to rethink the fir t 100 years of Chris Francisco's DeYoung Museum to iew dynamic between professor and student tianity," says Plovanich, who came up the Dead Sea Scrolls. The scrolls - as they investigate the material. together." with the idea for the trip and handled . ome almost complete, but mo t in Even the tudents in Fuller's classes the myriad details involved. "The stu pieces - were discovered during the late who didn't travel to San Fruncisco gain dent were able to understand that time L940s in 11 caves in Qumran, lsrael, special insight into the crolJs, h wever. period in way that they couldn't in the near the Dead Se,1. They present not Fuller is a member of the exclusive classroom, and they also had the oppor only the oldest Hebrew biblical manu International Team of Editors, \ hich i tunity to see their professors away from scripts in existence - dating from currently piecing together the tens of campus, working as professionals in the around the first centur~• B.C. to the first thousands of . croll fragmeots discovered field. "' D R he University of San Diego They are using satellite-derived data on The Goddard Lnstitute scientists i one of lO in titution sea-surface temperature and color to im7 ol .,din this project are developing nationwide selected in 1994 examine the relationship between the computer models that can predict cli for the NASA/Uni.versity shape of the sea floor and the ocean' mate change. However, they need to te t Joint Venture (JOVE) pro- surface circulation pattern . the accurac of these models using gram. JOVE brings space-related Not onl will thi information and information from known periods of cli research capabilities to U .S. college and technology be used in Sturz's classroom, mate change. That' where Gray comes uoiversitie - that have had little or no but also by anyone who works oo or in in.

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