Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 56 Number 2, Winter 2015 Santa Clara University

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WINTER 2015 The Jesuit university in Silicon Valley Update your contact info at santaclaramagazine.com Magazine Imagine Shot bigger Biggest opener: Thirty-one points for Brandon Clark ’15 in the season opener against Cal State Fullerton—one for the Bronco record books. The 6-foot guard hails from East Chicago, Indiana, and was an All-WCC honorable mention last season. Photo by Don Jedlovec. DON JEDLOVEC Golden: The Gianera Society welcomes the Class of ’64 Web Exclusives Santaclaramagazine.com carries new stories every week. Find video, slideshows, class notes, Features and much, much more, including … 20 The fragility of faith BY MICHAEL C. MCCARTHY, S.J. ’87, M.DIV. ’97. A professor of religious studies and executive director of SCU’s Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education confesses that it’s not merely an academic question when he asks: “How can a thinking person still believe in God?” COURTESY DE SAISSET MUSEUM Art time SCU’s de Saisset Museum begins celebrating its 60th year! Current show Creative in Common (including Sea of Time by Harry Powers, above) explores the meaning of family through pairs of artists who share a familial bond. 48 IMANSTUDIOS.NET 26 Rebound DEPARTMENTS BY MITCH FINLEY ’73. Lessons from the 2 FROM THE EDITOR court and the chapel in dealing with addiction, 3 LETTERS mental illness, and some of society’s most despised. 6 MISSION MATTERS A journey with Liz Bruno ’82, M.A. ’86. CNS/PAUL HARING CNS/PAUL 10 The meaning of mercy CLASS NOTES One of the most influential leaders of the Catholic Use these powers for good Church today, Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez 30 33 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR BY LEE DANIEL KRAVETZ M.A. ’13. There’s Maradiaga delivered the Regan Lecture on no magic pill you can take to bounce back from Jan. 20. Read the speech, see photos. tragedy. But there are stories of people who’ve 34 HALL OF FAMERS bounced forward to great things. Call them 36 ALUMNI AWARDS supersurvivors. 16 43 BRONCO NEWS: 18 New beginnings 44 IN MEMORIAM: Carl Hayn, S.J. 48 GRAND REUNION IN PHOTOS ISTOCK DENIS CONCORDEL Freedom, justice, etc. From Berlin to Cape Town to Tiananmen Square, what do the revolutions of 1989–90 mean a quarter century later? Conversations with political scientists Jane Curry and Peter Roz˘icˇ, S.J., and historian Amy Randall. santaclaramagazine.com WINTER 2015 From The Editor SantaClara “ FALL 2014 May these eight always be Magazine Volume 56 Number 2 Letters remembered among the many MagM aagaziazziz i nen victims of El Salvador’s long E DITOR A change is gonna come ” Steven Boyd Saum and bloody civil war. [email protected] irst let’s pause for a moment—it’s good to take a breath and look A SSISTANT EDITOR around—in this case, in the mountains somewhere south of Lake Kristen Intlekofer F Tahoe, snowshoeing on a ridgetop as winter turns into spring. It’s gathered money and goods to teens and welcomed this boy stand for?” to be deeply L ITERARY EDITOR the Lenten season, Easter yet to come. You’ve navigated a trail past cornices Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 fulfill this mission. into our family. We were able moving. These stories brought and crevasses and rocky outcrops, felt the lovely strain of the climb in your C REATIVE DIRECTOR If it were not for the to get a firsthand education me back to the early 1980s Linda Degastaldi muscles and your lungs, and you’ve been readjusting a little to the altitude assassination of Msgr. Óscar about the atrocities that were when, despite keeping up P HOTOGRAPHER from the balmy valley floor where you spend most of your days. Now you’ve Romero and other religious happening in El Salvador. He with the news, I was unaware Charles Barry Root and begun the return trek, and for the time being the clouds have blown through bloom leaders in El Salvador and worked part-time and of the atrocities affecting our E DITORIAL INTERN and the swirling white and gray has cleared, and the world around you is Guatemala, I would never attended high school. After neighbors to the south. Danae Stahlnecker ’15 something utterly transformed: blue sky dome and craggy peaks shaggy with have had the opportunity to the year it was time for him Then my husband, Peter D EPARTMENT CONTRIBUTORS Remembering the come to El Salvador or to move on, so with the Michelozzi M.A. ’70, and I Jeff Gire, Leah Gonzalez ’14, Marika Krause, ice and snow, and the field of snow in front of you sparkling and brilliant. Jesuit martyrs of Deborah Lohse, Donna Perry, Sam Scott ’96 (Which is a good reminder for the only occasional snow-walker: Did you El Salvador Guatemala and meet the money he saved he flew to met Bill Cane, founder and C LASS NOTES & OBITUARIES Mayan people, and this Washington, D.C. He director of If, a nonprofit in remember to put sunblock on the bottom of your nose?) I was editor-in-chief of Marisa Solís Sip your water, ponder shedding your coat, then: rising up mission program would never became involved with the Watsonville, California, santaclaramagazine.com/classnotes The Santa Clara student the ridge in front of you, dancing over the snow in a trickle have been established. sanctuary movement. We focused on small projects to A SSOCIATE EDITOR, newspaper in November BILL CUNEO ’60 hear occasionally from this help the poor in Latin S ANTACLARAMAGAZINE. COM and then a stream, black-and-orange-winged butterflies. 1989 when the news came to Clay Hamilton Painted ladies, you reckon—Vanessa cardui—headed north San Anselmo, California young man and he is still in America. Our education campus about these horrific the U.S. and doing well. began. The organization C OPY EDITORS by northwest. Hundreds! Thousands! Millions! (Awright, murders. Covering the story John Deever, Alicia K. Gonzales ’09, Marisa Solís In 1982, I met a young boy KAY HARRISON helped Salvadoran refugees maybe not here—millions elsewhere. But certainly for the SCU community was in San Jose who was to be Santa Clara gain asylum in the United Designed by Cuttriss & Hambleton thousands.) Being at this altitude already alters your a life-altering experience. sent back to El Salvador. I States, and one family awareness of geography—and now these wondrous and May these eight always be S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE ADVISORY BOARD brought him home, where he I found “Hearing the cry of eventually moved into the remembered among the Michael Engh, S.J.—President delicate and astounding creatures of tensile strength joined our family for a year. the poor,” “The open first Habitat for Humanity and metamorphosis, pausing for nothing on their great many victims of El Salvador’s My children were all in their window,” and “What do you house in Santa Cruz, James Lyons—Vice President for University Relations long and bloody civil war. Rich Giacchetti—Associate Vice President, journey from the desert. Behold! California. We then worked GENEVIEVE SEDLACK Marketing and Communications with If and Habitat in A new page—or, A redesigned mag WALLER ’90 Michael C. McCarthy, S.J.—Executive Director, Guatemala, where, during When spring is fully sprung, you’ll see some transformations with the next Chicago Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education one trip, we visited the site of print edition of Santa Clara Magazine, too. The redesigned magazine will Kathy Kale ’86—Assistant Vice President for I certainly enjoyed reading the massacre in Rabinal. Our Alumni Relations reimagine ways to tell Santa Clara’s stories big and small: speaking to the Ron Hansen’s essay, “Hearing education continues. Margaret Avritt—Director of Marketing tradition of California’s first university with a few hundred years of Jesuit the cry of the poor: The BETTY NEVILLE Elizabeth Fernandez ’79—Journalist educational experience, here in the heart of Silicon Valley with threads Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador,” MICHELOZZI M.A. ’68 Ron Hansen M.A. ’95—Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., reaching around the world. How do the pages of a print magazine capture Aptos, California Professor of Arts and Humanities in the Fall 2014 SCM. In that in a way that’s true and remarkable and beautiful and compelling? 2000 I visited the site of Michael S. Malone ’75, MBA ’77—Silicon Valley’s Lucía and Jorge Cerna professor emeritus That’s one of the questions we’ll answer. We hope you’ll like it. Certainly the these murders, as well as magazine has grown and changed dramatically since it was launched 35 years exhibit unbelievable courage Paul Soukup, S.J.—Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Professor of other sites in El Salvador and in speaking the truth. May Communication ago—as some of you remember, before the interwebs, back when there were Guatemala.

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