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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.

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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. At our last stop our Lord bless them and hold telegrams but no emails, and it took three months for a letter to make it up in Santiago, Guatemala, them in His loving hands. Update your address and the rest of your contact info: El Camino Real from Mexico City to Mission Santa Clara de Asís. Those where Fr. Stanley Rother was CARMEN HARTONO www.scu.edu/alumupdate murdered, we had the [email protected] thousands of you who’ve visited the digital mag at santaclaramagazine.com Oakland Santa Clara Magazine in recent months have already found a different environ—particularwise, opportunity to meet several 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 that the stories look better on smartphones and tablets and portable screens Guatemalans. From these Thanks to the author for this meetings a friendship The diverse opinions expressed in Santa Clara Magazine do of various sizes (Hello, responsive design!), all of which we hope makes for excellent overview. In relation not necessarily represent the views of the editor or the official a more pleasant and stupendous reader experience and encourages you, dear developed, and I came home to the 25th anniversary, I policy of Santa Clara University. Copyright 2015 by Santa with that love and a purpose Clara University. Reproduction in whole or in part without friend, to spread the word. have given some introductory permission is prohibited. to help these wonderful presentations in the U.S. Santa Clara Magazine (USPS #609-240) is published quarterly Keep the faith, people. The Marin County about the martyrs that can be by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Santa Clara Guatemalan Mission viewed here: youtube.com University, Santa Clara, CA. Periodical postage paid at Santa Program was established. For Clara, CA, and at additional mailing office. 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2 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 3 Letters “A proud SCU graduate, I have attended almost all of the Write us! 49er games since I was a young boy in 1948.” We welcome your letters in response to articles.

In later years, John “I was raised campus apartment on Main santaclaramagazine.com [email protected] drifted from the Church, to be charming, Street. Thank you for though he exemplified the not sincere.” including her in the photo. I Christian values he absorbed With great zest and zeal, I feel that in a small way, with in 11 years of Jesuit read “Happily ever after the three SCU grads in the education as well as any fact” [Fall 2014 SCM]. The production, she hasn’t quite Santa Claran I know. As a left the SCU family. WeW may editdit lettersl ttt forf style,t l article started with my clarity, civility, and length. California legislator, he favorite line from my favorite JACQUELINE FREDERICKS- CISNEROS ’91 Questions? Call 408-551-1840. championed principles of musical, and I saw a familiar- JESSICA PALOPOLI access to higher education looking picture. When I San Pablo, California and health care that were scanned the rest of the in the San Francisco informed by a fierce belief in We note that Jacqueline’s sister pictures on the page, I was Playhouse production of studied theatre in London and justice and equity. Much of Noelani thrilled to see my younger Into the Woods, with Southern Cal. We like threads FOLLOW @santaclaramag

what he accomplished in sister, Safiya Fredericks, in Neal ’13 as Rapunzel.] I that connect across the years both of those arenas (where the last photo. Safiya was 6 remember Safiya’s excitement and cities, too. —Ed. LIKE facebook.com/ a lot of his energy was when I left home to go to when she visited me at my santaclaramagazine focused) sprang from the dorm and later at my off- SCU. [She played the witch SCU kind of preferential option LOVE THE MAG for the poor that has santaclaramagazine.com/give characterized Catholic values since Vatican II.

MICHAEL ZEGARIS Digital mag update Coincidentally, the Fall magazine also contains a Last fall the digital Santa Clara Magazine debuted an updated Football returns to … tied for the longest game believe I have read that his brief quote from Jon look—but more important, that design is now responsive, so F EATURE CONTRIBUTORS in World Series history,” images and fonts adjust to the size of your screen. One fabulous Santa Clara father’s family came from the Sobrino, S.J., from his story there: After a successful surgery for a brain tumor, the Denis Concordel photographed Santa Clara women’s soccer for Thanks to Ann Killion on as Mark Purdy wrote in island of Flores in the Azores address to the graduates of return of Andrew Papenfus ’15 to the ball court. “Season tough.” “Storybook season” in our her fine article about where that name is common. the Jesuit School of Mitch Finley ’73 wrote “Rebound,” a profile of Liz Bruno ’82, Summer 2012 edition. Read M.A. ’86. A longtime contributor to this magazine, he is the author football and Santa Clara it at santaclaramagazine.com SUSAN VARGAS MURPHY Theology. Sobrino speaks of SCM O’Connor Nursing School of more than 30 books on Catholic themes, including The Rosary [Fall 2014 ]. A proud /1962baseball. —Ed. Class of 1965 his martyred colleague from Handbook: A Guide for Newcomers, Old-Timers, and Those in SCU graduate, I have Sacramento El Salvador, Jesuit theologian Between and The Joy of Being Catholic. attended almost all of the Mother, father, Ignacio Ellacuría, and his Don Jedlovec photographed Brandon Clark ’15 for our back 49er games since I was a and extraordinary Thanks for the obituary for vision of a “civilization of cover. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, young boy in 1948. What leadership John Vasconcellos. A good elegy. poverty.” (The Nov. 10, and in many local publications and venues. hurts is one mistake—Santa As a proud native Oversights: John may have 2014, issue of America Lee Daniel Kravetz M.A. ’13 wrote “Use these powers for Clara did not win the 1962 Californian of Azorean been class president his Magazine carries a version of good.” He has written for television and print, including the New College World Series. We sophomore year, but, more Sobrino’s entire address, York Times, Psychology Today, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Portuguese heritage, I He and David Feldman, associate professor of counseling were edged out in extra wanted to point out to you significant, he was student which elaborates on this psychology at SCU, teamed up to write the book Supersurvivors: innings by Michigan. As the error in your note on the body president, valedictorian, concept.) I believe that The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success. Read more at I was there and part of it, I passing of John Vasconcellos and winner of the Nobili Vasconcellos, who was a bit leedanielkravetz.com. can never forget. ’54, J.D. ’59 [“A thunderous Medal—a triple crown that, put off by Santa Clara’s Michael C. McCarthy, S.J. ’87, M.Div. ’97 (“The fragility of JERRY GLUECK ’62 in the pre-coed days, was sometimes prosperous face to faith”) is the Edmund Campion, S.J., University Professor at SCU presence in the Capitol,” Fall with joint appointments in the Religious Studies and Classics Walnut Creek, California the world, would have 2014 SCM]. You stated that rare. These honors signaled departments. He is also the executive director of Santa Clara his mother was Portuguese his extraordinary leadership, welcomed that view. University’s Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education. Absolutely the right call on “He was a man, take him and his father was German. I commitment to service, Ross P. Mulhausen photographed Liz Bruno for “Rebound.” For Jerry Glueck’s part—score and communication skills, for all in all, [we] shall not an editorial error on that don’t know about his the past decade he’s served as photographer for the University all of which contributed to look upon his like again.” of Puget Sound, and he has 10 years’ experience running his play. The series ended in a mother, but his father was his political genius. RICHARD W. JONSEN ’55 own studio. “There are many challenges dealing with individual “15-inning title cruncher the Portuguese parent. I personalities, locations, and an assortment of conditions,” he says, Broomfield, Colorado “but I find it gratifying when all the pieces come together. It was a pleasure meeting and photographing Liz Bruno for this issue and I Santa Clara University is a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university Santa Clara Magazine is printed on Forest came away with great admiration for her service.” located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California’s Silicon Valley. Santa Stewardship Council® (FSC®) certified paper by a Clara offers its more than 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate programs printing facility certified to FSC standards. From Mark Smith illustrated our cover as well as the feature “The fragility in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master’s degrees in a number of professional fields, law degrees, and engineering and theology forest management to paper production to printing, of faith.” You may have seen his work for the New York Times, the doctorates. Distinguished by one of the highest graduation rates among all FSC certification represents the highest social and U.S. master’s universities, Santa Clara educates leaders of competence, environmental standards. The paper contains 30 New Yorker, the Financial Times, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, and conscience, and compassion grounded in faith-inspired values. Founded percent post-consumer recovered fiber. many others. He is based in Devon, England. in 1851, Santa Clara is California’s oldest operating institution of higher education. For more information, see www.scu.edu. Sustainability is a top priority as Santa Clara University strives for carbon neutrality by the end of 2015. Learn more about SCU’s efforts at www.scu.edu/sustainability.

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piece of dynamite. Not too large, it Street. Broncos back for Grand TRUSTEES is true, but hard as nails, and always Reunion got to experience it first- game to the core. The original bronco hand—or first-foot, to be precise— New to the board used to do his stuff regularly in the walking a lovely brick path where arena around the old Mission, and it until recently motor cars roamed the ilicon Valley is but fitting that his name and fame pavement. Now it’s been transformed venture be perpetuated on those same fields to a lovely brick walkway from the S capitalist of conquest, where lusty warriors of front of the Donohoe Alumni House Tim Haley ’81 California heritage kick and buck their to St. Joseph’s and the Mission Church joined SCU’s and O’Connor. That route parallels Board of Trustees where The Alameda once ran—back in October 2014. when The Alameda was a four-lane Co-founder and “This statue represents highway through campus. managing director the spirit and the grace Should you make the walk north of Menlo Park–based Redpoint and the power that on the Alviso Mall, you’ll find at the Ventures, Haley focuses on investments north side of campus, tucked alongside we want Santa Clara in software, consumer Internet, and Franklin Street, a lovely new plaza University alumni and digital media companies. He studied with chairs, tables, and umbrellas for students to possess.” philosophy at SCU and points out that al fresco dining. Should you make that there’s no “best” path for training in walk morning or midday during the the VC business—but looking for good week, you’ll find parked there SCU’s people and leveraging a broad network ‘way to many a glorious triumph.’” Pony Express Food Truck, offering a of entrepreneurs are key. Among his That November, student body rotating menu: from fresh baked goods successful investments are companies president Henry “Rip” Miller ’24 and breakfast treats to meat and veggie acquired by Yahoo, Oracle, and Intuit. announced that Santa Clara would sliders (including a quinoa patty with He is also on the advisory board of henceforth be known as the “Broncos.” goat cheese and tomatoes) last fall, and SCU’s Center for Science, Technology, an array of tacos this winter. The pony and Society. SCU The Alviso Stroll opened its window in November 2014. SCU The latest pedestrian promenade Marika Krause and Clay Hamilton Missionmatters through the heart of campus is Alviso Santa Clara Snapshot: 1975

CAMPUS 1 new home for the SCU Alumni Association in what was built as Bronco, too: as a symbol of Santa the infirmary and is now the magnificent Donohoe Alumni House. Clara athletes increasingly competing 7 students out of 18 go the distance for a 48-hour dance on the national stage. marathon in Seifert Gym to raise money for muscular dystrophy. Bronze Bronco There wasn’t a statue of a Bronco on campus—until now—but big plans 21-year-old Russell J. “Rusty” Hammer ’75, an SCU senior, for athletics are part of the Santa Clara elected mayor of Campbell, making him the youngest mayor here’s a new horse on campus, represents the spirit and the grace in California. 2020 Striking Freedom over on the west side. He’s cast and the power that we want Santa vision. , as this T bronze bronco by sculptor David $125 or best offer for a 7-foot-long boa constrictor with cage in metal to show sinewy pride Clara University alumni and students L. Spellerberg is known, arrived on offered in a classified ad in The Santa Clara. “House broken and and mettle: there to greet you with to possess.” great to snuggle up with. Call Larry.” raised hoof and bared teeth, and there’s Previte was the lead Bronco on campus last fall and was dedicated on fire in those eyes. That fire is meant the project that brought the new Oct. 8, 2014. 575 seats in the new Louis B. Mayer Theatre, dedicated by Cyril G. actress Helen Hayes, the first lady of American theatre, who to rekindle a sense of Bronco pride on bronze sculpture to campus. declares that of all the theatres she’s visited, “This is my favorite.” the fields and courts, on the courses Barbaccia, Joseph A. McCarthy ’71, Game to the core and lanes, in the water and in the ring, Gary J. Filizetti ’67, MBA ’69, The statue may be new, but the Bronco 60,000 square feet of Teflon-coated fiberglass are raised aloft on the ice and in the saddle—wherever and the Bronco Bench Foundation designation as mascot began in autumn in February to form the roof of the new Toso Pavilion—together with the Leavey Center forming the first modern on-campus home student athletes “are playing their brought the proposal to realization. 1923, following an eloquent plea for Bronco sports teams. Jack by beloved teacher Hubert Flynn, hearts out for Santa Clara,” as There’s something aspirational as Danae Stahlnecker ’15 R. Previte ’70 puts it. “This statue well as inspirational about this fierce S.J.: “The bronco is a native western THE REDWOOD

Raise the roof: With major fan support (and 11 of the big, bladed variety providing the air pressure) the Toso Pavilion bubble dome rises.

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LAW BUSINESS SCU Law receives its largest gift ever Entrepreneurs of the world, MOBI-lize! $10 MILLION to help build a new high-tech, collaboration-oriented home for law $10 MILLION endowment for a program that’s free, online, and global: My Own Business Institute arrives on campus.

oward Charney MBA ’73, entirely by the law.” He confesses, “When I went to Santa ere’s a story about bringing HJ.D. ’77 knows something Which is where this comes Clara, I didn’t know how to read a Heconomic well-being to about the power of networks. in: Howard Charney and Alida balance sheet; I was an engineer. People communities around the A senior vice president in the Office Schoolmaster Charney, his wife of 34 on the board with me at Santa Clara world. It’s happening through My Own of the President and CEO at Cisco years, donated $10 million to Santa contributed to who I am today.” Business Institute (MOBI), launched CHARLES BARRY Systems Inc.—as well as founder Clara University School of Law to During his career, Charney has at SCU’s Leavey School of Business of 3Com and Grand Junction fund a new technologically advanced, overseen the development and in October 2014, thanks to Phil and Networks—he’s a sought-after speaker collaboration-oriented law school expansion of key technologies that have Peggy Holland. The Hollands are on the future of technology and global building. The big news was announced helped build the global Internet as it entrepreneurs and educators. MOBI was change. “Silicon Valley is about the in December 2014. Half of the gift exists today. He helped grow Cisco’s their brainchild, founded more than 20 intersection of intellectual creativity comes in the form of a donation and two-tier distribution business to more years ago as My Own Business Inc., the and creating economic value from that half is a matching gift to support than $2.4 billion and helped turn first organization in the world to offer a creativity,” he says. “And the way that additional fundraising. fast ethernet and low-cost switching free, comprehensive, and graded online is done is to start with ideas, flesh them Charney is a member of the SCU into fundamental, global Internet course on starting a business. out, and wrap them in this construct Board of Trustees and a longtime technologies. At 3Com, he helped MOBI is now part of SCU’s Center we call business—which is underpinned advisor to the University’s Center for create products that would later become for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Science, Technology, ethernet and local area networking, With a $10 million endowment from and Society, funding enabling Internet access to the desktop. the Hollands to support MOBI, plans a professorship there, “Along your journey, nobody can to expand the couple’s pioneering serving on the advisory create wealth or economic results work include development of the board, and recently without a lot of help,” he says. “I don’t MOBI Fellows—a hands-on learning joining the executive care who you are. All undertakings that experience incorporating the principles committee. “Santa create economic results occur because of entrepreneurship—and an extension Start here now: Phil and Peggy Holland with Angie Park, center, a MOBI alumna who launched the Crossroads Clara University is of friendships and trust relationships.” of the My Own Business curriculum Cafe in the City of Industry. in the process of Deborah Lohse SCU around the world. SCU will also use redefining itself,” he the MOBI platform to help teach own business accomplishments include than 40 million visitors. Partnerships says. “I hope this gift entrepreneurs through two existing founding Yum Yum Donuts, launched were formed with the World Bank will create momentum Santa Clara programs: the California in 1971 with $5,000 and built into the and Cisco Systems, which licensed and help to shape what Program for Entrepreneurship, which largest privately owned doughnut chain the MOBI course for its enterprise the University will look provides education and mentoring in the country. institute—reaching 49 countries. like for the next several to approximately 40 California He offered a free business course “We initially sought to help people decades.” entrepreneurs each year; and the at the Compton Job Training Center. start businesses and create jobs in A licensed patent Neighborhood Prosperity Initiative, Things grew from there. Peggy economically disadvantaged areas attorney, Charney which provides support for small Holland, an experienced school so families and communities would holds bachelor’s and businesses in economically administrator, principal, and teacher, flourish,” Phil Holland says. So it’s master’s degrees in disadvantaged neighborhoods. developed the original course to gratifying that Santa Clara “will mechanical engineering teach people how to start their own continue our mission to help those who from Massachusetts Cause and businesses and to support the return need it most by leveraging the global effectiveness Institute of Technology. of a vibrant, healthy community. network of Jesuit universities to expand MOBI has its roots in response Curriculum was based on two books our reach and to keep the online course to tragedy: the 1992 riots in Los Phil Holland had written, then accessible and free to all who might Angeles. Economic development in expanded to include advice from an benefit from it.” Deborah Lohse and south-central LA was needed, and array of successful business people— Donna Perry SCU 10 Phil Holland wanted to help small- and taught in Spanish. The course went Start with ideas: Howard business entrepreneurs play a role. His online in 2000 and has drawn more Charney, MBA ’73, J.D. ’77 and Alida Schoolmaster Charney

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COURTESY AVEN SATRE-MELOY COURTESY AVEN The U.S. and China announced a wanted to do and had double or triple historic climate change deal majors. I told them, “Guys, I didn’t while you were interning. Two Rhodes roads even declare a major until the end of It was a very important announcement. sophomore year.” The biggest criticism of U.S. action Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. ’55 So it would be horrible advice to (1933–2010) on climate change is that it’s a drop in say, “Aim for a Fulbright or a Rhodes.” the bucket compared to what needs He studied philosophy, You will be much more successful and then his love of science to happen internationally. Now that enjoy your time a lot more if you are and desire to help people we have an agreement with the U.S. doing things that are important to took him to medical and China—the largest emitters of school. He went on to you—you’ll do them better, and with lead in the field and in carbon—that’s hugely important to government. He served that you will find yourself getting more THE REDWOOD getting other countries on board. as head of the Food and opportunities and experiences. Drug Administration under President Ronald How did this experience contrast with SCU has so many ways to get Reagan, as dean and provost of New what you learned as a poli-sci major involved, so do things that you haven’t York Medical College, and as head of the in the classroom? American Society of Clinical Pharmacology planned for, that might make you feel and Therapeutics. He said the years at Until heading to the White House, I had uncomfortable. When I look back, I Santa Clara were the most important part thought that things were formulaic and can connect the dots between all of of his education. “It wasn’t just about infor- that bureaucratic processes got in the mation, but formation of how to think and my different experiences—but at the how to look at the world and yourself.” way—and that’s true to some extent. But time I didn’t know how they would being in there changed a lot of my views. link up. With awards, the title and Noelle Lopez ’09 I liken it to the time I was working at a the recognition is not as important The Tucson, Arizona, startup; there are so few people working as the substance. A lot of fellowships native ran track and so hard on so many things all at the same and scholarships attract the kind of cross-country and was Eisenhower Executive: time—the pace is just incredible. I’ve left a Hackworth Fellow at people who are very achievement SCU before studying Office space for Aven Washington feeling optimistic about the Satre-Meloy ’13 last fall driven, but the substance of your for a doctorate in amount of things the federal government work is more important than adding philosophy at Oxford’s SCU Balliol College. She’s can accomplish. CHARLES BARRY a trophy to the case. now a postdoctoral Advice for incoming students to fellow in the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University. maximize opportunities? I met with SCU’s Johnson Scholars this Web fall before my Rhodes interview, and Exclusives STUDENTS What’s the typical day of a they asked the same question. First, White House intern? More with SCU’s Rhodes scholars: I was amazed when they introduced santaclaramagazine.com/rhodes I would get in around 8:30 at the themselves—they were all freshmen Office of Energy and Climate Change, who had decided exactly what they May the Rhodes part of the Domestic Policy Council. I was the only intern, so I did a lot of rise to meet you different things: collecting news clips, On the road with Aven Satre-Meloy ’13: Turkey on a preparing daily and weekly memos Fulbright, the White House for an internship, and heading cataloging progress of the climate to Oxford as SCU’s newest Rhodes scholar action plan, and conducting research for various policy analysts. ven Satre-Meloy ’13 got the He spent 2013–14 at Kirikkale Was your office actually news that he’d been awarded University in Turkey, teaching English in the White House? A No, most of the White House staff is a Rhodes scholarship while he there on a Fulbright fellowship. Satre- was at work, interning at the White Meloy was the first American many of in the Eisenhower Executive Office House. The prestigious award will his students had ever met. His work Building, next door to the White House, fund his study at Oxford University as a Fulbrighter also meant carrying right across from the West Wing. My beginning in fall 2015. There Satre- the torch of personal diplomacy that’s second week, the president, first lady, and Meloy hopes to continue work on part of the program. And that followed vice president held a moment of silence climate change—carrying on a sense of on his work as an SCU Global Fellow on the south lawn to commemorate stewardship for the environment that studying democracy in Turkey, a 9/11, and White House staff got to began on the campgrounds and rivers country that straddles cultures of East attend. Trumpets played taps, the flag of his home state of Montana. and West. Jeff Gire was blowing in the wind. Moments like those are ones I’ll remember.

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STUDENTS Tune it in: Fulbright and NSF grants Curbing diabetes, reaching across cultures with PHOTOS BY CHARLES BARRY a ukulele, and understanding a plant-insect arms WORDS BY DANAE STAHLNECKER ’15 race—six recent graduates embark on research and AND LEAH GONZALEZ ’14 teaching fellowships through the Fulbright program and the National Science Foundation.

Julianne Parayo ’12 A Fulbright fellowship teaching English at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland

Shortly after graduating from SCU with a double major in English and music, Bay Area native Julianne Parayo began work at Peninsula Volunteers’ Rosener House in Menlo Park as an activity coordinator for individuals with varying stages of Alzheimer’s, dementia, or cognitive impairments. As part of participants’ recreation, she often sang and played instruments. The ukulele, with its bright and cheery tones, was her favorite, since it allowed her to be physically close to people while Claire Kunkle ’14 playing. (She has a lovely voice, by the way.) But it was during a drumming circle that she had her eyes and ears opened in a new way: by a Chinese woman in her mid-80s who only spoke in syllabic sounds. Communicating through rhythm rather than words, the woman and Parayo developed a rapport. “How can Area reporter last spring. The occasion: a weekend program I use music to transcend language barriers?” Parayo wondered. with Santa Clara high school girls building prosthetic hands Teaching in Poland will offer some answers. Parayo will for amputees. Kunkle, who hails from Olympia, Washington, introduce her classes to different genres of American music recently graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. and have them write memoirs, interview relatives, and collect As an undergrad, she partnered with Assistant Professor folk songs. Music is part of what brought her back to Poland, Hohyun Lee to research combined solar power and heat which she first visited on a religious pilgrimage with her parents generation; they’re co-listed on a patent application for a to see the world-famous painting The Black Madonna of solar thermoelectric device that produces electricity from Cze¸stochowa. People of concentrated solar power and excess heat. (In the above all ages were gathered photo, that’s the big silver box behind her left shoulder.) around, singing—a Kunkle’s doctoral studies at Cal focus on energy systems to cross-generational benefit developing nations. She also sees work in teaching communal experience. engineering as essential—particularly since women still While in Bydgoszcz, represent only 13 percent of the engineering field. she hopes to work with a local choir and organize concerts Daniel Peng ’12 including American and A Fulbright fellowship to research diabetes Polish folk music. and health education in Hangzhou, China

“You have to think small before you can think large,” Daniel Claire Kunkle ’14 Peng says. “It’s small habits every day that change your overall A National Science Foundation fellowship health and wellness.” The sensibility translates from Peng’s for a doctorate in energy systems at studies in philosophy to his major in biology—and now, to his University of California, Berkeley research in health education in a city of 6 million people on One surefire way to encourage girls to pursue China’s southeast coast. He’s working on culturally appropriate STEM-related education and careers is by showing health education at a diabetes clinic at the Second Affiliated them successful women in the field. “If you can see Hospital of the Zhejiang University School of Medicine, focusing it, you can be it,” Claire Kunkle told an NBC Bay on Type 2 diabetes. Daniel Peng ’12

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ethical issues in the business world. What works in one country may not work in another—but ongoing dialogue might provide people with the answers they need. A Hackworth Business Ethics Fellowship during her senior year had Mukherji writing case studies for the ethics blogs at SCU’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Each case outlined a situation, posed the ethical dilemma, and asked readers how the people in the case should respond. She covered issues ranging from gender discrimination to bank fraud to the Bangladesh factory fire of 2013, which took the lives of 112 people.

Julie Herman ’14 A National Science Foundation fellowship to study the interaction between insects and plants while earning a doctorate at University of California, Santa Cruz

We see a butterfly perched on petals and marvel at how elegantly it feeds off flowers’ pollen. Julie Herman sees an age-old arms race between hungry insect and defensive plant. A biology major from Livermore, she worked closely with Natalie Lays ’14 Associate Professor Justen Whittall ’96 at SCU. And she’s quick to point out that understanding the relationship between plants and insects will affect how we address agricultural processes and any impending food crises. Plants have natural defenses that trigger the release of compounds that repel any insects attacking them; Herman wants to know if the insects’ evolution is responding to these compounds and whether that knowledge can be harnessed to improve agricultural practices. She will be specifically studying pierid butterflies, such as the cabbage white butterflies common to the area, and mustard Born in Manhattan to Chinese immigrants, Peng grew up plants, which include broccoli, kale, and cress—a yellow in Seattle. Rice was a big part of his diet growing up—as it is flowered plant with long, thin seed pods. The technology at in much Chinese cuisine. But rice is high in sugar content and U.C. Santa Cruz will allow Herman to look back at what a consequently raises blood sugar. Traditional Chinese cuisine also plant’s gene structure was thousands of years ago so she can uses a lot of pork-based oil, which is high in fat. Both factors, in examine how the insect-plant interaction has evolved. high enough concentrations, contribute to the development of Type 2 diabetes. Changing that through an effective health education Natalie Lays ’14 model means leveraging motivation and belief. “You can’t just A Fulbright fellowship to teach English at Universidade import a health model. You have to tune it in to the Chinese Federal do Ceará in Brazil culture,” he says. Peng spent five years volunteering at San Jose’s Pacific Free In summer 2013, a Global Social Benefit Fellowship Clinic, where he encountered patients with Type 2 diabetes and from SCU took Natalie Lays to São Paulo for six weeks other chronic diseases. He began in his undergrad years as a to work with a social enterprise that makes affordable health educator and a translator for Mandarin, eventually becoming hearing aids for low-income Brazilians. The Denver the head of the health education department. And last year he native is a veteran traveler—work, family, and interest wrapped up a stint with a San Francisco–based startup working in global culture and medicine have taken her to more on electronic medical records. than 20 countries. But it’s Brazil that’s drawn her back to teach English at Universidade Federal do Ceará and Saayeli Mukherji ’13 explore opportunities to engage in community health initiatives. At Santa Clara she studied psychology with A Fulbright fellowship to study business, ethics, and law at Duisenberg School of Finance in the Netherlands an emphasis in psychobiology; practicing medicine globally is what’s called her since childhood. That’s Wim Duisenberg, the first president of the European Central Bank been reinforced over the years—including by a trip to and the man who introduced the euro, inspired the educational Guatemala just after she graduated from high school. mission at the Dutch university named after him: cultivate leaders She and two friends accompanied the father of their of the industry who, with integrity and awareness of social impact, host family to a rural mining village to bring medicine will shape a sustainable future for finance and banking. That was to a young girl suffering from polio—a disease Lays what drew finance major Saayeli Mukherji to Amsterdam, where she thought was all but eradicated. “People getting sick hopes to develop a medium for international conversation about just because of lack of access and knowledge gets SCU Saayeli Mukherji ’13 me riled up,” she says.

14 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 ATHLETICS Season tough PHOTOS BY DENIS CONCORDEL

hey went 12-2 in the regular season, and six players earned all-conference recognition Tfrom fellow coaches in the West Coast Conference—including the co-Player of the Year and the Goalkeeper of the Year. So truth be told, it was a bit of a surprise when, for only the second time in 26 years, the Broncos weren’t invited to the NCAA Tournament. Still, says Coach Jerry Smith, “It will go down as a regular season that very few of our teams were able to achieve.” Sofia Huerta ’15 (left) shared honors as WCC Player of the Year and, for the second year in a row, was named an All-American. She racked up 17 goals in the season, including six game-winners for SCU. She grew up in Boise, Idaho. Her father hails from Mexico, and while a student she earned a spot on the Mexican Under-20 team before being called up to the national team. But this year she heads for Chicago to play for the Red Stars: She was the No. 11 pick in the National Women’s Soccer League Draft. In the Windy City she’ll rejoin fellow Bronco powerhouse Julie Johnston ’14, named the pro league’s rookie of the year in 2014. Goalkeeper of the Year Andi Tostanoski ’16 (top) came west from Colorado Springs, Colorado and is studying biology. Her shot-stopping prowess earned her accolades as First Team All-WCC and WCC All-Academic Team. Brittany Ambrose ’17 (No. 8, middle) and sister Nikki Ambrose ’15 (No. 15) played in all 20 games. Brittany scored six goals, including a game-winner in double-overtime at University of San Francisco, and was named Second Team All-WCC. Kat McAuliffe ’15 (bottom) led the team with six assists and is graduating with a degree in psychology and WCC All-Academic Honorable Mention. Dani Weatherholt ’16 (contents page) earned from Coach Smith the appreciation as “our workhorse, our engine, our warrior” and All-WCC and WCC All-Academic honorable mentions. Also recognized by the WCC: freshmen Jenna Holtz and Mariana Galvan. SCU More photos and stories: santaclaramagazine.com/athletics ENGINEERING The most far-out trailer on the road

Space aces The links The rush The flush The dish + The bonus The lab houses five The largest antenna is Some things are critical The big radar dish Designed to control not Santa Clara’s student-run satellite program communication links and 2.4 meters in diameter when you’re on the road. pictured on its side is one only satellites but fleets was already cool. Now it’s gone mobile. can sense its position and can communicate The lab has a toilet, of two 3-meter satellite of student-built flying and and automatically with and control a shower, stove, and two trackers located atop water-borne drones. BY SAM SCOTT ’96 calibrate the pointing satellite as small as a bunks to allow a crew to Bannan Engineering, systems for antennae. bottle of wine going at stay in the field as long home to campus mission speeds of 17,400 mph, as needed. “It gives us control for more than a t first glance, the 28-foot trailer parked 280 miles away. The only the ability to move to decade—though with the outside SCU’s Robotics Systems Lab looks thing that comes close the ideal location,” says growth of the engineering A like something destined for a cosmic RV to the rush, says Mike Jake Hedlund ’13, a program in recent years, spring break—or maybe Burning Man, the epic Rasay, ’01, M.S. ’07— master’s student. mission control is soon to annual middle-of-the-desert arts fest, where a Ph.D. student who has move to an off-campus its starry intergalactic graphics fit in well with been working on SCU site to make way for aspirations to transcend the here and now. But satellite controls for a classroom space. the words along its sides, above an image of a decade—is being in a skyward-gazing satellite dish, spell out a more sporting championship. enigmatic story: Santa Clara University Mobile Mission Control. Inside is a lab-to-go, with the tools and technology for taking the country’s only student- run program for professionally operating NASA’s small satellites on the road. The SCU robotics lab has long maintained a mission control for just such assignments on campus, but in a business where the window to work is limited to the brief span in its orbit that a satellite streaks overhead, it pays to be mobile. “The satellites we control for NASA and our industry partners only fly over the local area a few times a day and only for a few minutes each time,” says Chris Kitts, the head of the robotics lab and an associate professor of engineering. “We now have the potential to more than double our communication time.” Not that the new trailer will solve all the lab’s logistical needs. SCU engineering students have traveled as far away as the Marshall Islands and El Salvador to staff satellite missions—and that has a cool factor all its own. But Mobile Mission Control is definitely going to turn some heads on the interstate as it carries an SCU crew to places in Oregon and Southern California, likely destinations for assignment. The lab may see its first action this summer. When it’s not on the road, the trailer makes its home at the SCU robotics lab, a stone’s throw from the iconic Moffett Field Hangar One at NASA Ames Research Park in Mountain View. SCU

Trailer design by Samira Almendras ’14 Photo by Charles Barry

18 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 The fragility of faith Or, how can a thinking person still believe in God?

BY MICHAEL C. MCCARTHY, S.J. ’87, M.DIV. ’97

What good is God? That’s a question SCU’s Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education explored as part of its 2013–14 Bannan Institute, a yearlong thematic program addressing matters of significance within the Jesuit, Catholic intellectual tradition. In an age when religion is associated as much with violence as benevolence, when propositions of faith are often framed as oppositional to modern science, and one-fifth of all Americans self-identify as “none of the above” with regard to religion, the question is one of the most significant of our time.

To begin, let me make a confession. The question that is part of the title of this essay is a real one for me. I have been asking it since I was 8 years old: How can a thinking person still believe in God? It’s an important academic question that grounds a good deal of my own research. But for me, it’s also a deeply personal question that often entails certain pain. With my life, with my commitments, with my vows as a Jesuit, I hope always to offer a confident, positive response to the question. As you can imagine, I have a lot invested in it. At the same time, it is not a question on which I can promise or claim easy certainty. In the year 2015, ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARK SMITH it is an especially hard question. But I think in any

20 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 21 age it’s a hard question. At least for me and for many being a believer (even of the Catholic variety) that have people I trust, faith is a deeply fragile reality. It deals softer margins than we usually imagine. with mystery so deep that it is difficult to talk about it When we listen sensitively to thinkers such as in bright lines. In that respect (its fragility) faith is very these, we realize how much common ground there is much like life. We move forward (sometimes in hope, between people who believe in God and people who sometimes in fear or hurt or anger) increasingly aware don’t. Even the pope has been remarkably validating of our vulnerabilities, our doubts, our personal failures, of the goodness of atheists, and in his Christmas 2013 and, of course, our mortality. There are joys too—very address he invited them to join believers in their desire real joys—but in some mysterious sense those joys are for peace, “a desire that widens the heart.” But if there often linked to what makes us fragile. can be deep common ground between the atheist and This essay is on “how can a thinking person still the believer, we need to ask why “God” is such a fault believe in God” rather than “why a thinking person line. Why is language about God so problematic, even should believe in God.” It’s not my intention here to so polarizing? Let me suggest one major problem is that try to convince the skeptic or refute the unbeliever. To we use the word in so many different ways. A major my mind, that would be a futile and presumptuous, mistake that underlies so much public debate is the if not outright toxic, exercise. Faith must always be a false presumption that people are using the word God free response to an invitation that is deeply felt and the same way. received. Attempts to convince a person to believe When it comes to speaking of God, no words in God or to argue a person into belief frequently have ever been trustworthy. Traditional theology, for disrespect that person’s freedom so gravely that it instance, has long maintained that whatever we say becomes more difficult for him or her to entertain the about God must also be unsaid. God is like a father possibility of faith. or mother but also quite certainly not like a father Rather, I propose to identify some necessary or mother. At the beginning of his Confessions, St. conditions for a thinking person to believe in God. Augustine asks: “What are you, my God?” The question We speak a good deal these days of the importance leads to a long and highly rhetorical speech that of sustainability, the capacity to endure. A healthy exploits many contradictions: “[You are, Augustine ecosystem has certain requirements for its long-term says], most hidden yet intimately present, infinitely well-being. If these conditions are not satisfied, the beautiful and infinitely strong, steadfast yet elusive …” ecosystem will die from a thousand different causes. The passage is a tour de force that shows Augustine’s own mastery of language. But then he gets to the end and asks rather simply: “After saying all that, They are also moments of a tremendous what have we actually said? What does anyone freedom, when the question comes in who speaks of you really say, God?” At times in my own journey I have the starkest terms: “OK, then, where are worried that religious expression is, in some ultimate sense, empty. Those can be dark and you? What is it you stand for?” uncomfortable moments for anyone, let alone for a priest with the duties of preaching. In those dark and uncomfortable moments the So it is with faith. Like the environment (and again, line between belief and unbelief can seem thin. But like life itself), faith is quite fragile and requires certain they are also moments of a tremendous freedom, sustenance if it is going to thrive. when the question comes in the starkest terms: “OK, Let me simply offer three practical suggestions for then, where are you? What is it you stand for?” its sustainability. First, imagine bigger. Second, befriend When I say, “I believe in God,” I am making intelligent believers. Third, take a risk. a much bigger claim than simply positing God’s existence (whatever that may mean). Rather, I am saying something like this: “I put my trust in a reality Imagine bigger that cannot be grasped or contained or controlled. I In 2010, the syndicated talk-show host Michael put my trust in a reality distinct from any entity or Krasny published a book titled Spiritual Envy. “When whole set of entities we know as ‘the world’ but that I write of spiritual envy,” he says, “I mean envy of the somehow interacts with the world the way being itself consolation of faith.” Krasny grew up a pious Jew but interacts with the world, that somehow is exceedingly came to question the dogmatic claims of his faith. Still, close to the world in ways that I choose to describe as he cannot completely discount them. He self-identifies ultimately good or benevolent or loving. And in ways as an agnostic, but as I read him, I feel I have more in that are very real and important, my relationship to this common with him than not. That doesn’t exactly make reality orients me toward the world with hope.” But we me an agnostic, but it suggests there may be ways of need always to imagine bigger.

22 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 23 MARK SMITH Befriend intelligent believers choose which story to put your faith in. Decide which beautiful—the sunrise on Half Dome, the powerful To speak of “God” outside the walls of a church I have often wondered what direction my life would story gives you life. experience of romantic love or love of one’s children, requires great prudence, care, and—yes—risk. What have taken had I not gone to a Jesuit high school. I For those coming from the Christian tradition, the perception of some blinding truth or promise. that may mean for a university such as Santa Clara in was a kid with a lot of questions. Where would I be another question—“Who is Jesus?”—has enormous God is also to be found even in crucified beauty. 2015 is a particularly important question. Like many on matters of faith without people of intelligent faith consequences. I am not sure most people recognize the When, in circumstances that seem utterly tragic and American universities founded in the 19th century, around me: people who thought deeply about things significance of Jesus on the topic of how a thinking even unredeemable, people find themselves exercising Santa Clara was established to advance the ideals of and were not afraid to ask difficult questions? I came to person can believe in God. Many friends have shared a quality of compassion or moral courage or just a liberal education within a distinct religious framework. learn not only that my questions would be honored but with me that they love Jesus’ teachings, his ability to steadfast presence of which they had previously been Academic culture has since become increasingly secular, that they could be shared. I came to learn that being a cross religious and cultural boundaries, and so on. But unaware, somehow God is especially found there—not and for the most part that has brought significant believer does not stifle critical thought—and that faith to say that Jesus is the Son of God or that he is God as some extrinsic object that one comes across but as gains. At its best, it allows us a common space to speak and reason, science and religion are never enemies. I is harder to believe. And when my friends ask why an event or quality or dynamism one is participating and interact using a nonsectarian language and to also came to be exposed to an intellectual tradition that do we have to believe that Jesus is the incarnation of in. You find yourself, almost suddenly, within the very accomplish many things for a common good. does not close questions but offers a framework God, I confess a lot of sympathy, because I wonder the reality of God. But secular discourse can also have a flattening to think about them. And although we often do same myself. Isn’t it much easier to believe that he is a And it’s only in company with intelligent believers effect if it censors groups and individuals from speaking not arrive at perfect answers, we know we can pose great spiritual teacher, an extraordinary moral exemplar that I am able even to think these things … or continue their deepest convictions in the manner appropriate to significant questions with confidence. Questions like, whom we are called to imitate? Isn’t that enough? And to believe them. It is in company with intelligent them. There is often an expectation that serious public “Why are we here?” maybe it is. But let me suggest what would be lost if we believers seeking understanding that I come to know discussion remain within what legal scholar Steven In Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, Jobs left it at that. a God who is so, so different from the one atheists so Smith recently called “an ‘iron cage,’ in which life is recounts the story of his classmate in school taunting If you approach the classic Christian belief in the frequently deny. lived and discourse is conducted according to the stern him when she found out he was adopted. His real divinity of Jesus with the presupposition that the constraints of secular rationalism.” In this paradigm parents, she said, didn’t want him. Jobs said that was meaning of “God” (whether or not we believe in God) is God has no place in the university. like lightning bolts going off in his head. So he ran to relatively clear and known, then I may agree: The claim Take a risk I do hope that a university such as Santa Clara his parents, who sat him down and said, “No, you don’t may just be silly. But if you approach it from a position I used to think that believing in God would bring a would continue to be a place where that “iron cage” understand. We specifically picked you out.” And the of uncertainty or openness about what “God” actually great sense of security. I no longer think that. I used may be left unlocked, where we have the freedom to belief that he was wanted, that he was loved, made all means, then claims about the divinity of Christ can be a to think that God was a kind of divine safety net. I no live and act according to our deepest convictions, using the difference. radically disruptive, even dangerous proposition. Because longer think that. In fact, I believe the opposite. Faith whatever form of expression is right. But that can only what do we know about Jesus? He doesn’t just teach invites us to take a risk. work if members of an academic community are willing and tell those wonderful stories; ultimately he dies But I would like to end by pointing to a different to learn not just to tolerate religious and philosophical I came to learn that being a believer in a horrific fashion as a victim of complicated kind of risk entirely, which is more of a social or differences but really to learn what those differences political-religious dynamics of the first century. And even political risk. We live in a time when there are, to cultivate a more textured ability to understand does not stifle critical thought—and while Christians assert that he rose from the dead, if is considerable disagreement, doubt, and anxiety and talk about these differences and disagree with a that faith and reason, science and you take seriously that Jesus really did die and was regarding the place of faith in the public sphere. In commitment to mutual understanding. I like to think even a rather terrible failure (for everything we may the Feb. 24, 2014, issue of the Jesuit-run America that Santa Clara is a university confident enough of its religion are never enemies. like about him), and if you claim (as Christians Magazine, a fairly conservative commentator, Russell own religious identity as to be capable of cherishing have long done) that “Jesus is Son of God,” then Ronald Reno, argued that there is a trend in American difference. We do not do that without particular doesn’t “God” mean something quite different society to marginalize religious influence or at least tensions (sometimes grave tensions), and when we It strikes me that much of the purpose (or meaning) from what we normally think it to mean? And all those contain it in houses of worship. From a very different speak of religious values in their own distinctiveness of the Bible is to reassure us the way his adopted things we usually attribute to God—omnipotence, ideological position, Barack Obama has argued we will often run the risk of misunderstanding and parents reassured the young Jobs. Only in more recent omniscience, and more—what do they really mean if something similar. Before he was elected president, offending each other. history have many people read the book of Genesis as we take seriously that somehow God is identified in the Obama gave a gutsy if controversial speech on religion I began by stating that faith is a deeply fragile a quasi-scientific account of the way the world came to flesh with someone who suffered a horrific death? Or, and politics in which he challenged the conservative reality. Faith is fragile, because we humans are fragile. be. Intelligent believers throughout history have rather as St. Augustine said in the passage I mentioned earlier, claim that liberals have abandoned religion. At the Believing in God does not take that away but becomes taken it as an attempt to answer a different kind of “What does anyone who speaks of you really say, God?” same time, he conceded that members of his own the context for exploring the mystery of our rather question: “Why are we here?” And intelligent believers After all, both believers and nonbelievers have a party have, for the most part, taken the bait. Let me surprising existence. At times that existence is filled have understood the drama of Genesis to respond: tendency to think about God as an entity that floats, as quote then-Senator Obama from his speech at Call with joy, at times with pain, but always it is the source “Because you are wanted, intended. Your life is a freely Christian Wiman wrote in My Bright Abyss: Meditation of to Renewal’s Building a Covenant for a New America of wonder. Not everyone needs to refer to God in order given gift rather than an accident or the result of some a Modern Believer, “over the chaos of pain and particles conference on June 28, 2006: to wonder. But for those who do, belief can provide necessity. You didn’t have to be here, but you are. Enjoy in which we’re mired.” We can think of Jesus, again as “At best, we may try to avoid the conversation a provisional grammar for wondering together at ever it. And solely by virtue of the fact that you are here, Wiman wrote, as “some shiny, sinless superhero.” But about religious values altogether, fearful of offending deeper levels. For that grammar to remain at all useful, you are good, irreplaceable, and have certain inalienable if we entertain the possibility that God may have been anyone … At worst, there are some liberals who however, one must be willing always to imagine bigger, SCU rights.” Certainly this answer to the question “Why are incarnate in some definitive way in this person, Jesus, then dismiss religion in the public square as inherently to befriend intelligent believers, and to take a risk. we here?” can be a difficult thing to believe. It can seem our concept of God can no longer offer us some kind of irrational or intolerant, insisting on a caricature of too good to be true. Intelligent believers may struggle easy release. It brings us closer to the heart of reality. religious Americans that paints them as fanatical, or This essay is adapted from the Louis I. Bannan, S.J., with it—I do. There are worthy alternative stories that And that could mean something like this: God is thinking that the very word Christian describes one’s Memorial Lecture delivered by Michael C. McCarthy in may emphasize the randomness of why we are here. So to be found not only in what is easily recognizable as political opponents, not people of faith.” 2014. Read more: santaclaramagazine.com/faith

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Lessons from the court and the chapel in dealing with addiction, mental illness, and some of society’s most despised BY MITCH FINLEY ’73 One Saturday each month, Liz Bruno ’82, M.A. ’86 makes a point of getting out on the water. She boards a ferry in Steilacoom, Washington, at the southern end of Puget Sound, for a 30-minute ride to the McNeil Island Special Commitment Center to spend time with inmates who are among society’s most despised: They are Level 3 sex offenders, persons the state of Washington considers to have a high risk to reoffend. Many women would be terrified to enter the same room with these men.

26 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 27 ROSS MULHAUSEN Bruno has been making the monthly trip since Raise your hand member of the women’s basketball team, she played November 2005. That was when she learned During the week, Liz Bruno is a clinical therapist center and set a record for rebounds—1,218—that that Nancy Kennedy, an administrator at St. about 50 miles northeast of the island, at Fairfax stands to this day for all Broncos. She’s the only Jude Parish in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, Hospital in Kirkland, Washington. She’s worked woman with more than 1,000 career points. In her would no longer be able to maintain a ministry there for two years with a dual diagnosis unit, junior year, she received the prestigious Northern at the Special Commitment Center. Bruno where patients struggle with both mental illness and California Athlete of the Year award. Her per-game volunteered to take over and, for her first journey, chemical dependency. Eighty percent of them were rebound average was 12.8, which ranked her 10th accompanied Kennedy. Off the ferry, they stepped sexually assaulted as children. Twelve hundred of nationally for the season. All this was with a ball into a gray, single-story concrete complex, where a them are survivors of suicide attempts. the same size that the men played with, rather than uniformed guard unlocked three heavy doors for Another day, another group, and a particularly the smaller basketball women hoopsters use today. the two women to pass through. They entered a despondent man says that he has never done But this wasn’t the only difference female basketball small, nondescript room with a sign on the door anything worthwhile in his life. players lived with then. identifying it as the chapel. “I haven’t pulled anyone from a fire,” he says. “There were no sports bras,” Bruno says, “and That first time, Bruno says, the sense of isolation But he has attempted suicide. Bruno asks if he no women’s shoes; we had to wear men’s shoes when “reminded me of purgatory.” But the desolation would be willing to tell the group about that. He we played, which meant little or no arch support. speaks to a basic human need for hope: “I want agrees. He describes, step by step, what he was Our halftime talk happened with us standing up in them to know that someone remembers them.” thinking and feeling when he made a plan to jump the equipment room with the washer and dryer off a bridge, how he jumped, and how he broke his running ...We had to practice at 5:30 a.m. so the “You may have just pulled back. He was in the hospital for six months. men could have practice at a decent time after us.” The story leaves the listeners in tears. Bruno says, Born in Seattle, Bruno was 4 years old when someone out of a fire.” “Raise your hand if you are going to delete jumping her parents moved her and her three siblings— off a bridge from your list of suicide plans.” John Bruno ’80, MBA ’85, Katie Bruno ’81, and All hands go up. Bruno turns to the man who Christopher Bruno ’84—to San Francisco, where Late on a cloudy and cool summer morning, over has just told his story. “You may have just pulled her father started his own business. When she was a public address system, a metallic voice announces someone out of a fire.” 9, her father died from a congenital illness, and her that the “Catholic service” will soon begin. Bruno She also tells them: “Do not be married to your mother moved the family to Burlingame. At Mercy sets up metal folding chairs in an irregular oval. addiction and do not be married to your mental High School, where even today there is no gym, the Eight men drift into the room dressed not in health diagnosis; you are all individuals, with your budding basketball star and her teammates played institutional garb but in whatever clothing they own strengths, challenges, dreams, hopes, stories.” outdoors on an asphalt court with chain-link nets prefer. Each man greets Bruno with a smile. Hugs Liz Bruno herself was married for 20 years before on the hoops. Liz Bruno played well enough in high are not allowed. Bruno is also required to wear divorcing. The divorce experience also brought a school to earn a Title IX basketball scholarship to

stockings; the sight of her bare ankles could be a renewal of her Catholic faith. She began attending Santa Clara. THE REDWOOD trigger for some of the men. daily Mass. There she would sit surrounded by many Basketball played its part in the kind of therapist Today, she presents each man with a gift: a of the older members of the parish. “Sometimes she became. As a high school player, she memorized Tower of power: SCU Hall of Famer Liz Bruno pulled down 1,218 rosary with wooden beads brought back from the affirmations given by her coach Naomi Ruth Tuite career rebounds, the all-time high for both men's and women's I’d quietly weep, and gradually I felt their love and basketball teams. Holy Land for them by her sister, who was there prayers and support, and when I would lose my faith ’74, such as: “We are calm, poised, and efficient on a recent visit. The men seem genuinely thrilled I would lean on theirs until mine returned.” under exciting and stressful situations.” Bruno says by the gift. Though before the men may keep their For all the years that her two sons—Tim, 23, and that she has 60 affirmations memorized today. for this prayer—likely, she suspects, the only time rosaries, Bruno has to collect them and give them to Patrick, 20—were growing up, Bruno was a stay-at- “This is what I pound every day into my patients: in their days here that the men experience a truly institutional authorities for approval. home mom. She’d earned a master’s in counseling affirmations, affirmations, affirmations.” human touch. Then, from a small golden pyx on a Next is the Liturgy of the Word and psychology at Santa Clara after finishing her Basketball also brought her into the SCU Athletic cord around her neck, obtained from her parish early Communion service. One of the men plays an undergraduate degree. But re-entering the workplace Hall of Fame. Her jersey, No. 42, was retired at a that morning, she gives the men Communion. electric guitar; Bruno leads the men in a song after all those years left her petrified, she said. ceremony on campus in February 2014. “The body of Christ,” she says. they follow in standard Catholic parish paperback Now, though, pulling through a deep lack of self- She is proud of her basketball stats and career at Each man quietly replies, “Amen.” hymnals. It looks and sounds like a prayer group confidence seems to her a gift in its own right, since Santa Clara. Counseling at the hospital is hard but Bruno believes it is appropriate to recall that in Any Catholic Parish, USA. Following the song, it helps her empathize with her clients. meaningful work. And she is aware that her monthly Jesus was crucified in the company of two despised she invites one man and then another to read aloud visits to McNeil Island involve a ministry to men criminals. To the one who expressed repentance, He the biblical lectionary readings for the day. She Records and affirmations who have committed crimes for which many people promised heaven. SCU comments briefly on the passages from the gospel, In the late 1970s and early 1980s at Santa Clara, think they should be executed—or worse. drawing parallels with the experiences of the men in there was no mistaking the fact that Elizabeth Anne On one Saturday, at the concluding part of the her little assembly. She invites all to add their own Bruno was a big woman on campus. At 6 foot 2 Communion service, she leads the men in praying thoughts. Most do. she stood well above most women—and men. As a aloud the Our Father. All stand and join hands

28 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 29 flung open the kitchen cabinets and lobbed dish after dish into the trash. Dinner plates, saucers, soup bowls, and coffee mugs clanked and shattered. I bagged our wall art, DVDs, floor rugs, sofa pillows, followed by the sofa itself. I hoisted trash bags to the street corner where, within the hour, they would probably be picked clean by the men from the SRO next door. On a return trip from dragging the mattress to the curb, I ran into the building’s resident palm reader standing in the Ilobby in her pink bathrobe and holding a stack of mail.

“I didn’t know anyone was moving out,” she said. priorities and left a high-paying business career to focus on “Just refurbishing,” I said. playing music. She became an electric violinist. Incredibly, But I was doing more than refreshing my apartment; I almost overnight, she went from playing clubs on the was overhauling my life. Sunset Strip to joining the Tonight Show band, touring A month earlier my oncologist informed me that, after with Gnarls Barkley and Alanis Morissette, and landing a a long year of chemotherapy, I was cancer-free. This meant major recording deal with Universal Records. that I’d likely survived the cancer that had appeared in my When Asha and I first talked over Skype, I told her my blood and in my right lung. My first thought was simply story and asked about hers. I wanted to know how she’d I’m lucky to be alive, followed by, Now it’s time to rebuild my chosen her post-trauma path and had been so successful life ... but how? I was 31 years old. in it. Asha smiled. What I read in it was: Great question. Prior to undergoing treatment for cancer, I worked I have no idea. Why don’t you find out? in television and book publicity. I lived in Manhattan, Life after cancer was not shaping up to be easy for me. owned a small co-op on the Upper West Side with my It was wonderful to be back in San Francisco, but our wife, and had a relatively rewarding life. Yet after my first few months also presented a number of unexpected cancer experience, I found myself questioning my past challenges. Moving away from New York meant my wife choices, from career to where I lived—even the way had to leave her high-powered finance job and find work; I’d reasoned through decisions. The results had been she was still knocking on doors. The tiniest disagreements Use these fulfilling, but now I was willing to forgo conventional became full-blown arguments, rife with displaced resentment ideals of success and do something with my life that was over a list of well-earned grievances. I’d found a job—a more true to myself. I wasn’t certain what this would be, high-stress position at a small firm—and hated it. I’d but it began with cleaning house. nearly walked out dozens of times. Happiness remained Then I tried to convince my wife that we should sell elusive for both of us. We could pin it on a million things, our apartment, leave Manhattan, and move back to San but it really came down to one: the fact that my trauma powers for good Francisco, where we’d met. Considering how I’d pretty experience wouldn’t stay buried. There’s no magic pill you can take to bounce back from tragedy. But there are stories of much thrown away all of our possessions, up until now I had to wonder if anyone’s did—not just after cancer people who’ve bounced forward to great things. Call them supersurvivors. she’d been fairly patient with me. But why, she wanted but after catastrophic events more broadly, from natural to know, couldn’t I change within the context of our disasters to wartime violence to damaging accidents. Asha BY LEE DANIEL KRAVETZ M.A. ’13 lives together? I wanted her to understand my need Mevlana not only bounced back, she seemed to bounce to alter my life (and get as far away from the cancer forward, changing her life in remarkable ways as a result of experience as possible). She didn’t really, but she agreed surviving. If there was a secret to reapproaching living like to put the co-op on the market in late summer and see she had, I needed to find it. what would happen. In September 2008, I quit my job and abandoned In common my lucrative decade-long career. We moved into a small I began to amass a list of survivors’ names and their unique apartment in San Francisco’s Mission District and began survival stories. And I enrolled at Santa Clara to get my to build this new life. master’s in counseling psychology. When I was undergoing cancer treatment, I realized that I wanted to do more to Great question help people, and psychology seemed like a good fit. In the One fall morning I was having brunch with a friend, graduate program, I advocated turning my curiosity about talking to her about how I was grappling with what to resilience into an independent research project and worked do with my life. She told me about a friend who’d been with David Feldman, one of the foremost experts on in a similar situation and was doing some remarkable hope therapy, as my academic advisor. Our work together things. Her friend’s name was Asha Mevlana. She was a blossomed into a friendship and collaboration; we would breast cancer survivor who, in remission, re-evaluated her spend the next four years striving to understand how people Memory and strength: A young Rwandan girl awaits the arrival of a small flame of remembrance.

30 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 31 AP/BEN CURTIS approach life after suffering a major assault on their physical and Essaying emotional selves. We set out to find people who brought these ideas to life. We the horror followed leads, connecting with hundreds of survivors across the Notes The tale of one supersurvivor globe. No two stories were the same. Experiences varied dramatically from person to person. But there was commonality: a psychological WINTER 2015 Growing up in the city of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, Clemantine Wamariya was an inquisitive little phenomenon known as post-traumatic growth. girl. “I remember driving through the city and At some point in our lives, the majority of us will face the task of the whole way asking my mother, ‘Who lives recovering, rebuilding, and rebounding from adversity, whether large here? What about here?’ My mother made up stories from one house to or small. According to two decades of research from more than a dozen another. I wanted to know everything.” researchers, on average 50 to 80 percent of people who have lived At 24, she speaks with a yearning cadence that infuses wonder and through trauma say they’ve grown in some way, even though they’ve horror as she talks about the events that began in 1994. She was 6 when also suffered. Trauma closes off certain choices in our lives, yet when we the mass killings started in Kigali. “The first thing they do is rape the girls,” look at the situation with eyes wide open, we also may see the potential Clemantine says, drawn back to the memory of the genocide. for new possibilities. We came to call these people supersurvivors, those Ethnic tensions were brimming in Rwanda when a government who emerge from suffering fundamentally changed, often with an assassination sparked the start of Hutu-conducted mass killings of Tutsis ability to affect the world in previously unimagined ways. and pro-peace sympathizers. Trying to protect her and her 16-year-old For instance, when Alan Lock lost his vision due to macular sister, Claire, their parents placed them in hiding at their grandparents’ degeneration, he realized that his lifelong dream of a career in the Royal home. But Clemantine’s grandparents couldn’t protect the girls from the violence for long. Navy simply was gone. Alan’s crisis presented him with new choices, some of which he embraced. Several years later, Alan became the first ~ “Someone cared registered blind person ever to row a boat across the Atlantic Ocean. The sisters crept through an enough to write Aaron Acharya suffered trauma at the hands of his countrymen: airless hallway to the far side of about the dead.” His entire village in Bhutan was expelled and forced into U.N. refugee the house. Claire stopped short camps in the late 1980s as part of a campaign of discriminatory of the kitchen and opened a tiny citizenship. Aaron would eventually leave, pursuing a degree in window. From there, the sisters escaped to the yard and slipped into the darkness of a field of banana trees. All around them, far below, deafening engineering to found one of the most influential anti-torture shrieks and cries split the darkness as roaming death squads slaughtered organizations in the world. He did this through an extraordinary ability neighbors. “This will never make sense to me. Not ever. What we saw. So to forgive his perpetrators. much death. What we ran from ... If I think about it too much it will make We met with a New Orleans artist who, reeling from a loved one’s me crazy. My grandparents never came out.” death, helped restore post–Hurricane Katrina New Orleans; a witness ~ to a brutal Irish Republican Army killing who later won a Nobel Peace Prize; a car crash survivor and amputee who became one of One revelation came in the form of Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, from which Clemantine first learned the word genocide. Wiesel survived the Hollywood’s most successful stunt actors; a Rwandan genocide survivor Nazi concentration camps. He was the first person to describe accurately who went on to work with President Barack Obama and Oprah the pain and confusion she herself had endured. Clemantine was so Winfrey. The project led to phone and email conversations with people moved that she wrote an essay for a contest put on by The Oprah ranging from Desmond Tutu and Elie Wiesel to filmmaker John Winfrey Show about the scar of genocide that marred both Germany Carpenter and MythBusters host Adam Savage. and Rwanda. A few months later, she was shocked to learn that her essay was a finalist, earning her a seat at a taping of the program. Through the stories—and the decades of research that support them—we learned that positive thinking has little to do with Clemantine’s journey toward forgiveness had begun years before, resilience. Rather, a practice called grounded hope offers an approach though. Shortly after arriving in the United States, she’d picked up a that’s more realistic than simple positive thinking yet more positive strange new hobby. Every day, she collected the newspaper and saved the obituaries of strangers. She amassed hundreds of names, folding the than pessimism. We found that reflecting on one’s death can lead to a pages and keeping them safely in her bedroom closet. better life; that contrary to popular belief, the listlessness we feel after our worldview shatters can be beneficial; and that certain delusions She was disturbed by the fact that what had happened to her, her family, and hundreds of thousands of others in Rwanda might not be can be healthy. remembered, honored, or mourned. In contrast, the names in the We collected these stories in a book, Supersurvivors: The Surprising obituaries “were being recorded and honored,” she says, her eyes Link Between Suffering and Success (HarperCollins, 2014). The book pooling with tears. “They were not buried in unmarked holes in the dirt. explores not only the psychology behind remarkable stories of survival Someone cared enough to write about the dead.” and resilience, it also was an integral part of my own journey to figure Clemantine believes that acknowledging and grieving her own trauma out a meaningful life after my trauma. Today, that life includes being was an important step on her road to forgiveness. a father of two children and working as a psychotherapist. Although From SUPERSURVIVORS: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and I still measure all of my successes and failures against my trauma—I Success by David B. Feldman and Lee Daniel Kravetz. Copyright © 2014 sometimes wonder if that will ever change—I’ve come to embrace the by David B. Feldman and Lee Daniel Kravetz. Used by permission of knowledge that life is short and that suffering can lead to asking HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. oneself an incredibly hopeful and forward-looking question: Given what happened to me, how can I build a better life on top of it? SCU Julie Johnston ’14 capped her first season as a defender with the Chicago Red Stars by earning first- magnitude status: National Women’s Soccer League Rookie of the year Rookie of the Year. She also plays with the U.S. National Team—as seen here against Mexico in September 2014. 32 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 33 GETTY IMAGES Hall of Famers The six new members of SCU’s Athletic Hall of Fame A ceremony inducting them was held in MayMay 2014, with the Bronco Bench Foundation’s annualual Red and White Gala the following evening..

DanielleDannielle SlatonSlaton ’0’022 A four-yearfourr-year starter, threethree-timee-time first-team AlAll-Americanl-Ammerican defender, andand teamteam captaicaptainin for the Broncos wowwomen’smen’s soccsoccerer team. HelpedHelped lead the teamm to 22001001 NCAA chamchampionshipppionship and named NNCAACAA College CuCupp DefensiveDeefensive MVP, 1998 WCCWCW C Freshman of the Year,Year, 2001 WCC DefenderDefendern of thethe YeYear,ar, aandnd 20200101 NCAAAA ScScholarhoh lar Athlete of Jerry Kerr ’61 the YeYear.aar. ThThee firsfifirstrst overall draft pick by the CaCarolinaroli a CCourageourage in the Women’s United Served as executive director of the Alumni Soccerr Association, helped lead the team Stephen “Steve” Schott ’60 Association and has dedicated 31 years to championship,mpionship, and was named tthehe of service to the University. As a student, His name is synonymous with baseball league’ss defender of the year. A five-year he led the movement to bring back football at SCU. A pitcher for SCU as a student, he memberer ofof the U.S. National Team (from in 1959. Worked to recruit Pat Malley ’53 to MandyMandy ClClemense ’99 built a career in real estate and development 2000 to 2005), won a silver in thee 22000000 return as head coach. Said to have recruited OneO of the best collegiate women’s soc- with Citation Builders, and in 1995 he and Olympic Games in Sydney, and was part Gary Filizetti ’67 a number of players on the 1962 baseball cer forwards to play the game. SCU’s business partner Ken Hofmann purchased of the team that took third in the 2003 Alyson “Aly” Wagner ’0’033 Top rusher as the senior halfback of the team including Ron Calcagno ’64 and Ron all-time leading scorer: 67 career goals and the Oakland Athletics baseball team. Under World Cup. Played for Broncos 1999–2003, named Broncos football team. Current president and Cook ’63. During the three decades he led 65 assists for 199 points. Helped lead the their ownership, the franchise rebuilt itself by second-team NSCAA All-American, CEO of Devcon Construction, which has built the Alumni Association, membership grew Broncos to the Final Four all four seasons. emphasizing a strong minor league system first-team All-WCC, and WCC Freshman Bay Area landmarks such as Cisco Systems, to 60,000, including 1,400 volunteer lead- First-team All-American in 1998 and 1999, that produced the majority of the players of the Year. In 2001, helped lead Broncos Lockheed Martin, the San Jose Civic Center, ers in 53 chapters that sponsor more than and swept postseason player of the year who led the A’s to four straight postseason to NCAA Women’s Soccer Championship. and Levi’s Stadium, the new home of the San 240 events per year. Spearheaded initiatives awards following her senior season: the appearances. In 2005, the Stephen Schott 2002 Hermann Trophy as top collegiate player Francisco 49ers. Also one of several former including the Ignatian Award and the Alumni Hermann Trophy, as the top college player in Baseball Stadium opened on the Santa Clara in the country. No. 1 pick in the 2003 WUSA Bronco football players instrumental in plan- Family Scholarship program. the country; the Missouri Athletic Club Player University campus. Schott kicked off the draft; played for San Diego Spirit and Boston ning and fundraising for the 9,500-square-foot of the Year; and NSCAA Division I Player of project with a $4 million pledge. The 1,500- Breakers. Joined the U.S. National Team in weight room in SCU’s Pat Malley Fitness the Year. As a sophomore, the first player in seat stadium houses the entire Santa Clara 1998 and was critical in helping win a gold in and Recreation Center—named the Filizetti- Santa Clara women’s soccer history named baseball program, including its training, prac- Athens Olympics in 2004. Competed as alternate McPherson Weight Room, after Filizetti's father, West Coast Conference Player of the Year; tice, and equipment facilities. in 2008 Beijing Olympics. In 2010, returned to John, and Bill McPherson ’54, who was a she captured the award three times. Mission campus to finish her bachelor’s degree, former Santa Clara and San Francisco 49ers working as assistant coach. SCU assistant coach.

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ALUMNI AWARDS

UNDERGRADUATE Irv Scott and Sylvia just celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary. They have three Devotion 1943 Joseph D. Michael sons—Chris, Brian ’93, and J.D. ’48 writes, “After Santa Matt—and two grandchildren. A former NBA player, a teacher, an attorney, Clara, I enlisted in the Navy, In 1976, Scott founded the was assigned to Columbia and a cowboy—the 2014 Alumni Award Sacramento law firm Porter University, and graduated as honorees. They were recognized at the Scott, specializing in defense an ensign. I was in the invasion President’s Dinner in April 2014. of civil lawsuits. He’s a pitcher of the Philippines. I opened and second baseman in the my own law office, expanded Sacramento Men’s Senior it over the years, and retired. Baseball League; the team Then I developed housing has won 13 World Series for low-income families and Championships since 1992. retirement facilities. I retired In 2008 he was inducted into again in 2014 and developed the Sacramento Men’s Senior HAROLD KEELING ’85 college counseling the Michael Family Foundation Baseball League Hall of Fame. IGNATIAN AWARD to high school to assist the needy.” 1967 Two years ago, students, many of 1950 G. Steve Holeman Margaret “Margie” Richards For nearly two decades Harold Keeling writes, “Not many of us left. whom are the first Taylor launched Bibendum, I keep in touch with several enjoyed a pro basketball career in the in their families a quality-wine shop based classmates, including Charlie U.S. and internationally. The first years in Cebu, Philippines, where to attend college. Bedolla ’50, Jack Smrekar of his life were in the projects of New The center has she was born. Soon, she will ’50, and Bob Ferrari ’50. Still manage a Cebu branch of the Orleans, where his grandmother, Ruby assisted thousands trying to play golf.” employment agency Omafil Rowley, regularly opened her home with admissions 1952 Leigh Josephson is Phil., which is tasked with to neighborhood children. Eleven applications, living his golden years on the hiring 800 Filipino nurses for years ago, Keeling co-founded Rowley island of Kauai, after teaching England. Before that, Taylor financial aid started the Harston Group, a Residences with his mother and sister, questions, for many years at Iolani School in Honolulu. In 2002, he was Hong Kong–registered family opening two group homes in Atlanta scholarship inducted into the Hawaii company representing well- to provide a safe environment for more searches, and Swimming Hall of Fame. He known brands in the duty-free has been married for more markets, and had been the than 400 children and adolescents. The SAT preparation. first woman and first Asian program offers tutoring, counseling, Alumni Award honorees: recognized for their service than 60 years and raised his Graduates have gone on to medical SCU community: As chairman of the children in Honolulu. corporate vice president at a and life skills development. Keeling is school, passed the California bar exam, University’s Planned Giving Advisory to humanity, the University, and the Alumni Association. major tobacco company. From left: Fred Lentz ’65, Charles Packer J.D. ’80, 1954 chief financial officer and serves as a and enrolled in Ph.D. programs. Council, Packer has shaped and grown Henry M. Shea 1969 MBA ’80, Harold Keeling ’85, and Robert Warren. writes that his grandchildren Mike Beresky writes mentor; you might find him playing that after retiring as a U.S. Recently, a retired police chief called the Bergin Society, a recognition Elizabeth Stephens ’18 naval aviator, he worked in the hoops with the kids on one of the Advance the most effective gang program for those with SCU provisions and Michael Shea ’18 are cruise industry. Beresky has freshmen at Santa Clara this full-length courts he built. He’s proud prevention program the Southern in their estate plans. During the last one daughter and a grandchild. year; his grandson Matt Shea that many Rowley kids graduate from He travels the world with his California city has seen. Lentz served as decade, membership in the Bergin He joined Santa Clara in 1991, serving is a student at USF. college and come back to share their executive director 2003–09; now on the Society has nearly doubled, ensuring as director of human resources and wife, Christine, of 32 years. He stories. “There’s nothing like helping 1964 Michael Kellogg writes, “The number of cruises board of directors, he continues to lead access to financial resources for future later as vice president for finance and we’ve taken over the years people’s lives get better,” he says. writes: “After retiring from the fundraising efforts. generations. Packer also co-chairs administration. He helped see the NFL (Oakland Raiders and approximates our ages!” the planning committee of the law Denver Broncos), I went to law University through two decades of Vincent Mancuso writes, school and became a criminal school’s annual Jerry A. Kasner Estate dramatic change, from construction “We recently sold our house defense attorney. Eventually, Planning Symposium. More than 600 in Bethesda, Maryland, and FRED LENTZ ’65 CHARLES PACKER J.D. ’80, MBA ’80 of 19 buildings to a 600 percent Gov. Pete Wilson appointed downsized to a condo in professionals attended the symposium increase in the University’s endowment. me to the bench. I have IGNATIAN AWARD LOUIS I. BANNAN, S.J., AWARD Arlington, Virginia. We spend been sitting as a Los Angeles in 2013; proceeds from the event fund He fortified the bonds of the Santa a lot of time at our cottage in Superior Court judge for 19 Over the course of his 34-year teaching a professorship in memory of the late the Allegheny Mountains. West At Santa Clara Law, Charles Packer Clara community, including among years. I married a younger Virginia is a very special place career in the ethnically diverse city found a welcoming and collegial Jerry Kasner, who taught nearly four trustees, faculty, staff, alumni, building woman so must work until with wonderful people.” of La Habra, California, Fred Lentz environment and thrived under decades at SCU. contractors, investment managers, age 120. We are expecting grew frustrated that too many high- Dennis Lilly public officials, and neighbors. our first, which actually will be Keith W. Paulson and Claire professors including , our second and third—triplets! ability students weren’t reaching their Herman Levy, and Jerry Kasner. An Recently retired, Warren plans to M. Campodonico write, “Our At my age I have trouble daughter, Angela Anne Gavin potential because they were unprepared expert in trusts and estates, he is on the ROBERT WARREN spend time playing with his three remembering names so we’re M.A. ’05, was married to keeping it simple: A, B, and C.” for—or even unaware of—college management committee of Hopkins PAUL L. LOCATELLI, S.J., AWARD grandchildren and riding horses. He’ll Tomislav Majic. Their first child, and career opportunities. In 2002, & Carley and co-chair of its family also continue to assist the University in William Parra is retiring on Natalia Rose, was born on July he co-founded Advance, a nonprofit Jan. 31, after 50 years with the 9, 2013. Angela works full-time wealth and tax planning practice. He Raised among the horses and wheat of fundraising as Vice President Emeritus, as an advanced-class yoga providing free, bilingual, one-on-one also shares professional advice with the Kansas, Bob Warren was born a cowboy. University Relations. Marika Krause SCU Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the teacher in Los Gatos.” CDC Foundation.

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1970 Mary Terry Rector 1973 Angel Fields-Raposa 1983 P. Gregory “Greg” director of the California Academy retired from Government writes, “At age 62, I’ve started Frey is a managing attorney at for the Creative Performing Arts. Keith Palmer ’95 and Rina Megan Katherine Conlin ’06 of Singapore Investment a new career: working for Coates & Frey LLLC, Hawaii’s For the fifth summer in a row, he Knoblock on June 14, 2014, in and Alexander “Zandy” Eckrich on Corporation, where she had Catholic Charities Hawaii as largest family law and divorce has hosted The Scene, a musical Jim Hornecker ’93 and his wife, Sarah (Petersen) Menlo Park. Having sadly lost their Sept. 13, 2014, at Mission Santa been a senior vice president a resident manager mentor law firm. He is also an equity theatre summer camp for kids, Andrea—their seventh child, Luke Hicks ’01 and first spouses to cancer, they met Clara de Asís in front of God, for nearly 14 years. She and for its Horizon/Yes Program partner in PIAE Group LLP, held at SCU. He has staged and Sebastian Hornecker, on March 28, husband Dave at a grief support group and share family, and fellow SCU alumni, her husband, David, relocated group home. Our clients are creator of the famed Pacific produced numerous productions, 2014. They live in Chaska, welcomed their an amazing number of similarities including bridesmaid Christina to Genoa, the oldest town in young men ages 18 to 25 Ink & Art Expo, Hawaii’s largest including the original Schoolhouse Minnesota. second daughter, Rock Live. and parallels in their lives. They Alexander ’06. “Shout” played on Nevada, about 20 minutes who have transitioned out of and best-attended tattoo expo. Cora Elouise Hicks, and his wife, both feel very fortunate for their repeat the entire night. The couple from Lake Tahoe. foster care and/or the juvenile Chris Turner ’93 on Feb. 17, 2014. 1984 1992 Richard Weber is an Lisa—a girl, Thea Lucia Turner, second chance at love. resides in Los Angeles. court system. Every day is a Tim Brown received She joins 2-year- Patrick Tondreau is serving challenge and a reward. My a promotion to partner at owner and principal partner at on June 15, 2014. She joins Whitson Engineers, a general old sister Carsen Mary (Chandler) Carlich ’04, Patrick Rugo ’07 and Megan Van as a Superior Court judge in husband, Jake, and I are truly Aon Hewitt, where he leads brother Casey, 2. Chris oversees Rose at the J.D. ’07 and Nick Carlich on April Ess on April 26, 2014, in Santa Santa Clara County and was blessed!” Radford’s Global Technology civil engineering and land survey Discovery Communications’ firm with projects in Monterey, family’s home in 26, 2014, in an awesome barn in Cruz, under the redwoods and named the 2013 Wilmont Survey operation. He is also original Internet networks and San Jose. Canby, Oregon. Representing SCU overlooking the Pacific. Pat attended Sweeney Juvenile Court Judge 1974 Phillip Duhe MBA an adjunct at San Jose State Santa Cruz, and San Benito lives in San Francisco. as bridesmaids were Betsy Seus University of California, San of the Year by the Juvenile ’76 writes, “Janet and I have University, where he teaches counties. Current projects range Blaze Smallwood ’02 and wife from a housing development in and Kristy ’04, Amanda Kremer ’04, Francisco, School of Medicine after Court Judges of California. resided in American Canyon, a course about compensation Timothy Bidwill ’94 Annie—their second child, Brady the East Garrison section of Fort Bidwill—their first child, Morgan Becca (Johansen) Auten ’04, graduation and is a doctor of He also received the 2014 California, since 1989 and and rewards to human Drue, on May 17, 2014. Big sister Ord and the proposed softball Andrew Bidwill, on Aug. 26, 2014. and Inna Petrovsky J.D. ’07. physical therapy at Kaiser Wester Sweet Award for Legal celebrated 35 years of resources management Avery Mae, 4, loves giving her fields at Toro Park to a flood Activism from the San Jose/ marriage last June. I work majors. new brother smooches any chance Permanente. Megan works as a control study at the mouth of Mark Davis ’95 and Ellice—their Khanh-Thy (Nguyen) Gonzales registered dental hygienist. Patrick’s Silicon Valley NAACP. as an analytics consultant she gets. ’04 and 1st Lt. Ramiro Gonzales A “Silicon Valley cubicle the Carmel River. second daughter, Reese. Tess mother is Michele Rugo M.A. with Wells Fargo Bank in San finally got her sister. The family celebrated their 10-year 1971 Tom Kaminski M.A. Francisco. Our daughter, refugee,” Franci Claudon Kevin Cote ’04 and Kristin ’01. The couple resides in San 1994 SCU lacrosse Hall of lives in Creston, California. anniversary by renewing their ’72 has retired as a school Jessica, is a resident physician writes, “I am in the midst of (Koenekamp) Cote ’04—a Francisco. Famer Greg Mengis is the new wedding vows in Las Vegas with principal after 34 years—16 of in internal medicine at Kaiser pursuing my true calling as an daughter, Cailin Parker Cote, on men’s lacrosse head coach for Richelle (Faria) Massey ’95 Elvis. Several Broncos were in Cristina Sanidad ’08 and them with Los Angeles Unified Permanente in San Francisco, artist, setting the naysayers June 28, 2014. She joins 2-year- the Broncos’ 2014–15 season. and husband Chris—a daughter, attendance; future Broncos Aria Emmanuel Gallardo on May 24, School District. “My biggest and our son, Justin, is a and fears aside as I pursue my old Carson at the family’s home in Mengis is a two-time Western Peyton Bella Faria Massey, on and Ellia Gonzales served as 2014, in Phoenix. challenge with retirement is briefing manager at Oracle art as my vocation, profession, Walnut Creek. Collegiate Lacrosse League April 10, 2014. She joins big flower girls. when to schedule my lunch Corp. SCU memories: and life. I’ve never been (WCLL) All-Star and helped brother Logan. Ana Maria Valdes ’12 and Mark between naps,” he writes. Panty raid during Freshman happier. I have made lifestyle Ashley (Ritchie) Schwarm ’04 lead Santa Clara to the WCLL Monica Vasquez ’04 and Omar Spain ’13 on June 7, 2014, at His wife of 42 years, Linda Orientation Week, dorm room trade-offs. I smile politely at Alicia Giovannini ’96 and her and her husband, Conor—a son, Final Four three years in a Chaudhri on May 17, 2014. the Mission Church. They met at (Rawson) Kaminski ’72, fire in Graham, and Friday those who echo the ‘starving husband, Andre Benguerel—their Noah Jeffrey, on Oct. 9, 2013. row. His philosophy stresses a Vasquez writes, “After 10 years SCU freshman orientation and is superintendent of Azusa nights at the pool hall and artist’ refrain, and I continue second son, Enzo Augustus Noah joins his older brother, Mark positive attitude, mastering the together, we finally tied the knot in began dating their senior year. Unified School District. They bowling alley in Benson.” to believe in this possibility for Benguerel, on Dec. 10, 2013. The Brian, 3. fundamentals, and teamwork. Sedona, Arizona. What a beautiful Other Broncos in attendance have three children and two myself.” family lives in San Francisco, He has been the head coach David Rodriguez ’05 and backdrop.” included bridesmaids Jessica grandchildren. 1976 Patricia Rosenthal where Alicia works as a realtor. Campbell ’11 and Marlynn writes, “Our son, Samuel 1986 Jeanne-Marie of the Los Altos High School Christine Badal ’07—a beautiful Jessica Frank ’05 and Peter Spain ’10 and groomsmen 1972 In August, Jim Perez James Rosenthal, was (Bourcier) Carr is currently varsity team since 2009 and Tyson Green ’96, wife Dana, and boy, Eddie Alexander, on Jan. 11, Brown on Aug. 9, 2014, at Anthony Sagariballa ’12, Dong completed a solo 12-mile married May 31, 2014, to working as an independent is a program director for Team 2-year-old Cooper Robert—a girl, 2014. O’Connell Vineyards in Sebastopol, NorCal Lacrosse. Seon Min ’14, and David Sippel swim, crossing Lake Tahoe in his high school sweetheart study educator for K–12 Remy Marie, on March 4, 2014. Yoana Picazo ’06—a lovely California. Kristin Belanger ’05 fewer than 6 hours. Perez was of 11 years, Allison. Sam students in the Gateway The family lives in Los Gatos. ’13. The couple resides in Seattle. 1996 Jill Rivera, who played baby boy, Noel, on Dec. 26, 2013, and Katy Tuttle ’05 served as a past captain and MVP of is finishing his doctorate at Unified School District in softball for four seasons at SCU, , in Kentucky. He weighed 10 maid and matron of honor. Several Chris Chang ’07 and Quyen both the SCU swim and water Stanford University, and Allison Redding, California. Kathy Carr Stephens ’97 often played catch with her son, pounds, 8 ounces, and was 22 other Broncos were in attendance. (Le) Chang ’07, MBA ’12 polo teams and was a record is finishing her doctorate husband Jeff, and 3-year-old- Chris Rivera, in the yard even inches long. The happy couple resides in San married on Aug. 30, 2014, in holder in the distance freestyle at University of California, John P. Nyhan has joined the daughter Chloe—Clayton Michael, before he entered T-ball. Now Francisco. Maui, Hawaii. The wedding party events. Berkeley. Marty and I are living law firm O’Keefe Lyons & Hynes on June 1, 2014. He was 6 Elizabeth (Elliott) Skibbe MBA he’s accepted a scholarship to included Neha Sharma ’07, our plan to travel until there LLC as a partner in its property pounds, 14 ounces, and 19.5 and husband David—their Travis Salha ’05 and Nicola van play baseball at Long Beach ’07 Gillian Rimicci ’07, Jenna David B. Samuelson is no ‘go’ left, and then we’ll tax appeal and real estate inches long. The family resides in Rensburg on April 17, 2014, in State. A single mom, Rivera third child, Jacob, in July 2013. He O’Connor ’07, Jessica Kremer J.D. ’75 writes: “Medicare look into cruises. Our latest trip practice group. Prior, he served Manhattan Beach, California. works for a family-owned joins Abigail, 3, and Ryan, 2. The Cape Town, South Africa. Matt MBA ’12, Joanne Wang ’09, cards this year! And a new was six weeks in Turkey; the in local government as chief general contracting business in Katie Susemihl ’97, J.D. ’05 and family resides in Minnesota. Tuttle ’05 served as best man. Martin Lewis ’09, Greg Moore granddaughter, Violet!” next will be a month in Paris to legal counsel to the Cook Watsonville, California. Ryan Bennie—their first child, The couple met in London and ’08, Raymond Chiu ’08, and celebrate our 30th.” County assessor and as chief Brent Haase ’08 and Hillary now lives in San Jose. deputy commissioner for the Thomas Ryan Bennie, on June 28, (Boller) Haase ’06—future Mimi Pham ’16. The couple lives 1997 Autumn Mortenson 1979 Rich Bluth and Anne Cook County Board of Review. 2014. He weighed 8 pounds, 13 Bronco Louis William Haase, on in San Francisco. writes, “I’m going back to Nickel Bluth ’79 celebrated Nyhan resides in the Chicago ounces, and was 19.75 inches long. Aug. 23, 2014. He was 6 pounds, school! MFA program in dance 34 years of marriage in June area with his wife, Kris, and their The family lives in Santa Rosa. 9 ounces, and 18.25 inches long. at University of California, Irvine, 2014 and are enjoying their 8-year-old daughter, Laura. starting fall 2014!” Eric Iwamoto ’99 and Wendy Louis joins big brother Ollie, a newly emptied nest in Seal German shepherd, at home in 1988 In February 2014, (Vu) Iwamoto ’99—a boy, James Beach, California, where they Guisselle Nuñez is now Toshiro Vu, on April 7, 2014. He Greenwood Village, Colorado. have lived since their Santa Roy Agustin was confirmed by the Senate for appointment director, external affairs, KQED joins big sister Ellie, 5. The family Scott Sweeney ’08 and Clara Mission wedding. They Silicon Valley. She’s responsible lives in Ladera Ranch, California. have been blessed to have all to the rank of brigadier Michelle (Evanson) Sweeney general, U.S. Air Force. He is for developing and executing ’06—their first son, Oliver Edward, four children graduate from KQED’s strategic engagement Jane Duong Davaransky ’00 currently the headquarters air on March 12, 2014. They currently Catholic universities, including and communication initiatives and husband Anthony—Carson Mark Bluth ’14. Rich works combat command director Thai Davaransky, on April 27, 2014. reside outside of Seattle. of installations and mission in Silicon Valley. She will still for the Irvine Company and is continue to teach marketing Carson spent five weeks at Lucile Cassandra (Thomassin) Staff currently vice president, energy support and resides in courses at the University of Packard Children’s Hospital, MBA ’11 and her husband, Adrian management. Anne spends her Hampton, Virginia. Phoenix and volunteer as a Stanford, for apnea, aspiration, and Staff—their first child, Lucille time in support of her family 1989 Scott Evan mentor, startup/small-business reflux before going home with mom, near and far. Khoo Staff, on March 9, 2014. Guggenheim is the executive marketing consultant, and more. dad, and big sister Emerson. He is They are happily raising Lucille in growing and improving every day. Hawaiian Wedding: Chris and Quyen Chang San Jose.

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1998 Patricia E. Ball 28-year-old point guard has Caribbean. By this summer 1975 Michael Buckley J.D. J.D. ’03 is counsel in the helped his teams reach the he is on pace to start his third was appointed to the Board of employment and labor practice league finals four times, winning year as a physician-in-training, Bar Examiners by the Nevada group of Thompson & Knight three league titles. He won composed of clinical rotations Supreme Court. LLP, in the firm’s Los Angeles back-to-back championships at a RUSM-affiliate hospital office. in Mexico’s top division in location in California. 1979 Elizabeth Barrett- 2013–14 and 2012–13 with two 2014 Anderson J.D., a retired Nazly Siregar was made a different teams. After graduation, Jack Superior Court of Guam judge, partner with Deloitte Southeast Bird traveled to Mexico, where won the 2014 election for Asia in January 2013. Tom Wong, who won the Orella he created an agroforestry attorney general of Guam. Prize the year he graduated, has program guide. He had She previously served the 2000 Brian Thorsett is accepted a post-doc in Latvia produced a similar guide in government of Guam for 33 now an assistant professor at to work with a computational Zambia the summer before. He years and is credited with the Virginia Tech University in the scientist. Although his doctorate then went to Korea, where he creation of the Driving While School for Performing Arts. He from University of California, San presented a paper on the guide Influenced Court and the rules also recently performed at the Diego, was from the physics that he produced in Zambia. of procedure and practice in prestigious Festival del Sole in department, his advisor was Bird was the recipient of the the field of domestic violence. Napa, California, in Leonard basically a mathematician and Nobili Award for outstanding She is a strong advocate for Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti. he uses (of all things) Fortran95 male student. victims’ rights, consumer to write a lot of his software! So 2001 protection, and child support Adam Blaylock was all three majors at SCU (math, Joey Eisenberg is the new enforcement. promoted to partner at Ernst computer science, and physics) assistant director, Chapters & Young LLP’s assurance have served him well. & Groups, Alumni Relations, Leslie Burton J.D. writes, “I’m practice in San Jose, where 2009 at SCU. He and his family are a professor and the director of he serves technology clients, Matt Adler is a futures from Bellevue, Washington, so Graduate Law Programs at including large multinationals, and FX execution consultant he is eager to hit the ground Golden Gate University School as well as clients in the solar with Bloomberg Tradebook running with the University’s of Law, where I have worked for industry. He previously served in New York. He recently Pacific Northwest chapters. As 20 years. I’ve been married for as a professional practice completed his MBA from New an undergraduate, he was an 27 years to Jeff Wurms, a group resident in the West York University Stern School orientation leader, search retreat reformed lawyer working on a Region, where he assisted client of Business and has relocated leader with Campus Ministry, credential to teach high school. to London for a two-year and a member of Associated service teams with complex Our daughter Chelsea graduated ORDAINED technical accounting matters assignment. Student Government. from Mount Holyoke College. I and facilitated executive training live in Oakland and love to travel.” sessions. Lindsay Damrow became Gina Stroud began her first Five recent grads from the Jesuit School of Theology take their vows as priests. a financial advisor for Merrill year at the University of New 1986 John Alba Jr. M.A. 2003 Miguel Legarreta Lynch in June 2014. She will Mexico School of Medicine. taught for seven years in a joins Truex Insurance in be working on the Armstrong/ K–8 setting and was a school Stockton, California, after a Eshoo Team based in Oak Lia Vosti plans to move to administrator for 28 years, theology in Denver, and served as a of Michigan. A highlight of his Jesuit successful career at Liberty Brook, Illinois. Minneapolis and work in the Nathan W. O’Halloran, S.J., M.Div. ’14 finishing his career as the East was profoundly influenced by the work deacon at San Quentin State Prison. formation has been his work on The Jesuit Mutual Insurance, where he was biotech industry. “While my Union High School principal, Claire Linney is Santa Clara’s of Richard Thomas, S.J., founder of The Post, a website he co-founded in 2012 recognized for his outstanding degree in bioengineering can in Manteca, California. He first paid assistant coach for Lord’s Ranch, where O’Halloran grew up. Last June, John Shea, S.J., M.Div. ’14 spent to explore the intersection of faith and performance by the Liberty summarize, to some extent, celebrated his 25th wedding men’s and women’s water polo. He’s taught and coached in New Orleans the summer in Rapid City, South Dakota, culture for a young-adult audience—which Mutual Leader’s Club. In 2011, what I have learned in the anniversary with Cindy Alba, As head coach of the Salinas and served as a chaplain at an AIDS before beginning a teaching position at has now yielded a book of the same he earned his Life Underwriter classroom,” she writes, “there assistant superintendent of High School boys’ water polo hospice in Oakland. He hopes to continue Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He name, publishing 20 new essays by TJP Training Council Fellow is no way to quantify what the Livermore Unified School team, she has twice been pro-life work in his future ministries. has worked with Catholic Charities, taught contributors. designation. I have learned from being District. He thanks SCU for a named Monterey Bay League part of the SCU swim team, biology at Gonzaga University, and served great education! as a deacon at the Newman Center at Derek Vo, S.J., M.Div. ’14 has taught in 2005 Javier Gonzalez Coach of the Year. She is also my relationships, travels, Christopher J. Schroeder, S.J., M.Div. University of California, Berkeley. Colorado and his native country, Vietnam, was appointed by the U.S. the athletic director at San independence, and so much ’14 served at a parish in Belize before Barbara Small J.D. joined and has served as a chaplain at San Commission on Civil Rights Benancio Middle School. In more these past four years.” returning to the Jesuit School of Theology GCA Law Partners LLP as a Eric Sundrup, S.J., M.Div. ’14 is a Quentin State Prison. Deeply affected to serve on the California spring 2014 she was inducted to finish his licentiate in sacred theology. partner in May and established campus minister at St. Mary Student by 9/11, Vo hopes to work in pastoral State Advisory Committee. into the Aptos High School Stepanus Widjaja writes that He has spent time in El Salvador, taught the firm’s trusts and estates Parish, which serves the University ministries. Committee members assist the Sports Hall of Fame. he accepted a position at practice, which covers estate commission with its fact-finding, Lumenous Device Technologies planning, decedents’ estate 2012 Bianca Frediani is investigative, and information in Sunnyvale, providing high- administration (probate), trust co-owner of Bed Bandits, a dissemination functions. precision medical device administration, conservatorship/ company that makes and sells operating officer in 1998, entrepreneurship, pursuing the 1997 and Napa Valley with the Gonzalez lives in San Jose. fabrication services. guardianship matters, and Karl Schweikert MBA fire-retardant, hypoallergenic spent 11 years as general goal of “technology benefiting launch of an intelligent wine- elder law counseling. Her received his J.D. from University 2007 mattress toppers. For every manager at Chappellet, and humanity.” He lives with his blending platform, Mezcla!” Zenon Zabinski clients are drawn from all of the Pacific McGeorge School three sold, a fourth is donated recently held the role of COO wife, Vicky Mattson ’84, in completed his doctorate in over Silicon Valley. of Law and is now practicing 2012 to a local shelter. It’s a business GRADUATE at Flora Springs Winery. Silicon Valley. aviation and state administrative W. Martin Behn J.D. economics at Northwestern joined Sinsheimer Juhnke University and is starting at model driven by compassion— 1987 Ralph Hayden MBA 1989 law in Sacramento for her dad was an Oakland Brad Mattson MBA Christopher G. Rudy J.D. has Churchwell White LLP. McIvor & Stroh LLP. He works in Bates White in Washington, 1973 David Cattrell MBA took on a new role as director, published The Solar Phoenix: been appointed to serve on the the trusts and estates practice D.C., as an economics litigation firefighter for more than 30 joined the board of Getabout, OEM Support Programs, at How America Can Rise from Santa Clara County Superior 2004 Carol Depner MTS of the firm in San Luis Obispo, consultant. years, and she wants to make a a van service for seniors Fusion-io, a division of the the Ashes of Solyndra to Court by Gov. Jerry Brown ’59. writes, “I have retired from California, where he grew up. difference, too. and those needing special SanDisk company. 2008 World Leadership in Solar Rudy, a 53-year-old Boulder hospital chaplaincy. The plan Brody Angley signed assistance, in New Canaan, 2013 Josh Ronen is 2.0 (Robertson Publishing, Creek resident and a is to do volunteer services at a two-year deal with Maccabi Connecticut, where he and Steve Tamburelli MBA was completing his second year 2014), which explains why Democrat, has been a partner both a homeless shelter and Haifa in July 2014, making his his wife, Penny, have lived appointed president of Clos of medical school at the solar is fundamental to the at Stenberg Sunseri Roe at St. Joseph Hospital, after debut in the Israeli Basketball for 25 years. Cattrell also is Du Val Winery, overseeing Super League. Over the past Ross University School of world’s energy future. After Pickard & Rudy since 1994. relocating to Denver.” What’s happening, Broncos? vice president of the board all operations. A Napa Valley taking both Novellus and five seasons in Switzerland, Medicine (RUSM) on the island Let us know: of directors of New Canaan native, Tamburelli joined Stag’s Mattson Technology from his 1991 Dean Birge MBA was 2005 Poland, and Mexico, the of Dominica in the eastern Leap Wine Cellars as chief Sergio Mairena MBA santaclaramagazine.com/classnotes Group Home Inc. garage to Nasdaq, Mattson hired as controller of Mission writes, “Bridging Silicon Valley became involved with social City Federal Credit Union in Santa Clara.

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February April 17 Monterey/Salinas 11th Annual Dinner 1 Santa Clara Valley 7th Annual Night at the 21 Ignatian Leadership Symposium with Shark Tank Janet Napolitano ’79, Sharon Kugler ’81, 10 Palm Springs AFO Volunteer at FIND Food Bank and Zoe Lofgren J.D. ’75 11 Alumni Association Pause for Coz Celebration 21 Los Angeles SCU vs. LMU Men’s Basketball Game 12 San Francisco Mass and Brunch with and Pregame Reception Jack Treacy, S.J. 17 Phoenix AFO Volunteer at St. Vincent de Paul Santa Clara University – 18 Los Angeles AFO Cleanup Project at 21 Family St. Bernard High School 22 Weekend 23 Los Angeles Bronco Bench Foundation Golf Tournament 25 Seattle AFO Jesuit Alumni Day of Service 28 Santa Clara University Golden Circle Theatre Party 25 San Francisco AFO Volunteer at St. Anthony’s Dining Room March 25 Alumni Association President’s Dinner 4 Los Angeles Brand 4 U Career Networking 25 Santa Clara Valley AFO Community Day of Service 6 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch New beginnings 14 Las Vegas WCC Tournament Games and Reception May 15 Alumni Association Lenten Afternoon of Reflection 1 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch pring is a time of new beginnings. apprising of important happenings, or and Instagram (@SCUalumni). I hope you with Jack Treacy, S.J. 2 Chicano Latino El Día del Niño Senses awaken as snows melt, highlighting inspiring family members, my will stay connected to Santa Clara 17 Sacramento Annual St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon with 11 Seattle Brand 4 U Career Networking flowers blossom, and birds sing. goal has always been to inform, entertain, University in whatever way inspires you USF and St. Mary’s On the SCU campus, excitement and renew your pride in our alma mater. most. I hope you will stay connected to 16 Bronco Bench Foundation Red & White Celebration S 18 East Bay Night at the Warriors is palpable as sunbathers emerge, wisteria Thanks to all who responded to my calls your classmates and fellow Broncos, both 17 Alumni Association Football Reunion delights, and seniors get ready to graduate. to action, contacted me when something personally and professionally. And I hope 22 Alumni Association Easter Bunny Brunch 21 Orange County Brewery Tour and Tasting This spring, Santa Clara Magazine will touched you, sent a letter to the editor you and I will stay connected—in any and 30 Alumni Association Day at the Giants also have a new beginning. With the next when moved by the topic, and greeted all ways possible. Los Angeles edition, you will experience a new design me as a friend at the many alumni and It has been and continues to be my 26 Connect: at a chapter gathering, signature event, and added pages, which means more of University events where we’ve met over privilege to serve you and the entire Santa President’s or community service project by using the online event the great content you already enjoy. I’m the years. We’ve become friends through Clara family. Dinner calendar: scu.edu/alumni/eventcalendar. confident the reimagined layout will soothe this page, and while there’s no doubt your eyes, stimulate your mind, and touch you’ll enjoy the revamped publication, I will your heart. certainly miss the opportunity to connect As with all new beginnings, priorities with you in print on a quarterly basis. Go Broncos! change. Just as parkas give way to With new beginnings comes hope. sweaters, existing features in the magazine I hope you will stay connected to the will give way to new elements. As a result, Alumni Association through local events, one feature you won’t find going forward is Grand Reunion, the website (scu.edu Kathryn Kale ’86 this Alumni Association letter. /alumni), email ([email protected]), Assistant Vice President, Whether sharing SCU’s history and Facebook (scu.edu/facebook), LinkedIn Alumni Relations REMEMBER RECONNECT RENEW traditions, announcing new programs, (scu.edu/linkedin), Twitter (@SCUalumni),

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Below are obituaries 1950 John Joseph Bower, had three daughters. Fotinos The shortstop of Santa Clara alumni. July 18, 2014. Known for his enjoyed working on his Napa At santaclaramagazine keen intellect, razor-sharp wit, Carneros vineyard. He was 81. and the long haul .com/obituaries you’ll find and quick repartee, he had a Charles Alexander Quinn Jr., obituaries published in 30-year career at IBM as an May 25, 2014. A self-starter from oseph Thomas Nally ’50 their entirety. There, family industrial engineer. The Indiana the age of 2, Quinn was born in received a full scholarship to members may also submit native was 93. Solid San Jose in 1933. He started his Jattend Santa Clara, where he obituaries for publication played shortstop for the Broncos. He online and in print. We Benjamin Painter, April 29, own concrete product manufac- turing firm and was a loving was drafted by the Yankees before he state man publish news of the passing 2014. Born in 1928 in San Jose, was called to serve his country in of Broncos as we learn of it. Painter managed the reinforcing husband to Dawn, a father of six, and a fiercely loyal friend. Korea as an Army first lieutenant. A rofessor Emeritus Carl steel rebar division for San Jose year later, he returned home and Steel Company and later Hayn, S.J., taught 1957 Marshall W. Frazier married Teresa Bannan, to whom he became a custom-home builder physics at Santa Clara J.D., Aug. 1, 2013. He was born remained devoted for the remainder of OBITUARIES in Los Gatos. His proudest P for more than 50 years, in Fraziers Bottom, West Virginia, his life. He led a successful career in legacy is his large family, educating generations of students in 1921. After serving in the insurance and a life of being a man for in the sciences and engineering. including Kenneth B. Painter others. For SCU that included trustee, 1944 Frank M. Belick, July Navy, he practiced law in San Among his many students were MBA ’91 and grandson regent, Alumni Association president, 13, 2014. Born in Los Angeles in Jose for 33 years. He enjoyed biology majors who would go on Benjamin Painter ’06. and more. He is in the SCU Athletics 1922, he did pioneering work in fishing and traveling. Frazier was to become health professionals. Hall of Fame and earned the Ignatian water pollution control in the Bay 1951 John Eugene “Gene” married for 71 years to Faye. Several years ago, when Fr. Hayn Award. He was born in Los Angeles in Area, and he offered a helping McHugh, Dec. 23, 2013. He went in for emergency back Billie “Bill” Horne, May 27, 1928 and always had a twinkle in his hand to those in need. He was was born in 1929. He died in surgery, his surgeon, Ramon 2014. Born in Mountain View, eye, a unique sense of humor, and married to Charlotte for 58 years Costa Mesa, California. He was Jimenez ’64, mentioned to Fr. Oklahoma, he was active in real excellent counsel to give. He died on and had two children. father to John E. McHugh ’87. Hayn that he had taught him estate, including residential and June 30, 2014. Survivors include his physics as an undergraduate. “I 1945 Alan G. Horton, June 1952 Basil “Baz” Allaire, commercial sales and property son Patrick Nally ’78, J.D. ’82, MBA hope I gave you a good grade!” 30, 2014. The San Francisco July 9, 2014. Born in Monterey in management. He was 79 and is ’82; daughter-in-law Mary Mather Fr. Hayn quipped. native and former B-29 bomber 1930, he obtained his medical remembered for his intelligence, Nally ’78; daughter Mary (Nally) That story was shared at Fr. mechanic co-founded the degree and served as a captain professionalism, and warm smile. Ternan ’83; son-in-law Ed Ternan Hayn’s funeral Mass last October in the Air Force Medical Service. ’83; and grandchildren Joseph Nally Luckiamute Domestic Water 1958 Vincent T. Burns Jr., by colleague Dennis Smolarski, He later founded the Cardio- ’10, Catherine Nally ’12, Eddie Cooperative in Oregon and June 11, 2014. With his wife of S.J., a professor of mathematics Pulmonary Association and Ternan ’13, Teresa Ternan ’13, managed it until his retirement in 56 years, Debby, he devoted his and computer science. “In addition became vice president of and Daniel Nally ’16. He was 1985. He married his high school energy and passion to the Santa to teaching the basic facts of medical affairs at Community predeceased by his father-in-law, sweetheart, Frances Loosely, Paula Boys Club, making it one mechanics, Carl taught his and had three children. Hospital in Monterey. Berchman Bannan Sr. ’29. students how to be caring human of the first in the nation to accept beings, especially by example 1948 Glen A. Harris, June 1, Neil L. O’Keefe, July 2, 2014. girls. Born in 1936 in Utica, New during the numerous hours he 2014. He was a lifetime resident Born in 1927, he grew up in San York, Burns was exacting and spent in his office tutoring students, of Vallejo and the city’s director of Diego, and after his officer's imbued with a strong spirit of even after formally retiring from the public works for 32 years. He commission in the Army served competition. Survivors include classroom at age 90,” said received the Distinguished Alumni in the Korean and Vietnam wars. sister Darcy Williams ’70. THE REDWOOD Fr. Smolarski. O’Keefe earned the Legion of Award from the SCU School of Gerald C. L’Estrange, May 3, His pastoral ministry extended Merit, the Bronze Star, and the Engineering for his achievements 2014. Born in 1935, he was beyond the classroom at Santa Air Medal. He taught military in the field of civil engineering. proud to have graduated from Clara to include the community at history at Bucknell University, Harris was 90 years old. SCU and has been a true the Mission Church, where he and he was married to Nancy J. supporter over the years. celebrated daily 6 a.m. Mass. 1949 Daniel Cunha, Sept. Campbell for 57 years and had Born in Los Angeles in 1916, 12, 2014. An engineer, crafts- four children. 1959 Richard Callahan, Fr. Hayn entered the Jesuit man, friend, neighbor, and father Aug. 7, 2014. Born in Pasa- Louis Charles Sarto, Aug. 21, novitiate at Los Gatos in 1933 of five, he graduated from Santa dena, California, in 1937, he 2014. Born in Los Altos in 1930, and taught high school physics Clara after serving as a Navy served in the U.S. Army, was a Sarto was proud that his and mathematics and engineering pilot in World War II. He was 91 comptroller and investment California wines from Gemello physics in his early career. He and living in Felton, California. advisor, and wrote four books Winery in Mountain View were obtained a doctorate from St. Survivors include granddaughter on investing and the economy. among the first to beat the Louis University in 1955, pursuing Kathryn Gulland ’09. Survivors include son Michael French wines in the now-famous postdoctoral studies in nuclear Callahan ’80. physics. But his much-loved Michael John Donovan, Feb. 5, blind tastings of 1976. The Army ministry was in the classroom at 2014. Born in 1924 in New York veteran was a fine athlete and an Donald Joseph de la Pena, SCU, where he taught from 1955 City, he was devoted to his faith, accomplished artist. Aug. 20, 2014. A resident of until his retirement in 2006, when family, and friends. He worked in San Jose, he was a meticulous 1953 Raymond “Ray” partial hearing loss made real estate and was co-owner of planner of cities (most recently Bettencourt, July 16, 2014. A classroom teaching more difficult. DRW Realtors. After retiring, he for Menlo Park), a lover of nature lifelong resident of Fremont, he He was 98 years old when he was ordained a permanent and art, an avid photographer, a taught high school social science died on Oct. 21, 2014. deacon. Survivors include brother history buff, and a loving and for 30 years. He was known for Denis Donovan ’54 and son generous husband and father of his great humor and passion for James Donovan ’80. five. He was born in Oceanside, Full measure: In the days golf. He was 82. James William “Bill” Ross Sr., New York, in 1936. before email, here’s how much 1954 George Chris Fotinos, July 28, 2014. He was a selfless Charles “Chas” William Reed, paper hit his inbox in one year. Aug. 6, 2014. A native of San man who always strived to put June 1, 2014. Born in Spokane, Francisco, he worked on major the needs of his family and Washington, he established a bridges and waterfront structures friends before his own. He was jewelry and watch repair throughout the Bay and around born in Chicago in 1922 and business in Santa Clara, the world. He and wife Vivian worked in management for major founded a CPA firm, then retail organizations for 40 years. 44 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 IN MEMORIAM Yandell Truckaway and Santa Judith Harkham Semas, of humor. Tobin was born in through programs and centers a love of ranching, excellent Clara Warehouses. He was 76. July 30, 2013. A prolific 1948 and raised in Fairfax, that she founded. She was mechanical abilities, and 1961 journalist on the human side of California. He played on the married to James Hartwell co-founded All Chemical James P. McGonigle, the tech industry whose byline Bronco basketball team, entered Frame and raised seven children. Disposal and later D-4 Excava- For 33 years, Carmel Malley was a June 2, 2014. Known for his was featured in Business Week, the Army Reserve, then became tion. He was living in Hollister loyal presence at every Bronco sense of humor, quick and the Christian Science Monitor, a successful trial lawyer. Michael James Zelensky, and working as the winery football game coached by her acerbic wit, and effective advice and this magazine, Semas was Aug. 2, 2014. Born in 1955 in manager at Pessagno Winery. on an array of subjects, he was husband, Pat Malley ’53, and, later, in the first class of women James Michael Treinen, June Tacoma, Washington, he grew 1984 son Terry Malley ’76. She loved and born in 1939 in St. Louis. He admitted to Santa Clara. Her 16, 2014. He was raised in La up in Seattle and began Jonnie L. Herring knew each player by name and story. practiced ophthalmology in brother was Leonard Semas Habra Heights, California, and practicing law in 1983. He was J.D., July 26, 2014. She was Following Pat’s death, Carmel began Joplin, Missouri, and raised his ’68, MBA ’75. Semas was 70. worked at Arthur Andersen and an avid climber and hiker, and he born in 1941 in Oklahoma City her own career, working in the Alumni family there. Survivors include Clark Nuber, then Romac loved kayaking with friends and and raised her two children in Office, where she continued to win brother Michael M. McGonigle 1968 James “Jim” Conrad Industries. He had a full life with teaching chess and backgam- Saratoga. A music lover and an the hearts of students. Born in San ’63, daughters Adrienne West Ciardelli MBA ’80, May 9, his wife, Terri, enjoying travel, mon to nephews and nieces. award-winning family lawyer for Francisco in 1932, she was active in ’91 and Gabrielle Lucey ’95, 2014. Known for his sharp sense golf, biking, bridge, and time with almost 30 years, she specialized philanthropy and was a woman of son-in-law Steven Lucey ’95, and of humor and his love of sports, their three children and grand- 1978 Teresa Bugella, in mediation and pioneered style and class. She died Sept. 1, son James P. McGonigle ’97. travel, and cooking, he was born children. He was 65. Aug. 21, 2014. She was methods to minimize the strife of 2014. Among her numerous survivors in San Francisco in 1945 and the perfect hostess, always divorce proceedings. Robert M. Polhamus, Jan. 17, 1971 are daughter Kim Bellotti ’79, raised in San Jose. He had a Jon C. Carpenter making sure everyone else 1985 son-in-law Jerry Bellotti ’75, 2014. A Northwest Airlines career in international finance MBA, May 25, 2014. He was was comfortable—a giver Herbert Blake Jr. nephew Jonathan Mallen ’94, and grandchildren Christina Malley ’08, captain, he was born in 1938 in and worked as a commercial born in 1938 in Washington, to the last minute. She had Ph.D., July 2, 2014. Born in Caitlin Bellotti ’10, and Jerome P. “J.P.” Bellotti J.D. ’12. Donations in Seattle. In the Marine Corps, he appraiser. He was married to D.C. His 33-year career at IBM brilliant blue eyes and an Denver in 1942 and raised in her name may be mailed to the Pat and Carmel Malley Athletic Scholar- flew 174 missions over Laos and Dolores Fox and had two took him and his family to endless smile. She leaves Fort Morgan, Colorado, he ship Endowment c/o the Santa Clara Athletic Department. North and South Vietnam. children. various U.S. cities. Carpenter behind husband Michael and served as a Naval officer in Survivors include twin brother was an avid outdoorsman, a children Colin and Alessia. Vietnam before becoming a John F. Dullea, S.J., was a professor of theology at Santa Clara. He Richard Polhamus ’61. James M. Heyburn, April 14, Boy Scouts scoutmaster, and professor of management at entered the Jesuit Order in 1945 and was ordained to the priesthood 1962 2014. Heyburn was born in a bishop and high councilor for Christopher Nielsen Heard California State University, in 1959. Assignments included retreat director at the Jesuit Retreat Ronald D. Clancey 1946. After college he went to the Church of Jesus Christ of J.D., June 17, 2014. Born in Sacramento. He leaves behind He loved the game Center, parish work, administrative positions at the Jesuit headquar- MBA ’66, Aug. 14, 2014. Born West Africa as a Peace Corps Latter-day Saints. San Francisco in 1950, he was a his wife, Nancy, and two ne of the first Santa Clara in 1928 in West Duluth, dedicated public servant, fighting ters in Rome, and high school college counselor. A San Francisco volunteer and remained there for 1972 children. graduates to make it to major native, Dullea passed away on Aug. 1, 2014, at the age of 85. Minnesota, he served in the Navy 40 years working in the Bernard Leitner M.S., for the underdog. He later Oleague baseball, William “Bill” and worked for Lockheed international shipping industry June 14, 2014. A resident of pursued a career in forensic Virginia “Geeg” Mirrione M.A., Renna ’49 played outfield for Santa Robert “Bob” Riemenschneider, adjunct lecturer in computer Martin, where he was a until retirement in 2011. Surviving Palo Alto, he was born in 1927 psychology. A father of two, he July 22, 2014. She was born in Clara’s baseball team and both engineering, died suddenly on July 9, 2014. He had taught at Santa coordinator for heat shield tiles. alumni relatives include sister and grew up in Wayzata, was a fitness enthusiast and San Jose in 1938. In 1958, she fullback and center on the football Clara since 2001, offering graduate courses in theoretical foundations His last assignment was for Liz Millier ’70. Minnesota. His work as an voracious reader. became Sister Vincent de Paul, team. His play on the gridiron earned of software engineering. His work in the industry brought valuable NASA on the space shuttle aerospace engineer culminated SND. Upon leaving the order, him a spot in the East-West game in 1979 Dennis Cavender experience into the classroom. Born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1951, he Discovery. He was married to Charles “Brad” Bradwell Ish, on the Hubble Space Telescope. her service to educating young 1949 and the attention of the Los MBA, July 28, 2014. A native of loved the Beatles, his Gibson guitars, and classes at Fur Peace Ranch Betty and had four children. May 22, 2014. Born in Chicago Known for his warmth, humor, minds continued as a teacher Angeles Rams. He chose to stick the Denver area, his four-decade in Ohio run by Jorma Kaukonen ’64. His favorite times were those in 1946, he had simultaneous and intelligence, he was an and principal at several schools with baseball and signed a contract 1964 David “Dave” George career in finance and manage- when he performed with his wife, Anne Pasquale, as The Warblers. careers: 31 years in the U.S. active outdoor enthusiast. He until 2003. for $5,000 with the New York Ferrari J.D., July 14, 2014. A ment took him around the Navy (retiring as captain) and 42 leaves behind his wife, Jane, and Yankees in 1949, after legendary Barbara J. Freidrich M.A. ’95, was the SCU Law School librarian lifelong Catholic, he loved family country and globe. He loved 1986 Mary Gerwe Jubb, years in the wine industry (half of two children. Bronco coach Paddy Cottrell tipped until her retirement. Known as Bobbie to friends, she was born in get-togethers, Sunday-night golf, baseball, traveling, and June 7, 2014. A loving, outgoing them as co-owner of the off a scout. He hit .385 with 21 home Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in Berkeley. In 1948 she married Paul dinners, and SCU sporting 1974 Daniel E. Dietsch, spending time with his wife of person full of laughter, she American Beverage Group). He runs for Twin Falls, the Yankees’ Friedrich and together they raised nine children. On June 21, 2014, she events. He was born in 1939 in Aug. 15, 2014. Along with his 40 years, Gail, and three enjoyed cooking, tending was predeceased by his wife, Pioneer League farm team in Idaho. left behind numerous loved ones, including son Mike Friedrich ’71 San Jose and practiced law for wife, Thelma (Silvio) Dietsch children. He was 63. orchids, and planning parties. Karen Boggio Ish ’68. Together Renna broke into the majors in 1953, and grandchild Dinelle Lucchesi ’06. 47 years. Survivors include ’74, he was an active parish She was married to Paul and they raised four children. playing for the Yankees. He also children Douglas Ferrari ’84 member in Homewood, Illinois. Brigit Kathleen (McWalters) had a successful career in Susan Rodriguez was a contract administrator for University played for the Athletics in Philadelphia and Susan (Ferrari) Mikacich 1969 Warren Vaughn He was ordained a deacon in Whims, June 1, 2014. Born in marketing. Survivors include Operations. She passed away June 17, 2014, in Santa Clara. She is and Kansas City, and for the Boston M.A. ’93. Garrison M.S., July 30, 2014. 2007 and was especially grateful 1957 in San Francisco, she was her mother, Barbara Gerwe survived by her three children and six grandchildren. Red Sox until 1959. He later worked Born in Long Branch, New for his special ministry at a stockbroker at E. F. Hutton. M.A. ’84, M.A. ’95, and siblings 1965 in sales management for Central Jeanmarie Maher, July Jersey, in 1941, he worked at Zacchaeus House, a deaconate She lived in Saratoga and loved Margaret Gerwe ’88 and Concrete. Renna enjoyed traveling 22, 2014. Born in Coeur d’Alene, Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale home for homeless men in to travel, and she did her best to Peter Gerwe ’81. She was 50. with his wife, Roni, and relaxing at Idaho, in 1941, she was a tireless from 1963 to 1998 and then Chicago. He was 62. never miss one of her boys’ became a residential land 1960 1991 their cabin in the Sierras. He died Daniel E. Lester, Aug. worker in Democratic political taught graduate math. He was lacrosse games or her daugh- Victor C. LaVoie M.A., developer, broker, and investor. June 19, 2014. Survivors include 15, 2014. Born in 1938, he grew causes, among them her an avid baseball fan and lived in 1976 Dennis McClenahan, ter’s horse shows. June 26, 2014. He was born in Survivors include children Lydia daughter Mari Renna M.A. ’82. up in Watsonville. The generous opposition to the death penalty Mountain View. May 30, 2014. A formidable 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut. Franzese ’70 and William Reed father of five co-launched a and her desire for peace in competitor and a gentleman on 1981 Allan Victor Burklund, Ordained in 1971, he served in M.S. ’14. He was 90. residential and commercial Northern Ireland. She was senior 1970 Robert “Bob” Doyle and off the tennis court, Aug. 5, 2014. He was an Eagle five parishes and at Lahey property firm. He was a world Scout with degrees in electrical Raymond L. Welch, July 12, supervisor in the offices of Jones MBA, May 26, 2014. McClenahan was a college Clinic in Burlington and Saint traveler, art collector, fisherman, engineering and business admin- 2014. He entered the world in California Attorneys General Jerry Born in 1939, he was an officer All-American football selection Eulalia’s in Winchester. and wine grape grower. Survivors istration. He loved the outdoors 1995 Donald Calhoun 1932 in San Francisco and Brown ’59 and Kamala Harris. in the Navy. He married Florence his senior year at SCU, then include children Mark Lester ’83 and spending time with his cats. 1992 Florence Remata M.A., Chavous Jr. J.D., July 29, worked for UARCO and Valley Jones in 1964 and had two began a successful 35-year and Lori Johnson ’85. 1966 Mary Claire McBride, Survivors include nephew Aug. 3, 2014. Nicknamed “The 2014. Known for his sharp wit Business Forms in Calistoga children. After his tour of duty, he insurance career. The father of May 26, 2014. She was born in worked for Hewlett Packard and three was also active in his Jeremy Wetmore ’02. He was Mayor of Kauai” for her and humor, stimulating political before starting Welch Co. He James “Jim” F. Russi, June 2, 1944 in Milwaukee and began 55 and living in Tucson, Arizona. friendliness and outreach, the banter, loyalty, and fundamental was married to Carolyn Fodrini in 1984 became one of the community. 2014. He lived his life with a few her career as head teacher at a founders of Celeritek. Franciscan sister and Kauai human decency, he had for 44 years, until her death in simple principles: God and family special alternative public high 1977 Heloïse Ruth Albritton 1983 David F. Escover, May native served decades as an simultaneous careers as a 2001. Together they raised were always first, and if you were school. She was recognized by Robert “Bob” Myles Tobin M.A., Aug. 14, 2014. She was 24, 2014. He was born in 1960 educator and minister of the full-time urgent care physician three children. He is survived going to do something, then try the Arlington County Public J.D. ’74, June 7, 2014. He born in 1928 in Bangkok. An to Anthony Escover ’55, and Hawaii-Southwest region of the and as an attorney specializing in by wife Virginia Gomes, to be the best. A Bronco Schools for 45 years of would give anyone the shirt off intellectual beatnik and liberal his five sisters included Cathy Sisters of St. Francis of the medical malpractice and his three children, and his basketball Hall of Famer, he was distinguished service. his back. He exuded charm and thinker, she was a spiritual Warshawsky ’81 and Joan Neumann Communities. She personal injury. He was married three grandchildren. a CPA and a longtime partner in had a sharp wit and keen sense mentor and gifted counselor Escover ’86, J.D. ’90. He had was 75. with two children.

46 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 S ANTA CLARA MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 47 A Grand Reunion 2014 F October 9–12 under gorgeous Santa Clara skies. A few pictures tell some of the many stories. Plus, here are some numbers for those of you keeping score.

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1 Bronco (Class 3 puppets from 17 grads from 57 events over 101 bikers, 3,502 $3 million+ of ’94) making an SCU production the Class of ’49 4 days rowers, or Santa Clarans in gifts to help the trip from of Once on This in the house runners in the attending overall students receive Guam Island as part of weekend races a great education the Bronco Arts at Santa Clara. Showcase Thank you!

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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