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Santa Clara University Scholar Commons Santa Clara Magazine SCU Publications Summer 2011 Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 53, Number 1, Summer 2011 Santa Clara University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.scu.edu/sc_mag Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Business Commons, Education Commons, Engineering Commons, Law Commons, Life Sciences Commons, Medicine and Health Sciences Commons, Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Santa Clara University, "Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 53, Number 1, Summer 2011" (2011). Santa Clara Magazine. Book 13. http://scholarcommons.scu.edu/sc_mag/13 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the SCU Publications at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Santa Clara Magazine by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Summer 2011 Magazine Law at10 0 Features What do investors 18 really want? By Meir StatMan. A renowned behavioral finance expert reveals how our desires shape our actions when it comes to investing. (Hint: It’s not just money that we’re after.) A Wild Surge of 30 Guilty Passion By r on HanS en M.a . ’95. It was known as the crime of the century. And it’s the stuff of Hansen’s latest novel, set in Prohibition-era New York. Here’s the story behind the book. 20 Law at 100 20 A century of legal education at SCU. See snapshots from across the years—and look at the big picture of 10 how the legal landscape has changed: The Big idea! Michael S. Malone ’75, MBA ’77 on Silicon Valley high tech gold and a brief history of intellectual property law. Women’s Work Stephanie M. Wildman on jobs, the law, and a century of redefining “differences.” alTruism v. apaThy Beth Van Schaack makes the case for international criminal law—from Nuremburg to Yugoslavia and into the 21st century. unTil proven innocenT Writer John Deever examines the latest from the Northern California Innocence Project: exonerations and some massive studies of prosecutorial misconduct. aBouT our cover Photographer Charles Barry captures a detail from Centennial, sculpted by former justice for the California Court of Appeals Jerry Smith ’58, J.D. ’65, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the School of Law. The sculpture was donated as a gift of four SCU Law alumni: Mary Emery J.D. ’63, Theodore Biagini J.D. ’64, J.P. DiNapoli J.D. ’64, and Michael Shea J.D. ’65. See the entire sculpture up close in the Levy Student Lounge in Bannan Hall—or at santaclaramagazine.com C ontents SCU ARChiveS Web Exclusives At santaclaramagazine.com you’ll find expanded articles, the Santa Clara Mag Blog, and other goodies, including … ARRy B ChARleS Sing it loud The inaugural Bronco Idol competition: See it. Live it. Lucky ’13: Straw boatered James Havelock Campbell, first dean of the School of Law (and holder of three degrees from Santa Clara), sits with the Law Class of 1913. DEPARTMENTS 2 FrOM THe eDITOr 3 LeTTerS 6 M ISSION MATT erS BrONCO PrOFILe : 8 32 DeNNIS AWTrey ’70 Really so mysterious? reads from Captive of the BrONCO PrOFILe : Mary Jo Ignoffo ’78 Labyrinth, her new biography of the legendary 33 S HANA BAGLey J.D. ’93 Sarah Winchester. 49 A FTerWO r DS 18 clASS N o TES 33 C ONTe NTS 35 BrONCO NeWS: F r OM THe SCU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 40 L I veS JOINe D ko / eMeRgeNt viSioNS yAC 41 B I r THS AND ADOPTIONS NAyA NAyA 44 I N PrINT: NeW BOOk S B y ALUMNI Much more in Class Notes 33 Online Class Notes are updated regularly— 46 O BITUAr I e S with room to share your news (and pics, 48 A LUMNI CALe NDAr links, and etceteras) today. Here bride Lisa (Duncan) Guglielmelli ’06 and groom Dustin Guglielmelli pause on the fairway for the camera. C ontents santaclaramagazine.com Summer 2011 From The Editor SantaClMagazineara Volume 53 Number 1 And justice for all E ditor Steven Boyd Saum he law is about stories, they say, so here’s one— [email protected] from Wayne Kanemoto J.D. ’42 about his law school days at Santa Clara during the winter of L itE rary E ditor T Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 ’42. Like many law students, he and his buddies put in C r E ativE d irECtor some serious time studying in the library. They also took Linda Degastaldi-Ortiz breaks, let off steam. One night after dinner they were P hotograP h E r shooting craps and then, wouldn’t you know it, the air Charles Barry raid sirens began wailing. The students killed the lights in E ditoriaL i ntE rns the boarding house where they were holed up. Then they Liz Carney ’11, Jon Teel ’12 looked up the street and saw, “to our horror … Bergin Hall was d EPartmE nt C ontributors lit up like a Christmas tree.” These were lean times; in the evening or Mansi Bhatia, Emily Elrod ’05, Justin Gerdes, Deborah Lohse, Alden Mudge, Dashka Slater, on the weekend, tending to the lights was the job of a student—Ed Nelson Sam Scott ’96, Heidi Williams ’39, J.D. ’42—who heard the sirens and knew that meant mandatory C L ass n otE s & o bituariE s blackout. Soldiers had orders, should someone fail to comply, to shoot out Liz Carney ’11, Jon Teel ’12, and Marisa Solís the lights. Kanemoto and Nelson and crew sprinted to Bergin Hall and www.scu.edu/alumupdate outened the lights. Then, crisis averted, they found a maintenance closet s antaCLaramagazinE . C om where lamplight wouldn’t be visible from the outside and they went back to Clay Hamilton, James Wilson, Liza Stillman ’11 playing craps. C o P y E ditors It’s a lighthearted tale, part of a section in Kanemoto’s memoirs dubbed Allena Baker, John Deever, Emily Elrod ’05, Jeffrey Gire, Marisa Solís “Funny things happened on the way to becoming an attorney.” What hap- pened later that year to Kanemoto wasn’t quite so humorous: In the midst of Designed by Cuttriss & Hambleton final exams, all persons of Japanese ancestry in the community were subject to immediate removal orders. Kanemoto’s parents emigrated from Hiroshima s anta C L ara m agazinE a dvisory b oard before he was born; he was not allowed to finish his exams. But Dean Edwin Margaret Avritt—Director of Marketing J. Owens told Kanemoto that his scholastic record spoke for itself; he was Terry Beers—Professor of English granted a passing grade in the remaining subjects and his diploma was mailed Michael Engh, S.J.—President to him at the Santa Anita Assembly Center near Pasadena—a converted race Elizabeth Fernandez ’79—Journalist track—where Kanemoto was sent to a U.S. Army evacuation camp. Rich Giacchetti—Associate Vice President, Then came the bar. Kanemoto had hauled a wooden crate of textbooks Marketing and Communications and class notes with him to study, though he increasingly wondered what the Robert Gunsalus—Vice President for University Relations point was—would he be permitted to take the exam? Dean Owens encour- Ron Hansen M.A. ’95—Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., aged him to press on, so he did. His application to take the test in Los Professor of Arts and Humanities Angeles was granted. He was taken to City Hall each day under armed escort. Kathy Kale ’86—Executive Director, Alumni Association He then joined his parents and the rest of his family at an internment Paul Soukup, S.J.—Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Professor of camp in Gila River, Ariz. And there, in the shade of a saguaro cactus, he was Communication sworn in as a California attorney. Kanemoto volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team but Update your address and the rest of your contact info: before seeing action was transferred to the Army Air Force, which sent him www.scu.edu/alumupdate to India and Burma as a Japanese language signal intelligence specialist. After [email protected] Santa Clara Magazine the war, he hung out his shingle in San Jose—making him the first Japanese- 500 El Camino Real American attorney in the county. The practice went well. And in the begin- Santa Clara, CA 95053 ning of 1962, he was appointed as a judge in the San Jose-Milpitas-Alviso The diverse opinions expressed in Santa Clara Magazine do Municipal Court—the first person of Japanese ancestry to serve as a judge in not necessarily represent the views of the editor or the official policy of Santa Clara University. Copyright 2011 by Santa Northern California. He retired in 1982, and he died in 2008. Clara University. Reproduction in whole or in part without As Kanemoto’s memoir recounts, the “lengthy calendars and sometimes permission is prohibited. fractious litigants that appeared in court could try a judge’s nerves.” So while Santa Clara Magazine (USPS #609-240) is published quarterly, February/March, May/June, August/September, and November/ serving on the bench, he posted a sign, visible only to him: PATIENCE! Good December, by the Office of Marketing and Communications, advice for those with or without robes and gavels. Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. Periodical postage paid at Santa Clara, CA, and at additional mailing office. Postmaster: Send address changes to Santa Clara Magazine, 500 El Camino Keep the faith, Real, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053-1500. Steven Boyd Saum Editor “I very much enjoyed the online magazine’s makeover, but even Letters more notable were the excellent article on the University’s strategic vision and Jeff Brazil’s article on journalism in our digital age.” As a news junkie, I knowledge to read a newspa- knowledgeable and moti- have watched and per (as opposed to a blog or vated to read (for success) is (mostly) listened Internet headline), magazines large enough to sustain the with great interest as do not seem to be affected production of useful reading ProPublica, Youth as much.